case have been aggravated in innumerable in- 

 stances by demands for rent, tithes, rates, and 

 taxes in arrear, and by claims of interest due 

 upon money borrowed, and of borrowed capital 

 called in ; necessities, thus producing by their 

 combined influence so great an overflow and 

 glut in the markets, that it is well known the 

 millers have often appeared to be conferring a 

 favour, and have actually conferred a favour, 

 upon those whose samples they have selected 

 for purchase; and a large proportion of the sam- 

 ples brought to market, have frequently not 

 been disposed of at all for want of demand. 



The imperative obligation upon many to sell 

 upon any terms, if practicable to sell at all, 

 being admitted, the greater the depression of 

 price, the greater would unavoidably be the 

 overflow of the supply; for it is obvious that, to 

 satisfy an arrear of rent of 100/. 50 quarters of 

 wheat must be brought to market and sold, if 

 the price obtained be only 40*. though 40 quar- 

 ters would equally suffice, if the price be 50*. 

 and scarcely more than 33 quarters, if the price 

 be 60*. 



This inordinate pressure of supply is, however, 

 in its nature terminable ; for, if the peculiar ne- 

 cessities which produced it are not relieved, the 

 means of creating it must at least become ex- 

 hausted. 



