( '02 ) 



That the price of butcher meat is confide- 

 rably advanced, both by the caufe juft now 

 mentioned, and by the unnecefTary increafe 

 of carriage and riding horfes, is fupported by 

 the following obfervations of Mr Donaldfon. 

 Vid. Letters, p. 143. 



" It has been a puzzling propolition to 

 " many, why the price of butcher's meat 

 " fhould advance with the price of bread. 

 " For, fay they, if the high price of bread 

 " proceeds from a lefs quantity of corn being 

 " fown, butchers meat Would neceflarily fall, 

 " from the arable land being laid down with 

 " feeds for the maintenance of cattle. But 

 cc when they confider the unthrifty breed of 

 " horfes ^ fo necefTary to furniJh the multi- 

 " plicity of pofl chaifes, the mifchievous in- 

 creafe of ftage coaches, the extravagant 

 number of private ones, the vanity of 

 young men of fortune, who muft have 

 " their ftud, the impudence of young men of 

 " no fortune, who will have their gelding, to- 

 u gether with demands from abroad, the dif- 

 tt ficulty of refolving the caufe muft vanifh; 

 " as they clearly fee, that the paftures which 

 ic formerly fed fuch herds of beafts, and 

 a flocks of fheep, are now appropriated for 



the 



Si 







