ESSAYS ON GENERAL POLITICS, COMMERCE,

AND POLITICAL ECONOMY.

A Modest Inquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a

On Freedom of Speech and the Press

Observations concerning the Increase of Mankind and

285

the Peopling of Countries

311

Remarks on some of the Foregoing Observations, showing

particularly the Effects which Manners have on

Population

321

Remarks on Judge Foster's Argument in Favor of the

Right of Impressing Seamen

33'

Remarks and Facts relative to the American Paper

Money

340-

On the Price of Corn, and Management of the Poor 355

On Smuggling, and its Various Species

361

Reflections on Coin in general, being an Appendix to

On the Paper Money of the United States of America. 421

Comparison of Great Britain and the United States, in

Regard to the Basis of Credit in the two Countries 426

Reflections on the Augmentation of Wages, which will

be occasioned in Europe by the American

Revolution

435

- On Luxury, Idleness, and Industry

Remarks concerning the Savages of North America

The Internal State of America; being a true Description

448

453

of the Interest and Policy of that vast Continent 461

Information to those who would remove to America

On the Criminal Laws and the Practice of Privateering

Observations on War

467

478

487

On the Elective Franchises, enjoyed by the small

Boroughs in England

489

On sending Felons to America

The Retort Courteous

Sir Charles Wyvill's Answer to the foregoing Paper

Militia preferable to Regular Troops

An Account of the Supremest Court of Judicature in

Pennsylvania, viz. The Court of the Press

50S

Plan for Improving the Condition of the Free Blacks 513

An Address to the Public; from the Pennsylvania

Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery,

492

494

495

498

and the Relief of Free Negroes unlawfully held in

Bondage

On the Slave-Trade

SUPPLEMENT.

A Lecture on the Providence of God in the Government

of the World

Letter from Anthony Afterwit

Letter from Celia Single

On Scandal

A Case of Casuisuy

Miscellaneous Observations

515

517

525

532

536

539

545

549

Proposals and Queries for the consideration of the Junto 551

ESSAYS

ON

MORAL SUBJECTS

AND

THE ECONOMY OF LIFE.