Making of the modern world

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"A Ill.[ustrissima] Junta da Administração da Companhia Geral da Agricultura das Vinhas do Alto Douro, tomando em consideração a importancia da questaõ de contas judiacialmente ventilada entre a mesma Companhia e o Conselheiro e Deputado Manoel José Sarmento ... "
"Addressing my observations and proposals to you, who are so well informed ... : it clearly appears, that the present situation of the landed interest requires assistance, the evil for a time must increase ..."
"An Account of the tonnage, draft of water and stations in the river, at which the ships discharged their cargoes that arrived in the port of London from the West Indies with sugar and rum, from the 25th of March 1798 to the 25th of March 1799, distinguishing each ship"
"Are the Lords the friends of the people?" : a question suggested by the bill for the repeal of the navigation laws viewed in connection with the results of free trade legislation, on the condition, taxes, rates, and minds of the community
"At an adjourned meeting of the inhabitants of the county of Saratoga, held ... on the 31st day of January, 1835 ..."
"Charles James," Lord Bishop of London! : what he can do, and what he has done! : appeal to the people
"Chemical effects of particular manures on particular crops" : a lecture
"Collection des principaux économistes"
"Common sense" : especially addressed to the most suffering portion of our fellow citizens, the "bone and sinew" of our country--the mechanics
"Considerations" for those who wish to unite under the new system of union and mutual cooperation
"Corn-colonies" : an effectual remedy for the distress of the working classes, and for the embarrassments of commerce, manufactures and trade
"Dear sir, you will receive herewith [blank] copies of the Delegates' address for sale ... "
"Englishmen!" : "the few remaining liberties which a tyrannical oligarchy has left to the enslaved people, have been this day forcibly taken from you in Birmingham by an armed power."
"Facts and figures." : ten tables telling tales of "My landlord" and "The Church" : England's rent roll, 1538, £4,000,000, 1844, £37,503,146, church revenues, 1538, £508,000, 1844, £15,000,000, "My landlord," the lion's share of tithes, £11,000,000, "The farmer's mentor," at the next election, "No tithes," "An improved tenure," "No game laws," &c. &c., No. 1
"Friends and fellow-workmen"
"Gemini" in reply to Sir R. Peel
"Gentlemen, I am deputed to attend the childien [sic] of the poor and helpless to protest against your making enquiry ... "
"Get away!! get away!!!" said "King Richard"
"Give it a fair trial"
"Health of towns" : an examination of the report and evidence of the Select Committee of Mr. Mackinnon's bill, and of the acts for establishing cemeteries around the metropolis
"His first campaign" : a letter addressed to the electors of the borough of Wolverhampton
"How to back out," or, Magisterial reasons for absence from duty
"I have the honour to inform you, that a Society has been formed for the encouragement of domestic industry and for promoting effectual relief from the general distress now unhappily pervading the community at large"
"If we except the recent reduction in the export duty on cinnamon to four pence per lb., there are few persons of reflection in this community, who do not regret the loss of revenue sustained by the abandonment of export duties"
"Il y a dix-huit siècles que le Fils de l'Homme, le divin libérateur des esclaves, est mort sur une croix ..."
"Impediments to agricultural improvement" considered : in a paper
"In presuming to address [blank] regarding Lord Ashley's proposed bill to limit the labour of children and young persons ... "
"Infant slavery," or, The children of the mines and factories
"J'ai l'honneur de vous informer qu'à dater du premier septembre prochain j'établirai, en cette ville, une maison de commission pour la réception et la réexpedition de toute espèce de marchandises pour la France et l'étranger"
"Je me réfère aux deux circulaires en date des 10 mai et 10 juillet derniers, qui vous ont été adressées par ma maison de Paris, à l'effet de vous faire connaître ses nouvelles conditions pour les vins qui lui seraient envoyés directement dans la gare du chemin de fer de Paris à Rouen, pour en faire la réexpédition au Havre"
"Landlords' rents" and "tenants' profits," or, Corn-farming in Scotland
"Morpeth, the friend of the oppressed!!"
"Mr. Macaulay's claims" : a letter to an elector of Leeds
"Nice pickings" : a countryman's remarks on Cobbett's "Letter to the King."
"O Caixa Geral Interino, representante da Companhia das Minas de Carvão de Pedra : ... tem a honra de levar ... huma conta fiel da mesma Companhia desde a data da sua creação até ao presente ... "
"Old wine" : letters on the tithe question, addressed to the farmers and electors of Yorkshire, in consequence of the tithe commutation bill for England, brought forward by Lord John Russell
"On Tuesday evening, June 11th, 1833, in consequence of many misrepresentations which had been industriously circulated respecting the advice given to the factory children about the Ten hour bill by the Rev. G.S. Bull : a large meeting of the children took place
"On Tuesday evening, June 11th, 1833, in consequence of many misrepresentations which had been industriously circulated, respecting the advice given to the factory children about the Ten hour bill, by the Rev. G.S. Bull ..."
