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Show [G. P.] MANAGEMENT or THE Poox. 58 ON THE PRICE or CORN, AND But the wifdom of government forbad the ex- portation *2 5g . Hark ye, Mr. Oaf;-The farmers live {plen_ Well, fays I, then we mull be content With the market-price at home. didly, you fay. And pray, would you them hoard the money they get? Their have fine clothes and furniture, do they make them them- felves or for one another, and f0 keep the mo- ney among them? Or, do they employ thef e your darling manufacturers, and f0 fcatt er it No, fay my Lords the mob, you (ha'n't have that. Bring your corn to market if you dare ,- we'll fell it for you, for lefs money, or take it for nothing. Being thus attacked by both ends of 1129 con- if it were qu'ered 50 go to foreignttgarigti c: ffiit‘utz'on, the head and the tail quo'vemmmt, what not permit. km .1 to do? agapil all ovef the pation? . . e woo woud roduce me a be I ‘ but than-Mellieurs the Public, your laws wili It mufl; be kept all at home, that our dear manufacturers may have it the cheaper Mutt §I keep my corn in the barn to feed, and increafe the breed of rats'P-abe it fag-they 3nd then, havifng yourfelves thus letTe ned out: cannot be lefs thankful, than thofeI have been for thhe éarcity ofmutton lg fheep, you curfe us ufed to feed. , Are we farmers the only people to be grudged the profits of our honef'c labour ?-And why? ‘One of the late fcribblers againf't us, gives a ibill of fare "of the Vprovifions at my daughter's wedding, and proclaims to all the world, that we had the infolence to eat beef and pudding !- ‘Has ,he not read-the precept in the good book, "Thou fialt mt muzzle the mouth of tbe ax that ~treadetb out the com ; or does he think us lefs worthy of good living than our oxen ? ‘0, but the manufacturers! the manufacturers! they are to be favoured, and they mutt have bread'at a cheap rate ! " [It is not neeefl‘ary to repeat in what degreeDr. Fran/UM refpeé‘ted the minifiers, to whom he alludes.-The embargo upon com was buta fingle meafure: which, it is enough to fay, an hofl: ofpoliticians thought well-advifed, but ill»defended.---Of the great and honourable fervices of the Earl of C/mr/Jam to his country, Dr. antliz: has borne the amplelt teftimony. 15.] ncoura ement I or raifin ave heard m randfather fa , t farmers fubmitted rd, the prohibitiony on :11: :1: portation of wool, being made to expect and be‘ lieve that when the manufacturer bought his wool cheaper, they (hould alfo have their clot h But the deuce a bit. It has been grow‘ ing dearer and clearer from that day to this. cheaper. f‘Hovv Io? Wh , trul , the l ' . ' and that keeps u3p the piice. C 0th 18 exported, Now if it be a good principle, that the exportation of a commodity is to be refirained that fo our people at home may have it the cheaper, {tick to that principle, and go thorough f'citch with it. Prohibit the exportation of your cloth, your leather, and fhoes, your iron- ware, and your manufactures of all forts, to I 2 make |