The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-05-23 00:00:00

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In this act it is ball wilfully, or nor jury, or spoil. apes Ills. gnide-post, mils. hard, garden, nurse. lasts, land, or other ring thereon, or to or arty of any natters or ly seised by any body, re a Magistrate, and he has done) to the salt of payment, may re months. And, at sg from the operation by heating, ark iy lisbergh Rev. g 4? pirsaltia Mr. Palionth, as/ a mos r from St. Mains to Is a sail, a squall of mach that it filled sell as fortusately *bpi rhich was oat M the lance could be affmnied —About 8 o'clock this e this place before, aa. 'onerous assemblage et p roar mom. pomaded lay, a distaste et crew, proceeded MY bee 'boat a quarter put 14 • in the space of se hew ng upwards of 6 mil" either sails, oars, or* lioa is entirely that .f • rho aspects a patent ha. r i 1 4.7 W 5. la sto arwlektbire. smith, ltsq.,coroser, VS* about 23 years Of MO woman at Javalla4lfidge the skip backwards te• ell into it; tbo &masa self by catchier held of o stood close by, soli who himself from beim Inc Dye and clingier with ; after about a cotter ! I shall drop," whoa& to the bottom of st, socierstal death. le Now Slaughtor'sesire as stated is oars. 4 . 1 BD. lidosods, ?dr. Tbes....maL/no' hampton-square, to n. Mackie& of Bury ff"' t. at fit. Sepelebres, oore. aq., of Ripe', Yorksbial. r. John Kellett, late a. aged 118, Ilse RM. ?. Mee a Minister et tbeeedgek 'the former place worn MI/ universally resoested for hie be held is - reioetehraessW ds, whom be Ms left se 6 1001 Shoes, Friselv Ittiebeise Aar Pet, Lon**, .. d $. after e short 11i1414, •V* Illesto4 Wt. n-street. Presets st kis Mem lo .I""avendlrest.. per of bis age, A1721-ikr OPP of two days. _ Aoriotte *We a ...i t; grose4 is the Vet ree t v" - ae___Peblisited 1111 4 -rim Coustfo leera rrs•ot mrsooo. B.: to trtwoulariar hiqUesiftl to be a ~ • HOUSE AND hI.INOR. )I RIX1)0N. TY MILES NORTH OF 1.0 TO I.ETT, a MANOR ROUSE, upon a Mate yo s ca l e . w ith Walled Garden and every conveni ence. situated in the centre of a live Lawn of Right Acres, plum the Ranks of a River. with right of Fishing ; the ?donor well stneked with flume. Rent only N. per Annum, ,Pews :bout 161. the chief objert being a respectable Tenant. The roads are eseellent ; Fox-hounds near, and ST rellent Coursing in the Vicinity.—The neighbourhood Is highly respertable. Fartber partirelars luny he hed by application, if by let ter, post paid. to Mr. Ben ;on. Surveyor and Auctioneer, 26, 01,AS'SES and FUIiNITURE.--Seve - LOOK e el large SECOND HAND PLATES. satiable for cbtones. Piers. and Chevals, are now on sale. on Reason sbttoTisetreterys: lantdCuonnor4tinni.R..LLlOT. and Comma's, Cabinet, Glass Manufactory, 93, Bishops gate-street, Within. New Glasses furnislted, as large as 130 bs 72 Inches, ISO by 90, or any less dimensions, at very Reduced Prices.—Noblemen, Gentlemen, Surveyors. Pro prietors of Hotels argot! ' er ts s, ill find this Warehouse de stroy attentlon, m extensive Variety of the best wasi a c tered cabinet or Chair Wort, constantly os Sale, every Article being ofieted at a considerable Rednetion. . _ ESSEN C OP Sli KIM PS. FROM the increasing demand of this much ad. mired Salve for all sorts of Fish, &c. it has induced the proprietor. POWF.I.L. at his Wholesale Oil and Italian Warehonse, 22. Newgate-street. (where the Trod/ easy be stipplled with this and all other Genuine mesas, Pickles. Av.) to return his mast grateful seknow ledgatents to the Public for their kind patronage, sad at the same time begs leave to acquaint them that it is sold by all tkoOil and Italian Warehouses in London, and by one or wore respectable agents in every town throughout the Cnited Kingdom. Observe, none is genuine unless signed "Dianaore and Son," and the Proprietors' seal on the Cork. To Merchants, Captains. and others, it Is particularly re eommended for shipping, as it is warranted to keep in any innate. — TRUSSES FOR RUPTUR h.st. CIAWAN CIO, 200, Fleet-street , (having 1,31 repeatedly succeeded in the most difficult eases of Rupture, with PINDIN'S PATENT TRUSSES, without Metallic Springs) have such confidence in the superiority of their Instruments as enables them to Inform the Public, and especially those with obstinate cases, they will *STUB,: the Messy, (if after a fair trial of suitable Pads.) they do not mitered. Char, SPeURITT and DC RABILITY, being the Rating characteristic , of these Trusses, and many of the hborions class much benefitied by them. Professional and ether Gentlemen connected with Hospitals. Truss Societies, Sad Worklionses are most respectfully informed they will be served on reasonable