7T4 Report f>f the Committee on the Corn Trade* A'ilgJ 



grain in a manufactured flate, on a more liberal plan ? Spirits^ 

 ftrong ale, ftarch, fplit-pens, meal and flour, pot-barley, and every 

 other produ(Q: of prain, appear to be entitled to encouragement 

 for exportation. "VVliat a fource of valirable labour, improving 

 cultivation, and advantageous commerce, would this export trade 

 afford us ? What a valuaVrle additional fecurity againft want and 

 dependence, and what an extended IHmulus to the ample pro- 

 duction of corn ? The diifjcukies in the way are great ; yet we 

 iruft the patriotiiVn, genius, and fpirit of the country, may be able 

 to Uirmount them, and to fave a drainage of treafure, which no 

 other nation but Britain could have afforded, and to which, after 

 thirteen years experience, all agree that it 'is neceflary to put an 

 end. 



Kirkpatrich Matiffy 1804. Wm. SiNGERS. 



Report from the Committee on Rtcommhted Report ref^^taing the Corn Trade^ 

 Ordered ta he printed i i^th June 1804. 



The Committee, to whom the Report was recommitted, which was 

 made from the Committee who were appointed to confider of fo much 

 of the feveral petitions of land-owneis, barley-growers, maltflers, and 

 rf^thers, ill the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Stafford, Warwick, Effex, 

 and Lincoln, which were prefented to the Houfe upon the 15th and 

 •29th days €)f February, and the 28th and 29th days of March lafl, a$ 

 relates to an aA paffed in tlie 3ifl: year of his prefent Majelly, for re- 

 gulating tlie importaric-n and exportation of corn, and the payment of 

 the duty on foreign corn imported,- and of the bounty on Britiih corn 

 exported, and to report the liame, with their obfervations thereupon, to 

 the Houfe ; and to whom the feveral accounts and papers, which have 

 been prefented to the Houfe in the prefent SefTion of Parliament, refpeft- 

 ing core, grain, and malt, were refcn-cd ;, — Have, in purfuance of the 

 inttrudions which they received,, proceeedcd to examine the ad of the 

 3111 of the King, and to take, from the befl information they could 

 obtain, a comparative view of the price of labour, and of the unavoid- 

 ahle txpences incident to the grower, in the year 1 791, and at this 

 time, as the bcft criterion by which they might judge of what ought 

 to be the price of the different fpecies of grain, allowing to the grower 

 fuch a fair and reafonable profit a^. may induce him to purfue that line 

 of hufbandry which will the mofl contribute to the produdion of fuch 

 an ample fupply of the different kinds of corn and gi-ain, as may be 

 fufficient for our confumption. This fupply caimot be expected with* 

 out a confiderable furplus, in plentiful years, above the demand of the 

 home market : it therefore becomes delireabk, that the grower fhould 

 have fuch a ready fale for that furplus by exportation, and bounty if 

 requifite, as may remove all apprehenfion of his not being able to ob- 

 tain, from a glut of the commodity at the home market, fuch a price 

 for that furplus as will afford him an equitable profit on his labour, in- 

 duflry, and capital, employed in its production. Is appears, then, to 

 your Committee, that the furefl m.pde by which an ample fupply can be 



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