The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-05-09 00:00:00

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, Mid to tbp , t oldie fairesfylier
they ainid'ilo gni
,* as nuadothio . of IP,
corn, mil lee; did II ins ?KM& to wary
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actdal'rellef, DOCK ' Aid of dt•rituien of
Setteseretihite AKMllbramilsibild Nit be
should wish to me oa were it sot for Kb Injury
which it would de to die abet ieteeeigi • • • .
Mr. BROODEN suggested tbeit lii l the dhow
ales, it wool& be beet to tabo'llte aft of resolu-
tions seriatim, instead of moving readollsst m ameba-
clients on other resole/loos contabied la mess of thoss. ,
• ALA/ANKH:VaIid he bad Wen' eergailed Kat it
Weald be bettei to &waif milieratelY inch set •f Beim
lotions, and Aire a simple vote el Shoat. ' He differed
from the Hottoorable Borestai bellied Mee (Sir T. Loth-
bridge)..ibo thought this a proper line for ligisladeg
onifiis subject. Tho Kopet ettbe'Vetimitittoo of last
Ificeiet, is which the basso speed,. recesimegoded not
to legislate st all me it. He saw se alteration* is' the
state of the emery ages hid year to Myer that intrados'.
If there was such a defibiensey of core in the country at
to leave a prospect of wheat reachlig. 90s. per iicartcre
that certainly would be s great blew to agriculture. la
all the opinions *kith lewbhed*h•aell- entOrieded it on
the•subjecr4 he heliered there was bat semi that of an
Hone@ r aisle Berme (Sir ?music Burdett) whose be did.
not them see is his place, which' wopid allow foreign
ours to he imported at the present price. - That opinion
was single. IL (.1/r. Makes) should be mates( to let
the law rest AS, it ias at precast: It seemed he be the
upiniso of the Committee of last Session; that the hind-
holders should be left in tits posieedieti of the protect.
lion they thee bad. MI they ought to do at present,
was to adopt same metiers to guard *seism any 'farther
importation until next Session. Some prevision 44 that
sort might be enacted to be is. foree till the 25th of
March melt. when Parliament would have again met.
Them were dies .apposed to be 70%000 quarters of
wheat is the country. and therefore them was no
danger of any want. * It was-supposed shut we were
Wheeler ander a seperaboadame of produce I* bat front
all he bad seen, lie was inclined to think, that so far
front • superaboodame, they bad not even a good aver•
age crop ea the last harvest. The glut in the market
during the 'rioter, he thought, ought rather be ascribed
to the pressing seatesities of 'the' farmer. The
state of the forego 'market& were like -one ode.—
He would then ask the Committee, was that a Ideas
to Lezialate, sod to coatemplate fairly a male of du-
ties? . He thought it most sok. Metter wait till
thingstatarned to their natural state, when they could
judge what duties, if any. they would impose. Hien-
poitatlon were elletwed, be did sot thick the duties pro-
posed by the Hoes. Baronet (Sir T. Lethbridge) mold
preeatit. (hider each a duty the farmer, tbrOad mould
sot hare a resmoerating price. But granting that they
could not, they maid still Lave something. Had our
farmers a remaserating price? They should sell far
whatever price they got. The prices of wheat Klemm!
so *retch, that it was, in bit opialds, impossible to lees-
lat. pensanently ea it. In the years 170! 'and an,
wbuossfts file lia sod 31. tSr. 'per quarter, sisesetbieg
wee the resist import price.. la 175 t sod 1767. cote
bad risen to doable the price it bed carried is 17411,
[744. yid 1743. They could oat maks Axed sad perms-
leattairs on the subject, but they shield accommodate
'themselves to the exiitaseim of the limes and of the
eilantry. Ho then objected tea fun trade. Be' did
net think it true that every rich country was , an
importing country. He tb.ugbt le boiler sot to legislate
at all at present. Bat if other (leadsmen di /OPM from
him, they had also to consider the variety of plass pro.
posed. It would be difficult to bring any lumbar of
tientlemen, to concur in any one of those plans. No law
which they could enact would remedy the evil. They
all were parties to the •fornser Act, and thought ft
relliciem protection, although it since appeared
to give no protection. How (void those' (Ma-
dmen who were fur a free trade generally, think
of making an exception in the Cora Laws? They
were for a free trade in timber, in sugar, .and so
many other articles—but if it were good to have one
cheap. it was as good to have another so. It was by •
system diametrically opposite to that the country rose
to its present greatness. It was by restrictions and
hesitations, partecolarlyin the corn trade.' Every other
country had the like restrictions. It was not in a mo-
meat they were to undo all those laws which raised the
country to its greatness. Use ancestors were meting
with them, and they were not so simple as soma' Hon.
Gentlemen were inclined to suppose. To enjoy a free
trade two things were necessary. First, they should
bare a lasting peace, which was difficult to maintain, on
account of the stagy connections we had. Besides that,
they should bare the free will and like disposition on
, the part of ether countries free from any commercial
jealousies. He was so far front agreeing with any of
those Gentlemen who wished to depress our agriculture,
that be would not allow one acre of the land which had
been brought into cultivation to be abandoned. Gen-
demon who spoke of iroportiag foreign corn did not
seem to contemplate the remuneration which our own
farmers were entitled to ; for it was always necessary to
estimate the value of 'the fatrieer's labour, which could
he diminished by any machinery, as was the case
with manufactures. If we could continue in a perpe-
tual state of peace and good-will with all the cations of
the world, nothing could be more unwise than to divert
capital from the land to manufactures,merely for the sake
of getting more profit on the capital. He was sorry to say
that oflate years it was too much the fashion In this coun-
try asencou rage manufactures in preference to agriculture,
whirls always maintained a greet body of labo , the
most earful that could mist in any nation—men on whom
Goverameut mast always place the greatest reliance
for support and defence. Therefore it would be better
at all times to encourage agriculture in preference to all
other kinds of industry, even if the profits should lee
•It less. If agricultural labourers were thrown out
of employ, what would become of them? Could the un-
fortunate ploughman, when sent adrift, tura his hands
to manufacture? %Vas there any deficiency of hands
among the manufacturers? And if the unfortunate
plonehman were to apply to them for eruplovnient,
wonlel they not turn him back to the soil from which he
came, there to be a burden on a people almosi as impo-
verished as himself? Taxation could not be said to be
the cause of the present distresses, for we paid many
millions less in totes at present than we paid some years
ace, when no such thing as agriculturaldistress existed ; L.
therefore a tfl:8111111ti09 vi Nees would not give the relief
which was coiled for. l'he only measure that would.
give immediate relief would be for Government to go
Into the market for the purpose of buying up a certain
iptatitity of corn, in order to *raise the prices. Some
Gentlemen had recommended the application* of the
Sinking Fund to the remission of taxes. He was alto-
gether hostile to such • proposition, ' because he was
Vire that, in the course of a few years*, the country would
lie mulch better if the five millions reserved for that fund
were to be applied to the reduction of the debt, on the
principle of the Act of 1726. ' He'hopod that all classes
of the community would unite in defence of the country
like a huudlo of sticks, and that they would not allor

