HISTORY OF EUROPE. ” Tah 
CHAP. ill. 
In the House of Commons, Regulations respecting the Sale of Flour, and the 
Making of Bread.—Motions by Mr. Lechmere and Mr. Whitbread, re- 
spetting the Causes of the Scarcity of Wheaten Flour, and the Hardships 
incident to the Labouring Poor.—Negatived.— Bul for Encouraging the 
Cultivation of WasteLands.—Motions for the Support of the Land andSea 
Service. —Strictures on the Conduct of Ministry inthe War Department.— 
Replied to by Mr. Windham.—Debates on the Ereétion of Barracks.— 
A Statement of the Expences of 1796, amounting from twenty-seven to 
twenty-eight Millions sterling.— Debates concerning the Terms of the Loan. 
—Vote approving the Conduct of the Minister on this Subject.—Neo 
Taxes.— Debates thercon.—Message from the King, intimating his Dis- 
position to enter intoa Negocittion with the present Government of France. 
- —An Address moved, expressing the Readiness of the House to concur in 
such a Measure.—Amendment thereom moved by Mr. Sheridan.—This 
vejeCled, and the Address carried.—Motion for Peace, by Mr. Grey.— 
Negatived. 
proposed at the same time several 
URING ‘these parliamentary 
regulations relating to the sale of 
and popular agitations, the 
houses were not unmindful of the 
critical state of the country,through 
the alarming scarcity of corn that 
had prevailed for some time. On 
the thirtieth of Octéber, 1795, the 
second day of the session, Mr. Pitt 
moved, that the bill, allowing the 
. importation of corn,duty free,should 
be extended to another year. He 
flour, and the making of bread. 
It was observed by Mr, Lech- 
mere, that no remedy could be ap- 
plied to the scarcity without investi- 
gating its causes; the principal of 
which he believed to be the mo- 
nopoly of farms,* and the jobbing 
in corn. Public granaries oughr, 
he said, to be erected, where every 
oue 
* Itis one of the most pleasing as well as important tasks tmaposed on the journal- 
ist to record, with due approbation, and point out as much as possible,such public 
counsels and actions as originate in sound patriotism, and are eminently conducive 
to the public good. We wish that Mr. Lechmere’s observation on the baneful effects 
of monopolization of land had met withmore attention, and been made a subject of 
parliamentary inquiry and regulation. It is with great satisfactien that we notice 
the efforts of feeling and enlightened men, who, whether by speaking or writing, re- 
eominend attention to the labouring poor. Whoever peruses “ Mr, Newte, of Ti- 
verton’s Tour in England and Scotland,” and“ An Essay on the Right of Property m 
Lind,” ascribed to professor Ogilvie, of Aberdeen, will be abundantly satisfied, that, 
by a due encouragement of agriculture and the fisheries,which may be considered as 
aspecies of agriculture,sources of unfailing prosperity might beopened to thisislond, 
amidst 
