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TWO TRACTS
ON
CIVIL LIBERTY,
THE
WAR with AMERICA,
AND
The DEBTS and FINANCES of the KINGDOM:
WITH
A General Introduction and Supplement.
By RICHARD PRICE, D.D. F.R.S.
LONDON,
Printed for T. CADELL, in the Strand.
MDCCLXXVIII.
The first of the following tracts was publishedin the beginning of the year 1776;and the second in the beginning of last year.They are now offered to the public in one volume,with corrections and additions. All the calculations,in the Appendix to the first tract, have beentransferred to the second and fourth sections, in thethird part of the second tract.
The section on Public Loans, in the secondtract, has been revised with care; and a supplementto it, containing additional proposals andsome necessary explanations, has been given at theend of the whole.—This is a subject to whichI have applied (perhaps too unprofitably) muchor my attention. I have now done with it; andthe whole is referred to the candid examinationof those who may be better informed, hopingfor their indulgence should they find that, in anyinstance, I have been mistaken. I have not meant,in any thing I have said on this subject, to censureany persons. That accumul