The Affect of a stoppage of this vent, like thai: 

 of the other, is to throw the whole grain used 

 there into the common market, which, whik 

 it occasions a transitory cheapness, will lower 

 the farmer's profits, and finally reduce his cul- 

 tivation to the full amount of the grain usually 

 distilled, and prohably much further. 



In short, the analogy, so remarkable in other 

 instances, between produce and population ap- 

 plies perfectly here. A free emigration in- 

 creases the numbers of the people in the same 

 manner as a free export, or other vent, in- 

 creases produce. All attempts to force either, by 

 direct encouragements, are unavailing. All at- 

 tempts to stop their natural vents lead to the very 

 decrease that is feared *. 



There are, however, certain reasoners who 

 have denied that the home grower would sus- 



ed in the Report to amount to 781,000 qrs. 470,000 in Britain, 

 and 311,000 in Ireland. 



* They who doubt of the effects of a free and regular emigra- 

 tion in increasing numbers may, I think, be convinced by per- 

 using Mr Alalthus's account of the irruption of the barbarous na- 

 tions of the north of Europe. That author has completely solved 

 the problem of their excessive numbers, which had puzzled so many 

 of his predecessors. Dr Ferguson has compared the attempts to 

 increase population to the assisting a water-fall with an oar. 

 The fears of its decay from emigration resemble" the fears of the 

 river running out, and leaving its channel dry. Sec this matter 

 enlarged on, and practically applied, in Lord Selkirk's excellent 

 treatise on the Highland Emigrations. 



