The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-04-04 00:00:00

raysseseestarje cSaffilltddfrollriglMW
changed the mod" of *wades of As liteisdettlat of
foreign corn; but he threw from bistatlttod yyery,
part of the Committee be was mire would WM/ Sim;
that it wes.ariy part of his object to eidao.tbe- ride Of
cars.-e(Heer). -
Mr. &STERN perfectly eolitelded wtdi his notate -
able Friend opposite (Hr. F. Lewis), that the.
rable Colo
anitter did not dowry' the center' of hje Hooon
Friend below.him (Hr. Ellice.) It was to eft of their to
business to touch upon the question of Utilities. nor
gd deeply into the causes of the present state of thiogs.
He could not however secede to his Honourable Friend'
opposite, that the Committee was right to their recom-
mendations to the House. He concurred with them in.
principle, butnot is the meals. At Ilse those time be
must say, that it was net fair. to represent dm object of
m
te Committee to be to raise the price of corn. • The
Ch1,•131;f41 recommended by the Committee was, io his
ooinien, incompetent to its end, and would only teed
to
placer the farmer in a worse condition than lee was be-
fore. He knew the spirit of it was to relieve list. sad,
place him in a better tondition. bet the thimmittee .was
egregiously mistaken in the means they proposed
va:
to
adopt. It would only i the dienuy which in
riably reigned amongst the agilculthralists, and io hie
opinion had better have been left alone and so be was
sure the House and the country would think. Although.
it might in the course of years wove beneficial to the
British grower, by insatiate an adequate supply to make
up the defideney, it was inoet impolitic at presest.—
• Such was the state of the Continent, anti of the cur-
Inley at home, that it • was quite impossible to say how
the duty would operate; end it was problematical. He
* •
was not sorry that the discussion hail arisen, however
misplaced it 'night be thought. When be saw the in-
creasing difficialties of the country, from one end to the
other pressing every day more heavily. be did thigh.
. that if he had the power, he should feel himself booed
to exerciee it, in reviving again and again the discus-
sion. It had been the paramount duty of the Roue*
'to look into the extraordinary situation of the re.
• 'sources of the eountry.—(llear,hear.) He had made an
'assertion there on a former night, which hail since
been confirmed by his coustithents, with whom he bail
conversed on the subject. He had said, that if the farm-,
ors of the county to which he belonged were new called
upon to make up their accounts, nearly two-thirds of
them would be found in a state of insolvency, It was•
admitted that this statement was not tpo strong, their
capital had' been so exhausted by the circutnstances in
width they lwel lately been placed. He considered it to
• he morally impossible to look at this question without
freiog fiat the alteration of the currency was materially
c lanceted with it, and to the Act of 1819 an hauling*
portion of the difficulty must be ascribed. They now
began to hear of this on all hands. He had read the
speech of the Right Hon. id cubs: for Chichester. Look!
angst the eUstresaes of Wel and 1817, that Right lien:
Gentleman *tetra them to have arisen " from over trad-
ing. combined with the elf •ct of the alteration of the cur-
rency." What portion of it arose from the eking, of
Ice currency he hail not stated, but he had admitted that
that was in part the cause of the evil. At this moment,
he considered moth 'of the distr.)* se hick pervaded the'
land to be ova:jotted by the alteration of the currency.
But be was told that a, superahundaat -produce had
camed similar sails to be experienced in France. On
this subject be bad conversed with persons from France
'oh whoro be could rely, and he there found, that *hough
corn was sailing at a lose price, those distresses had not
. . 'teen felt which were cousphdoed of in this country.
..Tkor-rdat of land, the price of labour, and dos nine
produce generally had not fallen-there as it bad done
Ittilogland, one had iron.eoppect:lnedsaJiit. iodised
as they had with as. But in this country netwolyltod
'agricultural produce fallen, but the value of articles r'
luridly, and of all stock is trade bad declined in pro-
portion. This he imputed to the combined eperaike
the at: of 1797 and 1819, which in the first instance
immensely extended the circulating medium, • and
paved the way for as increase of taxes. and then con-
tracted the currency leaving the nachos to pay in Sterl-
ing money that amount of taxes which had been his-
•posed. and to fulfil those contracts which had been made
with reference to a depreciated currency. The Right
Hon. Gentleman opposite bad said, no man would talk of
giving up the Actor 1819 He would say, that lie thought
the distresses of the country would force them to give it up.
