6 Bailey, Inaugural Address. 



of the first principles of science and the industrial arts in 

 this district was unknown and neglected. 



There are in this first volume two papers by 

 J. Wimpey, " On Economical Registers " and " On the 

 impropriety of allowing a bounty to encourage the 

 exportation of Corn." In the paper on economical registers 

 which would be called statistics now, (indeed only about 

 1833, the year in which the first Statistical Society in 

 England was founded in Manchester, had the word become 

 common), he asserts that we took no census of the 

 population at this period, indeed, it was considered 

 wicked to take a census, and only in 1801 did we count 

 our population. We did not know, said Mr. Wimpey, the 

 amount of cash circulation in the kingdom, or the state of 

 the population or its health. 



He shows the absurdity of paying four shillings the 

 quarter on all exportations of corn, especially when our 

 crops had been bad and corn was scarce for our people ; 

 he says, if we had an economical register we might 

 regulate the export of corn according to our necessities, 

 for we then exported more than we consumed, and 

 observes : " So keen is pursuit of private emolument, and 

 so ignorant and remiss is the Government, that they have 

 frequently given a bonus of fifteen per cent, to export 

 corn, when all they had in stock was very far short of 

 being sufificient to support their own people until the next 

 harvest." With indignation he says, "The Dutch by 

 buying this corn and sending it back had made millions 

 of money out of foolish England." He further proceeds 

 to say, " that our legislators have been very fruitful in the 

 invention of penal laws ; but in the measures of pre- 

 vention, which are infinitely more salutary, they are 

 either very inattentive or very barren." 



He incidentally alludes to the unemployed and ne'er- 



