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r I I 7 a MR `r - Lbw Vat soon after the holiday, he would be enabled to make a commuuicattoo to Parliausent on.that sub. I j- t. linste rose to more for varioos aetsile $1 The e re Moto, to o s sage as esammwit .... tbe I tisieto the expenditure of the I►ish Civil List, espe7 ~ to base swelleil in a . short spice of time from 34,3104 to 75 000/. The whole of the classes of tetrueots. however,. wanted revision. There was one .romitricuons item of 8001. a year granted in 1 716 to the representatives of C. Hooker sad P. Harsh fir ever, except in the event of 3,0001. being peed op at one time, and then to cease. This might be raised in the 3 per cents, and would then east ugly fin/, a year to discharge the 2001. Among is variety of rater upon which they needed official :nforin•lioir, he instanced that of a Mr. Crofton, who received 1.0001. a year retired allowance, and held a. situation in the Vice. Treasurer's office of 1,0001 a year more. There was a Mr. Mitchell who 'cermet! in saline and pensiotis, 500/. and 400/. s nit 804 a year. Ile denied the doctrine of the Noble Marquis, that the civil list was a contract triode by the I louse with the Crown ; why, if this %.sr e the case, had the civil list undergone revision +.. the List 'rig,' so frequently ? It was settled t 800,000/. It was augmented in the 17th flrorge 1 11. to 900,0001. ; in the 23.1 to 950,0001.; io the 441 r to I,U 10,0001. ; in the 50th to 1,090,000/. Payments to the Hoye' Family had besides been transferred to the consolidated fond. There had been it. the course of the reign 3.747,0001. of debt en the civil list paid by Parliament; and with thei4i per cents, end tlw droits of Admiralty, there riot have been less than 5,401,0001. paid row and above the annual allowance. He intended to move for e list of all the persons receiving corn. ressation for the has of offices, together with what ever other paymeuis the some persons might be now i-teiving io viitue of offices held by them. He waited also for details on the contingencies of the list. There was a charge of 20,0001., but tat manner of exproding which required explaha i One item was remarkable; there was a pay. ',sent to Sir C. Flint of 6371. 7a. 11d. for coo ,eying public writings and records to Ireland— there was 1,6921. for prosecutions ou account of 14rgeries on the Hook of Ireland—there were .urns of money taken for secret service from the consolidated fond : 10.0001. in 1819, and rather more in each of the succeeding years. There were the salaries of Under Secretariea, which were consi derable. There was great need of explanation ,on all these mutters. He moved for various papers, explanatory of the experms of thelrish Civil List. ebiefty in regard to the pay of officers, aucrcoinpeu *rowels for offices abolished. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY did not intend to oppaae the motion ; and that being known to the Ilow.Geotleman, lie was the more surprised that lie should Wee taken so unfair an opportunity ohmic tog atatements and furnishing grounds of opinion unfavourable to the parties whom he had thought ',roper to came—im one being in a stale of prepa ration to reply to the inweitions made. This was the more to be regretted, es false and unjust im pressions most painful to the parties would go forth liihich could answer no one practical purpose. (Jr sierlined going into any or the matters touched upon, especially as the arguments referred chiefly to a govern 6666 long ago settled—the civil list. It would be difficult to wove that it was not u con tract of the must sob ma character, ben% made un der the peculiar suitetion of iuw. Of course it was, Ile all other comrade, voidable by agretiudit of the parties, sod io all the charges mentioned' t tad here open to Parliament to keep the contract or utter it. (lad the old revenues of the Crown remained with it, there would have beets ten mil. lions instead of live millions paid to it. Mr. G. BENNETT maintained that the civil list wu• a ruhject as much limit to the deliberatlon of Perhanietst a► any other branch of the estebhoh. Wen!. Mr. Gout twaw protested against the unfair mode of rtittopmting the discussion ou the papers moved for, and promulgating opinions which wcie 11/ ill probability founded iu entire fallacy. The CHANC'ELLOR of the ExcuEQuca defended the character of Mr. Crofton, and Kurt that he had 1,0001. a year retired allowance, seri►d 30 or 40 years; hut he had no situatiois in the Vice. Trraiitirees office. He had, at the junction of the two Eechrquers, offered to serve as his private Secretary•, without salary, and he (Vlr. Vansittart) had gladly accepted the useful labours thus offered to Sir J. NEWPORT raid. that there could not be a niiire ti.eful and draerving servant of the public than Mr. Crotn.n. Mr. PEEL bole testimony to the character, ability, and integrity or mr. Crofton. if those were the grounds of the Hon. Gentlemen's motion, the papers ought to be refused him, as they would Never briar him out. Mr. Flume thought that they had better have the imperil fiefole Own before the frets were coo eluded upon. Mr. PILL said a few words. The pipe•• were then ordered, as were others to explain the ulasa.,er of spending 20,000/. charged in the coo.ingrueses of loot 'err. Tire Report ua lilt Elll/10i0yMelli of Ilse Poor is !reload NW woo or..mert tip, mud the Bin ordered su be reed • third Mee 10 to ..row. The K. port of the Marriage Act Amendment Bill was It/viscid up, auJ ordered to Vs read • druid time on Friday writ 1 h. 1,1.1 ) R • Rill went through a Coateettee•—ihe B. port 1.. br reCCIVed luwurr, w, The R•port ihr Corneuitire on the Foreign Coloeial Impor:at..o Drttra wry brought up, cud a fill perruaut at.. rrlu ord. rrtt in be brought 16. _ - Mr. GOULBUitN !pre armee of • motive for Tbundny, /c.i.f.", to fire !nib I...rolveut Debtors' Act. Adjoorocd. WZATUIIII.—As au illustration of the siniroler character of the last whiter. it may be mesetiosed. that while the thermometer was imam degree' above feeeziing in Russia sud Sweden, tiny were skating mid do aving tonneaux at Madrid, threnxii the whole ui Joiniaty, cud pewees! persona were (roams to death in the streets of Liation. At the Blackharsh flibk Society Anniversary, bald on Saturday et the three Men. twiny of the nobility end gently •ere prevent ; the platform erected for the spenkern pave 'my. end severe! per owning thins Mr. VApnlTAtr, we,e thrown 4a•wnv riff id ply wi thout tit:swing any 111111111- ~a • . . •1 UNITED srAras .. r t , ~ .altie.l 441, sod tuoVng more is required 1111111 10 . 04tWe i l if to he so by it statement of facts. Oramentents are SIM TORT. APRIL .11. . here refmted to by the Committee, from *loch Si appese., 'einem* lo the House of Rrpreoaatt. that from the Ist of October 111n0 to the 30th of September rued so meet, of the President's Mrs: i 1821, thu ! Were "Inver' to the European ports of his Bei .tommercial intercourse of the. Aldited : tas_ft Ma j esty, 150,937 b ar rels of flour, valved at 575,996 _ . Alone, have mode one of the most intim% iValsed at 7,950 dolla r , . W h ,le to the Writ Indi• Islands, dellue: and 2..558 harrels,l,lo6 kegs u f biscuit or ship bread, snot and interestieg Report. that we hove perused for • Iwo& . 1. period. It contains a concise and lucid view of the commute-Tr Siam *vent eiber than tbom islands beh r oging to Greet Biltain, the va of the enuotry, from the year 1783 to the end of September lue of the produce of the United S* nt thither (inched. . 184 I , divided into four periods. The Aral period commencciat / log 527,418 barrels of Sour) was 5,258147 dollars. To the the peace of o n, and raon,ohen the co ,, atirni inn went han i Brutish West ladies (melodist' 13,357 barrels of flaws) i 242,912 dollars; and to the British American Colonies (in. operation in the year 1789. The second period carries tot down to the ceder the war with Great Britain, which Wind. eluding 136,795 barrels of floor) 1,195,37 / 7 dollars. noted in its acknowledging owe independency. The third r... The suhjeet is then presented by the Committee in another clacks the time fom the declaration of war in 'Bl2, to 'hi I Point of view; British navigation ',joys in the West India , clads, bet cueing to o ther Powers, the same advantages gessual pacification of Europe, and the Treaty of Ghent, 31s1 Deceenhees, 1814 ; and t h e fourth and beat embowers the that the Aneeriao &we. Should the Navigatios Act be re. peeled, Great Britain will h a v e Is avour er nftrigation period from the general peace in Europe, and the Treaty of . Ghent, to the 30th of September, Ib2l. between the United Stat dr island , ti the exclusive I trade. Ii has been shown before, that by such a repeal The faces elated as to the effect of peace and war on our : Commerce are sulEciently i ; but to warrant a repabli. i British navigation would secure to itself the exclusive trade cattalo of the whole Report ; but as, from its great !tooth' it , between the United States sod the Rebuilt dostisionsio is Impossible fur no to do this, aid •t the same time do j Europe, as well as the seditional means it would thereby justice to peeing 'testa, wa shall troniiiie ourselves 'to au I acquire of sipplanting ours in the ports of oilier European i analysis of what is said as to the later period, and to the re. I Mlles' with which it may eojuy privileges not granted to marks lathe Committee un the Navigation Act, of 1818 aid . ours. From all these advantages, some of whole would be 1820. 