The Statesman. — London, England, 1814-09-09 00:00:00

;: r um- REPORT OF THE COMMITTEH OF THE HOUSE OF COM MONS, ON THE SUBJECT OF THE CORN LAWS. • kaowledge, and the emirate llMinima havekept their farming accounts. 0a this part .. the sabject, it is very material to box is mind, that sway of these witnesses, who are eery extensively employed as surveyors and land -agents in the letting of estates, all concur in stating, that the calcalin; Ulm upon which they have proceeded for some years been below ' • this kingdom ?--Certainly wesie." mtidence of Mr. Charles FrederkkHormings, a Elbing, locally acquainted with the dis trivia of Poland, from whichlhe corn is sent to the ports of the Baltic for exportation, and himself a core-factor of considerable experience hi London, t of Mr. Scott on this foreign corn. - important inferences, are to , That in the event should be admitted from 83 to 80s. 'argument, the the protection-of would in no de* from. fore* ,rrn in this king;. crop. And, 2d, a price in the altogether in. British grower, .4 Importation of interfere to check Parsee, the growth adequate to her only occasionally, when .hat auky consider. atcount in the dry, haring-bean ;tensirely dependent has borne mirage Ask the by those of the .case, even in the tZ tr eorroborateil by a il fOrnirited, to your Committee by Mei Jobe .0. ir ISP ; , by,hick it ,appeees,, that, an the 17th-of ikey last, the.pricei of • wheatlat Clantsie thasrirout 41860 to t. 380 per last, seeking, &tithe thenentimege A London of 14:156.a price fit about 2ii Vaao4. qoarter In taking into their consideration the mi.._ oobject referred to them by the House, they have proceeded, in the first place, to examine into the state of the gro' Corn camstances which regulate the importatiol duties payable ti time, with a ref( to the espence appeared to y( must necessaril sideration of the Under this 'have turned their Ist. The recent agriculture of . id. The present Cl; the rent : 3d. The price On the first to be established the last twenty progress has United Kingdo' bavebeen ski', to the improved alto forior pastor. defining ated 'Which have been thation :—that to the sitancimportary in their infancy _ ward state, do not yet make and return fee the large advances which bare been laid out open them ; and tha, Skun advances in masy.instonFea, will be a total IWO to the parties (involving aim to to the nation' of be en. l' Yoer Committee. hastiti( iteiollP settlitstlfe principal result of their. 1,-own agriculture, and da. _ ..!*bid arta bit Zft the growth and price. of pia iii . ~ . 1 • doen ; it remain* for thesalbt;" ''f ; - - - _ . . . the produce, whichleit i fet,gtears might ......n , ;it rem......- _ . opea , petted from such expenel,Midmitakings), if, from '.14 a like manner, the substaace .li t e ae— . . which p r . ; but that, on the 3d of June; whenitist the want of a suffigisnt, ewciatrfigemeat to coutinue they ban proctored rapes.* tiliggsode 46 forr-.01 change upon London had risen to 18-12, the pia, 'them, they should baiOntpdpeed in their present en- mots; which seems neforeliirgmforte the second sod of Dentaic wheat irhasediitely followed it; eo. that, 'finished state. wily remaining branch of this important sahjesti as Motwithstauding this great linprovement of the ex. It is to the stimulus of this ancourepmenti during:, far u it stands referred to the consideration of your 1 Osage in favour of this country, the priceszt.whicit last twenty years, more titan toasty other cause, i Committee. . • . . wheat could be purchased by a bill upon London re. .'t till the witnesses ascribe the greet encrease rbkh They have, in the firstslace, to express their re. mined nearly Wag* viz. f. 370 to f. 390 pee last; ? as tatter' placein the aangal produce of our soil, and gret at, not having been able to procure any informs-1 or 21. 10s. Bd.per alnetter. •. " iwt , ;si k ., 't , , tlifelale rapid extension of the improved system of lion respecting the expence of raising corn loffinign 1 If this coentry, either fro= pear Oftvsmeessitr, I gfr husbandry ; a system,whickit is stated by them , countr i e s ; but, althou g h their endeavours - 'have I should continue to depend air the ileport of foreign , bas originated in, and can only be maintained by ! failed is this respect, year Committee have collected corn for the subsistence of a portion of its: popila. large additions to the Nosing capital of the king. such evidence, on other points, as appears to them . tine, it is obvious, from all the evidence , that the dote. 