Letter to the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Melbourne on the Cause of the Higher Average Price of Grain in Britain than on the the Continent

by Sir George Grant Suttie

BARONET, OF PRESTON GRANGE.

EDINBURGH:
PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS.
1839.

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EDINBURGH:

Printed by Andrew Shortrede, Thistle Lane.

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LETTER.

The average price of grain in Britain has, for a long series of years, been higher than in the neighbouring countries of Europe. It is of the utmost importance to ascertain the cause or causes of this higher price. The following appear to be the principal:—1st, Scarcity, the effect of monopoly; 2d, The higher rate of taxation in this than in the neighbouring nations; 3d, The higher rate of the real wages of labour in this than in the other countries of Europe.