great dispatch, who will complete a cargoe of 500 

 quarters in about three or four hours. It is seen by 

 Table, No. 19, in the Appendix, that within the last 

 five or six years the whole quantity that has been 

 brought down has been diminishing; but I was told 

 that no sensible decrease had been observed in the 

 number of the separate bulks, only that each bulk, or 

 the growth of each estate, or of each consignor, was 

 smaller. 



The trade in Wheat from Poland and Prussia, 

 through Dantzic, is said to have been attended with 

 most ruinous losses to all the persons who have been 

 engaged in it. The growers asserted that none for 

 the last eight or nine years had yielded sufficient to 

 cover the expenses of cultivation, and that it has 

 been regularly getting worse and worse ever since the 

 year 1818. 



The Jews, who have taken the crops from the 

 growers, have found the decline of the prices such, 

 that if they sold on their arrival at Dantzic, it was 

 attended with loss ; and if they were in a condition 

 to withhold from selling, and placed it in warehouses, 

 the loss was eventually much greater. The trade of 

 Dantzic, which is chiefly confined to Corn, has been 

 for several years in a very distressed state. The 

 commodity in which the traders have dealt, has of 

 late so vastly declined in value, that what was 

 purchased cheap at one period, became in a short 

 time dear ; the advances they made on what was 

 consigned to them for sale, with the expense of 

 conveyance, and of storing and preserving, soon 

 amounted to more than the value of the Wheat ; 

 and the consignors, in Poland, seldom united the 

 ability and the disposition to make payments to 

 indemnify them. 



The Corn now in the warehouses has cost the 

 merchants much more than the present value. The 

 royal bank of Prussia, which has branches in the 



