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Letter XII. Checks on the Contractor.
ing else. This they shall be certain of having, and what is of full as
much consequence, every body else that pleases shall be certain of
their having it. My Brethren of the would=be=reforming tribe m
go and look at it at the Bakers: they may weigh it, if they will
and buy bring it, and carry it home, and give it to their children or their
pigs. It shall be dealt out by sound of trumpet, if you please:
and Christian starers may amuse themselves with seeing bad
bread dealt out to felons, as Christian Ambassadors are entertained
withe with the sight of bags of bad money counted out to
Janissaries. The latter wonder I saw: the other I assure you, would
give me much more pleasure.
With this saving clause, I deliver them over to the
extortioner, and let him make the most of them. Let him sell porter
at the price of port: and "humble port" at the price of "imperial tokay": his
customers might grumble, but I don't think you would, and I
am sure I should not; for it is for that they were put there. Never fear
his being so much his own enemy, as to stand out for a price which
no body will give.
In the next place I don't know that I should be
for allowing him the power of beating his boarders, nor in short of
punishing them in any shape. Any where else, such an exemption
must have been visionary and impracticable. Without either punishment,
or interest given him in the profits of his labour, and an interest
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