1 gratisitosily conferred on British navigation, Idiot chaste With the view of rightly understanding the sebjeet, lba • fora fair competition would be left to the American ? Committee hove thought it proper to rimier the eye over I Much has been said is favour of fret trade. The Amer'. can Government desiees nothing so much. By die Art or some of the countries with which the United States have, sod probably will have. wader melon, modifications, cons. the 3d of March, 1815, a free !lade was, and is still off. red medal intercourse After giving a rapid sketch of our cum- ' by the same act, to every tition. to every negociattuu on mercial relations with chew countries, the attention is per. the subject of commerce, it has been propmed. Con the titularly directed to tie AM of Contras, passed April Ike Government do more than it has done? Can that be called 1818, prohibiting commercial intercourse between the Doh: a free trade when one party is in the full enjoyment of every ii.j, West India Islands and the retire Iwo In British privilege, and she other is not permitted to 1110 re, from SF irPOolg. and to the Act supplementary to thli'Airisied die strictlows and prohibitions' imposed us him ? If such ca. 15th of May, 1820. • be denominated • free trade, words base lust their common To understand the policy of the Visited State, In relation meaning mid 'cermet ion. to this subject, the Committee remark that it is orcessary to This sort of free trade would soon prove itself to be as look back, to revive reeoliectiows, and to combine many air . exclusive one in favour of British navigation. It would, , esimstances which seem to hive escaprif observation with iii the first place, throw out of employment all the Americas many, is forming a decision on a subject of grit interest, mousy, which is sot inconsiderable, that is now engaged and nut altogether free from intricacy. in the indirect trade; aae, secondly thew what an humble Moro the Convention of the 3d of July, 1811, was under j P titeece eel " be our s is the dirt. " trade le the West India eronaideration, the Government of she United Stairs proposed Islands now open to our navigatioe. From the manuer ism t • the British Cabinet reciprocity of commerce between the which a free trade is often spoken of, an inference is drawn Uoited Stales sad Greet Britain and her dopearleeicies. The that the American Government restricts Ameeican outgo , propositions were urged end supported with force and ales lion. Nothing eau be more unjust, as it regard. the Americas Government. Not a solitary law can be found that restricts lily. As the British West Indies are step on the United Simemfor article. of the lint necessity. and as they Americus navigation in any fade except the slave trade, can get those articles only from them, the expeciatina that I and the Committee with confideoce assert, that American their vessels should participate in earryist to the islands de I vessels are at liberty to proceed with domestic and foreign produce of the United States was r Dahl', and in justice i produce and niaoufartores to my foreign port sibeisuirer ; ought to hove been gratified. mud that, If American navigation is insterdieted ais entree°, The argument, that the espease of protecting and defend- tale any foreign port, that that interdiction is the act of • ing the olsode should give to the mother category an etch'. i fore ign Government, fur which the American is, in nu mas sive commerce with them, would, say the Committee, be oar whatsoever, obnoxious to . . just and tile emir when the supplies wanted were drawn I 'Could the policy which the British Government has bees • frosts the maim resources of the mother comniry ; bat to steadily pursuing, be matured and careird into operatic., claim the exclusive right to furnish the islands with the pro. fs me the apathy of notion, to their tree interests, it would ' duce of usher countries, Is a claim that reason and coo. give her the ascendancy over every nation in every market science at niece reject. The Gorey semeot of the United States of the world. The resources of every natiou would be coos is likewise bound to protect and defend the rights of the vested, by that Ouvernmeot, into the means of holding it Is American people; sod that the Metalta of defence au- vsoolllll.ll if Great Britain can acquire such advantages I. trusted to its management and use, for the attainment o r fair