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Conduit-street. _ PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDING& 11017 SE OF LORDS, M. 7. •After the en txcrt.r.eit had heard Appeals in the morninp,the 'House adjourned, and Inet gain at thy• u4uA hour in the eeenieg. The TAWD CI IA Vt'CL LOH laid on the table the Answer of his 'Majesty to the Address on his Speech, which was ordered to be entered on the Journals. Several Acreirts relative to the state of the Ccmsnlidated Fund, the Public Revenue, and Debt, were ordered, on the mo tion of the Karl of Idvnf:Rt•a I.E. _ . . The F.ari of SD A rrEsitu 11Y presented a Petition from the Manufacturers of Norwich. against the Duty on the im portation of Foreign Wool—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKkit took the Chair at Mil-past three o'clock, and immediately announced to the Unite that his Majesty had been pleased to return a most gracious answer to the loyal and dutiful Addri‘s of the Coeunons Howie of Parliament, which he then read. and which was °Meted to be entered on the Jour nals of the House. _ M. Ad TAYLOR presented a Petition from the Wharf ingers, Lightermen, and others, usually plying on the River Thames, praying that some measure might be devised v.) remedy Cie present dangerous state of London Bridge. Mr. DOM E SUMNER presented a similar Petition from the Watermen, &c. plying on the south side of London Bridge, end another from the Wharfmgers generally on both sides of the Bridge.—They were all orkiered to be printed. • General G ASCOYN E brought up a Petition from the Cor porati4n of Livetpcol of a local nture; and another from the Corporation of • Dublin, praying that a Bill might be brought in to provide for the Improvement of Dublin Harbour. Mr. BASTARD presented a Petition for leave to bring in;. NU to build a Harbour at Peor, in Devonshirt _ _ Mr. C. H.IRVEY presented a Pecidon from Norwich. praying [sr a Repeal of the Duties on WooL Lord LOWTHER brought up a Petition from the ler ehar.ts, Nlanufacinrers, and others, of Kendal, praying for a Repeal of the Wool Duties. . Dr. PIi!LVDICIRE gave notice ' that on Wedmaday next be Should move for leave to bring in a Dill to amend the ,Mar riage Act. TIISV AYNE moved for a Return, stating the whole quent:ty a Tin imported into Greet Britain during the year curing Janu •ry 5, d.sriugui-hing the 3everal Counties into which it has been imported; also for an Account of all Exports of Tut from this Country during the s:tnie term. I'ARLIAXIENTART NOTICES. Selman 49 WE AMU" 184 n. Tiesolved, That upon evens Petition which shall be presented t• the House during the present &SAM, and referred to a Corn minee to examine the matter thereof, and report thereon to the House, the Committee do examine, in the first whether the said Petition be the sante in substance as any Petition for the same purpose, and from the same parties, in the last Session cf Parliament, and whereupon any proceedings were pending oa the dissolution of the last Parliament ; and, in such case, that all Minutes of Ferkiencer together with the Documents therein referred to, which were taken before the former Committee on such Petition, be received in evidence of the matter of the said Petition, and in proof of the Standing Orders haling been cone , plied with in respect thereof. Resolved, l'het the Committee upon any Private BPI do et 'mane, in the first place, whether the said Bill be for the same purpose as any Bill which was presented in the last Session,and contain the sante Clauses and Provisions as were contained in sech forme: Bill in the last stage of its proceeding, and where upon any proceedings were pending on the dissoluiion of the last Pariiament ; and, in such case, that z!1 Minutes of Evidence, together with any Document therein referred to, which were taken before the former Committee on such Bill, be received in Svidence of the allegations therein contained, and in proof of the tanding erders having been complied %a itb, in respect thereof. The Ikuse wes moved, That the Standing Order of this House, of the 18th day of June, 1811, " That all Petitions for Private Bills be presented within fourteen days after the first Friday in the r.ext, and every future Session of Parliament," might be read ; and the same being read— lved, That this House will not receive any Petition for Private Bill; after Friday, the 5:11 day of May next. Resolved, That no Private 11:11 be read the first time after Tuesday, the 30th day of May