'fee great source of this encouragement, in I very important for the due consideration of the Corn Baltic is the only part of Europe •apon which we the judgment of your,Consmittee, is to be traced to i Laws. can rely for a steady and regular supply ;-..that Spain the encreasing population autgrowing opulence of I It appears from the statement of Mr. Scott, a Mum. or Portugal are more or less our habitual compoti. the United Kingdom; bet ,it is. .also not to be con. her of your Committee, confirmed by the evidence ton in that market; end that France resorts to it reeled, that these causes, which they trust will be of 1 of other witnesses acquainted with the trade kaki.. occasionally, when Itee 'awn hornet ist'sielitiente-a. .a permanent and proves/be nature, have been inch , reign corn, that, in the countries borderinc on the l Occasionally, also v the Governemet ref Frame ap e if ew elly hut considerably aided by those events s i Baltic and the North Sea, wheat is grown, not so peers to permit the exportation Of. a pubetof her own a hick, during the continuance of the war, operated ; much for the consumption of their own population i produce, but only for a limited time, Mid whether to check the importation of foreign corn. The sod. i (which is supplied by rye' and other inferior grain) ! own markets art very much depressed.. This, them; den removal of these impediments appears to have ;as for a foreign market:—that, from Poland in per. • fore, is a resource ehich cannot Ise recitontCopOn , Created, among the occupiers of land, I whin de. ticular, the greatest part of the wheat snootily pro- by .all habitually importing country. It, may .be ' free of alarm, which, if not allayed, would tend, duced, is re t rularly sent down to the shipping forthcoming when least wantedpilleld withheld artlie fit the opinion of the witnesses examined by your ports of the Baltic.for exportation ; and that theft memesit of our greatest need. ~,,r i, .., . • . pommittee, oat only to prevent the enclosure and . are the only ports of Borneo is which the Cossaw it is is. fees. not undeserving emattentios of the Jaeltivation of great tracts of land still lying waste .! tries not growing wheat iittough for their own rout M ese, that-a considerable ekety appears to Ye. levied Vid inproduedie, but the to counteract- the spirit , "mention can resort, with.* tertuinty of procuring on all corn exported from the Baltic. Your. Coln. of iniprovemeutin other quarters, and to - check its an - annual supply.' In these ports it appears, from mittee have reason to believe, that tbisAnty has kiingeess upon lands already ender tillage. , the evidence, that the pries of wheat is not regulated, berg greatly increased on some occesinne, when the (a.)—With respect to the second point, " the es. as it is in countries where it forms the habitual sub. we Its of this country were most.pressinv indeed it Nome of cultivation, including the rent," it is stabod , eistence of the people, by the state of the housefl'''. cannot escape observation, that regattas being 'the by all the evidence, that, within the same period et; set; but almost entirely by the demand its the other object far which a duty is imposed ; and-the pried; twenty years the money rent of land, taken upon an , countries of Europe, which are in the habit of making in the Baltic being governed by price he r e , t he male average, has been doubled ; but if the value of the large purchases in the Baltic :—that the market price of such a duty admits of being increase& in pro Pore rent be measured by the proportion which it bears to of wheat at Denteic, for instance, is not so much don to the degree of scarcity and consequent high the gross produce of the land, it appears to have very ' affected by the abundance or deficiency of the crop price existing in this country. . V I considerably diminished within the period in ques. in Poland , wher e, be the enantity more or less, it , From a consideration of this and rite many other tion : the landlords' share of the whole produce of is grown for esportation ' as it is by the price in the incouvlbniences, both domestic and political, whichs estates occupied by tenants, having been twenty years markets of London or Lisbon. It is therefore oh- ,in a country like this, cannot fail to grow out of ago about ono-third, and tieing now calculated at no i violis t that, if the prices in these and the other im.. a state o haitual and extensive dependence no .0 mote than from one-fourth to one-fifth. With respect ' porting markets should be very low, the price lu the supply 4 foreign corn, your Committee have great to the amount of capital requisite for the stocking of ports of the Baltic mast fall to meet them ; conse- . satisfaction in observing, that of late the export of a farm, and the general expences of management and' qeently there is scarcely any price in our own mar- , corn from Great Britain and Ireland