The Sun.
London, England, 1804-06-22 00:00:00

TED REPOV_T ICESPE,CTING 'll-1E CORN TRADE.
. :FILE 'to whom the Report was re.
. .comoot ted, ,which was made from the Committee,
who, were appointed to
,consider of so much of the
several Petitiors of Land Qwners, Barley Growers,
Mltsters, and-others, in-the Counties of Norfolk',
Suffolk, Stafford,
.Warwick, Essex,- and Lincoln,
which were presented to t! e. House .aeon the•istli
and. 29th days of February, and the 28th and 29th
days of March last, as rely-es loan Aft, passed in the
31,51 year of His present Majesty, tor regulating the
Importation and Exportation, of Corn, and the pay.
Merit of the. Duty or, Foreign Corn imporred, and
of the, Bounty on British Corn exported.; and
to ,report the . same, w ith • their observations
thereupon, to the House ; and to whom:the several
Accounts and Papers which have been presented to
the Heusi in, the present Sessionoi Parliament, re,
speCting. Corn,
,Grain, and Mak, were referred ;
have, in pursuance • of the iostruaions which they
' received, fproceeded to examine the At Of the 3 ist
of the Ktog, and to take, from the best information
they could obtain, a comparative view of the price
of labour, and of the unavoidable expenses incident.
to the Grower, in the year 1791. and at this time ;'
as_ the best criterion by which they might judge of
what ought to he the price of the different speciesi
of Crrain, allowing to the Grower such a fair and'
reasonable prof', as nety induce him to pursue that
line ut hu-sliandly which will theanosecontribute to
the producti,..n of such an ample supply of thredif-
`ferent kinds of Corn and Grain, as• may be suffi-
'dent for our consumptiOn. This supply cannot be.
-expeeird without a considerable surplus, in plentiful
years, above-the demand of the home market, it
• therefore bee ones desirable, that the Grower should
have such a ready sale for that surplus by exporta_
tion, and bounty, if requisite, as may remove all ap-
prehenion of his not being able to obtain, from the
*glut of the cotninodity at the Dome 'market, such a
price forothat surplus as will afford him an equitable
profit on his labour, inenstrye and capital, employed
io its prociuftion. It appears then, to your COM.
snittf-e, that 'the surest mode by which an ample
supply can be expeCted, is to endeavour to secure
an uniform and reasonable price to the Growers.
Your COmmittee fluid, that the At passed in
'1791, givinka power to the King in Council, when
l'aritameot is not Sitting, of prohibiting the exporta-
tion of Coro, if tie average Price ohereof, taken
from the return of the whole I.kingdom, is' higher
than the price at. or above "litelt. Foreign Corn of
the saint! 'sort is 'allowed o be imported at the low
duriesi and to permit generally, `for three months
certain, the importation of such sort on the lOwest
duties then payable, 'ought never to be exercised,
bat upon a strong and incontrovertible necessity e
as it may o:herwise operate as 'a great discourage-
ment ro the growth and produaion -of Corn in this
Kingdom, by rendering the marker uncertain, by
making the-expnrt• trade to be stopped, ator.
by enabling a general import of Foreign Corn to be
poured into the Kingdom for the term of thee&
months, at so small a variation and advante of price
- in the home marker, as may perhaps
,he occasioned
for the purpose of produCing that' eff'a. •
Your Committee are cautious in recommending
a,Repeal of that part of the At, lest a necessity for
the. exercise of that power might possiblY arise,
thinking it better under such"circurmtances, 'thai it
should he exercised actording to' Law," than in' op,
poition to it in• full Confidence, that by due -en.:
• couragement to the Agriculture of the COuritiy; and.
by bingo g the Crown and Waste Lands intocul-
tivation, the produa of -the grOwth of coin 'in 'the
United Kingdom, such regular and ample
sui;ply- tot its c lisitmlitfi:N as, ro admit the RePeal
of that power given to His'lVl,j.,•sty's'PrivyCoun...
cif, without the danger of any detriment 'arising
therefrom to the [ttblie,
It appears to your Committee, that the price of
Corn from 1791,• to the Halvest of 1803, has been
very irregular, but upon an average, increased in a
great degree by- the years of scarcity, has in gene--
-Yielded a fair profit to the Grower. the casual
high'prices, however, have had the eireftof
Laing industry;, and bringing 'into cultivation bite
tri.fis of Waste Land, which, combined with the
two last produttive seasons, and other causes, 'have
occasioned soch- a diTression in the value of Grain,
alit is feared will greatly tend to the ,i,courage„
mew of Agriculture, unleis maintained by the sup-
port of Parliament. • •. •
Your Committee therefore recommend fresh Tables
to be adopted instead of those in the Act of the 31,t of
the King, as more fitted to the ci-retoostances of the

preset:t times, except s< fir as relates to the 'import
anti export from and so Irelatiti; and your Corn:
mittee rectmturod as a necessary measure, that the

import to Ireitiod from Foreign parts, and the ex.
port trcm Ireland to Fcreign parts, shan'd be re.

gula t tut at the same time upon the same sc:ile, nd

to a, proportionate affit.ltilt, 2S in the new fotrned

Tables, cAcuiatcd ou Irish measure and in. Irish

Money.

It iippears further to your Committees, that the
2ggtcgate a we:. ,ge prices of the twelve iiibritmle
Districts of7Ene4nd; and of the 't(!ur Vlaritirne"
Districts of Scotland, as-par►icularize&l in the Aft
of 1791, is ae prop'er rule by which rl:e Tables fur
regulating the it pert of corn into G•eat Brit.rin

ought to he governed, and that the export from
each DiAria Should c(intinue to be govtrned ay it

;tow is, by the tegtilatzims cf that—Asq; and that

the duties payabie on Foreign Corn imported into
any,distri& where thc•average price rneteolis be_

low the aggregate'average price of the twelve -and
of the four Distrias respectively, should'. be gó-
-vernecl by the averlge price of such Distriti, ursu-
ant to the new formed Tables, and ascertained by the
An of
Your Committee have been induced to make an
alteration in the prnportion of the export prices of
P:arleY, from its being syhj:!et to increased raxition,

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from. whicli"other grains have -been exempt ; and
furrher state, that it appears to them, that there has
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been a'balanct in favour of Barley lot the last thirty_

four years, tditle- the balance has been in favour of