The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1826-04-19 00:00:00

*ga s Vie Moat dolleented to advisee it. If he wee an indivi. 1 end es unhappy ea net to be able to do even that, he would err. nil* be mush to be pitied; but he would fearlessly assert, that he ono Ire any individual imprisoned tee contempt if he was die. Mss i e s e nd aet honestly (hear, hear), and hem that ci rcums tan c e h e se derivee his belief that poverty was not the real grnund AO oillliiidding the answer to the bill in the case of the petitioner. terer.) From everything -That c a d be en s t a t e d. I t a pp eare d 'mortgagee had proceeded in every step that he hail taken eerie* seenrding to law. (Hem.) Surat was the fact, and he mi.' vesture to assert that there was no person in that House but minim the habit of proceeding to the same mangier. In what other wraaaer could they proceed ? If an answer wee not put in. they wield have too other resource but to put him in prison, for other wise the ends of justice would be detested. The petition before the Hosseliad induced the Hon. Member for Montrose to cast re proaches on the Court of Chancery, and in doing an he had been unsparing in the selection of hie expreseintee The lion. 31ember alleged as a reason for using strong expressions, that lie did not Ike to use milk and water language, but that was no justification Me his having personally vilified the Lord Chancellor, as if he was the authnr of the proceedings complained of, when, In point of fact, they could not be justly attributed either to that Noblemen or to tote Court itself. (Hear, hear.) He (the Solicitor-General) would say to the Honourable Alernber—what can be done when a man will not pat in his answer ? leo you find an adequate remedy for the evil, and then there can be no objection to give up the existing practice. Under all the circumstances of the cue, he believed MOM conecientiously, that of all the petitions which had ever been presented to that Howie. and many had been presented, against the Chant'ellor, there was not one which was so totally devoid of deltiliable ground of complaint as that which was than under the unsideration of the House. (Cheers.) Mr. BARING said that no doubt could exist in the mind of any reasonable man that evils of an enormous nature existed in the proceedings of the Court of Chancery ; hut there was one point which he wished to explain. Nobody complained of the Loyd Chancellor, and he exceedingly regretted that any eenreattion against him. personally, should have fallen from any ...Honourable Member; and he should still moral turret it if th expression vt t is should indispose the House to examine into the grle nature of n *beds which certainly pervaded the Syetein of the Co tof Chan. any: (Hear, hear, hear.) A case hid fallen with hie own It owledge, which exemplified in a striking manner the nature of • portion atheist evils. A man had two or three eottagee, with a few *MN of garden attached to them, which he agreed to sell to a wealthy person in his neighbourhood. The wealthy man todk the tides to the property, and then refused to pay for it, alleging that !here was a flaw in those titles. The poor man then requested to have the titles back, but this was also refuted, and so the poor man wee cheated out of his property. (Hear, hear, hear.)--- Too poor to go to law, he applied to him ( Mr. Baring), and he went to a solicitor, an honest and respectable man, and stated the eir aurnataitees of the case. This worthy man, after hearing the whole state of the case, said that, beyond all doubt the poor man was right; hut in order to assert his right, it was necessary to proceed in the Court of Chancery, and before he could take three steps them the cottages and gardens would be gone. (Hear, hear, hear.) Ile exceedingly regretted, on looking over the Report of the Com. mission/re for inquiring into the abuses of the Court of Chancery, that he could find no suggestion of the necessity of establishing boom mode of summary justice, in cases where the property which might be the subject of contention was small. As matters stood, it Was abautd to resort to a Court of Equity fur justice, if the Property &t issue was leis than 100 W. Let even a less perfect system be adopted. tieut let it be summary. As the law at present stood, nothing that the Hon. and Learned Gentleman opposite (the Solicitor-General) *mild advance, could persuade any man of common sense that it was not a nuisance of the worst description. (Hear, hear.) Any parent of property, under existing circumstances, Gould with the most perfect impunity annoy, if not totally ruin, any poor person wile might have the ill-fortune to excite his enmity. And with respect to the Court of Chancery, if the property a man wished to protect did not exceed five or six hundred pounds, he hail better not defend his property, for he could not do so without the expenditure of • still larger sum. (Hear, hear.) He thought it a fortunate circumstance that that Court was st last to undergo • revision, and he hoped it would be such as to satisfy the hopes and expectations of the country. (Cheering.) Mr. Secretary CANNING then rote, but from the noise in the House we lost his first sentence. The petition. he slid. set forth *slain matters, which it complained of as if they were the result of the peculiar practice of the Court of Chancery ; but was such the case ? No such thing. On the contrary, it appeared upon the very feu of the petition that the whole of the proceedings had been ac wiling to the practice of a Court of Common Law. (Hear, hear.) Did not the petitioner speak of his having received • nonsensical piens of parchment, which he chose to treat with the greatest eon. temple and the consequence was, as might naturally have been ex pected, that the plaintiff was placed in possession of his property. (Hear.) The Hon. Member (Mr. Hume), however, had drawn all his inferences as against the Court of Chancery. which he accord ingly dealt with rather unsparingly (hear); but why had he not drawn those inferences against the Courts of Common Law ? (Ileac, hear, hear.) The arguments of the Hon. Member for Mon trose, and also those of the lion. Member for Taunton (Mr. Ba ring), went to this, and he admitted that no state of things could he toms lamentable, that a poor man had livle chance of obtaining justice by going to law with a rich man. This was, indeed, an 'TO which all men must regret, and it the wisdom of man could dfvise a remedy, it would doubtless be a blessing to the country. I Hear, hear.) The complaint, however. which he had to make, and which, in his opinion, every impartial man must acknowledge to be just, was, that those evils were made the grounds of charge* against the Court of Chancery in particular, and personally against the Noble Lord who presided in that Court. (Cheers.) He thought that such charges were preferred with gross unfairness and mani. lest injustice. Mete, hear, hear.) If such were the means which Hon. Members thought proper to adopt, in order to dispose the country to join them io their outcry, he felt bound to declare that in bill opinion they would fail in their object, because such a AMMO must hold up the individual in question to the protection of every man of honour. ((heat cheering.) The Hon. Gentleman had also stated, as matter of aggravation of the case he had brought before the House, and the circumstance of itself would show the spirit with which the petition was grit up. that a child of seven years of age was imprisoned with him. This was too palpable an attempt at misrepresentation. (Hear, hear.) Every body knew that a child of that age could not be imprisoned under such circum stances. (Hear, hear.) The fact was, that the petitioner was im priaor.ed, and he hail got his child with him (hear. hear), and egiS