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 tery, 262; diamond mines not always worth working, 265; tax paid to the King of Spain from the Peruvian mines, 302; the discovery of mines not dependent on human skill or industry, 352.

Mines in Hungary, why worked at less expense than the neighboring ones in Turkey, iii. 38.

Mining, projects of, uncertain and ruinous, and unfit for legal encouragement, ii. 306.

Mirabeau, Marquis de, his character of the economical table, iii. 31.

Mississippi scheme in France, the real foundation of, i. 441.

Modus for tithe, a relief to the farmer, iii. 245.

Money, the origin of, traced, i. 66; is the representative of labor, 76; the value of, greatly depreciated by the discovery of the American mines, 78; how different metals became the standard money of different nations, 86–87; the only part of the circulating capital of a society, of which the maintenance can diminish their net revenue, 399; makes no part of the revenue of a society, 400; the term money, in common acceptation, of ambiguous meaning, ibid.; the circulating money in society no measure of its revenue, 403; paper money, 404; the effect of paper on the circulation of cash, 405; inquiry into the proportion the circulating money of any country bears to the annual produce circulated by it, 410; paper can never exceed the value of the cash, of which it supplies the place, in any country, 415; the pernicious practice of raising money by circulation explained, 430.—The true cause of its exportation, ii. 20; loans of, the principles of, analyzed, 34; moneyed interest, distinguished from the landed and trading interest, 36; inquiry into the real causes of the reduction of interest, 39–40; money and wealth synonymous terms in popular language, 124; and movable goods compared, 126; the accumulation of, studied by the European nations, 127; the mercantile arguments for liberty to export gold and silver, ibid.; the validity of these arguments examined, 128–129; money and goods mutually the price of each other, 132; overtrading causes complaints of the scarcity of money, 135; why more easy to buy goods with money, than to buy money with goods, 136–137; inquiry into the circulating quantity of, in Great Britain, 142; effect of the discovery of the American mines on the value of, 149; money and wealth different things, 153; bank money explained, 192–193. See Coins, Gold, and Silver.

Monopolies in trade or manufactures, the tendency of, i. 116; are enemies to good management, 231.—Tendency of making a monopoly of colony trade, ii. 371; countries which have colonies, obliged to share their advantages with many other countries, 398; the chief engine in the mercantile system, 402; how monopolies derange the natural distribution of the stock of the society, 403; are supported by unjust and cruel laws, 425.—Of a temporary nature, how far justifiable, iii. 129; perpetual monopolies