4 ? 4 M- r - Wimpty on the Impropriety of allowing 
however, is no more than thre_e fhillings, and that 
there is not a Sufficient demand even at that. The 
legislature, to relieve the farmer, and accommo¬ 
date its members, gives a bounty of five fhillings 
a quarter, or feven-pence halfpenny a bufhel, to 
procure a market abroad. And is it not 'ablejfed 
relief which it affords ? In the firffc place, the 
farmer fells for three fhillings what coft him four 
fhillings ; and, towards that three fhillings, the 
public pay feven-pence halfpenny. The ffift is a 
lofs of twenty five per cent, and the latter of 
more than twenty ; making together, above forty- 
five per cent. ! What a glorious trade for England , 
attended with fuch immenfe advantages ! But 
how much better for the fagacious Dutchman, 
who buys a commodity at forty five per cent, 
below its real value, which, in the fpace of 
twelve or eishteen months, there is almoft a 
certainty of felling again, Sometimes in the fame 
market, at a hundred per cent, profit 
But it may be afked, what is to be done, when 
the nation is fo unfortunate, as to be over¬ 
whelmed with fuch an abundance : for it mufl 
be obferved, fuch low prices never happen, but 
in confequence of a Series of propitious feafons ? 
I anfwer, we fhould then imitate the Dutch, and 
ftore up our corn when cheap, that, when un¬ 
fruitful feafons come, we may, like them, fell it 
at a large profit without a bounty, with a Saving 
of £200,000 a year to the public. This, I 
think. 