"Our first men" : a calendar of wealth, fashion and gentility : containing a list of those persons taxed in the city of Boston, credibly reported to be worth one hundred thousand dollars : with biographical notices of the principal persons
"Peace, law, and order," : a lecture delivered in the hall of the National Association on September 29, 1842
"Poking" extraordinary!
"Prevention better than cure" : practical remarks on the prevention of cholera and removal of other troublesome states of the bowels
"Repealers" and "sympathizers" : letter to His Excellency Edward Everett, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States of America, at the court of Her Britannic Majesty
"Reverend Sir, The Short Time Committee, of Preston, beg most respectfully to hand you the following resolution ... "
"Sir, I have observed, with deep regret, the unsuccessful attempts that have been made to put into practice various plans, founded upon the principles of Robert Owen!"
"Sir, I have the honor to transmit to you a report to the House of Representatives relative to appropriations of money for certain purposes therein mentioned"
"Speed the plough" : an essay, showing the effects of protective and prohibitory duties, and the operation of the present tariff
"Strike, but hear me" : an appeal to the representatives of the people of the state of New-York, in relation to the proposed enlargement of the Erie Canal
"Swear not at all" - containing an exposure of the needlessness and mischievousness, as well as antichristianity, of the ceremony of an oath ...
"The Anti-Corn-Law League of Manchester, having resolved to send to every elector in Great Britain and Ireland, printed essays and pamphlets, exposing the injurious effects of the corn and provision laws upon every interest ... "
"The Committees of the manufacturing districts for supporting the Ten hour bill ... "
"The land" the only remedy for national poverty and impending national ruin : how to get it, and how to use it
"The right use of gold" : a new song
"The subscriber, original invention and patentee of the cylinder machine for making paper ... "
"The system of colonial law" compared with the eternal laws of God : and with the indispensable principles of the English constitution
"Thou shalt not kill" : Exodus XX 13, a sermon
"To the leaders of all the various parties, agricultural, commercial, political, scientific, and religious, in Birmingham and its neighborhood"
"Union!" : the patriot's watchword at the present crisis, or, Cordial reconciliation and active co-operation urged on the serious consideration of the people, as the only safe and sure path to a speedy victory
"We can't afford it!" : being thoughts upon the aristocracy of England, part the second
"Wha wants me?" : men of Bradford
"What will the Irish Lords do?" : a letter to the Earl of Listowel, M.P. for St. Albans, one of the Lords of the Bedchamber to Her Majesty
"What-do-you-want?" : explained in a poetical epistle from O.P. to all the Aitches, with notes illustrative
'O 'auto-kata'kpitos : The self-condemned, or, A letter to Mr. Jo. Goodwin : shewing that in his essay to justifie the equity, and regularnes of the late and present proceedings of the army by the principles of reason and religion, he hath condemned himselfe of iniquity and variablenesse in the highest degree, until he shall explain himself in publike
't Geheym van 't Engelsche hof, geduurende de regeeringen van Koning Carel de II en Koning Jacobus de II : zynde een naaukeurige historie en beschryvinge van de secreete practycquen, tot voortzettinge van haare desseynen, gepleegd
't Hof van Holland, en de Raad der Gemeente van den Haage, vermaant by dezen U
't Onderrecht des wissels, ende wissel-handeling, over gantsch Christenrijck : vervatende alle trates, remessen, vergelijckinge van prijsen, reeckeninge van schade en bate (nae de loop) van gelde ...
(Fielding's) hackney coach rates : containing near twenty thousand fares, (from actual measurement) with the distance and price; agreeable to the last act of Parliament : also, the rates of hackney chairs, and fares of watermen, as regulated by authority
(Tea licence, &c.) ....
(Tobacco Licence)
1 & 2 Victoriæ : with prefatory remarks and a copious index, Chap. 56, An act for the more effectual relief of the destitute poor in Ireland
15th of this month the state lottery will be drawn all in one day : containing 44 prizes ...
1602. 1603. A true report of all the burials and christnings within the city of London and the liberties thereof, from the 23. of December, 1602, to the 22. of December, 1603 : whereunto is added the number of euery seuerall parish, from the 14. of Iuly, to the 22. of December, aswell within the citie of London and the liberties thereof, as in other parishes in the skirtes of the cittie ...
