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tain, agreed to by the committee of affociation for the county of York, at a moft numerous and refpectable meeting held here this day. It contains their juft acknowledgements of your lordfhip's diftinguifhed exertions in the generai caufe of parliamentary reformation; and expreffes their grateful thanks of your generous endeavours to accomplish a coalition on the principles adopted by this affociation, and other refpectable bodies in different parts of the kingdom.

Thefe, I beg leave to affure you, are the genuine fentiments of this committee; and not more warmly felt by any one member of it than by, my lord, &c.

Earl of Shelburne.

SIR,

C. WYVILL.

Borvood Park, 24 08. 1782. I was yesterday honoured with your letter of the 17th inftant: -The repeated approbation of the committee of the county of York, gives me perfonally the greatest atisfaction; and I am happy to

find nearly the fame opinions which I expreffed to this country laft year, more ably, as well as more fully, inculcated in the addrefs you do me the honour to inclofe to me. Their perfeverance muft command general refpect, and will, I truft, conquer every difficulty in fo found a caufe. As to myfelf, I am still ready to enter into the ftrictest and most unequivocal union with any public man or public body of men, who may be deemed, in point of national weight and opinion, competent to the effecting thofe important ends.

Words cannot exprefs how much I am alarmed at the public fituation at home and abroad; or my apprehenfions for what may be the refult.

The difinterefted zeal, as well as temperate conduct which you have fhown in the public fervice, has impreffed me with a refpec with which I muft always remain yours, &c.

SHELBURNE,

The Rev. Mr. Wyvill Chairman, &c.

The

The following authentic Extracts from the Corn-Regifter, are take from accounts collected from the Cuftom-house books, and delivered to Mr. John James Catherwood, by authority of Parliament.

An account of the quantities of all corn and grain exported from and imported into England and Scotland, with the bounties and drawbacks paid, and the duties received thereon, for one year ended the 5th of January, 1783.

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The following is an account of the average prices of corn in England and Wales, by the ftandard Winchester bufhel, for the year 1782.

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N. B. The price of the fineft and coarfeft forts of grain, generally exceed and reduce the average price as follows, viz.

Wheat. Rye. Barley. Oats. Beans.

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PRICES OF STOCK FOR THE YEAR 1782.

N. B. The higheft and lowest Prices which cach Stock bore during the courfe of any month, is put down oppofite to that month.

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SUPPLIES granted by Parliament,
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FORCES.

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Plantations, Minorca, and Gibraltar, &c.
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Clothing for the embodied militia in 1782

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Reduced officers of land forces and marines

Horse guards reduced

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rment of foot, in the East Indies, 1782

Pay and fubfidy for 13,472 Heffians

Deficiency and vote for Heffians, from 6 April to 24
December, 1781

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