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. . • • cause he had not witnatised it; that would be as unreasonable as the opposite assumption that it was universal. The imete4iste minim of the distress complainer' of, ind - Olich he admitted to exist, was the fall both of price and demand. But the I louse would proceed superficially and erroneously it it did not look into the cause of the fall of pricesalra. The war had placed the country in singular circum stances, and its effects on every article of produce were no less remarkable. It had operated differ ently on us to its ekect on any other country. In the other nations of Europe the war had diminished ; in this, capital had been augmented by it. A part of this had been diverted into the channel of 'agriculture, which, .hithont extraordinary induce ments, would never have /mina its way there. This :ad gone on to such length, thit'no man could deny that lauds had been laid (rat in culti vation which never could be worth it, but under the peculiar circumstances. But wotilf! any one ray than the Government were bound to keep she, land. in cultivation after the arrival of peace, which changed all the previous circumstances? But then it was stated that the measures proposed by the Parliament for the protection of agriculture were ineffectual. Now he would say to those who as sumed that Parliament engaged to secure the grower eighty shillings, that the understanding was rutirely different. His argument in sup. porting the Corn Bill, to those who said in op position to it that 801. would be the minimum, was, that it would rather be the maximum, and that the Bill would have the effect of keeping the price tinder that average. The Bill was never intended to give the grower 80s. if the complaint against it were founded on that supposition. It was only in tended to take away the dread of foreign competi tion, and induce capitalists to embark a reasonable and useful portion of their property in agri culture, which it was supposed they would be quire willing to do with the security offered to tilem by the Bill. But let the House look at the effects of the Bill. In the five last years the total importation of curia was 3,483,675 quar ters. Deduct from this quantity what remained mi hand alter the sth January, 1820, 324,546 quar ters, sad 470,437 which were exported, them re meined 2,880,692 for home consumption in that period of five years, and this notwithstanding the -average generally had beeu 78s. In 1817 and 1818, the first of which followed a very bad harvest, the importations were 2,600,000 quarters, and the ave rage was 89s. 6d. these being the largest importa tions, and the highest averages known. It was re markable that from the year 1792 to 181 , 2, the ave rage importation was only 500,000, sod the average pure 78..6.1. During the last five years in which these prodigious importations had taken place, the ave rage prier lied renowned the same, at 78s. 611. Ile was told of the distress occasioned to agriculture by them ; but hew could these be attributed to the Corn Bill ? No foreign corn had been ad mitted attire February, 1819, and since the ports (loved not • stogie quarter had remained in wershotise. Was it not trifling then to be per petually calling on the House to interfere ? lie had never contended that the Corn Bill was good in itself; he had ulways held it to be a comparative rill, but the best of two which the Parliament had to choose from. Ile had heard it stated that the petition« proposed tio positive remedy for the rttl complained of. He thought they did.— 'tint he was surprised that no allusion had been made by the Honourable Mover to the remedy held out in she inainfeetoes of Mr. AVebbe hall , which crowded the table, its which u permanent duty was racinumended of 40a. pt-r quarter. Suppose ittlorie, road a *room of dearth arrived, the Govern meet must of necessity make an instant alter. anon its the law. Suppose the duty reduced to ‘2Ol. the, price of foreign corn being about 3.25, the whole mice would be fees than V. What wi.uld this be to agriculture but a positive mischief? Then there was a greet stress laid on the manlier of taking the average, on which subject the greatest possible delusion prevailed. .It was supposed that by iiirlitSi!ig the maritime districts the prices would not rise so speedily, and foreign corn would not be to quickly admitted. He had made some calculation. which be would submit to the House : By including the twelve maritime districts, its com puting the average, it appeared that its six weeks berme May 6, ISIS, and in six weeks before 6th May. 18-20, taking these as the average of the whole period, the average of the first week ending tutee April, cntut,nted with dm maritime districts, would li t 70.. 3.1. per quarter for wheat ; computed in the ordinary way 71s. Rye, by the first compute non, 425. 