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found it impossible, consistently 

 with the more pressing subjects of 

 this report, to enter at large upon 

 these topics; but they conceive, 

 and humbly suggest, that an enquiry 

 into them may be pursued with 

 advantage in a future session of 

 parliament. 



Import of Wheat in the Port of 

 London, laid on the Table of the 

 House of Lords, Jidy 10, ISOO. 



Resolulions of the Grand Jury of 

 ' the County of York, respecting 

 the Scarcity. 



York, March 15, 1800. 

 We, the grand jury of the county 

 of York, impressed with a convic- 

 tion, that at this crisis it is the duty 

 of all, not only individually but col- 

 lectively, to stand forward in the 



cause of their country, think it be- 

 coming, to offer our sentiments to 

 the public in the following resolu- 

 tions : 



Resolved, That it is melancholy 

 to observe that corn has risen twice 

 within the last five years, not only to 

 double its usual price, but to 

 double the price that, in the opi- 

 nion of the legislature, it ought to 

 bear, since there is a law to allow 

 the importation of wheat from fo- 

 reign countries, with the trifling 

 duty of 6d. per quarter, whenever 

 it rises above the price of 52*. per 

 quarter. 



Resolved, That although two 

 severe visitations, succeeding each 

 other very rapidly and recently, 

 may seem to account for the present 

 deficiency of corn, yet that a deeper 

 investigation of the subject will 

 bring forth a conviction, that even 

 the present scarcity is more truly at- 

 tributable to a general deficiency of 

 the annual produce of the country, 

 as compared with its consumption, 

 and that, in process of time, the 

 evil is likely to become worse and 

 worse. 



Resolved, That the produce of 

 grain in this countiy falling short of 

 the consumption must be more 

 strikingly evident, if we attend to 

 the importation of corn in any given 

 number of years last past, and par- 

 ticularly of the years 1794, 1795, 

 and 1 796, which, by the report of 

 the committee of waste lands, 

 amounted in value to about eight 

 millions sterling. 



Resolved, That it having been 

 stated by the privy council, so long 

 ago as the year 1 790, that the value 

 of corn imported, on an average 

 of eighteen years preceding, was 

 not even one-eighth of what it ap- 

 pears to have been since, in the years 



