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Importation of wheat from 



Canada - - - - 30,000 

 Rice - - equivalent to 630,000 

 Stoppage of starch manu- 

 factory 40,000 



Stoppage of distilleries - 360,000 

 Use of coarse meal - - 400;000 

 Retrenchment - - - 300,000 



2,510,000 



In this enumeration no credit is 

 taken for any quantity of barley 

 which may be imported, exceed- 

 ing the usual importation of 50,000 

 quarters, (although more than 

 60,000 quarters are already ar- 

 rived; for such proportion of the 

 crop of barley as may be trans- 

 ferred to the use of the consumers 

 of wheat; for any importation of 

 Indian corn ; for any retrenchment 

 in the article of oats; for the re- 

 duction of consumption by the use 

 of stale bread; nor for the great 

 supplies to be expected from the 

 fisheries. 



It will alsobeobserved, that your 

 committee have taken no credit, 

 in the preceding statement, for 

 any farther importation of wheat 

 from the continent of Europe. 

 They see, however, no ground for 

 departing from the opinion ex- 

 pressed in their first report, that, as 

 far as depends upon the exertions 

 of individual merchants, both Bri- 

 tish andforeign, the supply of wheat 

 to be drawn from thence may equal 

 that of last year, and that the crops 

 of barley and oats may furnish more 

 than they did during that period ; 

 and the quantity already imported 

 afibrds a strong confirmation of this 

 opinion. What circumstances, of 

 a difi'erent nature, may interfere 

 with the effect of those exertions, 

 it is not within the province of your 



committee to consider : but, sup- 

 posing the supply from those quar- 

 ters to be, from any causes, dimi- 

 nished or suspended, or even (which 

 seems under any circumstances im- 

 possible ) completely stopped ; yet 

 your comraitteehave the satisfaction 

 of being persuaded, that the re- 

 sources enumerated in the preced- 

 ing statement are adequate, upon a 

 moderate calculation, to furnish a 

 sufficient supply for that period to 

 which your committee has consi- 

 dered them as applicable, and to 

 relieve, by their gradual operation , 

 the present exigency. Whatever 

 may be drawn from the continent 

 of Europe is an addition to those 

 resources, certainly important, but 

 by no means of absolute necessity, 

 and, together with the great quan- 

 tity of rice which may be expected 

 from the East Indies subsequent to 

 the next harvest, may be considered 

 as supplying not our immediate 

 wants, but that diminution of the 

 ordinary stock of the country which 

 took place previous to the harvest 

 of 1801, in consequence of the 

 great deficiency of the preceding 

 year; a diminution, which is one 

 of the main causes of the present 

 insufficient supply and high prices, 

 and which must retard in its con- 

 sequences, (whatever may be the 

 abundance of the next harvest,) 

 the return of cheapness and of 

 plenty. 



Your committee think it, how- 

 ever, highly important to observe, 

 that although the resources above 

 mentioned, if fully brought forward, 

 appear adequate to produce the ef- 

 fects wliich they look to with hope 

 and expectation; yet a large pro- 

 portion of them depends upon the 

 voluntary exertions of the people, 

 and they can be rendered effectual 



