The National Register.
London, England, 1822-04-08 00:00:00

that 10a. would not he as Improper limit to amuse te that
prier.
That a duty front Its. to 13s. should he imposed upon,
foreign wheat fur home come:option, when the price is lawn
IN. to 80s.
Also, that n duty of 6s. sholdil be imposed upon such
wheat, when the price is from 80s. to 855.; utter which the
duty should be reduced to Is.
And that a farther udditi I duly of Si. should be im-
posed upon wheat imported or taken oat of warehouse for
home cuosoinpi ion, for the first three tips after the putts
open,ffild when the price is Irum 10, tit 83:.
And Its, the purpose of rectifying the scale which governs
the import, the general proportion a hich the price of ums
bears to the price of wheat, appearing to elated the leo-
port 111 l aliieli was assumed Is. exist, a lieu Vly. was liseil as
the imrort price of oats, your co 11111 l lace suggest, that it
would he expedient to increase that prier, so us to bear a
more accurate ',amortises' to the price of wheat.
'Yale scale sit which barley is estimated appearing to be
mote Cori eel than that of mils, the same propel lion which
it now hears to wheat, appears fit to cuutinue, under any
future alteration of the import pace.
The 6th, 7 tli, dth, and 9th clauses of the act, which re-
gulates alw holm, tat 1111 l (atom, make 'Hosts fur admitting
coin, meal, or 8 suet being the grow tli, produce or inanufac.
lure of any British colony or plantation in North America,
for boom consumption, best British wheat is at a Issuer
price than 80s.; wall regard to which colonies, it will lie
consist. lit nolo good faith and sound policy to preserve
the slime relative lath:truce above foreign runt, in tile event
of any future alteratiou being applied to the scale of prices
or olduties.
In compliance a ith an application made to them by seer-
ral of the own, rs of the for eig t grain now stored in ware.
pauses, your cummittee have a). catty recommended, flint
permission may be granted, under sulfir tent and tidequirte
regul.isinto, to convert it into doer, and export it ill that
shape, by whicii means crone portion of this large stork will
be carried out of the kiogd•ms, nod remove all apprehension
that the go:mattes so ground donut can ever enter men c
-
',cation with our I produce; hut to the event of II large
portion not being thus disposal uf, and still remaining
tote, it appears practicable to adopt it method which luny
render this remainder also advantageous, rather than dicta-
mental. in its effect 'von the %aloe of Bo ttish cant, whenever
the average price of our British wheat shall hove uisrn to
70s. and fluctuate between 70s. nod 84).. ; for if it lie then
a•lowell to be taken out far hotue consumption, sultjeci to a
duty of ITs. per quarter for the first three mouths, mid after-
wards to a duty of les., the interest or the proprietors of this
grain a ill lie brought whet') into 10116110 With that of the
British agriculturist, and
other importers of foreign grain; so that every endeavour
v.. 11 he resorted to. an their part, to adsalice the pace to
70s. that th-y may libeiscie their own stocks but to keep it
below 80. that they may exclude all foreign competitors.
The equitable claim %latch the holders of the grain, already
deposited under the act of the 55th, of the late Kiug, app. ar
to possess, will thus he beneficially preserved to them,
mitl the danger of ten immense Minix of foreign produce a ill
be mitigated and preferred if not wholly prevented.
It taunt of course be left optional to the proprietors in
question, to avail I lieruselv es of alias permission, or to abide
by the couditions of the existing law, under which they im-
ported ; but in the first ease, the pastrami of it moderate
dot y will enable them, at an Cal lie, period, to eider a market
over which they may exercise some coot r uul cot jonoly with
all the dealers in Batisti corn : while is, the oilier, tory ClOl
hardly expect to stein the torrent of firs eien produce posited
in upon our existing supply, and the immediate depeessiois of
value a hick must altsvi,ida lily accompany it.
If the CiITIIIIOIIIII6CII of 11116 c1.1161111y Should hereafter
allow the trade in corn to be permanently settled upon a
footing constantly opeo to all the woad, but subject. to such
it tiled and uniform duty us might compensate to the Hi.tish
grosser the dittereme ut expence at which his roes can be
raised and brought to market, together wills the fair rate
of prod: 111104 P the capital employed, compared with the
exp. nce of production, and other charges attending cora
grown and isuported from abroad, such u system would in
many respects be preferable to any modificicion of regula-
tions depending upon average prices, with an ascending and
descending scale of duties; because it would prevent the
effects of combination and speculation, in endeavouring to
raise or depress abuse averages, and to ender inuratateriol
these inaccuracies a Inch, from management or negligence,
have oecusiemelly produced, and may again produce, such
mischievous eff els Bison our market: but your co 11111 l itlee
rather look forward to suck it system us lit to be kept in view
fur the ultimate teitilency of our law, than us practicable
is tams any short or definite period. A protecting dilly
%latch Might It this day be hardly sufficient to gonad our
home market fan the most meat helining c petition,
might, when the excessive abundance nit the coutinent shall
have been absoi bed, operate against the real wants or this
kingdom, and subj act the groweis,
__ us well Its the consumers.
to the greatest incuovemeace. Years of dearth man again
make it itidispeitsubie to have recourse to foreign produce for
a part of tour supply, although in seasons of ordituary plenty
it 111:1y be hoped that our ono agriculture has bees, so im-
proved aud e11C1011.61, 10 10 secure this kingdom from a stale
of dependence upon sillier, and eveutually hostile, territories
tot lite sa 616:611CC of its population.
Your committee have telt it their duty, for obvious reasons,
to lay is about further delay before the (louse, the result of
their deliberat ; but thi y a cold consider that they hod
omitted a most material p:.rt of the task imposed olio', them,
if they neglected to enquire lido tne system upuo %loch
foreign coin is warehoused. Your committee one now est-
gagel 111 filrefUlly investigating this important subject. and
they not fail to report the result it, the house us curly
as the Wlllllll. of the enquiry will permit.
Aped

General Alava, the Spanish officer who distin-
guished himself under the Duke of Wellington, at
Waterloo, and who subsequently bad a pension of
8000 dollars granted him by the King of Spain, for
his gallant conduct, has generously relinquished the
whole, in aid of the exigencies of the Government.
General Alava is Deputy to the Cortes for Vittoria.
—A unanimous vote of thanks was passed by that
Assembly in acknowledgment of the sacrifice.
Viscount Chateaubriand, the ambassador from the
King of France to the British Court, arrived on
Wednesday at Calais from Paris. There was a
p rert at 'Calais that his Royal Highness
I mince
Leopold might be shortly expected there on his re-
' turn to England.