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 inconveniences of a dearth, 265–266; corn dealers the best friends to the people at such seasons, 267.

Debts, public, the origin of, traced, iii. 345; are accelerated by the expenses attending war, 347; account of the unfunded debt of Great Britain, 350; the funded debt, 351; aggregate and general funds, 354; sinking fund, 356, 363–364; annuities for terms of years, and for lives, 357; the reduction of, during peace, bears no proportion to its accumulation during war, 364–365; the plea of the interest being no burden to the nation, considered, 372; are seldom fairly paid when accumulated to a certain degree, 376; might easily be discharged, by extending the British system of taxation over all the provinces of the empire, 382; Ireland and America ought to contribute to discharge the public debts of Britain, 398.

Decker, Sir Matthew, his observation on the accumulation of taxes, iii. 294; his proposal for transferring all taxes to the consumer, by annual payments, considered, 298–299.

Demand, though the increase of, may at first raise the price of goods, it never fails to reduce it afterward, iii. 121.

Denmark, account of the settlements of, in the West Indies, ii. 317.

Diamonds, the mines of, not always worth working for, i. 265–266.

Discipline, the great importance of, in war, iii. 57; instances, 58 et seq.

Diversions, public, their political use, iii. 183.

Domesday Book, the intention of that compilation, iii. 237.

Domingo, San, mistaken by Columbus for a part of the East Indies, ii. 302; its principal productions, 303–304; the natives soon stripped of all their gold, 305; historical view of the French colony there, 319.

Dorians, ancient, where the colonies of, settled, ii. 297.

Dramatic exhibitions, the political use of, iii. 183.

Drawbacks, in commerce, explained, ii. 154; the motives to, and tendency of, explained, 220; on wines, currants and wrought silks, 221; on tobacco and sugar, 222; on wines, particularly considered, 223; were originally granted to encourage the carrying trade, 225; the revenue of the customs increased by them, 226; drawbacks allowed in favor of the colonies, 335.

Drugs, regulations of their importation and exportation, ii. 437.

Drunkenness, the motive to this vice inquired into, i. 212.

Dutch, their settlements in America slow in improvement, because under the government of an exclusive company, ii. 317; their East India trade checked by monopoly, 404; measures taken by, to secure the monopoly of the spice trade, 409. See Holland.

, representation of the miserable state of the provinces of, under the English government there, i. 131–132; historical view of the European trade with those countries, 307; rice countries more populous and rich than corn coun-