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ADVERTISEMENT.

THE Author of these papers has but one motive in printing, which is that of convincing the people, that the evil they suffer at present, 1s to be attributed only to the unfavourable seasons; and conse- quently that there is every reason for sub- mitting with patience to the will of Hea- ven. The Kingdom in general was well impressed with this idea, till certain persons attempted to prove that the scarcity was not real; that the deficiency was small; and the stock in hand last harvest large; manifestly, though perhaps not intentional-

_ly, implying that the high price was un- just, and therefore might be easily reme-

died. The Writer immediately saw the fatal tendency of any such assertions, and took every means to procure better in- formation than what he before possessed 3 and the event has been to confirm him in opinion, that those persons were not only

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