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London, England, 1804-07-21 00:00:00

PARLIAMENT/111r PROCEEDINGS.

(OUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, JULY so. ' '
The Royal Affent, by Commiffion (the Loan CHANCEL Lox;
Earl of ROISLYN, and Lord WALIIINOBAII, fitting as Commit':
Boners) was given to the Civil Lift. Lottery, Englint Vote of
Credit, Ine of Man Fithery. IrKit Chanty Peace, Ditto Promi(Tory
Note, Offenders apprehending, Tanning Encouragement, Poultry
Compter, Property Amendment, Ordnance and Adjutant-Gene •
tars °See Franling, Tighe's Divorce, and 16 other Bills.
The Irdh Customs and Excifc, and frith Revenue Regulation
Sins, were brought up from the Commons, and read a kit time.
The Loyalty Loan. the Public Accountant Exemption, and
:be Confolidated Fund Bilie, were read in the Committee, and
maned a/khan amendments.
The kith Vote of Credit, the Defence Amendment, and the,
ashen Corpus ad Teftificandum Bills, were read a third time,
and pared.
The London Dock Bill, againit which Mr. Munro was heard.
went arough thetonunince, and was reported.
. When the Stamp Duty Bill was taken into itoodderation in the

Committee,
The Duke of NORFOLK wilhed to be informed, if the pro-
ceedings under the Commitlion for the Redemption of the Land
sax were to be fubj.d. to the new duties ? If they were, it was
IntentionMa to move 'an amendment to the Bill.
Lord kLtWKESBURY kid, that be made enquiry on the rub.
pet, and that he was informed the proceedings under that corn-
sniffles would fiend precifely.in the time titration that they did
previous to the Bill before the Committee. He would make ru-
ddy' enquiry, and communicate the mink of it to the Noble Duke.
Vvitairsdntent whkb he intended to propofebrought might be
batiny other Rage tithe Bill. •
The Dote of NORFOLK, relying on the declaration of the
!hook Lord, would not prepare my autendment. The Bill was
thus
ThefeCreLef 'NORFOLK prefented a petition from Andr.ew
Stoney Robinfern Bowes, ftadog, that he bad been eighteen years a
r in the King's Bench; that he was engaged In a Chancery
lnit ith the rerdm—•tatlves of the late Lady Strathmore, which
Sad continued for many yeau, and probably may continue for u
many more ; that it was uncertain. whether the decree would be
for or againft him, bet that, noteritidtandlog, be was willing to
give fecurity for the gimateft lam that could be decreed againft
bins; and therefore prayed that the Houk would relieve him in
that which was now before them for the relief of Infolvait
Debtors. Ordered to lie on the table.
Adjourned to Monday next.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Mr. SPEAKER having taken the Chair,
A Meff?gc from the Lords Intimated their Lordfhipe agreement
In the ammaits made by this Houle in the Habeas Corpus ad
Teftiftean Bill alfo that they had agreed to the frith Vote of
Credit Bill, and the Woolwich Ordnance Land bill.
Coin bits—
Mr. WESTERN moved thtOrder of the Day for
a Committee of the whole Houfe to confider the fe-
veral Reports of the Corn Committees • , and. on the
ianeaion that the Speaker do leave the Z.:hair.
Mr. Alderman COMBE rofe to oppofe it, becaufe
he thought the fubjea one of too much importance,
and too deeply involving the public intereft, to be
brought forward at fo late a period of the Seffion,
when it was impoffible it could receive the due confi-
deration it required. He bad. betides, to obferves
that the meafure, with a view to which the Hon.
Member yeflerday moved for the Cotnmittee, was one
which ought not to be adopted without the moft 1123
cure confideration. For even already. and while the
Bill, which had fo recently fallen to the ground, was
pending in Parliament, its operation upon the Corn
Market was molt alarming. The price of bread-corn
particularly had a molt unufual and enormous rife,
from no other public conk, infomuch that the Bakers
Company had yefterday waited upon thelord Mayor
and Magiftrates, and reprefented that, owing to. this
rife, they could not, without a molt confiderable lots,
proceed with their bufinefs, unlefs a very material
percale was made in the price of bread, as regulated
for the week. The price of corn continued to
rife higher this day, and for this faa he would appeal
to his Hon. Colleague near him (Mr. Alderman Cu It.
r Is). It was, therefore, obvious that the confeqyences
of reviving the meafure mat be extremely operate
to the public, and he hoped the Hon. Member would
not perlifk in the meafure this Seffion.
Mr. WESTERN raid, he was forty to find the
Bon. Gentleman objea to a meafure that had already
been ditbuffed in Parliament. Should the motion for
the Speaker leaving the Chair be now agreed to, it
was his intention to move in the Committee certain
refolntions, which fhould be the ground-work of a
13ill he afterwards meant to bring in for regulating
the exportation and imeortation of Corn ; and which
Mould be fimilar to a Bill lately paffed in that Houle,
but which was loft in eonfequence of the Lords hav-
ing made in it certain amendments that were incom-
patible with the privileges of the Commons. He
thoold bring in jut} fuch another Bill, with the amend-
ments, and then Gentlemen, who meant to oppofe it,
fhotild recoiled that it bad patted that Houfe without
even a divifion ; and that it had paired the Houfe of
Lords without any, or very little oppofition.
The SPEAKER here interrupted the Hon. Mem-
ber, by obferving, that he was not at liberty to take
notice of any thing which paired in the other Houfe
of Parliament.
Mr. WESTERN refumed He Paid, be was Corry
if he tranfgreffed the orders of the Houle ; but his
(skied was t" (hew that the Bill, of which he meant
to move a fimilar one, had been confidered by Par-
liament as a neccfftry :mature, in as much as it
paired both Houfes in the manner he deicrihed.
He was lure that, upon due confideration, aientle-
men would feel this to be a moll important mtaitire.
It was nothing leis than a meafure to prevent thou-
fonds of acres of land throughout the country from
being deferted by the plough ; W prevent farmers
from converting their lands to other purpoles be-
tides thole of (owing corn. It was a meafore to pre-
vent the recurrence of that (carcity,
which had been
felt in to dreadful a manner fume years ago ; and, ul-
mately, to make the price of corn moderate rod
cheap. 'Fhefe things could never be done by itn-
portation ; they mutt be done by holding out a fut.-
ficient inducement to the farmer to cultivate grain.
—lt was as much for the interell of the continuer
as it was for the grower of corn, that fuch a re-
gulation as was contained in that Bill Ihould take
place. He alfo withed that Gentlemen would, for
a moment, look at this meafure on the principle of
policy: and fee how far it was necelfary In far as
it refpe&ei foreign countries. There were fame ir-
cumllances, which had very recently come to his
knowledge, that mutt render the policy of the mea-
lure very apparent. He underfluod that the G -
vernment of France had lately ifilied an order Mr
permitting the elm ration of corn, with a view that
the agriculture of France might[ of
fiiilaamentin alwol)
uld
in-
jury. He hoped, therefore,
that Pa•li
take care, that it would not be necettAry fur us to
import any corn into this country, which mull operate
as an encouragement to the agriculture of France,
and as a ChiCellt.igtll33ll3 to thAl of Great IlrOaol.
This was a very fetious coafiderat4A, and he h..rd

