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time with meemfiteteres, rests le port open • eaterwewsptisms
of factelviiiWie the ditties perk& en several marifaetter-
, ad ertightlellee• *formed I. e•••Xereel the entire duties ire
emaimabsenpa ohne io this kingdom • 'Owl that this
41.0111.6 Ma doe tashasiodem eamorive, witinber *amities.
) , as is ease of the memalbelere 4 glass, or indirect,
utease of ibesprosho i e se it stray he culled manufacture
ws, it smalless as &femur se is the jimilee of their
tlikillse We reimilri beemsea, if sV NA/eel foliation were
sompail, 5a141111.1141/0111bIs le hares • duty on the pro-
of atelt-lonegnst at sorra (the mute
.as we hops)
ISINIMIHIIIoIhis dm paid, the price at which
1, Ibio smikstbed se sell his predate would re.
Allditilillisid.,,_„_. •
-, • •-• vim Ole easillai we of opinion that 40.. per quarter
illlbildllloll led per cwt. au meal, end the amount of ditties
its emegiserstml, are the term which can afford protection
to the British forum; there Weigel hest that difference be-
tween she ant or predefine beer, sad the cost of erudite-
Vow Here, together with the expellee of ronerying it from
Owed, and therefore, according to Me admission of the
-.riggraet,al page 16, they are only asking what they are fairly
folilled tra.
. ; 6.` That it is clear, that although the rein in the lest place
-Allert tail on the iceasstry, still it is out trim so, that as rent
• i.lllllaely the surplus left after allowing the levant a fair re.
.Itogtar his capital sod iedustry, it will mos reach the lead-
... Vat mid through them every class of aurrieiy."
.lakee'imme parr, Lard EGKENONT rose, and observ-
ing' eel as so SW appeared disposed to speak upon this
psipssishms, he wanted take leave to suggest what, in his opi-
nion, aught to be dine; be was net able, be was ready to
sip. Os hie say jai *sem apse so king a paper, merely
Iwo hushing ii ow wed, cad be presumed that the mese
Istablinip Ind snook lissillos. Therefore he proposed that
OW paper abode Ist. Owed wed published fur general cue-
eidtratiles, helper that se easy other meeting was called upon
.11, derider to the propriety of ititadoptioe. In his opinion,
la% le would be more expetheal to pompome say decision
sem No subject of this meeting moil the spring, the MM.
ass pledging itself that if, at that tinge, any prornbility %horrid
of upeeieg the purls, is should immedigiely re-sseems
Ole,
re eider to deprecate such a proceedieg, while the ad.
Jape of every other fliranet in the tointstry should alio
for the same patron.; for he was himself
tri.lreLa:le.dd,"tbai theorising of the ports fur the import
loiters illpi awe would 60prioloctore of the foie of the cuss-
-one faighpi negbesseretbdolt bed sorb a great accumulation
OW, Ilmaill fyissayillp p Yawls • supply at any price,
IP mast servo Se deallnermtge nether,. At present,
titimallat that madam" he der upon this sub-
Sad he porticalselyoppessellio seiaresest of the opera-
' Heft be • county wens", illisirirliellini particular good
• giguld be expected. He, i !sew ef any ay frl
' Mesh from a county meeting, therefore, be had lung
resolved never to attend oar or• them ; fur he found only
plenty of talkers at such inertitics, while no deliberate cuts.
a.derstiosi appeared, while so salutary effect was produced.
Rut his objectless to a county meeting was peculiarly •ppli•
gable to the present cure, which required merino sod cool in-
vestigation of various detail* sod ergosterol., before any
satisfactory decision could be pronouseed apps it. The
Noble Lard repeated his open., that say further proceed-
ing upon the question which bad nornibled the meeting,
/held be postponed until the spring, before which the evil
apprehended by the agriculturists could sot possibly Occur.
In themes* time, he recommended, that Ihe paper which had
been jest reed by Mr. Vinos, sad which, so far as he could
understood it, appeared very good, should be printed sod
published is the Newspapers, in order that all parties its-
needed should have due time to evitsider and judge of its
merits.
Mr. ELL%IAN, Jae. stated, that i.e had this morning
received a communication Gam a Geatlemen, who stated
that it was the intention of Government, early is the en-
suing Senn's, to propose the abrogation of the pressed
Corm Laws, in tooter to substitute the imposition of a duty
upon the import of fureign corn. This Gentleman was Mr.
