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,hips_—(a laugh), in which they might, by the fore* o' ' reas on—if reason had any power in that quarter—have made even those who professed to be most friendly to this Amendment for its own merits, understand the oposition at last so thoroughly that nobody could have had the face to offer an argument in its favour—. ( o nes .) It was with great reluctance he [sad troubled t h e House at this length, but he was decidedly of opi nion that the country would do better to endure the inconvenience of delay, than legislate in haste on so im portant a question. The plan of the Hon. Member for Essex (Mr. Western) was not calculated either to do cf edit to the House or benefit to the country—(Hear.) Mr. PEEL rose instantly-64 lamat a loss to recon cile t he whole tenour of the Hon. Gentleman's speech t o the declaration with which be prefaced it—that such was the veneration he felt for the character of 'my Noble Friend (the Duke ~ f Wellington), and such .was his sense of the obligations this country was under to that distinguished Personage, thatlie could not Ott this day, as it bad been previously and justly remarked by my Non. Friend (Sir E. Knatchbull)--the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo—do that pain to hit private feelings which he must have inflicted upon them, by o ccupying his whole speech with an attempt to turn into ridicule the conduct of the -Noble Duke—(Hear, hear!) It was no part of . my. duty to vindicate the `clause moved by my Noble Friend. I stated expressly as a reason why I believed the proposal of that vlause formed • no part of a political scheme, that 1 had never heard of my Noble Friend's intention to move it until the neat morning, when I learned that it had been proposed. I said so,-because I have reason to think that the Noble Duke would take no step of that kind without my privity. I ceitaiiily did say, as I felt justified in doing, that such are our habits of confiden dal coinmunication an these subjects, that S di ii think,• lithe propotal of that clatie bed formed pall of any political device, the Noble Duke wield hire given me some intimation of his intention. But why dues the Hon. Gentleman ate apt to ridicule my Noble Friend? If his ridicule be successful; it applies to my Right Hots. Friend (Mr. Einskisson) who sits below bias, and not to the No-le Dukea:-(Hear, heaf). I deem it Sight to state the history of this clause, at en answer to the attempt of the Han. Gentleman to throw ridicule oe a man for whom, at the same time, he professed toted the highest veneration—(Cheers, and 4 4 No, no.")—I deem It right, I say, to state this history, since the debate has departed so widely from the channel in which it commenced. I will state exactly the course my obis iii lend has par. sued. H- was appointed ame ta r ol the Committee moved for in the other 'louse, with the consent of his Majesty's Government, theobjest of which was to inquire concerning the prices at which foreign grain can be s hipped from ports abroad, and the quantity that was to be imported into this country. The result of this inquiry was to create an impression on the mind Cs! my Noble Friend—whether right or wrong I am not arguing—l am only vindicating his motives, and not the cause, with which I have no concern—that' the wareriousing system contributes greatly to fraud, by giving a direct interest to parties who have a consi derable quantity of bonded corn to practise on the ave rages, in order that they may take it but of the warn: houses when they have succeeded: as the case may suit their purposes, in making the price rimer fall. The object of my Noble Fr iend's Clause was to give a pre ference to the corn directly imported froits-oe board ship over that lodged in the warehouses; and wharirer ridicule the Right Hon. Gentleman may throw on that Clause, it is undoubtedly sanctioned by the Act of 1791, which expressly provides, that corn taken nut of the warehouses shall be subjectaot only to the then exist-1 ing duty levied on all ether Corn, but also to a furthet duty of two shillings and sixpence. In addition to ate ordinary duty. It was to that Act that my Noble Friend referred, as something that totresponded la principle with his Aniendlneilt. The., Hithouraille Gentle's= must have misconceived no, MAO Friend'i Clans. alto gether, when he talks .of a duty of Ils. Ws being the result of that Amendment. While he was exhausting all his powers of ridicule upon it, he *lli elitirelt mistaken as to its nature and design, There Ida net one word in the Duke off' Welling ton ' s Clause as to a duty of 2s.ed. (Hear, hea r ). Th at Clause merely. , provided; that no foreign corn bonded in this country, shhuld be taitiii Out forborne consumption till after the steerage's Witold have passed 665. Not a word was there as to any additional duty. The Noble Duke only wanted to Freya* frauds on the averages; and he said ezplicitly, 44 If you object to My moot, resort to the pridciple of the Ait of 1791; and tub: jeer the bonded corn to an additional duty of 2s. 6d."