420 Mr. iVimpey on the Impropriety of allowing 
lowered the price, and the fad is indifputable.—. 
Fads, indeed, are ftubborn things, and not to be 
warped to accommodate any body. But, be 
it remembered, affertions are not fads: and 
any one, who is remarkable for fcarlefsnefs of 
afifertion, can never be depended upon for fads. 
What effed the bounty had upon the price 
of corn, can only be known, by comparing 
the prices for a confiderable number of years, 
before that meafure was adopted, with the fame 
number of years after. This, and this only, 
is the true method of afcertaining the fad. But 
to compare plentiful years with years of fcarcity, 
can only ferve to expofe the fraud and artifice 
of the writer, and to impofe upon the credulity 
of the reader. The following is a true ftate of 
the fad, as any one may fatisfy himfelf, who 
will be at the trouble of infpeding the Windfor 
Tables, which he may find in Bifhop Fleetwood's 
Chronicon Pretio/um, in four trads relating to 
corn : and, I think, in one of the volumes of 
Mnjeum Ruf icum et Commercials. The fad is, 
if the average price of corn be taken from thofe 
tables, for twenty-five or thirty years before the 
bounty was enaded, and for the fame term after, 
it will appear, that the price was confiderably 
lower before the bounty, than it was after. 
This was the time for difcovering the effeds 
of the bounty; and the fad is, it advanced 
the price, nearly double, the firfb year. 
We 
