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London, England, 1822-04-27 00:00:00

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- By the AUTHOR'of " PRECAUTION."
" Breathes there a man with soul so dead,
" Who never to himself had said,
" This is my own, my native land?
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FOR THE SUN.

IMPORTATION OF GRAIN FROM IRELAND.

As one cause of the depression of prices in grain
has been attributed, and with some degree of jus-
tice, to Irish importation, it may not be amiss to
examine how far that evil may be remedied with
perfect justice to 'both countries, and with as
little injury as possible to either. The Irish la-
bourer, content for the most part with a small
mud-built cabin, by the side of some bog or other
waste land, and living wholly on potatoes and
milk, When he can get it, lives much worse, and
is content with less, thhn the English labourer,
who must have his bread, and generally his meat
and his beer, before he will work at all. The
Irishman can afford, therefore, to give his labour
at a cheaper rate than the Englishman, and cul-
tivation is of course carried on at a much easier
expense. His grain,.therefore, raised at a cheaper
rate, and the passage from one island to the other
being short and easy, he can furnish his corn
at a lower price, and undersell us in our own
markets. This has been experienced to our
cost, and no very inconsiderate portion of our
depressed prices is derived from that source. To
find a remedy for that unequal competition has
been considered as a matter of difficulty, as the
Sister Island having been admitted to a perfect
union with our own, it might appear unjust that

stock, her beef, her pork, ter butter, her cheeie,
&c. &c.. This, with an exclusive home market
for the consumption of her own grain, would more
than suffice for every useful and reasonable pur-
pose. Her present population has been censed
at upwards• of six millions, to supply which,exclu-
sively of all interferences, from abroad,. would
employ all the hands she could possibly have to
spare from her manufactories, which alone would
furnish work and adequate wages to thousands.
It must be Observed, that the cliinate of Ireland,
in proportion as it eminently fits it for the pro-
duction of grass and pasture of every description,
unfits it for grain in a no less peculiar manner.--
The waters of-the great Atlantic, exhaled by the
heat of the sun, are drawn into the upper regions
of the atmosphere, and driven by the south
westerly winds to the European Continent. The.•
first lands they meet with are those of Ireland,
and the western coasts of our island; where the
clouds formed by that exhalation, •congregated
and condensed upon the elevated portions of
'those districts, fall down in almost perpetual
showers at one season of the year upon the lower
ones before they-reach:this island, or at least the
middle and eastern' parts of it;. ,the naturaircou;.
sequence.of which is that .the.crops-of grain are
very greatly injured, and the harvests for 'the most
,part, subjected to great damage, from the auttitn-
nal showers •or drizzling rains, which latter espe-
cially sometimes continue for months together—
a- circumstance which at the same time tends to
produce the most luxuriant pasture,,,and renders
Ireland particularly suited to all grazing pur-
-poses. Indeed, so'sensible of this are the Irish
'themselves, that in :the C-otirse, of, the last cen-
tu:iy their Parliatnent enacte,d, laws peculiarly
favourable to, grais lands of every descrip-
tion, exempting them from all, a4,Tisiment tythe,
and even declaring that man an -enemy to his
country who should even propose the repeal: of
them. During the,.
last war our fleets and armies
were 'mostly fed by Irish provisions of beef,
pork, butter, and every other production of-their
fertile soil. This, then, should be considered. as
one of their principal staple manufactures, and
stand equally protected with their linen. trade.
With this, then, your correspondent. would by
no means interfere; but encourage to the utmost
of his power. With an exclusive' home market
for the grain to sustain their numerous popula-
tion, increased, according to the last census, to
upwards of six millions of inhabitants, combined
too with a market' alike exclusive for the pro-
duce of their grazing soil, what further could
be reasonably wanted or 'demanded, without a
superadded power of throwing their grain into
our markets to the destruction, or at least the
great depression, of our own ? The sacrifice to
them would be merely nominal, and, if justly al),
preciated, certainly
.more advantageous than the
contrary ; for the laws we should enact to pre-
vent their competition with us in, our own
markets. would . only tend to force them into a
better appreciation of their own substantial in-
terests, compelling them only to that which
would not be less.fot their own advantage than
for our's. If •they'are reasonable they will see
the truth "-of these statements in its proper point
of view ; if otherwise, there would seem no just
cause why our LegiSlature should be governed by
their ignorance or their caprices, and not proceed
in a steady course to the adoption of such mea-
sures as may appear best suited to the real in-
terests of both countries. This will necessarily
do away all competition between the two Islands,
without injustice to. either; one of them will find
a sufficient market for all its grain by an exclu-
sive supply to six millions of its inhabitants, and
a further exclusive supply of.all its pasture pro-
duce, both in this island and its own ; whilst this
will be eased of a most pernicious importation,
and of the'same time of that further contraband
one which we Understand has been long smuggled
into this country., through the medium of that,
alike destructive to the interests of both. Now
to another part of the subject. As objections may
be raised to the probable over supply of paper
both by the Bank of England and by private Bank-
ers, were all the present restrictions done away,
it remains to be observed that the excess of that spe-
, ciesof circulating medium through the Bank might
be always remedied by Parliament, before which

