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checks, and counter-checks, keep things For 

 ever upon fuch a fortunate level, without 

 even the help of the law of the maximum -, 

 merely by fplitting hairs between the " North 

 and North- weft fide:" as in the fame fchool you 

 may be taught to walk the chalk foberly which 

 feparates hell and heaven, and be regularly 

 infured from the peril of believing " too little 

 or too much." 



Men are to be prohibited, it feems, from 

 cultivating more than a certain quantity of 

 land, that by being prevented from the acqui- 

 fition of property, they may be conftantly 

 obliged to fell their corn as foon as it fhall be 

 ready; at the fame time no fpeculators, alias 

 monopolizers, are to be permitted to indulge 

 in their " nefarious practices," of buying it 

 up; of courfe, all cultivators being in the fame 

 predicament, the corn will arrive in a molt 

 plenteous and glorious overflow, at Bear-key; 

 where, as nobody may purchafe the furplus, 

 it may be given to the poor. This would 

 doubtlefs enfure a mod punctual payment of 

 rent, on the part of the farmers. But fay the 

 anti-monopolifts to the fpeculators ; we do not 

 mean this; we would wifh to derive benefit 

 from your capitals, at fuch times only as we 

 think we have need thereof; but the fpecula- 

 tors anfwer and fay, pleafe to leave to us, the 

 free and abfolute difpofal of our own pro- 

 perty. 



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