INQUIRY 



INTO THE 



POLICY AND JUSTICE 



OF THE 



PROHIBITION OF THE USE OF GRAIN 



IN THE 



DISTILLERIES, &c. 



THE distress of our West India Colonies has 

 for some time excited the public attention ; 

 and as the persons chiefly interested in colonial 

 produce, though a small, are not an unimpor- 

 tant class of the community, endowed with the 

 spirit, and possessing the weight and activity 

 of an affluent corporation, it is by no means 

 surprising that their complaints have been 

 heard. They have laid them before the pub- 

 lic in various shapes ; and, with the common 

 propensity of human nature, in examining into 



the source of their distresses, they have found 







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