a Bounty , to encourage the Exportation of Corn. 439 
the feller mull fubmit to very difadvantageous 
terms, to prevail upon the buyer to purchafe 
a commodity, he has no occafion for, and knows 
not what to do with. 
1 would beg leave juft to mention, by way 
of illuftration, that the grazier is now under 
the very fame predicament, that the farmer was 
near one hundred years ago. Wheat was then 
at little more than three (hillings a buftiel; ex¬ 
portation was encouraged by a bounty to enhance 
its price. The experiment fucceeded, as it 
infallibly muft; and the very next year it was 
nearly double. The grazier s hopes are equally 
well founded. Were he permitted to export his 
wool, the price would immediately advance, 
not only for exportation, but tor nome comump- 
tion too ; and were it not for the ruinous effects 
I have defcribed, the meafure would certainly 
be juft and politic. But if the price hereafter 
fhould, by any means, fall a penny or two pence 
a pound below what it is now, is it poflible to 
conceive, that this circumftance could encourage 
the grazier to inceafe the quantity ; or can we 
reconcile it to common fenfe, that a circunri- 
ftance happening to a man, in any profeffion, 
by which he is a fufferer to a very confiderable 
amount, fhould animate him to extend and in- 
creafe his trade ? Yet this is the very argument 
ufed by the advocates of the bounty. A bounty, 
fay they, encouraged exportation; exportation 
F f 4 encouraged 
