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'THE HISTORY of the POOR, their RlG'al rs. DUTIES, and the LAWS rerpeding th.tu, continued to the Tear 1797. 13y THOS. RUGGI.ES , tfq. One of his 11,1ajeity's jailers of the Pc act :or the Counties of Erex and SuffalL. A few rernainini, Copies of this Work to be fold by I. White, Fleet street, price tBs. in boards. SECOND Ftwriom This day was publifhed, price 33. 6d. ftitched, THE EAST INDIA REGISTER a n d DIREC TORY for iBl5, correffied to the tath May, 'Roc, with fo dezes to the fame. and Lifts of Carushies during the Taft year — Compiled by pertniffion of the Hon. t;sc Eat kiliaCompany, from the Official Returns received at the EaR India Hoyle, by John Ma thifon and Alexander%Vay 'Alarms, of the Secretary'. Oilier. London : Sold by RI ides and Parry, Leadflillail lire t, and John Srockdale, Piccadilly. This day was puhlifbed, In Royal o,llawn, price Ono Guinea in tetra boards (containing Reviews of nearly goo articles. the s weater part of which have not been noticeddn any otherlterley„ The Third Volume, for tBog, of • I 'HE ANNUAL REVIEW, and HISTORY of 4. LITERATURE; containing a Critical Analyns of all the 'Works publifbed during each year, arranged In Chanters, cone frinding with the various branches of Human Knowledge, each of which is preceded by an Hiltoricalintroduglion. A. AIKIN, Editor. Print ettfor Longman, Hurft, Rees, and Orme, Paterrioffer-row. Of whom may be had, Vol. I. for ect2, and Vol. U. for tBo3. price One Gulea each. SWAD EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER FROM STOCKHOLM, " The Fnghlb public is but impsrfeelly acquainted with the espies that have induced his Swedilk Majefty to break off all, con• nylon with the Ceirfican Emperor of France, and to acknowledge Louis XVIII. as King of France and Navarre. The rapenre, vgainft the law of nitiove, of the Duke D'h NC U El N, almoll by the fide of the King of Sweden, whey a wither to his fatherin I .or, the lilts trz of Baden ; the intuit offered by the I/forret to M. •favas-r, the Aid-de Camp of his Swedith Majelly, fent to prevent the murder of thy Duke ; and the Confular libels in the Alimitrotr, are but the fecondary auks which occasioned the prefent rupture— The zeal and energy with which the King of Sweden defended the rights and liberties of Germany at Refill:ion, Induced BONATA T g and TA LLET RA ND to lutrigur for the purpofe of depriving him of Swedifh Pomerania, and, unlequeotly, of the right of being a Member of the Germanic laspire. When this intrigue was dileo 'teed, it was poStively affirmed however incredible t may appear, that TA LL TRA ND, by kis Mafter's orders, communicated to the Courts of St. Petesiburgh, Berlin, and Cr penhagen, a general plan for the partition of the kingdom of Sweden as well as the Tutkilh empire. At the lift partition of Poland, in I794,Aaltria's th 'TT of the fpoil was lets than that of Rollie or Profile; but it is Paid, that the two lacer Powers agreed, lo a ferret treaty,to indemnify her at the expence of Turkey. For the Mufti which Auftria foftained at tite Treaty of Luneville, France alto contented, in the ferret articles, to indemnify her at the expenee of the Ottoman Porte. Left year. when the Mfurgent Sea-Timis marched againft Belgrade, the Cabi net of Vienna, it is raid, demanded the execution of the ferret ar ticles. To this demand the Cabinet of St. Cloud immediately af tented, and in order to induce the Courts of St. Peterfburgh and I Berlin not to oppofe it, propoted, at the fame time, to divide the kingdom of Sweden in the fallowing manner: Sweelih Finland, together with the Provinces furrounding it, were to be given to Rulfia. Prulila was to obtein Swedills Pomerania, the Catchy of Mecklenburgh, and the Mends in the Baltic, Bornholm, and Gothland The Duke of Megklenhurgh was to receive Hoiftein, and the King of Denmark, as an indemnity for Holstein and Born holm, was to have the Swedifh Provinces of Scanla, Bleckingen, Helfand, and Beams, which were given up to Sweden by the Treaty didtated by Charles X in 1660, under the walls of Copen hagen. Had this propotal been agreed to by the refpedtive Powers, Sweden would have been reduced to what it was 300 years ago, comparatively the Mullett, and really the moft