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Is cheap in countries that are stationary, 73. 145. Good roods, and navigable canals,The demand for, would continually decrease equalize difference of situation, 146. That

in a declining country, 74. The province ofBengal cited ns an instance, 75. Is notbadly paid for in Great Britain , ib. An in-creasing demand for, favourable to popula-tion, 81. That of freemen cheaper to theetn^ployers than that of slaves, 82. The moneyprice of, how regulated, 87. Is liberally re-warded in new colonies, 93. Common labourand skilful labour distinguished, 101. Thefree circulation of, from one employmentto another, obstructed by corporation laws,135. The unequal prices of, in differentplaces, probably owing to the law of settle-ments, 140. Can always procure subsistenceon the spot where it is purchased, 145. Themoney price of, in different countries, bowgoverned, 187. Is set into motion by stockemployed for profit, 246. The division of, de-pends on the accumulation of stock, 257. M a-chinos to facilitate labour advantageous tosociety, 268. Productive and unproductive,distinguished, 311. Various orders of menspecified,whose labour is unproductive, 312.Unproductive labourers all maintained byrevenue, 314. The price of, bow raised bythe increase of the national capital, 333. Itsprice, though nominally raised, may con-tinue the same, 335. Is liberally rewarded innew colonies, 525. Of artificers and manufac-turers, never adds any value to the wholeamount of the rude produce of the land, ac-cording to the French agricultural system ofpolitical economy, 626. This doctrine shewnto be erroneous, 635. The productive powersof labour, how to be improved, 656.

Labourers, useful ami productive, every-where proportioned to the capital stock onwhich they are employed, 10. Share the pro-duce of their labour, in most cases, with theowners of the stock on which they arc em-ployed, 53. Their wages a continued subjectof contest between them and their musters, 68.Are seldom successful in their outrageouscombinations, 69. The sufficiency of theirearnings, a point not easily determined, 70.Their wages sometimes raised by increase ofwork, 71. Their demands limited by the fundsdestined for payment, ib. Arc continuallywanted in North America , 73. Miserablecondition of those in China , ib. Are not illpaid in Great Britain , 75. If able to main-tain their families in dear years, they must beat their ease in plentiful seasons, 76. A prooffurnished in the complaints of their luxury,80. Why worse paid than artificers, 102.Their interests strictly connected with the in-terests of the society, 246. Labour the onlysource of their revenue, 258. Effects of a life oflabour on the understandings of the poor, 732.

Land, the demand ofrentfor.how founded,53. The rent paid, enters into the price of the

greater part of all commodities, 54. Gene-rally produces more food than will maintainthe labour necessary u> bring it to market,

employed in raising food for men or cattle,regulates the rent of all other cultivated land,J51.157. Can clothe and lodge more than itcan feed, while uncultivated, and the contrary,when improved, 160. The culture of landproducing food, creates a demand for the pro-duce of other lands, 172. Produces by agri-culture a much greater quantity of vegetable,than of animal food, 185. The full improve-ment of, requires a stock of cattle to supplymanure, 216. Cause and effect of the dimi-nution of cottagers, 221. Signs of the landbeing completely improved, 224. The wholeannual produce, or the price of it, naturallydivides itself into rent, wages, and profits ofstock, 245. The usual price of, depends onthe common rate of interest for money, 337.The profits of cultivation exaggerated by pro-jectors, 353. The cultivation of, naturallypreferred to trade and manufactures, on equalterms, 356. Artificers necessary to the culti-vation of, ib. Was all appropriated, thoughnot cultivated, by the northern destroyers ofthe Roman empire, 359. Origin of the lawof primogeniture underthe feudal government,ib. Entails, 360. Obstacles to the improve-ment of land under feudal proprietors, 362.Feudal tenures, 364. Feudal taxation, 368.The improvement of land checked in France by the taille, ib. Occupiers of, labour undergreat disadvantages, ib. Origin of long leasesof, 387. Small proprietors, the best im-provers of, 389. Small purchasers of, cannothope to raise fortunes by cultivation, ib. Te-nures of, in the British American colonics,532. Is the most permanent source of re-venue, 772. The rent of a whole country notequal to the ordinary levy upon the people,773, The revenue from, proportioned, not tothe rent, but to the produce, 775. Reasonsfor selling the crown lands, 776. The land-tax of Great Britain , considered, 779. Animproved land-tax suggested, 782. A land-tax, however equally rated by a general sur-vey, will soon become unequal, 787. Tithesa very unequal tax, 788. Tithes discourageimprovement, 789.

Landholders, why frequently inattentive totheir own particular interests, 245. How theycontribute to the annual production of theland, according to the French agriculturalsystem of political economy, 624. Should be.encouraged to cultivate a part of their ownland, 784.

Latin language, how it became an essentialpart of university education, 719.

Law, the language of, how corrupted, 676.Did not improve into a science in ancientGreece , 729. Remarks on the courts of jus-tice in Greece and Rome , ib.

Law, Mr., account of his banking schemefor the improvement of Scotland , 299.

Lawyers, why amply rewarded for theirlabour, 105. Great amount of their fees, 673.