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VARIOUS SYSTEMS

OF

POLITICAL ECONOMY

THEIR

ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES;

AND

THE THEORY MOST FAVOURABLE TO THE INCREASE

OF

NATIONAL WEALTH.

BY CHARLES GANILH, ADVOCATE.

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH

BY D. BOILEAU,

Author of “ An Introduction to the Study of Political Economy," &c.

Hanc veniam damus, petimusque vicissim. HORACE.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR HENRY COLBURN,

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN PUBLIC LIBRARY, CONDUIT STREET;
ANDERSON, EDINBURGH; AND CUMMING, DUBLIN.

1812.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

No study can be more attractive to a benevolent mind than that which investigates the means of providing a plentiful national income, and insuring the happiness of the individual members of the community, by enabling them to obtain the supply of their wants through the exertions of their industry. That commerce is one of the most powerful of those means has long been acknowledged in this country but that this truth should find an able advocate in France, at a time when her ruler is bent upon destroying commerce, is a circumstance, as extraordinary as it is honourable, to the author of the Inquiry into the various Systems of Political Economy. The impartiality and the soundness of the views which he displays in his work give it a particular claim to the attention of the English nation; and it is with the view to render its circulation more general, that I have attempted a translation, in which I have chiefly aimed at fidelity and perspicuity.

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