AN

INQUIRY

INTO THE

NATURE AND ORIGIN

OF

PUBLIC WEALTH,

AND INTO THE

MEANS AND CAUSES OF ITS INCREASE.

BY

THE EARL OF LAUDERDALE.

Lauderdale, James Maitland, 8th earl of.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR ARCH. CONSTABLE & CO., EDINBURGH:

AND

T. N. LONGMAN & O. REES, LONDON.

1804.

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HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS

THE PRINCE OF WALES.

IF

SIR,

Ir gratitude for kindness uniformly fhown me, did not point out Your ROYAL HIGHNESS, as the Person to whom I ought to infcribe any little -effort of my industry; the anxious zeal, which constantly animates Your ROYAL HIGHNESS's breaft, for the welfare of a People amongst whom, fortunately for the British Empire,

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