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corn to the mull, and get one fifth of the weight abftracted by the miller for grinding.—Nore. The bill introduced fome

ume ago by Sir Francis Bañflet, on this fubject, feemed well

calculated to remedy the complaints of the poor people, and.

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encourage the confumption of bread corn*,

My Supplement to your late Father’s Work is now finifh- ed; in which I have ventured to fuggeft fuch farther re- gulations, as have occurred to me, to be neceflary for im- proving the fyftem of our Corn Laws, and for rendering the produce equal to the increafing confumption of the kingdom. It was alfo my intention to develope the caufes, which, in ad- dition to the errors in that fyftem, have, of late years, occafioned a fcarcity of bread corn in Great Britain; and I have endeavour- ed to prove, that,in a country rapidly advancing in wealth and refinement, the encouragement of Agriculture is not only ne-

cefary for fecuring the continuance of the national profperity,

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tional weight of ftandard bread, made from the weight of flour, in Sir George Young’s experiment, I find them to correfpond exattly, calculating, therefore, the ac- tual"produce of bread from the bufhel of my wheat, by the dafa in Sir George’s ex- periment, the baker’s profit on the bufhel amounted to 4s. 6d. over and above the legal allowance of 15. 6d. and the value of the bran.

* Since the above fheet went to prefs, a bill has been brought into the Houfe of Commons, from the Committee on Corn, for regulating the allowance to be taken by millers for grinding,&c.

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