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P4RLMMENYIIIir PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, N0V.16. The House met at ten o'cl.)ck in the en-irning, and proceeded farther in the arp.c.ll " Robinton v. tint: Duke of AthoL"—Flr tber hearing on Fitlay. The Earl of I.:eaaroot I on the table the substance of the Treaty conelucleil with the. Allied Power. at Chaumont, a.id an Additional Article of the Treaty of Stockholm. In answer to a question from the Earl of DONOI7OIIMORE, the Earl of LlTP:Rroaz. sated that no public question. (except merely matters of form) woull he brought forward without sufficient notice, and a des atteotion to tht cocurenietice of Noble Lords. Adjourned till Friday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. MANNING obtained leave to bring in a Bill to an the Acts reap •itig the London Dcek Company. Mr. BROODBN brought up the Report of the Seanirn and nirinee Pension Duty Bill, which way agreed to. The hill was .ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. Mr. SWANN gave notice, that on Tuesday next he would stove for leave to bring in a ISO for the lo,tter prevention of bri bery and corruption in the 13orouzis of Helstone. Mr. LUSHINGrON having stated the amount of tli•• pro petty, namely, :6'51100 in Old south Sea Annuities, £:;4; 00 in 3 per cent. Co:tsols, 3000 in 4 her cent. Navy Anntritiis, 'tome other smaller sums, moved fo- and obtained leave to bzirg In a Bill to direct the application of the residuary personal es7atr of the late Mrs. Anna Maria Reynolds, spinster, left by that Lady to the use of the &Wog Fund. IRISH GLASS ACT. On the minion of Mr. Ws!. FITZGERALD (after a few words from IgirD."Gtrittetthe House resolved itself' into a Committee to consider of the Irish Glass Act. • • Mr. FITZGERALD . said it.would be in the re collection of the Committee that in the last Session he had recommended Oat a duty, equivalent to that existing in Great Britain, should be imposed on glass manufactured in Ireland, and a countervailing duty necessarily resulting on the same article imported from this country. It was rather an extension than a new measure of excise. There had previously been an excise on glass in Ireland, not however embracing those branches of the manufacture which were to be affected by the Act he referred to. He had now to explain to the Committee the grounds on which he was about to propose the repeal of that Act. A period of one month, from the passing of the Act, had been allowed before the duty was to take effect. Previously to any mention having been made in Par liament of such duty, he was aware that a large stock had been imported into Ireland, the British manufacturers deriving a considerable, and he would say, indeed, an unfair advantage in the amount of duty which he drew back on sending his manufacture into that country. Owing to that Circumstance a greater supply than the average annual consumption was in store there, even before the szit of January in this year. A still greater quantity was imported in the month that intervened between the passing of the Act and its coming into operation. N• 1 sitisfied with the profit which would have resuited to then) from the stock previously on hand, the proprietors raised the price on the public as high as if the duty had been paid. He, periiaps, was net called on to state what he understood to be the quantity in Ire land. It was sufficient, he presumed, as a ground fur his motion that a duty which he had calculated upon as productive, must forfora considerable time be unproductive, while the public were charged te) the frill extent to which they would have been subjected it die revenue had received the benefit which lie had hoped. Whatever observation might fall upon him, he felt that be owed an equel duty to the public :tad to the Crown ; and lie should deem himself acting a most unmanly pert, it rather than rescind a measure 'which he had himself recommended to Parliament, he were to leave the people of Ireland subjected to a heavy taxation, without a corresponding benefit re sulting to the State. • The necessities of the times were sufficiently urgent. He trusted be a hauld be a!,i to provide against the importers insteining any loss of which they could fairly complain. Ho would recemmend the :payment of the duty' in all - 'cases where the high counterveihae, duty had been charg ed. The amount he cot.id state to b.: very ieconsi. derahle. It wauld be incurnbeitt on him to provide, also for repayments, where a greater nil valorem dutj had bean charged, on account of the increase in value of the article which was estimated at the price it then bore, and if along with that a facility of reexport Mere given, he apprehended that he should have