The National Register.
London, England, 1822-04-07 00:00:00

t .at TO.. would not be an improper limit to aAiga to th it
That a duly from 14=. to 15% slmuld he imposed upon
f )reign wheal for home colibunositio.i, when the price io bum
7th. to 804.

A'st, that it duty of 3s. should he iropoted upon such
u lie..t, when the price is from Bth. to 855.; after whicu the
duly should be reduced to Is.
And that a further additional duty of 51. should be ims
posed upon wheat imported or takru out of warehouse fur
home consumption, for the first three months after time puts
open, and w hen the price is halm 70, to 85.,.
And fur the purpose of rectifying the scale which governs
the import, the general ptitpurtion in melt the price of way
hears to the price of wheat, appearing to e steed the p. st-
port hum which was as-timed It, exist, when 275. sins taxed .ts
the import price of oats, your committee •ur{e,l, that it
would be expedient to increase that price, su as to bear
more accurate proportion to the price of wheat.
The scale at wlitc It bailey is estimated appearing to lie
more correct than that of oats, the same propot tout %%hi, it
it now bears to wheat, appears tit to continue, under ;:oy
future alteration of the import p, Ice.
The 6th, 701, Imith, end 91h clsu.t..ll of the net, which re-
gulates the unpin tattoo of corn, make pi osiHun for admitting
corn, meal, or daur, tieing the growth, prodare or mauttfite.
lure anti, British colony or plantation iti North Anarru•;t,
fur home consumption, is hen British w heat is at a loner
price than 80, ; with regard to which colonies, It will he
eonsist.nt with good faith and sound policy to preser•e
the same relative preference above foreign curt, tin the event
of any future alteration being applied to the scale of prams
or of duties.

In compliance with an application mule to them by see, -
rid of the owners of the fol eiga grain non• stored in Aare-
houses, your committee have ala ends recommended, that
permission may be granted, under P Alit and adequate
regulrtions, to eoneett it into liar, and export it in inat
shape, by which means some portion ul this large sun 'a will
be carried out of the kingdom, and remove all oppreliemuna
that the quantities so ground down cats ever enter into 101!1
pi litho) with our blame produce ; but in the t vent of as Mtge
portion not belt% thus disposed uf, and still remainiate ns
tore, it appears practicable to ;adopt a method which may
render this remainder also advantageow, raltu•r than dela :-
fecund. in its effect upon the value of Ballasts cum, whenever
the average price of our British wheat shall have a Isms Io
70s. and fluctuate between 10s. mad lilts. ; for if it he theta
allowed to be taken out for home consumption, stdiject to a
duty of Us, per quarter for the first three months, and Oi ter-
wards to a duty of 125., the interest of the props ietors of this
grain will be brought • ly into unison wills that of tile
British agriculturist, unit into de:ect hostility to that of all
oilier impanels of fuleign grain; so that every endeavour
will he resorted to, out their part, to utisaiice Ilse ;vier tss
70s. that they may liberate their own stock; but to keep it
below 80s. that lacy may exclude all foreign competitors.
The equitable claim which the holders of the grain, already
deposited under the act of the 53th, of the late Kiug, app. ter
to possess, will thus be beneficially preset ved to them,
and the danger of an immense iiifiut of foreign produce situ
be mitigated and preferred if not wholly prevented.
It must of course be left optional to the pauprielors is
question, to avail themselves of this permission, or to Maine
by the couditions of the existing lass, under which they Un-
ported ; but in the first case, the enyilient of a moderate
duty will enable t hem, at an earlier period, to entei a market
over w hick they may exercise some COlllrotil Cllij.111111) scan
all the dealers in British corn : whale• in the other, tises coo
hardly expect to stern the torrent of foleacn produce poured
in upon our existing supply,aud the immediate depre•srou tat
value which must unavoidably accompany if.
if the circumstances of this scantily should hereafter
allow the trade in corn to be pm inattently settled masa a
footing constantly open to all the wink', but sultiect to such
a fixed and uniform duty us 1111,11+ compensate to the British
grosser the ditleretice of ex pence at whirls his ruru COO he
raised and brought to market, together with the fair rote
of profit upon the capital employed, compared with the
caps lice of productiou, and other charges attending coil
grown and imported from abroad, such a system would in
many respects be preferable to any noudifieteiou of regula-
tions depending upon average prices, w ills an ascending and
descending settle of duties; because it would prevent the
cll.:els of combiliation and speculation, in endravourine to
raise or depress those averages, and to rt niter immate•riai
these inaccuracies which, from inanagetueet or negligence,
have occasionally produced, and may again produce, tacit
mischievous elf.-ets upon our market: but your committee
rather look forward to such a system as lit to be kept iu view
for the altimate tendency of our law, than as practicot.l-.
ithin any short or definite period. A protecting (ivy
O bids might at this day be hardly sufficient 110 guard oar
home market fawn the most mem lactating conyetitatio,
might, when the excessive abundance un the continent
have been absoi bed, operate against the real wants of !els
kingdom, and subject the gross eis, us well as the constuners,
to the gl eldest incoseveuience. Years of deatth may again
make it iadispensuble to have r. cunt-wit) foreign prodare for
a part of our supply, although iu seasons of ordinary plenty
it may be hoped that our own agriculture has been so Un-
proved and extended, us to secure this kingdom from a state
of dependence upon other, and eventually hostile, territories
tor the sunsistenee of its population.
Your commitme bate telt it their duty, for obvious reasun•,
to lay without further delay before the House, the result of
their deliberations ; but they would consider that they had
omitted a most material pr.rt of the task imposed mom tlicai,
if they neglected to enquire into the system upon when
foreign corn is warehoused. Your gomutittee arc now en-
gaged in carefully investigating this important sulqect, and
they vs ill not fail to report the result to the House as eat ly
as the nature of the enquiry will permit.
Aptil 1, 1822.

General Alava, the Spanish officer who distin-
guished himself under the Duke of Wellington, at
Waterloo, and who subsequently had 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 fur 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
reprt at Calais that his Royal Highness Pinto.:
Leopold might be shortly expected there on his re-
turn to England.