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tity of grain in feeding their swine 

 and cattle, which, perhaps, would 

 not fall very far short of that which 

 would in the first instance be con- 

 sumed in the distilleries ; and your 

 committee cannot avoid observing, 

 that in either of these cases the price 

 of meat must be expected to rise 

 considerably, so as very materially 

 to affect the lower orders of the peo- 

 ple, who are now deriving extensive 

 relief in the metropolis, and in many 

 parts of the country, from the esta- 

 blishment of soup-shops, and to bear 

 with still greater pressure upon those 

 classes of the community which are 

 immediately above them. 



Your committee have purposely 

 avoided stating the effect which the 

 stopping of the distillery might pro- 

 duce on the revenue, being anxious 

 that no consideration of revenue 

 should interfere, provided the ex- 

 pected relief could really be obtain- 

 ed ; but Avhen they consider how 

 small would be the quantity, and 

 how inferior the quality of the bar- 

 ley that could be saved, and the 

 eflect likely to be produced on the 

 prices of other articles, and the 

 course of other trades, they cannot 

 see any advantage that would result 

 fromit sufficient to justify your com- 

 mittee in recommending it to the 

 house. 



Your committee have omitted to 

 subjoin any proposal for prohibiting 

 the use of wheat in the manufacture 

 of starch, conceiving it to be a very 

 inconsiderable object ; and being 

 far thwT informed that measures have 

 been taken to procure a supply of 

 this article by importation from 

 abroad, and that the principal ma- 

 nufacturers have voluntarily relin- 

 quished the use of it. They, how- 

 ever, think, that, injustice to them, 



the disuse should be made general 

 by a prohibition. 



Your committee have great satis- 

 faction in stating, that the measure 

 adopted by the legislature, for pro- 

 hibiting the sale of any bread which 

 had not been baked twenty-four 

 hours, has already produced the most 

 beneficial effects. By the declara- 

 tion of the master, wardens, and 

 court of assistants of the company 

 of bakers, annexed to this report, 

 it appears that the consumption of 

 bread in the metropolis is reduced, 

 in consequence of it, at least one 

 sixth part. 



First Report of the Committee of 

 the House of Commons, on the 

 present Scarcilij of Corn. 



The committee appointed to con- 

 sider of the present high piice of 

 provisions, and\o whom so much of 

 his majesty's most gracious speech 

 from the throne, to both houses of 

 parliament, as relates thereto, and 

 also, the several petitions presented 

 to the house, complaining of the 

 high price of provisions, were re- 

 ferred : — 



Have, in proceeding to the con- 

 sideration of the important and ex- 

 tensive subject referred to them, 

 thought it their duty to direct their 

 attention, in the first instance, to 

 such measures as might be proposed, 

 for alleviating, as speedily as pos- 

 sible, the present pressure; without 

 entering at this moment into a de- 

 tailed inquiry respecting the various 

 causes which may have concurred in 

 producing it. Your committee con- 

 ceive that, l)y so doing, they shall 

 best execute the intentions of the 

 house, which has already shewn, by 



