Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1822-04-12

the agricultmist by free issue and Gift q
millions, still he would contend that the effic
would he To iniure al interests. WHY ia,
measure was completely at variance with In,
Noble EarPs own hypothesis. IT. as the No
bie Earl had assumed, and argued, in the las
Session Of Parliament, and insisted on, our az
rIculturai disiresses were owing 10 AN cxces.
much above the proportion Of consumption
most extraordinary would it be To see five
millions now employed 10 setting farmers ia
work, and so increase that very kind of pro-
duce which now exceeded the mart and he
hoped most seriously that government would
not adopt such plan. Having said this, he
came to the subject of the unhappy state OF
Ireland and here every man must have
learned with the deepest emotion and sorrow,
What bad taken place in that country, and de-
sire rs earnestly 10 remove or relieve them
speedily. He would admit, with respect 10
the distinguished Nobleman now holding the
Government ofthat country, that more judi
cious and acceptable choice could not possibly
nave been made, than in the appointment of
that Noble Person TO so important and deli
cate trust. Legislation must he united with
steadiness where nothing else but palliatiycs
had been applied. He never had contended,
nor ever would contend, that the inseries of
ireland had their origin in any one cause, hut
~ combination of causes, which called for
combination of remedies One of the causes
oil evil was absentees; but this, again, was in
duccd by contradictions and differences IN
laws, policy and manners. He could descrv
no hope for remedies in measures which were
calculated for m-barbarous race n sound
er remedy must be found, a remedy deep, in
the condition of society, in the institutions,
ana III our statute books. In some shape or
other, and ut no distant time, the real state of
Ireland, whose existing laws were recon-
mended 10 their attention from the Throne.
must come before Parliament and if addi-
to1a' powers were 10 be- extended TO the FIX
ecutive, those powers should not lie in the
shape of penal visitaions alone With respect
to the allusion 10 the differences between
hussia and Turkey, he felt relieved by the tx
plantations of fhe Noble Earl who moved the
Address. In such contest-in a contest he.
tween Christians and Heathcns, all Noble
Lords must desire the SUCCESS of the former
and in contest, he would add, between
Greeks and their opprcssors, he could not
d'sSuise his wish that Greece might become
independent. There could exist but one feel
Ing The Object was not 60 be promoted hy
direct interference on our part, but, on the
contrary, by strict neutrality. With these
explanations, he would assent To the Address
The Earl of Liverpool, though he did nn
think that the observations of the Noble Mar
gus required general explanation on his part,
would still refer to some points which the No
bic Marquis had brought before their Lord
SHIPS. The Noble Marquis, in allusion Ia the
reductions which had been made in our Naval
ana Military establishments, would fiin re-
present tins year as the first time that such
reductions were contemplated But it would
be in their Lordsbips' recollection, that in the
course OF last year, reductions had been effected
TO The amount offrom G 900, 900 20 &c 900, OOO:
and 1t had been then said by his Maesty's
government, that the diminuion of the public
burden, particularly in the army and navy,
was 10 be gradual. Whether the reductions
which had lately been made would prove sa-
tsfactory TO the Noble Marquis, or TO their
LordshiPs, he THE Earl of LIVERPOOL could
not take upon himself to say, till the necessa-
ry explanations and details were gone into
lie only wished to guard his Maicsty's Go
vernment from the imputation that any class
oil persons had been treated with more harsh
ness, or with greater measure ofinjustice IA
more appropriate term) than those who, fill
lug high Offices, were willing 10 deal out to
themselves, whilst they felt it their dntv to adj
wise the reductions in question. Making every
allowance for the feelings which called for such
reductions, he could not say, ut the same
time, that they were of nature To afford any
material relief to the agriculiurists. They may
prove satisfactory to the country ;but itwolld
he vain and idle 10 suppose that any sensible
advantage to the agricultural interest could re-
SUIT from them. He fully agreed with tho
Noble Marquis in The position he had laid
down, that no one great interest could he serv-
ed, IN the prosperity of which all other inter
esls did not participate. The agricultural and
commercial interests were one Every ATTEMPT
to dlssociatc aud distinguish them was detri-
mental 10 both.
lie admitted, however, that the agricultural
interest must always he the first however i'm
portant might he the commercial and manu-
featuring interests. Bat If the commercial and
interests prospered, they must
necessarily serve the agricultural interests and
those who would strike blow 1T the two for
iner. would inevitably injure the latter. (Hear,
hear.) The Noble Marquis, in the course Of
his speech, advertcd 10 the risk which com
mercial men ran by excessive speculation, but
they were now much more cautious than be-
fore the war, being content with more rnoder-
ate profits. That system Of gambling which
manufacturers had PTactiscd in time OF war
ceased entirely on the return ofppace. There
was every reason 10 believe that commerce and
manufactures rested now on much more So
lid foundation than during the war; lie now
came TO that expedient stated by the Noble
Marquis 10 be in contemplation for the relief
Of the agriculturists namely, the issue Of five
millions in Exchcquer Bills. lie could assure
the Noble Marquis that no such proposition
had been made, neither had any proposition
to that extent or in that manner ever brrn made.
His Maicsty's Government had urder their
serious consideration the distressed state of
agriculture, with a view Ia adopt 81 ne remedy
fOT its relief, and he had no hesitation in saving
thnt proposition for relief by Exchcquer
Bills, practicable, might still be submitted TO