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England two or three deficient harvests, and in the 

 last series but one ; the effect of that one was to raise 

 prices so high as to induce the export of the whole 

 that could be got away. Had there been more grown, 

 it would have been eagerly exported ; and we find at 

 the end of the year 1818, the stock, both at Dantzic 

 nnd Elbing, was only 96.000 quarters. Though we 

 imported in the year 1818 from ail parts of the world 

 a greater quantity of Wheat than in any former year, 

 yet much less of that was shipped from the ports by 

 which the Corn conveyed down the Vistula is ex- 

 ported. The three years of our greatest importation, 

 as appears bv Accounts laid before the House of Com- 

 mons, have been 1802, 1810, and 1818; in the first 

 of those, the exports from Dantzic and Elbing were 

 680,494 quarters. In the year 1810 (see Appendix, 

 ^Xo. 1.5), the French were in possession of the country ; 

 and the exports, all carried in a contraband way, were 

 267,~77 "quarter*. In 1818, with high prices at 

 Dantzic, viz. 64.v. lid,, the ports of England being 

 open, the exports were 335.769 quarters. 



If we calculate that the consumption of Wheat in 

 Great Britain is one quarter for each person for food, 

 and about a seventh part more for seed and minor 

 purposes, it will appear that in the first of the series 

 we have been comparing, the quantity of Wheat ex- 

 ported from Dantzic and Elbing would, with the 

 then amount of our population, 11,000,000, be equal 

 to twelve days' consumption. In fact, however, out 

 of the 0,0.59,163 quarters of Wheat, which Dantzic 

 exported, 1,000,014 were dispatched to other coun- 

 tries. As we have only the gross exports from 

 "Elbing, without distinguishing what was sent to 

 Great Britain from what was sent elsewhere, it may 

 not be incorrect to assume, that one-fourth as from 

 ^zic was not sent to our markets ; and then there 

 will be a further reduction of 299,205 quarters. This 



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