Webb Hall, who stated that he had received his intelli-
gence from Mr. Huskinon ; and here Mr. E. read an ex.
tract from the letter of Mr. Hall. The intention of Mi.
sisters was perhaps of the same uatare as that proposed by
Lord Loudouderry in the hoe Agricultural Cuoinottee,
namely, to reduce the trilportstor price to 70s. a quarter,
mid to impose a duly of 15.. uu emery corner of foreign
wheat, which should afterwards be imported. To ibis pro-
position, however, the Committee did not attend, or at least
so dertalow was pronounced upon it. Bat with respect to
the Noble Chairman's recummeedsilion of waiting until the
spring before any ;resort was taken to !guard against the
evil of °pewee the purl., he rould out by ally WRNS ac.
pricing in that recommendation ; fur such delay on the
part of the agricultitrists would imply the desertion of
their pas-band salary advocates, and especially of the County
Members, who Ind so strenuously stood by them. Besides,
he had retinue to believe, that early in the next Session a
anima would be made fur the revival of the Agricultural
Committee, and therefore it behoved the agriculturists to
proclaim their opinions, in order to give support and coun-
t to such a mutios. It was also to be considered,
that if the agriculturists should drier any proceedings until
spring, and that the price of arm should get up, which,
however, scented not very likely, particularly, because,
room the very had quality ..f this year's growth of corn it
could not keep, and must be taken to market within the
year, to be told at any price list could be obtained, bow.
ever low, they would hose the 'weeniest which low prices
afforded at preseill 111 support of their preparation, as many
persons might say, what do the farmers want but good
prices for their eons, which they now have? and thus the
adoption of any measure for the permanent relief and pro-
tection of the agricultural interest might be endangered.
Mr. LAMBE thought a county alerting very desirable
•pois this occasion, as the diclaration of such a onectiog,
taut only upon the distress of agriculture, hot upon the gene.
rat state of the country, must be so much more impressive
titan the resolutions of ally parochial or mere district meet-
ings, This be keel" to be the decided illealleret of the
tasters part of the comity, with which he was immediately
connected, especially with a view to the adoption of a Peui.
duo to Parliament, fur which he should certaiuly be an ad-
vocate, believiNg ouch pinions necessary to support the
friends of agriculture, and to counteract the hostile influence
sad active opposition which they had reason to apprehend.
Mr. ELLM AN, sea. took ercasioa to ask Capt. Haviland,
this supposing the present Stale of agriculture to continue,
amid that cons shou'el too rise to such a price as to occasion
an ()prolog of the po.ts, the markets being supplied with the
01.1 corn in conjuuction with doe produce of the present year,
what was likely to be the condition of the Isbouring clams in
She parish which he inhabited ?
Capt. H Alfl LAN D answered, that he had no doubt one•
half of the agricultural labourers would be reduced to a state
of absolute pauperism. .. . •

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Lord EGREONT asked whether, if money were hod to
employ those people, sorb a result 'veld hie apprehended ?
(apt. HAVI LAN I) replied in the nifirmslive.
Lord EGREAIONT—DO yea iamb She want of money
sail employment ill this pita% to proceed from ihr falling WI
is agrirolture ?
Capt. HAYMAN D—Certaiolv.
Mr. INGRAM—If monry wire rimed fur the employment
of ileum laboureisi, du you Ibiok they 'weld be advan-
lawlessly employed!
Capt. HA VI LAND—Yes. AMII there would he an wool
of moor, to employ them, it 'be homers had sir adequate
price fur their corn.
Mr. HITCHINS enpressed or apprrheissi.m, that if no-
thing were doom for the agrarrissirosia us dem trerosom, and
that all further proceedings erre to be pondpamed WOW
spring, a great and general drapuoitries sushi be crested
throoglenal the etioutry, sod model, all the torealeitaimees of
She ease, he really thought it world be marh boiler to keep
alive sow hope is the brute's of theme who *ere looat
merrily owireriesg.
lie. HITCHINS proposed, that the paper which bad bees

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r. ELLMAN, saii, expleilliel his regret that he hail
the misfeetaine to Alter bolo thie 'Noble Chairman as to the
nipediosey of postposiog say proceeding upon this bust.
