28] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1816. 



■ 9. Tliat it is therefore expedi- 

 ent to repeal so much of an act 

 of last session for the regulation 

 of the coin trade, as permits the 

 warehousing of foreign coin at 

 all times, cKity free. 



10. Tliat in order further to 

 promote the ai)i)ropriation of part 

 of our present abundance, and 

 reserve it for future consumption, 

 it is cxj)edient to aid the means of 

 those individuals who may be dis- 

 posed so to employ their cajiitab, 

 by an advance of exchccpier bills 

 to a limited amount. 



11. That excessive taxation 

 renders it necessary to give pro- 

 tection to all articles, the produce 

 of our own soil, against similar 

 articles, the growtli of foreign 

 countries, not svibject to the same 

 burthens, and in conformity with 

 that policy whicli has been uni- 

 formly observed, of protecting by 

 duties, and encoiu'aging by boun- 

 ties or drawbacks, all our other 

 manufactures. 



1'2. Tliat it is therefore expe- 

 dient to impose additional duties 

 and restrictions on the importa- 

 tion of all articles, the produce of 

 foreign agriculture. 



13 That it is expedient, under 

 due limitatitiu, to encourage, by 

 bounty or drawback, the expor- 

 tation of the redundant produce 

 of the agriculture of the united 

 kingdom. 



14. That the tithe and the poor 

 rates, to the payment of which 

 those whose capitals are engaged 

 in agricultiu'e are almost exclu- 

 sively subjected, have recently 

 been felt to press with increasing 

 and unexampled severity, and 

 that it is therefore necessary to 

 relieve them, as far as possible, 

 fi'om the operation of other buj- 

 thens. 



After the reading of these re- 

 solutions, the hon. member made 

 the motion for the committee of 

 which he had given notice. 



Mr. Frankland Lewis seconded 

 the motion in a speech which be- 

 gan with a refutation of the sum- 

 mary opinion resiiecting the cause 

 of tlie j)resent distress — that it 

 Avas entirely owing to the peace. 

 If (said he) theinesent discussion 

 did nothing more than dispel this 

 dangerous illusion, he should be 

 content, as a conviction of the 

 licnefits resulting from peace was 

 a better guarantee for its conti- 

 nuance than treaties. It was to 

 the continuance of peace alone 

 that we could look for relief 

 under our present afllictions. 

 The war, glorious and successful 

 as it had been beyond all former 

 example, had left us forty millions 

 a year to jiay <is inteiest of debt, 

 and .also, what we were told Avas 

 necessary, an establishment of at 

 least twenty millions more. The 

 hon. member then proceeded to 

 state his reasons for thinking that 

 we hatl arrived nearly to the point 

 beyond which the borrowing sys- 

 tem could not be extended ; and 

 he adduced a number of facts re- 

 lative to the present situation of 

 the country, which would atford 

 matter for future discussion. 



Other members spoke on the 

 occasion ; but the conclusion was 

 an unanimous agreement to the 

 object of the motion, and the 

 committee was fixed for the 19th. 

 The resolutions were ordered to 

 be printed. 



Various petitions for relief from 

 the agricultural distresses were 

 ])resented to the House of Com- 

 mons previously to the 28th of 

 March, when the order of the day 

 was moved by Mr. M'estern for 



going 



