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PdR,IAMENTARr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF T. 0711,5, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27. Lord HAWICESMIR V prefented a M IL•ge front the King relative to Frogo'ore limirc, whirls it flats to be the with of his Majeils• to retie on thz , :ineen and the Princaks. I: wa, ordrrtAl • to be taken inf:o cotifid, r,ttion to morrow St' rD1 , 14 AND PRUS3i.I. Loid HAWKESBURY role to move an addrefs ; to hi; Majefly relative iG Sweden and Prutlia. His Lotrifhip limed. that there was very tittle departure; in the prefent treaty whh Sweden from the lali which i had been concluded with that power. The principal alteration in tl e flipulations was increating the v , unt -f the fohfidiary force to be paid fcr by this' country, from 14.,000 t. , tB,coo men. With regard to Pruffia, too,ocol. had been advanced, in addition to the 80,0001. granted fall SetTion, hefides the aims which bad been fin - Milled, to the amount (laced in the Meffage. Lord HOLLAND did not mean to oppnfe the Addrefs ; but thought that there was fume impro priety in their Lordfhips pledging themfelves to ap prove of the advances which had beet l / 4 made, until they knew how far the flipblations entered into by Sweden and Pruffia had been fulfilled. Lord LAUDERDALE reminded the Houle of the declaration in the King's Speech, at the opening of the prefent Sellicp, in which In much was Paid fn have been done, and In much Fondled ; particularly the efforts made for aiding the common cattle, and drawing doter the 'minds of alliance with the powers c.f . the Continent. • He wished to know whether the etTorts In much hnalled of inAhat Speech were eon fit:ed to the tranfaelions alluded to in the Metrage on the table? Lord HA WKESBURY was harpy that the Noble Lord had put this queßion, as it afforded him an op portunity for a declaration which he whited to make, He afforecl the.Nnhle Lord, that his Majelly's pre fent Mirtificrs would not have thought they had done their duty, if they had confined themfelves to fuch fcanty means of all - Mance to our Allies as their pi c dectlfers were dTpufed to do. He had nn helitation in laying, that if %%hat appeared in the Metfage were all that haul been done, the Speech delivered at the opening of the Setlion would not have been aired up to : but his Majefly's tvlinifters had thought it their duty, immediately on their entrance into office, to make propniiti .ns of a far more extensive nature j than any thing contained in the Marage was cal.:o j lated to fuggell : and he was lure that the Houle and I the Country would not blame them for taking care that the propofed allitlance fhould not be given until it %vas Ake, tained that a proper return would be made by thole who were to receive it. The Meffage contained all the pecuniary affiltance that had been givu n, hot the Speech referred to meal - tires of a much more extensive nature, which would have been re. 1 forted to, had circumitances warranted the attempt ' to carry them into execution. Lord HOLLAND reprobated the idea that the blonds of alnance between this country and the friendly Powers on the Continent, were only to be drawn I clofer by pecuniary advances on our part: Lord MU ',GRAVE was of opinion, that, in many` cafes pecuniary affillance was the moll lifebil aid this Country cu itid afford to her Allies. He ridiculed the proceeding , of the late Adminiltration, by whom no vigorous meafore had been adopted, and who had done nothing taTopp. tt our Allies. Lord HOLLAND alked, Whether the conduit, of this Country, in the lan negociation of peace, !hewed a nettle& of our Allies ? and whether the manner in which that negociation terminate t. was not the bell ftipport that c uld be given to Ituflia ? No more honourable inllance of good faith had ever adoined the amialq of this Country. The Addrea vas then agreed to. VOTF r..r CRFDIT. Lord HAWKESBURY df m"ved the nfual oddrefs to his Istojelty upon his M fecond 'Aleffage, which was alfo attreed to. IRISH itp:traitccriow put.. Lord HAWKESBURY on moving the fecond reading of this Bill regretted the neeellity which ex Med far inch a meafure ; but from the fituation of Ireland, from that fyilem of tecret meeting, and fe cret oaths, which took its rife from the