The Sun.
London, England, 1822-04-03 00:00:00

CORN EXCHANGE, APRIL 3.

We have had but few fresh arrivals in since Monday; how..
ever, the supply fully equals the demand, and no material al.
teration in the prices since last day:

THE LO N DUN JOURNALS.

EXTRACTS FROM THY. DU I.Y MORNING PAPERS,

April 3, 182.2.

[NEW TIMES.]
The Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday
arrived yesterday, and last night we received by
Express those of Sunday.—The discussion in the
Chamber of Deputies on Thursday was even
snore intemperate than usual, and a duel has been
the .consequence of some expresSions used by one
of she Members. In the course of these debates
. the Jacobins and Buonapartists, who were
brought into the Legislature by the manoeuvres
of M. Decazes, have acted, as it was most natural-
they should act ; they have made the tribune a
-rallying point for every thing hostile to Religion,
to the Throne, and to Peace. They have done all
hut ca II upon the people to take up arms, and they
have justified the few deluded wretches who ac;.
Wally made
,the preposterous attempt at insur-
rection. It is to be lamented that the French
knou so little of Representative. Government as
riot to have provided an adequate punishment for
this treasonable abuse of the freedom of debate.
En England a Member who had uttered half as
snuo treason as Benjamin. Constant would have
been committed to the Tower ; and at some
former periods of our history, would have paid
the forfeit of his head. In France, under Buo-
naparte, this very M. Benjamin, who is now so
• bold,-and waa,then so servile; would have been
shot without the slightest ceremony, if he had
dared to utter a thousandth part of his present re-
volutionary harangues. The labours of the
mountain in the French Chamber, however, if
we may venture to-use a pun, are nothing more
than " the mountain in labour :" they have
seemed pregnant with Civil War ; and they have
brought forth nothing but the quixotic madness
of Berton.

[THE TIMES.]
We now make public the Agricultural Report,
which was first presented to the House of Com-
mons under a conventional silence between Mi-
nisters and Opposition, but was last night put in
a printed form into the hands of the Members.
We have not time nor space at present to enter
into a discussion of its principles or details. We
shall merely remark, that we have one consola-
tory hope (under such a report), which is, that
the price of 'grain may still, and in spite of the
Committee,. continue so low in England, as not
to render foreign importation necessary to supply
the -wants of the people. indeed, should the
price of grain he so raised by the adoption of
this report, as to distress our countrymen at
home, the preventing them from seeking relief
against domestic monopoly, by having recourse
to. foreign markets, would be any other than
the act of a humane and liberal Government.—
Does the - country recollect the ardour with
which it petitioned against countervailing duties
upon foreign corn in the year 1815 ? Coun-
tervailing- duties are as oppressive now as
they were, then : their mischievous effect, not
upon the comforts only, but upon the very neces.:
min of the poor man, will be as sensibly felt.
_Why, then, should they be introduced ? The
land-owners and farmers, it is said, are suffering.
-We believe the statement, arid pity the latter.
But we beg leave to ask, whether it was the
farmers who were burning their own corn-stacks
recently in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk ?
No -we answer—it was another class of men)
who were driven to these criminal excesses by
the pressure of distress. And it is precisely at
the expence of this latter impoverished, wretched
class of men, that it is now sought to relieve the
farmer, by an increased tax on the great neces-
sary of life.
[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
No reflecting person-at all acquainted with
the subject can refuse to agree with Mr. Hus-
kisson, that we have too long pursued a narrow
and mistaken policy, not merely with regard to
the trade with our Colonies, but with regard to
almost every branch of commerce. " We have,"
is he observed, " forced our colonists on the one
hand, and the inhabitants of the States on the
other, to seek in Cuba and the Brazils what they
could have obtained more advantageously from
each other." We wish Mr. Robinson would.at-
tend a little to his own arguments. " Brazils
smd,Cuba," he tells us," two of the greatest pro-
ducers of colonial produce, are now open to the
whole world." What, then, does he pro-
pose Why, "to reserve a duty on importation
into the West India Colonies of all those arti-
cles of foreign produce which came into direct
competition with those of the North American
Colonies, such as flour, grain of every descrip-
tion, lumber, &c."—That is, to enable the
greatest producers of Colonial produce, now open
to the whole world, to produce cheaper than our
own Colonies, by the amount of this duty levied
for the protection of Canada, and thus to enable
them to undersell these Colonies. When will
Governments learn to be just ;, 'avoid robbing
one class of 'subjects for the sake of protecting
others, as it is called ? Why shOnld . Ministers
saddle our West Indians with a bounty, for the
promotion of the cultivation of Cuba and Brazil,
by lowering the rate of profit in our own Colo-
nies as compared with that in their rivals ? It
would be better to propose at once in the West
Indian Houses of Assembly, a regular tax to an
amount equal to the produce of this protecting
duty, to be distributed among the Canadians.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The Report of the Agricultural Committee
has been printed by order of the House of Corn-
mons.—This Report, to which the country has
been looking with the most earnest anxiety, em-
braces a view of the present condition of the
agricuitual body with reference to the market
prices of their produce, suggests certain means
that may be adopted by Parliament for ame-
liorating that condition, and concludes with
**tailed exposition of the principles upon
which the system of our commercial inter-
course with foreign States in the purchase of
corn ought to be permanently established. The
notion, which seems to have had its origin with
Lord Liverpool) and to have since pervaded