— But that duty formed no part Of the Clause he moved. Ile stated his object dearly : and having proposed his own method of attaining it; declared that be las willing to consent to any other equally Okada' seed in particular, be said, if his Majesty's Ministers would apply the principle of 1791 to the bonded corn. he was content. , But why do I say that the ridicule of the Hon. Gentleman applies not to my Noble Friend, but to my Right Hon. Friend ? Because the Cleqse °Ti singly sent by my Noble Friend for my Right Hon. Friend's opinion was entirely of a different nature:— It proposed that no portion of the bonded Corn should be taken out of the warehouses for home consump tion, until the parties bolding previously bonded Corn had signified their content to the admission of the Corn subsequently bonded. My Right Hom Friend stated some objections to this clause, and very just ones too, I believe ; but my Right Host. Friend vent on in his reply to say, that if the Noble Duke bad intended. to propose another clause, restricting the admit:ion of Fo reign Corn —pro hoc vice,' ens /male, to that handed previously t o t h e Act—unti l the average price of British Corn reached sixty-six shillings per quarter, then, says my Right Honourable Friend, " I for one, individually, should not object to it, though 1 am afraid the Amendment would be fatal to the NIL" All the objections the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Baring) makes to my Noble Friend's clause, apply equally to this temporary clause suggested by my Right Hon. Friend ; for, d ur i ng the time, it would have operated to precisely the same effect--(Hear, beat). The Hon. Gentleman says the Noble Dukes aa we would have afford e d no valid protection to agricul ture, because she eorndealer had only to warehouse at Flushing or Os tend, and h e cou l d bring his grain over immediately, D_ n gnothing but the additional cost of t rans port.-- ttot sam e ot the Hon. Gentleman see that. f or th e t i me , e objection applies with equal force to my Right I - I% h r_.en.mend's suggestion ? I know th at my Right Hon. 13 ' !I . d newer inttnded his as a permanent measure. ul t h ave a not the slightest doubt that my Noble friend 'stook my Right Honourable Friend's inten boo, oci proposed h i s lisio_r_u Amendment, under the iiiipres .th4irt,enhd. ewas . acting on the authority of my R ig h t `;" , t ,:u . Ido not stan d u p to d e f en d t h at c l ause . arc' is to vindicate the Duke of Welling-- 'en from the imputations that have been cast upon him, and which be the less deserves, as be di-tineds admitted that a clause short of that he proposed would satisfy him. The Noble Duke acted under the impression that though, in point of form, the Bill would be rejected, yet that it might be possible by means of another to alter the warehousing system, without de priving the country of the advantages it might derive from the Bill as a part of the permanent legislation of the land. My Noble Ftiend voted for the principle of the Bill, and publicly declared his approbation of it. He gave it his cordial support on going into the Com mittee; and he moved the Amendment. I firmly believe, only for the purpose of improving it, by guarding against fraudulent practices oa the averages. Of this I am positive, that in no part of these proceedings did my Noble Friend in the slightest degree depart from that rectitude, that singleness of heart and perfect sincerity, I which are as conspicuously the great ornaments Of his character as his splendid military achievements have raised his fame far above that of all other Commanders, Mr. BARING, in explanation, assured the House that it was 'with unfeigned reluctance he hid found himself 'compelled to animadvert on the conduct of the Noble Duke. He had stated most truly what be felt. He agreed entirely with the Right Hon. Gentleman in believing the , : the Noble Duke had'mistalen the meaning of his Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Huskisson), and had been misled by some persons much more cunning and artfol than