An Inquiry Into the Connection Between the Present Price of Provisions, and the Size of Farms; With Remarks on Population as Affected Thereby. to Whi - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1773. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V, On the means of procuring plenty MY principal aim in the foregoing pages has been to prove that the present advanced price of provisions is not occasioned by the supposed increase of large farms, and to explain to the Legislature, that though Luxury and Forestallers may bear some proportion in the cause, the chief one is real scarcity. For the truth of this, I most sincerely wish the Parliament would examine such men, from the different counties of England, as they think they can rely on: for a few partial examinations cannot determine the point; as local cir- cumstances will ever misguide. The average of the whole will, I fear, prove what I assert: and I am still more concerned to say, that it is not susceptible of any present relief. All that can be done by Legislature, as the laws now stand, has been put in force; I mean, the opening of our ports: But where is the corn to come from? In Holland, it is as dear as with us. The ports in Flanders and France are shut. In the Baltic, they have been open and shut several times within these twelve months. Sicily is shut, except for a limited F 2 quantity quantity to be exported for the use of the Pope's dominions. In America, wheat is now 5 s. 6d. sterling the bushel, and cannot be imported here at our price. If these facts are true, it will be allowed that there is no great prospect of immediate relief. Patience is our only resource. We have had live successive bad crops, and this last more generally so than any of the former. It has been nearly the same all over Europe: therefore, till there is a plentiful year, corn cannot be cheap. All that the Legislature can do, is to endeavour to guard against such an evil befalling us again; and this, in my opinion, is in their power: but, salutary as the me...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1773. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V, On the means of procuring plenty MY principal aim in the foregoing pages has been to prove that the present advanced price of provisions is not occasioned by the supposed increase of large farms, and to explain to the Legislature, that though Luxury and Forestallers may bear some proportion in the cause, the chief one is real scarcity. For the truth of this, I most sincerely wish the Parliament would examine such men, from the different counties of England, as they think they can rely on: for a few partial examinations cannot determine the point; as local cir- cumstances will ever misguide. The average of the whole will, I fear, prove what I assert: and I am still more concerned to say, that it is not susceptible of any present relief. All that can be done by Legislature, as the laws now stand, has been put in force; I mean, the opening of our ports: But where is the corn to come from? In Holland, it is as dear as with us. The ports in Flanders and France are shut. In the Baltic, they have been open and shut several times within these twelve months. Sicily is shut, except for a limited F 2 quantity quantity to be exported for the use of the Pope's dominions. In America, wheat is now 5 s. 6d. sterling the bushel, and cannot be imported here at our price. If these facts are true, it will be allowed that there is no great prospect of immediate relief. Patience is our only resource. We have had live successive bad crops, and this last more generally so than any of the former. It has been nearly the same all over Europe: therefore, till there is a plentiful year, corn cannot be cheap. All that the Legislature can do, is to endeavour to guard against such an evil befalling us again; and this, in my opinion, is in their power: but, salutary as the me...
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