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FRANCE.

(We hays thought it war dray to lay before car Readers, the (d-
-iming writes pronnaloo, as it will ferve to thew to what
wretched Sifts the Preach Government are redosed in order is
beep op the droving fpirlts of the people, and particularly of
the Army. who, no doubt, begin to deipalr of fixing their hopes
of invading as miffed. If they eats !relieve fedi palpable Ad*
cations, they will jellify the appellation given to their Chid,
who bas bus baleroolly ftylcd Emperor of the Culls.]
• PARIS, JULY ts.
Every where upon the Continent the barrel pro.
miles to be very abundant ; and the prices of all the
muduaiondof the earth are falling; whilft letters from
England tall, of the fcareity as well as of the rife in
the prices of all neceraries of life. A pound of bread
toasts London 9d. or 18 fous ; a pound of meat at.
and ss. 6d. or 48 funs, or three limes; and the walk
wine fells as high as ass. yr livres a bottle. A fa.
mitre, as well as a bankruptcy, is inevitable in Eng-
land, if the other European nations were united, and
that their harbours and forbid their fubjeas all com-
munication with Great Britain only for is months.
'That it is-both the inure! and duty of all other
people to Rave thefe proud 'Ganders to realize, every
one may be convinced, who recoiled' that their ava-
rice and ambition have difturbed the peace of the mi.
vale ; and that great crimes deferve great and horri-
ble &Ailments. Their magazines are crowded with
Ilse aloft elegant produftions of India; but their beets
and high roads are thronged with moft numerous,reg.
zed, and Raved beggars and robbers of the world;
To mach fo, that the-King has not dared to bang a
highwayman, or the Magtkrates to flint up a beggar
for theft loft r s months. A countryman of ours, upon
whole veracity we can depend, and who has lately
travelled in England and Ireland with a Pruffian pals,
has given us thefe particulars, and allures us that in
many parts illuminations took place, when it was
brown Bo was proclaimed an Emperor. In
every bode in England his portrait is found, and in
Ireland the peafants and mechanics have mounted
national cockades in expeaation of their deliverer.
Both in the tenets of Dublin and London, ballads
are lung in his honour ; and the people call for him
as for a faviour, and fay. that if he landed alone,
and it was known, in a week he would have an
army of a million of Britons ready to deftroy their
t
ical, banking, and mercantile ariftocrats and
bloodfuckers. In Ireland, for one guinea in gold
two guineas are paid in paper money; and in Eng-
land, notwithftanding the feverity of Pirr and his
police (pies, for a one pound note in paper money
only half a crown in cans is obtained. Such is the
beggarly fituation of the Bank of England, that
when lately an Englilh frigate captured one of our
tsakingg gips, which had on board sopoo dollars, a
Bank Direaor went erprels to Pottftnouth to borrow
that money from the captors, at the immenfe intereft
of 54 per cent. in the month. When this financial
tranaltion was known, all the people role in a mats in
Bouthamptonfhire, through which province it was to
pals to London, and, to prevent its being plundered
by the ftarving inhabitants, goon dragoons were ne-
cetrary to elcort it to the capital, which they effected,
though not without cutting down leveret hundreds of
their countrymen, who attempted to feize this ~-
wow treafure.
If thefe are not figns of the di (Dilution of a Govern•
men, and of the deftruftion of an Empire. we are
very badly acquainted with hiftorical events. We
recommend the reading of this article to our brave
army on the coafl, and to its valottrous leaders,
whole known bassanisy and generyfity will regard it as a
duty to loon bellow on an unfortunate and oppreffed
nation, thole bleflings which France enjoys under her
percent illuftrious Chief.—Journal des befenfeure.
It may be judged of what confequence the capture
of Surinam is to the Engliflt, when letters from Pa-
ramaribo, to a refpeel.able banking-houfe at Amite',
dam, fay, that at the arrival of the Englith in that
colony, it contained coffee enough to load Sco, and
fugar enough to fill aOOO large Well Indiamen, not
including other produitions, as cotton, runs, Stc.