hitusetf--;-(.4 laugh). He died not comnrend ttrr MOde in which the Right Hon. Gentleman had alluded to the day, for he really thought the debates of that House were not to be obstructed because they might happen to take place on the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo—(Hear!) With one other observation he would condole. To make his argument as short as possible for the convenience of the House, he had stated that the Noble Duke's amendment would have been Mort thin tantarts ant to an additional duty of 2s. 6d. as by raising the *ice froth 625. and a friction to 665. the difference of 44 would have exceeded that sum. Mr. HUSKISSON said, that he had to be the in. dolgence of the House in the. performance of a veiy painful but imperative duty. He certainly c uld have wished that Hon: G-ntlesnen had cocfined themselves strictly to the motion before the House, and that the discuision hid not taken the torn whichithadtak , m. Tne Right Hon. Member fir Oxford had said that all the ri dictile and blame which an H )n.Membet behind him had lavished upon t é Amendment of his Noble Friends at tached in an equal decree to him (Mr. HOSlOsvon) as it attached to his Noble F t iend. fit *Mild tell the Right Hon. Member for Oxford, that however great tt.at ntii cule might have been, he would r abet have borne with it, had it been twenty times as great, than tort the Amendment should hate received the sanction of that H , use, and WOrkesl all the m , schief, ail the disadvan tage,, and all the distress which it must inevitably have produced. At the name time. however, he must deny that any pa7t of ;hat ridicule attached to him. He was ant a etable neither for the itierits nor the demeriu of that amendment. It had b: en said, that he bad sit- Bested the amendment ; but it was quite cleat that the Nobl:. Duke had entirely Mistaken the itigaeStion Which he had made to Mit; and as ceitain doctimalti con nected with this snWt-ct had been alluded to there and elsewhere, he hoped that the House would allow hini, td read some extracts (hear), which would put the mat ter in *clearer light than it had yet appeared in. Late on the night of the 24th of last month, on the eve of ihe day for which the Corks Bill stood to be committed io the House of Lends, he received froth his Noble Friend a private communication, which he would now read' to the House. mirth ittut ria WO or wmtrietoil To Mi. intscsses. • " London, May 24, 11127. MT seas Minctatop-4 beg IN to Mott at the enclosed clause. Vt:cr"" l4l fff.wl!liiirlPil I,vel l PLOjettiptt to he being ix the Corn mg after tbe time pradtting the entry. fn my opitiiosl it will to slara Ihe apprehensions enter , tallied that the system of warehousing may be for the purpose of facilitating and coeering Ilse revoke of frauds in the averages i Iwo will tend to Wags sane to vote he the MU who would edit orial vote against it, 14 Let me hart your amine nil soon as you can. Ever min, most sincerely, " WELLINGTON." The Oases ribieh his Noble Prima enelesitl ran u follows: (lioelosore.) “ Provided always that nis earn shall be entered for home con sumption front any winibettee In any port orio- in this king. dMei, previous to the entry for home esokimpfte, or to the 'ex portation of every other portion or peetiots of earn previoodY ledivd in warehouse, in such port or place; without the consent in writing, under the baud gad sail of the proprieter of such teat *undated earn, so long as the average price of earn within this kingdom, as settled by virtue of this Let, shall he less than To.. A quarter.” He wrote an answer to this letter of his Noble Friend that same night, which he believed that his Noble friend received early the neat morning. In replying to the letter which he thus received, he could assure the House that he comMunicated with the Noble Duke in the same spirit in which one colleague would commu nicate with another ; foi in such relation he still sup posed himself to stand with his Noble Friend as far as that Bdl was concerned. He did not even keep a copy of the letter which he Wren,' and he had to thank his Noble Friend for the copy of it which he now held in his hand. This letter had been the cause of all the misapprehension which had taken place, and he must therefore bag to trespass on the House by reading it : snow stet. Noumea so me nogg ov vampires,. " S ompereet.place, May aa, lit?. Dirr DIAZ Dbah-/ shOuld certainly be dispose d to acquiesce In (my tameable. amceadon;Which fkarlid Man of thole who object to the Cern IYW la the House of Lerda„ witheat da les the Ism of di Measure when sent bait to our Hems. " leenhbe.tahe open mysalf to say, whether the proviso, which I return. would be open to this objection. On other grounds. lam afraid you would find great practical diffieuldes in the necadoo of the proposed measure. " It would give, as I understand it, the power to any ewe pro. Priem( of foreign con, in any port, to by a Hie upon the sale of all calm warehoused subsequent to his in that port, usdl the price reached 70s. " This would pot it In the power of one individual, by reserving a quantity, however small, of aid corn, to stop any sate below 70s. as effectually as it could be stopped by a positive prohibition under that price. 