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iepresition tattait. Which our agriculture now 1 shouts,
re either atsclfteittly or prineipelly to be httributed
to I AxiitiOn."
Ater some fibrtber oboarmitions, the Report
cen-
cilad,eitthot
•• Ye basreahateided boon sigiog, in hawse
of a iailtrenateg je *reign earn, tam fratelit
• p freed* '.I bade whieh me nun aniveves se.
Ia inked to be'emestatteell troe, To refseeace to eon.
oonee'sf nolieno. IbrAfirilideili of the noose, ea
Me one hawk le neaseremaieeteg'invesd'ilieeete principles, as
.1411 be lerealicaber, in this, miltriiialt-ittlere; eases ; ow the
slihrc u is alsit foe iteltentgeaCsi-Padlitfietettp; to tare earn,
is tiot Whoa," es epare.oeme9l interests to dash tesiderly
alwateleo to iseprovenetrot *bleb t lan mist.
ensfeetei Mamas sod militia' soden 100 014 estates, and
rarlllefierne we to SodWy sod limit that,primiple, la no)
l'ereoa Si censideratioos otgeorad. polity connected
tar inredesions, Of the safety of. tuts Nate. looking sie
the papally osedieseusecies of wae, 'am Committee are ell
trisrueitle to the insporloote of seclorieg the errantry from t
istrle of 4•Predaisen topes ofleere sal peosibly hostile, man.
48tiers, ter the siebeisteret of as popalation. Looking to the
institution, of ibetestedry, is their several hearings awe Sesi,.
dar•ore in. flee practice of our Comfit slims, they are. *if
more auxins to preserve to the lam dot intend, the weiglit,
stoic's, WM asesaulasey. which is has enj Dyed so loos, sal ,
wrest oaf beselleialty. Thee 'lest wish, therefore, is,
wisest/ter trowel istifellthao they nosy offer, should he
ecru psdrimely ezamieed with a aloe aped to these two caw
sideratioes.
A• they thep hove adverted to the state of the constry between"'
k 773 end 1814, as remsreteel with the impuitont .objet
althea, isignirg. it may pater, omit others is their ris.
searches, sod r. &climb% to beat", that mar Committee ne.
lewd that period, Meson the yaw 1773 wee, in feet, the
camorencemeort of a gaol Amite is the pertesieel oPeraskter
if uot in the ainwed policy of our Corn laws. From that date,
'the aggregate Wow* of our imparts of grain, taken upon a
nisei,* 'of years, began S. raved the balance of our ex-
tif,tll. Bat epee lark*, hurt tram that year to the period
ut the Rrvieletinn I. lOW (a apace of 85 years), our experts
.taken for any 'meshes, of years, on the contrary, exceeded
tole imports. From the yam 1697 (the earliest date from which
*renew reform have bee. made) to the year 1:73, the to.
:tat merest of reports was 30,988.166 quartets; open which
ecpuele bounties antemetiog ea 8,137,176/. were paid out
the public retain*. A ormoo, saimiewhet similar io nein-
riple,ruf exeitiag an export by a bousiy, but more rlesol.
'tory is its application, and Woe frequently interrupted by
utbittory interfeisce, prevailed under the Princes of the
Moho of Smart ; sod If we look to a 'still earlier period,
we faud tad the same policy of forting the growth of corn
was attempted, by handier espeilieois, during the reigns of
the Trickled. Retirees the far. of Henry VII. and the
;9th of Ellsahrth, nrusseecor• Acts' of PArnameat sees
passel, for the express purpose of enerraraging tillage.
Video laws proceeded epos' dee principle of compulsion, li-
lablaellts lie hortatory, the ennolsre of sheep and live etude,
parbileitiag the aloe...shoo of arable into pasture, and en-
ketosis% the braking op irepasteres, which had at any previiius
iterieel bees made, either under • pecainary penalty, ur a
ti:ereiture of hilethe lard, until the offence lie reformed.'
'l(bese coramilsory hoes (all of which it 'easy Ins ottinred
µAortal thelateoductimi of that Act *hick Isrd the format-
two of the system of woe Poor Laws) appear to have been
Prif,f6Y•fil antrested lay • wish to and entployinerit for the
orionlation„ and In Mier! their latiery, by eufortieg an ex-
.
Marisa Of eultivotion beyond Ilse wants of the country.
Xfitalletilkin ander those law., one onder the snberviunet It.