next. Resolved, That this House will not receive any Report of such Yrivate Bills after Monday, the 19th der of June next. ANSWER TO THE ADDRESS. The CIIANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER sivould briefly premise, before submitting a motion which he had to make, that he had searched the Journals of the House, and had found two prece dents in former reigns, wherein it had been the prac tice of the House to return thanks for the Royal answer to the Address presented to the Throne by the first Parliament of a new reign; therefore, as Ilonourable Gentlemen had now heard read fiont the Chair the most gracious Answer of his present Majesty, he should trove, " That an humble Ad dress be presented to his Majesty, returning the most humble thanks of this House for his gracious answer to the Address—that such Address be presected to his Majesty by such Members of this House as were Members of his Majesty's Privy Council." The motion wus agreed to. The SPEAKER then requested that any Members having Election Votitions to present, would bring them to the table. General GASCUYNE presented a Petition from Valentine Blsko, Esq. complaining of the undue Election of Preuder rot., F.sq. for the Town of Gal cry, is Ireland.. Ordered to be taken inter cor.iderattun upon the ;with of May. _ Sir JAUES GRAHAM presented a Petition front Mr. Thompson and Mr. Attu-mil, complaining of an undue Return LA- the Borough of Callingtoo, in Corrawalr. To be costaidera4.: upon the Nth of delay. COLONIAL DLTTLES. Mr.BROUGHAM• had now to move for a Piper, neerisary for the discussion which was to have oc curred upon Thursday, but which it was now under- 1 stood wcald be deferred till Friday. For the better elucidation of the subject then to be considered, and of which he had already submitted OW or two no tices, it would be proper that he should move for the presentation of an humble Address to his Majesty, praying him to direct the production of a document which must in fact be considered as a private docu went, because there was no .Act of Parliament under which he could be enabled to get at it. For the con venience . 6r the Noble Lord not now in his place,. and who, 6e believed, was indisposed, it had been intimated that the discussion in question v.ould not occi:i till Friday. lie should therefore pre v io us l y st.eve such Address, praying h is Majesty to direct that there may be laid before this House, the copy of an Act passed by the Government of the Lland of Barhadoes, iu the year 1663, laying a duty of 444 per cent. upon all produce exported. This Act, the house would observe, applied to Barhadoes, Gre- Dis I A, and the other Settlements, which ia, the year 1663 were considered the a captured Islands ;' and in the welj s -known case of Paul Campbell against' the Crown, it as held that that Barbadoes Act did riot apply to the Leeward Islands. Having no cer .tain dates upon which he could make a specific mo tion, he would, with the leave of the House, submit, in addition, the general proposition of " all other Acts authorizing the Crown to levy a duty of 4 1 4 percent. upon produce exported from the West In dian Islands."—Agreed to. - - wEfull'ES AND MEASURES. Mr. H. SUMNER said, the County of Surrey la boured under very great inconveniencies, owing to the varying and uncertain state of weights and mea sures. The Honourable Gentleman stated, that the City of London had formerly felt the great I inconvenience and disadvantage of a similar state of things, and conceived that, acting tinder their own authority, they were capable of subdiving the stand ard measure in the Exchequer, and of making those subdivisions the standards of weights and measures their jurisdiction. Now the County of Scrrey having no means of obtaining that standard Exche quer measure, took its own standard from that of the City of London, and nothing could be executed with more apparent accuracy than these weights and measures of the County were. But the County was immediately convicted for having so done, and now laboured under the state of one using weights and measures no longer established by law ; the conse quence was, that the Public were liable to be de frauded to any excess, without any possibility of re ess. At the time when he first brought this sub ject under the notice of Parliament, he gave notice 'that he should move for leave to bring in a Bill in order to remedy so great and manifest an inconveni ence ; but the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on