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Coward, character of, 737.

Credit. See Paper money*

Crusades to the Holy Land, favourable tothe revival of commerce, 377.

Currency of states, remarks on, 44-1.

Customs, the motives and tendency ofdrawbacks from the duties of, 461. The re-venue of the customs increased by drawbacks,465. Occasion of first imposing the dutiesof, 687. Origin of those duties, 83t. Threeancient branches of, 832. Drawbacks of,833. Are regulated according to the mercan-tile system, 834. Frauds practised to obtaindrawbacks and bounties, ib. The duties of,in many instances uncertain, 835. Improve-ment of’, suggested, 836. Compulation of theexpense of collecting them, 850.

Dairy, the business of generally carried onas a save-all, 222. Circumstances which im-pede. or promote the attention to it, 223.English and Scotch dairies, ib.

Danube , the navigation of that river whyof little use to the interior parts of the coun-try from whence it flows, 28.

Duvenant, Dr. his objections to the trans-ferring the duties on bear to the mult, consi-dered, 845.

Dearths, never caused by combinationsamong the dealers in corn, but by some ge-neral calamity, 487. The free exercise of thecorn trade the best palliative against the in-conveniences of a dearth, 493. Corn dealersthe best friends to the people at such seasons,495.

Debts, public, the origin of, traced, 863.Arc acceleiated by the expenses attendingwar, 864. Account of tire unfunded debt ofGreat Britain , 866. The funded debt, 867.Aggregate and general funds, 869. Sinkingfund, 871. 875. Annuities for terms of years,and for lives, 87 l. The reduction of, duringpeace, bears no proportion to its accumulationduring war, 876. The [ilea of the interestbeing no burden to the nation, considered,882. Arc seldom fairly paid when accumu-lated to a certain degree, 885. Might eusilybe discharged, by extending the British sys-tem of taxation over all the provinces of theempire, 889. Ireland and America ought tocontribute to discharge the public debts ofBritain , 900.

Decker, Sir Matthew, his observations onthe accumulation of taxes, 826. His proposalfor transferring all taxes to the consumer, byannual payments, considered, 850.

Demand, though the increase of, may atfirst raise the price of goods, it never fails toreduce it afterward, 703.

Denmark , account of the settlements of, inthe West Indies , 530.

Diamonds, the mines of, not always worthworking, 171.

Discipline, the great importance of, in war,657. Instances, 658, &c.

Diversions, public, their political use, 747.

Domingo, St. mistaken by Columbus fur apart of the East Indies, 519. Its principalproductions, 620. The natives soon strippedof all their gold, 522. Historical view of theFrench colony there, 531.

Doomsday book, the intention of that com-pilation, 786.

Dorians , ancient, where the colonies of,settled, 516.

Dramatic exhibitions, the political use of,747.

Drawbacks, in commerce, explained, 415.The motives to, and tendency of, explained,

461, On wines, currants, and wrought silks,

462. On tobacco and sugar, ih. On wines,particularly considered, 463. Were originallygranted to encourage the carrying trade, 465.The revenue of the customs increased bythem, ib. Drawbacks allowed in favour of thecolonies, 543.

Drugs, regulations of their importation andexportation, 616.

Drunkenness, the motive to this vice in-quired into, 455,

Dutch , their settlements in America slowin improvement because under the govern-ment of an exclusive company, 530. TheirEast India trade checked by monopoly, 592.Measures taken by, to secure the monopolyof the spice trade, 596. See Holland*

East India, representation of the miserablestate of the provinces of, under the Knglishgovernment there, 75. Historical view of theEuropean trade with those countries, 200.Rice countries more populous ami rich thancorn countries, 201. The real price of labourlower in China and ludostau, than in thegreater part of Europe , 202. Gold and silverthe most profitable commodities to carry thi-ther, 203. The proportional value of gold tosilver, how rated there, 207. Great extensionof foreign commerce by the discovery of apassage to, round the Cape of Good Hope ,412. Historical review of the intercoursewith. 413. Effect of the annual exportationof silver to, from Europe , ib. The trade with,chiefly carried on by exclusive companies,591. Tendency of their monopolies, 592.

East India Company , a monopoly againstthe very nation in which it is erected, 591.The operation of such a company in a poorand in a rich country compared, 692. Thatcountry whose capital is not large enough totend to such a distant trade ought not to en-gage in it, 594. The mercantile habits oftrading companies render them incapable ofconsulting their true interests when they be-come sovereigns, 598. The genius of the ad-ministration of the English company, 599*Subordinate practices of their agents aiulclerks, ib. 'I he bad conduct of agents inIndia owing to their situation, 601. Such anexclusive company a nuisance in every re-spect,602. Brief review of their history, 701.Their privileges invaded, ib. A rival com-