16me rapport des administrateurs de la Caisse dépargnes et de prévoyance : au 31 décembre 1832
1829, or, The present times : a poem illustrative of the unexampled distresses in the manufacturing districts
1833
1833, ou, L'année de la mère : [janvier]
1833, ou, L'année de la mère : février
1833, ou, L'année de la mère : juillet - mission de l'est, rédigée par Collin, Rogé, Maréchal, Charpin, Lamy
184me Société de secours mutuels, dite de Saint-Théodore : composée d'ouvriers doreurs sur métaux : autorisée par décision de M. le Ministre de l'intérieur du 24 octobre 1846, époque de sa fondation, à la résidence de Paris
1re publication
2 of £40,000, 2 of £30,000, 2 of £10,000 : new state lottery begins 17th September
20th this month the state lottery will begin and end drawing ....
3d July 1799 : finance
5th July 1786 to 1st February 1791 : account of stock bought, monies issued, and accruing interest, for reduction of national debt : as ordered by the votes of the Honourable the House of Commons, of February 16th 1791
84 millions à placer : en achat de rentes, ou en rachat de la gabelle, de la taille, etc
A Bengal atlas : containing maps of the theatre of war and commerce on that side of Hindostan : compiled from the original surveys, and published by order of the Honourable the Court of Directors for the affairs of the East India Company
A Bill (as amended by the Committee) for the better support and maintenance of the poor
A Bill (as amended by the committee) for regulating the importation and exportation of corn : and the payment of the duty on foreign corn imported, and of the bounty on British corn exported
A Bill (as amended by the committee) to repeal the duties imposed by an act, made in the last session of Parliament, for granting an aid and contribution for the prosecution of the war, and to make more effectual provision for the like purpose, by granting certain duties upon income, in lieu of the said duties
A Bill (as amended by the committee, and on the report) for the better ascertaining and collecting the duties granted by several acts passed in the last session of Parliament, relating to the duties on income, and to explain and amend the said acts
A Bill (with the amendments) for the better relief and employment of the poor, within that part of Great Britain called England
A Bill (with the amendments) to explain, amend, and reduce into one act of Parliament, several laws now in being for preventing the exportation of live sheep : ... wool, ... yarn, and worsted, ... and other manufactures, ... made of wool slightly wrought up, ... mattrasses or beds stuffed with combed wool, ... fullers earth, fulling clay, and tobacco pipe clay, ... and for rendering more effectual an act passed in the twenty-third year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, intituled, "An Act for the Winding of Wool."
A Bill for Continuing the Trade and Corporation Capacity of the United East-India Company Altho' Their Fund Should Be Redeemed
A Bill for Enlarging the Term Granted by an Act Made in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of His Late Majesty King George the First, for Rebuilding the Pier and Harbour of Parton in the County of Cumberland
A Bill for Making More Effectual the Laws in Being for Disabling Persons from Being Chosen Members of, or Sitting or Voting in the House of Commons, Who Have Any Pension during Pleasure, or for Any Number of Years, or Any Offices Held in Trust for Them
A Bill for Preserving and Encouraging a New Invention in England by Sir Thomas Lombe : and Granting Him a Further Term of Years for the Sole Making and Using His Three Italian Engines
A Bill for Rebuilding the Parish Church of Woolwich in the County of Kent as One of the Fifty New Churches Directed to Be Built by Two Acts of Parliament, One Made in the Ninth and the Other in the Tenth Year of the Reign of Her Late Majesty Queen Anne
A Bill for Rectifying Some Mistakes in a Settlement Made by John Congreve, Esq : and Vesting His Seat and Estate in Stretton, in the County of Stafford, in Trustees, to Be Sold for Better Clearing His Debts, for Which His Eldest Son Stands Engaged, and Purchasing Another Estate More Suitable to the Occasions of His Family, to Be Settled in Lieu Thereof
A Bill for Regulating and Restraining the Charitable Corporation for Relief of Industrious Poor : by assisting them with small sums upon pledges at legal interest, and for regulating the lending of money upon pledges by any other body politick and corporate, or other persons, and for preventing usury and extortion
A Bill for Repealing Several Subsidies and an Impost on Tobacco of the British Plantations : and for Granting an Inland Duty in Lieu Thereof
A Bill for better regulating the collection of His Majesty's revenue and for preventing of frauds therein, and for repealing an act made in the thirty-sixth year of the reign of His present Majesty, entitled, "An Act for Continuing and Amending the several Laws relating to His Majesty's Revenue, and further Preventing Frauds therein", and the several acts and statutes which are mentioned in the said act and continued thereby
A Bill for confining, for a time to be limited, the trade between the ports of the United States of America, and His Majesty's subjects in the island of Newfoundland : to bread, flour, and live stock, to be imported in none but British-built ships, actually belonging to British subjects, and navigated according to law, clearing out from the ports of His Majesty's European dominions, and furnished with a licence according to the form hereunto annexed
A Bill for continuing the trade and corporation capacity of the United East-India Company altho their fund should be redeemed
A Bill for dividing and inclosing the open and common fields, common meadows, common pastures and other commonable lands and waste grounds in the parish of Weston in the county of Hertford
