The National Register. — London, England, 1816-04-01 00:00:00

"MIMI APRII. 1. Mr. TIVRNI.:y then asked what the redactions would be; whether the retrenchment was to be Jpplied to any particular branch, or to the esliaißlea gentrall) The Cit A Net.l.ton of the Excto pate ER said, the propowil re ilactiou comprehended all the branches of the Civil List, as far i 1.4 their nature made them capable of reduction. Mr. Tren NIA apprehended that Nature hail very little to do with the charges of the Civil List, although the House would very oatur.illy e .pect all reasonable reduction.—(A laugh and hear.) PAVEMENT BEFORE THE TREASURY. Mr. M. T t VLOR said, is the course of the iuvestilatioim, which took *se in the Committee respecting the pasimisent of tire metropolis, he bail additional reason to complain of the badness of the paving before tare Treasury. It wa ; remark able fact thatabout 200 yards of the pas 1117, before the Trea sury was always worse than the worst paving in any other part of London ; and be was at a loss to' know how the Treater!' icould be compelled to mend itir Prays! (A hingis.) He should be very happy to learn how he could get the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the .Lords of the Treasury into his power.— ( Herm) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied, that there were many dimbta respecting who ought to keep such paving in repair, and many advisers hart been consulted upon the subject, which possibly had not Waded to lessen the difficulties, (is lases). but he would make enquiries, and give the lion. Member all possible information. AGRICULTURAL 'DISTRESS. Mr. WErtERN moved, that the Howe should resolve itself into a Couuittee, to consider the state of the agriculture•uf the United Kiegdoin. Mr. WEsTansi then rose, anti deseribed the general dis tresses of the agriculturists, which he declared were of a nature unparalle ed. It now became the Committee to ex amine into the canse of these distresses. It had arisen, in the -first place, from a fall in the price of the products of the land, and a large surplus of these products. The fall of the pro ducts had received a superaddition by the• nominal value of the real currency; and the circulation of a• paper one in as rctead, had contributed greatly to increase the fall. [triad the effect of altering entirely the distribution of property ; aud :bat alteration had doubled the taxes, and consetriently et...axed the distresses of the country; while the circulating medium increased thus aggorgirtely the evils. To remove the e WI, he suggested the propriety of pros Ming a market for the surplus, by encouraging exportation, and by reducing the duties on spirits. Ile would not venture to urge this measure, if he thought the revenue would derive any behait from con tinuin4 those duties ; hut, in his opinion, the consumption would be greatly increased. The duties on barley were ten millmns per annum, exceeding the whole amount of the othcr duties of customs. 'l•he Hon. Gentleman then read his tirst resolution, ►etting forth the pressure on the country. Lord CVITWEREIGI4 thought that the very going into a Committee admitted this abstract resolution. It would be much better to proceed at once to some resolution that would produce a practical result. • . . . Mr. U r:.r►:Rn then read the fourth rer , olntion: "Thu• ►he consumptatut of barley, awl ennacquently the ,s; ol is, -were vtry wateriahy reduced. by the exces,ive d ...1 ,-h it was :•uhjecliti, acid that Iliusidaties ought ti he II( pfdit Mr. BRAND thought ill,• whole the plop)) 41' his Hon. Friend were so simple, tit it na areuutaatii were nt cessary to elucidate them. The only -subject for the ronSideration at the Conimitte( would be the raid to he atfo,sbni. He hail before stated, tam the ti no ivtaill arriv c, when the digress( ; of the huh w.aild 1111,:iTaSC, and the ptasi . .at be depri. - en of ens. tenanoe from labour. This time had now arrived, dad he had e Icier Ciotti Cambridge, which proved that e distresses, 1.. t it stated, that a la 4 out, in the nth poem. of health and atreneth, could not ie. w obtain more thaa is. Od. per ila r. . t had been asked how there could be ;tetanal piverty in the amidst of general plenty: nut while there was such a load of taxes, the great hiss consisted in the shriaking agricultural capital, and the land was handed over even to