Every thing be saw led him to the conclusion thit Par-
liament must retrace their steps. He proceeded to show
what had been the operation of the Act of 1797. Before
that Act passed, the price of wheat bad been about the
sane for 150 years. At the beginning of the 18th cen-
tury it had been low fur a number of years; but in
1792, before the war broke out, the price was about that
which had been the aeersge price for 150' years. Re-
tWeen 1192 atid•ltilll, the price of wheat was doubled.
This could only be caused by the numerous taxes itnt
posed between those years from the great alteration in
she value of money which had been effected by the Ac
0E1797. After this, by the Act of 1819 the public, had
for those transactions which had taken place in,a depre-
ciated currency,. been, required to-paf -lees currency re-
stored to the original standard. He wished the House to
look at what had been the effect of this—to look at the
Otuation in which the owner anti the cultivators of the
land had been placed. They Would not have mach
• trouble in ascertaining the conseqttel.ees of adopting the
soeasures which he had mentioned, for they would see
that such distress had followed, and that such havoc of
roperty bad taken place as had perhaps newer before
been witnessed Lut in the rase of a revolution.. Ile, de-
sired that they should look at the consequences of act-
ing on this system to the landlords-go the aristocracy
and gentry. Their estates, like the price of wheat, had
been doubled within the period he bad unendorsed. Rut
bat then? All their expeases had been dOutriest—their
taxes quadrupled, and their isegagetneuts geomalle
made on such a scale that they were not a tittle
the richer for the inereased value of their land.—
What happened in the end? Why the income of the
land-owner had been reduced to half its late amount,
his there, debts, and engagements remaining loch
as he bad described thein to be. He would ask if •thil
must not be the case, that when the price of corn settled
to what it was before the war, the.rental of the gentry
and landed proprietors must be reduced to half its pre-
vent amount, or at least to half of what was its amount
fore or six years •• en, his taxes auA incumbrance remain-
ing the same? The rental of the lairdlord calmillied on
the one side, and putting on the other all charges, sef-
tiements, agency. repairs, 81.e..itwould. be forma that
the net receipt did nut exceed. half, the grow amount.
What then mast be the situation of the landlord witeu that
Mme to be reduced from one to one half of whet it had
been under the circumstances which be' had mapposea.
If they looked at odic. property-,et West Indian pro
peety. they fume' it affected in the saute wegt. The ope-
ration of the alteration of the earrency Weil to all
Ttioagls for a time certain °lames might ruin
by he depress of Of agriculteee. yet 111. the arid, Mies
sPoild suffer from.ity •sa the pricei of labour Would .1;e
broiight down toil. 4liatkost OA low prioaahe per-
Pries t &ek 004 be pa'd..lA,kesles:4l trctimitaric.e,
tii.riugdi the lthuietioolat tee takcifilo its serious coat
*tea:ooft (Orris PfndndlOY tht Acts ci 1819, ion
tiise.of tocosorl s cruel in .101.4
operation, been iniiik4afou IWtystotry eps Use Act pt
1/97, which broke b'atth .be tobtie era toe; sou
tas4 619, oh ch liroke .faith with else kb
Impel trade allied* would 0100011, ItAttetto :b mix 44,-
linstannesideration. aod if no ere t e *moth),
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nostre by the shindies ladle entletimly, be wield int
ACM nititike lbw thaw fee Been (bit so tile the'
Idled* distress might bit imistibed. thq=olBl4'
tans of de coostry to have ansouated to
tank of that ism 10.090,0101. to have been neon*
paitrie the precious entals, the elmsg could, of eon"
as then flist
oidy fallen rinsaiaing L It w
theist to 'lonian what portioned these could fel
the ex.
Irawffsol eakillotiOn that the temantry paid 15 poooler a cent.
of this; that they paid ondootth. or 10.000,- thy
40,000,0001., **which the Osage is the currency must
be felt. Assuming this. the whole anionot. of tits in-
creaied taxatiou, which the restoration of the currency
could throw on them, wet& * 2,500,0001.; and now
he WOUlti ask, email' It hosappned that all the distress
at present complained of was • occasioned by such an
augniestationof their burden. fle would say, it was
impossible that such an effect could *produced hysoth
a tans. It was now ionic that they should look to the
situation of the landlord. The alteration of the oar-
reney could only affect the landed interest, so far as it,
increased the weight of taxation, end' in this way it',
ouldiloot press more upon them than It did on the
funtilsolders and the ether classes of the community.
