J. Massie
Active Years
Min year: 1750, Max year: 1784, Max count: 12As Author
- 1750: An essay on the governing causes of the natural rate of interest
- 1754: An essay on the many advantages accruing to the community
- 1756: Observations upon Mr. Fauquier's essay on ways and means for raising money to support the present war without increasing the public debts
- 1756: Calculations of taxes for a family of each rank, degree or class: for one year
- 1757: The proposal, commmonly [sic] called Sir Matthew Decker's scheme, for one general tax upon houses, laid open; and shewed to be a deep concerted project to traduce the wisdom of the legislature; disquiet the minds of the people; and ruin the trade and manufacturies of Great Britain. Most humbly submitted to the consideration of Parliament
- 1757: A letter to Bourchier Cleeve, Esq
- 1757: Considerations on the leather trade of Great Britain. Containing, an account of the losses which the landed as well as trading interests suffer by the exportation of unmanufactured British leather. And an Estimate of the Profits which would arise, to the Nobility, Gentry, Freeholders, Farmers, and Graziers, of this Kingdom, if the Exportation of such Leather was prohibited. The whole being founded upon the former Policy of England in Regard to Leather, as is shewn by Extracts from several Laws; and stated in-so plain a Manner, that Freeholders, Farmers, &c. who are deeply interested in this Branch of Trade, will be able to find out, whether what is said concerning it, be true or false
- 1757: Ways and means for raising the extraordinary supplies to carry on the war for seven years, if it should continue so long
- 1758: A proposal for making a saving to the public of many thousand pounds a year in the charge of maintaining His Majesty's marine forces, and for the better regulation of them
- 1758: Facts which shew the necessity of establishing a regular method for the punctual, frequent and certain payment of seamen employed in the Royal Navy. Most humbly submitted to the Consideration of Parliament
- 1758: A plan for the establishment of charity-houses for exposed or deserted women and girls, and for penitent prostitutes
- 1758: Reasons humbly offered against laying any further British duties on wrought silks of the manufacture of Italy, the kingdom of Naples and Sicily, or Holland: shewing the probable ill consequences of such a Measure in regard to the Landed Interest, Woollen Manufacturies, Silk Manufacturies, Fisheries, Wealth, and Naval Power of Great Britain
- 1759: Calculations and observations relating to an additional duty upon sugar
- 1759: A state of the British sugar-colony trade
- 1759: Farther observations concerning the Foundling-Hospital
- 1759: A state of the British sugar-colony trade
- 1760: A computation of the money that hath been exorbitantly raised upon the people of Great Britain by the sugar-planters, in one year,
- 1760: A re-stated account of the present charges and duties on British muscovado sugar, imported into this kingdom
- 1760: Observations relating to the coin of Great Britain
- 1760: Reasons humbly offered against laying any farther tax upon malt or beer
- 1760: To the printer of the Gazetteer
- 1760: A state of the exports to and imports from the British sugar-colonies
- 1760: Facts, computations, and observations relating to the new malt-tax, and to the intended tax upon ale and beer
- 1760: A supplement to the Reasons already offered, by J. Massie, against laying any further tax upon malt or beer
- 1760: A representation concerning the knowledge of commerce as a national concern; pointing out the proper means of promoting such knowledge in this kingdom. By J. Massie
- 1761: To the printer of the Gazetteer.
- 1761: Magna charta --- or --- magna farta
- 1761: General propositions relating to colonies. By J. Massie
- 1761: Brief observations concerning the management of the war
- 1761: The rotten and tottering state of the popular part of the British constitution demonstrated - By J. Massie
- 1761: Calculations of the present taxes yearly paid by a family of each rank
- 1762: Observations relating to British and Spanish proceedings, &c
- 1762: The charges of pebble and Purbeck pavements compared
- 1762: An historical account of the naval power of France, from its first foundation to the present time
- 1764: Observations on the new cyder-tax, &c. By J. Massie. Number XIV.
- 1764: Observations on the new cyder-tax, &c. By J. Massie. Number XXII.
- 1764: Observations on the new cyder-tax, &c. By J. Massie. Number VIII.
- 1764: Observations on the new cyder-tax, &c. By J. Massie. Number XXV.
- 1764: Observations on the new cyder-tax, &c. by J. Massie. Number XI.
- 1764: Observations on the new cyder tax, &c. By J. Massie. Number XIV.
- 1764: Observations on the new cyder-tax, &c. By J. Massie. Number XXVIII.
- 1764: Observations on the new cyder-tax, &c. By J. Massie. Number XIX.
- 1764: Observations on the new cyder tax, &c. By J. Massie. Number XXII.
- 1764: Observations on the new cyder tax, &c. By J. Massie. Number XIX.
- 1764: Observations on the new cyder-tax, &c
- 1764: Observations on the new cyder-tax
- 1765: [Brief] observations and calculations on the present high prices of provisions. Most humbly submitted to the consideration of the Parliament and people of Great Britain, by J. Massie
- 1766: To Messieurs Fog and Mist.
