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London, England, 1811-03-29 00:00:00

CORNWALL.

ELIGIBLE SITUATION FOR MANUFACTURERS.
PERSONS desirous t,f engaging in a Concern that
may require a very powerful Stream, with a Fall or Falls
of Water 20, 30, 50, to hi) Feet, more or less, together or sepa-
rately; wish One to Ten Acres of Land, on which good Stone
are raised for building ; may he accommodated with a Lease or
Leases, for Lives of their own Nomination, or if required the Fee
Simple. the remote part of the Premises, on which are some
old Houses and W ills, is most completely formed by Na-
ture for Powder Mill, of great extent; the other, for any Manu-
factory requiring a large Supply of Water with a Fall of SO to 40
Feet, situate at Kvenall, within three miles of the numerous
Mines In Gwinnap and of the Port of Penryn, five of Falmouth,
and six of Portreath ; from whence Goods may be regularly ship-
ped, for either Channel, at a small expence.
Appliccion to be made, if by letter post pail, to Mr.Tacber,
el. Proprietor, Kenuati Vale, near Pearyn.—March 12, 11111.
AT a GENERAL MEETING of the WEST-
J—S- INDIA PLANTERS and MERCHANTS, held at the
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TT of LollB6osr YAvusv, on TantrAdr, Stith March, 1811,
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of takingr, into Ifitteilieentle. she 111461.. for the
RUM° 111 of the DISTIL LIERIES, now before Parlia-
ment, &c.
CHARLES ELLIS, Esq. lii. P. in the Chair.
Resolved—That the West-India Colonies do not presume to
question the policy on which the British Corn Laws are founded.
Resolved--Thu by those Laws the prices at which Corn is per.
mitted to be exported or imported, have been fixed, with refer.
ence only to the encouragtment of agriculture, and to the due
supply of the country.
Resolved—That the use of Corn is the Distilleries has never
been prohibited, except when Corn was above the prices at which
importation was permitted or encouraged.
Resolved—That sugar has been always in effect excluded from
the DistiUcries, except when the use of Corn therein was, on these
principles, prohibited.
Resolved—That it is therefore incorrect to affirm, that the em-
ployment of Sugar in the Distilleries has ever been adopted, eith. r
as a boon to the West-India Colonists, or to the prejudice of the
agricultural interests of Great Britain.
Resolved—That the West-India Colonists make no claim to a
competition calculated to injure, or even to expose to hazard the
agricultural interests of this country ; but they confidently claim,
upon the ground not less of general policy than of justice to their
interests, that the produce of the British Colonies may be admit-
ted to the Distilleries in preference to Foreign Corn.
Resolved—That whenever the growth of British Corn is in-
sufficient for the necessary consumption of the country, the ex-
traordinary consumption of the Distilleries may be supplied
either by the importation of Foreign Cern, or by the substitu-
tion of Sugar, without prejudice to the British Corn Grower;
aid that the effect upon the price of British Corn will be the
same whether Sugar or Foreign Corn be employed for that
purpose.
Resolved—That it appears by official accounts now before
Parliament, that the real value of the Corn, Grain, and Flour
' imported into Great Britain from Foreign ports (Ireland of course
excluded) =minus un the average of eleven years (from 1800 to
1810, both inclusive) to £3,7.21,866, and that in the last year it
reached the sum of £7,077,865, while the real value of the grain
annually consumed in the Distillery of Great Britain (when sup-
plied by grain) may be estimated at about £950,000, or about
470,000 quarters, which quantity in these latter years would
hive been thither required to be annually imported, if Sugar had
not been substituted for corn in the Distilleries.

Resolved—That although Barley does not constitute a large
proportion of the usual importation of Foreign Corn, yet, as
the consumption of this article in the Distilleries is asserted to
afford a resource against an occasional deficiency in the supply
of British Corn; and to operate as a granary for the food of nun
and beast in time of scarcity (an effect which could not be pro-
duced, except upon the principle that the consumption and
price of one specks of grain are influenced by those of another)
there appear Irons the !acts above stated of the average Import
of grain to exist ample means both for encouragement of British
agriculture, and .tit,o for some support to the British Colonies,
with the additional advantage of diminishing that large tribute
which we annually pay to the agriculture, commerce, and re-
wurcts of the enemy.
Resolved That the incidental advantage arising from the ad-
mission of Sugar to the Distilleries as proposed by the Jill now
,efore Parlimnent, is so guarded by the Provisions of that Bill,
that the West India Colonist, so far from being in effect admit-
ted to an equal competition for the Distillery with British Corn,
isnot even adntltted upon terms as favourable as the Foreign Im-
porter. The l'oreign Importer is admitted into general ct 'repe-
tition with the British Corn Grower, when Barley at 335. per
quarter, while 335. per quarter is the price now proposed to be
fixed, fur the admission of Sugar into competition with British
and Foreign Corn conjointly, on what is assumed to be an equal
footing.
Rerolved-1 hat this Bill, therefore, though advantageous to
the West India Colonists, as compared with the total exclusion
from the Distilleries to which they have been subjected, will be
a benefit very far short of that to which they conceive them-
selves to be equitaisly ratitkel, and which, in consequence of the
necessity for a large importation of Foreign Corn, might be af-
forded to them, without discouragement to the alp icukure of the
country. C. ELLIS, Chairman.
he Chairman having left the Chair,
Resolved —*that the Thanks of the Meeting be given to the
Chairman for Us Conduct in the Chair.
WM. HOLDEN, Secretary.