The Parliamentary register Volume 3 ; or an Impartial report of the debates that have occured in the two houses of Parliament - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1796 Excerpt: ...means to enforce the adoption of the latter. No man was more averse than he was to drive government to an act of compulsion, but it was a weak and unenergetiegevernment that would not adopt such a measure, if on mature deliberation, well informed men agreed that it would be for the benefit of the people. He concluded by observing that an alarming fact had reached him that day, viz. that wheat had risen twelve shillings a quarter, in Berkshire. ' General Tarleton said, he thought the House much indebted to the gentleman who brought forward the subject, as he had occasioned the Chancellor of the Exchequer to rise and deliver his sentiments on the alarming scarcity that prevailed; in that he had done an essential service to the poor, whose interests he had obviously near his heart; having, by so doing, in a great measure obtained his purpose, he hoped that he would withdraw his motion. Mr. Hone)Wood declared he felt a strong desire that the poor should be relieved, but expressed an apprehension that the bread which which was called mixed bread, which the poor purchased, was much inferior to that mixed bread which was allowed by gentlemen to their servants, and baked at their own houses. Hethought that this matter ought to be much better regulated than it had been hitherto. In a populous town with which he was connected, Mr. Honeywood said, a mixed sort of bread was introduced, made of such materials as rendered it impossible to be eat, and this arose, he was convinced, from a collusion between the miller and the baker. Mr. Martin said, he would be extremely willing to consent to any measure that should relieve the poor; he thought an obligation on the rich and middling classes to use only one soit of bread might be attended with advantage; but if there was' to...