An Inquiry Into the State of the British West Indies, العدد 7C. and R. Baldwin, 1807 - 160 من الصفحات |
من داخل الكتاب
النتائج 1-5 من 36
الصفحة x
... give a death - blow to our trade ; yet , not only has our general , commerce far surpassed that of any former period , but our intercourse with America herself is in a tenfold degree more extensive than when her territory was subject to ...
... give a death - blow to our trade ; yet , not only has our general , commerce far surpassed that of any former period , but our intercourse with America herself is in a tenfold degree more extensive than when her territory was subject to ...
الصفحة 2
... give to that labour a beneficial direction . His next consideration will be , the value of this trade as a nursery of sea- men ; and it will not be denied that to a country like Great Britain , dependent for her rank among nations on ...
... give to that labour a beneficial direction . His next consideration will be , the value of this trade as a nursery of sea- men ; and it will not be denied that to a country like Great Britain , dependent for her rank among nations on ...
الصفحة 6
... give energy to the , language which conveys them . We have seen that the West - India trade is equally valuable from the nature of its commodities , and from the assurance of its permanency . - Let us proceed to consider the amount of ...
... give energy to the , language which conveys them . We have seen that the West - India trade is equally valuable from the nature of its commodities , and from the assurance of its permanency . - Let us proceed to consider the amount of ...
الصفحة 11
... give to a cause which rests its claim for protection upon the incon- trovertible fact , that the West - India colonies em- ploy ( including the fisheries ) above a thousand sail of shipping , and twenty - five thousand seamen ! • Sir W ...
... give to a cause which rests its claim for protection upon the incon- trovertible fact , that the West - India colonies em- ploy ( including the fisheries ) above a thousand sail of shipping , and twenty - five thousand seamen ! • Sir W ...
الصفحة 27
... give a new direction to their capital and industry . But in the West Indies such changes are not only difficult , but impracticable . There the culture of the soil is the only important object for capital or industry , and four - fifths ...
... give a new direction to their capital and industry . But in the West Indies such changes are not only difficult , but impracticable . There the culture of the soil is the only important object for capital or industry , and four - fifths ...
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
advantage afford amount appears average price barley Bonaparte bounty on export breweries Britain British colonies British shipping capital cent colonial produce colonists commerce Concessions to America consequence consideration consumer continue distiller Distillery Committee duty on home effect enemy enemy's colonies England estates Europe evidence exduty expence favourable foreign market France free on board French Gazette price give Government grain hogsheads home consumption House of Commons important increase India intercourse islands Istria Jamaica labour Leeward Islands less Lord Lauderdale loss malt manufactures maritime means measure melasses millions monopoly navigation navy negociation neutral peace possession present price of sugar profits proportion quantity relief Report revenue ruin Russia seamen sell Sicily Sir William Young sold sumption supply Talleyrand taxation taxes tion traffic Treaty of Amiens West Indies West-India body West-India colonies West-India Committee West-India planter West-India trade whole
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 143 - Orders of The House, examined the matters to them referred; and have agreed to the following REPORT : YOUR Committee...
الصفحة 126 - England with a fleet that made her mistress of the seas, and which he did not think he should be able to equal in less than ten years : two such countries, by a proper understanding, might govern the world, but by their strifes might overturn it. He said, that if he had not felt the enmity of the British government on every occasion since the treaty of Amiens, there would have been nothing that he would not have done to prove his desire to conciliate ; participation in indemnities as well as an influence...
الصفحة 127 - I told him that 1 had received letters from your lordship two days ago. He immediately said : And so you are determined to go to war?
الصفحة 147 - The result of all their inquiries on this most important part of the subject has brought before their eyes one grand and primary evil from which all the others are easily to be deduced ; namely, the facility of intercourse between the hostile colonies and Europe under the American neutral flag, by means of which not only the whole of their produce is carried to a market, but at charges little exceeding those of peace, while the British planter is burdened with all the inconvenience, risk, and expense...
الصفحة 96 - Rritannic majesty, did him the honour to address to him on the 26th of this month. His majesty, after having, from a desire of peace, listened to every proposition which could have rendered it durable, and of reciprocal advantage to the two contracting powers, and to their allies, will see with pain the rupture of a negotiation, to which his own disposition had led him to hope a more favourable conclusion.
الصفحة xix - Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the Bankrupt Laws ; and i This and the two preceding motions were lost by large majorities.
الصفحة 94 - I thought myself authorized, after the concessions he had just made, to refuse them time to consider how. much further they might go ? and whether I might not reasonably entertain hopes that, with a little time, the differences which appeared now to separate us might vanish ? — On receiving such a remonstrance, I thought it impossible not to agree to a renewal of the conference; and after some conversation, Thursday was fixed for the day of our meeting.
الصفحة 127 - ... testified his friendship. Nothing, however, had been able to conquer the hatred of the British government, and, therefore, it was now come to the point, whether we should have peace or war. To preserve peace, the treaty of Amiens must be fulfilled; the? abuse in the public prints, if not totally suppressed, at least kept within bounds, and confined to the English papers ; and the protection so openly given to his bitterest enemies (alluding to Georges, and persons of that description,) must be...
الصفحة 143 - ... attending the cultivation, have been increasing, till at length the depression of the market has become such, that the prices obtained for the last year's crop will not pay the expence of cultivation, except upon estates on a very great scale, making sugar of a very superior quality, or enjoying other extraordinary...
الصفحة 143 - From their testimony it appears, that since the year 1799, there has taken place a progressive deterioration in the situation, of the planters, resulting from a progressive diminution of the price of sugar...