Star. — London, England, 1815-06-07 00:00:00

_ , . I. • HERTFORD4TREET, MAY-FAIR. MR. ROBINS informs the Public, that the FAMILY ItESIDENCIL, situate Na le, HERTFORD. writ s Mar-Faut, advertised for SALE on ,FRIDAY it Gsrraway's, is Disposed Of by PRIVATE CONTRACT. Warwick meet, GoldeweiPlare, eth lune, 1115. T, PiIRLLI MEIVTARr PROCEEDINGS. . HOUSE OP LORDS, JUNE _B. Th. Bag India Goods Bill in a Colimittee of the whole House. received some amendments on the suggestion of the Earl of BOCXINGRAMIIIISZ• To be reported to-morrow. The Irish Stamp Duties, the Caledonian Asylum, the White Herring Fishery, and a hp otter Marrero brought up from the Commons by Sir J. Gaol; Ass and others, and read s first time. Mr. Flidayson from the Admiralty, presented at the Bar cur tain papers relative 'to Naval Officers, pursuant to an order of their Lottibitips, which were ordered to lie on the Tabte. The Mirthern Light House; and the Board of Longitude Bills were read a third time and passel. On {h• mot'olis of the Earl of LAUDERDALE, t'te Ordbr for the comideratiort of the Pillory Abolition Bill, which stood for, 'Thursday next, was discharged, and then renewed for that day sennighi. • The Standing Order No. 94 was, on the motion of the Earl of DERBY, atiel alter a few words be tween ht. Lordship and the Earl of Layne Roaals on the occasion, ordered to be taken into consideration to-morrow with a view to its suspension, in the particular case of an Estate Bill then before the House, in which the Noble Earl is concerned; and for authorising his Lordship to declare his personal consent to the same in the House. The Lords were ordered tq he summoned on the occaelon. The Marquis of LANaDOWNE stated that his Noble Friend, who had given notice of his intention to bring forward a motion upon this subject that evening, and upon which their Lordships stood summoned, was unfortunately preveated by severe indis position (through which he was confined) from coming forward as he had proposed. He should therefore move to discharge the tat der, .and had to express the regret of his Noble Friend (the ratio( Darnley) at the inconvenience to which their Lordships might be put iu so anenliag. The Order was accordingly dis charged. Lord GROSVENOR presented a Bill, for the purpose of pre venting the Grants of Mikes in Reversion; which, after a few words Irons his Lordship in a low tone of voice, was read a first time, and ordered to be printed. Several Petitions were presented from different parts of Scot land, praying for the Repeal of the Cora BilL Earl STANHOPE presented one from certain Manufacturers and others, of the town of Stirling, which he moved should be read by the Clerk, which was accordingly done. On the question 4ir its lying on the Table— land REOESDALE3trongIy objected to it, on account of _its language and tenor,• which he held to be unjustifiable, disrespect ful, and inadmissible. Earl STANHOPE defended the language of the Petition : re specting which lie averred the Noble and Learned lord was mistaken. Persons who were starving shoald not be ealiected to exvess themselve. with that precision which may be necessary in pleadin, ; and he defied the Noble Lord to point out aI/ thing either in p nt of form or substance which should re liv have the effect of preventing the Petition from lying on the table. 1.01.1 itEDESDALE contended the language of the Petition was insulting that House, wttn.h bad concurred in passing the Bill. The allegation was equally unjustifiable, that the object us the Bill was to raise the prices of corn. The object of all those who supported the measure was entirely the reverse; besides the Bill had no such effect. He trusted their Lordships would feel tie necessity of a due attention to the dignity and character of the House with respect to the reception of Petitions. That be fore the House did not appear to be prepared by persons who were starving; but, front its tenor and language, to be the ma - nufact ere of persons of a very different description. Earl STANHOPE spoke in explanation; alter which the House divided on the question.—Con:ents lO—Non•Contents 20. Majority against receiving the Petition 10.—On re-admittance, '1 he Marquis of DOUGLAS was addressing the House as in troductory to a Petition which be presented against the Corn Act, from the Incorporation of Weavers of the Borough of Ru therglen. This was ordered to lie on the table. A second Petition, presented by the Noble Marquis, was front the Incorporation of Weavers of the same place. This alleged, among other things held to be objectionable, that . a mean aril flees were used in passing the Bill. Ott tits: question fur its lying on the table, W. 4 °pat' MELVILLE objected to the proceeding, and ex presse.l.Chi opinion that the language of the Petition was not only' ilisulttel; to weir Lordships, but appeared as if it were meant to be so. The Marquis of DOUOLAS and Earl STANUOPE defended the antis:bale or the Petition, which, they argued, had not the ten dency attributed to them by tile Noble Viscount ; and in this disensoon, the question o f the Corn bill was touched upon by Noble Lord'. • The Earl of LAUDERDALE supported the objections to re ceiving the retwon Rogue length. Adverting t 4 what bad taken trent the Noble Lord respecting the first Petition, be said it vddishi be difficuit to point nut a period where it could be less sail that the people Were starving than in the preseut.