h would have its due weight with the Hook. He
was confident, that if fome encouragement was not I
held nut to snake it more worth the farmer's while
to grow corn than it was at prefent, we could ex-
pc l •nothing elfe but fcarcity. The refolutions he
now had to fubmit were fo moderate, that no one
could objeft to them. Here the Honourable Mesa
her moved certain refolutions fimilar to thole that
had been laid before the Houfe before, and declar-
ing the neceffity of certain regulations for the im-
portation and eviortation of corn.
Sir WILLIAM CURTIS declared that he was
equally anxious with the Hon. Gentleman to promote
the °hied of the Bin be meant to introduce, as he
perfealy agreed with him, that every encouragement
(hould be held nut to she growers of corn, to snereafe
the quantity of that article in the country. But he
agreed with his Hon. Friend near him (Alderman
Combe), that a further time ought to be allowed for
the difcuffion of a meafure of that kind ; which, at
the prefent moment, was likely to do a great deal of
mifchief in the country. He whiled the Honourable
Gentleman oppofite him to confider what was the
operation of the Bill that was already before the
Houle. It had the effee of fpreading a general alarm
throughout the metropolis, and railing the price of
corn and of bread. On the laft market day, wheat
role ss. a fack ; on the prefent day, it role ss. more.
All this was in confequence of the Bill which palled
that Houfe ; and if a Bill, merely in its provers
through Parliament, had produced loch an effeit,
what might not be expetted from it when puffed into
a low ? The prices would become fo high, that we
fhould be obliged to leek for fupplies from foreign
countries. For thefe reafons he. would oppofe the
meafure which the Hon. Gentleman meant to bring
forward, and which, he trated, he would put off

till next feffion.
The motion for the Speaker's leaving :the Chair
was then agreed to, and the Houfe being in a Com-
mittee, agreed to the tefolutions moved by Mr.Wef-
tern, aild the report was ordered to be brought up
to-morrow.—Adjourned.