ANCIENT nations.  See Nations.

ANIMAL food, much used in northern nations and by manufacturing people, 138.—­Its effects on population, 139 to 146.—­Price compared with bread, 147.—­In case of the demand becoming too great, a remedy proposed, 155.

ANTWERP, at one time acted as a sovereign, 47.—­Became, in the north, what Venice was in the south of Europe, 57.

APPRENTICES.  See Education.

ARABIAN Gulf.  See Red Sea.

ARKWRIGHT, Sir Richard, as an inventor met with great difficulties, 203.

ARTS.  See Manufactures.

ARTS, fine.  See Fine Arts.

ARTISTS, not unfit for soldiers, 32.—­Banished by luxury from a country, 113.

ASIA, passage to it by the Cape of Good Hope a new aera in commerce, 3.—­Its mode of fighting with elephants only disconcerted the Romans once, 31.

ASSIGNATS.  See France.

ATHENS.  See Greece.

AUGUSTUS, his resolution to kill himself when supplies of corn were likely to fail, 35.

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BABYLON.  See Syria.

BALANCE of trade, of England, has never much exceeded five millions.—­To be seen on the chart 3, p.213, during 105 years.—­Is not equal to more than one twenty-fourth of the produce of industry, 293.

BALANCE of power could not preserve a nation from interior causes producing decline, 185.

BALTIC Sea, manufacturers early established on its southern shores, 45 to 48.

BARTER, not an innate principle, as Dr. Smith thinks, 5, 6.

BLACK Sea, a new market opened to commerce,195.

BIRMINGHAM division of labour renders business easy, 217.—­ Apprenticeships not necessary to learn the art, but for other reasons.—­ Recruiting service succeeds there, ib.

BOARDING Schools.  See Education.

BODIES Corporate and Public, their tendency to trench on the public, 117 to 124.

BOULTON, M. Esq. his spirited conduct in bringing forward the improvements, invented by Mr. Watt, on the steam-engine, 203.

BORROWING.  See Money.

BRAZILS.  See Portugal.

BREAD, proportion between the price of, and butchers meat, 140.—­
Prices in Paris and London,164.

BRITAIN, in what its power and wealth consist, 191.—­Its interior situation and exterior, 192, 193, 194, 195.—­Its conquests and colonies, 196 to 200.—­Its great increase, 201.—­

[end of page #295] Farthest advanced in manufacture, the consequence of that investigated, 203, 204, 205.—­Comparison between its general trade and that to India, 206 to 211.—­Begins to encourage agriculture, 213.—­Its exports and imports represented in chart 3 described, 213, 214.

BRUGES acted once as a sovereign, 47.—­Became a depot for India goods in the north, as Venice was in the south, 157.

BURKE, Right Honourable Edmund, his opinion relative to exterior causes of decline, 176.