—(Hear, hear !) He contended that the Corn Bill would operate advan tageously in every point of view, particularly as affording a due security to the turner; and encouraging him to make farther exertions in the cultivation of his land. The Earl at ROTHES said a few wrda against receiving the Pc •1•0 „ Earl oranatoet and the Marquis of Douotos spoke in expla nation ; and the latter expressed his winiuguess (suit retaining his own opinion upon the subject) to withdraw the Petition. Earl STANHOPE.—e" I don't kite withdrawing the Petition: If the House don't like it, let. them reject it." The question was then put, and the Petition ordered to be ri neted. Two other Petitions for the repeal of the mine Act, one frem the Ineorporation of Masons in itutherglen 'and another (rem Jelituann, Renfrewshire presented by t h e Noble Marquis, were (adored toile on the t able. • The Marquis of DOUGLAS then presented a Petißon from certain inhabitants of the East District cif the City of Glasgow to the same dicta. The Petition being read, was deemed to, contain expressions so reprehensible, that Viscount XIELVILLE observed. that, in tenderness to the Pe titioners, and as the least he could say, be should move chit the Petition be rejected. This, after some conversation, in which Earl Srannoeg, Vis count Meavithc, and the Noble Marquis participated, was or 4ered accordingly. A Petition to the same effect, from a certain Parish in the County of Surfing, was nest ;Swotted.. Certain alleitattons in this Petition were strongly reprehended by the Earl of LAUDERDALE, who moved its rejection. •Lord REDESDALE warmly supported the motion. He thought that some siand should be made against the reiteration of such insults to the House, and against the receptionof Penis tiosis cuntainlog 'edifices Ilbels,tending to distitrb the public peace. The Marquis of DOUGLAS expressed a of send znent with respect to the ease before them; h=t r ieve weeds from the Earl at CARRNARVON asains - t lb" Nikko, It was or dered to lie rejected. On the'motion ',Viscount MELUILLs, the Edinburgh Cent* patty Courts Bill was read a secisid time is was 'the' clack-, matinah Ciao! Bill, after a feet rematiallem the Earl of LAU DERDALE. Thiother Bills 'upon the tabld bilag forwarded, the • kfouse adjourned till to-Marrow. . . • • HOUSE OF COMMOI44. Lori) Nelson's Estate, thS "hod Timber, and MOotralarrhiiir .canal Bulls, were seVeridly read *third dose sod palsol. Mr. PEEL moved for have td Ming le a BEI to Nubia Onto! Juries in Ireland to lactase the Wades olOonitabise. " He ON: faccdhls moVien by 'obseriatisni to Asti thipiopristy of the oteasur, one object of which was to grist soak protision to So perinnulted deicers. int to Maisie the pay of those In active s er v i ce, Which' does hot at present exceed' As slaw: • sir C. MWaco and Mr. CAI:CRAFT Made a few ebssevatioss e xpreniive of their otinctio of the Manure belts; Meopidtent . atad ip i satio ;aftee wh b, faavi was Oliva ! atid Mt hill Wostroncht fomit led - a int dme: ' ' • ' • ' Mf.'PEEL'lbisi'movon *to CorWhitten madder of tho' Act Of this losismiog ifts'Ssfarfof the Muter Of tin' a lib for Ira** T he fighso bat* gate Inuit!), Ceos:. inittsl liightActri.Ostitioati Rated . , t* ;vllllOl4 *Strto. pose to idd e 411 . 00 Year to the misty of this oficer, v r td e t toyid a Wilts it 44,160 810. lie tiouill Oa propose Miliaria, the radial tasks of tile mar Mika by .11000, whkb. would I. make it AS,SO6. The Mat* of the Mader of thh Rolls for Ire. • .1 land bad not been advanced since 11101 • the grant proposed i would put hint on the same footing of equality as Nye Master of els. Rolls enjoys in this country; the Irish Judees being alsvdy on the tame relative equality with those of England. tie paid SOW high compliments to the present Master of the liell4, foe the great ability and impartiality with which he had discharged his duties ; aid then moved that It be expedient to grant the said 'annuities in lush currency, out of the consolidated fund of Ireland. • Mr. ABERCROMBIE apprehended that by this regulation the salary of the Master.of the Rolls in Ireland would be sitede greater than that of the name Officer for England; the latter being, htbelieved, only £4OOO a year, with a house. The bu siness also done by each of these Officers bore no comparison, as much mere 1 Amur was performed by the Master in