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 PARLIAMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN 415 they were hampered in their efforts to establish commercial AD Jo relations with the French West Indian islands. By far the larger part of the grievances which were felt under Parliamentary rule, both in Scotland after the Union, and in America before the Declaration of Independence, was created by the anti-French economic policy which found favour in Parliament. The prosperity of the colonies was sacrificed, in so far as the views of the Whigs on foreign policy prevailed, and their dread of royal authority exercised an even more malign an ally influence. The Whig party in Parliament were heirs of a jealous of firm determination to limit the power of the Crown; they a looked with jealousy on the prosperity of any part of the Zonder British dominions from which the king could draw in- o royal dependent support. This motive had been consciously at work in the legislation in regard to Irish cattle, and it had not a little to do with forcing on the Parliamentary Union between England and Scotland. The English House of Commons were in serious difficulty about using the power of trade regulation, they had gained at the Revolution, till the time came when they were able to make their authority felt over the whole of Great Britain. The Darien The _ scheme brought the possibilities of trouble into clear light. Soak The ambition of the Scotch to engage in the commerce of ¢*¢m the great world, might possibly have been advantageous to the head of a Dual Monarchy?, or it might not; there could be no doubt, however, that it was fraught with dangers of every kind, political and commercial, to the English Parlia- ment. Englishmen recognised that Scotland was in a position to inflict irreparable damage on their commerce, and that the existence of an independent Scottish Parlia- ment was a source of serious danger?, The Darien Company had been authorised by the Scotch Parliament, in 1695, to colonise, make fortifications, fit out vessels of war and contract alliances. Their settlement in Darien was to have been a free port, which would have seriously affected the success of the English navigation policy. They hoped to 1 On the possible arming of the Scots, see Swift, Public Spirit of Whigs, Works (1824), xv. 250. 3 Mackinnon, Union of England and Scotland. 25.

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