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0 ent. Late. It,- LN vd the rlle MI At.l• the )uld this 41114" re it Itinhi II or pa- 1,:1• • IC.. • • , al though eat one gallon was distilled from sugar derma the whole mine moods* of the uperathei of the Bill. It was volely the'Productiosi of el mules tele distilleries, althoush ever. exertion hail beets used to execute the laws, sad the Collectors marl been most vAilatit. The Hon. Geistlessee who oppossed its rye:labia heing disewitiatied, had stated that Arno rearers of barke had been piirchased Ht Lynne, at aes. pen quarter, fur the purpose (Aim porting lute ; toot lie ('Jr. Foster) should user, that no Willi would have rlosie so, oedema hr was intending to distil it elinidestiocly in that country. for Ile per quarter ens at pre, ed the me dium prier. His eyesion was, that the ugneul tura! interests of the ciatiutry should never be in vaded but upon the apprehension of apprehended scarcity ; no I lie *koala prove that there was tie such aporehension at preeent existing in fret:eel, to call for the contiiinawae of the former measure. Hr dirt jolt believe that there was a M4ll in Inaaad who sashed the distiltatiosi ficsin sugar to go on, save onl. those interested individuate,- who had at tended the ineetiugs whielt were said to have take's Cale at Dublin, Cork, AVaterford, and Limerick. I 1 regard to the meetieg at Waterford, the ma g-earates issued u notice for that porpoise in the aewspapers, but assigned no grimed* for opposing the measure. us the Petitimi itself would shew. Every our in Ireland knee that the former Bill was stern to expire, end )et no moo had come to petition Parliament in order to renew it. The obvious reasou was, that at elk moment there was sus admonition subtly of gone iu that toiletry, in somuch that England had received from [reknit last tear on lint artetion of oust millivolt of barrels of 0 its inure than ever before occerrael. The coil tiotweimi of the prohdrition wonhl not tend to viel4 any snore food either for 141.111 or beast. Ile 'end a return firm' the Oilier» of Excise, stabile r e the quaatity of still* seized, together meth their wee aerl estisisated produee, from which it appeared, that Men the loth of January, to the (oth of December, Pine, wilirreitsed stills hail trews seised capable of distilling 800,000 gllllnin of spirits per month. a quantity that woull umenut to half a million of 'gallons snore tloul ever *Si formerly produced in Ireland widths (hemmer's:we of time. An idea laid gene abroad iu several pork of Ireland. that Um elembatine stills sitforded a snore reale market to the farm ers for their grate, *lnch led these kind of stills to be in general favourites a ith tlw loner or ders of the people. Now, the Woject of the present niewure was to bring the proale to reason, rod shew them that lay esicoonsailig the legal stills prefer-o'lly to the elaiitleeine still*, the" markets wield be equally good. sure, and advise tageoas, and the reviler.* encreafie:l Br potting Vie brewed stills 11104 in competition with the aulteeased -ones, the feelings of the 'people would then he, whirls of theist were usual fur their interest to au sport. By doing away the unlicensed still*, he had no rlotild it would trove • enure* of wealth to the people.—The revenue, last year, upon malt and stills. amount ed only to gO,OOOl. instead of one million arid a ha lt •Thom -furore wee nearly one-fourth of the revenue depseiding open this Measure, bc sides the destruct of the morality tif the people. He behaved the Kill had almady . htel a fair (rid. and as it hued not been rowel to succeed in Ireland, Monett Is he dawnistiunerl. Sir Jolts Ntwesiag opposicil the trwasisre He wished that the petition from Waterford at Id be read, in order to enlivince the Right Hon. Gristle- Man that his statement was errnistnits its to it, not assigning env 11:4.041/1 fur the opinion's of three pc ' libellers. Never did a petitioo cotitain strneger grounds, or a greater variety of rims.... It was signed by a great number of moot • respectable name". Ile had the authority froaCthe Nlayor, who traitainitted it to him, to state, that if it could have been allowed to lay loieger for signsi tures, it would have received all those of Huy Rot, or consequence hi