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Green. the agent- of Valentine Blake, E.q. Who
hod petitioned the Howse against the return of M.
Prendergast, Esq. for battery. The Petitioner, Mr.
Creel). stated that Mr. Preodeirgoot. kit having say
known residence in Gra►t Britain, the Petitioner
-*nano( been able to serve isitivivith the requisite
notices respecting entering into recognizance*. and
t►raying an extension of the time allowed for that
• translate.
After a reference to the Journals, the order of the
House of the 10th February was passed. by which
seven days notice to the Clerk of the Howse f
Commons is required to be given of entering into
v.:cognisance, i►t cases where the residence of tl►e

Member complained of is unknown. Mr. Greets,
.the alleut of Val. Blake. gaq. *s► here called in.
. and after being examined by the Speaker as to the
character in Which he attended the House. the time
for entering into the recognizance* was afterwards
.extended to Monday se'onight.
Alderman Wow) gave notice that he should
inorrogo move for the appointment of a Committee
OA inquire into the stale of the London Prison♦.

EXCHEQUER BILLS.
Mr. NIABERLY rose to move for certain *returns
reldive to Exchequer Bills. Before doing so he
requested the indulgence of the House to the few
oisservetions which he 'should think it his duty to
sabinit to them. It would be in the recollection of
;he House, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer
had, in the former Session, proposed, by the addi-
tion of new taxes, to establish en efficient sinking
fond of five millions. He (Mr. Moberly) would
not then quarrel with the means by which the Right
Hon. Gentleman proposed to effect that purpose,
though sit,doilliteilly some of the taxes laid on
yres.rd most ileltri;y on the labouring classes of the
community, by enhancing the price of the raw
roater,el, diratnishing the demand. and costae-
t!uelitly thiowing the artisan out of employment.
11 al lolled snore particularly to the tax on
wo.d. He had thought at the time, that the
t .xis proposed by the Right Honourable Gen-
t.hlitaii would be unproductive ; for if the
rt. was not employed how could he he able
Tt, pay taxes? It was not fur this lie should find
imy fault with the Right Hon. Gentleman, fur
undoubtedly he was most desirous that the taxes
sho,ill he as productive as pos-ible. but he did
ti,:d v.ith him for afterwards misleading the
llon.c, when he came down in February last. At
that bone I,r ::new that the imports and exports
of the year hail fallen short as compared wi:h
the I.st year—the former via millions, and the
Litter test millions. Now how was the sinking
Lind of tits toillions to be created ? The taxes
most he productive or unproductive. accurdiug to
the increase or decrease of the exports and imports,
•tod the Right Hon. Gentleman knew in February
lost that they had fallen off, yet he then assured
'the House h.: had every reason to think his expec-
tasion. of a sinking fund would be realized.—
The Honourable Member here entered into •
cainperison and calculation of the revenue and
expenditure (from documents which, though not yet
printed, would, he trusted, be found correct), from
•which it appeared that so far from there being mu
excess of revenue to form this sinking fund of five
millions. there was really • deficiency, and the
country actu.,llv had no sinking fund at all. Ile
estimated the deficiency at 838.3181. to which, if
dm deficiency on the revenue of Ireland was added,
the total would be above one million. In the last
Session the Right Honourable gentleman bad
waled 'a deficiency of thirteen millions, which had
been provided for by loan ; and also he stated
the unfunded debt as 10,600,0001. the amount
of which he engaged to reduce. But to his
Heat surprise, by the papers laid before the
ouse, he perceived that the unfunded debt to
J,,nuary, 1820, amounted to no less a sum than
11,698,0001., notwitlistandisig 10,600,0001. had
been voted fur the reduction of the unfunded debt.
He complained that the same system of temporary
expedients were still pursued; and notwithsiand-
log the premise of a permanent system, they vet
set med to have no end. The interest on the Ex-
chequer bills was never known to be so much in
armor as vow, sod if this was • permanent system,
he roust say he thought it was worse than the tern-
porsry one. It would be remembered, that when
the Hight Hun. Gentleman brought in • Bill in
the last Session to enable the Government to take
FIX millions of the growing produce of the COOllO.
belated Fund in aid of the current expenses, it was
particularly approved of by the Hon. Member fur
Carlisle; but surely he never could have imagined
that the
_greater part of that sant would be advanced
by the Bank of England; yet this was the case,
arid must be *a as long as the system should von-
Wine of calling en the Bank for the arrears of the
Consolidated Fund. The danger of this system
was, that if the revenue should, its it appeared
likely, fall short, the Bank would be again culled
Owl; but as thew would then probably be paying
in specie, and au tij.:ct toe run upon them for it. they
would not be able to accommodate the Gusterrinsent,
for it was the first July of the Directors of she Brook
to :eke care of their own constitueute—and they roust
end would do so. It was the duty of Parltameut
to take care that thus should cot happen ; and they
ought to lake cute that the public creditor was never
pat in env bazar(' or doubt ps to his dividend.
It the publie creditor was to be paid, then taxes
XPost be laid no. but they would riot, hr hoped, be
lases siffectitig the working classes ; but recourse
mast be had to s property tax. to the amount he
iihnuld recommend, of ten ; this might
enable the Minister to take off other taxes, which
at present bore hard on thr middling classes, and
wauld be 'okra by them as a boon. Ile contended
that the Cores Laws operated as a tax on all the
community to the monist of the difference be-
tween the price at which corn could be imported,
a,.d the price which was now paid. That wee • tax
100 which did nut go into the Exchequer, but into
the pockets of the landholders and lie should thiuk
that this was • tax IXIIICI) 110 Gentles:tau would con-
tend ought to be continued. He concluded by
iterviag—
" 'Mat there be laid before the House • Regime( all la-
chequer BM. sod Itiab 'ragwort Bills lowed batwing gib
Massy,' iiit, sad Bib assuary, swims the bitterest
issue% far what service, and soder the authority
of artist Act."
This CIMICII4OII4 the Escallops"' mid. that
it_sreolist ho bet 4 soooessory sad improper for
hies at this period to. „Faster Soto full 'spleen-
eie4ms.aiLdte.optvn which the HI,. .0•11.11'..
um had treated. as it mild be to egret pram.

