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thus circumstanced, are greatly preferable to low
ones without the means of paying them, even
upon the most reduced scale, as is the case at
present. There would seem no reason in the
mean time why your manufactures should suf-
fer, or your external commerce fall off; your
conquests and your colonies would always in'
sure you a monopoly of their trade, and 100
would have your share of all othei com-
merce with every other nation, at all the
markets of the world. A system of this descrip-
tion, manfully adopted, and steadily pursued,
would soon place you at the head, and leave you
the admiration and envy of all surrounding
nations. And are all those evident advantage
to be foregone on account of idle clamours against
the rise of all the articles of subsistence ? But
taken with a due regard e-.en to all such idle
clamours, what cha..ce is there that any such
would be experienced at all likely to beattended
with unpleasant consequences, even to the most
timorous of our Governors ? The cultivators, en-
couraged in a securityof their home market, would '
push their agriculture to its utmost extent, and
those efforts would necessarily produce that com-
petition which would effectually keep prices
within a limited scale of advance, so as not to
exceed the means of purchasing in the market,
whilst an increase of the circulating medium
would render us more than equal to any advances
that would be made. If, however, on the whole,
our Legislature think the entire closing of the
ports against all importation ineligible, in oppo-
sition to every argument offered ,to the contrary,
a due adjustment of the scale of prices will be a
matter of considerable difficulty ; but in the
writer's opinion it should be carried to an extent
fully equal to meet all competition in our
markets, or the influx of foreign grain from
all parts of the world, which are now reported to
be filled with it to an extraordinary degree, will
be at once poured in, to the entire destruction
of your own agriculture, and lay the foundations
of mischief so deep as not to be done away, or
even remedied, for years to come ; 40s. should, he
thinks, be the lowest duty on every quarter 01e
imported wheat, and other grain in proportion
If it cart be proved that from Odessa, and other
countries, grain can .be shipped at 2s. 6d. per
bushel, and thence transported to Mark-lane for
is. 6d. additional, that would give 735. Per
quarter in our markets; 7s. below what a former
Committee on the Corn question has adjudged'
to be the medium, or rather the minimum, of price
at which the agriculturist can afford to sell his
commodities with any reasonable profit ; below
this, then, the scale of import prices should loot
descend, or the ports would be opened to unfair
and unequal competition. It should likewise be
enacted, that no imported grain should be ware'
housed, but brought immediately to market.
This precaution should be equally taken, at
whatever prices importation should be permitted,
of which the generally beneficial effects would
soon be perceived, as it is to the ware'
housing principle 'that most of the evil!
now complained of are attributable. With
these prospeCts before us, and with every
wish, I should hope, on the part of our rulers, t°
administer all the relief in their power, consist"
ently with a due regard to the geneial interest 4
of the nation, we shall have nothing further to
apprehend from the consequences of the largest
debt ever contracted by any power on earth, but
be enabled to brave and set at utter defiance
all our enemies, both from within and without ;
as well our foreign competitors as those un-
principled factions which are ever disturbing
the state, and throwing every obstacle in the waY
of its governors to provide remedies for the evil;
they themselves complain of, and have been
mainly instrumental in creating, and which are
but too sensibly felt by the most substantial parr
of the great community, and justly to be appre-
hended by, all the others ; for when the landed
interests are ruined it will behove the monied.
and funded ones to take especial care that theY
do not follow them in quick succession. 3• S'

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING-ROOM, MAYI3
DER

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15 to 4 agst Hampden
9 to 2 agst Moses
11 to 2 agst Myitic
13 to 1 agst Bro. to Antonio

2 to 1 agst Whizgig
9 to 4 agst Pastille
8 to 1 agst Cat

I.—STATE or THE ODn 5
BY.
15 to 1 agst Stamford
16 to 1 agst Frolic
20 to r agstillaphazard OP;
100 to 3 agst Marcellus.

OAKS.

DONCASTER

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7 to 1 agst Swapp

10 to 1 agst Rosalind
13 to 1 agst Tippitywitchet'

ST. LEGER.

13 to 1 agst Newbyth
16 to 1 agst Marion.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE, May 14.
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Ditto, at Sight
Rotterdam l2 8
Antwerp l2 3
Hamburgh 37 4 ei ~G,6
Altona
Paris, S Day's sight 25 25 0 '-', r
Ditto
Burdeatix, ditto
Frankforton the Main
Madrid - 97 Effect!
Cadiz . 96i Elle—dic,o y 1
Bilboa 36t Effect!
Barcelona '36
Seville
Gibraltar
Leghorn
titi.uit .. . '44—Venice, Ital. Lir 27 60
Malta 45 —Naples 4Ol
Palermo
Lisbon
Opor , 51
Rio Janeiro
Dublin .... 9i, Cork 94 pei Cent.

BULLION.

Portugal Gold, in Coin
Foreign Gold, in Bars
New Doubloons
New Dollars
Silver in Bars, Standard

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... 3 17 10&
•• • 0 0 0
0 4 45
... (1 0 0

MARRIED.
At Stepney Church, yesterday, by the Rev. J. Stock, Herd
Parkin, Esq. Surgeon, Barking, Essex, to Miss Sarah Richa
son Stock, of Poplar.

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Richard Carey, Esq.s of Newmarket.
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