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IIHE COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENGLAND, trading to the EAST INDIES, do hereby give Notice, That the Court sitll be ready to receive Proposals in Writing, on or before WIDNZIDAY, the id of April next, from the Owners of 'Good, Sound, and Substantial Copper Bottomed SIIIPS, of the burthen or about Six Hundred Tons and upwards Registered Measurement, specifying the rate of Freight at which they may be' willing to let ouch Ships for one Voyage outward, fur the con veyance of Troops and Stores to Bengal. .1 he Tebders, with the words " Ship Tender" on the Cover, to be severally Sealed, and left with the Secretary, at this House, at tar before Twelve o'Clock at Noon, on the abovehientioned day, beyond which hour no Tender wIC be received. .lONE7'H DART, a:tertiary. hear) —Yes, circumstances had certainly changed, and changed, too, as he contended, most fatottrably for the view taken by the advocates for the landed interest. It now turned out that the arguments urged last year against the agriculturists were futile, and certainly un• founded. No high prices had taken place,-and it did not appear that any of those alarming circumstances had occurred. Mr. Alderman THOM I'SON presented a Petition from Putney, against the Battersea Enclo.ure Bill. narrensita iscumunt. M. DENISON moved the second reading of the Wandevroisk and Battersea Enclosure Bill. The Hon. Member stated that the public euthmtuir and open spates in the parishes were not to be couched by Use Bill, and that its object was only to enclose the common fields already in cultivation. Mr. Alderman THOMPSON moved that the Bill be read a second time that day slit months. Mr. ‘I ii , Mr. HARDT, Mr. Fitarauson, Mr: Ptaccvat, Mr. Alderman Wood, Sir R. lentil, and Mr. Alderman W. 10711. MAN opposed the Bill. Lord Atrium, Mr. &sem Mr. CAIL7IIII3OMT, lb. eiteLerit e Lord 14611WAMBY and Mr. BAILIN su G, pported it. The House div ided, when there appeared For the Motion Fur the Amendment a; • 7* 92 tr . ; The Particulars of the Terms and Conditions upon which the 'Alps will be employed, may be had, on application at the Office of the Clerk to the Committee of Shipping, on or after Fatima', the %Ist day of this Month. Majority for the Amendment . —2O A Message from the Lords announced that their Lordships bad agreed to several private Bilk. Lord STA N LEY presented a Petit ion from certain Ma.haters In the County of Cheshire against the Malt Act.—Laid on the table. rat. j•i 4 7 - att 7. :7 lre tilt/ • 108 , 1. rt. sa: • 434 00i oat :ac; rftle liT. I. sk I 10 11 6 5 1* $ 11 si 1110 i to B 11. 11 I. 10 1 11 1 U. I I 1 k "sou. •1 • ado, 1 .1 1 W! db.! Ohm 7. 511 dos _.: o 1• mai Re AP PM* iat sr 1. asi ... Our l uoe. RIZ perfffsl Taw. ~da~ emu •MMIN. IV& 9 0 • ImmiEll PW. ...wow iii-, FRENCH PAPERS. 1%0)4 1111 DIESSACIER DES CHAIIIIIRS, MARCH 29. PARIS, MARCH CL _ _ _ According to letters trent Constantinople of . the 17th of February, insetted in !he (;ozetle of Florence, tht principal inhabitants of that capital have been convoked at the Mufti's, In consider of the means of turnish:ng the Government with a loan of 2,000,000 of talat is, which it requires for its preparations, About 80.000 Asiatic troops have hitherto been sent towards Adrianople. They lay waste every thing upon their road, And commit unheard of cruelties and every kind of excess. No woman dares go out at any hour of the day.—Letters from the frontiers of Russia say— it The regiments of cavalry of the guard,which alore remained at St. Petersburgh arid in the environs, haie left it to march to the srsuth. Nothing is yet said of the departure of his Imperial Majesty to the army ; besides, the reports which have been circulated for this week past,' of hostilities commencing upon the Ps wit and upon the Danube, have not yet received any kind of confirmation." VIENNA, MARCH 20. The ordinary post from Constantinople of the 25th rf February arrived to-slay ; but the letters are not yet distributed. We know already that the Purte has re turned to more moderate dispositions. and that she has tranted the Greeks an Pimistice ot three mouths.assur ing them of an amnesty, it they will make their aub ia•»ion Ciazeite. