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at present, the rise in the price of coals, so severely 
felt in évery part of this country. These things 
mz2y continue for a time to be felt, and complained 
of as a hardfhip ; but’so long as the demand for ma-- 
nufactures continues brifk, these inconveniences can 
be borne. But if ever a permanent slackening in that 
demand fhould take place, the consequences would 
be dreadful.—-Men who had been used to fare luxu- 
riously, being turned out of employment, would 
find ita matter of the utmost difficulty to subsist 
in any other way ;—the farmer who found a slacken- 
ed demand for the articles he used to rear, and on 
which he made his rent, would be compelled to re- 
duce the price below what he could afferd. The 
consequences might be traced minutely ; but it is 
an ungracious tafk. They are too obvious. 
I conclude, that the prosperity that results from 
an extraordinary demand for manufactures, is a po- 
litical disease of the most dangerous tendency. It 
is a poison that produces a pleasing delirium, which, 
like that from opium, must end in a miserable death. 
Sober minded persons, therefore, will look upon 
this general intoxication without participating in 
the phrenzy it produces; and will regret that cir- 
cumstances fliould here so unfortunately concur to 
cherith it. 