Sppposing under this change the landlord kept. op his
rents to what they had been during the war, he moist be
▪ gainer by it. Dative would not suppose him to de
this. Hr believed an allowance to be made for the al-
tered value of the currency. But doing so, what dis-
tress could there arise? If he reduced his renta?..s per
ot. and the 7.11. which he now received were equal to
then IMM. formerly paid to him, how could he suffer .by
the change? 11:.t the fact was, they coati not geti ibis
751. paid. Now, could it be maintained that the iffocl
of the disrupt wu so Joanna es to swallow up the
whole profit of the farmer? This was incredible. He
would say, the i ed chaise thrown on the leaded
iuterest by the operation of trie-Bill of 1819, was butt
'bon 10 per cent. Bat did be meal to say that the]
landed interest of this counter bad so other grievances]
to complain of? Par from it. He knew they saffortedl
from the superabundant redoes sonessive semloon,,
and from the extensive importation from Ireland. sod
these be thought quite sulficiihi to account for the die-
tress now pressed upon the lice. But when he of-
fered these remarks, he ought to add that be was most
fully assured that it was impossible for this distress to,
cooties,. It mu impossible that those circumstances]
which now swallowed op the profit of the farmers, lest-I
ing nothing for rent. could continue to act against the
lan.leti in fintany length of time. He sow come
to offer a fee vrids on the Report. The fortneilteporty
•I f divided lop, wo, he sliould sq. taltiog tie` rd part
it, contained some admirable propositions. That parties
of the report he considered most excellent, and' worthy'
to be put by the side of the Bullion Report, and Oben
pf the most celebrated of their committees. He described
the opinions set forth in that Report as to the
effect of opening the ports when the price of what rose
to SO shillings, and ex p sing the contitry to the danger
of being deluged by any quantity of corn which the fo-
reigner might choose to throw into it, sad pointed out,
the necessity of correcting this defect in the law. But
be•contended that there was a departure from ssspd
principles ip what was advanced on the subject of eosin-
tereailing duties, as on the system there recoinmeaded
he did not see that' any limit could be put to them. Be-
-fore we arrived at a very dense state of population it
.might be possible for us, by eultiratiag. our best lands,
to compete with foreign growers, lad instead of being
our hopotting country, to become an exporting nation.
• in the progress of society it *cold Ileums impossi-
I £ reise,le a cottage): like tnikthe quatell,LOUvol
wanted without incurring increased eliargedied, eceoent
of the poorness of diesel!. As the p6'ilon became
still more dense; these charges roust be still further aug-
mented ; and, therefore, if anottervailing ditties were
to *imposed to the amount of the difference between
iheaxpeose of growing core in this country and is those
parts from which it might be brought ; jf that principle
were to be acted upon there was no saying to what the
countervailing duties might arise. With respect to the
Report now before the House, he would say, that con-
vinced of the existence of great agricultural distress, he
hail gone into the Committee with a firm determination
to give every sort of facility to the adoption of such
measures as the Agricultural hientleusen had a right to
demand. All be had desired was, that the Report should
bald out to the'country, thit when the present distress
' had passed by„;t was intended to return to what lie re-
garded aa soled principles. But this-it did not do. It
only gave them reason to hope, that after a time princi-
ples might be acted upon somewhat better than tli.oe on
which it was considered necessary to act under existing
circumstances. The House would be surprised to bear,
thit it favoured that system of countervailing duties of
, which lie had spoken, and which if followed up, would
Seed the country to grow grapes in hot houses to make
wise from, instead of importing wine from abroad; and
,priiich, in a word, -robed at fat as it would 10, woold
aim us to that point at which all the benefits of foreip
commerce would be lost to the country. He bed °nob-
servation to make on what had fallen from the Right
Hon. 51-ember for Essex. That Hon. Oentleman had
compared the agricultural distresses in this country,
with the distress at present experienced in the West In-
dict. If any thing were wanting to prove the correct-
ness of what he (Mr. Ricardo) had advanced on the state
of the currency, be thought it would be supplied by the
very case which bad been referred to. How, be would
ask, could the distress in the West Indies be traced to
the restotation of out currency! Was it not-notorious
that the Colonial distress sprung from over production
and the want of a market? The corn grower here he
cue:starred entitled to protection to the amount of the
taxis which lie was compelled to bear. But whatever
tempoiiry measure might be resorted to, he was of opi-
nion (bit it was the duty of that House to neglect nee"
pottuuity that might offer for returning to sound prin..
