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by the repeated aetion and re-action of these increas- 

 ed prices. And it is eijuallij obvious that Br'iiisli 

 agricultural productions require at market, in the 

 aggregate moncii price, an increase since the year 

 1 790, very far indeed exceeding the simple or pri- 

 mary amount of the duties or duties and taxes, 

 which have been imposed sincethat year, and that the 

 increase of price required, although obtained under 

 other circumstances, cannot noxv be obtained. 



Tiie remedy for this great evil is plain and sim- 

 ple; namely, the practical application by the com- 

 munity as a body politic, of the principle already 

 ingeniously and ably applied by the individual, 

 of supplying the market with productions (the 

 rights of the producer being reserved) at the 

 lowest possible constituents of cost. The applica- 

 tion of this principle in the conduct and direc- 

 tion of the public business of the country, would 

 promptly and effectually restore the British mar- 

 ket for the national produce, to a healthy and bene- 

 ficial slate.' The means of liquidating the claims 

 of the public creditor, without which the present'' 

 heavy costs of production do not fairly admit of 

 being materially lowered, are plain and easy, if the 



> Applied to agriculture, it would admit and would lead 

 to the highest rate of profit, and would of course admit of 

 the division of profit necessary to maintain the proper rights 

 and station of the landlord and tenant, and of sufficient and 

 proper wages being paid to the husbandman. 



"■ Autumn 1821. 