that occasion; seemed to wi,ll that he (Mr. Sumner) should suspend such a measure, seeing that a Corn ! mittee had been already. appointed to inquire into matters of this kind ; and to intimate, that in conse quence • some general Bill relative to weights and measures would be introduced by his Majesty's Mi nisters. Thus the case had ctood two years; and though he was perfectly aware that the labours of, the Committee had been greatly retarded, in conse quence of investigating new specimens of Bank notes, yet be thought it time that some definitive infortna firm on the subject should be afforded ; and his ob ject in now rising was to ask the Chancellor of the', Exchequer whether the labours of that Committee were concluded, or whether, in consequence of their investigation, it was their intention to introduce any general measure relative to establishing a standard of weights and measures? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was not entirely prepared to answer the question of, the Hon. Gentleman. The subject was one which had lo:ig occupied the attention of his Majesty's Mi 7l rsters. He was quite aware of its importance, but, he apprehended that no general measure could be' brought in during the present Session: some preli minary steps, however, might be taken. COURTS OF JIiSTICE IN SCOTLAND. Mr. H. CLIVE brought up a large mass of papers, containing the Report of the Committee appointed CO inquire into the Fees of the different Courts of Jus tice in Scotland; &c. Lord A. HAMILTON proceeded to make several comments on these Papers. He begged to be in tOrnied whether it were tree that a new appointment had taken place, or was about to take place; namely, that of a fourth Baron of the Exchequer in Scot land ? He saw, with regret, that no respect what ever had been paid to the suggestion.; of the Com mittee, relative to the diminution of judicial ex penses, nor any one earthly measure adopted in fa: your of the Public, as regarded the decrease of its burdens. He asked, therefore, whether such vas the intention of his Majesty's Ministers, in the event of a vacancy? The LORD ADVOCATE replied, that the ap pointment had already taken place, several weeks ago—( Cries of Name, name ! Who ?). Lord A. HAMILTON, after this information, could no longer doubt the fact. He shonld feel it his duty to bring the sulject before the House; but at present he was not prepared to say whether he should do so by moving:fora copy of the appointment, or for a vote of censure upon the adviser of such an appointment. • The LORD ADVOCATE bad no doubt but that he should be able to satisfy the House of the pro priety of any measure of this sort which had been adopted, when the period arrived for its discusssion. Sir JOIIN NEWPORT was exceedingly anxious that his Hon. Friend should bring this motion under discussion, either by moving for a copy cf the ap pcin:ment, or by any other mode of proceeding which he might think proper. He greatly lamented that not one step had ever yet been taken to realize the suggestions cf many of the most useful and intel ligent Meinbers of that Committee. - Mr. BROUGHAM wished to know from the Learned Lord Advocate of Scotland, whether Gram certain offices in the Jury Court of Scotland, and which, in consequence of the discovery of a gross proceeding, which he would not then characterize : the Noble Lord in the blue ribbon (Castlereagh), not then in his place, had last Session pledged himself to his Noble Friend (Lord Archibald Ilamilton) not to have them filled up till next Meetiag.of Parliament, he (Nlr. Brougham) wished to learn whether such offices continued vacant or not ?• He wished to hear the fact; for if they were filled up, a more outrage ous, unnecessary, or greater job, had never taken place, even in Scotland. The LORD ADVOCATE stated, in answer, that the Judges of the Jury Court considered that the, business of the Court could not proceed without such offices being filled up, and that they were so. Mr. BROUGHAM said, that *he was not at all surprised that the J;:cl2es of the Court entertained Ptha4 opinion; though at the head of that Court was placed ail Honourable and Learned Friend of his, he (Mr. Brougham) 5-All pledged himself to prove, that there mkt had occurred a grct,er job, or a greater insult on a country labouring under the pres sure of severe taxati:ni. I was almost beyond en durance, even in Scotland—Wear, hear). The LORD ADVOCATL of SCOTLAND trusted' that the House would not readily believe that the Supreme Judges of a Cowl of Justice in Scotia - Ird would countenance a proceeding of the description given by the Henoorable and Learned Itentleman. Lord ARCHIBALD If &MILTON then gave no-, tice, that on .the 11th of May he skoula move for the copy of the late Appointmeitt of the fourth Ba-. ibn of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland—Vicar, /sear! from many paiis tit the House). COMMITtEE OF SUPPLY. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the Extitt3 Quvat for the House resolving itself into a Committee, Lrn - ti ARCHIBALD HAMILTON expressed a wish to know from the Right Honourable the Chan cellor of the Exchequer,- whether it was likely that the application of the Scottish Maltsters, for a modi fication of the duty, would be attended with success?, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER re plied, that the necessary inquiries to the answers of the Treasury had not yer been received ; but he con sidered himself [round in candoUr to state, that he at present saw no reasons, either on the grounds of justice or expediency, for any such modification in favour of the Scotch Maltsters, to the exclusion of others. The House having resolved itself into a Committee of Simply, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the general Resolution, " That a Supply be granted to his Majesty:' The House then resumed, and the Report was or dered to be taken into consideration to-morrow. PRIVY PURSE. Mr. TIERNEY rose to ob,erve, that amongst the Papers presented to that House, connected with the Civil List, there appeared one, by which it was proved, that a stint amounting to £385,000 had been applied to the purposes of the Privy Purse, above the sum specifically appropriated to that object. Such a proceeding was, at the first vi 'w, to say the least of it, very extraordinary ; but lie then took it for granted, that the circumstances under which tile application was made, would be explained by the account, to which lie could anticipate no objection. He now understood, that the only account the Right Honourable the Chancellor of the Exchequer was inclined to produce was as to the application from 1816 to the }ate demise; that it was for four years .out of sixty• (Hear, hear). If the objection was per severed in, he should feel it his duty to bring for ward the subject in a more formal manner. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER observed, that when the motion of the Honourable Member was first introduced, it struck him as objec tionable, and, on consideration, he felt that it was too extensive to produce even tile object of the Ho nourable mover.. A motion more partial, embracing the latter years, would answer all the parposes, and such it was the intention of an Honourable Friend of his to propose. Mr.TIERNEY wished to be allowed to see through his own eyes, and not those of any Honourable Gen tleman who thought he could discover the means of obtaining his (Mr,.Tierney's) object in a clearer way than he himself believed. He tnerefore gave notice, that he would, on Monday next, introduce a formal motion on the subject, and be implored the House to recollect that there never v.-as a mere constitu tional question submitted to their ccnsideration— (Hear, hear, hear). . Colonel DAVIES gave notice of a motion for the 16th May, for the appointment of a Committee to regulate the Military Expenditure, a measure which wotdd lead to effective economy.- ' Air. TIERNEY said he wished to be set right, if he was misinformed, when he stated that the discussion oa the Resolu thins on the arrangement of the Civil List was pos:poned from Thursday to Friday. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER acquiesced in the statement. Mr. BROUGHAM added, that his Intended motion, which would precede the discussion on the Report of the Resolutions; now postponed to Friday, would hold its relative situation also on that day. Mr. BATllUllSTobtainedleave to bring in a Bill to remove all doubts as to the continuance of the Insolvent Debtors' Bill. Sir JOIIN NEWPORT wished to learn from the Right Hon. Gentleman, the Secttetary for Ireland (Mr. Grant), whe-; then any answer had been received from the Irish Archbishops and Bishops relative to the state of the Established Church in Ireland ? GRANT, in reply, stated, that some answers bad been received, and they would shortly be laid before the House. Mr. 1.1.38,11 N GTON laid on the table the Returns of the Ordinary'lncome constituting the Public Revenue. Ordered to be printed.