An Humble Proposal to the People of England, for the Increase of their Trade, and Encouragement of Their Manufactures - Whether the Present Uncertainty of Affairs Issues in Peace or War
The Project Gutenberg EBook of An Humble Proposal to the People of England, for the Increase of their Trade, and Encouragement of Their Manufactures, by Daniel Defoe This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: An Humble Proposal to the People of England, for the Increase of their Trade, and Encouragement of Their Manufactures Whether the Present Uncertainty of Affairs Issues in Peace or War Author: Daniel Defoe Release Date: May 15, 2010 [EBook #32384] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AN HUMBLE PROPSAL *** Produced by StevenGibbs and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. AN HUMBLE PROPOSAL TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND, For the Increase of their TRADE, And Encouragement of their MANUFACTURES; Whether The present uncertainty of Affairs issues in Peace or War. By the Author of the Complete Tradesman. LONDON: Printed for Charles Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul’s Church-Yard: 1729. (Price One Shilling.) [Pg v]PREFACE TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. It deserves some notice, that just at, or soon after writing these sheets, we have an old dispute warmly revived among us, upon the question of our trade being declined, or not declined.