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'cement held out to make such returns
House open to many' informalities.—

If the plan which 'the House, now adopted were to be
acted upon" lie thought it would be an easy matter Co
keep a great proportion of Members out of their teats
till next March, and at that Lime perhaps the objections
raised against them would be silenced ; and they could
then take their seats months after the usual dine. That system of
privation ought not tb be tolerated, led he (.Pdr. A) was of opinion
that those only were to be considered as duly returned, whose in.
dentures were received at the Crown Office, annezed.an the-King's
writ. Oar ancestors, the Han. Member aid, were of the same
opinions/11*one be then stabbed the House eo adopt. In the time
of James the Font. a writ had been returned for the borough of
Pomfret mith two indentures annexed to It (one brvirtue of the
precept, the other by virtue of the writ) but only one of theiewas
considered as correct, the one raised by virtue of the precept. He
would not trouble the House any longer, and he sincerely hoped
they would establish the two Gentlemen who had been returned
(after the manner appointed by the law of the country) in their
rights. The Hon. Member then moved that the names of ..Mr.
N'lCinnon and Mr. Gordon be erased from the recoluis of the House.
The Itsisolution having been put from the Chair,
. Mr. W. WYNN as,ored the Hon. Member that he
would have interrupted him before if be had been aware
of the re olution his motion intended to bring under the
notice of the House., He understood the complaint he
intended to bring forward was embodied in a breach of
privilege of the House. There was a remedy already
prepared for the complaint the Hon. Gentleman alluded.
to, which consisted in referring petitions relating to it
to a Committee of the House. If he (Mr. W. Wynn)
tightly understood the purport of the Hen. Gentleman's
resolution, he certainly would advise him (on the event
of his succeeding in getting it adopted) to move 'for
leave to bringin a Bill to repeal all the laws the House
bad ever passed on such subjects. As to•the cases of
disputed returns which the Hon Gent. stated to have
been decided instanter by the House, he begged leave to
assure him of the face of, their happening before a Corn-
' mittee of Ps ivileges had even been thought of. It was but
fair also that the two Gentlemen, whose names the House
were solicited to erase, should have an opportunity of
defending themselves. He knew full well, that in the
time of James I. the House decided upon all cases of
controverted Returns without any appeal to Commit-
tees. In the year 1690, during the reign of King Wit-
ham, the Househad no Committees of Appeal in cases
like the one the Hon. Member alluded to, and at pre-
sent, if the House bad the jut isdiction, they would refer
all controverted Returns, as they did in the case of the
Borough of Liskeard, to a Committee. The Hon. Gent.
had stated many facts, (he, Mr. Wynn, did not wish to
doubt their veracity,) and it would be necessary to ex-
amine witnesses at the Bar of the House, which would
be taking up the time of the House unnecessarily,when
ill this could be done in a Committee up stairs. No
sufficient. grounds had been given to authorise the
House to erase the names of these Gentlemen, the facts which had
been adduced to effect this bad not been confirmed, and it would
he much better to refer the whole proceedings to a Committee.
This was the best opportunity the House afforded for discrimina-
tion in cases of double Returns: The )egitimate way would be to
pure those who made the irregula, Returns. rather than the
phesons who were thus irregularly returned. • The Right Hon.
arktlensan concluded by objecting to the proposed Resolution, and
intreated the House to pause before they did a thing which would
establish itself as a dangerous precedent.
Mr. LOCKHART agreed entirely with the Right
Hon. Getitlemaa who last sat down as to the reference
of Election Returns to Committees. In cases where
there was any probability of illegality in the Return,
the Committees were well adapted, but then it was
