... Edinburgh, Jan. 22. The Scarcity in the Weft Country is relieved by the Importation of a confiderable Quantity of Oatmeal and Potatoes, 50 Tons of the former arriving laft Week for the Ufe of the Inhabitants of Greenock ; but however favourable this was to ...

... we are 1 an undone Nation. * Laft Year's Froft is felt more fevere here than in other * Countries, having deilroy'd the Potatoes (which are tiie ' chief Support of our Poor) in fuch a manner, that the * lame Quantity we ufed to buy for Two pence Half-penny ...