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On The Causes Of The High Price Of Corn.

must be shut up , and tbe people sent to seek their bread in some other country , while those that remain must be eat up by taxes and poor ' s rates . " The great declension of trade in the market towns , oceasioned by the decrease of the consumption of our manufactures , is become a subject of universal complaint , and must , in a few years , greatly afflict the revenue ; and there is such a connection between trade and the landed interest ( whatever some gentlemen may think )

that the one cannot suffer long , but the other will inevitably feel it in a very sensible manner , notwithstanding all the temporary expedients that may be thought of to prevent it . It is a truth too well , known in the counties , of Suffolk and Norfolk , and , it is to be feared , is too much the case jn several other counties , that there are great numbers of parishesin whichthirty years sincethere were

four-, , , teen , fifteen , or . sixteen fanners in a parish , who occupied from 50 to 100 or 120 I . per ann . who weekly supplied the market towns with all sorts of provision , and returned home with each some small portion of the manufactures of their country ; where there are now not more than two , or three at most , and , in some places , but one ; so that the country villages are in a manner depopulated : forexcepting twoor

, , , very rarely , three ' large farm-houses , nothing is now to be seen but a few wretched cottages , and as wretched inhabitants , without furniture , and almost without clothes , who are slaves to these all-grasping farmers , who can now lay in their port wine by the pipe , and send their daughters to boarding-schools , to make as genteel an appearance as those of their landlords .

But there is another evil attending this " practice of monopolizing farms , and that is , the putting it too much in . the power of these great growers , in a time of scarcity , to distress the country , by withholding their corn from market , and thereby to occasion an artificial famine . This we know has been the case lately , and would have been . at . tended with the most dreadful consequences , if the parliament had not made the most speedy provision against itby prohibiting the

ex-, portation , and giving leave for the free importation of grain from abroad , and also putting a stop to the distillery : and , notwithstanding such w ise precautions , these merciless withholders of their corn kept up the price at such ar . exorbitant rate , that the poor in most parts of the kingdom were almost starved . The like may again happen , when , perhaps , we can have no relief from abroad , and under such

circumstances , that many of the poor may be hanged , for taking , whilst others are starved for want of'i that corn , which there may be no law then in being , to oblige them to bring to market . It has pleased God to bless this nation , this year , with as large a crop of almost all sorts of com , as has been known for many years past ; and , yet , how is the price kept up , beyond eveiy man ' s

expectation ? Why , truly , our great growers thrash otu little , or none ; hoping that the price may be still farther advanced . But ( God be thanked ) we may safely vest this in the wisdom of the present ministry and parliament , who have , by some late salutary laws , shewn , that they have a greater regard to the health and lives of his majesty ' s subjects , than to any private interest whatsoever , or even the revenue VOL . vn , N

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LONDON: Article 2
TO READERS , CORRESPONDENTS , Sec. Article 3
THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE, AND CABINET 0F UNIVERSAL LITERATURE. Article 4
A DEFENCE OF MASONRY, Article 4
A CHARGE DELIVERED TO THE MEMBERS OF THE UNION LODGE, Article 8
HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM. Article 10
ON THE CAUSES OF THE HIGH PRICE OF CORN. Article 17
DESCRIPTION OF THE KINGDOM OF MOROCCO. Article 19
ON FEMALE EDUCATION. Article 21
ESSAYS ON SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH HISTORY AND CLASSICAL LEARNING. Article 23
LOUIS XII. KING OF FRANCE. Article 28
DEATH OF THE GREAT MARSHAL TURENNE. Article 29
CURIOUS PARTICULARS RELATIVE TO THE JEWS. Article 31
Untitled Article 34
DESCRIPTION OF A PORTABLE GYN, FOR MOUNTING OR DISMOUNTING ORDNANCE: Article 36
EXCERPTA ET COLLECTANEA. Article 38
THE POISONOUS QUALITY OF MUSCLES CONSIDERED. Article 42
To the EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. Article 43
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Article 44
POETRY. Article 52
ODE TO FANCY. Article 53
A POETICAL REVERIE ON THE GOUT. Article 54
ON SEEING A VERY SENSIBLE WOMAN WEEPING, WITH A BEAUTIFUL CHILD AT HER SIDE, IN THE SAME SITUATION. Article 55
ON THE AUTHOR OF THE BALLAD CALLED THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD. Article 56
A PIECE FROM A SERIOUS MUSICAL COMPOSITION. Article 57
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 58
MONTHLY CHRONICLE. Article 60
HOME NEWS. Article 62
OBITUARY. Article 66
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On The Causes Of The High Price Of Corn.

must be shut up , and tbe people sent to seek their bread in some other country , while those that remain must be eat up by taxes and poor ' s rates . " The great declension of trade in the market towns , oceasioned by the decrease of the consumption of our manufactures , is become a subject of universal complaint , and must , in a few years , greatly afflict the revenue ; and there is such a connection between trade and the landed interest ( whatever some gentlemen may think )

that the one cannot suffer long , but the other will inevitably feel it in a very sensible manner , notwithstanding all the temporary expedients that may be thought of to prevent it . It is a truth too well , known in the counties , of Suffolk and Norfolk , and , it is to be feared , is too much the case jn several other counties , that there are great numbers of parishesin whichthirty years sincethere were

four-, , , teen , fifteen , or . sixteen fanners in a parish , who occupied from 50 to 100 or 120 I . per ann . who weekly supplied the market towns with all sorts of provision , and returned home with each some small portion of the manufactures of their country ; where there are now not more than two , or three at most , and , in some places , but one ; so that the country villages are in a manner depopulated : forexcepting twoor

, , , very rarely , three ' large farm-houses , nothing is now to be seen but a few wretched cottages , and as wretched inhabitants , without furniture , and almost without clothes , who are slaves to these all-grasping farmers , who can now lay in their port wine by the pipe , and send their daughters to boarding-schools , to make as genteel an appearance as those of their landlords .

But there is another evil attending this " practice of monopolizing farms , and that is , the putting it too much in . the power of these great growers , in a time of scarcity , to distress the country , by withholding their corn from market , and thereby to occasion an artificial famine . This we know has been the case lately , and would have been . at . tended with the most dreadful consequences , if the parliament had not made the most speedy provision against itby prohibiting the

ex-, portation , and giving leave for the free importation of grain from abroad , and also putting a stop to the distillery : and , notwithstanding such w ise precautions , these merciless withholders of their corn kept up the price at such ar . exorbitant rate , that the poor in most parts of the kingdom were almost starved . The like may again happen , when , perhaps , we can have no relief from abroad , and under such

circumstances , that many of the poor may be hanged , for taking , whilst others are starved for want of'i that corn , which there may be no law then in being , to oblige them to bring to market . It has pleased God to bless this nation , this year , with as large a crop of almost all sorts of com , as has been known for many years past ; and , yet , how is the price kept up , beyond eveiy man ' s

expectation ? Why , truly , our great growers thrash otu little , or none ; hoping that the price may be still farther advanced . But ( God be thanked ) we may safely vest this in the wisdom of the present ministry and parliament , who have , by some late salutary laws , shewn , that they have a greater regard to the health and lives of his majesty ' s subjects , than to any private interest whatsoever , or even the revenue VOL . vn , N

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