requisite for the case submitted to their consideration to
be an actual Return. But in the case alluded to by hit
Hon. Friend, and then before the House, there was no
Return, therefore it became the duty of the House to
interfere, for it could not be received into a Committee
—(Hear). The Hon. Gent. then remarked on the great
inconvenience which would of necessity arise from every
proceeding similar to the case before the House being
seterred to a Committee. Not only would it, as it ap-
pealed to him, unnecessarily preclude Gentlemen legally
returned from taking their seats for a long period, but
it would also subject them to exactions, labours, and
expenses. He therefore maintained that the whole law of the
country was favourable to the decision to which his Honourable
Friend, who had introduced the subject, was desirous the House
should come ; for it was evident on the fate of the transaction, that
this was no return at all, and therefore should' be dealt with as
such. An examination of the proceedings at the election of a
Paliament, could not but confirm the view which he had taken of
the subject. The writs were issued from the Crown Office to the
different Sheriffs. Each Sheriff, upon the receipt of the writ,fmated
his precept to the Returning Men within his jurisdiction, those
Returnlng Officers annexed their return's to the precepts they bad
received, and the Sheriffs, after attaching the returns delivered to
them, to the original writs, forwarded them to the Crown Office.
From these considerations the Resolution proposed by his Hon.
Friend seemed to him the best way to prevent sham returns,andbe,
therefore should suppoit it--(Hear).
Mr. B ItOUG H A M apprehended that the observations
of the Right Hon. amt. opposite (Mr. Wynn), must
have arisen from a misconception of the argument ad.
duced by his Hon. Friend (Mr. Abercromby), in support
of the Resolution he had moved for the adoption of the
House. He (Mr. Brougham) was most anxious not to
discuss this matter in any but a most friendly way—to
talk and reason over it with perfect calmness, and a mu-
tual desire to do only that which was right, in order th
they might arrive at a just and satisfactory conclusion.
The Right Honoutable Gentleman seemed to think that
to adopt the Resolution proposed would be to mate.
rially encroach upon, if not virtually to repeal, the
Glenville Act. If such could be the effect of the
measure of his Honourable Friend, he (Mr. Brougham)
would at once exclaim, in GoD's name, let it'be thrown
aside! The Grenville Act was a most wise and
beneficial one, and it did honour to the House which
passed it. It presented a noble instance of one branch of
the Legislature voluntarily giving up a part of its pecu•
liar privileges, for the security and benefit of the public
—it presented the spectacle of the House of. Commons
offering a Bill to the other breeches of the Legislature,
for the restricting of its own powers, because by such
restriction it made more solid the freedom of election.
No one, therefore, who wished his country well, would
wish to interfere with the spirit of such a law-(Hear,
hear). But it would surely, he imagined, be confessed
by every one, that cases might arise in which it was the
dirty of the House at once to come to a decision with-
rut compelling the parties to suffer all ti e delay and
x?ense occasioned by their having to appear before an
Liection Committee. It appeared to him to be abso-
lutely necessary that the House should retain that
power, for if it did not, incalculable inconvenience and
mischief might be occasioned by sham returns. The
Right Hon. Gentleman had remarked on the difficulty
of the House receiving evidence in this case; he spoke
as if statements had been ma'e by the Hon: Mover,
the correctness or incorrectness of which could be ascet -
tained only by a minute inquiry, and the examination
of evidence; and here it was that be (Mr. Brougham)
conceived that the Right Hon. Gentleman labouted
under a mistake. His on. Friend had made no asser-
tions—had recited no facts which required evidence
to sustain them. He had argued that the Gentlemen

