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duty wale that whilst the consumer had benefited exertions of the Brazilian, Government But
says;ttl Noble
r
enormously, the- revenue, . instead of suffering, had Earl is in error, wheeein speaking of Cuba, he
become greatly thesgainer; so that the Chancellor of the ' that the slave trade is put down, or that at this
moment
Exchequer. rnigisfwell deciare.thati sys regarded sugar, the it is in course of diminution.—(fleas hear.) Thefae
increase in consumption was a marvellous example of re- is, and I regret to say so, that the slave trade of Cuba is
clueing duties.--( Elder, hear_ Jeae The benefits of the measure, on the increase; and no two subjects can be more closely
as far as this country was eorkerned, could not be contested I connected than the effects of free trade in sugar inthe
after that declaration. When foreign sugar was first ad- ; West Lelia 'colonies, and the increase of the slave trade in
mated; they were told that the effect would be to destroy, ~Cuba. At this moment, when, as has been admitted by the
the cultivation of sugar in the colonies, as also to give a Noble Earl, Jamaica is in a state of deep depression and
fresh impulse to slavery. From that statement he (Earl distress, the steam machinery of Jamaica is being tranbfer-e
Grey) at the time entirely dissented, and •stated as .his red in large quantities to Cuba, thus withdrawing it, from the'
opinion that the ultimate effect 'would be to promote cultivation of free-labour sugar to the cultivation of slave-
the abolition of the slave trade, and to increase, instead labour sugar. I believe there can be no doubt whatever
of diminish,, ;.the eutsivation• of Colonial sugar.—(Hear, the Noble Earl has admitted—that although in some of the
hear.) With regard to the slave trade, his Noble Friend colonies there has been an increase in the production Of
(Lord Palmerston) when leaving .office was able to con- sugar, yet that in Jamaica there is a state of deep depression
gratulate, himself and the country 'tet the practical -extinc- and distress existing, not arising from a diminution of pro
Lion 'of the' slave-trade'; and he believed there had ,no -duction, but from the unremunerative prices obtained for the
change since then occurred. He was aware that Cabs. produce. The opinion I entertained on this subject in 1846
was now planted by free labour; and a contract had been , I entertain now; and it is, that in the long run it is not pos-
entered into for the supply of 80,000 free labourers -to 'the Bible for free-grown sugar, except in some very favoured
Cuban colony. The next point they were cautioned on was situations, ta compete with the slave sugar of Cuba and
the destrtieteen 'of' the cultivation of sugar, a branch of- •Brazil ; and although it be quite true that at this moment
industry,in which any falling-off was certain to make itself there is an increasing amount of sugar imported from Britishmanifest in a very brief period. Noss-, as he had been colonies, yet if the Nuble Earl will look at the Price
rteerested mathis matter, he had compared the averages of Currents, he will see that the increased amount
lepree'liet years of protection - from 1839 to 1841- in the is more than compensated by the fall in price,
result was a vast increase
East Indies, West Indies, and Mauritius, with the three so that the planter has not the ' alternative of
years following the complete emancieation of the trade, and abandoning the trade, and at the same time he has no
the •
in the quantity produced in hope of carrying it on with advantage. But, my Lords, I
the three years following complete emancijaation.—(llear.) say that the question of sugar is wholly apart from the quese
With respect to British Guiana, the GoverffoVol that colony, tion whether we shall or shall not continue the income-tax
in a dispatch dated the 12th of November last, said that the for the.,present year.--(Hear, hear.) The Noble Earl has
situation of the proprietors was better than it
had been for introduced the question of the sugar duties, not apropos to
some years past; and that, if they acted prudently, there any measured proposed by her Majesty's Government, or
was no reason for a
nerally felt with regPaPreireiheentdhienfaili statement' made or announcement
gene to slave grown stiger, but b :reverse. The alarm ge- st given, but because he
In suar was not with re- understands, or has heard some rumour, that in another ses-
eetroot sugar; but he (Earl se nof Parliament her Majesty's Government intend to re-
Grey) believed that alarm 'to be perfectly unfounded; for trace past steps with regard to sugar. I apprehend that this
even with heavy protective duties he did not think beet- is not a question upon which the Government are called at
hrooillit,ecvoeurl,dthcoeinaldaevtee-gwrlhertehive
esreugaaer-cmanoeh
free-growers. He alas aware that extreme On this point, this moment to make a declaration, more especially ender the
alarmed as the engagement we have entered into—namely, that we are not,
in Jamaica, and that at this moment the distress, existed in the course of this session, to submit any fiscal or financial
severe; but Jamaica, considering the talus of
was most measure to the consideration of Parliament. The House will,
climate, and the character of the inhabitant
to be in a disadvantageous position as compared ought the -soil and therefore, agree with me that nothing is more impolitic, im-
other colonies. That suffering, however, he believed toh
thiestation of fiscal change, at a time W en it
.was impossible to
note prudent, or improper than to suggest or hold out any ex'pec-
arisen partly from the, ravages. tof ; the cholera, buto have discuss them, or to decide upon them until another Perlis-
froni the planters having listenelljoo much to the advicemoreef ment. The Noble Earl who has just sat down said that
coursef tte
Noble Lords opposite, and to a disposition to neglect other
esapreielychooofotohe Chancellor of the Exchequer in. the
to
gecoteiodtwieotvnhertyhede
of improving their condition in favour of a visionary present session shows that the subject of free trade isneces-
meansattempt to win back prOtection, The Legislature of Jamaica, Now,
Ex-
neglecting remedial Measures, had fixed their eyes upon chequerit was the bounden duty of the Chancellor
protection, and nothing else. The result was that whilst or finances of theoc consideration
with the revenue
of the Ex-
iinsicdoenrnateicotnedofthe income-tax..