terms. N. B. Persons sending the circumference of the body below the hips f and the largest part of the thigh, stating which side ' are afflicted, may depend ou being correctly fitted. .;ffq INN, ST. CLEMENT'S, snt %ND. Ft. GENiERAL Orricr.. FOR TRAVELTANG AND CON VEYING PARCELS AND MERCHANDIZE. THE rollOwiftx MA11,3 'and other COACHES go from the above Inn : Paris Royal Mail, via Dover, Tuesday and Friday Nights, at twelve. t Poitsmoulli and Gosport Mail, through Godalmlng, Pe lingleild; and Pewtstm, .ewery lielming at a quarter past 7, and Suoday at half Fait 8. On Its arrival a packet sails I. the lode of Wight, to convey passengers and parcels; and a Mall Coach sets off to Chichester, through Drayton, Havant. Emsworth, Ac. Gloucester Mail. through Henley, Oxford. and Chelten ham, every Evening at a quarter-past 7, and Sunday at half past 6. Dover and Canterbury Mall, through Gravesend, Chat ham, and Fevershane, every evening at a quarter past 7. and Sunday at half past 6. FroinCanterbury. passengers and par cels ; and ey to Deal. Alargate, Hamsgate, Sandu ich. Ite. from Dover. parcels are conveyed to Folkstone, gandgate, llythe. Dimeitnrch. Romney, and Lydd. Milford Mail. through Carmarthen. Llandllo and Haver fordwest. every evening at a quarter-pest 7, anti Sunday at half-past 6. Bath and Bristol Pact Conch, to carry only four inside. th ro a 7 ll Reading. Marlborough. Caine, and.Chippenham, every Morning ate quarter-oast 6. Bath and Bristol light Post Coach, every afternoon at 3. Bath light Post Coach, in two days. to carry four inside. *roach Maidenhead. Reading. Marlborough, Detizes, and Melksham. Monday. Wednesday. and Friday Morning' at 9. ThEi Coch is chiefly intenderi for the aecommodation Families.a Invalids. &e. who ca nnot undergo the fatigue of such a distance in one day. Brighton light Post Coach. through Reigate and Cock field. every Morming at S. Cheltenham Original Post Coach. to carry only four in side, through Henley and ttsford, every Morning at 7. Chichester, Bognor, and Petworth Post-coach. Monday. Wednesday, and Frida !Mornings, at a quarter before 7. Doter and Conterbury y Light Post-coach, every Evening at half-past 3. Ditto. every Morning at half-past 6. God-timing. nod Guildford Telegraph Coach. through Epsom. Leatherhend. Clandon and Horsley, Tuesday, Thursday. and Saturday Mornings at 10. Ditto, through Kingston. Ditton. Cobham, and Ripley, on !dentin, Wednesday. and Friday Mornings, at 10. Henley Coach through Maidenhead, every Afternoon at I, Sands) . excepted. Littleharepton, Arundel. and Petworth Coach. Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Mornings. at half-past 7. Margate, Ramsgate, Deal. Sandwich. and Breadstairs light Post-reaches. every Morning sod Evening. Oxford thsht Post-goach, through Henley, le. every Morning at 7. Portsmouth new and elegant light Post-coach, the Regu- Istsw, to carry only four inside, through Kingston. (Wild fowl. Peternfield, and Portsea. every :Horning at S. Coaches from Portsmouth to Chichester. oa the arrival of the Mail. through Emsworth. Coshatn, Is. to Bognor. Salisbury Poast-coach. to carry only four inside. through 14 reiltea. Basingstoke, Whitehurch, Andover, &e. every Wilting at 7. • Tewkesbury Ponat-eonch, through Oxford aid Cbelten !rm. every Morning at 7. Strol•da ater Coach (removed from the Ball and %loath.) *rough Abingdon, Faringdon. end Cireneester. Tuesday. Tierartaa and Saturday Mornings at a quarter before 7. Wallingford and Wantage Coach. through Maidenhead, Nettlebed. and Harwell, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Mornings at 7. NORTHERN COACHES. York. Newcastle. and E dinbur g h Coaches. sad to all parts of the North. every Morning, et a quarter past S. Manchester. Lancaster. Kendal, Rochdale. Huddersfield, Tradrerti, Leeds. Hallifax, Rotherh am, Sheffield. and Nor' eicfi Coaches, Dully. CARRIERS—To Twickenham.Brentford. and faleworth, try Monday. Wednesday. Friday, and Saturday. EAMES and Co., Proprietors. Parcels and .Packages are safely and expeditiously con vied from this Ina to every City, Town, Village, anti CJ.:antn• Seat in the following Counties. viz.:—Berke. Backs. Det on, Dorset. Heats. Hereford, 0101101)11,6r, hint, Osford, Somerset, Surrey. Slims& Wilts. Worcester, Wales. all parts of the Isla of Wight, Jersey. Gears 'l, and all parts of France ; and to a ll Ports of the North. s' Take not:ce, that no package. containing slaw china. !Am plate, cash, or Bank notes, however small the " will be accounted fir. if loft or damaged: nor lm FV6III. Or. piSSCIIIgeT's luggage. of more than Al. yaw& := 2 ` sPivelsed as such when deiiveaed at dm 01fice amid i A egcotainrly 4 , 4 Neat Yost-:liaises, &c. at the shortest