- 1772: To the supporters of the bill of rights. Gentlemen I have long known that the people of England
- 1774: To the principal landholders of England, and to the principal citizens of London. No. VIII. Gentlemen, I. Such of ye as remember my general propositions, or first principles, relating to coonies,
- 1775: To Lord North. My Lord, you seem to me to drive so furiously,
- 1776: An answer to Mr. Alderman Hopkins's letter to the Livery of London
- 1776: To the liverymen of London, no. III.
- 1777: For the General Advertiser, &c. To the principal landholders of England, and to the principal citizens of London. No. XXXVII. Gentlemen, when I wrote my last letter, I knew of only one victory gained by our American brethren
- 1777: To the editor of the General Advertiser, &c. No. III. Mr. Editor, you, and three other persons, were present, when Major Labiliere came to inquire for, and tell me, that he neither lived in Pall-Mall, nor had any thing left with him for me,
- 1777: For the General Advertiser, &c. To the principal landholders of England, and to the principal citizens of London. No. XXXII. Gentlemen, I cannot tell how pleasing the slaughter of brave English Americans may be to Lord Bute, Lord Mansfield, Lord North, ... neither can I tell how many Engllish families will be to mourn for the loss of husbands,
- 1777: To the editor of the General Advertiser, &c. Mr. Editor, I neither know who is meant by James Massie, in your paper of this day; nor who has written satirical paragraphs against Governor Hutchinson, in the Ledger, or any other paper:
- 1778: To the principal landholders of England, and to the principal citizens of London, No.XLIX Gentlemen, such of ye as are for England, libery,- and the king
- 1778: To the principal landholders of England, and to the principal citizens of London. No. XLIII. Gentlemen, there was a time, to give sound advice, respecting America;
- 1779: To the citizens of London. No. XL. Gentlemen, I find by the news-papers, that Mr. Alderman Sawbridge hath drawn such a line of conduct for ye, as not only does great honour to him, but may be a leading means of averting national destruction;
- 1779: To the principal landholders of England and to the principal citizens of London. No. LIV. Gentlemen, the more I think of those woefully-instructive events, ... the greater reason do I find to believe, that all our hopes of either successful war, or safe peace, must be founded on peace with America.
- 1779: Postscript to J. Massie's letter, inserted in the - page of this paper. If, as hath been commonly said, there are coal-mines near London;
- 1779: Two ministerial pigs - two ministerial pigs - roasted on a London-tavern spit, and basted with their own gravy - to be this day sold, in threepenny lots, by the hawking beaus and belles of London. To the editor of the Gazetteer. I shall be very much obliged to the writer of a letter signed J. S. in your paper of yesterday, if he will tell me better than I know about national affairs;
- 1779: To the principal landholders of England, and to the principal citizens of London. No. LVI. Gentlemen, when ye consider, that one day hath been sufficient time to cook-up and print each extraordinary Gazette account of our buccaneering expeditions in America;
- 1779: To the principal landholders of England and to the principal citizens of London. No. LV. Gentlemen, the safe arrival of the combined fleets of France and Spain on the coast of England,
- 1779: To the principal land-holders of England, and to the principal citizens of London. No. LIII Gentlemen, the dangers wherewith all are now surounded will best shew,
- 1779: To the liverymen of London. No. VII. Gentlemen, at the two last elections of a chamberlain, I wrote several letters
- 1780: To the committees of counties, cities, and towns throughout England. Gentlemen, if ye had made it your first care to have proper information given to all orders of men,
- 1780: A classical account of the trade between the colony of New-England and the port of London, in the year 1767
- 1780: Ways and means of raising the extraordinary supplies for the present year
- 1780: [An accoun]t of the trade between the colony of [New Engla]nd and the port of London, in the year 1767
- 1780: A free and equal parliament for England
- 1780: To Lord North. No. IV. My Lord, all orders of men may well remember,
- 1780: To Lord North. No. IV. My Lord, all orders of men may well remember,
- 1781: Second collection. The following letters are here re-printed together for the more convenient information of the committees and delegates of associated counties, cities, and towns, and all other well-meaning men, throughout England. London, 7th March, 1781. J. Massie
- 1782: No ruinous and riot-breeding taxes
- 1783: To the principal land-holders of England, and to the principal citizens of London. No.CXIII. Gentlemen, instead of wisely and honestly moving, for constitutional reformation in Parliament
- 1783: To the principal land-holders of England, and to the principal citizens of London. No.CXIV. Gentlemen, a time may come to inquire
- 1783: To the principal land-holders of England, and to the principal citizens of London. No.CXI. Gentlemen, if ye will not see, ye must feel
- 1783: To the principal land-holders of England, and to the principal citizens of London. No.CXV. Gentlemen, so long as the now independent states of North America were British colonies
- 1783: To the principal land-holders of England, and to the pricipal citizens of London. No.CXIX. Gentlemen, the loss of half your rents, revenues and incomes
- 1784: To the principal land-holders of England, and to the pricipal citizens of London. No.cxxxiv. Gentlemen, it is not now a time to inquire
- 1784: To the principal land-holders of England, and to the principal citizens of London. No. cxxxv. Gentlemen, Mr. Charles-James Fox, and Mr. William Pitt
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