competition, the American Government would base so that end, should out he•donisisbed, to increase lbws* of soy cause to complain ; bait to suffer her to acquire those advise. Ratios, is an argument still stronger in favour of this Go. Imes by her cupidity, and from her restrictive system on Anse. vernmem, localise the supplies waisted for the Istituto are to i dean navigation, would be, on the part of this Government, a be obtained from the resources of the United States, The dereliction of every principle of sound policy, and a palpable British Cabinet refused to Melo& the West Iselin Islands ie I djereme , d of the Atomics. people. In end Mg to placer the Convention, sod to open their ports to veaselsol the Uair the Americas navigniim .011 the footing •1 reciprocily, the red Stases. The Coot/cilium was agreed to, sod reciprocity Government is directed by • policy that is as eolighteued as of navigation and trade was confined to the, eusnino regal 1.4 ,if in magnanimous ; and should it not countervail the reside. tercouese between the Visited States and his Britannic 51ajim. tive systems of usher nations, it would commit the great in. ty's dominions la Europe. . • tercets of navigation and commerce to the guardianship and Each party was life free to do what might seem best solo. Policy of foreign Covenant's's.. It has always bees Ike desire ed to its Minuet, in relation lee the British West India trade. or the American Goverismene to Retort to the citizens of the The GOtteetanatait of the Untold Suite' sow at once she p o licy I United Stairs art t nen chance in the raceercumpetii ion, by giv. which Led il the British Cabinet - is excluding the i i•g them af.ir start; ifthey should lose in such •competition, West loslia ',dandle front participating in the reciprocity the Government to wnld be elcosird above censure. It could which the Cooveeition established iii favour of the British with truth say tm, you have bad mewed to you equal dominions in Europe with the United Stairs. The policy of I grossed in the contest; !our cuontry, ilwinsmifieent gift of Gust. the British Cabinet was to destroy the equality of nein. , eon, I is rich, is abundant in resources; your Govern/scut is your which that Convention bad established between Brili•h and own eremite.' ;It is considered the best of human instate. American vessels• and thereby to obtain the monopoly iwts. I lions; if yon do not prosper under the auspices of heaves 'air of British vessels carrying the produce of the (Jailed i and the best of Goverrionents, your failure io success must' States to Great Britain and her depeuslermies, mad to usher arise kora , the origin of which is is neither the dos counides. The British Government indulged the hope, th a t sire, nor iisclioation, um duty of those who administered 11, the ports oldie Visited States would coutimie open to her I in eatdoee. vessels engaged in the Weal India trade, and shat, s h ou ld Many considerations, besides those mentioned, had their the American Gnlterottarnt towline.e them open, British p o . weight in determinism the Government of the United States b e y 'wi ld " ma k, t h e mi l auoi ht. Th e c h.,. o f B rutis h us . to eUtlll/Orset the iestrictive system of Great Britain. The vigation could not he "nitre, until the link cutaneously the ports of the West ladle Islands, belonging to other Poetess, West India trade with the United States in 81111011 bOllOlllll, I Were open to American vessels aid produce. To allow Bd. ihoold become a part of that chain. fish vessels to have free arms, to the ports of the United It is estimated that there is employed between Great Bd. States, from the British West [oilier, when the ports of those Min sod her West Judie Colonies, Owlet six hundred yes- islands are interdicted to vessels of the United Sates, would eels. They go from the islands with full cargoes to Great ant only,aa has been obeierved,he so abandonment of the psis. Britain, and should the static betimes her islands and the triples of a fire and liberal commerce, but a procedure SO ie. Untied States be kept open, after sloseintriting their ca r _ politic as Minh' induce other nal ttttt a which now allow Ace. goes is the porta of Great lirtt•its, they would there take Idean vessels ta lest.rt tio he r oris wile American produce, to ,is any part or portion of a cargo for the United Stases, adopt the e milliner and monsipulming pohry of Great Britain. as the freight would be au object for paying suiries s ' s I Eveiy nation is ensleavourini to encourage its own save. wages, their subsistence, or other rispemes. The smallest intim mid indium y, and to bring into operation