A Bill for dividing and inclosing the open and common fields, common pastures and other commonable lands and waste grounds in the parish of King's Walden in the county of Hertford
A Bill for dividing, allotting, and inclosing the several parcels of common fen, and other commonable lands and waste grounds, within or belonging to the parish of Wyberton, in the parts of Holland, in the county of Lincoln
A Bill for establishing and rendering effectual certain articles of agreement, for inclosing and dividing the commons and waste grounds in the townships of Bentley and Arksey : and parish of Arksey, in the county of York
A Bill for improving the port of London
A Bill for making and maintaining a navigable cut or canal from the frith or river of Forth, at or near the mouth of the river of Carron, in the county of Stirling, to the frith or river of Clyde, at or near a place called Dalmuir Burnfoot, in the county of Dumbarton : and also, a collateral cut from the same to the city of Glasgow
A Bill for regulating the importation and exportation of corn : and the payment of the duty on foreign corn imported, and of the bounty on British corn exported
A Bill for regulating the trade between the subjects of His Majesty's colonies and plantations in North America and in the West India islands, and the countries belonging to the United States of America : and between His Majesty's said subjects and the foreign islands in the West Indies
A Bill for the Better Regulation of His Majesty's Civil Establishments, and of Certain Public Offices, for the Limitation of Pensions, and the Suppression of Sundry Useless, Expensive, and Inconvenient Places, and for Applying the Monies Saved Thereby to the Public Service
A Bill for the Better and More Easy Re-building of the Town of Tiverton, in the County of Devon : and for Determining Differences Touching Houses and Buildings Burnt Down, or Demolished by Reason of the Late Dreadful Fire There
A Bill for the Relief of the Creditors and Proprietors of the Company of the Mine Adventurers : by establishing a method for settling the differences between the company and their creditors and for uniting them in order to an effectual working of the mines of the said company
A Bill for the Relief of the Sufferers in the Charitable Corporation
A Bill for the Vesting of Certain Lands and Estates in the Counties of Stafford, Leicester, Rutland, and Northampton, late the Estates of Sir Eusebius Buswell, Bart., Deceased, in Trustees, to be Sold for the Payment of His Debts
A Bill for the better enabling certain persons to open and work mines : and to raise coal, culm, minerals and fossils in this kingdom
A Bill for the better ordering of the militia forces in the several counties of that part of Great-Britain called England : absolutely necessary to be perused by all people at this juncture
A Bill to Explain an Act Passed in the Last Session of Parliament, Intituled, An Act for the Converting a Further Part of the Capital Stock of the South Sea Company into Annuities Redeemable by Parliament : and for Settling the Remaining Part of the Said Stock in the Said Company, so far as the Said Act Relates to the Paying Off the Bonds of the Said Company
A Bill to Prevent Suits for Tythes, Where None, Nor Any Composition for the Same, Have Been Paid Within a Certain Number of Years
A Bill to Regulate the Labour of Children and Other Persons, in the Mills and Factories of the United Kingdom
A Bill to amend and render More effectual so such of two acts, made in the thirteenth and fourteenth years of the reign of his present majesty, as relates to the regulating the importation and exportation of corn, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland
A Bill to enable His Majesty to grant the inheritance of certain lands, called Bowood-Park, in the county of Wilts, to trustees, upon trust for Sir Orlando Bridgman, Baronet, and his heirs upon a full consideration to be paid for the same
A Book of the valuations of all the ecclesiasticall preferments in England and Wales : entituled Nomina & valores omnium & singulorum archiepiscopatuum, episcopatuum ... ac omnium aliarum promotionum ... quæ ad solutionem decimæ partis earund' Dom' regi & reginæ nuper tenebantur
A Brief abstract of the great oppressions and injuries which the late managers of the East-India-Company have acted on the lives, liberties and estates of their fellow-subjects : with a short account of their unjust dealings with the natives in sundry parts of India ... humbly presented to the consideration of the honourable, the knights, citizens, and burgesses, in Parliament assembled
A Brief accompt of the maintenances arising by the tithes, glebe, and other profits to the several ministers of parish-churches demolished by the late dreadful fire in London : together with the names of the present incumbents thereof
A Brief account of some severe prosecutions in the Court of Exchequer, against several of the people called Quakers, for non-payment of tithes : notwithstanding that provision is made for the more easie recovery thereof, by two late acts
A Brief account of the Shaws water scheme, and present state of the works : with copies of the feu charter, and regulations to be entered into between the Company and feuars of mill sites, tables of contents of reservoirs ... with a letter from Mr. Thom, to Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, on the principles of filtration, as applicable for the supply of populous towns and cities with pure water
A Brief account of the evidence given on behalf of Edmund Warner at a tryal had at the bar the 24th of November, 1693, before the barons of the Exchequer : relating to a parcel of potters clay seized by the custome-house officers, under the pretence of it's being fullers earth
A Brief account of the first concordium, or harmonious industrial college ....