must probably because he knew of no persons in whose care he mold leave him. (lieu, hear.) To assert, therefore, that the child was imprisoned for contempt was so uttetly absurd, that he (Mr. reveinel absolutely deemed the statement Minutes% from the very Anse:rude of its obeunlity. (Hear, hue.) So much for the first Lau of the ;petition, every statement of which applied so entirely to site proceedings of the courts of common law, that it would have been just as wise, or rather much wiser, if the Hon. Member for Montrose had indulged in a tirade against the venerable Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench. in the case of the petitioner, a Bill had been filed against him which he had not entrain to answer, and the Court proceeded to award judgment ac cording tilts ordinery course. Now he would suppose a case, for the sake of illustration ; suppose the plaintiff in the action was the complainant, and suppose him to be as poor as the peti tioner before the House. He would suppose his complaint to be that the defendant owed him • sum of money upon mesegage. that he had gone to law to recover it that be hail filed a Bill in Chancery, and that the defendant hart refused to put in his answer to it, in order to keep him out of pos. *lesion. (Hear, hear.) It would be quite as logical thr the Hon. Member to suppose such a dile in the defence of the Lod Chan ceries', aa to presume that all the hardships lay upon the other side of the question for the purpose of attacking him. (Iluch cheer. lag.) It was, he admitted, a grievous misfortune thqt the law was in merry instances out of the reach of the poor ; but in the instance *kith was then before the house the charge of corruption, if such g charge could at all be maintained, applied altogether to the Court W' King's Bench. (Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member for Taun ton (Me. Ranee) had disclaimed any thing like personal observe win, but the term " curse to the country" had in his opinion been personally applied. Those, however, who had read the petition, / 11 Mut be aware that every allegation it contained might with equal (Pieties , he applied to )he Courts of Common Law, where the ex perms, though not so great as in the Court of Chancery, were still alifficiently beyond the reach of the poor. He sincerely wished tied a tetnedy could be devised for an evil of such magnitude, but he wee Offlai:t that no retnedy could be found in peramial tempera tun. (Great cheering.) One observation be wished to puke he. thee he sat down, which was, that if it wan the object of Hoe. tientiremen upon the ether el le of the House to remove the Noble. istau who had so often been alluded to from his 'tattoo, he could suture them, that every speech such as that which had that night been matte by the Hon. Member for Montrose. would only tend to riser hint in his piece if he possessed the feeling of a man. (The !Light lion. Orodernan then sat down amidst continthd cheers.) Mr. hi' IliLI A M S said that he readily admitted that no Mem. her of the profession was ever rdmitted to the presence of that No. writnap without experiencing from him marks of the greatest cour- Iftr and kindness. and so tar from personally alluding to him in what ,he what he was about to address to the Moue, he would truly aid cohscientiously say, that wherever he may be, he wished him well. Sill. however, he reserved to himself the right of declaring trusty his opinion. whenever the practice of the Court over which that Nobleman presided became the subject of Jamie. It was re markable that the only two Members of that house who had been ever patients in that emir' had adopted the expression which was so much complained of, that it emu those very two individual' who asserted that they deemed the Court of Chancery a curse to the ne uron. (Hear, hear.) Ile deemed it rather unfortunate that the pre. awning of the petition had in some measure anticipated- the motion es the Hun. Burolet (Sir F. Burdett), which he perc:ived upon the parr, as upon that motion the subject might hate been Wait eopi. 'achy diectissed. When, however. he heard lion. Members ex. pieraiungeir sentiments upon that petition, he could not help ful -1 ta a deal astonished at the change which had taken place is their opinions upon the very subject of the abuses of the Court of Chancery. (Hear, hear, hear.) 'What had been and by the lion. Member for Surrey ? (Mr. Holme Sumner.)-- Did he not blame the lion. Member for Alontrose (fir. flume), sit I the (lon. Member fur Peurhyo (Mr. Orenfell), for not having ssught to remedy the abuses of the Court of Chancery, rather than oelulge in vituperations against the Lord Chancellor ? Did he not Mao blame himself for not having done so, and yet he (.)Ir. Wil. halite) would ask where was the vote of that Hou. Member in the year than? (Cheers.) When a moths.) was then before the House t w the purpose of inquiring into those abuses, did lie not oppugn in? (Much cheering.) Did he not vote from time to time that there was no delay in the proc.crtinge of the Court (chew.); that there was only • prudent pause? (Continued cheers, and laughter.) Did he not runt the motion ora the ground that inquiry imputed Mane; and that It therefore ought not to be permitted ? (Hear.) The It4rlit Hon. Gentleman the stattcretary for the Home Depart ' meet adopted a similar line of argument, until Inquiry became in. dispensable, and then he advocated an Inquiry that would last at least two seats—an inquiry in which there should he one hundred and eighty, or one hundred and eighty thousand question., he knew not which. in short, he wished for an inquiry which would not touch the delays of the Lord Chaocellor. (Hear, httar.) " (Me me smelt a cuminiasion," exclaimed the Right Hon. Gentleman— "a committal m of inquiry, where the Noble Lord will preside as his own Judge." (Hear. hear.) So that atter the House had struggled against public opinion, and been vanquished and when in fact, it became necessary that an inquiry should be instituted, the Right Hon. Gentleman, by a dexterous mameitvre, brought nut of his pocket a Commission, and from that Commission there h a d issued a voluminous and multitudinous Report, which he firmly believed no person whatever could have the patience to read perfectly through. (liear, hear.) it appeared, however. that the evils, the acknowledged evils, appertained rather to the office than to the person. lie confessed that it appeared to him to be nothing short of marvellous that he should hear it at last agreed to in that House, by general acclamntion, that the Court of Chancery was a nuisance—a stanuing grievance—a curse to the people. (Cheers.) He cared not whether the expression which had been thrown out by his lion. Friend behind him (Mr. Hume) were monosyllabic, of whether hit attack had been in a dechuna. tory style, the result of previous arrangement ; but in either case he could suture the Right lion. Gentleman t Mr. Canning), that in his belief the Noble Lord at the head of the Court of Chancery would quit life and office at the game time. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) He said this much in order to guard against the im pression that anything which might be said either in the shape of praise or attack upon that personage could at all influence hint to resign his situation. (Hear, hear.) lie had not sty intention of troubling the House with his sentiments upon that occasion, or he could have been prepared to whew, by entering into its details, that the pretties of the Court of Chancery was eminently mischievous. Whether it would be remedied by the hundred and eighty questions and answers in the report, be knew not ; but this he knew, that at present it was in such a predicament as totally to deprive persona of small.fnenings of the slightest chance of justice. It in short centre. dieted that principle which formest the basis of the charter upod which British freedom was fotinded, " To none ought justice be denied or withheld." The Honourable Gentleman sat down amidst loud cheers. Mr. Secretary PEEI. then rise and said, that the Honourable and beamed licntlentan had ridiculed the Report of the Unninis sionen of Inquiry, because of the number of questions which they had thought it incumbent upon them to have answers to; but, he would ask, whet would the Hon. and Learned Gentleman have said, if the Commissioners bad disked only seven or eight questions 'weed of IMO? Would he not then have ridiculed it, and per.' haps with justice, for the wain of information which must neces. wily be conspicuous upon the face of it? (Hear, bear.) The Commissioners, however, had gone through the whole course of the proceedings of the Court of Chancery ; ail now, in the most extraordinary manner, the Han. and Learned G•intleman attempted to run them down—and why ? because of the extent of the reenlist I which they thought it necessary to pmpon ! (Cheers.) Another objection started against the Commission was, that the Report was on voluminous teat no person could have the patience to read it through. Of all other objections which the Hon. and Learned Gentleman could have made, thin was really the most extraordi. nary ; because, the fact was, that it had been made voluminous at his own suggestion. (Much cheering.) In the course of last Sea. Sinn of Parliament, did not the Hon. and Learned Gentleman my that he trusted the House would not have a meagre Report ? (Hear, hear.) Did he not express a hope that, in justice to the country, the whole of the evidence would be brought forward (great cheering), and that nothing short of the whole evidence would satisfy the country (immense cheering)—the whole, without mutilation or curtailment? (Tremendous cheers.) Ministers had acquiested in the suggestion—the whole of the evidence had been laid before the House without curtailment or mutilation • and such was the spirit which actuated Hon. Members in that that now Ministers were turned round upon and told that the Report was en voluminous that nobody would hare the patience to read it. (Immense cheering.) bong before the House had met, his anxiety that the subject should be fully understood by the Members was such. that he asked permission of the Speaker to place it in the hands of the Printer to the House of Commons. He obtained that permission—the Report wan placed in the hands of every Honour. able Member. and this was the return that he met with fur the candour of his proceedings. (Immense cheers.) Why, he would ask, was the Report voluminous ? Because every man who had any complaint to make against the Court of Chancery was invited to do so—and every solicitor, whose information might be calcu lated to throw light upon their proceedings, had been examined— and then, after all their exertions, they were charged with present ing to the House a Report too voluminous.. (Hear, hear.) He would entreat the House to suspend its opinion upon the petition until the statement of the attorney upon the other side could be ob tained. In the meantime, lie had nn hesitation in stating that he did not believe the allegations it enntained. ""he petition described legal terms technically. 'The Hon. Gentleman admitted that the petitiosetad been drawn up by a solicitor, and he would ask any Hon. Member of that House if a solicitor ought to have putt into that petition such a statement as that relative to staves and blutl. geniis, which were only the nuel terms of a declaration in case of ejectment ? ( Hear, hear.) It was a proof of the fact that the pe tition was got up for a specific purpose; and he confessed, under those circumstances, that " M requireth that charity that believeth much" to place any faith in its details. (Cheers.) The petitioner stated that he offered the 3001. which had originally been borrowed upon the property, but that the party refined it, because of the cuts of suit which ought but dill not accompany the tender. Surely there was nothing unreasonable in that. Besides, there was no evidence, other than the assertion of the petitioner, that the pro perty wan worth 11001. at all. He hoped his Hon. and Learned Friend (the Solicitor. General) would ascertain what were the facts of the case, according to the statement of the attorney on the other side; and, in the meantime, he entreated that the House would suspend its opinion until it had before it both sides of the question. (Much cheering.) Mr. G R E SPE LL explained. Mr. BROUGHAM said, that in one tinned the word the Re. port might indeed be too long; but notwithstanding that, it might be, in another sence, too short. A Report of eight nag:* might be too long, while one consisting of eight hundred pages might be too small. In seine points it appeared to him that the Report contained omissions:so palpable as to attract the notice of the most cursory observer. In many instances questions were asked, the answers to which so naturally suggested others, that a person is absolutely astonished that the inquiry has not been fol lowed up; instead of which, however, the answers are left int. perfect. The cases were numerous, but he would only then al. lude to one, as it was not his inter tion upon that occasion to enter into a discussion of the subject. One gentleman was asked if three persons could not, by assiduous attention, get through the business of the Court of Chancery ? To which he replied. that three angels could not do it. Another gentleman was asked if any one man could get through the business of the Court by de voting six hours every day throughout the year, in constant appli cation to its despatch ? lo which lie also replied in the negative. Would the House believe it that the question which this answer clearly suggested, was never inked. No such thing; no person thought it worth their while to ask whether any person ever did at tend six hours a day throughout the year to the duties of that station. Sea that the impression would gn forth to the public, that in fact Judges had bent their niincle to the despatch of the business of that Court for six hours each day throughout the year, which certainly was not the case. After a few welds from Mr. B. Sanyo and 31r. HUME, the petition was ordered to be printed. CORN LAWS. Mr. WHITMORE said be felt the weight of responsibility which any individual would take upon himself, who should bring before the House a subject of such great importance as that to which he had now to tali their attention. Ile rose for the purpose of bringing forward the motion relative to the Corn !Jaws, of which he had given notice on a former night. Ile knew the great in fluence he had to contend with, the prejudices he had to combat, and the unfavourable impressions which existed on this subject. He knew the extravagant hopes which were entertained by one party, and the exaggerated fears which were anticipated by another. It wits difficult to steer between two such opposite parties. The impnrtance of the subject pressed itself upon hint, (Mr. Whitinere), then he reflected that this was a measure which was to pmeide for the fond of the poor. Such If enusideration worthy eitattemlon, and should not, In his opinion, be passed lightly hy. Ile was not Indeed ignorant that a change had taken place in an important branch of the policy of the country. He did not did. approve of that policy in principle, but he complained of the pre sent imperfect state of the Corn Laws. Ile thought it a subject deserving the strongest reprobation of that House • and he had brought his motion turward, because lie thought a c hange in the system adnptei with regard to those laws nor ght be effected with considerable advantage to