the town. lief retold assure the House, he bad no knowledge of the progress or any such Petition, so that it came to him totally un solicited on his part. There were few parts of Ire land mere competeist to'form a judgment of the quantity of gruin on hand throughout the cosio try than naLerford, as nearly a o ne-third of the wholegrainwas supplied from it. The town of Clon mel is in mie of the moat perfect districts of Ire loud, awl every person there was unanimous in their opinion as to the prom iety of continuing the ro.acietiots of distillery from corm—The Bight Honoundne Gentleinan had taken very falla cious grounds in arguing that the prices of gone were low Ahroughout Irtlaud, for he had made his calculation when the price of spirits was emu shillings per gallon, mut did not advert to the con sequences arising from its being now at the price of• seventeen shillinge per gallon. The fact W;l4 that the increased price of spirits had the effect of increasing the consumption of malt in the brewer ies, instead of tile consumption of grain iu the dietilleries. besides producing the best effect upon the morals of the people. When it was said that the erwouragement to the legal uiotllatinn would pet dime illicit distillation, it wilt not advocated in l'onmeight, and ramose the n holt of Ulster were frirmerly, us now, 11(4111114 in illicit traffic of that nature. Orders were issued to staid two revenue cutters to intercept the grain and eitirita so pro duced, and that ineastiee erns proved to have had lielietieial effect in suppressing illicit stills; but it ! id been of late diacontinued, he knew not why.— le could not .grew with the Right llimoutable ient!entan, that the lower order of the people were the oily class that eiseouraged illicit distillation ; for ie hisopinion, the higher orders were equally participator* and encouragers of dist traffic, and lie had heard Gentlemen of respectobility defend them on the sane principles as had been uttered this night. He thought the higher class were tench wore culpable than the lower. A bounty had been given upon the higher species of stills, e Leh mule it impossible for the lower or smaller stills to be so much erriployett ris they otherwise would have been. The wily reasou far this was, that the higher stills were more easily watched than the smaller ones ; but it Will not adverted to, that the higher description of stills required much more eaeital to work them, and could only be employee) la wealthy inhabitants. The effect of this was that I au market was taken firm the dour.... the former ;rata oeereted is SOe.ncou►s.e r a eut to mint dastills ,a. The farmers in li elate! had not the 'dean- - tine it navigation to convey their groin to mar ket, wod•therefore they &nod the small stoat tile mast beneficial. UPosi that ground then it was evident that oise calm of ro,nplaint would be re- I leaved by taking away the bounty norm large stills, and playing them on a funtilig with the smaller ours ; for, by that [news, the inceotive to illi cit distillation would be connoletely removed.— The Right tlemourallie Gentleman then entered ' into oi comp•orison of the envoi of grain for the last three years, by whirls be shuwed•that they were higher ut peeseist thus fnr,nerly, awl therefore if it were wise to put a stop to the distillatoon.from grain in Maly, it was motel, more necessary now. It was a serious thing to advise the distillation from gr a in, when there were evident g r ads for apprehending a si•areity. Ile begiceil the House to pause before they adopted such a measure as that now proposed ; and the more especially, as in the North of Ireland there were apprehensions of a wont of employment for the flax-spinners, in consequence of the dear ness of flax. If any increase in the price of pro visions took place at a time when there was a di minutioti of labour, let Alionsters mot he surprised that discontents should remain. %%lien there were petitions from Belfast cud front Waterford, places quite distinct tool uncoome.lcil wish each other, and therefore no common interest nor concern between them its to this particular measure, it was evident that there was nothing operated upon their iniwls, but the scarcity which the people of !reboil thought likely to arise from it. Sugar