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MAHE OF I.ORDS-tONDAV..TUL, 1V

In the pile:a I loco V. LASHLEY, j114::-.'t .716
Riven; the juigment of the Court bekr.v wAs al-
firmed.

The Bill for the relief of the incumbent>, of cer-
tain livings in the City of Lon Sin weut through
Committer of the whole HAIM ; the iit• rt was
received; and, on the Motio.i of the 1.-. so CHAS-
ccLLoa, the Bill was or.ii red to be re td the third
time on Thursday next,zild the Lards to be sum-
moned.
Mr. Williams, from the Comm.siioners of ival
Enquiry, presiinted the 7th and Sth R-ports of the
said Commissioners.

Mr. FRANCIS THOM P YIN was examined as to his
knowledge of the presen• residence of Mrs. Ling-
hazn. He said, he had t 7:Amined the contents el
three letters, by which it ap, ..ired, that she reside.l
in Park., or within three mi.r. of it. Being asked
by the LORD CHANCELLOR, )lAS was id he had
learned ? he said he bad learned io more.

CORN HILL.
Lord WALSINGHAISI presented is Petition
from the Royal Burghs of Scotland against the
Corn Bill.
The LORD CHANCELLOR observed, that the
Petition pray...l that their Lordships would postpone
the consideration of the Bill till nert Session. That
their Lordships would not pass a Biil was a proper
petition; but it was only for one of their Lordships
to make a Proposition of this kind to the aNlie.
E trl ANHOPE thought thi Petition ought to
be received, and so lie on the Table.
Thu Earl of ROSLYN said, there was much I
sound sense and good matter in the Petition, but
thought is could not be received.
Lord W A LSI NG HA M withdrew the Petit ion
with their Lordships' consent.
The Duke of MONTROSE said, he held Peti-
tion in his hand against t'.1.1 Bill, from persons of
sound understanding; yet a similar objetion might
be made to it. But he tliooght it his duty to pre-
sent it. The Petition, which was from the Chamber
of Commerce in Glasgow, being read ;
The LORD CHANCELLOR said, this Peition
prayed, that their Lordships w0n!..1 give the pill a
cool and d, lib ..ott dis,..assi in. Muir Lordships,
he br•-. ' • . give every question a cool and de-
fi . ;but this wai I inguage that could
suit be permitted in a petitioner to tail House.
The Duke of MO's PROSE :roved for leave to
withdrao. the Petition.
Earl iTANHOPE said, the Noble Lord ought
not to ~resent a petition that he did aot thir k pro.
per to lie on the Table , if he presented it, lee ought
to maintain its claim to be heard. He thought this
the cleft stick of a iilciarna into which his Lordship
had thus brought himself. 1 be Petit ;tin. he thought,
snip' t b- permitted to lie on the I'aible.
1' to Dui:, of MONTROSE, leave being given,
will drew the Petition.
':'he Order of the Day for the second reading of
this Bill being read ;
kaarl SPA sll sOPE said, he should have been
alas: to hive heard any thing that a Noble Sc.', -
tary opposite to him (Lord Hawk. sbory) had to
offer on the Bill; but,-as his Lordship was silent. he
would state his objH!lons to it. This was a Bill di-
re:fly and professedly to raise the price of corn and
bleed. He did not merely say, it was the tendency
and probable operation of the Bill to do t` 's; but
he declared, that this was the professed objeek of
the framers of the Bill, and of the Committee of
the other House. Their language was, that the
pike of Corti might decrease, by a plentiful season,
so as not to repay the grower. He was a friend to
the farmer. He knew that unless the grower was
induced by a liberal profit, scarcity would be the re-
sult. And therefore, he was against additional bur-
theas on the farmers. If he could nut shew that
the grower could sell his corn, at a fair profit, when
there should be a year of plenty and a surplus, he
would consent to this Bill, great as his objeCtions to
it were. But he was not reduced to this extreme, as
he would afterwards shew by proposing a plain and
simple plan. But what do the framers of the Bill
and the Committee sa,l ? they speak of the blessings
of heaven, and the providence of God, in giving a
plentiful season, as a thing to be dreaded, and as a
curse. And what is the remedy- they apply ? they
will raise the price of en; ti Jy forced and artificial
means. This w objen of the Bill. But, to
raise the price of corn, was to excite the people to
discontoo ; it was to raise the price of labour, and
so to depress the sale of our mantifaSures in foreign
markets, of our manufaetured iron, our ntanufaSu-
red wcol and cotton ; it was to raise the expences of
government, it was to cripple us in the molt effedual
manner. And what were the pretences of the Com-
mittee foe adopting this measure to raise the price of
cori'll The enormous importations we have made of.
corn, and the enotmus sums they have cost us.
The Committe states, that we formerly exported
annually 600,00.11. worth of corn; but that since,
in thirteen years, w paid thirty millions sterling for
corn imported. 11.; / therefore argue thus. We
must give encourage ascot to the fat men to grow
corn, that we may nut be compelled to import it.
and we. must do that by bounty on exportation. when
corn it at a certain reduced price. But the reason
why we have paid such enormous sums for corn, is,
that we can buy it in foreign markets cheaper than
we can grow it, because of the excessive price of
labour. And what is the bounty given for exporta-
tion when reduced to plain language? It is, that
the price of labour here is so great. that our
merchants cannot sell our corn in foreign markets,
since corn growing in other countries costs less in
the labour, and the price of it is lower. Somethiug
is wanting therefore to put it into the stale, to en-
able our merchant to sell at the foreign.marlft, and
that something is the bounty. The price of labour
is therefore the evil to be remedied. But the Bill
increases the evil, for it is the direct means of in-
ereasing the price of corn, and consequently the