the mortgagee in a very dett;rioi ated state. The Hun. Gentleman said, the resolutions pioposed to the Committee bore tw s charaeters; one of them contemplated the reiieving the land from the charges upon it at present; the other was, to raise the prices of the prathie• so as tas.makt: them equal to lIIPCI the charges. on the bind. With respect to lb , . resolutions wbieh related-to :he charges on land, the last whkis related to tithes, was the most important. He understood that Mr. Pitt at one time had in contemptitii..ti a measure for relieving the tend from the collection of tithes. lie 'vas of opinion that it would he advantageous if, instead of tithe being taken as it now was, it should be taken by a corn rent; or, by a commutation, Milord on a general valuation ci land. This would pros e a eery consiatet able relief to the fanner. The next subject which pressed on the farmer was theimor rates; the effect of these rates, it' they went on as therhad done, would in; to swallow or destroy the whole a.,:ricultitral ham-4 of the country . . Ihe Hon. Gent. the arts cried to the relief whi,m the farmer , r mid derive front the repeal of the Malt TAN.. He 4/observed, that front the most accurate calculation which could he made, it appeare.l that the duty paid by the man who farm ed 409 acres of laud, for the wit front which the bear consikko vdi ou that farm was made, was nitre than equal to the Property Tax paid oo that farm. Aril in this place lie coal& not avoid asking the Chancelior of the Exchequer to explain his intention as to. tlw repeal of the War Malt Duty. Did the Right Hon. Gentleman mean immediately to relieve the Malt on hunt fi this duty ; Or if that Malt, or any part of it, was brewed into beer between this anal Joly, would the Right Hon. G,nittennin allow the same draw. ick on the beer so brewed, as he wool,' have done on the omit, had it remained in its original state r Unless this was intended, no one would purchase malt for brewing between this time and J •Iy, and the malting trade would tonic to a total stagnation, to the utter rum of many re epectable individuals concerned in this trade. Mr. Brand then touched shortly on the means suggested for Met easing the d• mend in the market. He recommended a duty immediately on rape and linseed Imported, and, if it were pos-ible without de tritneut to the nuentieturers, a ditty on the importatiou.of fo reign woad. - - - Mr. %. tsistrr titer, in reply to the question put to him by Mr. respecting the time at which the Malt Deity Was to cease, said, that he was aware the effect of its repeal must operate very co niiderably on a stagnation of tr He thought however. the interest of all parties might be conciliated by giving a power to allow a fair- draft back on beer brewed from the beginning of February up to the period %%hen the duty would cease. - Otis w.mal enable the trade to continue diet. purchasts, and ttionea some inconvenience might still be felt, yet it would Ue I , lievcd as much as possible. Lord LtschuAli thought ihe (Wife of the distresses consisted in the state of the circulation- of the emilitry. He was against eneonraging !peculation by, the warehousing 4 , 0 grain, as well as a.ditty oo tOreign wool. the main points of tho Malt and Property Tax had in gained, and the others were of minor. ituportauce.. 'the only actual rchcf.that could THE NATIONAL REGISTER. be afforded, was to reduce the expenditure, and set all classes at liberty front that burthen which weighed so heavily on them. Mr. COIN an differed with his Hon. Friend ,Mr, Western) •in several parts of his speech and re• , Intions. He attributed the ',resew distress not to a surplus produce, but to the with drawing of that accommodation which the farmers received from the country banks, and au increased eirculation. There was a perfect stagnation in the market, noble!) being willing , to tiny, became though the price was low, there was all expec tation that it would fall still lower. He did not think there was in the country that quantity of grain, which in ordinary cases would have produced such an effect on prices. He was persuaded that this would be felt bethre next harvest. He anticipated a rise, and lie would hail the event, not because he wished the people to purchase at a high rate the necessaries of life, but beta use he V/3% of opinion that the laborious classes of society would be beisetitted by it. In his opinion a scarcity will ensue, and bring a remedy to low prices, without putting an cod to the g. 