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that they entertained very mistaken views
• they were, indeed, always misled.
their condition could not be im-
was called the natural prices of
and Mr. Webb Hall described
corn as that of the year 181 '.—
say what that natural price was,
ly separate that subject from the
? He had told the farmers •in
:me the resumption of cash-pay.
was (*ermined upon, to wait for
and they would sec how much.
reference to the import of fo-
nduce would be affected by that
dation had increased, he under-
in the last ten years, according to
hich was not yet published. An
must naturally serve to advance
by increasing the demand for it ;
prodisce of corn must reduce its
ireciation of the currency must in.
whilst an advanced value in that
Ice it. Now, amidst the operation of
sgtbese causes, who could state what was the natural
end of corn, independently of any question as to the
Igor of foreign grain ? Or was there any authority
intbiscountry, however high, who could make any as-
upon the subject that was entitled to attention?
yet sir. Webb Hall had ventured to make the asset-
tide which he had mentioned. But really this Gentle-
on seemed quite beside himself ; for he had roundly
/arta that it was of no consequence whatever to
the interest of Agriculture, or that of the country at
krge, whether the Bank resumed cash payments or
et, provided adequate provhion were made by the
iefslature to guard against the import of _foreignl
ton. Nay, in the Pamphlet in which these assertions,
*eared, Mr. Hall had observed, that " the most
fble criterion of natural wealth and prosperity isl
t, be found in a diminished value of currency, whe.
ther that currency shall consist of paper or metal, as
dot of poverty is to be found in a high value of cur.'
my," Then, according to this Gentleman's doctrine,
trace enjoyed great wealth and prosperity when she I
was (kluged by those assignats, which were at last
seedy worth more than waste paper ; and so was
AperiCa, when, at the time • f her Revolution, she
bdso many depreciated dollars in circulation. But
utss quite idle to argue with such a writer, and yet
kin appointed, by the present Ministers, Secretary
gradate Board of Agriculture, while he wa., selected
irtlie farmers as Secretary to their Agricultural
Associations. How then could the Agriculturists
rope error, or entertain correct views, while they
scud under such a guide, or attended re such an ad-
liar? Yet his authority had been quoted this day
y those Gentlemen who so cautiously abstained
bonny animadversion upon the conduct of Minis-1
ms, by whom all the affairs of the country had
beet so much deranged, by whom every visitation
that afflicted the people had been mainly occasioned.l
lk really could not see any ground upon which a
ccesiskration of the proceedings of these Ministers
could be separated from the question before the Meet-
ing. But to return to Mr. Webb Hall : that Gentle-
man had stated that the amount of the Bank notes
&sot affect the currency, and that we might return
*cash payments at once, without a prejudice to the,)
reentry, if the import of foreign corn could be ef-
Wally prohibited. But what said Mr. Thornton,
kids celebrated book, about fifteen years ago—that
devalue of the Bank note currency must he seriously
elected, if it were ever allowed to reach thirty mil-
ions, and it had since notoriously done so. With
regard to the motion with which he proposed to con-
sect his Amendment, he was quite ready to vote for
District Meetings, and for a County Meeting after
web District Meetings had declared their sentiments,
dish Meeting would, he hoped, be determined upon,
pmicularly with a view to consider the conduct of
Bolsters ; for how strange was it that the Chancel-.
be of the Exchequer should be allowed to remain in
dire, after a Committee of the House of Commons,
comprehending four of his own colleagues, had pub-
bbed a Report, containing a direct contradiction of
&Resolution which that Gentleman proposed as to
the currency, upon the discussion of the Bullion ques-
tion in 1811. But every part of the conduct of these
Ministers had some extraordinary aspect, or some
mischievous result.
The Amendment having been read,
Lord EGitEMONT declared his entire concurrence
'sigh MG Blackman, that an unsettled currency was
thegreat source of the evils which afflicted Agriculture.
Mr. ELLMAN, sen. felt himself bound to oppose this
Amendment, lest from its adoption, this might be
deemed a Political Meeting, which was a character
he did not wish it to bear.
Mr. BLACKMAN considered it mere drivelling and
nonsense to say that a Meeting was not political
which involved the interest, as its authors alleged, of
every class of the people. The money question was
indeed the key-stone of the arch of such a Meeting,
and therefore the consideration of that question could
trot be consistently excluded anymore than the con-
duct of Ministers, who upon that question attempted I,
to make Mr. Ricardo their scapegoat, because they
adopted his plan in order to release themselves Of
their own motion. Yet thus the farmers were im-
posed upon and led away from any consideration of
the conduct of Ministers. But the farmers must, in
order to understand their case, follow different leaders
from those to whom they had heretofore attended.
They must plough deep and contrive to render their
trams clear, and fallow for the reception of better

leed—(Applausc).
Lord EGREMONT said, that he could not consider
the Amendment of Mr. Black.nan as a political or
party proposition, whatever he might think of that
Gentleman's speech : for it was the fact, that all par-
ties, in Parliament and out of it, supported the re-
sumption of cash payments. Lords Grey and Lans-
down did so as well as the Ministers. Nay, Mr. Cob-
belt Limself did so, and " %Oat the devil more,"
said the Noble Lord, " would you require ?" (A

high and eriplause).-
After a few mote observations from Mr. BLACK..
MAN, Mr. Ullman withdrew his opposition, and the
. Amendment was adopted.
Thanks were voted to Lord EGRENIOWT for his con
duct in the Chair, upon which the Noble Earl ex-
pressed hie ackaowledgments. which were received
with great ..pplause ; and the Meeting broke up
Ilhuut tour o'clock.

falleaers that toll
Pro this subject ; the
ei ere told that t 1
red, trtless what v
were restored, a
natutal price of CI
who could truly s
who could propeily
money question
room, at the tin
,
..eno by the Bank %%I
' wo or three yrars, a
independently of any
e ogn corn, their prod
wore. ur popul
one-stzth, with i
• recent Census, wh
*1 population
corn, by
he
rtf oils our improved I
• pice, and a depreci
010 that price, w
it OW enC y must reduce
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