infignificant State in Europe. The Emperor of Ruffia, however, rsjeded the pro petal with indignation ; at the Court of Berlin, it was received, it is raid, more favourably, and in a great degree that explains the coolnets which tubfifts between the Swsdifh and l'suPan Govern ments." PARLIAMENTARY PROGEEDIAGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY, MAY 30. On the adjourned debate on the queftlon whether Mr. Juftice Fox mould attend above the Bar, or below the Bar of the Ilnufe„ Lords CARLETON, LIMERICK, CARIeARVON, CAR LISLF, &c. differed from the opinion of the Lord Chancellor as expreffed on a former night, and cootended, that the Judges in Ireland, as thole in England, when called on to attend nn the Houle, thould he admitted above the Bar,and that though they had not yet received, they ought Rill to receive Writs of Affiflance. Lord SOMERTOUN (Archbifbop of Dublin) fuggtfttd the propriety of at haft not coming to any derifion in the prckint in- Ranee, which min ht teem to prejudge the rights of the Judges a Ireland; but CIA the queßion mould be open for future confldera. 6011. He therefore hinted that it might be tlrown in as a conco mitant in the order for Mr Juftioe Fox's attending at the Bar— ' " He not having yet received his Writ of Al llance." The LORD CHANCELLOR and Lord HAWKESBURY fupported the original motion. Agreeing to the addition laft pro pelled, would be confeffing that the Judges of Ireland were enti tled to have writs of athftance 'fitted to them. Lord AUCKLAND repeated the doubts he had formerly ex • preffed, but concluded by moving an amendment which bethought would keep the queftion entire, and to watch the Noble and Learn ed Lord could not die& The words were—. Mr. Juftice Fox not having had a writ of aflifttnee iffued to him." The LORD CHANCELLOR expreffed his readtnefs to eon cur in this amendment, as it would keep the queltion entire. He, at the fame time, had no hefitation in faying that he entertained no doubt on the queflion of right. The Earl of CARNARVON and Lords CARLETON and HOLLAND could not agree to get quit of the queition in the manner now *Rented to. Either there was a right, or there was no right. They could not think it confiltan with the ammeter po an ed. d dignity of the Hunfe to e va d e th e deci fi on in the way pro -1 -On this the Houfe divided.—For the Lord Chancellor's ;notion, propofed to be amended, namely, That Mr. Jolliet Fox not having had a Writ of agifiance Wiled t• him, do attend at the Bar of the Houfe."—Contents 18—Not Contents zo.--Msjority 8. The Committee on the Patients Bill was then poßpotwal till Thurfday.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Me. I. H. BROWNE prefented the teemed Report of the Com mittee on the Caledonian CanaL Ordered to lie ou the table. The report was brought up from the Committee appointed to enquire into the propriety of conveying coals to London by the Paddington Canal. The report Rated, that in the prefent preffure of time, the nseeffity of examining a great number of witpeffes, the Committee are not yet enabled to make a full report. Their opinion, however. la, that it will be proper to admit the convey ance of fifty thoufand tons of coals by that calm], between this and the tit of June, !Hob. An Account was prefented from the office of the CHef Seers-- tary for Ireland, of the amount of Salaries payable to the Lords of the Treafury in Ireland. Sir CHARLES PRICE prefented a Bill to amend the Aa of the 39th and Goth of the Ring, refpeding the Weft India Docks, and for making conepenfatlon to the Carmen and Carters. Read a OrR time, and ordered for a fecond reading. Went into a Committee on the Loyalty Loan BilL Ordered to report to-morrow. Read a third nine, the Parnafter's Bill—plied and ordered to the Lords. Went intna Committee on the Poor BilL To report tb-morrow. Prefented, and read the fiat time, the Dublin Police Bill;. and the London Fith Bill. Ordered for the fecond reading to morrow. Op the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUeR, the Smuggling Bill was committed, and it being underflood, that certain parties again(; the Bill (honld be heard on the Report, the Report was received, pro/erne, and ordered to be taken into frr thee confider.. on this day fetinight. The frith Diftillery Bill was committed, and ordered to be re. Bill war read a third time and paired. .