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Identifier: historyofallnati17wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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tural intercommunication of nations (Fig. 10), and, under a mis-conception of the first conditions of its existence, arbitrarily sought todirect it into new paths. In the vastness of this attempt lay alsothe impossibility of its success. Instead of open business transactionswith England, there was developed, notwithstanding all vigilance, chi-canery and petty checks, a vast amount of smuggling that suppliedthe continent with English colonial wares and manufactured goods, butonly at enormous prices. Napoleon himself riddled the system andmade of it a mere source of gain, since he caused licenses to be givento special favorites for large sums, autliorizing the introduction of desig-nated quantities of British products, indispensable for home industries;finally, in order to turn the smugglers gains into his own coffers, hefixed upon the plan of no longer plainly forbidding the introduction ofcolonial merchandise, but of admitting it in consideration of a high duty. FRANCE AND ENGLAND. 55
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a 56 Tin: )\y)Rr,D Empire. The customs tarirt of Trianon, Angust 5, 1810, ostahlisliod llio principlethat all colonial merchandise imported by sea should undergo an averageentrance duty of 50 per cent. Witli the promulgation of tiie new taritfthere began at the same time in pinches the most remote from one anothera search for colonial goods previously introduced; these when foundbecame the legitimate booty of tiie French treasury, which in this mannermade a profit of 150,000,000 francs. In order to intensify the warof destruction upon Rritisii manufactures, the Fontaincbleau Decree, ofOctober 19 of the same year, directed the seizure and burning of all suchgoods found in France or within reach of the French troojjs. Theexecution must take place immediately. And yet all these measuresfailed of their object. The real issue of the fierce struggle was that theloss, which it inflicted on the business and industry of England, wasinfinitely exceeded by the damage which continental countries

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