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to tithes. Let us confider whether thofe which he 
has adopted, are proper for the purpofe. 
BARLEY. 
IF we examine into the ufes of Barley, we fhall, I 
think, find that it does not poflefs fufficient requifites 
to entitle it to be a reprefentative of other commo- 
dities. The great demand for it, and advanced price, 
does not generally originate in the real wants of the 
people, but in circumftances changeable and uncer- 
tain in their nature. It is the raw material not only 
of a wholefome beverage, but alfo of an article of 
luxury, which produces intoxication, and its attend- 
ant evils. Its produét is liable to monopoly, arbitrary 
profits, and taxation in various forms. Vaft quan- 
tities are confumed in the diftilleries, and its price is 
greatly influenced by circumftances which the grower 
cannot forefee, nor meet with an adequate fupply. 
It is influenced by a fcarce or plentiful year of apples 
for cyder, and by the uncertain demand for exporta- 
tion, in all its different ftates, and produéts; as alfo 
by the importation of wine, and foreign fpirits. 
It appears by Mr. Kent’s Agricultural Survey of 
the county of Norfolk, that on an average of the 
three laft years, in that fingle county, ‘the excefs of 
barley and malt exported, over and‘above that which 
was imported, amounted yearly to no lefs than 
450,651 quarters. The time may arrive, when ar- 
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