The Edinburgh Annual Register, Vol. 10
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Excerpt from The Edinburgh Annual Register, Vol. 10: For 1817 The aspect of the political world, at the commencement of the present year, was, in several respects, dark and painful. Never, perhaps, had there been more splendid hopes, followed by a gloomier disappointment, than at the close of the great war, which Britain brought to so glorious an issue. The era of peace, so much longed and scarcely hoped for, coming now under such triumphant circumstances, was expected to usher in a happier era, and to heal all the wounds under which the nation had groaned. Instead of this expected felicity, peace was followed by a distress much more widely and inly felt, than any which had arisen from the most extended warfare. A general stagnation pervaded every branch of industry. The loom stood still; the merchant was involved in difficulty or bankruptcy; the produce of the earth sunk to a price ruinous to the farmer, while it afforded little benefit to the consumer, who had not wherewithal to pay even its reduced rate. The payment, by the rich, of an income tax of ten per cent., was an evil of very different magnitude from the fall of the labourer´s wages from fifteen to five shillings a-week. The suffering, most serious in itself, was greatly aggravated by ignorance of the cause, and by total unconsciousness of that ignorance. When men suffer, they look eagerly for a remediable origin; they are ready to do and to hazard much in efforts to shake it off. A bad harvest raises insurrection even in China; much more may the distress of the lower orders be supposed to operate, among a people so much less trained to habits of subordination. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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