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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

tIR,

THOUGH nothing can be further, from my nature,
and consequently from my intentions and desires,
tll,:n to sound the tocsin of dissatisfaction, yet the
ob,ervation in your Paper of Wednesday last, " that
there was no alteration in the Price of Bread this
week," compels me to take up my pen to make a
few observations On the, till of late, 'unprecedented
Conduct of a certain class of
.the Manulaeturers of
that principal necessary of life. The necessity of
directing the attention of the Legislature to thii
circumstance must be apparent, cc-hen it is consi-
dered that all the endeavours, and patriotic exer-
tions of Governinent, have been, in a great degree,
rendered abortive by the machinations and mono-
polies'of this certain class, who, by their worse than
nefarious practices, have so enriched themselves
from the very bowels of the people, that they have
been enabled thereby, even in the very extensive
County in which I am now writing, to get into
very few hands all the principal Mills in this en-
larged distrid; and it is as well known, that the
most perk& understanding subsists between .them :
the consequence is, that all competition in the trade
is nearly annihilated, and the Public is thrown upon
the compassion of those (as the Wise Man describes
them), whose lender mercies or. cruel. And as I
have little doubt but
.that the same pradices exist,
in their degree, in every part of the Kingdom, to
them I do not setatple to attribute the present unpa-
ralleled disproporticu between the prices of Wheat
aid Flour. Refer but to your Paper of Monday
lasr, and there we shall find that the average price
of Wheat is 64.5. per quarter, whilst that of Flour
is 74.5. per sack. I k►Sow some will be ready to

answer, this is a pect,liar instance, solely owing to
the late happy declension in the price of Wheat :
I scrupulously reply, No; it is but a growing evil,
arrived, I hope, to its crisis. For, whoever will
be at pains to examine the Returns of Wheat and
Flour fora few ye.ars, past, will find that the evil
' was riot in existence, to any•alarming degree, two
years ago ; fur then, when Wheat was 86s. per
quarter, Flour was at 7os. per sack ; and when the
average price of the former article was at the rate
it is now, 645. per quarter (in April 1799), the
highest price of Hour was then sos. per sack : con-
Sequently, from the present price of Wheat, the
quartern-loaf ought to be -91-d.instead of is. rd.!
But I apprehend the evil is not merely that which I
have exposed, but the supposition that it operates
in a two_fold proportion, will not appear unreason-
ble when it is considered, that when the Farmer
sees, that though he may offer his Corn at a reason-
able price, that the Public is not materially b.ene-
fitted thereby, through the unrestrained rapacity of
the Miller, will it be wonderful if he thus reasons
with himself--:-.if I suffer my Wheat to be sold at a
reas.inable price the Community will not profit by
it ; for when my commodity is returned from the
Miller's hands, he will obtain what price he pleases,
therefore I may as well get,what I can, as to per-
mit it all to gO into his poCket.
Therefore, I do not hesitate to declare, that the
axe will never be laid to the root of the evil, until
the Miller is laid under the restraint of the Legisla-
tune : and, if there be any propriety in affixing the
price of Bread by the price of Flour, there. must be
as great, if nut a greateepropriety,in affixing the
rye of Fhfur froM that of Wheat. A difficulty I
know will here be started, that the time must be
considerable between the.purchasing,of the Wheat,
and the return of the same t& the Market in'Flour.
I grant that it must ; but then I am certain, that
one month is every. way sufficient for the purpose ;
and, therefore, I would most humbly' propose, that
at the commencement of the next Session of Parlia. •
mem, a Bill he introduced, affixing the-proper price
of Flour by the average price of- Wheat, to- take
place on that day month ; and-though it may some-
times operate to the- disadvantage of the
when Corn is raising for any length of time, yet it
‘vill prove equally to his advantage when Wheat is
on the decline. .

The greatest difficulty, I should suppose, which
attends the measure, is to determine what. is the
proper maximum ; but I have little doubt, from the
usual proportion bet Ween the commodities some ten
or twenty years since, that if it was determined,.
that three_fourths of the average price of a- quarter
of wheat should he the price of a sack of flour, it
would allow a sufficient gain to the Miller, and
not a little benefit to the community at large. In.
deed, I remember, I once put a question founded
on the above proportions to a respectable Miller,
who gave the following answer ; "that Miller
who is not satisfied with three_fourths of the price
of a quarter of wheat for a sack of flour, ought to
be hanged."

Hoping that the above recommended, or some
similar measure, will be resorted to by the Legisla-
ture, and a stop put to this abominable evil, that
the Poor of the land may be supplied with the first
necessary of life, in proportion to the abundance
with which the Almighty has been pleased to bless

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