done all which they had a right to expect, while it would not be difficult to prove that they had, by the law under which they drew back the duty, as well as in the profit cn the stock previously in Ireland, even tinder the circumstances of this repeal, not a disad vee, .eeciis speculation. He concluded by moving, that the Chairman should move for leave to bring in a leh to repeal the Irish Glass Duty Act. Mr: PONSONBY *could not possibly entertain any chj:ction to the repeal of an Act, which, in conjunc tion with the similar Act respecting timber, had (al though he was persuaded the Hon. Gentleman, in proposing it, had not apprehended such a conse (licence) been so injurious, that the best title which could have been given to it would have been, an Act to prevent further improvement in Ireland. The adoption of such a measure by Parliament arritertorre the practice of putting off Bills to a period of the Session so late as not to allow sufficient time to thole %c h os e interests were affected to point out their evil tendency ; and lie trusted this example would deter his Nlajesty's Ministers from similar conduct in fu ture. 'f he Hon. Gentleman had said, that the price ct glass in Ireland had been doubled by this Act. It bad not been doubled—it had been trebled! There was one extraordinary circumstance which he felt it his duty to notice. The operation of the Act in question was fixed at one calendar month after its passing. Having been passed' on the 14th of July, its operation, therefore, was to commence on the 14th of August. By a subsequent Act, however, passed on the 25th July, the clause postponing the operation of the first Act to the 14th of August was done away, and it was directed that the Act should operate from the 6th of July—that was eight days before, instead of a month after it had passed ! He did not wish to maka any harsh observations on this proceeding, but h certainly was one of a very extraordinary nature. Sir M. W. RIDLEY• confirmed the statement of ho had just spoken, and added the Hon. Gentleman w that he understood the Hon. the Chancellor of the -Exchequer for Ireland had written to the Officers of the Customsln Ireland, subsequently to the passing of the Aet of the 14th of July, telling them that ano. ;her Dili was in progress through kalliament s by which the duty was to be imposed from the 6th of July, and directing in consequence that no glass should be allowed to land without the payment of the duty. The dealers in glass were, in his opinion, eutitled to great consideration, for unquestionably they wocld not have imported the quantity which they had done except on the faith of the first Act. Sir C. MONICK censured warmly the want of skill which had been manifested on this occasion by the Irish Treasury. Mr. W. FITZGERALD defended himself from the charges adduced against him. The original Bill had been drawn at a time when he was confined by indisposition, and prevented from instructing the So licitor who had drawn it, and who having mistaken its character, had inserted the clause by which its operation had been delayed. As soon as this was discovered the other Bill had been prepared ; and if he (Mr. Fitzgerald) bad written to the Officers of the Customs to apprize them of it, he conceived that he had done only his duty. As to the dealers, he did not conceive that they were entitled to much con sideration, after their conduct in charging duties which they had never paid. Mr. PONSONBY repeated his hope that this oc currence would warn his Majesty's Ministers against putting off Bills until it was too late to ascertain whether or not they were such as ought to be passed. Mr. STEPHEN wished to know whether the Right Hon. Gentleman meant that Parliament should sit three months after passing Bills, in older to dis cover whether or not there had been any errors com mitted in them ? Such appeared to be the argument 'of the Right Hon. Gentleman ; and it was equally ap. plicable whether Parliament rose in April or May, or sat till the Dog-day sin July. Mr. PONSONBY observed, that the Honourable Gentleman, with all his knowledge of almanacks, had mistaken the time at which the Dog-days oc curred. They were in August, not in July. What he had said was, that there had not been time given to the Irish people to make any representations as to the Bill in question ; and his wish was that Parlia ment would not be induced to hurry the public busi ness, but to go through it in a way that would admit of due deliberation and correction of error. Mr. STEPHEN said that he did not know when the Dog-star raged in the latitude of Dublin, but in the almanack which he had in his pocket, the dog days were stated to commence on the 3d of July.