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I think, generally, the fupply will be moderate ; the 

 crops in general abroad have not been very productive ; 

 and, in fome parts, where we ulually look for fupplies, 

 the exportation has lately been prohibited. Our princi- 

 pal fource of fupply may be looked for, this year, from the 

 Baltic, and chiefly from Poland ; for the produce of the 

 harvelt, in the PrufTian provinces bordering on the Baltic, 

 has been unufually bad, and the quality very light and 

 inferior. The King of Pruflia has already prohibited 

 the export of all other grain but wheat ; and it is ap- 

 prehended, that prohibition may be extended to wheat, 

 particularly in the event of a further advance in the prices 

 in Great Britain, which might create an alarm in thofe 

 countries. Some quantity of wheat may alfo be expect- 

 ed from Ruffia, but I have no means of afcertaining 

 ■ how much. The exportation of corn is ftriclly prohibit- 

 ed from Holland, Flanders, and France. By very recent 

 information from Havre de Grace, I am informed, that 

 the crop of wheat in France is one third lefs than the 

 preceding year ; the prices one third higher : but, com- 

 pared to the price in other countries, they are very low. 

 With refpeft to America, by the laft advices, which 

 came ycfterday, dated Philadelphia, 25th December laft, 

 and by previous advices, the produce of the crop in 

 America, laft year, exceeds that of any year for the laft 

 feven years ; but far fliort of wliat has been the produce 

 preceding th.at period : the reafon is, the devaftation 

 committed by the Heffian Fly, which has difcouragcd 

 the growth of wheat. The prices of fiour, including all 

 charges of freight, &c. would ft and in about 903. per 

 lack ; and of wheat, about 1 00s. per quarter. I under- 

 ftand, likewife, that a quantity may be expefted from 

 Ciuiada ; but I have no information what quantity, or at 

 what prices. 



Do vou conceive that there are any means, and what 

 are they, of economizing the quantity of wheat now in 

 the country ? 



From the opinions I have collected from all perfons 

 concerned in the corn trade, and which coincide with 

 my own, I do not know any better means of economiz- 

 ing the confumption of M'lieat, than by recommending 

 to the public not to eat any bread until it has been baked 

 a certain number of hours. 



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