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sow *r {`hp pi !Ars !luny sow Mee...Wks ,
gin as okapi lisehilt td'estisolii‘rs as 64 to to roxig.
&week ilitgilis'irtiiiitio pterdeii tiff/ fiaisteliedise of
miollafielietiltilllitef“tehtell hill Vfesailf Oho ditto st
Iseefel extent '• • - . 4 t• • • . • r • • L - ••.
'heirsIALTHORP erepressed his desire/ to state the
ofildool he. hold apes She goodies. Tien masses of the
Right Honourable Undemme bad ,eo weight.' the prim,
ciples of the resolutions Ilad not base explained to his
satisfaction, and lie eked abetaii from v p oting in sip
et
port of theory,Wildi ' irnot prinilie nay real admin.
lege to the 'canary: ' Mileiterietilitid to the' isicnove-
eience to which -the 'tenni' Wee lobject" We foltini it
arose from this greattleetiadol of prink" and the stint
was to give a settled price. ' With rrssggsad to the 'mow-
non which the farmethad a right to- . he did not
wish to extend it beyond the present Cora Laws, but he
was' desirous to rims i manly pike, from fifty shillings
to seventy shillings. If tbaTiras the arrangement; the
nominee wound not 'Whir More axe it *neut. Link.
Jerre the evidence before the Committee, sad fineliog
'that Dertixic corn spiels! he sold in this chantey at ON.
an import deity of 90s, world be quit* sulleient. , The
Noble Lord was better satisfied with the resolution of
his Hart. Friend, tisan'those prOposed by the this. Melo-
lser for Portarlington. The propositions of the Noble
Lord aid the Right 'Hots. Gentin were"to 'be pie.
(erred to the' la* as it sin& 'Witt regaistio the beet
relief to agriooltare, be did not see that any rellefemild
be efforded tempt 'Weenie from reduction df laxities.
The manufactories districts would sq doubt suffer br a
rise in agricultural prices. In the present mate *faits-
tress the Farmer slid Colintri °enflame 'had ceriainli
a right, to call on Governante( foe Mier. They were ill
satisfied upon that preposition, 'but the question ins,
howneld that relief hi give: The, proposed draw/bark
on exportation would theibtlese have the effect of taking
off the glut from the market. A boaaty of 181. would
increase the advantage. . .
Mti r. OOCH adverting to the report of last year.
observed that though drawn up wills greet ability, it'
had nit been of any use to the people. Ili regretted '
that in a dfmussion Of the pretest subject, pirty feeling'
Aetna have been istrodand, though he was ready ,at
the same time to admit, that his Right Hun. Frond
(Mr. fluskisson) by his coarse upon this onedess4dee
a fair opening for the attack of the Right has.
(Sir P. Burdett) the preceding night. To sei •
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members of the Government avowedly steering' alfr
-courses, and submitting two irreeoneileable plies, Alan
some excuse to the ievectives of the Hon. Batoiset.l.-
(Cheers.)—He regretted the want'of isanimitylw
question. He wished that the first resolution had
carried, for though not geierally useful, be knew
it was inked up to with expectatios by sow. Ha
leboared hard; but the kWh was that he did not
'any possible change ofsimisiediate relief. They cocilddi it&
more time hastily stem the tartest net, itraideting Aloe
enemy. The of the Odin of Cord La
arose from its dint is keeping op IhistiMiens.'
placing the farmer in nosteetpank. He agreed is
third resolution, which declared that the ports ought
to be open till wheat came to 75i. Tbeprotectioo of
Agriculture of the country *ea seriously earned for: t
was said reduction of taxes would accomplish that'
Jett, bat be was entrionedlhenductior if'belf the'
sent taxation weskiwn moon agriseloarei distraMi-
I f taxis peed lit soliont. In should Ws imltoso al ffo• .
strictiyol-opie govits-,eland wield he able to
enter rate Illoixtiinstteo with all !Kempf; bat under the ape
state nerce throughout the world, agrinl-
tare is if noised oiglitto be protected. He ribbed the prm
teener duty to be Ifir. and the price at windh they anis
open; yes. It was almost impessible the Ammer could
sell his cora and lin by it at lees than Wily-fire Ail.
lingo per quarter. . .
Sir T. LETHBRIDGE would repeat his opinion, that
there.was no protection for the farmer--supposing the
case of a'free trade--exqpi by the adoption of the nate
of duties winds he bad_ isrepoted. 'me Muhl Would
not balkier-Its ditty, If .tbefdld not 'legislate idth a
view to other articles. Ho nateadod that it was be-
piessiWe. with the. primmer 1790, to pay the taxes*,
itra . .
1111,NICHOLSON CALVERT did not 'appose grey
effectual relief could bi afrordad, He wished to solPori
the ekistieg la*, and 'be NM aditlotti to Minnie' die
Committee against outran implicit 'confidence tails'
statements Made by cont`therehenti at to the 'pries' 411.
foreign. tees. He did ametwrisli to say•any thief; uncivil
of witnesses I but be mealtime* help feelieg that the'
evidence of the interested
iporsome ought to be looked
at with jealousy. It was mportant that the landed.lo-
- should have a initioirafiisg price, but he Wee teot
partial to any of the reesillailiropesed. ' ' ' •
Mr. IRVING rite itilfdni the cry of •• Qtrestimil"
and, adverting to the Itaiteledes which had beam dim-
doped, said. some blame bed hien east :gobs _ hiss as
the author. He bad •ont left the Noble Lard- iw the
lutch. The proposition mad, by the Noble Lord differ-
ed from his. The Noble Lord's propontioi was mead..
glide to the object. and his would have answered the
porpoise. The withdrawing of his resolution had die.
appointed the expected/so of the country. The Han.
Meanbet concladed by nyieg he should take the libertyl
to submit the Resolution again to the Hease.—(" No,
no!" from several of the Committee.)
Sir N. COLTHURST made a few observations, but
the call of " Question ! question !" made the Hun. Bate-1
net inaudible In the gallery.
Sir. W. W. WYNN supported the Resolution of dtpl
Noble Lord.
~
Mk GRIFFITHS attributed the distress of the Agri.
cultaists to change in the currency and excessive tine '
tion.