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH 31. The Press *as not admitted until $ ve minutes before Bee o'clock- Seurat strangers were allowed to enter before the Gentlemen who had to report the proceedings, and take poisession of their places at the Bar. „ The Dute 'irsairociott made his appearance at five,o'clock. He wore a Blue ltiband, Star, and Darter. Hr was soon followed by Lesd Gotocarc*, the Duke of CatoUcasraa, Lord ELDON. and a number of others, there being an uncommon number of Peer, pre. sent. The space. too, helrw the Throne Via, crowded with Mem bees from the House of Comfoons. Indeed, to have seen the assemblage of Commoners, one wonid have auppostd that nothi - 10 interest was going on in their own Hem. Lord TEyFacim presented a Petition from the broad silk %Vedette of Spitalfirlds, praying for an increase of their wages. Ike Duke of GLOUCESTER presented a Petition from cer tain Pl✓otrstant Dissenters of Gloucester, Fri - Iring for the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts. The Drake of AIONTROSE presented a Petition from the Pro vost and Corporation of Glasgow, against the Corporation and Test Acts. The Duke of NEWCASTLE presented a Petition from Wood. borough, against the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts. Tb. Noble Duke also presented a Petition from certain Wool-growers residing near Sherwood Forest, in Nottingham, against the Im portation of Foreign Wool.—The Petition was laid on the tAble. CORN LAWS. The Duke of WELLINGTON said—ln rising to move your Lordships for certain papers, which will tend to show the operation of the Act passed in the course of the last Session of Parliament, relative to the protection of the home consumption of corn, from the Ist of July in that year, I avail myself of this oppors tunity of st ding to the House the nature of the measure Government intend to propose to Parliament for reform of the Corn Laws, and the principles upon which that measure is founded. My Lords, your Lordships are well aware that there are a variety of opinions on this subject throughout the country. Some of those opinions reach both the extremes. I have considered it my duty, and my colleagues have considered it theirs, in the mea , are we are about to propose, to endeavour to steer a course between those two extremes, and to bring for. ward a measure that will conciliate, if possible, all par. ties, and be favourable to the public at large. You, Lordships will recollect, that notwithstanding the ex tremes of these.opinions, all patties agree generally that corn might to be in some measure protected—(llear.) I believe that in Parliament few, if any, have expressed en opinion that corn should be imported into this coun. try entirely free of duty. Some, indeed, have expressed an opinion that the duty unfit to be very small ; but all have agreed that some protection ought to be afforded to the agriculturists of this country. This opi nion, however, is founded on the great burden of taxa tion on this country generally, and the peculiar burdens falling upon the land. Those who favour the opinion that the duty ought to be but small, hold out a docttinc that goes to establish a system, under which the per.rer lands of di: country, which have been brought into cal- Amnion by the industry and capital of the country, are again to be put out of cultivation, and the richer lands are to be in some degree neglected, in order to meet with those views. My Lords, this country has been brought into its present high state of cultivation by the protection Parliament has afforded to agriculturists, and which has induced Gentlemen to lay out their capital in the cultiva tion of estates, and in bringing in lands formerly waste. The effect of the system of those who are to; this low rate of duty would be to throw those poor lands again cut of cultivation—to di-courage cultivation generally —and to diminish the productive powers of this country. F.nally, it would leave the country dependent on the agriculturists of foreign parts—(Hear, hear.) My Lords, I shall not exaggerate the consequence of such a system as this, but I beg your Lordships to recollect the con sequences that might result, if the powers of the domi nions from which our supplies were to be derived, were' to think proper to lay a heavy tax upon their exports-- upon their transits to this country. I entreat your Lord ships to consider what e mild be the consequences or soch a measure, and sh.ch, 1 would say, patties might be highly justified in adopting. But, supposing these to act in ntodrtation o and not to adopt such a measure as the oue proposed, this country would still find itself, as it has previously found itself in years of famine, both in the last and the present century. Thus it would be exposed to the heaviest expense ; the costs in Hol• land and elsewhere would not be increased! the prices here would regulate, not the prices there, but the profits of all those who would be concerned in bringing the produce to this country. Under these circumstances, I am of opinion that the reduction of the duty would not produce in Eogland a reduc tion of price, but that on the contrary it would pro duce an enormously increasing price. Putting the ques tion aside as, in this sense, it regards foreign importation, I would beg your Lordships w look to Ireland, and see the consequences of the want of encouragement to agri culturists there. That country now supplies us with about two mill'ons of quarters of grain of different de scriptions, of which, in the course of last year, the supply of wheat was not less than four bundle.' thousand quarters. My Lords, I beg your Lordships to look to that which 1 might almost say is the only—at least one of the two only—manufactures of Ireland. If you were to reduce the duty to this low degree, it would be to deprive you of that plenty hitherto enjoyed. I have stated that the GeniTsmen of this country have, by the expense of their capital and the labour employed, raised the agricultoral state to that high condition in which it stanJs—(hear!)