French Re volution, and which unhappily, It;11 continued. it be• came abfolutely necelfary await) to retort to a rrea, lure of thi• nature. The aft which the prefent Bill was intended to continue, was nearly about expiring, and the late Miniller•, convinced of the necetlify of continuing it, hal framed a draft of a Bill for that purpofe, which dev Ived into the hands of their lac cams, and which had been adopted in framing the prefent Bill with very few alterations. His Lord fbip after briefly adverting to thole alterations, again regretted the neceflity which exifled for the Bill, but from the Hate of treland, from its connalinu with the general flat; of Europe. and from the prefent ex orbitant power of Frawe, it 4ccamg abfolgtely pc celTary. Lord HOLLAND Bated the objects of the Bill drawn tip by the late Adminiftration to be three-fold: 111, T. flibllitute the punilhment of tranfportation, as enaeled by the Aft of 1787, inflead of that of death. ii.fli6ted by the Aft` of 1796 —zelly, To per peitarte the teal:non) , delivered upon valh t.f pe t t - nea who might be mut dered to prevent their attendance t:i ilc, which tedimony would not he available at common law : —and, 3dly, To enable the Lord Lieu tenant to appoint Militant Bartiflers io the gbarter s e ili‘me, in the capacity of Prefidents, without any power to dilfent from a 7artlgt of acquittal, kin - wi t h a negative upon a verthd of condemnation. The latter p ovifion had been changed in the .prefent Bill In as to limit the p.wer of the Affillant 4artiller to that of reporting the different trials to the Lord Lieunreeant. He lamented that, as a Member of a B r un Honfe of Lords, he ()mid have the de grading duty to pmf,rm of liating . his convidion of the neceffry of Etch a • Bill. lie; however, called upon the Houle in examine into the caufes which had led to fuck a accent' s being of npisinp that the great bulk of the inhabitauta pf no country could be dircontented for a lug links of yeats. vrithr pt great and permanent grievances. The Noble Lnrd. in ar going urn this topic, went at great length into the goeftit n of the Cath , lie claim. The Earl of LIMERICK thought the introdudimi of a direuffion relatiie tT thp Catholic claims wholly irrelevant to the Bill. +which would operate equally upon the Catholic end Protellant. The Catholics of Ireland wet e admitted to all athces there, mein a very few, to which even he thought the Noble Lord wonli hefitate to admit them. Had the principles of the prefent sneafure been afted upon during the late achniniftration of a Noble Duke, in Ireland, he thought the dilbirbances could not have extended to. far as they did. He regretted that tome of the ob., fervations made by the Noble Lord had been uttered;' but with refpea to the Catholics, he trufled that in the hour of danger, they would he found cheerfully and bravely joining in defence of their country. The Duke of BEDFORD defended his adminif. tration in Ireland. lie had a efufed to proclaim cer tain diaries in that country, where fume di a tirbances had taken place, and had preferred to faint to the ultra' adminiaration of jullice. In doing this, he had afted to Ite bell of his judgment, and he believed he was adopting a line of conduit bell adapted to con ciliate the people of that cOuntry. The Earl of LIMERICK explained. The Earl of KINGSTON laid a few words re it:teeing fame former diffurhances in Sligo. The Earl of HARDWICKE could not hear the eulogitims which had been prononnced upon the in fur ration Aft, nor the arimatlverfions which had been made on the condue of the Noble Duke without offer ing fome obfervations upon the fubjeft. In the courfe of the time he had raided in Ireland, he had refitted every application to proclaim diaries. and be did net believe that the law which expires the aft of Augull, had been afted upon during the (even years that it had been in force. The grounds of his refufal were, not only that he fhould have parted with tke refponfibility which is mote properly yelled in the executive Go vernment. but bee role he confidered the powers con ferred by the Aft, lefseffeenal for any nfeful porpore, than for plepofes of roifchief and irritation. If the pre fent Bill had merely extended to a renewalof the Infur. reei n Aft, he could not have approved of it; but he