— (411augh.) After some farther conversation, in which Mr. FITZUERALD, Mr. PEELE, and Alderman SMITH par ticipated, the Resolution was agreed to ; and the riouse having resumed, Mr. BROGDEN, the Chairman of the Committee, obtained leave to bring in the Bill. The House having gone into a Committee on the Custom-duties on Timber, Deals, and Staves, in Ire land, Mr. W. FITZGERALD said, in consequence of the plan recommended by him last year, for equali zing and assimilating the Custom Duties of Ireland, to those of England, certain duties had been imposed on timber. These duties had certainly put a stopfar some time to building in Ireland, but the amount of them had been very greatly exaggerated. It had teen said that they raised the price of timber no less I than 100Q.per cent. but the fact was, that. Swedish timber sold in Dublin last rummer for £9. 10s. per ton, and Memel timber for £lO. 10s. per ton, which was not an increas: of above thirty.five percent. The price of timber wis not higher than that during the five preceding years, under the interruption of the Baltic trade. He concluded with moving a Resolu tion, that the several Custom duties now payable on timber in Treland, do cease and determine, and that certain other duties be granted in lieu thereof. Mr. PONSONBY observed, that it was the ditty on deals which principally pressed on the people of Ireland, and with -a modification of such duties on deals, he had no objection to the plan of the Right Hon. Gentleman. Mr. FITZGERALD said, it was merely meant to make that law which was now acted on under the authority of the Treasury in Ireland. The Resolution was agreed to, and leave given to bring in a Bill accordingly. WAYS AND MEANS. The House having gone into a Committee of Ways and Means, on the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, he said it was his intention to submit certain Resolutions to them, which he con ceived would meet with no opposition : the first was, for the continuation of the annual taxes, such as the land and the malt tax, &c. which had always been continued from year to year ; another was for leave to issue Isi millions of Exchequer Bills, to relieve outstanding Exchequer Bills to the same amount ; and the last was, for leave to apply the sum of fifteen millions of war taxes, granted for the service of the year 1814, at present in the Treasury, or to be paid into it, towards certain sums voted for the• service of the year 1815. Mr. PONSONBY wished to know whether it was the object of the Resolutions of the Right Lion,Siltp tleman to give an extension to any of the present war taxes ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. stated that none of the Resolutions would have the effect of giving any such extension. They would merely allow his Majesty's Government to apply some cf the taxes granted for 1814, not yet received, towards the public service. Mr. WHITBREAD said be should be glad to know from the Right Hon. Gentleman, whether he had yet any doubt remaining that the property tax expired on the sth April next ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, although it was not his wish to express what his sentiments were as to the construction of the Property Tax Act, yet he would say that it most obviously bore the construction which the Honourable Gentle. man put on it—(Hear.) Mr. W HITBREAD—Tithe Right Hon. Gentle. man would only state what his own construction was, it would be a great satisfaction to the public. • The Resolutions were then put, and agreed to. On thepsotion of Mr. LUSHINGTON, in a Com mittee of the House, a Resolution was passed for al. lowing certain facilities to private traders to the East Indies, respecting the Bonding of Goods, and leave was given to brrng in a Bill to that effect. Adjourned till tO-02DrrOW. ,PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. 9 111111i0RANDUM. Substance of three Conventions Supplementary to the Treaties of Chaumont and Paris, concluded at London, the 29th of June, 1814, on the part of his Majesty, the Emperors ,of Austria and Russia, and' the King of Pt ussia. rtnisicx OFFICE, wnvastaza 10, 1814. Three Conventions, supplementary to the Treaties of Chau mont and Paris, were agreed to and concluded at Loudon on the 29:h of June, 1814, by the Plenipotentiaries of his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of Russia, and the King of Prussia, by which the Sovereigns respectively engage to maintain on a war establishment, 75,000 men, namely, 60,0011 font and 15,000 horse, until the arrangements respecting the future state of the Powers of Europe, which, according to the above-men tioned Treaty of Paris, were to be regulated at the Congress of Vienna, should be completed. Hi! Majesty reserves thereby to himself the power of furnish