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think, is about the average fum we have annually 
paid for bounties, and is fufficient to purchafe 
about a fourth of the corn, we have ufually ex¬ 
ported. Eut, giving a bounty of twenty per cent, 
to export corn, when the price is fo low, leaves fo 
little upon hand, that the firft bad feafon which 
comes, raifes the price to double; and the\n, 
when you fhould fell for a profit, you have no 
corn; but'are forced to prohibit exportation, 
even without a bounty, or to import from 
abroad, at double the price you fold at. It is 
now about ninety five years, fince the bounty 
commenced, and thus it has operated from the 
beginning. The firft unfavourable feafon, after 
a year of large exportation, hath conflantly 
raifed the price immoderately, as appears from 
the tables above-mentioned, and it is impodible 
it fhould be otherwife. 
It has been alfo obferved, that in Italy , and 
other places, where corn is not permitted to be 
fent abroad, it is always dear. Doubtlefs it is. 
We have no objection to exportation, when we 
have any corn to fpare : on the contrary, we 
recommend the praftice. Bur, is there no dif¬ 
ference, between giving a bounty of twenty per 
cent, to force a trade, which reduces you to 
almoft a famine, and felling at a fair average 
price, which obtains all over Europe? The 
former impoverifhes and diftreftes you ; while the 
other, if you had any corn to fell, would infalli- 
