The Sun.
London, England, 1826-08-19 00:00:00

letthem say who: could dare to say it, that the severest econom
eught not to take place in the expenditure of the public moneyf
Mr: D. 11011`, !I 6ititoher of the Soeiety of 'Friends,' itee'onded
' 'the resolution. He emild beer *hie testimony to the truth of
*very article stati,d in the resolution. He could :speak feelingly to
the distress, and to its ao 'riveted extent, which 1 ad caused 1
, , . .
ill itl et alectitt•tirt,i, to lie a toniaiderable sufferer: He hoped that
their deliberatioes would be tondeeted with that decorum which
subjects of so serious an importence claimed, and which could
5i9110, Weave to thseir proceedings the copaideration
.front higli.-1-
quartile which it was the object of. the meeting to obtain. lii:
Very cordially i.ceonded the resolutioia,—(Loud cheers.)
'Mr, .I. F. bury - differed from thole:who called the meeting,
which let thought premature. The resolution now proposed went
too far, The dieeussiou, if any, ought tee have been confined to
the core-laws; and even on that point, Ministers, if left to theni-
• oelves, *mild do-tvery thing that was right. Parliament had
- • been prorogued. , Why not postpone the meeting till November?
(It is quits impossible to describe the " (hie concord" of leases
- apdgroans which instantly ()eolithd this proposition, and Wise-
' ! oueptly confounded the order of the speech delivered. Briefly,
.._ every senteue..e, and in many instances every piece of a nentenee,
_ . was followed by a response of similar fervour.) Ile would he
heard—he Was in the corn trade. There was a fine harvest--the
dread of the repeal of the corn-laws would-cause the growers to
thrash out' their grain, and overflow the market. That would de
notch to diminish prices. (Here the disapprobation overcame any
hearing of the orator.) The Chairman interposed. It would be
quite impossible to go on with the: meeting, unless they were pre.
pared to give every Gentleman who addreosed them a fair hearing.
Mr. LALLY resumed. He called upon the requisitionists to ac-
knowledge that the meeting was not sanctioned by the, public au.
thoritiee, than whom there were none more respected by, the PeC-
lizunent and Government. Ministers were pledged to a revision
of thee corn-laws; they were now engaged in the good work. Ile
should be sorry to see them thwarted. He was convinced that ell
the foreign lot it wealth be let out of the warehoueee before Christ-
miliks, end (as we under,itood him) that all the foreign corn which
could be Wright, would be brought in by the same tune. Ile con-
: eluded (the noise of disapprobation eontinuing, and now growing
beyood the power of the chair to control) by moving that the
Meeting should stand adjourned to than day three monthe.--
(Loud hisses and groans, in the decline of which a voice roared,
' " 1 move that the mover of the amendment go without thinner for
six months.").—The amendnieut not being seconded, fell to the
ground: , ~ ,
MC. Siturrutwoweit.—ln furtherance of the important pur-
. pole- for which the meeting had been convened, he lead the honour
' to submit to thalli .4 motion against the Coro Laws.—(Loud
, , cheers.).--He did this with the most perfect Piatidletion, because
, in his judgment of the, public interests, the question of the Curie
,Lowi, iii importeuce, surpassed any other to which the reselu-
: thms referred: Whether they regarded the injuries done to the
country hy those laws, or the inevitable destruction of Lair trading
system, which was threateped by their continuance, or. the Meal-
' reelable advantages Which must fellow from their abandoutneut,
the conviction amid not fail then), in any, or in all of these views,
that their attention was demanded by them as a subject of the
, greatest consequence. That s system should be thus persisted in
after the fullest expoeure of its injustice, he would leave those to
explaio , the cause who were able to TeCOOdle, it to the WISIIOIII
'. , and justice of Parliament, and who, like Mr. Lilly---(Loud cheers)
. , were
,ins thee habit of making those qualities of the Legislature' the
constant theme of praiee.—(Cheers.)—With those who thus esti-
statedthe merits of Parliament, he entirely disagreed, though he
was not disposed himself to go into that discussion. But confining
himself, as strictly as possible to the question before them; he
,- would .only refer to the character and constitution of Par-
liament as they stood in relation to it. He would say, then, that
their conduct on the corn question entitled them, not to any de-
gree of the approbation and isiefidence so unhesitatingly demanded
for them.---(Loud cheers).—Of late years the attention of Parlia-
ment had been frequently directed to the Corti Lames. In their
proceedings lee could discover nothing but the munifitstaiion Of a
' desire to promote private interests, against thole right's of the
country at large, the consideration of which was essential to all
' . sound legialation.—( Very loud cheers).—The core growers:had
acted As legislators, as if uo other interests existed exeeptiug their
, own. In them, it would seem, were shut up all seeds and prin-
-tildes of nutiueal property. They wished to be seen and contd.-
&teed, hike Leander vie tile. Hellespont, la combining all things in
themseeeee, at once the pilot, the passenger, and the bark.—.