A Brief account of the measures taken in Denmark : for the conversion of the heathen in the East-Indies, and of the college or incorporated society erected by the King of Denmark for the propagation of the gospel ...
A Brief account of the rise, and early progress of steam navigation : intended to demonstrate that it originated in the suggestions and experiments of the late Mr. James Taylor of Cumnock, in connexion with the late Mr. Miller of Dalswinton
A Brief and impartial survey of the flour and bread trades : humbly inscribed to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of the city of London ; the mayors and bailiffs of cities and towns corporate, and justices of the peace throughout England : to which is annexed, a specimen of a table proposed for ascertaining the price of bread
A Brief discourse between a sober Tory and a moderate Whigg
A Brief essay of discourse : shewing the present expedient of requiring a legal benevolence, viz., by express act of Parliament towards the supply of publick occasions
A Brief examination of the proposed customs' duties bill : and a few reasons for it's not passing into a law
A Brief explanation of the objects of a bill : "for the more effectual suppression of trading in seduction and prostitution, and for the better protection of females."
A Brief exposition of the foreign policy of Mr. Canning : as contrasted with that of the existing administration
A Brief extract of the bill and answer, filed in the Court of Chancery, respecting the purchase of the land tax of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis : with a few prefatory remarks on the nature and effect of the fee-farm rents
A Brief history of the proceedings respecting the Thames coal-whippers
A Brief history of the remains of the late Thomas Paine : from the time of their disinterment in 1819, by the late William Cobbett, down to the year 1846
A Brief history of the wars and treaties in which England has been engaged from the restoration of King Charles II, to the present time : with a sketch of the causes of the French revolution, and of the motives which led to the war, between the confederate princes, and the French nation
A Brief of proceedings between Sr. Hierom Sankey and Dr. William Petty : with the state of the controversie between them tendered to all indifferent persons
A Brief review of the British labourer's protector, and factory child's friend
A Brief review of the action of labour, production, commerce and consumption under their existing forms and practice : with proposed expedients for improvement : intended to promote a more general and popular conversation upon, and understanding of, those important subjects
A Brief review of the causes which have progressively operated to enhance the price of provisions, but particularly of bread-corn : with suggestions as to the best means of alleviating the present distress, and preventing the recurrence of a similar calamity
A Brief sketch of a proposed new line of communication between Dublin and Londoneetings, one held in the county of Carnarvon, and the other in the city of Dublin
A Brief sketch of the causes which first gave rise to the late high price of grain in Great Britain : and to the consequent apparent necessity for the corn bill : with some proposals for a more equitable taxation, in a letter addressed to the editor of the Times newspaper
A Brief sketch of the property belonging to the North American Coal Company : with some general remarks on the subject of coal and coal mines
A Brief state of the East India trade : as it relates to the other branches of the British commerce : in order to judge whether as it is now carry'd on that trade be advantageous to the general interest of the nation or not
A Brief state of the debate concerning the sealing of brown linens : and exposing them to sale in open folds : wherein is contained every thing that has been offered to the public against those regulations : together with answers to the same
A Brief view of medical evidence and opinion, given before the Select Committee on the Factories' Regulation Bill : appointed March 16, 1832 ... : to the medical evidence given before the committee is added medical and clerical testimonials, certificates and declarations, given in, as evidence, to the Committee, by witnesses examined before them
A Brief view of the nature and effects of Negro slavery : as it exists in the colonies of Great Britain
A Brief view of the township laws up to the present time : with a treatise on the law and office of constable, the law relative to landlord and tenant, distress for rent, inn-keepers, &c.
A Brief vindication of the principles of Mr. Malthus : in a letter to the author of an article in the Quarterly review, Dec. 1812, entitled "Inquiry into the Poor Laws, &c."
