Note A3-2-6 — Chapter III

As to how English export-premiums sometimes made English commodities cheaper in Germany than in England, see Büsch, Werke, XIII, 82. There are, indeed, gifts which may ruin the receiver of them, as, for instance, when one gets his rival intoxicated at his expense before the decisive solicitation. Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes (cited by Fox and Burke against the Eden treaty: Hansard, Parl. History, 1787, Jan. p. 402, 488).