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the arts of war it has had few 
equals: in commerce and manu- 
facturing industry, it bas gone be- 
yond all competition: in every 
branch of learning it has produced 
individuals who can rival the proud- 
est names that antiquity can exhi- 
bit: and 2f, im addition to those 
other sources of fame and crecit, it 
can bring agriculture, and the useful 
arts connected with it, to perfection 
Qwhich by the exertions of this 
board can hardly fail to be speedily 
accomplished) where is the nation 
that will be able to make a more 
distinguished figure in the page of 
history.” 
Abstract of Minutes of the Evidence 
taken before the Committee of 
Council appointed for the Conside- 
ration of all Matters relating to 
Trade, and foreign Plantations, 
an Respect to the Stock of Grainin 
this Country, and its Price subse- 
guent to the Harvest of 1794, and 
respecting the Produce of the Har- 
vest of the present Year ; the pre- 
sent and probable Price of Grain 
an this Country till the ensuing 
Harvest ; and the Mcans of pro- 
curing a Supply to. make good the 
Deficiency m the Produce of this 
Country ; with other Proceedings 
thereupon, from Jan. 3151795, to 
Aug. 0, 1795 ; and of the Evidence 
before the Lords of the Prvwy Goun- 
cil to the like Effect, from. April 
27, 1795, to Notember 5, 1795. 
HE result of various inquiries 
was an opinion that the crop 
of 1794 was very defective, and not 
likely to be sufficient for the usual 
consumption; that a supply was 
purchased at Dantzic ; and that 
private merchants would speculate 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1795, 
in purebases, which would depend 
on the relative prices in the mar- 
kets abroad and in England in the 
Spring, where those purchasers 
would be destined. The crops in 
America were too short, and the 
price too high, to bring it to Eng. 
land, though the French orders were 
not limited to quality or price. The 
last crop in Canada was plentiful 
and good, and might be looked for 
in July, and from the Baltic in May. 
Spain and Portugal had scanty 
harvests ; the latter no grain to 
spare. In Sicily crops had failed, 
and exportation was prohibited, 
Nothing was to be had in time from 
Egypt or Turkey. The rise of ‘the 
price of wheat in London was gra 
dua], owing to the exhausted stocks 
of wheat and flour in the hands of 
the millers and dealers at harvest- 
time, and additional buyers in Lon- 
don. The frost raised flour 2s.a 
sack, and, if it continued, would 
cause a farther rise, to erable the 
millers to supply London by lands 
carriage. Leaving more bran, &c. 
in the flour would increase the 
quantity of bread, but make it less 
nutritive. Mr. Arthur Young stated 
the last crop deficient not full one» 
filth below the average of ten years ; 
soit was 1788; worse 1789; yet 
the prices of that crop till harvest 
1790, did not amount, on an average 
throughout the kingdom, to more 
than 7s. abushel. He thought im- 
portation bore no proportion to the 
want; and that the Albion-mills had 
reduced the price of flour. Mr. 
Sheredine, the king’s baker and pur- 
veyor of bread, thought that the in- 
erease of one penny on the quartern 
loaf of household would give a profit 
to the baker, and make it preferred, 
By Governor Pownall’s -bill, the 
assize was set low, and there was no 
bread 