'send cutbarrassnu•nt or distress. Mr. Itonisisox believed the general sense of the House to be nalavourititle both to the plan of aliaitdoning the warehousing system, and to that of MIA-ding temporary assistance by au issue tif Exchequer Rills. As to the butterarade, a proliihi tion might be imposed; but on that of tallow and hides it would be impossible; because, by doing so, we oloMd destroy our trade with Smith America. He was Afraid, that OM the system of prohibitions, they had already gone too far. tl Fitax aLASi D Eructs made a very able speech. in which Ire recommended the growth of tobaceo by repealing the Acts against its cultivation. He moved two re•olutions—rust, that it is expedient to export wool Isee of all restrictions and penal ties; secondly, that it is expedient to permit the cultivation of tobacco. These resolutions, however, lie afterwards emiseitted to withdraw for the present, and the debate was then adjourned till Tuesday next.—Adjouri.eel. FRIDAY, MARCH 29• The Deputy Usher of the'Rlack 121111 summoned the House to attend in the House of Peers, to hear the Royal Assent given by Commission to sundry Public Sills ; and the Speaker, on his return, aaiimineed that the ttoyul Assent had been given to the Bill for Naturalizing and settling Vie Precedence of the Prince of Saxe Cobourg. STOCK EXCHANGE FR WO. Lord COCHRANE said he had further cliarws to exhibit aoainst the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, io addition to those read by him on a former day and ordered to be printed, particularly regrading Lord Elleilborengles re fusal of a new trill, and Mr. Justice Le 11:aite's wilful misre presentations in pronouncing toe sesience of the Court. His Lordship moved that they be painted. Mr. LOCKHART st.Of...i, !Litt he could not consent tothe prilit ing of these charges,because they accused Mr. Justice Le Blanc of a misrepresentation in pronouncing the sentence. The Noble Lord profes. , ed to accuse Lord Elleubnrough only, but he now etended the charge to one who was nut to be put up on MI defence. Sir T. rm../ mopeecterl to the Noble Lord, who avowed tli it h., y 10 1111i111 , 0 , it one Judle, whether it would 1., dh , ~rttt r wi!h•lrt‘t elt.:.ges, and alter the Lingnage the 11 , ms, r::,tl .ister•e:l.—( fear.) ::)1:11;.. AN. ,• ';:i I 110 aleVerioll to adopt this t•nnrie, tie; Irk4l , mthiltr• 111..ee ..rptiii.t Sir S. Le Rhine. Lord Co ithdrew hi, charges w :titer teem. flUl I Lit A\l) CIIEESE I'h.• Honte ct. ',1% I .1 itmlf into a Coanatittee on the Butter Law., on t...r .nottoh 4.1 Mr. hultinbott, and the Choose Laws, on the motion of 1.. Gordan Mr. itonimsom pi opo,ed, with the si,.w of mdieving the agri cultism! of Irehool, Unit the duty on importing foreign bitt..l. iu Itritis!i ships he raibed tall. per cwt. and to 2.is. per cwt for fore.gn butter importeJ .n foreign vessels. J. NiWPORI approved of these Resolutions. Sir F. num) did not think the proposed protecting duty went far. ...tough; he hoped the House would make it 30s. the difference was but a trifle! if there were nut some such pro tecting duty, pres-ed down as Ireland was by twee, the Dutch would overwhelm ns with batter, stir+ advantages bad the •• growers °Chatter" in that country! (able„ I.) Let it then be sit let it be said that the Government us' England yielil eu the reprusentativys of Ireland. He begged ten thousand pardons for trespassing so long upon the House, but the ex::t etiee of Ireland was at stake, and %viten a subject iike that of butter was under consideration, how. could he say less?—. a laugh and hear.)—He moveitas au amendment, that the pro tecting duty be 30s. per cwt. Mr. V. FITZG ERA LD feared that the amendment would make the protecting duty too high—the original proposition. was hu th:aight quite high enough. 'zitr N. C HST and Sir J. NEW PORT trusted that the amendment would be withdrawn. Sir F. FLOOD etitaittly mild not give the Committee Ike trouble of dividing on the amendment, which he should with draw. Niotion agree ci to. Mr. GoaDoet thinned the cheese trade ongld to be set on the sent footing with that of butter, and he shout,: thurefore move that the protecting duty on elteege be increased in the same proportion as that on butter. That on butter bail been increased froin la. to eos. and he should move that the protect ing dirty on cheese be increasetlfroin Is. to cos. per cr.:. . 