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it should be convenient. He thought too that there
t: Wintl4 he Political causes which would prevent a very cordial
extensive commercial intercourse with Russia; but she
firs alive strictly to her own interests, and that would be the
st motive of her reluctance to receive our manufactures to
any extent.
to Gerh, But then the right honourable gentleman carne
e.... --any, and in Germany he told them there was a great out
Cation off"hfirsee trade, which could not long be resisted. The
right.. honourable gentleman had read to them, as the foun-
hoPes in Ge any, an article which had ap-
eaed M the Augsburg Gazette, and he had thought it ne-
e,.4B_ arY, in order to strengthen his authority, to inform the
araeriouseinththate
etatzrsons who wrote in newspapers were great
Y. He did not know whether the right hon.
gentlelnan meant that no great men were writers in news-
taPaPerielsin this country—(Hear, and a laugh)—but he must eer-
y
y. have had some reason for making the distinction. Now
tille subject of that article was a statement that the people of
byZ.MY Were bent upon breaking up the monopoly possessed
~_lllalid in the German markets for her manufactures. It
-4.4 t
rided
atlthat the government of Prussia, with the greatest skill
of cr,
had succeeded in bringing all the little principalities
Preh "any into a union for this object ; and that it was ap-
,iponeubdecl that even the King of Hanoier would be prevailed
mac
an to b suarnm seductive means to join it. This appea
k e an odd sort of prospect for the extension of the
.etYfott.heo
elle of 5, manufactures. That question was not at all
Isuf, '4n• If we were to go and offer Prussia, who had ma.. j ctures of her own in Silesia, to take her corn, would she not
taeugh at us if we expected her to take our manufactures in re-
adopted ?—(Hear, it ?"---(Hear, hear.) Before any legislation should be
thataQ •,`," °Pon so important a question he must express his hope
otherule right hon. gentleman and the house would get from
kaisources than an article in an Augsburg newspaper a
...,(ewh edge of what the feelings of the people of Germany were.
geu„,,e,") He thought it would be well if the government
•-aliy attended to this caution. He was sure that if the
~...ne lord at the head of foreign •affairs had taken half the
evo4,l,cfs_to_ defeat the plans of Prussia in forming this commercial
tak,ea.eration against the interests of this country that he had
h" n In Other things with which the country bad nothing todo
(Loud have bee! much more advantageously employed.—
to the cheers.) He would not omit here to state his views as
this utter
~ ~ neglect which the government had betrayed upon
thuurns,,..-4 iraPortant point of its duty.—(Hear, hear, hear.) He
the t7.,,",t,,he had now clearly made out what he conceived to be
no i -""1, that no material advintage could arise to this country,
pre;rnPortant addition to her foreign trade, by altering the
alteseant. 'code of receiving corn from the Continent.
butAn
that h's.°4 alight give them a better average at home;.
tletaiii- denied ; there might be improvements made
. in the
hi o cif the system, but it could not affect the foreign markets
.
thEZ fQv our to any' sensible extent. At the present time
house - Were a million of quarters of foreign wheat in our ware-
p.as With a fixed duty the whole of that might now
. be
app into the market. Would any gentleman—he did not
but to "I). to those who were acquainted with agriculture,
Ilow -s, my gentle! who had never been beyond the sound of
Ihis any,,`"clis^-wouldnal'l gentleman pretend that we now wanted
OW „-°,rn in the country? Every man must admit that we
not - i ; and not wanting it, the law, wisely as he said, would
PrcLUfre, it to come in and complete the ruin of the home
the ,•-eer, already struggling with the utmost difficulty against
The be to which he' was obliged to submit.—(Hear, bear.)
resortoeestt reasoning was, its his opinion, always that which
house ,(,!