Is it not a Ihame to all Europe to permit the tyrants
of the leas to he the monopolifers of the trade of the
univerfe? Whtn will all the world unite againft there
avaricious and infolcnt thr.p keepers?-7war. dr. Parir.
The Emperor has appointed Vice-Admiral Vra•
us us, Commander of the tr:ht wit .g of the Gallo
Bolivian flotilla, in place of Kear•Aumiral blsao•i,
whoy report fay', has refuted to take the oath to the
Emperor. and who is therefore ditlaided the let vice.
Lletant and his wile. Verclet, Duhniffort avid his
at-Aii•ted bi t: • . ns tear,

plices in the late eonfpiraey, have been fent to Ro-
chefortj and will be tranfported to the colonies.
Thefe perfons had lodged molt of thofe confpirators,
who expired lately on the Place de Greve, and are
(Ironly furpeeted of being in their fecrets, and of
codrfe dangerous Royalilt fanatics. Under Roberf-
pierre, they would never have efcaped the guillotine,
and have therefore no reafon to complain of their
prefent treatment.journd du Dienferrs.

PARLIAMENTAIir PROGEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS. FRIDAY. JULY ay.
CORM SILL.
Lord HAWICESBURY moved the order of the
day for the fccond reading of the Corn Bill, which
being read,
Earl STANHOPE rote, and Paid, he had yefier-
day given notice of three refolutions, which he in.
tended to move, and which contained a fettled, re-
gular. deliberate, Often), relative to the produce of
corn, different from the fyftem contained in this
Bill ; ani, in his opinion, far preferable to it. If be
underftood rightly the nature and °Nee of this Bill,
it was the intention of the framers and fupporters of
it to encourage the growth of corn and gram, by
incrtafing the price.—The fyftem contained in his
propolitioni was, on the contrary, calculated to en-
courage equally the growth of corn by &reap:
the price.—He admitted the propofition laid down
by the advocates of this bill, that it was neut.-
fairy foniething Ibould be done towards forwarding
and improving the agriculture of the country, and
particularly to encourage a larger produce of corn
and grain, otherwife the farmer would not cultivate
his lands that way, and fcarcity, and perhaps famine
would be the inevitable confequence. So far all
parties were perfealy agreed. But, Paid his Lord-
flip, there are two ways of doing the fame thing,
and the mode propofed by this Bill, he thought •
bad one, for what was it but in effea to lay a ay
burthen on the lower orders of the people, 'heady
too heavily laden, in order to recompence the farmer
by giving him a fiiinulus to increafe the growth.
corn ? and what would be the confequence ? The is
creak in the price of corn and grain would iaftantly
operate towards increafing the price of every net.
fury of life; confequently the price of labour would
rife in proportion. The labourer would fay to the
firmer, Mailer, the bread is railed, and every thing
elfe is railed, I Inuit therefore have more wages. ,
The farmer continues to toile the price of his corn
further, the labourer -Sikes again in his demand of
wages, and fo they go on, the one againft the other.
till the very end propofed is entirely frufirated. and
the poor's rates become fo enormous, that the fanner'
is but little, if at all benefited by the high prices,.
