Star.
London, England, 1804-06-21 00:00:00

SLAY! TR ADS.

Mr. WILBERFORCE moved, that the Hnafe
to-morrow thould proceed further in bearing Conniel
on the Slave Trade.
General GASCOIGNE faid,he mood objea, no-
left there was fall attendance.
Mr. WILLIAM SMITH remarked, there was
no end of the oblations of certain Gentlemen to this
sneafere; frit they propfed the admitlion of Conn-
fel, andswhen admitted, they defer hearing them.
Mr. FULLER hoped it was the intenuon of the
Houle whntly to drop the matter this year; there
were 7000 p•ifoaers in Jamaica, and the agitation
thefe difcullii•.ns occalinned was extremely dangerous.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL Paid, that the
peril arnfe from indecition, when the Aa ilsonld
have paired, the agitation would fubfide.
The SPEAKER having put the quation, it was
refulved to hear Cotinfel to-morrow.
CORN LAWS.

The Houk then went into a Committee on the
Bill, for the alteration of the Corn Laws, Sir
CHARLES SUNBURY in the chair.
Mr. WESTERN Rated the grounds on which the
alteration was propofed in the Committee to which
k was referred. He laid that fine 1795, when the
bounty was regulated, matters were greatly changed;
that the charges in agriculture had prodigiouffy in•
creafed, and that labour was one-third dearer. The
difference in the poor rates was another motive. In
1790, they were 3,529,0001.: in 1803, they were
zB,ocol. The alterations the Committee have
recommended were put into the form of refolutiona,
and it was recommended that the bounty on the im-
portation of grain and flour fhould be regulated by
the average price in the twelve maritime counties of
England and the four maritime counties of Scotland.
Mr. PAT I'ESON entered much at large into the
fuhjed of flick ref, lutions. He faid that the argu-
ment drawn from the increafed price of labour was
only temporary in its application. The numerous
enclofures, and the men at this time required in the
public fervice, occafioned an accidental increafe,
which, however, fhould not effeet any permanent re-
gulation. He applied a fimilar principle to the
prefent magnitude of !he poor-rates, and of the
price of flock and uter.fils. Grain was not the only
objed, paffure was a very important one ; and while
we were enlarging the bounty, we were enabling fo-
reigners to eat our corn at a cheap rate, and ren-
*nag fome oldie moft effential articles of fubliftence
dear in our own country. He then fupported this
argument by calculation. Mutton, which was be-
fore at ad. was now at Bd. Butter at 365. a firkin,
was now a: 68s. ; and Cheefc had increafed to the
enormous price of isos. to t6cs. The Honourable
Member then entered into a comparative view of the
price of wheat for the 14 3+ years, and foci, that
the depreffion of the price implied in the Refolutions
was net corral. He nest adverted to the miicancep-
thin aiifing from the affertion, that within a few years
30,c00,0001. had been paid fur coin imported. The
taA was, that in favourable years the exportation
amounted to 600,0001. or 7c0,c001. in value. Ile
eaplained that the increafed population, by occafivu-

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pietodealer.
nufeatiroi, oar MtmotliteVoin
oar yea treding and miegreial moms isles**,
ways. eor
and finentaptiut e76*,
had foottd osple.and prefitoble its tiii
increafcd popolatiost, fit that the • of the
export from this Wife was not to !re mode*
Sir JOHNArROTTESLY joiltfied formol of the
tdblutions is the Report, adverted to Ireland, as af-
1-fdted by them, zed hid, that the objea was not to
Make new laws, but merely to vary theft already in
once.
. STANHOPE °Nailed to ao average of all
the difirias becoming the criterion of the price of ex-
port, and thought it fitould be regulated by the price
of particular dalrias. for huh diarias.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
did not think it neeeffery in the prefent Rage of the
quellion, to mita into any minute difetiffiou. The
point. however. lati adverted to, defamed immediate
notice. The general objea was to equalize the price
of Corn, and this was now more eafily and more
completely effelled than at former periods. Within
the IA twenty years the great facility communi-
cation by the canals, which interfeard the whole
country, was not to be forgotten ; and if Lareaatirct
or any other country, reqiiii ed fupply.hy this watt na
tional improvement, it waste be reaJily afforded. No
Gentletr.an could doubt that it was much preferable
to (apply a deficient province by t'ti expedient from
the internal resources. than from foreign markets.
On the plan advert...l to of different rati,,s for the
bounty in different diarias, it might be the nitrous-
safe effea that we may be importing in one difiria
when we fhould be exporting in anther. The &-
figs of theta regulations was that fcarcity Ikould be
avoided, and for this purpofe it was provided, that
corn Ihauld confiantly acquire tech a price as would
be a fufficient encouragement t • promote its ;tooth.
We had lately fern the value at t std. and this arofe
from the deficiency, but the bell mean, to avoid the
deficit was by never admitting this department in
agriculture to remain without a (efficient conpenfa-
non.
Sir ROBERT BUXTON fad, the growth of
barley would be flopped by zbe reduaion of the price,
and that Come, indulgence Mould therefore be given
to this impoten t commodity.
Mr. PALE/ deemed it impolitic to favour grain
the expence of all the of articles of produce of
:equal importance.
Sir JOHN NEWPORTaated the gran to be.
by what means the farmer world receive a We a
lament ? If that were correaly determined, he would
Cfafiderfo kintielf whether his land were molt ad-
devoted to pafiore or grain, nod, to
it Otiose his own Were& would be molt fueeefsfolly,
iloadoce to the intend of toe public.
Mr. WK. SMITH Paid a few words, after ulish
Itiffolations were agreed to, and reported.
' o Rde Is to be refolved into a Committee if
*• on Pude* y.--.Acljourned.
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