sugars by the suspension of the distilleries. Did 

 any of our colonists grow rice, and did we give 

 it some exclusive encouragement in our mar- 

 ket, the case would be just the same, at least in 

 average seasons. Such encouragements, how- 

 ever, never have been given to foreign grow- 

 ers. They are never even allowed the fair com- 

 petition of our market, (which I think both they 

 and the colonial proprietors ought to be), but 

 all that they send in common years is loaded 

 with heavy duties. Were the colonists at pre- 

 sent asking no more favour than the utmost 

 that has been ever extended to the foreign 

 growers of corn, during average years, I should 

 be far from objecting to their demands. 



The discouragement of the British grower, 

 therefore, from the improvement of wastes or 

 importation, can never bear any resemblance 

 to his discouragement from the stoppage of his 

 market, while the one is free, the other com- 

 pukive. 



II. I have thus, I think, sufficiently shewn 

 the beneficial effect of distilleries, and other 

 tents, in encouraging cultivation in common 

 and average years ; and the injurious conse- 

 quence of a forced suspension of them, both to 

 the home grower and the public. I now pro- 

 ceed to inquire into the nature of their opera- 



