The Sun.
London, England, 1821-02-23 00:00:00

CONDUCT OF THE ALLIED POWERS.

The Marquess of LANsno wx saicl he felt it
absolutely necessary. to bring forward a motion,
with a view. of declaring the opinion of that
House respecting the 'conduct of the Allied
Powers at Troppau, with regard to. Naples. lie
therefore gave notice of his intention to submit a
motion to their Lordships upon this subject on
Tuesday next. The object of his proposition
(either by address or otherwise, he did not know
'which) would not.be any censure upon his Ma-
jesty's Ministers, nor any thing retrospective,.
but prospectively to declare,. that conduct like
that pursued by the Allied Powers was contrary
to the fundamental policy of this Country, and
to the'true policy of Europe.

The Lords were ordered to be Aummoned for
Tuesday. Adjourned till to-morrow (this day.)

II OUSE OF COMMONS.

Mr. JAMES GILATTAN, eldest son of the late.
Right Honourable. JIENItY. GRATTAN, took the
oaths and his seat for the: County of %Via

AGAR:CI:I'U ItA L. DISTi,ESS..
Mr. SCOTT presenied a Petition from Bexhill,
and another from Hastings, in Sussex, complain-
ing of Agricultural Distress.
Ordered to lie on the Table. * _

Sir E. KNATOIBULL presented several Peti-
tions from Kent on the same subject The Hon.
Baronet gated ut. some length the great distress
to which the agricultural interests were subject-
ed, and impressed upon the house the necessity
.of paying immediate attention to the state of the
country.
Mr. CunwEN said, the distress was of a gene-
ral nature; there was no class of society exempt
froth it. Whilst he lamented, the cause of them,
he rejoiced to'see so many Petitions presented
from all parts of the country, because he hoped
that they would force on Ministers the consider.-
ation of the subject. Looking rat the miserable
state of the people, he was, he confessed,- as-
tonished to find persons of information and abili-
ty, talking of the prosperous state of the .country.
—to him the matter seemed altogether incompre-
hensible. He was convinced, that the opinions
of such men were founded on a fallacy. The
Petitions,on the Table slimed the wretched state
of the county of Kent;. if the Agricultural inter-
est was so depressed in that county, what must
be the state of the people in every other part of
England ?
. After a few words from Sir E. KNATCHBULL,

Mr. ELLic,F. (Coventry), said, that the House
would recollect that in the year 1816, there was
an, increase in the' excise beyond the two other
years. .The remedy applied to .relieve the dis
tress that had the two years before been pressing
upon the country,, were, .to use the words of the
Chancellor of the.,Exchequer himself, by putting
a guinea in the pocket of every man in the coun-
try.-(A laugh.):— The Right lion. Gent. fUltil led
his pledge by inundating the country with paper
money,—(Rear D—thc effects of which were ulti-
mately to promote the very distress under which
the country laboured. lie feared that he would
draw clown upon himself the attacks of those who
served on the Bullion Committee; but.it was his
conviction, and therefore. he would openly state
it, that that Committee had been guilty of one
great errorthat error was in calculating the
-price of gold of that day. with its anciept value.
In 181(1 they saw the. alteration in the state of
the country, which was predicted by the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer—they saw prices rise.
The circumstances of .the two years preceding
brought into the country a great quantity of fo-
reign coin.. The warehouse's 'of the English mer-
chants had been. filled with Colonial. produce—
peace opened the market oC the. Continent,, and
the consequences .or .an enormous exportation
were the bringing into this country a great qUan-
tity of the precious metal. lie would now look
for a moinent to the state of the public accounts.
in the preceding year, the Government owed to
the
,Bank the sum of 30 millions—that sum was
reduced to 18 millions, whilst the state of the
public balances ultiMately reduced it to' six. mil-
lions, a sum much lower than the debt of the
present 0,,e due from the Government to the
Bank. • The Bank represented its coffers, as full,
of specie, and d?ciared thatit was ready to pay.
in Cash.- They issued nine or ten millions in
coin, which checked the effect of. the issue of
paper with respect to foreign Exchanges, as well
as the price of gold. in this country. By thk
operation the market was in a fictitious state,and
this fictitious state of the market led the Corn-