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An Account of the Beal Value of Corn, Grain, Meal and Flour?imported into Great Britain from Foreign Parts, in each year,from 1792 to 1811, both inclusive.
YEARS.
Heal Value of ForeignCorn, &c. Imported.
1792 - - - -
L. 856,095
1793 --- -
2,021,993
179f --- -
1,768,811
1795 --- -
1,461,622
1796 - - - -
4,487,116
1797 - - - -
1,455,722
1798
1,569,757
1799' --- -
1,765,840
1800 - - - -
8,755,995
1801 - - . .
10,149,098
1802 - - - -
2,155,794
1803 --- -
1,164,592
1801 - - - -
1,855,333
1805 - - - -
3,754,831
1806 ....
1,106,540
1807 - - - -
1,878,521
1808 - - - -
336,460
1809 ....
2,705,496
1810 ....
7,077,865
1811 - - - -
1,092,804
Total 20 years,
L. 57,420,285
Above one-balf of this ammmt was probably paid f6r in spe-cie, a large proportion of which, it is said, found its way toFrance , and enabled it to carry on the war, which otherwise itmight have been under the necessity of abandoning. These areCircumstances the more to be lamented, because there never couldhave been any occasion, to have sent any considerable part ofthat immense treasure to foreign, and to-hostile nations, had ade-quate encouragement been given to agricultural exertion, withinour own territory. Indeed, had a General Bill of Enclosure pass-ed when it was originally proposed, it would have saved by farthe largest proportion of the fifty-seven millions we have paid,during the last twenty years, for foreign grain, which has beenproductive of such injurious consequences to the prosperity ofthis country.
September 1812.