0 Supposing this objection removed, bow, at any of the great ports, can yes hope to get the consent in writing of every pr. pricier ? I have no doubt that the corn now warehoused in Lembo is the property of at least Joe hundred firms or indivi dui*, some living in London. some in different parts of Dagland, some abroad. This corn, whilst in bond, is every day changing hands. Hew can it be satisfactorily certified to the Customhouse that eft the consents have been obtained ? or how is any party to set about prbauing them all, or to know when he has ptisbed it? acean- M There are other difficulties of detail which occur to me. For issuance, a party who cannot fulfil the conditioss in the pert of Leaden, may-sot find any difficohy In doing 14 at Rochester, be. came of corn previously bonded at the latter port there Is none.— In that cue, the Lowden owner may either remove his cure to Rochester, or impart fresh corn from the Continent into that port, and the law would he different in different ports, though possibly very near to one another." He made these objections in order to sbew that the pro ?mad claws was really not a practicable, and Oates's it had been, h would not bea u ef.,l one. Ti.e lette: concluded in ;be-e words ilesd your hewn that nn entre herded gibe llispaningel present incite be allowed to he entered for home consunsp tiOn tin the_ aver qe price had reached eds. and that thenceforward 'm awn so bonded, or thereafter imporjed, should come un d er the siguladuns ef the Inn, individually I atould not object to such a preeiso. It would ensure that No quantity bessuld that nor in band &Could be thrown upon the market, unless, in wheel that quantity, eke price reached a level which might fairly be taken as an indication Wear being in want of further supply from abroad. " Bast /ant stride/hat arts this anieseasesst *wad prveefital Soda Mtn este Herres. I remain, &c. aW. HunKIMON." !NEM, whit he meant to say was simply this—that op to the price of 665. the corn now actually locked up should have a priority, and that henceforth that and all other torn should be under the regulations of the Bill. He ad insinuated that there were 500,000 quarters of corn in bond, which corn might be taken as the representa tive of so much British capital, much of which had, in all probability, been brought there under the authority of measures either already taken or pledged to be taken, and he therefore did think that it was entitled to a priority of 665. But then it was merely pro hoc vice, and nothing approximating to permanency. It was to oleo a preference to this corn, and not to the foreign torn, as had been erroneously stated. He would presently pursue the correspondence farther. lie, must say that he should always look upon it as a matter of regret that his Noble Friend, who ha. done him the honour to, consult him upon this sub Jett, to take his opinion on one clause, and then. considering his reasons against that clause to be va lid and conclusive, had not hesitated to abandon it.— be should always look upon it as a matter of regret that his Noble Friend did not tell him that he had another clause to propose—( Hear). If he had d him that favour, the misapprehension would have bee spared, and his Noble Fa iend would have been set right. He cert tinly was never so much surprised as when a Itiend of his, not • member of the other House. in iormeJ him that the Duke of Wellington bad pro. posed a clause by way of amendment to the Corn Bill, and tha! the Nnble I.fulre had stated that he had his (Mi. Husk.sson ? .) sanction for it. The =smelt he received this intimation be lost n I time in writing to the Noble Duke, telling him that i.e (Mr. liuskisson) was not only totally ignorant that tits Noble Duke was going to prop +se any clause, but that if he was rightly informed of the nature of it, he was totally opposed to it. In the same letter he had explained