Star.
London, England, 1801-01-06 00:00:00

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The 6tharies of raackarcl and' pikitiutil, v,!l:ch
follow in fucceifion, appear capa hie cf
equal extegion ; and the cod and haddock
ries, which continue during_ the greatefl p
'the year, may alto furnith an additional fupp!.
food, to an extent which cannot be calru:.;;;J,
and Once the ufe of (alt duty. free has been
, mitted) at a price not exceeding, even fit.LonA,n,
;for fome articles one penny, and for others two.
!pence per pound.
The price of ilich fills is not only f 9 much Imre:.
than that of meat, as to recommend it as an t:.•
fill fubltitute for that anklet but, as three, or
even five, pounds of this wholefome and nutritious
;food can he afforded at a led; rate than one ponnd
lof bread at its prefent price, it can hardly fail to
meet with an campfire demand, wherever it "„
be obtained in fufficientlnantitys and it will litl•
cheapen and improve the fubfift4ce of thole claffe:
of the community, who, fram finding the whole
of their earnings not more than adequate to pro.
cure the necerary (apply of bread, have been re.
duced to fubfitt upon that article alone.
Your Committee are fenfible that, even if any
calculation could be formed of the amount of
thisrefource, it would not be eafy to afcertain the
proportion which it might be fuppofed to beano
any given quantity of grain. But, whether it is
introduccd into confnmption as a fubititu:c for
vegetable or animal food, it is equally an addi-
tion of the utmost importance to the means of rub-
fiftence.

Your Committee have omitted to take notice&
the A& paired foe diminifhing the confumption of
bread, and for masking better provifion for the
poor ; becaufe, whatever benefits may refult from
that meafure, the diminution which it may °era-
lion in the ufe of bread, chiefly depends upon the.
introduaion (as fubftitutes) of other articleq, fer
molt of which credit has been already taken.
The amount of thole refources to which your
Committee have adverted, which appeared it :Inv
d:gree capable of eftimate (fubje& to the obferra-
tion with which they were at firs introduced as
being in many points conjedural, and neceffirili
deficient in precifion) would (land as follows:

importation of Wheat ilnce the beginning of . Quarter%
Oetobcr above - - f7exso
Importation of Flour from the United States, equalbp 580,c00
Importation of Wheat from Canada - . 30,0*
Rice, equivalent to a • , b 6;oicto
S:oppage of Starch Manufatiory • - • 40,c00
t ppagc of Diftilleries - - • • 360,008
U•:. of Co3rfe Meal - . . 4;cpaa
Retrenchments - • . 3oc:4oX,

soocto
In this enumeration, no credit is taken for any
quantity of Barley which may be imported, a-
cceding the ufual importation of so,ooo quarters
(although more than 60,000 quarters are already
arrived) for fuch proportion of the crop of Barley,
as may be transferred to the ufe of the confumers
of Wheat ; for any importation of Indian Corn ;
for any retrenchment in the article of Oats; for
the redudion of confumption by the ufe of Stale
Bread ; nor for the great Supplies to be expetled
from the Fitheries.

It will alto be obferved, that your Committee
have taken no credit in the preceding Statement
for any further importation of Wheat from the
Continent of Europe. Theyfee, however, no ground
for departing from the opinion expelled in their
firft Report, that as far as depends upon the ex-
ertions of individual Merchants, both Britifh and
Foreign, the fupply of Wheat to be drawn from
thence may equal that of laft year; and that the
crops of Barley and Oats may furnifh more than
they did during that period; and the quantity
already imported affords a ftrong confirmation of
this opinion. What circumftances of a different
nature may interfere with the effed of thole exer-
tions, it is not within the province of your Com-
mittee to confider. But fuppofing the fupply
from thole quarters to be, from any caufes, dimi-
niihed or fufpendrd, or even (which teems, under
any circumilances, impoffible), completely flop-
ped, yet your Committee have the fatisfadion of
being perfuaded that the refources enumerated in
the preceding ftatement are adequate, upon a mo-
derate calculation, to furnifh a fufficient fupplyfor
that period, to which your Committee has confi-
dered them as applicable, and to relieve, by their
gradual operation, the prefent exigency. What-
ever may be drawn from the Comment of Europe
is an addition to thole refources certainly impor-
tant, but by no means of abfolute neceffity and,
together with the great quantity of rice which
may be expeuled from the Eaft Indies fubfequent
to the next harveft, may be confidered as fupply-
in g not our immediate wants, but that diminution
of-the ordinary flock of the country which took
place previous to the harvell of tBOO, in confe-
quence of the great deficiency of the preceding
year—a diminution, which is one of the main
miles of the iaefent infufficient fupply and high
prices, and which mull retard, in its confequences,
(whatever may be the abundance in the next bar-
veft) the return of cheapnefs and of plenty.
Your Committee think it, however, highly im-
portant to obferve, that although the refources
above-mentioned, if fully brought forward, appear
adequate to produce the effc!ls which they look to
with hope and expedation ; yet a large proportion
of them depends upon the voluntary exertions of
the people, and they can be rendered effectual for
general relief only by uninterrupted circulation
and unchecked adivity of Commerce, and by the
zeal and energy which may be employed by dif-
ferent elaffes of the community in promoting, ac-
cording to their refiselitive means, an °bled of fuel'
general concern.

DILD.
On Saturday laft after a that Mn. CoderiheU, of the
Grange, Stwthwark, much iamental by ter family and friend%
On Sunday night, at his Coat at Wilton, in Wiltihire, Lieute-
nant-General Philip Ooldfworthy, Colonel of the IR Regiment
of Dragoons, Equerry and Clerk Martial to his Majelty, and
Member of Parliament fur Wilton.

At liuffur.th, Mr. J. Skinner, Aotlng Lieutenant in the C.
fluty'+ Mar.

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