tut4ly diseusliog the pl•b if tinarroe Yw the ye•►,
the impropriety of which was evident. On one or
twit points►, however, he would make a few obser-
cations. The Huss. Member hail taken it fir
granted, that the new taxes had all bided ; but
although it wit *ell known that iu the first year
anew duties they never were so fully productive,
as there was much charged which did not come n►
till afterwards, in the malt duty. for example,
there we, a credit of five months,s bust taking the
rectos and the arrears, it would appear from tile
returns of three quarters', that the twirl would be
very nearly as the estimated amount Mr the whole
year. With respect to toe isiterest s.f lEsclorqutr
bills, he could assure the Hunourab/e Member
that it had been regularly lurid, and that • very
large portion of those outstanding were in the pos-
session of tl►e Bank. It was • uiisuuderstandiuq
of the I-Unions-able Member to suppose that he
had ever engaged that the amount of taxes should
leave a sufficient surplus to raise an efficient
siuk-
issg fund of five nolliosis ; the amount of ouch •
urplos could only be a-re►taused by experience.
Mr. JOHN SMITH agreed with the Right Hon.
Genilrman in the propriety of not disclostrig any
part of his plait of flounce for the year, till the
proper period arrived when he meant to lay it fhlly
before the House ; and he expressed his hopes, that,
when it was produced, it would he a. permanent
plan : as the uncertaiiiry in snot respect was, he
thought, one inducement to individuals to trod
their capitals to foreign countries.

Mr. Baeiito thought that, rotwitlistanding what
had been said about u peemanent system, much of
the fluctuation must be attributed to the state of
the country, in which there had been constant
changes; and lie could not say that a permanent
system was so much to be desired as some Ho-
nourable Gentlemen seemed to think, unt►l the
country had settled down to r quiet state. He
thought that nothing was more essential to re-
store public credit, and the prosperity of the coun-
try, than a clear and suiboalitial sinking fund. He
complained of the circulitioii of drafts out the
Treasury at long terms hai•iog taken place on the
Continent, as a means, hr imagined, of raising
money in a way, which, among commercial men,
was always e►teemed extremely disreputable. He
hoped the Right Hun. Gentleman would afford the
House some explanation on a subject which was ex.
trernely similar to a tramaction of the hie Mr.
Piti'a, which was the object of considerable censure
at the time it occurred.

The CHANCELLOR or the EXCHEQUER, in reply
to Mr. Baring, explained the circumstance alluded
to by him as arising out of our pecuniary trans-
actions with France, and that in a few months the
whole would be closed, when complete accounts
should be rendered.

