The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-05-02 00:00:00

(]ln. RICARDO.)

That the foreign Corn may be taken out for home con-'
gumption, whenever the average price of wheat shall ex-
ceed 655. per quarter. upon the payment of the following
duties, vie.:—Wheat, 15s. per quarter; rye, pease, and
beans, 9s. 641. per ginner; barley, bear or bigg, 7s. lid.
per quarter ; oats, se. per quarter.
Whenever the average price of wheat shall exceed 70s.
per quarter, the trade in cora shall be permanently free,
but subject to the following duties upon importation,
vie:—Wheat, 20s. per quarter; rye, pease, and beans,
I3s. 31. per quarter; barley, bear or bigg, 10s. per
quarter ; oats, 6s. Sd. per quarter.
At the expiration of one year from the time at which
the above duties on corn imported shall be in opera-
tion, they be reduced as follows, six.:—On wheat, Is.
per qnarter; rye. pease, and beaus, Sd. per quarter :
barley. bear or bigg. Gd. per gassier; oats, 4d. per
quarter.
A like reduction of duties be made in every subse-
paw year, until the duty on the importation of wheat
be 10s. per quarter; rye, pease, and beans. 6s. 7d. per
quarter ; barley, bear or higg, per quarter; oats
3s. 411. per quarter, at which rates they shall thenceforth
be fixed.
A drawback, or honesty, be allowed on the exporta-
tine of earn to foreign countries: on wheat, 7s. per
quarter; rye. pease, and beaw. 4i. per qaarter ; bar-
ley, boar or Islgg.3s. GI per quarter ; oats, 2s. 4d. per
Quarter.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was beta at the
East India Home, when Captain John longs, of the
ship prince Regent. tool( leave of the Coors, prarioas
to departing for sladras and Bengal.
Tile Ogle Castle East Indiatnan, from Bombay to
London, has hems spoken with on the 14th ult. Is
let. 35, long. 47, by the• Courier, err: red at Jerscy.

Pitici Sayan Paricr..

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~ mix =DAY,. M4T 1.
110K11 bRUMMOXD and others brought
memilf• fr•lo die Commons, announcing that Iretve
hod loses firm" to Dk. liestovos Home to attend their
Lordship. ,Committes on the Marchmont Peerage.
Earl MORLEY presented a Petition from the Canada
Merelmats sad Shlp Owners resident at Liverpool,
stfoient.any alteration in the Duties on Timber.—Laid
on the fatale. • ,
Th. /lank
oflreland Bill went through a Commit•
tee, and was reported.—Ad)surned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

MISER LLL N LL C 5. •
Mr. LUSH presented accounts of the Licencing of
Vintners.
Captain WEMYSS presented a Petition from cer-
tain Farmers and others in the county of Fife, in
tuner of a repeal of the Leather Tax.—Laid do the
table.
Sir A. CHICHESTER prevented a Petition from
Belfast against the Irish Window Tax.—Laid on the
table.
• Similar Petitions were presented from Drogbeda and
.denier.—Laid on the table.
• 111 r. CURTEIS presented a Petition from the cottnty
t Sussex. The Petition, he said, came from the most
distressed net of the most distressed county of England,
and complained of the distress of the Hop-growers.—
Ordered to he 'printed. .
Sir J. BOYD presented a Petition from several own-
ers of estates within the Rectory andtParish of Stoke-
neon-Treat, in the county of Stafford, preying for a Yen
sion of the Tyrhe Svsleni.
Mr. LIVTLETON su7ported the Petition. a-td
expressed his hope that it would receive the attea-
tion of 31embers.—The Petition was ordered to to
printed.
Mr. HILL presented a Petition from the linters
and Leather Manufacturers of Whirchurch, praying Este
the repeal of the Window Tax. —Ordered :a lie on the
table.
• ' LEATHER TAX.
Mr. LAMBTON. presented a Petition from cert
dealers in Leather in the county of Durham. prayng
far a repeal of the Leather Tax. He trusted his don.
Friend would not believe that he felt any disinclination
support the motion for the repeal of the Leather Tax,
when he enggested to him the propriety of poqponingi;
fur the present, until the intention of Government was
known as to the repeal of taxes. Ile was convinced :bit
such a coarse eyelet be most conducive to the ititerestOr
the Petitioners', and he therefore entreated 1431163.
Friend to wane it.
Mra SUSNER held in his hand a similar Peti-
tion, bat he Minot:red in the view of the. (lon. Member
sfor Oeditim, anihoped the motion would be postponed,
until the proposition of the Noble Marquess had been
di sensual .
Ur. ELLICE considered the
.plan proposed by MI,
nisters to be another delusion, in accordance with tb,•
juggling system of Finance, which had so !ant; dis-
gracedE. it
country,_
Sir KNATlMetbmearteill--eK
Member who spoke last, by anticipating the disedsski
upon the measures tibial bad been announced, by
the Government. lie rose for the purpose of uniting
in She request that the Honourable Member for Nor-
thumberland would postpone his motion fur the preen*..
Mr. G. BENNET concurred in the suggestion labia
had been made to the Honourable Member for Northum-
berland.
Mr. BEAUMONT, after a few observations which
were inaudible, agreed to postpone his motion to Thurs-
day the lath.
Mr. CURTEIS said a for words which Were not
heard in the gallery.
Mr. F. LEWIS thought the repeal of the Salt Tax
was the most desirable, and conjured Hon Members, not
to lose the power of obtaining that by dividing them-
seiresin pursuing so assay objects.
Mr. H. GURNEY thought it the duty of the House to
repeal as many taus as they possibly could.
General GASCOYNE said that the Howie ought not
to wait for any thing which was to come from the pro-
position of the Noble Lord, u be was quite convinced
that the plan was impracticable. There was a spirit in
like House, be hoped, that would Obtain the repeal o:"
some taxes or other, sad he trusted that Weser;
would not be diverted from their purpose by this ne
proposition, from which he was certain nothing csral.l
be expected.
Mr. WESTERN said, he concurred in every tbio
which bad fallen from the lion. Member who spoke lass.
—.The Petition wet ordered to be printed.
DISSENTERS.
Me. J. SMITH presented a Petition froin a body of
Dissenters calling themselves Separatists, praying to he
relieved from the disabilities under which they laboured
—laid on the table.
Mr. H. SUMNER presented a petition from the neigh-
bourhood of Guildford against the Leather Tax. The
Hon. Member Stated that as soon as lie found the snot o!..
600,11001. at the disposal of Parliament, lie shCuld vote for
the repeal of this tax.
Sir M. W. RI ()LEY said that he most caution the
country against the expectation that from the repeal of
a tax upon a raw material, an immediate benefit was to
result to them. When the Hat Tax was repealed.
oriieof hats immediately became higher; and I!'
Leather Tax were taken away, the public would ry.,t
find the relief their expected.
Mr. HART DAVIS had pledged himself to the snp-
poet of the• Sinking Fund, and could not vote for the
repeater taxes which would go to destroy it.
The Petition was then ordered tube printed. •