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duty on Wine in 1791 produced a million. It had
betel tripled since, sod the wealth of the country
had Wen doubted. Instead of producing four mte.
liossiud a half, which it ought by this compete:
nosh it only brought one =dhoti and a half. The
tax ow leather had soak from its heavy pressure te
400,0001. It uses or.e million and a half to the pub-
lic if the destructive efficts of it were treced
throughout After some further observations on the
unprofitable pressure of taxation, end the relief
which would be given to agriculture by the repeal
of the before-mentioned taxes, he concluded by pm-
poring Resolutions to that effect.
The SPIARIR was about to put the Resolutions
it en amendment, when
el • Colonel Deems said, that he did net wish to
-oppose the Resolutions of the Noble Marquis.
' .The &BAK la satisfied the Hon. Member that
abluslations could only be moved in substitution
lithe motion for bringing up the Report, or for some
port of the Report itself.
The CSAWCBLLOII of the EICHRQUEIt was un-
derstood no object to the want of notice of the Hon.
Member's intention to bring forwort the motion.
Colonel DeVIV.II said. Oust in order to prevent
any misandenitanding or surprise on the snbject,
he had requested to have his Resolutions printed,
and distributed with the votes the next morning.
• Sir J. SUBMIT said he was as anxious as any
Member of that House could he for every possible
reduction of taxation ; but if the Resolutions of the
gallant Officer (Colonel Davies) were put to the
vote, he should vote against them, for this express
reason, that they had no connexion whatever with
the question before the House. which was, that the
Report on the Agricultural Distress he brought ups,
and he thought it most important that that subject
should be disposed of. He considered the Resolu-
tions of the Noble Lord • considerable improve•
meat upon the present Corn Law*.
The motion was then withdraw,' ; and the gum.
tioa ir that the said Report be now brought ow
being' put— . 4,-Ti 0 1., ,lii
Mr. %Yemen rove and said, in reply to tin ' °b-
aryons" of the Noble Lord (Londonderry), wish-
i lag the discussion to be postponed, that in the view
which he (Mr. Western) took of the subject, the
more early ties discussion was taken the better.
The Resolutions of the Noble Lord, instead of
4ending directly, or reins remotely, to the relief of
the agriculture of the country, were in truth only
giving it snother and • deeper blow. The CSICII.
tenon
,of the protecting duties was founded on a
;return of foreign prices of corn, which were taken
*sour own fluctuating and depreciated currency,
eiad not is. the price of geld. He had stated that
me a former evening, when he was contradicted by
the lion. Member behind him (Mr. Ricardo); but
. , would again repeat it, and if the Hon. Member
Purtarliugion bad referred to the paper to which
. (Mr. ‘Vestern) had on that oecusion alluded. as
iodated with the Report of the evidence before the
Committee last year, he would riot have given that
*feet and positive controdictiou which be had dime,
for he w.s con6ilent that his statement woo correct.
IlleaSully's account of the prices at Dioneic was
4006 in the currency of this country, anal not in
the price of gold, and therefore in founding hie coley-
lotions of protecting duties upon these prices. the
argument of the Honourable Member for .Portar-
lingtuu bed tended to 'naked the House. ,For the
consequence of the prices being so token sons, that
from the currency being at the time spoken of in •
state of depreciation, those price. were stated higher
than if tam in a metallic currency, such as we now
hive, and thereby rendered the protectiglidtaties
apparently IMeessary. so much lower..t ' they
otherwise would have appeared. Thii.vrOuld,.be
easily seen by reference tu the scout! state of the
malice's at Hambergh at this moment. The prices
At Flambusgh now are: IVlteut, ofis. to 3114
Rye.. 13g. to tear—Barley, 8.. to gs.—snd Oda
5..9d. to 6s. ad.; sod the freights fo out Hem bq rgh are
lint higher than from souse parts of the county
which lie had the honour to represent. In addition
to the citcumstance he laid mentioned, the House
ought to be iefurmed, that such was the distr.-ft in
the vicinity of Hautbergh, that the Danish Govern-
ment had consented to take wheat in payment or
lases, and had actually received 70,000 quarters on
that account. That Government would ',morally
be anxious, as speedily as possible. to turn the
gratis es received into money, and the convequencit
would be • still lower reduction of the prices. HU
had received communications from slimed all perm
of the country, respecting the proposal in the Noble
Lord's Resolutions to lower the importation price,
which, he was informed, hod created greet alarm
among the farmers. The faith of Perliamint
rood pledged to the agriculturists by the former
Act. to afford them protection to the price of 80s.;
and the farmers consideeed the reduction of the
import price from 80s. to 704. as an abrogation sr
that pledge. He therefore dial assert thit the adop-
tion of the Resolutions of the Noble Marquis
would add greatly to that dismay which the Pell.
Lions on their table shewed to have been before but
too prevalent. In the Committee various accounts
of the foreign prices were given, by various irodivi.
duals, and by our Consuls abroad, and there would
be found on examining them a constant variation
is those accounts. That variation was only to be
accounted for, by the prices having been calculated
in the currency of this country, when it was in •
state of depreciation, and not in gold ; which oc-
casioned the returns of prices to vary according to
the fluctuation of our currency, and not according
to the variations of the price of Kohl. On these
ground. he contended that the Resolutions of the
Noble Lord would only aggravate the evils they pro-
posed to remedy; and he was satisfied that it would
be better for the 'soiled interest that they should
continue under the operation of the present law,
thin that those Resolutions should be adopted.
Mr. J. SMITH acid, he felt convinced that the
&mom of the ugricult to tit, arose from causes which
it was toot in the power of Parbaineut to remedy.
He had heard of remedies being pro:reared, which
seemed to him to be ruin and dehtrection. mod un-
der that impression he was cleinrues of calling the
mientiou of Parliament to them, because loose of
them seemed to carry with them all that was de-
'tractive of good faith and public credit.—(ilvae)
—He had heard of a motion being mile on a for-
mer evening by the Hon. Member fur York (Mr.
Wyvill) whom he was sorry net to see in lus place.
fur he had a* desire to aniatudvett us him in hie
abeeuce, for a induction of titration t• tioa West
of 90,000,0004—.(" No, 00.“)—His usetiesta, 410

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