3 



live to see it : let him not be overwhelmed with 

 present evils ; he is as willing to pay, and as 

 well prepared to pay in produce as ever. Appor- 

 tion then the demands" to the means ; let receipts 

 and payments be made in the same measure, and 

 confidence and comfort will be restored, and 

 again exhibited and enjoyed. 



The price of wheat has been before held to 

 be the just criterion and standard of relative and 

 general value ; let it again be acknowledged to 

 be so. The object, then, which ought first to ar- 

 rest our attention, is the present, and probably 

 future value of that grain. 



The average price of wheat stated in the 

 Gazette of Saturday, 12th January last, as 

 founded upon the returns of wheat sold in all 

 England and Wales, in the week ending on the 

 preceding Saturday the 5th, was 45s. 1 1 d. That 

 we may fairly regard this as the minimum of 

 price to which our attention is likely to be di- 

 rected, is reasonably to be inferred, from the con- 

 sideration, that the supply of grain brought to 

 market for many weeks previously had not 

 borne relation to the wants of the consumers, 

 but to the necessities of the growers ; necessities, 

 which in ordinary times have always called for 

 the sale of an undue proportion of produce at 

 this period of the year; but which in the present 



B 2 



