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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182 PARLIAMENTARY COLBERTISM attracted to Newfoundland by the chance of supplying the mariners who visited the fishing grounds with provisions. Many of the vessels which were engaged in the fisheries were Dutch or French; and the New Englanders had no scruple in violating the trade laws. Wine, brandies, and other European goods were imported directly into the colonies md with from Newfoundland. In the instructions to Governor is Mgnt Andros (1686-7) this island is described as a magazine of Islands «g]) sorts of goods brought thither directly from France, Holland, Scotland, Ireland and other places’.” Intercourse with the French planters in the West Indies was even more tempting than trading with French mariners in the north. The northerners found an excellent market for fish and cereals in these regions. The French islands were able to supply them with rum, or the molasses from which rum was distilled, on easy terms, as the brandy growers of France were protected against the competition of colonial spirits? while the English planters could ship rum to Europe. Under these circumstances an active trade sprang up, which seemed specially objectionable from the fact that the northern colonists traded by preference with the French, rather than the English, West Indian islands. The returns which they received by this trade enabled the colonies to deal with the Indians for furs, which they exported to pay for the manufactures they imported from England. In 1733 this trade was discouraged by heavy duties®; but it seems to have con- tinued in full vigour in disregard of this Molasses Act. During the war of the Austrian Succession the northern traders added to the irritation, which was felt against them in England, by supplying the French colonists with victuals. If any attempt was to be made to regulate British commerce at all, there was ample reason for treating the trade between the northern colonies and the French islands as prejudicial to the realm. The rules of the English system, which were intended to render England the staple where all the trade of the de- pendencies centred and to prevent hostile competition with home industries, did not press nearly so heavily on any of A.D. 1689 1776. i Beer, p. 136; C. Pedley, The History of Newfoundland, p. 101. 2 Beer, p. 118. 8 6 (4, IT. c. 13. 4 Ashley. Surveys, 339.

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