... coast of France too, as long as the French East India Com-pany was in prosperity. The consumption of the porcelain of China, of thespiceries of the Moluccas, of the piece goods of Bengal, and of ... money-price of corn, and of goods in general, or, in other words, the high value of gold andsilver, as a proof, not only of the scarcity of those metals, but of the povertyand barbarism of the country ... general, or of corn inparticular, any proof of its poverty and barbarism.But though the low money price either of goods in general, or of corn585[ 3 ]in particular, be no proof of the poverty...