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of Potatoes & their use as human food increases Rapidly every day, it appears to me much better Policy to encourage the use of the Potatoe as Food in their natural State than to attempt to use them in counterfeiting any other kind of Food I have always considered Potatoes as little Rolls prepared by nature for the use of man who has only to Bake or to boil them to make them into Palatable & nutritive Food 

if my arguments are just & your Lordship feels as I do that  Mr Whalleys is an impudent attempt to impose upon Government by Calling the Starch which he has made Farina & Flour & by Proposing the use of it as food under this False appellation, I should advise that his Son be  desired to produce send the lb 12 of Farina Flour he has with him to the Board & that your Lordship refers it from thence to the Board of Excise for information whether or not it is Starch & Liable to the Duties upon that article, Their answer will be a Compleat Settler I conclude to Mr Whateleys Pretentions which I confess I hold to be more then usualy Foolish & nugatory

I Return the Papers Enclosd & with them another Letter Exaggerating as I conceive the conduct of the Sweeds towards the Iceland vessels when sent into their Ports the Real cause of Complaint however I consider as substantiated that of the Swedes [indecipherable] the sale of the corn intended for the food of the very miserable constituents how can these foolish people who cannot feed themselves wish to seize upon Norway & Starve all the Population, to I rejoice to hear that your Lordship has proposd so effectual a Remedy to the Admiralty & shall be delighted if I am Fortunate enough to hear that their Lordships have adopted the measure

 

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