notice. A: 61km.L 1 4: o. LONDON; forced upon it an inferior article. It was sot this shipping, but the old shipping interest that •was at all concerned in the Colonial timber trade. But he (Lord Lauderdale) contended that there were two interests—the one was the old shipping, and the other a capital of 150,0001. laid out in the construction of saw mills. It could nut be contended that it was beneficial to our Colonies, because the prefit of their timber enabled them to clear lands; for it had been proved that clearing their lands by burning, which produced the exportable atticle of pot-ash, was more beneficial to the lands. With these views of the goes thin he would not trouble their Lordships with any fdrther Observations, but move as an amendment, That the Bill he committed that day six months. Lord ELLENBOROUOH said, that although he agreed in almost every point offered by his Noble Friend to their Lordships, he could not agree to his amendment, because be thought there was some little good in the Bill before the House, and because he feared that if they rejected that Bill the shipping in terest had that extraordinary power in the country to prevent any other measure with any good in it from l being brought in. With respect to the Bill itself, lie regarded it as a measure offering a bounty for the in troduction of the dry rot into every buildigg in till country. Ile would not detain the House at that time ; but before he sat down, he must declare that he shoold never again attend a Committee of that Horse on fo reign trade with any expectation of doing good to his country. Lord KING took the same view of the question as the Noble and Learued Lord, and strongly deprecated the Bill. The Earl of LIVERPOOL said that the Bill before the House had not his entire concurrence, as he consi dered it to be drawn up on an erroneous principle; but at the same time, although it did not apply a re medy of that full and universal nature which was so desirable, it cott:iiiited souse good in it, and as "halt a loaf vros better than no bread," he should support the Bill. Ile admitted that the plan on which the measure was framed, nes contrary to the doctrine which inculcated the seeking the best article at the lowest price; yet it must be obvious to their Lord ships, that there might be circumstances net of policy, but of justice which would authorise their acting in contradiction of that priasciple. Interests, connected with this branch of tratle, had been so fostered Ind encouraged during - the war. which it would not be al together right to abandon now. The question wit whether the Bill went further than the Report on the table and also, whether it did not go to place the trade on a better footing than it was before? With regard to the first of these, Le was ready to admit, th..t it did ~ t go further than lb* Replete ; but it did aloe ii place the trade on a better footing than it was before. for it reduced the iltity on foreign timber from 3/. lbs. to 2/. !Ss., which was an alteration for the better not to be slighted. Another consideration of some weight was, that it employed a great number of our trans ports. And is reply to the arguments of Noble Loris on that particular point, be had only to observe, that it was not the employment of the vessels alone that was to be considered, but the value of the employment of British seamen as well as the ships. It had been the practice of their Lordships to give protection the inJurtry of their own country, in preference to the industry of a foreign, and that was a principle he could perfectly understand ; hut he could not ander stand why we should :rive the preference: to the in dewy atid productions of one foreign nation ewer ano ther. It was that principle of the Bill alone that he ilisappiosed u:—in other respects, for reasons be bad stated, hr was willing to support it. The as of LANSDOWNE said, that after having obtained an unanimous concurrence of opinion in a eve.iiiii:tee of Weir Lordships, which recoil'. m ended me sires founded upon right principles, they were told by the Noble Earl at the head of his Ma je..te'a Government, that they were to pass a Rill found d upon other and erroneous principles, add that such a measure was to remain a part of env penma n rat system. The Noble Marquess aretted that Nor way ought to receive the sante encoaragemeat as Rus sia, and contended that the latter was favoured fey the Bill on their Lordships' table, lie confessed that henceforward he should look with deep despondency towards the placing our commerce upon principles of ,surd policy, after the failure of such efforts as had been made upon the present occasion. He should be anxious for one to continue those