—and nothing would be :mire unjust than to take from them the protection which enabled them to bring the country a state so desirable, and deptive them of those rents which are their due from the capital they have la:d cut—(Hear, hear !) My Lords, 1 say the .merchants, the manufecturer-, the poor, and the whole public, are interested in the maintenance of this independent condition of the country. The Nobility, the Gentry, nay, I * t ry the Go vernment itself, are interested in supporting it, from the advantages derived from its condition. I say. then, th..t even if I could believe that I could make grain cheaper by withdrawing from it the protection it now receives, I would not do it at such an expense to the interests of the country at large, and therefore hope that system will be thrown from our consideration alto gether. The other system differs from this, in being the contrary extreme—it is one of entire prohibition, which, I must say, is greatly to be complainer.: of, and scarcely less objectionable than that to which I have adverted. The truth, my Lord , . i-, it cannot be carried strictly into execution wither .t exposing the Country to the greatest inconvenience—first froin want ; next from a superabundance of grain in the country, at a time when we fright want to be relieved from it, and it at by a c epression of prices, both as affecting the corn -I this country, and that brought from abroad. Such incouveutences the country could only be relieved from by the interference of Government, or by the Ministers of the Crown comink to Parliament to get it to enact laws for the purpose. The Noble Duke wished their Lordships to recollect an Act, which was passed to enable the holders of cr rn in bond. previ•ms to the Ist of July, 1827, to introduce that corn into consump tion r paying the duties laid .on by the Act. By the papers kit which he should move, the House would be able to see the result t f that.measute. When the Bill wits brought in, his Grace said he considered, it only an experiment. It certainly had not entirely failed ; but the truth was, it had not answered exp. c cation. By one of the clauses, those who had corn in bond were obliged to take it out between May and July, therefore they were pressed by time. The corn in bond on the 19th of July amounted to 137,969 quarters. The quantity taken out of bond amounted only to 119 434 quarters. There remained In bond a large quantity an the period alluded to, a:.d the inference was, that the home supply was not such as to render foreign supply necessary. The corn taken out of bond did not exceed one-fifth of all the coin in bond. The Noble Duke then stated his intended scale of duties. The difference be tween the duties of the present Bill and the intended measure would be this— 5116 to 52s a Quarter 28s ad Duty 59s to 604 271 ad 60s to 61s 26. ad 61. to 621 25s ad 62s to 63s 24$ ad 63. to 64s 23. ad 64. to 65s 22. sd 65s to 66, 21s sd 66s to 67s 20. 8d 67s to bas las sd 68. to 69s 16. 8d 69s to 70$ 15$ lid 70s to 7111 tos sd 711 to 72s 66 84 72. to 73. 23 sd 736 to 74s Is Gd The Noble Duke adverted to another point. In the course of the discussion, last year, upon the subject of corn, he moved a resolution, the object of which aas to prevtnt fraud in taking the averages. Since last year a great deal had been done to iemedy frauds on the part of the officers taking the averages. In the first place, Irish and Scotch cum, in the markets of Great Britain, had I been included in the averages, and the returns differed from those made formerly. His Grace concluded his observations by moving there be laid before the House an account of the average price of wheat from the Ist of July last to the latest petiod ; also the quantity of foseign corn entered for home consumption to the same period, and the i ate of duty paid for the same. The motion was agreed to. The Duke of WELLINGTON then moved that the intended scale of duties be read by the Clerk. It was accordingly read. Lord FALMOU TH said, that he expected that the statement of the Noble Duke would have been so clear and satisfactory as not to call for any remarks or observations from him. He certainly regretted much that this expectation, which was raised by the open ing observations of the Noble Duke, had been en tirely disappointed by the character of the measure which it now appeased that he intended to introduce. Although be entertained the highest possible respect for every thing emanating from the Noble Duke, yet he did not :chain from expressing his disappointment