England. He therefore thought the subj ect required much consid t .ratlonots the increase appeared in the Might of a preliminary to the removal of the Officer in questioa. Mr. PEEL hi explanation, denied the last inference which the Honourable Gentleman had drawn. He added, that the Master of the Rolls in Ireland was subjected to the Income '1 az, hum which that Officer in England was exempt. Mr. HORNER decidedly protested against the measure, on all the grounds urged by Mr. Abercrombie. •Hr thought when the Irish Judges came year after year for an increase ul salary, the subject required more situation, in such times as these, than the House appeared disposed to give to it. It sea, a bad prece nt. Perhaps in another year the Lord Chancellor of Ireland might be brought forward as an object for an increase of salary, and be backed by the .Maoter of the Rolls. Mr. PLI.X. and Mr. Mutual,. ezplain.4 with some degree of warmth'. Mr. WHITBREAD said a few words in defence of the re• marks of Mr. Horner; • denying that he could meals to throw any personal imputation on the individuals its question. Mr. LOCKHART thought this measure might lead to a bur then on the - country, by inducing Masters of the Rolls so retire. The last person who held this situation had not retited trop ill health. But he had a still more serious objection to it, as such grants, so repeatedly and easily made, tended toren :er the great law °Sheers snore dependant on the Crown than they otherwise would be. Fur these reasons he felt a considerable repugnance to such frequent applicationd: he was not,, however, inclined to oppose the present grant. Mr. ABERCROMBIE said the House ought to be in posses sion of some-documents toshew the necessity of this increase. 'lle question was then put and carried, and the Report was ordered to be received to-morrow. Mr. JOHNSON presented certain accounts relative to Fines in Ireland. • DUTY ON BRITISH WOOL. Mr. WESTERN moved, that the House resolve itself into a Committee to consider the Act imposing a duty on British Wool sold by auction, and of• the propriety of bringing in a Bill to exempt all Wool cf British growth hom the payment of Auction Duties. He explained the justice of the exemption at sonic length, but his remarks were not audible in the gallery. Mr. FRANKLAND LEWIS seconded the mr tion. The farmers, he contended, had a 4 . .4 claim to every advantage of this kind, as they could not export wool nor even carry it coastwise, while tine woollens are imported to a great amount. The boon Wished for by the farmers would deprive the revenue of nothing,. as wool had never yet been disposed of by auction to any amount ; yet the aloption of such a mode of sale would be of advantage to the I miler as well as to the public, in this time of increasing public distress. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was not prepared to say that a revision of the Wool Act would not be highly desirable. But the exemp tions in favour of wool growers appeared to have been carried sufficiently tar : ' under the present cir cumstances of the country, he could never consent to the total exemption of any article from the duties to which it might be already liable. He would not, however, object to a committee to enquire into the propriety of reducing the Auction duty from five to one per cent. The Right Hon. Gentleman made 'several observations on the subject, which appeared to be indicative of his wish to do any thing reason: able to benefit the agricultural interest; ; but lie was not generally audible. Mr. 1). GIDDY was in favour of the Committee, for the reasons . urged by the mover and seconder. Sit H. PA RNE.LL complimented the Chancellor of the Exchequer for his liberal suggestion respecting the duty, and trusted his Honourable Friend would withdraw his present motion, in order to avail him self of it. He alluded to the advantage which Ire. land would derive from the measure, if duly conti dered; which, however, he could not think would be effectual, if adopted at the present late period of the Session. Mr. J. P. GRANT thou :;ht the proposition of the Chancellor of the Lxcliequer worthy of an enlighten ed British Minister ; and would advise his Honour able Friend to avail himself of it. • Mr. H. SUMNER was strongly in favour of the motion. He thought the Honourable Seconder had given but a feeble view'of the agricultural misery of • the country. Lord LASCELLES conceived, that the couv.ei sation which had taken place would be consulered as a notice, that the subject would be fully taken upin the next Session. , Mr. ROSE was of opinion, that no measure can or ought to be adopted respecting Wool without the most 'mature deliberation. He had no objection to see the duly reduced, as proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer; but not till a lull enquiry had taken place. He suggested the withdrawing of the motion. Mr. WESTERN