Star. — London, England, 1801-12-15 00:00:00

II • he PL.nfc Ins r ',uncial view, ft end had fuppofed he, I admitted that to at- had it that or.trat ioal, I of the Diflilleries tOn • the defalcation to the It e me l r, , .sefisrawal. a :them duty on acoonnt &eh, zits, to the anasoint of ; of the real lots totly, krvm : but this _was too ea:ILL:T..' I Peel its a narrow matte r a Thera wasannthei millehhre, 'lend had fall en, to Whidi T en : his Friena, from a:11,.. t and lintdable fulAlittfte • for the il;:alea• O mull be felt by tft - P lei* of train, by .aos. erl i wz 14 44 Upon aim occ i i - Friend did, find no confid e al';'oontenhaet 411 T NI , 4 4 him (mkt givlnghis fupp,, r MOlitfes, Wile thought that i tratintereffs of the coinmunity l e d that the gentral it:tariff o uld not be preferred by the en on. Friend recommeeded to d , fres. The true inteteffs of di. ed molt particularly an encou It ammufaeurer and the gro Illy cortneacd with the *grit on theprofperi t y and itepr o mded fo materially the *4 1 44 of the community. . The ega. ;as a trade that could be eta l which was much inferior to ifpenfably necelfary to fupport tion of Grain. The trade of [(Attires was inferior in every re liffillation • the apparatus we e fo was ahnoll every thing in &filiation of Grain- The aif as a trade which might be rair , whereas t4ofe win ditha;. do no loch thir.t. This was 4 to e, cfpccially to thole whofe I from Crain,- and of impor. oration of the Hnufe. It was to bhn to find that all his Hov, in one ,pri nci ple t _Which ought iinations of that Houle, '1%1;4 mount obligation, namely, tsu cornprehenfive Ifthute the inter,:ff of the whole ras, in other words, the geot ropic—in which he appreherra. :o the Froduaiim of Corn tboi rd. This was a principle u se Houk mull always rely, ougift to acqiiiefce iu meafur erwife be jultified, and in pima bt be felt to be little fhwt times to do that which tender lime. For the.'e purpofes, 4 which was :he real advantap ;e, the Houle muff often f temporary feeling, for pe they were not to purehafe p • I fuperficial approbation,at .proach, a debt which woulr ciente, if upon refleaion they, n way to temporary feelirg el :ed permanent advairage (4 image he included ail poilite he prnduaions of the earth ief tat of grain, which was the* h queffion migla indeed arik of limitation as to the :who It was, in his orinine,sa ay, at what price of the an; rf prinetri.: frould .ceafe. k the price before.hattki, beeaws s other, and relative points, ration of the price of other ar. would be difficult to fay wire fthe different articles of grill to each other, in under to lay r dif illation fho n ld be midi. He Friend had referred to the Ic oa the fubjea now btfue witted they were but few it ended they caprefild thefepoi se people' of this Country, is le Friend implied that he bad on that fubjed on a foram a elefeaive ffatement claim 1. He never Paid thefe M the funk of the majority 4 laid, he had yet to learn tie fenfe : he had that.** leas certainly no proof of .it ; be efs the fentinsents of the mr net, if he was convinced that i unifon with the real intent as it would be to him to op , he fbould do it; for undo e Mould be guided by a prig. mount to that of pleating the ally feiving them; for it toe is it the with, it was the the hat a Politician corght to pan his, he begged to be under my thing to call in qmitioa who had prefented petiriew prefent fubjea they we" 4 ,errors perfealy retreclable at the fame time recolk 9 they in different in its of the Cam conneaed and ciremnltancti at any harlhne;s he f.,;1 ri Able for them to have calve r of the true intereas unity in which we live, act perfealy they tart; but theft Pr t it was the ci..ty of that general aid r trprehen . i - e 'the, whole Ccn.rhun ty ; a nd of this Country ; tl.cre ince of knowledie u: ition to prefer:e k ly none fo poictedly a . t•.• 0 Owatlicars opeallittailim. Ehat time I ... at . & e yed pacjediee on the (*ea SOW iiii" r --- Be felt else teeth of that °b riar Hoare. ' • and the force of it. He did not deny . • gl ip i eli was set, in roar cafes. due to pejo • the nry, ceirt th ere were Arose fentinverws .ffiett a n • d, soil chdrillri under that which Was i ivirstar canadveisece. which were of Poch a that he hered in GOD they would IA foe. Th e m were ethers which came under the , of reesedice.. and which be &add not h e : - ~. to fee er adicated, and -which prejudices he . -ina bo forty 00 glee May whenever they midi.' • a a t h e panic welfare. He could only fool geaere l .