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iicTtllth,ii.led tf.,,i t.:,:,k ,A.,,,s , ri,,e„ti,,,r. 11.1-... Ten in itt,‘..:.s thln himielf, ay.,,ared tint. that 80s. ttral
landed proprietors and ti/e great body of the Itec,..ssary for the proteetiou ut therigricultue,
people.----(No, no.)—Gentlemen might say no : I htit to hint it hpd certainly apneared, that 765.
but he was persnaded It:. was rig-ht, without till- would be sufficient. The importance, however;
L;wing the supporters of the measure in all theft ~! or !.'citrilig the grower,made,hini disposed to ac-
agriculturaltrumpet y.—(Linghing.) 4Hh•sce in the higher price. When he had spoken
The. Petitions were then brought up, and or- I, of that House being always disposed to attend to
dervd to iie on the table. the representation of their Constituents he Hotpot
On the !notion of the CHANCFLLoiI of the Ex- in a peaceable way.. Acting as some person oat
cu zateEtt, it Was resolved, that the House,. 011 its of doors, bud done in the present instance, they :
rising, should adjourn to Monday next. I put it out of the power of their Representatives !
. i to coniply with their wishes.
Mr. BrtooKE spoke, but was inaudibiejn the
Gallerv. . . I

THIRD READING OF THE' CORN BELL.

The Order of the Day tor reading the Con) Bill
a third time having been read
Mr. Pao-riiv.Lop., as the course of the last
two years, he had spoke, at least nine times on
this subject, thought it unnecessary to trespass
on the time of the House no or in rising to mote
an amendment to the motion which"fad just been
made. He lamented the popular commotions
Which had taken place, paliegyrised the general
•condiict of the Right •Hon Gentleman (Mr. Ro-
binson), who had brought forward the measure,
anti concluded by moving that the I3ill should be
read a third time on that day six months.
Mr. P-ap.mAN'ri.ti seconded the amendment,
and spoke strongly against the principle of the.
Bill.

Lord BEitivAtn.,supported the principle of
.the
te.!asetre, And gave the Bill his hearty support.
Sml-rn of Cambridge) contended, the
agricultural• interest ought not to be denied that
artificial protectl6n which ParliAntent lia-irgiveu to
every other interest in the country. He .would
have preferred the price beinl:!, fixed at 755. instead
of 80s.; but note that, the quest'on was, whether
80s. should be preferred to ti;ls. he felt it his duty
• to vote for Bth. by supporting the Bill.
Sir 11-ENRY l'AteNta.t. ;diode(' to the manner in
which his plan tor the protection of agricti.4.lre
had been misrepresented_ It it haul been adopted,
the duty on the quarter of imported Corn, %dart
it was at 80s., would •not haVe been more than\
15s; and when at 955. only one shilling. He
contended, that the Lord Mayor.was wrong in as-
serting, that bread would rise to sixteen pence, if
the present meastire was adopted. Tne very week
after lie had made . that assertion, he had been-
obliged to declare, according to the regular re- -
turns, that bread should be reduced oue penny in
the peck loaf, although the measure wa, then
discussing in the House. This showed, that the
assertion was unfounded.
A Member;-whose• name we could not learn,
thought that the Bill should pass for the good of
the agriculturists. Ile thought that an Hon. Ba-

