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J :~ ~,T_ • I. L ~ presented a ion from Kirkby-tonsdale (Westmorland) apiAst toy alterattotrin the Corn Lawy--Ordered • to be printed. Sir E. KNATCIIIIPLL presented a similar Petition from Can terbury. Mr. BRQIJOILIII suggested the propriety of Honourable 31entbers abstaining front observations on the question of the Corn Laws, till it came regularly before them in the debate, which was fixed fur to-night. Sir E. KNATCIIBULL coincided in the couveniency of the course pointed out by the Honourable and Learned Gentleman. The Sheriffs of London appeared at the liar to present a Peti riga from the Corporation of London for a Revision of the Corn Laws. Alderman WOOD said, that though it was uncommon for the City of London to express their satisfaction at the measures of hirJ i‘lajesty's Government, yet they did so in this Petition respecting the measures for promoting tbe freedom of trade; but they ex pressed their inability to cope with the foreign manufacturer, with out sonic alteration of the Corn Laws. _ Mr. T. WI LSON supported the Petition. Mr. C. CA VF.ItT thought it unnecessary to put the country to the expense of printing the whole of the Petitions. Mr. BRIG HT thought the Petition ought to be universally kotnyn; and he hoped,.therefore, tlfere would be nu objection to the printing it. Mr. C. CA LVEUT explained. The Petition was brought up, read, and ordered to be printed. A Petition was presented from Lynn•cum• Warburton. • Mr. G !LEN FELL, referring to what happened in another place, trested some Member of weight would bring forward a measure for altering the Coronation Oath. Petitions were presented against alterations of the Corn Laws front Haddington, Atherstone, Bromsgrove • 11 Petitions from pa rishes in Norfolk ; also a Petition from the 'Millers in Norfolk, for protection to the tun. trade ; 10 Petitions were presented from Suf.' folkogainst alterations in the Corn Laws; similar Petitions were pre sented front Wemyss, in Fift. shire ; Glamorgan,Newbury,Banbury, Pomfret, Mayo, Bandon, Cork, Montrose, Arbroath, Brecbin, Shrophant, and tower. Mr. WESTER/I:gave notice of his intention to add a clause to the Bill now before the House, for rendering persons having per sonal property liable to serve on Juries, as well as persons of real property. Mr. DUSK ISSON presented a Petition from F,dinbitrgh in favour of a revision of the Corn Laws; similar Petitions front Bristol and Newcastle-upon-Tyne • also a Petition from the Mer chants of Bristol respecting corn bonded; a similar Petition was presented front Leith ; a Petition was presented from Greenock for a revision of the Corn Laws. Petitions against altering the Corn Laws were presented from Berwick ; fifty-one Petitions from Cambridgeshire and Bucks, Edinburgh, Devizes, four Petitions from Lincolnshire, Newark, Worksop, Retford, Marlborough, Salisbury, from the East Hun dreds of the County of Rutland, and three Petitions front Lin. coltishire. Mr. L FOSTER presented a Petition from the County of Louth, againt any alteration in the Corn Laws ; and another from the Millers of the stme County, praying for protection in the event of any alteration. Mr. II USK ISSON stated, in answer to a question put to him, that the importation of Foreign Corn would not be at all altered in the present Session. Sir T. LETHBRIDGE presented a Petition from the counties of Gloucester and Somerset, against any alteration in the Corn Laws. Mr. T. WILSON presented three Petitions front Leith, and one from the Litpurers on the River Thames, for a revision of the Corn Laws: Mr. N E 1V MA N presented a Petition front the southern part ei the cuuuty of Devon, against any alteration in the Corn Laws. Mr. H U ill E presented a Petition from the Guildry of Perth, in favour of a revision of the Corn Laws. Sir F. HARVEY presented a Petition from the Hundred of Rochford against tiny alteration in the Corn Laws. Mr. S. WORTLEY presented a Petition from Scarborough, to the same effect. The Honourable Member also presented a Pe tition front Sheffield, playing for an inquiry into the law between Landlord and Tenant. Mr. MONCK presented a Petition from Reading, for a revision of the Corn Laws. uJr. DENNISON presented a Petition from certain Millers of Great Britain, fur protection; and another from Lambeth, for the revision of the Corn Laws. Sir T. AC LA ND presented three Petitions from the vicinity of Exeter and Tiverton, against any alteration in the Corn Laws , 'o celot as related to the averages. Mr. COKE presented eleven Petitions front different places in the county of Norfolk, against any alteration in tke Corn Laws.