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nex Tbeeday *wing to chivitahle 6ona 'Oder an iimiressiun Burdett), whose mo -1 stood fbr that day, Brougham'''. Ms .. ttert•taiirlitig, however, that the Ilion. Baronet had changed loss opiai•o b he would give hie notice for Wedise.day, in the event of not being allowed to introduce it sooner. LONDON COALS. Tie I,OID MAYO 2 presented a Petition from the merchants and trades.s or the city of London, pray ing that the House, at some future time, might take into their consideration the duties imposed op. on coals imported into the port of London, with a view either to the equalization of the duties, or the adoption asap, measure which might tend to alle viate the pressuie under which the inhabitants of the metropolis laboured. in couseqoesice of those duties. The .question..beiog put for bringing up the Petition--r* Mr. M. A. Ta•xxott seal, that if any measure, such as that contemplated .by the Petition, were proposed, he should feel it his duty to oppose it. The subiect was before the consideration of the first • 'statesmen, and Mr. Pitt opposed a proposition for the removal of the coal duties in the port of London. The LORD MAYOR mid. that the petitioners prayed only for an apsolisation of duties. Mr. Leret.reon thought no measure could be more unwise then to equalise the duty upon coals, or to extend it to those genet manufacturing dm. trial in which great epsantities of cools were con. iressod. If a uneasier' of this kind was Inueght 11010tard in the next Session of - Parlissesitut. be feel it his duty to oppose it. DVODALII could not think that the city of hoods was serious in the prayer of this Prtitimi. He should feel himself called upon to oppose it whenever it was brought before the House. General THORNTON said, that, considering the counties which the two Hon. Menshers who spoke • hoist represented, he was not surprised at their op • • Posiiion. This tax was very severe upon the me ...tropolis; it was continued long after die occasiou ;. -which gave rise to it had ceased to exist. It was hard that no tax should be imposed upon cools • where they were cheap, and a heavy one . imposed in London, where the price was always compara tively high. He hoped that something would be done in the next Session of Parliament to relieve the metropolis from this duty. Sir M. W. RIDLIT thought the pryer of the Petition, if acquiesced in, would do serious iigury to the coal trade. The real owners would be glad to have a Committee appointed to inquire into the subject, for they could Uses p►ove that their con duct was fair, and high price of cools in Loudon did not dap upon them ;it originated with persons in London, and perhaps the Hem Gentleman (the Lord Mayor) would give them, if he pleased, information upon that subject. Sir CHAILSS POLS aid: ba had uo doubt but it Ms. upon laquiry. amid be found Goa op .lplaiee mad .esiesi.--The Petition was nod, and eased to be pnoted. peso tai %Odom Rom lie Corporotiott of Illisoom, ponying for • ropool oldie &Ain apes coal cor.. viol soutwaya. PARISH VESTRIES. Tie Lords' Aotoothosoto to ate Pori& fairies ROI .on agreed to. CONVICTS. Oa Ibe 'WWI of Mr. waselre4 to be laid spat the Was of all pastas trsasporad far sena years N. New Booth Wales, from February, 1514, Nary, 1515, distiompisidag on sod daises anardiag so sp. lb Man Trade Laws • yew and a wend tivar.--Tlie Dell vas eoloalteed, the lasuitht Gr i nd the Hill ordered so hs end the tbisd am Moaday. The frith Disseatiog f wti Menu 2111 was with draws by Mr. Peatell, qu.lli. suasetites of Mr. Peel. REPEAL OF EXCISE LAW IN IRELAND, FOR POSING FIN ES ON TOWN LANDS. • General Flan., although sensible of his inade quacy to treat a subject of so mousentoas a nature, and so ailictiag, as the sudden change which had taken place in the minds sad manners of a people. more mild heretofore, and more amenable to the laws, and_ to every superior authority, than any perhaps on earth, but now changed by the op pressive execution of an urcesstitntumal statute, which authorises the punishment (without a passi bility of human wisdom or exertion preventing it), of the innocent, fur the concealed crimes of the guilty ; vet he did believe that even this arenas stance, afflicting as it was, could not, at that mo ment, have induced him to venture on a task to which he WWI so unequal, had he not hoped that British Mtinhers might have been inclined to take moo their consideration the object of the several Petitions now on the table. sod which he from tune to time had the honour of presenting—ut first tr•ort the principal laud proprietors and gentlemen oho compose Grand Juries of the county of Do negal, and lately from the inhabitants of several pa, u ,lwv in that suffering pan of the United King d ; and had he not been urged by the unani mous desire of successive Grand Juries of that ... w ay, winch he had