__ eon* it was **slime of that Houle t ome Prejudices, and confider the bearing i 4 21 b a d on the Public Lam& heron they gave I . ... r w'r to i t a an.--liiiring Card this, he mud aliferve regard to time Petitioners vitro afked the `,, aa deee now mowed for, they conveyed fenti 1--- of the truth and juftnefs of which, his '~tttueeruWe Friend who had llipported i this Mo. rwah he was hire, fully impeded ; and here' w aked to have iz underflood, that in addition' 0 A ke ripen Petitions now before the Houfe, the • ftgai g. or the Treafury (and here he was only what he had [aid formerly) had Pe re- y u . burro= of burro of there Petitions :0 22 • 400 bow Onailers whet* it was known that clan *one Maisel's . are going on, and in, one of AAA snide than tea kills am 'at mark.. He ~Ol a s induced to fay this, to imprels the Hnure rowan idea of the "eaten off faire of the Pb nod to 'enable the Houle to avail itfelf of .sliadlirenees the particulars of which he (tumid iialik eery Moat period, holettlieeed, lay before g o o. Before ile ehtered further into the confide- 1 I glop of the ground on which lie lbonld oppole die Motion alibi*, Hon. and Learird II lend, he tkoald take notice of a point on which much Recut natt doge laid. It had been (hated in a manner 1 Allah had aftogithed him, thin fine it was 444, 'lid um it was not the intention of Governmeni en rope* the continuance nf the reariCion, or in Other werd', that Government propofed to operl dietillillenes, the rice of Barley had rifen, and Ovias Stand alfn, kom a glower:for which he al felt, and always timid feel, a regard, that .titittners held back from ati unwillingnefs .o . Interpufe, until they had fell the dikes the expei 440 n of opening theDillilleries had on the pro .'the article, and a prejudice had been entitle '. jato the fervice of the peutionerir, :is if wheat waa lobe employed in the dithilefiet; but a mennent'S n would difpel every apprehention on that for not only the' penalty, which was greati Sho the comparative price between Wheat and lade , gave the public an aturance that noWtiao ' be Alined. Suppo fi ng the Diaillers to ta d ' •: willing to run the rieque of die penahr, an ex.; itetwagant fuppofition, becauk it, was im rabid for them to avoid deteaion, yet they mull be al; lowed topofers a better frac of their own intereft than triprefer Wheat to Barley in diftillation.at , he C C M errioffetithlffiticetwt?ietr i t t !cles a o l l o tra ‘ i v n a . , M g 7 l i i v e c a n t that Government did not with to protralt the pro -Medea of the diftilleries beyond tht. period to 40f kil they now flood reftriaed, bet Barley had shot. With permiffinn of the Houle he %w lid Rate ''• et prices of that article, as it had been given to hire from a quarter on which he could tel y.— The price of Barley was on the sd of Nov. Itcon 46, -Ai 49'. per quarter. The 4t11505. and 5 is. The eth Its. the higheft price was 5 is. It had been, fint e 'ls intimation from GOvertunenr, as low as.; fiend *pus Sts. ; add this day it was 485. He had made %.eratan account of the price of barley in Mark-lane, • .every markenday, fince it was intimated that Co -imminent did not with to continue the refiridion es the diftilleries, which was from the ad of No. ' timber to the prefent time, by which it appeared that the price was, this very day, lower than it had been, by ss. per quarter, in the period he had al haled to. Notwidiftanding the epprehenfinns ex pected in that Houre,that all Corn would rife on the . idea of the diflitleries being opened,lt appeared that alien had Alen, but that barley haul fallen; and he bad already (hewn there was no foundation for ap peehen.ting thatw heat would be at all tiled for that parpoce. It was important that the Hon* fhoiald be epprized of there eircumflahees, becaufe it removed tome ill toundedapprchenfions,and enabled Gentle- Oren to attend more cheerfully, than they otherwife would do, to the encouragement • of Agriculttire by encouraging the growth of grain. The °bled his Hon. Friends who