Star. — London, England, 1806-04-15 00:00:00

• , • A I , 4 I .• 1 P4RLI4MEITIRr PR,,GEEDWGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, APRIL. 14. Their Lordfhips met this day, purfuant to their adjournment, previous to the Rafter Reeds. Some routine bulitials was difpofed oCand the Bill. on th e tab l e forwarded in their refit...Aire Rages; ! imung which, the It Oh Mi litia Service Bill went through a Commirtte of the whole Houre, Lord WALSINGUAM in the Chair, and wa► reported without amendment. The Order of the Day, fur the further confidcration of the Ap peal Caufe front Chaste. ty, the Counters of Lincoln the Doke otNeweallte, being read, a dircuffson of confiderable length to.k plate outbe fabjelt. Lord E LLLLL OROVCII, Lord FLAMM, and the LenD Coast cacao', delivered their fentiments refpeclively, the two fordw.r Peers, at confideralllc length. Lord ELLENBOIWUOH concluded hi. (perch, by moving a propudtion, tending reaffirm the decree of the Court of Chancery, with or' can exceptions, rcipeeling which the Court was Weeded to proe :e d, ge e , 'the dneoffnan was terminated in confequence of a (uneaten's( the lord Chancellor; after which, the Agents of the parrico were called' to the Bar, and queftioned terpeding •e age of his Oracc, the Repondent. _ _ The Agent informed their LoreMips, he bad attained hi. ma • Jon: y, his Grace having been twenty-one years of age, the 3oth of hal January. Lord ELI. ENBOROVGH inquired of the witnef., wheth,r he was fufficiently attain of that tad to he able to (wear to it, if called upon ? The Agent replied, he would rot undertake to !Wear to the ee• eumflauce, though be bad no doubt whatever upon Lis own mind refpedling it. After Come farthe r in quiry, it was agreed by their Lordihipt, no the motion of the lord CbancePor, that the earthy. conbderatinn of the cafe be 'Mourned en burf.tay, In order to off.: d time for the produdion of the Parochial Regillers, to afeertain the age of his Grace the Duke ot Neweaftic. On the motion of I.orsiATial.AND, who oliferted, that in that Rage of the Bill, it wit underßood no oppofition wt. intend ed.-4hr Bill for Indemnifying the Governors of the liritlfh Wt.t India Mends, and for regulating the future intereoutfe between thefe Wanda, and the United States of America, was ordered to be read a fecond time, on Tirarfday next. The beating of the Scots Appeal Cure. M.Nabb r one of mofiderable importance, sod on Which the new Lord Ad• vacate, and Solicitor General of Scotland ar. rttalited, was fixed for the gd of May. Lord HOLLAND ?relented a Peti,i-n from certain Debtor,. confined In the Gaol of Ncircutle-upon. lyre, prayiuz relict, which was orders/ to lie on the table. Lard GRENVILLE laid .tila;itlpurfuance of the notice be had given before the Ricci's, be should now move, and with ref rence to what he had then Paid, without farther trouiding their Lord. (hips, that a Committee be appointed to fearch the Journals for precedents refpeeting the pradice of the Houfe on former calm of impeachment, and to confider of the belt mode of proceeding. with refpecl to the cafe of Henry Viliount Melville, &c. and to report the fame to the Houfe." This, on the citation helot put, was ordered accordingly. Several private and reurn Uhl were brought up front the Com mons, by Mr. Be i.owav and ocher Gentlemen. Dr. DVIOZNAN brought up the Irilh Ftrlt Fruits BIB; and Mr. Batowin, the frith Treafury Bilh Bill, v.d the Bnuth tither). Bill; which, with the other Bill prefented, ding :entail) , read a Brit time, their Lerdtbips adjourned till to-mumw. HOUSE OF COMMON% The Scarborough Harbour Bill was rcsd a ferond time, and or dered to be con:mitted to a Committee stove flair.. Sir R. MILBANKE brought up a Petition from certain inha bitants of Moo* Wearmouth, and Sunderland, agalnft the Paid Bill, which was ordered to be referred to . the Committee on the Bill. He then brought up a Petition from the Prifoners confined for Debt in the gaol of Durham, praying relief —Ordered to lie on tie Table. Sir M. W. RIDLEY brought up a Petition from the Prifoners confined for D. bt in the gaol of the :own of Neweaftle-upoo . _ Tyne, praying ether.