3*6 ON DRAFT CATTLE. 



Behold a red-hot democrat, juft arrived from 

 Shad Thames — " Mercy on us! what a burning 

 ftiame! wheat at fuch an immenfe price, that 

 the poor are flarving, and yet mine own eyes 

 have feen the warehoufes, from Rotherhithe 

 to London Bridge/loaded with wheat till the 

 very beams crack. Inflead of being fold, as it 

 in all confcience ought, inftantly, they are 

 flill turning and fkreening it, that it may be 

 withheld from the neceflities of the ftarving 

 poor; nay, it has been already fo long with- 

 held, that they are even tolling it over-board 

 in wafle, for which they will, no doubt, be 

 tolled into hell !" 



Public-fpirited citizen, do you know where 

 this foreign wheat was purchafed? What it 

 coll? What has been difburfed thereon, for 

 infurance, freight, and charges? Have you 

 feen a pro forma account fales of it? Do you 

 know at what price the merchant can afford it ; 

 or if on a foreign account, at what price the 

 fale is limited? Laflly, do you expect, that 

 merchants, corn, and cattle dealers only, are 

 bound to feed the poor gratis ? I fay if you are 

 not already converfant in thofe things, you had 

 better have previoufly informed yourfelf — 

 that's all. 



I have often reflected upon the charming 

 predicament, in which this country- would 

 have flood, had not the farmers held back 



their 



