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arguments in that House., and by none more forcibly than by the Right Hon, Gentleman himself. He sa w no di asti4 the ituation of this country, or in the nerkl of Europe, which called for an alteration of thtpolicy which had been so ably advocated, and sa . long acted upon with success. When the law of 181 Vested, was firmly persuaded, and he believed the aantaiti was ssrtoo, Mat it was intended as a permanent settlement of this important question. But the law of 18gff came to the surprise of all who had entertained ahet.'belief, and although their confide ince oother was h aw ' en shaken' yet they did not suppose that stll a was to be proposed within five years from that time, and before that Act had ever come into operation.— Up." the suspending clause which accompanied that law, Ise never placed any value, and he now wished to see it removed. The Hon. Member then moved his first resolution —" That in the opinion of this Committee so much of the Act of the Sd of Geo. IV. relating to the importation of corn, •as renders the provisions of that Act dependent upon the admission of foreign wheat under the provisions of the 55:h Geo. 111. c. 56. be repealed." Mr. CANNING.—" Sir, the first observation which I shall venture to mike en the speech of the Honourable Member who has just sat down, is, that I consider its • tone and manner as exactly suiting the discussion of a question like the present, which so deeply involves, not merely the peculiar interests of the agriculturists, but • also the food of the great mass of the population of this • country, and the general interests of the community at large. - I can assure the Hon. Member, that, ip imita " tion of his example, I shall address my:alto the subject with the same Feeling as he has evinced in the eourseof his speech, and whatever I, on a future. opportunity, may feel due to myself, to others, or to the King's Go ternment, to sat or to do, in relation to this matter, I shalt, on this occasion;abstain from entering Into any' allusion with' respect to what may have taken place, l oCittlicoughannwant of feeling that provocations have been offered, but because I am conscious thit the pre-1 • sent is not the time for discussing them. This, how ever, I will say, I can conceive no degree of faction more inexcusable, mote blameable, or more wicked, than that by. which a subject, touching the most • vital interests of the community, is made the means of political attack—(Loud and continued cheering).— The next observation to which I am recalled on the speech of the Hon. Metriber is, that I do not think • the Hon. Member has made out, even according to his own view, such a case as we should consider a sufficient reason for the adoption of that particular clause. Ido not think, Sir, that he has wrought the present cirtum stances, which he conceives so favourable to the success of his proposition, into an argument strong enough to convince us of the expediency of his resolution. In fact, Sir, his reason is little more than this: that as the late Corn Bill is extinct, and as there is now a vacancy on the question, we ought, on that account, to adopt that deterring clause in the Act of 1822, which is acknow. 'edged, on all hands, to have been got up as a sort of bug-bear. But, Sir, while I deny that the Ho nourable Member has prove) that the present circum stances under which we legislate amount to a reason for the adoption of that measure, I will admit, that these circumstances are of such a peculiar nature, as to call for the interposition of the Legislature. And, I think I do not anticipate too much 'of this Com mittee, if they allow themselves to be at all influenced by the ' late transaction in another place, when I trust that they will, with overwhelming majorities, nay, I May say, with one unanimous consent, throw aside the resolutions of the Hon. Member who has just proposed the re-enactment of the law of 1822. No man, said that Hon. Member, out of this House, considers 625. a sufficient remunerating pike; and oh that account only has the Bill, which was lately passed, been lost in the other House. So, because we are placed in a dffi culty, not arising from any fault of our own, we are bound to adopt the expedient of the Hon. Member; be cause we cannot have the remunerating price of 625. we must adopt the proposition of the Hon. Member, by which it is raised to 70s.—(Cheers). Surely, the Hon. Member cannot have forgotten, that in this House, at least, the main point of discussion was not the particular degree of price, but the adoption of the principle of the Bill, by which prohibition was to be withdrawn, and importation encouraged. Yet, fur this reason, added to the loss of the Bill in another place, does the Hon. Member call on us to retract our deliberate decision as to the encouragement of importation, and to go back to the principle of prohibition in the existing Acts. Now, the Hon. Member does not want experience—does not want information on the amount of the duty, or of price, or any other detail or modification of that law ; yet would he have us adopt his proposition, with out giving us the shadow of o single reason, and • without a solitary word of