kets; but where there is not fome average deficiency 

 of crop, this efFeft is not liicely to be materially felt; 

 and even in a time of fcarcity, although the popular 

 clamour may be loud, it feems queftionable vi'hether 

 the advance of prices, fomewhat beyond the propor- 

 tion of that fcarcity, be not rather a good than an 

 evil on the whole : But for fuch advances, to check 

 the confumption, and call for fubflitutes, the ftock 

 might become exhaufted, and the evil be the greater. 

 Large farmers alfo decline the trouble of the fmaller 

 produce of farms, as poultry, pigs, &c. And the 

 fewer their commodities, the more they can govern 

 the price of them. To alter the fyftem, and reftore 

 variety, with its good confequences, fmaller farms 

 fliould be added\ to accomplifli this, more ground 

 fliould be brought into new cultivation; and no 

 means of doing it can be equally efficacious with a 

 general inclofure bill. 



ID. The habits of living, among labourers, are 

 doubtlefs altered confiderably in this period. The 

 tafle, the baneful tafte of fpirituous liquors, and the 

 common introduftion of tea, fugar, and butter, into 

 cottages, has confumed too large a part of the earn, 

 ings. Enervation^ and confequent idlenefs, have in- 

 creafed; and though they live more luxurioufly in 

 fome articles, they on the whole, doubtlefs, live 

 •' harder" than formerly. The fyftem is like half- 

 luxury and half-Jlarvation. 



II. Certainly 