1 11:( it some obsersations fro.r..Sir T. Aeland, Mr. ReMoson, Mr. Ntetlitien, Mr. Hall, Mr. E:p rton, Mr. Thompson, and the Chaordior of the Excheipter, the motion WAS agreed to. —lte port on Nlinada. LO ITP . RIi'li~ _ _ _ ...... Mr. Ltreurrov moved for an account of the number of Lotteries since 1811 inehisive, together with the amounts of what they ;isld produced to the revenue.—Ordered. .;.VIUGGLING IN ELIGH LIFE. Mr. BMOVGliAM;lo;ed7thaititereslmiilifinhiiil.hefore the House, an :tecontit of the quantity of goods sinaggle:!.iii the Assiduous tianiurt, with the names of those eonceined in the smuggling as lodged in. the Custent House. He Mtn moved for copies of all correspondence iitta cell the tor.tom House and the Ti ivory respecting the seizures in the Assiduous transport. The Hon. Atomiser then :•ainittell a variety of itiotion , on the same suikieet, thr•istibstanee of which was, that 'there should he laid before the llouse, copits of all memorials An ,' pa p ers addressed to the Treasury on , lie subjek.t of the seizures in the Assiduous transport : a list of the names of the peri , ais to whom dm packages were addrefaed as ordnance stores ; a list of the names of the persons to whom the pack - were addressed when the outer rover was taken off, and an account of oh die seizures made .mriug the last two years.. The several parrs were then ordered. BANK AD% %Nei: PILL rhe ItASteEthoß of the ElciligUEß moved, that the Bank Advance Bill he fend a.third time. Mr. Ott vs t . s.r 1. havitig.ealled the latcution of the Home to sub j vct befiti•e, ..tuoild only make a few observations on it us Ilse passeut stage of the Bill. Thi.: Lion. litUlbet then.eu , tered into a variety of statements, which tended to chew, that the Bank might to hind their coney at a much lower rate to' interest. As long as he was supported by the House, as he lilt lie should be in the present question, he should persev e re in what lie felt to Ise a duty he owed to his constituents and the public. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER remarked, that the ',limey was obtained at a considerably lower rote of interest than it could he had in Oily other quarter. There would b e a saving to she public of dO,thrill. per annum by the bargaia. He should met waste the time of the House by going any farther into detail, but should i 1.,t satisfied with affirming that tbs bargain ..vas every way advantageous to the public. Alter a protracted conver , ation . between Mr Ponsonliv, Iwerd Folkstone, Mr. Battles, mud the Cluaucalnr of the Exche quer, the Bill wits read a third tines. On the Order of the Day for the House to co into a Corn niittee of Supply, and that the Exchequer Bilk outstanding lie referred to the same, Mr. Vtht.AY addressed this House at some length on the sob. jest of Naval Officers, for whom, lie conceived, that adequate advantages were not provided, and he objected geo m .: l l,y to the principles on which promotions in the Navy wet e fuutlitt 41. Sir GEoitsix Hoeg said, he would take notice of the subject alluded to by the Hon. Gout. when the question came pro perly before the House. The House then 'resolved itself into a Committee. The CH tact .tmt (tithe EXCHEQUER moved a sum 0f134,5541.. for paying oil the Annuities granted under the Loyalty Loan. He aim moved a of 92,0001. for paying the interest on out stnntlii:e Exchequer Bills. Sir G. WARREN DER moved to grant a sum of 82,6191. for de— fraying the expences of the Navy Offiee. Mr. FR LENA ATLI said, that on the whole, not more than tri clerks were reduced; but there VV.I9 an increase ofe xpenditOre to the amount of 1:/,0001. The whole expence was now much prate's in peace than it was in a late year of war. The ex pense of the Navy in general had been ilueng war about 2 millions; now the expellee was nine millions; and yet, not wislistandilw this great reduction, the expence of the civil es talffishinent was not in the least diminished. Sir G. Wattip.,inEit said, diat the civil eapeneet of the navy had always increased, eveu by the opera& of dischargiii4 the fleet ; there had been greater reductions in this branch of the service, compared with the last year of the war, than took place in IMO, compared with the year preceding