has nearly, if cultivation, there appears to be very little difference , ket, which, under circumsta n c e s of a g eneral ahem- -not folly, balanced the importation. Looking to this lit the evidence. They are stated to be at least i dance is the other parts of Europe, would be soffi- important change, in our situation ;to the alma& double what they were 90 years ago. 1 ciently low to prevent an importation of corn from ance whic h we now en j o y ; and to the great and ex. Without pretending to oter to . the !loose any these foreign parts at which a considerable supply is tensive improvement made in cultivation bothhere - statement by which they might he enabled to form ant annually accumulated for exportation only. The and in Ireland, your Committee cannot but indulge& opinion, how mach of this increase of charge has ' evidence of Mr. Scott, on this point, appears to hope that we have nearly arrived at that state, is been produced by increased taxation ; your Com. , your Committee to be so material, and his knowledge which nothing bat a discouragment and consequent mittee have thought it not unconnected with this and experience give se much weight to that evidence, falling off of our own agriculture can again drive us part of their enquiry, to call for an account of the that they cannot forbear inserting it.—lt is as fol. Ito the necessity of trusting to large importations of total amount of tales received into the Exchequer, lows:— !foreign corn, except in unfortunate seasons, when it in the several years ended the sth of April, 1791, 66 Supposing the growth of wheat in this kingdom ' may be necessary to resort to this resource, to supply 1804, and 1814; which will be found in the Ap- to be below an average crop, do you think that any ; the deficiency of our own harvest. fondle. 1 importation that could be reckoned upon from the I Should this expectatioa be confirmed, as they trout it Will, by (3.)—On the - third point, " the price necessary to Baltic, would prevent the price of wheat in the .me experieoce of future years, it will he highly E vatifying to the remunerate the grower of corn," it is obvious that it home market from rising above 80s. a quarter ?—I : view which your Committee take of this important national can :atilt be almost impossible to arriv.. at any very pre- think not." tarn. They are convinced that a reliance on foreign imports. else conclusion ; and that this price will vary ac- "Do you think, that importation from other clear- ! doe, to a large autimat;is neither salataz d ar ba lste for th f is noun -cording to the variations of soil, markets, skill, and I ten aiding that from the Baltic, would produce that ;Se ca a !l e ns r to whi t ch s tbe ; eo le issier a behm y o o the blig the segi to look to ri as v industry in the occupier, and many other circum.l effect ?—Uoless under circumstances of a g - eneral i to submit, daring the late long and aLa p asiesitakiiisia hive stances a ff ecting differently not only different dig- ' 'bandages In the countries not habitually exporting beets materially ailevisted if their newt 4 ,o, og edid le d b i d been tricts, but different farms in the same district. At cora, I think not." ' less &pendent on foreign growth. if, compelled by the fro 'the same time, there can be ito doubt that these cir- " Supposing the price of wheat in England to be goad recurrence oftbese sat:tikes and privetions,the countryhis •Curastonces are taken into consideration, both by 635. a quarter, and a general abundance in Europe, 'at l ast m ade exertions which-will enable oa f seder ordinary dr „those who let, and those who take farms ; and that' do you think that a considerable importation could ; enmstances, to bold ourselves independent of the precarious ait i ;heir calculations of charges and outgoings on the i take place into this country ?—I do." I of foreign sappie,—your Committee, without weetaring to one hand, and of return on the other, are made I "Do you think it could at any price below 635., ' gat the mode, cannot doubt that it will become the wisdom,and ed _with a reference to some given price, as that which, ; supposing the duty not to counteract such imports -: wilt consee ect aeutly t be the policy ofteParlliamotaeinnt,oifn not t he one h an d, upon a fair average crop, would be necessary to re.; tion ?—lt is difficult to state what price would be sof- by present sealed i its exertiea and ma produce; and on the °this.; munerate the grower. It is this price which your ficiently low to prevent an importation from those , ci ; usisteniir with ihi. Ana object, to aford the greatest possible Committee have endeavoured to ascertain. parts that annually have a considerable quantity to i facility and indocement to the import of foreign corn, when. Otte of the witnesses examined by your Co- spare ." I ever, from adverse mamas, .h . meek artier own growth shall be mare states, that, according to the calculations ! " Under the circumstances above stated, would emu trodequete to the rooseeptian of the Usited /C.ingdore. 