argument. Sir, my • reason for recommending to the Committee• the' re jection of the Hon. Members proposition, is, that 1 think that this House will not reduce itself to such a low condition, as to abjure its recorded sentiments—to rescind its deliberate decisions—and consent that that Bill, which it passed with such almost universal con currence, should be thrown away as so much waste paper, because another branch of the Legislature bas seen fit to introduce. into it an alteration, whit,: I cos cider an abolition of its principle, but which that other branch, in its courtesy, choose to call an amendment. Sir, I do not think that this House will retract its deli. berate opinions—will rescind its solemn judgment-- and lay itself prostrate at the feet of the other House of • Parliament. Sir, if there be in this House a single feeling of pride or shame, it will not yield a principle which it has considerately resolved on—(Loud cheers). But as it is necessary, in this state of things, to adopt some measure, it is our duty that such a measure, on the one hand, slay not contain any thing which may be construed into a sign of hostility to the sentiments enter ' tained in another place; and, on the other hand, that it may not involie an abandonment of the principle of our favourite but unfortunate Bill. My first wish that we should do nothing that may lead to a collision with the other House ; my second, that we should adopt no permanent measure at present, as . it is clear we must come to a most serious consideration of this sub ject early in the next Session; my third wish is, that whatever measure we may adopt may be.couceived in the spirit and ptinciple of the Bill that has already passed through this branch of the Legislature. And on that measure I must observe, that considering the length to which it proceeded without alteration in the other House of Parliament, namely, to a second reading, and that carried by a large majority, I am inclined to think that the consequences of the alteration subsequently adopted were not clearly understood. But, Sir, a certain time must intervene between the present time and the coming-in of the next harvest ; and between the exhaustion of the wheat at present in our warehouses and the accession of our domestic produce in autumn, a s . Ilik supply , :my . •By the operation of the measure the sanction of this House at the opening of the Session, there is at this moment in the ports of this country 560,000 quarters of corn. Now, Sir, my first proposi tion is, that that quantity shall be let out of bond, not by an act of the Government—for 1 assure the House, that the Parliament would• not be more unwilling to /rant such a power, than Ministers to accept it. The release of that quantity (660,000 quarters) may come under the operation and condition tof the Bill at pre-' sent in the other House, as I undirstand there was no abjection made to the release of the corn cum bonded, or to the release of whit additional quantity may come into the warehouses before the end of July, ander the regulations, as to price and duty, which would havi been imposed on it, had that Bill : passed, unaltered, int° a law, and to that effect, indeed, the Bill has virtuallp passed : for I hare been, as I said, informed, there was, no objection in the other House to exclude the corn now in bond from the operation keeping to this modification, as , enabled to avoid the risk bf a contest. elite only as injurious to the success. there is another quantity of cant particular consideration—l raean,so Canada, for the importation of - some time ago given,and for the have been drawn, and which is now s.._ Itransmitted to this country. These separate qualities ;of corn, I mean, should be admitted at the prices fixed by the Resolutions of this Houle. To neither of these parts of the Bill was the smallest objection urged in the other House. In fart, the amendment, which de stroyed the Bill, did not touch them. In proposing a re soletion for the admission of these quantities. we enjoy the advantage of avoiding the risk of a contest with the other House. and of acting in perfect accordance with the principle of the Bill. which lately-proceeded from this House. These regulations I propose as temporary expedients ; to last no longer than to the middle of next Session of Parliament, with an understanding. that, previous to that period, we shall return to a most full and anxious discussion of this all-important subject.