Potter, Thomas, 1718-1759
Thomas Potter British politician, died 1759
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Works
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The advantages and disadvantages of inclosing waste lands and open fields, : impartially stated and considered. By a country gentleman | |
Alarming state of the nation considered, the evil traced to its source and remedies pointed out | |
The annuity-bill and grand mortgage considered in a letter from a country-gentleman to his friend in London. | |
An answer to the appendix of a pamphlet, entitled Reflexions upon naturalization, corporations and companies, &c relating to the Levant trade and Turkey Company, as this subject is occasionally mentioned in Hanway's travels. | |
The case of tithes truly stated, : with some observations on a commutation. To which is added, a postscript, containing the resolutions of the tithe meeting in Devonshire, on the 25th day of May, 1795. By a country gentleman | |
The complete grazier, or, Gentleman and farmer's directory containing the best instructions for buying, breeding, and feeding cattle, sheep and hogs, and for suckling lambs ... with several other useful and curious particulars | |
The consequences of a scientific education to the working classes of this country pointed out and the theories of Mr. Brougham on that subject confuted : in a letter to the Marquess of Lansdown | |
The country-gentleman's advice to the free-citizens of Dublin. In a letter to a friend | |
The country gentleman's companion. : Containing, I. Directions for the choice, Ordering, Dietting, and Breeding of Draft, Road, Hunting, and Running horses; the whole Art of Riding them; and the most approved Remedies for all the Diseases and Accidents they are subject to. II. The Ordering and Breeding of Bulls, Cows, Calves, Oxen, Sheep, Lambs, Goats, Swine, and Rabbets; and the best Remedies for the Cure of their respective Diseases. III. The fattening, cramming, and curing of Cocks, Hens, Capons, Chickens, Geese, and Turkies; and of feeding Swans, Pheasants, Partridges, Pidgcons, Quails, Doves, and other small Birds. IV. The Nature, Ordering, and Preservation of Bees. V. The Arts of Hunting, Coursing, Hawking, Angling, Fishing, and other Country Recreations; of curing Hawks, Hounds, &c. of ordering and making Fish-Ponds; and of taking and preserving Fish. VI. The Choice, Ordering, Breeding, and Dietting of Fighting-Cocks, both before and after Battle. Vii. A compendious gardener's kalendar, shewing what Work is to be done, monthly, in the Kitchen, Fruit, and Flower-Garden. By a country gentleman, From his own Experience | |
A country gentleman's reasons for voting against Mr. Wilberforce's motion : for a bill to prohibit the importation of African negroes into the colonies | |
England's alarm! On the prevailing doctrine of libels, as laid down by the Earl of Mansfield. In a letter to His Lordship. By a country gentleman. To which is added by way of appendix, the celebrated dialogue between a gentleman and a farmer, written by Sir William Jones, wit remarks thereon, and on the case of the Dean of St. Asaph. By M. Dawes, Esq | |
An essay on woman, and other pieces | |
Essays on agriculture and planting, founded on experiments made in Ireland. By a Country gentleman | |
The expedition against Rochefort fully stated and considered : In a letter to the Right Honourable the Author of the candid reflexions on the report of the general officers, etc. By a country gentleman. | |
The farmers and traders apprehensions of a rise upon carriage, : From the act passed last sessions, for limiting the weight and number of horses drawn in waggons, &c. Impartially examined. In a letter from a county gentleman to a member of Parliament. Recommended to the perusal of all traders in town and country, and to the trustees of all the turnpike roads | |
Free thoughts upon the present crisis in which are stated the fundamental principles upon which alone Ireland can, or ought, to agree to any final settlement with Great Britain | |
Great Britain's deplorable state, and the hardship of the tax on houses and lands shewed from her past conduct, present debts, and great taxes : in which what is offer'd in a pamphlet, intitled, Considerations upon a reduction of the land-tax, as far as it would still load houses and lands, is fully examin'd and disprov'd : humbly offered to the serious thoughts of all independent and dependent Westminister, and all other electors | |
A guide to gentlemen and farmers, for brewing the finest malt-liquors, : much better and cheaper than hitherto known. ... The third edition, with an addition of 25 receipts ... By a country gentleman | |
Kentish gazette | |
A letter to a country gentleman the gentleman to whom this letter was written by a private friend ... was so struck with the arguments it contains, respecting secret influence, that he determined to publish the whole. | |
A letter to Mr. Canning, on agricultural distress | |
A letter to Sir John Shelley on the game laws | |
A letter to the Rev. Mr. M-re Bk-r, concerning the Methodists. : By a country-gentleman | |
A letter to the Right Honourable Spencer Perceval, First Lord of the Treasury, &c., &c., &c upon his correspondence with Lord Viscount Melville, in reference to the return of that noble lord to power | |
A letter to Thomas Gilbert, Esq.; on his intended reform of the poor laws | |