Mr. BROUGHAM rose amidst a loud and general call
for the question. He said, although he had risen late
to address the house, be dank' not detain them long.
Ile was surprised to hear the house call for adjournment.
lite abject had been folly diseased, yet if there was
Any Gentleman desirous of speaking, he should consider
him entitled to a patient hearing. The question before
the house was, whether and what alteration might be
made in the existing Corn L.tw. Almost every Member
who had spoken on the *object admitted that some re-
gulation was necessary, and that a worse principle could
sot be than the present. principle of the Corn Law.
To provide a remedy they were to adopt importation
prices and an average. The question then was, which
of the resolutions propounded would he moat advan-
tageous? The Noble Lord had proposed the importa-
tion price and protecting dwries. Hie Honourable
' Friend, the Member for Portarlington, had proposed a
plan fore from objection. HIS plan was gradual, and in
principle be saw no objection to it; but be thought the
scale of permanent duty was much too low. The priu-
eiples of the Members for Wiltshire and SOmersetsbire
were the same. But were it not for the particular de.
mintstances of this country. he stbold be WI freeirkdo
.thogether.' He tiroegbt the Member for Sbibtreettbita
had treated With some acritneay the unhappy political
economists; .but he should reenlist' that, they were all,
political economists, though they beloagnik to differ-
rent schools. His ohjectiva to the plan of the Member:

