Star.
London, England, 1828-05-26 00:00:00

ViEiTNA, MAY 15. •

A Messenvw arrived at this City from. Constattino-
pie. and wain almost im,mediately followed by a Turkish
Officer of the highest rank, to whim he acted as. an
aornit Courier. The hitter had ilmoit- immediately an •
inteevi#ir Ijrith Prince Metterojcb, the subject of which
is Aire, till be Unite highest importance. All the pr(.-
positions or comirtunications:lf the Turkish Minister
bed not transpired but it isiieobable that they related
M i request of aid of- mediation, as it was announited
'upon 'Change, that the Porte had confessed its inability'
,to oppose Russia with .ony prospect of success, and that
a mission, to be composed of some of the most distims.
prepatrn"at
Constantinople to set.out for the Russian head-quarters.
This news was deemed, of so pacifiz, a itendency at
Vienna, that ilniostimMediately the-Ntetal:iques im-
proved on&remit. -X•shbuld gdiktirat very shin tly
before the arrival-of the To-flask MtniNter, the.news• of
the passage o‘tbe pruttiArri.reachOif !bete, it
was 3 ecliyed•with eq,ual surprise and 1154asductipg. Sy
all clams* of the peupie Ind by the Co.verument.

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REbOLUTIONs: 14) CeO.WESTEIiN, EQ. -
UPON THE THIRD READING OFTHE CORN BILL,
: • ON FRU:PAY, Mar 94, ISM

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1. That every legislative enactment affecting . the
agriculture of the country, or the commerce of grain,
.should havifor its sble object the attainment of the
.most secure, steady, and abundant supply possible.
' 2. That, in; order to accomplish this object, means
vritldiffetent have at different times been proposed ;
on one side it has been 'maintained that a free com-
mercial intercourse with foreign countries should, for
this purpose, be :divvied ; on the other, that the exclu-
sive. encouragement of British agticolteve • has. been
deemed the more effective and the safer policy. •
. S. That our laws hive, for rier two hundred years,
been framed upon the principle of the latter system
above described. '
• 4. That the most abundant supply, with the feast
•rflactuatiots of 1p ritabtanst avitna burplus for exportation,
has occurred in Omar years in which .the most cllcLtite
protection has been greets to British agriculture.
5. That the Act of 18/4!;prohibieing
foreign grain untii•Ni plaice of wheat rises tio las. and
other grain in proportion, bets teen followed by a price
of 6.51. for wheat, calculated upon the average it the
twelve years that have since elapsed, and of 57se upon
the average of the last eight, with a ainrilar. redaction
in the price of all other sorts of grain.
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6. That though this comparatively low price, in re-
ference to the preceding twenty, years, is chiefly 4Ltii.
butable to the increased value of the 'currency by ti e
Act of 1819, it 'affords abundant proof that the Ord-
ducers of grain can no more uphold the price, by intans
of the prohibition to foreign imports, than the.products
of any other article could save themselves from tbe de-
pression of price which that Act has occasioned in all
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the products of industry.

7. That the competition of the British growers4cCrn
with each other has, in general, kept their profittbelow
the profits of capital and industry devoted to other par-
suits; and capital invested in land retui ns in general a
lower interest than when otherwise.employetl. .
8. That the cultivators of the United Empire have,
from its soil and climate, from their own skill,and in-
dustry, and facility of conveyance, the means of render-
ing, in our markets, an 'abundant supply cf gram with
lea laboor, or, in utherwrirds, at a less .labour price,
than most of the countrits from whence ifoseign supply
monist be drawn. .. . • .
,P, That for many years tit; money price in England
Was it or below the. Continental price.
10. That the present excess of price over the 'Con-
tinental price is owing to artificial •ciuses—chiefly
taxation.

11. That taxation adds to the Costs of prod49oe;
and the additional charge so crested must be pude Of
the production will be iliscontinsled.

12. That the burden of taxation has been further in-
creased. in the ratio of the ,increased value of mu Ley
by the Act of 1819.
IS. That though the price of grain is thus forced be.
yond its natural level—the level of the Continent —lt e
growth of the United Empire is in ordinary years fully
equal to the demand ; and that,. wider these circum-
stances, the introduction of foreign grain must even-
tually displace an equal quantity of home growth, add-
ing therefore nothing to'the aggregate supply, rendering
a portion of it very precarious, annihilating the capital
employed in the production of the corn so displaced,
and depriving of occupation such a number of husband.
men as the cultivation required. . _

14. That the Bill now upon the table, admitting
foreign corn at all times upon payment of the duties
!herein provided, and into warehouse free of duty, till
taken out for homercausumption, must in all probability
produce that effrct.
1.5. That the most fatal consequences must ensue
from the operation of aricb a ,system ; that the coun-
tries which shall hereaftft.oupplir us with grain, in
lieu of so much of British growth thus superseded,
will, in our necessities, raise a revenue upon the ex-
ports, which must be pail. by us; then they will
increase their marine, by confining the corn trade to
their own ships ; and finally, when our dependence upon
them shall have further increased, they May, in time of
war, force us to submit to any terms, by closing their
markets to our manufactures, and withdrawing from
our unemployed and fatarishing • workmen that food
which from them 'gone tan then be sonlied

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