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Rh with the sugar colonies explained, 395; Ireland and America ought in justice to contribute toward the discharge of her public debts, 398; how the territorial acquisitions of the East India Company might be rendered a source of revenue, 400; if no such assistance can be obtained, her only resource pointed out, 401.

Bullion, the money of the great mercantile republic, ii. 144. See Gold and Silver.

Burghs, free, the origin of, ii. 93; to what circumstances they owed their corporate jurisdictions, 94; why admitted to send representatives to Parliament, 98; are allowed to protect refugees from the country, 99.

Burn, Dr., his observations on the laws relating to the settlements of the poor, i. 218, 221.

Butcher's meat, nowhere a necessary of life, iii. 297.

, origin of that sect, iii. 201; their principles of church government, 202.

Cameron, Mr., of Lochiel, exercised, within thirty years since, a criminal jurisdiction over his own tenants, ii. 111.

Canada, the French colony there, long under the government of an exclusive company, ii. 319; but improved speedily after the dissolution of the company, ibid.

Canals, navigable, the advantages of, i. 231.—How to be made and maintained, iii. 87; that of Languedoc, the support of, how secured, 89; may be successfully managed by joint stock companies, 132.

Cantillon, Mr., remarks on his account of the earnings of the laboring poor, i. 125.

Cape of Good Hope, causes of the prosperity of the Dutch settlement there, ii. 408.

Capital, definitions of, i. 384 note; in trade, explained, and how employed, 385; distinguished into circulating and fixed capitals, 386; characteristic of fixed capitals, 389; the several kinds of fixed capitals specified, ibid.; characteristic of circulating capitals, and several kinds of, 390; fixed capitals supported by those which are circulating, 391; circulating capitals how supported, ibid.; intention of a fixed capital, 396; the expense of maintaining the fixed and circulating capitals illustrated, 398; money, as an article of circulating capital, considered, 399; money, no measure of capital, 402; what quantity of industry any capital can employ, 408–409; capitals, how far they may be extended by paper credit, 425–426.—Must always be replaced with profit by the annual produce of land and labor, ii. 10; the proportion between capital and revenue, regulates the proportion between industry and idleness, 17; how it is increased or diminished, ibid.; national evidences of the increase of, 25; in what instances private expenses contribute to enlarge the national capital, 28–29; the increase of, reduces profits by competition, 38; the different ways of employing a capital, 45; how replaced to the different classes of traders, 48