426 Mr. Wimpey on the Impropriety of allowing 
bly enrich you. The exportation of corn, upon 
fair and juft principles, would be a very valuable 
article of commerce; and not lefs fo, in a national 
view, than a private one, to the land-owner 
and farmer: but fo execrable has been our 
management, by forcing a market with the lofs 
of from thirty to fifty per cent, that when a 
fcarcity comes, when the price advances, and we 
fhould gain fifty per cent, inftead of having corn 
to fell, we are forced to buy, and often to 
give double the price we fold at. 
We quite miftake the matter, in fuppofing, 
the laws, in being, have provided a fufficient 
remedy: no law ever was, or ever can be, 
effectual to that purpole, while a bounty fubfifts. 
It is in vain to think, that trade, like water, 
will find its own level, when fo large a fiuice is 
opened to deftroy that level. We may as well 
throw a quarter of a hundred weight into one 
fcale, to preferve its equilibrium, as to give a 
bounty of twenty per cent, to put us upon an 
equal footing with the other corn-markets in 
Europe. 
The impropriety of the bounty is not lefs 
apparent, in the influence it has on the farmer’s 
condutt. It often tempts him to plant wheat 
on land, which is not fuited to it; and fome- 
times, two or three years together, on the fame 
land ; which too often proves a great lofs to 
himfelf, and alfo to the public. For the farmer 
cannot 