other colonies were progressing, whilst the production of this or that plan, country, setting forth,
fobr but
fl
et opsuhropwo 3
ew hoaft
equalising
Ipirsei
ng progress not the merits of
Mauritius was making a gigantic advance, Jamaica showed venue had been,
little signs of improvement. Turning to our own country, ' to any measures before the House could be expected to agree
he believed that the improvement observable in it was the and the expenditure
result of our having liberated its industry from the restric- consequently impossiblethecountry.---(Hear, hear.) It was
tions to which a vicious policy had formerly subjected it. queens of duties in the for him to avoid dealing with those
e stsh the of
rtehvee ar ue -e
And yet that great commercial and financial evolution begun eipecally in respect to arge articles of consumption—more
in 1846, and almost completed in 1819 by` the repeal of the of those articles which esugar and corn, and the importation
navigation-laws, took place under circumstance,, the most oouutry. I,
~,,,,
forimpossible
elargely into the revenue of the
Ea-
disadvantageous. In the first place, the corn-laws were chequer to overlook these facts the Chancellor of the Ex-
hardly repealed when the .otato disease, which had been the Noble Lord opposite, " Oil,--tcoHear.) But, then, says
partially felt during the ..F :Xing autumn, appeared with you admitted that if you were in office toerecollect that last year
tenfold eiolance. Concsure es • with this there was a defi- income-tax." lam ready to admit Jio would reduce the
at
ciency of corn throughout tie greater part of Europe, and time, and I say so now, if I had the means t I said so at that
the consequence was that iti Ireland, during the whole of (Hear, hear.) But, subsequent to thatof doing so.—
declaration,
1846 and pact of 1847, there was an absolute famine, while Majesty's Government having at their command '
her
a consid
in this country the price of food was high, and distress able surplus, 'thought proper to do away aviteier-
t
followed. In 1847 every man felt apprehensive as to whe- abolition of other taxes, and thereby rendering the red
by the
ther the supply of corn would be sufficient to feedthe peo- tion of the incense-tax, which I then thoughtuca
ple. At one period, about this time, earn sold itr,Blark-lane an impolitic tax, and now think is an impolitic tax;
alwtoas
for 100 s. a quarter. gether impossible.—(Hear, hear.) Therefore I do not think
A NOBLE PEER-1255. a quarter.. - 1 • that the Noble Lord is justified in pointing to any apparent
Earl GREY believed at upwards of 1005 a quarter. Added inconsistency on my part because last year I expressed an
to this, 8,000,0001. were borrowed for the relief of Ireland, opinion favourable to the gradual reduction of the income-
and the country had to suffer the effects of the re-action of tax during these times of peace. Yon have, however, de-
the railway mania and of overtrading in 1845 and 1846, and parted from your- (general financial system, and I submit
during the latter part of 1847 it probably went through more that you must now submit to this tax Par a single year at all
disasters than had ever previously befallen it. To complete events, because you have no surplus upon which you can
this combination ofadverse circumstances, there was the re- confidently rely.—(Hear.) lam not going to follow the
volution which -occurred in France in the spring of 1848, Noble Lords who have spoken from the other side of the
and which spread itself from one end of the continent to the House into a general discussion of the abstract measure of
other. But under, and, cs he contended, by virtae of the free trade, or what is called our commercial policy. To
free-trade policy, the country had successfully passed this one portion of our commercial policy I confess I was a wit-
tremendous trial. The people submitted to privations with ling party. I willingly assisted to reduce the amount of
patience and resignation, because they knew they were not our differential duties, because I was desirous of placing the
artificially produced, and they met with a speedy reward. home and the foreign producer upon a footing of a real—
Industry and commerce revived, and all trace of these fear. not a nominal—equality—l was desirous of intro-
ful calmities was lost in an inconceivably short space of ducing a bond fide competition, so as to give a fresh
time. And what was the result in a financial point of view? stimulus to this as well as to other countries. lam not igno-
