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HOUSE OF LORDS, FEB. 5. 11Jr. HurcurssoN, from the Bank of England, presented the usual annual accounts of Bank Notes and Exchequer Bills purstiant to Act of Parliament—Laid on the table. THE QUEEN. Lord ERSKINE presented a Petition frorn the inhabitants of Newmarket, praying that her Ma jesty might be put . in possession of all her rights and her name restored to the Liturgy. He stated that the petitiOn was numerously signed. With respect to his,own sentiments on the subject, be had read the Act of Uniformity with great at tention, and if it did not give a vested right, he should wish to know from any conveyancer or engrosser what words 'could convey.—Laid on the table.-t--41is-Lordship then presented similar Petitions from the Dissenters' of Portsea, and from the, Boroughs of Breehin and Inverary. — Laid on the table. If 1 1 Cl': 0 RD .V %I ' .Julie l ,z - PUBLIC arc hereby informed that Pt, ITE`; of the ORDNANCF. SURVEY n , F4-:: 'lit! [' A IN ' earl ou under the Soiwrintenderice 1 " y r ) tr,ilncr<t W11.1..1.A NI I!DGE. LL.D. F.R. tlow complete, and that IMPRESSI:INS from l'(; -- 1 1 1 , " 1 .., e , sa!ie at the 01IDNANCF. MAP 01 , PICE, in - the Ge m ; I.9NDON, and also- at WILLIANI FADEN'S, I ,:„''Piter liis Majesty, and Agent to the Btiard of Ord e, CILII - I.I'NG-CROSS. e • PLATES conta in the Conities of Kent. Essex , Susses ti, Devon, and Cornwall, and propor -6113 of Soinei,et, Surrey, Pembrotie, Cardigan, Carmarthen, ,-,la4lorptn Wit • LI er's 'rid "cu.( Suffolk, lit;.rttllril, and k „ irlibrid,, , I b 4 .; . 1 ; 4r , * • conlairlioz . nelrly the whole of Pembrokeshire, ist 1. :ons , of the a:ljacent Coontry, was published on the °. ugust. and as the Worl-: is still in progress, ii , 7- r , - " r `ling to .Site original Design of giving .1 complete flap of nritain tipon a Scale of oae to a Mile. the tt til;licatio-n if the fat us e parts will follow as fast as tilt: "f such s Work will ac.init, without increasing the an :1"11 Exp ens , wislliaz to procnre a Map of the Country stir p-"Z"'ng Labitatio;oi, may. ll' appEcation to. Mr. r. 'fiiice , _(;o. herr all I I fdriC &lap ‘"11 -)e h "'' no'Hitieets they plei,e, for tt-,r rn . r P °qe ' All Lotc•rs iin tht: sithjert, addre:sed to,Nlr. linker, under rto the lrcrt t) f ' a t ( i !t si:‘.4lh.;:h°:oa rel oh kirdi"MC" Pall Ma"' .t e oalt PAY r R. 11. canw, Sec. 11:N T' OF pRp',F,s—FIR,;T LOTTERY, . LOTTERY-OF FICE, SOMERSET-PLACE, tan.3o, MI N CO NINI ISSIO NP RS appointed for MA -, ribit -n" i'NG the •LOTWERIES do . hereby give Notice, , ' ;; ng ": 8 of TICK,ENS :and SHARES thereof in all at this (Mice every day of B enef i ts and dllos " and Three, with (brie Registers And flee (T rAMISSIONERS . app-ointed t. , 11 - ,e in the or the Fut:it' LO ERI for 1520, - ( 1 ): -"1 "Y give' 'Notice, That they will attend at their 1. ,40 r , ' In So merset -Place, on THURSDAY. the 22d day of O Cloch in u4II th net, Hom Elezen o'Clock in the Forenoon to One ~e •Afternoon, to take in and enter the BENEFIT ICKETS of the said Lottery, to be exchanged for Certi ficates, porsuauf to the Act of Parliament in that behalf. A nd fur foltht:r di. - Tateh thereof, the said CO_MM , IS . SI9N: `rill taiie in an d enter the BENEFIT TICKETS of ( Vast and Class C , ttt one seat; and the Bene fi t Ti c k e t s o f at another scat ; and the persons possessed thereof `'re directed to bring with their Tickets separate Lists thereof, ?wicked A B and C, formed in numerical order, distinguish g Stock from Money Prizes, adapted to each of the said .14e415: and at the •bottom of each of the said Li.ls to write The 'lame and proper additiMts of the person entitled to the value of the said Tickets. - An d The 'ail COMMISSIONER' also give farther notice, .ertificates for the value. of the said Tickets will be de crtd out on wEDNESDAY;the Sgth 0 • clay of February next, " t NO 11, alter wh ich the said COMMISSIONERS will take I n d enter Ti ckets i n t h e i r usual Monthly entry; an d a ll t4._"ns intLrested are desired t o o b serve they must bring '"Vicates of th e i r Li s t s w h en they come far their Certificates. TIeL COMMI•SSIONERS - also give further notice, That are Lurie brought to this Office for Payment, the Checks of which a ' i r., l l or destroyed, will not be entered for payment, with, tlts f or bei• ' , given to indemnify the said f:OMMISSION for • 1 a:I-al-lung Certificates fur the sanac. T1,T, L, , ,, ,. of ENGLAND. Ist Februnry, 1821. -- n'. '°U - 11. T of DIRECTORS of the GO- L"lbgvii,?:,ltott and comvANY of the 13.1NK of ENG TFoit A 1 ilitt lf , ' 13 ANS . t‘ ) .?, ',' t hi R ttetki.he 6th clay of February instant, the Directorsl h e REMIT to ISSUE, iti such proportions as the Al it TI , may third; proper, cuRnENT SILVER COIN of S"TEilllt to the for i of ONE MILLION POUNDS uppl e .V.'