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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408 PARLIAMENTARY, COLBERTISM every session; and from being a council to look into matters of trade, they would be next empowered to appoint convoys and cruisers; this in turn might draw in the whole Admiralty to that part of the revenue, or supply, that was appro- though in priated to the navy, so that a King would soon grow to be a ni duke of Venice; and indeed those who set this on most zealously, did not deny that they designed to graft many things upon it. The King was so sensible of the ill effects this would have, that he ordered his ministers to oppose it as much as possibly they could?” The discovery of Charnock’s plot against William's life diverted public attention for the time, and the King, by appointing a permanent Board of Trade? took away much of the excuse there had been for the agitation in the Commons. Though foiled in this particular, the Commons had become, as a matter of fact, masters of the situation; they were in a position to exercise a practical control over the spending departments. “The government was plainly in the hands of the House of Commons, who must sit once a year, and as long as they thought fit, while the King had only the civil list for life, so that the whole of the administration was under their inspection®” By appro- priating the money they voted to particular objects, they prevented the Government from engaging in action of which they disapproved. The Government was so circumscribed that it could not attempt to fit out a man-of-war for Captain Kid to employ against the Madagascar pirates; the expedition was organised at the private expense of Lord Somers and others, and the conduct of the affair was so discreditable as to give ample cause for complaint against those who had undertaken to finance the project‘. The powers of effective criticism and practical control which had been secured were ultimately of immense ad- vantage, as they tended to purify the administrative corruption which had been the disgrace of the seventeenth century generally’. The executive power was not severed 1 Burnet, History of his Own Time, 1v. 283. 2 Macpherson, Annals, 11. 681 1. 8 Burnet, op. cit. Iv. 443. + Id., op. cit. Iv. 422. 8 Cromwell's rule appears to afford an exception, Macaulay, rr. 424. The government of Ireland in the eighteenth century seems to have maintained the A.D. 1689 —1776.

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