the interests of the country, and be cause he thought the time for that change had now come. He would briefly state to the House the grounds upon which he had formed that opinion. The subject was one which embraced so many and such various interests, Mat he felt it would be difficult for him to compress within ordinary limits what he had to state to the House upon the subject which was offered to dietr consideration. It was his wish that the question should be viewed with reference to the principles of free tradearhich had been adopted and acted upon. He would ask the House was then any thing that could justify a partial adoption of that principle? If they applied the principles of free trade to the manufacture* of the country, and withheld them from the corn trade, they wculil render themselves ridiculous in the eyes of foreign nations, and become the laughing stock of Europe. If they did not extend the principle of free trade, which they partially Adeline% what, he would ask, would they say to the silk weavers and glovers, who were unable, in consequence of this liniitation of the principle, to compete with foreigners ? They would discover the consequence of such a system to be moat injurious ; a great deal °rifle machinery which was used in the manufacture of articles of exportation would become useless and of no value, because foreign nations would not stand still, but would advance in im pmvement, which would have the effect of throwing the manufae wring people of this country out of employment, and of involving them in the most ruinous and dreadful distress. When by the ope ration of the present system they hail reduced things to that issue, what could they say to the silk weavers and to the ',lovers, who would call on them to extend the principle of free trade, so as to correct the evil. whi c h f e ll so h eav il y upon them ? would they reply it was for the public good that they withheld the extension of the principle ? Then would these men say, with great justice, " You will then immolate us on t h e s h r i ne of national advantage." But he could not suppose the House would adopt such a line of policy. Ile conceived it was pledged to pursue quite an opposite course, Ilud to extend the principles of TUE - BRITISH PRESS. free track to the article of corn. He thought Mlnietem were equally pledged. Timm who voted for the silk question had pledged themselves to that line of policy wnich it was his wish to apply to the corn trade. Ile vault , ask, how could these persons now turn round and say, we have given sanction to the principle in that instance. but we will not extend it to the corn trade? Ile was I lernvinced that the extension of the principle would be attended ;midi great advantages to the country. Foregoer' would lie inthaced s follow the Literal example of this country, and the principle of tociprocity would be perfectly established. It they looked to the *rim of reciprocity, as now coothlisheil, they would find it was confined to one or two trades. That wee not the system of recipro city which he approved, and which he wee anoint'. to see establish ed. Hedid not wish tome that principle of reciprocity adopted which Ilowed from a treaty of commerce, hut that which sprung from true wlnciples of free trade. in consequence of the system this country hid 'mowed, loreigners had been obliged to enact restrictive laws. Spain anti Portugal had passed prehibitoty laws. Ile could not cep. prove of it partial adoption of the principles of free trade. It was quite clear, that it they adopted the principles of free trade iu Eng. land, foreigners would be induced to follow their example. There was no subject in which foreigners were more interested than in that question The Corn Laws of 1815 had inflicted iocalculahle injury upon Poland, Flanders. and America. (Hear, hear.) Those laws had done snore mischief and injury to those countries than the antisocial policy of Bonaparte. (Hear, hear.) He stated that opinion from the authority of a perms who had been sent out by this country, and had travelled through those coup. tries for the purpose of procuring infermatior, and who had evi dently availed himself of every means of arriving at a knowledge of the situation of those countries. It was extraordinary that they should profess to carry the principles of free trade into effect, and ' Mt had indicted more injury than had been done by the Berlin and ilan decrees. lie would establish that, by reference to the au thority to which he had before referred, and as the report of Mr. Jacobs, (who was the individual to whom he alluded,) was not in the.hande of Honourable Members. he would read an extract from that report which bore upon the subject. Ile regretted the report ' was not in the possession of Honourable Gentlemen, and if he could have pompon& his motion until that report was printed, he would moat willingly have done so. But he could not defer it any longer. The find passage to which he emultbrefer teem one which related to the state of agriculture in PoWsnA, The Horiourahle Gentleman then proceedild to read a pass fermi the report, which bad been the result of Mr. Jacobs's observation, in Poland last summer. It stated that Mr. Jacobs had hefted stalhlaints from the farmers and landed proprietors of being in a Male of dieter's inconsistent with the value of their property. He said that Mr. Jacobs had an oppor tunity of knowing the sentiments of them persons generally, from the route he had taken. He had travelled through Dentine, %Var. saw and Cracow, to France. He had heard complaints from agri• culturlsts and corn merchants. The line of conduct which had been pursued for the Imo three years proead these complaints were just. He would read another extract from the same report, to chew that he wan borne nut by the observations of Mr. Jacobs in the view he had taken of the subject, and that he was supported by that report in saying that the restrictive enactments of this country had been injurious to those nations on the continent to which he had before adverted. The Honourable3lember then mad the pas sage alluded to, which stated this there had been a falling ()filo the produce of corn, for those who possessed capital found it their inte rest, in consequence of the decreased demand for corn, to apply their lands to pasture, and to devote their capital to the feeding of sheep ; the farmer had declined to cultivate corn. There was an instance of one nobleman who cultivated an estate of 26,000 acres in the production of wheat, who in consequence of the ports being closed turned his property to immure and to the production of tine wool. The Hon. Member mid, that mctwding to Mr. Jacobs the rent of land in Poland was also evidence dr the distress which prevailed. ' The tenants of the crown lauds who paid a higher rent, because they were not subject to so much taxation on their lands, and who paid from 113 d. to 141. per acre, were in arrears, and un able to pay their rents. There was one instance of a person who held 700.0110 acres (Aland at an annual rent of 838/., who in consequence of the de pression of prices lost his property, and this property was sub sequently taken by the same tenant at a reduced rent of 1701. per annum, Ile was an advocate for extending the principle of free trade to corn, because he thought it world be advantageous to the country. The supply of fond to the people was of consequence, and worth the attention of Ministers. He advocated the measure us bearing on the principle of free trade. That principle had been favourable to the country ; frotn 1773 to 1815 there was a free trade ; during that period core was at 2a. 6.1. per quarter. If Gentlemen would refbr to the wen laws they would find that the effect of the restrictive laws were isjurittua. In 'the year 1791 the duty was no more than 