Mr. Gattf FELL supported the motion.
Mr. BARING explvined.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT raid, that if any alteration
was to take place, or Hew taxes to lit laid on, it
would he but fair flint funded properly shout.; bt ar
at least a part of the burden ; as the fundbulder
was actually now receiving a considerable bonus,
he „having advanced his 'snooty to Government sit a
time when the currency was gleatly depreciated,
and was now receiving his interest In a currency
whose value had been piece raised to nearly its ori-
ginal standard. It would therefore, in his (minion,
be both cruel and unjust to make any alteration,
or lay any taxes which should tend to increase the
advantages which they already enjoyed.
Mr. A 116111.11, in reply, observed, that as to what
the Hon. Member who spoke last had said, hr
could assure him he had no reference to the fond.
holder in particular, but to the country at large.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer hind affected to
consider his motion as o call ou him to disclose his
measures of finance, but lie would appeal to the
House whether he had amid any thing so improper,
or which could justify the Right Hon. Gentleman
in taking that hue of reply. He contended that
his former statements of deficiency were correct ;
what hr had said was applicable to the whole of
the revenue ; but the Right lion. Gentleman in
his reply, had cotifilied 'morel( to the question of
the productiveness of the new taxes only. The
Right Hon. Gentleman had also talked of charges
in aid of his trceipts ; but it was well known that
there always were considerulde charges, on spirits,
for instance ; or if there were not, the next year's
revenue would be lameiitably deficient.
The qiiesti 111 l was then put and carried.
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The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER brought
up returns relating to the etwil Lint of
Ordered to be prtuttd.
Sir G. CLERK brought up Estimates of Navy
Extraordiroaries.

Lord PAI.IIERSToN brought up further Esti.
testes, which were ordered to he added to the Esti-
mates slreatiF before the Honor.
Mr. LUSHINGTON brought up account« of the
income and exprossistule nu the Consolidated Fund.

IRISH F.XCHrQUER COURT.
Mr. C. GRANT brought its a BM for thts.better
administering justice in the Court of Exchequer
Chamber in Inland, which was read a first time.
Sit J. Ni.WPORT wished to know whether the
reports of the Irish Judges, which were expected,
had beets received ?

Mr. C. GIANT replied that they were not yet
received, though daily expected. If they did not
anise in time. he signified his intention to go on
without them.
Sir Jou* Nawroar expressed an earned wish
that they should be speedily brought before the
House. Otherwise, as some of them would contain
matter little short of an absolute subversion of pub-
lic justice. he should feel it incumbent on him to
take some other method of bringing the subject be.
fore the House.
The Bill was ordered to he read a second time
to-morrow.

Mr. C. GIANT gave notice. that he would to•
morrow move the Order of the Day for resolving
the whole House into Committee 011 the Bill for
regulatiwg Tres in the Courts of Justice in behind.
The Bill for enabling his Main,iy to become
President of the South Sea Company. was read a
second time.
Mr. Lestirecreor pee notice. that hr would to.
mortar move the Order or the al for resolving
the whole Moose int. a Consminao of Supply..
. kdkreroedwt twenty minutes paat seven o'clock
till te.lostree (this de)).

PORE' lON INT KLLIGKNC Ir.
pARts PA PURL

PARIP, MAY •.
On Saturday inerning, before mass the King received
Lori/ Spencer, Pee► ofAisglawil, in private ■odiesce.
It appears definitively determined th it the report of the
promo ageism. Lunt will he snide to the Chamber of Perri
uu Seitorday, the 1351 of May. The Atturney•Gemeral will,
it is mod, be heard on the Moseley following. Louvel
will then be arraigned, sad the Chamber will determine
upon the late of those persons who are partly compro-
mised in this affair. The law will bore again interpose
a delay, and the trial cannot commence until the week
after Pentecost. During this interval Louvel will be en.
abled to choose his advocate, or in the event of hie refusal,
to accept use who will be appointed by the Court of Peers.
The Emperor of Austria was to leave Vienna on the sth
of May for Berlin, where he will have an interview with the
King of Prussia and the Emperor of Russia, oa the subject
of those questions which were nut decided by the Congress
of Vienna.