Why that the country had made provision by more than rant, nor does it take me at all by surprise, when I . am
974,000/. for the 10,000,0001. borrowed in 1847 and 1848. Such told that so far from diminishing, it had greatly increased,
a result wag not only a subject of congratulation by those who the amount, of consumption. Whether the principle upon
maintained the free-trade policy which led to it, but by those which this system was founded was introduced by the late
who paved the way prior to 1816. For himself, he rejoiced Sir It. Peel or any other party—to that principle lam
to have taken part in thecommercial discussions which had willing to give my utmost support, provided it inflicts no
preceded and accompanied the measures of free trade. When injustice upon any party, nor, entai's any loss upon the re-
the steceess of these free-trade measures had been so corn. venue.—(Hear, hear.) It may, no doubt, be practicable to
pletely established, it was natural that the country should give the people a greater command of the scomforts and
feel much anxiety as to whether the powerful party to which luxuries of life. No doubt, if the reduction of duties will do
the Noble Earl (Dean belonged 'intended to tamper with this, and not act unjustly to other classes, it must be a
them. The Noble Earl had made an important declaration matter of rejoicing to any man that the price of these ar-
to-night, but up to this moment the country were as much tides is brought so low as to come within the reach of the
at a loss to know what the views of her Majesty's Govern- masses of the population: I will not deny but that there has
ment were as the first day that they took office. The ,Noble been, a great boon conferred upon the consumers of this
Earl, on entering.offies, had said he would not attempt the country by the diminished price of sugar, consequent upon
re-imposition of a date, on corn unless he had the powerful the reduction of the duties. No one doubted but that such a
concurrence of the country. The Chancellor of the Exche- measure would give a greater addition to the comforts of the
quer, however, had told his constituents on his re-election people. ' But the question -which we have to consider is, not
that the agriculturists were to have relief by a countervailing singly or simply whether a great advantage has ,been con-
duty on' corn, as he called it, or by some .other cheap and ferred upon the class of consumers in this country, but
simple mode of relief, and that the Government were deter- whether that advantage is bought by an act of injustice and
mined to afford that relief. rot long after, the Right Hon. spoliation to other parties, and by involving in ruin a large
Gentleman made a most able speech in the other House of class of those who, upon the faith of your own Act of Parka-
Parliament on introducing the very resolution which was ment, embarked their all in the cultivation of the article the
the foundation of the present Bill. In that speech the Right duties upon which you have so reduced? - (Hear, hear.)
Hon. Gentlemen made a most careful and admirable state- When those things are done, it is difficult to reverse them.
_ .

But I confess in the face of this great advantage which the
people have derived from the importation of slave- grown
sugar, I would much rather have seen a smaller advantage
derived by the unproved cultivation and encouragement
given to those who have a natural and rightful claim upon
us than an increased advantage by an amount of cheapness
gained by what I thought, and still think, was an act of in-
justice—an act the tendency of which was to stimulate and
encourage the production of sugar by means of slavery, and
by that of increasing the infaseous traffic in slaves.--(dear,
hear.) I do not ecny that it is possible that the consump-
tion of the comforts and necessaries of life has been -increased
in consequence of the reduced price of corn ; but that such in-
cease has been in anything like the p a pordons staled by the.
Noble Lord opposite, I say is_conaary to the fact; and if I '
had the figures here before me I could show that they have
been grossly exaggerated. Noble Lords opposite have talked
of an increase of 10,000,000 quarters of corn in the Consump-
tion of the people of this country. Now that calculation I •
believe is taken upon an average of years which includes •
some years of famine, in which of coarse the imports had
been considerably larger.