it maybe proper to keep in view the personal
objects and interests of the author, and look with
a suspicious and a jealous eye on any system by
which his own income, and those of all his
funded and monied brethren, are. "greatly more
than doubled, whilst those of all thoianded pro.
prietors 'are diminished in an equarratio. The
common class of readers finds itself puzzled, con-
founded, and not unfrequently wholly lost in in-
tricate questions of foreign exchange, import
and export of bullion, comparative value of
gold and paper, &c. &c. in endless succession.
He is also told that the revenue yields a surplus _
of upwards of five millions. per 'annum ; that
our manufactories flourish and our manufacturers
are satisfied, as indeed they'may be, when
they purchase provisions :zt.less thaira moiety of
the prices at which the 'cultivator cali:raise them;
and that, in a word, Tthe whole- kingdom was
never in a more flourishing condition.; whilst the
unfortunate proprietor of the soil anttliis tenantry,
finding thernSelvesabsolutolyruinedkv the change
of system lately adopted, in plain and intelligible
terms demand a repeal of it, and rOnt out the
ready means by which such change can be ef-
fected. What has been said by the writer comes
home to the feelings and bosom of :every landed
proprietor and cultivator, from :.one extre-
mity of the Island to the other ; arid he flatters
himself that 'the -means of remedy :are pointed
out in the plainest.language, so as to 'be, rendered
easy of comprehension, to every one that gives
himself the trouble Of a perusal with, the smallest
.degree of attention. Let his statements and ar.
gurnents, if opposed, be met in .the.,same intelli-
,,gible way, and issue joined, .upein•Alte candid
hearing of both sides of the quesfebn ; and he
boldly affirms, that his surprise will not be in-
considerable, if the decision he mit.in his favour
with the candid and impartial portion of the
community. lie.challenges the cdtitest on. these
grounds, and by no means shrinks frorrj- the judg-
ment of the public. The questions'ltt.issue are,
do not the public interests 91 the country expe-
rience at this moment great depression, and are
they not subjected to still greater in prospect
If they are, as I believe will generally be al-
lowed to be the case, are the causes fairly and
justly assigned ? And, finally, if they are so,
are the remedies proposed applicable, with easy,
immediate, and certain effect? If they are, why
not instantly adopt them ? If they are not, why
decline the challenge of fair argument, and not
propose others of greater efficacy ?• The writer
has before repeatedly said, that.he•wAild pledge
his fortune, or even his life on the retulti if fair
experiment be made of what he. has had
the presumption to propose. Lose, the pre.
sent moment of salvation, and the .country- is
ruined; avail yourselves of it, and,, may be
saved. In the one case, whatever inconveniences
may yet remain to be encountered, and the mag-
nitude or number of them is not W be dissem-
bled; from the burtheu of a greater debt than
was ever yet incurred by any other:Nation ou
earth, possibly by all the European Continent
United, they may at least be rendered tolerable.
In the other it may be reasonably bxpected that
in no long space of time the discontent will be-
come universal;' the substantial interests of the
Country in the first instance ruined, the less
substantial ones following it in rapid succession,
though now fOolishly exulting not only in their
safety; but their superior adiintages of every
description. Soon will famine and desolation
stalk with giant steps over a land siibstantially
possessing all the means of power and:opulence,
.and only wanting boldy-wise, and steady mea-
sures on the part of Goviiinient- to become, in
spite of debts and appalling difficulties of every
descriptions the greatest nation oti-earth.

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