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in his family. The landed interefl:, then, in this 

 part of the confumption of barley, and that of the 

 revenue in the confumption of malt, are fo far 

 forth fupported by irregularity^ mifery^ and a wafte 

 againft the wall. 



To obviate thefe objedlions, and ferious evils to 

 the poor, (which are alfo connedled with evils to 

 manufadlures, and confequently to the national in- 

 terefl) would it not be found policy to encourage 

 the fetting up of fmall-beer breweries in country 

 places and manufa6luring towns ? As an article of 

 large profit, the brewing of fmall beer for fale in 

 fuch towns and places, may not be 'held out as 

 greatly inviting j nor is it perhaps of confequence, 

 or at all defirable, that it fhould. In a national 

 and mioral point of view, it may be quite as defi- 

 rable that ten or twenty members of the .commu- 

 nity fliould get a decent fubfiflence upon an equality 

 of trade, as that one fhould acquire a large for- 

 tune, while many others ihall be his labourers 

 in t\\t manufa<fcuring of an article. And yet in 

 large towns, and for the fupply of large towns, with 

 a liquor of all others moft pleafant and ufeful to 

 Englifhmen who can afford to drink it, large and 

 llcilful brewers of frrong beer will always be encou- 

 rngcd, and it is defirable they fhould be. Neither 



do 