The Duke of ARGYLL was here understood to say that
the highest amount of corn consumed within the years
quoted were 11,0'10,000 quarters. . ,
The Earl of DERBY—But even supposing that all that
quantity has been consumed, you are not to suppose
that that is a gross increase of the consumable , produce
of this country. In the first place, the average fin.
portation before the year 1646 • was, I think, 3,000,000, or
4,000,000 of quarters, and if I deducted these from. the
10,000.CC0 alleged to have been consumed, will reduce it •to
6,000,000 or 7,003,001 of quarters. I say that from these
10,000,000 quarters, assuming this to be the quantity
consumed upon the average in the years quota ,you must
deduct something between 3,000,000 and .4,000,000 of
Enclo-ore
quarters which were imported the .ear before- that in
tte. cultiva
which the alteration of the law was made. That leaves
an increase of consumption to, the amount of something
like 6,000,000, not of wheaten hour, but of corn 'of all
descriptions. The Noble Lord asks me whether I believe
that 801,009 acres of wheat land had gone out of cultivation
in the face-of the immense enclosures that have taken place.
largeto.„ r
d s Portionof
adding thoset
a
tion. They "were the enclosure of lands generally who,
ActsNo ,d
did
dn tnhaethfii
nothing
t whateverplae, a
were held in common. But they are just as much '
in cu
vation now as they were before those Acts were
Althoueli no doubt 800,000 acres hail not gone out Passed'
'ration, does the Noble Lord mean to say that the of culti-
no diminntion-in the amount of produce re has been
Ireland to this counter 7:.: Why, there
"has been
from
like a diminution of 300,l 00 quarters .a
8 something
last 'One years of what was usual' • wheat within the
mean to say that there has been noY • received. •I
-do not
gumption 'et torn ; but I say
that increase hi the- con-
such a fact that there has been an when Yon argue upon
ing powers of the people to addon to theconsum-
quarters, that you
.groa,k, e an like 10,000,000 •
creased consu-npuee "
purchxaggerate. But tel 'is----this
lightly over this part of the
? The Noble Lord passed
very well for him n f i` the subject. It mieti ibo
that we can afford to
$ r or the large
!proprietors, -to asaY
the pewee ef _receive le i
ss n order afford the nugget
consuming more—we
incomes. But there ore--we shall still have suthelent
lords and farmers— is a large class who are hall Janit
also suffer. xim so that when one suffers, the othari4ol.l"--
They are small r $ *hat is the condition ord•that---iere
whom this loss falls with
cultivating ibeir 'evin landi Ifr--.____
of this
class
have
i.ewith a double weight:- 10,,aft,i11n.,.
Wien, that. the ha clave i3O pressed-upon bi0di";76,;,u13,1:-..
tort-of the soil t'n. this beene utterly extingraill! ..
ewes to seek
a refuge in other e country, end bite! la
a b!letifeib I ited, with
the greatest satisfmmi(llearieee' irt-terhelliin, that
the labouring classesacoon, err a. :1 be..,ikreimble
erdeent,,cif
prosperity, and I should are enjoy mg 0
a acen that would desire
by any be the last m
u of any
,pertiele of that
measure, to depriVe t'Oemr,„-kkrityorthenabouring
prosperity. •-net tuidottlitediythelA . • '
e'it ' 'of -
classes is wholly epeirdant lit'? • ,prosp r y the em-
-1 ployer. If, then, yea diminiglii ilDelaUp !gun employed, the
' labourer, sooner or later, will fail in obtaming employment, and
on him ultimately the injury' will fell., T.ll
have not been diminished
Tie
wages, no doubt, •
iii A-portion te the reduced
price Of 'dinie,O; ''bitt that it mere to say that-thelmrdett is
at. present. sueteimaa. by ,
_the...bri-kgaZia of
keAantOuid
has not, yet been cast egbon t"
and the ers of the labourer.
This I believe to be the feet; - a . e • consequence is that
the labourers-are -epkra it-i: also el/A4-41aggaa-of -Woe-
perity.—(Hear, heara)-'l
course of the last-two ~or.
three years both tenant and land-
lord have made extraordinary exertions to improve the
•of the land. The stimulus of necessity has ope-
cultivation ttn _
4, a to a certain extent most whialesomely ,
teed nPou' tiffr,' ic." neYerthelese
anSl OVillettrageCr ''' And a have.. with great severity, oppres-
dish and....-s w• very great doubts whether
came, although great expenditure is undertaken by
1 in enanY •
I thoseletaasess the great portion of the outlay is net a lose to
ietor and the tenant, although' at the 'pret time
' the propr
it
at
to the labourer. - I do not deny but
in the course of the last few years there has
beateen t oeit increase of our articles of' exportation.