Ototild fopport this Bill, becaufc it contained lonic of the moll uleful provifions of different ties of the Parliament of Ireland, and omitted lonic of the molt objeilionable claufes of she Inforreaion Aft : in fait, it was nearly the fame Bill which had been propofed by the late Minitlers, but in In far as it took away the final contront from the King's Serjeant, (whom the Lord Lieutenant was authorifed to appoint to aft with the Magiltrates in a proclaimed diftrift,) and only left him the power to report their proceedings, it was altered for the wolfe.l Upon the whole. he felt it his duty, however much he lamented the neceility, to vote for the Bill ; but he felt Come confolation in iefl-eing that it had been framed and confidered by his Majell)'s late Attorney General, and by the prefent Crown Lawyers in Ireland, as able and I learned ml-n, and as Con fl itutional Lawyers as any I tha I tad ever held chore fituations. L• rd CARLETON deprecated the tendency of that line of argument which the Noble Lord on ae opcnfition bench (I.d. Holland) had thought proper to polite, becaufe he thought that argument calcu lated to jollity the diflutbances which had fo long agitated Ireland. With regard to the tlatements of the Noble Lords who had lately prefided over the Government of Ireland, he could not admit that they flionlil operate againft this bill. For although thole Noble Lords, in the chcomflances which arnfe dur ing their lefpeflive admir.iffrations, law no neceffity for aeing on tl,e law which this bill propofed to re enaet, it did not therefore follow that this Bill was unneceffar y Lord SELKIRK vetted for the Bill, hut deeply deplored the circomtlaoces which had rendered it necellary.—The Bill WA% then read a fecond time and ordered to he c,mmiitted to-morrow. Lod HOLLAND h , red that it would not be deemed irregular in any Noble Lord to whom it might be per fl rally inconvenient to attend to-morrow, to avail hinifelf of a right feldorn exacifed, namely. to pr .pole amendments on the third reading of the Bill. The LORD CHANCELLOR actrierced in the right of any Noble Lord to du as the Noble Belton had mentioned.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Military Commi!limier. Pill was read a third time, and - • pafird. The Houre went into a Committee nn the Bill for allowing the !mportation of Swedilh Herring•. 'I lie Dut y o t importation vr.s tix.:cl at ss. 7d. on every barrel, ennfifttor of 3s gallops. The Bill for alh.win the Rutin y on the Exports of Callenea to Malta, as is paid out their export to Gibraltar, was read a first time, and ordered to be read a feeond time to morrow. The Houfe then went inrc a Committee on the Expiring laws. On a refolution being propelled for continuing the fulpenfion of crr tain for penalties againa woollen manufadurers, till the end of next Sefton. Lord MILTON ohjedtcd to this meafure, 2.4 he enr.fidercil that it would fufficient to continue the duration of the furpenium to one month atter the lit ginning of the nest &lion. Tic laR Bill had expired in March lad, and yet no advantage had been taken of that eircumflanee. Mr. WILBERFORCE confidered that it would be impuffele that a bufinefs of fuck great importance and difficulty cool I he fo lone► fettled as within one month after the twat Sellion, lie had hinifelf attended in a Committee for about tlare months in (lir cuffing this bulinefs, and he thought that it would take a confider able deal of time in the ncxt Salon. Mr STURGES BOURNE thought it wls by no means a him • tient fecurity to the perfont who were to be indemnified, that Inch an ad:antage had not before been taken of them at the expi ration of the Bill. He thought they required the fecturity of a po fit ive law that it fhoultl not be taken of them next year. After fume farther cony, nation, the lief elut i on was agreed to. . . The Houfe was informed, by a Meffage from the Lords, that lb( it Lordthips had agreed to the Militia Pay Bill, the Subaltern Officers Bill, the Half Pay Bill, the Irifh Militia Pay Bill, and a variety of private Bills. On the motion of Mr. CALCRA FT, an Account was ordered of the number wanted to compleat the Regular Army up to the number for which the eltimate• were voted ; as ago of the num her of !rifts Yeomanry and Volunteers, and of the Sea Fencibles, both