The Sun.
London, England, 1808-05-24 00:00:00

it feed the rtnint,er of shfvp, For thee ptts,...'
very togrot With ttr: iniportanoz 4
he was'deeply teapresQed, die should too 1.. tA
duty, to. oppose this measure in etory stage,
shttuld theretore vote agaiuit the Spratter's leavi;:g
the Chair.

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Mr. ROSE would wish the mouse to tAte, n this',
question tiponoa natell,wi.cler ground . t hap the Hon:.
Gentlemen who opposed it seemed to 'o. That fh4
West India. Piaetets had made out theft ease noborir
vi ho react the Report could deny.' It appeired from
thiat that • seveVal 'estates in Jamaica had been :Mtn- '
donecL and that others Were:likely to be abandoned"
unless, some relief were afforded to, the Colonial
trade.. It should wit :be, forgotterirthat the West
India possessiottiol,,this.Country yielded an income
of between eight and nine millions, spent in this
Country, that the Revenue,:in Cristoms, Fitici•.e, Me., -
on West flldipflt.prOlie,t;A 41.110Uifie'cl ol fits titillion's
and a JuillAtentailys o}:s the West Indian trade
employed' oneAbird of theSr'eping of e he. Court-
try,; and that
.Ar't islt tuatmfaifures to Ale amonnt
of six milli3Ons, were consintned in the West Indian
market. :When the cointnitteo had been first ari-
pointed,,, he .had apprehensions that it the landed - - -
Gentlemen took a narrow iiew"of the qiiestiol it '
would not be easy to caret' the Measure into ,effect.• -
.Butas he did' not huptne the eppositiim of t tieso-
Gentlemen to any narrow views of advantage to
themselves, lie was ztot without hope 'that they
would vie•N the Matter in another light, and 'that, a
provision to
.prirhibit the dis illation from cord Jill
Ott; ley shold- sink to ,a 4 given ;trio.,, rind men to '
allow it to be used in distilleries till it rose to a cs-re
''
- . 'I tie -ons'd • A • Fe i f.
tam price, I.voii.i ,
.1 ere.. as a sti,..e.en, recu-
t rity for theft interests, and induce them to ail:lie:A:a
in the ine.isure., , ThiX.Wds their best mode of re-
lieving the West India, merchants, whom every
body allowed to, he in a situation requiring relief:—
No person,tiut the Late Chancellor of 'the Excheqtier
tbr Ireland IttO suggested any other remedy, viz, by
loci ering thedoties on sugar ; I.nit that Right Hon,
Baronet must have Won, aWard-that the last addition
of three shillings per cwt.. had beenlaid on by the
late Administration. 'About 400,900 quarters tit`
. ,
malt. were consumed in the distilleries and three
millions and a half in the breweries, and if it were
not for the iinproitemebt in science, the quantity of
barley consumed in the breweries would, be double
what it is. It appeared that this Country, import-
ed to the au:taunt of 700,000 quarters of corn an-. ,
' nually ; attic, though Ile thanked God that he had no - -s:
apprehensions Of. a scarcity, yet he thought they
'Aught, to be apprehensive Of the rise that might take .
place in the price of brt:ad. A Right iron. Gentle-
man' oppOsite , (Mr. G. Punsonby)" bad said, on a
,coroner 0,00, that this,rneasure w-uld be a violation
of the tarot Of, Vhicint,. miti.th:lt they ought run, un-
der Vie temptation of an immediate convenience, to
suspend4te,pro% uioils of that AO. "No man more
anxiously than himself wished that 'the Articles' of
Union between the two Countries shomd be pr— '
served'erom viola ion,' so' 'tar as the pi inet,,les , i
good faith required ; ' but why was it necess-iry *0
Adhere io the letter of these Articles itiaiikpos (too to
a measure of great public utility ? All that was
askqd of Ireland was, thatat a' period of great dist oda
to a valuable part of his Majesty's
,subjects, tA hilst '
this Country,, with a ‘iew to 04,4 relief, snspe:tded
the distillation trorri corn, trelanititionld sus,,, ed its
exports of spirts to this CoUptry. The Right Ron.
Gentleman then recapitulated his various arguments,
and concluded with expressing a hope that the naca
i sure,'in the guarded: shape he had suggested, would
I be acceded to. .• .

Sir W. W. WYNI4E alloWed the distress:of the
West India Planters and Merchants, ant would
ready tagiye. them 'chef in any other way thanAliiss•
'He had suggested for that purpose a redalion of•the
duty on 'such sugar as should be employed ih the
feeding of cattle: But whilst he was anxious to
afford relief tolheWest Indies, he coilId• not coOent
to such a nwaiure as the present, which would preps•
exclusively on the landed interest. Why bud the
measure been brought forward At the present nn, •
Inent;, when the distilleries would .of cours4 cease
working till Otti9ber ? The present price of, bar-ley.
was.not extraordinary, considering the ihortheqs Uf
the last crop. For tlie36 reasons-he should Opt 04
the Speaker's'l9ving the Chair.

Mr.l3SalinSE, both for brevity and pertpieuiip,
proposed to consider the question in ,three points of
view : Ist, as a questions purely domestic, which
.would lead to an inquiry, whether the state -of the
supply of corn in the Country rendered the measuee
desiratiOe' as a "niedn's of preventing any possible
scarcity:: ?ndly, as a question purely tmloni3l; and
how far the situation of the colonies was such as to
require timely and effeetual relief, as well as how tr
this measure was, desirable for that purpose; aod
.3dly, as a question of general import, including boitt
'domestic and colonial views, andleadingto.an in
quiry, whether the proposed measure was (mita:dated
to promote the general interests.of the Empire. Ai:
to the first view in which he "%vas to consider. the
question, he was aware of the delicacy of the' sub.
oft, whenever the extent of the supply of corn in
the Country was made the'stibjeti cat a discussion in
that House, and thus though a.titlie alarm upon this
Mead might be dangerous, a false security would he-
fatal. This subjea was not brought forward by the'
friend's of the present measure, bpi by those %vitt.*
opposed it, ;who called evidence to prove the danger
hti scarcity, not knowing that by so doing they were_
cutting the ground Aereon they stood.from utWer
thetw- • Whilst 700,000 quarters of corn were mt.
ported an nnally,i ,tlo)anded-Gentlemen expi essed no
apprehension of the result; but the' moment that
imporiatiOn wai'etif 6(440 a part of the supply' was,.
to be deriVedlrom the prod ice •of the West India
Islands, they, were.all alarm and, apprehension. Tire
chief import was in wheat and oats, and not in bar.
ley g it followed therefore, that the crop and the
consumption Were uniformly cleat, and as a
ed by 'the evidence of Messrs. Young and Wake.
field, that 'thel,6l crop catOrley Wil)4 short, one or
two alternative's must follow ; either the detivietiee
of the crop must be supplied by importatoo, or tins
consuinpeen must be , It ti.e tbriner
were the cias, then it wouici be no meter whillwr
the import' Avas.ifitrn any ()OKA' Couilliy, or trm
the WesA Indies; .i the coilsentrion vvl;i
then' this
.measure ix as to diminish the'
consumption. But it had been 'said, thit the Fleet
was the tninjinn by which to jotAiie of the propos--
'tion between the supply and the tleottnct ; anti
if the question Was taken tiOctri any broad ground,
IN wan could deny that tta3 pri4o would be a