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cheapness we presume is owing to the want 

 of a passage through the straits of Con- 

 stantinople, to foreign markets the very 

 markets hitherto supplied by Poland, Ame- 

 rica and Earbary. The Turk is to be 

 forced by the Czarina and the Emperor to 

 suffer a passage through those straits : it 

 already has been of late nearly accom- 

 plished. 



You say the above events are problema- 

 tical, or at a great distance of time : but 

 there is one of a different nature and very 

 influential in the argument which is more 

 certain and nearer at hand. With the im- 

 provements in government, which the phi- 

 losophical spirit of modern times is pro- 

 ducing, the condition of mankind will be 

 bettered, and in no circumstance will it be 

 more perceptible than in their greater skill 

 in all the arts, as well in agriculture as 

 others. Then will France be fully equal 

 to supply her own demands for wheat, and 

 Spain and Portugal will be so in no long 

 time. 



