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Excerpt from An Enquiry Into the Causes of the High Prices of Corn and Labour, the Depressions on Our Foreign Exchanges and High Prices of Bullion, During the Late War
Section I. On the Causes of the High Prices of Corn and Labour since the Year 1794, 1 II. On the Causes of the great and frequent Depressions on our Foreign Exchanges, and of the high Prices of Bullion in the same Period, 14 III. On the present Distress of our Agricultural Interest - The Necessity of abating their Rents, and the Principles on which that Abatement should be made, and Extent to which it will be necessary to carry it, IV. Remarks on the following Subjects, No. I. On the Progressive State of the Rent. Of Land in Scotland, from the Beginning of the 18th Century to the Year 1814, II. On the Principles of the Corn Law, and the Circum stances on which its Operation depends, III. On Sir George Shuckburgh Evelyu' 5 Table of the supposed Depreciation of Money, 53 IV. On the Bank Restriction, - its General Effect on the Affairs, Public and Private, of the Country, - and the Circumstances under which our Payments in Specie may be resumed, V. Oh the Extent of the Circulation of the Notes of the Bank of England from the Year 1790 to thaepre sent Time, and the Causes of its Extension subse quent to the Restriction Act in 1797. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
