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meals • day. The farmer goi his salt, candles,
clothe% and every thing cheaper ; he had pot the
house and window tax collector to appease ; and so
through hr aold• for less,* baught in proportion, and
flourished notwithstawling. But the thirty ma-
lions of population in Erstice ;lend thirty-four ind-
ite°s of taxes wily, scarcely wore than 11. per head.
England, with seventeen millions of people, paid
tisty.fooir million, of tuxes, exclusive of tithes and
poor rates. They might sod ought to lettuce ten
millions of taxes without touching pubic credit :
by altering the colonial system ; by appropriating
the sitikin fund; sod by some alterations in the
collection of the revenue.
Mr. Gc ito CY observed on the bopylemnets of the
projects for relieetost the distress. He ceosured the
policy of Ireland, which sent the produce here to
obtain money for it, and left the population to starve.
lt,spitsaill that the price of corn was n.dy 4g.. it
gilt to he inquired iieto,'if thstinairy in the pre-
seat currency was nut equal to the 100.. wiiich it
fetched in the depreciation. He thought that in
corn, as in other comineditica, the best trade would
be a fre one; fruits which reason he would have all
the taxes directly oppressive and vexatious to com-
merce remitted, awl a moderate income UM sub/li-
mited.
Mr. Walnuts would Five his most decided and
unhesitating concurrence and upprobatiob to it re-
duction of taxes; but he looked at taxation with a
view to the iuereareed weight which had been added
to it by the law of 1819, an increase which the sup-
porters of the Bill newer anticipated or they could
never have consented to add 40 per tent. to those
burden* It was to that they must look for the
main cause of all the distress and confusion around
country. Till they had grappled with timatioa,
under this view of the va.t increase angle in the
Value of it, all other discussion at to the rates of
,protecting duties would be mere mime of time,
liewaisetwald way draw *side the slteptieii of the
;new, which ought to curoceistrate itself ois that
difficult object. As to price—good God I how
Could they talk about it without underetanding
Jooltist was the measure of valve?: It was thi price
;At money which they had to coilaider. To that
*sat they lint address their •tteiotion—the rest
Was but a waste of time until that were done.
lv lot-
oft duties I—rates of protecting dutier!—they
.qpnbl be waudefing in the dark it they did not de-
o Wrimiart the question of the value first. 1.)14 On
I WSW believe it potsible far the country to sustain
*it burden of taxes as they had become mug-
' died by the law of 1819 ? l'ould the land-
" _p. to bir mpy postibility exist upder 'lie
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setallionona pressure. He would support the pro-
.pilliaissi fur reduction of loxes Studer this
iripwr As to price., when it seas said that the
e of DArlitiC was 43'. th.ot price oat ani-
on the depreciated cuirency ; it was no* the
s . loser—itte &shah price. The expemie of
Motto the foreign producer was no longer a
r he would directly assume the British
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mi! motley price of produce and the real or
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toliar price: the lighter the weight of taxation
the easier were the burdeus which the industry
of the mortify had to bear, lie wished to raise
the price of cure by raising the price of money.
. The higher the money psi, e of corn. the lower
they biought the labour price. Enhance the
money price, and the weight of taxation
was lesseurd—it would have the tame effect at
vepeiling so men] beam The Mouse ought so
'mike eft a disnaq perception of the subject of
;mew. The ismer object tr§leh'lltey bad to look
N NW to heat dawn the labour price to the lowest
stste. Tie weight of .laces. sold not be
under the
,opeoation of the standard set up
by this Act' a. on, ; he believed' it to be mo-
rally • and 'plisietil iy iin pinsible ; iltif '1 the ti me
was rot far eitsteut when the Haire' liith the
AAUP Itlelr. pcmsw. AO ihretaelars, ebbired 10 take
the subject rule thew considemtion. He considered
that if the Bill were not so be repealed. there
aught to be another to adjust the debts and coo-
/recto made 'whin the last twenty yews to the
as. standard. fie conajitsitsl that these was nut
so much to *dreaded Goa the competitiou of,
foreign grain,
.as it was to he desired that ii nu&
not come lii. at as to overwheihn the British agri-
culture, when there was no uremia' for orluntitiog
it. He would have no objection to take the puce '
hem Use avtiage of the last 20 yeas. Ile could
sot accede to the proposition for a free trade in
men, as that would tend to make the country de,
pendent un others fist the loud of the people—a
Mod dangerous weapon to trust tit the banns of a
foreign Power.
r Mr. PEEL rose to observe that this was not the
proper time to take up the tutrjeci of the cur-
, ,coca, so largely discussed by the Ilion. Gentle-
'anti. Adsertiog to the wises venoms made by the
Hon. Member on the Bill which he had the tumour
to bring in at the request of the !Willem Commit-
ter, in 1819, lie wished to onnierstand if the
HMIs Member intended to introduce any measure
upon that subject ?—(Hr. Western said, " Cer-
tsinly.")—Fur dist reason lie would decline going
into it. l'o exclude all reference to it might be
impossible; but in a questioil of such immense
imporimice, involving b 0 mussy interests, iii so
important a degree, lie thought it extremely dr.
enable that they should oreperote it us much as
possible from the present eliscurraini. Ile hoped the
House would approach that subj• et with caution.
Noshing which had fallen from t-e Honourable
Gentleman, ur any other Ilonourshle Member, had
yet convinced him of the propriety oh aliening end
untettliog all the arrangements, contracts, and
other interests, which had her.. established under
the new standard. Ile declined going into tiny of
the propositions which had been made fur a depar-
ture from at. Ile amidst only observe that as its
revising the contracts mod debts of the last twenty
years, it was to be remembered that the prepera-
gjass for larieriniug (mill payments began to 1816.-..
He paistpvised any oilier argumeasts till the subject 1
dome under 00 cowsideration of Parlssourent. Awl
to the supposition of the Bill of 1819 adding 40
per cent. to the weight of taxes, conaidering that

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caused tile distress. !Piastre ,dad uhitud.ortt too,
and priers declined te. dd. ; but there seas ust
bankruptcy, nor did the labourer seek aims in cep.
segnence. They lase nut se well off; but ttt
hray.
ware Will ttsppy.)4sleinte t were well paid no
fel Ne hetkisever spoken to a Frencli Peasant but
be hound him tone content with his ;
ley away, sniff:him that they had-three' or foie