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196]     ANNUAL REGISTER

comes the duty of every good subject to exert himself in cutting it off.

Many writers have found great fault with the present mode of collecting live stock, and bringing them to market by jobbers; they have also found fault with salesmen and carcase butchers:  but in opposition to these casuists I must declare, that I look upon the persons thus censured as very essentially serviceable to the public: for instance, the stock of graziers or farmers cannot all become fat at the same time, but when any part is so, the sooner that part is disposed of the better; therefore the jobbers or drovers either buy or drive such stock as is fit for sale to the market, where the salesman have but the small commission of one shilling and six-pence per bullock, or three-pence per sheep, for his trouble in disposing of them to the carcase or cutting-butcher, and if the latter has not the conveniences for slaughtering, he may have the bullock slaughtered for four shillings, and the whole of his produce fairly accounted for. This expence surely cannot materially enhance the price to the consumers.

A gentleman of my acquaintance, who keeps part of his estate in his own hands in the county of Suffolk, one hundred miles from London, informs me that this black cattle are driven from his own grounds to Smithfield market, and there sold, for which he pays only five shillings per head, including the whole of their keep and turnpikes. Can live stock be conveyed from the breeder to the consumer at a less expence? Surely no.

What would the consequence be if graziers, &c. were to bring their cattle to market themselves, and to charge the expence of their journeys and time to the publick? It is too evident to need a reply. Besides, the very persons just before complained of, seem as subject to misfortunes as other men, and in general appear to meet with equal difficulties in procuring a livelihood. For these reasons, and many more which might be urged, it appears to me that the dearness of provisions is owning to a real scarcity; and therefore, until a greater plenty of the necessities of life shall be produced, or until the present produce be applied much more towards the support of the people, and much less towards the maintenance of unnecessary horses, a reduction of the prices will remain absolutely impossible.
FRANCIS MORE.
Cheapside, March 4.

Prices of Grain per Quarter at Bear-Key and mark-Lane, for fifteen successive Years.

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| --- | Wheat. | Barley. | Oats. |
| Jan | s.  s. | s.   s. | s. s. d. |
| 1742 | 26 to 29 | 15 to 20 | 12 to 15 |
| 1743 | 20 - 23 | 15 - 20 | 13 - 16 |
| 1744 | 19 - 21 | 11 - 13 | 9 - 12 | 
| 1745 | 18 - 20 | 12 - 15 | 12 - 16 | 
| 1746 | 17 - 24 | 10 - 13 | 12 - 14 | 
| 1747 | 27 - 30 | 8 - 12 | 7 - 11 | 
| 1748 | 26 - 28 | 13 - 14 | 9 - 12 | 
| 1749 | 27 - 32 | 17 - 18 | 14 - 16 | 
| 1750 | 24 - 27 | 14 - 17 | 12 - 13 | 
| 1751 | 24 - 27 | 14 - 17 | 12 - 13 | 
| 1752 | 20 - 25 | 10 - 13 | 9 - 11 | 
| 1753 | 29 - 35 | 17 - 18 | 10 - 12 | 
| 1754 | 27 - 33 | 17 - 19 | 12 - 13 | 
| 1755 | 24 - 26 | 12 - 14 | 10 - 13 | 
| 1756 | 22 - 26 | 14 - 15 | 12 - 13-6 |A


For the YEAR 1772.  [197

A Table of the Corn exported from England during the five Years, distinguishing the Species thereof, with the Bounties payable thereon, laid before Parliament.

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| Years. | Barley. | Malt. | Oatmeal | Rye. | Wheat. |  | Quantity. | Bounty. |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| --- | Qrs. | Qrs. | Qrs. | Qrs. | Qrs. | --- | Quarters. | £. |
| 1744 | 20,090 | 219,862 | 1,657 | 74,169 | 231,984 | Barley | 449,289 - | 56,159 |
| 1745 | 95,878 | 219,354 | 9,770 | 83,966 | 324, 839 | Malt | 1,426,264 - | 184,195 |
| 1746 | 158,719 | 282,024 | 20,203 | 45,782 | 130,646 | Oatmeal | 37,366 - | 4,668 |
| 1747 | 103,140 | 361,280 | 2,122 | 92,718 | 266,906 | Rye | 399,883 - |69,977 |
| 1748 | 73,857 | 349,363 | 3,768 | 103, 891 | 543,387 | Wheat | 1,455,642 - 363,908 |
| Totals | 451, 684 | 1,431,883 | 37,520 | 400,526 | 1,497,762 | Totals | 3,768,444 - | 363,908 |

N. B. The difference between the quantity of corn exported, and that of corn exported for bounty, occasioned by some that has been exported to Alderney, Guernsey, and Jersey, and some in foreign ships, which is not intitled to bounty.

OBSERVATIONS.

These great exports have been principally from the ports of London, Ipswich, Yarmouth, Wales, Lynn Regis, Hull, Bristol, Southampton, Cowes, Chichester, and Shoreham; and the chief countries exported to are, Holland, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Portugal, and the Mediterranean: but France and Flanders, on account of the war, had not any transmitted, except a certain supply sent to fill the French magazines, previous to opening the last campaign, which was the main case of that precipitate and ill-considered treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.

The total exports of the above period of five years, being 3,768,444 quarters of different species of corn, may be supposed to have produced
at 35s. per quarter £. 6,594,777
at 40s. per quarter £. 7,536,888
at 45s. per quarter £. 8,478,000
at 50s. per quarter £. 9,421,110
or the medium of those sums, being 8,007,948[[?]]. in either case it is an immense sum to flow immediately from the produce of the earth, and the labour of the people, enriching our merchants, and increasing an invaluable brood of seamen.

Tables of Births and Burials, within the Bills of Mortality, for the last forty Years.

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| From Christmas 1730, to [[ditto for Christmas??]] | Births | Average | Burials | Average
| 1731 | 17830 | --- | 25262 | --- |
| 1732 | 17788 | --- | 23338 | --- | 
| 1733 | 17465 | 17517 | 29233 | 25486 |
| 1734 | 17630 | --- | 26062 | --- |
| 1735 | 16873 | --- | 23538 | --- |

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