The speeches of ... William Huskisson, with a biogr. memoir, Volume 2

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Page 373 - ... or to regulate the mode of carrying on any manufacture, trade, or business, or the management thereof...
Page 469 - That the maxim of buying in the cheapest market, and selling in the dearest, which regulates every merchant in his individual dealings, is strictly applicable, as the best rule for the trade of the whole nation.
Page 471 - As long as the necessity for the present amount of revenue subsists, your petitioners cannot expect so important a branch of it as the customs to be given up, nor to be materially diminished, unless some substitute, less objectionable, be suggested. But it is against every restrictive regulation of trade not essential to the revenue — against all duties merely protective from foreign competition — and against the excess of such duties as are partly for the purpose of revenue, and partly for that...
Page 314 - I propose to admit a free intercourse between all our Colonies and other countries, either in British ships, or in the ships of those countries, allowing the latter to import all articles, the growth, produce, or manufacture of the country to which the ship belongs, and to export from such Colonies all articles whatever of their growth, produce, or manufacture, either to the country from which such ship came, or to any other part of the world, the United Kingdom, and all its dependencies, excepted.
Page 469 - That the prevailing prejudices in favour of the protective or restrictive system may be traced to the erroneous supposition that every importation of foreign commodities occasions a diminution or discouragement of our own productions to the same extent...
Page 470 - ... set up as a ground of claim by other branches for similar protection ; so that, if the reasoning upon which these restrictive or prohibitory regulations are founded were followed out consistently, it would not stop short of excluding us from all foreign commerce whatsoever. And the same train of argument, which with corresponding prohibitions and protective duties should exclude us from Foreign Trade, might be brought forward to justify the re-enactment of restrictions upon the interchange of...
Page 306 - An act for the better securing the dependency of the kingdom of Ireland upon the crown of Great Britain.
Page 148 - ... taking from gold the quality of money, and transferring it to that other commodity ? All that you do is, in fact, to make wheat money, and gold the representative of that money, as paper now is of gold. But to say, that one commodity shall be the money, and another the standard of that money, 1.2 betrays a confusion of ideas, and is little short of a contradiction in terms.
Page 538 - That the House do resolve itself into a committee of the whole House, to consider of the present State of the Corn Laws.
Page 471 - That, independent of the direct benefit to be derived by this country on every occasion of such concession or relaxation, a great incidental object would be gained by the recognition of a sound principle or standard, to which all subsequent, arrangements might be referred...

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