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another House, and diet consequentlyi now he was under
tbe necessity of resorting to a moist:wary measure, a thi,,2
to which he could not accede without the utmost reluc--
ranee, when he considered the conflicting demands and
interests to which it would give rise, and the total ute
yth ireeigsuhe lid. If
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certainty in the corn trade to which it would lead,-,
Before a plan so generally satisfactory was thrown out,
it would have been well if the moral effect'of thee set.
dog the'different chines of the community in oppositce
peopto eatechsboterldhatdakbee been mote
reaso nminagturoenl
Ject, and
should find that the class of the community from whith
Magistrates, Members of the Legislature, and Membnt
1 of the Goverment were taken, instead of attending to
the general interests of the nation, acted almost with
La
particular and tacluaive view to their owe *tele s
and fortunes, in opposition to theaintetetts of the other.
.classes of the community, that no:ion might be vomit.
live of a very dangerous feeling. When he came dos
to.tlse House, he had considered with himself whethef
l'arlioraent might not sit long enough to enable there
to make another attempt to get a fixed and anme
tradopted ? Bot when he saw in what spit it another
ose had dealt with the plan which had alma: sr
passed this House, he thought it would be necessate
to give them time to cool, in hopes that in the nest
fission a better scalper would be evinced. Hosee%er
reluctant, therefore, be was to consent to the adoptiii
of • a temporary enesteetre, which on many accounts
was so highly objectionable, he at present saw no other
alternative; for, considering all the circumstances, lie
bad himself no expectation that the longest period to
which they could protract their labouis would afford
them a prospect of having a proper permanent me.sure
established in the coarse of the present Session. As to
the Noble Person who had been alluded to as having
originated the Amendment, as it was called, which had
destroyed the principle of that meastne which had te-
ethed the sanction of that House, and had been so
generally satisfactory, he telt so deep a sense of the
immense debt of gratitude which the country owed to
him, that be Would be extremely sari to say any thing
that sight have the appearance of t effecting upon him;
but at the same time he could not help saying, that
when he saw no less than five of the late ?Canters, all
of whom had, while they were in the Ministry, conceited
in and approved of the Measure which had been pasted
by this House, and sent to the other Hotne—shea be
saw all of them, when out of office, torn round sal
strangle that very measure, he could not agree with the
Right Hon Member for Oxford, that all this was done
from an entirely honest feeling; especially as the amend.
sent, by means of which they had effected their object,
was the most foolish and absurd, and the most inopera-
tive for any good purpose, that ever was proposedtobe
introduced into any Bill that ever came before
ment—(Lood cries of hear, hear). That was the net
character of the Amendment; but he spoke of it in
these term*, not with any view to reflect upon the inch.
vidual with whom it originated, but merely to point Dot
the reasons which induced him to consent to a tempo.
rary measure, since he saw how hopeless it was to erten
that a proper permanent plan should be adopted is the
course of the present Session. It the Hight Honourable
Member for 'Gifford could think that such an Amend.
went was introduced from a sincere desire to promote
the object without injuring the. principle of the Bill, he
could only say, that his credulity was equal to his
candour; for he (Mr. Baring) could hardly connive
how any persons with common sense, who were really
friendly to the principle and object of .the'Bill, male
have presposed such an Amendment, especially if
they kneW what would be the fate- of the 134
which they malt have done, at it was to be pre-
sbmed that they were acquainted with the privilegu
of the House of Com Moos, ant with their own Fn.
vdeges. -The effect of the Amendment was to throe
the whole of the Corn Trade of the country into a
state of total uncertainty and. confusion. He thought
the Right Hone Gentleman hinkself ought to have sad
a few words on the nature, object, and effects of the
Amendment. Could any one( thew that the Amend-
ment was good for any_ th•Mg etcept to throw the
Corn Trade into the hands, of foreigners? if theole
ject was to give a preference te the corn directly is
ported, over the corn in bond,lhat plea would not hare
the slightest effect in protecting the agriculture of di
country; and if it had not that object, it had no object
whatever, unless that of, destroying the Bill. It cold
not surely have been intended to injure oar
own ship)
ping, and to throwthe whole of the cops trade into the
hands of foreigners; and it' that was not the purpose,
what could it be, except to get rid of the Bill? He re
peated, that as a protection to Agriculture, the Anned•
man was the most absurd and inoperarie
possibly be conceived ; for Cora would
at the Hans Towns and Flemish portly
into competition with the home pewees
much as if it were warehoused at hOlOll.
logizeko site Committee for taking
such an Amendment as this : but every
featly a ware,that foreign corn might bet.
at Flushing and.other parts of the opposite
and readily poured into this country. Some
seemed to be of opinion, that these '
at an extraordinary distance, while .
not marl farther from Mark-lane than
Parliament could have given no greater
reigners than by passing this Bill in
it stood after the Amendment. Foreign
have flowed in abundantly, when the
have permitted ; but all the benefits
system would have been transferred
would have been one difference, which ,
not suggested itself to the sagacious
this beautiful Amendment; name!'
reign corn would have come in at
much facility as ever, if unfortunately
bad risen to• 90s. Of 100 s, in coo'
scarcity resulting from a deficient
try would then have found itself entire',
of those foreign countries, where
tuated in which the corn had
(Hear, hear, hear)--and from whicn
cenery to. our subsistence might in a moms^.
cut off—(Cheers). Could anything
mischievess—(Cheers)? He gave great credit to !Lig
ingenuity of the Right Hon. tientleman, the Meal!
for Oilords.isho had been obliged, in defending "7,
supporters of the Amendment, to suppose that they ecn
wholly ignorant of the mischief it was intended to pro'
r.
duce, from their total inability to understand its
a.
ings and effect—(Hear, heir); and that they had, in that
happy state of simplicity, brought it forward boof",
for the purpose of amending the Corn Bill—(Cheer:/.
be more absurd
If he (Mr. Baring) thought that this was indeed are'
honest corn question elsewhere, he would rather
Bill should have come back to that House, in order 10.,
they might have hat a free conference with their Lk'

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awes to the fall, is
ow. He ought to ape
up their time veil
Pery one must be per
tbeeasily warebeeeed
: opposite Cowan&
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ports
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in the shape in which
reign corn would soli
the averages
s of the Inuebuuung
rrecl abroad. There
•hich he believed bad.
Pacioos inventors of
• that while fo-
rt low prices witb.e-e
tately the home puce
consequence of the
it harvest, this coo•
entirely at the meter
e the ports were el•
been warehoused--
bich the supply
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