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rage prices of corn, publifhed by authority of parlia- 
ment,” according to which, the permifsion to the sub- 
jects of this free country to eat bread, is given or 
withheld. To observethese errours, and to pronounce 
that they are a disgrace to those that commit them, 
and to the parliament, whose children they are, that 
overlooks them, requires only that any person of - 
common sense, fhould look at the publication above 
cited; but to save youand your readers that trouble, 
I hall only quote the following : 
Average prices for the week ended April 28. 1792, 
of oat meal per boll of 140 1b. avoirdupois. 
At Hexham 28 s. 8d. Berwick on Tweed 11s. 9 d. 
—both'in Northumberland ; from whence the average 
price of that county is made to be 20s. 2d. these 
being the only returns inserted of the price of oat meal 
for that county. 
These two towns are about sixty miles distant ; 
would it not be a good trade to buy meal at the one 
for 11s. gd. and carry it to the other, and sell it for 
28s. 8d. per boll, same weight ? 
‘* How can we such absurdities endure !” 
Iam your reader, A TRADER*. 
* In addition to the above let me add that the average prices of oat 
meal, by the~ boll of 140lb. (precisely the Scotch boll of eight stone 
sweight) is, at the following places, for the returns of the same week, as 
follow, Westmoreland 14s. 7d. and in Herefordfhire 55s. 2d. in Lan- 
caster 14.8. 11d. and in Salop sos. 11d. in Chester 15s. 1d. and in 
Bedfordfhire 50s. 7d. at Berwick in Northumberland and at Ro/s in Here- 
fordfhire, no lefs than 62s. 6d.!!! 
It is not my businefs to inquire whence these errors arise; but it is a 
matter of too serious importance to sport with the lives of the people, se-» 
yeral millions of whom depend upon oat meal for their principal subsis- 
tence, not to take notice that these.errors ought to be inquired into, and 
instantly corrected, Edit. 