49141 rte etegatmet riteesirooce of erne agetealtere, by the
Pall.ll • Iletiliuns rosaries demand, excited by a large
rat exportation. did the. agricoltart d /his country
soy *denote, at all lb be compared to that impend-
, Pomperily, whirb begs. with die decline of that nydna
,Yll
t the begiuning if the last trier., aid which, with some
• t temporary intenaptions, his assorted its proven, up to
the "resent time. los reirmarise the two periods each of
*early equal derange, between the peace of throat sod the
esonmencetneut of the semis years war--and between the
paws 1773 anal 1811—and recollecting that the test period
eras ore of almost uninterrupted peace, sod that marl,
0441 years et the /alter have passed away ie the ',irritates
of Wit meet repetitive wan—thoi decks/ the femme period
theaarbet imam' of money was geoteetly tomb below, nod
&Hog the latter bateau* as meth above the rate Axed by
linaselhat daring tie former the aim of the Legislators was,
memos, to divert the application of capital fro.
-.is to that of apiculture, if, well by positive
benellintoarblib tarred so expert of grans to other coustries,
na
by generally. altogether precluded its import
ellfbar=
laillflteglbillere Ms, in point of fact, tren without either of
slisoo.illsiblelle—your Committee cannot look at these
centrageoleiellmetances, goinchir et during the Ant period,
with a eemperative stageatedu of our agriculture, and, Jur-
iag the areasil. with its most rapid growth seed improve-
Wet, without schnook...lcing that there was nothing in the
system pursued tip to 1773, which orcessmily promoted this
moot esenstial branch of public industry and national wealth ;
sad ate, that there is earthing incompatible with the success
ui both them object., to the eystem which has peseticely
prevailed state that date. 17 the quantity of wheat, the
growth of Great Britain, was testy estimates'. as it was esti-
*Med in 1773, at foot millions of quarters, and if it cannot
now be mated so low as at double that amount, it is evident
that the closet of system has been encoded with no &fel-
✓atios of produce ; if, since that yen, the number of tattle
and sheep has been vastly augnieuted, their breeds improved,
sod, by those improvements, their sire and aptness to fatten,
aid in sheep their domes greatly increased; if, by this mtg.
raentalion of live stock, a greater qusitity of manor, has
term predated; if ail the mom Important but expensive
meliorations of earatiern husbandry bare beets introduced;'
if scientific drainages have been undertaken, sad extensive
wastes eschased% to ationeut the produce of the land—it
cannot be said that there has been a want of eacuisragemcut
to invest large sad adequate capitate in this branch of na-
Consl indu‘rry,
If, from agriculture, your Committee leek in the perma-
nent improvi meats which hive been made in the country n-
oel within she some period, the bridges which have been
Swill. the roads which have been formed, the rivers which
More been rendered navigsblei the canals which have been
completed. the hutment *Mich have been made and Im-
proved, the docks which have been created, not by the
public revenue, but by tribsitta pitala and ruierprise of heti-
idflunk ; if they loot, at leper's, time, to the unexampled
growth of man•fectures streiroTtLeffr, 10 alit ematemplition
of this augment/kilos of internal wealth, which defies all
itindlratoni from comparison with any farmer portion of our
lirito.l, or of the hisboy of any other State—your COM•
Miller Ins! entertain ft duo's' (s doubt. however, which they ,
wish to slate with that diffidence which a subject so eaten.
save rratnrally imposes iipon their judgment), whether the,
only solid foundation of the Biturishing state of agriculture'
is mot laid in abstaining, as much as possible, from interfes
~either by protection ur prohibition, with the applies.
trim of (Modal, to aoy brauch of industry hr.-erbetber all
fenn for the decline of agriculture, either from temporary
•ierssitioles to SYNCh all speeulatiflus are liable, Of from
she etclentius Of other pursuits of general industry, are not, '
ist a great degree, haselaary ?—whether cumbrance ems
expand, mapufaciures thine. and great public works be
uederteken, without (iiinialiing to the skill and labour
which the capitals thud employed put in motion, increased
anemia of paying for the productions of the land ?
windier the principal part of thiure productions which
contribute lo Ike sratifiesliou of the warts and desires
of the different classes of the community, must not neces-
sarily be drawn loom our own mail, the demand increasing
wills the population, ms the population • must increase
with the tithes of the eutssitry ?—whether a great
put of the same capital which ts employed in SIIIVOIPU
leg the battiesty convected with manufactures, commerce,
mud public works does not. rt•dluir by • very 111•11
coarse into the haids of the occupier of the soil, serve also
as a capital for Oho micouragenscat of aviculture ?—whelbee,
in one own errantry in furrier times, aid is tither naturally
fertile ernameies op to the present time, agriculture has not
laageished from the want of sucks mantas. whether,

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