the honour to represent, but more positively by the last, to state In the [louse "'their unanimous and decided opinion, that the present Eseise laws have hero utterly inefficacious, and that a perseverance in the s)striii enlist lie pro dnetirr of ,hr worst conirequences." lie trusted, l►isorvrr, ilt.it his inadequacy would be ropplieti by the I ttttt may of the Itritta.h :Members. who" re. •pact for justice, sod abhorrence of cruelty. rtpaillral that of any of the absent Irish Represen tativra. That by the seventy of the finial/ system. rud the craarl execution of the law by excia.eanett, people orre allivrtt to drspeir Irian poverty : that ...mire ensued , cootagiota au the North of I►'e- • that the Houle of Commons had still energy to re. sent so gross an invasion of their privilege*, by rt. 4oule its authors with that severity which they deserved. The rapers were then ordered to be printed. Mr. Booptutais.then obseived, that the letter to wliic'h he ha* en a former night, alladed. namely. that of Mr. Thompson. had tense out es boa god document, and not a fabricstioa, ma seas &We- tnen had declared it to he in their opinion. Loral Loweneut declared hiss& isieightit ff tie whole ttaosaction. EDUCATION Or TIE Wit - Mr. BROUGHAM said, that he had on Rive,' notice. that he would ne')ot Taraday bring for.ord a proposition relati've to w cheritehle Nona- tinny. He gave that notice '4i .der rn imPressiun that his Hon. Friend (Sir F. Burdett), whose mo- tion on Parliamentary Rehire stood tbr that day, "mold live place to his (Mr. Brougham''' Un- . alluded ter, relying on the attention likewise or the British Members to don. That the late Excise rerttunli now intended to prove that the fining sys- Attuk fro produced a diminution of illicit diatilli tiete,to not allude to the personal "Punishment of 'lli g uilty distiller. which has beet. eticreitied since the lot Session of Parliament, from hue and im prisonment, to transportation, as hewing had any eltect in that desirable object, and which alone the General had no dbubt would woo gradually put an end to the destructive practice s which. it was unjustly stated. the Gentlemen of the county of Donegal encouraged;' but that the fact was other. wise, for nothing cold be more injurious to them, .as it almost entirely diverted labour from the proper cultivation and improvement of their estates—the smallest of those mills requiring the entire work, day and night. of two men and two horses, for (he purpose of secretly smoggling,the spirits Io market. besides other labour, and in no instance ever Mailed in the end to ruin and destroy the tenant Who per sisted in the practice. to the gre. injury of the landlords 'HP then moved, as he Ists4 given notice, !wins,. to Wog in a Bill to 'mot such parts of the Act of the 54th tithe Ming, sad allToroser Acts relating to Distillation, as authorise the isrpbsiag sad levying of lines us town-lamb la Ireland. Sir G. Hit.t. lamented tha't ate Hon. General had come to tha resolution of agitating this ques tion, such an agitation being likely to excite hopes and expectations in tbe smuggling districts of an alteration or repeal in the town-land law that could not possibly be realised. To his own knowledge a very great sensation had been there produced by the notice of the motion. The Ho. General's motion was directed against the principle of 'op pressing small stills —s_ principle meted on in Ire land from the year 1781. to the present time. The town-land lining law had been suspended in 1810— repealed i u 1814..... but in 1814 re-enacted, from the alarming height to which its repeal had, in the short interval, carried illicit distillation; and from the strong representations made in its favour by va rious persons possessing the best means of judging of its efficte. It had answered the expectations formed of it—it was effectually extirpating the practice of smuggling ; yet now it was proposed to be repealed, and thereby to subvert all order and obedience to the laws in the smuggling dis tricts, and to call again into existence every species a excess and a systematic disobedience to law.— The law endeavoured to be got rid of was the re sult of the inquiries of the Committee on Illicit Distillation in the year 1816; and he knew of no circumstance that had occurretlsince that period to make-an *lteration of it advisable. The Chancel lor of the Irish Exchequer (Mr. W. mole) in 1810, - had advised a suspension of it, and a re course to milder measures. Accordingly a Suspen sion was adopted, and after • continuance of it for two foss, an absolute repeal its the year 181 g. The consequence was, that the practice of illicit distil lation. which had been partially suppressed by the operation of the law against which the preeent No tioo was directed, was instantly renewed with all its former vigour, and in a shoe time carried to a height extremely alarming—the-spirit