which he, from time to time, puts on his corn, while
the people are moll feverely burthened and oppreffed;
and the farmer, tfinding that high prices do not an-
fwer the end he expeaecl, and iodised, may finally
produce no more corn than he does at precut, and
in that way fearcity and famine may be the conk-
queue. It would be wife, therefore, in that Houfe,
to confider well the confequences before they adopt-
ed the meafure pmpofed by this Bill. The fyftem
he had to propofe in the Refolutions he thould have
the honour to (ohmic to their Lordfitips' confider*•
tion went to encourage the produce of corn, by de-
creeing the price, would always enfure plenty. and
he was certain all the farmers in the country would be
in favour of the plan; the manufaaurers would be
the fame; and the poorer claffes and lower orders of
the people, would receive the greateß benefits from
it. The Refolutions he had to propofe contained the
fyllem he alluded to. They were three in number;
but he waited to read them as one, merely for 'the
purpofe of entering them on the Journals of the
Houfe. It was not his intention, at this late period
of the felfion, to take the fenfe of the Houle on them ;
but they would thereby be in their Lordfhips' poffet•
Pion, and they might give them due coofideration till
a fair opportunity (bould offer of bringing them for-
ward in the courfe of the next &Mon. He was happy
to think he had received the fupport of the Right
Rev. Prelate (the Bifhop of St. Afaph), to one of his
refolutions, which was in favour of public grana-
ries. His Lordfhip then read his firtt Refolution,
which was as follows :
nefoived at. That it is the opinion of this Honk, that public
granaries mould be ellabliiked, to receive In years aplenty, corn
and grain grown In this country. In order to keep down the price
thereof in years of &amity, and effednally to femme to this nation
n all Rabe* a fuSelan Ripply, and Ukewife in order to provide
for the farmers at aU times a certain market for their corn and
grain, and to &mini& fluetuation in the price of the neceffarks
of life."

--
Here his Lordfkip went over feveral of the argu-
ments he had ufed on a former evening, on this head,
and Paid, he was certain from what he had lien in
Switzerland, that fuch public receptacles for corn
could not fail to produce the rook beneficial conic-
quences, as they would enable the Government to pay
the farmers, at all times, a fair price for their corn ;
the farmers would always be fore of a market ; and,
in cafe of a fearcity, the country would have nothing
to fear. His fecond refolution was,
Refaived say, " That It is the opinion of this Houk, that all
Impediments, created by any taw or laws, to the free warchouf-
ing of corn and grain, ought to be removed, 'baked, and re-
pelled."
From what had fallen from the Noble Secretary of
State, on a former occafion, refpeeling the ware.
hoofing of corn, he thought he fhould have bir fup-
port ; and he was therefore happy to think he had
two fuch fupporters to two of his refolutions, nut of
the three. Such warehoufing would be of corn and
grain, the growth of this country, and not foreign
corn. We fhall thereby be enabled to produce a
fufficiency, without applying to foreign countries, and
thereby encouraging the agricu•.ure of thole coun-
tries, and enabling them to export their corn and
grain into this kingdom, by which means they would
in time do an irreparable mil-chief to, if not ruin, our
navy ; for they at prefent engroked nearly the whole
of the carrying trade. Formerly corn was only
imported in Bruin% bottoms, and there was fcarcely
a Dantzie fhip of more than zoo or aso tons; but
now they had them front .teso to 1,400 tons, and
the whole trade was in their poffafion. His Lordfitip
then came to the purport of his third Refolution.—
He Paid, thc two &II were Inch as he believed would
be very ferviceable to the interefts of the country, but
would be vain and nugatory without the 'fluid,
V. itial wsa the poll acient all towards tomplet-

ing the fyllem, which he had to propofe in oppofi-
iion to that contained in ibis Bill. He then requeßed
their Lordfhips to recollca that the government of
ibis country had, from time to time, for many years,
entered into a fucceifion of wars, in which they bad
been too much encouraged by the Legifiature ; thefe
wars had brought on an enormous national debt, and
that national debt an enormous load of taxes, which
had long oppreffed the great Inds of the people. To
thefe wars, this debt, and thefe taxes, are to be at-
tributed the enormous rife in the price of all the nerd-
-1 Caries of life, and particularly in the price of bread.
