1800.] 
fucceeding each other very recently, may, 
in part, account for the prefent deficiency of 
wheat, yet it appears moft highly probable 
that the fcarcity is, for the moft part, attri- 
butable to thefe two caufes, a deficiency in 
the produce of the country, compared with its 
increafed population, and the habit (now be- 
come general ) of ufing fine wheaten bread ; and 
that the deficiency is every year pieces hile - 
Under thefe circumftances, it {éerms highly 
expedient to confider ky what means a more 
adequate fupply of wheat, and of corn in ge- 
neral, may in future be procured, without a 
dependence on foreign {tates. 
To obtain this, the firtt obje& which par- 
ticularly engages the attention, 1s to encourage 
the inclofure of wafte lands, by removing 
“whatever is an obftacle thereto ; and particu- 
Jariy, either by pafling a general inclofure 
adt, or by facilitating the means of obtaining 
particular a¢ts for that purpofe, and \by mo- 
derating the charges of procuring and of exe- 
cuting fuch acts. 
On the very important queftion, of a ge- 
néral compentation in lieu of tythes in kind, 
Refolved, ‘That fuch a meafure weuld con- 
duce moft highly to the improvement of agri- 
culture, and probably to the fatisfaction and 
benefit of all perfons concerned thefein ; but 
that fuch compenfation ought not to take 
place without the free confent in each cafe, 
as well of the party entitled by law to receive, 
as of the party liable to pay tithes. 
Another very material caufe of our late 
Increafing dependence on foreign ftates for a 
fupply of corn, is to be found in certain dif- 
‘couragements which have checked the appli- 
Cation of our lands to the growth of corn. In 
the vear 1791, when a bill was depending in 
parliament to regulate the importation and 
exportation of corn, and before the act which 
tnen.pafled was in execution, importation 
was permitted when the price was confider- 
ably below gos. per quarter, and this in- 
duced. many perfons poll fled of land, adapted 
to paiturage as well as to tillage, to lay down 
much arable land; which concurred, with 
other caufes, to occafion the {carcity in1755. 
This fcarcity cavfed lanus to be ploughed 
again, But the-importation, which was 
then allowed and encouraged, being continued 
longer than neceflary, again caufed many 
fields tobe laid down tor pafture. .Anact was 
pafled, 37 Geo. II]. c. 7. by authority of 
which importation was allowed until fix 
weeks after the commencement of the then 
next fellion of parliament, although the price 
of wheat, during tome months immediately 
aiter the paiiing of that'aét, did not exceed 
36s. per quarter, and the price of oats was 
hot more than ¢s.per quarter. Scarci‘y again 
prevails; and having twice, within a few 
years, been precedea by fo low a price of 
corn as did not compenfate the charg<s of cul- 
tivation, it is fubmitted to the cunfideration 
of the Board of Agriculture, whether f{car- 
city, and an exorbitant price of corn, may not 
moth citedtually be guarded againft, by avoid- 
ing that fludfuasion ia the cors laws which has 
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191 
lately prevailed. If means were taken to pre- 
vent, permanently, too low.a price of corn, 
fo that land in tillage fhould continue of at 
leaft as great value as in pafture ; that capital 
and induftry fhould be as beneiicially engaged 
in the cultivation of land as in other ways :— 
If means were taken to promote the growth, 
inftead of increafing (except when abfolutely 
neceflary) the importation of corn 3 it cannot 
be doubted that ample employment and fup- 
pert may be provided in the kingdom, more 
than fufficient for its inhabitants in years of 
plenty ; fothat, in lefs favourable feafons, 
diftrefs may be averted. But merely to in- 
clofe wafte lands, feems to be of litileavaii, 
uniefs the cultivation of them fhall be pro- 
tpoted, by a more fteady. adherence to aa 
aunts ees of corn laws. 
Married.| At Stamford, Mr. Mofes aes 
by, to Iviits Bees. 
At Fotton, Mr. John Mansfield, of Hull, 
-to Mifs Winter. 
At Lincoln, Mr. R Whitton, to Mifs Su- 
fan A fher. 
Mr. Scott, mafter of a re(pe@table academy 
at Stamford, to Mifs Holmes. 
At Harmfton, Lieutenant L. Gibbons, to 
Mifs TV. Thorold. 
At Red Hall, Vir. B. B. Kelfey, of Bolton, 
to Mifs Mary Clarke. 
Died. | At Coni ngiby, aged 88, the Rev. 
Gilbert Boyce, 62 yeais paftor of the fociety 
of General Baptifts inthat place. He left be» 
hind him 46 defcendants, anda numerous ac~ 
quaintance to remember and imitate his vite 
tues. 
At Horbling, Mr. Rimmington, grazier ; 
whefe fkull was fractured by a fall from his 
horfe. G 
At Horncaftle, aged 39, Dr. Rockclifte, 
At Louth, aged 65, Mr. R. Smith. Aged 
52, Mr. Jofeph Secker. 
At ee Mr, Newcombe, of the Pied 
Calf. 
At Gayton, aged 20, Mr. W. Middleton, 
At Lincoln, aged 58, Mrs Drewry, wife of 
Mr. Jofhua Drewry, weil Known as a refpeci« 
able bookfeller in that city. 
At Stamford, aged 74, Mr. Alderman 
Stevenfon, who had ferved the office of mayor 
in 178rand1796, Aged 29, Mr. Joha Ste- 
venfon. 
At Whittefea, Mr. Simon Smith, 
At Bridge Cafterton, Mr. Wharrey, of 
London, wna came there afew days previoufly 
to aoa the funeral of his brother. 
At Pof Witham, aged 63, Mr. J. es 
man. 
WARWICKSHIRE. 
A publican of Birmingham, has been con- 
victed and fined for fuffering journeymen to 
game in his houfe. 
Atthe late Warwick aftizes, eight perfons 
were found guilty and condemned, feven of 
whoni were tor forgery, and utcering forged 
bank notes. 
Mrs. Siddons has been performing, with 
‘her ufual eclat and advantave, at the Bir- 
mingham theatre, which place has alfo beer 
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