We have already swelled this publication 
beyond the limits we intended- in the outset 
to prescribe for it ; but a subjedf so inte.- 
resting to the public, branching out into so ' 
many various considerations, and on which 
not only the dearest interests of the country, 
but its very existence depends, could but 
call forth continued observations, when we 
found the authority of the Board of Agri- 
culture committed in a panegyric upon 
Mr. Brooke's puerile remarks upon the pre- 
sent supposed scarcity of corn.* * 
We shall be ready to take the field, when- 
ever called upon, in defence of the foregoing 
* See the following advertisement which appeared in the 
daily paper called the Times, May 23, 1800 : 
* BOARD OK AGRICULTURE, Sackvik-Street , 
* RESOL V ED, 
* That the thanks of this Board be given to William 
Brooke, Esq. for his pamphlet on the high price of provi- 
sions and the Pideans of Removing Scarcity. 
* Ordered to be preserved in the Library of the Board. 
NtWARK, y. p,* 