efforts, although he dish so in perfect despair, and always to adhere to principles, and to resist the consideration of Weal in terests. There was one question which he wished to ask of the Noble Secretary of State, namely, whether. there was any understanding with the Colonists, or any other bode, that these defective arraugemeoss were to be considered as permanent? He was aware there could be no direct engagement of this kind, but what he wished to be satisfied of was, that there was no indirect understanding. Earl BATHURST could only repeat In reply to the que.tion of the Noble Marquess, which he had be fore stated, that lie knew of 110 engagement whatever of the nature of that to which he alluded. The Amendment was Coen put and negatived. Before their Lordships went into the Committee. The Earl of I.AUDEIIHALY, said that . he wished to s uhtnit a case to their Lordships. which he ronctiv e3 to he one ..f the greatest hardship. There wets many merchants who hail sent out ships for cedars that were expected home in the course of a few weeks, sad by the provisio , s of the Bill such timber would be subjected to the payment of the double ddty. He frosted that some exception would be made in their favour. The Bill was then committed, and after the Repeat had been received, ordered to be read a third time to morrow.—Adjourned. • • HOUSE OP COM This was the day appointed to %Mitt* ton Committee. At fonr n'eloat tsttpMsti'ljtit a nembers prese - it, and as WO were Ito *fir on `itscit an .ccasio the Matte adjourned till to-mu-11,w. 'EDNIESDAy-,MAY 23, 1821. NEW NOV F.L. This Day was publisbed, in 4 vols. 8,0. peke 11. Ba. bds. THE SISTERS; i Novel. London : Printed fee Baldwin, Cradovh. led JIPY. Paternoster-row. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—Turstiv. Malt ItS. GRAMPOUND. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented the Report of the Committee on the Grampound Disfranchisement Bill.—Laid on the table. The Earl of CARNARVON moved that the Bill be printed with its amendments, in order that their Lord. ships might be is possession of the whole previous to the third reading on Thursday. The Earl of LAUDERDALE wished that the Bill should net be hurried so rapidly through the House. — From what he understood took place after he had re--, tired last night, it was doubted whether the Freeholi ers of Yorkshire, Many of whom were quiet persons who did not like election riots, or riots of any kind, would approve of the additional representatives which 1 1 the present Bill was intended to impose upon their I county. It would be just therefore to give them time to petition against the measure, if they thought proper to do so. After a few words from the Lotto CHANCELLOR, and the Earls of FITZWILLIAII and WtSTMORELAND, The Earl of LIVERPOOL asked how the sentiments of the County of York were to he collected and ex pressed? He had no doubt that many individuals might be found in that County who would object to the proposed addition to their Representation. But that would be the case in every other place to which the Representation might be given. Ile knew that when itlwas believed that the Elective Franchise would he transferred to Leeds, several persons in that city were disposed to disapprove of the measure. The sag* would happen at Manchester and Birmingham: bit the duty of the House was to consider what was best fur the interest of the country. Thi, lie con ceived, would be best consulted by giving the additional Re presentation to Yorkshire ; as to its creating incon venience in that county, it was. his firm belief that the contrary would be the case. The Earl of DARNLEY hoped that the s uggestion made yesterday by a Noble anal Learned Lord on the erosi.bench might be adopted, mill that two Members might he given to the West Rifling of York, and lir other two divided between the East and North Riding).' Lord ELLENBOROUGH thought that the best course which could have been pursued, would have been to divide the Elective Franchise, and to give one representative to Yorkshire and one to the County of Lancaster. The Earl of LIVERPOOL defended the Dill as it now stood. With respect to giving the new Members to the West Riding of York, that course could not be pursued, as it would then become necessary to divide Yorkshire into more than one County, and to let each separate division have its sheriff and its sheriff 'a court. The Bill was then ordered to be printed. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented a Petition from the Douse of Assembly of Prince Edward' , Island, praying that no aleration might take place in the Timber Duties.