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ta:rr-Stich protection be even, ceases to coo well, it proves itself
unworthy of existence, and its destruction to be a public good.
On these grounds, and by this test of their respective values to
the'State.,- do the laroprietors of our landed, shipping, and
colonial (including the East India) interests, wish
.to stand or
fall, and claim to be 'judged, and prdtected from foreign com-
petition, .and then let,cornrneree-be free at air; and unless
they are so protected, I conceive that our present revenue cannot
much longer be eblledted, nor ean'England be restored to pros-
pefity.

PO my letters to the Earl of Liverpool ot.l4st year, which I
herewith enclose, and to my " Conversations on Political
Economy," which you already have, I refer your Lordship for
further particulars, and T trust they will throw additional light
on these interesting subjects.
I am, with great respect,
Your Lordship's very obedient humble servant,
JOSEPH PLNSENT.

P.S. It should be an invariable rule with the Legislature,
(while-we hav,!. an excess of population), to import our supplies
from the faitheSt colony ; if they can be rendered as cheap to
the consumer as from the nearest colony ;• as by so doing-we
should gain a large balance 'of profitable employment to our
people, by the additional shipping and sailors employed in their
carriage. - J. P.

MR. CANNING AND SIR F. BURDETT.

TO THE EDITOR.

SlR—The following correspondence (Nos.. 1,
3,) having passed between Mr. CANNING and
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, we declare it to be au-
thentic.

June H, 1321.

W. BENTINCK,
DOUGLAS KINNAIRD.

(No. I.)
ATO SIR FR_ BURDETT.
Gioucester Lodge, June 7, 1821.

C-7 • ,
" Silt—ln a letter, bearing your sig,natute, an pu d rporting
to have been addressed by You to the Chairman of •a dinner of
Varlipientary Reformers on the 4th of April, which was pub-
lished'' in several of the Newspapers of the, following day ; a
liberty is taken with my name, as little -justifiable (in my judk-
!tent) by differences of political opinion, as-it is reconcileable
with the ordinarYcourtes!,espf private life.

" The obvious meaning of that passage in;your letter of which
I complain is, to impute to' me, that, In upholding the present
system of Representation in the I-Jouse of commons, I am
actuated by the,eorrupt and dishonourable motive of a personal
pecuniary interest.
• It cannot be matter of surprise to you, that I should feel
myself under the necessity of requiring at your hands a dis-
avowal of the imputation which that passage appears to convey.
Should you be unable, or unwilling, to afford me a satisfactory
explanation upon this point, I have then to demand of you the
only other reparation which an injury of such a nature admits.
" It can hardly he necessary to state to you, Sir, the'reason
why this demand has not been sooner made : but I owe it to
myself to preclude the possibility of any doubt or misrepresen-
tation, as to the causes of that delay. The first and natural
impulse of my own feelingS, was to address myself to you,. the.
instant that I had read your .letter in the Newspapers.
" But it was represented to me by the friend whom I requested
to take charge of my letter, that your. then situation rendered it
impossible for you to accept the second of the alternatives pro-
posed to you (a circumstance which, r must be permitted to
observe, considerably aggfa.vated the of offered to me) ; - that
the utmost which I could obtain from you was an engagement
to afford me satisfaction so soon as the-t2rm of your confinement
should- have, eXpired ; that the interval must be fall of haiard as
to. secrecy ; that without ii any degree impeaching either your
honour, or that of any Gentleman whom you might select, the
mere fact (which could hardly be concealed ) of a communication
between me, or any friend of mine, and the King; s Bench,
could not fail to excite suspicion ;—and that-such suspicion
would necessarily he strengthened by my prolonging my stay
in England till the-middle of May, after having repeatedly and
publicly announced my intention of waiting only for Mr. Lamb-
ton's motion of the 17th of ApriL •

" Yielding, for the time (and I know not how I could have
done otherwise), to the force of these representations, it re-
mained for me only to keep my own counsel, and to quicken,'
as much as possible, my return from the Continent.
" I arrived here yesterday evening-. my first business on my
arrival has been to comm. unieate with Lord William Bentinck,
who has the goodness to undertake to deliver this letter to you,
and to settle on- my•behall all necessary arrangements on the
matter to which it relates. I assure you, upon my honour, that
Lord William Bentinck is the only person who has any know-
ledge of this letter, or of my. purpose to write it.
. " 1 have the honour to be, Sir, .
" Your most obedient Servant,
- (Signed) . " GEO. CANNING.

(N 0.2.)
TO THE RIGHT HON. GEORGE CANNING.

" St. James's place, June 8, 1821.
" Sin—l am not aware of having made any unjustifiable al-
lusion to vou; or of having. said of you in'my letter to the Chair-
man of the Reform Aleetung, more than all political men, who
benefit from the system which they advocate, are fairly and ne-
cessarily subject to.
" The letter in question is now before me ; and I am at a
loss for a form of-words in wilich I could have more guardedly
marked the disqualification under which I conceive yourself and
others to be from giving authority to. your opinions on Parlia-
mentary Reform, and at •the same time have avoided making
any allusion whatever to personal character.
" Not having intended, and not having made (as I read the
letter) any such allusion at the time, I cannot now hesitate, in
a more particular manner, to disclaim having ever had such an
intention. " I have the honour to be, Sir,
" Your most obedient, thimble Servant,
• (Signed) " FRANCIS BURDETT.",