— Now. Sir, between me and the Honourable Member for Essex, the practical difference is this : my Resolution goes to limit the quantity of corn to be released. and thereby to limit the apprehensions of the agricaltu rusts, which might be awakened by the letting out of corn at sixty-two shillings—that is, that the scale of prices and duties that were determined on' in the Bill before the other House to regulate the admission of all corn, should be allowed to operate on the corn at present in boncl, and the quantity ordered from Canada , , for which - bills have been already drawn. On the other hand, the proposal of the Honourable Member for Essex recommends us to throw away altogether the pro. visions of the pending Bill, as well those parts which have been approved in the other House, as the pasts which have been opposed, and that the lowest price at which the people of England should buy corn should be 70s. that is. in place of 625. as fixed by the regula tions of the pending Bill, the Hon. Member substitutes 70s. with a fluctuating duty of 17s. and a permanent duty of 12s. In the rejection of this—the Honourable Member's proposition—l trust I shall receive the una nimous support of the House. Another objection which Lentertain against the Hoo. Member's proposition is, that it purposes to reinstate the principle of prohibition, which we hare already determined on abolishing, and. Tor the redantegration of which I see no reason in the circumstances of the present time.. There is another difference between my Resolution and, that of the Hon. Member. His would be permanent ; mine is intended to be temporary ; namely, until the discussion of a per. angemit measure, which I trust will pass into a law, and be finally settled in the course of next year.—The Right Hon. Gentleman then moved the following Resolution : That It is the opinion of this Committee. thit any sort of corn, grain, meal. or flour, the produce of any British possession in North America- or elsewhere, out of Europe, now In warehouse in the United Kingdont,or which may b.: entered at anti port thereof before the fu day of July next, shall be admissible for home consump tion, upon payment of the fulfowing duties." (The duties here re. ferred to are those provided by the Bill which is at present in the Lords.) Mr. PEEL declared, that the only circumstance which could induce him to vote for the proposition of the Hon. Member for Essex would be, a determination on the part of the Government not to bring forward any measure on the subject. If they had not proposed one, he, looking at the Hon. Member's proposition as an improvement, would have, in that case, voted for it, though he could not approve the adoption of a perma nent measure, which was founded on the prohibition of foreign corn, until the price should have risen to 80s.; but as his Right Hon. Friend had proposed one founded on the resolutions on which the Bill was constructed, be felt himself called on to vote for the proposition of his Right Hon. Fr iend. He would not, on that occa sion, mix up a question of such vital importance with a reference to any political feeling or passing event; and he was sorry to see that some expressions of his Right HOnourable Friend, on that point, were taken by the House in a meaning not (he was sure) intended by his Right Honourable Friend—he meant the pas sage in which his Right Honourable Friend declared the impropriety of making a measure, affecting the subsistence of the people, the instrument of political opposition and party differences. Now, as to the conduct of hii Illustrious Friend, the Duke of Wel lington, if it was thought that any measure of his Noble Friend had been adopted through political motives or party feeling, he, for one, believed that impression to be totally unfiunded. He did believe that his Noble Friend, having approved the principle of the Bill, pro posed his amendmeat with a view to promote its object, and to amend a defect; and to the particular amend meat, he believed him to have been led by his miscon• struction of the communication of his Right Hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade. He (Mr. reel) was in habits of confidential communica tion with his Noble Friend, and he was sure he would have been apprised of his Noble Friend's'in tendon if it were of the hostile nature which had been imputed to it. 'But while the House acquiesced in the sentiment of his Right Honourable Friend, that this House of Parliament should regulate their dis cussidas by their own declared opinions and undoubted piivildges, let them not refuse the same right to the other House. ' On this point, he would not proceed fur ther, but declare, that, for bis part, he should ever take his course according to what he conceived to be most conducive to the permanent interests of the people. As to be had . already stated to the 1-lon.e soundness of the principle off the min siOar as to declare, chat, in the, stion of the illness of tic Right Holt. . himself propose the adoption of it to . then, it should . be considered, thht per _ approved of the principle of the Bill, might ..tenably object to its details; even in that House; tfie Bill enderwent many alterations, as to the prices of several kinds of grain, in the course of the discussions k let not the Hinise then impute alterations made in an other place to party motives. He wished that his Rigl t Hon. Friend bad proposed a permanent measure on the subject, and also that his Right Hon. Friend had not attached such importance to the amendment of his Noble Friend. He regretted that the alteration was considered so essential as to prevent the recoustruction of the Bill, in a form which might allow a compromise between the two Houses of Parliament. He for one. as an individual, was ready to assent to a Bill founded on the principle of the late Bill, even though the new Bill should contain also a clause to which he could not give his assent, as be considered the settlement of the diffesl tences