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confider it as doubtfil, whether L Leg:
at all interfere on fo delicate a (tibial. In the debate
of the 27th July, Lord Rawkefbury depi&ed, in way
glowing colours, the general mifery which refultedlm
Prance from th.: attempt of Robefpierrs to,fia a mini-
Ntial to the price of the neeeffaries of life. If the
intereas of the grower are incompatible with the et •
illence of a maximum, his Lordllaip &mild have real-
lefied that the intereftwof the confumer are eirimeast
hollile to the exittence of a minimise. Why
corn be the only commodity, with rdpee to whist'
the confumer is to delive no advantage from an in-
created fupply, by a confequent diminution of the
price ? Why Ihould it be the only article, the vender
of which &mild enjoy the double advantage of tieing
prote&ed again& ; and, of being enabled to
increale his profit to the utsioft extravagasee of his
wines ? In plainer terms, why &sold farmers and
dam-dealers be left to (peculate freely upon the need--
fities of the other clafTes of the community in years of
fcareity, while the latter are tb be precluded from en-
joying the foil benefit (tithe bounty of Paovinerce,
or the temporary embarraffment of farmers sad corn-
dealers in the years of plenty ? Speaking for oar-
(elves, we are equally hod& to the propofition of a
sisswierwa as we are to that of a saissieassis. Both are
alike itjutious to the interefis of a country, which
is at once commerci.sl and agricultural. We are de-
cidedly of opinion, that corn litould be left, like
every other marketable commodity, to find its own
level.
lf, upon this fyllein, it &weld appear that the far-
mer heti got a fair profit, we &mild inter that her
had made a funk& bargain with his I milord. We
Iheuld fay mi that the pia of earn was tw low, he flat
thepritt e hod eves tea I•lb. And tollead of taring
Ithe Public in order to keep the land up to its prefer.t
we would propofe to reduce it to its juft va-
lue, by filleting the landlords and farmers to cape-
rience the natural diretl of their imprireident fpecu•
lations. With refpeel to the prefent batten, there
is every fair ground to believe that it will not prove
'1 unp.roduaive as the d-,lets in fearcity would in-
n,z • dißref

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not to Coffer agriculture to be YCc. •` •11.
,wing the furplus prodbce of diri earielfrY of
:et ; bug,,tbere are two import fiftt. which
to have -been oterlooked, ins& trusty by rennet;
lefignedly by others: in** fewthe Cons
of the to &Mon. The fiat Is, &sit is, brit MO -
tree years floes a moll ferinus kitten, preisile4
it produced a Ligillitive inepearyitt#l, eftbA
i akertsined by this irViter hoi , . e
I is dal *amity fig
loather fatt ii, that sis the drill One . .
ola
airy in the world, and that ills weft capital of .
candle intetell, managed and diretied by its sa.
erudite 'dellre of gain; is capiibte of iftraa*
withholding the (upply tweeffary foe the
rCuhe people, whenever the exPedatimi Of
Is them a temptation. 11* refidt of die 6rft et
fe fats is, that though one Tear Ihould afford a
ntiful home, though that fhnold be followed by
Aber. and a third barvelt equallibbundant. it is
: yet to be concluded, that the abundance of thefii
e or two years will be petrolatum,. or that the coon.;
will be converted from, one having. eat an set ~
r, occafton for (applies from abroad, into oak, .
orn which it is neceffary to eftablith and ...
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;metal exportation. • - . -
From the fecond far it reface. that it is Inman"
courage the (peculating fpirit of the comvoereial lei:
reR of this country to dabble ton much with as ai-
de fo effential to the exigence of the people•Thi
arty fupply, of corn which this coneiry ;awe.
led upon by the Tag commercial (pipit of our Mair
tants, their incalculable capital. and the feinTsty of
inveyance to every part of the wosiii that affords ait .'
drantageous marker, may. in a few months. be dip
meant of placing es in a Rate tic lamils OM lit f
plenty. We might. draftee:44n, the tvrio .r 0
ir
opor is always dangerous is
ry of great population, to . ' d
tt die.'
he country, rather than create a electrify if •
ng to exportation. If two or three plentiful liaise;
:ome in fuecefEon, it is not to be concluded that the .
:*artner is ruined ; for if the price is lets. the quantity
is greater, and the referee is always a census reform,.
Nothing can be more evident than the troth of this,
from the events of prefent year. We wet* told
that she core was too viseap to afford the grower a
reatimableprofit, and therefor* that (apostatises lima
be facilitated. Before the law was paffed, it was
Rated by the advocates of increafed eeportation, chit
there was rcafoc to think the hared! of the pretest
year would not be favourable.
' Thus the principle of infbring a market to the
farmer, and that of infuring a (apply to the country,
came to be at dine. The only way of recrscili
thefe two contradictory principles was, to delay the
operation of the Aa to a period when the produce of
the harveß would be afcertalned. This delay inWit
at_leac.All!r:l,v.e.
bcartetiltefirfel.wahedethireurrnth7Legn who to
boil
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