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rfoes not run fuch rilks as the late does of be- 

 ing fhaken and broken by the equino<5lial 

 ftorms, and deftroyed by the early frofts, 

 which prevent the late fown from coming ta 

 maturity; witnefs the harveft 1787. 



Were government to adopt fuch a plan, a 

 very large fum would foon be raifed, by 

 which a great number of farmers of the firft 

 rank might be induced to follow the fame 

 method. The confequence of this would 

 foon be the raifing fuch quantities of corn 

 and grafs, that the price of provisions would 

 be greatly reduced, at the fame time that 

 trade and manufactures would be encreafed 

 proportionably, befides the annual exporta- 

 tion of great quantities of corn. 



It is owing to ignorance or inattention to 

 thefe things, that fo few people underfland 

 what is the primary intereft of Great Britain. 

 The greateft part of mankind, indeed, are led 

 by what they fuppofe to be their intereft, or 

 what has an apparent tendency to promote it; 

 and upon this principle they determine what 

 ought to be -the great objedl of the nation. 

 Thus, the merchant declares in favour of 

 trade, the manufacturer in favour of bufinefs, 

 the farmer for agriculture, and fo on in every 



other 



