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average. In both the statements of tlie expends of 

 conveyance, the rate of freight on the river Vistula 

 to Dantzic, as well as that by sea from Dantzic to 

 London, is stated at the present price, when there 

 are scarcely any operations of that kind carrying on. 

 During the demand of 1802, 1803, and 1804, and in 

 1817, I have been told the freight from beyond 

 Vv'arsaw was 10*. per quarter, and that from Dantzic 

 to London was, including primage and insurance, 

 from 11*. 6d. to 12A-. 



If, fr*"n any circumstances, a demand should be 

 created for as much Wheat as is consumed in 

 England in six days, it would raise the price of 

 freightage on the river, probably thirty or forty per 

 cent, and half of that proportion in the sea freight 

 from Dantzic to this country. If that demand 

 should extend to twelve days' supply, it would ex- 

 haust the whole stock of Wheat, fit for our market, 

 and cause it to advance in a much greater degree 

 than the shipping of such a limited quantity in any 

 former period has witnessed. 



In stating the several expenses incurred in the 

 conveyance of Wheat from Warsaw tcr Dantzic at 

 10*. 6(7. per quarter, and from Cracow to Dantzic at 

 13*. 6V/. per quarter, it seems that those sums fall 

 very far short of the difference in price which is 

 exhibited by comparing the accounts collected at 

 those several places. The merchants at Dantzic, too, 

 appear not to be satisfied with the small sum here 

 presumed, of 1*. Get. per quarter for commission and 

 profits. Whether from the higher expenses of 

 conveyance, or the larger commission or profits of 

 the merchants, the excess of the prices, beyond the 

 cost of conveyance here stated, is very striking, 

 especially in those years when the demand vras the 

 greatest. 