tie lateness if the ilght; exasitisation of
malty of the against' of lite Member for Cafe Castle.
Dethlr. Brougham), for oisq,,4tinght tbat et least nimit
if our diarist thii attrilmatile to taxation; and that we
shish hi 'oration follyietricken if we did not direct
sat &Meehan to It. 'The proper object for consideration
Mot "are for the present, rather then preveotio. against
`faun disease. It was better, he adutiiial, to loiPoLgo
es the saltjoet while we were at low prices; bat be pro-
tested against this; his temporary adasissia, bang
drawl late an agnates:lt that he approved of the general
principle. Before, however, they touched the currency,
is warned them to beware. He did sot altogether lob-
;melba to the Right Hon. tient lesion's Bill, bet he deeply
regretted the wrongfully placing of the power of alter-
' log the currency into irresponsible heads mace the year
1797. He deeply deplored that the efforts of the re-
eatuptists bad at bees mere Rahway weighed before
the passing of the measure; but it was soother thing
now to aide what had bees so selemely done. To
tamper with it now would be to admit. that we were re-
diced to extremity. Jr eass policy as well as jestice to
realm this rather than avoid worse. Laos redact tax-
ation, and relieve agriculture as much as we can ; and
then and dot till then would it be the bounden duty of
the House to consider of that which bad been called by
many a Sinking Fond for the sake of their own cha-
TiCters. He concluded by saying. that ander the tit-
casualness he should support ha proposition of the
Hon. Member for Portarlington.
The, Marquess of LONDON-DERRY begged to
as-
eere the. Hon. and Learned Omit. that whatever might
be his vote upon that occasion, be (Mr. Brougham) could
not' be considered as precluded froth Such fitrther
Mashes of the general question us he -might deem ne-
cessary to any future period. The Noble Lord, after
several oh tions upon the nature anal effect, of itie
proposed measure, remarked, that according to the pro-
posed plan, the English grower would have a complete
monopoly, except io years of great scarcity. He would
have it protecting' duty of seventeen Shillings foe the
first three months, and after that a duty of 27.. this
surely was as mach as toad reasonably be expected.—
He had only one word to say with respect to the •mo:le
'of proceeding with respect to the different resolutions.
He apprehended thait would be most coevenleot to be-
gin with the highest scale of duties first, They would,
therefore, divide upon the resolutions of his Honourable
Friend, the Member for Somersetshir• (Sir T. Leth-
bridge) first, and if they were carried, his (Lord Lon-
dosdary's) resolet'oos Vali of 'verse fall to the
ground ; but should the Ho.. Baronet's • 'Solutions he
negatived, then they would • proceed with those of the
How Member for tViltiblre (Mr. Henett); aod should
they also be negatived, the Comisittee would then be
called upon to divide upon those which he had orikin•
ally proposed. This, lie conceived, would be the most
expedien t mod* of proceeding.
The bouts then divided—For Sir T: Lethbridge's Re-
soltifioue,, 24—Against them, 243—Majority against the
Resolutions, 219.
We understood, that While strangers were excluded,
Mr. Henett's Resolutions were negatived without a
divi-
oh ; that some of Mr. Ricardo's Respletions (he bar,
lag abandoned the others) were halted to those of Mr.
Utlleette, sod pcOpoet4 to the (.3oetwitto• ; hot
ALTHORP basing 40154 leis intention
wa; determlned that the
rhstitimai eboald report pr gins. and ask leave to sit
again to-morrow.
Leave having boom granted, the Heise adjonewed• at
two o'clock.
41 •
FROM TUESDAY NIGHTS GAZETTE.
DIVIDBXDS.
Avg. 27,1. Archer, Ware Park Mill, Hertfordshire, mil-
ler—Jane It, It. livieoe, Laubridge-aills, Herefordshire,
Wilier—Jane 1, J. Theapson, Adman', Warwickshire,
linemdraper--June 13, J.W. Austin, Ps Isee's-strest, Co wen-
try-stfat, lines-draper-:-Mky Hi; G. R. 'Oak., Circe', Mi-
ser!", samba's—Jae 9, J. Washburn.:Hreet Marlow,

