1804.] Agriculture,“- 2977:

out from any foreign market,-by the high duty upon Britiſh Spirits, has together(0.much,reduced the conſumption of barley and malt, that-unleſs meaſures are adopted by the Legiflature to quicken the ſale and increaſe the demand, by allowing a drawback on the exportation of Britiſh Spirits, to induce the Engliſh malt-giftillers to conſume a greater quantity of'barley» your petitioners apprehend that there,will be a-confiderable quantity, ot the laſt year!s crop left unſaleable upon the hands of the grower; a circumſtance which muſt operate very ſtrongly in reducing the quantity of corn'grown in fyture years.;

- Your Petitioners beg leave further to obſerve; that from the'great change the corn-trade bas undergonte within thele'laft ten years, the a& paſſed in'rhe: 31ſt of his preſent Majelty, for the regulation of the export and import of corn, is wholly inadequate to the purpoſe intended by the Legiſlature, and in many. inſtancus operates very ſtrongly to reduce the: price'ot all orts of corn, much below what they can be"fforded at under he exiſting eircum- ſtances, and conſegriently to diſcourage the growth of corn in this'country.

<« Your/Petitioners, therefore, humbly pray, tbat this Hopourable'Houſe will take the above matters into their early and moſt ſerious confiderationy and by a reviſion of the corn laws, and by regulations in the revenue daws, reſpe&ing the malt and maltidistillers, adopt fach meaſfüres-as'may Appeal to the wiſdom of the Houſe, the'belt calculated to-eneoufage'the growrh ofy corn in this Kingdom, as the beſt meäns of'prevebting thereturn of/thote/hen- vy loſſes by bounries, and the purchafe ot foreign'cörn, whichthe naton) fal?! täined in the lalt deficiency in the growth of corn, for th& ſupply ofchehome/ conſumption of the county. And yourPctitioners will for ever pray,&&c.8c."'

Which petition now lies for ſignature, at the'Rein Deer" inn,, aforeſaid.=> Copies are alſo forwarde" to Gainſborough, BriSz, Grimiley, Barton, Caiſ- tor, Raiſin, Louth, Horncaſtle, Alford, Sleaford, Grantham, Stamford, and Boſton. Lincoly,-2n4 March, 1804.

Malt Duties.

At a meeting of the land-owners, land-occupiers, aud" maltſters, of the county.of Eſſex, convened tor the purpoſe of taking into conlideration"a pe- tition 10 Parliament, on the ſnbject of the high duties on malt, the inequali- ty of duties on the Engliſh 204 Irifh diſtiller, the prefent operation öf", the corn-a& of the 31ſt of bis preſent Majeſty, and oflier matters rclative there- to, held at the Black-boy inn, at Chelmsford, on Friday, tbe& gth ot March, the Right Hon Lord Braybrook, the lord lieutenant of the county, in tlie chair; the following petition was moved by Charles C. Weſßern, Eiq.

«« To the honourable the Houſe of Commons, of the unitcd kivgdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament aſſembled.

« The humble PETITIONs of the land owners, Jand-occupiers, and maltſters, of the county of Eſſex. «<cSHEWETH»

«That your Peritioners, the land-owners, land-occupiers, aed maltſters, of the county of Eſſex, have ſeen with great anxiety and conccrn, that fhe pre- ſent operation.of the corn-laws, combined with certain other cauſes, to which they humbly entreat the attention of this honourable Houſe, is likely to affe& materially the agriculture of this kingdom, and has already occa- Nioned to your Petitioners Very confiderble injury.

«« Your Petitioners venture to declare their opinion, that the provſions of the lalt corn-a&t, of the 31lt of his Majeſty's reign, are wholly unſuited to the prelent times; that referring to the export and import prices of that act,* and calculating the expence 6f cultivation at 1ba? period, compared with the preſent, it will evidentiy appear that the rates tbaus etablilhed cannot now by any means apply; they therefore molt humbly bope that the fame may be reviſed and altercd.

<< Your Petitioners allv apprehend, that the late' very heavy additional duties on Mält and beer, have in a great meaſure decrealed"the conſumption

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