Another atrocious attempt against the Royal Family has
been defeated. The following are the authentic details of
this important event :
" Count Angles, Prefect of the Police, having received
secret information that • scheme was amnged to he put in
execution on the night of the 7th instant fur producing •
second explosion under the windows of the Duchess Dc
Berres apartment, Isis Exec Peaty, at half-past ten, repair-
ed to the Tuileries sud concerted precautionary measures
with Marbbal Macdonald, Major.G I M. service, fur
surprising the perpetrator in the act. The sentinels were
removed, and disguised gendarmes and polite officers were
stationed in ambush to inure his detection. At mid.
night a man was perceived to approach, with cautions step,
the private door which open. into the Rue de l'Erhelle,
*here he deposited a petard. At 11.: moment that he was
shunt to set fire to the fuse by meags.'of a heated seer, the
police agents and military rushed upolihim. He was escorted
to the guard-hotote, where he fainted. Oa recovering, he
Lave his name Gracie's, and be was Won recognised, having
been • Captain in the sth regiment of lancers of the Ex-
Imperial Guard. 0,, his .person was found a copy of some
odious ievectives seamed the Royal Family, in verse. On
examining the petard, it Mea discovered that it contained
about two pounds of porde,. The Attorney-General
quickly arrived, before whom Grariers underwent as exa-
mination, which lasted from owe o'clock until six. In the
comma yesterday two of his accomplices were lakes, owe
of whom, named &don, was formerly • courier. It is
supposed they are two individuals who were observed to
post themselves, at the time of Graniete approach to the
P. lace, one sear the Rue de Rivnli, the other iw the Place
Carrousel, both of whom Red precipitately sin his arrest."

Adviees from Madrid lu the 27th ult. have been received
in ?aria by the regular courier from Spain, of which the
following is the subatanee:--
" Several English aserekants have arrived in Madrid from
London, to offer the Spanish governmeut a sum of four
hundred millions reale at a moderate interest; the Provi.
siunal Junta, it is said, has rejected the proposal, under the
persuasion that on the asaembliug of the Cortes, the govern-
ment will del ire ample supplies from the immense resource.
of the Peninsula. It is mid that the Spanish merchant■
have engaged to advance the required loam at the most mo-
derate interest."

FLANDERS MAIL.

saubseis, MAY 5.

Later accounts relative to the passage of several
English equipages through, aware us that they are
in Net those of the Duchess of Kent, but that they
only precede her Royal Highness, who will arrive
in a few days.—(Joarnal de la Belgique, May 6.)
BRUSSELS, MAY 6.

Accounts from Ostend, dated play 5, *ay—
" The suite of her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, as well at her equipage, composed of a great
number of horses and carriages, arrived in this
town yesterday, to be embarked on board of the
Christiana transport, which has come from Eng-
land on purpose."--(oraele, May 7.)

6RUSSBLS, MAYA.

M. Moenen, clergyman of S. Denis, near Cour.
tray, and M. Coulon, clergyman of Harigstader,
near Furrier, are expected shortly in this city, to be
tried for the offence which has caused them to he
arrested. They are accused, it is said, of having
preached against the oath which is required by the
laws of the States.—(Brussels Papers, May 6.)

HAGUE. NUT li.

The King'• health continues to improve, and no
more bulletins are issued. His Majesty is ezpected
to go to the Palace at Loo as soon as he is strong
enough to undertake the journey, and it will not
be till slier he has spent some time there, hi•
Majesty will come to Brussels.

FRANKFORT. NAT 1.
The sentence of death passed upon Saud by the
tiibunal at Manheitn, has been confirmed by the
Government of Baden.

The Plenipotentiaries of the German Courts at
Vienna held their twenty-fourth conference on the
1114th of April. It is singular that there are still
people who continue to affirm that the Congress
has broken up.
TILNIIA. APRIL 27.
It seems that the Plenipotentiaries of the Ger-
man States are no longer stopped in their delibera-
tions by the discussions in the Committees, for on
the 45th and 26th they had their twenty-fifth and
twenty-sixth conferences. This rapid succession
seems to iudicate that they are approaching the
conclusion.
LUCERNE. APRIL 24,
The two Swiss regiments in the service of Spain,
which are in the blood of Majorca, have acquaint.
ed the Confederation, that, by the order of the
King, they have taken the oath to the Constitution
of 1912. We are informed, however, that no fo-
reign troops will be retained in the service of
Spam.
otooss, MAT 6.
Tile Tribes,' of the pivot Instence has been
copied jesterday andlo4lof iu the Unit ',die per.

