3^4 ON DRAFT CATTLE. 



not overfhadow the interefts of humbler men. — 

 You dial I not be too early at market, or pur- 

 chafe out of a market, left you thereby inter- 

 fere with the public intereft — The price of 

 your commodity (hall be fixed, left the poor 

 fhould be unable to purchafe it. But every 

 declaimer againft regraters, is provided with a 

 racket, wherewith to ftrike all fuch arguments 

 from his own immediate concerns. 



But corn, and flour, and cattle, are articles 

 of the firft neceftity, without which the poor 

 cannot exift: and have we of this country yet 

 found ourfelves in any fituation, in which 

 money has not been the re^refentative of 

 or acceptable confideration for thofe ? Where 

 then the difference between hoarding money, 

 and hoarding corn, and why did not fome of 

 you, previous to complaining fo loudly againft 

 holding up corn, bring forth fome of your 

 hoarded money, for the benefit of the poor? 



The late fcarcity of corn, you fay, was 

 owing entirely to monopolizers. It is an oc- 

 cafional whim of theirs then, I fuppofe; or 

 what could they be about a few years back; 

 when runs of the beft EfTex wheats were 

 hawked about in the Corn Exchange at two 

 or three and thirty (hillings per quarter? Two 

 or three and thirty {hillings per quarter for the 

 beft wheat in the world! piping times thofe. 

 Who can doubt but the difciples of a certain 

 fchool, would, by their excellent regulations, 



checks, 



