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( 28 ) of all other commodities, advanced: you have, I make no doubt, already felt it to your cost, and you will, I am persuaded, feel it still more severely for the future. Your constituents, I assure you, at least the poorer part of them, will not easily forgive you that sarcastic expression where you say, that they are better fed than taught, which, in good faith, Sir, is far from being the case; as I am credibly informed they will endeavour to convince you at the entertainment you must give them at the ensuing election, when they will shew you, they say, and shew you with a witness, that, notwithstanding your confident assertion to the contrary, they are worse fed than taught, and that however empty their heads may be, their bellies are still more empty.

How far this plan of public œconomy may be carried, or into what various departments of the state it may with propriety be introduced, I will not now take upon me to determine; but as you, Sir, have taken the