iwing imported Great Britain, it was also evident that those who signed the petitions were not persons solely irate nested its the importation of that article. From these circumstances it was iliffieult to assign any other reason than the necessity of the measure that actuated the inhabitants of Ireland. These were strokiiig awl strong facts; but there was also another 'which he• might ally& to, which was, that a very large proportion of the potatoe pits had ;wen opeced, and, in cousequence of the floral., the potatoes had INTO found to he rotten, and he begged the !louse to advert to what might be the oonseqpeneo, if the whole of them wits found to the same stele.—Be hides this lie should call upon the House to cen-•. sifter well before the!, by adoption; oinclra measure, put it the ro,vir of the Crown to •continne or dircont . •an Act, putting Ireland on a footing with Great B:itatoo, moil thereby toofroolgiog the Act of Union. The Right Ifonourable. Baronet. concluded au eloquent and impressive Speech, by stating, he hail felt it hisduty to submit these smit ten to their consideratiou, and by assuring them, that they had such weight upon his militias would induce him to vote fur the amendment proposed. fleiteral M. MATHEWS opposed the principle of the measure, as it was contrary to the Act of Union. Mr. BAGWELL assured the noose, that there was no want of gnat' iu the county of Tipoerary. Ile thought distillation from graM the a hole sup port of that country, Mr. WILLIAM SMITH raid, he dal not wish to see any measure carried relative to Ireland, the en - forceineut of which steroid be obliged to he earned at the point of the ba)onet. At the same time he thought it *great risk to make a law which acted nit the two islands ditfereutly. Ile onniceiveil it woul&treate a jealousy that ought to be avoided. thr Airmen WLI.I.S4LLY said he iVal of opinion last . eter, there was not a sufficient quantity of food in ,Ireland for the demands on her. Ile was of a different •opinion :Is to the presto' period ; oil though the prices were high in Dulling, he was commend there was more than a sufficiency to supply any demands that couldte made ow her.— Ile was well aware, if the distillers were nut al lowed to go on in their usual course, they would go oil privately, and defraud the revenue of the country. Mr. MARRYATT said, that the arguments in fa vour of the measure proposed were not satisfactory. As to the price of corn, its inequality could pat long exist, from the proximity of the two countries. Tire result to the revenue wcuhi be very different front that stated by the Chancellor of the Excite quer., for what was distilled in Ireland could be brow4ht over to England, as the officers who would accept a bribe to permit illicit distillery, would take one in any other ease, and Irelasel would be come a second Dunkirk t• Gnerusey and Jersey. This measure had affected the price both of grain and sugar; for since its introductiou. sugar had fallen in price, and grain had advanced. He eon. eluded. by saying lie would vote in favour of the amendment. General Tmturtiv called the attention of the House to the prejtion he had presented, and ex pressed the effect the measure had had upon Lan caster. Cousidering the state of the continent, our military oper.wions the little prohaliility of peace, the situatioa of the Deltic, cud America, he would support the amendment. Mr. MACS/MIMI said, on account of the claito4 patting it iu the porter to prohibit the use of grain being introduced, be would vote for the niariaure. Mr. Er.r.ts supported the amendment. Mr. %Yawl's:RS objected to the Bill altogether; any interference of Parliament tended to Mertes, the prim uf grain. Wit.sgarulum said, that the knowledge of its lying in the power of Government to stop the from corn at pleasure. would ,only in crease their exertions in Ireland, to use the privi lege while they had it. Mr. PERCEss.. replied to the varionif ohjections which had been wade to the measure, and said if he thought illicit distillery could be checked, he would abandon the measure, ueol could not per eive any itiron.i.teney io the conduct or Ministers. The House then divided on the amendment, which ass negatived Ares 37, Noes 40 ; majority for the Min:stem 3. Ihe original motiuu