7d. by the second 425. Id.; Barley 354 4d. by the first. 345. by the second ; Oats 2 4'. I la. and 5145. Here was a woful disappoint ment to those wbo expected an advantageous argu ment, by varying the method of determining the average. The same result took place in every one of the six weeks. Then it was argued, plau sibly enough, that the Welsh counties should not he included, became they produced no grain. Well, then, he would omit the Welsh counties : they were the Bth and 9th, and Monmouth was the 10th district taken from the computation, and it would be found that the average was considerably heightened; and on such grounds the House were called on to make at alteration in the laws (for that was the sum amid substance of the thing), which would divide millions of the people.—MearV— There might, however, be some ground for going into the inquiry as to how far the laws had been carried inp-7"ect, and if any abuse such as the allegedepf an smuggling had crept in—not that lie believe...it to be true. He had received no ulti th o . of any such thing in the office to which lie ged. As to the imports from the Isle of lan, Guernsey, and Jersey, they had been ail uded to as avenues of smuggling, without any reason. The importations from those places were not mote thin they had ever been, and they had never ex ceeded -200 quarters annually. Yet although nothing could arise out of such an investigation to benefit agriculture, it might not be altogether useless to the subject. Another objection of the vas against the warehousing of foreign land. It was felt as a great evil to have :lit of cheap grain impeoding over the t, ready to fall its the moment the prices 1 enough. But remove it, and how attire be benefited? Ship. were said times. It would only be required to Jarehouses across the Channel, and then would come on as speedily from the shorts of Holism'. as from those of Esser, British capital mid industry would in the Mean time be deprived of all the advantages which it at pre sent derived from thst rower. • fie nn tneuted then genevally nil ttpt übsiordily of sup posing it tail...dale to force up the price of corn by legislative meow, Hr tkrialy lamented the itgita. tom of the subject, or that any steps should have been taken to induce a belief among the itgriesol hulas, that something ought to he and could he done, and would be done by that House, which it was impossible to do. should abandon his ditty to the country, to the Government with which lie acted, and to the particular office which he held, if lie did not protest against any attempt to alter the. laws which had passed for the regulation of the price of grain. —( Loud dicers from Guth sides of the House .1 Alr. WLiTERN could tint bring himself to be lieve that the House would rrfuae the Committee to which it was asked that the petits )))) s might be referred. The rent,' of farms were now paying out of the capitals, which collid tint !Unger go on diminishing. He denied that the laws haul been passed for the benefit of agriculture, or for bolstering up the price of grain. The pin vote el these laws was to make the country independent of foreign produce. Ile believed that a fair protection would in the course of years make the article cheaper than the occasional admission of cheap corn. The profits of agriculture ought to be sufficient to satisfy the grower, mid thes) there would be nothing too difficult for the enterprising spirit of English) farmers, not even the fertilizing the most barren spots. Ile contended that the last Corn Bill had been less effectual for its purpose, than any of those which went before it. Ile proceeded to &hew the effect of the pre vious Corsi Bills, by a series of computatiosis, which "lent to shirty that the average hail alsrap, been so fixed, that the average sale price never ran very nearly tip to it sol at present, when the fixed average was 80s. and the sale average about 78s. The same proportion was observed in 1804; but iu 1815, looking back to the average of the ten pre ceding years, the price would he found to be 935. per quitter. How then could an importation price of 80. r, be any protection to the agriculturist ? Experience had ,'hewn it not to he so. The fact who h he wished to establish to the House was, that the existing law would leave the country subject to a deficiency, sit any time liable to disappointments of supply in times of scarcity, and to be iiiondeled with corn when there was no wart of it. How could a law, under which 4,000,000 quarters of corn had been Imported into this country in little less than cx months of the year 1818, afford ade quate protection to the farmer? The agricultural capital was certainly now decreasing; it was wast• rug and dissipating, sod with it the foundation of the prosperity of the country. Distress came first on the agriculturist, and next on the manufacturer. Towards the end of the