contended, that the motion he had propoied was totally independent of the existing laws on the subject of Wool. He would not consent to withdraw it. The CHANCELLOR of the EAC, HEQAR explained : after which ;the question for going into the Committee was put and carried. The CHAIRMAN then read the Resolution— That it is the opinion of the*Committee, that it be expedient to bring in a Bill to rednce the duty on all British Wool sold by,AUction." The Resolption was agreed to, and the Hose having remand, the question for leave to bring in the Bill was put and carried without a division. MENDICANTS IN THE stertorous. . Mr. ROSE gave gotice that, on Thursday next, be would submit a on to the House relative to the state of Mendicity which at present existed in the Metropolis. — (Neer, hear). THE ASSESSED Tot ls. Mr. TIERNEY inquired whether it was theirs. tention of the Right Honourable Gentlemanopposite to propose any new Takes to defray the ' interest at tong ;opt of the funded 'and nnlunded Exchequer Bilis lined in consequence of the present emergency ; or Whether he meant to draw urn the inking Fund foi any de fi cit which may min the expellant* of the preasni . year ? The CHANCELLOR of the E . ;CHEQUER replied, - Oat if tse House adopted the schedule" of lusties t OT Dearly se t which he bid' already sub, ~ . - Z • witted , to their considerationNtleas ttntion to make any further proposition for t wi P! C l e of the Wren year. . • • Mr. TIERNEY ',ld, a v/s aware that although some of the items, such et the Wine Duty, &c. had been withdrawn; hat others, for instance, the Cols ,toms, Excise, Post-Office, Stamps, Newspapers, &c. remained to be considered. The whole estimate of these, inclusive, was, he believed, £1,600,000; he much doubted that it would be productive to this extent. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, the estimate stated the probable amount. The stamps were certainly calculated at a higher scale than might be realized; at all events, he thought the schedule would produce from £800,00) to a million -sterling, and he was not at present aware that a higher sum would at that moment be required. SANK DEPOSITS. Mr. GRENFELL gave notice that,. on Tuesday, he would submit a moron to the House relative to the public balances in the hands of the Bank of England. Mr.BA RING solicited from his Honourable Friend some idea of his intended proceeding. Mr. G REN FELL replied, that his object was to make those Kilances productive to the public, instead of bring exclusively so to the Bank. PRINCE REGENT'S DEBTS. Mr. BENNETT wished to know if there would be . any objection in the mind of the Noble Lord . oppo site to state the amount of the debts of a Royai Per sonage, to which allusion had been made on a former evening Lord CASTLEREAGH felt no difficulty in re plying, that the amount of those debts unpaid, up to the Ist of May, was et:39,000. Mr. TIERNEY thought this sum should be liqui dated, and that the country ought to get rid of such an eye-sore, and be at once released from the addi tional expense of managing those accounts. Besides, the creditor had no security for his claim, under exis. ting circumstances : it would surely be the more cre ditable course, both for Parliament and the feelings of his Royal Highness, that the whole debt should be done away at once. Both the debtor and the credi tors would certainly be more satisfied with such a line of conduct, and it would also be more congenial to the feelings of the country. —(Hear.) Lotd cAsTLERE:IGH.-4 , Perhaps, under the prevent circumstances of the country, such a measure would not appear the most economical." Mr. TIE RN EY.—" If not the cheapest, it would certainly be by far the most desirable plan." 1 A rir rb A r • .• t I I I TMANSPORTATM OF FELONS. Mr. HILEY ADDINGTON ,moved for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Acts relative to the trans port.tion of felons. Mr. HOLFORD was of opinion that a great deal remained to be effected between the convicts and the public in the reguhttion of those laws. Leave was then given to introduce the Bill. TREATY WITH HOLLAND. Mr. TIERNEY inquired when the Subsidiary Treaty with Holland would be laid before the House ? Lord CASTLEREAGH replied, to•morrow. PARISH APPRENTICES. Sir ROBERT PEELE ruse to move for leave to bring in a Bill, to prevent children under the age of ten years from being apprenticed out to manufacto ries, and for limiting the n daily period of their work to 10i hours, exclusive of. their times of meal, &c. The former Acts relative to this subject had failed, from, he was sorry to say, the inattention of the in spectors, he would therefore propose, that they should be 'mid a cotta n salary, as compensation for their, Libours, which would ensure the fulfilment of their duty. Considering that the Bill was one of such weighty importance, and introduced at so late a pe lion of the Session, that