61, because In consequence of the low prices the higher duty was never paid. Ile was satisfied 2s. hid. per quarter was paid ; the law was changed in 11304, when the highest price was 13s. Itiiien it came to that, importation WWI allowed : whenever there was a free trade it was advantageous to the country. Ile was convinced there was no period at which larger properties were accumulated than when there was a free trade in Corn. It was said that the effect of these laws would be to throw the poor land nut of cultivation. That objection could not be sus tained. for those lauds were in cultivation when the country had a free trade. There was a potqa to which he had to draw their at tention, which he confessed he approached with considerable reluc tance, which was that the Corn Laws not only injured their foreign trade in corn, but gave a blow to the internal trade of the country in that article. If the present system condoned, he should assert what he ha 4 said in that Hausa *Ole year 1823. that at some period —he would not say when. (Cheering.) If Hon. Gentlenoin would allow him to finish his sentence, they would not find occasion fur those cheers. If that system continued, a dearth he felt confi dent would be the consequence, at some period which he could not riot out. In 1823 he thought it would have occurred sooner. (here should be a stock of con for three years In store. There should be twelve millions of quarters, one million for seed. That stock might be reduced ; but them should be an average stock of three millions for each year. If such a plan was adopted it would prevent any such evil, by making a provision, and thus anticipating a demand. The corn dealers would buy in corn when it was cheap, store it, and of course sell it at an improved price. Those were the view, so eloquently described by Adam Smith, In his Wealth of Notions. The prices during the ag ricultural distress fell consider. ably. In the year 1817 the price wheat was 84s. per quarter; in 11121, it was 54.. 2d. ; in 1822, t wa s 43'.. 3d. ; t h e p rice o f corn ig continued falling fur theme year., and the farmers suffered constant losses front the year 1822 to the present period. The Impression made on his mind was, that there was a necessity for a charge. Ile never conceived—the farmers nevet conceived, that Ministers would establish a tree trade without extending the principle to corn. The present system was the cause of great discrepancies. It was quite evident that if English corn was sold at 50a. or 60s. per quarter, the corn-merchant would rather speculate in foreign corn, which was sold at 21.15. or 30s. per qu trter, in contemplation of a change in the law, so that the foreign trade in corn would not only be injured, but the internal trade of the country in that article ; or a period may come when they would not have sufficient food Mr the people.ffe ' did not mean to predict when that time might come ; tt would not appear ridiculous if they attended to the statements of the corn. dealers. He would not venture to define the time it might happen. He hoped they might have a productive harvest next year. It they were blessed with a productive crellt. he would not fear such a cala. mitt' ; but to be in such a position as to fear such an evil as a dearth was painful—it was living from hand to month. They were them fore in his opinion in great peril. Every year they passed without making a change in the present system, they added an additional calamity to the country. It tam morally impossible to perseverein such a system without doing a serious injury to foreign countries. Ile thought they would have to regret the laws of 1815, which were as absurd as were ever propounded to a legislative assembly. ' If they were blessed with abultlant season.' they might avert the dangers which he had adverted to; but nothing but a complete change of the laws could produce permanent good. He should pass many topics to which he hail adverted last Session. If they altered the Corn Laws, when the price was 555. the duty should be Iffs. ; when from 555. to 50a. it should be 15a. ; front 505. to 451. it should be 235. ; and when from 45a to 40s. it should be 25a. In consequence of the system which had been pursued, Holland and France had been obliged in sell-defence to pasalaws similar to those passed in this country. It appeared to be thought that the effect of the admission of foreign corn would be to deluge, to half feed Eng. land with it, and that a most tremendous change would be the result. He, however, would show by experience and tertian returns that their was no sufficient reason Qtr imagining this. It would be found, too, that this opinion, teas Strengthened by the ieforma. Mion which 31e. Jacobs had Ems Astisttelt to obtain. Ile would ilurge from a document which contained the average prices of corn e years 1890 to 11120 inclusive, during which there had been no less than five years of great importation, in consequence of the scarcity. They were 1800, 1801, 111111, 11117, and 18111; during width years the prices bud risen to an eetraordmary height : a. d. In 1801 the average prices had been 110 5 per quarter. In 1891 . - 115 11 Ice 1810 - . 103 3 In 11117 . - - 94 0 In 1818 - - - 83 0 In those years, in consequence of the great scarcity, corn had been drawn from all possible quarters. The amount of imports had hero— in 11100 - . . . 1,263,771 qrs. 1301 - . • - 1,424.241 1810 - . ' 1,439.615 . 1817 . . . 1,030,829 1418 - - . 1,586.030 The amount imported during those five years 6,744,4811 The whole amount imported during the whole twenty years, frnin 11100 to 1820, lied been 12.577,022 tourer*, of which more than one-hall has been imported during the Wie years of scarcity above stated, anti at a time when the high prices had drawn every portion of corn from all parts of Europe and America where it could have been procured. The average quantity of corn imported during each year of those twenty years bad been 698,208 quar ters, anti the average price of those years Ws. lid, Since it was evident that poorer countries must export corn to the richer ones, he would take from official documents the amount of corn annually exported from some of the former countries to this country. Annual average imported from 1800 to 1820: R - ussia - . 66,373qm Sweden . - - - 12,273 Prussia, including Pobind - 204.6117 Centrality . . . 117,092 United Stata - .. - 87,376 l'Anatia . - - . 23,040 Holland - . - 40,1153 Flanders - . - - 29.530 France .. - . - 23,071 Denmark and Norway . - 18,90 There was another account of the exports of wheat from the porta Dantzic and Elbing during nearly two centuries. Annual export nt wheat from DaM s eic and F:lhing : From 1651 to 1675 . 61.775 qrs. 1676 to 1700 . 124.1197 17111 to 1725 . . 59.795 1726 to 1750 - - . 811.624 1751 to 1775 - . 141.080 1776 to 1600 - - 150 299 - 11101 to 1025 - - 200.3:10 __ The annual amount of export during the whole period, was 215.307 quarters of bread corn, sent front Dantzic and Elhing, where no extraordinary dstnaltd had been caused. The annual average of the exports of %Vilest and Dye. front the same Ports, fur each five' years sipce 1780, was as follows : For 5 years from 1791 to 17911 2110,131 For 3 years from 17146 to 11101 409.5101 For 6 years from 1800 to 1825 . 