P4 Aadiitonal Injormation. 



not hold with regard to Scotland in general. The east and north-east counties, 

 (the produce of which is chiefly grain,) though the rise of land, and the expense 

 of labour has not risen in so rapid proportion, and from the best information I 

 have been able to obtain is as follows : 



Rise on rent in 14 years last past - 80 per cent. 



Ditto ditto manures - 100 ditto. 



Ditto on wages and other expenses - 66\. 



Yet from their produce being chiefly grain, and the rise upon it being so little, I 

 believe that proportion bears heavier upon them, than the greater does upon their 

 western neighbours. They complain loudly (and I believe with great justice) of 

 the unequal proportion of the malt duty, for the quality of our barley is so much 

 inferior to the English, that it will not afford the duty ; and enable the maltster to 

 give such a price as to induce the farmer to raise that valuable crop ; and I am 

 sorry to say, that unless some relief is given, the farmer will be obliged to abandon 

 the raising of it ; even when it is found to give the same weight as English barley, 

 which is seldom the case, it does not give near the quantity of saccharine substance 

 ■which is produced from the English. 



From the annexment to the latter end, your Lordship will observe, that the poors 

 rates bear very light upon the inhabitants of this country : the following is a 

 statement of the poors-house in Glasgow, and means of support, as it stood the 

 last week in March last. 



In the charity-house, - - 400 persons. 



Children, and frail people at nurse - 393 



Families receiving support, - - 435 



The expense of this charity last year was £'4,663. 1 3s. ']d. The fund for de- 

 fraying the above institution is raised by an assessment upon the moneyed interest 

 within the royalty of the city; and the assessment varies as the need requires. No 

 person is assessed, unless his property amounts to £^300. The assessment last year 

 was 2s. 2d. per^'ioo. upon £"4,015,400, which was rather short of that expended. 



There are a great number of poor in the city of Glasgow, besides diose sup- 

 ported by this Institution ; but they are chiefly supported by collections at the 

 church doors upon the Sundays; and when that fails to support them, publick 

 collections arc raised likewise at the church doors upon the Sundays; the minister, 

 the preceding day to those public collections, making mention to the congregation 