Mr. Wit BEltFoliCF, had purposely abstained till
the Bill reached its last stage, from offeriog his
sentiments on the subject. Some Gentlemen
-,,-61e- speaking of the effect this measure would
have on the manufacturers of the country, argued
as if the danger arising frost} disappointment was
all oaf one side. They could conceive Soinething
was. to be apprehended from the discontents of
the manufacturing classes, but felt, no alarm Irmo
the despair df the agriculturists. If he thong-at
failing to adopt such a measure as that before
them would not injure the agriculturists, and
mately the manufacturing classes themselves, he
should be disposed to vote on the popular side of
the question. A strange idea scented to have got
abroad, that it would be better to open,our ports,
to.the importation of grain, and give our money
to the foreign corn-grower, rather than pay the
British agriculturist :he price of raising it. The
impol.cv of this he proceeded to, explain, and in
answer. to those who contended that every thing
ought to be left to find its own level, he (ad-
mitting, if the whole of Europe were under one
Government, such a system would be o.rutl),
maintained, that In the present state of things,
this would. be impracticable. An, lion.. Gentle-
man wished that England shouhl drat's, her sup-
plies of Coto from a large at ca, and that France
should be a part of that area. (Hear !) But
n oold that Hon. Geatlentan b...• content to put
the happiness and comfort of
.so many millions of
people.. oil such a footitia ? Nothing was nitre
certain than 06s—that whatever was the case
'with smaller states, it became a great country like
this to niaite kself independent of every other for
a supply of Corti. Not to do this was to abuse
1. the oreans with which the Mighty 'Being. who
ruled the universe had been. pleased to bless us,
to throw ourselves on the goodiwill of foreign
powers. That for this there shotild be so many
adioicates was to him astonishing. The. nonoor.
able Gentleman. (Mr. Barini.,) had said Corn was
sold in France at fo:ty shiliing and ream ii!!.T,
the- --ch4r-c-v -on inipo-utation, &sato-lied - that it
might he obtained iii this country at to :•:•.• -five
shillings the quarter. That atmottrable -6efftle-
'man had been a merchant all his life, and he
was surprised that a matt of his habits should not
have seen what won'tl strike a. common observer
at once, that the moment it was known Great
Bri-
• tain stood in need of a large supply, its price
would be advanced—probably doubled. He eu-
logised the conduct of the comma- gentlemen of,
England—complained of the Manlier in which they
had been spoken of that night, and proceeded
to skew how much the prosperity of the man"' •
• hewer depended upon that of the agriculturist.
United. by the laws of nature, and lie might say,
by Nature's God, they could only be separated oy
the vain policy of mon. Protected as the-nianu-.
facturers were by Acts of Parliament, he asserted
a measure like the present, was if) justice due to
the agricultural interest, and he was certain if the
- infinx of foreign corn was not prevented, every
British interest must suffer, and no class. of the
community rstore, than the manufacturers them-
selves., who were too much against this irtea-
. sure. He reminded the House it was their duty to
protect the peasantry of the country, who Crow
pleaded with ten thousand tongues for that relief
and assistance which this measure promised. The,
circumstances of the times too, he maintained,
called for it. Now, while our armies were dis,
banding and ournavy being paid off-, it was to be
'supposed there would be more hands for labour
than formerly, and 'was thib the period at which,
by discouraging agriculture, they ought to dimi-
nish their means of employing them ? He had not
heard one argument that went to show the effect
of this Bill would be to keep up the price of corn
to 80s. It was true it wor:,l prevent its being at
dines ruinously cheap .for the grower, but at
others it would prevent its being ruinously dear
to the consumer—(Hear, hear !). The iidvan-
tages of such a system must be obvious, by re-
ferring to the distresses of the -country in the
reign of Edward 111. when (as he had read in Dr.
A. Smith or Davenant) its price bad riseii to P 2
times the ordinary price, and to the high prices at
which it had been sold in the timeofthe civil wars.*
He had a great distrust at what were called per-
manent • measures, and on this-point he differed
front most of the supporters of this Bill. He was
somewhat more than 55 years of age, and had
beat in Parliament near 35 years. The result of
his experience was this, that it was wi•e to shape
their •fueasures so,' that they could be varied to
Meet the varying eiremnstanoes of the times.—
Woatever :night be urged against that LlOase,_ of
this he was certain, that.Lhose who sat there
strongt for their constittients„ and were ever dis-
posed to attend to• their representations on, any •
subject. For his own part he b.l I thought, that
765. would be a sufficiently h:gh prOtectingprice,
but lie thought it far better to
.go somewhat be-
vood what the cousumer tht:ught sufficient, than
In fail to Conte op to what the grower knew to
he necessary and when he said thii, he spoke not
for:the benefit of the grower, but for that of the
consumer. Those more convets.ant with these

