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the birds or carried hig by a wavs. 
The fkin, being propex a deeffed, ferves to 
make Moke: whieh are found dibie dtir- 
able than thofe of neat’s Jeather. The fet 
is melted and reduced to oi!, which thofe 
peafants: barn in their lamps, and which 
gives a clearerlight, and latts longer, than 
olive: oil: but the fmell which i emits 
while bernins is intolerable to any perfon 
whofe olfagtory. nerves are not habituated 
to it, as tho! fe of the inhabitants of Aga- 
la.__The foring is the moft convenient 
teat fon for this {pecies of fifhery. 
For the Maathly Magazine. 
DEFENCE GF FORESTALLING. 
(Continued from page 424 of Vol. xiii.) 
CASE V. 
DIP into my file of papers, and meet 
with the cafe of Rufby. The pro 
ceedings in this cale have been fo weil 
expofed by Sir Thomas Turton, ‘that I 
fhall pafs on, with too much certainty of 
foon tumbling upon ano! her. I shall only 
obierve, that Sir Thomas has ele fome 
concefhons which he would not have made 
if he had had time to Follow, as tar as his 
principles wouls have led him, and which 
cannot fail to give a handle to the foes of 
foreftalling, ir the foes of fare 
fhould ever def ao to reafoning. But 
how feldom has Inis been done by any 
men who could Bs) loy force ! 
CASE Vi. 
«< The Sheep- market to-day would have 
been very reafonable if it had not been for 
thole horrible vermin the engroflers. They 
were very abundant, ate mutt have fold 
at a low price, if they had’ not been 
bougat up by thefe vel fs of faciety.”” 
This is the manner ta which the argu- 
ment is carried on by theadvocates of 
perfecution, The real meaning of this 
rhetoric is this:—-So great a number of 
fheep happened to be ae on a parti- 
cular day, that they muft have been folda - 
great deal under the average price of the 
markets, if thofe farmers, who had not 
capital enough to afford to drive them 
home ag and keep them till another 
market-day, had not been affitted by the 
capital of the middle-men. Letus fup- 
pole thefe middie-men thus addrefling the 
ownets of the fhecp :—-** You are obliged 
to-fell your theep for lefs taan they will 
bring at any future market, om account 
of the accidental glut ef to-day. We 
will lend you money on the fecurity of 
your fheep. Come again at a future 
time: repay the money, with intereft, 
Difince of Foreftalling. 
fralline: ° 
=“. 
fAug. 1 
and the keep of the fheep, and you fhail 
liave them again. Or, if you doubt whe-* 
ther we ave right in our-+calculation re=. 
{pecting the average price of the marketS,, 
we will give you more for your fheep than” 
the fum for which you will be obliged ta’ 
fell them to butchers who do not want 
them now, but who will buy them merely 
becauve they mu be fold} but Jes than 
we think the average price, and take our 
chance for the profit that we expcé& to 
make upon them.” The advantage of 
either of thefe modes is, that the farmer 
is no longer diftreffed by the fmailnefs of 
his capital, and the public has the benefit 
of an equad le market. If thofe * en- 
eroffers’ had not exifted, and the owners 
of the fheep had been too poor to turn en- 
groflers, the price of the fheep muft have 
fallen fo low as to tempt the butchers to 
be engroffers. Let-it not be imagined 
that the confamer would have bought 
mutton cheaper. The butchers would 
have bou ight the fheep with their own, or 
even with borrowed money, and would 
have kept them till there frould be a de- 
mand. They too would have bought om 
fveculation, but with a profpect of greater 
gain to themfelves, and Jefs to the growers 
oF the article ; sind therefore, with real: 
lifadvantage to the public, Speculators 
by profeffion are fometimes obliged to fell 
far lee: than they paid. Nobody thinks 
that the public is a ‘lofer by this. Let. 
the trade of {peculation be free, and’ the 
competition will prevent the publie from 
ever being a lofer by {peculation gaining 
too much. If the profits are ever exer- 
bitant, it 18 becaufe the trade is contra- 
band, ‘MisoRHETOR. 
et 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magaxine. 
SIR, 
i a TAT the moft ufeful and important. 
difcoveries, on their frft introduc-— 
tion, meet with oppofition from prejudice, 
interelt or-envy, is a Feet too well known > 
to require much illufration. With what 
violence and. acrimony has not even the® 
vaccine inoculation, one of the moft_ 
iniportant dilcoverics of ancient or mo- | 
cern times, been oppofed by fome men 
under the influence of one or more of 
thefe motives > Prejudiees founded-wpon- 
long habits. and, common example, wall 
not readily, yield even to, the evidence hn 
facts. Your Magazine. for June contains. . 
hs etn Ciba cal kind. . You, have: 
inderted in that number.of your dntereli~ , 
ing Mifcellany, a letter from a Gomflant 
Reader, on the fubject of the ‘New In- 
provements made in Tanning, ‘The: hse , 
pa or 