It was therefore neceffary that every proper encou-
ragement fhould be given to the produce of corn, but
not as this Bill would do it, by the increaling the
price. His next refolution embraced afy Rem which
would fully circa this dcfirable purpofe, and at the
fame time &creak the price of corn. He would have
the farmers exempted from all dire& taxes, for be
thought they were not fit fubje&s for taxation, and
if this was carried into effca, it would do more to-
wire encouraging the growth of corn, and deaeaGog
the price of it, than aW the Bills that had ever been
framed and palled un the fubjeO. The fupporters of
the preftnt Bill bad [hewn that they confidered what
he raid of it on a former occafion as founded in fat,
for they bad made it to commence its operation, in-
Read of the isth of Auguft (which was the day fixed
by the lad BiU) on the isth of November ; and wbyt
Becaufe they were afraid of a fcareity. In Noietn-
her, the Parliament will be fitting, and then they can
repeal it. Such is the permanent (Om they bad pro-
duced for the encouragement of the growth of corn ;
whereas his would be a permanent fyitem for he
would have the farmers exempted from dire& taxes
for ever. He then read his third refolution as follows :

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Retched, 3dly, • That In Was to encourage the growth of
cern and grabs la Great Brhala td Ireland, and at the fame doe
to detrede the price thereof, far debase& of the people at krge,
sod for the Isereate of oar manufahms sad emnsamace, It lathe
opinion et this Houk fhat the farmers amid be far ever datelin-
ed from the preset of all dired tam, par* and smarmy MU,
etas, dam, tithe% sad perikaanitary impolithos whattomers
' Lave oily and except theft rates Ode mare els penalty whisk
way be ralkd epee any Modred as filch."
If he could put this refolution to the people at large,
he was fare, he (aid, that indeed of being in a mino-
rity, he ihould be able to poll a hundred to one in its
favour. He mould poll all the farmers; be fbould
poll ell the manufaCturera; he &mid poll all the la-1
booting people : in than, all elates of pmple would
br in favour of it, becasfe it muft forcibly bike nal
one, that it was the chief part of a (Amu that could
sot fall to encourage the growth of corns and to &-
ern& the price of bread, in oppofitioo to the DM,
the fylem of which is to raife the price of corn, Mid
eosfequently of bread, and every other neceffary of
life; and finally to Serve the people. He had lately
read, with great pleafore, a pamphlet, which was
admirably written, and which came from the pen of
the father of the Noble Secretary of State (FArl of
Liverpool), on the rabid! of “ Arming the People."
He was himfelf fully fenfible of the propriety and ne-
ceffity of arming tie people; but he was (unwired that
Government &odd firft put arms into their ham
and then encourage and fupport a Bill that woaltl
lamina them.
The Duke of MONTROSE Paid, he could not
refrain from making lane obfervations on what fell
from the Noble Earl who jolt fat down. That No-
Me Earl did on the prefent day, as well as on various
other occaGons, think proper to cenfure the conduit
of his Majefty's Government, and attribute to the,
Government and the Parliament all the difficulties
that tallied in the country. He would reprefent the
war as unpopular, and the Parliament as the caul
of that war. So far as that alterably. to whom he
was addreffing himfelf, were concerned in the prefect
war, it was neceffary for a moment to confider what
intereft they could have had in promoting it. It was
hardly neceffary for him to fay that there was no
clefs of his Majefty's fubjeas; who gained left, and
(offered more, by a war than the members of that al-
fenibly ; and therefore it was impoffible to fuppofe
they could have given their rani:lion to war from any
other motive than a (hong (.rife of national honour,
and a conviaion that the war was neceffary for the pre-
fervation of our national eziflence. The Noble Earl
had been on all occaGons in the habit of inflaming the
minds of the people, not only againft the Govern-
ment, but alfo againd the Parliament. However his
attacks againft the Government might be tolerated ;
he hoped the Parliament, and particularly that
Houfe, would not fuller itfelf to be vilified and abufed.