—Adjourned. P.4RLIAMENTARI' PAPER. An ACCOUNT of the TOTAL PRODUCE of all FUNDS at the DISPOSAL of the CROWN, and usually deemed not to be under the immediate control:! of Parliament, since the Accession of his late Itiaisyrr ; .distinguishing the Modes arising from Droits of the Admiralty and Droits of the Crown; 41 per Cent.,West India Duties; Scotch Revenue ; and from all other Sources not 11::rein-before specified—so far as the same can be ascertained An Account of the Droits of the Admiralty and Droits of the Crown, from 1760(01820 9,562,614 The application of this Sum, in rewards to Captors, and payments to Claimants, and in aid of the Public Service, and of the Civil List, and for other Purpose% is to be found in the Accounts which have, from time to time; been laid before Parliament. An Account of the Four and Half per Cent. West India Duties, from 1760 to 1526 4,116,414 This Revenue is charged with the Salaries of the Governors and various other PubVe Officers connected with the West Indies, and also with the payment of Pensioni,granted by the Crown ; as appears in the Accounts laid, from time to time, before Parliament. •An Account of the Surplus of Gibraltar Re venues, remitted to England, from WA to 1820, after discharging Garrison expenses (An Account of the Surplus of Scotch Civil List, from 1760 to 1820, now appropriated as it may arise, under the Act so Geo. al. c.lll, in aid of the Civil List in England An Account of the Escheats to his _Majesty In cases of Illegitimacy or otherwise, from 1760 to 1.920 - - - _ An Account of the Escheats to his Majesty, being the Property of Alien Enemies, from 1760 to 18.3/ - - An Account of the Funds arising by Sale of Lands in the Esench West India Islands, ettiLd at the Peace of 1763 - - - An Account of the Revenues arising from the Isluds of Minorca, Martinique, St. Croix, and St. Thomas„and front the Se ttlement of Surinam, while the same were in the pos session of his Majesty - An Account of th . Casual Revenues arising from Quit-Rents, &c. in the British Colo nies, and from all other Sources not before nr.ume.rated, from 1700 to I E 2O - - 124,256 le 997,700 0 214,649 l 5 108,777 17 106,k0 0 159,811 0 104,663 3 £1:4705,461 11 7 • The whole of these Sums base been appropriated at various, times iu discharge of the Debts of the Civil List, ar.d to other public purposes, as will appear by the Reports ai:d Accoullts laid before Parliament ; with the exception of 0r386,000, which g am was applied between his Majesty's Accession and the yi•ar 11120. in numerous Payments, for the purposus of the l'tivy l'uree, as dfrectod by his Majesty. (Nailed) Cif A R LES Alt R! LTILNOT. Whitehall, Treasury Clmbers, it tla April., l 8 m. THE EVENING STA% LONDON. -TUESDAY, MAY 2, I NO. Tifli s FUNDS. PRICE Of STOCKS THIS DAY AT ovv. rirt.eric t Bank 826— , 1 per Cent. Reduced GS:Y 4 ii -Sfer Cent. Consols 69 TA 5 / 6 Si per Cent. '77 Y 4-41 f ,erCent. 8678 $4 V / 5 per Cent. 105% 1 ,4 Bank Long Annuities 1 1 /%15-16 India Stock 120—Inslia Bonds :. 0 0s. 21s. pr, Exchequer Bills Ss. Ss. prd. Commercial par, Is.•pie. Consols for Acct. (39% •1/4. Our Readers are aware that the Merchants in the City have agreed on a Petition to Parliament, praying for an alteration in the system of Restrictive Dutie, and Prohibitions on the Importation of Foreign Goods and Manufactures. Similar Petitions have been agreed on by the Chamber of Commerce in Edinburgh, and by the Inhabitants of Leith ; and now that those large Bodies, tatitny Members of which formerly used to be the most clamorous for what they called Protecting Duties, have had their eyes opened to the extreme impolicy of that system, we may soon expect to - see their example ever ywhere followed bycommercial men. We have a copy of the Edinburgh Petition to 11:e House of Commo:.s now befote d us. It is,a luminous production, ai:d much more consLtent, as a wlicle, than that of the Merchants of London : " The Chamber of Commerce acid Manufactures, of the City of gdinburgh, having been instituted by Royal Charter, for the express purpose of ..vatching over the conlinereol inte,ezts of that part of the United Kingdom, humbly conceive it a du . ) , highly incumbent on them, at a period' of unprectdente p; s sure on every branch of mercantile industry, most respectfuliy to call the attention of the House to the depressed state of fa reign commerce, and to offer their upinion of thy causes that, is a great measure, contribute to tins' depression, whereby the ge octal industry of the kingdom is checked, its manufactures c.a.