Gey ON THE CORN LAWS: 509 on that, in the year 1750, the exports exceeded the . imports by 1,667,459 quarters. In the year 1757 ane the corn laws were firft fufpended, and never af- gi terwards were permitted to operate freely. From Hage the moment when thefe laws were firft fufpend- That ed, the importations began to encreafe, and the fay, exportations to decreafe, fo that in the year 1775, oe the imports exceeded the exports by 972,400 BURYE quarters, making a difference between the quan- d upon“tity of corn produced in this ifland in the years callon- ae: 1750 and 1775, of no lefs than 2,679,859 quar- quan- ters. This difference, amounting to about one, ielly by fourth part of the average confumption of Great circum: Britain, cannot be attributed to a change of fea- -n fuch fons, but to other caufes. What the balance will Nor amount to in the years’ 1795 and 1796, remains he de- yet to be afcertained; but it is eafy to perceive t cafe that it muft be very great.' ‘foon‘I do not now enter into the confideration of the corn act 1791, as it would require elucida- he corn tions far beyond my prefent limits. I ventured » of the to point out to the public, in the year 1793, in a > tables very concife and curfory manner, a few, and but as a very few, of the ftriking abfurdities of that law. ea Thefe animadverfions happened to fall in the eg ie way of fome perfons pretty high in adminiftration is at the time, who, inftead of endeavouring to cor~ crealind, er ages yq; f0 88