year 1816, wheat fell from 1230. to 655. a quarter, and the distress this brought on the agriculturist immediately extended itself so the manufacturer. la 1317, its price recovered fora while, and at the same time the prosperity of the manufacturing interests. A paper which had come into his hands in couseqeence of the late discus. swim of the tax on foreign wool, powerfully illustrated the fact of the depression of agriculture producing a corresponding depression its innuufactures. It was an account of the quantities of yards of broad cloth milled in the West Riding of Yorkshire iii different year., and it chewed that the falling cif iii that manufacture there went almost purl passe with the declension in the values,' agricultural pro‘ ducts. From this it appeared that about the rod of 1616 the average nouns' quantity fell from six mill to three millions of yards; that in the course of 1817 it ruse again to three, four, awl fire millions; but that now again there was a reduction to burly one-half of what it had been iu (817.—Uttar.)—Ile admitted that a mea sure such as he desired would advance the price of corn in the first instance, and advance it materially, but the distress of the lower milers by no means proceeded from corn bearing a high price—on the contrary, th , ir distress had greedy increased since the price of that article haul been reduced. Their prosperity depended not nu the absolute price of provisions, but on the relative position between their price and the demand and wages for labour. The misery they new suffered from the want of a demand fur their labour was far greater than any which could be occasioned by the (sigh price of necessirier. The state of misery ausl de. gradation iii which they were placed from not re ceiving a slue reumueratims for their industry', their only stock. war a thousand times worse than any privation which could be caused by a rise in the price of corn. The diminutioo in the wages of the labourer might be averaged at four shillings a week. which on a population of above five mil lions, amounted to more than fifty-two millions annually. One great cause of the diminution in the price both of labour and the products of la bour, was tire couseaction of the circulating me. chum. Taxation wad felt very heavily in this country ; amid as all our burdens were to - be supp..rted by notional industry and the fruits of it, if these latter become every day deteriorated its value, a serious question arose him the burdens were to he supported. The Legislature, in enact ing the law of 1815, had not innovated; they had only followed op a principle which they had been acting on for 130 years before, but failed in giving a protection to agriculture equal to that it had eu joyed in former times. He should therefore vote for the inotiou. Air. A. BARING- said, that he had been con stant ;y adverse to *the enactment of the protective mashie, which was now complained of as not suf. firieuay strong, op to the time of its receiving the sanction of Parliament ; but so convinced was he of the danger always attendant on al. tering tstablielted systems, that from the period of it. Itavit.g passed into a law, he, sod others who had thought with kin, might claim the merit of making no attempt to shake what li:id been established alter long investigation stud il,cipision„ Events, indeed, as he had anticipated, 1.0,1 suit", proved, that the measure would 11110 ty I." prOire• Will to the class intended to be protret.a, and the result hall shrwn the utter impth•thility of turcitig up the price u.l the most accessory oracle of food by legislative provisions. The 11,m. 'A It• inbe r who Innl brought forward the motion, h..d avowed his ohjrct to be to effect a higher prutectiutt to the L 1 agriculturist than he et present eujoyed, 'though he h a d no t stated to what extent he wished it to be retried. Looking around on the distress which pervaded the couittre, he imputed it entirely to the low price of core, and the inadequate remuneration of labour. Oilier people who had spoken on the subject with great ability in that Home and ehiewhere, had attriliuted it to the languor which naturally ensued on the cessation Or the over violent and exhausting efforts of a long war ; but this did not appear to the flon.Gentlernau to have had any ;dace among its causes. Mr (Mr. Summer's) remedy would be to rinse the price of corn. But in what situation would the lower classes of this cnuntry be now, if they were paying 30 or 40 per cent. more than they did for cure? Ile pot this question particu larly to Gentlemen residing in the neighbour. howl of masinfacturiug districts, tilled with what be might call beehives of inhabitants. —( Herm).— :corn already stood at double the price which it `bore in the rest of the world, but this would not sat;sfy the landholder.—(/dear.)