THE 13 RITISii Pit ESS

LONDON,

FRIDAY, MAY 14. MO.

A Flanders Mail arrived last night with Papers
from Brussels to the Bth instant. The sentence of
death pronounced on Sand, the murderer of
KOTZEBUE, has been confirmed by the Government
of Baden. It appears that preparations have been
making for the reception of some member of the
Rayed Family at Lliwsels, and hence arose the
erroneous report of the arrival of her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of lirsc.

We have received Paris Papereof Monday last.
Spain continues tn. enjoy tranquillity, and the work
of the revolution proceeds happily and triumphant-
ly. A Decree has been issued by the King of
SPAIN. with the advice of the Junta, for forming
regiments of militia throughout the provinces, with
the intention, it is said. of immediately disbanding
the troops of the line. The report that a French
army was forming iii the vicinity of the Pyrenees,
is contradicted in accounts from Iron. MINA
is so unpopular in Navarre, that the people have
prayed the Government to recal him.—An at-
tempt was made on Sunday night to cause
an explosion of gunpowder under a window
of an apartment in the palace occupied by the
Duchess of EMMY, wita the hope, probably,
or destroying by fright the last hope of the
house of BOURBON. but the ruffian who under-
took to ignite the petard was seised with the
match lighted in his hand. His name is GRAVIER,
an ex-Captain of the lancers of the Imperial
Guard.

We hare received New Yin k Papers to the kith
ult. and Philadelphia rod Charleston to the 10th
and sth. The proceedings in Congress are
brought down to the sitting of the Bth of April.
On that day the Senate entered iuto the con-
sideration or a Bill, supplementary to the " Act
concerning Navigaiimi," passed in April, 1818,
the CIA of which are directly intended to affect
the c aaaaa itiercial intercourse between the Colonies of
this country and the United States. The first
clause will explain it• operation :
" Be it enacted, Ike. That from and afier the day
of all and every of the provisions sad rekalatisma
of the Aet of C,oagress mimed on the 18th April,lBlB, esti.
Sled Aa Act concerning NatigstiOss,' be, and the sane are
hereby extended sad made applicable to t►e islaatis of Cape
Breton, St. /Oh s, Neirfoundlood, and their depoodesseles,
to the &roods lamas, the Bahasa. bleeds, the Islands
called Cakes, sad *sail ether colooice, plantatioas, imbued%
sod pasiseasione, Istiarciag 141 Ilk seder the &minis of
Grigg lkitaia, be the West ladies, or the Coittlaeot of
Amer*, sea& of the With degree of mirth latliode; sod
all sad web of the easements and provision of said Aet
shall be consented as eatinedieg la, and as applyiog irk all

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ami every of IM poilis-soioni, a lwiay pt Lees, sad islaids
above roratioatd."

The !envied clause enacts, that no goods, wareo,
or merchandise shall he imported into the United
States of America from soy of the above ptscvs,
unless they are " truly and wholly or the growth_
produce or manufacture" of the said places. Am
contravention of this law to incur the forfeiture of
the vessel and cargo. The Bill having been read,
and supported by Mr. King, of New York, 111 r:
Macon, Mr. Barbour, and otheri, the ftirtit.r
cussion of it was postponed till the fullowi,-.;
on the motion of Mr. Parrott, Who thouipat it
" did not go fir enough."

Six petitions were presented yesterday evening
in the House of Commons from bodies of agriciii.
turists in various parts of the country, complaiiiin4
of the extremity of their distress, and peeving
legislative assistence. In the representations eon.
twined in these petitions of the severe distress that
has befallen the occupiers and cultivators of land it
all parts of the empire, there is, we fear, no mg.
gerrtion. Bitter as the calamities have hero that
have afflicted the manufacturing and commr,c,,i
classes of the community, they have in no respect
exceeded those experienced by the egriculturiats;
but the former, from their habits of society awl
greater facility of communication, are geirtrally
louder and readier than the latter in their coot.
plaints, and phew less patience under the weight of
their sufferiligs. The agriculturists are, however.
not less entitled to the indulgent sympathy of the
Legislature, and if the measures which they pro-
pose were calculated to relieve them of the dit.trrNT!,
under which they now labour, the propriety of
yielding to their wishes wonlil perhaps he little
questioned. The error, however. of the leaders
of the agricultural body is this : they do not seem
to be aware that the clammily, they endure is iu fort
derived froou the depression of the commercial arid
manufacturing bodice, and while they aim at rut
exclusive good, they destroy the very source and
spring of their ultimate prosperity. They alarm
themselves most unaccountably with the insegioary
evil of being obliged to meet with foreign compe-
titors in their own market, but in keeping exclusive
possession of the market they exhaust the ability
of the purchasers. They indeed exclude foreign
competitors, but they also exclude illative cow-
owners, and they will render their gloomy sove-
reignty still less profitable in proportion 34 they are
permitted to render it more and more exclusive.