Was then put and carried. The !louse then resolved itself into a Commit tee, in %hide they went through the Bill, and the Report was (mitred to be received this day, to which the (louse adjourned at Two O'clock. A new Opera was produced last night at Drury lane, iutitled, The Circa/aims &lite. The music and scenery are beautiful, but the piece is rely defective in dialogue and The Eleanor, Ifootaios, from Dei;ia, for Lou don, has put into Lisbun, and is condemned there.. LONDON, • FRIDAY, FEBRUAST 24. A later from Li. itoyal Highness the Duke of, Yon was laid yesi.:rday upon tiffs table of the Howie of Commons, of. which an official copy, is given in our Reirort of Parliamentary Dc. it his Itoyal Highness protcota hir innocence of the crimes imputed to him. and dunauds a fair and I'l3l trial. This is like a. Prirxc—this as 4.411 and manly, and to this corn plekiou we have r.prateilly mud his care mug come at last. The times are important. Should hir Royal Highness, as every good and loyal subject must hope, come pure from this ordeal, the result will do more for the tranquillity of the Country and safety of the Throne, than any other within the range of fancy to conceive. Mr. Possesses motion upon the war in Spain will certainly cowman this day. 'Should it be sup ported equally with Lord Iliasev PLITT's motion upou the war so Portugal, Ministers may exclaim with Peanut's, " one such victory snore and we tire ulislmw." Mini,ters, it is tree, hint upon that ()cession a majority of $0: but due allonatice be ing made fiss: placconeu and pensioners, the pure and usilsineed sense of the country was represented IN the minority. With all the benefit of influence Ministers lied lest night a majority of THI:1:6 'spots the important question of the Distilleries, atfeeting a vital principle of the Union. 'Elie). had better cot and run, as they did on the death of Ilr. PITT. They here becu tried in the balance, and found wanting. A list of the Minority, upou I.aril Ht Noir PET TY s motion on Tuesday, i. given in a riabsequesit column. It consists of 33 Kuights of Shires, Its I.7:tiaras, 1 University, and 106 Burgesses. amount ing together, with the tellers, to Never, we believe, in the history of Parliamentary debate, did any Admiiiistreti.m. display so Manly inconsisten cies. control.ctions, sod incongruities as the three Mirii.ters exhibited in the House of Coin that night. Mr. CANNIII4'3 while o:leech, from the first sentence to its conclu sion, seens:4l to be intended to expose the very er rors, which he affected to justify. and to defend. lir, in lsct, completely &tiered oil every point with his two colleagues, Lord Cstrtitax.tatt and Mr. PERCEVAL, except on one, namely, the voting fur the very Convention, against which ht declaim ed, ow unbecoming and moderate to our jest ex. pectations. The Triumph of pposition was com plete; and Mr. C•bit4lllo evidently thought mud spoke with them, though be divided with his Minis. terkal Associates. Even Lord CAYTLGILEAG*I did not dare to meet the question; mid its order not to coutradiet, by a vote of the House of Com mons, the ,Seirech which had beets put into the mouth of the Sot treign, the Secretary. of State for the War Department tumid I,imself reduced to the necessity of moving the previous qui.itiou. This is hard anti huntilistnig work, it must be cmrl dully tvut.t. lint if Ministers continue long in eller, it may not he the severest duty am. pat4A on. mind expected from their authors:as. After the &visit's.' which followed Lord Hume, n lean - 101101i. we .hould not be surprised to see . the subject M Ledils'inded •uew, end to tind the numbers mu:reined no the side of the minority. During the space of nem a century that has elapsed since the accessiou of the iiiigUst House of Bauttswica to the Throne of these Realms, we believe that no domestic event has taken place, which has affected every individual of the family with ru much unfeigned concern, us the accuse boas now brought forward against the Duke of Yoga. It is in fact of. nature which leaves hardly any room for coasolatioa, because, though the judicial proofs should fail, yet the moral convic victim) will, we fear, remain indelible. In 1757. when ‘Vid.t.tan, Duke of CUMBERLAND, made the iguominimis capitulation of