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The committee too; at their next meeting 
at York, refolved, ‘‘ that a proteftant, 
by entering into holy orders, does not 
abandon his civil rights ;” they alfo re- 
folved, “that the thanks cf the com- 
mittee be given to thofe reverend gen- 
tlemen, who thus preferring. the public 
good to their own private emoiuments, 
have ftood forth the firm friends to the 
true interefts of their country.” 
Such were the pclitical fentiments and 
conduct of Mr. M. at the time above- 
mentioned, and for feveral years after- 
wards. But tempora mutaniur, &c. &c. 
about the year 1794, he caft away his 
Whiggifh principles, became a thorough 
Alarmift,, and joined with, or, at lcaft, 
connived at his new friends in repro- 
bating thofe opinions which he had once 
fo zealoufly promoted; and in aferibing a 
“certain degree of moral depravity and 
guilt to thofe perfons who yet adhered to 
them. As a member of the Yorkthire 
affociation, he was furnifhed with large 
parcels of tracts publifred by that body, 
and fent to every member of it, to be cir- 
culated in their refpeétive neighbour- 
hoods: now all thefe traéts were intend- 
ed to pvint out national abufes, to pro- 
pefe conftitutional remedies, and to 
promote a fpirit of free, general difcuf- 
fion of political queftions among the 
people at large. Certainly, therefere, 
Mr. M. by circulating thefe tracts, en- 
couraged the people to enquire into their 
rights, and faw no impropriety or danger 
in free difcuilion. But of late, he appears 
to have adopted the common creed of 
the Alarmifts, and to have thought, 
either that the public ought not te med- 
die with political affairs in any refpect, 
or elfe, that all their information fhould 
iffue from the pure fource at the Crown 
and Anchor—any other being dangerous, 
if not criminal. In fine, ltke cur great 
premier, he once thought the Augean 
fiable wanted cleanfing, and propofed 
that the work~fhould be undertaken ; 
but on entering into it, he feund all right 
and clean: or elfe he agreed to the hack- 
neyed illufive caut of anti-reformers -in 
all ages, that if a redrefs of grievances is 
really. wanted, the prefent is, of all 
others, the moft improper time for fuch 
an undertaking, and that ail thofe who 
think otherwiie are feditious innovators. 
AUDI ALTERAM PARTEM. 

and their perfonal fatety to the proteétion of 
thofe laws which cannot be infringea without 
a dire&t aflumption of DESPoTIC POWER.— 
Wice Wyvill’s Tracts, &c. vol, I. 
Arguments for Small Farms. 
[ Juries 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magexine. 
SIR, | 
Your correfpondent N. 8B. (in your 
- laft Number) on the fubje& of large 
farms, has inftanced two objections ts 
them, which, however abfurd and ilk- 
founded they may, in his eftimation, 
appear, contain much faét and fair rea- 
foning. In fupport ef his argument 
againit the firft, viz. that “large farms 
can, and do, withhold corn, and thus 
enhance the price;’ he has fimply ad- 
duced individual, inftead of collective 
proof. It is not by the aét of oxe, but 
of the maxy, farmers, who keep back 
their corn from market, that the price 
is increafed ; and it is proper to remark, 
that it is the occupiers of large farms 
only, who have the opportunity of re- 
ferving their ftocks; whilft the fmall 
farmers are compelled, by the want of 
money, to profecute their bufinefs, to 
carry their corn to market, and difpofe 
of it ata moderate proft, compared with 
that which the /arge farmer derives from 
the refervation of ds, until the grana- 
ries of the fmaller farmers are nearly 
exhaufted. ‘Thus it happens, that they 
too frequently obtain their own price, 
and keep it up to an extravagant height s 
well knowing, that the millers have no 
other refources to which they can refort. 
N.8.’s argument, that ** when a farmer 
referves his grain, if the fpeculation an- 
{wers to him, the public are alfo bene- 
fitted by it,” 1s furely unfair:—public 
benefit cannot arife from individual accu- 
mulation, when that accumulation is the 
refult of a fyftem of monopoly and ex- 
torticn. . Lhe refervaiion of corn is 
alone jufiified by the moft pofitive necef- 
fity ; without which, it is frequently 
productive of the meit dréadful confe- 
quences. It is, therefore, an objeét of 
the greatef{ importance, to keep the 
markets regularly fwpplied, end by that 
means prevent the continual fuétuation 
in the price. / 
In reply to N. B.’s remarks on the fe- 
cond objeétion, namely, ‘* that ene fa- 
mily enly is fupperted, where two or 
more families might be fupported ;”’ it 
is obvious, that great national benefit 
would accrue from a diminution of the 
number of large farms, and the confe- 
quent increafe-of {mall ones ; the occu- 
piers of which would ufe their utmoft 
exertions in the improvement of the 
land; and, in a fhort time, would de- 
rive, from the produce, a capital fully 
adequate to the common purpoies of 
agriculture. 
The 
