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of the judiciary proofs, and maintained his
Learned Friend had failed in establishing his
charges in that respect. M. ODILLON BARROT
followed, and contended against the existence of
the conspiracy, which, from all the circumstances
disclosed, he considered as improbable. M.
BERVILLE then entered into a minute examina-
tion of the great questions of law propounded by
the ATTORNEY-GENERAL. The Counsel discussed

the law respecting conspiracy in all its bearings,
and concluded his address by an examination of the
true principles by which a charge should be sub-
stantiated, contending that the Attorney General
had failed in adducing the requisite proof. M.
COFFIN' ERES afterwards addressed the Court in

defence of the prisoners, in refutation of the charge
of not disclosing the conspiracy. The Peers ad-
journed to the next day, when Mr. PilteulN
was to be heard on the same side. His reply
mill close the defence.

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THE AGRICULTURAL REPORT.-Tile Report
anticipates—and, unless the market—the consump-
tion—can be very greatly enlarged—tbe antici•
potion, however lamentable, cannot but be rea-
lized—the Report anticipates a " diminution" of
the gems amount of the annual produce of food,
in order that the supply may be so far reduced
as to induce a degree of scarcity, and thus to
elevate the prices of agricultural produce to
such a standard as shall again render the occu-
pation of a farmer profitable. The conclusion is
certainly inevitable; but it is a conclusion, in its
nature, of a most appalling kind. In other
words, it amounts to this, that the very abund-
.
ante and cheapness of food, which ought to be
considered pne of the greatest blessings bestowed
by Providence upon any people, is, by some
error or ether, converted, in this country, into .a
curse;—that the cultivation of inferior lands, in
this country, must be abandoned, in order to len-
der the cultivation of the richer soils of any va-
lue to the cultivators ;—that all the farmers
must encounter further and severe losses, and
that a great number of them must be progres-
sively ruined, and driven from their occupations,
in order that, by the reduction of competition
thus effected, such farmers as are enabled to sur-
vive the process may at length, be enabled to
obtain their own prices for their produce ;
and that ultimately, vast numbers of the poorer
classes of the people, already, perhaps, from the
tow price of labour, forced to confine themselves
to an inadequate quantity of wholesome, food',
must contrive to exist in future upon still less, in
order that the price paid for the morsel which
they do consume may be such as to remunerate
the grower!!!—This, it will be at once seen, is
altogether a wretched, ruinous, and retrograde
course. Gon forbid that in this island there
should be no alternative for the creation of a
profitable demand for food, but by an unprofit-
able reduction of the supply. It will be more
consonant with the designs of Divine Provi-
dence—with the prosperity of the State—the
progress of wealth—the welfare of the agricul-
tural and all the other interests of the Empire
the health, comfort, contentment, and happiness
of the people,—if we can find that it is possibly
to increase the consumption rather than to dimi-
nish the supply,—to enlarge the market, and to
add to the enjoyments of the poor, rather than
to desist from the cultivation of any of our lands,
or to abridge the scanty hard-earned pittance
which labour at present obtains for the labourers.
What says Mr. MALI-Ims, in speaking of a pre-
dicament precisely similar to that in which this
country is now placed ?

" If in given periods the produce of a Country exceeds its
consumption," (which is alleged by the Report to be the present
situation of this Country,) " the means of ime.reasing its capital
' will he provided; its population will soon increase; or the
actual numbers will be better accommodated ; and probably
both. If the consumption in such periods fully equals the pro-
duce, no means of increasing the capital will be afforded ; and
the society will be nearly at a stand. If the consumption ex-
ceeds the produce, every succeeding period will see the society
worse supplied; and its prosperity and population will be evi-
dently on the decline."—Principles of Political Economy, sec.

1, chap. I.

Now, then, England is, according to the Re-
port, precisely in the first situation supposed by
Mr. MALTnus :—that is, the produce exceeds the
consumption. And this situation, according to
Mr. MALTnus, and according to the nature of
things, if there were not some pernicious error,
which must be discovered and removed, ought to
afford " the means of increasing the capital, of
increasing the population, and of better acconzmo-
dating the people !" According to the Report,
however,—according to the necessities of the
Farmers,—and according to the existing course
of events, and the causes which now operate upon
Society,--a " diminution" of the produce must
take place,—until we shall be placed in the se-
cond, or even the third, state supposed by Mr.
MALTHUS ; that is, until the consumption fully
equals, or even exceeds, the produce ; and in
the former case, we shall be " nearl v at a stand,"
in the latter, our " prosperity andpopulation
will be evidently on the decline !" It Is true,
that Mr. MAurnus, notwithstanding the noise
his writings have made, is no great authority.
His book on Political Economy, now before us,
is full of inconsistencies and contradictions ; and
contains a striking and remarkable one on the
very subject now under our consideration. In

Monday, and the 'whole sitting *as occupied in
hearing the replies of the Counsel for the pri-
soners. M. HENNEQUIN first addressed the Court,
and attacked the conclusions and inference's of
the ATTORNEY GENERAL, relative to the validity