-Ordered to lie on the 'rabic • A Menage from the Lords informed the Heide, that their Lord tips had agreed to fermi private hills. Mr. CALM AFT omit:flied an Account of the rums of money remaining in the Exchequer on the eft Jan. any, from grants of the filufe made In 1804. On the Motion of Mr. CALCRAF r, a new Writ was ordered for the Ftedlion of a Memierfor halftone. in the room of Mr. Davies °eddy, who had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. WATS OF 1116 PSAlto3 OF •RCOT. Mr. HOBHOUSE rofe, purfusnt to notice, to move for leave to bring in a Bill, " to enable the Commiflioners, appointed by A& of Parliament, to carry into execution the agreement entered into by the Call Inch:. Company, the Nab ,b of Arcot, and certain private Creditors." He was aware that In dian Inhjees were generally confidered of a dry and complicated nature, and he felt much o'diged to the cordlant exertions of so Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Francis). who, by a recent domeßic misfor tune, was prevented from attending upon the prefent occafion. Hr (tit l•imfelf upon that account obliged to trefpafs tin the. attention of the Houfe at confider able length, as he conceived the rubies, to be of con nectable importance and extent. It Mitt in'the year 1784 that Parliament Ara took cognizance of thdfe debts ; and in the Statute of the 54th of hie prefent m a jefly, which was paled for tie better manage ment of the ;alit, of the FAA Wirt Company, and eflablitising a Court of Judicature in India, it was exprefsly ticelartd, in the 37th Seetion,." that where as large fums of money were due 'ay the Nabob of Arcot to British &Wahl, it was therefore enatted, that the Court of Direanre Mould take into their con fideration the origin and nature of there debt., and fhottld concert mealltres for the liquidation of them in fuels a manner as would combine the fecurity of the creditor, and the regard which was doe to the honour and dignity of the Nabob of Arent and his family." This Statute, which was paired in the year 784, was formally promulgated at Madras in the month of February 1785 ; and &mai sherwarels s Mr. Dareidfort. then Governor of tile !tendency of Madras, concluded a Treaty with the Prince, who, was then on the Throne of Arcot, by which that Prince engaged t . pay annually four lacks of pagodas . for a military Itgoldy to the Company, and is lacks its a'forn to be applied to the liquidation of the debts he owed to Btitith fubjeas. The three defcriptions of debts, to the payment of which this lam Wa s to be applied, wet,: au, the Confolidated Debt of ;767. *mounting to 7.96,446 pagodas : next there was the Confolidated Debt of 1777. which amounted to 5 4 , 9 8,500 pago.:as, which, with " Tbc old Cavalry Debt," which he Mould explain prefently, and which amounted to 6 . ; 0,634 pagodas, made a total amount bf 6 9 ,8 5 00 ragout:4 or, if reduced to Britith money, to the font of 2,794,2281. There debt. were cshcd " Regillered IVAN" as all the claimants under eaclt of tlit fe hEads were called upon to infcribe in a iegiller their in .mcs, together with the amount of kith claim. I. the month of February 1787. a new tieaty cenc•lsJ:(l between the NibOb of Arcot and theGovernrsent of Madras, by which the Nabob tiered to continue the payment of the twelve lacks t a p,. the liquida:ion if the debts, and, in confequence ; 41 alliance will the Company. to mite the mai. fubfiJy tare laces, and in time of war to four. . :11:3 of Inv whole revenue. After this treaty, th e i 4 1.0 was very irregular in the payment of the rums 2 `.:4 - ..,.drit • 1 . pol i• Exit:Arable arrear accrued{ and when, tome years afterwards, the honility of TIN"' Saib againtl our ally, the Travancore Rajah, obligiAl Lord Cornwallis to take the field, and the Nabob was called upon as an ally to furnifh his military fublidy, and the fupplies of grain that were Ripulated, there was fu peat a deficiency, that Lord Cornwallis judg ed it meal - my, doling the whale of the war, to pot% lefs himfclf completely, of the whole revenues and civil adminiitrati 111 l of the Nabob's country. When the war was over in the year 1792, his Lordfhip made a new treaty with the Nabob, in which, on account of the deficiency of revenue, the fund for the payment of the plicate creditors was' reduced to 6.:1,105 pagodas. As to the debt doe to the Coro• pail, it was poliponeil, in the confidence that, by a better management of the revenues, these would he A fullicient fun plus to pay it; and by the fupetiotity of Britifh man.tgemsnt, that debt WAS ennflantly de• creafirg, and in the month of May, Okra. the Re giftered Debt had been completely difcharged.