\G, in EXCIA Q NGE for WANK NOTES, provided "on Le 'made the same . before the Ist .101 y next. ..—_____________ R. BEST, See. It ._, - ------ '`E LATE NIB. TITFEEN'S LIBRARY. B yBE SOL D BY AUCTION, ' e ' --. i ' er - lEBy , at ' his'.li,„,,,, %v.:Him:ton-Street, Wa- I Flv i s "--ril i 4 e3 StrilUd, .on MONDAY," February 1211), and 'cn o C fullimin g Day s (Sunday e xcepted), at Twelve 'lock, rill'iv remaining very select, ele;ant, and va -1.4i., ,"h , j" hituißmuy of the late J. F. TUEFEN. Esq. of t if :'"ne• ildo.mg wilieh w ill b e f oun d, a splendid:Collection :, him 7 s e D rite,q,", an. Vase, &c. '-atalogues. (price; 25.) to 1.) Elegant had at Etruscan the place of Sale. ..,- - .__________________• CABINET PIA -`- ' Tr iN OF OiL . shop Price 6 0 Goi , le-ts, for- 38 Guineas. Square 4 ., 7 equal to New, Pim ~ 1 10 rorte . _, at 0 Guine, - 4 . ... ‘ A - p‘cht 11-11.9, the property of - - Ady. 43 Guinea leas. cost t .. 1 Si C ' ()crave Horizontal, test too C . ' 70 . . Gram ~ . , , '"'"ns, for 75. Mr. wA I'LEN, 13, Leicester- Vaaee can x:arrant.the above. —Also may be setn, the Ohlique , nofort, ! , n o w so much admired for its compact and Octant pti )I. ' ll , a beautiful piece of furniture, tone,equal to any. other rument of double its priee..—hic is much obliged to his Autaiea friends for their numerous Orders for the Oblique. 1)0G MEDI CINES—EL:kINE'S IiIEDI. the I) .c, !Niz.A for the I)ISTEMPLB, and those for most of ' ' I 'A S ES of DOGS conti nue to br Pre - pared and Sold Veitttie Proprietor, \V. you.vr - r (late Blaine and Youtitt), s; rl,rinary sur geon, N o. 3, NASSA U STREET. MIDDLE . ilospiTA L. They are 'likewise Sold by Boosey and (lid Broad Street .; Barckv and Sons (the VI oleale 111,, i "), 95, Peet Market, and all Medicine Venders ; also arr t il is. s . Genuin Medic:nes; A ospital for Dogs, igtit e ► til on the Diseases of .AniHtnals. P UBLICATIONS. grkw,..:ll6i Day Were puhrsired, pike 9 -s• Gtl ' rattire%;itc, yATION.S on - REPORT of the t ot: 4 TEE of the HOUSE of LORDS, p ui 1. Y Za Bltirtsu "Y , ti x,h a J. M. Richardsun, 23, Curnhill, opposite thc TRANSLATION OF, VIRGIL. 17" / iL ‘6lrilibljslied, price G. till. _ Prose. Translated into English /11 i t h By 3. DAVIDNON. "i ch i ► at eve r been considered superthin'' , to print 1) ord t tMly i ntended as a b oo k o f reference, in a tl I • the present ransl moder ation ha pritnePUblished siie e k f l u:. 1 1 as to he sold T at a ate It i s • Liti()._ 'Mended to form . a series, on a similar plan, of Trans- R i a( C t is of other La!iti Authors for which the Printer will cuiv.v:u..cobreceire the nani y ''tnittem e n who may wish to .•tune them a A , lthr, as it Val e published, may he lied separate. bY A. Valpy, and sold by Sherwood sod Co. ; all uthar 'W a nti CO, London ; Parker, Oxford ; . Barret, Cam tivauchrseec,rsl:,tlinburz.,l) • Cumftlin, Dub"; and of In t he Pit-cc, and speedily will he published, . Ai in Two V°lotncF Octavo. EI`rIOIRS of the LIFE and WRITINGS iti q 0f the Right Rev. BRIAN • WALTON, D.D. .Lord Ivi,', ° P 0f Chestrr, Editor of the London Polyglot Bible. th e --1 N "lices of his Coadjutors in that Diustrious W ork; of e.. Cultivation of Oriental Learning, in this Country, pre ).",""g and during, their time ; and of the Authorized Eng -1710 Version of the Bible, to a projected Revision of which, f• Walton anti some of his Assistants in the P..dy;•, , 10t were .40intest. To which is addv(4 Dr.AValton's own Vindica &loll of ste t 1,11001) Polyglot. ti Ily the R ev. l IE S iRY JOHN TODD, M.A.F.S.. l ai , liti ti Ain Ordinary to his Majesty, and Hector of Settring l:'int ton, 'Cou n t v.of York. .cinrcii-e for F. C. and J. l t ivington, No. G?, St. Paul' s L hM y d ald, and No. 3, mWattrloo-place, Pdll-Mall ; -"an, num : Ittes,Oru, and Erown, Paternoster-row.and od od eid od s t g• ,i L d I F ;l e I .' 