These different duties were imposed, partly by the 22d of Charles II. in place of the old subsidy, partly by the new subsidy, by the one-third and two-thirds subsidy, and by the subsidy 1747.
[41] See Dictionnaire des Monnoies, tom. ii. article Seigneurage, p. 489, par M. Abbot de Baringhen, Conseiller-Commissaire en la Cour des Monnoies à Paris.
[42] The interest of every proprietor of India stock, however, is by no means the same with that of the country in the government of which his vote gives him some influence.—See book v, chap. i, part ii.
[43] See book I chap. I
[44] See the Journal of Mr. De Lange, in Bell's Travels, vol. ii. p. 258, 276, 293.
[45] Plin. 1. ix. c. 30.
[46] Plin. 1. viii. c. 48.
[47] They are to be found in Tyrol's History of England.
[48] Since publishing the first two editions of this book, I have got good reasons to believe that all the turnpike tolls levied in Great Britain do not produce a neat revenue that amounts to half a million; a sum which, under the management of government, would not be sufficient to keep in repair five of the principal roads in the kingdom.
[49] I have now good reason to believe that all those conjectural sums are by much too large.