*lea. •
' The Hon. 0. BENNET expressed a decided difference
of opinion, is well'from his Honourable Frivol who bad
just sat down, es from others who had preceded him%
for it was obvious that all the calamities of the country
proceeded from excess of taxation—clew bow came it,
that while in 1792 we bad only eighteen millions pf tax-
ation with the same priCes for corn, we bad at present,
, with 56 millions of taxation and the same prices, we
(witnessed nothing throughout the country bat ohm
sold starvation ? wasondeed, quite presumption .end
psoekery to pretend that our Wilma' dist:eu was at.
tribuiable to any other cense, than our immense too-
tion - No doubt could however be entertained that our
•
• taxes shoold be redueed.; for if that were not the case,
die country Would soon be reduced to the same state as
they were is India, where the Zeinindars, finding theft
properly unproductive, gave up their property, and kit
tt phogether to the disposition of the liorensino. So
would the Kehl's. the Commoner: Laudlioldeis
England, be soon fettered to do, if the present enormous
taxatioe wepe exacted, and the whole of our landed pro-
perty beirensferred to the Goverament. the elergy, and
be "Poor's-rate.—(Hear.)--*But the old proprietors of
our hind wen daily compelled to give op thelunees.
lies', or a great.part of them, is consequen -wof the
pressure of.taxatioo. tie knew himself a casein which
yiketi nnootwlocnoiCmsipearledenii;auYintillerisa. upon 1,2011/; 6:4"1. is cob-
sequence of the enhancement of money produced by the
enactment of the Bill proposed by ilielfonourable item.
bee for Onord.(of the penile' of which Bill, however,
individually, lie did sot mesa to complaie, nit rescued

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etti one/ Akin from the ors oistms.
el
timeousalley, directed by its pates. dee Clippieller I
dee Rechetteter), with the iwereitsed "Pass liscressory for
he edomitimi sad subsistence 'of individuals. Which
obliged parents to sen.: their children sod ithes rela-
tives fir othleation and board to Frances ila 'did sot,
however, mean to 'say, that a measure tending to restore
die enorney of the country to a sound standard, should
be in any degree disturbed ordepreciated. But he very
anxiously wished that the taxes for the payment of the
Skokie; Fund. which was a an fahrocksted by that
grand ioggler, Pitt, alkould be altirstier repealed for
the relief of the truantry, more particularly as the whole
systereuas a complete imposture. When such a mess
sure took place, the plough should, in hie jwiginent.tse
deemed the first cry litor of the couture,
and its Chiltla
to prof rely attended ts. Feeble part, he should WOW-
lured that, under refs in eircunkstancear, the Lmollords
elsould to the Fundholders and seek a compromise:
but, Wore this was sought, the Landlords, who formed
the erre' majority of bulb Houses of Parliament. said,
`• we ot.II endeavour to pi you the interest of your
claim aped us. by reirenelmieut and economy. and every
means in our power." lint if those exertions failed,
the Landlords were madded as much as any private
vidual,. who happened to become insolvent, to say to
the Fusdhuldera, " we must, (rem the state of oar affairs,
press fur composition, in which we are ready topay pa
as much as we can.''—("fear. hear!)—He guest t.ay for
himself. that lie rueld nut imagine ally other means by
which the c Omni ire of this tuunty could bcremoved, or
its distress relieved.
