Quarter*. 



From Russia -------- 366,648 



Austria -------- 17,343 



Poland (321,119 



1,005,110 



During the same seven years, the ex- 

 ports from the two ports were - 82-1,622 



leaving - 180,488 

 To this is added the stock at the end 



of 1818, as above - ----- 92,279 



272,707 



It appears, however, that the stocks really in store 

 in the two places in August last, amounted to about 

 350,000 quarters ; and therefore there must have 

 been exported, or be in store, about 80,000 quarters 

 of Wheat, of the growth of Prussia, in the seven 

 years under consideration. 



Poland, and probably the Russian provinces, which 

 once were parts of Poland, though drained of their 

 whole stock of Wheat, have not, in seven years, 

 caused an accumulation at the exporting cities, of 

 more than about one-tenth of what was shipped from 

 them in the seven years from 1800 to 1806. Those 

 stocks are, however, higher than appears to have been 

 left on hand at the end of the former years ; and hence 

 it may have arisen, that the prices have been reduced 

 far below what it has cost the holders, though they 

 have bought from the growers at rates to discourage 

 the farther cultivation of \Vheat. 



The abandonment of a losing business is most 

 likely to begin at the fountain head, and the effect of 

 that abandonment will be first experienced by a rise 

 of price at the spot where the depreciated commodity 

 is produced. This seems to be the case in Poland, 



