The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-03-21 00:00:00

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immediately prohibited woollen goods of the manufacture
of thh. country. The same effect, he was convinced,
would follow if such a course were pursued towards
Rt ssia. Ile was 'friend to free trade, and if its princi-
ples were nut to be acted upon, he was anxious for the
character of this country that it should not cast the first
stone, and allow other nations to say that they were
only retaliating upon us. For these reasons he thought
die 'notion ought to be met by a derided negative.
Mr. J. 81:\ Err contended, that protecting antics
were granted to manufactures and not to agricultural
produce, and that:all interests ought to he alike pro-I
teeter,. if those who talked of. free trade were sincere
in their professions, let them repeal all prohibitory
ditties, if they altered them at all. lie did not conceive
that the country could exist without protections against
importation, while it struggled under such a load of
debt, and other countries were comparatively free.—
tier slightly noticing the tax upon imported wool,
which fell, be conceivedorn the wool growers, the Hon.'
Moldier said that only one-third of the tallow consumed
i u this country could be called foreign. 'f he repeal of
the tax. however, would, he thought, relieve the poor
rather than the rich, and lie should therefore vote for
the motion for a Committee, because in that Committee
the subject might be fully considered.
Mr. PHILLIPS observed that it had been asked why
had not the manufacturers come forward in the present
state of the country: He conceived that a reference to
the Petitions on the table could sleety that they had
come forward in considerable numbers. lie thought it
*nest extraordinary to suppose that we could not protect
our own manufactures against the manufactures of other
conetries. The i x upon the importation of raw silk,
;night, he thought, be repealed with advantage, and
could he the means of assisting the agriculturists. In-
deed he Considered that every repeal could be attended
with advantag., to timem ; for in his opinion commerce
was time chief support of agriculture.
Mr. CURWEN shortly replied. lie thought it hard
that an individual haul been mentioned in the course of
the present discussion. lie (Mr. C.) had had cotnninni-
c,mtion with that individual en this subject in the course
or last year; but his opinion haul had no influence what.
ever upon his own. Ile thought all the principles of
the new school of political economy contradicted them-
selves; and that a dangerous crisis was approaching.—
The revenue of the country could not, in the present
state of things, be collected much longer; and when the
revenue could not be collected, the ruin of agriculture
couhl not be far dist tut. Ile should not press the goes-
titan, as the sense of the House appeared to be against
him ; but he wished Ministers to recollect, that although
tLe people of this country haul hitherto borne their bur-
I:lens with exemplary patience, they might, when they
final their grievances remained unredeessed, be induced
to' a ditEcent line of conduct.
3 lie niotiou was then put, and negatived without a
division.

',RATHER TAX.
•Colonel DAVIES, fur his Honourable Friend whn had
notice of a motion for repealing the Leather Tax,
pt.stputted the motion from the 24th to we believe, the
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