— He differed front, m a his Constituents on this subject, as the king do was kept in ferment four times in the year, when the ave rages were taking. Should the price rise to als. or 82.5. the country would be inundated with foreign wheat; though of that he had no fear. Mr. FLEMING presented Petitions from the Isle of Wigbt and Southampton, the city of Winchester, Petersfield, Farnham, and other places, against any alteration in the Corn Laws. Sir G. NOEL presented a similar Petition from certain Free. holders in the county of Rutland. Mr. P. MOORE presented a Petition from Stockport, against the Revival of the Combination Laws. Lord G. CAVENDISH presented a Petition from the Owners of Land in the county of Chichester, against any alteration in the Corn Laws, but praying for an alteration in the mode of taking the Averages. He regretted the discussion of the subject at the present time. hlr. WILDMAN presented a similar Petition from the Eastern. Division of the county of Essex. Mr. WATSON supported the prayer of it. CORN LAWS. Mr. WOOLRYCHE WHITMORE, in presenting a Petition from the town of Davenport for a revision of the Corn Laws, said, it became his duty, in consequence of a notice I.e had given in the early part of the Ses sion, to submit to the House a motion on the important subject of the Corn Laws. Previously to doing so, he wished to state the motives which induced him to stir this subject ; not so much, however, from any regard to his own personal feeings, as to shew that he was not indifferent to the excitement which it created through the c unity. It must surely strike Honourable Gen tlemen, that if they wished to support a system of free trade, the present Corn Laws could not be continued : they must surly be aware that they could not call on the manufacturers to sacrifice their own immediate he m& to the promotion of free trade., although be (Mr. Whitmore) admitted that the manufacturers and the country would ultimately be benefited by the change, unless the full extent of the grievance under which they laboured from the Co. n Laws was redressed.— If that step were not taken, not only would the interests If trade generally be ruined, hut a great injury be ialicted on tLe country and on Europe. They would again see the whole of the body of agriculturists in. yt lved in the calamities from which they had re cently recovered—one of those fatal events which some time or other came on every country, and which was in. herrnt in the principle_ of oar Corn Laws—dearth and its aw.ul effects. The other ev Iv. as that of superabun stow ; and on these two grounds he conceived P4rlia ment ought to come to an immediate consideration of the questicin. He had sought the brst information on . and it went to so reduced Jock! be dilfi the quantity of consumption. he could not roos effects of iolence—they arid other cir but if they kept jug notions of most fatal con ;kiln that when natural market afforded, the other markets injurious results mr-r 7 9 P"' "—Fa This was proved by the returns lot the British Consults abroad, andiat other sources, that the •systenichf .. jurious effects upon tuhrseirtso . ~, . . only this, but had e died siiiilargweitilkiti ehewhere. Those trier espeAllified.the dt ing operation of a g et, and passed Oa.— - _ recurrence. Such had been the case wish Portugal and with Holland. The Corn Laws of England thus pro duced distress in other States, which was succeeded hy non-production, and we thus extended the ruinous in fluence of our impolitic measures to the whole of Europe. In a letter, of which he should read an extract, from a Gentleman of great respectability, and orie well ac quainted with trade, a resident of Poland, the effects of our Corn Laws upon the cultivation of that country .were truly depicted. The wilier was Mr. Bhren, of i antzic. The letter stated that the operation of the law was most disastrous to the Agriculturists, that it diminished production and • raised prices considerably; that the commerce of Poland with the Western Conn tilts of Europe was thereby nearly annihilated, and the trade of British Colonials reduced to less than one-half. The letter went on to say, that the/patter of wheat in Russia was 345. and in Bohemia 38s. which was to be accounted for by the decrease of the supply from Po land. The Polish Government, it added, were disposed to retaliate, but the writer augured little benefit from such a course. In another letter, Mr. Bhren stated that he possessed a patrimony on which his father usually kept a stock of from 100 to 150 sheep, that now he had 'lOOO sheep on the same estate. and that while wool main tained its present price he should pursue the same po licy. He did not grow Thore than half the wheat which he used to cultivate previously, and he was sure that most of his neighbours acted on the like principle as himself. It was therefore evident (said Mr. Whitmore), that wool would continue to be cultivated in preference to corn, while it ielded a greater profit ; and thus the prohibi . den of foreign grain from England produced a com plete change an the agriculture of all Europe—which would be felt at home in its most aggravated and alarming results, at no distant time, if an alteration of system were not adopted. But, besides the dearth which was thereby threatened, lie would ask the Hon. Gentleman, if our policy were continued, would it not lead foreigners to produce something else than corn, which would equally meet the British agriculturist in his own market? In consideration of this opinion, he should beg to refer to a document which he held in his hand, stating the returns of foreign wool, and which would sbew a most remarkable increase in