USEFUL PROLTECTS: 
theré is reason to hope the stock, 
with the foreign supply, will last till. 
harvest ; that exportation was pro- 
hibited ; and that the magistrates 
must do their duty ; and troops were 
ordered to protect the free circula- 
tion. 6000 quarters were put up to 
sale in the London market, and 
7000 Monday, July 27. The 
weekly consumption of flour at 
Norwich is from 600 to 700 sacks. 
Some places were supplied by prize- 
ships brougut into the nearest port ; 
others from London. 
August 5, the whole quantity of 
wheat in England, undisposed of, 
was 24,760 quarters.—Aug. 12, 
18,450.—Aug. 19, 13,720. —Aug. 
26, 15,450, Sept. 2, 225430: 4_No 
return till Oct. 3, 33,200, and ex- 
ported from the Baltic, 46,000.— 
Oct. 17, 22,600.—Oct. 21,.31,000. 
Oct. 28, 9,330.—Oct. 31, Canada 
wheat sold from 72 to 77s. per 
quarter. 
At Workington and Whitehaven 
the people were perfectly satisfied 
with bread made of barley and rye. 
Fifty-six ships were sent to Quebec, 
ef which only 28 arrived at different 
ports in England, and the obtaining 
the farther quantity was very doubt. 
ful, in consequence of the immense 
demand for flour in Newfoundland, 
and for his majesty’s service’ in 
Nova Scotia and the West Indies. 
What arrived was the greatest part 
heated, from being shipped in hot 
weather; butit would probably reco- 
ver, The demand for foreign wheat 
increasing, Mr. Claude Scott, the 
agent for government, was ordered, 
Oct. 1, to sell in each week in that 
month, in the London Markets 5000 
quarters, taking care to diminish in 
proportion to the quantity of British 
wheat brought in. A bill was pre- 
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paring in October, to prohibit mak~ 
ing starch from wheat, and for per= © 
mitting the importation of starch at 
a duty, not exceeding the inland 
duty, now payable on starch made 
within the kingdom. Free export- 
ation of wheat permitted at Dante 
zic, and the price declining. Mr. 
Scott applied for a greater supply 
for the London market, the demand 
being so pressing that country mils 
lers came 60 miles forit: ‘* The 
price of wheat remained very high 
. in Holland,as the purchasers for that 
market did not enjoy the saine de- 
gree of confidence for the present 
as the English. The French Con- 
vention was making very liberal 
proposals to contract for quantities 
to any extent, to be delivered in 
France ; whence it was to be in- 
ferred, that the crops in France had 
not turned out so well as would ap- 
pear from the accounts in the news- 
papers ; but it was not e be sup- 
posed that any body would enter in- 
to a direct contract with the Con- 
vention, as payment might be subject 
to such delays and altercation, &c.” 
Extract of a letter from Dantzic, 
Sept. 15, 1795.—Messrs. Helicars, 
in a letter from Bristol, to lord 
Hawkesbury, Oct. 8, 1795, ob- 
serve, that *¢ the consequence of the 
late scarcity would have been more 
serious, had not the calamity been 
relieved by the foreign importation 
on gover snment account ; 3 a specula- 
tion truly justifiable, because the 
principle, we presumey arose from 
the conduct of that nation we are 
at war with; for, it isa fair inference, 
that no individual merchant can or 
would risk his property in a trade 
wherein he had to meet the agents 
of a nation, the support of whose 
cbimerical constitution depends on 
[*G 4] a supply 
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