TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD MAYOR, THE ALDERMEN, AND THE COMMONS OF THE CITY OF LONDON,
THIS TRACT, Containing ADDITIONS to those OBSERVATIONS on CIVIL LIBERTY, which they have honoured with their Approbation,
Is, with the greatest Respect and Gratitude, INSCRIBED, BY Their most obedient and humble Servant, RICHARD PRICE.
SECT. I. _Of the NATURE of ~Civil~ Liberty, and the Essentials of a Free Government._ 1
SECT. II. _Of the VALUE of Liberty, and the EXCELLENCE of a Free Government._ 15
SECT. I. _Supplemental Observations on the Surplus of the Revenue; the Quantity of Coin in the Kingdom; and Paper Credit._ 53
SECT. II. _Of the State of the Nation; and the War with America._ 69
SECT. III. _Of Schemes for raising Money by public Loans._ 89
SECT. I. _Abstract of the EXPORTS from, and IMPORTS to GREAT BRITAIN from 1697 to 1773, with Remarks._ 113
SECT. II. _Historical Deduction and Analysis of the Public Debts._ 119
SECT. III. _Of the DEBTS and RESOURCES of FRANCE._ 148
SECT. IV. _Remarks on the Earl of STAIR’S Account of the Public Income and Expenditure._ 156
_Resolution of a Committee of the ~American~ Congress in June 1775._ 175
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1. OBSERVATIONS on REVERSIONARY PAYMENTS; on Schemes for providing Annuities for Widows, and Persons in Old Age; on the Method of calculating the Values of Assurances on Lives; and on the National Debt. To which are added, Four Essays on different Subjects in the Doctrine of Life-Annuities and Political Arithmetic. Also, an Appendix, containing a complete Set of Tables; particularly four New Tables, shewing the Probabilities of Life in LONDON, NORWICH, and NORTHAMPTON, and the Values of two joint Lives.
The 3d Edition, with a Supplement, containing (besides several New Tables) additional Observations on the Probabilities of Human Life in different Situations; on the LONDON Societies for the Benefit of Widows and of Old Age; and on the present State of Population in this Kingdom. Price 6s.
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