sem. He, however, (naively mordant with the Noble Lord's
. objrction to • comity meeting, espetialle spots $ question
of this Nature. Bat if any proceeding epos this genstion
were deloyeal. it miss tea oat misrepresent is the old adage,
that we should sooty hove so dose the dose after the need
was stolen. It was due, in his opinion, to the Repots of
the Agricultural Committee, as well as to the duty which
they awed to their owe falsities and interests, that they
=dare mime opisios upon the merits of Hies Report,
was all that the paper ow the table proposed. But
would, I. his judgmeos, be more deliberately
expressed by meetings is the several disoriets
dill y, tau by a contresemo of the county at large,
Sielt "' lion beteg seldom if over cemplete, and amity
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,•_..°: the more zealous individuals from distant'
' - onmoty, whiled* nesse of the meeting usually
I°` tbe inhabitants of the district where suck meet-
i • .If, however, it should, after the district onset-
• adviudile to call • comely iseetiog, he bad
fro , that the Noble Lord would readily coareso to roll
IL - worthy Member theta proposed the places at which
.go district meetings should be called, for the e.suvenience
alb* genklanseie resichme iu the aqua! rapes.
&no -swiatioNT said, that when he proposed delay,
be same* .bat time should be afforded to allow Gentleness to
monsider what it was mivisabie to de spot this traastetios.
Mr. ELLMAN asked Mr..Donsat what was likely to be
the effect of 000,000 pieriere of foreign corn opus the price
of grain in the market at Mark-lase?
Mr. DORMANT replied, about Bs. or 9s. a quarter is a
productive harvest.
. lb, ELLMAN *eked, whether the market at Mark-lase
AWN regulate the several country markets?
• vfr. DORMANT answered in the affirmative.
Ilk. ELLMAN, juu. observed, that Mr. Hermes replies
Alitileimed en eirerrer to the Noble Chairman's queetios as to
Mega core.
W EGREMONT said, that the worthy Gentleman was
maw • imistak., as his questions referent so the qusutily of
=actually consumed *WON the last year, which
of fad, whereas Mr. Douses's replies referred
On* to master of inference.
Mileau.mAN, jun. observed, that it was the same to the
fesimpinbuber 50 or 100,000 quarters of furtive corn were
ffillififfiliffillc or reserved to supersede so much of our own
fir
having been proposed as lie place for • district
- . ELLMAN, jun. observed, that that tows had
• hod name for the farmers, who sewer west there of late
,is mho by compolsiou.—(4pplowee)
It um mow* Mot it he recommended to the several dis-
trict meseings' so tionsider the distress et agriculture as well
ne Obi Roused Matra the emintry.
Me. BLACKMAN wane minmendoeni, which enotained
ate allegetion to dimitirport of Me flgrieuhurel Committee,
teamsly, " to cowesder of the isjaitice and injury east upon
albastames..of the people by asnseettled currency." After
baneinog et Mae cases of calamity which had been stated in the
mom of that day, aid particularly of Englishmen, tom.
palled from dire distress to entry barrows from morning till
sight, with bells about their seek., he could not help ex.
promiag his extreme surprise that a greater scope had nut
been taken by the Gentlemen with whom Ibis meeting origi-
nated, Wall by whom it appeared to be conducted. He was
surprised, for iiistasce. that no obeervatios whatever had
boon mad% much less any propositios submitted, with re-
npeutat dime owe through whose evaded the coma, had
hem eminesd to its present melancholy eondition.—(Ap-
pigrossi—Noe woo it even sulked that among all the Lords
and COMPIONNIVO which this country contained, net one was
Is aterodesmo'ist • toontong upon • mit:sties of such import.,
mos bits the Noble Merl in the-Chair, who, so much to his
NM honour, seemed by his pretence undue degree to sympa-
thise in the wants, or to 'alma oe much solicitude fur the
interests of his conuteyineo.--( teed plesufifs)—But
the Gentleman from whom this meeting emanated, seem-
ed to have altogether lust sight of the object which they
ought to have kepi its view, and pot at all to have reached
the rod, or conceived the teasel of the evil which they de-
plored, he they land set ever adverted is, !reload, where that
evil was at present operating with peculiar severity. He was
astonished to hear Mr. Ellanan ascribe all our distress to
the low price of wheat, while be entirely overlooked the low
prier of meal. Was he not aware that bacon was selling at
341. • poled, nod slat the peasantry of Limerick were is
opine warfare, as The Courier stated, against rent, 'tithes,
and tau.?—Did not the worthy Gentleman feel that the
prioeiple of shut warfare was the same as that to which the
complaists of this meeting refereed? Yet, the very serious
disurbanees in Ireland had nut eves been mentioned by any
precedint speaker who ',spooned the views of Mr. Ellmau.
