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knows, that the miilers buy large quantities of barley 
and peafe, they fay, to fat hogs : but then they have 
pollard, middlings, &c. to fat them with ; and fo 
may poflibly mix the barley and peafe with wheat to 
grind. But as this is all furmife, I would have no 
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more weight laid upon it than it deferves. 
The next article is of the fame nature ; I mean, 
fomething of a myftery in trade ; and therefore to be 
touched very gently. What I would hint is, that it 
is the opinion of many very intelligentper fons, that 
a good deal of malt is made, which does not pay the 
cxcife. I do not pretend to afeertain the quantity : 
perhaps one eighth may not be an extravagant fup- 
pofition. And if this be the cafe, we fliall find as 
much barley, as will weigh againft bread for half a 
million of people. 
But here, in all probability, you will objedt, that 
if all thefe articles be admitted, vve fliall make the 
number of people near eleven millions j which is 
undoubtedly too much. I am ready to grant it. And 
here, if I might take die liberty to fpeak my mind, 
1 think, that the allowance of one quarter of wheat 
to three perfons is too fcanty, and mull quite flarve 
the poor, whole chief provifion is bread : and there- 
fore, two perfons to a quarter may be pretty near the 
truth. And then the numbers will hand thus : 
Such as eat wheat, by fuppofition - 4,500,000 
In the North, and in Wales - - 1,500,000 
Againft the fatting article - - - 1,000,000 
Againft the two laft articles - - 1,000,000 
8 , ooo ? ooo 
I can 
