The Sun.
London, England, 1816-03-08 00:00:00

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lx.en;-}f Opinitiet, -it .aerrhlita• ftil`O
mi:stive 10(1,111.yd-era all,foreigu
,e'oentrieS
TeiS Was-the safest pOlit.y, hind
knew 'titi great 'evils had from it, .
NY/idle it WO edhei•ed front the timer)! Chaster
file Second., down to. the yeAt 1;73. ern
of agriculture in Greet Britain *yes now so Int.-
feet, and SO much land was in a slate of 1111,112 e,
that in case's *here the Ito-vests happened to be •
extremely abundent, it Was IIeCESSIOry to have •
some opening for the sale of Britiskproduce; be-
sides the mere home market. It .would he al-
Ways proper'that part of thosurplus of a plentifel
year should be stored to supply the deficit of
=the unproductive year.. In accomplishing - this
litter object, it would scent that a very fa‘burable
opportenity for the speculations of the capitalist.
would be afforded, by their purchasing the Sur-
plus produce of Great Britain for the' purpose of
storing it, and again selling it at advantage, whet)
the produce of the country was not sufficient to
supply the home market. But the fact was, that
there.werono periontrwhrieniployed their capitals
in this way—there were none who bought-tip the
over Plus in a plentifull year, to sell it when there
was a scarcity ; and there was a very good reason
why it was not dope : there was a clause in the
Act passed last :year which, totally-prevented this
mode of -employing ern.itela mode thot would
be so beneficial to the Arereltant and to the
conntry —he meant the Warehousing Clatuse,
the reeeel.. of. -which he intended to propoke
There was nothing of greater political Am-
portance to the country than the eneonruge-
ment of the agricultural interests, and its prOtec-
then against foreigners. All the manufactures
of the country were -protected by laws against
those of foreign countries, an that in point of
justice, considering the vital importance of our
landed interest, the same advantages should be
given to it. He complained of the extent to which
the irtuportation of foreign seeds was permitted,
especially rape-seed. This country was perfectly
capable of growing' a sufficient qitentity of this
seeds ><s Well as of many others, such as lint-seed,
carrot-seed,' camomile-seed, and mustard-seed, to
supply the demand, withoOt obligihg us (as we
now did), to encourage the prodttee of fereigh
soils. The traduce of foreign pasturage was
. also too much encouraged,. by the importation of
butter, and cheese. In • consequence of
this undue encouragement of foreign pasterage,
to the disenuregeinent of our own, ate onderstood
'that. the distresses in some parts of Ireland ivele
nlnmst ioconeeivable In the at tide of wool,,
ton, 'although there was not so nowt) .cause for,
complaint, yet thought that the tax ehl Bri-•
fish won! should be diminished,.
ditty imposed on: foreign wool imported., The
v raise of the produce of land siuce 1812, had
dine-
nislted oue half--of course there must he a ,pro-
portionote dimiontion of revenue. OU this'sub-•
ject (the dirainntion of the revenue eonseipient on
the diminished price of agr)cultural produce) lee
spoke arconsidereblolength., He maintainedthat
this falliee off in the revenue weeld have the moat
ruinous effect upon the financial .:system of the
(wintry, as, on nerotint of the prodigious amotint
elf the national debt, It weTabsoletely necessary to
keep ap the. Sinking Fund., The effect which
wa.,id he produced upon our finances if we could.
net' longer contrihnte the nocesstury amount to this
fund for the purpoie of reducing% the overpower 4,
in debt, would be rulitons. in the highest
gree. lie campared it to that which would trtke.
place, 'if a, man conlii not pfl'ord to supply a
Steam., engine, with :the. necesory triiantity
of fuel or to that of a "farmer who could alit
maintein Ore ntonlier of homes-rerinired to till his.
farm. It therefore became o question of the ut-
most• impotence to t ake ineatUres 113 were
necessary-to remove those heavy distresses which
now existed, and which threatened to overwhelm
us with ;min. The first step to be taken writ to
institute an inquiry upon the subject ; -tied he
trusted the House would agree to appoint -a Com-
mittee fur that purpose. If the House agreed to.
do this, he was convinced it would have the effect
of relieving the distresses of the nation; and of in-
sPiring the people with confidence. He had prepared •
someltesolotions,Whichbe intended to move in the
Commit tee.hopioglhat they might serve as a basis•
on which subsequent measure's might be founded,
end a Bill brought into-the House. The lion. Gen-
demo proceeded to read these Itesolotions, which
he said, although hastily drawn, up,wottlti serve to
convey to the.tionse his views. The tetbstauceof
these .Itesolmions was,, assuming 'that it was the,
opinion of t !louse' that the Agriceltural Inte-
rest, and those connected with it, laboured under
the most severe distreis.: that, however various
the causes of this distress miglitbe,..it was evident
that :the dematuhfor thoproiloce of the soil in tlien.
country nras-socli-, at to he totally lutsuthicient to
return to the Agrieultnrist the 'expenee at 'which'
the produe4 wits broughi tarnarket that Ihe eon=
tinuenec of the high :laths on -the Ili&rent.ar—
tielevof agriCeitmel produce was one. Of the thief
causes of this insufficiency : that it Wits therefore •
proper thae these'Aittiei- sluiinlW be teduted i that
it WA, desirtubiethat'part of the produce of super-
abundent harvest should lie stored to, supply the.
marks:Vitt less ;thumb-int seasons : that the exres-
sive impaetation..of foreign corn; which was per.
initted tel be warehntised dtity tree,. prevented the
Storing .of the seeping ;proiluce of an ehundent
Irtrvest : that ,it
.watotherefore expedient. to repeal
that clause in the .Art- of the last &sewn which
permittedtthe-Warehousing of fortign- corn, duty`
tree::: that .it watt' also expociiecit; under restrie-
' tient*, :tomnenneage, for a- time the' portut ien- of
British tarn; by •allow ing a' bounty that it wiis
'also expetlient to -relieve the agrieultUral interest-
' Trrort texation iu as, greet degree 'as prioihte..—:
The lion, ,Gtntlentim ortchttled l)y met irtr, that
flonsectlioultrreitoWittell into • a Cotutnittee
-to ronaidtr the, state of, the) A grientenial merest,
MrSamsimanoltswisetsineidedin alltlmtitad
been timed, as..tti-tbc statoof xvie'Voot distrless
which the agriculteral interests' Ssf!t4ll4; country
Itul been- Thit wto'n,subject said,
Which ;:impaidustyaltmefitied the 800445 at ten ion
!Pity no.- Bonne that the
wrifjati---achablvt of that , Hots* e vtstild sutgeet ••-.'
the...weight, of. thai
't.111,11" Abat' rt,ro.4y.' natkizot.'.oit ttie
!iihicb might be thOirglaLlitaitiktilei ; such s was
the confidence villich the people placed in she
pstice of ratliatutut, Its wits• tokte they Would