The Whistler at the Plough: Containing Travels, Statistics, and Descriptions of Scenery & Agricultural Customs in Most Parts of England: with Letters from Ireland: Also "Free Trade and the League;" a Biographical History, Volume 2James Ainsworth, 1853 - Free trade |
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Page 34
... proposal . Upon being further urged , he ex- pressed his willingness to sit for Manchester , if elected , but refused to take any steps to obtain the seat , and declared himself a candidate once more for Dover . On his visit to ...
... proposal . Upon being further urged , he ex- pressed his willingness to sit for Manchester , if elected , but refused to take any steps to obtain the seat , and declared himself a candidate once more for Dover . On his visit to ...
Page 42
... proposed , printing and laying before the house a schedule of the amended duties . And he thus generally succeeded in disarming opposition , and passing his customs bills without serious difficulty . But , modestly as these changes were ...
... proposed , printing and laying before the house a schedule of the amended duties . And he thus generally succeeded in disarming opposition , and passing his customs bills without serious difficulty . But , modestly as these changes were ...
Page 43
... proposed to him at this period to undertake the office of secretary for Ireland ; but he wisely declined the offer , preferring to remain in that department where his thorough knowledge of the principles and practice of com- merce FREE ...
... proposed to him at this period to undertake the office of secretary for Ireland ; but he wisely declined the offer , preferring to remain in that department where his thorough knowledge of the principles and practice of com- merce FREE ...
Page 49
... propose such reductions as should appear most likely to extend their mutual commercial intercourse . Ministerial changes in France unfortunately suspended the progress of this commission ; and it was closed in May 1839 , a conviction ...
... propose such reductions as should appear most likely to extend their mutual commercial intercourse . Ministerial changes in France unfortunately suspended the progress of this commission ; and it was closed in May 1839 , a conviction ...
Page 51
... propose a new treaty of commerce to the States of the Zollverein , which he had every reason to know would have been readily assented to by them , on terms highly favourable to British commerce and manufactures . In respect to Austria ...
... propose a new treaty of commerce to the States of the Zollverein , which he had every reason to know would have been readily assented to by them , on terms highly favourable to British commerce and manufactures . In respect to Austria ...
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