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A N tSSAY on the IMPOLICY of a ROUNTY
.2.71 on the EXPORTATION 'of CORN; and on the Prin
eiples which ought to regulate the Commerce ofGrain.
••• This Essay is intended to demonstrate to the Public the
erroneousness of the preteAts, on which the Corn 1.2 w of the
lest Si..ssioti of Parliament was obtained; the absurdity of the
dottrine en which it is founded; the evil elle& which it is
calculated to produce; and the advantages which may be
derived from a different system. The Subieft is divided under
the following Heady : Nestor, of the Corn Laws; Influence of
the Population on the Cam Trade; Effe:ls of the Bounty on
the Rent of Land; on the Profits of the Farmer; on the Va-
lise of Silver ;—F.xliortacen; lamentation ; Landlords, Farm-
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Doom. Mackie, Anderso.i, and Malthus, in favour of grant-
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tation of Grain, and indeed all the arguments which he con.
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7.4 L IPARLIAAIENT.
HOI7SR OF LORDS...—Turtaseaw, F. 14.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his Seat on the Rio
tl-
sack at a quarter past two o'clock, and aftet.priyers (ls,. the
!Slain? of Ktralsie) were read, their Lordshipbieruceeded to
forward the Bills upon the Table ; 111711511 g these the Exche-
quer Bills Bill, rhe At:esited Taxes COTroitsioners, and [lib n
mut indemnity Bill, severally went through Committeri of tin-
whole House. Lord W A LSINGIIA M in the Chair; were after-
wards .eported, and ordered to be read a thini time to-morrow.
The second n-adiog of Lisighaia', Divorce Bill was post-
poned till Monday, and some pm ate inniinoss disposed of; after
which, the Duthie adjourned till tomorrow, and their Lord-
ships proceeded with their Address to limo M ijepty at Saint
Jame. s.

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HOUSE OF COMMONS.
THE ADDRESS.
This day, at tin o'clock, the , , after some time,
was with difficulty enabled to count fortyMernlaers ; when,
having taken the t hair,
Lord sTOriroeD informed them, that His Majedy had
been waited upon with their Address, and womld be pleased
to receive it this day, at St. James's, at three &dock.
The House then proceeded in the usual form to St. James's,
and on their return, at half past four, the Sri sent informed
then,, that His Maivit list received their Add es:, upon the
Throne, and had made a muss g.toriens Ammer, to the follow-
ing offal
" Gentlemen—l return you my thanks, for your dutiful and
loyal Address. I feel the highest satilfsetroir in this proof of
your uniform concurrence aid approbation of the measures
adopted with regard to Spain ; and trust, that your seal acrd
attachment will enable Ina to bong this new contest to a safe
and honourable termination."
The Corn Factors Indemnity Bill was mad a third time and
pasird.
Mr. S BOURNE brought up an account of the outstanding
Exchequer Bills, to the amount of 2.51/0,0•01...the vote of
credit of Last year), unprosided for by Parliament, whicir was
ordered to lie on the table.
Sir JAMES FITZGERALD moved, that the accounts, ore.
,ended in January List, of the amount and charges in the COll.
solid:teed Fund of Ireland, from the sth of January, 1789, to
the sth of January, 18114, together with several ether Irish
Accounts, be printed ; which was agreed to.
Mr. FOSTER brought pp a very numerous list of petitions
from the several putthe establishments in Ireland, the Protes•
rant Stiltlloli. the Foundling Hospital, the Marine Society,
the Hibernian Scho.il for Soldiers Children, arid a varier, of
others; which brim; ordered to lie en the Table, lie next moved
that estimates of them be laid before the House; which being
also agreed to, the Right Hon. Gentleman iinmediately
brought there ,•• and :aye notice that i(1•110:10W he should
mule that they be lard before a Committee of Supply.
Mr. HUSICISSON brought up the report of the Cerrinilttee
of Supp'y of yesterday ; which was read a first and second tone,
and agreed to.
The Loyalty Loan Bill was reported, and ordered to be read
a third time to morrow.
IRISH HABEAS CORPUS SUSPENSION.
Sir E. NE PEA N moved the order of the day for
the second reading of the Irish Habeas Corpus
Suspension Bill, which being agreed to, the Bill was
read a second time ; and, on the motion for its being
committed,
Lord HENRY PET fY said, his duty compelled
him to make a few observations on this subjec. lle
was well aware that there were nu,nerous precedents
for the suspension of the Habeas Corpus, both in
this country and in Ireland ; but when he was called
upon to vote for such a restraint on the rights and
freedom of so many of his fellow-subjefts, without
any extraordinary ground being made out for it, and
even with a refusal- of all inquiry, he conceived that
more was demanded of him, than, as a Member 'of
Parliament, he could in duty and honour comply
with. He would not assert, that cases may not ec-
lat, in which such hatsh measures may, and ought,
perhaps, to be resorted to, without any previous
enquiry ; but these cases could only be justified by a
suatoriety of imminent and urgent danger. He
would, therefore, ask, whether the Ministers were
prepared to state, that there was any pressing dan-
ger at present in Ireland If there was, what
were the symptoms of it ? Was there at pre-
sent existing in that country any danger of im-
mediate insurialion, rebellion, ur sedition ? All
these should be the subjefts of inquiry, before Parlia-
ment should agree to adopt so harsh and odious a
measure. The bill, however, was proposed, with-
out the slightest inquiry, and the House strongly
called upon to pass it at its peril. But, as that pe-
ril rather belonged to those Ministers who proposed
it without inquiry, the House was exempt from all
responsibility, and could not give its assent to it, on
any just or equitable grounds. The bill was thrust
precipitately upon the I louse, and, with only a no-
tice of 23 hours, a motion made for suspending the
liberties of the people of Ireland. The only argu-
ment he heard made use of in favour of the mea-
sure was a personal one, drawn from the charafters
of the Lord Lieutenant and his Secretary, and a
confidence claimed on their part, that the power
would not be abused. With regard to the Noble
I .ord in question, and his Secretary, he had the ho-
nour of knowing both, and had as high a respell for
the charther of theone and the other, as could he ea-

