400 
in oppofition to it: in full confidence, 
that by due encouragiment to the agri- 
culture of tne country, and by bringing 
the crown and wafte Jands into cultivati- 
on, the produ& of the growth of corn in 
the United Kingdom will afford fueh re- 
gular and ample fupply for its confump- 
tion, as to admit the repeal of that power 
given to his Majefty’s privy council, 
without the danger of any detriment arif- 
ing therefrom to the public. : 
It appears to your committee, that the 
price of corn from 1791 to the harvett of 
1803, has been very irregular, but upon 
an average, increafed ina great degree by 
the years of icarcity, has im general yield- 
ed a fair profit to the grower. The cafa- 
al high pric:s, however, have had the ef- 
fe& of ftimulating induiry, and bringing 
into cultivation large tratts of wafte land, 
which, combined with the two laft pro- 
ductive feafons, and other caules, .have 
occafioned fuch a deprefiion in the value 
of grain, as itis feared will greatly tend 
to the difcouragement of agricuiture, un- 
lefs maintained by the {apport of parlia- 
ment. ; 
Tt appears further to your committee, 
that the aggregate average prices of the 
twelve maritime diltriGts of England, and 
of the four maritime diftricts of Scotland, 
as particularized in the A&t of 1791, is 
the proper rule by wh'ch the tables for 
regulating the import of corn into Great 
Britain ought to be governed, and that 
the export from each diftri€t fhould con- 
tinue to be governed, as it now is, by the 
regulations of that Act; and that the du- 
ies payable on foreign corn imported 
into any diftri'& where the average price 
toeréof is below the aggregate average 
price cf the twelve and of the four dif- 
tritts refpectively, thould be governed by 
the average price of fuch diftriét, purfu- 
ant to the annexed tables, and afcertained 
by the a& of 1791. 
Your commitice have been induced to 
make an alteration in the proportion of the 
export prices of baricy, from i's being 
fubjeét to encreafed taxation, from which 
other grains have been exempt; and fur- 
ther ftate, that it appears to them, that 
there bas been a balance in taveur of 
barley for the lat thirty jour years, 
while the balance has been in favour ot 
the importation ci wheat and cats. From 
this circumfignce, your committee have 
drawn the conclufon, that thet immedi- 
ate relief -wiil not be afforded to the 
growers of Barley, which it is conceived 
the growers of wheat will receive, by 
the alterations in the Importation Table. 
The Irifh Alphabet. 
[Dees ol, 
The object of your committee, in fix- 
ing the price at which the ports fhall be 
open for the general importatien of corn 
fo much higher than the price at which 
it is permiited to be exported, is to en- 
courage the furplus of one diftri&t to be 
fent for the fupply of another in want of 
it, that the import into one part of the 
kingdom, and the export from another 
at the fame time, may thereby be check- 
ed, and the prices throughout the king- 
dom be made more equal. 
With this view, your committee re- 
commend the adoption of meafures calcu- 
lated to promote the interefts of the grew- 
er,’conceiving that a due encouragement 
to agriculture is the beft and moft effec- 
tual mode of enfuring to the confumer 
an adequate and regular fupply, at/a rea- 
fonable rate, as well as of obviating thofe 
frequent fiuCtuations in price fo injurious 
both to the prower and the public; and 
aifo in future to fecure to this country, 
as far as poffible, the advantage of fuch 
enormous fums, as your committee find, 
have exceeded ‘thirty millions in the laf 
thirieen years, which fums employed in 
the purchafe ef corn abroad, cannot fail 
to have operated as a bounty upon the 
agriculture of foreign countries, to the de- 
triment of our own; whereas it appears 
by the corn returns, that in the courfe of 
years when the regulations were moft fa- 
vourable to the growers, and when the 
leaft check was put upon the trade, the ex- 
port of corn from this kingdom, for 
more than fixty years in fucceliion, pro- 
Guced annually fix or feven hundred thou - 
fand pcunds, leaving befides, at a regu- 
lar and moderate price, an ample fuffici- 
ency for the home confumption. 
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For the Montély Magazine. 
IRISH ALPHABET. 
A WORK has been lately publifhed 
at Paris, on the fubjeét of Gram- 
mar, entitled: Alphabet Irlandois, Ge. or 
the Irifh Alphabet, Literary and Typogra- 
phical, by J.J. Marcel, dire&tor of thie. 
National Prinuing-Ofice. The author 
commences with fome learned preliminary 
obfervations en the etymologies and thie 
origin ef the nations that fpeak the Irith 
idiom. He then points out the differences 
that chiefly chara&terize- the Irifh 4an- 
guage, and feparate it-from the Englith 
janguage. He treats of the figure of the 
Ogham Chara&ers, which name he ap- 
plies ta thofe that were made ule of by 
the ancient Druids and-Irifh bards 5; and 
toen proceeds to indicate the modern let-_ 
ters which have been fubftituted for or | 
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