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London, England, 1827-06-19 00:00:00

serest would also feel .deeply tlidUisfrirkitem official., by
which they were pricluded from carryirig into opeta-
Lion the several agreements into which. landlord and'
tenant had entered to meet the new state of things, and
all of which would necessarily remain unsettled by the
state in which this law was left—(Hear. hear). He felt
the misfos tune of this delay the more, when lie reflected
on the late period of the Session at which a remedy
war proposed; and when his Right Honourable
Friend (Mr. Nei) said, that it would he better that
the House should sit until the end of July, in order
to pass some measure of relief, he agreed with his
Right Honourible Friend that it would be so,' if by
protracting the Session he could hope for such a result
—(Cheers). His Right Honourable Friend said he
wished to see the Bill with its A mendmepts passed into
a law; but if any man in the House c old say, that in-
stead of forwarding that object, the only effect of delay
would be to create angry and protracted discussions,
which would more than probably end in no relief
whatever,_ /red considering what had passed upon this
subject for the last ten day), he could only say, that if
his flight Hon. Friend worth! undertake to pass a mea-
sure similar to that which was rendered useless by,the
introdection of a Noble Dake's Aptendment, then his
Right Hun. Friend might be sure of his support—
(Cheers). But the Amendment proposed by his Right
Honourable Friend (Mr. Canning) could have been
, proposed elsewhere; and he owned he • felt rather
surprised that a Noble Friend of his, lately a col-
league (Lord Bathurst) had not proposed such a
clause. Really, after so much discuesion, so much
deliberation and delay, he could see no chance what-
ever or passing any Bill, unless the House were
se far to compromise its consistency, and stultify its
' understanding, as to adopt an Amendment which would
establish warehouses in foreign p tens, and expose the
corn intended for the British market to all the hazard
of fl•ictuating prices, and the impediments which foreign
• Powers, at variance with this country, would be sure to
throw in our way. • At no time could we adopt such a
merisure, and therefore he should give his support to
the Amendment of his Right Hon. Friend, for he felt
tha to introduce a measure of a permanent nature would
be to subject it to the fete Which attended the Bill in the
other House. And how could he suppose otherwise when
he reflected that the Noble Duke (Wellington) gave the
measure his Sanction when first it was introduced-band op-
posed it in a subsequent stage, notwithstanding the able
and convincing reply to his objections which was urged by
a Noble Friend (Lord G.), and which met no other
answer than this—" Here is our amendment, we know
it is fatal to the Bill, and therefore we are determined
to carry it." Would it not, therefore, be merely ex-
posing the House to a similar result, if an, other than
a mere temporat y measure were now proposed ? It was
therefore with regret he confessed that a Bill similar •
to that 'which was rendered abortive could not be
again introduced,—that Bill, which was carried by
tire House with a triumphant tnajority, the effects of
. which would soon have spread throughout the empire,
lulling irritation and angry feeling wherever they ex.
• isted, and which for years past had prevailed in so-
ciety in consequence of the unsettled state of Ms
question—that Bill which had awoke the hopes of th
'whom it was intended to relieve, and which if it pos:
sessed no other merit, would at least have redeemed the
character of the landed interest froth the imputation,
that from the year 1815 to the present period they had
shut their eyes and ears to the distresses of their fellow-
countrymen—that Bill was lost tonne country; and he
could not but regret deeply thatioch had been its fate
--(Cheers).—There was one mates' topic to' *hich he
wished to reply. Two or three Hon. Members bad, he
was informed (for be was absent frown the House at the
time) charged him with caprice and a change of opinion
with respect to the relation in which this country stood
with resi ect to foreign P.swers. It was alleged- that
he had expressed .an opihion that this country ought
not to be dependent on foreign countries for the means
of its existence. The Hon. Member for •Darsetshire
would be pleased to recollect that he (Mr. Huskisson) I
said he thought it would be a great • misfortune dial
• this country should be dependent, even in time 61 war,
on foreign Powers. England was not a petty Sate, but
we were a great people. possessing an immense ascend-
ancy over all the Powers of the world ; and this he gave
as a reason for not wishing that we should be'depeudent
for our resources on other countries- He wished to see
that independence maintained; but if the House were to
adopt, and the country to sanction, measures such as that
which the Hon. Member for Essex this night proposed,tbe
evils we endeavoured to aye id would again recur, and
foreign Powers would profit by every opportunity .to
sap and undermine the valued independence of the
country—(Cheers.) He was as anxious now as in 1815,
and as at all times he was, to maintain the indepen-
dence of the country; and therefore he felt that be hid
no right to be charged with inconsistency. The report
had become circulated in almost every newspaper, and
a letter of his which occasioned it had been altered so
materially, both in style and iriatier, that his vanity.
however great, was not so strong as to lead him to
claim a merit which was not his own—(A laugh.) What
he complained of principally in that letter was, that he
was said to have recommended the prohibition of 1814.
The measute of 1814 was introduced by him (Mr. Hue-
kisson), and it there was any one measure of his, at the
reflection of which he felt the greatest satisfaction, it
was that very mea,ure, because he felt that it was the
very foundation of that very Bill, the loss of which he
had now to lament ; and he only hoped that in the next
Session of Parliament both this House and the other
would see the policy and wisdom of adopting the prin-
ciples of that Bill.—The Right Hon. Gentleman sat
down, and was loudly cheered.
Mr. PEEL rose to explain. He bad never wished it to be un-
derstood that his Right Hon. Friend was the author of the Clause
which had beep proposed ; neither had be wished at soy-time to
threw ridicule on his Right lion. Friend, ur in aoy way to injure
his feelings. He wished to inquire if some means might not be
adopted of getting rid of the double averages, which be thought
might be inconvenient?
- . Mr. HUSKISSON thought the double averages could not well
besot rid of ; but be thought they would not be so inconvenient as h• •
Right Hon. Friend seemed to suppose. The subject of the averages
• reminded him of the absurdity of the present law. There were, he
said, 200,000 quarters of foreign barley at present in bond, which
the distillers were anxious to bring into crovumption, and the
bringing of which into the Market would considerably benefit the
revenue ; yet this soppy would, according to the propoeitiou of the
Member fur Essex, be shut out of the market until next August,
although there might be a most productive harvest, and although
we had millioot of quarters of foreign corn at a time when our
growth was sulficient for our supply. After what had passed In the
years 1895 end 4816, he thought he could cunfid.eutly o.lt the House
,whether they were prepared to support a proposition of such a
nature as that which the nonoureble Menibst for Essex bad
this night proposed?—(Hear, hear.)

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Lord MORPET 11 ob.erecd, that the measure which had failed
elsewhere, had vetted in a degree the suffrage. of all parties—the
agrtculturlet, the manu,acturer, sad the consumer. Om great
Mistake had, however, been committed, by the inciulgsnce a
loud and foolish credulity, in seppoitii that when Ult. measure