tertained by any person ; but, without distrusting
them, he must distrust the power ; and, to shew
how well-founded this distrust of power was, he
would remind the House, that, in the first day of
the bill's being brought in, an Hon. Member near
him (Mr. Fox) instanced a very flagrant abuse of
power, by the present Irish Administration, in the
unjustifiable treatment which Mr. Todd Jones expe-
rienced. The Lord Lieutenant and his Secretary
might have the best intentions and dispositions in
the world ; but how was it possible that two or three
persons could minutely attend to the cases of so
many thousands of persons, inflamed against each
other, some by the prevalence of their passions,
many by habitual prejudices, and the greatest num-
ber by religious animosities ? Even under the mild,
lenient, and paternal government of Marquis Corn-
wallis, the possession of power naturally generated
the abuse of it, as was exemplified in many instances,
but particularly in the unmerited hardships to
which Mr. O'Neil was suhjetted. Great abuses of
pow& had been pra&ised in this country in the exe-
cution of the Alien Bill, but how much mote likely
were they to be exercised in many pails of Ireland,
remote from the seat of Government? Ile wished it
to be understood, that he did not deny the possibili-
ty of this measure being necessary—but, as the no-
toriety of the imminent danger was wanting, he
should, in the proper stage,
.move, AS an amend-
ment, that the duration of bill should not exceed
the expiration of two months.
Mt. CARR spoke in so low and inaudible a tune
of vcice, that we could not possibly collea much of
what he s !id ; but we understood him to have re-
presented, that the last rebellion, on the 23d of July,
broke out almost immediately after the suspension of
the Habeas Corpus bill had expired ; a-.. 1 he appre-
hended, the same effeas might ensue again, if this
measure ceased/to operate. To shew that his appre-

