PRECEDED BY

A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE STATE OF THE CORN TRADE

IN THE LAST TWO CENTURIES.

BY

THOMAS TOOKE, ESQ. F.R.S.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR

LONGMAN, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1838.

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

PART IV.

HISTORICAL SKETCH OF PRICES, AND OF THE STATE OF THE

CIRCULATION, FROM 1792 to 1837.

State of prices and of the circulation, from 1814 to 1818 -

SECT. 1. Fall of the prices of coin from the close of 1813 to the com-
mencement of 1816

> SECT. 2. High prices of exportable commodities in the spring of 1814

SECT. 3. Fall of prices between 1814 and 1817 of productions other

than those of corn

SECT. 4. Rise of the prices of co. in this country and on the Conti-

nent, from 1815 to the summer of 1817

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SECT. 5. Fall of prices of corn in this country and in France in the

summer of 1817, and the state of the corn trade till the close of 1818

SECT. 6. Prices of commodities from 1816 to the close of 1818

SECT. 7. State of the circulation from 1814 to 1818

SECT. 8. Summary of the preceding survey

CHAPTER VII.

State of prices and of the circulation, from the commence-

ment of 1819 to the close of 1822

SECT. 1. State of the question at the commencement of 1819, with a

view to determine upon the future footing of the currency

SRCT. 2. Markets for commodities from 1819 to 1822

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SECT. 3. Prices of agricultural produce from 1819 to 1822

State of prices and of the circulation, from the commence-

ment of 1823 to the close of 1827