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pladon? It szz4 111*.ezigillice 9fAbifelawethat made
mai it* wpm,* statistahlaoirence as no mend crime,
sad ichjeeed them comrade anciviolate those laws with.
out any sense of spinal delinquency. He could never coo-
. wilt to replace tholitsys m OuiStatute-book,for by doing
' -so he shMild'glie the silk manufacture of France the chr
facts+ of being superior to that -of this country—a cha.
racier which he felt sure it did not deserve. These were
id the outset the grounds upon which he felt called epos
so resist thernsotion of the Hon. Member for Dover, as
he Pelt bound to believe that his object in making it
• ryas such as he (My. V. Fitzgerald) had described it.—
TI distress which existed in the Silk Trade in INS.
was stated to have arisen from overtrading. which
wei, in itself, described as an all:rfficient cause by
• which it account fur it. lie " would shortly. state
what he conceived to be the cause of that distress;
be would then illustrate his observation by a comparison
(.the state of trade during five years beftme. and five
years subsequently to the regulations of which the 5.1 k
*Trade now so unjustly complained ; he would then state
tothe House,the . objects and measures which his Ma-
jeity's GOveinment had in view. In doing this it would
be neceseary (or hits to trace the history of the Silk
trade both in Fiance. and in this country, and to
point the re.action which. was.produced by the course
so long pursued by us with respect, to it. That
distress was in a great degree attributable. to the
quantity of the .raw material imported, and to the
number of new mills erected during' and since 1823.
-The Honourable Member who introduced the subject
• bad, in touching on this 'abject. fallen into same con-
lesion; with respect to dews, which he was quite sure
was unintentional on his part. • When one side of au
argument was to be suppotted, the year of the greatest
Importation was qtoted; bat when the converse of the
~plOpz.sitiMs.rita to be maintained, the year of the least
imported°a was selected. He most state, that the exiit•
lag measures with respect to the Silk Trade were first
introduced by his Right Honourable Friend (Mr. Has..
ltheoo.4l: i8114.,414 the impolie of overtradieg wee
alien in 'that year—and that, too, by pasties who
ought to be the last to do it, as they were crying out
that the measures in contemplation .would loin them.
'Noir he would make a comparison in the state, of the
Trade,, within five years before and after the esta.
. blishment of these measures.
'ls tee Ave years Cher 1514, the imppip Odic raw
material were • . . 15,5114.032
la the lee years before that period the amount was' 10,9211.6441
Making &Afferent, of : . 7,08,146 Me.
Be did not pretend that the !wean of the manufacture was hi
proportion to the increase of the raw material ; for be was aware
Vilt as decrease in the duty, as well as the change In the fashiel/21
Owed of the manufacture of. far .coaxer and a heavier aritsites
but if the *ruse of manufacture were only to be taken at one
fourth of the isoportatioo of the raw material, that would give an
Mame by one half of the silk manufacture of the cenotrY.
1819, the leiguir radon of the raw materiel was 1,480,000 lbs.
TaFolng • • . 501,586
Whim a total of . . 1,7111.08 lbs.
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1.508,4141 lbs.
. 309,955 lbs:

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