A Briefe answer to a pamphlet intituled A short view of the businesse betweene the clothier and stapler, &c : wherein the kernel-eater of the golden fleece of this kingdome is clearely unmasked, the contradictions, false-hoods, and mischiefs of the staplers, broggers and jobbers discovered ..., the state and kingdomes good in the clothiers just desires vindicated, and the Parliament and committees just proceedings illustrated for generall satisfaction
A Briefe declaration for what manner of speciall nusance concerning private dwelling houses a man may have his remedy by assise, or other action as the case requires : vnfolded in the arguments and opinions of foure famous sages of the common law ... : whereunto is added the iustices of assise their opinion, concerning statute-law for parishes, & the power of iustices of peace, churchwardens, and constables, and to know what they are to doe concerning bastards borne in their parishes, reliefe of the poore, and providing for poore children, what remedy for the same
A Briefe declaration for what manner of speciall nusance concerning private dwelling houses, a man may have his remedy by assise, or other action as the case requires : vnfolded in the arguments, and opinions of foure famous sages of the common law ... : whereunto is added the iustices of assise their opinion, concerning statute law for parishes, and the power of iustices of peace, churchwardens, and constables, and to know what they are to do concerning bastards borne in their parishes, reliefe of the poore, and providing for poore children, what remedy for the same
A Budget for the socialists : containing The female socialist, or, The wise wench of Whitechapel, a doggerel worthy of its burthen : also, The Lord's prayer of the Owenites, a lively ditty worthy of its psalmodists : and lastly, but not least of all, The gospel according to Saint Owen, a revelation, worthy of Diabolus, the sdint's first cousin
A Budget of two taxes only : a stamp tax, with the legacy duty equalized and extended to real property, and a property tax, applied to all realized property, with an equitable proportion on income
A Calculation of the new scheme for disposing of the South-Sea property : wherein is shewn what dividend the South-Sea Company can make on the old foot, what dividend the new scheme proposes, and what dividend (if the scheme takes effect) the three companies can really make by their present profits and the interest of the new ingrafted stock
A Calculation of the species and value of the manufactures and products of Great-Britain, Newfoundland, and Ireland, annually exported to the port of Leghorn
A Call to women of all ranks in the British Empire : on the subject of the national debt
A Call upon the people of Great Britain & Ireland : for immediate attention to the state of their public affairs, debts, and taxes : with a table of our wars since the Revolution in the year 1688, shewing the sums expended during each war, and the progress of our taxes and national debt, also the average yearly poor rate and price of wheat
A Calm address to the housekeepers of the parishes of St. James's and St. George's, Westminster, and of St. Marylebone : calculated to settle their opinions on the subject of the supply of water, and the conduct of the water companies
A Candid cobler's cursory and critical conjectures on ex-change and small-change, on balance of trade, on balance of remittance, on circulating medium and kite-flying : interspersed with certain schemes more fair and friendly, than feasible : calculated for those who are more in the habit of hearing than reading
A Candid enquiry into the causes of the late and the intended migrations from Scotland : in a letter to J--------- R--------- Esq
A Candid enquiry into the present ruined state of the French monarchy : with remarks on the late despotick reduction of the interest of the national debt of France
A Candid review of the most important occurrences that took place in Ireland, during the last three years : in which is comprised : I. The proceedings of the National Convention assembled in Dublin, November 1783, and the succeeding year ... VII. The present state of the press in Ireland considered : in a letter addressed to George Stacpoole, Esq. of Grosvenor Place, London
A Capital mistake of the legislature respecting the taxes on receipts : which must either produce an immediate repeal of these unprecedented duties, or convince the world that the subjects of Great Britain are now entirely lost to every sense of their own interest
A Cardiganshire landlord's advice to his tenants
A Cardiganshire landlord's advice to his tenants
A Case for the opinion of the judges
A Case humbly offer'd to the honourable House of Commons, on behalf of the packers, &c., concerned in the woollen manufacture, in relation to buckrams and barras
A Catechism on the tariff : for the use of plain people of common sense
A Caution
A Caution against the levellers
A Caution to keepe money : shewing the miserie of the want thereof, I, in a state or kingdome, to supply warre, II, in younger brothers pawning their lands, to redeeme them, III, in shopkeepers wanting stock to supply, III, in handicraft-trades by negligence, V, in handsome and honest maidens, wanting portions : declaring their slight neglect and scorne in these hard and dangerous times
A Caution to the directors of the East-India Company : with regard to their making the midsummer dividend of five per cent without due attention to a late act of Parliament, and a by-law of their own
