Star.
London, England, 1823-06-13 00:00:00

ingeterny, and becaute of the impossibility of effect-
ing ny such adjustment as that proposed by the
tng a
Noy,e Lord, be should give s decided negative to
any prnpositiun for temporising with the -currency,
gad disturbing a system from which so much good,
had already arisen.
Mr. BILNN ET could not agree in one of the objections puf
bob by the !Geist Hon. Gentleman against going into this Com-
eittre taonell. the late period of the Session ; when he recol-
se
ia":tee to what kind of business the Bomar had sat through a
wok summer, elzs to eniotirage perjury, to oppress the weak,
see to convict the innocent, be (Mr. 'Bennet) could not believe
evtparliamentwould now refuse to sit a little time, or even
teetaigh the year, to do an act of justice to thousands, who had
boon ruined and reduced to a state of beggary, want, and famine
ey die measure. The Hon. Getakinan then proceeded to
re the prices of the various articles in the years 1795 and
iiie ere prices in the latter year were at kart 40 per cent. above
OW or the former year ; though 1795 was acknowledged a year
efestreme scarcity, and 1318 was a period of abundance; but
Ile we, a year of metallic, and 1818 a year of paper currency.
M be contended, had increased, as was obvious, from the
e•-3t: the Poor Rate. lu isle, the l'uor Rate was 6,500,000'.
je the list year it was 6,300,0,;01. but it should be recollected,
tea the srat was a paper, and the last a metallic currency;
and it was uo extraordinary calculation to say
:that three mil
hoe, of our present currency would buy as much of those
„tales required for the support of the Poor, as six millians of
oe paper currency of 1812 would have bought ; arid if such
Ira, the fact, then it was plidu that distress had nearly doubled.
gees wss another country to which it was necessary that the
Neosho:gild look, that was Ireland. It was unnatural that a
people skould starve in tbe midst of plenty, yet such was the case
in Irdste. Such had been the state of plunder and distrese—
cab tee driving for rent, that a cow was sold for as. 6.1. a sheep
for Is. and a bushel of corn foris.whilst the people around were
orate He contended that many of these eviii had originated
et tee change of cut rency ; if it was taut co, why was inquiry re-
aftre•lt was resisted to-ulght on the same system as had all along
retied Gentlemen opposite, namely,that of making the House
eat blindly into all their measures, without any inquiry at all.
f. HUSK ISSON had hoped that the Ilan. Member far
gaea wituld have followed the example of bis lion. Friend, the!
Kaaba fer Seinersetshire, and, under existing circumstacer,!
ban withdrawn his motion, as the Member for Somersetsliire
bed thane a similar one, a rev% evenings since, and on the same
groteals, the favourable change which bad taken place
e eye situation of the Agriculzurist. This lion. Member fur
eleesrseury had adv.:seed to the Poor-rates, and said three mil-
boss row were eqval to sir millions in 1311% If this was so, it
was ronsulaag to the lutelloril; for even stappnsing the landlord
rend me now get the rent he got in 1813, scili, if be got one-
half dohs rent he agreed for in 1813, be was still paid a full
r;aitable rent, and he could not, in common justice, trial if he
veld bet it, enhaice the same runt which he had agreed for in a
depredated currency. The Member! for Essex says, he will
aware the depreciation by the ductisadons which had taken
eosin the price of corn, and he said he &landed that opinion
NI what 'ae (air. Huskisson) said in 1316. lie could not say,
whether what be was reported to have said on that occasion was
Ultra or not, for 1w had not seen the twilit- ; but he would can-
ted, that even supposing it was as the Hon. Member had said,
mill there were no grounds tan which to charge lam( 1r.4.1 I.) with
inconsistency ; he had been governed by change of circumstances.
A Noble Lord (TiebSeld) had said he would look at the price
amain comparison to the price of tent ; and the Noble Lord
tel, that rent ihad decreased since 1816. 25 or 50 per cent. but
ma allowing this to be the fact, did his biebk Friend forget that
eiiain the last twenty years, upon the same comparison, rent
bad been deeded? Still, tberefote, the landlord Lad the advantage.
His Noble Friend bad expressed apprehensions that the !arid of
ibis country would become valueless, and would fail sea p.vy any
tea at all. On tbe contrary, In his opinion, there was not a
csantry in the world where laud paid so high a rent as in this
calmly. As to the equhable adjustment mentioned by the Noble
Lord, and his precedent of the are of London, did the Honour-
able Gentleman consider that it occupied the Judges six years in
eating adaustments of property, embracing about 400 acres of
Lad? How long would it take a Committee to examine and ar-
range all the commercial transactions of the last twenty years ?
Tkey heard last weale of the delays of a Court of Chancery. Why,
ithis plan of equitable adjustment was adopted, they must have
more ('..arts of Chancery than they at present had public. bosses.
There must be a Court of Chancery in every village, and yet I
they would not he able to get through the biedness. Ile msin-1
tailed the impoesibility of coming to anything like what was
called an equitable adjustment ; and upon that subject the minds
of the couatry were made up. lie would wain them against any
toorrine again with the currency under any circumstances.
The Marquis of Tics/Inv., and Mr. Hverassoe mutually
ezphined.
Aar. alt CE 3arported the motion.
11r. ATT WOOD contended, at considerable length, that the
increase in the value of money had covered the whole country
with the victims of their this-legislation in a way that had neves'
before been endured by any peaceable and canfidieg people.
Mr. WESTERN said, at that late hour he should wave his
itlit of reply
The House then divided—For the. Motion, 27—Against it 96
Najarite 69.—Adjourned at Three o'Clock.

THE EVENING STAR.