14 Decr 1801

Maximum

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for this admission, I am more than half inclined to demand another – {viz: that

with an ordinary measure of attention – with that measure of attention which no

reasonable and candid observer can expect to find wanting either on the part

either of Administration or of Parliament,} it would in such a case be little,

if at all, less easy to avoid making one.

Look at the name only and no deeper famine stares you in the face: look a hairs

breadth deeper – the danger vanishes.

As for example suppose the price reduced by a maximum to whatever mark it is

proposed to redeem it by importation – where in that case is the famine?

Importation, it is true, encreases quantity, and in that way lowers price,

whereas a maximum would if successful[?] reduce price without encrease of

quantity. True: but on the other hand encrease of price it is equally well known

is out of all proportion to deficiency of quantity: - but of this a little

further on.