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... Amount of the French Taxes and Expences of the State , annual Importation and Exportation , Intereft of their national Debt , Charge of the Army , & c . ( 161 ) A Letter from the Right Honourable John Hely Hutchinson , Secretary of ...
... Amount of the French Taxes and Expences of the State , annual Importation and Exportation , Intereft of their national Debt , Charge of the Army , & c . ( 161 ) A Letter from the Right Honourable John Hely Hutchinson , Secretary of ...
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... amount two merchants of that place , of the names of Chomel and Jordan . Thefe merchants applied , through the medium of the flates , to the fenate of Venice , and obtained a criminal examination against the perfons concerned . Cavalli ...
... amount two merchants of that place , of the names of Chomel and Jordan . Thefe merchants applied , through the medium of the flates , to the fenate of Venice , and obtained a criminal examination against the perfons concerned . Cavalli ...
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... amount of their collections to as great a fum as polible , and as no proper checks feem to exift on their arbitrariness and caprice , their proceedings were not feldom unequal , oppreffive and fevere . The leafe by which thefe men held ...
... amount of their collections to as great a fum as polible , and as no proper checks feem to exift on their arbitrariness and caprice , their proceedings were not feldom unequal , oppreffive and fevere . The leafe by which thefe men held ...
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... amount of one half the pro- pofed fum . It was effential to the national credit that this loan fhould now be clofed . The money how- ever was as much wanted as ever , and the new minifter muft of courfe open a loan for the remaining fum ...
... amount of one half the pro- pofed fum . It was effential to the national credit that this loan fhould now be clofed . The money how- ever was as much wanted as ever , and the new minifter muft of courfe open a loan for the remaining fum ...
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... amount nearly to the fum of 3,800,000l . per annum . The fubject of national debts was never better underflood than at the period in which we write . The amount to which they have already rifen is fo vaft , that it requires a degree of ...
... amount nearly to the fum of 3,800,000l . per annum . The fubject of national debts was never better underflood than at the period in which we write . The amount to which they have already rifen is fo vaft , that it requires a degree of ...
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