3 • SI:110:1! Lord KING, in presenting a PetitiOn from the Nobility, Clergy, and Freeholders of the County of Surrey, conceived that it ,vas only necessary for him to state that it had been agreed to at a very numerous and respeCtable meeting. It pray ed,,that in order to set at rest the agitation excit ed by the proceedings against the Queen, her name be inserted in the Liturgy ; and that the House would institute an economical reform in all the branches of the public service. Lord E LLFSBO OUGH gave his testimony to the excellent conduct of the meeting. It had been his misfortune to find himself in a very small minority, but he bad been heard most fairly. The Petition was then laid on the table. Lord HOLLAND presented Petitions to .a simi lar effect from the Mayor and Livery of the town and county of Nottingham, and from the Inhabi tants of the Ward of Cripplegate . Without. — Laid on the table. Earl GREY presented a similar Petition from the Subscribers, Residents and Burghers of the Royal Burghs of Wigtown.—Laid on the table. EarI,GREV also presented a Petition to the same purpose from the Nobility, Clergy, and Freeholders of the County .of Durham, convene4l. by the Sheriff, pursuant to. a requisition from the principal Landed Proprietors. The Meeting, his Lordship stated, had -been most numerously and respectably attended, and conducted with the greatest order.- He could therefdre express his firm conviction that the Petition contained the opinion of a very considerable majority of the rreetkoide'rs - truthr- County.—Read, surd lai4L-43 the table.—His Lordship then presented a simi lar Petition from the Nobility,. Clergy, and Free holders of the neighbouring County of Northum berland agreed to at a- meeting, which, he re gretted to say, had not been convened by the Sheriff; for that Officer had considered it his duty to reject a requisition most.numerously and respectably signed. Under these circumstances, the Petitioners had had recourse to the other 1 means afforded them by • the Constitution. The Petition contained a declaration of the sentiments of loyalty with which they were animated, and a prayer that an end should be put to the agita tion of the country, by the restoration of her Ma- jesty's name to the Liturgy. He felt no heoita tiun in stating that it expressed the opinion of an immense majority of the Peers and Freeholders of that county.—Read, and laid on the table. MANUFACTURES. Earl GREY had now to present a Petition of a different nature, and which, if the qUarter from whence it came, and the sentiments which it contained were considered, was entitled to the deepest attention. It was from the Manufac turers, Traders, and Inhabitants of the town of Birmingham, and had been voted at a meeting. held last August, and most numerously and re spectably.attended. Ile was sorry to say that it was at variance with those statements which, on the first day of the Session, the House had heard from the Noble Earl opposite, that considerable improvement had taken place in the state of our manufactures. lle saw the Noble Earl preparing to refer to the King's Speech, in which some ex ceptions had been .made to that general state , meat. Undoubtedly Birmingham was one of, those exceptions, for the Petitioners stated that the master manufacturers were not able to em ploy the - mannfacturing population for more than three or four days in the week, and that the rest of the time they were obliged to seek their sub .sistence from parish relief. This was a state ment of a most distressing nature, and of the truth of which it was impossible to entertain the slightest doubt. For when the distress .had pressed most heavily last year, a Committee had been appointed in the town of ,Birmingham to inquire into its causes and extent. The N embers of the Committee had examined the different parts of the town, and submitted certain ques tions to individuals capable of throwing light upon the subject. • From the information. thus collected, it. appeared that a diminution of one third Inzd taken place in the general consumption of the necessaries of life, beer, meat, and even bread ; and that even this diminished consump tion was in a great measure supported by credit. The Report of a Mr. Ryan, employed by that Committee, stated that there was a falling off of one or two thirds in the trade of publicans, and that amongst butchers it e: as still worse : that. those people who