The Industrial Revolution

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Identifikator:: 1027928145

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-159926

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cunningham, William http://d-nb.info/gnd/128907487

Title:: The Industrial Revolution

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: The University Press

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: xxii S., S. 404-886

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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LAISSEZ FAIRE World would exorcise the commercial jealousy of the European peoplest. For a time the French Government was content with giving clandestine assistance to the colonists? but this attitude could not be maintained for long; and in 1778 King Louis openly espoused the American cause and concluded a was taken treaty with the United States. When the mask was once hy ® thrown aside, it was impossible to explain away the unfriendly preneh and aets of which the French had been guilty, and Englishmen rivals, with heavy hearts? drifted into a war which had become inevitable. The various branches of the House of Bourbon were so closely connected that this involved a quarrel with Spain¢, The Dutch were eager to reestablish the regular commercial relations with the North American coast from which the Navigation Acts had excluded them, and naturally followed the course pursued by France. They supplied the colonists with arms and ammunition, and joined in the fray when war was declared in 1780. England found herself actively opposed by the most powerful maritime nations of the Continent, at the time when she was seeking to coerce her colonies. Nor was assistance to be hoped for from any of the Powers which were not actually in arms against Great Britain. Frederick of Prussia cherished a grudge against England, and though he gave no open countenance to the Americans, he discouraged the efforts of the English King to utilise his German connection in order to enlist soldiers for employment in dealing with the colonists. But the most serious blow came from Catharine of Russia, who was pro- bably more inclined to sympathise with England than any of and Russia the other European monarchs. The English had been strictly insisted on . . . . maintain Scrupulous in respecting Russian commerce, but the Spaniards doctrine of Nad been less careful ; and Catharine, in self-defence, defined yl a doctrine of neutral trading which she was prepared to enforce. The rule, which she enunciated in 1780, differed from the traditional vrincivles. which England maintaineds. 670 \ Turgot, Memotre sur la maniére dont la France et I Espagne devoient envisager les suites de la querelle entre la Grande Bretagne et ses Colonies, in Buvres (1809). vir. 461. * Lecky, op. cit. 44. 8 Parl. Hist. 31x. 920, 928. ! The Spaniards were strongly anti-English and supplied the Americans with gunpowder. Lecky, op. cit. Iv. 45. s “The doctrine of maritime law which England had steadily asserted was

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