Star.
London, England, 1815-02-28 00:00:00

coin,[ nielf in the different- reports of the Cemmittee
on the earn subject. 'rhe foreign corn imported witt•f it
the lairitlro quarters was 43(boAr) qu %acts.. Xylin
could dome to the monstroustecolution that negland • •
should so out of tillage ? The manufacturer stroolat. •
mike blit a stronger case than he has as yet maJteout •
to ;ware that he should. He hes not proved th oit
is impossible for him to live conderahly if the price
of corn be 80s or 753. a quarter. Tee ni one actu4
..
rail ask the agriculturist two most vniutoonable .
things, a Pay us an enormous price for oer mane. ..
factures, and y,ive us your produce for what we rle rots .
to pay for it." He knew the gtintral princ•;rie of
I,:aving things to their natural level was good in the
abstract. 'I his was the philosophy of the qtr:•si'tr :,
and the doctrine of that great political phitose.): c' ..
Adam Smith. Ev. for tins, manufacturei - iiiti,t Ise- .
unnostected as well as agriculture. (hie otts!rtwri•ii .
most weight against anwher. it ivaS A iii.itherteitical
ettestinn, it one thin i; artificially raise.% s- must
the otlyeALtwep th..m on a level. • But hereneinu • .
feictomel 'ally raises', trod-if agliettheire je no& - •
.raised in the sansi was it is ekpmesee I. The set ietllC
turists are asked to fr• suh'ect to two thil:;s—to pa,* .
such.a price as manufacturers pleat 2 for t'i"ir mane*
faCtutes, and to sell their own prodirce for such a -
;nice also as the manufacturers please. The Mght
Honourable Gentleem ,n continued to argue that we •
should not be st itvcd, although we might itet • •
depend on France or any other twilit for supplies of
1 rotn. But if, on the contrary, we miiht be ceitaii .
1 .•fhaving a supply from any fOreign n itioe, could
I v.c be certain of having that supply cheap ? At AI r
rite we should he place.{ in the iiiitt rtion of piyiirg a
tax to ether coultrics for our subsistence, Wit h. out .
Lwn agriculturists ti.•,,0hl cea..t• to cultivate torn.—
Whil.., then, we a•e depriving ourselves of the liva
market at home, we are, in order to make corn cli,:ip,
throwing out selves upon an uneer rain nrtrket aht.o Al.
Ile would insist that the donlet.lic mar ke.t was c•IP•i-
ble of supplying the whole of pair consumption, it
we availed ourselves of the assistance and cap..b.litit 3
of Ireland. If due encouragement were given to
the Irish grower, he would supply mote van than
could possibly be wanted; and the affording of to h
encouragement is no more than what lie is justly en-
titled to. Then would the rinet.tion be, tut wh..Wit r
we should ever want corn from atmetd, but what
what could be done with our superabundance 1t
home ? This would assuredly be the Case. unless we
tell into that mis?ra;)le po!tcy which fur bade the
,-ncourageMent of Ireland ; and he must say, that
nitherto the policy of this country had been, not to
give too much encom agetnent to Ireland. The Right
lion. Gentleman then entered upon a statement of
the great quantities if corn exported fooyi Ireland at
Al early period of the last century ; when, from the! .
stimulus she tett:iv:el Isom the protecting ditty of
that time, she fast became a great agricultural coun-
t tty.--fiaring then auto Ireland iota this •:ttratrun,
was it the intentirat ‘.f- the House that sae sle,uid gee
oat of it again, and starve, or that she should con..
tinue her tillage, an,: by it a g:eat ineans.ot her pro-
f sparity ? Was it meata that litland s'aould cease t,a !
I .:ittitiue an agiiietiotral comet), or a rival to fo-
reigner, with r:Spect to ••lippl:t.:-, of cow, v. hen her
(Lot was s' enormous as 1:,-2 millions, and wh:le the ;
`expenses which she had to pay to I:,ui:land amounted
ti, 17.mill:ons? If she is suffered to ?.,c) back in her .
....oiculture, how is she to pay.iter proportion of. t::e -
revenue—where is it to come from ? This is a int.:- :
ii.iit wirLir touziaes not early the credit of the land- :
holder—and the geutlemen of Inland, but tile credit
or the public funds; And diverge by atleptet--, any
measure injurious to her agricultural inteitsts,. you
t .kt.• so mucn credit from the fends and so much from •
t:.e landed interest. 'I he two cruetiies ought to be•.
made necessarily dependent on each other. Ireland,
by taking the inanufactut es of England, is necessarily.
dependent upon her; England, by taking her name
r.d produce, returns the benefit, and by this means
establishes not merely a legal but an amicable union,
and the great necessary of life is obtained indepen-
dent of ail the rest of Europe. Belt if, on the other ,
hand, we send Ireland back again, it might be relied .
upon that not only her credit and revenues would me
diminiohed, but also her Population.
Sir Roßgiur PEEL said there ought to be no
alou'ot that the landholder and the manufacturer
should go hand in hand; and that if any measure.
were proposed tending to the I,enefit of the one amid
tb, injury of the other, the result would be the titbit
injury of both. If any measure were resolved upon
that would raise the price of bread, it WAi Mid*: 1
that the price of bread would very soon fall. lie
had been for many ye ,rs a Member of that House,
and bad often witnessed the opnion of Mr. I'itt on
this Subject, whose luminous mind Was con Inced,
that unless bread was kept at a reasonable price ma-
nufactures could not thrive. When there was an
opportunity of obtaining foreign consumption for our
nianur.actures, they had increased to the atreanit om
.io innlions of esports; but with all the eaccuragement
that could be given to them, fore.gners could not I. e
able to send two millions worth of corn Isom they
e-untries. Therefore this country has been greatly
enriched by the importation of coma. In the presei t;
state of things, it was his opinion, that every article
wislitevcr mutt fail in value, and the rethlt:t!on this:
of land would be serious. Ills own land would
.tail,
at least twenty pounds per cent. It was impobsil,,h,„
-that one interest could prevail at the expense of dm,
other. le was well known tliat both the produce of
land and its price had of late years increased nearly,.
threefold. The manufacturer Must always be the
best friend of the landholder, and it was the interest
of the lAndbaldir to let no measure. pass that is not
for the evident benefit of the manufacturer. As long
as the sea was open to us exclusively, we forced a
trade, and the country. was' very much benefited
from our efforts ; but now the sea is open to all ill*
world, when every nation becomes our rival, would
it not be Oiadness to place this country in a situation
in which ficridtanufactures could not compete with..:
those of fokaisiters. This country abounds in wealth.