Closter-seven, where the British, Hanoverian, and Hessian fumes laid down their antis before the Marevehal do RSCHLIFX. Commander of the French army ; the Duke was • edmtely recalled, deprived of his military situation, and disgraced. He was never theless the favourite son of 6koacte the ticeosn, who deeply and keenly felt the hisiniliation, though it was in rid only such as might have happened even to the must able General, and war unaccom panied with any personal imputation or 1411111. K e remember how much His present MAJESTY was hurt at the publicity and scandal of the legal pro ceedings. and at the judicial sentence, conse quent on the late Duke of Cesserdti.stitis amour with Lady GROPIILNOIL But no p,rsonal degra dation attached to that proceeding, whatever pub lic ridicule mid ht attend it; and the Duke of CUM. SEREARD was nut a sou of (iFORGI the Tutus. The disasters and termination of the Expedi tion sent to the Helder, in 1799, under the same Illustrious Personage alio now occupies se unit puahc attention, made certainly • deep impress on the public initiil,-and must, as we know that it dill, have oct a.iuned much distress to his Rue al Father. We were, in fact, Miliged to purchase, by the release of atveral thousand French prisoliers, the permission of regaining, with a beaten and di minished army, our own shores ; yet, severe HO the humiliation was, it only touched the military condlict, and left iutact the mural character of his Royal Highness.. his the present investigation, we search vaialy fur matter o f e‘ s e on a tion, or of eXCISsi.. Ereu youth is not to be pleaded as an Spology for indiscretion, nor can any precedent be ad raced, capable of up plyiug to the instance before us. That military enminissiolis and promotion,. of every descnptitm, were most improperly distributed and conferred, while the late Loril Asthma tottionoided the Bri tish army, we know. It was a siiliject of general regret and condeinuation. But the times tout the GuveriiiiieLt, not the Commander-in-Chief, wera cemurable fer those arises. Lord Annettay was pule, ineorrupt, end of most noinspenti ed ilmeirt tie•tit in his private, no leo: than Sii 1114 onirial 14- 1)4• oy-4-nts mistress, no moloy-leerler, awl S.C. charmels of ay; f-rmilit, touud 111' , -,W. 1.1 hint. In 17,4,2, Mhetr toe gie•at Earl of S T %IR w sent for by the Athiiii.44 ration of ti.ut period, no m his retreat in licothruil. iu order to Noe upon tors :the cointnand of tl,e time* the Nl;ourto-ni. fortune to be blend, r. Wt Luau ok °him, then Secret:lr . : at War. to triage- Wit to Lord Sista, three Ensigns enwininsiests. The blanks were left to be tilled up ty mu,„ icwl be was inferined that the money arPsup Irmo Inc.eie of those commimions, was meant by His biAitlVlri. to defrity the expenses ofilis Lordship's joor , v.. by to Loudon. But, that Noblemen's I, mole eularged than his pecuniary tneans,atid iniapebe of stooping to any sordid or unhetoming mode 4,f • a supply of motley, impelled him to &odium and to reject the resource tendered him even by hen Sovereign. Lora State presented the .ions to three deserving own, and came up to ! , t. James's at him own expcirse. We shall make nei ther comment, nor comparison, on thi", anecdote, the authenticity of which is anqueitionable. The Crown, the House of Commons, the Minis ters, and the Opposition, are all placed in a most delicate, and most arduous position, ih consequence of the present proceedings. To recede, is imput. utile. To advance is dougerous, unless on legal evidence. But, neither are there any written char ger before the House ; nor is there any esidesre on usdl.. Ni.v.r was situation more embarrassing to a legislative assembly, to the illustrious Individual under inquiry. nor to the nation at large ! We du not wonder that this husiiiess has absorbed eve ry other couniderotion, and exclusively occupied pub , lic lit Wuhan. Among the estraordinary phenomena of the pre seut age, so fertile iii revolutions, political and national. may be justly reckoned the formation of a new initiate, and the iistroductioa of European civilization, into the remote bleeds scattered over the vast expanse of the PiMilk Ocean. We are assured that TANANA. Chief, or Sovereign, of the Island of 1)-wy-bee, one of the Sandwich group, or Archipelago, too well known iu the relations of our circumnavigators, has not only subjected to his dominion the surrouilding islands, but is ac tively employed in extending his power on every bide. This Chieftain, the BuNararcre of the Pacific, though he can neither write nor read, is, OlOvertiteloos. endowed With ilistioginshed energy, and ambition. Numbers of Ltritish and of French renegodoes, or deserters, arc emplct ed in f: - ciliteting his projects of commerce and of conquest. Already. it is certain, that he carries on a trade with China, with some of the* dependencies ofJa pan.