laseklighamettire,. orirwmainufacturer—Mar 25, J. H.
Talker. Jennyn-street, St. James's, chemist—May SO, W.
'Flsompson, Totteubill, Norfolk, cattle-dialer—June I, W.
P. Chubb, Aidgate, cbtealat-lone I, B. Bailey, Merton,
Serrwy,calico-printer--4an* 8, J. Rood, Portsmouth, com-
moa-hrower—May Mk W. Hutton, Eyestrain, Wormat sr-
• shire, porter-dealer—Jule S. B. Gibbons, jun. and T. Stoke.,
Level Iron Works,'Staffordshire, iron-masters—May 49, ti.
Lawrence, Evesbali, VVlrceitershire, victualler.
catty' riciWatia•Y 28.
J. Field, Picket•street, Strand, linen-draper—J.
Halifsx, reerehant-4-0. W. and F. Bly& Birmingham, mer-
ehasta—J. T. Gray,lWardout-streat. Soho, eciakkalmr—J.
Herington, Farehyo. ilampvisireonercer—H. Vaziglieitip-
ponded, Retiree, groU.r—T, a/Atakev- ' rt-
man-square; apolbeeltry. ; • ' ‘. • • -
• - •
PARTIVERinetiI
L. Ridge and W:Cater, Lower Sloaise-street, Chelsea, tea-
dealers—W. Price sad 9.. AddenbrOok, Birmingham, brass-
founders—C. and ,J, Mansfield, • Nottinghamshire,
mercers—T. Goatee and W. H. Nielsen Bognor, Sussex,
butchers—J. S. Birkei, Cocktail, Rateliff, to-
tmeco-tusnufaeluie. Beidtpiad J. Arinstrong, Liver-
pool, joiners-li. end J. Barton, Liverpool, brokers—J.
Bentham and W. Laver. *eat Statobridge. Essex, farmers
S. and J. Thornton, J. T. L. Melville, and 11. M. Thornton,
King's Armsla rd.

COU&T o• CRANCIRX,..TI:ttSD•T.—II th• matter

of John Coinerley, for a contempt of Court, the party
was discharged. on his smiting a promissory alßtlarit
never to interfere with the Want Word of the Court
agaiu.

Sr. PANCRAS NSW Cumnen.—Tuesday the cere-
mony of the Consecration of the parish church of St.
Paocras, was perforincii by the Bishop of London.—
Among the Nobility, /..c. who attended the cerentooy
were :—Marqttess and Marchioness of Cionden,• Lady
Brecknock and the Ladies Pratt, Marchioness of Exeter,
Lady Bathurst, the Bishop of London's Ladylied fa-
mily, Bishop of Llaudaff, Lord Rolle, Lord Kenyon and
family, Lord Calthorpe, Bishop of Bangor, Dean of
Canterbury, Dean of Carlisle, Mr. Byng. Mr. Whit-
bread, Mr. S Graham, Mr. C. Harvey, Mr. Mansfield,
Sir F. Ornmanneyand faMily, Mr. Cheere and family.
Mr. Holme Smolder, Mr. Divett; Mr. Downie, M.P.
A partite in the neighbourhood of Truro, finding
that a row of wood paling which fenced a field dimi-
nished nightly, resolved on a novel experiment to de-
tect the thief. He broke down a few or diem, bored
and charged them with gunpowder, aid then scattered
them on the grosid. A few days after,
.be bad the
'pleasure to hear that a pttblic baker bad been aur-
prised by an explosion of gunpowder In hie oven.
which hail shaken it into rains.—"intouth Tel.)
Bortdo.—Olicer and Abbott are matched to fight a
stabd.op battli, for SO guineas a-side, in a 24-feet
'square, on Tuesday. that 11th of Jams, the week atter
Ascot Heath Races. Ten pomads.a-side were alepohited,
and the whole of thistake =Racy tq be nude gpc4, at
Fratikiii's, oh IfOgg4y, 'the Ad 4 Jou.

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