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quantity of Wheat raised in the interior of Poland, lias 

 been gradually lessening, but with much more rapidity 

 since 1819, than before that period. During the years 

 1821, 1822, and 1823, very little wheat passed down 

 the Vistula, as appears by the accounts obtained at 

 Thorn. By the official accounts, the whole in the 

 three years was only 83,606 quarters ; the growers 

 being then induced to withhold from shipping, as long 

 as their necessities would allow. In the year 1821, 

 the pressing demands of creditors and mortgagees 

 forced the holders to sell ; and in consequence of it, 

 there was sent down in that year, 93,968 quarters. 

 The pressure of distress still continuing, and the har- 

 vest of 1824 being very good, there was forwarded in 

 1825, by the commencement of the harvest of that 

 year, 176,215 quarters, or as much as in the four 

 years which had preceded it. 



These two last years' exports had completely drained 

 Poland ; and hence, when I was there, before any 

 of the new Wheat had appeared at market, the price, 

 for what little was wanted, had rather advanced. I 

 was informed by more than one merchant, that if 

 10,000 quarters had been required, there was so little 

 left in the country, that it would be collected with 

 difficulty ; and that the knowledge of such demand 

 would cause the price to be doubled. In the mean 

 time the stocks at Dantzic and Elbing had been accu- 

 mulating, in spite of the comparatively small quantities 

 which had been brought down the Vistula. 



At the end of 1818, there only remained in store 

 in those cities, 92,279 quarters, (see Appendix, Xo. 

 13.) In the following seven years, up to August 

 1825, the quantities which paid duties at Thorn, 

 were 