ftipported the motion now before the Houfe, he knew to be laudable • it was to keep within proper hounds the price o f ne- Weary articles of life. He was happy to fay there Ras on this occofion but oat contett betivetn the Members of that Houfe, which was, who could Mon neertilly promote the welfare of the Public at large; the difference was only as to the means by which that interea was to be promoted. In the dieculeion of which, on tl I occdion, he was aware he &mid be tinder the n.e In:y of going over the roved he had gone over on former occafions, in • great meafure ; but the nature of the Cubic& rest • dewed that unavoidable, sad he lhould do it with et math brevity as pc f able. It was admitted, not as a thing founded on at4eBure, but akertained 1 as a fee, and the information was in the potectlion h of the Houfe; it was the refuh of much inveiliga ion before a Committee appointed by the Haute. He thought he (hoold be able to prove before he Tat down, it was impolEhle that fo large a quan tity of barley Mould be employed in the dillilleries as had been already fared; and the view which he had of the &Nee, embraced, in his apprehenflon, . the inte re ft s o f !tie poor; and what was equally im- Portant, though nothing could be more fo, the in. te-eil of that clefs of the community which was im mediately abort the poor—a great and an brim- tint and valuable chi's of the community in which we five ; to all c.f whom, as well as to the poor, the °Peeing cif the diitillery was ufeful, in his opinion, • and Light y valuable, on account of the offeet whkh the eriufe of the diftillery would have on the price ofthe different articles of Butchers' Meat. His lion. Friend bad Rated. that in :795 and 1796 it Ins determined that the Dilliileries Amid be lopped when the price of Barley was about 35 or' 3 61 . Per 9ings. k4ow Ise would air to as refill Of a Onnunittre te which. he lust al' iaay aruded: Parliament met biloce Chritimas, and in March !Soo, the price of Barley, at the higliett, was at 88% the lowett 685.: it rofe afterwards to sios. and is. lie it recolleaed, that while the price of Bar ley was thus moll enormonfily bisb, the price 4, butchers' meat was lower than it n now, and yet , the Committee thought then that the Ditlilleries remght not to be topped. The higheß price of Barley at thisday was 48e. and at that price very little was *fold ; whereas the higheß price then was gts, An opinion was entertained then, that the price of food would be affeaed by the ttoppage of the Difilleries. The Committee proeeeded to examine that fubjett.—[ Here Mr. Aaktingtoo read the Report of the Committee, the reale of which was, that when butchers' attestwm lower thee it is at prefent, and the price of'hartei,ots. intead of 48s. fill it was not expedieneto continue the re., ftrieion upon the Diftilleries.]—He then ohferved, that if the Committee agosi rightly' then, there could be no doubt or opening the Ditilleries now. —Thus the batter Rood wall regarß to England! as to Scotland, at this time, he witeglad to °lrene; that the price of labour there was fulficient to en able an induftrious tabourer to fubleft in comfort.' The peck of meal was at ed. and the price of laboar sod. a day, by which it appeared there was no danger in that quarter from the opening of the Diftillertes ; bat, independent of this confide:a 'tion, there was. another • to which he witted the Hoare to attach confiderable importance : it was this—that any attempt to pin a top to the Dif tilleries by law, would have the certain etre& i not of lefr ' ening the Diftilleries, :but of driving it to another quarter, which tivoutd'he Mot injurious to the Revenue, "by making it run in a channel of illicit pradice, in which there were many who were very extant in that part of the kingdom, and. for which the difpofition of du populace was et. tremely favourable, of which he had information; by letter.feom a friend this slay (who was perfeltly refpeCtable, but whore nettle the Houle would fee I (the propriety of his palling by), Rating, that in , (tieing Come fptrits made clandeftitiely, the officers I of the revenue were obliged to abandon the at tempt, until the Military came to their atittance : that they were oppofed by more than fifty per fons, and that it was