mid nos the sum would be a saving, and benefit the navigation so treasures which the beinity of Peuvideure has bestowed. employed On arriviog in the ports of the United States. full We re she United Stales to submit passivity to British cc freights fur the British Islands, or other places, could be i einetions, could tl.ey complain if other nations, Laving obtained. Now, it must be evident, from this view, con. I Wiwi° in the West Indies, should shut their purls agates. • dams the Report, sad the advisory, British ls would American vessels carrying to them American produce? It • hare over the American, that illic former would he euabltd is wird by some that if British mewls were permitted to to reduce the feright so low, het wren the United States so d come to the ports of the United Stales, a better price could Great Britain, as to destroy all competition with her vessels. be obtained fur A mericaseproduce. This is huts conjecture, In other words, B ' ' h vessels having full freights from the I sod GOVel n a eta I would, its changing or modifying its policy, United States to British or other Islands, and from the deserve justly the reprobosius 01'411 intelligent people, were it islands to Great Bo itain, the navigating interest of Great to set flint mere conjecture. But, admitting that a small Brittle would have it 111 their power to drive from the ocean advance in the price of a few articles should he the mutt, American vessel.. would the Asiesocru people, olio cheiish the loudest and the Should British vessels, after Isoding it cargo in the ialairds purest affection fur 'heir comas y, would this people, the de. from t h e Visited States, sot and one tbere foe Europe, they I ecendmits of 'h o se who sacitficed every personal and selfish could take is one fur the United States, or return iii ballast I considerat on for the indeptiolt rice and good of their mot to Chailesion, fiavonnah, or New Orleans, fur a cargo o f 'nun country, for a rain at most of a very few bundled thou. cotton, rice, or tobacco. for British European poets, or to Pond dollars, •haildun just soil fair principles of commerce; say tufo which British 'mods are admitted. principles which other nations, by the invitation of thin Beau the Acts of Neviortion have been in °pension, pe r _ Goverumeut, have adopted, sod si kith are now in success tins„l, t h e sepptemeaiary A rt o f t h e 1 5t h o f may, 1120, fob tliorritnent; injure greedy, if not 011.11iy, Ansetican British ls, after landing their West India (moms in navigation; paralyse the naval aim of defence; subject the British European ports, are obliged to return to the nation to the tun of millious ufolullars; sod, what is worth West Indicts is ballast. The Committee say in ballast, be. more than the wealth r•f worlds, 1 0 the loss of national cause dee gnaws, of menefacteree which see mauling for character ? These sacrifices, the Committee believe, they the [blinds West India Islands would nut employ the sixtieth wilt never omment eon make, wheel limy shall fully under pins of those sprawls. The freight of the cargo (rose the West stand the subjs et in all its various and important re tattoos; ladies eco Ging. Britain mess, under such circumstances, be when they shall see 'hat such abandonment of Willett , '" are liable to a comirierable reductiuri for the ears.* and tissue- required for the purposeof permitting the British West India mace on the retina voyage. Thus the West India planter, Islands to he supplied, directly, with the produce of the having no choice of anthem by she restrsel;re myth an of Visited Slides in British vessels, instead of their being sup. Great Bromic', and bring compelled to purchaire the nu cis. ptie,l eircnituusly ur indirectly, in American vessels. The series of life, sad lumber, at the highest prices, and to sell littlish island. now peso ore must of their supplies indi• his produce low, is momently wituessurg de ruin of his reetly Guns the island. open to American navigation, fortune. and it is believed h.y the most intelligent and ;experienced Bat it has been said, witb a view to render the Navigation merchants in this country, that very little more pioduce Acts unpopular, that AMU • sad bread stuffs ate imported into would be *Lipp. dto the British islands, were the American Great Brasil, firm the ['hied Slates, sod shipped from Purls urn to Otitis!' vessels. The tonnage of the Units d thence la the West Indies, by which artifice she elude , . the Stales now employed is the West India trade is considerable. elf. et of the Navigation Acts. Without atomism to r e . I Prom she bit of ()cubit 1820, to Ilse 30th of September foie an