~ ~yl. P The Irina Malt Bill was Ordered to be read a third time to te o row. The Report of the Refolutlona of the Dahlin Pavingrornmittee was brought up and referred to the Expiring I.sws Committee, which latter was ordered to fit to.morrow. The Houk went into a Committee on the lei& Well India Trade Free Ports Bill. The Report.was ordered to be received. to-morrow. A Bill was ordt rod. purfuant to the Refolution of the Com- ' Mittec on tLe India Woollen duties. The Houle in a Committee agreed to continne the bounties to the South Sea Whale Fifhcry, and a Bill w s ordered. • The Trifb Eat Sic Licence Bill was paffed. The Report of the Mlle Cuftoms and Excite Bill was brought up. and the Bill ordered to he read a th;rrl time to morrow. The Ijoufe went into a Committee on the Nib Poft Duty Bill. The Rep , rt was ordered to he received to-morrow. The Auditor's Bill mitred through a Committee, and the Re port was ordered to he received to. morrow. A Committee was ordered for to-morrow, to confider of the heft means or improving the North fide of the Harbour of Dublin, for the reception of Ms - 111j, fty's Packets. The Chairman of the Committee on the reps'es of Sir !Tome Popham's fqua ron made the report of the anfwer prepay d by that Committee to the Me (Lee -tithe- Lords refeired to them, that the points to which it was tho.r intention x rl St. Vivernt fhould be examined. were the proceedings of . the Board of Ad miralty with refped to the repairs .bf the Romney and Set fitde the Report made to them on that fobjed in Fehruat; , 0,04 ; the improving David Ewing Bartholomew ; and whether thole tranfaetious were with the knowledge and concurrence of the No ble Earl. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHECaII R moved, that this fern be taken into further confideration to-morrow.--gr dered. The Lords Amendments in the Military and Naval !inquiry 13:11 were taken into confideration, and being merely clerical, were agr, ed to. Mr. J EFFERY, of Poole, in eonfequence of the notice be bad given, moved fir a return of the correlpondence between the Antl miralty and Navy Board, from the tit January to the 55th May, 1804, refpeaing the fupply of Oak timber for his Maleity's Navy.; the names of perfons and places to be omitted if the intercfts of the public fervice required it. Aifo fur an Account of the quantity of fingftlit Oak in flare, from the tit of January, 1791, to the prefent time, and particu lanling the Quantity in Store, the 3111 of December, in each Year. Alto a lift of the (hips of the line and frigates paid off from the ft of Odtobrr, iBOl, to the Bth March, 1803, for the purpofe of replirs, and Stewing the (tate of repairs nrecitary for each,in order to fit them for fervice, with fume other documents neceffary to complete the information of the Houle, a part of which only was contained it, the papers on the Table. Which motions, after Tome ohkrvations from Admiral Mark ham, who did not object to the fulfill returns, were agreed to. port dto marrow. The Irlt4 Duties MIDDLESWX ELECTION. Mr. PETER MOORE prefented a petition from feveral per fon, fummoncd as wittuffes en the part of Mr Mainw.ring, before the Committee on the Middiefex Elodion, complaining that the agents for that Election refuted to make them due rompenfation. Mr. Moore Rated, that a petition to the fame effect had been pre tented to a Noble Lord, the Chairman of that Committer, about two months fince (Lord Methuen), and that the Noble Lord had given it to the Solicitor, with a hope that juftice would be done to the parties without farther trouble. The Solicitor, however, had done nothing in the matt e r. A f econ d P et i t i on was then o ffered to him to prefent to the Houfe ; be put it into the hands of the Noble Lord, and it was again referred to the Solicitor, who pledg ed hinifelf to Mr. Moorc that juftice thould be done. Six weeks bad now cbpfeil, and no juftice waa done—and, therefore, at the recommendatirm of the Noble Lord, it became his duty now to offer the Petition to the Houk, praying their interference to fee jultice door. Mr. SPEAKER felt it his duty to obferve, that until the objtdt of the Petition was more fpecifically