Star.
London, England, 1801-12-15 00:00:00

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insa I eFa. rfitilen'teladircl.:l4:ldirc'#f;ir totedl' 1%
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I facial lituation, had admitted that to 1... ti .•:e4;;: '
I that was not IS, nor had it that or.eratiou.La- ..*:
1 when the floppage of the Diftilkries took I. '.
1 ' the fad was, that the defalcation to the ii-I.l'
on:tbat occailon was soa,ossol. : there wat„„14",...
eafional increase of duty on ac °Qom of thc—.: ,
tation of foreign (pinks, to theanssooat of 0i.,,,--'`
fo that the Whole of the real loft. to the i It- . ''..
narrow matteras' .---
was only 400,0001. : httt thisavas too coziijetrel4%„„;l—
fun to be defcribed use
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don of the'
!heti' Id have deterred him front giving his I.' —1,1„414/41
to diftillation from Moieties,
would be to thegeneral interefts of the community
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but he was perftmeled that the general iatereft u
the community would not be preferved by the ea .
couragernent his Hon. Friend recommei:.ekel to dl
Ciliation from Molaffes. The true interefts of the
community embraced mofi particularly an encou.
ragement to the malt manufafturer and the grower
of grain, fo asaterially connected with the agricui,
cure of gantry, on theprofperity and imireta..l
asinewillell9l:aws Iliftecels:hiPeonfdethde ctmniamnteeunicrel:ftlyi:rdiltiolsee9f:dillakt:::
lotion of Molaffes was a trade that could be car
tied on by a capital which was much inferior to
that which was indifpenfably
the -trade of diftillation of Grain. The trade of
the diftilhuion in Moieties was inferior in every re-
fped to the other diftillation ; the apparatus wits
very different, and fo was atmoft every thine ki
the trade flans the diftillation Of Grain. The-dif.
tillery of Isloltiffes was a trade which might be
tied on in a corner ; whereas t'iofe Jelin :;ill;,;,
from Grain, could do no hitch thirz. This w,,,, '
point of finne import apce, cfpeciail; to thole nhu:e
trade it was to distil from Crain,- and of knew-.
tanee for the confide.ratkm of the Houk. It was
a great fatilfadion to him to find that alibis Huy
Ft sends had agreed in one principle, Which tangle
to guide the daerminations of that Hook, evli:4
was indeed its paramount obligation, namely, to
look at-that which; upon I. comprehenfive 1:41;
might be (aid to conftitute the inter:llot the echoic
community ; that was, in other words, the gene.
ral interefts of die people—i;l which he apprchcres.
cd encouragement to the Frodmiti,n of Corn ltrat
confpicuoully forward. This was a principle u
which he thought the Houk mul always rely,
rapport which they ought to acqUiefce in meafur
which could not otherwife be jullified, and in time
of preffure that might be felt to be little filet if
calamity, but at aU times to do that which teoded
to encourage agricul tore. For thee purports, ad
to obtaid this object, uhich was the real advantap
of the people at large, the Hattie muff often fact.
ficr; immediate and temporary feeling, for perms,
nent advantage ; for they were not to purchafe pip
fent convenience and fuperficial aoprobation,at tfe
bitter price of fell reproach, a debt which would
be due to their conference, if upon rulledlion they
found they had given way to temporary feeling
prelTure, and facrificed permanent advantage (is
that permanent advantage he iacludcd ail pal
encouragerhent) to the prod udions oldie earthAal
more immediately that of grain, which was the*
keel of diftillation. At queltion might indeed milt
What was the .pbint of limitation as to the atitlise
tion of that principle ? It was, in his (Tinian, se
trensely difficult to fay, at what price of the ati
do this application •of prineirl.: fnould .ceak. k
was impotUble so fix the price kiln-Ai:tied, becauts
that muff depend on other, awl relative paints,
embracing a confideration of the price of other au
ticles : and indeed it would be difficult to fay whit
the price fhould be ofthe different articles of grail
itfelf, with reference to each other 9 in su der toil
when the ufe of it for diftillatioo fhould be mar
bited. His Honourable Friend had referred ar:is
Petitions on the table on the fubjed now Wein
the Houfe. He admitted they were but few is
number, but he contended they esprefT. J thefeak
of the majority of the people of this Country, is
which his Honourable Friend implied that helm'
erred in what he Paid on that fubjed on a foram
oceafion. That was a delet2ivc statement delft
he Paid on that fubjed. He never laid there PeW
tions did not exprefs the fenfe of the majority el
the people ; he only laid, he had yet to learn tit
they did exprefs that link : he had that to kas
now, for there was certainly no proof of it; be
even if they did exprefs the fentiments of the art
jot ity of the people, yet, if he was convinced this
fentiment was not in unison with the real intent
of the people, painful as it would he to him to op•
pole filch a fentiment, he fbould do it; for under
filch circumfiances, he fhould be guided by a prin.
ciplc which was paramount to that of toe
nopeotptlhe
e, that
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interells of the people that a Politician ereght to per
fue.—When he laid this, he begged to be under
flood as not Paying any thing to call in qntitiel
the integrity of thole who had prefented petitions
to the Honk on the prefent fuhjed ; they werts
he was convinced, perfons perfeelly refredablea
but the Hoftfe would at the fame time recoiled thif
were pedons refiding in different ps rt. of the C.a
I try, and they were to conneaed and cireurnitencti
that it might without any harihnell lie f.,;1 d
them, that it was impoflible for them to have talos
la comprehenfive view of the trne interefts , ! die
11 whole of the Community in which we fives aid
of which, although perfedly veer. lablr, they
formed only a (mall part ; but althot.:;is there Pe-
titioners had not, yet it was the d•.ty of that
Honfe to take that general and e• trpr:!::r..i •e
view of the interefts of the. whole Ccn.i.un ty ; and
happily for the People of this Country ; there .t.t,
in that bonfe abundance of knowledsie o: 1.:,c.
intereft, and a difpofition to prefer:: iss —lt k :-1,..
been laid by Come, by none Co rc4Lte.ily a, t..

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