lOal 



will leave the whole quantity really furnished to us 

 in the eleven years, 3,459,944 quarters, or an annual 

 quantity of 314,540 quarters, being equal to about 

 nine days of our consumption. 



At the second series our population had advanced, 

 as numbered in 1821, the middle year of that series, 

 to 14,000,000. The quantity of Wheat sent to us 

 from the Vistula had declined, and during the eleven 

 years had been 1,252,271 quarters, or 113,842 an- 

 nually. This would be equal to the whole of out 

 .consumption for betwixt two and three days. 



In the Appendix, No. 24, is shown the whole Ex- 

 port of Corn from Dantzic, for the last 166 years. 

 By those tables, it appears that the Wheat exported 

 from that city, during that long period, was 19, 581, 947 

 quarters, or 117 5 963 quarters on the annual average 

 of the period. In fact, the whole that Dantzic has 

 exported in 166 years is not equal to the consump- 

 tion of this kingdom, with its present population, for 

 more than fifteen or sixteen months. The annual 

 importation would not now amount to two days and 

 three quarters' consumption. 



It appears by the Official Account of the duties 

 paid at Thorn, on Wheat descending the Vistula 

 (see Appendix, No. 19), that a very large proportion 

 comes out of territories now forming an immediate 

 part of Russia, which once were, but no longer are, 

 parts of Poland. I had communications with seve- 

 ral proprietors of estates, whose property is partly in 

 one, and partly in the other country, and availed 

 myself of all means within my reach to acquire a 

 knowledge of the actual produce of Grain in both. 



The provinces from which the best, and most of 

 the Wheat, is transmitted, are Volhynia and Podo- 

 lia, which were seized by Russia, in the division of 

 Poland in 1796, and are now distinct provincial go- 

 vernments, retaining their ancient names and usages. 



