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It sinks, too, the wages of the workmen employed in preparing

such commodities, for which all demand is stopped for six months,

perhaps for a twelvemonth. The market is here overstocked both

with commodities and with labour.

But though the market price of every particular commodity is in

this manner continually gravitating, if one may say so, towards

the natural price; yet sometimes particular accidents, sometimes

natural causes, and sometimes particular regulations of policy,

may, in many commodities, keep up the market price, for a long

time together, a good deal above the natural price.