extremely doubtful whether at lad they would bicceed in their obje& Hav ing read the .febaance of this letter, he obferved it provedthe difpofitton of the lower elates of the people in that part of the kingdom in favour of this clandelline trade; countering, therefore, that this practice would continue if the dif Wines were :flopped; to the Injury of the Revenue, and conti denng there was no appreliention in the prefent price of the articles of life and the price of labour, that the Nor would in the leatt,degree, for the clafsimmedietely above then. be injured', the policy or opening the Diftilleries in that part of the Kingdom was menifet. It was well known, • that by the Mt of Union, no ditlinftion was taken between Spirits diftillcd from Grain and that of Molafres ; it was required by the Aft if Union that the fame Duty fhould be attached to both in England and Ireland. Now it might hap pet; that the price of Barley Ouaild be high in one and tow in the other of there parts of the United Kingdom r the evils rcfulting from which, in the .event of the Ditilleries being flopped, he expatiat.. ed upon. in the piefenrmolt abundant Rate of prep duce in Ireland, particularly of Potatoes and Oats. If the Ditties ies were flopped, as now propofed, he argued that it would be moll injurious to Agri culture both in Ireland and England, under the prefent eircumllances, by difcouraging the Land On ner In both; and as to the Dillillery from Mo latres, it would not anfwer the purpofe as a Marketable article.. The fpirit thus extraßed not "fitiOng the tate of the public, and particularly of ; the Irth People, the confequence of which, would be, that this fort of article would be under-fold by thofe who fmuggled the other from grain. He was fo folly impreffed with this idea. that apply ing it to Spirits, particularly in Ireland, paradoxi cal as it might Teem, he was convinced, that to difcoUrage the confumption of Spirits, was to licenfe the titillation of them, becaufe, while thy were iicenfed, the progrefs,of making them, and of their fak. Was open and fubjee to obfervation : whereas, by attempting..., Rop the trade altos!. ther, it was driven into obfcure corners, where it was impoffible to find it out, and where the danger arifing from too much ufe of the article, was much greater than it would be if the trade was public. Befides, if this trade was prohibited, he was aware that the fmuggling would be facie from Ireland ' here, that it could not be in the power of thofe who dittilled from Mulaltes to Rand the competi tion ; for not only would much titillation go on in Ireland, which, fiom circumtances peculiar to that Country, the Officers of the Revenue could, in tome cafes, not fupprefs, and in other could not decal; but betides large quantities of Spirits would be brought there front /be Continent, and which would find their way into this Country, notwitb- Ranting all the vigilance we could ufe to prevent that traffick ; we &odd sliere'Ore be giving away the Revenue, without diminifking the confurnp. &n or Spirits, by flopping the Distilleries. As to the confumption of Earle y between this and Fe- bruary next. by means of the Dittilleries. it was extraordinary that any body could fuppok it could affett the price of Grain, fisr he was in for med from a perfon on whom he could rely. that in addition to what there is in hand, there will not be wanted of Barley mere than to a ctoo quarters a quantity the conftmption of wbich,be was pet fuaded, could not operate materially on the price of that ankle: the price of which at prefent, he was happy to I fay. made the quartern loaf of Basley-bread only 641—a price at which thole who were difpolid to eat it, and in the part of the Country where it was common, did not amount to any hardikip to the parchafee. 'This got over one of the mod material obioninos which bad been Rated against opening of the diftillcries. since it lapt clear of the diarefs of the poorand the clefs immediately above them. He apprehended that the operation of top ling the diftillerics would be that of injuring the trade of Ireland ; it would be going a great way towards 'emoting the produce or that country. aad that without dumnithing the caarumaptinet at fpiriu either there et here 1 for the ddedoidditY ' would be nude by foreign fupply, and which, at ter being imported into Ireland, would come Iron. thence into England. The ftoppage of the ditiil laic% would be nmore dangerous than he had yet auditioeed in this debate. It would check the • commerce of corn between the two counts ies Gentlemen fail, it would bee good meafure to provide, that when barley came to a certain [nice the dittilletion of it litould (vac. 