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reamed in the resolution were in reality not returned at
all, and that was the real fact. _ k was sts plai9 as the
book before them, it respired no other support dial the
entry which appelarekin that book. It was then stated
that tilre was sent to the Crown Office the regular
writ with an indenture properly annexed to it, and that
besides diet legal and proper return, there was also sent
another return, which was not annexed to the writ at
all. (He repeated his desire to argue the question-in
the most fiien.lly way, in order that it might be settled
to the satisfaction of all parties.) That then was the
substance of the entry which appeared in the book be-
fore them, and he would at once proceed to consider
the case of Litard, and shew the very natural dif-
ference which existed between the two cases.. It was
true the book sheaved, at the same time a certificate
of another return having been sent, but not annexed to
the writ. This was of no use, it was as so much waste
paper, for there could be no return unless annexed to
the writ. He wished to argue this subject calmfy, as
they would' in a private chamber or in an Election Com-
mittee, and not as a matter of political controversy.—
In the Liskeard case, his Right Hon. Friend would
permit him to remind him of the opinion of a high
authority upon the constitutional law, and of one who
did not oppose the Grenville Act. He looked upon the
declaration of Mr. Pitt, as a convincing proof that the
House was as competent to decide in such cases as 'a
Committee. He (Mr. B.) said, that the House went too
far in holding that the Liskeard case came•swithin the
Grenville Act, and should be referred ta a Committee.
In that case the Returns were produced, and one pur-
ported to be what it was, a regular Return—the other
to be an impossible Return, for it ran, ia We the Mayor,
&c." and it was not signed. It was a nullity, and yet
the House held that tt was a Return, and sent it to a
Committee against the opinion of Mr. Pitt, with. whom
.—giving so great a man the treed a his approbation
with as much humility as he would venture to express
his disapprobation—he agreed, believing him to be,
right, and the House wrong. But between the two
cases there was a material difference, for in that there
was prima facie evidenceof a Return, the Return being
annexed to the writ ; in this-'—and here was the dif-
ference—there was no such evidence, for the Return
was not annexed to the writ. In such cases the House
must have the power of exercising some discretion,
limited by as close bounds as they pleased, but some
discretion was absolut?ly necessary for their own pro-
tection and defence. Was this Or was it not a double
Return? Was the Return annexed to the writ? No—
and this beio,g the proper test of a Return, what
was returned as such could not be held to be a Re-
turn. But the Right Honourable Gentleman said that it
was immaterial whether the Return was annexed to the
writ or not; if so, how did they deal with the Sheriff in
.the Liskeard case? They voted him guilty of a breach
of privilege, put him in custody of the Serjeant at
Arms, and after being detained three or four days, he
was Woolen to the Bar, where he was reprimanded,
and then discharged. Was this an immaterial use-
less formality ? The House punished, because the
'Sheriff sent a double return, by the annexation of both
to the writ. If the annexation of the writ was imma-
terial, bring up the Sheriff to the Bar and punish him.
It was most material, as his Hon. and Learned Friend
contended, because it was the only test of the return. What
would be the situation of this place, if such returns were held to•
be valid, and made the subject of inquiry before Election. Com-
mittees? Why, with a few sheets. of parchment, he could paralyse
half the House. He could at once exclude 100 Members by send-
ing to the Sheriffs of. every county mock returns for as many Mem-
bers uhe pleased, which would be sunned to the writs. •
Mr. W YNN said, Not without the Sheriff's consent.