to the Noble Duke the spirit and feeling coder which he had communicated with him on :be subject of the clause. And now he would ask the Right Hon. Member for Oxford, it :his were a lair history of the Amendment of his No ble Ft tend which now formed a part of the Bill, how it could possibly happen that he (Mr. Huskisson) could be the 'lightest degree anawerable for it—and upou what grounds the Right Hon. Member could saY that all the objectinus, and all the ridicule to which that Amend ment had been subjected, were equally applicable to him (Mr. Httskissoff)? (Cheers.) His Noble Friend moved hil Amendment on theist of 4npe,, when his own individiod opiniors might.. base. bees that he was comet in citing his (Mr. Hi- - - the halite; but, do the 2d of Jude we Aerfectly aware thit he had W.' kiisim's) letter. It molt alio, that time nothing mots was dos the followit t i f iThersday. bande d Puk Wits. ly lqfortned W. (Mr. us ore' s which ha had proposed would _ did not think it of vital importance, WW. Friend persist ih going on With it?-41;nr i )girl. Why press an amendment whiCh no human b eing in that House could think anything but actual destruction to the Bill? He could only say, that "'battier might be the reason, the individoid who was now addressing them could not be made chargeable with the measure. He would oat do the Noble Duke the injouici of taking the merit of it, and he must protest against its being fat4fed upon him, who had no share WhaMier in the Matter. He was Larry to trimpasi so lontors the time of the House with this sUbject—iHear, hear); bait how. ewer Inconvenient it might be, he mast beg to cell their attention ro the letter which he wrote to hiss Noble Ft iend on hetriog that he had proposed his amendment in the House of Lords. lam Xi. Midi:WON TO me Dots or inemaarrom " Somerset-place, Ild Jane, 10 a. at. "Me ow: Dots—l have this moment laird wit h great air false, that In moving an amendment last night in the Corn Bill, you urged that imentlment as having been cenartatia to ht am, dad that to prove my consent rat read a grimes letter, whisk I had written to you, in answer to one which I bad the laicise to twelve from you on the 24th ult. " As I did not even keep a espy of that letter, and at year Grata has felt yourself at liberty, *theta any subsequent communicators of any sort with me, to make this patine moot it, I feel it necessary to request from you a copy of that letter, as without It I can enter upon that explanation of my own conduct which the use that has been made of my letter renders necessary. " Ai I have only yet received a very imperfect report (not from any Peer) of what passed last night on poor moving the Amend. meat, this is not the occasion to make any funber observations upon the subject. ' I " I must, however, be allowed to my, that, be the Amendment what it may, it had na ms consent; and that if my consent (as b *baps erroneously reported to me) was urged in any way if a ground for pressing its adoption, I must protest against the audio. thy of my , name having been used fur that purpose. ' 0 Though I cannot recollect the wording of my private letter, I ' wallArsow the feelings with which I wrote it. I considered ii as • prisae, addressed to a colleague with whom I had sat is upon Lord Liverpool's Cern SW, who had condurnal Op i illeastire, add who was, therefore, ceesidered by rite as sashes ift for its Speen.: and my reeollectios greatly teceiees nee if I did am mitmey to your Grace that any amendment, such as I now nadir• stihd to have been Carded at your proposal, would be fatal to that meased. " I remain, &c. • • (Sighed) 0 W. HUSKISSON." On 400 didad ddy he received the following answer : .. in* Tim: nisi Sr sigitisaesor iro aka. nesanales" . " Linden, JUN g, ISt?. N thitiii.Hisoisson—•Accarding to your desire, I send you a espy of year. MO of the 24th of May. .in 40• Weir to mine of that dote, in which I pfd for your cotidderadon a clause to be ply posed to be added to the Corn Bid, having for is object to prevent the use of the WarehOute system to promote frauds in the proposed modes of taking the averages. • My object in considting you was to obtain your opinion and sanction for what I proposed to do; and having obtained, instead of your sanction to wbat p r oposed, your suggestion of another men sate, I adopted it. " I stewed your note, and the clause which I bad drawn in an fortuity with your seggestron, to Lord Goderich, who, I et t eneuedy conceived, consented to what I Intended to propose; and I stated the content. only when he stated his dissent