of preat Britain and Ireland. On the Motion of the SECRETARY at WAR. an Account was ordered of the number of Defences from the Recruits who entered in the years 18:s. t 836, and TBc7. St iItRA LEONN. After this Bill had been read a third time, and the quellion was put that " it do pal's," Mr. DENT role, and objeeltd at Come tenrh to the principle i.f it. He confidcred that if the Sierra Leone Company *Quid find it convenient to get rid of their territories after having receiv-d filch large aids from the public money to coupon their eltablifil meat, they ought at teat to repay the films which they had fir re• ceased Mr. WILBERFORCE thought It very furprifing that the Holt. Gentleman (Mr. Dent) bold have been fo often in the Houk while the Bill was glider confideration, and never offered any oh • 'relieve to it before. It appeared as if be bad thought hja dinner mom oliedt of greater important: than his oppofition to the BIM When Gentlemen (poke of the fume of money that had been voted to tin SierriLeone Company, they *mild minfider that a great proportion of dank hum wale paid to (import thrice men whomgovernment nark otherwife have been at the e;pcnee o f 'fawning. The ant ebb of theft men were the Blacks, who . bad lined with the *MIA army In the contra -with Americo, and after that cone* had been fent into Nova Scoria. Having • fent a memorial to the Govcfantent, Complaining of the fiddlier) of the climate to which they were fent, the Cover:twat arplied to the Sierra I4one Company, to admit the:flint° a colony nisch more tong lto their conßitutiors than 'the climate of Nova Spode was. The Company then accepted, lit the firli place, of near 1000 Nova Scotia Blacks, which Governmeret mull, other wife, have been at the expence of maintainieg Afterwards, when.l it Recalls an object of policy to expel the Maroons from the' Med of Jamaica, Government again appliest to the Company to take them, and they molt unwillingly accepted of liven,. 600 of thefe men. l'hofe teoo men, who otherwife would heve been chargeable to the Government, bad been maintained by the Com pany for a coofWeraWt number of years ; and he hcped that that would be taken into the account, when the aids were mentioned which the Company had received from Gavernrnent. Mr. EDF.N defended the coedit& of the Sierra Lenes.Com patty, and (hewed that the expence whkh • they bad incurred in fupperting thole Nova Scotia Blacks and Maroons, was nearly, if not altogether equal to all the expence which they could entail upon the country. If the Sierra Leone Company had not taken thole men, Government would probably have been at a greater expence in eftablifbing them in force other country that would agree with their conititut ions. Mr. FULLER thought the Company ought not to have Oka or expelled that the public would pay any part of the ezpencca of their eflablifhment Mr. SHERIDAN Rated, that allowing the expellee of the fup port of thole Meeks to be one flitting a day, which they actually colt, it would be perceived that the Company I ad raved the Go. vernmeet an,coel per annum for 51 yeas. 'Phi: would be a fe rioter balance againft the expence that they had put the nation to. Mr H. THORNTON laid, that lie wiflied the Houk to under- Rand in what fenfe lie conlideted the undertaking at Sierra Leone to have atifwered, and in what fence not to haee atifwered, firm: it we. importaet that tuft fortinients (horrid be entertained in refpret to the great fulled of African eivillz atinn. 'the Company had been Minuted at a period. as they htd imagined. of profound peace, and ernitg hopes had been entertained of an early abolition of the Slave Trade. In both thefe points they bad het et remarka bly difappointed. Another great caufe, howfver, of the difeppeint . mart of their original plans, had been the introdu !lion of a very great and untoward betty of Nova Scotians into this colony, by whom a conmietely new charadter had been given to the under taking. No let: than tt or 1100 colonies being received into the fcttlement, it had become the primary duty to provide for their maintenance and well being, and a moil heavy charge bad been the confequence. The idea of eftablithing a confiderahle trade with the interior, which was one part of the or;ginal intention, had, partly through the eaufes which he