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Forming afterwards, in the ſame manner, a cominon ſcale of the excels of the price of corn during the year in which it has been higheſt, and a common ſcale of each of the four yeárs of the ſame period in which it has been loweſt, I find the in« creaſe has been,

At London; Lyons. Paris. Thé firſt 0 295 O212 0 566 The ſecond 0726 O 718 I 537

Now, as in all counties, whoſe proſperity is progreſlive, the hardſhips on the labouring poor does not-conſift in the high price of grain, but in the variations of the price; it follows, that the workmen of London have procured more of this neceſſary of life than thoſe of Lyons, and thoſe of Lyons than thoſe of Paris. Now,as the reſpeÆive government attended more to the ſubſiſtence of Paris than of Lyons, of Lyons than of London; it follows, that in the end,-the care of the governments to procure ſubſiſtence has had effedts preciſely contrary to that which was intended.

“Forming likewiſe in the ame manner, a table of the increaſe of deaths in general, I find, that there has been more deaths at London in the years in which the corn has been loweſt, and that this increaſe has. been 0-007; but as Paris now coníitantly pre- ſents, during the five years of each period when the price has been loweſt, an increaſe of deaths, and Lyons, for the ſme years, preſents conſtantly, an increaſe of fick and dead in their Zotels Dieu, and that an event, which för a great number of’ years has ariſen from another event, ought to be regarded as the effe; when we alſo reflet on the connedion of the two efes, and can, with equal eaſe, account for the exception, Î will content myſelf with ſaying,“ let us endeavour‘to exce! that nation whoſe agriculture in every part is ſo flouriſhing, that the people are not ſenſibly afed@ed by the ſcarcity of an article of the firſt neceſlity.:

The excels of mortality in. general, is therefore, at Paris 0-119, thus, in calling 7 a certain increaſe in the price of grain, the higheſt mortality at Paris will be n-4,7 52./

In forming a like ſcale, for the increaſe of ſick and dead in the Hotel Dieu at Paris and that of Lyons, the common increaſe

will be “LAtParis. At Lyons. For Sick. For the dead. For Sick. For the dead, 6 222 O 102 0 067 O IO n n n n

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And the Formula, 2 5495

Thus, the ſame excels in the price of corn augmented at the Hotel Dieu of Paris, the ſick in a much greater pro ortion than in that at Lyons, and the number of deaths but little more, al- though the Zottel Dieu at Lyons is not ſo ſtubrious as that ac

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