ing his contiEgent conformably to the 9th article of the treaty of Chaumont. The High Contracting Parties engage to employ these armies only by common consent, and in the spirit and for the end ot their aboventeotiuned The acts of ratifica:lon of these conventions on the parts of the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of Russia, awl th.: King of Prussia, have not yet been received in London. TREATY WITH AWEDEN. The following are the stipulations in an additional article to the TreatT of Stockholm, of March 3, 1814, signed at Leipsic : ARTICLIL ItPARATO AND ADDITIONAL. His Royal kiihness the Prince Regent consents, that for the maintenance of the Swedish army upon the Continent, to the number stipulated In the first article of the Treaty of Stockholm of the 9d of March, 1813, the sent of £120,000 sterling shall be paid to his Majesty the King of Sweden, la equal payments esf £lOO,OOO sterling, ftom month to month,.till the completion of twelve months, and se bog as the Swedish army shall remain on the Continent, in consequence of the mutual engagements of the two High Contracting Parees. These payments shall be made In London on the 45th of each mouth, to commence from the 25th of the present month of Oc tober, to a Swedish agent, properly named and authorised to that effect on the part of• his Majesty the King'of Sweden; and in case the Swedish army should return home before the twelve months shall have expired, the two High Contracting Parties shall amicably agree as to the amount of the sum to be stipulated for their return to Sweden. It is, however, expressly to be understood, that all the engage ments contracte d in the said Treaty shall continue binding upon the two High Contracting Parties, and have their full effect. Thisseparate and additional article, having the same force and validity as if it were Inserted word for word in the Treaty of Stockholm, shall be ratified by the two High Contracting Parties, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in four weeks, or sooner if possible. Dome at Leipsic, the 22d day of October, ISIS. (Sie,Ded) EDWARD THORNTON. G. BARON WETTERSTEBT. BILLS OF CR EDI T. —1 t appears from the papers that the sum wanted to pay off and discharge the remain der of the Bills of Credit, or other securities, issued by virtue of the Act of 54 Geo. 111. c. 13. for giving pecuniary succours to the Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia, is as follows : To pay the Principal of the Bills of Credit And to pay the interest thereof £1,500,000 150,000 Total X 1 ,6 50,000 EXCHEQUER Illus.—The amount of Exchequer Bills outstanding and unprovided for, issued by virtue of an Act 54. Geo. 111. for raising 1010,500,000 by Exchequer Bills, for the year 1814.; and of an Act 54 Geo. 111. for raising 85,000,000 by Exchequer Bills, for the year 1814, is ,C 12,500,000. The amount of all Exchequer Bill% issued and charged upon the Aids for 1814., now outstanding and undischarged, is A 021,02,400. _ _ REvENt3e.--The amount of monies in the Exche quer, and remaining to be received, on the tith of November, 1814, to complete the ->625,500,000 granted to arise from war taxes for 1814 ; and of the amount of monies in the Exchequer, and remaining to be received, on the same day, to complete the sum of 424,000,000 granted to be raised by annuities, for the same year, is as follows : Money in the Exchequer, and rent-doing m be • received, on account o f axes X 18,198,632 1n 41 Do. on account of Lout - 8,303041 Is 7; Total . x*502174 B Ili The amount of Bills of Exchange drawn for Extra ordinary Expenses of the Army, and paid out of money issued to the Paymaster. General of the Forces, between December 24, 1813, and November I, 1814, Is - XI e,9u1,061 Towards which there may be considered as having been applied, - - 9,000,000 The sum granted last session towards defraying tilt Extraordinary Expenses of the Army for ttsl4 Leaving a deficiency of 9,9'21,061 The Net Produce of the Revenue, in the Years ending October 10, 1813, and October 10, 1814, dis tinguishing the Total Produce of the Customs and Excise, is as follows: For the Year ended For the Year ended Oct. 10, 1813, Ott. 10, 1814, X 3,905,936 104,193,319 ° 1 7 31,091 2,636,902 ••• 3,5'20,191 3,38;953 Customs, Consolidated Do. Animal Duties Do. War 'faxes TotalProduee of Customs 10.157,221 10,213,174 Excise, Consolidated 10,691,10 17,787,192 Do, Annual Duties , 464,789 461,048 Do. War Taxes 5,406,203 5,903,415 Total Produce of Excise 22,550,159 24 4 154,549 Stamps - . .5;265,064 5,510,6116 • - - Wet-Office - - 1,394,000 1,456,00111•" - - Assessed Taxes - 5,09/i,c,33 9,423,3111 Property - - 15,814,153 14,129,137 Land Taxes - .. 1,165,322 1,10Z1,016 42'4600 343,010 1,500 ...