of instsbords nation and hostility to established authorities displayed itself with increased malignancy in the counties where smuggling had before principally prevailed, and the gook of these counties were very soon filled with offenders against the Excise Laws. Its this state of things, after various applications to the House of Commons from different parts of Ireland, fur more rigorons measures, a Committee was appointed in the year 1813, to inquire into the most effectual mean. of supposing illicit dis tillation. From the memorial," laid before that Committee, there was one—a memorial presented to the Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer in the year -1819—signed by very nearly 509 of the most respectable merchants of that place, and unani mously approved of by the Chamber of Commerce there. of which he would beg leave to read an extract " Atom' Me various experiments which have frost tirne to time bees had recourse to for the purpose of suppressing illicit distillation' m Ireland, the •ndeniped beg leave re. speettelly to state, that, from the undeniably good effecis which it produced in this part of Ireland, none seemed to them to be half so well calculated to accomplish that de sirable object, as levying hem off t►e town-lauds where pri vate AIM are fused' The principal merchants and dealers of London derry district had at the same time presented a si milar memorial, of which he should trouble the Hawse to attend to one paragraph. The memorial ists stated— •'Tat the Saes es tows-lauds had the effect of suppress_ lag private distillation, for at the time that salutary law was repealed, there was mot does at work in this neighbourhood soy aims like the member of private distilleries that were in we wiles the law was enacted, amd the effects of its repeal have bees t►e great increase of private distillation." Memorials to the same effect were presented from the merchants and dealers in Drogheda, and from certain persons iii the county of 'Tyrone, to confirm the view harms by the former Committee. and acknowledge the necessity of acting on the prin ciple of imposing the fine on the town-laud. In pur- suance of their mature advice the principle has beeu acted on, and with the most excellent effects since, with the exception of six months, during which, from motives of Infirmity, the Treasony of Ireland directed I hitt the levy of the flues should not be executed. Such was the conviction of the locrease of private distillation produced in 'the mind of the Committee by this, and a mass of other evidence'. written and oral, that they rei oni mended a revival of the Town-laud fining Law ; and the law was revived. When the law had been in operation two years, various representations having been made iigainet it to the I louse of C ttttt mons. another Committee on Illicit Dis tillation stay appointed in the year 1116. Wh a t was the result of their inquiries ? tiesitlenseu asked why the Legislature did out allow the erection ot small licensed stills? The Legislature did every thing colissiatesit with the security of the revenue in encourage them. to poiiit of fact, four of suds stills were established in the heart of the district noo►t inlicted with smuggling, capable of `~ Si-. i" •J • consuming *.great Fart of the hagley the enmity of ' Donegal had to dispose of, and (notwithetainling a publicatiosi industriously circulated in this eomitry, which, to speak in mild trivia, was not calculated ' - good) he was bound to affirm that private des lion had, anice the re-emuctment of the town. law, suffered a very considerable redoc- He had no norm', personally, one way . the other, bat he entreated the House. be. Tore they' took up'assy opinion of the iiirlficartr of the liew, t look at the returns oil the table, sheering the quantities of legal spirits mann factored, 'permitted into, and consumed in the sonoggliug districts. during the two periods when the law . was in oper a tio n , en d wh e n it w as not. The c excessunder each of the three head., thiritio the first, would be found to be 'Prodigious. Su effica cious, in truth, was the law, that it had now driven all the ihainifircturera in the barony of Etioialiowen, from the lOwer parts to the mountainous tracts. The House bad heard a great deal of the severity with which the law had been exercised in the county of Donegal ; they probably would be sur 'prised to hear that the whole sum levied in fines sill' that devoted county, during the last twenty months. was less than 5001. A strict and active levy of fines had certainly been caroled on in the year 1815, and in the pamphlet he had alluded to, numerous instances of alleged cruelty and oppres sion were described to have taken place on that occasion; however, as they (admitting them to be fairly represented), and almost every other cafe of imputed miacooduct and oppress . , had occurred previous to