.0 immediate practical proof. And he would ask
be
Puss!. it would not be worse than madness in them. to
thesning their brains with theories and subtleties when
The facts were standing before their eyes ?—(Cheers.)
this right h°n• gentleman told them that by the departure from
sYstem '
POpwat. great additional wealth was to be created, and the
t'o'ed
t lons of the towns doubled. He certainly was not dis-
-0 unaervalue the importance of commerce. He owed
(erred much to it, ts,,
uo„a- ' was deeply sensible of the advantages it con-
inan r-" a community. But, when the right hon. gentle-
ii
in talked of converting the rural population into new masses
statevg in tftns, he begged to say that it was not exactly the
the things ti:iligs which took his fancy. If he.. lacked at what
ealleZ e member for Oldham in some ofhis writings had aptly
iann,.'.nie great wen," certainly he could not join in those
I,,,Ziinlin anticipations of the right hon. gentleman.
.. The po-
douht was already a million and a half, and if this were to be
l
lustra7. hefeared they would soon have certain practical. 1-
ilehatowil' of the change in such an interference with their.
Of the' as might not add much to the calmness and deliberation
regard. proceedings. If such a change were produced he should
a
a county
as a serious calamity to any country, but
. above all,
~,eas"irY situated as this was. Mr. Huskisson upon the
the . Ich
to which he had already alluded, observed that
was X.eatest calamity which could befal the population
lie w at of being dependant upon foreign countri!ii for its oo
:ti at,Quid now pass to some observations of the right hon. gen.-
o'4m; as to the condition of the farmer and the labourer as it
cla i,,T ad be affected by this motion. He h described the
Part - ott.°,, Protection as a piece of covetousness on the
havin the landlord, and the farmer and the labourer as
g no si • •
triad, ~.. . iterest in its maintenance. How that could be
w, out with regard to the farmer he thought any gentleman
40 mixed
lion was °Mich with that class, and knew what their condi.
not his '4'ould be very much at a loss to understand. Was
caPital included in his stock and his farming
Wal:le:1'07 ts°,le
~ and of what value could these be when his farm
to fail ba,',;,'lger to be cultivated? He had no other resources
Cents to
.1.1„1)°,.11' ,He (Mr. B.) wished he had the Three per
teas in 1 i'°- '°-(Hear—but that was not the case; his all
valueless. stock and implements, and they were to be rendered
elonged
lion, whiciirl Yet the fanner had no interest in this ques-
Why the
tl. of too. deeply encurab-"esZedig
exclusiv ly to the proprietor.—(Hear.)
proprietor ,„,,,...„_.
:get e
his difficulty in time, if
theout
tut of
oor farmer must be the
I ed ate sacrifice. But the misforptunes of these were no-
. ;11l
eel.B What was to be the state of the poor peasant ?-
ItZe
h;) There was no gentleman in that house, whatever
elltitt„, might think the representation of large propulations
-s. him to hold, to whom he would concede one particle of
,anxiety for the condition of the great mass of the labouring
„__°Ple which to him the first consideration.
With was always
~, regard to the power of the rural labourer to apply him-
7'. to manufacturingpursuits, that had been so admirably
lust
by
the
right
honourable bronet in the previous night's
Ithebate that he would add nothing upon that point. In fact the
th-ePherd could no more be turned into a manufacturer than a
-atittf into shepherd. The mistake of these philoso-
bh_ -acturer a
bib- -"•1 was, if the right hon. gentleman would excuse him for
h• ' • h (A laugh)—that they were too apt
te im a philosop er—
..
h they could
treat masses of men like a steam-engine, who._
steP" - them on again, as it suited their
vi a mornent'snotice,and set
'V' —( Cheers and laughter.) No sooner had they in the
bola aof their speculations turned out 10,000 agricultural la.
, uerers from their work in cultivating the land, than, by a
Lo has it were of their Harlequin's the whole body were
to be set do
ter and h
e „ wn
Making night-caps and scissors.—(Loud laugh_
anr ohs--
in
He would undertake to say that if there was
• n the country who would be brought to entire ruin
by the It •
Z_ ,_
eaa alteration of these laws it was the agricultural labourer
atstlth r, hear.) Mr. Jacob, in his evidence, being asked what
leas .....e feed of the people in the countries from whence corn
4,...
a.-.... Ported, ,A ,
'.. " I have been in every district, and never
ii7aveloaf of wheaten bread in any place eastward of the Rhine.
