920

INDEX.

Greek colonics, how distinguished from Ro-man colonies, 517. Rapid progress of thesecolonics, 526.

Greek language, how introduced as a partof university education,720. Philosophy, thethree great branches of, ib.

Ground rents, great variations of, according(*) situation,793. Area more proper subjectof taxation than houses, 796.

Gum senega, review of the regulations im-posed on the trade for, 616.

Gunpowder, great revolution effected in theart of war by the invention of, 656.664. Thisinvention favourable to the extension of civi-lization, ib.

Gustavus Vasa , how enabled to establishthe reformation in Sweden , 750.

Hanseatic league , causes that rendered itformidable, 374. Why no vestige remains ofthe wealth of the Ilans towns, 392.

Hamburgh, agio of the bank of, explained,442. Sources of the revenue of that city, 769.771. The inhabitants of, how taxed to thestate, 803.

Hamburgh Company,some account of, 689.

Hearth money, why abolished in England,798.

Henry VIII. of England, prepares the wayfor the reformation by shutting out the au-thority of the Pope, 758.

Herring buss bounty, remarks on, 478.Fraudulent claims of the bounty, 480. Theboat fishery the most natural and profitable,481. Account of the British white herringfishery, 482. Account of the biases titledout in Scotland , the amount of the** cargoes,and the bounties on them, 905.

Hides, the produce of rude countries, com-monly carried to a distant market, 225.Price of, in England three centuries ago, 228.Salted hides inferior to fresh ones, 229. Theprice of, how aflccted by circumstances incultivated and in uncultivated countries,230.

Highlands of Scotland , interesting remarkson the population of, 81. Military characterof the Highlauders, 657.

Hobbes , Mr. remarks on his definition ofwealth, 35.

Hogs, circumstances which repder theirflesh cheap or deur, 221.

Holland, observations on the riches andtrade of the republic of, 92. Not to followsome business; unfashionable there, 97.Causeof thedearnessofcorn there, 188. En-joys the greatest share in the carrying tradeof Europe , 352. How the Hutch were ex-cluded from being the carriers to GreAt Bri­ tain , 426. Is a country that prospers underthe heaviest taxation, 429. Account of thebank of Amsterdam, 442. This republic de-rives even its subsistence from foreign trade,460. Tax paid on houses there, 798. Accountof the tax upon successions, 812. Stamp du-ties, 814. High amount of taxes in, 828.860.

It* prosperity depends on the republican formof government, ib.

Ilonorarics.from pupils to teachers in col-leges, tendency of, to quicken their diligence,714.

Hose, in the the time of Edward IV . howmade, 242.

Hospitality, ancient, the cause and effectof, 382. 861.

House, different acceptations of the termin England, and sonic other countries, 118.Houses considered as part of the nationalstock, 261. Houses produce no revenue, ib.The rent of, distinguished into two parts, 792.Operation of a tax upon house-rent, payableby the tenant, 793. House rent the best testof the tenant’s circumstances, 795. Properregulation of a tax on, ib. How taxed in Hol-land, 798. Hearth money, ib. Window tax, ib.

Hudson’s Bay Company , the nature oftheir establishment am! trade, 698. Theirprofits not so high as lias been reported, 699.

Hunters, war how supported by a nationof, 648. Cannot be very numerous, 649. Noestablished administration of justice needfulamong them, 665. Age the sole foundation ofrank and precedency among, 666. No consi-derable inequality of fortune, or suboidina-tion to be found among them, 667. No here-reditary honours in such a society, 668.

Husbandmen, war how supported by a na-tion of, 650.

Husbandry. See Agriculture.

Idleness unfashionable in Holland, 97.

Importation, why restraints have been im-posed on, with the two kinds of, 414. Howrestrained to secure a monopoly of the homemarket to domestic industry, 415. The truepolicy of these restraints doubtful, 416. Thefree importation of foreign manufactures moredangerous than that of raw materials, 422.How far it maybe proper to continue thefree importation of certain foreign goods, 430.How far it may be proper to restore the freeimportation of goods, after it has been inter-rupted, 431. Of the materialsof manufacture,review of the legal encouragements given to,603.

Independents, the principles of that sectexplained, 744.

Indies. See East and West.

Indostan, the several classes of peoplethere kept distinct, 641. The natives of, howprevented from undertaking long sea voyages,ib.

Industry, the different kinds of, seldomdealt impartially with by any nation, 10. Thespecies of, frequently local, 24. Naturallysuited to the demand, 61. Is increased bythe liberal reward of labour, 83. How allect-ed by seasons of plenty and scarcity, 84. Ismore advantageously exerted in towns thanin the country, 125. The average produce of,always suited to the average consumption,184. Is promoted by the circulation of paper