had. been accustomed to take good joints, - were now only able to buy morsels: that there was a great demand for neats' livers and for two-penny and three-penny worth of meat at a time. The consumption of bread was equally diminished. All this was'most afflicting. Ilad, the inquiry been carried five years back, a doubt might have arisen whether that distress had not been occasioned by the sudden cessation of the great demand occasioned by the war. But the in.; quiry went only two years back, not extending beyond 1818, when the country I.:1d been at peace for a considerable time. The distress which it had found to exist could not therefore be considered a the effect of the transition from war to peace. The present Petition had been voted, as he. had already stated, in the month-of August last. Af ter hearing 'the consolatory statements of the Noble Earl opposite,. he (Lord Grey) had hoped that the Town of Birmingham had shared in the improvement said to have taken place, in our ma nufactures. ile,had therefore thought it neces sary to inquire how the matter stood, before he submitted the Petition to t_helJonse. The—an swer to his inquiries hati-be*Vitdt.tbortgh there was 'some increased demand, it was,ustially the case at that time of the year, and inconsequence •of speculations in - South . America, .the general distress was rather on - the increase: The depre ciation in iron articles was not less than 20Yor 25 per cent. ; in brass, from 5 to 15 ; in. spoons, locks, and plated articles, 5 ; and in spades, from 15 to 20 per-cent. In the poor rates there had been some diminution, not in consequence of a less number of individuals to be relieved, but because the price of provisions was lower. But the difficulty of collecting them had considerably increased. The arrears on the poor rates for the last year amounted to 10,090/.,which exceeded all former arrears. In 1816, the first year after the war, they had only been 6,5161., and they had never risen before the present melancholy in stance higher than 7,5681. Such was the dis tressing situation of that most important district of the country. What improvements might have taken place in other quarters he knew not, -but he doubted their existence ; the, more so, as the present Petitioners stated, that according to the information which they had been able to collect, the other manufacturing districts bad suffered in the same .degree with themselves. In Lanca shire it was possible, that from the low price of provisions, and an increased demand, some im provement had- been felt, but the general state of manufactures wr;s reduced rather than improved. In the laSt year there had been a considerable diminution of manufacturing capital. - But his doubts were, not founded only on the state of the manufacturing branches, they also rested on that of the agricultural interest, which had deep ly suffered. The trade of the country -had as sumed a totally different character. Exporta tions. were now made, not in consequence of demands , from abroad ; ... lait: i from ..specula tions at home. Goods ivere sent Where it was• thought probable they might find a market. The whole trade was in an unnatural state; exhibiting at one time a, degree of morbid excitement, and at another time one of despon dency and laugour,' occasioned .by something which rendered investigation necessary. • The Noble Earl opposite had attributed the existing distress to an increase of production r and had urged the diminution of prices, as a proof of his assertion. lie (Lord G.) much doubted the fact. He admitted that the harvest had been abundant. last year, but not that there had been an increase of production. Farmers, on the contrary, were not able to cultivate their lands as well as for merly. Cultivation, in fact, diminished every day, and was likely to continue to grow worse. By the last Gazette, it appeared that the price of corn was only 545. or 555., or 7s. per bushel. Under the present great weight of taxation, how would it be possible for farmers to pay the demands which existed upon them ? The Noble Earl, when distress had become so general, bad first ascribed it to the sudden transition from war to peace ; then to the depressed state of the Ame rican market : though, in , another House, the Chancellor of the Exchequer had attributed it to a more probable cause, the return to cash pay ments. In