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Some other causes must be taken into the account; and those which

have been above assigned, will, perhaps, without having recourse

to the supposed degradation of the value of silver, sufficiently

explain this rise in those particular sorts of provisions, of

which the price has actually risen in proportion to that of corn.

As to the price of corn itself, it has, during the sixty-four

first years of the present century, and before the late

extraordinary course of bad seasons, been somewhat lower than it

was during the sixty-four last years of the preceding century.

This fact is attested, not only by the accounts of Windsor

market, but by the public fiars of all the different counties of

Scotland, and by the accounts of several different markets in

France, which have been collected with great diligence and

fidelity by Mr Messance, and by Mr Dupre de St Maur. The evidence

is more complete than could well have been expected in a matter

which is naturally so very difficult to be ascertained.