at the inadequate protection about to be afforded to that most important class—the agricultural interest of this country. Without entering into a consideration at the present stage, of all the details of what fell from his Noble Friend at the head of his Majesty's Go• vernment, he was still anxious to submit a few ge- neral observations on the subject t because if he, hum ble as he was, could suggest any thing to then Lordships likely to influence them in their ultimate determination, he thought that the present would undoubtedly be, the best opportunity. He, however, begged to remind their Lordships that circumstances had most materially changed since the Bill, similar to the one now proposed, Wail discussed in the last Sessi3u—(Heart ~~ 4 The Earl of MA LMESBURY deprecated any pre mature discussion, and suggested the propriety of haring the proposed scale of duties printed for the use of their Lordships. Lord KING said, that when he saw the protecting duty raised beyond the plan of last year, in some in stances 4s. per quarter, and in others Bs. or 9s. all he could say was, this is too bad. - The proposed measure might do very well for fair weather. The Bill was one which it would prove impossible to maintain. If the Noble Duke thought it likely to be a permanent measure, he was very much mistaken. It had no character of per• maneccy about it. Tire Bul or-last year was bad enough, but this was much worse. Allusi.+n had been made to Ireland, and it was true that under tire present ►ystem, without the supply from Ireland the populati n of this country would not have been enabled to live or subsist. Yet eatravag ,nt as the protection so be aff rded was, it appeared that some persons were not satisfied even with this Bill. The Noble Duke had laid much stress upoil the money laid out upon land ; now he only begged to ask one question—what was the object of so laying our money but to have corn? And yet the 811 said the) should not have corn. Lord GODERICH considered it of so much import. ance to the country to have this question settled, and differed so entirely from the Noble Lord, who advised them to wait for two or three years, that he felt the greatest anxiety to give full consideration to the Bill of his Noble Friend. If he had thought himself bound from any idea of expediency to adhere to his amend ment of last year, he (Lord Goderich) should have felt it his duty to object. But as his Noble Friend had waived that amendment, he had brought them back to matter of detail, and he in his turn would feel disposed to waive bis individual opinion as to the proper scaleol duty, in order if possible to insure a final, or at least a durable settlement of the question. The variance in the scale of duties did not, as he viewed it, at present cffer to his mind any insuperable objection. Lord FALMOUTH explained. Lord REDESDA LE would again and again remind their Lordships, that if they meant to protect agricul ture and have cl'eap corn, they niust encourage Vat agriculture, by allowing its. produce an unembarra.sed market. Free trade would destroy seven millions of capital now expended in the cultivation of Ole less fetti e soils, and would be destructive of the farmer in the good season that might succeed a scarcity. It al.& would destroy the growth of wool in the coantry, and so much injure the agriculture, to which the growth of wool mates ially ministered. hat would their Lord- ships think-of it, were it proposed to them to lay a duty on the manure necessary to the soil ? Would they not think such a proposition to be unworthy of their atten• tion, unless to be scouted ? And yet the intended Corn Bill would have the effect of a duty on manure, from its not prohibiting the: importatioe of foreign corn only at I low duty. For the sheep that produced that wool afforded manure, and the importation of foreign wool would dintini4h the quantity of that manure, by lessen ing that number of sheep. The motion for the Returns was then put and agreed to. Lord DARNLEY presented a Petition signed by 1,400 of the Inhabitants of St. Leonard, Shureditch, complaining of the pressure of the Poor and other rates, and of the conduct of the Parochial Officers.—Ordered to lie upon the table. • MEMOS FOAM TUC COMMONS. _ _ Mr. DAWMEN, Lord STANLEY, Mr. Holmes, and other Members, brought up the Appropriation , of Aids Bill , and three Private Bills, which were severally read a first time. Lord KING begged, to ask the Noble Duke when this nuisance of a Corn Bill was likely to be brought in. The Duke of WELLINGTON replied, not tiU after the Recess. GAIIII LAW& The Sale of Game Bill was committed proforma. Lord WHARNCLIFFE said that he ws.uld postpone the in. troduction of his additional clauses until the second Friday after Easter. The House then resumed, the Report was received, and the Bill ordered to be recommitted on Friday, 18th April. tAiTIII. IIIICINS. The Marquis of LA NS DO WN suggested, that as Noble Lords were Axing their notices. it might be convenient if the Noble Duke would mention the intended period of Adjournment. The Duke of WHLLINGTON replied, that he Intended to move the Adjournment to nest Tuesday fortnight. The House then Adjourned at Savior o'Cwt . u. