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** weighing fifty pounds ? You either thiak 

 '* m very ignorant of the price of provifions 

 ** at the lile of France^ or you have formed 

 " the mad projedt of giving laws to us in- 

 " ftead of receiving them, 



** Is it not true»" continued the orator, 

 addrefling himfelf to the alTembly, " that 



you wlfli to deal with thefe ft rangers 

 " hereafter on jufter and more equitable 



terms r" 



» The ail'cmbiy teilified by a general and 



tumultuous acciamafion that this was their 

 defire* 



Bigorne then wifhed to elevate his voice ; 

 but the orator commanded him to be filcnt ; 

 and refumed his difcourfe by the order of 

 John Harre and the other chiefs, 



" The following," faid he, " are the con- 

 ** ditions prefcribed by the merchants of 

 *' Foulepointe : The meafure of rice lhall 

 *' he diminilhed, when, in meafuring it, the 



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