between the landed interest and the manor:lc-1 luring a matter of immense importance. If such al compromise could be effecled by a protraction of their slain, • until the Ist of July; he should think such anti nramation devoutly to be wished for. Such • of the question would be better for both and the manufacturing interest. For .., not an advocate for either pars,. but a inseparable interests of both. Though he the introduction of a permanent measure, he principle in which he had acquiesced, . prefer the measure of his Right Hon. Friend to that of the Hon. Member for Essex. Sir. W. WHITMORE said that he entirely concurred in the opposition offered by Mr. Canning to the propelitia• of the Hon. Member for Essex ; and must at the same tirmt bis agree meet with the Resolutions of the i H& n, meet upon the grounds of expediency. 4t Me same eigni, be did tier ali iS es wish to be thought one of those wh oa ft it a means of no consequence bow often the laws lle aid of the were changed. Nothing could be itait ' than t . laws upon suck a subject, said he IMO iewariet sopte, r ' (Haar). Suck • coune destined theollbus 4 she Imo bersadalt laws, and tended to check that whilasine splric of eyesight's. which would alwam rnahltain an absimaint araPPI/ of food la a remand& price. This was the third etimpiiiry measure they ha* reanurse , to, and he hoped the syuem would Mt be carried further, as its effecu would be more and more injurious every fresh sup they took in it. Colonel WOOD said, that he did not see how it was intended to act alter the 600,008 cleaners of bonded Corn had been re hued, should there chance to be an escestively bad tureen, Niut, that of 1826, when the corn, what Yule there was of it, was sail' ing on the ground in October. He apposed the ports were to remain closed till the price rose to 80s. when the law of 11122 would came Into operation. and open theln. He could hot see what ulie , jimeen her. could be to let thicker of 1822 eons, Into operation libie-this Ow ves. to 70s. which would not at all *Mertens with *a_ of the Right Honourable Gentleman opposite, Wile ' ' - to mean that the bonded corn should come out when UM_ itiee rose to 62a. Uri CANIIING sale, that It might come out whenever the huller plenumbapen the payment of Alt duty. Chhipd W it said, that, in his judinsest. that would net prevent the prices rising, in case of a bad harvest, higher than was 1 cootemptated. Mr. BENErf said, that he did not think the meson* of the Right Hots. Gentleman opposite called for by the present dream stance, of the country. . _ _ Sir JOHN NEWPORT could not support the motion of the Hon. Member on the other side, because it went to en anseadment oldie Act of 1122. Now, that. Act, so far as that House was coo-, cerned, had been virtually repealed. by its peaking the Bill which had so recently gone up before another House of Partlament— (Cheers). He begged to ask Has. Geetienten, With what coats :racy they could used up for so aasemlment Ha statute, which statute they had already, by a deliberate vote, and after several di► cussione, determined to abrogate, and for that purpose had sett. mimed a boratel measure to the approbation of another branch of the Legislature? The Hon. Baronet, after lease general obeetvatiens open the Cord Mil which bad passed through that House, nod which he considered calculated to effect mock good, conehided by observing, that he trusted some temporary measure of protection to the consumer, as well as the grower, would be agreed opal What the breaking up of the Bessie. t and that whets, after the reems, Parliament should renew. its tisltheretions upon the sensed glee don of this trade, more temper would be manifested by we branch of the Legislature, than it had hitherto exercised in dealing with this matter—(Che ers). ' Sir EDWARD K HATCH BULL, after some observadocul M complintent to the Doke of Wellington, obsetved, that, in his opi 1140h. the Bill to which the motion of his Hon. Friend, the Heat her for Essex, (Mr. Western) more immediately related, cam. prised the true principle on which they ought now to Legislate. At the setae time, seeing that the sense of the House had been already expressed so decidedly and unequivocally utiles the Bill of the pre sent Session, he felt that it would ill become him to press any reso lution founded upon his own opinions on the question, to a division. If, however, the Member for. Essex should choose to divide the House upon bit motion, when the discussion should terminate, he would, as matter of course, have his (Sir E. EniftchbulEs) vote. He bad, aa.the same time, no difficulty in acksowiedgieg, that placed as Palmas were at this moment, be should, in their situa tion, have pursued the line of conduct they were now teeing. Mr. A. BARING—He could not help observing, that there was some inconsistency in the conduct of those who professed to be pupils of Mr. Ricardo, and yet , were loud in the support and celebration of intolerance and Protestant ascendancy. The measure suggested on this side was one of a temporary nature, and calculated solely for the year, but formed in the spirit of that *tea sure which had already received the approbation of the House. As to the propositionof the Hon:Member