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London, England, 1815-03-14 00:00:00

JIIPL AL PA Iti,l A M GNT.

1-10t7E.OF LORDS, Nloinisi,
Corn Bill, rind Matine Mutiny Bill, were broty,bt up
fratn.ttu• Commons, and read a firstrtinie; and tbe,.Corn
on tt a =tido of the Earl df Liverpool, ordered to be
printed.

. . CORN PETITIONS. . •
The LORD CHANCELLOR stated, that he had lOoked.
carefUlly at the Greenwich PetitiOn, with an ardent wish tha t
it might be regularly received, 'even before the Bill had been
brought upi hut, in his Opinion, it cduld not regUlarly have
been received .before.
• ~u.
Lord GRENVILLE said,. that he rather concurred in that
opinion ; tut now, hoWever, there could be nu objection to
it, and he presented the Petition,wbich was laid en the table.
Petitions were then presented on the subject of the Ceres
measure from, the following places :—From the, County of
Lineoln, in favour of the Bill, as we nuderstMid, hat the
signatures, on skins of parchment, being different from that
on which the petition was written, and at'those who signed
k might never have seen the petition, it was not received
from the Town of Perth, praying that the average 'eight be
.geed at 74 shillings, instead of 80s.;—from Newj Brentford,
. against any alteration in the Corn Laws ;—from Walsall, in
Staffordshire, against any alteration;—from Bilston, in Staf-
fordshire, to the sante effect;—froin Totness, to the same ef-
fect, signed by 4000 persons;—from the Chamber of Com-
merce, in Waterford, by the Marqu4 of Lausdowne, in fa-
vour of the Bill ;—from Liverpool, Shrewsbury, Halifax,.
Camberwell, Peckham, Dulwich, Ciipar in Fifeshire, Reading,'
Nottingham, different Trade incorporations in G1.,5.4-ow, and
other places, against the Bill, by' Lord Grenville, who stated,
that the petitions would have been more numerous, and in-re
unmet onsly signed, if the petitioners had not conceived; er,
roneously he trusted, that. the Legislature was running a
race with them;—from the City. of London to the sauce effect,
signed by upwards of 60,000 persons, by the Duke of Sussex,
who obserVed that the petitions were such as to require the
most calm and deliberate considerationof the so hject ;—fronl.
Atherstone, in'Warwiclsshire, to the same effect, by Lord
Grenville. All laid on the table.
Earl STANHOPE repeated the notice of his motion for
Thursday. His Lordship was about to make some obServas
tiuns, when the Earl of I,;ticcsrow moved that the Bar be
cleared. Strangers were immediately excluded, but soon
after adulated Again.
FURTHER ENQUIRY INTO Tutm SUBJECT OF THE
CORN REGULATIONS,

The order upon which their Lordships were
summoned being read,
larl GRgY rose to bring forward the motion of
which he had given notice, and which, was to the
above effect. He prefaced it by a speech of great
length, equally fraugift with .argumentation and
eloquence. He came forward, he said, imder an
imperions,sense of public
.duty to submit to their
Lordships-a motion on a subject not only of the
greatest, but of Vital importance. On this occa-
sion, he would abstain from referring to any de-,
tails of the measure just sent up by the other
House of Parliament, further than was necessary
to enable him to convince their Lordships that
farther informatiim was highly requisite before'
they could proceed to the discussion of that most
important question. To the discussion he cer-
tainly should bring all that calmness- and tem-
per it so peculiarly required. These he deemed
essentially necessary towards rendering their ulti-
mate decision just and satisfactory. He must de-
: -PreeA: eee te,,,..vg up of the discussion ai a mat-
.::"?.rests, between contending pars,
ties ; the subject should be considered us one in-
eluding a large view of the general interests of all,
as having an indisputable tendency to promote the
general good. At the same time he trusted their
Lordships would prove themselves peculiarly at-
tentive to the interests of the most laborious
classes of the comumnity, and of the manufactu-
rers, and they should attend to the feelings of
these with respect, and regard their prejudices
with indulgence—tbe best modes of persuading
these classes that the ultimate decision of their
Lordships will rest upon principle, and whatever
it may be,,it, would give genera! satisfaction, as
being wisely taken up, and on an impartial and
dispassionate view of the whole subject. Coming.
forward iii This View, one of the principal consi
derationilWhich induced. Lim to oar the motion
he was about to-submit- to their Lordships, was
the great difference of sentiment among those,
whose interests were supposed to have been ex-
clusively attended to in the Contemplation. of the
measure. He had no object whatever of delay.
He wished the inquiry lie should propose, which
was solely' for the elucidation of truth, to be en-
tered upon_immediately. In deference too to the
almostilinimierable' petitions of the people, the
investigation he should propose ought to be entered
upon. The people, it was Possible, may be mis-
pided ; they may be mistaken ; they may be mis-
led—but the most effectual corrective of those evils
would be found in the. result of a calm and
dispassionate enquiry into the whole subject, by
avoiding all appearance whatever of precipitation
and haste. The - first consideration would be,
whether there did not exist a case which rendered
farther,: enquiry necessary ; and this he would.
contend was proved in the course of all that had
been said in debate, there and elsewhere upon the
subject ; from the numerous publications ,vithout
doors—from the voluminous reports and docu-
ments, and the mass of evidence. He then ad-
verted more particularly to the Report of their
LordshipS' Committee on the subject, whin sat
front the 13th of June to :the 22d of July last
year. He well knew the ability and diligence
which was employed on that occasion, and much
important information was produced ; but the.
Committee, in producing it, state, in their Re-
port, they were themselves Aware, that that infor-
mation was by nu means 'complete,- and farther,
they expressly recommended the House not to
proceed to legislate upon the subject without
farther enquiry ; in order to supply that farther
information which they acknowledged to be de-
fective. Such were the express opinions of their
Lordships' Committee, and such alone; were there
no other motives, would constitute a sufficientseall
and ground for their Lordships to proceed to lir-
ther enquiry. The various statements, and the
urgent requests of the Petitioners, constituted an-
other strong ground for enquiry—a'proceeding
which more than any other would tend to allay
their discontent. In the further illustration of
the necessity of enquiry, he would admit for the