—lt was quite evi dent that the cause why the commodity could bear tli;s double price here was, that we possessed so ex tensive and tor industrious a population, which again was owing to our manufactures, trade, sod commerce. Therefore, when the Petitioners talked of the interests of the meitufacturer or trader, they seemed not to be aware, or to forget that the lute. rest of those el was as much the inter est Pr the apiculturist, since his prosperity de pended cm theirs.—(llenr.)—But all these at tempts to a. I.arate the interests of the different classes of society were now so generally exploded, that it was hardly worth while to demonstrate their inimudence and folly.—(/fear, hear.)—The whol e aggregate of the in-impel-11y of the country, a , it had grown up, was to be maintained, or that of any particular class could not.—(Hear, bear.)—His Friend (.2r. %%Preterit) said, that fur many years antecedent to the I ist Act, die age price of corn was 935. per quarter, and though he did not directly affirm, Set insinuated that the pro tecting price should be milled to that standard. But he did not recollect that the value of the price at present bad undergone a conssderahle increase limn the changes in operation on our currency.— Hear.)--The Right Hon. Gentleman opposite (NIT'. Robinson) had most clearly proved that the low price was not owilig at all, or at least in the sligbtest degree, to the importation of corn, be cause scarcely any had been imported for the last fifteen months. Ile (Mr. Baring) should say that the main cause why the farmer suffered was, that the manufacturer was unable to consume his pro dove. The Gentlemen who hod come up with the petition from Birmingham, had brought with them a paper of very considerable importance indeed. It 'hewed the numbers of cattle slaughtered in that town for the use of the inhabitants to dif ferent years, and pointed out a falling off in the consumption of black cattle in the year 1819, of from 38,000 to 46,000. There was a similar decrease in sheep and other animals. The truth was, the people were now unable to pay the price* of the dearest articles of agricultural stock. There might be times when even wheat became a luxirry, which, he believed, was generally the case in Ireland. The condition of the people was alto.. gether altered and daily altering. The income soil profits of every class in society were siiffering a di minution, and they were generally conforming to circumstances, and endeavouring to reduce their expenditure to their income. But this was an at. tempt on the part of the l'etitiotiers alone to resist the force of tunes and circumstances, and to exempt themselves from the common lot.—(Hear.)—They would, however, at length be taught the truth— that if Parliament should be induc e d to listen to their unreasonable solicitation% the compliance would involve the ruin first of the other interests of the crimmunity, and next of theassehreit—that they could never by any art recover the prices for their produce which they received during the war— ✓ed that the rent of land must inevitably be reduced.—(Hear, hear, hear.)—lle should not attempt to go into a detailed examination of the argnnseists pot forward on the opposite side of the question ; but lie could not help adverting to one of the statements made most frequently on all occasions when the subject came under discussion, because very great stress seemed to-be laid on it y be meant the great burdens of taxation under which agriculturists were alleged to labour. But he did not know that they suffered as productive labourers under more burdens titan any other class. The evi thence brought forward, when the question had been last investigated, fully proved that the taxes on the instruments of industry, or means of carrying on then' occupation, were almost nothing—they ex tended to horses only, and on these were light. In the exertion of their industry they were not sub jetted to more taxation titan other people, and not more than when they got only 30s. a quarter for their wheat.—(Near.—Them came the tithes amid poor-rates. The owner of tithes was an ecclesias tical, and partly a temporal proprietor; sod there fore his claims could not jonit!y be considered a burden. The poor-rates undoubtedly were a bur den. But the Petitioners should compare their cooditiou with that of the same classes in other countries. In France, land was taxed to the amount of 20 per cent. In Germany, Pol And, and other countries on the Continent, laud was the pro.. perty on which the greatest weight of taxation fell. Mr. Marion then aiiiniadverted on the manner in which the Agricultural Petitions had been got up mod brought before the House, which he said was unprecedented, except by the artificial method re sorted to sense time before in procuring Pennant for nisiversal suffrage and annual One of the resolutions of the Association was, that copies of their petition should be sent through the country to obtain signatures, and one of Mr. Webby agents (his eon, we believe) hail come to the town (Taunto n ) he reprtiented, in the county of Devon, with one of the copies, to prevail upon as many butchers or farmers as he could to give their homes ; hot he believed that they, to their credit, had universally refueed. Speaking from his conscience. if he were called upon to say what ekes of the community was sulflring less than others, he should tonne the farniers.