5.111 3115 And for 5 years front 11120 to 1823 - 83,513 The Cause of that difference was because where a demand was crested from England, the county throughout furnished the moat extenaive supplies. Corn was then brought from Hungary and Croatia; the latter „ent its produce by water. ,The Vistula was covered with bsrke, conveying corn to the port from Bohemia, Si lesia, and all the districts on its banks. The high prl&a exipted, and the navigable rivers afforded factlities. From those MUtns it would appear that if Foreign Corn should be imported into this country, there was not any reason to apprehend that a greater quantity could be imported while the price was at from 55., to 50s. than about 400,000 quarters, and even if the price should be raised higher there could not be note thus 500,000 imported, a small quantity when compared with the consumption of this country, which amounted to 13,000,000 quarters annually. From the qoantity which might be imported there was therefore no cause for alarm, and even the prices could not cause any apprehension, as the prices at Warsaw prom'. From thelexisting system, if it was continued, a derangement of the trade would necessarily re. stilt ; It was necessary for the improve rent of the trade of England that markets should be found for her commodities. Why should not she find s market for those of other nations P It could not be injurious to the landholders, for it corn did not pay they could cultivate rape, Has, Or hemp. If America. Russia, or other countries declared they would not take soy of the produce, the supplies would be letraenyd, to meet the demand. In the case of corn it was different, mute time be ing necessary to stop the production. Ale Jacobs hid made • calculation of the price for which Polish corn could be brought into the English markets; he did not mean the interior species of corn produced In sonic of the maritime provinces of Prussia. and of which there was a considerable consumption in the towns of their neighbourhood, and which might, according to the estintatia, re sold for 435., but the Polish wheat, of good quality, which would coat 18a. per quarter on importation into the port of London. The estimate of Warsaw wheat was— Cost of Wheat at Warsaw . . . -211 s. N. per Qr. Conveyance in boats, loading,and stowing Os. 6th. Freight to Dantzic . . tss. Od. Loss by pilfering and damage - . 3.. 4.11. Expense In drying and warehousing - 2s. 0,1. Profit and commission in Dantzic - Is. tkl. Freight to London . - . - IM. I.ld. Amount on arriving in the English market 10s. Od. One of those items required explaining, he meant that of pilfering end damage. The conveyance of the wheat on the Vistula wits et fected in boats without covering, and of such construction that they gut 'broken after • voyage. (here was therefore pilfering, and much damage done to the wheat by its being exposed to rain and wet. A large item was thereliire made Mr this loss, and the amount of price on reaching the English markets was 48s. The price of the best wheat from Cracow was somewhat lower. The estimate was as follows : Cost of wheat at Cracow . 425. 6,1. per qr. Conveyance by boats, and loading Os. 6d. Freight to Dastzic - . 7s. 6d. Loss by pilfering and damage - 3N. 6d. Expense at Ihntzic - . 2s. Od. Profit on commirts'on . . h. 6d. Freight to London .. . fis. Od. 45R. fid. The expenses of the freight to London. at present effected in Baltic vessels, might be lessened by their carrying corn in English vessels, where the damage done to the grain would be much less. He would proceed to read from Mr. Jacobs's report his recommendation for imposing a small duty of ten or twelve shillings per quarter on to reign corn, in order to place that corn on an equality with the pro duce of this country. The recommendation was et the close of his report. Mr. Jacobs had been sent out by the Lords of the Tree- Fury, for the special purpose of investigating the subject fully, and of making a report thereon. " If a duty in this country of 10s. or 12s. per quarter was im posed, it would not allow of ;tech a profit, on the supposition of the price being from 60 to 64, as to induce very peat exertion to increase cultivation in the bordering districts on the Vistula. The chance of a rise occasioned by war, or by a winter so severe as to injure vegetation, or by a rainy season, might induce those of a speculative turn to increase their growth of wheat, but those who have that turn, and who have the means of indulging st, are so few, that they would produce no sensible increase in the general surplus. " I see no reason to believe, that with such a duty as I have mentioned for England, and a price from 60.. to 64,. and with some similar regulation in France, that the surplus corn produced it; Poland, including all the countries near enough to the Vistula, to send their corn to that atream, would materially increase a common season, or very much, if at all exceed, the average produce of that country; the greater part of this might probably be wheat, and it the duty were alike on all the qualities of that grain, none would be sent here but that part which is the driest, heaviest, and whitest. The inferior descriptions would not pay for inipurtation unless the average in England was much more than 645." This then was the opinion—and it was opinion alone that could be given on this subject—of an individual who had come to these con clusions after the most assiduous attention, and the greatest possible research. It was the opinion, too, of an individual who, in 1814, published a work in favour of the corn laws. and who, in his testi mony before the Committee, formed in 1321, stated it to he his conviction that the result would be essentially different. He had considered the Rtibject deeply and fully, and he found the results differed from what he had originally supposed them. It was there fore he (Mr. Whitmore) would say that they were entitled to have some weight attached to them. The House was bound to place considerable reliance on this individual's statements : and if they were found true, it was their decided duty at this moment to put an end to the system at present in existence. Why they should not do so there was no reason to imagine. The individual before re. leered to was of opinion if they could get corn to the average price of Ms. there was no agriculturist in the whole world who would not regard the situation of an agriculturist and land proprietors as most enviable. looking at the agriculturists; with respect to the profits on agriculture in this country, who would have reason to complain ? The land proprietors considered their interest would be most affected : but if they got corn at as., or the better • its at five or ten shillinge a quarter beyond that, though they should re. eeive a lower rate of rent then at present, was it not clear as the prices declined, they would, in common with others, derive ad vantage from it ? If they received high rent, they must have at the same time high prices ; and they might be said, under the pre. sent system, to be only receiving with the right hand what they had to pay sway with the left. If they looked fairly to the result ; if they referred to the balance sheet, they would find little difference existing. The prices of labour were dependant or. those of bread ; anti if therefore they valued the existence of the ;prosperity of the county, he implored them to reflect tin the instability ti;" the present system. Whether they considered the advantages which would be derived by the manufacturing districts from a reduced price of corn, or the moral effect which it would have ; in every way that they looked at the question, it was one of the greatest importance. Those who were opposed to the reduced prices, should consider whether their objections were of such a, nature as to balance the evils of a most frightful magnitude, which must result from high prices. lie feared he had stated imperfectly the view he hail of the question. (Hear, hear.) The reason of his having introduced the subject during this Session, and the reason also why he might have dwelt longer on it than the House would deem eitesosbte, was becaaesrit was a question on which he hod deep feeling. Ile could sot say the mune Ministers would pursue t but whatever it might be, so long as he had a scat in that House, so