the import ation of that article. For the five years previous to 1824, the average was upwards of 16 millions of pounds per annum, and in 1824 it exceeded 22 millions of pounds, making, in one year, an increase of more than six millions of pounds. If , therefore, Gentlemen would drive the Polish farmers to grow wool, could they hope to be able to keep up the price of wool at home? The Hon. Member then referred to the increase in the quantity of Foreign Tallow imported lately, and ob served that the same increase would be found in the Foreign Flax imported. The average of the latter, from 1811 to 1820, was 326,000 cwt. and in 1824 it was 147,096 cwt. Having now shewn the effect of the Corn Laws in causing fluctuation of price, and how its operation defeated its own object, he should now turn , to another and most important part of the subject, he meant the effect of the law upon the price of labour. There were two ways in which the high price of provi sions would operate—first, it would be thrown on the{ price of commodities; and secondly, the consequence I would be diminution of the rate of profit of the capitalists. l The object of Britain was to preserve her capital ; with that she could not only defy the other nations of the world simply, but as we had done when combined in a common league against us—(Hear). The valtie of our landed property was therefore contingent on !be reten tion of our capital, nor did any country ever t attempt to pursue the system on which our Corn L ‘ aws was founded, without reaping the bitter fruits of he experi ment. The example. of Holland was one in point.— If the Corn Laws were not modified, and justly too, a fatal stab would be given to the prosperity of the country. The time might be distant, but would infal libly arrive. The object of the present law was to raise the price of provisions, to the advantage of the more powerful class, at the expense of the other classes of the community. The object was to raise the rents, and that was well known to the public at large ; for the present was not an age of darkness, but of light and information. He knew that many persons contemplated the progress of education among the lower classes with alarm, but he anticipated no danger from it, unless , indeed, the present system should be continued. It was said that the Corn Laws of 1815 were founded on the principle of the old Corn Laws. That he denied. From the close of the American war down to 1815, the ports were virtually, if not nominally, open for the admis sion of grain. The alterations which he would propose would have for their object to place the trade on the same footing as that on which it stood previously to 1815, via. to leave the importation of Corn virtually, if not nominally, free, subject to the payment of such an amount of duty as shciuld cover the peculiar burdens which pressed peculiarly on the landed interest. He was not disposed to undervalue those burdens, for he was himself connected with the landed interest; nor would he so undervalue them if he were not so con nected. The burdens which were usually considered as pressing peculiarly on the landed interest were the Poor Rates, Tithes, the Land Tax, and the Rates on Highways. In 1823, . the Poor Rates amounted to 7,0.0,0001. out of which several other payments were made—the County Rates, amongst others, he believed. The Tithes for the same year amounted to 5,000,0001. in England and. Ireland ; the Land Tax to 1,210,1271. the Highway Rates to 2,000,0001. making a total of 15,210,1271. He might, however, be under-rating the amount, and he would, therefore, rake it to be 18,000,0001. He would now state the amount of duties l which would &seer these burdens. Tile con umption of coru was calculateJ at about 14,000,000 quarters. He proposed to fix a duty of 10s. per quarter on the imp rtation of corn, which would increase the price to that amount, which on 14,000,000 quarters, would give 7,000,0001. On the importation of barley, he would fix a duty of ss. which, as the consumption was 14,000,000 quarters, would give 3,500,0001. On the importation of oats, he would fix a duty of 3s. which, lon a consumption of 20,000 000 quarters, would give 1.000.0001. An advance in the price of any article of agricultural, produce always produced a corresponding use in the price of other articles. He had, therefore, g right to calculate that the rise in the price of grain which would result ftorn a duty of 10s. on its im portation, would cause an advance in the price ,of grass and vegetable produce to the extent of , . 0 '.71F ,7,1; .....~ i si•ould rise Wis.- Jahat decline. Those persons who were so alarn. at the prospect of the opening of the ports had not profited from experience. - Last year the importation of oats was allowed, in consequence of their having rached the import price of 275. Ih e amount imf ported was 488,000 quarters ; yet that had oc casioned any great-depression in the market, for the importation took place in Augat. and in September the-price was 215.-in October 225.