defined, it was uncertain whether the Houfe could Interfere. If it was for compenfation from the public purfe, undoubtedly it woul•t not be proper for the Houle to receive it. If, for the Houfe to interfere, in order that the party might be obliged to pay his own witty ties, certainly it would be very proper. At pref . , nt it would bear either eonftruc don. If the latter was the objea, it would be better to read the precedent of the Carlifle Cafe, in order to thew the Houle the propriety of entertaining the Petition, if it thought fit. The precedent entered was read, and the Petition reeelve4, zed enicred to lie on the table. IMPEACIINFIT OF Loma MELVILLE. Mr. WHITBREAD role, and obferved, that in confequence of an intimation that the Report of the Sele&Committee would not be pi inted and ready for delivery before Saturday next, and conceiving the intermediate time with the intervention of the holi days, might not afford Members fufficient oppor tunity of reading that Report with the confideration it required, preparatrry to the dircullion of which he had given notice as for Thurfday next ; he conceiv ed it would be deferable further to poßpone his mo tion until a fubfeqnent day. It was his intention to have named Mrndgy fe'nnight, but underßanding that would not be a convenient day for the Right Hon-urableGentleman oppofite to him (Mr. Pitt), he thould name Tuefday fe'nnight. -The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, on the grounds Aligned, agreed to the propriety of poft• poning the Hon. Member's motion. But the Hon. Memiber had alfo given notice of his intention to move Certain other refolutions, the fubjeEt of which was to be his (Mr. Pints) conduit. Of the nature of thofe refolutions he was not apprifed, but if t!ey did run to any great length, fo •as to require much time for confideration—if the Hon. Member did not mean to bring forward thofe refolutions on a ditlialtday, frquent to his firft motion, he could with it to be brought forward at an earlier day. • Mr. WHITBREAD replied, it was h;s with to bring it forward on as early a day as potrible, but the Right Hon. Gentleman midi perceive it was neceffary the Houfe thould be fully in potreflion of the Report, upon the fubftance of which his refolutions would be founded, as involving the conduit of the Right En. nourable Gentleman ; and that the difcuflion repell ing the impeachment of another perfon, a Noble Lord, (hould precede the propofition of thofe refolu tions,ab they would be materiallr conneeed with that • difcuflion. He thould gratify his own feeling more by bringing them forward on Thorfday than on the I ,, ng:•r day, but the motives he had affigned to the Houle would, he hoped, juflify him in•the delay.— It was his intention firlt to move the impeachment, and, immediately after that thould be difpofed of, the Refolutions. Mr. CANNING was for the difcuoion upon the Refolotion.s being on a diltindl day, and Caw no rea fon why it might not be much earlier than Tucklay fe'nnight. Mr. HENRY LASCELLES raid, the only arti cle in the Report which went to found the impeach ment of Lord Melville, was that refpedling the affair of Mr. Trotter. The other three articles, which eon cerned the Right Hon. Gentleman below him (Mr. Pitt), were thofe refpeeling Mr. Raikes, Mr. Jelltcoe, and the borrowing of forty thoufand pounds, which were totally dinina from the other. He could, there fore, fee no reafon why any refolutions, founded up on thofe articles, might not.be brought forward at a much earlier day ; and if no other Member of the Committee should be difpofed to move that thofe re folutions be taken into confederation at an earlier day, he would move it himfelf immediately after the reed's. Mr. WHITBREAD would put it to the difcretiro of the Honourable Gentleman, and the candour 4,1 the Houk, whether it was in ffriEl confot.mity with the habits of Parliamentary proceeding, when one c.. ' Gentleman gave notice of a rary:on for a particular day, that another (Ito , i'd ti i• .ii.d trove t.i bring it forward on an eat Att. tiy.y. Sit,h a proceeding, he believed, would not he t'ecmed very decorous, nor cooldhe think that rte Hoii4e would countenance it. He was not thc organ of the Committee, nor did he ever airtime fo to be. Before he