the appointment of the Committee iii 1816, it was before that Committee they should have bean brought forward ; they now came too late. The Commissioners of Excise had on all occasions bestowed every consideration on the cir cumstances of the offenders—arid its particular, they ordered a suspetisinii of the levy of still fine* in the harvest of 1816, to allow the people in gather it in unmolested. lie believed, iii short, that not a case of undue severity could be cited, as having existence since the last Committee rat. One of the works on the' subject. described the ef fecia of the severity of the town-land law, us being an overthrow of the state of morals—a disorganiza tion of society—the planning and executing of noir , dere --the shedding of much blood, and the loss of many lives. It might be unpopular to say so, but the fact was, that for the last forte veers the manufacture of illicit spirits was a regtifir trade in • large part of the county of Donegal, and the counties adjacent ; and it was not strange that con sequences of the nature described had resulted from such a system, without having recourse to the opt ration of a late law. It was a fact situ record, th a t many years ago. during the existence of the Irish Legislature, a Commissioner of Excise had been sent to Londonderry, to examine Whether it would not be proper to deprive that port of its privilege of being a tobacco and wine port, in cons , queuce of the inveteracy of the offence of smuggling, and the multiplied transgressions against the Ex cise leas committed in it. A case hail been greatly magnified, in which the inhabitants of Eunishowen had suffered by the introduction of a body of the military in 1814, for the purpose of levying fine- ; but whatever hardship had happened was caused by the remissness of the High Constable of the barony. and his reluctance to perform his duty. %VII landlords decidedly stud resolutely gave their tenants to understand that smuggling must be got under, they had succeeded, He knew va reap' instances wherein energy and determination bad conquered it, and lie could not conceive what *ere was 'peculiar to the county of Donegal to prevent their success there also. An immense beet or country in the county of Tyrone, where uses had been imposed to sin immense extent, had Men, by the exertions of the noble proprietor and his agents, thoroughly cleared of smugglera.. It was unnecessary to advert to the vases • of al leged cruelty in the execution of the law, because they had taken place before the last Committee sat. But as Geritlenteis were fond of attributing the re laxed state of morals among the smugglers to indig nation against the town-land law, lie would beg leave to allude to titre transaction that took place while the law was not in force :—A it assemblage of tan or three hundred people waylaid an Indivi dual repeatedly ; he was fired at two or three times, and the sixth time killed. And what was the offroce that drew down the vengeance of this association ? The man was plotted against and murdered, taercly because he led to the knowledge of the place where a former murder had been committed. Complaints had been strongly urged against Excise-officers, and it was said that the Board did not sufficiently discourage their rigorous eulorerment of the pe nalties inflicted by the law. He was inclined to think. however, that there was no foundation for the charge against the latter. They load deprived one individual of his situatioa, and, be believed, paid a humane attention to every representation made to them. The advanced period of the, Ser mon rendered it unlikely that ally useful result could follow from agreeing to the motion. Under all the circunistinices, he hoped the House would reject it, and emanate a system already found to be so efficacious. bold COMPTON said, the season was very ill Arisen fur the discussion of a partition like the pre sent, when so slimily Irish Gentlemen were about, mid the Session so near an cud. He thought it ad visable that the motion should lie withdrawn ; if, however, it was prettied to a division, lie should be compelled to vote against it. Mr. CIIICUESTEtt said, lie would not go into any argument upon the local SOCCP/1. 1 , or the contrary, of this measure. It may be admitted that in' some places, entirely cultivated and thickly inhabited, there may be such publicity of the practice of illicit distillation, that the act must be known. But who is so ignorant of the actual face of the country as to say, that lit the immense extent of mountain which exists ill many parts of Ireland, it should he lie constant business of those, who most subsist by their daily labour. to quit their occupations for the mere purpose of trying to protect themselves.from. suffering for the offences of others, especially as the whole range of country is subject to the vigilance' of Excise Officers, who ought to be able to detect and fining to justice those who are guilty of a breach of the law, if their interest did trot prop - tin them to I avoid the total eradication of this evil.ao profitable to them ? He wished, therefore, to advert little to 1 the militate detail of the subject, but to rest the question solely upon its unconstitutional principle ; •.