- serpent ly deeply injured, and its revenue iu danger of being scos most seriously diminished. " It appears to your Petiticeters, that the system so long per severed in, of laying os heavy duties on Imports from foreign countries, tenth directly to lessen the demand in those couritries for the produce of the industry of our own hation. " Thit the doctrine Maintained by maw; Statc*ineu, that in order to a‘gumulate wealth by trade, a U 4( lOU must cavort more th.o it imports, is most erroneous. " 'nut updn this erro,l4.Jas oJetriti:: is fou.i&d the present conintereidl policy of tins coo.:try. • " It appears to your l'cittiourts, that the profits derived from the exportation of the prouucc of our nuinutacturcs, agricultUrr. fisheries, hid mines, can in ho other shape be realizee., or in.:de elective to flit increase of the uational wealth, buc iu tne form of 1n ports. " That it appears to your Petitioners, th at t h e sure way to increase foreign commerce is to encourage the industry of other nations with whom we trade; or, in other wnins, to enable them to become our customers. " That, tto that end, we should admit on liw (lades :Le raw produce of other countries, and such articles of commet ce as we are precluded from producing, by climate or other c‘i euntsuthees. " That your Petitioners cd.l4,uor that th. hibis Moms on Bal tic wood and iron, on wines, iti.d more parucuiarl) on French. wines, on raw silk, and on many other articles of trade, the pro duce of foreign count/les, have, directly and indirectly, lcssened the demand in those countries for the produeuen.s a ems realm ; for by checking the industry of those foreign nations, we disab:e them from being our customers, and we hold out an example us their Governin' ems to lay on heavy dudes on the manufac.iiros and other exports from this country. That it appears to your Petitioners, that this System of re strictive commerce has been followed since the Peace, by the Government a almost every nation with which we trade. in strict conformity with the system adopted by Great Britain. - " That whatever may be the perseverance of other nations in this system, the British Government should begin a more beral and wise commercial policy, without regard to reciprocity of benefit between us and any panicular nation, because, by en couraging an increased import from one nation, we are certain of gaining an increased export directly to that nation, or inter mediately to some other nation. " That it appears to your Petitioners, that nick a liberal sys tem of commercial policy, which is thus hun - sbly submitted ID the consideration of the Honourable House, would produce a greater revenue, from the increased quantity of imports, al. though subject only to low rates of duties; and at the same time wciold promote national industry, as a consequence of a propor tional increase of exports. " May it, therefore, /Acne your Honourable Henn to per.- mit this Petition to be taken into the confideration of a Committee of the House, and t o a d opt such measures as, in the wisdom of your Honourable Boise, may be deemed most prudent and efficacious; 0, And your Petitioners will ever pray." I 9, j There can be no doubt that the grievances com plained of in those Petitions cam a lit subject to:- Parliamentary investigation, and it is hoped ever& that Ministers are favourable to a general revision of our whole. Commercial System. We arc the more inclined to believe this, seeing that our 'commercial, policy, as far as respects foreign trade, is founded on principles the 111051 narrow and invidious. I* many cases, national animosity is at the bottom of those hurtful regulations which obstruct the imporra tion of French produce into this country ; and, ever* when this. feeling does not prevail, those restrictive -duties indicate a selEsh and grasping sßir it, which is at variance with every sound principle of policy, and which is always met in other nations by a spirit of retaliation as effectual ag4inst cur own Commerce as the restrictions which we impose are against that of other countries ; and thus that pernicious system grows up, by which the Commerce of the world is tettered by an endless complication of attific;al re straints, and the necessary interchange of produce. 1 between different stations is obstructed, and, in some cases, altogether prevented.. 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