CHAP. XIII. How far the form of government of a particular 237 country may be favourable or unfavourable to a competition with other nations, in matters of commerce, CHAP. XIV. Security, ease, and happiness, no inseparable 250 concomitants of trade and industry, CHAP. XV. A general view of the principles to be attended to 261 by a statesman, who resolves to establish trade and industry upon a lasting footing, CHAP. XVI. Illustration of some principles laid down in the 272 former chapter, relative to the advancement and support of foreign trade, CHAP. XVII. Symptoms of decay in foreign trade, 278 CHAP. XVIII. Methods of lowering the price of manufactures, 283 in order to make them vendible in foreign markets, CHAP. XIX. Of infant, foreign and domestic trade, with 301 respect to the several principles which influence them, CHAP. XX. Of luxury, 306 CHAP. XXI. Of physical and political necessaries, 311 CHAP. XXII. Preliminary reflections upon inland commerce, 319 CHAP. XXIII. When a nation, which has enriched herself by a 328 reciprocal commerce in manufactures with other nations, finds the balance of trade turn against her, it is her interest to put a stop to it altogether, CHAP. XXIV. What is the proper method to put a stop to a 336 foreign trade in manufactures, when the balance of it turns against a nation? CHAP. XXV. When a rich nation finds her foreign trade 343 reduced to the articles of natural produce, what is the best plan to be followed? And what are the consequences of such a change of circumstances? CHAP. XXVI. Of the vibration of the balance of wealth 359 between the subjects of a modern state, CHAP. XXVII. Circulation, and the balance of wealth, objects 374 worthy of the attention of a modern statesman, CHAP. XXVIII. Circulation considered with regard to the rise 394 and fall of the price of subsistence and manufactures, CHAP. XXIX. Circulation with foreign nations, the same thing 414 as the balance of trade, CHAP. XXX. Miscellaneous questions and observations relative 426 to trade and industry, CHAP. XXXI. Recapitulation of the second book, 482 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BOOK III. OF MONEY AND COIN. PART I. The principles of money deduced, and applied to the coin of Great Britain. INTRODUCTION, 523