Marriage asserted : in answer to a book entituled Conjugium conjurgium, or, Some serious considerations on marriage : wherein (by way of caution and advice to a friend) its nature, ends, events, concomitant accidents, &c. are examined, by William Seymar, Esq | |
Melchizedek found: or, a small treatise, shewing, by invincible testimonies of scripture and reason, who Melchizedek, the King of Salem, was. Written by a country gentleman, December the 15th, Anno Dom. 1712 | |
Miscellaneous thoughts, moral and political, : Upon the vices and follies of the present age. The septennial, triennial, pension, and place bills. The act of settlement. the qualifying act: and the coalition of parties, or What is now called the broad-bottom. By a country gentleman | |
A narrative in justification of injured innocence. Wherein cowardice, fraud, tyranny, and oppression are detected and exposed. Together with some of the principal causes of that extreme aversion which seamen commonly shew to the Royal Navy ... To which is annexed, a chart o the Streights [sic] of Gibraltar, ... Written by a country gentleman | |
A new system of agriculture, or, A plain, easy, and demonstrative method of speedily growing rich proving ... that every land-owner, in England, may advance his estate to a double value ... together with several ... instructions, how to feed oxen, cows and sheep | |
Observations and reflections, on an Act, passed in the year, 1774, for the settlement, of the province of Quebec. Intended to have been then printed for the uses of the electors of Great Britain, but now first published. By a country gentleman | |
Observations on the corn trade, agriculture, and manufactures of England shewing by what means English wheat may, in 1816, be afforded at seven shillings per bushel; and afterwards at prices nearly continental | |
A parallel; drawn between the administration in the four last years of Queen Anne, and the four first of George the third. By a country gentleman | |
A plan for a general enclosure bill, for commons of a limited extent in which the practicability and advantages of such a bill are fully and clearly explained, and some further improvements connected with the agriculture of the country, are humbly submitted to the consideration of Parliament | |
Plan of a new act, relating to the statute-work in Scotland | |
The political free-thinker, : being an impartial and dispassionate enquiry into the grounds of our foreign and domestic broils, and particularly of the present rebellion. Calculated To remove the Prejudices, and dissipate the Fears and Apprehensions of the People. Inscribed to all those Nobles and Gentlemen who have been in the Opposition. By a country gentleman | |
Reasons humbly offer'd for a general insolvent bill | |
Reflections upon naturalization, corporations, and companies; supported by the authorities of both ancient and modern writers. By a country gentleman | |
Reflections without doors, on what passes within. : Recommended to the perusal of all friends to the militia: As well as Those who wish to preserve Unanimity and Coalition between Administration and People, so necessary at this critical Conjuncture. By a Country gentleman | |
Remarks on the conduct of Messrs. W-----cks and D----n, late bankers of the city of Dublin, and Mr. R-----d B-----r their cashier | |
Remarks on the proposed laws for establishing a militia in Scotland | |
The reply of the country gentleman to the answer of his military arguments, by the officer. | |
The resolution of a layman in times of peril. : Written by a country gentleman | |
Some observations on the causes of the dearness of provisions in general; and corn in particular. : With proposals for regulating markets, on a plan something different from the present general usage. And some necessary and material amendment in the bread acts proposed; together with some considerations on millers or flour manufacturers, &c. And some remarks on the exportation of wheat. By a Country Gentleman | |
Some observations on the national debt, and encreasing the revenue and sinking fund in which the conveniencies and inconveniencies are fairly and fully considered : occasioned by His Majesty's speech to both Houses of Parliament : together with a proposal for easing the people of some taxes, and providing for women sufferers, by reducing the interest of the funds | |
The state preferable to the Church : or, reasons for making sale of the whole present property of the Church, in England and Ireland, for the use of the state; and for rendering the Clergy more equal among themselves, less vexatious and onerous to the Laity, and more dependent on their Head, by subjecting them to the Exchequer for their Stipends, as practised in Holland. With a View of the Self-Denying Conduct of the Popish Clergy, in Exegencies of the State, and particularly of our own, under Philip and Mary, in their releasing, for ever, all Claim to the Possessions that had been taken from the Church. In a letter from a country gentleman to the representative of his county in Parliament | |
Thoughts on the present war, and future peace : wherein our present measures and alliances, are candidly considered. By a country gentleman | |
Thoughts upon a bill, lately offered to Parliament for regulating the export and import of corn : with observations upon Dean Tucker's Reflections, so far as they relate to this subject | |
To the yeomanry and farmers of the county of Devon | |
A word to the wise, or disaffection anatomized. By a Country Gentleman |