-s- There were, however, a confiderable number i.f deb• s outfianditsg, which had not been regillered, and which the Company, as furceeding to the manage ment of the revenues of the Nabob s felt thernfeives bound in honour, in certity, and in jultiee, to dill charge. Of there debts, lime had been contra/fed for public fervices, fuch ai "I be new Cavalry debt," which was to pay a p:.rt of his army, who, on ae• count of• the arrears due to them, were in a Rate of abfulute infubordination and mutiny. Borne of thous debts the Nabob had conoaSed perfonally. alters had been contrafted in his name by his eldeß fon. or his (wad fon, who was his Minder. The EMI In dia Company conceived themfelves bound in honour' and lake to pay this enconfolidated debt alfo, and for that porpore wiled to appropriate thiee lacks and a hallo( pagodas an-ually, for the terl,t,,,eorm of filch claims a. upon due exatninati. n &odd appear to them val:d. He was lute the Houle would hear with fatisfaftiiin, that the furplus of the Carnaticre venues, over and above the nine lacks, as a military fithfitiy, amounted in the sear t 501.4 to the (tun of 140,0001. Briiith, and mig'it be calculated in future years at no left than 450,0031 Such bad been the I practical fruits of the change that had taken place in the Government of the Cat Ila;IC. He afraid not enquire. then, into the piiisciple of the aftumidion of the Adminititation of the Government of the Car natie, but the effeits of that arrangement were very advantageous. Hi: then proceeded to read an ex rraa Irian a Letter written by Lord Cornwallis to the Court of Dire:tors nn the Loth of Auguß, 1798, at which time he had taken the management and direction of all the revenues of the Nab .6. In this extract it was Rated, .. that although his Lordihip knew that the rank of the Nabob, his great age, and his long conflation and friendlhip with the Com. piny, might lumina topics for pcpidar declamation againa the Rep he had taken, yet he was fn fully con-1 vinced that the happinefs of mankind, and the goad I of hi, country, would be ptomoted by the meafure, l that he thould perfonally difregard the cenfnre of any individuals, and take into ate hands of the EaR I India Company the management of the revenues of Arcot." Such an authority as that of Lord Corn wallis had confiderable weight with him. Although it was clear that the boo{ fide creditors of the Nabob bad, at lead, an equitable claim upon Coe Company. yet it was neceffary that there should be a previous exami nation of the claim. As Mr. Burke had (aid, "En quiry fbould precede pa) aunt. and the paw probandi Should always lie on the claimant." Commiffioners were therefore appointed to invettigate thofe claims, but they were reftrifird from allowing for prefents, or gratuities, or any thing but arid /ma Jule debts. There was alfo ant ther commidion appointed in In. dia for the purpore of examination, and traamitting the refults to the Commillioners in Englind. The Comraitlioners immediately proceeded to examine every documen• and paper that were prefented in them, and to iff to no: ces to determine the nnitiber and amount of claims, bot did not poffel. the ',owe! ' ot coming to an adjudication of thole claims. The caufe which prevented them was, that although they were direaed to call for the voluntary oaths of all 1 perfons who were to be examined before them, yet, from high legal authority, they cohfidered that they bad no right to require filch oaths I they therefore wrote a leiter to Mr. Ramfay, to be by him laid be. fare t h e Court of De fe o", t, Slating, " that although they Scald continue to lee every diligence to per form the talk which was aligned to thein.let that they apprehended, that by law they were no more authorized than the Magiftrotes in requiring and ad miniftering voluntary oaths." This letter was figned by hirofelf and Mr. Ryder. Upon the receipt of this letter, a cafe was made out. and laid before the Law Officers of the Crown, and of the Eel! India Com pany, and the opinion of Mr. Percival, Sir V. Gibbs, and Mr. Adam, war, " that it was very doubtful whether they had ai tight to adminifier voluntary oaths, and it was recommended to them not to re quire thew." It would, therefore, be seventy to extend their powers in this rePeoft by an ea of Par. liament. It would be alto necslfary to infest a cleric: , I with rapea to the taansfer of property of foceetsflll 1 . • Cialmallts. At pram', filch property was what the lawyers called a " ebeji is °Sion," and could not legally be transferred I but by a clads he intended to , I introduce in the bill, the legal as well as the equitable right of loch property might be transferred. He writhed much, that whatever dee•fion the Houk Should think proper to make with refpea to thofe debtors, fhould be done fpeethly. It would be defirable, that the claim fhnuld be brought to adjudication as foon as poffible, in order that thole whofe claims were va lid, fitould have the fatisfaftion of knowing that their demands were in a train of liquidation. and that thofe whole claims could not be tcc-Ithized, Mould not