This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... profit, and in which a man, who calculates with intelligence and precision, can think of investing his capital. How different would this bare been, had the National Assembly "conductedthemselves on principles directly contrary; had "they"avoided all land-taxes f had they preserved the"free corn-trade, a trade of import more than export; had they been silent upon inclosures j and done nothingjnrelation to raw materials, the profit of investments would haveHSeen higher in France than in America, or any countryTiPthe world, and immense capitals would have flowed into the kingdom from every part of Europe: scarcity and famine would not have been heard of, and the national wealth would have been equal to all the exigencies of the period. April 26, 1792. In the last moment which the preparation for publication allows me to use, the intelligence is arrived of a declaration of war on the part of France against the House of Austria;--the gentlemen in whose company I hear it, all announce destruction to France;--they will be beat;-- they want discipline;--they have no subordination;--and 1 To have avoided land-taxes, might very easily have been made a most popular measure, in a kingdom so divided into little properties as France is. No tax is so heavy upon a small proprietor; and the aconamistes might have foreseen what has happened, that such little democratic owners would not pay the tax; _but taxes on consumption, laid as in England, and not in the infamous methodsof the old government of France, would have been paid by them in a light proportion, without knowing it; but the oeconomistes, to be consistent with their old pernicious doctrines, took every step to make all, except land-taxes, unpopular; and the people were ignorant enough to be...