Note 26 — FREE TRADE AT ITS ZENITH.

Quarters of wheat and wheat-flour imported into Britain from 1807 to 1836, both inclusive:—

Quarters.

1807, 379,833

1808, —

1809, 424,709

1810, 1,491,341 *

1811, 238,366

1812, 244,385

1813, 125,559

1814, 681,333

1815, —

1816, 227,263

1817, 1,020,949 *

1818, 1,593,518 *

1819, 1,122,133

1820, 34,274

1821, 2

1822, —

1823, 12,137

1824, 15,777

1825, 525,231

1826, 315,892

1827, 772,133

1828, 842,050

1829, 1,364,220 *

1830, 1,701,889 *

1831, 1,491,631

1832, 325,425

1833, 82,346

1834, 64,653

1835, 28,483

1836, 24,826

1837, 244,087

1838, 1,834,452 *

1839, 2,590,734 *

1840, 2,389,732 *

*Bad seasons.

AVERAGE QUARTERS.

1801 to 1810, 600,946

1811 — 1820, 458,578

1821 — 1830, 534,292

1831 — 1835, 398,509

1836 — 1840, 1,992,548 **

**Five bad years in succession.

—Porter's Progress of the Nation, 137, 138, second edition.