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defectod ports a his speech : areording to a short. eos-
in,* view of the Noble lord's plea it appeared to he this :
firm. that in general the great moving power of all WAR the
power of mature; and secondly, that there was on sort of
compensate het wren the effects of the onsets usually placed
In the bawls of man antl those which we look to from Pro-
vidence: with the exception of a positive reliance on ;toe Ist.
ter, the Noble Lard had little to propowe—(A loogh)--exeept
to Wit off Ir.& bestial front malt. The Other parts of ow
Nate Lord's plan be would addreos himself to in its
order; bet before he did aa, he nimbi °berry. '0 one we. two
et his principles, qn which. as the Noble Lord surmised, they
were directly as issue. The Noble Lord had referred to
what he (Me. Iketeroliam) had tore. in 1917. At that time
lie hod toolownered to sheer Moo there were. a great number
of ceilivitluals who were In a state of misery opproachine to
rlanalioe, and the Noble Lord cougrritnhaderi the Honsr on
what be called his. (t r. lloseghant's) incomeistency;
bat I
oho' he lied titers talked of was the misery colonic in
the monefaciorme district... 13n1 did he deny that there
was treat ditereita now among the agrieultural classes, be-
fogse there won a less degree of misery in the mnnufactoring
slistricts than there was in lel7 The Noble Lord paid there
wes as incorrectness in hit (Mr. Broughane.) detail.. of the
malt dale, hut in hot there was no seboomtive difference
between ihrm ; the Noble Lord took the year 1941, and he
had taken the average of the hot fire yearn : but what he
had cooteaded for was, that there was not the increase in
oaasnroptiou .hat ought to hr in proportion to the in-
crease of the pepulatme (that i., as fire to seven), but
*sly that we tow enesume.l wha we dot thirty years
hark. The Sold* • Lord said, that,t though mall had not
been. emenotted, whoiturrs fur it have; but his (Mr. B.'s)
argument was toot that:be donee inferred a diminetiost in
the reseuree• of the camooMm; It only went to this, that the
sax pro-gelded the inereme of comiumplion, ahich could
afford the oety oebsimithel remedy for the dishes. of the
termer. Among thew sulotittors, first, were the brickbats;
but eseept the aim.. used lo making them, he was as a WU to
tootle bow slat could afford any relief to the agriculturist.
Thiti WI. also an triremes. in the eonnomption of soap; bat
how that mold operate to the benefit of the farmer, be was
just as little able in understand as the Noble Lord's brick-
bat armament. Thea teil had increased IN coosumption ;
but of that nlon lie complaioedo-that instead of the old Bri •
tish beverage from malt, they consumed another Out so whole-
some—one whirl, did not relieve the British fanner, whatever
It might 110 for the agriculturists of Mita. At the best, it
could only relieve one class—the importers of tea : the East
ladis Company were Om only person* who posited by it,
except, Indeed, the Chancellor of the Excheoper, who drew
largely from i 1 ; hut it let; no profit on British capital ; it
hrotight nut a mingle acre of British ground iato calovolion.
Thus all the Noble Lord** statement of whattimies left
Nis (Mr. Brougham's) argument jut where it was
lettere. Thus led hint to say a few words on the re-
lative proportioo of taxation and income. The Nobles
Lord said he should only lay his data, mid therefore he (Mr.
Brougham) wan in donbewhether in what he bad afterwards
said he had meant to do more thin stale hi. opinion. He
lid it doer, that 51, whole *Mount a taxes which the far.
weer ;veld was enc.'s venth of his rent. He (Mr. Brougham)
had heard that calettlallars were more (amassl than poets,
hat of all the nimbleness and &ale, ity of any ready reckuuer,
this result et the Noble Lord beat them all. This was a
question Ilse most difficult io het, it was the one great
ouestioe on whirls all men doobted, on which the must
',cute could hardly see an inch before them ; yet the Noble
Lord, with a dexterity which surprised him every night more
and more, leapt over all Milo-whirs, and arrived at this con.
elusion, that if unity were taken sad divided by seven (of all
conceivable uttmlwro, that would be the exact proportion of
fax paid by the farmer. And this was the ealculatiou which
the Noble 4ord gave them as an answer to his (Mr.
