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increases in resources and population, furnish the hest Markets for British Innntifactures. It culiarly the interest of Great Britain to cultivate pence with the United States, and to desire by every means her rapid improvement and prosperity. —awed cheering.)--13ftt the House 1111114 see the truth and the whole troth, cod it would Ise foots.' that Eagland, in her present distresses, only slimed the common fate of the rest of the world. Much of the distresses now endured have privet; from flair lions credit, and over *Peculation, which nothing bet time could correct, and if Parliament were to yield any thin% to clamour in the hope of remedying the rid, use mischief then Rood most fall: w. H e ... a id D ow refer strictly to a preen'sl view of ; h ,. situation of the country. The Noble Mrsfil•tio had g ramoded his 'notion on general principles of is free trede, which he was tan much • Statesman not to qualify almost in the moment of his giving them ut terance. He (Lord L.) was not ignorant of the ad vantage" which would have resulted to the ward from the adoption of such principles by all State.: at an earlier period, hut although referring to first principles might correct erroneous reasoniog, it was not always practicable to act upon them. 1 there were any point upon which he wua &posed to blame the Noble Marquis, it was fur Ili. not having brought before the House the whole subject of our situation, and for not liatin t : referred to the agricultural state of the (smutty. Let us look to the state of our laws affecting the importation of agricultural produce, anti then pro pose the expediency of adopting a free co 11111 l erce ! Was not corn subjected to great limitations ? Cattle was altogether prohibited, and the trade of wool was subject to many restrictions. While these laws cons tinue, could we go to poor countries a n d demand a free commerce ? Would they not say to us. " V all who speak so big upon the advantages of free trade— von who deem so enamoured of the principles of Adam Smith—why do you not set us the example of a free trade, founded upon principles of recipe*. cite, and take our corn and cattle ?" But this would, its our present state, he quite impossible. Our system is essentially different. ,‘ We," said the Noble Earl, 4' have grown up to our present greatness under different principles; some will say in consequence of them, but others will say, and with them I agree, that we have so improved in spite of thent.—(clear, hear, hear.)—But so it is, aid if our debt and taxes were ie (lured one-half, if we should adopt the principles of n free trade, it would effect a violent convulsiou in the relations of society, and would destroy our agriculture, which ought to be considered as the basis of a nation's power. The Noble Earl theism& versed to the Corn Laws, which were passed in l 9 ! 5 , and defended the principle of them, as afford. mg a 11,:cesaary• protection to the farmer. Had the Bill then prmibied, however, not been piss. ed. he shousd, although he highly approved the principle of it, have Bever at any future time pro meted it, liecausi nothing in' his mind could tie more injurious thin to agitate mob a duration ofteu. and for the same ressOu he should now disc-ion moaner any Mtetipt that should tic Made to d - nib the existing system.—/Hear, hear.)—He dirO L : ) eel bis approbation of the present systeni of taking the aterages. and thought it would prot4 iery unfair to make any alteration in it, because it was on that system that the protecting price wits 'ems. blished : and as the system was in existence pre simply, its effect and operation were fully Mader "food. If any fraud were practised under it, it was the fault of those who were moat interested in pre. and the law was sufficient to punish it. ridiculed 9?e idea of fixing a certain duty up on the importation of corn, as in times of plenty it would afford no protection to the farmer, and in times of scateity could not be enforced against the poor. He 'hewed that the average price of wisest, from the year WM to 1819. was 75..; of barley 40r.; and' of "its 'loo.; and that the quantity of fereigo corn admitted daring the setae period into the consumption of the country did not exceed on an overage 4,800,000 quartets. The Noble Earl also strongly expressed . his 'convic iion of the necessity of adhering firmly to the law of the last Session for regulating the standard of the country. It had bees said that this law had segmented the distresses of the country, but in ti's opinion he by no means 'concur. red. Had the lea affected the price of one species of agrimiltOrall product, it intoit have been equally operative upon another; but while Cora lied fallen in price, cattle maintained their Ca. lie at a higher rate than usnul. No man in that House hail been a greater supporter of the Batik Restriction Act during the war, and he was eon- Irinced that this measure principally had enabled the country to weather the difficulties of her si. taation; but if in war it was attended with faci lities, in peace it brought nothing b u t evda.