—(ilear.)— Bot no legislative etiactinents could avert what wool,' necessarily lie the consequence of our pre sent situation—the !emetic% of rents, Ile saw no good to he derived Irian going lulu a Committee. winch would only have the effect of exciting hopes shut could not be realised, and of loading their -.1•••.. r~-- fable with new petitions. But by at ouce resisting the agitation of the question, the people would per ceive the disposition of the House, submit to cir cumstances, and scquiese in the existing regulations. With respect to the average', he did not think it a matter of sufficient importance to induce the House to institute inquiry, particularly because it had not been stated that any fraud was practised in toting them. His Majesty's Government had thy means in their own bands of correcting any err'cirs that might be committed in practice. As some remarks of his on the petition of the London Merchants had been alluded to in the debate, he could most ascarrely declare that in soy thing he hid said on that occasion, lie had us' 1111,1111011 whatever to elitist the agricultural question to be mooted anew, his object having been that the House should adhere as much as possible to settled sy st e mu. —(Coitering.) Mr. FaANICLAPID Lewis thought inquiry ad. visible to tranquillize people's minds. The far mers were constantly kept in a state of feverish anxiety about open ports and closed ports, and rumours of mistakes in the taking of the averages. He was, therefore, frierilly to the appointment of a Committee for the purpose of carrying on a final inquiry, and to quiet the feelings of the agricultu ral petitioners. The petitions to the House prayed new provisions to secure their interests, on the princi ple that equal protection should hr extended to all interests iio the state; but they added, that if the principles on which they proceeded should be roved to be erroneous, they would retire satisfied; and he thought thews so easy to he overthrown, that a Committee seemed to him, for that object alone, to be very desirable. Ile con:ended that the interests of the tenant would be injured rather than advanced by keeping the articles of their manufacture at a high price, and land at ■ high rent. There was soother view which rendered it of extreme importance to go into the question, namely, that the mode of granting the protection was inconvenient. Prohibition ap peared to him to be a much less expedient mode than duties. The mode of taking the averages was also censurable, fur he believed that the merchants could exercise such influence over the markets as to alter them, and introduce or ex clude foreign grain at their own convenience.— (Cries of " Nu," and of 14 Hear.") —The most urgent rause for going into a Committee was, that the circumstances of the country were completely different from what they had been in 181.5. He appealed to the I !cute whether the coun try was not now in a quite different situa tion with respect to the cultivation of land. He believed the expense of cultivating land hid been reduced one-third. A material reduction had taken place in the wages of labour, the price of fixed capital, of horses, and almost every thing requisite to be used iu husbandry. He trusted the House would, on the whole, think that the farmer who now began to cultivate lands, would do it with the chance of reaping as much profits as the established farmer did in 1814 6 He could not but expect thit the time Would soon come, when the House would tread back its former steps, adapt the protection to the leas. ened expenses. and reduce what hail been al. ready done. The protection was in fact a tax, an d a tax not for the benefit of the rotate, but of a particular class—the laud-owners. As one to that class, lie should willingly give up his share u it, because he knew that in the change which its" removal would diffuse through society, he should• be amply overpaid.—lllear, hear, hear.)—The present protect ion was hostile to foreign corn merce, and destructive of Bugled) feeling, com pelling as it did numerous individuals to remove themselves and their capitals to other countries.— Such were his sentiments on this important question. But the lion. Member for Surrey (tad so fully ex plained his views in the formatioo of a Committee, and they were so different from those entertained by hitnself, that anxious us he was to see inquiry iiisti toted, he should feel himself obliged to vote against the motion.