at present he should only have it read once, printed, and distributed about the country, preparatory to the introduction of one more perfect in the ensuing Session. And he hoped it would not be deemed as infringing on the rules of Parliament, if it were resolved, that all children under ten years of age, engaged by designing persons, pre vious to the enacting of the law, should not be con sidered as permanent labourers. The Hon. Baronet concluded by it o,lllg " That leave be given to bring in a Bill, to amend the laws relative to Parish Ap prentices." Mr. W. SMITH expressed hii unqualified appro bation of the measute, and only lamented, that the Honourable* Baronet would not press the Bill during the present Session, and improve it in the ensuing. Mr. HORNER did not know how far the Honour. able Baronet purposed to . extend the provisions of the Bill, 'but he could not help expressing an apprehen sion that the measure would be only palliative of the 'existing evil, and not proceed so far as Parliament should extend it. He censured severely the practice 'of sending parish children to distant parts of the tkingdom, as manufacturing apprentices, and termed., !Sea great deviation from the piinciples of hutnanity. ''The unfortunate children were thrown destitute on the mercy or cruelty of strangers, deprived of every advantage so necessary to persons of their age and situation. Many instances had occurreil.'where maim nufacturers becoming bankrupt, have made a resins,' sale of the gang: of children, who were thus sue cessively transferred from one master to another.-- !Advernsements have often appeared in the provincial newspapers of such intended sales, and in cons}H quenceof one of them, a criminal information had been, a short time since, filed in the Court of Kings Bench, but of the event he had not been informed, However, he could assure the House, that the situa= Lion and treatment of those children, were such as to astonidi the parishes who apprenticed them, they being often found in a state of famine and nakedness. But to sheer the House the manner in which the pa rishes dispose of those unhappy children, he would. mention a bargain that had some *short time since been made between the officers of a. London parish and a Lancastrian manufacturer : for every twenty sound children given from the parish, the manufac turerer weed to Cake one ideot off their hands.— (HeiF.)—lfe - tbought * that the attention of the House should be called to this subject ; and that the present system of sending children so far from their parishes snould be alttigeklier exploded. • • Mr. PHIL' LIPS stated that a great improirement had taken place ' in the .rnannticturing system, as far as it related to the employment of children, and to the gineistheldal'a the labourers. He read Tome ex4 s etS from, certa i ln retMiii Of the health, &c. o f one or two large manufaCtories; con fi rming his as set don, and concluded by expressing his approbatio-. of the Bill to be introduced by the Hon. Baronet. Mr. HOME SUMNER approved of the measure, and thought that a short Bill should be passed this Session, compelling all manufacturers to send in re turns similar to that read by the Hon. Gentleman Sir R. Pstu.ss and Mr. Rost; mad - ell - few observation on the measure. Leave was then given ; the Bill . brought Ins read - a first time ; otdered to be - printed ; and to be read a second time on this day se'nnight. INSOLVENT DEBTORS. Mr. HORNER preiented petitions. from the deb tors confined in the King's Bench and Marshal.sea Prisons, against the proposed alteration in the law; relating to Debtors.—O;dered to lie on the Table. EAST INDIA SidIPIING• The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUEL having moved the Order of the Day tor the Howe resolving itself into a Committee on the East Indic. Shipping Bill, Mr,. Alderman APZINS rose to (wore the w.o• Lion, arguing on the great injury which the operaticr of the Bill must cause to the thip.huilOing establisl: menu on the River Thames. If buat in India were suffcreil to be registered as Btitisli, and intitlec to all the advantage of home.huilt vessels, the destryc lion of our own ship ding would be the inevitable coo sentience. He read a docume).t laid before the How: J l Commons, by which he 'hewed, that between tht years . 