British Military to Quell Smuggling Along English and Scottish Coasts, 1717
[London, September 7, 1717] Upon a Complaint from the Officers of the Customs in several Parts of the Kingdom, that the Smugglers are now grown so very Numerous and Insolent, in Defiance of the Officers of the Customs, they ...
King George the First’s Proclamation Against Trading with the French at Jamaica, 1720
JAMAICA. By the King. A Proclamation. Whereas we have received frequent Complaints from Merchants and Planters trading to, and interested in our Island of Jamaica, that an illegal Trade is carried on between our Subjects of our said Island, ...
New York City in the Winter of 1747
“New-York, February 9. Our kind Readers must now naturally expect a great Dearth of News, and we are therefore quite at a Loss what to give that may be agreeable; we must then beg their Patience when we tell them ...
Conceptualizing the Circulation of Wealth, 1756
"LONDON, Novem. 21 [1756]. It ought to alleviate the Sense of our present Disbursements, that the far greater Part of them, both at Home and Abroad, are spent amongst ourselves. The Demands of the Navy employ and enrich an infinite ...
