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We inſert an extra& from one of the publications of the Nativnal Taſtitute at Paris: It proves, that we Britons are ſo maweh more fortunate, than our “Neighbours, fhat while we ak of famine, they démogkrate its Py effcéts in tlie increaſe of mortality; whereas, it appears, no /uch. indica- tion of want of ſuſtenance, or of unwholèſonte food, has ever a PORTE in

England. P-

ARTREHMENTNICAT PROOFS OF THE NECESSITI E TOF ENCOU- RAGING“A GR FCUTETUR E; AND OF STEM, OFOPROCUNING GRAIN BY

By Añthonÿ Didünyèfè,“Afſocidted M,

of 4 s FT. 1s-well known, that‘in the- m Qus.“ſeaſons, during the winter of 1788-9, È tare of- the poor Was,‘in Londo, wheaten- bread, i De bran and oat-

tal were taken; 1n Paris mixed with fat, ànd for thöſe wheat, from whence they had reſt. Thus, bread farmec ſubſiſtence of the poor at than{at London; I call bor, 21) thoſe whe have ho and who, either.by reaſon of their age or their infirmitie procure themſelves the neceffaties of fe.

We know, at the ſame time, the government of TI Engla

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little“attention to the fubſiſtinc o of Todos. and that the ah government wére very attentive to that of Lyons, and more o

to that of Paxis. 2;

Let us now ſee, for forty years, what have been the effe&s of the greateſt care, of each govefnrment, for proviſioning, as well Paris, as L„yons, and Lyons, 9s Loñdon; and the éfffedts of the ſcarcity of corr on-the general mortality at London and at

Paris, and ofthe number of ſick and dead in the‘Motels Dieu of Paris and, 1b

T wou! d willingly compare directly the’ mortality-of Tondon and Lyons, and the number of-fick and déad iri the hoſpitals of London, with the ſime in the e) Dieu of Lyons and Paris. But Meſlance, who has- furniſhed me with my fats, makes no mention of the Mortality at Lyons; nor of the number of ſick or inthe hoſpitals of London; and I} have no where been able to find f fads ſo caſy to be colle@ted, and yet lo‘important,

I divide the forty years into beriods of 8 CAC a6 unite the five years, in which corn has been the eneral” mortality of the ſame years, for London and Paris,'and the: num= ber of ſick and die alſo| for thé ſame years at the Paris‘and Lyo+1 00d, at London; an incre price of grain, d»es not always Pogue an increaſe but always cauſes one Ls artis; and that at produces always an increaſe b þe oth of the fi

Bn Paris and Kk and dead’n

IVE hoſpitals; and reckoning the(1 Sr aS qual ty, I form he following ti: SAG. MAG: