a Bounty, to encourage the Exportation of Corn. 4 1 5 
advantaged by the mutual afiiftance, given to the 
common fupport, of which every individual is 
entitled to an equal fliare. 
3. Public good is the barometer, or, if I 
may ufe the exprefiion, the political balance, 
by which the fpecific gravity, the intrinfic 
worth, or fterling value, of every meafure, 
refpeCting the public, is to be determined and 
afcertained< Therefore, every meafure, which 
has a tendency to promote public good, is 
right and defirable: every meafure, which is 
inimical to the public intereft, is a wrong mea¬ 
fure, and fhould be reprobated. To fay other- 
wife, would be repugnant to common fenfe, 
therefore falfe and abfurd. 
4. The projects of individuals, in which the 
good of the public is ultimately included, have 
been very defervedly countenanced by public 
encouragement: but fuch encouragement cannot 
confidently be continued longer than the efta- 
blifhment of fuch projects; for if they could 
not fupport themfelves, and reward the projec¬ 
tors, they would be abfurd projects, and fhould 
be abandoned, as by propofitions fecond and 
third ; the individual is not to be enriched, at 
the unjuft expence and lofs of the public. Now, 
all the bounties, of whatever nature or kind, 
whether they refpeCt produce, manufactures, or 
commerce, are public encouragements ; and their 
origin and exiftence depend, upon the reafonable 
expectation ' 
