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heads again went to.werk,.and it was Wonderful
• with what ingenuity errors were detected eh fate
riiipion Of Si averages. and what inipstindi moths
overt poyeett 00 flow-from timorgOnst tederd'from II he
immotiaent t.! Voly think of the earthing' of theses
maugglersverhw Would prefer encouutering,danger
in bringing wheat, no very. compact or ,postolble
Femmodity, from France or Flanders to ifishring
..agarkei, rather than spirits, silks, teas, or iobacto !
Well the mode of striking the averagft was eor•-
reeled, and a preventive blockade was ranged along
the whole coast,• yet. with the exception of 'one sada
den rise, winch we firmly believe way-effected ;by
• fraud,. to which the•aystent• was particuttrly ex-
posed.• the corn-markets continued to decline, and
• wheat, instead of being maintained by the. proht-
bitory system to 79 shillings is quarter,. as the
framers or the law must have anticipated; the-sverage
price for the year 1820 1,14 655. 7(.l.—fdr the year
MI, 545. 5d.--and for the first quarter of the
year 182 i, only 475. 9.1. a quarter.
• The insufficiency of the law was fully admit
within three fears aftee its adoption, and at this Man,
mein there are very few men in England who eere
a toilworn it. • It bas done ne.. 'treks:to the elltst
of persons whom it was intended to benefit, but the
it .has inflicted upon, the, easintryiv gette-
rs!, end by necessary inference, upott.thsegrical-
tosists• themselves, is incalealable...; The triide,in
corn lias.been lost to the empira.aisoit,iimpamipg
()fillet pernicious law, sod the Treasory bus lost She
revenue which ought, in justice to the farmers, to
havabeeu collected from the large supply of fhreigrf
grain which in the latter part of the year .1848vaiiiI

ip to February 1819, wasadinittedintasheeountrt
-for-home consumption. The only iutelligible.aori
,Utoly.effectuel mode of giving protection.ond en-
couragement to the domestic growth of corn. is that,
which we have frequently urged, namely,. fining a
otertairs and unvarying duty upon the-importatio4
of foreign corn, thus observing with rospect tocorn
tltesame.principle, the same mode of action, that have
'be long and successfully pursued with reference
„t,o every other article of domestic produce winch .it
. wiry be the policy of Parliament to protect. T►e
duty may be altered occord,ng.to ciressmetuncee.
but no valid reason can be shewu fur exemptiug the
trade of corn from the government of Mose eons•+
mercial principles which regulate every other putt
of the intercourse of this.. with foreign countries. 7
These principles leave no room for the artifice and
intrigues of interested persons, so that no in-41
direct or fraudulent means can ever be exerted,

to influence the price of corn fur the purposes of
private speculation. They who recollect the panic
wbich prevailed in the last autumn, lest horn a
presumed dtficiency in the domestic supply the
markets may rise above the averages, and let in an
unrestricted flow of foreign corn without the pay-
ment of any duty to the Government, must be also
aware that the farmers hurried tkeir corn to market
k with the most injurious precipitation, and that the
c onsequence was • rapid fall lathe prices, attended
by bases so severe to the sellers thst.they,ltave not
1„,,e, able ever since to recover from the states.
This tvukl never have happened had the old sys.
tem dill prevailed—namely, a free trade, subject
to the p0,./ment of fixed and cvstain duties.
Entertaii ling these views of the subject we must
of course ;,refer the Resolutions proposed in the
Noose y coomons by Mr. RIC•RDO to those of
the Marquis of .LONDOPPSRAY, ar of any other
Member of the lifou.ge. Mr. RICARDO, however,
having withdrawn all his' Resolutions, with the ex-
ception of the two last, which contemplate •
gradual annual reduction in the duty instil it shall
fall in wheat to ten shillings a quarter, and a
bounty or drawback upon exportation, we turn to
those of Mr. HOSILISSON, us appeoaching the
nearest to the principle which we have unifususly
advocated.

•
In the course of the discussion leek night Lord
ALTHORP proposed, as an amendment, that the
fixed duty upon the importation of wheat should
be twenty *billings, and that a drawback or &o my
of eighteen shilling* should be lisid arm the ex-
pertatiou of wheat.

The different Resolutions which had been pros
posed during the discussion were negatived, Mal the
motion of the Marquis of LOWDONDSItitir carried.
Many of the Resolution, arising out of his motion
were then agreed to, after which the Ctiaiithan re.
parted progress. The Marquis of Lonnwstisattire
meted that he did not mean to found ■ny proposi•
lion on the Resolution for grantiina the power of
grinding foreign corn which bad been wareheased.

Sir T. LETHIRIDOS gave notice loot nigl* that
he tartly on the 30th of this month, draw the ettetps
tion of the House of Commons to the prayers of
taxation, awe especially of !parochial and county
taxation, upon the agriculture of the eamotry.

An official return of the number of stamps issued
for the newspapers of London in the years 1801
and MI, hiss been printed in pursuance of to order
of the House of Commons. As no newspaper
COO be legally circulated without a stamp, this
return is, in fret, an account of the actual sale of
the several London Newspapers in these two years
respectively. With the former of them, via. the
yew 1804 THE BRTISH, PRESS has nothing to do
—it was not then in existence, as may be inferred
from the omission of its name in the list of that
year. A correct copy of this document is Orem its