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^^^velff^^of this country divides 

 ■>i Velo Pme n t of l raC1 ° g ^o^tarily the growth 

 ^T^fitative co Vpr _ s y stern only too natural to the 



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'^ ^e cost Qf^h, - e T , ai n attempl 



^P^calexkeuce'-enactin^like 



cheap to everybody' — com - 

 consumers as the objects of its royal 



and slipping, 

 iys steady, alway: 



nto the other, to issue 

 prices shall be always 



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cheapness had defied the wand of the magician, 

 right : but the opposite and succeeding attempt pre- 

 feasibility, 



) next step of nursery 

 ise, to proceed by express 

 i make it so. Legislated 



49s. 6d. to 86s. 2d. ; three mi I 

 five very deficient ones brought it. in August 

 ^ ' quarter : Fine Dantzic Wheat 

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UT.1 tile 



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you involve yourself in to maintain your 

 round. The tangle thickens at every step. If you 

 egin by ' taking something from everybody to give 

 > somebody,' you must go on till you have taken 

 >mething from each to give to everybody. The 



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tended tillage reduced the price of Corn 



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 centuiy, producing the exact opposite of its intended 

 effect— now survives, in its taxation form, to set on 

 edge the teeth of the generation whose parents ate 



The Act of 1773 with which our second Period 

 concluded, was violently opposed by the advocates 

 of the Bounty System. It coquets, in the preamble, 

 with their objections, and was framed with the view 

 odifying, not of abolishing the Bounty alto- 



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the harvests that succeeded carried out 

 id its intention, and put a final nega- 

 " "s preamble. The 



ing trade and population had begun to produce upon 

 the Export trade in Corn from this country, a Com- 

 merce whose memorials went back into remote anti- 

 quity, and claimed an origin from the very days of 

 Roman sway when Britain supplied Corn to the Im- 

 perial City, and was called 'the Granary 



uces;' and ' "*■ 

 passed by the Legislature 



the Bounty, and to stay the turning tide oy permu- 

 ting Exportation so long as the price was not above 

 46s. per quarter (25. higher than the point fixed 

 by the previous statute of 1773), and to prohibit 

 Importation, by a duty of 24s. 3d. a quarter when 





A couple of good harvests (1813 and 1814) again 

 the price to 53*. Id. ; and this, together 

 " ,tion of the war, produced another 



> h foreign imports were to I 



80s. the quarter. Three deficient 



% ' '817 and 181 s pi.'ces 

 nportation took place. 





harvests succeeded, and 



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. produced i 



forgotten. Thirty years - 



fortunate Act of 1791 had broken in upon t 



liberal and prudent system which had maintiin 



steady prices for the twenty years previous, a 



tracted the des< 



The free-importation prii 



been raised successively 



(72s., 74s.*) and finally, 1 



bserved, during a 

 lost part of extravagantly high prices, 

 actical operation except that of lend- 



3 word of pi 



•, forming a delu- 

 3 r defending the 



apparent during the seven 

 currency ; and it was suspended by an Act passed 



■ tho -M <:<;>. III., c. 26 (the . 



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 t of 1815), a 



compelled to sell their cargoes to the 

 British Government. Two or three better harvests 

 reduced the price to 40*. V>d. the quarter in 1799, 

 but in the following year it rose again to no less a 

 price than 134s. 5d. the quarter in spite of a renewal 

 of the bounty on Imports. The advance continued 

 unchecked in spite of Acts and Proclamations 

 adopted with the view of obtaining supplies and 

 reducing consumption, and in March 1801 the price 

 of corn reached 1 56s. 2d. the quarter. _ For one 

 month the price of the quartern loaf in London 

 was Is. 10J<f. 



er harvests followed during the next three 

 and the price eraduallv fell to 49s. Gd. in 

 The Act of 1791 had of course never come 



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as below this tin pi hib tive duty of 245. 3c?. 



fixed. From 63s. up to 66s., the duty was 

 2?. Gd. the quarter. No sooner was the Act passed 

 20th) than another bad harvest followed, 

 which raised the price before the end of the year 



or above 70s. the duty to be 17s. per quarter for tl 

 first three months, and afterwards 12s. : above 71 



to be 10s., afterwards 5s. : above 80s. and under 8. 

 tty of Is. 

 Like so many of its predecessors, this Act ne\ 

 at all. as the cent n u ency w bi 

 ivas to give it life, never anived. Prices did n 

 reach 80s., nor were the circumstances under whii 

 die Act was passed such as held out any prospe 

 ;hat it would be so. In the year 1826 howev( 

 in consequence of a deficient h; 

 Act was passed for the admissioi 



of foreign grain for consumption ; an< 



House by the Government for the further admisi 

 " hall a million of quarters during the reces 

 ■liameiit. which wa< -ranted, and acted upoi 

 September following. 

 The necessity of these tempera 

 certain propositions which 



larvest, a temporary 



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