5080. MARKETS, French.—[further continued] .
I very much fear that
France will experience a famine this summer.
The effects of this admit of no calculation.
Grain is the thing for us now to cultivate.
The demand will be immense, and the price
high. I think cases were shown us that to sell
it before the spring is an immense sacrifice. I
fear we shall experience a want of vessels
to carry our produce to Europe. In this case
the tobacco will be left, because bread is more
essential to them.—
To T. M. Randolph.
Ford ed., vi, 241.
(Pa.,
May. 1793)