had mentiened, and partly through a war with the Nanvee, been rtlitiqiiinted, the idea of profit to the proprietors. if enter tamped by any of them, had Ira nifhcd: the hope of making great and early progrefe in civilizing the furronnding Natives had alto been difappointed, nee, hewever, he had the latisfaetion of (eying, that both the Nova Scetians and the Maroons, amounting to r I or I ICO, had gradually improved In eh:seeder, and that there now therefore exifted a body of Cclnnifts, on the coalt of Africa, (peaking the F.nglifh langua e e attached to the F.nglifh people, advancing in civilization and ite rate. and increafing in numbers, front whom, undoubtedly, and front whole: children, this country might hope to derive (übitantial advantages. Some foundation at lean had been laid, on which :he Government might !mild if they Ibould think proper, and if cite cuntßances fhould favour. The colony, as he thought, in what ever fenfe it might be laid to have failed, bad afforded proof of the pradlicaltility of civilizing Africa. What were the great impedi• merits to the improvement of a country? Either f erne thing. tint, in the climate; or, idly, in the foil or, idly. in the charadt rof the inhabitants. The climate of Sierra Leor e had now been thewn by experience to be about as vex! as that of other tropical coun tries. The foil had proved in many parts of it highly favourable to tropical produce. A very good and a new feecies of cc flee had been found naturally to grow there, and mull other article.. culti• vated in the Weft Indies, were indigenous. Natives had alto heen willing to work as free labourers, and at reafonalee rates In no one of thefe refpeifts was there any infoperable ohftacle to civiega. tion. This country, moreover, was eepr , My hound to take charge of the Maroons, and to he at the erpenee of provedieg foe them, by the terms on which the Sierra I core Contpley had reedits, d them, and the Nova Seotiaus liel alfo force ci rim to zottlideration. Sierra Leone, indeed, now affirmed reel ly the fame charadler as various other African forts to which Parliament had been tiled to grant from zo,oecl. to 3 excel. per al.num. It would be, there fore, for the Government to confider how many and which of the feveral forts they would maintain, and he believed that they would find many eircumßairces to favour :he maintenairce amotig others of the Sicrre Leone fettle ment. He bad lineal long willed to fee this colony transferred to Governmeet, having been very un willi• g to conic annually to Parliament for the grant of a cum, of which he, as one of the Direet rs, was to be the difperifer, and of which km Gentlemen were every year queftroeine the propriety. The grant was now about to cean_!, and it would be for the Pare Lament and the Government to ad hereafter, as might, under all the circuni (lances. eppe-r expedient. The Dill was then p. flee!. PCCLE WRIT. co..nd WOOD prerctited a Petition from Mr W. Spurrier, I now it: cultotly 01 . the Serj •ant at Arms, flaring. " that he deeply lamented that he had committed a Breach of :herivileges of that Houk through ignorance; c hat he was now fully lenfiSle of his fault and threw himfell on the mercy of the Houk to pardon and rcle,re hi m The SECRETARY at WAR laid, fhould not oppofe the lenity that was propored, a. he hoped that a 'TM would he Coon brought hi, which w.tul ' prevent limiter prattle s in future. Mr. WILLIAM SMITH Paid, that although he not vote again' it, if it appeared the prevailing knit id the Hume, yet he coufidered Mr Spurrier by no means fo much an uhje•dt of, lenity as Mr Brundrct t. The latter an rwered openly and ingenuotiffy all that he could atofwer, continent with prof Mona! feelings ; whereas Mr. Spurrier. in talking of his emu:dere ignorance, and h's keeping the Writ merely for fakty, could hardly expert to gain tuU credit from that Hook. The CHANCELLOR of the EX:HEWER with-d the Ho nourahle Gentleman had delivered his fentintents cootter, and per hap:, the Houk would not have talks) fo mild* murk. A long converfation thet: took place betw en Mr. Rose, Colonel WOOD, Mr. BA RUA Id, Mr. Tote CA PAW, and tome other Gen tlemen. 