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Now I cannot conceive that any alteration in the issue of bank 
of England notes which bear so very small a part, in amunot, in 
the circulation of the trade of the country, can produce the great 
enhancement in the price of bullion, which has lately taken 
place : doubtless some part of the effect is owing to tiiat cause, 
but assuredly not the whole of it. That encrease depends on 
many circumstances. 
1 st. As every commodity will rise in price in proportion to its 
scarcity, some part of this encrease must be owing to the hoard- 
ing up of coin : an effect however gradually diminishing in Eng» 
land. 
2ly. The restriction act, has also tended to produce a scarcity 
of coin, which can now no longer be obtained at the bank for bank 
notes. 
Sly. The wants of the army and navy, take av/ay a great deal 
of actual cash. 
4ly. The sources of bullion supply from Spain and Portuga!,i 
have not been so abundant as heretofore, owing to the calamitous 
situation of these countries. 
Sly. The exchange of late years has not been favourable to 
i England : and this calls for cash to pay balances of mercantile 
transactions. 
6ly. Prodigious quantities of coin have been exported, partly 
©n a bullion speculation, and partly to purchase grain, an article 
of the first necessity. On the 26 July, 1811, lord Sheffield at the 
Wool fair at Leeds, stated that the value of grain imported into 
Great Britain in 1800 and ! 80 1 , amounted to 19 millions sterling.* 
Imports.— From a return just presented to the House of 
Commons, it appears that we imported in 1810 
1,387,200 Quarters of Wheat, 
533,613 C wt. of Flour, 
503,122 Quarters of Oats, and 
33,226 Bolls of Oatmeal. 
Of this quantity the imports were— 
From France, 334,806 Quarters of Wheat, and 202,922 Cwt.. of 
Flour. 
From Holland, 189,016 Quarters of Wheat, 
From Germany 145,186 do. and 
From Poland and Prussia, 296,756, 
From Denmark and Norway, 110,935 Qrs. 
From America, 34,829 Quarters of Wneat, and 210,209 Cwt 
of Flour. 
Hence in ore than one-third of the Wheat, and nearly one -third 
the Flour, came from France and Jioiiand,5 while from Arne-* 
