1,000,000 in Exchequer bills to landed proprietors on the
security of their crops; that importation of foreign corn should be
permitted
whenever
the price of wheat should be at or above 70 shillings
a quarter .
Byron
There was, too, the prospect of Catholic Emancipation. In 1821
he had spoken in favour of Plunket's bills, and, the next year (April
30, 1822), he had brought in a bill to remove the disabilities of Roman
Catholic peers from sitting in the House of Lords. If Canning persisted
in his advocacy of Catholic claims, the king's conscience might turn
restive, and urge him to effectual resistance. Hence the warning in
lines 563-567.]
[333] {570} [Demeter gave Triptolemus a chariot drawn by serpents, and
bade him scatter wheat throughout the world. (See Ovid, _Met._, lib. v.
lines 642-661.)]
[er] _The mighty monosyllable high_ Rent!--[MS.]
[es] ----_upon the audit day_.--[MS. M.]
[334] ["Lord Londonderry proposed (April 29, 1822) that whenever wheat
should be under 60 shillings a quarter, Government should be authorized
to issue ?
1,000,000 in Exchequer bills to landed proprietors on the
security of their crops; that importation of foreign corn should be
permitted
whenever
the price of wheat should be at or above 70 shillings
a quarter .
.. that a sliding-scale should be fixed, that for wheat being
under 80s. a quarter at 12 shillings; above 80s. and below 85s., at 5
shillings; and above 85s., only one shilling."--Allison's _History of
Europe_, 1815-1852, _and_ 1854, ii. 506. The first clause was thrown
out, but the rest of the bill passed May 13, 1822.]
[et] {571} _For fear that riches_----.--[MS. M.]
[eu] _Will sell the harvest at a market price_.--[MS.
