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also two other Petitions presented by the Noble Em
on the bailie subject, one of which was from the
Landholders in the county at Berks.
• rord GRENVILLE rose for the purpose of sub-
tinting to Mar I.:nth:hips a motion in some degree
connected with the petitions which had been pre-
sen:ed by the Noble Earl ( man
was more acsirous than he (Lard G.) was that the
claims of those petitioners shuald rec,:ive due con,i•
deration. No mats was m •re sensible of the diffi-
culties under which they laboured : and if he hid
the misfortune of differing totally feom them as to
the source:. from which those difficulties had arisen..
it was not from any insensibility to the magnitude of
the distress which pressed upon the agriculturists of
the country. Ile could not agree with the Noble
Earl that no necessity existed for the renewal of the
Committee which had been occupied* hi the list Sits-
Won with the investigation of the.subjett of the Corn
Laws. Although iv any persons hailiseen examined'
Before that Committee, to explain die Ntirixtfoit'br.4l
tween the prices of foreign and British corn, Yet the
information on that branch ef the question was very
imperfect.: and the evidence annexed to the Report
contained a very partial and limited view of the
whole subject, and was not at all calculated to enable
their Lordships to proceed with confidence to legis-
late anew as to the means of subsistence of the coun-
try. It was incumbent on those who were of opinion
that some measure was necessary, to lay before their.
Lordships the ground on which that conviction was
10Unded; but he should not interfere with the shape
in which they wished to submit it to the House ; if
it should turn out to be satisfactory it was enough,
but he had not met with any thing which had at all
varied the strong opinion which he had entertained
last year, that the measures which for two years past
nad been proposed to Parliament, was not only an;
just, by shif. mg the weight from those who oight to
bear theru to those who ought not to bear them.
—(Hear, hear)—but had a tendency to aggravate
the evils under which the country suffered. The
present was not the time to discuss the question, nor
should he attempt to enter on it; and he had been
induced thus often to express his opinion on the sub-
ject from the apprehension which he had formerly en-
t:rtaiiied, and which was then stronger, that when ar.
gument might be supposed to have a weight there
would be no time allowed for debate. 'llse Noble
Earl ( kiardwicice) had expressed a satisfaction in
which he (Lord G.) could not concur ; when he had
stated that the measure which had been hitherto un-
successfully proposed was to receive the. support of
the Executive Government of the country. The
measure would have been mall better in other hands,
and would have stood a better chance. for, fair discus.
sion when proposed by an ' individual, than when
brought forward, supported by all the influence
which is attached to all measures proposed by the
Executive Government. At any rate he hoped if
the measure was to be discussed, that it would not
be brought forward when the Noble Lord on the
Woolsack, and one Temporal and one Spiritual
Lord composed that third part of the Legislature,
but at a time when it might meet ee that full cunsi.
deration which a matter of such vital importance, as
a law affecting the food of the coMmunitytequired,
and which it would obtain in that Houle if brought
before their Lordships at a time when attendance
might be expected. He took no interest in the quo-
win, but that which as an Englishman he f. It in the
peace and welfare of the country ; and he was con-
vinced that if the measure in question was taken up
by the Executive Government, they never had pro.
posed a law more calculated to injure boils. His
Lordship then moved for an account of the Importa-
tion and Exportation of Grain between Great Bri-
tain and Ireland, in the several years from 1807
to the latest time to which they could he made up,
according to the books of the Customs in Eng,
land and Scotland. His Lordship then observed,
that as on A fofmer occasion when accounts of the
trade between the two islands had been presented,
there had been a difference to an extent wlfch could
notbe explained, between the accounts presented from
the Custom-house Woks of the two countries; the