'rinse/al n rule which could not be made applicable to Ireland in the prefent condition of things, as eftabliiked ty Law. There was no fuch thing as getting the , average price of grain as between England and. Ireland, hecaufe the trade in that article was not. perfegEtly free. The average between England and Scodaad, or between England and W-s, could never have been taken. if trade in the article was not free. The trade between England and Ire land in that article was not free. He knew that by the Aet of Union, a period of so years 'had been fixed aeon before the people of the two countries were to be called upon to pay alike to the ikate iu every particular, accordingly there mull be a diL tin Rion otrferved in the regulations of fome articles of trade, but he did not think that do&rine appli cable to the commerce of grain, which be thought lhoul ! be as free aspotfible, as an entourasement to the agriculture of that country, that having the molt dime tendency to preferve the tranquillity, andby promoting the intereft of the refident lan. led proprietor, contributing to make the inhabitants a greater, more powerful, and happier part, than they are at prcfeut , of the Britith Empire. Now it was to be obf.trved, th.rt this country either did, or it did not furnith fufficie .t food for its inha. I tants. if it did, there %, as no apprehenfion from its draysinz any from beiand by means of the dif tillery. It it did not there was no realm why we lhould not pay to Ireland the price we muff other wife pay to the Continent for what we want—He knew that fuch achange as he alluded to could not, and it ought not, to be adopted without great cent'', deration.--He knewalfo it would involve queftions of great private interelt ; but he !tared this t thew that until fuch a fyllem be adopted, we (hall be under difficulues, not only fuch as he had enumer ated, but many others. He was unwilling in tfef pafs further upon the attention of the Houle ' • he had Rated many, but not all the objeftions h t: law to the Motion before the Houfe ; but if they had Ws weight than they had, he was fatisfied, they would be fufficient againft the Motion now before the Houfe. It was now five weeks fence it was Rated, there was no &fire by Government to con tinue the reftrittion on the Dittilleries ; dining which time, no Motionhadbeen made-in the Houle for that continuance. Many Gentlemen had gone Into the Country, not to enjoy the Reed's merely, but alfo to adminifier comfort to thole of their neighbours who were interefied in their pretence. He did not think it was refpe&ful to them to agitate a propotition like this in the Houle in their ablence. He knew, that if any thing de manded their attendance, they would confider it as a paramount obligation, and they would come up from the different parts of the Country, ulazre they now are conduCting concerns, in many refpefts, highly interetling to the community and he mull fay, that no cafe had been made out which called for their attendance on this Motion; nor did their appear to be any thing like a ftifficient reafon for changing a fyi tern (for this Motion went to that) which had been adopted for so many years in this Country, the beneficial effeas of which had been fo often felt ; for be took it to be a maxim in politics, that no ellablithed fylletn fhould be changed until its evils were clearly eftablillied, and the utility of that propofed in its (lead was plainly proved. Such was not the cafe here, but the contrary,'for which reafon he would not concur in any Motion like this.— He oppofcd it from clear conviction of its its. propriety at this moment, and not from any pertinacity or adherence to his former opinion on the fubje&. Not raying that he could never change that opinion, if, upon given circiunflan ces, which did not appear at prefent, the ?Antral intereft of the Community Would require is.