price of labour ; so that, we now import cons in a
greater degree, if we continue to pursue iope-
licy, whose inevitable effect is to raise the price of
labour. He would coil on their Lordships, to
take in:n coasideratien the state of Ireland.
He would not then advert to the causes, what-
ever they might be : he would consider the sub.
jeZ only as it was connected with this question.
The distres of that country is prodigious, and
daily enereasing. Would their Lordship: add to It .
by encreasing the price of corn ? The state of that
country is not known. Its debt was lately only two
millions and a half. It is now between fifty and sixty
millions. Such was the principle of this Bill. But
Ile would say a word or two on the real remedy of
the evil this Bill would heal; he would shew, as he
promised, that the farmer might always have a
liberal profit for his corn, and that we need not go
to foreign eouotries with millions of money, to pur-
chase grain in years of scarcity. The small state r.f
Geneva, twfine it belonged to the French, hos gra-
naries with corn for seven or eight year. cousump-
tion. 'I he apparatus by which it was preserved
sound, was simple. It was nothiao more than four
walls with shelving chambers •tor the corn, and •
charcoal in the conre. Corn thus deed, to a cer-
tain degree. has been kept WO y ors. He had got
sosoe kept that time, to make a viol of it, and never
ate bet. r bread in his life. Let the Government buy
the corn, when it is cheap, am! lay up in gran tiiessuf-
ficient for years of se.. F inners will Ovis have a
motive to grow for the avet.go -option of ;
corn, because they will always have a lair profit and
o sale; many millions sent out of the coentry fcr
corn, will be kept at boo: • ; ' the prite of i ibeur
will be prevented from rising • - excess, which
drives our annul.: from :..reign market..
Without adopting this polity, we may be starved
in a time of scarcity, with such a man os Boot-
parte to oppose us. He has only to buy up ail the
corn in foreign markets ; and this lie may d , for
price is- nothing to IO •1. Let us 1• on poUci of
other states. But if we will not, let ns le try it of
the bees and ants, whom ilistin3 has teuele to pro.
vide for a time of want, %Then rn.y can poor: ,mar
to their own stores for food. Ii s: t :oleos lien will
not only decline bui. ling gra:trite. themselves. one
they presont others f'rom stcridg roan. Tney
not permit the waretiousing ot it when it wis
:minded, not for sale at home, bat fer spooilo ; u is
be sold abroad ; yet always forming aesore r,
in case of scar :city, might ha pernsioei to be sold
here. r,pe :le are taxed for the light, for their
shoes, for ever; necessary, and to do wlao ? To
provide corn for a time of sesrei.y ? No i To pay
a premium for see ling it out of the country, for in-
creasing
its price, and incurring the !ward of ;1
scarcity. The absurdities nt the Intl in its drawing
up were endless. --heeler, the Commit' .2. ditl not
chose to tell all they kiww, when they ta:ked of 80
millions being paid for corn imported in thirteen
years, or it was their ;; noran:e, he could not tell. :
But it was t millhoo, that the le-Tom:ion of
