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 market the most important one for corn, ibid.; duties payable on the importation of grain, before the 13th of George III., 271 note; the impropriety of the statute, the 22d of Charles II., for regulating the importation of wheat, confessed by the suspension of its execution by temporary statutes, ibid.; the home market indirectly supplied by the exportation of corn, 272; how a liberal system of free exportation and importation, among all nations, would operate, 274; the laws concerning corn, similar to those relating to religion, 275; the home market supplied by the carrying trade, 276; the system of laws connected with the establishment of the bounty, undeserving of praise, 276; remarks on the statute the 13th of George III., 278.

Corporations, tendency of the exclusive privileges of, on trade, i. 117, 193; by what authority erected, 200; the advantages corporations derive from the surrounding country, 201; check the operations of competition, 205; their internal regulations, combinations against the public, 207; are injurious, even to the members of them, 208; the laws of, obstruct the free circulation of labor from one employment to another, ibid.—The origin of, ii. 94; are exempted by their privileges from the power of the feudal barons, 95; the European East India companies disadvantageous to the eastern commerce, 152; the exclusive privileges of corporations ought to be destroyed, 179–180.

Cottagers, or Cotters, in Scotland, their situation described, i. 189–190; are cheap manufacturers of stockings, 191; the diminution of, in England, considered, 336.

Coward, character of, iii. 169.

Credit. See Paper Money.

Crusades to the Holy Land, favorable to the revival of commerce, ii. 100.

Currency of States, remarks on, ii. 192.

Customs, the motives and tendency of drawbacks from the duties of, ii. 220; the revenue of the customs increased by drawbacks, 226.—Occasion of first imposing the duties of, iii. 99; origin of those duties, 301; three ancient branches of, 302; drawbacks of, ibid.; are regulated according to the mercantile system, 303; frauds practiced to obtain drawbacks and bounties, 305; the duties of, in many instances uncertain, 307; improvement of, suggested, ibid.; computation of the expense of collecting them, 326–327.

, the business of, generally carried on as a save-all, i. 337; circumstances which impede or promote the attention to it, 338; English and Scotch dairies, 338–339.

Danube, the navigation of that river why of little use to the interior parts of the country from whence it flows, i. 66.

Davenant, Dr., his objections to the transferring the duties on beer to the malt, considered, ii. 426.

Dearths, never caused by combinations among the dealers in corn, but by some general calamity, ii. 256; the free exercise of the corn trade the best palliative against the