1 which he has made of the espeoces and produce i not such an importation tend materially to depress Aa connected with the general interests of trade—ven isle.' upon a farm which he occupies, he is of opinion ; the home market, even though the prices were . ri ll."'" __ l k p fs t ev ae i l tie rea nt t t= t is of eeem ntr ilionally su) ir i tf ar oa a r d o .a w n e . that, wheat being at 725. per quarter, the growers ofi low as 635. per wiarter 2—Undoubtedly." sages ter.beemolag a deposit for foreign corn. pearrses 17 1 ;an only he corn would be able to live ; but this calculation, be 1 66 YOU have stated, that no importation that could waft so by our allowing ee .ro the a fr e e .it im a i n urt ag o m f grai n , a to hr . Itrunl ,. ed odds, is made on the supposition that the Property be reckoned upon would prevent the price of corn, in , ;eaaiwelateges. „ are iiu s & A i .:„..o rii..ll d ut y , an d and mach t he owners of Tax will be taken off, and the price of labour in. the home market, from rising above 80i. in the event I grain so hooded bele. permitted. at all times, and f u g all duced. , of our own growth being bedew an average crop; i circernsmaces, to take t ut th e warehouse : , either4llm portation or for home coesuranune t subject, in t he latter ease, It is the- concurrent opinion of most of the other now do yo u thin k that, in the event of the protecting .•,„, iy co or sane „ g „, „ d . does to may be applicable to witnesses, that 805. per quarter is the lowest pries i pr.ee aga inst importation beiag reised from. 635. to I. !l_sy nr other co t : lair , le n. 111" 1*"d ‘ r . f4r et A t tr itgl"" se ort . ance - which would afford to the British grower an ado- 80s. the quantity of corn imported would be dimi- ! Y o ur amosaiee, drat they . a .Z o i t " L aclede tot repent without qoate remuneration. Their evidence is inserted at Dished one single bushel, in the event of our own . ow* t hA r 6 ,,igi es ,_ 4 — iii t sel,ellenaragement which could ea sare.to th)seori:ry_tbebeartliel bec . o.ning . . the plum of inter... ieugth in the minutes, and their names will be found growth being any thing below an average crop I— : ammo= aeposo tp_tnevase nr. corn Treat tar north to the sleill to include many of the most eminent surveyors and Certainly not." a Ilfarope, woos'. lo additisto•to other very important advan. laird-agents from different parts of Great Britain, as 44 . On the other hand, were a large importation to tare. bade meltitestea_treir te o tee os olp v tiee s os ore uri rg H / . I well as some persons who have been long and very take place, such a s you have stated under certain tw ee , permeas 4 i r t • ia lla g e re l f ee ige l inet seep re ma i t ' e of our popub, - - when thz PAM is at ea stem, eau be desired against She greets et a delicisat harvest. 1 extensively engaged in the corn trade, and several ccupiers of laud distinguished for tl:eir practical _ circumstances may happea, below 635., would not the effect be to discourage a 4 .1004 .- -.; t.. .._ - THE STATESMAN: gob they i tbsgrewth of wheat in t ' ro wth of Corn at home, and the cis- have in no instance beenbelow 130 s. a quarter ; sad is is substance the same u that of Mr. hich affect the same. The laws which that'they have frequently exceeded that price. important part of the trade in foreign c importation of Foreign Coro, and the Several other witnesses, equally distinguished for _ Two she's's., bet very important Joie thereupon, having been altered from their knowledge *ad experience in matters connected 'be &sited *Ma this evidence: lit, Tin reference to these circumstances, and with the letting of estates end the agricaltere of the at the n , which foreign core ghoul e of raising Corn in this country, it count r y , state, thatthe price of 80s. a gutter will to I duty free being raised fr your Committee that such an enquiry net affords sulacieut protection to the British grower. per caster *sowing, for the sake Of ily precede, and form part of any coo ! , The evidence and calculations which they have given latter ttelse this price necessary for the he trade in Foreign Corn. - to the Committee, will elute found in die "pea- the gritieh grower), this alteration we first head, therefore, your Committee die; by a reference to which It will appear; Meet op. glee cheek .the importation of corn heir attention to the following points:— vent prices, from 84,. op-to 965. have been state. spy —., .., viblessiver-the quantity. growl cent estension and improvement of the different witnesses, as the Lowest which, ander.kbe d .