[548] Duncumb, General View of the Agriculture of Hereford, p. 140.
[549] Tooke, History of Prices, ii. 4.
[550] Farmer's Magazine (1817), p. 69.
[551] The duties were often evaded by smuggling; coasting vessels met the foreign corn ships at sea, received their cargoes, and landed them so as to escape the duty.
[552] Agricultural State of the Kingdom, p. 5.
[553] Observations for the Use of Landed Gentlemen (1817), p. 7.
[554] Defence of the Farmers, &c. (1814); and Parliamentary Reports, v. 72.
[555] Agricultural State of the Kingdom, p. 64.
[556] Ibid. p. 105.
[557] The agricultural horse tax was repealed in 1821, the tax on ponies and mules in 1823.