•••••—•--. Pensicins,Scc. Annual Du:its Total Net Revenue 60,876,652 63,461,8G4 PRO rEsr AGAINST THE MOTION FOIL THE ADDRESS TO THE PRINCE REGENT. DissztivrENT—Becau.e we cannot approve the language of this Address, or that warlike spirit by which we think it is too plainly characterised—in its expressions of concern for the con tinuance of his Majesty's inditipesitlon, and of respect and duty to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, we willingly concur: But we see with the deepest grief, that instead of affording to our country, after all its exertions, any hope of reduced expend'. tore and diminished burdens, this session opens with the intima tion of fresh expenses, and the demand of new sacrifices. And we think it peculiarly necessary to mark with the strongest ; disapprobation the omission of all communication from the Throne to Parli.unent of the extraordinary measure of keeping up, in time of peace, a large army of British and Foreign 'i'roops in British pay, upon the Continent of Europe. This is in itself a step which we think liardly'any circumstances could warrant. But we are certain that whatever necessity might call for It— whatever expediency might justify it—such a measure required the most distinct authority and sanction of Parliament. as the only possible means of preventiog its being made a precedent for innovations subversive of evety principle of the British Consti tution. cSignedl WEN'r WORTH TITZ WILLIAM, DONOVOIIMOMs HAGUE, NOYZMBER S. / SPEECH OP THE PRINCE SOVEREIGN ON TIM OPINING a TILL FIRST ORDINARY SESSION OF THE STATES Ong. NAL; ON THE 7TH INSTANT. " limn A ND MlOlll Y LORDS. " The first of your Ordinary Sessions beetle under the hsa pint auspices. " Pertect tranquillity reigns in every part of the country, though scarcely regenerated ; the organization of the principal branches of the Admini.trat ion Is prosecuting conformably to the regulations of the fundamental laws, without obstacle or gem, difliculty ; every where the spirit of industry and commerce ma rifest+ itself daily more and snore, which we had ream to har might have been totally extinguished and annihilated during to malty unhappy years. " The conviction which I have myself acquired of this, by my own observation in the jnorney which I have made through 11,1 different Provinces, added to the multiplied proofs of attaehmeet to the present order of things, of which the inhabitants of every class have given me, during this journey, so many ostensihie proofs, accompanied by so many marks of love and confid, 'le received with the liveliest satisfaction, must encourage us stead.ty to pursue the path in which we are at present ; it leads to the happiness of a nation which is a friend to concord. Placed by the Peace of Paris in relations of friendship with all the Powers of Europe, I await with composure the haw of the deliberations of the Congress on the poittu immediately into. resting the United Netherlands. It would have been highly agreeable to me, to be able to inform your High Mightinemee with certainty of the extent of the territory of the *ate and et its ps,sie:sions beyond sea; but there is a general and necessary connection between all these political arrangements, by virtue of which they are all to be brought to maturity at le same time, and all executed eimultaneon‘ly. " Meantime, in consequence of arrangements made with the Crown of England, I have been able to take measures for the re occupation of the most combinable part of the andent posses. lions of the United Provinces, and mg t itular' is r erp E n this moment directed to this object. ' our Gig Islti wave again in those regions where the ent ng sphtc'aad idea. fatigable zeal of our forefathers performed as great wooden's, ha their own country. " Java, a possession whose value cannot he sufficiently appro. elated, will soon, with the aid of an enlightened Govemmeat,and erjoying the freedom of navigation, offer new markets to dim mew, and will produce advantages more than sufficient to make good what the course of events has caused us to lose. • " Your High Mightinesses will learn with no less 1/threaten, Neat our finances are in a good situation; thanks to the complete nieces, of the measures prescribed by the law for the re-esta blishment of the national debt, . •' At the end of 1814, sireen months of the interest of this debt, and the immense expenses which have been required tiy the re-establishment of so many branches of the administration, the formation of the army, and the equipment of our squadrons, may be wholly paid; all the pans of the servite, since my acces sion to the Government, will be liquidated, and yet there will remain in the Treasury a considerable sum, which tuay be applied to the expenses of the next