-and in Novem ber 235. He did not believe that at the present mo ment there were more than a million quarters of corn in the shipping ports of the Continent, and that would nut all be imported into England; for Spain and Portugal, which were at present almost in a state of dearth, would compete with us in the foreign market. The system which he wished to proceed upon, theN was shortly this-When the price of corn in this coun• try was at 555. he would admit foreign wheat at a duty of 10s. and go on as the price fell ss. in the quarter, adding ,ss. more to the duty ; so that when corn was 555. the duty would be 10s. a quarter ; when it was 509. it would be 15s. at 4.55. 20i. and at 40s. it would go as high as 255. A plan like this might be adopted, he was convinced, without any of the ill consequences which were appre hended : if Gentlemen doubted that, let them lock eery briefly at the probable rate at which (duty apart) foreign corn would be able to be sold here.- At Rotterdam-a point about equally distant from the great exportation ports on the Continent with ourselves -the average price of foreign corn sold in Rotterdam, for the ten years ending in 1824, had been 475. 91d. a quarter. In one year, the price had been up at 935. but there were four years in which it was very I,w. Again, to take the average prices of corn in New York -the average for the last five years was 38s. a quarter; add to this 12s. or 14s. a quarter for freight and insur ance, and New York wheat could not be sold in Eng land (duty free) under 50s. Then, taking the average rate at which foreign wheat could come to England to be from 455. to 525. the quarter, 10s. a quarter duty upon that was as high a tax as he could feel justified in imposing; nor did he believe that there was any foundation for the fears of the agriculturists, that under such circumstances very enormous importations would be made. From a return which was lying on the table of the House, it would appear that the whole amount of corn imported (of all kinds) from the year 1800 to the year 1825, was about 12,578,000 quarters; this amounted upon the average to less than 600,000 quar ters a year ; and out of those twenty-five years so taken, five had been years of great scarcity--1801, when the price in England had been 115 s. 1810, when it had reached 1035.1817, when it was at 945. and 1816, when it was 935. Bd. Of this fact he was quite certain-no, time for getting rid of our existing system could be more favourable than the present. Hon. Gentlemen raid-" Defer it until there is a necessity ; defer it until we have a season of dearth." He was quite sure that the agriculturists would never get that cool attention paid to their rights in a time of scarcity which they might command at present. Fer the interest of the landholders generally, be was averse to putting off the question for a single day ; for it- it only happened thit we had a scanty crop, they must discuss it next year, subject to existing high prices; and to treat it at all under such circumstances, they might rely on it,would be highlydisadvantageous to theta. The Hon. Gentleman, after adverting shortly to the ques tion of the earn averages, upon which, be said, be doubted if so much fraud existed as was supposed, and farther, that it would be easy to take such measures as would prevent the possibility of any fraud at all, moved-" That the House should resolve itself into a Committee to consider of the preserit state of the Corn Laws." Mr. GOOCH thought that no case sufficiently strong had been made out by the Honourable Member. for Bridgenorth, to warrant the House in disturbing a sys tem which gave equal satisfaction both to the grower , and the consumer. The average price of Corn in Eng land, for the last six years, had been 58s. 3d. and it was impossible for the agriculturist, burdened as be was, to farm his land at a lower price. All he desired was to ensure a remunerating price; and he thought that 60s. would be sufficient. Paying such heavy exclusive taxes as he did, the home farmer could never compete with the foreign grower; and, as he objected to agitating the country upon a point as to which at present it was perfectly quiet, he should sit down by moving the previous question. Lord OXMANTOWN opposed the motion. Mr. HUSKISSON said, he concurred with his Hon. Friend (Mr. Whitmore) in the general principle that the trade in corn ought to be conducted on the same liberal policy as was adopted with regard to the other branches of the commerce of the country ; nor did he for a moment deny that the question was of consider able importance, yet he did not think the present time favourable for its introduction. His opinions on the Corn Laws were, he believed, not nnkcown to the House and the country. They were on record in the Report of the Committee of 1821, and since then be had seen no reason to depart from them-( Hear). There were few Gentlemen, he believed, who were once disposed to differ from this Report, but would now be found to concur in its general conclusions but while they admitted these, there might, he adet ed, be still a great difference as to the time, mode, and degree of making any alteration in the laws as they now stood. He did not mean to chew any disrespect to the respectable class of individuals whose Petitions