•% • • . . • this ltritrei,.7e, hitherto tuilsnnati Mltst be sdiffiteal as* precedent or at nue, abisudonerl. He conettlered the system of imposikg Sues upon the inhabitants of a district generally, as opposite tom,* thing which we know of the rigftts of inaliviauals, who should be judged by their Cavil innocence or guilt ; mid be would salt sassy lawyer to stay, whether, lej• the com mon or statute law of this country, it would.he pos sible in a tuisalenteenor pasnisloattle by l or im pritso 1111 l vet, to coriXitter on area nary befre or afire thefoet priocipad Now by t h is how such an seems)• was nut only made a principal, but a person perTkely cent was mule, by constrtictime guilty as an accessary, and puttisbable as a pritici pod. it tees necessary now to advert to the 'peculiar state ha which lauded proprietors were placed by this extraordinary measure. 'floe flues being im posed, stitu what dilemmas is the Board of Exrise placed 114 to the execution of this law ? If the lay uncut be enforced by distress, the country must be reduced to poverty—if not enforced, the tine* re main in an accumulating charge upon the land ; and it should he considered to what an extent these have alreudy arisen. Now he begged to know how this was to end ? Was the Board of Excise to he made a party to all conveyances of property, for certainly their charge stands before that of a mort gagee ? or wits the perpetually ticalimashei lig charge to give to that depaitineut an tinitne tilt! tience over the proprietors of the country, by Inlet; able to ex ecute a warrant far distress, whenever it might suit their pleasure to do an ? It was known that the ex tent of the fines imposed on property in certain parts of the country operated as a powerful discou ragement agittist Gentlemen settling there. A Gentleman who had, in a manlier very creditable to him, made a large fortune in one of our sett letnents abroad, and lately tett:lllv% a brother to the Mem ber for Old Sarum, had declared to himself, that as long as the town-lutist finit g law was kept up, he would not spend one shilltng of his fortune in that semidry, to which lie was Bunched by long halsits and connections. As the powers vested in Excise offieers could not COW litutiuually exist, he therein e tiostad that the House would determine that. thil should never exist. It was in error to argue as it this was the only system to attain the cud desired; eity'other was open. The Excise officers hail not propel ly ex ercised the powers intrusted to them, or the destruc tive practice would have been long since suppressed. It was well known, that before the lusr in spiestints was enacted, smugglers hart been permitted to carry on their traffic its boats in open day—end after this, lie was slot to be told, that the powers conferred before the Town-land Act were inade quate—they had never hud a fair trial. All lie welded was, (het the same measure of justice should be extended to Ireland as to Scotland. He %null be most happy to agree in any sound constitutional means for the suppression of illicit distillatioss— but he was persuaded (list the ateehoil adopted for that purpose in Ireland, was one that a Minister world not venture to polarise fur execution in England. Mr. PFEL hoped that the Hon. General would 11 , 0 a''‘'llorase bus motion ; after the pain" taken to cle at anti irritate (he wished he could say rtilightee) the t üblic mind on the question, it was highly ex pedient Parliament should not ',emirate without some expreeeon of their opinion on it. He was sorry that the Hon. General had given him the miserable advantage of urging against the motion the lateness of the Session ; hut he could tell Gentlemen who desired to extend the Scottish law to Ireland, that it would be first necessary to repeal no less titan '29 Acts of Parliament.— The gallant General had not, in his introductoty speech, laid one atingle groond for acceilitig to the motiott. It contained nothing but getteral elk ga emits of the severity of the town-lend fitting law, and of its (its his view) unfortunate consequences; sled after the charges-contained in a publication before 'alluded to, he hail been surptised that the [lon. Gentleman (Mr. Chichester), so closely con nected with the author, had not attempted to sub stantiate one of the facts put forth iti that pam phlet—facts which, if true, ought to draw down the vengeance of the law and the country on the Ministers of Ireland. The question was, the system of imposing fines ors tease-lends was efficacious or otherwise ? Ile worsts! admit, how- ever, that the system might he so 'severe, that its efficacy, thuugh acknowledged, would Ina counter balance its severity. But the efficacy of the law was not to be measured by its effects in one die. trict. It might he inefficacious, and it might have given rise to cruelties in one populous district, while. it had completely attained its object, and without ruse of the attendant evils, in the other parts of Irritant!, lie would wish the House to suspend for (me moment the conSideration of its Effects iii the county of Donegal, end reflect oat what it had effected in the other counties.