Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1810-09-07

bread till after il had been arawn
twenty four hours. The difference.
under this head is astonishing. If a:
Efsmily, for example, are in the habit Of
|using twenty foaves 10 the week, taken
in as they usually are by servants
half of them new, half baked the pre-.
ceding day !; if this family were to take
in the whole quantity in the beginning
of the week, they would find full
saving of one third-Fourteen loaves
would perform the same service as
twenty.
Pastry of every kind is pure waste.
1t is made of the finest Hour SO that
more is consumed than is used, and
IT is absolutely of no service to satisfy
hunger. A hungry man does not dine
on pastry. There are two kinds of
economy public and private. Very
little is to be expected of the public,
or by any public regulation. The laws
cannot enter into every private house
to regulate the'quantity or distribution
of private diet. Its the first liberty
of an Englishman that every one is
master in his own family. If private
folly OF. extravaganza are resolved to
waste in the teeth of famine, it is im-
!possible for any laws to prevent them.
Economy necessarily belongs to indi-
yiduals, and to the privacy Of the dwell
ling house. The public, as body,
can do little or nothing.
As to committees, and public socie-
ties for prosecuting monopolists, they
will do more harm than COOL. The
best friends of the community would
be about half dozen score of these
monopolists, who should buy up the
corn at present, and hoard it against a
higher price, that is, a greater scarcity.
Was it not for this kind of monopoly,
every year almost would be year of ia
mine. The plentyof the 6rstpart would
exhaust the whole store. 1t is these
monopolists who carry the surplus of
one year to the account of the next
and therefore balance the want of one
year by the plenty of another. The
4 laws against monopolisss Originated in
times when commerce and agriculture,
! were i'll understood. Burning the
mills, and hanging the monoPcIists,
4 will have no other effect but to with.
hold what corn there is from the
mill, and what flour there is from the
market.
Is nothing then, it may be asked, to
be expected of ministers? Very lit
tie. Peace they will not make, or, per-
haps they cannot make though peace,
at present, and for these several years
past, would have been another name
for plenty. The harvests of France
and Poland have been so abundant.
that the farmers cannot in any way,
sell their surplus. The ministers Ger.
tainly may have corn, if they take
wines but it is a part of the plan of
the war that we are to attack the
enemy through his commerce. We
have repeatedly expressed our opinion
that this was very senseless the plan
has been adopted, and will not now be
laid aside.
With respect to America, it is said
that the American harvest was likewise
deficient. This, however, we do not
aitoSStHtf pSiicSS ana altuOuRn the
harvest of last year might be dcfci-
ent, the harvest of the current year
may be abundant--England, therefore,
might certainly be supplied from A.
merica, bot here again the plan of the
war sands in the way--Very little,
therefore, as we have said, is to be ex.
pected from ministers !; it is part of
their plan Of warfare TO cut off all neu-
trail commerce, and it is necessary
consequence of this system, that in a..
ny scarcity of their own they must not
look for supply from others.
Every thing therefore depends upon
economy, and this economy, as we
have before said, must be private eco
nony-Every master ola family must
endeavor to save In the proportion of
one third Of his usual consumption
In the greater families, d1mestics nnst
be put upon their qapta, and waste aad
coptumacy punished by Dismissal
Prom all that we see and hear, our
decided opinion is, that without this
economy the year will end in misery
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