I am not going' to enter into the question
Now.
in reference to the discovery of gold in various places
but of this I have no doubt, if ie had, licit, been
for these
i great and increasing discoveries, and the..rge 'mile* of
gold into this country with rapidly increasing speed, you
would have teen a different state of commercial affairs here
than what you see now.—(Hear, hear.) And although it
may be quite true that the amount of our imports has
largely increased, as well as our exports, although it
may be true that the amount of our productions has greatly
increased, 1 very much doubt, if we could look into the
balance-sheets of our commercial men, we should see that
increased amount of traffic of these'exports and imports ac.
companied with a corresponding profit. On the contrary
with the largest amount of trade almost ever known, it Ca'
been less profitable to them during the last few years than 5
any period within !heir experience, except in year- t in
s
As a proof of the prosperity of the country, the Noble panic.
are fond of quoting statistical returns of the le Lords
reduced amount
of pauperism. The Noble Lord opposite
the year 1848, and congratulated the country commenced
with
mouse reductiou of pauperism sin e country on the im-
int fair to take the year 1848 since that period. Well, but
caleulations? In taking u this
a starting post for these
have had a vivid P his part of the argument we
declamationß from the Noble Earl
who has just sat down,
exceptionable character, ' t that was a year of am
$ 111 which all classes almost
were involved in
-,.absolute ruin. That was a year of famine,
so that the amount of b fairly said
to be g data um. ~ pauperism then ealluel e .. ,
"" Timacti you bays ti ;igh.t to
.CalCUlate 19Y

merit of the advantages of free trade; but unfortunately
the Noble Earl opposite, not long afterwards, made what he
called a supplemental speech, and to a festive audience de-
clared that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had made a
Most excellent speech, but that he had not tohched upon
the subject of the advantages of a compromise with the
landed interest; and the Noble Earl on that occasion went
on to insist upon the necessity of some compromise being
entered into wish the landed interest on account of the
advantages which had been afforded to the Consumer, In
the course of this somewhat unmet proceeding, the Noble
Earl informed the assembled citizens that the statement of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer was only an imperfect
statement of the views of the Government, and that another
important part of those views ought not to be lost sight of.
Unfortunately this was not all, for after this supplementary
speech the Chancellor of the Exchequer had stated
that he had been very much misunderstood-that be had
given no (minions in his budget-speech, and that he in-
tended to act upon all the principles he had asserted when
in opposition. This was a somewhat startling proposition,
produced, perhaps, by murmurs in the camp. But this was
not all. 'There had appeared various addresses from the
adherents of the Government. Even gentlemen holding
office had stated in their addresses to constituents very
contradictory:: views of the policy supposed to be held.
One Right Honourable Gentleman, not in the Cabinet, said
that he accepted office only in the full conviction that the
Noble Earl would reverse the policy of Sir Robert Peel;
and that Right Hon. Gentleman still remained in office.
But, thanks to the vigorous application of the screw by his
(Earl Grey's). Noble Friend (Earl Granville), a statement
that it was not the intention of the Government to re-impose
a duty on corn had been reluctantly extorted. There was
something else, however, ih the back ground. What it was
the contrivers did not say; but he (Earl Grey) thought he
knew something of the nature of it. The Chancellor
of the Exchequer, in speakifig of this scheme, said it was
something in comparison with which the duty on corn
would be lees costly, less inconvenient, and more simple.
If that were so, he (Earl Grey) said, let them go back to
the duty on corn. But he thought there ought to be an
end to this 'ambiguity and studied concealment. If the
Noble Lord and his supporters believed they had been all
along wrong,-let them say as much - (Hear, hear)—if they
believed they had been right, let them discuss the question
in a straight-forward manner. It was not right that a Go-
vernment which was to compose ill-Will, reconcile town and
country, and for ever heal past differences, should,'in order
to serve some pitiful electioneering purposes, .keep their
views concealed. As a straightforward declaration was the
most manly and best for theinterests of the country, so it
was the best for the s'rength and stability of the Adminis-
tration.—(Hear, hear) This was a question on which the
Government had no right to shrink from explanation. BY
explanation the Noble Earl mightincur reproach for having
grossly deceived himself or otherei. or, in the reckles
of party objects, he might 14,A,aatrificed what he knewan 9
be the best interests of the country. On the qberebt.
