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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THE WAR AND FLUCTUATIONS IN MARITIME INTERCOURSE 679 English parliament has laid a considerable duty on the ex- A.D.1776 . . . . . —1850. portation of coals, which foreign nations are obliged to pay. “ A nation whose active commerce is so preponderating, compared with its passive trade, who is herself the ruler of the most numerous and fertile colonies in all parts of the world ; a nation that sends the produce of her industry to every zone; that has so formidable a navy, and so wide- spread a navigation; a nation, that by her activity and the genius of her citizens, manufactures its numberless articles of merchandise, infinitely finer, in much superior workmanship, in far more exquisite goodness, than all other nations, without exception; and that is able to sell them infinitely cheaper, owing to her admirable engines, her machines, and her native coal; a nation, whose credit and whose capital is so immense despite the as that of England; surely such a nation must render all ear of foreigners tributary; and her very enemies must help to bear the immense burthen of her debt and the enormous accumu- lation of her taxes. “The commerce of France and Holland is at present almost totally suspended by the blockade of most of their ports’. Both countries are totally cut off from their possessions in the East Indies, and are allowed to carry on but a very insignificant trade with their West India colonies. How i «Before the Revolution France employed, in its colonial trade, 180,000 tons of shipping. Between the years 1763 and 1778, the returns in produce from the French colonies, consisting of sugar, coffee, indigo, cocoa and cotton, amounted to the annual value of about £6,400,000 sterling. Of these one-half was consumed in France, the other half exported to other parts of Europe. In 1788 the tonnage smployed in the French colonial trade had been augmented to 696 vessels of the burthen of 204,058 tons. The imports rose in that year to the value of about £7,000,000 sterling. “From an official paper of the French minister of the interior, we learn, that in the year ending Sept. 1800, The value of the imports of France was . Of the exports . 4 .™ Balance against France in 1800 In the year ending Sept. 1801, the imports were . . Exports . Value of prizes captured this year from the enemy . - Balance against France in 1801 17,370,000 12,716,000 4,654,000 670,000 £3,984,000.*

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