had formed any in tention of to inning forwa.d any motion for the im peachment of Lord Mel' nbferving no fuch in tention to be mentioned on the Committee, he afked the Hon. Member who was Chairman, whether it was intended to bring forward any motion on the fubjelt ? and underßood from him it was not. He then felt it his duty to bring forward the motions of which he had given notice, and he trolled the Houfe would allow him to choofe the mode and order which he deemed moll expedient for the public gond. Mr. H. LASCELLES apologiftd, by ilating, that what he had faid with refpeet to his intention of mov ing an cattier day, had been without adverting to the cultomary order of proceeding, which he thould be lorry to infringe npon. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER alked, if the Honourable Member meant to move thc Impeachment and the Refolutions both on the fame day ? Mr. WHITBREAD anfwered, he fhoold certainly be ready to bring forward the Refolutions, as foot; after the impeachment thould be difpofed of, as any Member of the Houle Should be inclined to hear him. Mr. FOX obferved, that undoubtedly if the Right Hon. Gentleman or his friends wifhed the refolutions to be moved 6rft, they might, Without irregularity, do fo. They would judge. As to the intention an notinceo by the Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Laf celles). that likewife was matter of difcreuon far the Minifter and his friends ; and delicate as it might feem in the Right Hon. Genticsmn'g friends, or in the Hon. Member, to bring forward filch a motion, he was free to own that it was competent to any Mem ber of the Committee fo to dn. Here ended the converfation. CURATES RILL. The ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the third reading of the Stipendiary Curates' Bill. Mr. BARHAM oppoled the motion. He thought it a Bill that took away part of the property of the Re tor, although the Duty was performed. If the duty were not performed, he might fee tome reafon for the meafure. The Bill was at variance with ex- Ming items, and at variance with its own enat ments. If the property of the church was to be at tacked, let it be attacked direftly and openly, and not indirdlly and in difguife. He was one who with ed the Church fupported by the State, believing our church to be upon the whole the pureft church in Chriflendom. But the prefent Bill tended to vitiate the Conflitution, and fithvert the ellabliihmert of the Church. Not only the eedellaftical, but political power it conferred on the Bifhops was alarming. It gade opportunities for their interfering in elections, which, from cafes eafily to be remembered, might be much and very gtievoufly abnfed. On the other hand, it (honk to the bate the foundation of all eccle fiallical property. The tenure of fuch property would, after the paling of this Bill, Arnold it pars, be totally changed. The (tale of appropriation did not meafure income by the nectaities of the curate, but by the opulence of the living. What, under the circurnilances, he Ihould ha% t. thought, and did think, molt defirable, was to have moved for a Com mittee to examine into the flames bearing on the fob jeft, and generally to confider of the belt mode of re gulating the interefis of the Curates and others af feed by the prefent queftion. Mr. ALEXANDER was decidedly inimical to the meafure. Ever fince the commencement of the French Revolution, Church property was• rendered infecure by new doetrines. The prefent 841 partook of the chardler of the Revolutionary edicts of the French Jacobins. Church property is uafettled by fuch laws. The King and Parliament ought to refill innovation in the rights of property with regard to the Church. Mr. FULLER knew that in the County of Suffex, which he had the honour to reprefent, the Clergy had not had time to make up their minds as to the Bill. —He, therefore, if feconded, fhnuld prefs that the Bill fhnuld not be read a third time until this day Gx month,. Mr. DEVERELL thought the meafure both pre. mature and imperfect. He (hould not have oppofed it if it had thrown the Church property into a mafs, and propofed to appoint a Vicar Gtneral of Church Revenues, who Ihould dittribute incomes to the Cu rates as they might be worthy. At prefent it was a Bill to enlarge and extend the patronage of the Bi. (hop. It it W.ll, for the good of the public, he Mould not objeCi ; but when it was a Bill empowering the Bilbops to rsife the incomes of the Curates to tsol. or 2501. a year, it was a Bill of mere diocefan patro nage. As far as it changed the ufage of the law of the land, it was fill more objectionable. No appeal laid but to the Qnarter Seffions, or the Archbiffiop in London. It took away the ordinary option of the common law. For all there reafons he thought the rneafure nittfht to be poflponed. Mr. GRAHAM had fo great an ()Net:film to the Bill, that ha would fiippott the Amendment.