mostly in the Country, it may probably be of rather a better Quality. The Milk is always given in its genuine State to the retail Dealers, and is sold to them under Twopence halfpenny per Quart, for which they obtain Fivepence, this Profit* is surely large enough to

Not satisfied with this Advantage, which, considering the difference of Measures, is above 100 per Cent. it is usual for the Retailers to carry the Milk to their own Houses, where it is set for half a Day, when the Cream is taken from it, at least all that comes up in that Time, and it is then sold for new Milk. By which means, what is delivered in the Morning, is no other than the Milk of the preceding Afternoon, deprived of the Cream it throws up by standing during that Time. By this Process a farther Benefit accrues to the Retailers, and the Milk is greatly reduced in point of Strength and Quality. This Cream, poor as it is, they again mix with Flour, Chalk, and perhaps other more baneful Ingredients, and yet it finds a ready Market in the METROPOLIS.

Five or Six Men only, are employed in attending near Three Hundred Cows. As one Woman cannot milk above Eight or Nine Cows, twice a day, that part of the Business, would considerably Extend the Cowkeepers Expence, but the Retailer agrees for the Produce of a certain Number of Cows, and takes the Labour and Costs of Milking, on himself.

Every Cowhouse is provided with a Milk Room (where the Milk is received and served out by the Cowkeeper),

prevent, even the smallest Incitement to adulterate it, and much is it to be lamented, that no Mode has been yet devised, to stop the many Impositions practised in the Sale, of this necessary Article of Life.

The Yearly Consumption of Wheat in LONDON, is about Nine Hundred Thousand Quarters, each containing Eight WINCHESTER Bushels. This Essential Commodity, has been,

which is generally furnished with a Pump to which the Retail Dealers apply in Rotation, and dilute the Milk at their Discretion, this is not done secretly, but before any Person who may be standing by. The Pump is expressly placed there for that Purpose, and indeed is seldom used for any other. A considerable Cowkeeper in Surrey, has one on his Premises, which goes by the name of the Farmers Black Cow, (from its being painted of that Colour), and is said to yield more than all the Rest put together. Where there is no such Convenience, Things are much worse, for in that Case, the Retailers are not even careful to use clean Water.

Ten Thousand Acres of Ground, handy to the METROPOLIS, are cultivated for Vegetables, and near Five Thousand for Fruit. The Sum paid at Market for Vegetables Annually, is about 645,000l.; and for Fruit, 400,000/. independent of the increased Price of the Retailers, which, on an Average, is more than Two hundred per Cent, making the entire Charge of the above Articles for the LONDON Supply, upwards of Three Millions Sterling.

and is liable to numerous equivocal Causes, for its full or scanty Appearance in the London Market. From a Letter which appeared October, 1811, in the Newspaper published at Boston, Lincolnshire, the Extract is taken, and the Author seems to Explain many points, that influence the Value of Bread Corn, to the general Consumer.

"In the different Remarks which have fallen under my Notice, upon the subject of the Causes for the Dearness of Corn, the Writers have not appeared to preserve a proper Distinction, between the Intervention of bad Seasons, and the progressive Advance in Price, after the most plentiful Harvests.Last Year is acknowledged to have been abundant, for Quantity and Quality; still, the Price averaged nearly one-third more, than it did a few Years ago. It must, therefore, be presumed, that there are some operative Causes existing, which have not been sufficiently attended to-and the common worn-out Topics to excite Discontent, have been revived against the private Merchants (as combining to advance by a Monopoly, the Scarcity) who by the Stocks they occasionally hold, are enabled to consign Corn at a

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considerable Risk, to those parts of the Kingdom, which consist of large Manufacturing and populous Districts, and whose Consumption exceeds their own Produce, or to support the enormous Population of the METROThe private Merchant in the Country, is regulated in Buying, by the Prices of MARK-LANE, which is, to him, and the Grower, the general CORN BAROMETER. The Fluctuations which that imperious Market is subject to, are affected by the daily Supply; and in doubtful Seasons is agitated by public Opinion, which is often corrected by the Exertions of the Merchant, who engages in large Importations, and thereby checks the Impulse of Speculation, and thus whilst in the pursuit of his particular Advantage, he benefits the whole Community. But the most mischievous Interposition proceeds, from the vast Demand of the PUBLIC CONTRACTOR, who not only dictates the price to MARK-LANE, but intercepts in the Country those liberal Supplies which would otherwise be more than adequate to the regular Demand and Consumption.-After the dire Continuance of so wasteful a War, it is impossible to be at a Loss to account, for the progressive Dearness of the NECESSARIES OF LIFE, which will be

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come more oppressive to the whole Country, the longer it is persevered in. The unnatural Value of the PRODUCE of the LAND, will recoil upon the POSSESSORS of the large hereditary landed Interest, who presume upon the present RENTS, as if they were a CERTAIN PERPETUITY.

It has been frequently observed, that when a Fall has taken place in the Price of WHEAT, there has been no proportionate Reduction in that of FLOUR. When WHEAT has sold at a Trifle more than Ten Shillings a Bushel, FLOUR has been so high as Fifteen. No honest Cause can be assigned for the Difference; no Pretext of Scarcity can be urged to palliate the Extortion: it is barefaced, unqualified Fraud, and imperatively calls on the LEGISLATURE, for Retribution and Redress.

Mr. S. WYATT, in his Depositions before the CORN and FLOUR Committee of the CITY, some Years since, stated a Belief, the Result of Sixteen Years Experience, that "FLOUR might be sold Eightpence per Sack lower, than the Average price of WHEAT (allowing for the Expence of Carriage), and if ground upon the Spot, the Difference might be still