Mr. BROUGHAM—But if the parchments were
forwarded to the Sheriffs, they must, for their own
security, send them to the Crolen Office. Here then
would be 200 parchments, repeeienting the return of
other persons, and each of these the Right Hon. Gent.
in his zeal for the Grenville Act, in his anxiety to com-
ply with all its provisions, would send to Election
Committees. Neglecting the spirit, he would act to
the letter of the law, and thus be bound to take them
all as double returns, so the 200 returns would become
double returns, and 400 Members would be at once
excluded, and sometimes one would wish to see such
an operation performed—(a laugh), and not a single
Member could take his seat, till the whole ceremony,
expense, and delay of a petition, a Committee, and Re-
port, were guns through. Was it rational to allow
themselves to be so tied down by the Grenville Act, or
rather by the Right Hon. Gentleman's gloss upon it, as,
not to be enabled to exercise any discretionary power
in cases of necessity ? The House ought to defend and
protect itself against an abuse to which there would be no limit or
no remedy but the tedious and expensive one of a Committee. • He,
therefore, begged them to guard against this inconvenience, by
taking the annexation of the return to the writ as a prinsafacie
evi-
dence of a good retuin, till the merits of the ease were gone into.
Mr. HUSKISSON said, that nothing was further
from his intention, on entering the House, than taking
any part in the discussion then before it; but as he had
been so personally appealed to by the Hon. Gent.
-who had just. sat down, he cold not avoid doing so.—
He would, however, point out a difference between the
case of the borough of Lislyeard and that before the
House. On that election, the returning officer had de-
clared, that the majority of votes which were proper to
be received were in his (Mr. Huskisson's) favour. There
were other parties who bad tendered their votes whom
the officer did not think entitled to do so, and the nuni-
bers .of those who so tendered themselves exceeded those
of the voters for him (Mr. H.) His return had been
signed by the Mayor ; another return was made by the
other parties, to which the signatures of the parties who
tendered their votes were affixed. That return had,
however, been received by. the Under Sheriff of Corn-
wall for that year (no doubt very strangely and unac-
countably), and sent op to the Crown Office. It was
contended in his case, that there was no necessity to
refer it to an Election Committee, on the ground that
the House had nothing to do with the/return, but that
it merely came to the Crown Office, and that the second
return was of no avail. The House decided that the
retut n was not right—in shot t,that it was no return at all :
stilt it could not be got rid of without a reference to an election pe.
titiou ; but there the case was simple, because the return was not
annexed to the writ. In the present case, however, there were two
returns. •