— He was not prefumptuous enough to fay that cit. cumflances might not change his opinion upi.n this 1 matter ; all he raid was, that filch rircumilatices. did not appear at ?prefent. As to the private cha ra4ter as well as the public condo& of thrift Gentle men who were in the trade of the Diftillery, he muft obkrve, there was no clefs of his Majefly's &Neils more refpciable—This be did not utter for Ithe fake of paying them a cotnpliment, but giving them their duo, and the Public were interelled in having that truth made rnanifeft ; for it was not Imerely the capital which was embarked in this Trade, that si.a , to be confidered, there was to to confidered fki 4 integrity, and sti it were cer tain hereditary ditpofitions embarked in this trade, the fidelity of which depended in a great degree on fucceffion. It was a Trade which had grown to.a fine beyond the capital which any individual could readily throw into it; it was in a very few hands, but not like Conte other trades, which were in a few hands, managed by combination; on the contrary, its proieffors had facrificed their pti. rate intereft to public advantage ; for the fecu pity of the Revenue, therefore, as well as for public loftier, great cottfideration was due to thefe Gentlemen, for if they were made to quit the Trade, they would leave a yea chafm, which would not be eafily fupplied, and he knew who would be their Succelfors ; thofe who would feek their prellnt emolument in England by pm /tic's fimilar to thole, of which there is too much tea fon to complain in Scotland and Ireland —On thefe various confiderations, which he would not recapitulate, he felt it his duty to oppofe tiii‘ Motion. He would have been inclined to move the previous queftion, but that was impriffible, for the Motion was for leave to bring in a Bill to continue a Law now in being. The Houle would obferve that by negativing this Motion it would not give up its power over this fubjeft whenever it became necetlary to exercife loch power. Mr. ROHM maintained, that one.third of the people of this country live on barley ; and in fop = this &tensest, quoted a variety of cake from the report it dm Cansicele all the high price ofprovidosi. Heenerfideredgteopea ing ‘•f the dittilleries as depriving peo,ono relit of their fublitlence . Th e p.oplc bad alreadr ftif feted feverelyi; they had hardly Fot over the Boma Bread ; and were wow drmking a poifestous ',l:verage, made up artery thing except malt.— Aa of latt 'lefties had a chafe, authorifing he Privy Council to open the diftilleries at their plcafure. Why not leave the Wind's upon that tooting? In that way, if aay mifchief arofe, it nt key be more fuddenly put a flop to. Me. MAIMING faid, that Parliament, by flop ping the Di ft illeries la ft year, added confiderably •u t he quantity of grain in the country ' • and by the encouragement thereby given to diddling from moieties, the quantity of fugar imported into Great Britain during the year tilos, exceed ed that of ;800 by ss,ooo Yogi/wads. If, there , fore the furplus of the fuser brought from the Weft Indies was not to be ufed ha diftillation, a great sinantity of it would be ezported to other countries. And With regard to the itxreafe of revenue. which it was (aid the opening of dill& levies from grain would mullion, the intereli of the revenue went as much the ether swap A great revenue was row derived from fpirits tilled from fugal-. which would be diminithed in proportion to the revenue mired on fpirits diitilled from corn. The CRANCELLOL of the Exertanyse raid, he had already afuted the Houk, that it was his carnet with to give every encouragement to diltil. lation from Moieties a and that tneaLres had al ready been adopted for that purport. Mr. VAIIIITTART raid, it was of no consequence to the Revenue, whether fugar was exported Irons the country or not, and it lhould be recolleffed that Molaffes paid no duty; and therefore the re venue could Puffer nothing from its difufe in Dif tilleries. Mr. Jot. as raid, that the very able (Penh he had heard from the Chancellor of the Exchequer had left fo bong a prejudice on his mind, that his in clination almoft led him to vote againft the mo tion ; but a Rill ftronger prejudice operated in his mind, fo as to tell him he was bound by his