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the kingdom to 4l. per quarter, and so long as it remained at or above that price, the Company should sell rice in hundred weights, to all persons

demanding, at 258. per hundred weight, or any

MIG: O8 Do. other price which shall on an average of years be nce 5 and adequate., the King- The next measure I shall propose, 1s not a law, habituate but a regulation in the mode of inquiry, whenever ying thetr Government or the Legislature wanted infor- aned from mation relative to scarcities, real or imaginary. present,— Examinations by a Committee of either House would af- of Parliament, with reports made public to the ions ster- world, are perhaps the worst means that could be to pro- used; nig this results first from the great import- ese. the ance of alegislative body; and secondly, from the necessity of f publishing the result, be it what it d; the may—what 1s communicated to 500 individuals, The as published, whether in print or in manuscript. ice to be Interested men, who speak to a Committee com- ntroduc- posed of persons who have the power to make fect the laws that shall materially affect their employments en dear, or trades, are not likely to forget their own in- Some- terest, which lessens the dependance that is to be and the placed in their evidence; and the weaknesses, inducing prejudices, or errors of others, may equally tend. ‘ies; aS to impress mistaken ideas.‘The very importance 1 direct, of the body before whom individuals are called, verage of creates these and other sources of error; and making public the particulars of the examinations,

may either spread a false alarm, or an equally pernicious.security.

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