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their wheats, in the early flage of the late 

 alarm; had they complied with the popular 

 clamour, and overloaded the markets, fuch 

 was the demand from without, that half of it 

 would have found its way abroad. 



With refpect. to live ftock, it feems, the 

 horrid fact, has been proved, that droves of 

 oxen have been fold and refold, " nine times," 

 in the courfe of their journey to London; 

 dreadful to be fure that, and what is doubly 

 fo, there is no remedy for it. Pity that the 

 original owners, who perhaps did not refide 

 above two hundred miles diflant from the 

 metropolis, nor above forty or fifty miles dif- 

 tant from each other, had not the patriotifm, 

 or the leifure, or ability, to come each, and 

 all together, up with their own cattle; becaufe 

 either this feems abfolutely neceflary, or that 

 the anti-monopolifts mould employ fome per- 

 fons to go down exprefsly on purpofe, to fup- 

 ply the city of London with cattle, all thofe 

 who do it on their own account, being {o 

 obftinate, unpatriotic, and wicked, as to con- 

 duct, the buiinefs for their own private emolu- 

 ment, and at their own difcretion. 



No man, it feems, muft buy and fell a bead 

 more than once in the fame market ; but fup- 

 pofe this man has his living to feek by jobbing, 

 fuppofe he has been, after riding the country 

 many a weary mile, and laving out his little 



all, 



