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CORN T.Aws.

The Order of theflay Nv.ts iead, for the House to
resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House,
to t.tke into consideration the Rep* of the Com-
mittee on the Corn Laws.

The AO of 1791 was entered as react
,pro forma,
and it was ordered that it be an instruction to the
said Committee to take the saiki All into con-
sideration.
The House then went into the. Committee, Sir
CUARLES r in the Chair;
Mr. WESTERN said, the principal objell of the
Committee in drawing up the report now to be con-
sidered was, to make a fair regulation of the prices
of corn and grain, between the grower and the
consumer in the country, and to take care that
the importatioc and exportation should be so
restricted as to forward this desirable and im-
port purpose. The Ad of 1791 had hitherto
the sole regulation in this particular ; but
as circumstances alter, it was necessary some change
should take place in the laws relative to this grand
article. Since the year 1790, very great alterations
indeed had taken place in this country in the price
of labour ; the anonint of- the pot., rates; the price
of provisions, and many other things, which could
not fail of overating very powerfully on the farmer,
or grower o 1 corn ; and made it almost impossible
for him to raise and sell it now at the same price
at which it was raised at that time. In order to
spew this more clearly to the Co:nmittee, the Hon.
Gentleman stated, that, in the year 1790, the poor
rates amounted only to two millions one hundred
and twenty-nine thousand pounds ; and in 1783,
their amount was five millions one hundred and
twenty-eight thousand. A proportionate increase
had occurred in every other article he had before
enumerated ; :ma it was clear that agriculture could
not be carried on but at a very great increase of
espence, which rendered it necessary to alter the
regulations and restriClions of the Mt of 1791, and
to make .t new rep: .tion in the average prices in
England and Scot:aisd. lie would not, therefore,
trespass furth• - on .he time of the Committee, than
to read and in. the rt solutions of the Committee
on this suinea. . •, • then moved the first resolution,
vie. 44 That the frtation of foreign corn be regu-
lated by the average ui ice of corn, grain, and
flour In the twelvo misritime distrids in F.ngland,
and the four maritime distria s in Scotland."

Oa the question, from the Cuair, that the resolu.
tin be mat: ..econd time ;

Mr. PATTESON allowed that a very considera-
ble rise had taken place in th^ price of labour. In
the tatzs to Government, the poor rates, the uten-
sils of husbandry, and the price of provisions ; in
the latter ait: le, particularly, within the last twenty
years. At that time, beef sold at 4s. 6d. per stone,
it was now 9s. ; routton, 4d. per lb. now it is Bd.
butter :365. a firkin, now 68:,. to 705.; cheese in pro-
portion. lie spoke of the country markets, he said,
by which it appeared that every thing was nearly
doubled ; yet none of these were, is his opinion,
sufficient reasons for altering the laws. The
va-
rious casts of hardships on the grower should have
been more explained ; and b -fiat' we give bounties
to foreigiers, for eating our corr., we ought to
be provided ourselves with the produce of the
pasture, at rearonable prices. Bounties serve
cc: tainly to increase the prices ; and however
desirable to a certain extent, they ought still
to be kept within proper bounds. It was very
desirable to fix the average price, so that both the
consumer should be satisfied, and the rower suf-
ficiently paid, to encourage him to raise corn, in
order that we might not again experience the dis-
tresses of scarcity. In the last thirteen years, he
said, we had imported 646,000 quarters of corn on
an average. In favourable years we had exported
to the amount of 6or 700,0001. per annum. This
he attributed to the great increase in our population
since. 1765, since which time various manufactories
had sprung up, and been astonishingly extended.
There had been, however, a spirit for agriculture
continually increasing also, for :le found that since
the year 1780, there had been passed 1197 Inelosure
Bills, so that with care and attention, he thought corn
would find its own level without altering the laws.
Mr. PITT said, the objed of the Committee
ought to he to equalise the pries of Corn as much
as possible—to attend equally to the interest of the
consumer and the grower, so as to keep to. from the
danger of a recurrence of those extreme high prices
which were paid in the years of scarcity, when corn
was as bizh as 114 s. per quarter.
Sir k. BUXTON said, this measure only went to
put things in the same state they were in 1791, and
not to alter the Corn Laws. Something must be
done to encourage the growth of barley, for if it
did not fetch a -better pace, the farmers could no
longer grow any.
A lone and *desultory conversation took place, in
which Sir Jove Wacyreastsv, Mt. Fut Lee, Mr.
S. br•snore, Sir NIEV.PORT. and M. W.
Sass rit, delivered their sentiments ; after which, the
following resolutions were read and agreed to:
first as above stated. 2d. That the Ad of 1791, re-
lative to exportation, be repealed. Id. Wins corn
and grain are below the average of the. maritime
distrids, no importation to be allowed.
The House then resumed, and the report was or-
dered to be received to-morrow.

ne Bill for continuing an Aft tur regulating the
Price of Corn. Sic. for a time to be limited, was
read a second time, and ordeted to be committed
for to-morrow.

