A League against these helped James Wilson found The Economist publication.  
A League against these helped James Wilson found The Economist publication.  Thomas Malthus believed 80 shillings for a quarter-hundredweight to be fair price, and Duke of Wellington devised a sliding scale which reduced it to 73 shillings.  They were first instituted by the Tory government of Lord Liverpool, and after the disaster of (*) Peterloo Massacre, the Six Acts declared any reform movement meeting "an overt act of treasonable conspiracy".  Later repealed by Sir Robert Peel, these were, FTP, what last protectionist policy of the mercantilist era which placed a tariff on imported grain, not the namesake maize product?
A League against these helped James Wilson found The Economist publication.  
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