Political Arithmetic No. II
The comparative value of the AGRICULTURAL and COMMERCIAL systems, as objects of a Statesman’s attention, begins now to be understood in France and in England, among those who have turned their attention to political economy. Much as this science has been advanced by the disquisitions of a few writers in Great Britain, we certainly owe the fashionable attention this most important subject is likely to receive, to the labours of the French Economistes, a class of Philosophers in the truest acceptation of that word; but whom the conceited and ignorant partizans of the present day, and of this enlightened country, pretend to ridicule. For such empty declaimers this paper is not intended; but it may perchance fall into the hands of some readers of a different description, capable of reflection, and desirous of information.