It was not eafy to conceive what a mifchievous effea
fuch fpeeches as thofe of the Noble Earl might have
upon the public mind, if they were Coffered to go
abroad utianfwered. To fay that the prefent was a
Bill to (Lave the poor, was not only mifchievous in
the higheft degree but unfounded in fait. So far
from its being a Bill to (terve the people, its imme
diate objelt was to prevent famine and ftarvation in
the country. And lime of the arguments sled by
the Noble Earl, when (peaking againft the Bill, might
be advanced in favour of it. Be had contended that
all taxes ought to be taken off toe farmer ; and of
cootie the taxes mull fall on the cor.fumers of provi-
lions. Would not the prefent Bill have exaftly fuch
an effea as this ? Would it not raife the value of corn
for the benefit of the farmers, and compel the con-
lumens to pay an advanced price ?
Lord HAWKESBURY Paid, the Noble Earl who
opened this debate, had sled many violent and in-
flammatory obfervations, which should not be Coffer-
ed to go forth among the public, without that ani-
madverflon which they deferred. Like many other
fpeeches which he had been permitted to uttet in that
Hook, it had a dire& tendency to alienate the minds
of the people of the country from his Majetly's Go-
vernment. It was neither more nor leis than telling
the people, telling thofe brave men who had armed
in the defence of their country, that the Government
was about to opprefs them, by railing the puke of the
neceffarics of Cite. He knew of nothing that could tend
more to encourage difaffettion in the country, and
ferve the common enemy, than fuch obfervations.—
They were the very fame which that Noble Earl had
been making for many years in that Houfe ; and
which, fortunately for himfelf and the people at
large, had failed cf producing the defired ate. But
he was happy to find, that the minds of the people
at large were now completely changed, with relpeft
to thole extravagant and pernicious principles, which
Come of them might 'have once entertained; and it
was a proof at once of the feeurity of the Goitaximeat
and of the attachment of the people to,.alfit it, that

an individual kite the Noble Earl was fill filtered to
propagate thole doctrines, which had done fuch
mii-
chief in other countries. One of the propofitions
made ufe of by him was, that every direEt tax llsould
be taken off the farmer : and that, he imagined,
would have the tied of lowering tbY prices of pro-
tinODS. Never did a more erroneous idea enter into
the imagination of any man. Every body who heard
him might recoiled the attempts which had been
made by the Revolutionary Government of France
to lower the price of provifions. When that ferocious
and fanguinary monfter Robefpierre, had been row-
ingth thoufands and tens of thoufands of people
dungeons, and driving the miferable victims of his
tyranny to the guillotine, he attempted to pafs a law
for the benefit of the peoples and by that turamao
lower the price of provifions. He pretended that
his oiled was to relieve the public from oppreffio”.
But bow was that to be effeatd ? By ellablilliing a
maximum, by fixing a certain price on all the octet:
faries of life, beyond which they were not to be fold.
The confequences were the molt dreadful, and ruin.
out that could rattly be imagined. So far from
lowering the price of provifions, the law immedi.
ately produced fcareity and famine. Such !Fos the
eft& of fpecolative reforms, like thole which the
Noble Earl would introduce ! Another plan which

the Noble Earl wilked to have adopted, was that of
efiablithing public granaries in the country, for the
puffe of laying op corn in years of plenty, which
mi be made ufe of in years of fcarcity. However
Inc a plan as this might be beneficial in certain Rates,
it could never be praftically beneficial in a country
like Great Britain. In the firft place, there was no
redundancy of corn even in the moil plentiful leafon
in this country, which could be referred for fuch a
purpole. There was no more corn grown in Great
Britain in any one year than was lufficient for the
coafumptioo of the inhabitants ; and we were coati-
' =ally importing corn to fupply the deficiencies of
bad feafons. The caufe why a greater quantity of
corn was not produced in this country, was very ob-
viDlls. It was a great commercial country, and in
Bach a soontry, agriculture was never carried to fuch
1111 want as in places where there was little cos.
tierce. A great portion of our population was em-
ployed in manufaeures, and in various other parfaits
thole of agriculture; and therefore, although
the country did not, in proportion to its population,
produce as great a quantity of corn as it might do ;
yet the iodurify of the people was equally as produc.
doe in other refixes; and the wealth which that in-
finery procured, fupplied them with provifions from
other countries, when they could not be got at home.