—(Hear, hear.) Lord MILTON said, he now found whit he had before suspected would he the case, that the inquiry would be of so confined a nature :114 to be so ally unfit for the House to entertain it, and lie was much surprised ■t the conclusion of the speech of the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite, who though hos tile to the principles of the Petitioners, hail yet said that he might, by possibility, support the motion.— (" No, no," front the illinisteriul Benches.)—At least he hail said he would, if limited in a particular manner; hut it was that very limitation, which, in his opinion, made it unfit to be granted. ‘l'hat ! when the country resounded with cries of agricultu ral distress, were they to limit their inquiries to the mere operation of the averages ? It was not from the system as regarded the averages, or in the appoint. meat of the inspectors. that occasioned the distress of the agriculture of England. It was, as be had before stated, that the distress el agriculture was only part of the general distress of the country, and any inquiry of the lintel nature recommend ed by the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite, would only serve to excite expectations in ev e ry farm e r, in order afterwards to dash the cup from his and create discontent and dissatisfaction. Tile " unnatural state" of the country had been m-ti tioned, but what did those words mean ? lie would tell them what lie understood by them, that we had not only spent in the last twenty years an enormous amount of capital, but—und he would go further than a Noble Friend of bis had gone in another -.place, and say -that we had not only dune so. but we had spent an ' l ll , ll l ' ll, W capital nor yet created ; and it our resini..c,is were not increased, we should not lie able to bear op against the load of debt soil taxes who. lo now wes t,- ed upon, and was the sole cause of the distress of agriculture and the country. He must consul-r that the measures of last Session, relative to the restoratian of a metallic currency, had had great effect in causing the distress ; not that he did not approve of that measure, for it met with its approbation, but he stated it now, because lie feared the full effects of that measure were not yet realized. " Employment," continued the Noble Lord, " is one of the tin& causes of population.— /bare expresgions of dissent was expressed from the T►enaary 13 , tich.)—The Right Ilou. Gentle:lms does not know what a dual cause is. We might then, I say. to inquire if any derangement of caw tot be or be nor one of the causes of want of ein ploywent fur the population of the cannily." The ••••• • Noble Lord concluded by expressing his rtgret tint he should not be able to vote fur the motion.— Limited as it was to so petty and conlioed an ob ject. it could not answer the views ma prom .IC the objects of the petitioners. and could wily be pro ductive of additional i•ritirion. Mr. Cuawms tlnioiflit that if the I.l4t , mtrit of the 'tight Honourable Gentleman could uc ouriie out, that the price of corn iu 1819 did a it resn't. from the importation or forriga corn, t"e I country was in a most laniesitable seer itorleetl. for the stir dedocion was, as that was not sit average h t, the con.umption of the tou..toy had diminished., thin aht.n a 11//re frig , lll.4 p.c. cure could not be preaeitted. HP was igt , •1.1.•.1 to concur in the statement which lied been made respecting the average in We:wood:soil, the wheat was of the finest quality ; awl a- to the Welsh counties, it PtIOUIII be remesothered the population were not coosinners of wheat. Ile thought lie should not over-estimate the iticoiLe arising from labour if he stated it at sissy millions, and. therefore, whatever INIUM gve activity to that must be of the greatest itioportaior. He must conceive that the Hoot. Lienileonaio spoke before the Noble Lord had mooted no look at the nociesse of the poor'•-rates which lie ihou jot more than counterbalanced the advantages drilb.filotC from the lower rate of labour. The Hon. Groat. man now contrasted the situation of the agrtcnku.rl and monied interests, and coutentled that the former were more heavily wised thou during the Its his view fif the subject he had conceived that the removal of pare of the poor's rates, by a tax on funded property. to such an amount as would make a difference of 3.. per quarter on wheat, wunid be extremely desirable. As the monied liners-at tool been equally benefited with every other, he saw no reason fur that being exempted front taxation; indeed lie thought an Income Tax bearing on all the property in the kingdom, was the measure of finance the must desuable to be adopted. las his opinion, lend, insteed of 5 per cent. "ad fallen full 15 per cent. lie thought the agricultu ral interest had • claim on the House fur an equi las dion of burdens, and what he wished to are woe a tax on income, arising out of the pro lit. of la bour, and not on labour itself. Mr. Iticenno said, he did not look to the ii.