Excerpt from A Select Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts on Commerce We have substituted for the Appendix in Tucker's Tract, which consists of an extract from the Essay on the Causes of the Decline of Foreign Trade, a letter of Smollett on the state of France in 1765. It is interesting from its foreshadowing that tremendous Revolution of which that kingdom was at no very distant period des tined to be the theatre. 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.