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equally.-"telvetansle. The same apprehensions trills.'
esistiwithe'estieetto'hoth couutries; the saute pre‘•
edistions ought! to be adopted. • -if any incoitipatioi'4
lity7existed hemeee: the landed and the West ledia.
interest, he was most ready toadmit that the formet
ought primarily to be attended to 3 but ice Contended,.
that a measure-of relief to thb West India nierehaobls,
if net ititerfering with the landed interest, ought not.
to be refused.. If a scarcity existed, all admitted
that the: measure of suspension would be acts
Was it not also Wise, under the present en-Cern-am-
althongh no. immediate scarcity existed, to take
a measure of precaution, before it arrived ? When
albexternal means cat-supidy Were cut -otf; the goes:.
WAS.put on a very ditile.ent ground nn wit it it
:had ever before.stood upon ; and no analogy could
therefore be drawn between she present. and (twiner
times. The .evidence adduced in the Committee
atrorded ample grounds for the measure. .I.'he testi--
ninny of one of the strongest advocates against the
• Measure, Mr. Arthur Young, was sufficieut tO that
purpose. , Mr. Young had stated the grat detictimey
in.. the crop of bailey, but gave it
,as his opimon that
the stock on hand. would be' sufficient for the. cow,
surnptirm.—Why ? because. the price being high.,
the consumption would be • lessened ! lie had
given, similar evidence with respect to oats. P'rotri
neither -witness (Si,, J. - Sinclair) there . had been
a distinE acknowledgment, that in Scotland con
sides-able •feareity was actually experiePeede---=
He drilled that the recent inerease in • the' price ..of
corn was owing to the agitation of the present ques-.
tion ; •13O( that it was awing to the scarcity, and par.,
cularly in. Scotland; More especially as tar as wheat
• and .barley were concerned, it IV2S of iillllltfllSC im-.
portauce to husband them carefully. Recurring to
Ireland, he observed, that not only had the last
year's crop of potatoes been much less titan usual,:
but'.that that scanty crop bad been much lessened by
the inclemency
,of the season, by which, large quffb.:
tides •of .potatoes that were unhoused bad been
spoiled. This circumstance was an additional proof
of the necessity of. extending the paternal care of the
Legislature--to.• the Sister Country. Whether we.
looked etithe state of Ireland, or at that of the com-
bined ..14,-appile, the expediency of the measure pro-
posed Was incontrovertibly- obvious. Tee consider:
.ration of revenue was unquestionably of considerable
importance', but no injury. that the revenue might'
sustain ought to be pot in competition wilt. the hat-
, rors of a scarcity. Nor did he conceive that by this:
temporaefttspension, terminable at the discretion:. f
GoVertuviejit, any material injury could result to ttle.
revenue:- On the whole view-of the case, lie thought
it mist adviseable to take this measure; and he hoped:
that when the landed interest considered for what a,
short time, and under what guards it was. to operas-, 4-
they would be induced to think more. taveerably • f
it than they had- hitherto'clone. • • . . . •
Mr. .Pousoropt never felt more surprise than he
had done on the introdn&ion of this meatire, to hear.
• it stated that the subjeft waione.purely iirtti.h, and
that the West India interest had no claim whatever.

By the injudicious manner in which the Noble Lord
bad exprrs,;ed- himself, ho 'had ex....ited opposition
irom every intereit, and had ,not benefited it hingle
i;itorest. II cnottl nut possthly vote.._for the

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Speeker's leaving the Chair after the Resolutions tb. t
had been road by 'the Noble Lord. He coeunetie d
on the manner in which' ihe Right Pieta :Gentiene
bad treated that part of the Report of tee Coffin'.
tee which infringed on the antices re Unioe. I' a
distinct 'proposition on 0131 part et the Polii)ieai t
did not dircialy infringe the articles of the Union, yt
counteraaed the purposes .tar which tnoso ertieles
were formed. Adverting to the high price of ;;lain,
heasked, whether that was an linguae:tit for cutting
ref the market of the farmer,. and effecting lei
ditstFy and enterprize ? Was not the land of Great
Britain and•lrelend that oh which we rivet( &vela,
in the contest which we were eerrying on ? If agri-
culture were injured the Country was .undene.—
Without any eoesiderableadyance itt th price Of
Corn in Ireland, but• merely from tin aperellepsioni
Of Such an event, the market of the Irish farater waA
to be cut ell, arid a wound indicted pn 1,1,s interest
which yurs could not heal. The priees of corn
down to.the Q9t I) of last month he held in his hand
the middle prices of which were not such as to
warrant interterence. He adverted to the evidence
given beforeehe getmnittee by% Mr. Swan, an Offe,
cer iitthe Revenue,, who had Mated that, in his opi.
&en, the, restriction of Distilleries would increase
illegal di!i'tillinge and that the recent alarm of :scar-
city no longer existed. Was this a ground.ibr the
measure The Membee for Wexford ' had slap
stated in evicienee, that , there were 2,00,000 buSheli,
of beilev h Ciat neighbourhood, How then could
11')y (:.•:.; temkia vote for the Noble Lord's
reii! ion ; how could the English tieetlemen net
bee' that to ,I;;;courage the Irish farmer was to injure
I.3et supple. lie thought it was the duty of
prway. some plan for, the elfeetualt
;And p6iheilieet refief of the West india Merehaots,
withoet Mt:et-tering in tiny, manner with ha .agie:
culture of the Country' and any loss that the Comte
ir; might starer mii;lit be made up in some other,
wly. By the hill measure proposed, great harm
wt,iuhl,l,:o done, and no party or interest whatever
Sir A Wer.e."cee way convinced,: thut were the'
distilleries in Ireland to be allowed to go on, while
those in England were stepped,, greet mischief
would caste. Theddistress for grain in,lreland was
ti,;. great ;I‘, in any pert of kngland. The last crop,
was it third deficient, and the qeantity el (*rain ex.,
ported from Ireland to ScOtland, ig corpeeeence of
the seanehilin the latter cohntny, rendered that crop,
still less adequate to the demand. Petitions had beer,
-presented hem Drogheda,
,Belfast, Sec. prying that
the distillerieteeniight be stopped ; and there could
be in' doebi that unless some etfieiezit measure were
spc,t,idy adopted, a very general scarcity would ex!-
ist in Ireland.
CelOen.i ISloXereumeel confirmed the statements
of 'OIL. floe: Baronet with :reseed to the deficiency
o 1 tile last year's crop
Sir J. Ntcwpc fuT allowed that if the req of Irelenel
were in the seifev,t tne,.ot9rth of anConntry, a
efficient fled an itninediate relief might be advietable.
I;ut the measure proposed, was.,Rot, to operate wed
July, by which tittle the new potatoes would be
coming.; The apprehension of scarcity in be.
land bed been ,very much magnified by the Honour.
able Baronet, which was suiEciently evinced
the:price tit oats in WaterfOrd, greatest export.
Tog Port 'ln Ireland, where the price had not varied
for the last two months more than one shilling atid