Barley. Qrtrs. Bush. Malt. 200 Qrtrs. Bush. Qrirs. Qrirs. Bush. 466 Barnftaple 182 An Account of the feveral Sorts and Quantities of Corn, which have been exported from Christmas, 1734, to Christmas, 1735, alfo from what Places and Ports, and in what Quantities they have been exported; together with an Account of the Bounty that has been paid thereon. Ports. A Rundel Bounty. Oatmeal. Ryc. Wheat. Beaumaris 41 10 5 Bridlington Bristol 1127 185 43 1066 .8 554 Bridgewater 628 3 Chefter 12391 B 97 410 16 n 966 Chichester 603 4 11,339 2 8748 3941 4 Colchester 685 46 Cowes 689 2241 14 Dartmouth 2537 313 2 Dover 1429 4915 1057 Exeter 7693 1279 1134 12 1405 Falmouth 335 728 223 18 Harwich 622 1200 377 15 Hull 8063 3732 4 2231 Ipswich 864 7 394 2282 Liverpoole 49 54 17 991 Lynn Regis 5747 .6 7,411 2 549 6778 Maldon ·600 150 Milford $83 12796 4 778 9 396 Ports. Barley. Malt Oatmeal. Rye. Wheat. Bounty. Minehead Newhaven 285 2 898 Qrtrs. Bush. Qrtrs. Bush. Qrtrs. Bush. Qrtrs. Bush. 25 389 18 5523 II 1085 18 1821 3098 6 4 12 Wells 292 60,247 217 210 2 41 15 Weymouth 226 I 28 5 Wisbech 216 Whitehaven 42 16 3 5 6 Whitby 15 4 Yarmouth 9802 I. 92,374 494 5938 London 8914 6 2101 6 39 6 51 59,784 432 16,429 572,433 7190 26,434 18 240 I 10% 232 38,335 18 12 7 II λω Total 72,433 7} On Friday the 27th of February, the Houfe refolved itfelf into a Committee, to confider further of Ways and Means for raifing the Supply granted to his Majefty, the Surpluffes ftated at Lady-day and Michaelmas having been first referred to the faid Committee. As foon as Sir Charles Turner had taken the Chair, a Motion was made, That towards raifing the Supply granted to his Majefty, his Majefty fhould be enabled to borrow of any Perfon or Perfons, Bodies Politick or Corporate, any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding 600,000l. at an Intereft not exceeding Three Pounds per Cent. per Ann. by Loans to be charged upon the Surpluffes, Exceffes, or overplus Monies commonly called the Sinking Fund, redeemable by Parliament, Upon this Motion there was a long Debate, in which the chief Arguments for the Morion were as ufual. The Neceflity of raifing, fome Way or other, the Supplies neceffary for the current Service of the Year: The Impoflibility that there was of raifing them any other Way, but by throwing the Burden upon the landed Intereft, which would be most unreafonable, because that Interest had been for many Years overloaded, and obliged to contribute much more than their proportional Share towards the annual publick Expence: The abfolute uncontroulable Right the Parlia ment had to difpofe of the Sinking Fund yearly to fuch Purposes, as they fhould think most for the Benefit of the Nation in general: The Inconvenience of paying off too much of the publick Debts at once: The Unwillingness of the publick Creditors to receive their Money; and the fmall Intereft the Nation would be obliged to pay for what Money was neceffary to be borrowed upon the Credit of the Sinking Fund. To this the ufual Answers were made, That the Supplies neceffary for the current Service of the Year might have been greatly reduced, if fome Gentlemen had thought fit, in which Cafe they would not have been obliged either to throw an additional Burden on the Landed Intereft, or to incroach upon that Fund, which had always, till of late Years, been deemed facred to the Payment of our publick Debts: That if Words in an Act of Parliament could appropriate any Sum to a particular Ufe, the Sinking Fund was originally appropriated, in the moft exprefs Terms, to the Payment of the publick Debts contracted be. fore the Year 1716: And the only Power that was left to future Parliaments, by its original Conftitution, was to difpofe of it to the Payment of fuch of thofe Debts, as fhould at the Time be thought most necessary to be paid off: That it would be happy for the Nation, if they could pay off all their publick Debts at once: That the Unwillingness of the publick Creditors to receive their Money was a certain Sign of their having an advantageous Bargain, and was therefore a Demonftration, that it was the Intereft of the Publick to pay them off as faft as poffible; and that, tho' they might perhaps be able to borrow the Sum then proposed at Three per Cent. yet even at that Rate, it was adding to the future yearly Expence of the Nation a Sum of 18,000l. per Annum for ever, which, tho' perhaps a small Sum in the Eyes of a Gentleman who dealt in Millions, was however a Sum, that might thereafter be greatly wanted for the current Service of fome fucceeding Year. To this it was added, That, confidering the great Expence we had been at in the then cutrent Year, and and the great Expence we were like' | to be put to in the next for the Defence of a foreign Nation, they were furprised to find that no Subfidy had been received, nor any Sums like to be brought, at