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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. 1797 Excerpt: ...which that distressing evil might have originated. Various were the opinions of mankind on fhis subject; and the chief causes stated, were, the consolidation of farms, the combination of farmers, jobbers, and millers; the consumption made by the diflillers, the oppression of tithes, the sale of corn by sample, and lastly, the increased luxury of the times. Though all these causes have undoubtedly contributed in part to produce the effect, which we have had so much reason to deplore, yet I think the great operating causes have been, scanty crops of corn, the prevailing disposition of converting arable to pasture, and the unavoidable waste which must inevitably accompany war. From the year i79itoi796we had not a first-rate crop of corn. The summer and autumn of 1792 were a continued series of wet weather; both corn and hay were greatly injured in harvesting, and consequently the little corn that was well secured, advanced in price; but under all these unfavourable circumstances, the old stock in hand was so considerable, that the price in 1793 did not exceed (in the county of Somerset, at least) seven fliillings and six-pence per bushel, Winchester. The produce of 1793 being a middling crop, wheat did not experience much advance, till a probable deficiency in the crop of 1794, accompanied with nearly a total failure in the crop of pulse, was discoverable. Its advance then was very rapid, and great part of the old stock being exhausted, apprehensions were entertained of an absolute famine. We may, therefore, from the foregoing statement, draw this fair inference, that three out of the five years before referred to were deficient in produce; and that the crops of 1791 and 1793, though tolerable, were not sufficient to make good the deficiency of the three unpro...

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