argument that re foto@ itself (for the price of the MI, the tonnage departing (solo the purls of the United entitles of consomption being jorrease 4 by the circuity and States to the ports in the West India Islsoils, open to our length of the voyage, proves that those Acts have the ef. navigation, amounted to 3.. - J,3110 toes; and the tonts•re feet intended tau British policy), the Committee, inking it catering Americas purls dutirig the moue year to 312,809 a , true , ti „k. Wh et b ill t h ose w h o a d,,,„," i t "h i tons; and the value of the exports to the islands with which by it % Vessels of the Visited States are admitted into 81. Marries* vessels trade, ss stated by the Treasury Della. 1- . testi Europese ports, by the Cosientom already 1111101jolie41, meal, for the year ending the 30th of September, 1831, eau nu equ•liiy wide Bullish vessels Ii es below'', stud th e amount to 8,558,357 dollars, besides the value of produce doeumems ectorsparyirot this WWII prose the feel, that slopped to *glob Islands, to the atimuot of 264.1132 dollars. three fourths o f the tutu esmoloyrd between the United The Committee then go on to Ohre, by a statement of the Males and Cr. at Britain behoves to the United Sates; the 'nutmeg, est the United Mates, Melodies' that employed in the plain MG r. ore from this fart is, that Anictlcau soutle, foreign and coasting oriole, mil the islieriee, the magnitude eacledi d front the cirliage of the produce of the C o iled of the mitred that would be injured by a repeal of the Na. States to the Delilah Wart India posts, will ramie in for vegaison Arts. The estimate that this tonnage cannot be vs loe greatest pars of tbe retrying Iliad. In ' , seen the Vatted level at luau than forty millions of dullaro--no late est too States sod Great Brissin, iu Ilse soil les in shot gray des. Ilet'at to he eiolaugetcd for • good barely iu contemplation ; tsnesi foe the British West lons* markets. II this tic sod weir it it out good, its acquisition would be too &Rely the policy of Gaol Britain, it is.jorts her Woods, sod patchiest by the sacrifice of so rut a uational interest. be seals Aim, least • isigotiou. 2 tto. de wiping,/ fads A rh - r conic further maw k. unit c a lculat Met, all Irlidirg 10 . 'L c p Thi ,,,,,,. tutendtd. V i , he It wi t i f it to demons/We the impolicy of riTia'ing the Nativism J 4 • 1' AN*, thi tarntrailectottajude this *able Report by similar dark eunliletion, that the true Wier's, of the United State., mid the Ott principle. nhirh Gov. tamest lass always arl worsted in favour of free *commerce, forbid a change of p.. liey. Thee, therefore, retommend that the Acts of she April 1918, sod 16111 May 1620, and also the Acts Isylnit a irritant an Freacb vessels, aittal.l not be repealed as long as the adiereary spume of Great &vitals and France shall comistre. Several tables raerred to by the Committee are printed at the earl cif the Report ; among which we lad a " Stathedral view of the cessiorree of the Vatted Staten, exhibiting the valor, of articles of every description of export■ to each for reign country; also the tontine of American and foreign vessels arriving from, and departing to each foreign country, . and the tonnage belonging to eat% foreign Power employed is the commerce a the Coiled Slates fur the year ?tiding 3utb September, 1821 ;" which prevents the following ferrite : Tube of Import*. Dollars. Is Americas vessels 68,025,899 Is purci g li vesiel• • • ........ 4,559,825 Total Video of Dositslle Rsports. Ts American sessiolir.d Is Foreign vesseihi .. 9,208,622 Total Palos of Foreign Rapists. In Americas versa; • e0,7145,70e In Foreign Taal Total aside of domentie aad foreign produce } 64A74,36 . tiuua exported A inertial. Telenet*. Entered into the United Stales ...... 765.09S Departing from the United States ..... 904,947 Total ..... Foreign fottagge. Entered into the United Stmt's Departing from the United States 83,073 Total 1114.300 The official doco meat, eoataisiag the details of the " tietical View," may be sees et the Coitaercioil Bony. IREL4ND. CORY. MAY 17. Potatoes in and about this city see at present high in price, and bad in quality. They are sell ing for about a shilling, per weight of 211 b, but would be much higher were it not for several car goes which reached this city from the ports in the English Chorine!. The barony of Bsrriroe, in this county, from whence large supplies used at other sextons to be sent to the Dublin market, is now itself suffering uuber the pressure of extreme scar city. ( From the Limerick Chronicle of Wednesday.) Yesterday sennight the driver of Lord Clare's estate, while performing his duty at Clounctigh, near Knockaderry, in this county, was attacked by, three persons dressed in women's clothes, who put him on his knees, made him beg his life, and after giving him a blow of • pistol on the head, per mitted bias 10 depart, with a caution never to call for rent again in that quarter. On the night of Saturday last an armed ban ditti attacked the house of R. Bennis. 