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British Statistics. The follov/ing table, exhibiting a concise 
and striking view of the internal condition of England, is extract- 
ed from a British paper of 16th October, 1813. 
A TABLE 
Exhibiting at one view the defireciation of our currency^ the dU-‘ 
jirojiortion between the advance made in the price of labour 
and the fall which has taken place in the value of money ; with 
its consequent progressive pauperism.^ from the revolution of 
1688 to the year 1812. 
Years. 
] 
Price of bread, 
1 
1 Value of the pound in 
1 quartern loaves. 
Average money wages 
1 of husbandry labor. 
1 Bread wages in quart- | 
1 ern loaves. j 
o 
o 
P 
w 
s 
Number of Paupers. 
I687j 
Zd \ 
80 
6s 
24 
/. 665,362 
563,964 
1776 
37 
8 
15 
1,523,163 
695,177 
1785 
6 
40 
8 
16 
1,943,649 
818,851 
1792 
7 
34 
9 
15 
2,645,520 
955,326 
1803 10 
24 
10 
12 
4,113,164 
1,039,716 
1811 
12 
20 
12 
12 
5,922,954 
1,247,659 
1812 20 '1 
1 12 
15 
9 
6,452,656 
2,079,432 
This is not inconsistent with the account I have given in page 
25 1 oi this volume. 
The peek loaf ought to weigh 1 7 Ib. 6 oz. Therefore the quar° 
tern loaf ought to v/eigh one fourth of this, or 4 lb. 5^ oz. Every 
sack of flour is to weigh cwt. net weight, or 2801b. and out of 
this ought to be made 20 peck loaves, When the price of grain 
rises, the magistrates who set the assize of bread, allow the quar«- 
tern loaf to be diminished in weight. Fine wheaten bread, is al» 
lowed to weigh but three fourths only of the weight required, for 
household bread. 
The following table is from Niles’s Register, 