The Marquees of LONDONDERRY mad, that lie in-
tended to make hut a few observations upon this subject,
which was so fully to he canvassed hereafter. But he
could not help exereasine his surprise, that those Gen-
tlemen who bad this night stated, that so snowy plans
were desirable for the relief of Agriculture especially,
had never, in the course of the Sessions, brought any
of those plans under the consideration of that Howse,
which had been now simile for so many days. This
obstervatioo he particularly addressed to the Hon. Mem-
bers for Essex.aud Coventry. the latter of whom, al-
though i.e so fully approved and ardently supported the
Bill of his lion. Friend (Mr. Peel) for the restoration
of Cash Payments, had yet endeavoured to undermine
the character, and to discontent the public with the
operation of that v. ry salutary measure.' But the speech
of the lion. Men:b. rfor Salisbury had excited his pecu-
liar astonishmenc• For I.y that speech the Hon. Mett-
ler manifested a dispiksitiou to dispose that House and
the country to violate a most sacred duty by 'oriole at
nought their obligations t 3 maintain public credit.—
There was not, he was sure, any party of integrity or
magnitude in the country willing to second such a
scheme.— (Hear, hear !)—lt might he agreeable to the
spirit of the Hon. Member who eensikred Government
for bad seasons,ond fur the expense of wars long since
gone by, to charge Governtuent as she cause of the cala-
mity which at present affected the agricultural interest
of the country. But he believed that very few candid
men would be fouud to concur in the Hon. Member's
view". The Hon. Meether called for the repeal of the
taxes which maintained the Sinking Fund, to which
call no attention could be paid without great injustice
t' the ...Odic creditor, without any benefit to the people.'
lu his Lewd L.'s) opinion, indeed, the total repeal of]
the ,`',inking Fund, witc even the repeal of all our other
taxer at present. would not effect the relief of the art-
cnlttiral body fietti i:s existing distress. . A great deal
of delusion was, therefore, scatter': f through the cosa-
try upon this sobjert, as his Honourable Friend; the
Member fur Portarlington , could easily 'demonstrste
to the Ifouourable thostlemarri but the Honourable
Oentleutan who was, lie meld give him leave to say, ra-
thezAareopsoes 'sightseer's's4466llle. to colour his
pictures. would not pr eksMly_tithe advice from any se-
dimity that should restriet Ms imagination. If. indeed,
the Hoe. Gentleman had aronsulted any competent au-
thority. he would liars found that the country of which
be drew such 'melancholy picture, as urged him to re-
commend a gross breach of plane faith, involving ab-
solute natiunat bankrootcy,--Tear.llvors)—Was rather
in a state of prosperity. with t exception of agricul-
ture alone; for such nal really oar state in commerce
and manufactures, which were going on in a most flou-
rishing conditiou.s—(44ear, bear.)—He hoped. there-
fore, that the Urethra's° of that bons* would go to the
country with their minds free from the gloomy.pictures
sod prognostics of the Hon. (tenth:man, and with a re-
solution to impress their constituents with the convic-
tion that our circumstances were improving, and that
whatever our circumstances might be, any breach al
faith, or approach to national bankruptcy, would Ito.*
dinately as injnrions to the people. whom it was mind
to relieve, as to those who meat mere immediately sneer:
Mr. BENNET in explanation saidhe was far from
wishing to defraud the public creditor, bat he considered
the nation's faith to have been violated by the Acts of
IJ9I and ISI9.
• The Marquess of LONDONDERRY bad undersleeid
gee Hon. Gentleman to say he would repeal taxes teribe
amount of the Sinking Fund, and this not being a&
odentylie would go further and pay Mkt creditor so far as
he could with due regard to his interest, acting as judge
in his own Oise.
Mr. ELLICE explained the view he had taken of the
measure which lie had been described to support.
Mr. RICARDO said he had been spoken of as a great
friend to taxes. He was an enemy to them whey that
eoold be avoided with justice, as he trasted he bad
proved ever sines be had been in that house.