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Gallery did not open at an unusually early hour, and there was no crowd st the time of its opening. At ten minutes before four the Smarms took the Chair. Mr. 111 NG presented a Petition from the Churchwardens and Inhabitants of Hammersmith against the Hammersmith Bridge Road Bill. Upon the motion of Mr. BY NG, the Bin was then read a second time, as was the Covent Garden Improvement Bill. r. ASTELL presented a Petition from certain select vestry men of the parish of Mary-la-bonne, against the Mary-la-bonne Vestry Bill. Mr. DENISON presented Petitions front Mortlake and Barnes in favour of the Hammersmith Bridge Road Bd l. Also a Petition front an Individual residing at Surrey Lodge, in favour of the Battersea Enclosure Bill. Sir F. BU R D ETC presented a Petition, signed by about 5,000 respectable inhabitants of the parish of Mary-la-bonne, in favour of the Mary-la bonne Vestry PAIL Mr. ASTE LI. defended the conduct of the Vestry of Mary-la. bonne, and contended that the application of the Petitioners was not entitled to the notice of the House. The Vestry was composed of the Nobility, Gently, Clergy, and Tradesmen of the parish, and there was no parish in the country whose affairs were generally bet ter managed. _ _ _ Mr. tiOBHOUSE supported the Petition and the Bill. He trusted that the question between the Petitioners and the Select Vestry would be fully discussed before the Committee, and that the result would be an entire change in the government of this ill managed parish. Colonel BAILEY said, that all the Select Vestry wanted was an impartial inquiry, and he was sure the result would be to con vince the House that the greater portions of the grievances com plained of were merely imaginary. Mr. HUME supported the Petition. Mr. Alderman WOOI) spoke in favour of the Bill, and com plained of the Hon. Member for Bridgewater having canvassed members to vote against it ; which be considered very indecent in a Select Vestryman and a Member of Parliament. Mr. Alderman WA ITH MA N objected to the power exercised by Select Vestries generally. Mr. DAWSON concurred with those who thought that the power of filling up vacancies in Select Vestries ought not to be vested in those bodies. He was favourable to inquiry. Sir C. BURKELL said, that without knowing much of the merits of this case, be had reason to know that Select Vestries ducted their Warn t t o he tbe e ir deli perfect " sat of isl th ac eir tion ilarbbiage . ral and Can. Colonel &MIT and Mr. Anew. explained. After a few observations., in reply, from Sir t. BVILDNIT, the Pothloo was ordered toile upon the table. - _.., , v.. ~, It' X it CATHOLIC CLAINII, Sir J .11i FS SCA HI. 6: r presented a reit ion from the Ro wan Catholic Inhabitai is of the Parish of flutnar, in the County of Cavan. sir F. BURDETT tresented a •linilar Petition from the Roman Catholic Inhabittn.s of St. J sirs, Dahlia. Mr. S. RICE presented sinnilsr P r etitiona from the Roman C a tb:die Inhabitants of Atisir, anti several Parishes in Ireland.:•-• •thdered to be printed. Mr. J. GR A TrAN presented a Petition from a Parish in the County of Wicklow, praying for Catholic Emancipatlon.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. HU3IR presented a Petition from the Roman Catholic In habitants of Maryborougb, against the Irish Sub letting Act. Mr. BY NG presented a Petiiion from certain Householders of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, praying the Repeal of the Tax on In• babited flouses.—Orde red to be printed. Lord J. HAY presented Petititms from Edinburgh and Had. dington. preying the Repeal of the Test Acts..-Laid on the table. Sir W. INGLRBY presented a similar Petition from Hinckley. Laid on the table. Mr. BENETT presented a Petition from the Commissioners of the Salisbury Plain llienpihe Trust, c..mplaining of the expenses of renewing Turnpike Bills.—Laid on the table. Mr. Alderman THOM PS()N presented a Petition from certain Licensed Victuallers in London and its vicinity, praying that the House would not grant any relief or indulgence to those persons (wine room keeper.) who had been convicted on a charge of in. fringing the laws with respect to licensed public houses.—Ordered to be printed. Sir JAMES GRAHAM moved for several Returns connected with the granting of Pensions in Ireland during the last year.