After some desultory remarks from Mr. Twtss, Mr. Aszacaost-
am, and Mr. Wraw,

Mr. Secretary CANNING said, he was by no means
certain what his opinion might be on mature delibera-
tion. But if the House voted at once for the motion,
they would decide the motion without the possibility of
revision. 411 he asked was time to inform himself on
the subject. It was one to which no general principle
could be made applicable. His original intention was,
to propose that the Clerk of the Crown should be called
upon to explain the matter ; but he now saw that that
Aould be considered a prejudging of the quesi non
the other side ; the argument of the Honourable anti

Learned Gentleman being, that, the Saw eugltt to
Ankle on what was already before thews: On the whole,
he conceived that the best, course would be to adjourn
the. debate to another day, in order thit Honourable
Members might be better prepared to come to a deci.
sion upon the subjeck 4, •
Mr. ABERCROMBIE readily concurred in the
Right Hon. Gentleman's proposition. In order to re-
lieve the Right Hon. Gentleman from the difficulty
which he had stated, with respect to the course that it
was advisable to pursue, he would state, that if evi•
dent that something had been done in the office of the
Clerk of the Crown which ought not to have been
done ; and, therefore, that there was a prima facie case
for requiring the. Clerk of the Crown to explain the
circumstances.
Mr. Secretary CANNING accordingly moved, that the Debate
should be adjourned to Wednesday, and that the Clerk of the
Crown should attend on that day.
After a few words from Mr. 0110110UAli, who agreed that this
was the best course to pursue, Mr. Canning's minion was agreed to,

CORN ACTS.-..INDRAINITT BILL.

Mr. HUSK ISSON moved, p Mat the House do resolve itself
into a Committee of the whole House, to take into consideration the
Corn Acts." The House. accordingly, being in Committee,
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Mr. HUSKISSON rose, and said, that as the Minis•
ten of the Crown had felt it their duty to advise a min..
sure, without the authority of law, he would now, with
the permission of the Committee, state the 'grounds on
which that advice had been given; and it was the more
necessary that he should be early in doing so, as the
period of the year at which his Majesty called Parlia-
ment together had been mainly determined by the ne-
cessity of receiving their sanction to that exercise of
royal authority, which he then proposed to bring under
their consideration. He thought, that on the part of
those who had given this advice, he was bound to take
the earliest opportunity of laying before Parliament the
motives by which they had been influenced, and the
whole of the considerations by which their decision was
governed. This he considered a duty which he owed,
not only to Parliament, but to the public, and to the
private individuals,-who, acting under the authority of
the Order in Council, had been instrumental in carrying
its provisions into effect. If it should be the pleasure of
Parliament to grant that indemnity which was sought
at their hands, should the Legislature consider, that,
under the peculiar circumstances of the country, this
infraction of established rules, and limits of authority,
had not been unnecessarily committed, so far horn
having the effect of introducing a mischievous prece-
dent, he was sure, that to future times it would never
operate injuriously. They owed it, also, to vhemselves
(his Majesty's Ministers) to make this statement, and to
apply for this indemnity, since, as was well known, they
could not escape from the legal consequences of their
conduct, otherwise than by such a Bill as he pro-
posed to introduce. Again, in this point, they owed
it more peculiarly thus to apply to Parliament, on ac-
count of those who, in subordinate capacities, acted
ministerially in the introduction of Foreign Corn into
this country. The Ist of September was the date of
the Order of. Council, under which grain from abroa
was introduced. At that period, most of the Honour-
able Members who then beard him were resident in the
country; and they could, from their own observations
throughout their respective neighbourhoods, bear testi-
mony to the fact, that the state of the harvest had been
throughout such as to justify the course which his Ma.
jesty's Government had taken. For this, and for other
equally strong reasons, it would be needless for
hint to go much at length into the topics which he pro-
posed to bring under the consideration of the Commit.
tee. In no year, to which'his own experience reached,
had there been a harvest, respecting which concurrent
reports so generally agreed, as had been the case
respecting the harvest of the present year. The wheat
of this year certainly was an average crop ; barley, in
some places, was not near an average, and oata very
deficient ; and beans and peas were so likewise—nay,
even still more deficient. Late in the month of July,
and early in the month of August, the prices of those
articles were rising in every market.- In the middle of
June, when the consumption of the crop of the former
year might naturally have been expected to elevate
prices to thehighest point of the year, oats certainly
were high, as compared with other years—they were
225.11 d. This was the average price. On the 4th of
August they ,exceeded 275. 3d. and na the 11th of that
month they were still at the same rate, 275. Scl. and for
the two weeks ending on the 15th of August they were
265. 6d. -which was a priCe 18d. above the rate at which,
under the law as it now stands, they could have been
imported from foreign countries. His Majesty's Go.
vernment thought it expedient to wait during the. two
remaining weeks of August, though on the 18th of that
motth prices had risen to 28s. Sd. on the 25th to 295. 4d.
anP6n the week ending the Ist o‘Septensber, they
were up to SOs. This Very high rate was the price paid
for that grain at the precise period of the year when, of
all others, it should be most abundant. After the Ist
of September prices rose, and rose rapidly in every
market, and more especially, as might be expected, in
those districts where oats furnished the chief food of the
people. Under those circumstances, taking into consi-
deration the reports which were then daily arriving'
from the North of Europe, the rising of the demand for
oats everywhere, and the prospect of great deficiency in
the food of cattle 'for the ensuing winter, it did appear
—it did most strongly appear to his colleagues and him-1
self—that they should most grossly betray the trust re-
posed in them, by his Majesty and Parliament, if they
hesitated for a single moment in securing the country,
as far as such security could be obtained, from the pos-
sibility of suffering under a scarcity of food. No cir•
cumstances were wanting to supply them with the most
full and ample justification of the conduct, which, after
mature reflection, they bad deemed it proper to pursue.
The accounts at that time from Lancashire, and from
Ireland, were calculated to excite the utmost alarm—not
merely alarm, but despair and despondency. During the
critical period when the drought so long prevailed ; there
were the strongest conceivable reasons for apprehending
that the potatoe crop would be unusually deficient; and
had there not fallen at that time, so seasonable a supply
of rain, having as it had, the effect of turning what might
have been a crop the most calamitously deficient, into
one singularly rich and abundant, it would be impos-
sible to contemplate the probable result, without the
inmost apprehension and dread. He declared, that
during the whole of his experience, never did the country
appear in a sttuation more alarming. To add to the
grounds of apprehension, the hay crop, in the richest
parts of E 'gland, was in a condition to call forth fears
of the utmost scarcity, .and the fact was, that at the
season of the year in question, such was the miserable
state of vegetation, that it WAS absolutely necessary
to feed cattle with rem fodder, as in the depth of
winter. In such a condition of the • country, with
.ucb prospects, could there be the Alightest imitation