long would he con tinue his endeavours to prevail on Government to take this most important subject into consideration. If they did not place the trade of corn on the same free principle which characterised other trade, they would at one time be subject to all the horrors of dearth, and at another the severest possible agricultural distress. If they pursued this system of extravagant rents, the taxes, tithes. inc poor -rates, must be given up. Ile implored every man who had the good of his country at heart, who was interested in its com mercial, manufacturing or agricultural prosperity, to give title subject a consideration proportionate to its importance ; and if after taking a fair and impartial view of It, they did not come to an opinion opposed to the system now existing, they must be dif ferently constituted from him (Mr. Whitmore). lie could not, in fart, believe that a person possessing common sense, or judgment, nr feeling, or even honesty, could come to a different conclusion. He should conclude with moving, that the House should resolve Itself into a Committee of the whole House, to take into, its con sideration the corn laws. The Hon. Gentleman sat down amidst loud cheering. • Mr.PHILLIPS said he thought there was strong reason why'the doctrine of free trade should be applied to corn rather than any other article of consumption. Those which contributed to our luxuries might be entirely dispensed with, hut wheat was a neces. sary of lift. lie would even go further. The high price of a ma. nufactured commodity might exist fora long time without produc ing any great effect on the people,. but the high price of corn was felt by all el . Immediately. One of the arguments used was, that agriculturists were liable to heavy taxation. But were they the only bodies so liable? lie apprehended not. The continer. cial world had to pay stamp &vies, rates of insttrance, and were subjected to other burdens that did not at all press on the agricultural classes. It was said that a greater quantity of labour was employed by the agricultural interest by the manufacturing; and when this statement was originally made he was led away by it : but lie had since come to a different conclusion and he should select a few facts to illustrate his view of the subject. The Ho tiourahle Member for Cumberland (Mr. Curwen) had paid great attention to this subject ; and according to his calculations, the la bour employed in agriculture amounted to 20 or 25 per cent, Now, to speak in round numbers, the manufacture of cotton was to the amount of 24.000.000(. The raw materials cost 6,000,000, out of .14,000,1100/. The expense of dying, clearing, and bleaching, and the wear and tear of the machinery, and the interest on the capital tot,,tir ployed in the employed 4.000.0811m0re, which, with the former, made 141 ati.ool.g . The remaining 10,010.0001 „theretore, went to the laliottrempin,ed ma he nufacture f a a n c u t r r i l re t of fre• It cotton a a ri n p t e n a u r n e ; 'd i . t a n te :11 h a n . 241 to GO pe r cent. The great object of I , gislation. however, was to provir!e lood end cloth. log tote t i n little labour Ito possible. A ccorthog to the statement he had joint made. there were 14 101.0001, paid to the labourer, s t ,,, supposing out of this, 4 OM WM went in purchasiog furpiture sod other menden, there were ID 000.11001 expended in fond, not at which ',MOAN. went as a tax for the advantage or tit- landed inter est What he had skied on the subrect wan perlecily correct. I t ti es mo true, howeeer Honourable fientlesnen may laugh, that 21i O ,il. lioos were found necessary in fact to hr paid by the rest of theme). ',White tor the protection of the agricultural interert„. eleedly of opinion, that those p tarots whose prejudices booed them to the continuance of the existing restrictive system, considerably exaggerated the ill effects which they apprehend e d must result from any alteration that would approximate to a Lee trade. On the other hand, he believed that those who advocated thecontrarp trine, would not find their sanguine expectation,' realised to tl)eg g ,, tent nn which they calculated. Aggravation of c0n5eq h ,,,,,,,, as natural to the one prmaion as to the other, and he felt co ritt i ne Z when the system should be adoprrd, that the experio•ea t sixad prove- that the hopes of the Imre de-irons •-•-•1 the morrow/ilia, bet•efits to hut Vnvut , it , 0... t • be fears of the when. who abhorred the nitration, Mitt. ger. He recollected when he asked Air. Jstrob 14i , • iuthority on the subject) that gentleman rrtentm. , ed tL tural system on the Contim nt uecupiati four-hhtu , tion, and that in England hair the pe o pl e emote cultural occupation., lie (M r. Phillips) , hough, tion should be reduced, and he beiieved that • • ' - third of the people of England won cretet re-a , . meets. He would then ask, why shovel t not to compete - with the Continent when the CUlCtibe was so much in her favour. On this pone to , • • curacy as possible, he had, in the year 1 1 114 r ev. . . „; the poor rates in the different monies of Enol ae o , now mean to contend for the initlUb:lity of lath 7 j ,f 1 ground.mark for fronting a entree. derision— Ifa die was aware that they were not certain test. foe tll3l state of the fact, but torn tee, afforded sometesiajaeo. l matinee, the retoros on the occasion to rl.Leh !is hie a t t er ,: ;„;,, 40. in Lancashire. whale at die &sane gm. they anaoOtned to no, a Susses. Thuetwae, howeier e s chs hi "pink. thin subjel Ha a gratifying ; na • a a Sated in•the:Ressione of 11114.46. peel, ..tecl . . Mend. Mr. Horner, remarked the di to m , wit House experienced in procuring a pandit rlaer roan, arguments which they thought proper to advance on the quatoffm. But the times in that motet were rough changed for thelettee, At the former period people thought that no man was competent to mom his sentiment& on any measures' connected with the Corn Laws, unless he possetwed landed property. Letterly, however, a mu was :flowed to judge of the tendency of those laws without the ne. cesetty of that quelification originally deemed indispensible to a due uederetanding of the subject. He was himseit a landed pro. prieter, end must therefore be supposed to be alive to any real dart. gent which threatened the destruction of the agricultural interest; but so little did he apprehend any results of that description to occur, thai he hesitated not to expects his onnviction, that an classes of the community would derive great advantages from an aperoximation of the Corn Laws to the system of t ree ;ra d e . I t was the nature of the pewees that the henefi s pf such e liberal spa. tem shoold diffuse thentselsee through all branches of the countsy. The merchant, the mechanic, and the agriettf urnt, must all even. tunny participate in the effects of tort prosperity. which in the first instance might appear to be pecelier to an individual class. If the mercatile wealth were increased, the process 'night cause a shock to the agricultural department ; but that wealth would spread and produae an augmentation of Ills mtpulatioe, which in its turn would promote the agricultural interest. At the present period land is considered in many parts of the country to he too valuable except fur the purpose of cultivation ; but it there wan an sp. proximation in the Corn Laws to the free trade system, the ton es land would he coeverted to meadows in numerous places An adoption of the liberal principles which had hen acted on in other respects, would prevent those injurious fluctuations which woo deprecated as so injurious to the prosperity of the country. If that mode were adopted there would be no increase of prices on the Continent, which would be assimilated to England. That would also produce an end of those invidious Peelings and