for Essex he did not know any reason why that should be adopted. Why shouli they adopt the plan of a prohi bitiou of the' importation of foreign corn, till the price at home reached 705.? He could not but object to that scheme, if it were for no other season than this, that it was in complete opposition to the plan which bad been already adopted by this House. He objected to it, also, inasmuch as it limited that discretionary power which was vested in the Executive Government with; respect to the importation of foreign corn. If Parlia ment should establish a prohibition till the pate reached l 70s. there could be no interference on the part of Go vernment, till the home price had advanced that length.' There would be no good ground for interference, if Parliament thought proper to take upon itself abso lutely to prohibit importation until the price rose to seventy shillings. The proposition of the Honourable i MeMber for Esse: would therefore be not only objec tionable in point of principle, and contrary to the plan which the House had already sanctioned, but also ex tremely inconvenient in point of practice. The only alternative was to adopt some temporary measure, or some permanent one, conformable, as far as posssible,l to that which the House? had already approved. No plan, however, could be so generally satisfactory as that which the House bad already approved, and sent to the other House. Many of the farmers did not think dal they would tinder that Bill get sufficiently high prices for their corn ; while, on the other band, the manufac turers thought they would still be compelled to pay a much higher price for bread than they ought to do. But still there was a general impression, thin, consider ing all circumstances, and the feelings which prevailed among different classes, it was as taw and as good 11 medium as could well be adopted. He, therefote deeply regretted that such a plan should have been destroYed in period of scarcity may take place productive of evils the subjmt of debate, which no political triumph can possibly compensate. his conviction of the And, ifebecoetsing 'harvest should be be late, even fhe ap. late a co Ht evewies prehensions of nib SAW* a may so exaggerated as Meat of ntinuatii to create much naischref, unless ,Parliament shall. now Seienii. he would his proceed tc the nanptiorrof some measurecalculated to the Vinuse; but the* supply arty incidental deficiency that may possibly oc- sons Who approved •It. the oneration of the measure which received reasonably object tc lof the amendment. Ety settings until thi to quiatity, we &h.& be event a consumr contest, which I depro. an adjustment e ecess of the messier. Dot. the agricultural n which is entedittfinur his part he was sn,so much of the eims of friend to the ins ' whirls orders bite beep 'wished to see the le amount of which bills founded on the now in progress, to be be should prefer another House, and diet consequently i now h e was under tbe necessity of resorting to a moist:wary measure, a thi,, 2 to which he could not accede without the utmost reluc - - ranee, when he considered the conflicting demands and interests to which it would give rise, and the total ute y th ir e eig su he li d. If e certainty in the corn trade to which it would lead,-, Before a plan so generally satisfactory w as thrown out, it would have been well if the moral effect'of thee set. dog the'different chines of the commu n i t y i n oppositce peop to ea te ch sb oter ld ha t d ak be e been mote reaso n m in a g tur o e n l Ject, and should find that the class of the community from whith Magistrates, Members of the Legislature, and Membnt 1 of the Goverment were taken, instead of attending to the general interests of the nation, acted almost with La particular and tacluaive view to their owe *te l e s and fortunes, in opposition to theaintetetts of the ot h e r . .classes of the community, that no:ion might be vom it . live of a very dangerous feeling. When he came dos to.tlse House, he had considered with himself whethef l'arlioraent might not sit long enough to enable there to make another attempt to get a fixed and anm e tradopted ? Bot when he saw in what spit it another ose had dealt with the plan which had alma: sr passed this House, he thought it would be necessate to give them time to cool, in hopes that in the nest fission a better scalper would be evinced. Hosee%er reluctant, therefore, be was to consent to the adoptii i of • a temporary enesteetre, which on many accounts was so highly objectionable, he at present saw no other alternative; for, considering all the circumstances, lie bad himself no expectation that the longest period to which they could protract their labouis would afford them a prospect of having a proper permanent me.sure established in the coarse of the present Session. As to the Noble Person who had been alluded to as having originated the Amendment, as it was called, which had destroyed the principle of that meastne which had te ethed the sanction of that House, and had been so generally satisfactory, he telt so deep a sense of the immense debt of gratitude which the country owed to him, that be Would be extremely sari to say any thing that sight have the appearance