that period, . which WWI the last of the war also. Mr. Tu I.RNEV Said, t Ware had been an increase in these esti mates of gu,oool. over those of !lila, achieli be called the last of the war, for he had purposely passed over Isl.'', which be did nut cousidt-r as a st ar of Nasal war. In I50:1. there W 1143 an expectation of war breaking out immediately. It vas, there fore, too much to tell hint lie hail tailed in his argument by cum. paring the present estimates with those of that period. It ap pear,4l that delay and redaction had produced a .a cing of 140,0001. in the Ordnance Estimates, reduction bad also taken place in the Army Estimates, and why the Navy Estimates alum should be fought through the Cotninistec he was at a loss to imagine. Mr. CROMER entered into a variety of statements, to show that a reduction such. as was expected was impossible, but every exertion would be made towards a retrenchineat. After some obsersations from Mr. Croker and Mr. Baring. the latter proposed that the estimate for defraying the expencea of the nab) office and navy board should be postponed. which was tiegaused, and the resolution agreed to.—Aalioarned. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, MARCH 22.--Aniong the remarkable traits in the discourse of the Curate of Vincennes, on the anniversary of the death of the Duke of Enable!' ' the following was particularly noticed :—Ats aked at midnight, on the 21st of March, to be conducted to the place of execution, the Prince asked the (Mimi who vi as the bearer of the order—" Nv hat do you waot with me ?"—A profound silence—" R hat o'clock is it:"—" M id nieJit," replied the Officer, in a gentle tone.—" itliduight !" ex claimed the Prince, " that hour is Gital to me : at midnight I aas taken from my house at Ett,iiheim—at midnight the dun geons of Strasburg!' were opened for ale—at midnight 1 was torn from them to be conducted hither—it is now midnight I have lived long enough to know how to die !" The Americans value the property taken from them at Na ples, in the time of Joseph, at seven millions, and they demand it from the present Government. PARIS, MARCH 2t.--The affair of Sir Robert Wilson, Lieut. and. Mr. Bruce, will be definitively judged in the COlllll4 of the ensuing mouth. It is even supposed that their trial will come on before the Jury iu the early part of April. M. Deseze,.Coumwilor. son of the First President of the Court of Cassation, will preside at the Assize. The following article is extracted from the Memorial Borde -I..is of the 14;11i lust : _ . ..... On the 1 t tii of this month the English fleet, which entered the port of Genoa on the stli t hace sailed 011 ansexpi•dition, the object of hich was kept a profound secret. The Emperors of Allll4lll and ItllbSiit. and the King of will proceed, in the course of the spring, to loplitz, for th• purpose of tioldiag a etniferente. Eonche continues tu , sojourii at Dresden, and is occupied, ac cording to report,. Ll} writing a justitkation of his conduct. RIWSSEIS PAPERS. nRUGEP, Mseten 21.—List Sunday there arrived here, by the b:u•ge from &bent, an Eliglis:r‘oininissary of War, coming from Valenciennes, mid having in his care eight or ten little chests full of cold coin, valued at 2.004.1 mm of Dutch Born', ;- 1 he is going to England by way of Otend. IlittesELs, Muincii23.--They write from Camlway, that the house which the DiCee oflVellington is to inhabit in that town is ready to receive bin) ; it has been for the whole tiuse •that the Army of Occupation is to remain in France. The Noble Lord a ill reside ailvilitthly :it P4l is and at his head quarters at Cambray, The Austi ion Archdukes continue to vizititt Brussels every thing remarkable. B Lis, Alm/en-1W —An article under this head relates at i lsegth the amilications of Priero illoolier and of Mi. Itibben trap for the restoration of the works of alt, and the givior np 'of 210111{: manuscripts-and book. , ()clanging to the University of licidt•lbe•rg, take* by the French hoot Rome out of the Pala tine Library ltktire Vatican, which were removed thither fr.ra Heidelberg Juriug the ;to years a r. Two Kuehl.lintel', named and 3ames•itobcrts, charg ed with• embezzling a 141 t4e stun of wonky liehmgiiia to the house ot• To weood and Sa%ct y, at lit ta...1, which they •tied to Fraiice, have bceu &Treated at Clattealerault with We with of the property.