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And though the bounty which has taken place through the greater

part of this century, must always raise the price of corn

somewhat higher than it otherwise would be in the actual state of

tillage; yet, as in the course of this century, the bounty has

had full time to produce all the good effects commonly imputed to

it to encourage tillage, and thereby to increase the quantity of

corn in the home market, it may, upon the principles of a system

which I shall explain and examine hereafter, be supposed to have

done something to lower the price of that commodity the one way,

as well as to raise it the other. It is by many people supposed

to have done more. In the sixty-four years of the present

century, accordingly, the average price of the quarter of nine

bushels of the best wheat, at Windsor market, appears, by the

accounts of Eton college, to have been £ 2:0:6 ¹⁰⁄₃₂, which is

about ten shillings and sixpence, or more than five-and-twenty

percent.