of t effecting upon him ; but at the same time he could not help saying, that when he saw no less than five of the late ?Canters, all of whom had, while they were in the Ministry, conceited in and approved of the Measure which had been pasted by this House, and sent to the other Hotne—shea b e saw all of them, when out of office, torn round sal strangle that very measure, he could not agree with the Right Hon Member for Oxford, that all this was done from an entirely honest feeling; especially as the amend. sent, by means of which they had effected their object, was the most foolish and absurd, and the most inopera tive for any good purpose, that ever was proposedtobe introduced into any Bill that ever came before ment—(Lood cries of hear, hear). That was the net character of the Amendment; but he spoke of it in these term*, not with any view to reflect upon the inch. vidual with whom it originated, but merely to point Dot the reasons which induced him to consent to a tempo. rary measure, since he saw how hopeless it was to erten that a proper permanent plan should be adopted is the course of the present Session. It the Hight Honourable Member for 'Gifford could think that such an Amend. went was introduced from a sincere desire to promote the object without injuring the. principle of the Bill, he could only say, that his credulity was equal to his candour; for he (Mr. Baring) could hardly connive how any persons with common sense, who were really friendly to the principle and object of .the'Bill, male have presposed such an Amendment, especially if they kneW what would be the fate - of the 134 which they malt have done, at it was to be pre sbmed that they were acquainted with the privilegu of the House of Com Moos, ant with their own Fn. vdeges. - The effect of the Amendment was to throe the whole of the Corn Trade of the country into a state of total uncertainty and. confusion. He thought the Right Hone Gentleman hinkself ought to have sad a few words on the nature, object, and effects of the Amendment. Could any one( thew that the Amend ment was good for any_ th•Mg etcept to throw the Corn Trade into the hands, of foreigners? if theole ject was to give a preference te the corn directly is ported, over the corn in bond,lhat plea would not hare the slightest effect in protecting the agriculture of di country; and if it had not that object, it had no object whatever, unless that of, destroying the Bill. It cold not surely have been intended to injure oar own ship) ping, and to throwthe whole of th e cops trade into the hands of foreigners; and it' that was not the purpose, what could it be, except to get rid of the Bill? He re peated, that as a protection to Agriculture, the Anned• man was the most absurd and inoperarie possibly be conceived ; for Cora would at the Hans Towns and Flemish portly into competition with the home pewees much as if it were warehoused at hOlOll. logizeko site Committee for taking such an Amendment as this : but every featly a ware,that foreign corn might bet. at Flushing and.other parts of the opposite and readily poured into this country. Some seemed to be of opinion, that these ' at an extraordinary distance, while . not marl farther from Mark-lane than Parliament could have given no greater reigners than by passing this Bill in it stood after the Amendment. Foreign have flowed in abundantly, when the have permitted ; but all the benefits system would have been transferred would have been one difference, which , not suggested itself to the sagacious this beautiful Amendment; name!' reign corn would have come in at much facility as ever, if unfortunately bad risen to• 90s. Of 100 s, in coo' scarcity resulting from a deficient try would then have found itself entire' , of those foreign countries, where tuated in which the corn had (Hear, hear, hear)--and from whicn cenery to. our subsistence might in a moms^. cut o f f — ( Cheers ). Could anything mischievess—(Cheers)? He gave great credit to !Lig ingenuity of the Right Hon. tientleman, the Meal! for Oilords.isho had been obliged, in defending "7, supporters of the Amendment, to suppose that they ecn wholly ignorant of the mischief it was intended to pro' r. duce, from their total inability to understand its a. ings and effect—(Hear, heir); and that they had, in that happy state of simplicity, brought it forward boof", for the purpose of amending the Corn Bill—(Cheer:/. be more absurd If he (Mr. Baring) thought that this was indeed a re ' honest corn question elsewhere, he would rather Bill should have come back to that House, in order 1 0 ., they might have hat a free conference with their Lk' operative that cold 'Geld be warrha *too and would co awes to the fall, is ow. He ought to ape up their time veil Pery one must be per tbeeasily warebeeeed : opposite Cowan& i 7 hzsa n . rofeom S: n eorgos :fo boon2e(:)eor ports e m e i;:i f ef 0 in the shape in which reign corn would soli the averages s of the Inuebuuung rrecl abroad. There •hich he believed bad . Pacioos inventors of • that while fo- rt low prices witb . e-e t ately the home pu ce consequence of the it harvest, this coo• entirely at the meter e the ports were el• been warehoused-- bich the supply - - 1 1 1 i 1 •, 1 t d