from my proposition, which was in fact your own. ▪ la respect to the Bill being thrown out in consequence of this ar as other alteratioo, that is a matter that depends entirely upon the t. Ever yours, most faithfully, - I •• WELLINGTON." It would be quite impossible lot the Comntitiee not to see that when the Noble Duke thus give him ciaarly to understand that the amendment was his. he could no. Jo otherwise than give ham all the benefit cf his (the, Duke's) measure, and c . ,airn his own. He accordingly. wrote to him as fnllows: Seeserset-pisee. June ft. 11117, 11 o'clock, r.m. N M T seas Deds—Tarr hew width I received this mains laka ro e e xtremel y that you did not afford Wan ever y of 'out to you before the discussion of het 'Ri g ht tt , Ilifferemee ern what Is stated in my lister of the 54th u it lath to width Individually I should have bad no obfieedoo, ar .- Otholdmenr„ which, from mistake, you represent as bass el. km. • osBian In my letter of the 44th nit. to which I stmts. I bass eloobjectloo, was in substance thist..—to su:pen.• iliesegdalthe a ate present Bill in respect to any firedge wise. Nat ANN he homiedafter the passing of the Dili wail the aura% lead readiedreadied tics. Us. and toyruelde, that d neffeemed (I. e. of!. a ce should hotreersceranteed 4416.) tbe provisions of the 11 take drat in respect to di nod foreign wheat; or, In th. - ' slimy lettu, that' it (web foreign wheat) should then coos odhrthe re pthmione of the M.' " The is of pour anteadment is, that et see time sluff the it idader si the Bill come into operation in respect to a n y feeds *heist alter the passing of the HUI whenever the price she: be lidlowAle. • ---. " Ily eftosition obdrately ditempplates a measure, the ester. mad Rohner which are u Whets: That the wheat now in bun, (upwards et go0;000 rafters) should be the only foreign wheat Sc titled to came into the market of country till the price eboul.. lieu reached 1164.—that this price moor attained, the referenr should muse I mad that all other (Quirt wheat should thettedor . meddle eggially entitled to come in' under the regulations of th. Pll:mbichregulatlens enact that it may be taken out idwaretunt-e of ea limes, upon payment of the duties specified la the schedule. " Your Amendment is not a proviso pro Arne tier, isatifyieg f.or a special purpose, and, eeeerflift to ad prekehility, for a eery Malted that, dig general rigulathas of the 11U; but ft Is a peresaften. mentitment directly contravening those regulations, .. dewi ng thus, I trust. aide clear, .the difference between you amendment and the proposition Contained in my letter of the tut, It is only ft k rther nicesury fur me to state the ie.aon which keduc.. me to Ibtimate to you, at the close of that letter, my apptelsensio that she effect to thch a propoddien would he fads. die 113.1 `? I conceive that you would think it beer net to risk the fat a this important measure, by proposing any amenopuret, boweva moth it might be agreeable' o @erne parties, ifien were awareht... the necessary effect of its being adopted would be to put en end t. the useesurir altogether. " The Amendaneot which you have carried cannot, I am per. spaded, be acceded to by the Hone of Commons. This is nut s matter that depends upon the Government; and you must allow Me to add, that were a new Bill to be brought in, embracing that A Illtaidient. it would be no longer ems in rind*, the meaeure agreed to in Lord Liverpool's Cabinet, but one.of a very daemon trcter. • W. HIJSKISSON." i a t i nswer to ibis letter, he received one hosts his Noble f i riend, lamenting the mistake into which he had fallen, and saying that he could only !egret that he found him self bound in duty to persevere in the conrse which he .. had taken. He had now completed a very paieltsl duty, which he had been called upon to pertortn, ice consequence of the public discussioa which bsd taken fce on What had passed between him and his Noble eod. He would only add, that the high respect whir* he entertained for his Noble Friend, and the eitieiy personal acts of kindness which he had receive I a; hie hands, prevented the eaistenie of any other feel in on his part than that of variance of opinion with ifs . Noble Priers ! upon this point. He to usted' that iing else existed on the part of his Noble Friend— (tr). He would now make a few observations on Ale propositions befcize the House. He should never have expected that a proposition such as the Hon. Member opposite had made would have come from that quar tet. The House was now called upon to negative all the preceding