fact, some shift or other had always been resorted to for the purpose of disguising the truth. He (Lord Grey) could not doubt that the principal cause of that distress was the im mense load of taxation, aggravated by the state of the circulation, as the endeavour to restore cash payments operated as an addition of twenty five7per cent. to the taxes. Nnether the country could continue to bear such pressure became every day more problematical ; but it was a subject to which Parliament could no longer shut its eyes, unless it wished to wait till it should burst upon its consideration with irresistible vio lence. To anticipate such a time, the Peti tioners prayed that the House would be pleased to take the subject into its _ most serious conside ration, and to institute an inquiry into the causes of national distress. After stating this he , should say why he should not move for the institution of such an inquiry.. First, the state of, his health made it impossible that he should under go the confinement which such an inquiry would require, -though be should be glad to give his support and assistance to any investigation which might be proposed by other_ Noble Peers on the subject. Second ly, though he admitted that such iniquities were not beyond the powers of Parliament, he had seen that if they were not undertaken by Government itself, they seldom pro duced much good. This was strongly exem plified by the result of the Committee appointed last year,- on the motion of a Noble Friend of his (the Marquis of Lansdowne) to inquire into the state of our foreian trade. After a laborous in vestigation, the Committee had only been able to make up its mind on one single point, and had recommended an alteration in the timber trade. lie did not apprehend that much more would be effected this year,.aa - he understood, that it would be necessary to wait for the report of another Committee, by whom the subject had not yet been investigated. He therefore doubted whether, unless the government of the country, with all the means of information which. it possessed, should come down to propose and undertake an inclUiry, any investigation commenced in -another quarter could prove efi - e ca H ve- and beneficial.— aving stated that he would not. propose such an inquiry, he should now only move that' the Petition be read. . . he Petition having been read, The Earl of LAYER:POOL rose to make a few observations, chiefly on the remarks with which the Noble Earl had prefaced his motion. With respect to the Petition, he could have no objec tion to its being laid before the House, or, refer red to the Committee on Fr:reign Trade, :he " re vival of which a Noble -Marquis opposite had stated his intention of proposing. He wished first to correct an involuntary misconception into which the Noble Earl had fallen, respecting one part of his Majesty's Speech. The greatest care had been taken so to word that Speech as to pre vent the posSibility of its being understood to assert that all our commercial zultnanufacturing_ interests had improved. The paragraph in ques tion said—" I have great pleasure in being able to acquaint you, that a considerable improve ment lias taken place in several of the most-im portant branches of our commerce and manufac tures, and that in many of the manufacturing dis tricts the distresses which prevailed at the com mencement of the last Session of Parliament have greatly abated." But, in another paragraph of the Speech, the following words had been intro duced—" Amidst the distress which still presses upon a large portion of my subjects." It was, therefore, a complete misapprehension to suppose that the Speech did not admit the existence of great distress in the manufacturing districts of the country. He, (Lord L.) even thought that' on the first night of the Session lie had stated that the town of Birmingham was one where con siderable distress existed, in consequence of the ab sence of improvement in that branch of trade to which it was particularly devoted. But notwith standing this exception, the improvement in other branches was real. It had. been considerable in a most important one, the cotton trade. The • last. accounts from Lancashire and Scotland esta blished that gratifying fact, and stated, not only that more men were employed, but that the de mand for cotton in the port of Liverpool had greatly increased. As