the address for the Goderich ministry.9 He presented petitions for repeal of the Test Acts, 15, 26 Feb., when he voted accordingly, and he divided for Catholic relief, 12 May. He voted against extending the East Retford franchise to the freeholders of Bassetlaw, 21 Mar., and for the disqualification bill, 24 June. On the corn bill, he voted with his relations to lower the pivot price from 64s. to 60s., 22 Apr., but he was the only Baring to divide with Hume for the gradual introduction of a fixed duty, 29 Apr. By way of explanation, in what was apparently his maiden speech, he cited the collapse of Dutch industry as proof of the danger of taxing corn, and said that his reasons for voting against government differedfrom Hume’s, and emanated from his conviction that the recent outpouring of capital for foreign investment had reduced expenditure on agriculture and estates, so depriving the labourers of employment, leaving them unable to pay high bread prices. The patronage secretary Planta pressed Huskisson to grant his request for inclusion on the Canada committee, 30 Mar., and he was appointed to it, 2 May.10 He divided against government on civil list pensions, 20 May, the archbishop of Canterbury’s bill, 16 June, expenditure, 23 June, 4 July, inquiry into the Irish church, 24 June, and the additional churches bill, 30 June. He was the only Baring to vote against them on the customs bill, 14 July. He may have spoken briefly in support of the Drumlane Catholics’ petition for relief,