He agreed with the Noble Chairman, that a cow, meeting
would ant be the proper place fur the ,liscessiva of a ease of
this nature, unless the system and practices of the mew who
had occasioned all our distress were also brought under ems-
sideration. The meeting had heard a great (1-• I about the
high and low prices of grain, bat he had uniformly told the
farmers that they entertained very mistaken views oral this
subject; they were, indeed, always misled. They were told
that their coeditiuu could nut be improved, untrue what
was celled the oatmeal prices of corn were restored, and
Mr. W. Hall described this sorra, price as that of 1813. Bet
who mold troy any wan that natural price was, or who coati
properly sepat•te that subject from the great mosey gum
ties ? He had told the ferrous in that room, at the time the
resumption of cash payments by the Bank was determined
upito, to wait for two or three years, and they would will
how merle, independently iof any reference to the import of
fangs nun, their produce would he affected by that mea-
sure. Our population had increased, he understood, one
seventh, within the last tea years, according to the retest
ceases, which ono not yet published. An increased po-
pulation mast suturally serve to advance the price of corn,
by increasing the demand for it; while our improved pro-
duce of corn must reduce Its price, and a depreciation of
the currency must isterease shot price, whilst an advanced
value is that currency must operate to reduce it. Now,
moods the speratioa of all these cows, who could slate
what was the untsral price of nos, independently of ery
quieskio ea to the import of foreign grain? Or was there
soy ansberity in this century, however high, who could
make say assertion opus the alibied that was autitled to
attention ? Yet Mr. Webb Hall had ventured to nuke the
asortion which he had wiesiluesed. But really this Gentle.
man seemed quite beside himself; for he had roundly as-
serted, that it was a *a couseq whatever to the
Interest of egriculture, or that of the country at large,
whether the Bask resumed cash payments or not, provided
adequate provision were made by the Legielalure to guard
against the import of foreign cure. Nay, in the pamphlet
iii which these assertions appeared, Mr. Hall had observed,
that " the most infallible criterion of natural wealth and
prosperity is to be found in • IlichissisheJ value of currency,
whether that currency shall consist of paper or metal, as
that of poverty is to he rutted in a high value of currency."
Then, arcordiag to this Geutleman's doctrine, France en-
joyed great wealth and prosperity when she was deluged by
those 'mai:tants which were at last scarcely worth more thins
waste paper ; and so was America, when, at the lime of
her K.:volution, she had so many depreciated dollars in cir-
culation. But it was quilts Idle to argue with such • writer,
sisal yes he was appointed by the present Ministers Seendery
to the late Boatel of Aviculture, while he was selected by
the farmers as Secretary to their Agricultural Associations.
How then could She sgrieullisrists escape errors, or enteriaio
eared vices., while they acted under such • guide, or at-
tended tu such au adviser? Yet his authority had bees quoted
this day by those Gelatinises who so cautiously abstained
from say animadversion nowt the conduct of Niobrara, by
w hum all the affairs of the country had been so much derang-
ed, by whom every visitation that •ffiided the people bad
hero onninly uerasioued. He really could sot see any ground
loom which a nossideratiois of the proceedings %Athena: Minis-
ters could be separated from the question before the meet-
ing. Kiss to retons to Mr. With H•ll : that Gentleman had
elated that the &snout of the Bauk notes did sot affect the

the sudleoliad over/40MM* imolai of implitio.
enhance the prism beyriptialiat AR;
mos lair.' That this mettles, i& far ft.. 81111411/11
*Woo beano it would mall diabolism kr
spec' ay as is me 13 of thrtrilleyert;
Commiliee espre•.tly admit Ruts the prices c
Contesseni are not rrealeted by the roil of production, dee, before
entirely bp the price tar other mostemie. is whirl) titer, tir a air. ELL
demand for it. That the Report, at peat *3, allirstat that the
miaßtrtt
the 41.-man4l of the Agrocolturol Petitioos fur equal pMNe• tzprthmey