flatter tbemlelves with vain hopes. As he cue• ceived the objea of his motion to be of great impor tance, he did not helitate to bring it forward, oh though be was fully fenfible of the awkward fituation in which a Commiffinner flood. who was obliged to move for larger powers than were originally intended to be given to the Commilion cr which he was a Member. Upon this account he Mould have rather walled that tome other Gentleman would have come' forward upon the prefent oceafion. He contivid,ai by moving for leave too bring in a bill, fur the Ina pores before Bated. Mr. WHITSHED KEENE Paid, that he did r , t at prattle fee any lirong oblation to the rnealnre propofed i but he ebpld not help renter kitty. th at, iti , lookingover the lid of claimants, he law a noutber o.f . names of futons Witting high Gtuations in India, ' and who. perhaps, had nn 14 , 4 claims nn the he manity AnJ cquily of the Company in this inliance. Ile mud all ohlerve, that, although in 17 8 4 this country claimed no right of participation in the fur. plus of the revenues oldie Company. yet. from the year 1793, the public had a claim of half a million annually, which it had never received s and, on the contrary, it was now (fated, that a million was due from the public to the Company. This might be a conlideration in the didcuflion of the nitafure propof ed. Lie had not been aware, thaithe bufinefluibuld have come on that right, but Ihotild he prepared on the day aorwinted for the second readiog. to offer filch ohfeivatiuns as the coi.fideration of the fubjeft Ihould lugged. OFFFNCIS ON THI HIGH HMI. Mr. JERVIS, in purfuance of a former notice, moved fur leave to bring in a Bill fir alre:ing and ex,editing the trial of cffences committed' in irritant parts on the high feat. The grounds on which he iabinitted hi...motion to the Houle here as follow : By the AA of Henry VIII. the jorriftliaion of the Admiralty had been extended to all offences commit ted qn the High Seas; but the exercife of this j ritildic dun had been often attended with great delay and inconvenience, inafmuch a. it became neceffary that the offender and the witneffes fhould be brought to this country, and that the trial fhould take place here. To remedy this inconvenience, the Admiralty by an Aft of Wiliiam, were empowered to appoint a Special CommifSon for condu.ting the trial of of- fences in dißant parts. But the authority of filch Commillions was confined to the Colonies ; and be tides, they ailed upon the principles of he Civil Law, which were very different from there of the Common Law of this country. The dcfiln of this Bill, therefore, was to prevent the neceffity tor bring in; borne the' offenders, and alfu that they might enjoy the benefit of the Trial bip Jury, and not be tried according to the forms of the Civil Law.— Leave granted. PlOlll5lOll /OR STIPENDIARY CURATES. Mr. PERCIVAL, in purfuance of a former no tice, mnvi.d for leave to bring in a Bill, for making more effeCtual provifion for Stipendiary Curates and 'for enforcing their refidence on their Cures. He trufled it would not be neceffary to trouble the Houle at much length on the expediency of the Bill which he now propofed. A Bill to the fame effect had lately palled this Houle, but in conlecp,ence of certain alterations which it had undergone in the Lords. and which were not agreed to by this Houle, the Bill had, at that time, been 1011. He truaed, that the Bill which he Maw propofed, would meet with the concurrence of the Houle, as fonse alteration wa• rendered (till more necelfary than evet, by the rife in the value of livings, in confeeptence of the im provements in agriculture, and particularly by the depreciation of money of late years. He was con vinced it would appear but reafunabie that. •vhete a Living was beyond vol. a year, m're , 751. • year thould be granted to the Curate. Lord PORCHESTER laid, :hat it appeared to him, from what had fallel. Honourable Gentleman, that the prop •. was founded on the fame principle as the f •inter : a principle which, he nulled, would never ISe recogni4A by the Houle. This Bill was to give the Bitho•p toe power of rating the income of incumbents, and adding theus acme dirk! to his pleafure. It c,,mmunicated an nncon•' , trended power which was liable to aboie, and audio- , tiled the invation of the property of the fulrja. Be tides, it would be premature to introduce tot, :n a Bil:, whilia Committee had been lately appointed to ob tain information refpeeting the refideore and ftua• tion of the Clergy. Thefe inquiries thoold he corn pleted before any loch meafure was brought forward. Mr. PERCIVAL replied, that he h:id