Mr. PEEL rose merely fur the purpose of entering
Ills protest against the premature discussion of this sub-
ject, from which no good coal(' possibly arise. He
&might, tetwever, it could easily be shown, that accord-
Ism to every principle on which inquiry ought to be in-
µhated, it was impossible that the distress ender whittle
the country lalukursol, cotilt, belaying to the particular
cans" to which it was ascribed. It was impossible to
olenythe existence, or even the extent of the present
distress. but if that distress were not confined to this
country, but existed equally ib other countries, where
the same alleged causes did not exist, it was a fair infer-
ence that the alteration is the enrreacy was not neces-
sarily the cause of it. In Flanders and Switzerland,
"shoe no alteration had taken place in the currency, aid
where there was scarcely any amount of tazatiout agri-
cultural distress existed to such an extent that the far-
mer was unable even to buy the common instruments of
till age. How roulkl a partial distress be fairly ascribed
to the operation of a cause which was general? When
She Bill to which the existing distress was ascribed was
first itoroduced, it was prophesied that it would Ike tits
terly impossible to raise the same ;mount of taxation ip,
so improved currency. This Kephecp bad beeh fel+
led; for notwithstanding the improvement in the COW
rency,- the reverrne was increasing. All be asked waif
that when this Bill came to he discussed, it might not*,
estimated by any partial effect it might have on any pars
titular interests. lie would ask the House to takeieseo
its consideration she state of the commercial and rooster
I flouring popuhktiort ; the amount of the poor rates4o
'the several maunfavuring districts ; the increased coin-
fort and tranquilh,y that prevailed in those districts;
above all, he (soul,' ask them mot to cast ary amide
stigagricnealt"u tatlhe iu kit
cirle;t7becitcaeuesuentheo cfaentiVl rt pressure
ton atnh 'ye
Ipartial pre %%%%% to he a fair criterion by which to jadge
of its effeets. lie was sorry that he had been led eves
thus far into the discussion of this subject. for lie had
risen only' that Is, might not appear to acquiesce in the
objectiont whirls td been mode to the Bill on the other
side of the House, mid to Oahu the suet :shoo of the

juidgmea. tof the Hoist anti ibis IRANI arrived rot
full dieenasioo which the subject sinekly deserted.
Mr. CALCAAFT argued. that the cestapatative meo
fort of the manufactriting daises arose partly free theft
ex• roption from taxation, as from the depressed stalest
agriculture the cora-grower was enable to thugs the
consumer with taxes which attached to its production.
The idea of advancing a million of money to purchase
corn would not relieve the landed interest, os rue of to
MO to he purchased —that which was lit to be wares
hunsed was already sofSciently high. It was that which
was damaged which was most in the way. If the re•
commenditinins of this Report were carried Into effect,
which lie did not believe they ever would he, or soy part
of them, he did not think they would afford the Agricult
turd clesses-velief. The Noble 'Margin-vs lirol said nut
only that the remission of taxes to the amount of live
million mounts svotshi afford no relief, hot he had said 4
the whule fifty-..ix million Ovoids now pail by the eosin:
try were swept away, it wiralrl yield no relief to either
Landlord ur tenant. This he considered a most outset':
dietary proposition. The quantity of pro lure on hand
was at present so great that the price could not be raised,
What then Was wanted ? Lowerhe of rents—relief 800
tithee—redection of poor's rates—Alteratim of the price
of labour—aatl 'wally, a proportionate re livfion of Lao
anon. These shirtzs were necessary, but wonhl any man
tell him that it was ne.• • •to lower rent, dad yet Ot-
clare that a redaction of rata would afford tie
la was decidedly of opinion that policy, as well as jars'
tier, detuathle.l :•bat the public faith slineld be pee
served inviolate ; that to fail in this would be WWI
wise, as well as most dishonest; and the constopolori
!unit Ire in the end most minim. for the coletry. Mit
concurring as he did with what had fallm from the No-
hie Lord on this oulrject, he begged that he ought not
be supposed to agree that a remission of taxation costa
afford uo relief. For the liyort, of all the papers eve,
sent forth from a Cormoitteeche thoogat it the most die-
appointing. It %%cut to defeat the jinn espectetions of Me
landed interest —it • passed over the soloect of tetanus,
which had been pressed on the attention of the Cum.
mince in almost all the Petitiels; sod, maims' of w¢.
log a Report like this, he thought it would lice beta
better to have fairly told the sufferers that no whit'
could lie granted.
Lord LONDONDERRY explained.
Mr. H. BURNEY thought the, existino
which might more properly be coiled the peeasiery ern.
barrassureuts art the counter, had been entirely predict-1
by the measure osowusonly coiled Mr. ?eel's Bill.
The Petition was then brought up, read, and ordered
to he printed.
Mr. BANKES moved for an Account of all Poil.;0111
payable out of the Civil List retieeding 11,0 amowll
11)01. per annum, and for the same account of Pen.hrt.
charged on the Four aad a Mall per Cent. Duties.—
lered.