— The sill placed the Clergy in a worfe lunation than any other of hit Majesty's fubjees. It was a Bill to enforceihe reliance of Curates. but to tallith the Rectors.. Mr. HAWKINS BROWNE fupported the Bill. It went no.farther than other Statutes, excepting in as far as relatcd to livings above tool. a year. The oblation to"thiflaw would be a good oblation to all other laws, . Mr. POLE CAREW thought the meafure incom plete. It ought to have been deviled fo as to em. brace the fubje& of great Ecelefiaffical Bodies, that did not give more than from vol. to 501. a year, though their revenues were enormous. Lord PORCHESTER went over the grounds of his former arguments againft the meafure. He thought the meafure founded on the antient Jacobin principle. The worn reform and innovation would be, if it were attempted, to reform the Church on thole principles fo exploded by Gentlemen over againft him on former occafions, yet the very principles now let up in this Bill. If the Gentlemen of Oppofition had Paid, in 1794 or I •t 95, that the Church revenues were falaries, mere properties,wh:ch the public gave and the public might take awa7, the other fide ivould have denounced filch language as unwarrantable and unconititutional. He thought the Bill uoprineirled, ineriberent. and %ticked. He moved an amendmm% that this fill be read a third t;ine this day tLr, mnt The ATTORNEY GENERAL defended e, meafure, hut cc:mid r.r.t E 0 over a ground of arg:. ment which had hen previoully fn conteßed. ti t infißed that there was nothing new in the principle of the Bill, and took 'flame to lrmfelf for nothing E much as that he did not introduce it before. The Honfe now dividet*,for the otig:nal ma. tion, 38—for the amendment, 7—Majority for the Bill, 2r . The Bill was accordingly read a third time. and, after tome verbal amendments, paired, and fent to ti . !. Lords. CALICO PRINTERS, Mr. P. MOORE rote, purfuant to notice, to mt; the appointment of a Committee to examine the pe tition he had the honour to prefent to the Houfe in the month of March fait, from the Journeymen Ca lien Printers ; and alto to move that the evidence taken before a Committee in the courfe of the latt ledion upon this fubjea, fhould be referred to the confideration of the laid Committee, in order to make a )report thereon, In bringing forward this bulineft, the Honourable Member was glad to fee the Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Pitt) in his place, as he was led to believe that that Right Ho. nourahle Gentleman was not unfriendly to the objeet of the Petitioners ; but on the contrary, rather dif pofed to accelerate their relief, and to render them complete jußice. The knowledge of this circum fiance without doors would., he hoped, have the ef fed of urging the matters in the calico printing trade to accede to that amicable adjuilment with the jour neymen, which had bun fo firotigly recommended by an Honourable Friend of his (Mr. Sheridan) about the dole of the lail fawns. It was very Much to be regretted that inch an adjußmeot had not taken place, and the difinclination of the mallets to content to it, rendered it indifptnfably neceffary to the caufe of jullice, that fome legiflative proceed ing fhould be adopted. He had confillted with the Chairman of the Committee which fat fall lemons, and it was his opinion, with that of many other Members of that Committee, that it was highly pro per that fomething decided fhould be done. The queßion for confideration, as it (frock him, was this, whether the ordinary and ellablifhed relation between mailers and journeymen in the other mechanical profeffions fhould exill in the