33^ Report of the Committee on the Corn Trade, Aug.. 



Great Britain ought to be governed, and that the export from each dif- 

 trift fhoiild continue to be governed as it now is, by the regulations of 

 that a£l ; and that the dutie3 payable on foreign com imported into any 

 diftri£l where the average price thereof is below the aggregate average 

 price of the twelve and of the four diftrifts refpe6lively, fliould be 

 governed by the average price of fuch diftritft, purfuant to the annexed 

 tables, and afcertuined by the a6l of 1 791. 



Your Committee have been induced to make an alteration in the pro* 

 portion of the export prices of barley, from its being fubjeft to increaf. 

 ed taxation, from which other grains have been exempt ; and further 

 ftate, that it appears to them, that there has been a balance in favour 

 of barley for the lall thirty-four years, while the balance has been io 

 favour of tlie importation of wheat and oats. From this circumflance, 

 your Committee have drawn the conclufion, that that immediate relief 

 "will not be afforded to the growers of barley, which it is conceived the 

 growers of wheat will receive, by the alterations in the importation table. 



The oV)jeft of your Committee, in fixing the price at which the ports 

 (hall be opened for the general importation of corn fo much higher than 

 the price at which it is permitted to be exported, is to encourage the 

 furplus of one diftriA to be fent for the fupply of another in want of 

 it, that the import into one part of the kingdom, and the export from 

 another at the fame time, may thereby be checked, and the prices 

 throughout the kingdom be made more equal. 



With this view, your Committee recommend the adoption of mea<- 

 fures calculated to promote the intereds of the grower, conceiving that 

 a due encouragement to agriculture is the beft and moft efFc(5lual mode 

 of enfuring to the confumer an ade<juate and regular fupply, at a 

 reafonable rate, as well as of obviating thofe frequent fluctuations- 

 in price fo injurious both to the grower and the pubhc ; and alfo in 

 future to fecure to this- country, as far as poffible, the advantage of 

 fuch enormous fums, as your Committee find, have exceeded thirty 

 millions in the laft thirteen years, which fums, employed in the pur- 

 chafe of corn abroad, cannot fail to have operated as a bounty upon 

 the agriculture of foreign countries, to the detriment of our own ; 

 whereas it appears by the corn returns, that in the courfe of years, 

 when the regulations were moft favourable to the growers, and when 

 the leaft check was put upon the trade, the export of corn from this 

 kingdom, for more than fixty years in fucce/Tion, produced annually 

 fix or feven hundred thoufand pounds, leaving bclides, at a regular and 

 moderate price, an ample fufficiency for the home confumption. 



Table (A), fhewing the Prices to which the fcale of Bounty is to attach on the 

 Export of Corn, Ground Corn, Flour or Meal, Malt, Sec; and the Prices at 

 . which the Exportation is prohibited. 



"WHEAT, when exported to any fnrei^'n J RYE. 



country, s. d. 



If at or vM^dcr 48s. y>. qr — hcunty 5 o 

 Jl a' ovr 48s. and not excccdingja 

 . •—do. - - a 6 



!l uuovc J 2s. no export allowable. 



s. d 



If at or under 3is. />. qr. — bounty 3 o 

 If above 32s. and not exceeding 34s. 



— do. ' - 16 



If ab«ve 3-4S. no export allowable. 