heard no thing that ought to prevent the introduCthat of the Bill. ft might be brought in at preienr, and the Huufe might pole before the Bill received a final d;fctiffi..n, till the Report of the Commit o.e was ceived. It could not be Paid, that the power rut the 'Whop would be uncontrnuled, fine an appeal would lie to the Archbifhop. The alteration in the value of money was fuch as mutt convince every man, that 751. per annum was not an adequate Itipend to be paid to the officiating Curate by the nun reiident Redo►. The value of fome livings in England amounted to 20001. a year, and it was furcly not un reafonable that the Billsop thOUld Lave it in his power to increafe the Ilipend of the Curate ;r, lime &pee of proportion to the value of the living. The great ohjtet of the Bill was to give filch a power to the Billsop as might enable him to wake adequate provifiisn lot the officiating Curate, who perfrrmed the elude* of the non refident Incumbent. Lord PORCHESTER, in explanation, laid, no cafe bad been produced, to (hew that the 1-Luie lhould adopt this novel Proceeding. Mr. Secretary FOX (aid, be did not rife co oripofe the bringing in this Bill, but to obferve. • ha, opinion, the all , iwanee to the Citrate ought not to be proportioned to the wealth of the re Cory, or living, but to the duty be would have to perform, and the relative litnation in which, in other refpeets, he hood in the pariah The quettion was then pot, and leave granted to bring is the Dill. maims/41.w Mr. PAULL fa. that in conferoence of feversl circumflauces, it would be impollible for him to bring forward the charges *gaunt the Marquis of Weßriley tomorrow. He wab furry that an Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Hut!diction) teemed to have relic. quifhed his motion refpating India Papers, of which lie had formerly given notice. But on Friday next, he would proceed to lay the groonds of a charge spina the Marquis Webefley, founded on his con dna to the Nabob of Huderabad t and alfo, of that for difobedience of the orders of the Company in the expenditure of the public money, contrary to the Aa of Parliament I which laft, the Direelors thenifelves mug have brought forward, if he had not ; and he hoped, therefore, they would then be prefeut to fup. port him. PAPIRS. Admiral MARKHAM role to Rate, that feveral of 11014 e Papers, which he had moved fur on the s6ili of May fan, and which be confislered as necef far. to ti.e defence of Lord St. Vincent again the charges which had been brought againft him, had nia been 1 iiJ before the Houfe. On examining the which he had then moved for, and which had been printed by order of the Houfe, he had found, that Some which he conadered as of a1e:1631 impoc ... A tanee irate wailing. The Hon. Admiral then reel a lift of thole Papers which had not been prefented to the Houfe, (lasting, at the fame time, that he mould waive that part of his forma motion, which ordered the prods Lion of what went under the name of I)oc.mfday Book, and which contained an Ac count of what every (hip in the Navy had colt fince it was built. But he u titled ti the candour and libe rality of the Houfe that they would fupport him in calling on the proper officers to produce the other Papers tibia had been ordered ; and alto, to ac count to the Haute for their not' being. already pro duced. The order of the Vith of May, 1805, for various Naval Papers was then read, and on the Speaker pot ting the queflion that tl.e proper officers do make a return forthwith, Mr. JEFFREY Paid, that the Papers had now been no the table of the Hoare three months, and had the Hon. Admiral examined them from time to time, as he had done, he would long ere now have known which of them were wanting. He contended, that the Hon. Admiral was aware of the impoffibility of producing the document which went under the name of Doomfday-book, even when he moved for its pro• dudion, and obferved, that it would be Doomfday before Inch a voluminous Paper could be produced. He complained of great hardthip in being obliged from time to time to delay thofe charges which he had to bring againfl Lord St. Vincent, and which he was ready at any time to fubtlantiate. Admiral MARKHAM appealed to the Houfe, whether he could be chargeable with occafioning de. lay, in merely moving that the proper officers be called upon to produce the papers which had been already ordered. Had he moved for frefh documents, there might h:ve been fome fhactow of ground for fuck a charge, though even then it might have been fufficient to fay that fuch papers were neceffary ; but he had now only moved, that the Navy Board do account for certain