votes of the Session, and to disclaim their own consistency. Surely the Hon. Member must 'n foreign corn under certain The Hon. ruhibision The Hon. quarter had the .hick she subject, as 4 not be.tne grain, of foreign corn admitted' e Hon. Isl..mber seemed, indeed, to think that the House had completely lost sight of a system founded on prohibition, and had determined to adopt a more liberal system than the law of 1815 allowed them to adopt. That la* never came into full force and effect until the years 1816 and 1819, and snels were its effects at those periods that general coadensnation and reprobation were Celt throughout the country, both by the agricultural and manu facturing interests. The Honourable Member seemed to thiik, it quite consistent with the previ o us opi nion given by a majority of Members of that House that 70s. ought to be the price at which wheat might come in at a duty of 17s. He prorsed as a sate mode of legislation ? to lock up all corn,in hood, and not to admit it to be imported until the price reached 70s. and this he proposed ate period when 60-. was insufficient to protect the holders of corn—(Hear, heal- ),—There was another point to which he Huskisson) wished to refer. The HAI. Member (Mr. Western) had no later than last Thursday stated, when on the subject of the currency, that 60s. of the present day was equivalent to 80s. of the year 1815. In this opinion he (Mr. Hut- Osseo) felt dispo ed . to agree; but he would ask the Hon. Member, if 60s. of the year 1815 was equal to 80s. now, what was his propotal of 70 .? Why, it was equal, by his, own chewing, to 955. of the y.ar 18151 So that his proposition amounted to this—that 95.. was the price at which.corn might be admitted; with this diffe rence, however, that the law of 1815 admitted foreign core free of duty, and now at a price of 95,. 4 duty of 255. was chargeable upon it—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman, in order to be consistent, ought to have money as cheap - as it was in 1815, and then corn would have been at the same price that it bore prior to that year. He (Mr. Huskisson) was warranted in stating, from past experii nee, that the renew.' of the law of 1815 would cause as undue Row of corn into the country. The Honourable Member must perceiver that the price of 80s. could no longer be sustained ; and he must also see, that tis alter the present Bill, and substitute the price of 70s. would be to make the measure altogether nugatory. It yens adopt the price of 70s. you adopt that price which might come into operation under circumstances of great pressure, when the failure of the harvest in this country should render importation necessary ; and he hid already shewn that 70s. then-was equal to 951. now. Did the Hon. Member for Essex mein, by his measure, to call into action the system of averages, or did he think it a matter of indifference to the country at large that foreign corn should be shut out for three mooths longer? He (Mr. Huskisson) as a choice of evils, distinctly preferred the price of 80% to the price mentioned is ) the H.,n. Member for Essex, because the former prig was, in point of fact, tantamount to a prohibition, and because, under the o, eratiuns of that law, the system of averages could have no mischievous effects, and would in tact be a dead letter. He perfectly agreed with his Right Hinourable Friend the Member for the Univer sity of Oxford (Mr. Peel), that it would indeed be a very great misfortune if the country oat to remain for an sodefinite period without any measure being decid ed upon with regard to the vital and impurt.tat ques tion which was now before the House. The evils which its protraction wtseld create would be felt not only by the great majority of the people, but the agricultural in- Inskisson's) antimony for the be aware that the rule respecting trade in finer June his Noble Friend was was, that foreign corn Should be adar.itted wider misconstrued his (Mr. Hub. escasional resniations, and prohibitions. Th [Mb, recolletted. that from Member, howeyei . , seemed inclined to make pr., dime with the Ameddasiat the rule, apilimpplation merely occaoonal. T day. Now seeigg that the Nit** for belt lautiod char 7(L. a rifsed thatatisappee l was é fair price for corn free of duty. gin I 1) litter, Mid t tbeclAuse on. Member so far forgotten the views wt ald be fatal to the Bill, hbe ouse had so lately expressed upon the cab iortance, why did his N..ble seriously to say that np to 70s. there should nol -c .- • __NIIIO I , 1 1 ! ; f 1., . l i ; , I ii I r .1 it , ! ; I . ' .