had' been preiented that evening against any alteration in the present Corn Laws ; but he could not shut his eyes to the fact, that some of those very Petitioners had heretofore preyed the House to have those laws recon sidered and revised, as not affording sufficient protectioo. We were now in the tenth year of peace, and it was nal unreasonable to expect that the price of corn here could not continue so much above that at which it might be procured at the ports on the Continent. For 40 years this country allowed a free trade in corn, and for every year of that time we imported a quantity more or less from the continent. That importat or bad been dis icontinu•d for the last six years. during which, we did not receive from abroad any addition to-our home sup ply. This interruption created one of the greatest dif ficulties under which we were called upon to revise the present corn laws ; for the consequence of the interrup tion was a great accumulation of corn in all the countries 'from ninth we were in the habit of importing. To this was to be added, that since we had ceased to import corn, our harvests at home had been more than usudlly productive ; and he believed the same might be said at the other corn couwi ie. of &mope. There was then a I r g ' 7ll!C" , ,~, 7 7 ~ - ç in the stoelk of corn on hand in all the con- 'from which we had usually imported, and mther increased by the fact that Spain and ‘itating our example, had latterly received usual supply from the northern parts. all these circumstances was, that the sup present so much beyond the demand in many -, ean ports, that in some corn did not produce fourth - iiithe average prices of the last 40 years, before they had ceased to export corn to this country (Hear). • From returns whicti.he had.seen, it appeared - that the average price in Dantaic for the last 40 yeatS, before , importation to this totintry Was interrupted, WAS 455. and a fraction. It must then be evident that anything: much below that price would be a loss to the grower, It would be unfair to infer the real cost price, at tlre. present day, from what the corn would fetch in the market. Ana her view of the question was, that some of the collieries from oltich we had formerly tmportest grain, having no other vt.nt for their stoplus produce: but what our wants, under particular tircumstancese might create, would disc. ntinue to grow corn, and em ploy their lands to some more profitab'e purpose; and that thus the surplus in the market would remedy •tself. His Honourable Friend had stated, on the rancho:4y of several letters from the Continent, that this had al-' ready been the case in some places—th it many indivis• duals had discontinued the cultivation ‘f corn, and hsfd laid down their lands under pasture for large If •cks of sheep. As he was on this subject, I.e would say that the tax on foreign wool, which had now happily ceased to exist, was a source of injury to the woollen manu facturers of this country. In consequt rice of trot find-' ing a market for their produce here, the wool growtrs of Silesia, and some parts of Germany, est tblished ma nufact, ries for coarse cloths, which u ere sold at a more reduced price than we could sell them, and the sale of them in the American market produced a curl, ' etition • injurious to our trade. The removal of the tax on fo reign wool, however, remedied that evil. As soon as it could be imported here, it rose in price to the maim- • facturers abroad, from 23 to 33 florins. We were thus • enabled to compete with them, and in a short time drove them from their own and the American market. That there were incouveniences attending the system in • whichever way we treated it, he did not deny, but they were the necessary result of the system which we had adopted in 1815—of that alteration of free trade and monopoly to which that system necessa•ily exposed us, and which he would shew, before he sat down, could not afford a permanent advantage to any party. Some thought the home grower ought to have a monopoly' up to a certain price, and that above that there should be at free trade; but then the question came—at what should the free trade begin ? His Honourable Friend the Member for Suffolk (Mr. Gooch) had in a fair and candid manner said, that looking to the alteration of circumstances since 1815, he should consider the prohi bition of corn at 60s. as quite sufficient to afford as fair a remunerating price to the British grower as 80r. did in the year 1815. This, however, was au admission con trary to the sentiments of the Petitions which he (Mr.. Gooch) had that evening presented. It was a fair and honest admission that the time was not far d.stant be yond which the present system could not be conti nued. One mode suggested• would thus be to pro hibit importation as long as corn did not exceed 605.. here ; and another was to have the ports constantly open, with such a duty as would afford a protection to the English farmer. If, however, the reduction were made to 601. the whole of the accumulation of the ports of the Continent would be thrown upon the country. What the eff.tct of that would be, he would' not attempt to describe, though he did