1810, and 1815, there was built in India, ship ping to the amount of 38,000 tons, while dur:n? t1:- same period there were built or the Thames or.l , ‘26,ern. Of the India built shipping there wer. 28,000 tons appropriated to the trade with India while of that built on toe Thames there were 18,0(X) assigned to the same object. Between th:. years 1795 and 1804, the average nurnher of ship built on the River, were seven annually ; hut be. tween 180.5 and 1813, the numb nr had tallcia to two • and the workmen employed were reduced horn thre or four thousand to three or lour hundred personc._ The consequence of a reductiun so extensive, and i , . a concern so highly impottant 4 may be appreciatcr from a consideration of the great tactility with will& ships were prepared from the Thames estahlishrnent:. in case of any extraordinary enitiy,ency of the coun try, and how well those ships were capal,le sti, raining the severity of the mast tremendous Lagage merits. He particularised the CAW of that Let whtc.: was Rued out in three mouths, (or Lord Duncat and which gained the glorious victory off Campo down. if, said he, the ship-building establishment be transferred from England to India, and such at . other emergency occurs, whete can the country lot: for so ready an assistance as WAS exit received ? could it be obtained from India ?—(11:2r, hecr.) H contended that no apprehensions could seti.o.ty b. entertained fur the scarcity of oak timber, and 17 mented on the number orworkmen whom the preser Bill would necessarily throw nut tit employment. Mr.WALLACE replied, that rheprotection whir • it was intended to extend to ship building in Indi. was only such as the political and commercial state of that country required. The general tendency ef tt.e Bill was very much misunderstood. Ni) intentioo existed of admitting India built ships into every branch of our trade. They were to be confined to the Indian commerce, for which British ships aloe were wholly inadequate ; we should, therefore lose it altogether, unless we had recourse to Indian ship , Oe ;his the out.ports were well aware, and so tar w. the shipbuilding interest in them from being injury:, by Indian competition, that the tonnage built during the last year exceeded considerably the usual averar. The out-ports, then, not being affected, it was fair to consider the present question as one peculiarly affec ting the establishments on the Thames, which, whet. compared with the rest of she kingdom, or oppose • E t.) the commercial interests connected with the ship-building, were but of comparatively trifling in. portance. He argued against the opinion of the Bilt being hostile to the spirit of the navigation laws o :sir . regarded not ship-building, but principally cbmmerc and seamen ; and he quoted the words of the navir. don laws to shew that India, as being part of his fil• • jesty's territories, came within their scope and ()per: . don. On such a principle America formerly, err Canada at present, enjoyed the advantages of havin their ships registered as British, and surely Indi. had an equal right to receive the same advantage:, as far as affected her own commerce. (Near, hear With respect to the depriving so many shipvmghtset employment, that he thought was caused, not so much by the building in India, As by the peace sad their own improvidence. Their charges were so escn bitant as to drive from the Thames every species e i • ship-building, except that of the most expensive rue . and when deprived of it by the peace, their %item of course was destitute. He contended that the ship ping employed in die India l'rade .was nut one-fift'• of the entire building of England, so that touraths of the general trade still continued. Such would lo the case on the supposition that all the ships so en) ployed were built in India; • but there were many tea sons to prevent that. Ships built in India were, r. the first launching, dearer than those in Englak, because that most of the articles used were brougnt Erma England, such as copper, nails, cordage, canvas • anchors, &c. &c. by which mote than one-third the expense was actually paid in this country. If it We' a question of past services, he considered that the le• dian ships had as many claims to a participation iv dr advantages of ships built in England, as those wh weredesirous of excluding them from those advantag e Nothing could be more impolitic, in his opinion, tea. the exclusion of cheap ships, at the very tipie she the ships of all the world were entering into compt tition with us. In support of the expediency of the measure, he considered no authoeity was neon iinr tent than that of the Marquis Wellesley, who 114 declared it of the highest importance to the prosprriv of the port of l o ondon, which would thereby becom the emporium of Asiatic commerce for the whol world, and upon these grounds he, had been the ur. wearied advocate of this Bill. It any thing wa wanting to confirm his opinion upOu this subject, 1 . was the evidence which had been produced befor • the Committee with respect to the state of the grog' of oak timber in this country, from which it appear!. that there was actually a pract i ca l s carcity—oto °° viate which it was absolutely necessary to have re come to foreign countries for the necessary supplies for the Navy. • Mr. MARRYATT was fully aware of Ole ' ni t ranee of this *lett in a commercia l p oint c 1k did liac consider, liowever, on a mow -,„,.. ~ 1 ti • . 11 a B )1* IT a If tl re• c' •