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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TORY SENTIMENTS 509 The Tories on the other hand recognised the political im- A.D. 168% portance of these communities’, and regarded the measures of the which secured their economic dependence? with satisfaction, satel because they believed that this restriction would strengthen of the she political ties, Events proved that they were mistaken colonies in this forecast ; but it is not a little noticeable that Chatham, wfter his definite breach with the official Whigs in regard to she question of raising revenue from the colonies, gave vigorous expression to views which are in close accord with the traditional aim of the Tories’. He attached the highest i According to Davenant, “Colonies are a strength to their mother kingdom, while they are under good discipline, while they are strictly made to observe the ‘undamental laws of their original country, and while they are kept dependent on t. * * * Our colonies, while they have English blood in their veins, and have -elations in England, and while they can get by trading with us, the stronger and greater they grow, the more this crown and kingdom will get by them; and aothing but such an arbitrary power as shall make them desperate, can bring hem to rebel.” Works, m. 10, 2 “The principal care will always be to keep them dependent mpon their mother country and not to suffer those laws, upon any account, to be loosened, whereby they are tied to it, for otherwise they will become more profitable to our aseighbours than to us.” Ib. 11. 24. See also p. 476 n. 2, above. 8 See the preamble of his Bill. “Whereas by an Act 6 Geo. IIL it is declared, that parliament has full power and authority to make laws and statutes to bind the people of the colonies in all cases whatsoever; and whereas reiterated complaints and most dangerous disorders have grown, touching the right of taxation claimed wnd exercised over America, to the disturbance of peace and good order there, and to the actual interruption of the due intercourse from Great Britain and Ireland io the colonies, deeply affecting the navigation, trade, and manufactures of this tingdom and of Ireland, and the British islands in America: now, for prevention +f these ruinous mischiefs, and in order to an equitable, honourable, and lasting settlement of claims not sufficiently ascertained and circumscribed, may it please your most excellent Majesty that it may be declared, and be it declared by the Ring's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the colonies of America have been, are, and of right ought to be, dependent upon the imperial crown of Great Britain, and mbordinate unto the British parliament, and that the King’s most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in parliament assembled, had, hath, and of right ought to have, full nower and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to hind the people of the British colonies in America, in all matters touching the general weal of the whole dominion of the imperial crown of Great Britain, and beyond the competency of the local representative of a distant colony ; and most especially an indubitable and indispensable right to make and ordain laws for cegulating navigation and trade throughout the complicated system of British sommerce, the deep policy of such prudent acts upholding the guardian navy of he whole British empire; and that all subjects in the colonies are bound in duty md allegiance dnly to recognise and obey (and are hereby required so to do) the

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