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that they would not make another, and another even upon
that, when another period of distress should come to pinch
them ? But it was said that such an alteration had
been made before in the year 1797. He admitted it ; hut
all who had observed the conduct of the legislature in that
year must be aware that the alteration then made in the
standard was not foreseen—it was therefore unintentional.
If they made such an alteration now, it would be made
knowingly and intentionally, and would therefore be a
downright fraud.—(Hear, hear.)—After the commission
of an intentional fraud, they would hare no right to ex-
pect any longer the confidence of the public.—(Hear.)—
If they went into the Committee for the express purpose
of inquiring into the state of the currency, the country
would expect that a change in the currency would be the
inevitable consequence. Confidence would then be de-
stroyed, and a confusion would arise worse than any
thing which the country had hitherto witnessed.—(Hear.)
He could not separate this motion from the question of
currency, and he should therefore give it his opposition.—
(Loud cheers.)—lt had not yet been explained what good
this Committee could produce—it might produce great
evil ; and therefore, though he was anxious to relieve
the people from the burdens under which they laboured—
(Hear)--he still felt it impossible to vote in favour of
this Committee. Besides, a motion to inquire into the
state of the nation had generally been considered as a
motion of hostility against the Government. He had
brought forward and supported several motions of that
nature on former occasions from such motives; but he felt
that he could not support this motion with any such hos-
tile views.—(Cheers. )—Towards the present Ministers he
entertained no feelings of hostility—f Hear, hear)—their
conduct deserved no such attack as this motion made upon
them.—(Hear.)—He differed from them as to the amount
of taxation and expenditure, which it was possible to re-
duce ; he thought that they might have gone further than
they had done in those respects ; but he saw no insincerity,
nor any thing like insincerity, in what they had done
(Hear, hear.)—They had endeavoured to cut off a large
amount of expenditure by casting a great mass of addi-
tional labour upon themselves.—(Hear.)—With regard to
the taxes which they had taken off, he thought they had
acted wisely in the selection which they had made.—
(flear.)—They had also acted with great disinterestedness,
for if they sought to conciliate a powerful party in that
House, they would have taken off the duty on malt and
upon sugar, by which they would have obtained the sup-
port of two distinct and powerful interests.—(Great cheer-
ing.)—Seeing no reason to think that the Ministers were
insincere in their professions of economy, though he did
not think that they carried their retrenchments and reduc-
tions far enough, he could not vote in support of a motion
which was always based in a feeling of hostility towards
the existing administration.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. E. WODEHOUSE rose amidst loud cries of
" Question," to move the adjournment of this debate till
to-morrow.
Colonel SIBTHORP seconded the motion.

A scene of confusion which baffles all description pre-
vailed for some minutes in the House. During the con-
tinuance of it, we saw Mr. ATTwoon and Mr. Alderman
WAITHMAN on their legs; but their words were com-
pletely drowned in the general turmoil.
Mr. PEEL obtained a hearing. He said, that if there
were several gentlemen still anxious to address the House
on this subject, he should be the last man in the world to
throw any obstruction in their way. The cries of "Ad-
journ !" drowned the remainder of the Right Hon. Gen-
tlecnan's observations.

The question on the adjournment was then put and car-
ried, and the debate stands adjourned till this day.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and
the House adjourned at a Quarter past One o'clock.

A COMPARATIVE SUMMARY, &c.
(REFERRED TO IN THE DUKE OF RICHMOND'S SPEECH,)
Of the Average Number of Poor weekly relieved in the two
periods 1826 and IS3), in the Seventeen Towns of Andover,
Birmingham, Bradfield, Coventry, Congleton, Huddersfield,
Leeds, Manchester, Mangotstield (near Bristol), the City of
Norwich, Portsea, the Parish of St. Nicholas (Nottingham),
St. Martin's (Leicester), the two Townships of Sutton and
Hurdsfield (near Macclesfield), and Wigan.
N. B.—The year 1828 is substituted for 1826 in the particular
case of Norwich, in consequence of no earlier return than
that of Is2B having been received.

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