corn in 13 year, had t .t. The ei;:, one purr,
refers to the schedule, hs to a regulation abut
Barley; and the word Barer is not mentioned in the
part referred to. The Mon.e had heard of giants re.
freshed—they who drew up this Bill must have been
reft coed with Ratko, when they did so. Et cetere hid I
been made legally to mean biscsi.s. They had taken
into their heads to settle the reLeiee volt.- f English
and Irish currency. They first declare :oat to be
as 19 to VI, and then they find that 14 liu as
9 to 9 ; afterwards as 10 to 10, and thi ; AS 11 (0
16, and kitty as 16 to 18. The Learped Lino ;
the Woolsack could do nothing with this heap dif
absurdities. with all his ingenuity ; and if be ciood
amend it, it would be kicked out of the other House;
and he would oozier their Lordships had the honour
of kicking it out. He would not compliment the
Bill by the delicacy of postponing it till this day
three months. He would move that it be immedi-
ately rejelled. He implored their Lordships not to
pursue this measure. Two jections had been
raised against granaries fir corn. They might be
burned, it was said; but he had i hvented a means that
rendered that impossible, an I it was open to all the
public. The expence of building 4a41.413e, was
another objection. He did net want tootre.etio lit oe
sell at a loss, but at a sm.ih profit, se.•;ch mig: • ee
a revenue, and yet corn ex, the av 'rage cheaper.
Beside, let Government turn the barooks isto gra-
naries. There was no longer any use for them. fl e
system of ve4mur bewood tlat low, and of making
the people dumb, and the :Wart shut', was done
with. 'the people could not be made dumb on she
subject of corn. The father, when he sees his wife
dying for want, and his children crying for
bread, cannot be dumb. And the so'dier cannot
nee- be mode deal, for, thank Grad 1 the people
diennelvto an. now soldiers. lii% Lordship etoolud-
ed with moving. that all the wards after be"
should be left out, oral the word "rejected" int need.
Lori HAWKESB'JRY said, it was not his in.
tention to remark on the extraneous topics Ili, Lord-
ship had introduced inn) the debate; or to e• quire if
they were calculated to produce any et! .i, if that '
..eas not a mischievous one. The Nob Eat] had
called upon him to defend this Bill. It as not one.
brought forward by Government. He .it beet F
he should have thought it his duty to have given t.ie
reasons cf :he Bill at first, on toe behalf of Goveri-
meat. It was a Bill taken up by some poems in the
Commons, and referred too Coniniitiee as a quesdua
of importance. The subject was full of difficulty.
Many persons, for whose talents and knr.w2eJge
he had a high respect, were of opinion, that the
Corn Trade Should be entirely unfettered by laws, I
'This was a question that would require the most
deliberate discussion • but it was not the present one. /1
The question is, on the old system of the Corn Laws, ,
this did not go to perfect them ? Whether it wts
not necessary, while we generally pursued
the former system? The role übje.lt of those laws
was to keep the price of corn level. It was not 4
comparatively high price that did the injury; fair
Shags would square themselves to that. It wa,

