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in the Eaft-Indies, at a more advanced price, any 

 quantity that could be procured of the fanrie. Yet 

 fuch was the influence of the VEJ-prit du Corps^ (of 

 Which all profelTions have their full Ihare) that even 

 thiii inftance did not convince the propriety of al- 

 lowing, by an open fale, the bed price as the ne- 

 ceflary encouragement for raifing at home the befl 

 wool the foil and climate would allow, and of thus 

 preventing the manufa6turers of our coarfeft and 

 inartificial fabricks from afTuming, to the reftraint 

 of every fine one, too large a portion of our wool; 

 by the encouragement thus given to the grower, 

 to confider the quantity as more valuable than the 

 quality of his fleece. A mofl: glaring abfurdity! 

 which, as far as legijlative approbation of it can 

 go, mufl: continue, till that period, when a reform 

 in our mode of eledion and reprefentation fhall 

 have, agreeably to the fpirit of the confl:itution, re- 

 ftored to the landed interefl; an influence and 

 energy equivalent to that of the manufadurers. 



It is prouder to deferve, than to receive publick 

 encouragementi and from a tafl:e extremely pro- 

 moted, in my opinion, among Country Gentlemen, 

 by the writings of Arthur Young, efqj ofamufing 

 flremfelves in agricultural purfuits, it feems as if 

 the improvement of flieep and wool would rife 



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