1 Mr. LIISHINGTON moved an Amendment, that inftead of to morrow, he flionld be brought up to be difchargsd to morrow le' 'ght. Mr. WINOHAM •ttprctt'cd himfelf as indiff,rent upon the whole, het rather inclining to the ditchalte to witx,-,.w. Mr WILBFR FORCE and Mr. I.OOKHAIt (puke ftiortly on the fame fide ; after which a divifion took place— For the original motion 45 I Againft it 'tp maj,ity t 6 The SECRETARY at WAR poltponed the remainder of the Army Eftimates till Friday. JEt.NFRIAH REMUNFRATInIII. The Houle having gone into a Committee t.f Sup• ply. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER direCted the attention Of the Committee to the titer its of the plan propofed for this country by Dr. Jenner. If the condo& of this gentleman had been charaae rifed by any one thing more than another, it was by (his, that he had never fought to make his labours turn nut to his own advantage, hut had freely and completely communicated the refult of his invellida ' lions, at once to the public of this country, and to the world. It, therefore, became the duty of this country, as an enlightened nation, to fee that his efforts did not go unrewarded ; that the reward to be heft:'wed by them, was at once liberal, and in no relpea lavith. It by no means followed, becaufe the Holt fe of Com mons had refuted 20,0001. fume years ago, that it &mild withhold to make up that him at this moment, after an inveftigation had been made into the utility of the plan, and the degree of advantage which the public were likely to derive horn its adoption. It was oniverfally agreed that inoculation was rf itfelf a ufeful invention, hut the mode now in queflion was one of highly fuperior comparative advantages.— The mode now Minded to was remarkable not only for the fussily with which people were by means of it proteeedfroas 4bedifeafe ; but alto, for the facility of cure afforded to thofe who had contracted the dif• eafe. On this point the Report was perfectly fatis. fa&nry. One in fix, in the natural way, fell mar. I tyrs to the difeafe ; but, under the fytiem of Dr, Jenner, not more than one in three hundred. From an account of the number of cafes kept, it appeai ea that out of 164,384, not more than , h,-eeeaths had taken place. Si, it followed, that, under the former fyllem of Inoculation the deaths were as ~n et , three, whereas under the prefent, or Cow Ka, they did not amount to more than one in 54,000. Taking even the molt unfay.,urable view of the cafe, and 11ippefing that.thofAANiers occafioned by irritation, Bcc. were attribnrableßrih r e Vaccine matter, the new fyllem was in the proportion of t•, - 9 to 164 pl 4, whereas the old fyflem was as one to three. if the value of lives, however, were to be gone into, n o value, he cnntended, could be fufficient for the dif covery for which it was now the duty of the Com mittee to propofe tome reward. He conelnded by moving that a fum not exceeding to,cool he granted to Dr. Edward Jenner, as a frrther recornpen t - e f or promulgating the difcovery of the Vaccine Inocn. lation. • Mr. SHAW LEFEV RE declared it was tc i'h extreme regret he marred the motion. He enter. tained for 1)r. Jenner the moil fincere refpal, yet he could not think that this was a period for difpofing of ro,oool. where it appeared by the report of the Phylicians, which (hewed that in so or 6o inflancese at leak the plan had not fucceeded, that, at the leaf, it was not infallible. The late period of the Sedinn, when fo many members were necefferily out of town, was alfo a fufficient reafon with him rot withholding his approbation to the propotcd motion. It had been laid that Dr. Jenner had difcovered the invention for which a reward was now fought is conferred He begged, however, to floe that fimilar praftice had been entertained in Dotfetli:e (ince the year 1777. Lerd lIENRY PETTY differed from the Right Honourable Gentleman oppofite (Mr. Perceval), only in doubting how far the Cum propofed by him was an adequate reward ter the difcovery, en ac• count of which it was propofed to grant a recom pence. Infallibility, he contended, was not to be expened. Comparifun of good or evil was all that could be looked to ; and it was fuffirient to Teem mend the Allem of Dr. Jenner, if, en experience, it was found to diminilh and reduce the maladies of the human race. It was diffii ult to find out any !tended by which to reward public difcoveries. The preterit was one of national utility, by which the lives of our frildiers and isilors were alike Caught to be fectired, and by which it *was equated that a diforder would he warded off alike dangerous, calamitous, and alarming. It was notori its to the public, that Dr. Jenner had had the merit of making no attempt to keep the difcovery to him(elf. With that forgetful. nets of (elf which always charaeterizes a great mind, he had made the difcovery known to the public-a— The ryes of the world would always be turned to, and would be inclined to eiteem, a Country, by whom a remuneration was fought to be conferred on individual merit, tending to the public advantage.