A Caveat against generall indempnity, or, Reasons why the patentee commissioners and farmers of beer and ale ... should not be comprehended in the generall Act of Indempnity and Oblivion
A Caveat for my countreymen in general, the assessors and collectors of publick taxes in particular
A Caveat on the part of public credit, previous to the opening of the budget, for the present year, 1768
A Caveat to the treaters, or, The modern schemes of partition examin'd : with relation to the safety of Europe in general and of Great-Britain and Ireland in particular : including an answer to several late pamphlets on that subject : with a more particular account of the conferences at Gertruydenberg than has yet been published
A Certain and necessary method of regulating the press : which will hinder and deter the daily insolence of false, malitious, and seditious libels by an easy discovery of their authors, printers, and publishers : design'd for the service of Her Majesty's late gratious message to the honourable House of Commons and their resolutions in their address and votes concerning the same
A Certain way to save our country, and make us a more happy and flourishing people, than at any former period of our history
A Charitable proposal for relieving the sick and needy, and other distressed persons
A Chartist's reply to "A few words to the Chartists, "by," one styling himself, "a friend"
A Chinese commercial guide : consisting of a collection of details and regulations respecting foreign trade with China
A Christmas box for Sir Charles Morgan of Tredegar, Monmouthshire : also, a letter to the married and single women of Monmouthshire
A Christmas hymn
A Chronology of remarkable events relative to the city of New Sarum : with the year and name of the mayor in whose time they occurred ... from A.D. 1227 to 1823 ... including the prices of wheat and barley from an early era, to which are added, their annual average prices for 28 years, being from 1796 to 1823
A Circular addressed by the soap manufacturers of London to the manufacturers in the country
A Circumstantial history of the transactions at Paris on the tenth of August plainly shewing the perfidy of Louis XVI and the general unanimity of the people in defence of their rights
A Clause in the act of Parliament for laying a duty on leather and skins ... : the grievous case without a parallel
A Code of Gentoo laws, or, Ordinations of the pundits
A Collection of addresses transmitted by certain English clubs and societies to the National convention of France : the decree of the executive council respecting the Scheldt ... : the speeches of M.M. Cambon, Dupont and Kersaint ... : to which are added extracts from the seditious resolutions of the English societies
A Collection of addresses transmitted by certain English clubs and societies to the National convention of France : the decree of the executive council respecting the Scheldt ... : the speeches of M.M. Cambon, Dupont and Kersaint ... : to which are added, extracts from the seditious resolutions of the English societies
A Collection of addresses, squibs, songs, &c. together with the Political mountebank ... : published during the contested election for the borough of Preston ... : also proceedings on the day of nomination, and speeches of the several gentlemen who addressed the electors, at the opening and close of the election, with a state of each day's poll
A Collection of advertisements, advices, and directions relating to the Royal Fishery within the British seas, &c
A Collection of affidavits : relating to the coal trade in the north of England including several letters from the agents of the proprietors to the agents of the surviving lessee of High Flatworth Colliery
A Collection of all the remarkable and personal passages in the Briton, North Briton, and Auditor ....
A Collection of all the remarkable and personal passages in the Briton, North Briton, and Auditor : affecting the Dukes of Newcastle and Bedford, the Earls Temple, Powis, Bute, Hallifax, Talbot and his horse ... and the late Dukes of Cumberland and Devonshire, the Earl of Egremont
A Collection of choice, scarce, and valuable tracts : being taken from manuscripts and printed books, very uncommon, and not to be found but in the libraries of the curious
A Collection of conflicting opinions upon the corn question, extracted from the writings of the most eminent economists ... : with notes and observations by the compiler
A Collection of kings' speeches : with the messages to and from both Houses of Parliament, addresses by the Lords and Commons, and the speeches of the lords chancellors and speakers of the House of Commons : from the Restauration, in the year one thousand six hundred and sixty, to the year one thousand six hundred and eighty-five
A Collection of kings' speeches : with the messages to and from both Houses of Parliament, addresses by the Lords and Commons, and the speeches of the lords chancellors, and speakers of the House of Commons : from the Revolution, in the year one thousand six hundred and eighty-eight, to the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-two
A Collection of letters and essays in favour of public liberty : first published in the news-papers in the years 1764, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, and 1770
A Collection of papers relating to the East-India trade : wherein are shewn the disadvantages to a nation, by confining any trade to a corporation with joint-stock
A Collection of papers relative to the state of British commerce in Sicily
A Collection of petitions presented to the honourable House of Commons against the trade with France ....
