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Trott or the tipontry ?—(lrear. hear, Lear.)—..
ilis reason* for opisottiog the alcohol motion
were mainly roomiest upon these comoteratiosis
1111.-. n no being next to isolleeeett to, tutu a
dear ear odor Pet itiosiers ; and next, with reference
to their immerser isnoitastee ii, the wide or gne.rt)
shis at least r led them to the respectful or.
t•ution of Parliaopent.—/
Beer. hoar. heor.)—
More than that he asked riot. Ile had. indeed, ft
&Olt as to the propriety of the course 'unposed,
hut it was ovethorne by rousideratimo. Ile
thought the motion tow getienil. soul that it may
lewd to misenitersitions as to flotterisig hopes womb
it wergild ultimately be iiscapahle of rralisiing. Ile
foam, himself wee pieced in a choice of dal.
rubies, awl hail roily to "elect the lesser.—
lie should have winter' the nvotiors confined tii
more definite proposition, and that the Committee,
if appnisired, were directed to look more 'omens
rally ot the subject, end confine Ihrinselv,a
memos cikeimicribrd sphere. Itot the motto,' was
Hut at his conionand. and he had only to take it lir
he rinial it„.or else omelet the alternative of shut.
ling their doors :altogether against the petitions,
unit doing nothing for tits extensive classes nom
whom they came. They hail heard singular argots
memo as well us strange views of political re otity
thin night. Ilia lion. Fitritt/ (Ur, ltignido) had
arfinea as if he hut just dropped from woollier
planet. as if he hid faller, into a world of uoiversal
Taredona of trade, where ton restrictioms ever
prevailed, no excise. 110 customs. no drawbacks.
no searcher., were ever before heard or—sas if es ery
trade was is a state of onside freedom, and that.
for the first time, a proposition% to fetter it was mule
through at don't for protecting the agricultural
deserts. the lion. Friend had lirgllta all if she first
option Or at feattictiort Mime wpm' I kern With thr
spring of the year 18;0. But did his lion. Fieud
really imagine that there was airy reality in Ibis Ulf,.
perm world he had created, by putting tin obstruct
theory such a that brought forward this stiglt?
Dial lie really believe that the owner of land stood
upon the same footing with regard to Isis cap -
tal, as did the merchant mill the snottoforcturrr ?
Look at the fact—were there not protecting do •
ties its full force for a series or years. protections
without end fair the nisouracturer.—(lhole)—aye,
and carried even to criminal enactments, that he
should work cheaper, and that the consnmer
should buy at on 'racer rate ?—(//cor, hear.)—
Look at the woollen Minuftscitire—hrow many
prollibitlims were framed for that ?-1 Ileor.)—
In the article of silk also—if the trade were free it
initzlit be haul at one-half or ore•third the present
price. But he would ask %who paid the poor's-rates
of the country ?—(Hear, bear.)—the manufac-
turer may have a lotug birolifing in which he largely
manufactured two articles—nor cotton, the tiro'
paupers—/heir. hear, tear, and a laugh
how dial he pry his share or the prollivioti fur these
paupers ?—not in proportion to th' produce of his
cotton, that may lie productive of 20,0001. a year;
nor of the pariperi, of which lie is the abundant
manufacturer, but perhaps at a rote affixed
upon *a
rent of five hunched pounds n year;
not a whit more than Ilse smile able of an adjoining
farmer,.whow produce is precariocs, sod returns
fluctuating and eneertairi. Wlin also paid the
Bridge Rats. the County Rates, Ste., but 'he
favoured fee, as they were supposed, the agricul-
turists of the cooinitry ?—(Hear, hear.)—When the
merchant cattle to be taxed, theta resounded the
cry. There was then, as Sir Robert Walpole said,
" More cry than wool."—" The pour sheep," said
Sir Robert, " comas to be shorn without at murmur;
but when another atilinal, whos'e mime lie would not
menti 111 l out of unfeigned respect for son-her class of
the community—(A laughj—vrnss brought to bear
