SUBSTANCE OF TWO SPEECHES, DELIVERED IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, ON THE 21ST AND 25TH OF MARCH, 1825...RESPECTING THE COLONIAL POLICY, AND FOREIGN COMMERCE OF THE COUNTRY
1826 · Baltimore
by Huskisson, William
Baltimore: F. Lucas, Jr., 1826. Half title [a bit chipped at edges, some foxing] and final blank, Disbound, 88pp. Very Good. Britain's Foreign Secretary, Huskisson urges relaxing import duties and considers "the means of affording some further degree of relief and assistance to the interests of our shipping and navigation." He reviews British trade policies from the 18th century-- when England [along with other colonial powers] imposed prohibitive tariffs upon colonial trading with all but the Mother Country-- until the present, characterized by "the immense and rapidly growing commerce and navigation of the United States of America." That enormous change warrants alteration of British policy: free trade ought to rule. First printed in London in 1825. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Sabin 34030. AI 24920 [2]. (Inventory #: 9340)