trade of the Calico Printers. At prefent no fuch relation did mill. All the advantages of the Winn of apprenticeihip were, in this trade, on the fide of the mailers, which, the moment an apprenticelhip expired, the perfon who ferved it was likely to be thrown out of bread, with out even the chanciof futuri employment. It was, he contended, one of the fit ft duties of a good go. vernment, particularly in a trading country, to at tend to a cafe of this nature. While the fyflem of prenticefhips went on, it was furely unfair that it fhould operate altogether in favour of one of the contrasting parties ; the one devoting fo many years of his life to qualify himfelf to work as a journey man at a trade, from the opportunity of employment at which the meter excludes him, by the extreme and fucceffive multiplication of apprentices. In con fequence of this practice, there were at prefent fome thoufands of journeymen calico printers out of work, the greater part of whomare refufid employment, %Welk they content to figs a fecond contrast, or in denture, binding themfelves to ferve a kind of fecond apprenticefhip, on the terms ptekribed by the me ters. The difference between the wages of an ap prentice and a joarneyman was; be °bre:wed, from as. and 76. to 245. and 301. per week. Of courfe the mailers were naturally difpofed to prefer the for mer. It was, however, incumbent on thole to whom the duty of legiflative arrangement belonged, to confider fairly the interefts of all claffes. And the interest of the mailer was not, furely, entitled to loch a preference as fhould put that of the journeyman entirely out of view. But with refpea to the intereft of the community ; the value of any article of ma aufaeure was to be eflimated in a peat meafure with reference to the price of labour. Now, as the calico printers fold their goods at a price, founded on the rate of wages at 3os. per week, although they ob tained perfons to work at 41. and 7s. it !truck his mind that they had more profit than they were jullly entitled to. For the fast was, that although the jour. neymen were deprived of their fubfillence, to make way for the employment of boys, and thus to reduce the expence of manufacture, no reduction whatever took place in confequence, of the price of the article to the public. All the profit was confined to the mailer—none whatever, was given to the confumer. It really appeared to him that inch a cafe formed a fit fubjea for taxation, and ought to be made pro duaive to the revenue. The Hon. Member conclude ed with fubmitting his motion. Mr. ROSE was ready to admit the importance of this queflion, and was fully inclined to give the us. moil attention to the prayer of the petitioners. Their cafe, he was well allured, was Mervin.; of confider. ation. But from the' knowledge he had of a limilar bufinefs in the courfe of the two lall felCons (the Cotton Weavers Petition) he was much afraid that the fubjea was too cotnpticated to be gone into at the prefent advanced period of the feffion ; that it could not be difpofed of in one or two days, as the Honourable Mover feemed to imagine, nor in fo many weeks. He therefore fubmitted to the Honour able Gentleman, whether it would not be better to papone the matter till the next lei:lion, when as early as be chofe to bring i t forward, be (Mr. Role) fhould be ready to give /um any afii Rance in his power. Mr. EGERTON and Mr. LASCELLES thought the cafe of the petitioners highly deferving of atten tion, but concurred with the Honourable Gentleman who fpoke lalt, that it was too late in the feffions at prefent to give it all the confideration that was due to it. Mr. MOORE expreffed his unwillingnefs to prefs the fubjea at prefent. He writhed and hoped that Minifter would take up the cafe of the petitioners, and have juftice done to them. They could hardly fele& a cafe whore the exertion of their influence would do them more honour. The petitioners he felr to be treated with great injuffice, and he miffed that the Gentlemen who proferred a dirpofition to at tend to their claims, would give him their aflitiance next feffions, when, at an early period, he pledged himfelf to bring the fubje.ft before the Houfe. • The Honourable Member, with leave of the Houfe, with -drew his motion.—Adjgurned.