his share of the 'molest, the noise he made was Irra
Mendolla.—(/Dear, hear.)—lt was rush and heedless
to apply the principle of tan abstract freedom of
trade to what was called the Corn flail. They say,
ilidred, that whir- the article was to be found 'eat
and cheapest, there should be sio 'Obstruction to its
being brought. Rot when this land oas cultivated
in spite of yam-serves, Mot by Caro Bill promoter.,
not by boutities. but Cutipelled and induced by
nocoritrolloble circumstances—when tin isameose
capital in this manner tiresome sunk in the cultiva-
tion—when land become as it were the deposit°, y of
this great capital, and a large part of that of
the country, it was no Matter to toll him
what was the origin of this cilltivirtioo, whether it
was wire or satirise, as well might be be referred to the Hell-
tarchy. This may be theory, but it was mot wisdom —( //ear,
hear)—lt ens too late for the theorist to tell biro, yn•
may go to Pulawil fur cheap corn, where she mil cul-
tivates the soil for bin lord —( Hear. kw, hear.)—li was
too late to try hark and review what had Mon if a-
ct] by the forte of circumstances. Suppose, for ittatanee,
that in obedience lo this theory the ports of England were
to be thrown I.lwn, lit it. ace bow this fairy vision would
practically appear. lie knew that cargoes may be import.
cal at 3.75. serf a fraction per %natter, to be deliverer/ au the
port of lamilon; 40.. would be a high end via/table price
for tl.e heat quality, and he knew also it might be had at a
much tower rate: now, 'what mould lie the t Wirt' The di.
rot sod ins citable Contain of realnOng this theory of
free trade would be, that 7 or 14,000,000 of dere. of your soil
would le instautly thrown ow of eulsivatiou aril.' any
man in his muses view ',About being appalled 611111 an
event as this ? Theo an immense branch slabs eßpilal of
the land became monk for ever, all if it had been thriwis
inla the sea ; the people became expalrialeil firms the soil un
which they mice f.d; the small isomers of the mite (win se
intricate were tool forsooth to be miutioeetl at all) fell
themselves on the pintas for support ; amd all Ilsis to marl Su-
lase the condition of ihe great balk a the people, and in get
fur each of them the guru lent Inv( a halfpenny cheaper! He
a‘serted, siaan.t liar of ronlradictlon, that at was no corn.
penaatinu fur the loss endured by one class of society to say
that souther, or others, benefited, fur tie held it an node-
'liable truth, that no service cool,' be altidued fur one part
without alf,cling the whole, that not one class cupid be in.
jury! without the frame of the whole partaking of the per.
cession. Supposing, fur imianee, a cominnnity of 1,000
persona, anal that you invent a law, the effect of which
throws 500 of them out of bread, sod Amp the portion of
hai.les.ce that ought to have romaine! Sir thrill into the
York of the rematitisig 500; is diva that community as rich
as It was before! No. the Ail meal that the additional ail.
vantage Liven to the one r:i4 1101 compensate for the unser,
entailed upon the other; and this was his reason fivr not
refusing to hams to the statement of impending gaits
alleged by Ilse agriculturials.--fiecre, hear.)l( WRO void
that if this Comnisltte be granted, the moult will lie,
that the mastufacturcr • ill withdraw his capital from (be
roost y. Now he •ppreisended no such clanger. He
was nut one of those silo Ilisiught that if it were peasilok
In devise any law by which the harden east upon serieshere
could to no/ream:lily diffused over the whole mama seemly,
iss elTret would lead to irmigratiou. If he had well read the
Cgtto of she timer, aud had a right pereeprims of-the Hale of
Hoeg; that he ea* advancing, of the progress of those goo
tundras which pressed ninth brawny epos' the eouritry, they
wood he, scot Ibis Session 011 r perhaps she weer, econprllerl
within a fro, way very few years, to look a great question is