Wheatley, John, An essay on the theory of money and principles of commerce

(London :  Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, by W. Bulmer and Co.,  1807-1822.)

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all imports from France, and the other have prohibited ch\pter
all imports from England, to the effectual exclusion of ,^^^^1^^
all commerce between the two states ; and had they
pushed their means of augmenting the wealth of a nation
to the extreme, to w^hich their principles would have led
them, they would have persisted in the total prohibition
of imports from all other countries, with the fallacious
hope of effecting in their own an indefinite accumulation
of money ; till they had found, by fatal experience, that
they had subverted all commerce, where they intended
to promote it, and caused nothing but ruin, where they
meant to produce the utmost prosperity.

The sentiments, therefore, with which Lord Liverpool
and Lord Hawkesbury were impressed, that the import
of so much corn prevented the influx of so much money,
had no foundation in reason, as the additional supply of
corn, imported in a year of scarcity, instead of obstructing
the influx of money, is paid for by the increase of our
export trade commensurate with the increase of supply.
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