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Poultry cannot be maintained without 
corn ; and if a poor man has to buy it, it 
vdil soon cost more to maintain them than 
they are worth. Goats are very destru6five 
to live fences ; and the ass is the greatest of 
all nuisances when placed in the way of them; 
he browses upon the young shoots ; and so 
far from contenting himself, as this author 
asserts, ‘ upon the coarsest food/ he is always 
seeking the most delicate. 
This author may conceive tea to be a poison, 
but it is a poison which has long been dealt 
out very plentifully to the people of this 
country, and we do not find that the tars, 
wliO, whan at sea, use this beverage very 
plentifully, fight much the worse for being 
so poisoned. Any legislative prohibition of 
the use of it, or substituting chocolate, would 
not at this time be very just or politic, after 
what the Minister has so recently received- 
millions, as a fine for the renewal of the East 
India Company's diarter to vend it in this 
country. Besides, it is become a great ob- 
jedl of revenue. 