iOnguis,eil a roll of the size of my fist brought to table when an
the vniM or any other foreigner was present, but the food of
s'voPle is
shire wis_' black rye bread." Why, in the part of Hamp-
from their
he lived the poor not only got good wheaten bread
magistrate employers, such as they ate themselves,
.but the
compelled 8 forced them by law to provide it. And. if they
Must gO, tbe farmer to compete with the foreigner, he
Lefore It his People with the same food.—(Hear, hear.)
seeio
.Y cattle to that he was for making a struggle, and
\ gif the
LVheo he y could not go on as they ere.—(Loud cheer.st.)
ing that thsald for making a struggle, hew was far from admi -
the contrar e condition of our labouring poor was bad. On
qUainted u.).', he would confidently ask any impartial man, ac-
there was ith the different countries of the world, whether
in the 50. sty other part of it in which he had seen the people
this we JOY/Tent of so many comforts ?—(Hear.) He said. that
the mss be the result of viewing the English population in
...ti°ll of ;„ 1-at if they took it by the test of actual consump-
4'hat -"Y 'night Particular article, they would find the same results.
1,
Point, h •..e a sort of 4
icustom-house way of deciding the m_ ht it as, --'essar, , a good one. He would take an article between
at the eo ' "nd a luxury—the article of sugar. If they looked
that our
of nautePtion of sugar in this country, they would find
Loon PoPUlation consumed as much sugar as the whole popu-
a proo PM , was not t
upon the 1, they were not arrived attogether.—(Cheers.) a state ofWhy things calling
' a.iis wooi;eose to make a great change in our system, such as
Pectin -he ? Ile would but one more observation re-
isbo4rieg the
effect which suchmake a measure would have upon the
einution.g interests. He scarcely dared to contemplate the
\vas said 4 and combinations it would infallibly give rise to. It
t‘°llntr that it would driie a vast number of hands from the
the fact districts to seek employment in the towns... But.
those 'totivt"nid turn out, that the jealousy and competition in
m towns Were so ; t, that they would not be suffered
receuti;in• A case ign "point had occurred to himself very
Essex 1,- He sent an honest blacksmith of the county o. f
his bus-inP:o t 0,..,
~ nin order that he might improve himself in
I,,ek again He came up to be sure, but he very soon came
luatl he ,o7ln, and very much disheartened, for no sooner
°Ther i,esented himself to a master in the trade, than the
if emp•inurneymen immediately combined, and declared that
stated tc:intent was given him they would leave. He only
real aoci !circumstance with a view of showing how far any
liPon. l'eneficiai
competition of labour could be calculated
t, it ztead of a"
—3' such freedom of competition being the
froto their Quid be found that the labourers, being turned away
',Poo the ag.rieUltural employments, would come immediately
Um, to Parish and the farmer, who were under a legal obliga-
ti°o to
uPPort them.
lie had,now only one further observa-
had .
beenake; and that thequestion which
)( muchwould be relative to . .
en
duty I* mooted as to the propriety of substituting a
cora -or the Si •.•He La _ lifting duty now imposed up?n imported
all that hailuberi
11
been waiting anxiously and watching carefu y
Zad nos beam ean.said upon the subject, and he must say that he
hi°muld he desirobsiingle argument to show that such a chadngtea
th th"
the Pre e.
All he could say was, that it seeme
at, at aoy
ra, seht duty had on the whole worked well, and
dlslzatted the `fe, was one essential point. An hon. baronet had
Prices. He act that these duties hadproduced equitable
it we wo„,_, .
re proposed"i°not go so far as to contradict that opinion if
into considerat to go very far back for their data. But taking
been but a f.e:o the present system of corn laws, which had
in., evident as ~_ ars in operation, lie would say, it Indeed was
voernseives,
t`hi"aoeacknowledged by the aslcates for free trade
evY Steady d' the price of corn haat•in maintained • "oula again equable manner. That. there had been, and
great eu'_:" °e, times vs
Is•-•en_ this steady price would meet with
th.._ cmations was not to be do bted • h 'ons as
v`v Were ex_ U , but suc OCCasi
veptions to the rule, and formed a separate argu-