- terests of the landholder, the stockholder, or the merchant, but to the interests of the country at large. He thought it was a mistake to suppose, that any price could really be • remunerating price ; if the ports were opened the prices would toLdounie edly fall, and that would certaiuly affect the land. lords. Looking at the question as it regarded the profits upon our capital, he thought it much more desirable that we should have a lar g e tity at a low price, rather than a less quanoty at a higher price ; and it should be recollected, that if foreign corn *as really wanted, and was imported. they did thereby set free • quantity ot labour for the production of other coininotlittes. The high price of coin here must diminish the rate of profit on the capital of the country. The di minution in the rate of profit was sfl . .cted in this way—the manufacturer of cloth, for exam ple, paid his labourer's 50 per cent. of the value of the cloth ; by the rite in the price of corn, he would he obliged to raise that ply-meta to Go 'per cent, by which meat:s the master manufacturer would not wily have a leas proportion remaining fur himself, but that residue would be of snialier value that it was before ; and thus eh:lst I-i foreign countries the profits of their stock would be high, ill England it would be lute, and would- prove a strong temptation for the ex portation of capital. The petitioneta said they could grow sufficient for the consumption of this country, of wheat, oats, poultry, butter, cheese, in short, every article the produce of the lima, and he granted they might be able to grow them (for he thought our land capable of ft eding a notch larger population than we had at present) ; but the ques t was, could they grow them on the same terms as we could be supplied from other sources ? Thet was what he denied they could do. It might be g that they could supply the country, b u t d was it expedient that they should I And might they not, on they same principle, demand to supply all the sugar required fur the use of the couittry, and cultivate the supply of beet-root for that put. pose. This project had been tried by Bounparte, and the Right Hois. Gent. opposite had been pecu li.rly happy in ridiculing t h at project, but that ridte rule would apply with equal force to the present scheme. Ile dented that the merchant deo Well any hr. liefit from the Navigation Law, but even taking the cotton-manufacturer or the slop-owner to have del rived benefit front any protective laws, the ergs rota ansoutited to this, that because iojisry had been sustained from ono dart, that injury ohitaalil he repeated by Another. He could I,clp coecerre why the Malt Tax had been menfloneti, is could may apply as by its operation diminishing in • small degsee the, growth of be ley. The Petie' initials state that they were pt: 'seated by the importation of foreign corn had taken place, him employing British laliotor to tit trnoutit of 6,679,8411. 144.—(4 laugh )—But lit wocid ask, was there no labour employe" in ptoilaring those manufactures with which Oa foregn coils w.a par. chased ?—lt had been said, that to impost foreign' corn was to import foreign labour : he would *gain ask, what commodity theie was which was imported without importing at the 'same tiroefthe igis labour ? mod what British sommoility eau imported that 41.4 not employ .Etiglisti labour? He believed thst it wag a ("oration of pulley entirely. ahem, in the year 11115, the Right lion. (jeoitlen an epposiie supported the Corn 1;01, mud he (Mr. llicairle) erred with himo iii that puhey, for he we- not our of *teem sweeping reformer. who ei-hed the infusettiate aloption of loss ideas to the destruction of all ',them); tutees-As; but bethought the error then eornmitt d as. 014711ifSe that ni-asu re permanent *Melt Awed have been team posy. for lIP thought that tone only ought to twine beet were for the expiratien of the old teases, Ind foe new•courracts to be entered int:with the He ten/tight, therefore, that what they Lail uow to i do was t a t get lock again to the right •y•tritt its *crud , as tory C47111(1, and wet by prr,evervJg w mat; -lira. sures give enctiorigement to the consplsints of thiO j rot-noes of the Constination, fie vrouid say a *mil or two o' the suhhret of countervailing duties, and his i.!ed asp, that where a commo oily Was tax. ttl to that amount prot-ctile should be off ode , / by a cotootervailmg duty ; but to la) tog that dul/ they were not to lake tutu thtir coionleratiost the aIMA . . .. linquire into ti Petitioners WI Corn in Engle all that weigh! home market, were up high would agricul i to fly iii our I remove the wa i the stores wou i H AIL ._ ..., . :