M taking any step that Might be requisite for stinting
do the country a supply of the first necessary of exist.
ence? Could his Majesty's Mint,t rs. for a single
moment entertain a doubt th ft their first duty *as,
at whatever risk, to guard against the impending
scarcity, by the admission of peas, bean,, ,and grain.
—The statements he had made, verified is they must
have been by the knowledge, and obset volion -of:many
Honourable Gentlemen preset tjully warranted him in
asserting that, had they waited till the_lsth-of Nevem.
ber, when by law' the ports might. Ifivilieen opened,
the conseqnences would probably have been most cala.
mitous. From the rapid rise of prices before theist of
September—their continued elevation subsequent to
that period—the condition of the crops at home-and
the prospects of supply from abroad, he had not the
slightest difficulty in saying, that the Miniver who
should hesitate to advise the admission of foreign grain,
would be unworthy equally of the favour t.f the
Monarch, add of that fair and liberal confidence
which is reposed in the Ministers of the Clown while
Parliament is not sitting. He put it to the Com-
mittee, whether it could be for a moment thought,
that any man deserved to be trusted by the Crown,
or supported by Parliament, who could for a single in-
stant hesitate to choose between a breach of the lase on
the one hand, or the risk, nay the certainty, of famine on
the other. Having submitted to the Committee these
observations, he trusted that he had said enough to.
justify the measure that had been adopted, so far as it
related to removing the prohibition, which would have
excluded grain until the 15th of November, and he
would have contented himself with having said thus
much, had that measure been confined to simple re-
moval; but thce wa's another feature of the case which
required notice—he alluded to the duty imposed on the
grain admitted, or rather, he should say, undertaken to
be paid thereon. The advisers of the Crown, on this
occasion, had departed as little as possible from the
spirit of the existing Corn Laws; they required the
parties importing to pay certain duties—that is, the Or.
der in Council imposed upon the importers the necessity'
of entering into an engagement to pay a specified duty,
provided that duty should be sanctioned by Parliament
and, in pursuance thereof, bonds had been entered into;
therefore, the Act necessary to be passed on the present oc-
casion should not merely indemnify the parties who in-
curred this responsibility, but should, if Parliament took
the view of the subject which he did, give power to the
Crown to recover those duties. Hon. Gentlemen might
differ as to the amount of duty to be imposed ; he h.('
merely to state that the amount fixed by the Order in
Council was 2s. as a permanent duty, and 2s. a, a tem-
pantry duty for the first three months— their (Alen
throughout was, that the amount imported for the- Brit
these months might equal the exigencies of the cut: k try.
It was a case in which Parliament should not impedein-
demnity, but rather encourage and sanction similar con-
duct on like occasions. The Committee would.ohserve
that the Order inCouncil did not impose the duty ; it oaly
required the party to enter into a bond to comply wi.h the
duty, if Parliament should think fit to sanction it. Hit
Majesty's Government felt, that it would be-a gross and.
culpable violation of the first principles of the constitu,
tioa•to have done otherwise, and he trusted chat the,
House would give them credit for being incapable of
giving ;such advice. He need scarcely add, that could .
they be guilty of a suggestion so culpable, no P. of
the House of Brunswick would accept it at their hands.
In consequence of these arrangements, bonds were
entered into, conditioning for_the payment of those
ditties, as airindy stated. After the information which
must necessarily be in the possession of every Hon.
Member of that House, it would be scarcely necessary
for him to say, that, if the admission of foreign corn had
been postponed to the 15th of November, prices would
have risen greatly beyond 30s. On the subject of the
amount of the duty, he would observe, that he thought
it should not have exceeded 25.; for had 41. been im•
posed, there could have been but little doubt, that the
importers would have waited until the 15th of Novem-
ber, and taken their chance of being then able to intro.
duce it at the nominal duty of 4s. per quarter. In con-
firmation of this, he would observe, that of the quantity
imported, 680,000 quarters of wheat, 150,000 were
actually overheld, the owners declining to pay the duty of
2s. and rather desiring to take their chance on the 15th of
Nov. In the last week, the prices were 295. and 30s. in
13 or 14 Counties out of the 24, from which he had
received reports; and-these reports, he could inform the
Committee, were ftoin Counties where the great mass
of the population were in a considerable degree depend-
ant on oats for their food—amongst which might be
included Durham,Cumberland, Nor thumberland, Ches-
ter, Gloucester, andiaincashire, and a few others. In
Lancashire the Vice was Ws. Under all these cir-
cumstances, he trusted hefted made out a case sufficient
to. justify his Majesty's Ministers in taking off the
prohibition as they had done, and in securing the
country front the, dangers by which it was threatened
—dangers, from which, he trusted the decision of the
House would encourage the advisers.of the Crown, at
all times, to guard the country from similar ones. What,
ie addition to the indemnity, he intended to conclude
with proposing to the, committee, was, that the duty
specified by the Order in Council should continue till.
the 16th Feb. when the next averages would be struck,
and, in the mean time, permitting corn, on the payment
of that duty, to be introduced as it had been done since
the issue of the Oriler in Council. He felt that he should
waste the time of the Committee were he to dwell at
greater length upon the considerations which he was
thus called upon briefly to suggest to them ; he would
only add, that if the prices were SOs. in the harvest time,
; could they now, at this season of the year, hesitate in
adopting the- resolutions which he had intimated his
, intention of proposing ?• When they looked at the price
of grain generally, and of wheat in particular—when
; they considered the scarcity of food for cattle, and for
the great mass of the population—they would concer
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with him in thinking, that not only had a sound' dt!-...
cretion been exercised as to the past, but that a corm.'
nuation of the system would be highly expedient and
necessary as-to the future. He concluded by moving
tthwaot rtheme iplaatnkmies".airiedadgechthera
and acting under the same, should be indemnified; and the other
ordtoryvainthecouopnindirofotfhtehlestCsepomtmemictbe:
' recommending the admission of foreign corn to be permitted, on
: payment of the duties specified in the said Order.

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Sir E. KNATCHBULL, in giving his concurrence
to these .resolutions, begged not to be understood as
acting at all in discordance with the former opinions be
had expressed on the subject: He was convinced that
every circumstance which could be designed to justify
the Government in adopting the measure in question, ,
had been most satisfactorily made out. He was the
more allious to make this declaration as it had been
I most unjustly and unkindly asserted, that the Country
Gentlemen of England were oppose i to the =voter
even when the conjuncture which made it necessary had

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