The Committee on His M.ajs,ty's Message was
postponed to Ff stiay.
The other orders of the day were then read and
postponed. A di.,ux ned.

.I.I,IEATX
will
THE RAJAH OF PERAR.

TEZATY of Paacr, between the Honourable the
EA:T.6DI* Com e AMY and their .ClEs, on the
one part and SCNAH SAHEB &BAH RAGOtIEE
BROCNSLA, on the other ; settled by Major-Ge-
neral WELLESLEY, on the part of the EAST-IN.
DIA COMPANY and their ALLIES—and by JLII.
WUN3 RAO RAMCHUNOLE, on the part of SENAH

SAHEB SUBAH ItAGOGEt BllOrN>LA=who have
each full authority from their reipe(ive Powers

I. That there shall be perpetual rwace and friendship be-
tween the East India Company and Sunk Sahib Subah Rag°.
gee Rhounsla, Rajah of Kerar.

H. Senah Saheb Subah Ragogee ithountia cedes to the
Company, in perpetual sovereignty, the punitive of Cuttark,
including the port and distria of &Wore.
111. He likewise cedes to the Company and their allies, in
perpetual sovereignty( all the territories of which he has col-
lected the revenues jointly with the Soub.da of the Dekan, and
those of which lie may have posse.bion, winch at 4 to the we,t-
want of the River Wurda.

IV. It is agreed that the Frontier of tleriali Saheb Subah
Ragogee Bhounsla towards the territories of Ili. Highness
the Soubah of the Dekan, shall be formed to the West by the
River Wurda, frwm Its issue from the lnjardy Hills to it,
junc-
tien with the River Codavery.
V. The bills on which the Forts of Hj►rnallah and Gawe
ghur stand, are td remain in pinvessiori of ttagope Bhountia ;
and all places to the southward of those Hills, and to the West
of the Westward ni the Rivet Wurdah, to be given up to
the British Government.

VI. Di*tricts amounting to four face of rupees per annum,
contiguous to and to the Southward of the abovementioned
forts, are to be given up to the Rajah, and to be given up at
the same time as the forts.

VII. Scuah Saheb Suluti Razors Bhoonslao en the part uf
himself, his heirs, 411t1 succesiors, entirely renounses all claims
of every description on the territories uf the British Govern-
ment, ceded as above, and upon all the territories of the Sou-
bah of the Deksii.

VIII. The East India Company engages to mediate and
arbitrate any disputes that now exist, or may hereafter exist be.
tweets the Company's Allies Seurrider Jan Babander and Rao
Pundit Purdliam Bahada and the Rajah of Ikrir.
IX. Senah Saheb Suhah Ragogee Bhounsla engages never to
take or retain in his service, any Frenchmen, or the subjeets of
any other European or American power, that mar be at war
with the Britian Government, or any British subjects, e
European or Native, without the content of the Company.

a. The East India Company engage on their part, that they
will not sagest or countenance any discontented ration, RAjolli,
Zernindars, or other subjects of the Senah Saheb tiuhali Re-
gogoe Shounsla, who may fly Inns, or rebel against his .a.
thorny.
XI. in order to ware and unprose the relation. of peace
and friendship, licroby established, the respective Governments
are*, that accredited Ministers front each shall reside at the
Court of the other.

XII. And whereas, certain Traties have been made by the
British Governments with feudatories of Scnab Saheb Su.
bah Ragogee Bhounsla, it is hereby agreed, that the said
Treaties shall he confirmed. Lists of these Treaties to be de-
livered over, when the Treaty is ratified by the Governer-Gene-
ral in Council.

XIII. The Senah Saheb Subeh Rsgogee Eholinlia hereby
renounces for himself, his heirs, and ,uccestort, all adherence
to the confederacy formed by him and Dowlut Row Sciodia,
and other Islalimits Chiefs, to att ek the Company and their
Allies; and engages not to USIA those Chiefs, if the war be-
tween them and the Honourable Company should still con-
tinue.

XIV. This Treaty of Peace and Amity to be ratified by
Senah Saheb Skull, within eight days from the present time,
and the ratification iv to be delivered to Major General Wel-
lesley, at which time the nnlers for the cession of the ceded
territories are to be delivered over, and the truovs are to with-
draw.

XV. Major General Weilnky enrges that the Treaty %hall
be ratified on the part of the Honourable Company, by lUs
E•.eellenq the Meet Noble the Gtrer.,or General in Coml. it,
and that the said ratification shall be delivered two mouths
from this date.
Done in Camp at Deogann, December 17, 1805.