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hensious were not groundless, be,cappeale3 to an
Hon. Bart. (Sir J. Newport), -.ehelier in the county
' of Waterford, which that Hon. Bart. represented,
the Magistrates had rot come to a iesolittion; that if
the outages committing there did not cease, they
should think it necessary to apply for the renewal
of
the Martial Law in t'-at part of the country ?
Sir JOHN NEWPORT, in answer, said, that
wha,tever resolutions might he made by the Maf.,tis-
trates of a single l)istri&, should not, in his opinion,
be made a rule for all the people of the nation.—
The Magistrates might by sudden, or for the troy
proper purpose of intimidation, threaten what may
be beyond the necessity of the occasion. Of the
three nutrages committed, in the county of Water-
ford, he had only to say, that the law was perfeelly
capable of reaching them ; as a proof of which,
the offenders in one of those outrages were now in
the gaol of Waterford, and would probably be tried
at the ensuing Assizes. 'Flue present measure, for
any thing he knew, might be necessary, but it would
requite a case of more clear and extreme notoriety
than had been stated or attempted to be made out,
at present, to reconcile him to a power which was
always sure in Ireland, through personal hatred
and religious rancour, to be very much and severely
strained beyond the intention of the Legislature.
Mr. PYTCHES considered this measute, when
applied solely to Ireland, as a severity exercised to-
wards not an united country, but one detached, and
even hostile to us. He could not conceive how the
Ministers could have the confidence to propose snch
a bill, after they had so repeatedly represented the
people of Ireland as tranquil, industrious, and loyal.
If that was a just charatier of them, this was a mis-
chievous measure, calculated to excite jealousy, and
destroy the tranquillity now reigning amongst them.
He should certainly vote Against so harsh a mea-
sure, unless some sufficient ground was made out
for it. At present it did not appear to be necessary,
and he was not one of those who would be disposed
to calculate on their:ratio,' of conspiracies.
The Bill was then ordered to be committed to-
morrow.
Mr. FOX wished to know, as the committal on
this Bill was to take place to-morrow, whether it
was intended to bring forward the question of the
Abolition of the Slave Trade on the same day ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
replied, that he believed his Hon. Friend (Mr.
IVilberforce) would positively bring his Motion for-
ward ; and the more so, as it was hardly probable
that it could meet with any opposition, or be produc-
tive of any discussion, at least in the first stage.
Mr. FOX said he was satisfied in having it ascer-
tained that of these two subjens the Slave Trade
would come first.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT moved that there be
laid before the House a list of all the Pensions grant-
ed on the Irish Establishment, from the Ist of Jan.
MS, to the latest period in which they could be
made out, which was agreed to.
The Greenland Fislon v Bill went through a Com-
mittee, and was ordored to be read a third time to-
morrow.—Adjourned.

FOREIGN I.VTELtIGENCE.

FROM THE ,AttlS PAPERS.

LEGISI.kTIVE BODY.
SITTING OF THL 15(14 or PLUVOTSL (Ftl. 4.)

A Letter was received from His Excellency the
Secretary, of State, announcing that the Counsellors
or State, Segur, Begonen, and Dessoles, were charg-
ed by the Emperor to make a communication to the
Legislative Body.
A moment afterwards the Counsellors of State
were introduced, and M. Scone addressed the As-
sembly in the following words :
Us Majesty, since he has been on the throne, has
thought that this new situation, and Cie circumstan-
ces which have placed him its it, right authorise
him to conceive hopes of peace.

"The enemy, undeceived with respect to the vain
hopes which he had founded on the chances of an
elective power, finds himself in a situation which
ought to dispose him to listen to more moderate
counsels. The Emperor has done what General
Bonaparte did before the battle of the Drave ; what
the First Consul did before he was forced to combat
at Marengo. He has written to His Britannic Ma-
jesty the letter which I am aboutto read you.