.d, lan
pursuitto
might have erred from blindaess or Waa 0f.../Vfam judgment..
judg-
ment.
either case little confideetnit would be Wel:area
ci'' between two alterna-
tives—want
Th.e4Ahl,Earl, Aug
tbAreby incur the penalty I
'agedginedor levachrosf
must submi,..6 4, and lie NmusaWl2tr'had pdrsued, for ' the i
candour. To one he I
due to the erron p
Y pis views tte,heavier it 1
the longer he attemptedrto disguise ,
halt he cowl not pscape, and I
last six years. FrConist'beeaeu_yrl
ould be.
The Earl of 1)l . ..-- . , _ ..ne.,.wc,..
___,
'able Earl faz...h - 3a...obiere um-1 temaeting
r x- - aly Lorded cannot,lad tillank the
be has namea—(frear, hear, and alaugh)-but
laltterurnstatremsay
my Noble Friends, and my colleagues in the other House of
be permitted to say, on behalf of myself and
Parliament, that I do not think we shall be driven to accept
'either of them.—(Cheers.) My Lords, with due respect to
the Noble Earl, I must take the liberty of repeating the
opinion that a great part of this discussion, and more especi-
ally the greater pert of the speech your Lordships have just
is in a great measure, if not altogether, irrelevant to
question under debate.—(Hear, hear)—that question
.'thheeard ,
we shall' renew for a single year an objectionable
being whether, considering the. financial condition of the
0001.?_year, of
~the country with a deficiency, this
nd, probably, next year of 5,0(10, (Hear,
relevant e
f
Lordeil say, in a debate on the introduction
:hasee:n:::4,dbioaily.,
.2,00071 t
such a Bill for such a purppse, I do not think it is
p.eiaciallvlyhicall thethe
sta,!:,,(l,:mtralt
.to enter upon a discussion of the whole commercial policy
snore
ees '
knows, otwiltsi,' m
from n ttrie' . tl
le
circumstancesM
have been placed, and the eircuicistaiace
have taken office, that a full and s under which they
of the subject on their part is impossible.—(rear.) complete discussion
greater portion of the speech of the Noble .
Earl,— ilear.) ;site
refers to a power wholly irrelevant to the I must say,
continuance of the income. tax—l question of the
trade i a sugar. And, my Lords, while on
mean the effects of free
Noble Earl, with a candour for which
the one hand the
mitted that the great revolution in the I thank him, ad-
the.cotuitty did not take place at an earliereommercial policy of
and consequently does not refer at all to the periclit thill4le4G,
proposi-
tions of Sir Robert Peel's policy from 18 the earlier
the same tijne asked the question whetherl2 to 1846, he has at
of her Majesty's Government to it is the intention
com-
mercial policy of Sir Robert Pepellr.sue or abandon the
question by an elaborate argument
and he illustrates that
sugar duties. Now, my Lord ton the subject of the
Earl and your I St I must remind the Noble
Lordships that the
abolition of differentialt
duties on sugar was no part of tl
no part of his propositions ; and 1?
Policy of Sir Robert
known
that when the proposition w tis perfectly well
late
made by her Majesty
Government, Sir Rubert Peel stance
:i,tith the reatest reluc
was induced to conser t to the changenot because that
measure wee wise, equitable, or because be bad to
just, but
choose between the adoption of olitic course
of proceeding, and
the
expulsion an unjust ahnedrunkteiest
Majesty
late
Government from Office ; and
of
her
feel accordingly
took the generous course, but I think impolitic course, of
supporting his successors andopponents, although adopting
a policy to which he was ' •opposed. Therefore do not
himself .
let the Noble Earl the abolition of
and the country claon 'Robert
the differential duties portion of Sir
on sugar as a porWith
Peel's Hear, bear.) 1
free trade or commercial policy.---(
regard to the effect of that measure. lam sorry to saijiren
think the Noble Earl is under some inioapprehen
slave trade,
he speaks of the almost total cessation of theln
the first
and attributes that cessation to free trade.dl
Lords,
place, he is wrong in poi at of fact. Undoubtedly, y
of 'omurycruisers
by a vigorous and actila
eration on the
Pa=t t f Africa and
—by the adoption of c on on the coas o
put down • and
Brazil, the ave trade hoe been very much ,
lo pincere
Of late pare our efforts )34tTe. Puoa ,aided ky o.