You must tell your desires to the General.

_He_ has disposed of your vintage.
-- But what do you propose to do with this poor hogshead, the flower of my flock?
Come, taste this wine.

How mellow, delicate, velvety it is! -- Excellent, delicious! It will suit D----, the cloth manufacturer, admirably.
-- D----, the manufacturer! What do you mean?
-- That he will make a good bargain out of it.
-- How?
What is that?
I do not understand you.
-- Do you not know that D---- has started a magnificent establishment very useful to the country, but which loses much money every year?
-- I am very sorry.

But what can I do to help him?
-- The Legislature saw that if things went on thus, D---- would either have to do a better business or close his manufactory.
-- But what connection is there between D----'s bad speculations and my hogshead?
-- The Chamber thought that if it gave D---- a little wine from your cellar, a few bushels of grain taken from your neighbors, and a few pennies cut from the wages of the workingmen, his losses would change into profits.
-- This recipe is as infallible as it is ingenious.

But it is shockingly unjust.