1£00.] 
r. The legiflature ought Ne to 
fix the price of grain throughout the king- 
dom, if it could be dons, after having 
furveyed and become acquainted with tie 
qvantity contained therein; ctherwile, it 
is impofhble to conjeéture to what extra- 
vagant prices the farmers and forettaliers 
will endeavour to enhance this very necef- 
fary article of lite. 
2, Encouragements and rewards fhould 
be held out to other nations where the 
harvelt has been more abundant, and where 
the exiting government does not prohibit 
the exporiation of grain, for importing it 
to this country. 
3. As oats are in general ufe for bread 
in the north of England, though it is pro- 
bable, this is not univerially known by 
our more fouthern neighbours*; and as 
the fencible cavalry and others conlume, 
upon an average, ten loads} of oats per 
week for every troop of horle, this quan- 
tity might during the prefent winter, and 
when there 1s no profpect of an invafion 
from cur enemies, without much detri- 
ment to the horfes be reduced to one half 
or even one fourth of it. 
4. This article concerns.the magiftrates. 
The affize of bread in large towns and po- 
pulous diftricts is eftablithed according to 
the price of grain ; but, in the coun‘ry, no 
fuch regulations exift ; and of confequence 
it frequently happens, that the bread is 
too light and more inferior in qi uality than 
it fhould be ; though I cannot but ima- 
gine, the country magiftrates polls the 
fame power of regulating the price of 
bread. It is a matter therefore much to 
be defired, that the magiftvates (if they 
have this powe:) would in every part of 
the kingdom, by f{pirited inquiry and 
proper punifhment, prevent the. poor from 
being deprived by extortion of what they 
have earned hardly, and by this means, 
remedy am evil {0 confiderably prejudicial 
to them in particular, 
To public regulations of this natere 
carried into proper etfect, if a prudential 
frugality in private families fhould alfo be 
eftadlithed and annexed, and the confump- 
tion of this article be ene: ‘d to quanti- 
ties not more than really neceffary 5 3 if the 
fuperior kinds of bread fhould be feldom 
ufed, and all would habiteate themfelves 
to that of an inferior quality; we might 
confidenily expeét, that the oppreffed 
condition of the labouring poor would 

* Vide Johnfon’s Digtionary, upon the 
word Oats. 
“tf The load here mentioned and ufed in 
the North, is equivalent to 12 pecks, of 24 
quarts to the peck, Winchefler meafure. 
Tranflation of Heyne’s Letter to Wakefield. 
dequent number of your mifcellany. 
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thereby be confiderably melicrated, and 
that thefe mea ures, judicioufly directed 
and unremittingly continued, would ulti- 
mately enfure coinfort and ae to the 
indigent and the wretched, and et icacte 
oufly contribute in removing penury and 
diftrefs far from their cheerleis habitations, 
This is a matter in the performance of 
which, as men, and as chriftians, we are 
ereatly concerned ; nature has implanted 
thefe tender ties bf humanity, and the pre~ 
cepts of the gofpel equally enforce the exe- 
cution of them. 
But though thefe regulations and ar- 
rangemests form no vart of any Utopian 
{cheme, and are perfectly reconcileable to 
the natural notions of mankind, and alto- 
gether practicable whilft I behold men fo 
callous to the tenaer and fympathetic feel. 
ings of nature as to perfevere ina fyftem 
of blood{ned and devattation of the human 
fpecies, I. conceive no very fanguine ex- 
pectations relative to any economical pro- 
cedures for the advantage ef the poor and 
the miferable. I am, your's, 
JOHN RoBiNSON. 
Ravenfionedale, Dec. 10. 

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR; 
N your Magazine for July laft, you fae 
vored the public with two very Inter 
efting Jetters from the celebrated Profeffor 
Heyne to the Rev. Giibert Wakefield. 
You at the f:me time promifed to give a 
tranflation of thofe letters in an early fube 
Ag 
you have not.as yet done fo, Ihave taken 
the liberty to fend you a tranflation of 
them, which, I hope, may not be wholly 
unacceptable to fuch of your numerous 
readers 1o whom the Janguage of the ori- 
ginal may not be familiar. The judement 
of a fcholor and critic fo well known 
throughout Europe, as Profeffor Heyne, 
for his erudition and refined tafte cannot 
but afford matter for gratification, and 
even pride, not only to the profound and 
elegant fudent whofe exertions it fo ho- 
nourably extols, but likewife to a very nu- 
merous circle of liberal and cultivated 
minds throughout the kingdom, who have 
not fuffered their judgment, on fubjects 
purely of a literary nature, to be biaffed 
by confiderations fo truly mean and illibes 
val as che prejudices of party ‘politics. 
Pan, ‘Sir, °eec. 

Dec. 93 1799 A.W: 
. . ——ee-o 
Profeffer iicyne tothe Rew. Gilbert Wakefield. 
I HAVE tranfmitted to you, learned Siry 
whoie genius and’crudition have long been 
the 
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