papers being withheld, and be ordered to furnifh them forthwith ; he knew Doomh. day-hook well, and was convinced, that fomething fimilar ,o it might be fpeedily produced ; but he fhould waive its produflion, to avoid the charge of wifhing to cattle unneceffary delay. Lord HOWICK Paid, that he would not enquire into the motives by which the Hon. Gentleman op. polite to him was actuated, in reiterating thole heavy charges againft the Noble Lord ; but he had never heard a more unfounded accufation than that which charged his Hon. Friend with the with to occation delay. The Hon. Admiral had moved for certain papers to rebut the charges which'had been made, and to prevent the Houfe from forming a partial judgment. Some of thefe papers had been withheld, trom what motive did not appear; but they had not been kept back by any fault on the part of his Hon. Friend, who now called on the Houle to order their iminejiate FroduCtion. Whether the Hon. Gentle. man will prefs his motion on Thorlday next, or whether he would pollpone it, it w.l ;or hint to de termine; but in common fainter', ill, uhf &II be in polliffion of all the documents to throw light on the fubjed. He, for his part, t that great I üblie inconvenience would arife from tbe dilcuffions which the H n Gentleman intended to bring forward ; and thtmgh the coodue of Lord St. Vincent was in fome mealure implicated, and bruaght in ouellion by thole charges that had been made, yet fo Itrongly was be convinced of their being destitute of anv toundari n. that he could wifh the Honour able Gentleman has: been diffaaded from the prole cution t.f them. Mr. JEFFREY, in explanation, laid, that nothing fhould deter or Jiffnade him from bringing forwara the charges referred to ; but ar the fame time he had nn objedion to wait a few days longer. The II ole then ordered that the proper °Moms do forthwith make a return of the papers in queltion, at the fame time giving their 'Mont for not fucner complying with the order of the Hoyle. N scnon s. General GASCOYNE obferved, that as a fubjeft was now depending, and likely 'too come before the Hr.ufe form, relative to the Slave Trade; to prevent A tip* of Negroes har Foreignlanils, ice. it was neceffary that tit- Houle Ihould be put in . poffcf of the information for which he was now going to move. which was, the terms nf the Capirulation of Dmierara. He therefore moved, that an humble audrets he prefented to his Moiety, praying he will be gracioutly pleated to give direeinns for laying before the Houle a copy of the capitulation of De merara, Scc. % , :.eit (hole poll ions funerlderetl to the arms of his Britannic Majelly.—Carried. IRISH AFFAIR!. • Sir JOHN NEWPORT moved the order of the day for taking into confideration the Report of the Committe: on the repeal of the Bill imporing a halite duty of three Millings is Ireland. He laid. that be fore he moved the concurrence of the Hotife in the refoiution, he wilhed to ohferve, that rip to the year 1793, there had been a dory of two Millings hearth money on honks in Ireland, lent that in rm, the bill for continuing that duty, Slated in the preamble, that many of the cottagers were toopoor to pay that duty, for which reafon, an exemption was granted to the poora order of peoplc lu the fall year, that tax was commuted to a ditty of do ce Millings upon all dwelling houfes, with an exemption to thole, the rent of which was under fifty Millings annually. By that Ad, the colleaor was condituted, in many in flame, a judge of the value of the honks, and, if he thought proper to demand the payment, the perfon entitled to exemption would be at as much expence in of erting his right, as would be equivalent to the tax itfelf, which was produhive of much dikontent and diffistisfation am ongfl the people. Thefe were the grounds on whi c h h e was induced to move for the repeal.____ Mr. FOSTER raid, that though he felt it l i ttl i t ai to propofe the t a x i n que ni on , un d er the cireumnances of Ireland, he conndered it as one which ought to be repealed, if it could be done with propriety. That propriety, however, he bad now reafon to doubt, when he confidered, that in the pre fcut year a loan of three millions had been contrac ted for Ireland ; and therefore thought that more Members for that country ought to be prefent, be. fore the Houk repealed a tax, the produce of which wrs ellimated at so,oool. a year. 'This houfe tax three (billings On Ireland, was only a part of the t‘ tem of window duties here, which in no cafe v.l der 6s. annually. He Paid that he did not Inc.!' • , oppofe the motion, but Rate his opinionsiathei (rind than an adverfary. 1 ... F