A Collection of publick acts and papers : relating to the principles of armed neutrality, brought forward in the years 1780 and 1781
A Collection of songs and ballads relative to the London prentices and trades : and to the affairs of London generally, during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries
A Collection of state tracts : publish'd on occasion of the late revolution in 1688, and during the reign of King William III
A Collection of statutes concerning the incorporation, trade, and commerce of the East India Company : and the government of the British possessions in India, with the statutes of piracy : to which, for more succinct information, are annexed, lists of duties and drawbacks on the company's trade, and of the company's duties and charges on private trade; the by-laws, constitutions, rules and orders of the company; and an abridgement of the company's charters : with a copious index
A Collection of statutes concerning the incorporation, trade, and commerce of the East India Company, and the government of the British possessions in India, with the statutes of piracy : to which ... are annexed, lists of duties and drawbacks on the company's trade, the by-laws, constitutions, rules and orders for the good government of the company, and the management of their trade, and an abridgement of the compnay's charters
A Collection of the most interesting tracts : lately published in England and America, on the subjects of taxing the American colonies, and regulating their trade
A Collection of the several papers sent to His Highness the Lord Protector of the common-wealth of England, Scotland, & Ireland, &c : concerning the bloody and barbarous massacres, murthers, and other cruelties, committed on many thousands of reformed, or protestants dwelling in the vallies of Piedmont, by the Duke of Savoy's forces, joyned therein with the French army, and severall ... regiments
A Collection of the several petitions of the counties, boroughs, &c. presented to the House of Commons : complaining of the great miseries the nation labours under by the great decay of trade, manufactuures [sic], and publick credit : occasion'd by the mismanagements of the late directors of the South-Sea Company, their aiders, abettors, and confederates, &c
A Collection of tracts, on the subjects of taxing the British colonies in America : and regulating their trade
A Collection of treaties of peace and commerce : containing all those that have been concluded from the peace of Munster inclusive to this time, and more particularly those of Utrecht and Rastadt, with the several infringements alledg'd on all sides
A Collection of very valuable and scarce pieces relating to the last plague in the year 1665 : viz. I. orders drawn up and published by the Lord Mayor and aldermen of the city of London to prevent the spreading of the infection, II. an account of the first rise, progress, symptoms, and cure of the plague, being the substance of a letter from Doctor Hodges to a person of quality, III. necessary directions ... by the College of physicians, IV. reflections on the weekly bills of mortality ... in London from the year 1592 to the great plague in 1665 ... : with a preface shewing the usefulness of this collection, some errors of Dr. Mead and his misrepresentations of Dr. Hodges and some authors : to which is added an account of the plague at Naples in 1656
A Collection of voyages and travels : some now first printed from original manuscripts : others translated out of foreign languages and now first publish'd in English : to which are added some few that have formerly appear'd in English
A Collection of white and black lists, or, A view of those gentlemen who have given their votes in Parliament for and against the Protestant religion, and succession, and the trade and liberties of their country : ever since the Glorious Revolution to the happy accession of King George
A Collection of white and black lists, or, A view of those gentlemen who have given their votes in Parliament for and against the Protestant religion, and succession, and the trade and liberties of their country : ever since the Glorious Revolution to the happy accession of King George : recommended to the consideration of electors
A College exercise, delivered December 16, 1765
A Comic and laughable dialogue between a man, his wife, and the tax gatherer
A Common Council holden in the Chamber of the Guildhall of the city of London, on ... the 5th day of October, 1791
A Common Council holden in the chamber of the Guildhall in the city of London on ... the 10th day of March 1797
A Common-Council held in the chamber of the Guildhall of the city of London : on Wednesday, the 14th day of July, in the year of our Lord 1736, and in the tenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second, King of Great Britain, &c
A Comparative view of the nominal value of the silver coin in England and France : and of their influence on the manufactures and commerce of each respective kingdom
A Comparative view of the present laws against the illicit exportation of wool, &c : and the bill now depending in Parliament for the same purpose; whereby are refuted the charges brought against the said bill, by the resolutions of the meetings held at the house of Sir John Thorold, Bart. and the Thatched House Tavern
A Compendious statement of the additional taxes, &c. to be assessed under the late Act for Granting to His Majesty an Aid and Contribution for the Prosecution of the War : with the several exemptions, modifications and abatements contained therein : published for the information of the inhabitants within the division of the palaces of Whitehall and St. James's
A Compendious view of the law authorizing the improvement of the navigation of the river Lehigh : together with remarks on the facility of making the improvement, and advantages to be derived from it
A Compendium of the corn trade : the practice of ingrossing, jobbing, &c., the cause of plenty and scarcity, constitutional errors in our laws and customs, a summary of the laws, assise table, &c. &c
A Compilation of articles relating to the culture and manufacture of hemp in the United States : selected principally from newspaper and journals devoted to the interest of agriculture
A Compleat alphabetical abridgement of the statutes now in force relating to stamp duties : :whereby at one view may be seen what stamps are required on all sorts of deeds, writings, and agreements ... : and also those which are exempt from the stamp duties : together with the several penalties or forfeitures
A Compleat history of French invasions, from the Revolution to the present time : containing a particular account of the intended descent in 1690, after the battel of Beachy Head ... collected from manuscript as well as printed authorities
A Complete abstract of the act for the general defence of the country : including the whole of the act, except the repetitions and technical circumlocution : with an index, by which the subject of any particular clause may be found at one view
A Complete collection of the genuine papers, letters, &c. in the case of John Wilkes, Esq. ....
A Complete collection of the genuine papers, letters, &c. in the case of John Wilkes, Esq. ....
A Complete guide to all persons who have any trade or concern with the city of London, and parts adjacent : containing, I. the names of all the streets, squares, &c. ... III. an account of all the stage-coaches with the fares ... V. the new rates for Carmen ... VI. rates of the general post, and penny-post offices ... VIII. tables of interest ... and designed for the use of persons of all degrees, as well natives as foreigners
A Complete index to the Companion to the almanac, from its commencement, in 1828, to 1843, inclusive
A Complete stamp table : being an account of all the stamps necessary in the various transactions of law and commerce ... from their commencement in the reign

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