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sitch was the wretched( ss of tl,eir condition, owing to the
tleH tie of the braneho of manufactures in which they were
-engaged, that nie aver4g, of their earoin,:., for font years !tad
been no mote than der, vnce Three farthings per week.—
T,,rosuip a•-dird the Groilemen who had laid agricultural
St4ivthi'lltS fff (holes,: before the House, if they could produce
ttuc thin 11l equal this?
Petition flout Galashiels, a Petition from Dundee, and
another fruit tt r Linen Mannfactoreis there. A similar
P 'it ion from Forfar. Upiin these Mr. laherly intimated
tl, ,1 he should virnpose a inci,stire. un sortie future nay, to
allord the Linen trail, the protection to which it was entitled
by the Articles of the Union.
A Petition from Liverpool. presented be GerwralGascoi4ne,--
wloo no•oti,ned Ih-it the task lout devolved upon him in con-
sequence of the severe indisposition of his ;tight Hon. Col-
= u"c ) It was to the same effect as thy Lou-
dou_ Mcrehatit's and partieulatly specified a fire
tii iiit!ia as a o,sirahtt object.
`All these Petitions were re.'eived and laid on the Table.
SCOTCH LAW ( (Wit:PS.

Lord A. H.1:i111. that ice nelh-ved the Commis-
sion appointed to inquire into the .slate of the Law Court, of
Scotland had- ceased. to exist, somewhat prematurely, and
without executing its- duties. He wished to know front the
Noble Lind t('astleicagli) if tins were the fart, and if Go•
vernment were inclined to as before the House the Corre-
spondence between the Serre:ary of State for the Howe
Department :ind the Board ? It not, he should feel it to he
impeiative on him to submit a motion for the production of
these- papers.
Lord CASTLEREAGH said, if the Noble Lord would put
the question to hint to-morrow, he would answer it.
CRIMINAL LAWS.
In consequence of the important bushiest, whicb stood for
di,ictis.iinti Mk evening,
sir JAS. NIACKINTOSH postponed till Monday the se-
cond readings of his three Bills to Offer the Criminal Code.
Oa that night he would take the whole subject into view.
Lord CASTLEREAGH, fur the sate reason, postponed
till to-morrow the second reading of t.:e Alien Act.

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FINANCE.
Mr. M,ABERLEY wished to put a question to the Right
Bon, Chancellor iif tlre.Exchcquer,. He was dasirons to be
informed what was the state ut the hattirce on the Consoli-
dated Fund tip to January, arid how the Right Hon. Gentle-
man intended to provide for the interest of the loans of which
notice had been given ? •.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied, that
the first question was a matter of aceonnt which the Hon.
Gentleman iii;!:r readily ascertain; 'and with regard to the
second, he begged to be eNcuoed from answering a question
of that I,,nd, especially when a very few days would Wing it
fully before the House.
Mr. MABERLEY thought it important that the state of
the Consolidated Fund should be distinctly understood before
the Right Hon. Gentleman brought on his'annual measures,
and more certain resolutions to that effect.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT complained that the seconnts rela-
tive to Irchtid v,ere not yet before the liouse,'though they
ought to have I tt vrodticed in Match.
Mr. l':11 LEY then moved for an account of the Surplus
of the Cu! Fund on the sth of January tal7, of the
cliarges, and of the deficiencies, if any; for like accounts for
the 3-ears ending the sth Janiiare 1818, 1819, and 182 G; and
for accounts of the Total Funded and Unfunded Debt Lit the
same periods.
HANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, these
Accounts were all already before the House; butt on Mr.
Miitierley replying that they were not in a form sulliciently
ch,tinct to satisfy blur, no further opposition was made to his
motions, which %vete ~,1 to.

DNTREss.

Air. liot.sre to!,e, agreeably to his no-
tice, to hrti,g the sonieet of the distress to which
Al,ticoitote was reduced throughout the kingdom
the view of the House. He wished that
question of this iropot lance ntd been -introduced
by a Member whose "minions would have bad
greater authority than his ; that the Honourable
Ntmber tot Essex had bsotight it forward, and
gitien it the tvvh It of his sanction. For himself
he esnold too have ventured to undertake the task
had he not telt cents cell that the agricultural
interests of the counts y were going to ruin, and
that unless Parliament inter vied to arrest tharca-
lainity, odd speedily involve every ciao of the.
coutmouity in the- same misery'. Whenever this
subject was broached in the House, he observed
it was said to bee gauntlet thrown down for con-
troversy, and that those Gentlemen conoected
with matinfactures and conimerce took it up aS
aimed at them, and gave every measure ot pro-
posed relief their most active opposition. He
declared that he had no design against them.
Ni' Mail could be more entirely convinced titan
he was of the close and intimate connection that
'subsisted among these three great branches, and
of lie truth that not one of them could be in-
ed wit hoot injury to the others. He came
forward therefore not to take away from them,
but simply to ask the Government and the
lature to take the condition of the agricultu-
rists into 'heir consideration, as they had before
done to 1815. At that period, upon an inquiry
into their si!nation, protection had been extend•
eta to them, and it was agreed that nothing less
than the sum given, 80s. could make it possible
for the tarrner to go Out and cultivate his land.
The sole object of the Petitioners now was, not
to demand more than the House had,thus given
them as a reniw,eration necessary to enable them
to bear up against the evils of their condition,
but, to make it appext that the modes adopted to
insure the desired result had utterly failed, and to
beg the Honse to re-consider the question, and
devise means for fulfilling its own purpose.
They wished their case to be sent to a Committee,
intending no doubt to follow this up by proposing
measures which should afford them in reality the
protection contemplated in the first instance.
The language of the Petitioners, be woulik here
notice, was throughout of the most proper
kind. They had heard of Boroughmongering
factions and clamourS of that sort, but these do-
cuments contained nothing allied to such outcries.
The Petitioners were loyal and well-effected men,
willing to bear their full share of the public
burdens, and to the utmost limits of their power.
They 'knew that if the war had entailed these
burdens npon them, it had also -saved their lives
and liberties, and all that was left to them. if he

thought they entertained different principles, they
n►us; linve sought elsewhere for an advocate. But

it was replied by the manufacturer, our wants are

equally pressing, and would he aggravated by a
rise in the price of tl►e products of agriculture.
Unless bread be cheap, we cannot he able to spe•
ciliate in tot eign markets, and meet the competition
of foreigners. This cry of cheap bread had been the
source of the greatest evils to the country, and to
the manufacturers themselves. If they looked for

Ilse ses of the g enerfil depression, and for the

remedy, it would not be necessary for him to dwell
no the distresses of the agriculturists. These were
notorious. It any gt•ntleman observed the coin-
- try from 1806 to 1814, he would notice that dor-
itt4 that period there had been a progressive
; energy and activity were the sources
of a greatly increased cultivation and augmented
produce. From the year 1814 the reverse had
ituen the case; there had been a constant dete-
rioration, and last year she decline was most rapid.
This was attributable to the sante causes as had
induced the distress of other classes. A diminu-
tion of the war expenditure, including fifteen mil-,