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Mr Fox, (I mean always the soi-disant
Mr Fox of the pamphlet real or pretended speech) Mr Fox in speaking
of the astonishing encrease of the circulating
medium as the having of necessity greatly
depretiated the value of money, speaks of the
vast addition to our national debt as the
cause or at least a cause (I will not pretend take
upon me to say which) of that astonishing encrease,
– "the vast addition ... and the consequent astonishing
"encrease" – To the Mr Fox of the pamphlet
this it appears must be evident to every
one: to the lat me I must confess the contrary
seems evident – as evident as in such a case
a negative can be. Taxes are one pressure
rise of prices another: two pressures are connected
or unconnected are felt more than one: this
is the only connection I can see. Taking as
the custom is – and without further enquiry
for causality with much more
of reason might it be advanced that the
effect of war is has been to diminish the amount
of the other grievance. Just before the war it
was at the highest pitch of which we have any
account, viz: at 90. Came the war⊞ ⊞ with the commencement of the really consequent encrease of the debt, and the
account sunk to 40 63: which fall was it is
natural to suppose thus universally regarded and indeed felt as
a grievance – of which grievance the war one
may venture to assert without enquiring the war
had

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	003	Main Headings	manual of political economy
Folio number	095	Info in main headings field	paper mischief
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f7
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1798 a<…>
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1798
Notes public		ID Number	1505
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