leaft to the publick Account, for anfivering the Expence "we had been, or were like to be at on that Occafion: That we found by Experience, no Nation would fo pofed to be meant, it was very well much as promife us any Affiftance, To the latter Part of this it was replied, That we had given no Affiftance, nor had lately put ourfelves to any Expence in the Defence of any Nation, but what we were obliged to put ourselves to, not only by the moft folemn Treaties, but even for the Sake of our Prefervation: The Queftion was then put for agreeing with the Motion, and carried in the Affirmative without a Divifion. After which the following Motion was made, and agreed to without any Debate, viz. That towards raifing the Supply granted to his Majesty, the Sum of Two Shillings in the Pound, and no more, fhould be raised in the Year 1736, upon Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, Penfions, Offices, and perfonal Eftates, in that Part of Great Britain called England, in Wales, and in the Town of Berwick upon Tweed; and that a proportionable Cefs (according to the ninth Article of the Treaty of Union) fhould be laid upon that Part of Great Britain called Scotland. And then a Bill or Bills were ordered to be brought in pursuant to the faid Refolutions. On Tuesday the 2d of March, a Pe That with Regard to the Nation fup-tition of the Mafter and Wardens of the the Company of Bakers in the City Bread which was the best Kind of of London, on Behalf of themselves, large Bread, (wherewith the Families and the rest of the Bakers within within the City of London, and Bills the Bills of Mortality, was prefented of Mortality, were daily ferved) was to the House, and read, fetting forth, made entirely of the first Sort of That the Meal-Weighers, who were Wheat mentioned in the Cockets Officers appointed to bring in the of the Meal-weighers; and the fe Prices of Wheat to the Magiftrates, cond Sort of Wheat contained in in order to affix the Affize of Bread thofe Cockers was not of a fufficient within the City of London, made Goodness to make fuch Wheaten their Cockets or Returns of the Prices Bread; nevertheless the Affize of of three different Kinds of Wheat, as that Wheaten Bread was afcertained fold at the Marker of Bear-key only; according to the Price of that fecond from which three Prices of Wheat Sort of Wheat, as returned by the the Affize of the three Sorts of Bread, Meal-weighers: And that the Peti diftinguished by the Names of White, tioners apprehended, that the Affize Wheaten, and Houfhold, was always of Wheaten Bread ought to be fertled afcertained: And that the best Kind according to the Price of the first of Wheat at Bear-key was generally Sort of Wheat mentioned in the fold in Parcels with Wheat of infe- Cockets of the Meal-weighers, being rior Quality, at one common Price; the very Grain, of which the Whea fo that the Meal-weighers were not ten Bread was made; and that the able to diftinguish the true and real Affize of the White Bread ought to Price of the best Kind of Wheat: be advanced in Proportion: And And that the first Sort of Bread in that, altho' the Expences attending the Affize Table, diftinguished by the Trade and Bufinefs of the Perithe Name of White Bread, being that tioners were greatly increased since Kind of Bread commonly called the making of the Table of Aflize, French Rolls, was of late Years great yet they had had no Allowance in ly improved; and in making fuch refpect to fuch Increase of Expences: White Bread, the Petitioners ufed And that by thefe Means much the only the finest Part of the Flower, greatest Number of the Petitioners produced from the choiceft Kind of were reduced to very low Circum→ Wheat, collected not from Bear-keyftances, and the most confiderable aonly, but from all the adjacent Mar-mongst them, notwithstanding all kers; and even fuch felected Wheat their Pains, Application, and Fruga afforded but a very small Quantity of lity, found their Subftance daily dimi that Sort of Flower, which was alfo nifhing; And therefore praying the ufed in making the finest Kind of Houfe to give Leave, thar. a Bill Pafte: And that, altho' the finest might be brought in for explaining Sort of Wheat mentioned in the and amending the Laws then in Be Cockers of the Meal weighers, wasing, for regulating the Price and Afnot of a Quality fine enough to make the first Sort of Bread, called White Bread, yet the Affize of fuch White Bread was fixed from the Price of the first Sort of Wheat inferted in thofe Cockets; and that the fecond Sort of Bread in the Affize Table, diftinguished by the Name of Wheaten fize of Bread, or to give fuch other Relief to the Petitioners in the Premiffes, as to the House should fee meet. This Petition having been referred to the Confideration of a Committee, and that Committee having on the 12th made a favourable Report, ? Gg Bill |