It was evident that the plan of public granaries was
not only inspraiticable, but unnecefary. To fuch a
Om, Inch as waepropofed by the Noble Earl, be had
another obketion, fill (Imager than any be had
listed; which was, that of putting the public grana-
ries under the controul of Government. If any one
thing could be more uncontlitntional or mirchievous
than another, it was that of allowing the Govern.
meat of a country to have the power of (applying
the fubjelis with pavilions. Such a power mould
sever be.fuffered to esilt in this country ; and he
would refill it as fat as lay in his power. Another
plan of the Noble Lord% by which he Paid the pries
dtbe quartern loaf could be lowered to five-pence,
was Rill more impraiticable. The price of bread
mutt always keep pace with the prices of all the other
vaceffarics of life rand the price of bread in this coun-
try was, at the prefent moment, proportionably too
low. How was it poffible then that it could be lower 1
Importation could ant have that effeft ; and if it had.
it would have the Rill worfe drat of preventing the
growth of corn in the country. The real cattle of dro
high prices, which took place in almoft all the neeef-
larks of life in this country, was the great wealth
which it poffeffed ; and that mail be always the cafe
in every great commercial country. He confidered it
unnecellary for him to enter into the merits of this
Bill, which had been dircutled before in that Houle;
but he was convinced, if the Bill did not pals, it
would have the drat of producing real fcarcity in the

country.
His Royal Highnefs the Duke of CLARENCE
Paid he thought it neceffary to make a few obferva.
tions on what fell from a Noble Earl who opened the
debate on this fubjea. He had Paid, that the meafure
then before the Honfe was brought forward by the
Government. This he molt pofitively denied. The
meafure had met the approbation of, and been planned
by the Members of the late cabinet. The priScrit
Minifiers gave their fanaion and fupport to it ; and,
in doing fo, they had the advice and affillance of
their predecefrors iq office. gut fo far from its being
a meafure coming from the Government, it was
brought forward by a Member of the other Houle of
Parliament (Mr Weftern), who had uniformly been
in oppofition w Minifiers, and who had always voted
againfi the late and the orefent war. His loyal
Highnefs then adavnced other arguments in favour
of the Bill.
The queftion then was put, when Lord Stanhope's
amendment was negatived, and the Hill
was read
fccond time. An order was afterwards made that it
be read a third time to-morrow.
Earl STANHOPE neat role to propofe the r:•
folutions which he had mentioned. He went over
feveral of his former arguments ; and in anfwer to
the charge, that he had ufed violent and inflamma-
tory language, lie contended he had laid nothing
more than that a great part, and perhaps a majority
of the people of the country, would be ildatistied
with the Bill before the Houle : and that it would
be a dangerous thing to run the rick of alienating
the affeaions of men, who had come forward with
arms in their hands to defend their country, and their
government. This was an argument he thought lie
had a tight to make life of. He then moved his re-
folutions; and laid, if they were agreed to, that he
would move to adjourn the debate upon them to this
day fennight.
Lord NIULGRAVE thought the conduit of
the Noble Earl highly repretienfiblz, in fuppofing
that the brave men who had taken up arms in de-
i fence of their country, were likely to become Ml-
*Rated in confequenee of a Bill of this kind. Thank
t GOD, very few perfons now entertained the fame
t principles with that Noble Earl. Whatever errors
man might formerly have had on the fubjea of our
conftitution, he was convinced that their reflation
and good fenfe, with the experience they have had.
did fince teach them that they enjoyed more free-
d dom and happinefs than were to be found in any
L other part of the world t and he was therefore cow

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