— There being, however, no critetion or fiandatel by which to judge filch Cervices, he was of opinion that the recompence mould, as far as riffible, be propor. aionate to, and inftead of being under, 111 .old emirl the ferrite felt to be conferred. He was lure in this view, that Dr. Jenner's reward mutt be great ; but he was at the fame timerronvinced it could not (gal the merit of the difcovery, nor yet the metits nf him by whom it had been premulaated. General TA RLETON, as . a military man, added his tellim my to the meritraions nature of the ditto. very. He thought that in prnmulgating it to t!'e public, the difcoverer had done more than it he had florin his thnufands and tens of thoufands. Mr. STURGES BOURNE agreed with the Nn. ble Lord oppelite ( Lord H Petty), that tome means tight to be taken to prevent perfons having the Small Pox from fpreadirg the infeCtion. lie underlined that it was the practice, at the Small Pox Hofpael, to inaculate outpanients to the number of 2000 in a sear, who were to come three times a week to he perfonally infpeOed at the Hefpital. Ingenuity could not difeover a more effeCtual mode of Ire:rating the contagion, and he thought that Parliement fleet to prevent the praCtice with the lame care as they would prevent firebrands from being carried ahem. Mr. H. BROWNE had the linnniir of being a Go vernor of that inflitntion, and had vearon to think that the pnaClice alluded to had been ditcontinued.— He agreed that it was definable to take meefures to prevent the infeflinn from being fpread, hut he could inform the Committee, that the inftituti ri alluded to, inoculated alto with the vaccine matter. Jr was the merit of Vaccination that it produced no intec ti n. and he propofed therefore to infert Mole we 'd& in the Refolution, expreflive of that circumllance. Mr. N. CALVERT adverted to the irregularity of Inch an amendment before the fubitance of the re- Caution was agreed tn. Mr. SPURGES BOURNE proved from a (Isle ment from the Small P. x Elofpitai e that the number of net pitienti annually inoculated for the Small 1' x was 22.000. He did not mean, however, to fay that the Inßiturion was not friendly to Vaccinatii n, the contrary being the cafe. Mr. EDWARD MORRIS thought that the rocat claim of Dr Jenner melted upon this—that they might look to his difcovery for the extermination of the Small Pox. But it was impollible to exterminate this dreadful difeafe, tinkle the inoculation tor it was prevented. The merit of the diicovery was evi dent, becanfe nothing had been found necettay improve fince it was firlt mad eknown tie ftrold therefore mi.ve that 20,0001. initcad of mecca. ;.e granted to 1)r Jenner. Sir JOHN SEABRIGHT leer-in/fed the mnti..n, after liming the benefits that had refuted from he adoption of vaccination in his neighbourhood, whore the Small llox had been before fatal. Mr. HENRY HERBERT fupported the amend ment, on the ground that the difcovery had been prodUced t the world pet feat at once. Mr. WILBERFORCE alto, in a fpeech of much feeling and liberality, and public fpirit, Ityperted the additional grant, but propofed that the amend' ment mould be to grant, in addition to the tu,oool propofed by his Right Honourable Friend. an Anna ity of Icon'. a year, which would be equivaieet ' 1 the iacreafe propofed. This lup,gttlion he meat en the ground, that Dr. Jenner had become, by tic difcovery, a great public charaBer, f ,;gist by all foreigners, particularly medical men l aid that, therefore, it was defirable he Mould have a cantineed monument of his country's gratitude and liberelt"f• Betides, he had a moll retentive corretporaience, which wat productive of confiderable expellee both v-