neesive fluelustiou it elective low price induces ex.
cessive high prices. And this Bill wvat to prevent
the excessive low price. It was thus he viewed the
Bill, and he thought it infl immatory language to
*speak of the bill, as raising the price by forced
gad artificial means. As to the plan of storing
torn in grannies, it might be wise for Ge-
neva, or other small States, to do so. But he de-
-Died, that the case was similar ; or that any thing
could be argued from the praCtice of Geneva to
Great Britain. But when such a plan was talked
of, he could wish to see the detail. He should first
demand to see ell the difficulties of that overcome,
before he would discuss a question, in its p.-inciple,
of so much difficulty. Conceiving the Bill to be
what he had described, as as ing upon the old sys-
tem of our laws to keep the price of corn as level
as pcssible, be should support the Bill.
Earl S TANHOPE said, he would not by the
round-about way move as an amendment that this
Bill be read a second time tl.is day three months,
but such was his abhorrence of it, that he would
move that it be rejqled.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said, he did not
see how this question could be put without moving
that the other words he left out.

Earl STANHOPE said, there were two ways of
malfintr An amendment, which he could shew, from
the Journals of the House, he had anticedtntly
proved The one was by leaving out word, for the
purpose of inserting others; the other by inserting
wised, in order that others might he left out. He
in 'ved, therefore, that the word 44 liejeded" be in-
serted After the woid " br "

The LORD CHANCI.I.LOR said, he now on-
derstood the meaniog of the Noble Lord, and read
the question as moved.
The Bishop of S ASAPH then rose and spoke
to the following purport My Lords, I ant one of
those Nhvr think we have been induced to legislate
further in the case of corn than is consistent wish
true poli,:-, or calculated to pronote• the real inte-
rests of the community. I think that the legislature
would in this case, as in ail /duos which concern
emitters of trade, al most wisely by leaving corn,
like all other articles, to End its own keel. the
only difierence lies bttween the two e:asemes of
very low prices, and of very high prices. In the
latter case, the lower classes of the people suffer ex-
tremely I in the former, the farmers or. growers of
the corn are the sufferers. I admit it is extremely
desirable, both these extremes should, if possible, be
avoided ; hut I think that neither of them can be
fairly deduced to be of a permanent nature. In
some years we have colainly seen instances where
the price of corn was so very low, that it was scarce-
ly worth the labour and exoeiree auentliug it, and as
itch the farmer had no inducement to cultivate it.
In other years we have again seen corn (particu-
larly wheat) at so very high a price, that the far-
mers mist have derived very considerable profits
from it, and, taking these, one against the other,
I conceive that the average will be found to be
sueli as not to discourage the farmer from his ae-.
customed pursuit of cultivating the growth or
corn. My Lords, where there are a great many
mouths that have been acenstomed to eat bread,
there must be a correspondent demand for corn ;
and therefore the Legislature ought to be particu-
larly ca-eftd, that, in any ads they pass on this
sidle% they do not take any step which may tend to
drive the earn out of the country. In my opinion,
any Lords, they should rather endeavour to devise
meals of preserving the superabundance of a plea-
t:oil year, in order to answer the failure which may
take place in the caw of a year of cosaparative
scarcity. And here, my Lords, I cannot but
!some that the observations of the Noble Earl re-
apotag de granaries have not, in my opi-
'don, bt.en sufficiently answered by the Noble
&rotary of :hate. The Noble Secretary of State
has said, thaf the example of such a state as that of
.e small republic of Geneva could not be adopted
to the itArests of a great nation, like the united
kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland; In this
respe.l, 1 must, my 1 or!', incline to the opinion of
the Neirle Earl, for we have no occasion to confine
ourselves to the modern example of Switzerland.
If we I,mk to the predict of the ancients, aad resort
to the authority of the most eminent writers on the
se mile* of the Egyptians, we shall find thatthey
triode use of the same prailice of storing and
.presetving their corn in granaries. We shall find
that great care was taken in this raped, that
the corn was deposited in a state of period dryness
in the ear and in the g:anaries, the walls of which
were very thick, and the roofs proportionately secure
. from the 'reds of bad weather; and, thus defended,

the corn was kept for fifty, and even a hundred pars,
in as perfea a state as when it was first put there
for the purpose of preservation. I will, however,
allow that this argument, applied to this country, is
an entire new system, and so far I agree with the
Noble Secretary of State, that it is not 'trialy ap-
plicable to the present Sill. I am, however. of
opinion, that we should be extremely cautious how
we at empt to interfere in making Parliameiitary
regul.tions, as to the price of corn, .and, from that.
adoring' a system of exportation and importatiaSsu,l
am afra,d, as I said before, that we have gelapaso
.'far on that subjea, and I have, therefore, thought
it necessary to trouble your Lordships with these
observatirns."
The Duke of CLARENCE alluded to certain
conversations which had antecedently taken place
between His Royal Highness, the noble Secretary
of State, and some Noble Lord who was not pre.
sent, and deprecating all arguments of an abstratt
nature, professed himself in favour of the Bill.
The LORD CHANCELLOR then said, the
original question was, " that this Bill be am read a
isecond time." Siace which an Amendment had
been moved, that the word e. rejeaed" be inserted
alter the word " be."
A division accordingly took place.
Contents for the Amendment, I.—Non-Contents
against it. 21.—Majority, 20.—Adjourned.