to the question raised by the Noble Earl with. respect to the state of agri culture, this was not the time . for discussing the subject. But distress could not: be fairly attri buted to one single ,cause, when it. was clear that it must proceed from many. With respect to his.assertion on the first day of the Session, that one of the causes which operated with othera to distress agriculture in the United Kingdom, was a great increase of production, on Cluit was it founded ? On a fact, which he believed had not occurred before during the last fifty years . ; that since the month of February, ISI 9, there had been no foreign corn introduced into the country for. home consumption. He knew that the fact had been disputed, and that it had been imagined that the warehousing system might lead to the secret introduction of foreign corn. But he also knew that the subject had been thoroughly inves tigated in another place last year, by a person who entertained strong prejudices on that. point, and who, at the end of the inquiry, was fully sa tisfied that no secret introduction of foreign corn took place. The country had, therefore, been two whole years without any importation of fo reign corn, and-though the Noble Earl had been right in saying that the harvest had proved abundant, yet it was more soin the northern, than in the southern parts of the kingdom. The fact was, that two years had elapsed, without foreign importation, therefore afforded a strong presumption, that maincrease of production.-had taken place at home. It'had been supposed that - an augmented importation from Ireland might have produced that effect ; but if, that were the case, it was still an increased production in the United Kingdom. With respect to that part of the country with which he was best acquainted, he knew that during the .war, when the Conti nent - Was closed to our• trade, large districts, of land bad been brought under the plough, which had never been ploughed before, and from which it was then-intended to raise only a few crops.— But they had been kept in the same condition, and had thus added to agricultural distress. For the Noble Earl could not deny that the poor land thus forced into cultivation and bringing forth at a greater expence had occasioned an un natural and excessive 'increase of production. As to the weight of taxation, neither the HOuse nor the country should forget that since the return from war to peace- it had been diminished to the amount of not less than fifteen or sixteen millions annually. The IS Earl said that a return to cash payments was.one of the causes of the present distress. It might certainly operate to some extent, but it was a measure which had not been adopted blindly., It had been support ed even by the .arguments of those who had objected to the war, and it only occasioned a temporary inconvenience, which it was neces sary should be' borne. That the distress expe rienced Went to the extent stated by the Peti tioners, be was not inclined to believe. II eshould not, however, on the present occasion, enter more deeply into the subject. Ile had no objection to the Petition being referred to the Committee. on foreign trade, and if 4ny remedy or cure could be advised, it would be the duty of Parliament to consider it . with attention. lie hoped, however, The Marquis of Lthcsbow:in rose i:i conse quence of some expressions contained in the.-Peti tion now before the House, and some observations which had 'fallen from the two'Noble . Earls by whom he had been preceded. He should how ever begin'by declaring his firm conviction,. that the clwaete,K;of the persOns from whorl the Peti tioii proceeded, and the means of infortiation which they possessed, combinej• to entitle it to the most serious attention. The 'expressions to. which lie had alluded referred Co' the Committee on Foreign Trade, for which be - had moved last Session. When he had made that tmition, he had stated that, in order to be efreaive, the re- searches of the Conunittee'should be confined to our foreign trade; but that whilst he considered it the duty , both of Parliament and of his Ma jesty's Government to engage in that inquiry, he should not object to any other Which might be connected with the subject. When the Noble Earl opposite said, that the present 'Petitit , n might be referred to the Committee ate Foreign . Trade, he (the Marquess of - L.) could not for bear thin•king that it was - More connected with the state of the home trade of the country.