INDEX.

915

lie nuisance, 602. Trading, liow first formed,607. Regulated, and joint stock companies,distinguished, ib. 688. Regulated companiesin Great Britain , specified, 689. Arc useless,

690. The constant view of such companies,

691. Forts and garrisons, why never main-tained by regulated companies, 692. Thenature of joint stock companies explained,695.708. * A monopoly necessary to enablea joint stock company to carry on a foreigntrade, 709. What kind of joint stock com-panies need no exclusive privileges, 710.Joint stock companies, why well adapted tothe trade of banking, ib. The trade of in-surance may bo carried on successfully by ajoint stock company, 7 U. Also inland navi-gations, and the supply of water to a greatcity, ib. Ill success of joint stock companiesin other undertakings, 712.

(h>mpetHion,theeifectof,inlhc purchase ofcommodities, 59. Amongthevendors, 60.89.

Concordat, in France , its object, 756.

Congress, American , its strength owing tothe important characters it confers on themembers of it, 588.

Conversion price, in the payment of rentsin Scotland , explained, 179.

Copper, tlie standard measure of valueamong the ancient Romans, 48. Is no legallender in England, 44.

Cori, the largest quadruped on the islandof St, Domingo, described, 520.

Corn, the raising of, in dillerent countries,not subject to the same degree of rivulshipasmanufactures, 15. Is the best, standard forreserved rents, 89. The price of, how regu-lated, 40. The price of, the best standard forcomparing the dilVerent values of particularcommodities at dillerent times and places, 42,The three component parts in the price of, 58.Is dearer in Scotland than in England, 77.Its value compared with thatof butcher’s meat,in the difieivnt periods of agriculture, 1-17.150. Compared with silver, 177, Circum-stances in a historical view of the prices ofcorn, that have misled writers in treating ofthe valueof silver at different periods, 179. Isalways a more accurate measure of value, thanany other commodity, 184, Why dourer ingreat towns than in the country, U17. Whydearer in some lich commercial countries, asHolland and Genoa, 188. Rose in its nominalprice on the discovery of the American mines,189. And in consequence of the civil warunder king Charles I. , 190. And in conse-quence of the bounty on the exportation of,191. Tendency of the bounty examined, 198.Chronological* table of the prices of, 248.

Corn, the least profitable, article of growthin the British West Indian colonies, 864. Thurestraints formerly laid upon the trade of, un*favotunhle to the cultivation of laud, 869.'Hie free importation of, could little atfect thefarmers of Great Britain , 424. Thu policy ofthe bounty on (fie exportation of, examined,467. The leduetion in the price of corn, m>1

produced by the bounty, 468. Tillage notencouraged by the bounty, 470. The moneyprice of, regulates that of all other home-madecommodities, 471. Illustration, 472. Illell'ects of the bounty, 474. Motives of thecountry gentlemen in granting the bounty,475. The natural value of corn not to be al-tered by altering the money price, 476. Thefour several branches of the com trade speci-fied, 484. The inland dealer, for his own in-terest, will not raise the price of corn higherthan the scarcity of the season requires, ib.Corn n commodity the least liable to be mo-nopolized, 485. The inland dealers in comtoo numerous and dispersed to form a generalcombination, 486. Dearths never artificial,hut when government interferes improperly toprevent them, *187. The freedom of the corntrade, the best security against a famine, 488.Old English statute to prohibit the corn trade,489. Consequences of farmers being forcedto become coni dealers, 490. The use of corndealers to the farmers, 498. The prohibitorystatute against the com trade softened, ib:But still under the influence of popular pre-judices, 494. The average quantity of cornimported and exported, compared with theconsumption and annual produce, 495. Ten-dency of a free importation of corn, 496.The home market the most important one forcorn, 497. Duties payable on the importationof grain, before 18 Geo. III., ib.,nole. Theimpropriety of the statute 22 Car. II., for re-gulating the importation of wheat confessedby the suspension of its execution, by tem-porary statutes, ib. The home market indi-rectly supplied by the exportation of corn,498. How a liberal system of free exportationand importation, among all nations, wouldoperate, 499. The laws concerning corn, si-milar to those relating to religion, 500. Thehome market supplied by the carrying trade,oOl. The system of laws connected with theestablishment of a bounty undeserving ofpraise,ib. Remarksonthestatute I80eo. HI,502.

Corporations, tendency of thecxclusivc pri-vileges of, on trade, 64.119. By what au-thority erected, 128. The advantages corpo-rations derive from the surrounding country,124. ('heck the operations of competition,127. Their internal regulations, combinationsagainst the public, 129. Are injurious, evento the members of them, ib. The laws of, ob-struct the free circulation of labour, from oneemployment to another, 185. The origin of,87 2. Are exempted by their privileges fromthe power of the feudal barons, 878. TheEuropean Fust India companies disadvan-tageous to (lie eastern commerce, 418. Theexclusive privileges of corporations ought tohe destroyed, 488.

Cottagers, in Scotland , their situation de-scribed, 116. Arc cheap manufacturers ofstockings, 117. I he diminution of, in Eng-land, cmi'ideied, 221.