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return of peace, after more than twenty years of ex- 

 tensive warfare, is commonly supposed to have 

 increased the productions of the soil, and to be the 

 cause of the depreciation of prices, which has heen 

 the general subject of complaint in every part of Eu- 

 rope. In Poland there has been no sensible increase 

 of numbers, except within the last six years, when 

 Germans, emigrant work people, to the number' of 

 250,000, have established themselves in the different 

 trades to which they have been accustomed in their 

 native country. 



On comparing the surplus quantity of Bread Corn 

 which Poland has exported in a series of the same 

 number of years, we shall see what has been the falling 

 off. 



In the eleven years (see Appendix, No. 15) begin- 

 ning with 1795 and ending with 1805, the Exports 

 of Wheat from the mouths of the Vistula, were 

 5,059,163 quarters, or 438,263 a year, on the average 

 of the period. In the eleven years, beginning in 1815 

 and ending with 1825, the Exports from the same 

 ports were 1,669,027 quarters, or on the average of 

 the period, 151,729 quarters per year. In the latter 

 period, indeed, 78,265 barrels of flour were exported; 

 supposing them to be all wheaten flour, it will increase 

 the quantity 39,132 quarters, reckoning that two 

 barrels are the produce of one quarter of Wheat. In 

 the first of these two series of years, the Rye shipped 

 at the same ports was 1,680,096 quarters; and that 

 in the last series only 456,192 quarters. 



The periods here contrasted were both seasons of 

 general tranquillity, except that during the first part 

 of them the opposition of Kosciusco and his partisans 

 to the last dismemberment of Poland caused partial 

 and temporary disturbances ; but they do not appear 

 to have affected the quantity of its agricultural pro- 

 ducts. 



It is true, that in the first series, there were in 