bickere(ps, which, under the operation of the restrictions which prevailed enlist's; the agricultural and the other classes of the commernty. There would likewise be a great improvement thereby effected in the foreign commerce of the country. Ile hoped that the motion of his Ilintourable Friend (Mr. Whitmore) would meet with the ap. prove! of the House; but if the contrary should occur, he t ruste d that the Right Honourable Member (Mr. fluskisson) wmild re deem next Parliament the pledge which he had given last Session. of extending the system of tree trade to the Corn Laws. He would with great pleasure second the motion which had been made, though it did not go *0 far as he desired. lie was a. , xiocathat the averages should be Known, and he also wished that there should be a protecting duty of 10s. On this point he had compiled a calculi. tion, which he had compared with that of Mr. Tooke and of Mr. Blake--indeed, with the latter gentleman he had gone over ho items. Both of the gentlemen whoa he had just named coincided in the result of their calculations, though they hail been taken without consultation. They agreed that 7s• 6J. duty would be sufficient to competheare the egricolturist for the land lax, the poor rates, and all other grievances which were alleged so oppress the landed interest. He thought Ills. would be an adequate remunera. lion, but he was not unwilling to enlarge that animate a little, if it was deemed requisite, to meet the opinions of the House. for if s mistake were made on the occasion, it would be better that it should lie on the protecting than on the other side. Mr. lILISKISSON said thee in addressing himself to the notice of the House, he felt great difficulty in following the lion. Mover and Seconder of the motion. He did not indeed rise for the purpose of going through the detaile which the Hon. Member fur Bridgnorth ' (Mr. Whitmore) hail given to the House. He did not, however, mean to say that the points on which that Hon. Member had spoken were not of great importance and ably treated. However, wi - h every feeling of' respect for the manner in which the subject had been discussed, he felt it hie duty, at the present period, to rise, not for the purpose of debating the matters introduced, how. ever important. His object was to prevent the House from engag ing in the discussion (hear, hear,) because the discussion at that moment could only tend to promote difficulty and inconvenience. (Hear, hear.) The Hon. Seconder of the motion alleged that dun ring the last Session, he (Mr. Hnskisaon) had promised to extend the system of tree trade to the Corn Laws. He was surprised that such an 'meetly' should be made, for since the opening of the pre• sent Session he thought there was an understanding at both sides of the House (murmur!' of dissent ) that on great and important questions there should not be any discussion. (Hear, hear) He would repeat, that such was the understanding and the feeling on which it was founded was a regard the public convenience and the circumstatfees by which the country was involved. It was there fore deemed proper that all such questions should be left in a kind of abeyance until a new Parliament should be assembled. Ile re. collected that the understanding originated with the opposite side of the House. An honourable Member, from that part, on the first or second night of the present Session, said, on the post ponement of a motion, that it was not a fit time for its introduc tion. stud the Right Honourable Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in conformity with the principle which was thus suggested, said that it was not intended that the question of the Corn Laws should be discussed during the present present session. He (Mr. Huskis. son) therefore supposed that the subject would not be introduced during the present session, and he did not intend to discuss the various topics which were introduced to the atteution of the House in the speech of the Hon. Member for Bridgenorth. Thee was one argument which had been urged by that lion. Gentleman, which, it' he would allow the expression, he (Mr. flualrisson) would designate as exhibiting more of refinement than of eolidity. The Hon. Member asserted that the expectation held eat by the pledge given in the last session prevented the usual speculations in corn, which was a matter of great injury. Now, after the intlinno thins given in the coinmeneement of the session, it would be ne oteeissaterrsYoTretae thancethe e e r i e Lba u r u r e assm ou t c h n e ta lu rtf iturn th e e ni C e 'o t r_ in the session of 1132 n. If the dealers in corn were precluded by such a amp from purewevile - the usual crime, at apPeared to him that they were refitting too much. There was CO subject more difficult and momentous to the present period than that of the Corn Laws beeaus it con nected itself with the most important part of the community, a class of people which must be considered of great consequence e! n the T pr u om de promise nude in possessing property in the soil of the country. Bet when he said t it wan a eilfieult and momentous question he (lid not forget th at there were chang, effected in the country by the introdoctio of the aysteen of foe trade. His lion. Friend opposite had adm itted that the alteration thus effected had caused a great dittareate in the go through with at present, compared with the preceding periods. It should be con sidered that at the present period of the Sessions it was no oily matter to apjust the compensation and protenion which should be extended to thoa persons who might be presumed to suffer by _ immediate adoption of the filmset sy s tem in respect to the Corn,ulaiu the e lie had no hesitation in saying, as he had m id elsewhere, at was his opinion that the system of restriction was of vicious import . (Hear, hear.) He said that they ought to retrace their steps, a nd he thought such proceedings would be beneficial not only to til t . . who objected to the continuance of the restriction, hut also to, ne agricultural community ; but some conerderalion should be giv en to the auddeo introduction of any measure whirls tended to alter th e u nature of int umbrances on law, and of lessee and such Wite be were of a permanent kind. Otherwise much mischief' wou ld _ produced. Tho s e g enera l reasons were su fficient to caunettl matter to be deferred. He wi s hed to advert to an arguenht .n u `F d by the Hon. G e ntle men o pp os i te as to th e growth of cornt he northern parts of Europe. On that subject he should say that ne_. conceived it his duty after the last Sessian of Parliament to ins , ru Mr. Jacobson, who gave the Report, to proceed to those cool:l i r a That Report might nor be nu i t e perfect, bat it was a great " to the information possessed in this country on thesubject. He thought the House would act well in not entering on the q is u t e,r7,u_ before that paper was read. He had an opportunity that excellent report which other Gentlemen did not possess . , a n d r! strongly recommended it to their perusal before any doe _stow . : of the present subject. There was also a valuable He war sure that the effect of reading those documents woolo r, d!,:: lead toe House to adopt most salutary alterations. fhe , qo ute ;rfr of the price had been omitted, and that seemed to him to be p ct. !T i l l In the present state of Atom, when Committees were sfi I g to pre' both Houses on the state of the currency, it was imprudent u. teed with the subject, while the currency which was its_ I g 22 l ' n essence, was in so much uncertainty. Ile though , he . I!ag e.i, T ed enough of general reasoning for deli. ring the subject, end n d time ho that the' House should consider that it was an awkward of col n itt . e_ press the matter, when the Session was so fir advanced, sod ""