— Its effect was to create artificial capital, which in the hour of difficulty proved the want of reality. and was the evil that was now most dreaded arid most to be avoided. No alteration ought to hr permitted in the Corn Laws or in the state of the currency. All persons in this country, and in fo reign countries, should understand that we ate now acting upon a fixed and settled system, not to Ise altered on every occasional evil, nor modified to snit the clamour of particular classes.—/ Hear.) — Undoubtedly the principle of prohibitions had been carried to a greater pitch in this coitio►y than any other in the world, and the country would de ceive itself if it was thought that the principle could he continued successfully with all its former *leaf in the great branches o( our manufactures. Early prohibitions were tirerse,ars• for the enema ragitment of any inatiu facto... Th us it was w i th Kntish cottons, until we :repined a superiority over other nations. The same be said of the silk Student present. Tiny would put an end to the ma imfacture at once to make the trade free. Ile la mented, for his own part, the establishment of the silk manufacture in this country at all. It was nut natural to this climate as to France, with whom we might have so advantageously exchanged ottr cot tons fur their silks, which were at once better and cl:raper. But the capitol being embarked, and die inisinteuauce of much population depending on them, there must be therefore great irnpolicy Ili in. terfering. The House might regret ever having adopted the prohibitory regulations ; but ,mice done, they could not withdraw them without the danger of greater evils than they at present tended to perpetuate. Were Noble Lords aware, for in stance, 'what would be the effector withdrawing from Irish linens the bounty on export; tie them, and the restrictive "dirties• . tio importing bireign.•liAens ? • They might reasonably regret that these duties had ever been imposed; het it was no mimes because evil tome, that the 1111011411/4" which leet produced it could at once be withdrawn. Tile tratitisfactiore was now mixed up witlethe Capital and population of the country. He admitted that it might be de sirable to consider how far the principle of prohibi tions could be gbt rid of altogethe; vet he could not imagine much prac}iral good would result from it, as the articles affected by them most still hr pro tected with duties nearly as coercive as prololetiono. He thought, however, that restricoons mizlet Ise better than prohibitions in a mood point of view, al many persons had expressed their willingness to pay ever so high a duty on particular prohibited ' articles, at the same time that they were movilling do without them, if they were to be hail even by a contraband trade. This alteration would, however, do nothing for the general increase of trade. He anticiputed no great good on behalf of the cord merciesl ititerests of the country from the motion, though he thought it right to consider what could be done for the present exigencies, s titi if it sl Id appear that nothing could he done, it would be well lobe able to make up their minds even to that. After a few remarks on the warehOusingsystem; his Leird ship adverted to the transit duties, (or the colonist mice of which he saw" no reason, any more than he did for their imposition. The great argument in their favour used to be, that we were the carriers Qf the world, and that the Continent could not come at tile commodities affected by them without our in tervention. l'he case was otherwise since the peace bad opened the commerce of the world to every couniey in Europe. As to the duties on the um ber of the north of Europe, they were in part laid on in 1809, as a security and inducement for mer chant§ to •embark in the timber trade at a time when we Ind no intercourse with the Continent. So fir. therefore, the persons who engaged in that business bad a •cleien to the continuance of that duty. But there was a duty imposed subsequently for purposes of revenue. The merchants could lint shew ally reason why the Government should not emancipate the trade so far as the !tatter duty af fected it. They were, in Tact, told at the time of the peace that the trade meet be opened, but that the protections should be ctiotileued foe o fry, years after the iieice. They Cottle have no eight' yo'ilist case in objeetlon to the rerni s sof of the Ou l ty;• sa was for the wisdom and consiffeiatiois 'of the Films, to deal 'with - it is might be (feinted beef. text adverted to th• arguuseetOf the'Nobte Marquis re !pectin% the wine trade. .61,14, upon thee yob• jest, ftfer teethe Methuen Treaty, so celled, en tered into by this country with Portiagal, which he conceived to be one of the gre a test monuments of human wisdom; If their Lordships were inclined to email themselves- of the _wood. Arti of that Treaty. Portugal would be at full likely to pro. btbit Li.filish woollens