duty . to the Public to fupport any meafure that tended to prevent the renewal of diftillation from corn. He was fare that barley conflituted a great part of the food of man ; and if to, he worded put the four hundred thoufand human creatures who could live upon the quantity to be ufed in diftillation, in oppofition to the aoomool. of revenue, which, it was raid, would be produced by it, and he would Mk, which ought to be clone, to feed Co many people, or derive Co much money from a liquor that tended to the deßruCtion, in. acad of the fupport of life? If there was ruch • plenty of corn in the country. why did not the brewers make porter that was fit to be drank Bread was Rill at an exorbitantlirice, and butcher's meat was Rill higher. The argument for leaving all things to their level, could no longer be main tained ; the theories of Adam Smith were now found to be fallacious, and Contradißed by prac tice. Give an Englifhman Adam Smith ; argu ments on one fide, and his bread and theefe and a pot or porter on the other, and then fee which of them he would chafe. He hoped that Houfe would not feparate without its being underßood, that fume means might be used to prevent all at ,once thofe mifchiefs which it was awl would retail from permitting the dfitilleries to work again. Mr. Nica6t. t. Paid he eonfidered the pretest to be a a queftion between the landed intereft of Eng., land and the Weil India Merchants. The Corr Diftilleries bad been long carried on in this coun try ; they were always attended with the molt be. neficial deft' ; they anfwered in a great mature the'purpofe of public gi onaries, by taking off the furphis of corn beyond what was wanted in years of plenty; .and he hoped they never would be al-.:n lotted, and if ever they were, great evil would emue. The Rapping of them would be (biking a blow at the landed intereft, which 'night produce fatal conferences in the country, by d:feouraging agriculture and damping the Spirit of cultivation. He whited Gentlemen to recoiled the price which farmers gave tail year for their feed fueh a price that it was ;:tril ws for many of the title farmers to purchafs or Pow any. He would not deny but that ;luting the late fcareity !bine farmers had made great profits, but many of them had (uttered heavy lees, and s h ore it was the duty of the Le giflature to proteff. With regard to the Sugar Planters, they had doubled their profits; and he law no reefon why Weft Indian produce timid hare the preference of that produced hi our agti cultarills at home., Barley, fo far from being too high at this time, was mach below its proper level. lMr. Wm. Doane s Paid the average prodice of barley in this country was (even millions of quar ters, and the quantity to be ufed in distillation would be about SoChooo quarters. This was a very (mall portion of the general quantity. Among the Petitions lately prelented to the 'rreafury was one from a town in Scotland, where there were no lets than so unbcenfed Rills, and in one year pop Rills of the fame defeription were relied in Scut land. As to employing Revenue Officers to watch fmugglers, he could affure the Houfe that i(every man in Scotland was made a revenue officer, and • very King's (hip converted into a revenue cutter, private didilltrier would Rill go on, and the Mb ing.boits would (till continue to Import gin from Holland, and would haul hat the of fi cers while they w e re burying it in the finds on the lhore. Mr. I.iIININOTON raid if what the Hon. Gentle. mss had imt dated was the cafe, it was a libel on th- Parliament of the country, which it appeared was not competent to prevent thole abatis be men. tioned. It was evident that the distillation from corn would take away a confiderable portion of the food of man : as much as would feed 360,0r50 per ions. The profits of Weft India produce had by no means enct tiled in the Came proportion with that of the landed intereft, and it wa, fit that the WO India Merchants Mould hare tome advantage. )'hey had one thing cm their fide to plead for them —namely, humanity :—in the ;women , of pubfie want, they came forward to re live chore di.treffes Bich Peov tutees had brought upon the country. rho prices of their commodities would now fink cearbdsrably, mad this harclikip was Rill gnaw,