— Ordered. On the motion of Mr. Tmonsou, the Committee on the E4qt Rrtford Disfranchisement 11111 was postponed until Friday, the 18th April. Lord PALMERSTON presented a Petition from the Univer sity of Cambridge, against the Tithe Commutation Act in its pre sent form. Mr. BARING presented a Petition from the Electors of the City of Worcester, resident in London and its vicinity, against the Boroughs Election Bill. Dlr. ROBINSON supported the payer of the Petition. Air. Secretary PEBI., gave notice that he should, on Thursday next. move that the House on Its rising adjourn to the loth The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, on moving the Order of the Day for the House resolving itself into a Committee of Supply, said, that he had been desirous not to detain the Howse for a moment longer from the consideration of the important sub ject which was to be brought before it, but the public service re quired a vote of credit. on the Civil Contingencies. The Order of the Day having been read, The CHANCELLOR of the KXCHEQUER moved that the Account of the Civil Contingencies be referred to the Committee. The motion was agreed to. and the Hotta resolved itself into a-. Committee. Sir A. Gaswr in the Chair. The Clll tiCIILLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that the vets be should repose was ens to which he meld use sefei#ete 'the slightest objection. It was - absolutely necessary for the public service that some 'taut should be made, but be should be careful in not asking for a larger sum than was really wanted. 'He then moved, that- 16 It is the opinion of this Committee that a sum not exceeding 100,0001. be granted to his klajesty on account, towards defraying the charges of the Civil Contingencies for the year ISti." After a few words from - Mr. Hunt, the Resolution was agrees' to, and the House resumed ; when Sir A. Gash: brought up the Report, which was ordered to be received to.morrow. CORN LAWS ACTS —COMMITTR/L On the motion of Mr. CHALLICS GIANT. the Order of the Day for the House resuming itself Into a Committee on the Coen La WI Acts was read. The House then resolved itself into a Committee; Sr A. Gnart in the Chair. Mr. C. GRANT said, that it then became his citify' to move the Resolutions, of which notice had been given, respecting the Corn Laws. And in approaching the discharge of that ditty. he felt it incumbent on him to return his unaffected thanks to the Committee for the kindness with which it had consented to the post ponement of the consideration of the subject, in cons*. come of his ill health—(Hear, hear). He could astute the Committee that he had been most desirous that no delay should have taken place, but that a question of such great importance should be set at rest as speedily as possible. He had, however, been incapable of at tending in his place, and even then he approached the subject with n.ore he.itatiim and apprehension than he 'should have d ne had he been in the possession of per t', ct health—(Hear, hear). The subject was one of such great importance that it affe red the chief, nay. all the interests of the country ; and its intrinec difficulties were not a'little increa ed by the fears and prejudices with which it was surrounded--(Hear). Those fears were partly just; but the greater portion of them ap peared to him to be unlounied in srund policy. Of the prejudices, tun, he might say, that however natural they were, they were highly irjulinus to the calm inves tigation of the subject, while at the same time they re quire) consideration and attention as well as did the fears. If he were called ui;on to develope the great principles upon which, in his opini• n, the' Corn Laws ought to be constructed—if he were called upon to de velope the great maxims w hich ought to be followed, is as far as possible, by that Commit ee when legislating upon the subject, he should indeed feel it necessary to be , peak eves y indulgence on his own account, both with respect to the state of his physical powers, as well as on any o her consideration—(Hear). But, foitunately for t: e patience of the Committee, and for his own feelings, circumstanced as he then was, it was nut necessary for him to enter into an investigation of the great principles to which he had alluded. When he came to the considera tion of the suhject, he could not forget that but a few months had elapsed since it bad undergone an ample dis cutsion ; that the different opinions which were enter tained had been fully expressed,that their meths had been questioned, and that that branch of the Legislature had given its sanction to the adoption of one great principle. His duty, therefore, did not call upon him to ask the indulgence of the Committee while he discussed the merits of that principle, for be was bound to assume, till he was otherwise informed, that the same opinion as was acted upon last Session was still entertained-- (Hear, bea r ). The principl e sanct i one d b y t h e House was, that it was no longer desirable that an exclusive system should be pursued with respect to foreign corn for the protection of British corn, but that protection should be affinded by means of duties--(Hear, bear). Whether that duty should be a feed duty, us whether - --.- -• I Lii.. -•••4 -- -- d; i t i f' i