-- The Noble Earl had stated, that the existing dis tress was not equally diffused amongst a'A branches of trade, f n this opinion he entirely ccsn curred. It was most satisfactory to know, that in the important branch of cotton trade the ex ports from Liverpool, and 'from Mai\chester, through Liverpool, had of late considerably in creased. , lie had not seen the' document in the possession of the Noble Earl (Lord 'Liverpool), but he had received private information frcha those places, which confirmed the statement that a considerable,:improvement4had taken place. Trade might therefore be represented to be.in those quarters, and to a certain extent, in a flea rich hip- condition. But its, profits were extreinely low. The capitals employed did noftolerive '.the profits to--which they were entitled ; and capitalists were only in the situation of persons deriving some slender profits from a trade which two years ago did not produce any. I.t was. the effect of that necessity' to which persons, who had engaged -ltecge capitals in any. particular t l egl Q , w e re vis duced, of taking a profit of only two or three per cent., because it was not in their power to trans fer their capitals to other branches. This Was the present prosperity of their trade. The Noble Earl opposite had attributed the existing distres,4 to an increase of production ; but more probable causes might be assigned. i t would, indeed,. be very singular if after referria g to our corn inii,o4-ts informer years, during a state of war, the country should suddenly be found after a peace to have, become an exporting, instead of an importing country. Was it not More probable ri lien the distresses of the people were considered, that it was to a diminished consumption that the llouse were to lock for the increase of production which appeared to have taken place,? And not only to a diminished consumption, but to the consump tion of inferior articles? It had been our con stant effort for many years to drive the lower classes to consume inferior' articles, and the at- tempt had at length succeeded. A great portion of the population who hitherto lived on corn DOW subsisted on potatoes. Was not this a more plo bable reason than that which attributed to the cultivation of poor lands, an effect which, during '2O years, it.had not produced ? As to the cali of the petitioners for an inquiry . into cause and remedy of their distresses, he could have no objection to such an investigation, ex- ccp.t the difference which existed :between their situation and that of bur foreign trade. For the latter might be extended by - the removal of restrictions and duties, but the difficulties. which affected.our home consumption were not within the reach of the same remedy or the investigation of, an. ordinary Committee. The best 'mode would be for his Majesty's 'Government to insti tute an inquiry in the first , place, and for indivi duals to originate various measures in Parliament. He felt convinced that the present distress ought in a great measure to be ascribed to tin: country living a longtime on its capital and being now brought to a condition of living on its revenue ; with a degree of taxation which that revenue was unable to pay, and which was aggravated . by the necessary atid too long deferred return to raslt payments. A measure which could only be .e.tfected. by principles and means which, - adding to a taxation already existing td an amount greater than in any other 'country in the world, clogged and hampered all the means which tha country possessed of adapting itself to the new state of things. If he was right in 10s opinion, it was not to a Committee that the country qlould look, for a remedy, but to a determination; on the part of its Government to reduce the public ex penditureby every means at its disposal, and above all, by a determination on the part of Par liament.norlo allow any partial intereqs, how= ever. pow - erful, to interfere with those broad prin ciplesof trade,. by which alone new commerce could be created, new capital called into ac tion, and those impediments removed, which in this, as in other countries, put a check , to commei-- cial prosperity. Much were it to be ciciAyd, that those great Sovereigns of the world, asuntibled at }