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 6. How can the price of pork and poultry be reduced?

First, By letting no farms of above an hundred pounds a-year.

Secondly, By repressing luxury, either by example by laws, or both.

7. How may the price of land be reduced.

By all the methods above named, all which tend to lessen the expence of house-keeping; but especially the last, restraining luxury, which is the grand source of poverty.

8. How may the taxes be reduced?

By discharging half the national debt, and so saving at least fifteen millions a-year.

How this can be done, the wisdom of the gre council of the land can best determine.

IT is reported the whole body of Sextons, or Grave-Diggers, throughout the kingdom are preparing a petition to Parliament, praying that Temperance Societies may be put down, as any restriction laid upon the distilling of spirits would be the utter ruin of them and their families! three parts in four of those that come to their warehouses, being obliged to the distillery for their passports thither; not to mention, that the more they bury, the fewer there will remain to eat; and of course, that the free toleration and licence of making, vending, and distributing strong liquor in every part of Great Britain, is the only remedy that can possibly render provisions cheap.