•, , • -8e .below an 'average cro the United Kingdom: - present charges and expel, iewalculation, would ,''" : . certain circumstances, t esent expends of Cultivatiot6 including afford a fair remunerat**, the grower. • . : already so low as to be It` may be proper to ',mete s that these latter cal- , i .lbe• rerniaeration of thd I ice necessary tempt:utile . the grower. carillons appear, is most instances, to be furnished might lie f hi fertber depressed by en I it point, it appears 7q ' by witnesses, whose attention end evanesce have foreign . Blithe law should not lets ihed by all the evideate — ; ; lhat, within been principally directed to districts toweististg chielly sech imPielation. iv years, a very rapid and extensive -Wf cold clay, or waste and isferioe lauds, me which . le Felece, it appears by the evident been made in the agriculture of the wheat ruusuo4 be grown bvi.at.nevexpeice ezceelliag, of wheats le, in emotion yen, fully a dom : —=t hat great additional capitals ' the aeoeiri a iowola-, Of its eialtrafloa oil better .soils. : r.onoomptiou,; and lost it . Is eat, . clee o ilfully and successfully applied , not only Os ; , , .. illiiiKetian; however, 'a Ivey coo- I her oww harvest is WW I, •tegdieet, thin ed management of lands alreet) • I llerr , ) to the converting Pr istia,.....Et to, - kii.O..-iamil4 4 4lolra :A.U.W4N- Witi4 - 110444t4U.,.tbe the contrail , into productive limbic, rit; te, ild • • iiiollllfte l t i e} .wot:l4 far many years Jur - many pairs habitually aodeatensit including of (mu s cat) -at treete, i be otiretti Ave Si posture ; mid that the loss on a forAgi; supply, oui.demend has eon brought , into^iiite pgatt , cid• 1110 • sPloratt to tOit OCCUPiaIi 149 to a proportion to , th at of other coon tat many extensive enter: , , digected . the gertivelstiak o tuitional ifithetaisiteoesseld be i Ihtiticorices are principally governed At mportant objects, are some of them still very snit. . . -(. „:./..e . I,6rilishlearketd That.this to the .cast icy :—that others, though in a NOM for- • ' . , •.. ....ier.: P , . •• i 144 . t 411 NM tr year, it is:ntnno .d ogin n nor . _. . I . v___ r•_—_:.,— 1.--sl.-.,a.de. I.l.filaik:Airiiiii Abu tower - furnished .to your Committee ISMlllllllll.lllllllronvir WESTMINSTRIC L. ta, in the preceding ith the love of justice, rich Judges, exposing , combating their pre. red, their 46 glories: I am going to men- tame literary knight. ured innocence, cun. . idable enemy. lone to death by slab. thrblind prejudices lorist of St. 0-ner's— old blood like GRAY. lawmen ; no, - he was :e of a powerful cabal pid irur.rAtue, wield- genius, void' shielded enlisted himself as a est, in which he ex- )erseterance: - • ess of his - Own goad onviction 11MALLIell VOLVAIKE to tindee; ious a toteh.* LALLY, ildicherry to the Eng. a gag in ili, mouth.— re that 'this to con 7 Mit as (hey ohookkbmp, to deaPotism, belie lndigtttition. - It was' , sciAt't enemies feared from his dying lips Dugh the labyrinth of pliingea the popular discovery of troth. ' difficult and cOmpli. st him near sir years:: he dying' tat.t,V, had fed them,_ sitiuld halm 1 he coul d do ills. 6410 'feral's son, the . t. c 4iit It • last established the in it regular jpridical the mind a variety of t its order. have to trues any i tioing reen the cat' of Gen. ; but it is impossible el, not to ()Wien!, that eztetiordinari *kale • ~~: • ;. O.' <,~`. TO THE ELEGTOLY OF LETTER 111, GinTLEltitt,—.We have seen, Letter, Votmasas animated with detecting the errors of the french their rashness and precipitancy, judicisi their chicane—in a word, uswerfainty;" in the case. that I tion, , we shall behold this same errant stilt the chaetplon•of injured , tending against a far more formidable Gellend LALLY was net " done tisless" - auk as escited of the Allies against the poor Barb hot% yet eraa he'inordered in sold west by the efts of juggling lawmen ;sacrificed to Initiate the vengeance at Cedtt: • The bold, the intrepid log the mighty powers of his witlt'the breast-plate of •trath, vointtteet in this arduous contest, . hibited indefatigable 'seal and perseterei NOthing bat the consciousness intentions, ant' a thorough con , innocence, Could have induced take and Persevere in so laborious .. It 'We? pretended, had' told Pondicherry tisif.' . He wai•ixecuted With a lAtit i tinAlltid nothing more Vitt things 'were not TherpeOPle,. though habituated this speetatle with' horrornedl iildiked, but tat) plain 'that LAI lest 'jpoinething eking fall ft ihitivould 'prove 'A t 'clue throat 'evidite' widthf4f t iris' had piL _ itittti ', ind lead it it 9tift to the discovery found the ease so dii stt94, that its investigation cost o,ftw.liortis probably front the tilbeetl.pertaitted th have etterad iduiitanad ki than Ali I a 141411, after all he dear the Sias tior the General' , • #. "ba`IaALLY 1 1 04tiDAL, who at • entire innocence: of his father in way. Titlieffair suggests to the reflections which will be Oen i 6 , I should be truly sorry, to have to trace . ' awy, thing likeg.eletryesemblance between the caste of Gen. Wuscrtiodi Lord COCHRAN'S; but it is impossible for.use o t,w,tlritirits this parallel, not to observe, that they wrgt both Celebratedfor extraordinary ist their prsgession, both rendered importeat services to ttyeir c 4 piry, they were botb prosecuted and con depted, &NI were both believed by the people to be innocent; and lastly, both protested against the in. justice of their atmitence, and desired to have their cause reheard,. and their innocence brought to the !pato( a more Nil and ample investigation. In all these points the Ones resemble each other, but there one in which they differ, esti emely. The Count LAt,r.v . ToLBNDAL procured the permission o the King tp prosecute the eledicition of his father* ipnocence,_ which, after Muck labour, he finglly este. i s h e ci. SurelythOset the ((big of Puska aeied In this business was just and laudable, ai Kell as who #44politic.• :. 1 4 014 Cocneans did not petition the ling, or hip koSasas Tenets:, the REGENT, to be .41141 means of proving , his innocence, such a stcp tortld . have been contra") , to our jurisprudence. ,It e lk .. pears, however, (bet the Frenchman was more sue. cessfyl in procuring an ievestigation into the truth of the case than the Englishman was; but let us not, ea jhat account, censure the wise institutions of oar 4tncestors. They were in every instance drsigned to Isetiefit ,the people, ,and to dispense to them real igessings ; and whenever they now fail so to do, it hi not the institutions themselves that are to blew*, bet those who have corrupted them. Our ancestors entertained an opinion, that the man who depended on the will of a Prince, still less of a despotic Prince, for justice, could not be called a freeman. Yet have we seen that such a, Prince as .t is, in France, always hearkened to the peti• tions of his sabjects, when they complained of the injustice of his Judges. By the readiness which the Kings of France, absolute as they were, have shown , atall times to afford these petitioners the means of get ting at the whole truth, the detections that have been made of those false and erroneous judgments , l in my former Letters were enumerated ; and it Letter we find that Louts XV., despot as 1 r afforded to the son of General LALLY the mee of vindicating the innocence of his father, agains. Ate own Ministers ' • mark it . well, Gentlemen, 1 pr..y you—against these very Ministers who bad brought that father to an ignominious end. Great and powerful as these Ministers were at Court, and . do. beached and profligate as that Court is universally known to have been, yet the horror that was felt, even In that Court, and by that Monarch, who is „compared by Lord CHESTER! 1 LLD (himself not this asest rigid men in the world) to S A ItO ANA/IMPS-0 Oats horror, I say, that was felt by this despot in the Ali& of his debauchery, at such an atrocious act ai .that of stopping the course of *nice, and prevent. Jng even the possibility of injured innocence being. ,indicated by a discovery of the truth—tbe abhor .rence that Louts XV. felt at such cowman:ate wickedness, however hackneyed he was, in. lesser crimes, induced him to grant to the son of General LALLY every facility to prove his father's innocence, should it be in his power, and fortueately it was in his power. Here, Gentlemen, you will permit me to make another remark : the disgrace indicted on a whole family for the crime of a single bulividual, is revolt ing to our ideas of justice; nevertbeleva t it produced some good in Frapce, i& induced many children, many wives, &c. to exert themselves for the restore. tion of the memory of their relatives, and by this means the juggling of Judges, the infamy of press. cutiens on "feigned and forged informations" (at Lord Coat calls them), and the persecutions of ca. balling Mi n isters, were not unfrequently hermetic day-light, and became so many landmarks a; finite to the public ; for whose home& the arcane law ought to be Isid open and expored in every try,.'and the admieistratiou of justice rendered and intelligible to every capacity. tied+ among our ancestors, who decided all their - the judgeteet :' psr jr4idMss VIGSMI atif—bf I , • • , to4ibt to Ind cao- rcana of ry aimpts it was dispute{ .istkeir ••• • • -