not partake of the general fears entertained on the subj hear). The circumstances of the pres:Ait day which' prevented an attempt to alter the Corn Laws, were so forcibly alluded coin the Report of the Commi tee-of 1821, that he was induced tee trouble the House with the extract. After suggesting the propriety of a trade; in corn, open to all nations in the world, subject only to a fair protecting duty, the Committee proceeded to say—" In suggesting this change of system for further consideration, as a possible improvement of the Corn Laws at some future time, the Committee are fully aware of the unfitness of the present m^ment for at tempting such a change, when, owing to the general abundance of the late harvers in Europe, and to the markets of this country having been shut against foreign , con for nearly thirty months, a great accumulation has taken place in the shipping ports on the Continent, and in the warehouses of foreign corn in this country; and when that accumulation, from want of any vent, is held. at very low prices, and might tend still further to de press the already overstocked markets of this country,• if allowed to be introduced at this period, wept at such a high rate of duty as k would be inexpedient to attempt, and moreover very difficult to determine. The present market price of the corn thus accumulated is not the measure of the cost at which it has been pro duced, or of the rate at which it can be afforded by the: grower, but the result of a general glut of the article, of a long want ordeirsand, and of extreme distress and heavy loss on the part of those by whom it has been' raised, and of those by whom it is now held, either in the' warehouses of the Continent or of this conflict y." It was here evident that the difficulties which at present existed were fully contemplated by the Committee four yearsago. The Act of 1815 was passed under circumstances very different from those which now existed. We were at the tithe shut out from many ports of Europe, and at war with America. Having said the present time was not• the most fit for such an alteration, it was n( t for him to' assert that the whole of the difficulty would be removed by the next Session. Difficulties he was prepared to. expect; but they were not such as in his opinion might, not be overeume. Looking back to another great sea- • sure—he meant the law for regulating the currency of the country, against which insuperable difficulties were supposed to sotist--he remembered what had been ob served by the Honourable Member for Taunton ( Mr. A. Baring), that those seeming difficulties should not deter the Legislature from coining back to the sound: principle of political economy. That great) measure , was carried, and the result had fully justified the wis-- 'dogn which dictated its enactment. So he trusted Fr. would be found with the present question. He dioadil in the next Session be prepared to concur in some mea-• sure which would fix the duty at a certain rate, to be gra-- dually reduced, so as that the supply from foreign cuun- Aries nrighe by degrees come so its fair level. He could not beieve the stock of corn or. hand at home to be great. Indeed, the high price at this season, induced him to , think that the supply was little if anything beyond the demand ; and it walnot at all improbable, that before the 15th of Augustatext, i 5 th; Corn Law% were allowed' Ito remain in their present state, we might before that period have the whole of the foreign markets pour'nt • • 11. 71 111 I I MI 11. • , MNOMEiet Mr. GREEN preser . ) 1 . this suhject botn at home and abroad, an prove that it a period of dearth arrire.l, •, 1 . I . sswa the eol4ivAtion of Europe, that it we I ' colt. for us or the v h .le world to obtain th i •. ,* :con aeceitary to supply •otlr ordinary t i.. Ala did oor...vvith to alarm the cow i t t Yr h .' 1 .,. •,. 1 preten Ito fix any term when t he disasto tile present law should be felt in all • their vi miAht be averted by seasons of plenty , a 1 , . . cumstances„. tor a considerable period ; bn Aty. a rincipla so at variance with all it i trade, the period would an ire when the m stquwntts might ensue. It was quite cert. a coantry like. Engl'ond, which was the no , . i • ,44 Wow oasismes, shut out she sow] y they. r ' t listrodanteas6 those nations: tell back upon or and caused a 'hit, with its neeessa 't ' •ti y mit _ , law on the table from 5,000,0001. Those items added together would mak great increase i * kn ew hi mse lf , fly 8000,00.. which more:- than cepred the„lstsdetu tinental ports . *bich rested .exclusieely upon Af litalt-lAter . this was farth ltadli f td the mdit'' 'hey lui .oaurope, and not , • •. • —He wii. 4 aTeure that "id* alteration woidthe Portugal, imit im s ilar4proisibitory laws Viewed with (head, al itgeoubt ct the qttintit' ,015. 19ss than their . :. milereed,the deteriorat- c orn which.was said to hetolleited,in foreign pods i /The result of I A 1: secl laws to prevents it; bathe was of opinion filar- the--ialae*-.wasgrou s, plyiWas at pre ft the pr Ice of corn would find its level; f Cofn of'the Europe.' . ...ft.,. 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