— The effect on the latter might be Calculated from the fact, that not a single petition had been pre sented to the House from any part of Ireland hot that single county, and no instance of unreasonable strictness in putting the law in execution had here adduced front any other quarter ; nor had he beard ha his official capacity of one complaint against the officers of Patellae except from Donegal. He had seen the allegetiocs of vigour and cruelty made agtillibt the officers of the district, which iiscluded Etinishowen, and should speak of them shortly ; ! now lie would observe that she offici , al documents . presented to the House shelved that the tow's-land l aw h ie d attain e d it s object iu that and the adjoining districts, us effectually as law could. There was certainly no better criterion Jur judging of thir system than by examining its pr , ctical nye : retiree seeing what were the number of still flues 1 for the three years preceding the Act, the amour), of the rewords paid to the military sod constables, cud referring to the same items since the Act was curried into effect. Let the House look then at the years 1814, 15, and 16. lit 1814 there were 1,917 still fines ineesed—in 1815, 10,506—ia 1916, 1,053. I Now, in 1817, the number was reduced to 370, sod un average of 1318, to 368. The next crates-ion WAS the expenses pnid the military and constablts—(the hornier; be it rt rnetnbered, must be employed for general purposes, quite exclusive of the present ~coatsideratinn). In 1813, the year before the mea sure, the sums paid to the military, tke. uniuuuted t o gi,ooo/.—lti 18141°16,500e—in 1815 to 15.0 1 10/. — le its Ili to le,ooo/.--eated in 1817 to 7,0ue1. //(ear.)---.lle would also beg to roll the atietition or the House to a most material circunistattee ; he ulealit the coesumptiou of spirits in Derry mid ( R'i trti e natie. TI ,e Consoinvidion of spit its in the district of Londonderry, for the three years preceding 1814. wint 111,000 gallons—for the three subsequent years 111,000. Ili Sirabstie, for theiltree years before 1814, ,the consumption was short of 15,000 gallons—for the three years since the consumption %,as 90,8 m) gallons, being six times greater than dasiog the preceding period. In Ulster, for the three presious years, 04amber was 518,000 gallons—for the three sti tient 1,540,000. These, which were official returns of the consolation of legtil spirit s , chewed at once th e e ffica c y 11Me present system in keeping down and preventing the illicit elistillatitsii. There was another remarkable fact worth the atten tion of the House; it was this. In the year 1817 the tines all over Ireland were in number 593, whtle in the year 1818, in the county of Donegal alone, the county w.th which the Honourabl e General (Hart) was more immediately connected, the still fines were no less thou 618. —( near, and a laugh.)—He would here just run over the fines of other counties, on a comparison of the amount fir five years. 111 the county of Kilkenny there had been during this period 13 fines, in tire couitty of Cork t 2, %Vieklow .5, Waterford 3, not one io Kerry, and in Donegal alone 3,480.—/ hear, end mach laughter.)—lt was from this circutristatice that laud in that county bore so monstrous a lin mitstio ; that the tithe on corn was so considera ble, and barley land at so enormous a value per :acre, iu comparison with that of any other district, though the land was notoriously buggy, and of on ittleriur quality as paied with other soils. If the line on townhands were repealed, it must be ob vious from these facts that the illicit distillation would nourish in full vigour, %%bile in the scne proportion the consounptioli_ of legal spirits would he redu c ed, an d th e reven * of course injured in the same ratio. They had heard of the iitrulasit of 11 r. Robert Young, who complained he had incur red or suffered tines to the amount iif 2,0001. and who plainly stated in his affidavit, that lie thought it hard he should suffer more than his neighbours ; who were notoriously less desirous to a i .ply them %rives tisremove the evil. This, together with the importation of man-traps for revenue officers— (.9 laugh)—.hewed pretty plainly the militoken desire which generally prevailed to • the illicit practice. Now from these practices, and all his information on the subjset, he could only draw one of two cont•lusions—either that the land in the county of Donegal derived a pecu liar benefit from illicit distillation, or that there was some constitutional peculiarity in die inhabi tants of that district which gave them an antipathy against legal spirits, or as they expressively term ed it, Parliament wh;tikey.