[78] In 1824 Mr. Huskisson introduced the principle of free trade, securing a reduction of the duties on raw and thrown silks, and in 1825, 1826, considerable further reductions were made. (Cf. Ure, Philosophy of Manufactures, p. 454, etc.) But protection of English silk manufactured goods was maintained until the French Treaty of 1860.
[79] Cf. Ure, History of the Cotton Manufacture, vol. i. p. 223.
[80] Scrivener, History of the Iron Trade, p. 56.
[81] Cooke Taylor, Modern Factory System, p. 164; cf. also Karl Marx, Capital, p. 381.
[82] Schulze-Gaevernitz, p. 140.
[83] Yeats, The Growth and Vicissitudes of Commerce, p. 284.
[84] The average income for England in 1688 he puts at £7 18s; for Holland, £8 1s. 4d.; France, £6—p. 47. Such an estimate, however, has little value.
[85] In 1810 the total produce was 140,000 tons.
In 1818 the total produce was 114,000 tons.
In 1824 the total produce was 164,000 tons.
(Scrivener, History of the Iron Trade, p. 153.)
[86] Yeats, Growth and Vicissitudes of Commerce, p. 285.