An Winnable pamphlet upon the Injariour
Consequences of the Restrictions upon Foreign eons.
neerce has been lately published by Mr. Namur,
in which the question respecting the restrict
upon the trade in corn is very ingeniously ead
satisfactorily examined. The author, who. entitles
himself • Member of the late Parliament, and
whom rumour points sot to be an eminent cirri-
!allot in the city, remarks very forcibly, that " the
largest supply (of corn) which other countries have
ever afforded us, has not bees adequate to mole
than an estimated sufficiency to supply three ur
four weeks consumption ;" and that " this is not
a supply which can annually he given to ti. Lc
other nations, but is one which prtvions scrotum-
lotion, or a season of more than 'nod abundance,
has enabled them to afford us." If this statemeut
be correct (and that it is so we may safely cooclade
from the very inconsiderable quantity, in com-
parison with what is required for our house con-
sumption, of both corn and flour, which, accord-
ing to the Parliamentary returns, was imported
during the years 1817 and 1818), there seems to
be no good ground fur the extreme alarm whicii
our agriculturists felt at the notion of meet-
ing with foreign competitor.. The late in-
genious Me: COLQUHOUN estimated in the year
1812, that the quantity of all kind. of corn ne-
cessary for our consumption amounted to about
forty millions of quarters. The most sanguine
of our agriculturists cannot hope that sufficient
corn can be raised at home for the use of our
present enlarged population; 33333 e quantity there-
fore must be obtained front other countries ;
and when we consider how small the portion
must be, iu comparison with our wantl, which fo-
reign nations can supply us from their own super-
fluous produce—how great the expense must he of
transporting such bulky and perodsoble articles as
corn cud flour—the necessary rise in the price of
corn even in the foreign market., which the ()veil-
ing of our porta most cause, cud which would be
maintained equally by the regularity of the demand
and supply, we may fairly conclude that the ave-
rage price of 1.1011 would be as high in the English
markets as it is at present, were the existiog Corn
Laws-altogether removed ; and we would forth, r
add, that if corn were permitted to become a me-
diem of commerce freely titchasigeable lirtwrett
this country cud the Continent, it would operate
like as incense in the circulating metallic medium/
and infuse a spirit and animation into the commer-
cial concerns of this country, which, by increasing
the abilities of the home consulates, would give an
additional intimate sod energy to the native 'grind-
tura! interests.
Wrre the inetessed restrictions now proposed by
the sgrieultural body adopted by Parlisietel. we
have no doubt that the result would be, W ieetiest
in a iftutilegroe the existing sseborisesseeteso of tee
oosster, The sviesiterielo dresiseewsp wilt
admit that des proposed rostifedsee cas Si et so

avail for the objects by them contemplated, unlede
the price of corn be proportionally raised. But
the experience we have had of the effect of the last
law teaches us that the price of corn cannot be ele-
vated even by Acts of Parliament, for although the
firmer* of that law looked for Ward to fins. as the
fair remunerating price, the average price of corer,
amidst all its destructive fluctuations, has been for
the most part considerably below that estimate.
Corn therefore has been most perniciously excluded
from the commerce of this country, and yet the
reclusion has not even iu appearance benefited the
English far Mer, while it has circuitously and even-
tually exhausted the very spring and source of his
prosperity. No proposition seems to be clearer
tlsaii that the prosperity of thee grower of any article
must depend upon that of the consumer, hut the
agriculturists proceed upon a principle directly
hostile to it, and hope to gain an exclusive benefit
from a measure which impoverishes the great body
of their purchasers.

