Identifier: newcompletedicti02mort (find matches)
Title: A new and complete dictionary of trade and commerce : containing a distinct explanation of the general principles of commerce; an accurate definition of its terms ... a particular description of the different productions of art and nature, which are the basis and support of commerce ... foreign commerce ...
Year: 1766 (1760s)
Authors: Mortimer, Thomas, 1730-1810 Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. BRL Boston Public Library) John Adams Library BRL
Subjects: Commerce Industries Commercial law
Publisher: London : Printed for the author and sold by S. Crowder ...
Contributing Library: John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library
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ithout any allowance madefor the value of goods clandeftinely run in, which has al-ways been very confiderable, and fuppofedby the BritifhMerchant at leaft one third of thofe duly entered at thecuftom-houfe; which if true, as he endeavours to renderprobable, the balance in our disfavour would be fwelled in.the laft-mentioned year to 1,197,330). 12s. 9d., Butfince that time the French have imitated the greateft partof our woollens, and invented others to which our artizansare yet ftrangers; as was proved by a collection of all theirfluffs, which a gentleman had curioufly made in the year1.734, with a view to lay. them before parliament: he waspleafed to fhew to feveral the patterns, and to acquaintthem with the intentions ; though what his motive was fordefifting from his purpofe, is not fo eafily learned ; he had>nicely examined into the coft of every fort, and beingcompared with our own, were found to be confiderablyunder the price of the fame here;. and what added to their value^
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F R A value, they were generally more fubftantial than ours,though for lefs money; the collector of thefe famples hasbeen dead for fome years, and we fear the good ufe thatmight have been made of them died with him, whichis the more to be regretted, as we prefume it would bedifficult for any one to procure the fame now, from the wantof the opportunities that he in a peculiar manner had for it.This perfection and cheapnefs of their manufactures havenot only put a flop to the large importation they formerlymade from hence by the prohibition, but likewife enabledthem to fupplant us in the Spanifli, Italian, and Turkifhmarkets; except in fome of our fine goods, which theyclandeftinely ftill call for here, as unable to copy or com-plete an aflbrtment without them ; it is to this we owethe continuance of that fmall branch of the woollen tradethat ftill fubfifts between us, though it is but the fhadowof what it once was. In regard of our Eaft-India andplantation goods, our commerce has not f

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