Brougbiss'o)reasaning on general priociples ; this, of all
the Nettie Lord's feint., covered him with—be could not say
onfooion, hut with adm•rat ion. This was made the answer
to the whole of his (Mr. Brooglianie) arguments; the pivot
end comer-stone Wen, that there Weekd he no reduetiou of
t ; no relief to a suffering people ; but the Noble
11..0 .d had ll,roon overboard all the oloervatioos which Ise
(Mr, Brougham) had made with respect to the effects
of taxe. whirl' CRTe not boo the Treasury. Atwitter
point on whoh the Noble Lord bad out said a word
nos, the effect of taxes its raising the price of labour;
• of that peeetrallog—that pervading quality which, whets
a tax was laid on any necessary of life, caused it to enter
into labour inereatioto the price to the consumer, di-
miniohieg the profits of the m inuferturer or grower. and
of coarse diminishing toe profit *hob as rent came So the
landlord, the great grower. The Noble Lord had exhorted
the House to draw a line Of demarcation between his (Mr.
Breughae.) system and that of his Majesty. Ministers;
and, above all, to trust to the powers of fructification—
tesurrectlon—(A laogh)—aqd the true principles of po-
litical economy; though there was not one senteoce
of the Noble lord's speech that was not tither a satire
upon, or ■ deviation from those priecipks. He (Mr.
Brougham) hail brought forward no system ; he bad celled
upon the House Its correct its public system ; to diminish the
bordello of the people substantially, not fictitiously, fur the
potpie of a clap-trap in that House, but for effectual relit f.
The line of demarkation less talked of, as if they bad boasted
of a nostrtuo on his side of the House, skew in fact the
empiric. were oo the other benches. The Noble Lord said
that if the whole mass of taxes were swept away, never to
rite against us in any shape, yet that no relief would be
afforded thereby to the suffering people adorer realms—that
relief which the people had a right to expect from their Re-
presentatives as a master ofj:astiee, they were Sot to expect.
He mewl the relief (runs all !Nodes. which were not abso-
lutely necessary, and this eberbee the people were in distress
or not. The House had no right t.. keep up a single roan, to
build a ship, or bold an office, • hirh she safety of the state
and the CILINICOCe of the country did not render absolutely
mernery; with. called upon the House to act upon this strait
priuriple, as well when the country was at rue, as now that
it was hamming under cruel suffering. He could regard
with au feeling% of gratitude the little less than Moult up*
the country, the polity reduction of ooe sbiltiwg a bushel ow
molt. The Noble Lord had Dow two mullions of revenue
above the expenditure, reduced this year to about 1,300,0001.
this, added to the Sinking Fund, made the leng-looked far
Inc millions and a qaarter. The Noble Lord glorified him-
self ow this as the proxy of the Chauctilur of the Emetic-
leer. and congratulated the Huuse on having the pleasing
task of inquirirg what they 'Weld do with Ibis long-ex.
peeled &wilder. He (Mr. Branham) doubted whether it
was any thing like so much; but allow that it were, what
did be my ? relieve the country. But what said the Noble
Lewd ?es." Don't remit, say taxes; keep it to look as, and
woke sentence, ppos its that House; pay off every year so
much debt, and raise the price of the 3 per cents., for Eat-
land's safety consists in that; but above all this, keep (sulk
with the public creditor," and keep faith with the public cre-
ditor, he (Mr. B.) also said ; and be requested to koow by
fi'y slat right the Noble Lord said that he held those prier*.
plea which the Noble Lordstignaatised as thalionottrable to
the English natmu. Was it becaure he had said that sot a
whisper to sully public credit should cross a man's lips, ex.
rept ashler the posture of an overwhelming sod isureasurt.
neersoity, and if these distresses eontinned, such a crisis
tonight arrive ? Its following the system of the Noble Lord, the
n oast were going headlong and accelerating that diesded
7,30. He exhorted the House to leave that arithmetical
Huston (the Shilling Fund), which had beets of late
rompleoly exposed, that no tnan capable of comet-
too fingers but could ore Moon's it. Let taxes
IN' reduced, let economy be practised in every depart-
ment of she State, and he hoped and trusted the day
ouold arrive in which we should forget that we had
"er, toed tha word neeessity. The Noble Lord bad
'knot to one whom many in that House considered as a
reurrable 'lethality—of one who had ruled the financial ad.
,
niortration of the count., with obsolete sway; he (Mr.
Brougham) did nut marvel that his memory should be dwelt
'' by many with pleasing recollections; but the moment
'lll Ought to have been thought on by them was when they
_",e wepulling the stases out of his favourate edifice ; since
'wthey had gone on step by step, till of Mr Pitt'. Sinkiug
f."" they had left aothing hot the name. He regarded Mr.
respect as great •••• 1•111.1latiVIII,‘• .oishoter ; Is
•nuidal w
alas have goosed at some ofA Mite' acts, the vile ex-
etil"ll with *kWh some of the underlings employed in
°.ffire with him Ind tarid the character of the basest
"4"'illistratioo. His usrue' should base bee. m the