Vl'e *cold not, however, be understood to throw
the least discredit upon the representations of dta-
tre►s now submitted to Parliament by the agricul-
tural body, on the contrary, we think such repre-
sentations highly soseful sod necessary. The agri-
cultural body labours at present under two great
evils—the weight of the poor•s rates, and the bur.
den of taxation. From the former they undoubted-
ly cannot be relieved by any measures which would
be calculated to increase the distresses and poverty
of the manisfactunng and labouring cl who de-
pend upon the state of the markets for their sub-
sistence. This is an additional reason against im-
posing any additional restrictions upon the corn
trade; but from the burden of taxation Parlia-
ment might afl id them considerable relief. This
can be effected only by establishing • system of
strict economy in every branch of the administra-
tion, and the *Mumma of it is in the hands of
the agriculturists in Pailiament ; for let the coun-
try gentlemen in the House of Commons resolve
firmly to pursue this great object of national desire,
and untie their exertions in honest sincerity with
those who have long laboured, though inffectually,
to retrench the needless extravagance ofgovernment,
and they will thereby achieve • far more beneficial
result for all classes in the state, and one which,
we doubt not, will eventually be more gratifying to
tile agricultural body,than if in the pursuit of their
injudicious policy they were to succeed in exclud-
ing foreign corn from this island altogether.

Yesterday Viscount CASTLEREAGH was so much
recovered from his indisposition, that he left his
.tonre. attended the KING at his Palace in Pall-
mall. and had a long audience.

The Earl of CHATHAM had an audience of his
1%111.3 EtiTY yesterday.

The following is Mr. GRATTAN% answer to the
Dublin Centiotholic Address, requesting him to
pompom his journey to London :--

Stephen's-green, May 5, 1820.
GlenlAgMalt—llleank you much for your sobcitudeon my
account. 1 did intend to bring on your question speedily,
but I feel that this is at present impossible; 1 shall en-
deavour to bring it on in a reasonable time, such as may
suit the cuoventetsee of the parties concerned.
Nothing but physical impossibility shall prevent me, as I
commie( that my last breath belongs in my country.
I ba►s the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your ►ery obedient humble rereant,
HENRY GRATTAN.
_ .

I hope, in the course of Next week, to be able to write to
you tome fully on the important subject alluded to in your
AdJress.

The Dublin Freeman's Journal of Monday, in
a Second Edition, announces the receipt of letters
by tbr English mail, arrived that day, which state,
upon the most creditable authority, that the Catho-
lic Question will be brought forward this Session
with the whole force of the Ministry.
By the Lady Popham advice, have been received
front Jamaica to the 48th March. By a vessel be-
hinging to BRIOM'S squadron, amanita had reached
iii stop of the Irish troops, rendezvoused at Marga-
rita. having effected a landing at Rio de la Ruche,
which piece they took without bloodshed. Of course
ibis is an open and defenceless point, of no value,
unless for its communications with Saute Fe, where,
if we are to believe the American papers, material
changes have taken place. Rio de la Hache is the
town that was the theatre of some of AFGaztroa's
grand operations. We are glad to find that Sir
110 ME POPHaM is perfectly recovered; indeed his
illness liss been greatly exaggerated. The brig Li-
bertador, Captain CHITTY, had finally been con-
demned.

Lima Gazettes from September op to the bah
December, brought by a Gemlemon who witues.ed
the whole of Lord COCHRA N it's unsuccessful at-
tacks, have reached town. The Viceroy Pat UCLA
is so satisfied with the country he commands, that
he orders even the most inflammatory passages
of the Chili Papers to be reprinted in Peru, where
be is in no way uneasy, but, on the contrary, mach
stronger than is generally believed in Europe. 'rile
army of Upper Peru perfectly well kept up. Lord
Cocutanit's failure with his rackets had created
some amusement. A Comedy, or rather Farce,
called after the Chili Admiral, had been got op at
the Lima Theatre. The Prologue is a canons corn.
Position. The first scene is w the desert island of
San Lorena°. Great clamour hod been raised
against Lord COCHRAHR iia consequence of his
plunders on the coast. let Pisco he burnt 8,000
barrels of brandy, valued at 200,000 dollars, all
private property.
Letters from Canton, Chins, dated the 14th Jo.
nasty, state, that there had bear some delay in lad.
ing the ships of the season, in consequence of the
merchants erbo bring the tea down to Croton wish.
ing to sell by sample only, without lauding the
article In bulk at Croton. The Select Committer,
believers refused to purchase except upon the old
term., bed, being unanimous, the tea merchauti,
alter holdios ows • two mouths, were compelled to
up 'the peat, and the ships would receive
their acres mad be dispatched SS fast es they
were pop

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