altogether. Whether such • measu r e were proper for them to risk or not, it was nOt then the time to dikes, ; but supposing that risk resolv'ed on, it Blight' be as well. to eau eider what advantages were likely to he gained• in exchange for the distress to which woollen mi stufactures would - be subjected. In tlie Treaty concluded between this country and France in 1787, Mr. Pitt consented to n diminution of the duties on French wine., but then it was only in prOportion to a diminution on tier wines of Por tugal, such as secured the advantage to the latter. This wits a wise measure. founded on a rectprOeity• ofinteresto. He would spew this by the resSilta. la the succeeding five years the exports to France, 718,6951; to Portugal, 667,6631.; to Snain, 623,340/. leav ing a very small addition to France, and one that by no means corresponded with the numerical supe riority of her population. At present the exports of this country to Portugal and the Brazil', were 4,000,00 W. which amount win OU lb. increase. He merely stated this to shear the presuinotou eves not decidedly in favour of opening the wine trade to France. It was to be recollected also, that the envy which the superiority of our manufactures excited among our neighbours, was of its«ll' • great obstacle to any advantage which might . be *apposed available from all open trade with France. The last point in the speech of the Noble Augnis to which he would advert, was the livening of the ludia trade. There was at present au extrusive de mand en the coniiatent of India for Brutish tnatio. factures. The superiority of British machinery had triumphed over cheap labour, and a comparative exemption from taxation, so much, that British intislitts were sold in India for our-half the price of Italian muslins. This had led to a great effort trade—to too great an effort. Their hail beta amazing exports to the continent of Asia in the two last years. As to the trade between this coun try and China, though the tea trade was in every respect confined by the charter to the East ludic Company, there was a cousiderable trade carried on by free British vessels between India and Chiia, under licenses granted by the resident Governmeitt of India, which licenses, as he had heard, were never refused on proper security being given. The im portant question as to opening the trade between China and India and the winos), of Europe, and with America, 'rue reserved by agreement. There was nothing in the present circumstances of the world to prevent China produce being conveyed without the intervention of the Company to any part of Europe or America. The tea trade must always he excepted, being a matter of compact which must depend on the duration of the charter, nor did he believe, if opened. that its benefits could be augmented. He had thus gone through the several pants its the speech of the Noble Marquis, in doing which he had thought it right to shew what were, in has opinion. the real evils under which the country suffered. He had no expectation of ashy be nefit accruing to any or the interests by entertaining the motion, though he by no means objected to it. His chief objection lay against the disposition to he meddling merely because the country was in dis tress. He admitted that the fewer laws there were enacted tin such subjects the better ; but though there were by far too teeny of them its the statute ,book. it did not follow that it would be wise to alter them from year to year, to suit the prevailing clamour of the prevailing interests. The Marquis of LANSDOWN explained. The Earl of LAUDERDALIt agreed with much of what had feline from the Noble Eitel (Liver. pool), whose statement must prove very satisfactory. as it tended to shew that the diminution of demand for Britian mannfactores was not diminished in the rlegree geognilly aosopeesol. 41,se-Notalo Laud, boo. • ever, made light of. the alteration the curreisey. and said,r hat the sear could not have beaus caraied on without the deorecietion induced by the kestricrion Ad.. True it waithal but for the depreciation the war eTobtil tint have heslifcarrird wit could any -Other httisro invention have iiirodueed half the quantity of trilikry attendant cur 1r5 . 1815,. heheil'inshlrshed act:tirate table. elaewirog the effect of that "detnecso. (ion, *llia trifilieliarl* gone' through two editions. nor had any of ifik'ciilCulatiiinv tier been questioned or controverted'. 