year. " The uatement of these expenses will he drawn up in a few days, and the petition relative to it may be shortly sabminsd so your deliberation. Though in consequence of the continuance of several circumstances of the present year, it contains still several en raordi nary expenses, which with the favour of Go tr;wm urns return. I hope in the succeeding years they will, nevertheless, not o:canon, even fur the year 1815, any augmentation of taxes, nor any extraordinary measure of finance; nay, the duties on importation may, if your High Mightinenes think fit, be consi derably diminished, and by this means trade will receive an en couragement which I have ardently desired to give it. To this end a proposal relative to this matter, will be shortly laid before your High Mightinessei fur your approbation. " On my side I shall not hoe sight of any of the other sources of public prosperity, and I shall always feel real pleasure when I shall be able to propose to you the means and the relief neces sary to increase It. . i " The creditors of the State wi* see the proof a . the eminent interest with which their situation inspires rue in the measures which are preparing to fulfil the engagements entered into with them, by the law lor the re-eetablisharent of the national debt, with more liberality than the letter of that law requires. " May the confidence of all oeffellow.countrymen flethis GO vemment, which has been so long the object of theitteinuts, bp thins confirmed and consolidated wore and more; and may nano of thus:, from want of gratitude to the Serums detect, over. look 07 despise all the benefits received, and all ilkt Malmo dose for tt,eir country, because there is still much to be obtain ed, aed flinch to be Bore. " As for myself, your Mfgbtinesses, I shall. persevere in the elf Pis which are prescribed to me by my duty and the public goo 1, to which every moment of my life is henceforth dedi cated with the more zeal and tranquillity of mind, in proration as I can think myself more sure o: the co-operation of those to whom the whole nation looks up with pleasure as its lawfid Representatives." FRENCH PA PE icS. PARIS; NVOEMBER The Correctional Tribunal has this day condemned to five years' imprisonment, and.a fine of five thousand francs, Auguise, Ferns, Froulle, and Marre Roguia, the two former as editors, and the two latter as pr►n ters, of a libel entitled " Extraii du Illoniteur." The same tribunal has condemned to a fine of tea francs, J. G. Denter, Chamerot, Roux, and Rousseau, book. sellers, convicted of having sold the libel. VIENNA, NOVEMBER 9. Though every body has been expecting to see the general conferences between the different Ministers commence, yet the formal opening of the Congress has not yet taken place: hut the Sovereigns labour incessantly with their Ministers, so that all the morn ing, till two o'clock, no visits are either made or received. It is now positively known, that the gene. ral conferences of the Ministers will have for object only the exchange of articles already discussed and regulated. • Immediately after his return from Hungary, the Emperor of Russia gave a long audience to Count Nesselrode, his Minister for Foreign Affairs, who gave him an account of the progress of the confe rences during the absence of the three Monarchs. — Princes MetterniCh and Hardenberg were also lon g closeted ; the former with the Empetor of Austr i a, and the latter with the King of Prussia. It is bAieved that the plan of M. Stein will be adopted, with a few modifications, for the Wage organization of Germany. It is said to unite adult. tages of securing to Germany its unity, its streog:bi and independence as respects foreign Powers, and to every class of citizens their constitutional rights. — The plan talked of some time ago, which divided Germany into nine circles, administered by Sovereigo who should decide in Diet on all great affairs, Dg been unanimously rejected by the Commission. Our troops will remain on a war footing until the close of the Congress, and the settlement of the affial •ot Europe. It is said that Corfu, and the other lonian isles, will belong to Austria, as anciently forming p .rt 0 tbe. Venetian State ; to which will be added CI: coast 01 the Adriatic to the ftotitiers of Turkey. Nov. 3.—We learn that the act which si-ctitet:b e districts of Cracow, Kouski, and Side, in (. 31 ' licia, together with the district of Saltzbitrg; tit the House of Austria, was signed the day before yestertiY• A novel disease has for sorne.ciays past oatilue.l the attention a the Vaculty.At Vienna.. A w , " lllA3 ' who had complained of 'ttifferiiii . - most icute r 31115. had taken several preiZriptions of the twit ern:not medical men s and at length Ifcrmited i L