—(,l laugh.)—lndeed the Don. General (Hart) had himself, when fxa nuned before the Committee, avowed the predilec tion they had for the illegal spirit, and had said that they did not wish to drink any other. lir loot heels asked, " General, do your haymakers chink it'" (the legal whiskey)—A. " I believe Q. Would you give it to them ?" (still Speaking of the Parliament w hirkey") —A. " I certainly would not if I could get any other." (// It was dear, therefore, that the predilection we. general; but the misfortune was, that it was too snitch to ask all the other comities iii [re boil to pay for the peculiar palates of the ittople of Donegal.—(Hear, and a laugh.)—They had heard ro great many statements of the sufferings of iodic - do'ts through the town-!and flue system; hut tie (MP. Peel) denied the fomodation of these state ments. The Right Hon. Gentleuati then referred to a pamphlet lately publish e d,, whether the House was prepared at first sitw to believe the statements made in that publicaliou—for tostaticr, that a very meritorious person wit refused 44 license for to 100 or 150 gallon still, because a 50U gallon one was in the neighbourhood —or the /ton of the Collector forcib:y takinv a penuld iote nut.of the pocket of s person named M'Augles I—This state- Meld met with a flat contradiction, and in a "note to the publication containing the cliaige. '1 , .. Chi chester mentions that he never cohontlerod the mat ter in the light of a robbery. The R%lol Gentleman concluded by hoping, that au the soli. Iva hied been brought before the House-, it %%mold not suffer the motion to be withdrawn, but would pronounce all opinion upon it,—( Hear.) Mr. CHICIIEsTER, its elpialisitiOii, denied that the Gentlemen in the county, particularly one, with whom he was very nearly connected, dein rved the reflection.' that had been thrown out —that loth violas! was Us honourable a man as ally in that !louse. All that the supporters of the notion ro quired was discussion, and to be allowed an oppor tunity of proving their statements.—(Hear.) Mr. Pm. disclaimed having cast re &clunks n pen any booty, he had merely referred to the stacsruents sent forth its the printed pamphlet, and argued f theme. Sir NICHOLAS C. Cournuarr expressed his opt nion against the motion. The late per;od of the Session, end consequent impossibility of entering ii.to any inquiiy now upon the subject, was in itself u sufficient argument against its being enteitained Nt ii•sisent. lie also declared luinself hostile to putting the Irish distillers on the same footing as the Scotch, for he thought such a rneasare would be most unjust to the large distillers who hail em barked in business at a great expense, :mil who contributed so large a sum to the receilue.— t Hear./ Mr. PARNELL said, that the Right Ilan. S , - cretury for Ireland had not attempted to throw credtt sitmai any of the facts related iu the 1)015.* toion alluded to, except two. and those appeared tv he inaccuracies, in no degree affecting the -tilt staoce or principle of the statement. It therefore seemed very strange to attack those two cafes, es pecially as the inaccuracies had beet, admitted by I;ke author himself. It ought to be remarked that is great number of the a•srrtintu stated in Ih:it inetnpliltt, had heen • furnished by the In none of tlicse Secretion' advent', t,rial %vot.iii not 111 lion. The I ;Ise, more one of ustlierr.l of In. fore btrai yarned two only agamit Irr lri ? The 1 , litipso. r Airle for Evcit giAit;tig told .• , . _. land oriigitnatiel is.i the county . 4 .„ thotog4l :,this roost' t i o. airs, iespessible for hint t No, sealant all the Done uptefertouniettessdisti dm' .0111 e slier tly lusted Publ . ' Vof dlo be mit _ exPeskes. and ef per which is to soldiers and ERA* Am.. ke. attebtling Ito do It Ist 1814 eniosittin4 td above seventposie thou.. fillet .sand pounds, ant considered himself as compelled 141111 to tome &netted in the manner he then did, by the bow. coibiderstion of the numerous Petitions he had or th _ . .• teen tally contiiined by evidence Board of thenisciver, but me had the Right HonourAle td. lie hoped that the Hon. l;e- -he persuaded to airlocks% his olio- hooever, appeared to hint to be sciple than or fact. It ed.'s one ✓e, and which ncrer could hare effect lowlands Engl.:lid, for it wits ▪ 11111 l such -measures otre at- principle appeared to hint real- it spade an entire neightnissi hood a secret fault .r an individual.. hat it oh/old be puesibla to detect