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Show 60 [G.P.] ON THE PRICE or CORN, AND make them all cheaper at home. And cheap enough they will be, I will warrant you-till eople leave of}~ making them. Some folks feem to think they ought never to be eafy tillEngland becomes anotherLubberland, where it is fancied the fireets are paved with penny-rolls, the houfes tiled with pancakes, and chickens, ready roafted, cry, Come eat me. I fay, when you are fure you have got a good principle, flick to it, and carry it thorough.- MANAGEMENT or THE POOR. 61 By all that loan learn, we fhould at leaf't have had a guinea a quarter more, if the exportation had been allowed. And this money EnO'land would have got from foreigners. D But, it feems, we farmers mutt take fo much lcfs, that the poor may have it fo much cheaper. This operates then as a tax for the mainte- nance of the poor.--A very good thing, you Will fay. Butl afk, why a partial tax? Why laid on us farmers only P-If it be a good thing, I hear it is faid, that though it was muffler}! and pray, Mefi'ieurs the Public, take your {bare of rzlgln‘ for the m----y to advife a prohibition of the exportation of corn, yet'it was contrary to it, by indemnifying us a little out of your pub- that though it was contrary to both honour‘ and pleafure;--you are welcome to your {hare of both. law; and alfo, law for the mob to obfiruét waggons, yet it was majflzry and right-Juf't the fame thing to a tittle. Now they tell me, an act of indemnity lic treafury. In doing a good thing, there is For my own part, I am not to well fatisfied of the goodnefs of this thing. I am for doing good ought to pafs in favour of the m--y, to fecure to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the them from the confequences of having acted il- legally.---If f0, pafs another in favour of the the poor, is not making them eafy in poverty, but mob. Others fay, fome of the mob ought to be hanged, by way of example.--If fo,-but I travelled much, and I obferved in different I fay no more than I have faid before, (whenyau countries, that the more public provilions were made for the poor, the lefs they provided for arefizre tbatyou 1mm got a goodpriflczp/c', g0 through with if. You fay, poor labourers cannot afford to buy bread at a high price, unlefs they had higher wages.--Poffibly.-But how {hall we farmers be able to afford our labourers higher wages, if you will not allow us to get, when we might have it, ahigher price for our com P means. -- I think the heft way of doing good to leading or driving them out of it. In my youth themfelves, and of courfe became poorer. And, on the contrary, the lefs was done for them, the more they did for themfelves, and became richer. There is no country in theworld where f0 many provifions are eltablifhed for them; to many hof- pitals to receive them when they are fick or lame, rounded and maintained by voluntary charities,- fo many alms-houfes for the aged of both fexes, By together |