ronet who had quitted the I-louse(No, no, no)--
he had not perceived him, would have done well
in withholding the in.:jinni:ions he had thrown
out. As to the Bill, lie should have preferred
lower.price, but he should vote for 80s. be.
cause be saw that the i,lteution was to do away
the measure alt,getio;r.
• Mr. Goat,. .L.;,.“..1-0:4 considered the pre•4ent Bill
totally unnecessary, and would give his decided
netrative to this most abominable measure. •
:‘dr. C. GeANT thought, that the measure was
far from urn Those who denied that it
would lower ;he price of bread, only .paid atten-
tion to its immediate and instautaneous, and not
its future effect. A precarious market was al-
ways a dear one, whilst a secure market would
always be a cheap one.. The cifect of the inert:
siire would he to maiotain a medium price, and
in a short titbe would probably keep that price
even below the medium. The reason that so
many-petitions bad been presented against the
Dill was, that ma uttfar:: urers lived collect ed in
towns, whilst agriculturists were scattered over
the country, and had not so many opportunities
of assembling. If the Bill should not pass, agr -
culture would decline, and not only those lands
little apt to Foduce corn would be thrown out of
cultivation, but a proper degree of expence and
skill could not be bestowed on those of a more fa-
vourable kind.
. --Mr.•IIIAaR'.:ATT did not intend to have once
more introit,: ed himself on the House, had it not
teen for the (ipeal of the Noble Lord who asso-
ciated the op users of the Bill with an Honourable
Baronet(_''- cry of No, no !).—He was
glad to hear . denied. if any of the .oppo-
nents of the measure had any part in the outrages
which had tak•'!) place, they bad adopted the most
effective mode f( injuring the cause : or he rather
thought, had a:He it a prift.nice to obtain other
objects. tic ren.embered a time, when_ the cry
Of " No Popery': was raised, as at present that-
of " No Corn Bid !". awl he recollected a street,
in which the !mob exclaimed, " Throw us out so
many 'guineas, -and we will not smash your win-
dows."
,He thonght the same motives actuated'
the present rabble. He did not oppose the
ciple of the measure, but the price, which he
thought wits fixed so high as to press heaVv on the..
coninfimity.
Mr. Goochf should cordially give his vote in
favour of the Bill. Nothing but necessity could
justify the interference of the Legislature on this
subject, and that neee)-ity, which could not be
urged in 1813, now existed. He did not think
the mobs were collected on any purpose connected
with the Bill, but with a view to any, mischief.
Sir GILBERT HEATHCOTE rose, amidst loud cries
of " Question and enquired whether the House
imagined. they saw in -hint one of those ruffians
whom it had. to dread, or who was likely to bt:
thnidated ? He bad not heard any new argument in
support of the measure : the advantage which, at-
cording.to its advocates, it was likely to produce,
Was little, comparql with the state of the greatest
ferment, to say the least of it, into which it had
thrown the whole • kingdom. The distresses of
agriculturists had been asserted, but those of the
panufacturers had been proved in the examination
under the'Orders in Council—(Here the noise be-
came very loud.)---He had a right to be heard.
If he were cried down, lie would leave the
House, but lie should tleent it fit that the people of
England should know his sentiments. He vin-
dicated the statement made by the Lord Mayor,
who had been reviled' by high authority. It had
been said that the speeches uttered, and the sen-
timents expressed in that House, had occasioned
the popular fertneut that had !woken into outs ,es.
"Bat who wcitdil say that he had not seen,.sii
weeks ago, even before the discussion had com-
menced, written on every dead wall, " No Corn
Bill,'' or other expressions indicative of the po-
pular feelings oil this subject ? The lan-guage
held in that House conic! therefore not have caused -
that hritation. If the petitions, which exceeded
in moldier all precedents, were not attended to, a
poWerfui engine would be placed in the hands of
the Retoriners to accoMplish their wishes—(The
noise contintwd).—=lire House would soon be re-
livrvd from hearing so diSailected and disreputable
nAlember as it seemed to think He would
soon close•his unwelcome task, for he !:ail as little
di3Positiou to trouble the,' House, tic they had to.
hear him. Ile did not know w;tether he should
not feel it, his duty to propose an Address to the
Priace Regent, to convey the publie. feeling to