—Laid on the table. The Marquess of LANSDOWNE preenteil a Peti tion from the Dissenting Protestant Ministers of the three Denominations, in the Cities of London Anil Westminster, praying for the revision of the lie Criminal Code, and the mitigation of punishments. —Laid on the table. TIMBER DUTIES. The order of the day 'or going into a Committee on the Timber Duties Regulation Bill having hey!) read. Earl itAniuttsT rose to state shortly to the !louse, the general character and nature of t he Dill. In 1809, we had been excluded from every port of the Continent, on account of the state of hostility which existed between this country and all the European powers. The Government of France, desirous of em barrassing our operations and crippling our means, had even contrived to deprive us of all communication with the rest of Europe, through the medium of neu tral vessels. Under these circumstances, we had been thrown back upon our own resources, and it had be come necessary to draw from our North American co lonies those supplies of timber which Norway and Rus sia hail hitherto affords d us. For that purpose. en couragement was tube given to the one side, and with holden from the other. Wavy duties were therefore laid on the importation of limber from •the whilst that from oar colonies was le.l free. The amount iif those ditties was 21. Is. per load of timber ; whereas the former duty was only 6s. This, however, had never been intended as a permanent arrangement, and in 11+17, notice had been given of the intentions of liovernuient to take the whole subject into re-con sideration, with the view either if l a ying a duty on colonial timber, or of withdrawing the protection which it still received from the large duties on timber from the Baltic. The effect of this notice hat hero to create an alarm among the persons concerned in the colonial trade, sad to induce them to make large portations of timber, without any additional demand for that article; and when, on the contrary, the pre-, existing demand was likely to diminish. In 1617, before the notice had been given, the importation rums our colonies had been 136,044 loads of fir timber. in 1810, after the notice had been issued, the impertation of the same a. tide from the same quarter had risen 203,000 loads. In the some year also, without NI apparent reason whatever, except a mistaken spi rit of speculation, there had been a consider able increase of importation of timber f. wn the Baltic. In 1817 the importation fru to boa t quar t e r h a d b ee n 79,900 loads; in 11014. it hail risen to 130,000. So that the general imp: tation of timber in that single year, both from ou • Colonies and from the B untoward to 333,1hi1i loads, whereas in 1017 it had been only 216.000. le the•insportation•fr 3 is both ititarters ha l coon need t‘i inc cas:. That frow, utt: Culuuics bixn 249,000 loads, and that from the Baltic 104,000. snaking a total df 351,000 loads fur that single year. He had stated these facts, to show, that during the last few years, the Timber Trade had not been in a natural, but in a forced and unusual state, on which it would be fallacious and unfelt to found any argu ments. For the embarrassments created in that trade, had arisen from excessive insportatkies nejestilled by any demands, and could not be justly attributed to ,the state of the duties. The Noble Karl theft de oeribeil the want of proper gradations in the asionst p ig the duties on Baltic Timber, which had been no 'deed by the Committee, and which the present Bill was in part intended to correct. It had been found that the ilaty was the same on planks eight feet in length, as on those which were twenty. The amount of that dear was 201. 15s. lid. on ever, hundred. — Now the planks which came from Norway were geae fatly fifteen feet in length. and those from Peters- Await twenty, so that an unfair advantage was gives to the latter. A lower dn:y had also been laid small planks below eight feet, under the impression that they were of a very inferior description, and formed no article of trade. In order, however, to avoid the higher duty, planks had been imported a little below eight feet, and had become a considerable article of trade. The present Bill contained pew visions to meet all those cases. The existing duties on planks below eight feet was 7/.: it wiIIIMPW pro posed to raise it to ti/., and to make it apply to all planks below six feet. From six to sixteen feet, the duty would be 19/. ; and from 16 to 21 feet 4 221.-- I I The duty on planks 16 feet long, was intended as a relief to the Norway trade, which would now pay 11. 