Accounts of the quantities of Corn in store at 

 Memel could not be procured ; and in the ahsence of 

 better means of forming an opinion, I have compared 

 the trade of exporting Corn at Memel, with that at 

 Elbing, and find that in a series of years the exports 

 of Wheat and Rye together, from the latter port, 

 have been about double that at the former. I 

 scarcely know if it be fair to infer, that the accumu- 

 lated stock bears the same proportion to the annual 

 returns. If so the stock on hand must be but small. 



I can only judge of the stocks accumulated in 

 Riga and Petersburgh, by comparing their trade in 

 Wheat, for a series of years, with that of Dantzic 

 and Elbing. The exports have not been larger than 

 those of Elbing, and it is probable their stocks 

 together do not exceed those of that port. In the 

 absence of all definite information, and trusting to 

 the reports I received, I should be disposed to think, 

 that in the three ports of Memel, Riga, and Peters- 

 burgh, there were not 100,000 quarters of Wheat, in 

 August, when I was at Dantzic. 



The state of the stock of Corn at Lubeck, with 

 the Prices for the last Eleven Years, are shown in 

 the Appendix, No. 33. It appears that the Wheat 

 in store there was 29,900 quarters. 



Some small stocks may have been collected from 

 the territories of the Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin, 

 and accumulated in the ports of Rostock and Wismar. 

 I have no information of the quantity, but should not 

 be disposed to judge, from the general trade of those 

 places, that more than a few thousand quarters were 

 to be found in them. The greater part of the surplus 

 Corn of Mecklenburg finds a vent by Hamburgh, and 

 is included in the Imports, from the interior, of that 

 city. The access to the Elbe from all the southern 

 ports of the Duchy, is easier than to the Baltic ; the 

 freights from thence to foreign markets is lower, and 

 the passage shorter. It is, in fact, only from the 