many parts of Europe, that the existing distresses
of the agricultural body are to be ascribed to
the bounties of Providence, is noticed in this
Report, but not with that implicit deference to
which the Ministers might possibly conceive it
to be entitled. The Committee state as an im-
portant fact, " That the quantity of British wheat
and oats sold in Mark-lane between the Ist of
November and Ist March last, has very consi-
derably exceeded the quantity sold in the cor-
responding months of the twenty preceding
years."—This circumstance, which would offer
to- the mind of Lord Liverpool and his dis-
ciples an evidence of an excess of produc-
tion, is in our opinion much better explained
by the suggestion contained in the Report, as
the result of an eagerness on the part of the oc-
cupiers of land " to dispose of their produce at
any price" for the purpose of satisfying their
present necessities. There is a moral presump-
tion that since the return of peace there have been
no lands newly turned from pasture to the pro-
duction of corn ; no circumstances have occurred
to encourage such a speculation, for even the
prolection afforded by the Act of the 55th of
the late King has not given such a stimulus
to agriculture as it had received from the ex-
traordinary demands of the war. Why then
should a larger_quantity of grain be sold during
the period specified in the last year, than in the
corresponding period of any of the last twenty
years, were it not that the farmers are, driven
from distress to flock with their produce to a
market already overstocked, and thereby to
aggravate their distress still farther

[MORNING HERALD.]
At a late hour. last night we received in due
course the Paris Papers of Friday and Saturday.
There had been vehement debates in the Cham-
ber of Depulles upon proposed reductions in the
Army Estimates. The remonstrances of tWe left
side were particularly directed against the in-
crease of the gem d'urxnerie, which at present far
exceeds the force employed by Buonaparte, at a
time when the French frontiers included Pied-
mont, and when 200,000 conscripts were to be
dragged to their regiments. There was the usual
measure of violence and personality ; but this has
become too monotonous to be repeated. A duel was
supposed to have taken place between Generals
Semele and Lama, in consequence of this ex-
pression, which the former addressed to the latter,
on the preceding day, in the debate.—" You
are a vile being ; it is I
.who tell you so." Both
Members, however, appeared in their places, so
that no unpleasant consequence had followed.
An account reached Paris, stating that a person
answering the description of General Berton had
been arrested—but who had not been identified
with certainty. A box full of muskets was dis-
covered in the Rue du Colonibier, which was
traced to the same person who had the depot of
arms previously discovered in the C.:our du Dra-
gon. The iftdividual has been arrested.

[MORNING POST.]
Mr. Alderman Wood last night presented to
the House of Commons the Petition which was
voted a few days back at the Common Hall of
the City of London. The Alderman, in dis-
charging this duty, of. course recapitulated the
various prayers of the worthy citizens, which
are so numerous, and embrace so wide a
range of speculation, that we cannot pre-
sume to develope the absolute wisdom dis-
played on this occasion. There are, how-
ever, three main objects -sought for, namely,
a reduction of our " enormous expenditure,"
a reduction of our overwhelming taxation,"
and an indefinite " reform of the Commons
House of Parliament." By these means only
will the Agricultural Distress be relieved, and
without every and all of them, we are, it seems,
to be speedily, utterly, and irretrievably ruined.
This is a very appalling picture of our situation,
and becomes frightful as proceeding from the
Common Hall of the City. With extraordinary
discretion the worthy Alderman who presented
the Petition abstained from dangerously commit-
ting himself on so hollow a subject as its contentY,
hut before sitting down threw out a gauntlet for
Sir W. Curtis, which was as heartily accepted.
The Hon. Baronet, however, contented him-
self with stating, that he thought it his duty to
inforni the House, that although the Petition af-
fected to be that of the Citizens of London, it
did not, in his opinion, speak the real sentiments
of that most respectable body. It was true about
300 Citizens had in Common Hall agreed to the
Petition now presented,"but the Citizens of Lon-
don amounted to 13 or 14,000, and from his own
knowledge of the opinions of the great majority,
both in number and respectability of that Corpora-
tion, they did not concur in the prayers of the Peti-
tioners. Now this plain fact we wish to be duly
impressed upon the public ; for, even with a view
to the character of the City of London, both as
to ,sound sense and good taste, we think it an in-
justice that the loyal and estimable part of so im-
portant a portion of the public should suffer
under the conduct of a few, perhaps well disposed
but withal intemperate Members of the Livery.
Nor is it in the present instance only that the
mention of the above fact may be of essential
service. But too frequently, we fear, an impres-
sion has been made in remote parts of the Empire
by the published Resolutions, Addresses, Peti-
tions, or other proceedings of two or three hun-
dred Gentlemen, who, probably, from the large
stock of leisure which they have on hand, find
time to monopolize the whole Corporation busi-
ness of the City of London.

The smaller coin of 4d., U., ld., of his Ma-
jesty GEORGE IV., were issued from the Mint
last week, preparatory to the distribution of the
Royal Maundy, on Thursday next, in Whitehall
Chapel. In consequence of the failure of several
of the dies, which were eugraven for the 3d., no
issue of this class will be distributed. We un-
derstand that an alteration has been determined
upon by the Lord High and Sub-Almoner, cal-
culated to increase the solemnity of the ceremony
in the afternoon service, and we have no doubt
but that the Chapel will be numerously attended
by persons anxious to witness the distribution of
the Royal and munificent charity.