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porting it from all other countries when it is dear ir^ 

 this, and by giving a bounty on its exportation when 

 its price at home is too low to pay the expence of 

 growing it. 



And the effect of this policy has been fuch, that 

 the price of wheat has been very little higher on 

 an average of the lafl twenty years, than it was on 

 an average of the twenty laft years' of the lad: cen- 

 tury; while the price of barley and oats, cheefe an4 

 butter, have nearly doubled. 



Any ratio for the tithes of the lad-mentioned ar- 

 ticles, which was fettled in the laft century, and de- 

 duced from the price of wheat alone, muft therefore 

 at this time be an unfair commutation for the tithes 

 of many other titheable articles. And there is no 

 fair ground on which to argue, that the value of 

 the laft-mentioned articles, and indeed of all other 

 produftions of land, for which this kingdom mud 

 chiefly depend on its own refources, may not herC' 

 after fluftuate as much as it has hitherto done; while 

 it is more than probable, that, by means of impor- 

 tation, wheat may keep nearly its prcfent average 

 price. 



No commutation for tithes can be called a fair 

 equivalent, which is not fo fettled as to fluctuate 

 with the rife and fall of every commodity fubje£l to 

 tithes ; fo as to be in fa6l, a fair yearly rent for each 

 year\ tithes, or as nearly fo as the nature of the 

 cafe will admit. The 