- with the Lialroue Islands and 7 noun ; nor is it doubted that he will soon navigate the South Sea, its the opposite direction, to the Western shores of Mexico, Peru, and Chili. However in credible it may appear, we are assured that he peso , sew st is marine, consisting of untie vessels ; among 10.,z11 are two, armed and copper-bottomed. TA.. t. it is la-i“:“..tl, will subject the Society and Friendly Islailds, as welt as many of the others in tied quarter of the globe. 'When we reflect on the geographical position of the Sandwich Islands. placed as it were by nature, to comici t America with Asia; and competes': to cull on the met extensive commerce, at once with the Phil liPnioes. China, and Japan, on one hand ; no lets than with California, Acapulco, Lima, and the twee of Chili on the other side of the Pacific; we are lost iu contemplating or calculating the results which nosy take place in the course of a few ,years. front this event. 0-wy-bee and Hayti may both. in the lapse of the niultweath century, occapy a distinguished place in tlie history of the e odd ; sod the dynasucs of TANAM• or of PEIIOII, like thOss of BON APAIITE rid of MURAT, may arise, to replace the extingoished families that antecelleutly ruled in Europe or in America. If ever the planet of the carth appeared to be convulsed by extrww , divary causes, preparatory to still more extriior• dinary effects, it is unquestionably at the present time. Yesterday His NI AJCSTY, Princesses AUGUSTA, SOPHIA. and AMSLI A. accompanied by Lady ELT. Generals I)antiou. Fi rigor, CARTWILIUHT. and Colonel Tarim*, took au atria„ in is indoor Great Park, and returned at half past twelve. The QueLN and Princes ELIZA/STU, took an airingtn Frogmore Lodge. Mr. SHAW. the Messenger, arrived yeaterday with dispatches, announcing, it is said, a Declara.ion of War i Austria against Franec. Mr. SRA% land ed at Falmouth from Lisbon. The East India fleet, so long detained at Ports month by contrary wind, sailed on Tuesday. A Lisbon Mail arrived yesterday, with letters and papers to the 10th init.. Attempts, it appears, have been made to throw that cap'stai iuto a state of insurrection and revolutionary disorder; and in the prosecution of this plan, the British officers, civil and military, have been insulted and abused. To restrain the licentiousness of the ,seople, and pre. serve order, the necessary measures have been taken by the I knerinnent. Oe the 4th, it i s,.ued two p r c.. clainations for this purlwa ; owe Or is Itsch declares all persons, so insulting British r.lfo r,,as disturbers of the public pewit, and en. runs 4 f the state. The other is a general eshoitation to the people, I unit ing out the evil consequences of insubordination, and cautioning the citizens to be upon their guard against French intrigues. The Preach residents at Lisbon appear to have been active in fomenting these c otioas. The Director of the Police ac conlingly i•sued an order on the iith instant, per. empturily requiring all the French inhabitants to quit that capital in eight days. and to withdraw to Caparica. Morfacern. and Trefaria. where they are interdicted from all corraspondelice that could be injurious to the country, slid kept under • stnct police. The private accounts from Lisbon. state that %igo was in possession of the French troops, hut that they had not yet entered Portugal. 'the Publisher of a Weekly Newspaper, entitled Toe British Galardi's*, was )rsterslay, in the of King's Lteoch, Bound guilty of a Libel upon the Kitt a. The Lacy. Moser, from Gibraltar, for the coast of Spam, lias main liven oa 'Noce DM? Tsr ragone by the 1 r. act, and burnt by an English frigate. THE DRITI SIT. - PRE SS.