CGI.
226- Agriculture.[March
year enfuing:--Sir W. M. Milner, Bart. M. P. Prefident; H. M. M. Va- vaſour, and B. Agar Eſq.s, Vice-Prefſidents; Thomas Hartley»Eſq. Trea- ſurer; Mr. D. Tuke, Secretary.--
COMMITTEE.---Mr. G. Addirrell, Tadcaſter; H. J- Baines, Efq Mr. T. Armttrong, Spring-Houſe; C. Crompton, Eſq-. Nun-Monkton; Mr. M.: Croſs, Lanzton; Mr. G. Hardwicke, Burton-Houſfe; T. Hartley Efſq«' York 3; Mr. J- Hartley, Tadcaſter; Mr. Haßel; H. Plumer, E34. Bilton; Mr. T. Kendal, Fulford/; Mr. W. Laycock, Appleton; Mr. T Laycock;* ditto; Mr. J- Milner, Biſhoptborpe; Rev. Mr. Read, Sand-Hutton;'Mr. Rocliffe, Eaſingwold; J. Tweedy, KEſqg. York; Mr. J. Tuke, York; TT." Kendal, Efq. Neſs; S. Croft, Elq. Stillington; Mr. Dowket, Salton*?
"The filyer medal of this Society was voted to Mr. J. Tuke, for'his ſer-' vices as Secretary".!
The Committee are deſired to meet at the York-Tavern, on Thürſday,' zth day of April next.
Additional Subſeriptious received.,
Abm Dig 4| DEE dd H. M. M. Vivaſour, Eſqg. 1 1 o Mr.T. Hodgſon, Harley Mr. Nicholſon, Gibton RE JE(addition) G915 6 Mr. M. Wilkinſon, Owfton 9 10 6| Mr.J. Cartwright, York 6 16 6
Mr. Wharram, Overton 0 15 6 Low Price vf Corn. j
At a,meeting convened for the„purpoſe of taking into conſideration the 1ow price of Corn, and held, purſvant to advertifement,'at the Rein Deer. inn, in the city.of Lincoln, on Friday, tbe 24th day.of February laſt, John“ Harriſon, Eſq. M P. in the chair; it was, amongſt other things,.
Reſolved, That-.a Petition(a copy whereof is here-under written) ſhould" be preſented to the Honourable the Houſe of Commons. I 4
<< To the Honourable rhe Commons of the United Kingdom of Great.
Britain and Ireland, in Parliament aſlembled.,
“« The humble Petition of the Land-Owners, Barley-Growers, and others intereſted in the growth of corn, of the caunty of Lincoln, whoſe names are hereunto ſubſeribed--
Sheweth, That your Petitioners have ſeen, with a conſiderable degree of alarm, the Price of Barley for ſome time paſt greatly decreaſing, with an increaſing diMculty in the ſale of it, even at a price below what will repay* them the'expences they are at in the growth of it, and at'the very intreaſed price of' labour and the heavy charges of taxes and parochial rates, and* apprehend, that unleſs ſome means are adopted by the Legiſlature to render 2he ſale more eaſy, with ſome advznce in the price, that they will be obliged* to change the ſyſtem of cropping their land, which they have purſued with much advantage to theniſelves and the public tor many years paſt. a
Your Petitioners humbly repreſent to this Honourable Houſe, that they“, apprehend the great and rapid decreaſe in the price,"and dullneſs in the fale* of barley is in ſome meaſure owing t6 the late new and heavy duty on malt; which bas reduced the conſumption amongſt the farmers and middling claſs* of houſekeepers, and has alſo made a conſiderable number'of'perſops with ſmall capitals, who uſed to toltow the buhnels of maltſters, entirely relinquiſh the trade, from their capital not being ſuficient to enable them to advance the preſent high duty on the quantity'of malt ſüfhcient to ſupply their cuſ- omers- till the time of malting alter the next harveſt, which has taken an great number of buyers out ot the market, yet has deſtroyed that competition' which uſed greatly to facilitate the ſale, and contribute to keep the price at 2 fair ſtandard betwixt the grower and the conſümer; which circumſtatnees;. together with the decreaſe in the demand for the conſumption of“ the malt- diſtillers, occaſioned, as your Petitioners conceive, by'the' ijiimportation/'6f raw:ſpirits at a price below what the Engliſh malt-diltillers-can,“under'the high exiſting duties, afford to ſell 6hem to the rcfiners; and tlieir being Müt