Mr. C. W, NN obtained leave to hrieg in a Bill te
regulate the mode of electing Knights 0; the Shire to
the County of York.
On the motion of Dr. PHILLI3IOIIP., the Morrie:re
Act Amendment Bill was read a second ti,l:e, and ordered
to be cortauitted en Friday the 19th of April.
The Royal Burghs Accounts Bill was cornwittolpro
forma, and the Report ordered to be takeoin farther
consideration on I. rirlay the 26th of April.
The Yorkshire Election Polls Bill was read a first
and second thue, and ordered to be committed that day
fortnight.
The Report of the Summary Proceedings Bill was
brought up, the Ainemlorents•were read a secoad time
and agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be read a third
time on Monday, the 22d of April.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of,
and the How adjeterned to Wedoesday, the pith et
ApriL • "'
IU-NGSTfit4f. 416317•413,-;4eers
• CIVIL. BIDE, Before Mr. Banos Gaanatr.
TUC KING V. AND ANOTIIKS.
This was an indictment against the defendant'.
Henry Palmer and Thomas Joshua Parl:., for a con-
spiracy to obtain by fraud, hills of exchange to the
amount of 2,0001., and warrants of attorney to the
same amount, from Sir Thomas Swymmer Cheaper,
Bart.
The prosecution was conducted by Mr. Watrole
and Mr. A DOLPIIOIII ; the defence of Park by Mr. OM
way and the COULON SIRJEANT. and Palmer con-
ducted. his own defense.
The trial of this case lasted the whole of Tester-
day, and finished this day at three o'clock.
The leading circumstances proved in evidence were
the same as those detailed some time since in our Re-
ports from. Union-hall.
Oo his cross-examination, Sir Thomas S. Champ
ais admitted, that for the last thirty years he bad
been greatly embarrassed, and had endeavoured to
raise motley by the usual means of discounting bills
at most esormous sacrifices, buying timber, relicts,
silks, Eze., and reselling the property at great loss.
lie said, that during this time he had been the buffs
of all the swindling money-lenders in men, upwards
of forty of whom he bail ia a list as scoundiels uha
had been pecking at him, and etoleavaurint to obtain
Lis securities tending to his tither ruin. the admitted
that during *his period he read been raising moory by
these means to the amount of Otloaarol.
His evidence was corroborated by several witoetota
whose names he had mentioned as b, ing ['reseal It,
or connected with the trausac:ioa which he described.
The defendant, Palmer, a.l.l.esssd the Jury os bie
own kart, sad Mr. Douse v. on behalf of Park. The
topics addressed were, that there was nothing like a
conspiracy intim case, inasmuch as the prosecotor
was a man hackneyed in the ways of the world, wh:
co: not complain of being deceived; Ibat " re"
bad been committed upou biro, for that his hills were
complete waste paper ; that he and hit servant Big-
gins were themselves conspirators in drawing and ac-
cepting bills to deceive the wu.ll; and, in shirt, that
'the defendants were the sufferers, glut bad been di.
hided out of their money by the detigoiog ingenuity
of the prosecutor.
Mr. Baron tla MIAMI warned up the case with strht
impartiality, and the Jury, after a short deliberation,
found both the defendants

On Strulay, the 3lst ult.. of npoplesy. Mr. William/I.e'
ton, oaternostr-rms. yongest son of the late fler.ldo•
Button. who alsoe died by au siluilsc visitation of God in AV
gust last.
! On he 2 instant, suddenly, while rctuine on Imrschvk
to Mst housed at flomerton. Mr. J. Ha • raof Tower-strerl.
deeply regretted by his numerous fsmily awl friends.
On Tuesday. the 241 last.. as New Cross, John Baty Ciro-
lutin, Esq., la his 77th year.
On the Slat ult., at his house, Newinzton-plsee, Eessing•
ton, in his 74ils year. Mr. John Iladdoltk, of tlte Iste sing
ingdsouse of Whitehead, Howard and Haddock.
Caletto.
street.

Ilut14" &Med, Printed, ant Pitniibted at the Oct°
-' I AI STATIWIAII" and " Tug ConerrrrTlo/1"(0dal
PdpeT), No. M ran . Std, by a WAI:DCI.I., LLB" tt
[ *boa all Conownuicatious, Wert, tee. am
I. be addressed.