The Sun.
London, England, 1814-07-26 00:00:00

coRN REGULATIONS.

,Lord STANHOPF, rose 19' propose his:resolutiant
on the subject of the growth antrptice of Corn.
When aquestionT was to be brought under discus-
sion, with respect to which. A reasonable doubt
Might exist, then a great deal o previoas inquiry
might he necessary :.but where there could be no
reasonable ,doubt,. tbere could he no .use in the
delay of :the discussiori.:,, IhereCori brf)tn.,,l4.t.
forward his resolution
,now, and woltuLrefer to,
a certain part of the report ‘vhiali had heen•before.
.put into his hands in, a printed state. (Order,: or'-:
der t)---Well; he would refer to the report just laid.
on the Table, and they could not object to that.
Hiis Lordsl4,then referred to the'ev.icienee of one
witness, a fariner in Essex, of the name of Buxton,..
the tendency of which was to sheer, that if Cora
were to. continue at the price to which it had now,
fallen,. it .t.;ould
.be imporsihle ,for the farmer to;
perseverein business with anradvantage, even
though he were to pay no rent at all. This was
likewise stated: in letters which-he hail from Ire-,
land and from Devonshire. The conclosion which
;some persons drew from all this was, that impor-
tation from abroad ought to be prevented, in or-
der to screw up the price of our home Corn, 'to
enable the farmers to pay their rents. But others
thought differently—for instance, the respectable
petitioners from the neighbourhood of Peterbo-
rough. , The Devon letter stated, that Corn was
unsaleable, that the price of cattle bad fallen
one-half. The farmers in Scotland and Ireland,
and all over the country, had taken the alarm.
Why, then, it they disclaimed the desire to miss
the price of corn, the farmer must be dislynrthen-
ed one way or other, and that could only be clone
by repealing those taxes that bore directly on the
farmer, and the labouring classes, the bees of the
community ; and that was his proposition. The
taxes on litisbandry operated in a very complex
way. The farmer said he 'must raise the price of
his Corn in .order to pay them. The labourer
then said he must raise the price of his labour—
the farmer said he must raise his Corn a little, in.
order to meet, that—Land the labourer said he
must raise' his labour a little higher in come
tpience of this addition to the price of Corn-7-and
so the matter went on, operating alternately as
'cause and effect, till a great deal of Mischief was
done. The,tax on candles, a rile tax, ought to
be abolished. The taxes on soap, on salt, on
coarse sugar, pn leather, as far a.S concerned hns-
handry articles, on beer likewise to -a certain ex-
tent, ought to be abolished. Now it Thight.be
said that all this was a very fine theory, 'out
how was it to be. executed ? That nits a
very sensible question, and he • would answer
it. .The amount of the pernianent taxes be-
fore the war were about ten millions—they were
now 35 millions. The war taxes_ were about 23

milliong, and oat less tban millions. were,
raised in taxes. Suppose that in consequence of
the peace 11: or 12 millions of taxes might be re-
pealed; then his position'was, that the deserip,
tion of taxes to be repealed ought to be such as
'bore peculiarly on the farmer and labourers, the
bees of the community. The taxes ot`i salt,
pressed heavily on the baker's business, and those
ought to be repealed. In this proposition he
would have all masses of the 'community with
him. The manufacturers, the farmers themselves,
as appeared by the petition which be had present-
ed—for even they reprobated,all famine- mongering
Bills—the West India interest, on account of the
sugar, and the East India Company, would.
be on his'side:---and unless the Clergy were with
hip, the farmers would be on their backs-about
their tithes. •
Lord ITARD-wicxe did not rise to controvert

the principle of the Resolution of the Noble Lord,
of which he highly approved, _(1-J.em., hear ! from
Lord Stanhope) ; but what taxes in particular
should be repealed .was a matter for serious con-
sideration and enquiry ; and as the Report of the
Corn Committee had only been now presented, it
was proper that it shpuld be considered befoie-
Parliamemt took any steps on' the subject, The.,

que§tion, therefore, had better be postponed rift
next Session.. The Noble Lord, making usegof
very vulgar phrase, talked of famine-mongers.—
He knew of none such ; and, indeed, had. never
heard the expression before._ He heard of fish-
mongers, &c. but he had never neard of famine-
mongers, -or what was much worse, inischief-
mongers. He concluded by Moving the previous

question,.
After an observation from i/Drd' DA-RN'LET, anil
a few words from Lord SrAMHOPE, the (Wstioa
was put, and the !notion negatived witlio,ut a dift