'an honest farmer, but were unable to effect an entry, from his spirited resistance; upon which some of the insurgents got up on the roof mud stripped off a considerable part of the thatch, and bring then supplied with stones from the roof, best him so severely on the head, as to leave him in • state of insensibility, which gave them an opportunity of forcing open the outer door. They fired two shots, and cruelly beat and otherwise maltreated Bennis's wife, who was near her confinement, and then broke every• article of furniture in the Ware. The poor sufferers still languish in danger of their lives. Bennies crime was, that he took a farm which had been surrendered, and which the law-makers or dered to remain waste. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, WEDNESDAY. MAY 22, 1822. The Committee of the House of Representatives of the United States of America upon Foreign Commerce have made their Report. It embraces an interval of near forty years, comprising the growth and maturity of that great and interesting portion of the globe. The great length of this important document has prevented its insertion entire in the New York Papers, one 'of which has published its substance. as given in another part of our Paper. This Report derives additional interevt from the circumstance of the commercial relation, between the two countries being brought more immediately under the consideration of the Legislature by Mr. WALLACZ'S Bill for the relax ation of the Navigation Laws. The second reading of the Roman Catholic Peers Bill is fixed for Friday, the 31st instant, and not Thursday next, as stated in our Paper of yes terday. It would be absurd to suppose that the late disturbances in Ireland, or its present depressed state, have any actual connexion with the Catholic question, or should in a rational view have any in fluence upon it. The disturbances were local, and totally flee from all political or religious feeling. The present famine is the visitation of Providence, and not the act of the White Boys. These truths are undeniable, and yet it must be confessed that these adverse circumstances have produced • tone and temper in the public feeling unfavourable to the cause. We have been accus tomed to regard Ireland as a land of plenty, the granary of England, stored for it with golden grain, ■nd tilling the place in which Sicily once stood in relation to Rome. Nothing was want ing to complete the system but the removal of its civil and political imperfections. Em braced principally within the Catholic question, it engrossed the public attention ; but now that pestilence and famine in the island stare us in the race,,, the sttentiun thus engrossed by political subjects is divided, and d:vertrd to the more \ \ .C , *'l;,k, \ •• ' t' • \ Organ! .enri pressing *oils of human exide ne .. It will net 'therefore surprise us if, oi.der th e s e inisebeeeirriousetences. the Bum's' ev'hul.r: Per , Bill shou - ld be thrown out upon the motion for we second reading. In such teem, however, the nirri of the questing will not suffer by the d. r , at. It ems only be said that the time woo utilevour46l.. Paris Pripers.r• the 19th instant hove tree n re. calved at .ur They announce the ,ir.th or the Doke or iticusuau, late Prime Alni,ster 1.1 France. It is the only article of intelligenc e ri m y interest. We ham ►eceiead German Papers to the t 3 !i inst. A Cowpony bujsst beta estublirlord e, Bei 1, .1 to insure property against the d.unsage dont. by The rest damage done by had storms upon lb. Continent appears to have sugge►ted the expo-ch esty of this um Berlin firm. The Papers received from Ireland abound with the expression of gratitude fur the roe 0 ,, exertions making in England on tw,all of curving Irish peasantry. The Waterfurd Mir, or, iu reciting the det Ids of the gene' nsity whivii does infinite honour to this country, prefaces them with the following observations:— " But the gratitude with which we acknowledge &chili li.. berality, is out more real than the painfulness with which we contemplate Irish dratitutioa. The frequency and the unmet glibly of our eleemosynary appeals are truly appalling. Who, t that hes known !resod • score of years, can have emitted le observe the strides which poverty and s'magiving have