DUGALD STEWART, ESQ., F.R.SS.

HONORARY MEMBER OF THE IMPERIAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AT ST. PETERSBURG ;
MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMIES OF BERLIN AND OF NAPLES; OF THE

AMERICAN SOCIETIES OF PHILADELPHIA AND OF BOSTON;
HONORARY MEMBER OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF
CAMBRIDGE ; PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY

IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.

EDITED BY

SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON, BART.

ADVOCATB; A.M. (OXON.); ETC.; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE;
HONORARY MEMBER OF TBE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES; AND OP
THE LATIN SOCIETY OF JENA ; ETC. ; PROFESSOR OF LOGIC AND METAPHYRICS

IN TAR UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.

VOL. IX.

EDINBURGH: THOMAS CONSTABLE AND CO.

LITTLE, BROWN, AND CO., BOSTON, U.S.

MDCCCLVI.

EDINBURGH: T CONSTABLE, PRINTER TO HER MAJESTY.

CONTENTS.

LECTURES ON POLITICAL ECONOMY.

PART FIRST.–OF POLITICAL ECONOMY PROPER.

(CONTINUED.)

BOOK SECOND.

OF NATIONAL WEALTH.—(CONTINUED.)

CHAPTER III.

PAGB

OF TRADE,

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Sect. i.-Of the Freedom of Trade, .

SUBSECT. 1. Of Restraints on Domestic Commerce and Industry, 5

SUBSECT. 2. Of Restraints on the Commercial Intercourse of

Different Nations, . . . .

Sect. ü.- Of the Corn Trade, . . .

SUBSECT. 1.-Of the Inland Corn Trade, .

SUBSECT. 2.-Of the Trade carried on by the Merchant Im-

porter of Grain for Home Consumption, . 100

SUBSECT. 3.-Of the Trade carried on by the Merchant Ex-

porter of Grain for Foreign Consumption, .

SUBSECT. 4.-Of the Trade of the Merchant Carrier, or Im-

porter of Corn for future Exportation,

120

SUBSECT. 5.- Miscellaneous Observations upon the Corn Trade, 121

Sect. iii.—On subjecting the Commerce of Money to the Regulation of Law, 146

Sect. iv.-On subjecting the Commerce of Land to the Regulation of Law, 195

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CHAPTER IV.

Of Taxes,

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Sect. i.-Of Taxes in General—Introductory,

Sect. ii.—Of Taxes upon Land, .

SUBSECT. 1.-Of Taxes upon the Rent of Land,

1.)— According to a Fixed Canon, ..

2.)—According to the Varying Rent,

SUBSECT. 2.--Of Taxes which are proportioned, not to the Rent,

but to the Produce of Land, .

Sect. iii.-- Of Taxes upon the Rent of Houses, . . . .

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