'lli Orme tables he had sinews) that the !axe., which wale twenty-four millions in 1805, erre, in consequence or die deprecianimi, atti timiced in 1819'W eitirly-four millions.: At pre. tient paper wad 'atitii full Masi,. but there was lib diminution of the amount' of taxes on that account. The cinitiequence siar, that the country *ere now paPist a - bserdert equal to the addition of ten Minions, • Bowe 1817, the alteration of the ehrrency bad been in effect equal to an addition of seventeen every one of the last e 0 years there had . bt;en an eXpenditure of capitol equal to 28 Millions.' These things, however. more than any obilervatiOns which could he Intuit., displayed the as torsiohing energies of the country. He regretted the interested and separate views taken. by agriculture and eommeree. when, if they( understood their true interests, they would be united in all their ;applica tions fur relief. Ile was happy to hear the princi ples of free trade avowed by the Government. He approved of operiing lite trade of the China seas. Whets the Charter of the India Company was be fore the House, he had objected to the opening of the India trade, because be could not conceive it possible for • British manufacturer to compete with an Indian labourer, who Will able to sub sist himself on 2a. 61. per month. But he had learnt from the experience of a free trade, that the demand for coarse woollens had been extended, • and he believed that the India trade was capable of finding employment for the industry and inge. nuity of a larger population than that of Britain. He objected to the attempt to establish a Milking fund by raising five millions annually for the pur pose. It was one of a specks of measures wholly fallacious and distressing. During 20 years Montt all the measures had tended to keep up capital in a few hands. This had caused a prodigious change in the possession and distribution of property ; nearly Mx hundred millions of it had by that means changed hands. While it was growing, however. ind so causing a supposition of prosperity, it bad no reference to ettjoymeut ; it was the same as the proeitirty of• an itidiViduel always engaged in hoard. lug' Without spending iny of hi. riches. The result was lii immersee accumulation of capital on one baud, and a general outcry of distress from all the Operative clause's on the other. Ile hoped, and ins. 'deed he felt certain, that time would speedily effect tinother distribution of that property which would 'he more related to general enjoyment mad general "prosperity. • Lord ELLENtionottati thought, that the into. rests of commerce, agriculture, and Manufactures. were so blended, that whii affec ted one would af fact others ; extend any one. and the eaten .ir:Ou of the others billowed. Thus was ouly true, 'however, under the pre!.eat lawi, which gave a ne cessary protection to agriculture; to insure the basis or thievatem of prosperity. 114 was., therefore. much gratified at the declaristiati Attie Noble Earl, that uo alteration of the Corn Lads woold'be attempted. He thought there could be no greater blessing for a community than to have their corn at u fixed and unvarying price, nor could there be any thing so . deinoralixiiig as that lassitude and hard labour, that oscillation between the gin-shop and the poor-house, likely to he induced by allowing free import to L cheap corn. He regretted that the poor laws were r not comprised iu the discussion, which he looked out as one of the greatest evils; one which destroyed charity on one baud awl gratitude on the ()Uteri which did away the amiable .relations that would otlierwioe exist between the high and the low, which must be destroyed or it would destroy ass comitry. tie hail formerly some intention of sub. witting a measure on. that subject ; but on curial denim; what had beets the fate of ajl 'such motions Hitherto, he thought it would be better for it to ori. ginate in the sober Horne. was sorry to hear the Noble Earl oar. that in a a commereirst treaty England could r:ffer no nclvaulage fair the in. eourageniesit of her manufactures, except in the case of Freuch wines. That of itself, lie thought, would he a beneficial intercourse; but besides that, we might to the South of Europe hold out .the,temptatton of altering our regulations with Se. apect to the silk trade, while for the North we. cook' reduc► the duties on their wood and iron. , He deprecated the restrictive systems adopted throughout Europe. which had since the peace en. tailed more misery on the various countries than they suffered iu the worst periods of the war. He really believed most of the discontents of Europe could lie cured simply by making trade free be•. stereo all the countries. Thi intercourse between this country and France wits a disgrace to both ; with the best opportunitia.thera was no exchange. of an fact urea bet weeafisent. He couc I uded by supporting the motion. Lord CALTMORPt complimented the eloquent ' and statesman-like developvment of the Noble Earl, which was so well calculated to *hew that the Government of this country was really a paternal one. He was truly glad Ao hear those principles of. free trade declared, which had been advocated by the wisest and best men of all goverunielits. The motion was then carried. and the Committee appointed. which consisted of the leading per-.,us among the Noble Lords on both sides of the House. Adjourned at Half-past Ten o'Clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FRIDAY, MAY 26, The S RR look the Chair at halfpast three o'clock. DISCHARGE OF ELECTION PETITIONS. The Orders of the Day, appointing certain periods fur taldrowinto consideration She Petitions against the relurue for Westminster, Maidstone, Cambridge, Elgin, Co. vanity, Waltingford, aed .Newport, in Catboat', were read sad disrhsrged, the Petitioners having all failed to make gni their rectignizancet in the time limited by the Orders of the House. Mr. Dentonl presented two Petition, sipied by 4',800 ialsakitants of the pariah of St. Mary, Newington, the .first payiug to be beard by Coruna at the bar of the Haase against ohs New Church Nin o She eitior praying that the Bill might witiliewseso Sir. Cliwteleit preseweit Wallies. tree Laedheldere A ^ I ) •.. 