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all, unfortunate in his firfl tranfa&ion; he mult 

 not drive an advantageous bargain or two, if 

 by good hap fuch fhould occur, to bring 

 himfelf home, and to put himfelf in a capacity 

 to ferve you again. Indeed you offer rare en- 

 couragement to trade. But mark, do you 

 fuppofe you can ever give efficiency to fuch 

 laws, which no man will ever make a con- 

 fcience of breaking ? nay, which nature and 

 reafon will teach him to break, at every oppor- 

 tunity, out of fheer contempt. A certain 

 Roman Emperor enacted a law, that no man 

 might fart in company, feeing it was fuch a 

 breach of good manners ; but was afterwards 

 fo confiderate as to permit, by a fubfequent 

 ordonnance, all the citizens, to fart ad libi- 

 tum, for their health's fake. The grave 

 legiflators of another country, ordained the 

 baiting of bulls to death, and without previouf- 

 ly making the experiment, to determine the 

 pojfe of the bufinefs, made it death, without 

 benefit of clergy, for any man or woman to 

 hold crim. con. with the devil! 



As is the increafe of trade and plenty, fo 

 mull be the increafe of monopolizers, 

 forestallers, and regraters ; names are 

 of no confequence — You mufl either fuffer the 

 difcretional operation of thefe, for the removal 

 of occafional furplus, or prevent all furplus, by 

 univcrfal, and permanent Agrarian reftrictions. 



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