15s. ".1. less on every hundred, than it had hither to been obliged to do. With respect is the compara tive duties on Colonial anal Baltic timber, the cow millet bad certainly admitted the principle that thesis*, sod other articles ought to be procured where they I could be got cheaper and hest, hut taking into consi deration the circumstances under which our Colonial Timber Trade had arisen, it had thought that some protection and enconragement should be cot:tinned to it it a time, and that the only duty laid upon it at , heat, should not exceed the amount taken off from the Baltic Timber. In proposing this, however, it was by no means intended that the arrangement should be permanent. lie wished it to be clearly understood that his Majesty's Ministers were not to lw considered as pledging themselves to maintain it in force any longer than it should appear expedient. It was to he regarded as a subject lit, at all times, to be revised, and consequently liable to alterations. He did INK Mae that it should be altered at the expiration et Uwe or four years, but after a fair lapse of time. His Lordship then entered into seasedetails respecting t;so Oa of limbic Timbee in forme, years when the duty was only 6s. a load, and latterly when it amounted to 3/. 55., and showed that since the encrease in the duty, the price of the article bad only risen 1/. Ile con cluded by recommending to their Lordships to move with caution in a case where great interests were con cerned, and where, if they amnia hastily extinguish the colonial trade, they would afterwards find much difficulty in reviving it. At the same time the taking off of los. front the duty on Baltic Timber, anal laying a duty to the same ansouiit on timber from our Colo ' 'lies, would n.l injure their trade. By the last ac counts tile Laitic timber was getting up in price in consequence of the proliabi;ity that the present Bill wonid pass. This rise would be advantageous to oar colonies, and in ail likelihood wonld counterbalance the effect of the tilterations which it wits proposal to make in the:tittles. Ile then moved that the House resolve itself into a Committee. 'rite Earl of LAI 'HERHAt.I3 sail, he should not trouble their Lordships at great bengal in the state in which the Hon• e was, which, considering the para. oto.mt importance of the question, was to him surpris. ing. It had :wen the wise policy of the eituntry till loll:), not to tax timber at all. The evil, therelme, eoitl•l not is %VC taken Jeri, root, and when 'Lev learnt from esp. rierae, that the elect of that system of tacation was to tore* hail timUer upon them at a high prier, lie word that their Lordships would not hesitate to apply the axe directly to the rout. — It had been proved before a Conitnitteeof that House, that American timber was a very inferior article tat the Norway tinitser. 'I he difference in volt'e of these two articles mieht he estimated by the answer of one of the witnesses at the Bar of that Hesse, who. when asked what he would recommend a customer to give fur the fellow of a holm built in London with Norway timber, value 6100/. the honer to he purchased being built of American timber, answered, that he could not in his conscience recommend any one to purchase it at any price. The fact was, that the inns position of these duties was neither more nor less than a colonial 'tab. It was in direct op:onition to the recommendation of the Reports of the Committee of that House on Forrien Trade then on their table, which directed them to obtain all articles from the places where they were to he got best and cheapest, without reference to the place. So far from acting on this wise principle. they had actually offered a bounty for a ii ttl article. It was unjust anal ungrateful to wards Norway, who. notwithstanding our prtscription of their productions by high ditties, hail scarcely made any alterati ,n in her duties on our commodities ; whilst the favaated Russia ever sirre the t•e..re had followed up a regular syst!•ni of restrictive 411.4..4 to- 1 wards this country. He knew that although this Report to which be alluded contained some of the most a lis.trd principles of legislation, also contained' in some cornt.: or another some of the most sensib:e notions on the subject that bad ever been broached. 'I he true common sense of the getable was, that we should make use of those treasuries which the bounty of nature afforded us in the Hoarser most at hand and when that was exlmusted, go further off. It was colder:tied in support of the present system, that it was in favour of the shipping: and 'oder& the Report on the table laid it down slistiestly that the shipping lamest was the principal one centime'. So that for the s•tp;fort of 4 no:11:1fT of notes transports unfit tit t ani titing t.ut fluilier, the country seas to !tare II 40 • i i 1 ' 1 ) 1 k o • I 4. `e. k I 1 I , : I f I 1 . 4` i t I i -