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is "given before, as calculated on the data furnished 

 by President Rothe. 



Without placing much reliance on it, yet some 

 corroboration is received, by the market prices of 

 Berlin, for the last eleven years, where the average 

 price of the best Polish Wheat has been 36,$. 6d. 

 or about ten per cent, higher than the average of 

 Dantzic, for the thirty years to which we have re- 

 ferred. This may be accounted for, partly by the 

 quality of the Wheat, and partly from the additional 

 conveyance, and consequent expenses. The Returns 

 from Berlin, taken on St. Martin's day, in each year 

 from 1774 to 1824, (for which, see Appendix, No. 

 17,) give, as the average price for the fifty years, 34s. 

 6V/. As the best of the Wheat is probably brought 

 to the capital, some allowance must be made for the 

 superior quality, and also something for the profit of 

 the dealers through whose hands it has passed. 

 This will bring it sufficiently near to the price here 

 assumed, to give probability to the calculation. 



Although, since the return of peace, no alleviation 

 of the public contributions has been applied, and 

 no diminution of the other subjects of expenditure 

 which compose the cost of growing Corn, has been 

 experienced, yet the contrast between the first and 

 last five years since that event took place, in the 

 prices of Corn, is so striking, that it deserves to be 

 noticed. In Dantzic, the average of the five years, 

 from 1816 to 1820 inclusive, gives for Wheat 54s. 

 5d. per quarter, and that for the years 1821 to 1825 

 inclusive, 26s. 2d. In Berlin the average for the 

 first five years, is 46s. 4d. and for the second 26s. 7d. 



THE far greater part of that division of ancient 

 Poland, which is now comprehended in the viceregal 

 kingdom of that name, is a level country, with 

 scarcely an ascent or descent, except where the 