made? How many families, bow many classes have gradually S e . dined from industry to embarrassment, (loin rmhairaisintut to want ? Where, or when, or bow is this cloaueard coarse to be ted ?To a certainty we are making no progress towards its arrest. Tbis last step or homillahoti carries horror. die we, is a few more gr•dlili0111 , , to become a as. t,ou of paupers? Great as the present emergency is dame, the patriot, the philosopher, the statesman may be well oc cupied in considering how Ireland, a country so toluesily productive, has bees reduced to such scarcity, after a harvest which was so plentiful, that food wee said to pay little mom than the cost of :eolith, preparation, aad carriage." Tim DUKE or You'. Lairta.—Yesterday Ilia Royal Highness the Doke of You held a Levee, as Commander-is-Chief, at his office ru the Hone Guards, which Ins attended by Earl CATH CART, Earl of Coat, General PHIPPS, General CAMPKKLL, Lieutenant-General Baowsa, Major- General Got.ota, Major-Gruerol Bwcr►osu. Ildnjor-General Bou.aa, sod about foray mbar mi. litary officers. Letter, of the nth April from Petersburigh state that the dtspositiona of the new tardi are executed with great rigour. A cutumissiois is established io decide on easel relating to merchandise prohibited under the new tariff, hut shipped fo► Petershargit before the measure was known at the port from whence it was sent. THE FUN Da. —The general favourable *pinta' entertained as to the peace of Europe was strongly exhibited by the large continuation that was gives yesterday from account to account. Consols began at 79 for money, but it proving certainly a Bat account, they went for a few minutes to 7s. but recovered to 79/ 79 for money, and 74 for July ; Reduced, 7811; 4 tier Cents. 94f ; Navy, 104 , E t ; Long Annuttits, 10 15.16. At the close of ,be market Consols fur Money were 79g. and for the July account 80k. Foreign Stocks were very steady—Spanish, 631/ ; Danish, 84! 85i ; Pro.- Sian, 85i 86. Thete were no public defasher', though it ars whispered some private failures. The ship Lady Iloilo, Coot. JANUS Courant., sailed from the Downs on Friday, the 17th instaut, with the following parsengers for Madras and Cal cutta : Fur Madras--.C.spt. Willows, Mrs. Willows, Alms W,Uotre; Mr. Metcalf, Mrs. Metcalf; Miss Almeida ; Res. S. S. Moorsotn, B. A. Company's Cho phin ; Capt. Transit; Mr. Slung° Park, Assistant Surgeon; Mr. E. J. Yawns.. Assist. alit Surgeon; Mr. J. S. Elliott, Mr. J. Simpson, Mr. Gas. Woodfall, Cadets._ Frr Calcutta—Sir Samford Whittle". K.C.8.; Lint• Coloael Armstrong, Mrs. Armstroua, Mias Araisiroas, Miss Emma Armstrong; Mrs. Col. M'Coomli, Miss *Comb; Mrs. Hangrrforil; Mrs. Law; Miss Hayes; Miss Bristow; Ronald, Assistant Sorgeon. The Doke of BUCIEINGHAm, as Lord Lieute nant of Buckinghamshire, has directed a silver corimation medal to he presented to each officer. non-commissioned officer, and private in the first regiment of Bucks yeomaury cavalry, who attend ed at the coronation. Tile total number of acres of land under the cidtivation of hops, in the year 1821, was 45,66-2. so far as relates to England. A vessel has arrived off Falmouth from Valpa raiso, which place she left on the 19th of January, but she brings no particular news. Information has been received (as we under stand) by the Earl of BLgszsroN, from his Majes ty's Ambassador at the Court of Naples, of the following occurrence, most distressing in all tho.a who were in the remotest dey,ree arqualuird *WI the subject of it :—Ois the 17th or Mill of la-c month, as Mr. CHARLEs BURGH, third sou of THOIIAS BURGH, Esq. of the comity of Kildare, and Mr. %YAWN, a relation, with whom be tra velled, were priding in the Bay of Naples, a sterns arose surlderily, by which their boat was unitive. 'lately upset, and Mr. BURGH, after the most asto nishing exertions on the part of his reread to save him was lost, having struggled till midnight in the wave.. The agonising sensations of his family. who were on shore, may be conceived. kir. B. was educated in our University, where he was dis tinguished by the highest literary honours, and was studying, we believe. for the English Bar. To a inure then ordinary share of talent, to a so und and manly judgment. aid deep, unaffected piety, were joined, in its instance. a very peculiar gendroe" mid humility of character, that untie him (*toyed as soon as be was known. Thus, at the easily ir of 24, has been snatched from this vrorld—arolll Ins food family sod admiring friends, a spirit so in teresting and a life so justly valued. Mr. B. fro neatly tidied to Lend BLRRINTON sod to the Ea , • of CLANCARTY.—(('ubIix Patriot.)