(Cheers.)...-Their chief argument for a monopoly of the home
tomato, was,ths,t the burdens which fell peculiarly on the corn giewer,
would not-allow Um mining his comitiodity to market in cornpe. Won
with the cheaper growth of foreign grain. The trait' ion 'of the WI,.
try .1/4r al grievims to excels.. Supeoeleg taxation 9,0 per ,•ent. '
. upon coin end alt ether commoditiso, and the foreign. grower
. tempted, by the epening of our port*, to mek in them a better
price than her could get at home Inc his corn, and that he take*
back with him goothilo • the value of those which he bringa, his
corn by- that prom (this only one which, in general, would cause
its adniiiation to tho English market) is taxed equally with the
corn of the liontiogrower. This reasoning would show that taxa-
tion must enter equally into the price* of corn and all othercom-
inothities. Tice argument of burdens laid upon the land must be
limited, ice ,trey ease, to those taxes which fell peculiarly on the
land. What, them were those peculiar burdens? If they'• went
' 'back to the.year 1815, they would find a number of heavyitaxes
on the land which do nut now exist. There were, then paid in
• duties Minn faun-hetmea, fartmeetvatios, and farm-earriages,"ehent
-• two reillione of pontide; upon malt and tether produce of the
. ' fields!, about five talkies and a half, together with ace much of the
Liroperty-tart as amounted to 15,000,0001. or 16,000,000/. On
. lac„,toint of thew, borikne, they claimed in 1815 a suffieheut in-
' deminty, and obey passed the Corn Laws. Since that period they
' heel hoeCteded in reducing those obnoxious taxes, and yet they
wonizt woggle, and unitise the countty should oppose therm
' •. they leatid successfully to retain thee equivalent.—(Cheers.)—
The'only to"" peculiar to them, the only hook of that sort uptia
I i oald now hang their case, was an insignificant pro•
whie" tifil et', tete I that part of the tithe which was charge.
portion of the Tat. --, "( part . 1 considerations
able on dee profiti („fatock. Yet for tnese paltry es
cool
Laws
resit the country with It
' would they eoetinue to ~.?"1)
' the operation el which was exPlitifted bY the present diSnrilereti
state of the country and of its is44'oure". ' "
l
" What great effects from .ittle causes spring.
• oractical effect of those
~He then, proceeded to *how what was the , ~„,, .
435, the population
taws upon the retourees of the cooutry. In i . . oat ow roam,.
~'wee ab00t,8,900,000 ; and it was then estimateu . ifloo 'it
peruser,_. annually 0,359,000 ouarters of corn. Ice . ,y „,.•
, ' . was: computed by Mr. Chalmers, that the consumption v,..
83,500,090. quarters. in lbil, and ISI4, it war taken by Mr,
liVesterti,
,the,fefortus Apollo of tie corn system, and by Dr.
et-dgehouo, xt ,40,000,0p0 quartets. By the population returns,
!alum from Hill, to 1821 e it was computed, that from the feat
pet7iati t 0,1015, lies population lout increaßeAl from 12,000,000
to 20,900,000 p or a little move than one third. 11e would adopt
that, for the year 1814. lie would amnia the increased con-
einoption to
:be in the same ratio of thee increase of population,
and 12 miThooe being addiel accordingly, the to-entity would be
now 59,000,000 (I: tatters, Taking the present prices to be only
lin!. the quarter Info* than the markets of the world, the
eimisunuirs were now payitr;.s the toonolioliet growers 38,000,0001.
sterling; above the worth of their produce elsewliere.—(Cheers.)—
A claim so idonetroue, advanced upon grounds so slight, had no
pareliel in any fact of reai history to inateh it properly. They must
look into the regions of fidion, sued lie thought
so proper es one that was contained ice et, work of none could he
'Voltaire, where
ate Arab.' chief felt coteviuced that he was not only /rightful owner
of alt that belonged properly to hinaelf, but of ail that belonged
toe"very b(4l'. rlse.-7(L
oud cheers and leughter).Another argo
naut- of the corti.growere was roweled on the protection and du-
ties which were grouted with a view to give sew particular ma-
'lubicture" a'ffiwt"P°li' of tier leoeiee Mart, by which the corn-
getswers were tonimelled to pay more than they otherwise would
for theme commodities. If the agrhealturiats must have indenini.
. ' ty, let Arson **kilt front those who have been berafilted by them,
and not from the whole country, The triolitig chasms of to-day
were Hot to he made responsible for the faithe or follies of other
times-
They were theootelves the thieved sufferer., sufferer., and were '
conirmationlf due to any hody,
tat,- ght to e the rst CM.
i the legislature prohil llioelou certainh first
attit.lor to be im-
penetet, •
frosted, by . the very mew a ct,th.ey ttrohihited the, exportiaion of
payment for
other articles' whiell would tertailoy ix! toei., in
o„,tey hot ell the advaetage of the exchange.—
them, and the t.'
%claim all aßirovat of rototopely in mentifec-
Let thrice at once a': .
hobjatore take 'jt brael4
tsivos, not *meta
three. Let the
from their liands—it ii.:411 alw4Yo 1.- "veil., itlttribrence i
, they nought no protect-100 . but the elite::.
.. administration of
those Uwe which ihnuld 'be Burt 811"-•• tent., 14 „seeete
' them 'in liberty, preperty, and ;I e.-7-(Louti ate:, vehement
' ' cheees.)-I'he eifect of this corn laws will:
Iliezatcalontvoitch,,weiterren:
' of population, bronght with it a moat app
average increase from 1819 to I,otief. was 450,000 annually. If
*ls Co and the supply of
it still progressed at any thing le" 0-e• ta ! , 0 _
this
corn .nws.,
'. ' food shleild 'be continued under the ***trends fl,be
_sel
nie _
' - land would be hrought into cultivation which woo idles
lextl.
' - .rhollo- unfit for tillage in soy eimotrY i" the world,
.out of tics
pC.O(IS of growing would increase till a wool I- to
' ' n' of this labourer to obtain a eaffteicot allaje. of the 11""1"!e''
pow,
' ' lay this miserable progression of starving and 'IC 4"'""'PHY.I%
Jestadatiodi pluil'ation would at kola) he chehecikveesil.
to Ttli :re piatilocito
Qt. own would then slowly commuoicate Lien
:of du; mmtry, anti comuuslitiot would rise ill Vecille? se) us (0