SIN AND 8110714111 (Monsieur mon Frere),
v Called to the Throne of Fraace, by Providence, arid by the
suffrages of the people and the army, my first -entiment it a
wish for peace. France and England abuse their prosperity ;
they may contend for ages; but do their Governments well
fulfil the moat wired of their duties ! and will not so much
Wood, shed uselesey, and without a view to any end, accuse
them In their own consciences ? I consider it AS nu disgrace
to make the first step. I have, I hope, sufficieuitly proved to
the world, that I fear none of the changes of war : it, be-
sides, presents nothing that I need to fear. Peace is the
wish of my heart—Sin Yiar has never been contrary te my
glory. I conjure Your Majesty not to deny yourself the
happiness of giving Peace to the NVrirld, nor to leave that sweet
satisfanien to your, elirldren—sfor, in hnc, there never was a
MOM favourable opportunity, nor a moment more favourable to
silence all the passions, and to listen only to the sentiments of
humanity and reason. This moment, once lost, what end can
be assigned to a war, which all my elf irts will not be ads to
terminate Your Majesty has gained more within ten years,
both in territory and riches, than the whole extent of Europe.
Your natio* is at the highest point of prosperity—what can it
hops frost-war? Te form a Coalition of some [Osiers of the
Continent! The Continent will remain, tratiqui!arsa Cashion
can only increase the preponderance and continental greatness
of France. To renew internal troubles? The times are no
longer the same. To destroy OUTfinan.:es ? Finances founded
on a flourishing culture, can never be destroyed. To take
from France her Colonies ? 'lle Colonies are to France
only a secondary object, arid does not Tour Majesty already
possess more than you know how to presorve ? If Your
Majesty would but reflect, yuu most perceive that the war is
without an object, without any presurnalsle result to simmer
Alas what a melanchol► prospect to cause two nations ri fight

for the sake of fighting. The world is sufficiently !ergs for out
two nations to iiv- in it, and mamma sufficiently powerful to
di4cover meat' of reunciling every thing, when thedrish for

reconciliatioa exists on both sides. I have, hnwe-er,
asa 'red duty, and one which is precious to a h-art. I truss
Your Majesty will believe in the sincerity of my sentiments,
and my swish to give him eery proof of it, &c. &e. &c.
UM of Nivose, Year Xl.ll. (Jan. t, 1813`.•

This letter, Gentlemen, was suit&ble to the dig.
nity of a power which relies on its strength, yet will
not abuse it ; the charaaer of the Emperor not
permitting the suspicion of weakness.

T. this letter the British Ministry returned an
answer, not suitable to overtures so frank and so
pacific ; but an answer, the terms of which, at least,
when compared with those employed in the year s,
in other circumstances, do not offend against de-
corum, and permit us to hope for communications
of more utility. It is as follows
Majesty has received the le:t.r which has been a 4
dressed to him by the head of the French Gove,naleiv, .14 •
the of the present month. There is no ii4l.a which,
Majesty his more at heart, than to avail himself of the first op-
portunity to procure again to hia subjefts the advalitars of a
peace, founded on a basis which may not be incompatible with
the permanent security and essential interests of his States. Id!
Majesty is per4ualed that this end can only be attained by ar.
rangements, which may, at the same time, provide for ilia le.
tare safety and tranquillity of Europe, and prevent the rec or-
rence of the dangers and calamities in which it is involved.
-.a-Conformably to this sentiment, Mt Majesty feels that it
is impassible for him to answer more particularly to the over-
ture that has bees made him, until he shall have had time to
communicate with the Powers of the Continent, with whom he
is engaged in confidential connections and relations, and perti•
cularly with the Emperor of Russia, who has given the strongest
proofs of the wisdom and elevation of the sentiments with
which he is animater,, and the lively interest which he takes in
the safety and independence of Europe.
(Signed) s WI-GRAVE.'
" The letter and the answer would have remained
among the secrets of Government, like all prelimi-
nary aets, the objed of which is to lead to effeflive
negotiations, if the message (speech) of the King to
his Parliament had not called fur its publicity. This
message, which announces that pacific communica-
tions had been made on the part of France, is full of
acrimony, accusation., and reproaches. An insult-
ing pity is feigned for a generous nation, which his
been suddenly attacked in the midst of peace, and
whose ships, sailing under the proteCtion of the faith
of treaties, have been seized, pillaged, and destroyed;
yet astonisLment is pretended that she should not
have humblediherself by explanations with an enemy,
who has treated her as a robber ; and that she has
replied to hostilities by a declaration of war.