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still remaining, offer their stock in all parts for sale, and have 

 their Corn partly stored up in foreign countries. 



3. The quantities remaining with the farmers are but very 

 insignificant. Formerly the stock hoarded up by the Corn 

 traders and farmefs was much greater, perhaps five times as 

 much as it is now. The impoverished condition to which 

 the formerly great Corn factors in all the northern sea ports 

 have been reduced, and the scarcity of money with almost all 

 the farmers, has rendered the accumulation of large quantities 

 of Corn impossible ; and besides, the bad quality of the Grain, 

 since some years, did not even allow it. It is a difficult task, 

 nay impossible, to give an accurate estimate of the surplus quan- 

 tities of Corn in all the countries of Europe. But according to a 

 Calculation which seems to approach the truth, it appears that 

 the Grain accumulated in Europe, including Wheat, Rye, Barley, 

 and Oats, amounts to 3,680,000 quarters ; namely, 



Quarters. 

 In Germany, exclusive of the Prussian dominions 581,000 



the Prussian Dominions 



Poland and Russia 



Denmark 

 England 



the Netherlands 



France, Spain, Portugal, and the ports of the 



Black Sea - .... 581,000 



3,680,000 



In this statement, the Corn which lays under bond in England, 

 amounting to about 400,000 quarters, is included. However, 

 all these quantities are insufficient to fill out a somewhat consi- 

 derable deficiency in the crop of one single great country ; nor 

 is it even the fourth part of the quantity necessary for its sub- 

 sistence. That this enumerated surplus might hereafter be 

 increased, is, indeed, improbable, as the consumption itself, both 

 of men and cattle, is augmenting annually, while the production 

 is retrograding. The Corn actually under bond in England will 

 scarcely supply the thirtieth part of its annual consumption ; 

 while the whole surplus quantity of Europe cannot supply the 

 population of France with bread for one month. 



But such periods of scarcity cannot fail to arrive sooner or 

 later, when all prohibitions will have a frightful termination. 

 With all the accumulated gold and silver, it will be impossible 

 to prevent the evils of famine ; potatoes might then, perhaps, 

 serve as a substitute, and the prosperity of nations is thus 

 undoubtedly put at stake by assertions statistically erroneous. 



