ous, rather than the idle poor or the lux- 

 urious few, who are principally consider- 

 ed by legislatures. 



What if to the bread wanted by some 

 countries, which is at present supplied by 

 Poland^ America and Barbary, one or two 

 great additional sources of it should be 

 opened ? How would the husbandry and 

 the income of our country be affected by 

 it? Would there not be then felt a want 

 of manufacturers, consumers of bread who 

 make none, yet who would preserve the 

 value of the produce of our husbandry by 

 such consumption, and furnish other ne- 

 cessaries and comforts from their various 

 occupations ? There is reason to believe 

 that yet a little while, and the productions 

 of the countries on the Nieper and the Da- 

 nube will rush through the Straits of Con- 

 stantinople into the Mediterranean, and 

 thence into all Europe. The wheat of the 

 Ukrain, hitherto shut up by the Turk, sells 

 at is. to 2s. sterling a bushel. The coun- 

 tries so shut up also abound in cattle, 