5*4) of the tonal, of Clue, of agriraltural dis tress. 'fffe. * lftinialf presented • Petition tram the In%sibilants of llWeiss. posiyisi for • repeal of Ilse Sew Wool Tax. gswijNigy oresestert a Pesilion from the Landholders of sum,. goomplainirg of agricultural distress. MP ) BVIIRELL presiiiited • similar Petition from Persons is the vieisity of Brighton. Me it. 1.1TOUcill! presented • siwitar Petition from tie nallnlT of Anew. • Sir a, 04111711111ra presented a rimier Petition from the vieinity 0 Lewes. fillr.,Ltinir ',rented a similar Petition from the county of Cdruwell. Sir ITV Petition ,Lirvero Dittmar presented a similar . the comity of Carlow. Mr. HLISIt perorate , ' n Petition fens the county of Montrose, soother from the tont, of Moutruse, and a Shied from the town of Brecon, oil pr3pos that Or Scotch Liner Factories might be put on the (quoits( of the Irish, by allow laj the same bounty and other immunities as were greeted Is the Irish. Mr..a. Davis presented . 2 Petition from the Merchantsof from Bristo4 ingeigni the Wool Tax. Lord Jong lituaset.t. presented a Petition from the county if Bedford, complaining of neriresltural distress. Mr. LAIMOTON presented w Petition from 16e Landholders of the county of Durham, praying for Nether prohibitory du ties on the importation of corn. He would vouch for the re. spectabilily of the immerses sigoatures attached to the Peti tion. At the same lime, he felt it to be due to himself to slate the opinion be bad before expressed when opposing the last Coen Bill, that the Petitioners were directing their objec tless to a trifling point, latticed of urging them spinal the general system of taxatios---without some diminution of the hardens of which, all the restrictive duties in the world would de them no good. SUNDAY NEWSPAPERS. Mr. W. COUIT presented a Petition which had been pit into his bands by some respectable Newsreaders, corn. plaining of the practice of vending Suoday Newspapers. He thought it right to state, that his opinion concurred with that of the Petitions. at the generally bad course mad coadoct which distinguished the Sunday Newspapers, the abuses of .which bad, in a great tnearere, caused the passing of the late restrietive laws respecting the press. At the sense time lie bad assured the Petitioners that be could not undertake to nit the Honer to enter into any legislative measures to re. inetly dm matter of their complaint. The Petition was then ,onpli,'ll„etated, that the great circulative of numerous •, Newspapers bad the effect of keeping those who .Mal those who read them, away from their religious ifisties, sad frequently allured men into public-houses on the Jay sot apart by religion fur the repose re both of soul and bi tr ot, Oat the Petitioners were forced to undergo the .etre,of this line of their be-lutes is relied - we to 'their mine and consciences, because they were obliged to keep up the competition on which the business of each de pended. They therefore prayed relief. Mr. LAWTON would not rise to oppose the laying of the Petition on the table, because it was the business of lbe House to bear and receive the pelitioss of the people; but be bad never listened to more disgusting and hypocritical cant fleas that just read. If the Petitioners did not like the selling of Sunday Newspapers, they were at full liberty, • without offending any owe, to drop the business. He would sever bear patiently a general attack oe the Sunday News. papers, which, in the oasis, contributed more thaw any other poblications to the dissemination of snood political knowledge, and the support of real nitwits, among the poor. It would have been mire becoming i• the Petitioners to have endeavoured to amend their own lives, than to stand forth in condemnation of a body of men su much more me t dellhous thou themselves. The Petition was ordered to be laid on the table. ELECTION FOR TRURO. Mr. W. Writ' said, that the Petition in this case having been thrown out, it would be necessary fur the House to take some steps to make good the representation. Ile moved that the return should be read. By the retain, it appeared that Mr. Vivien was returned by • majority, and that the ma bars for Lord Cheeks Ft izeoy Somerset sad Mr. Gimlet. wan q•al. Mr.. Wynu , moved that the election of Mr. Vivian should stand good, and the other two be declared void.—Ordered. The W/18 then ordered to irsne his warrant for thereinto of aassther Member to *erre for Truro. Mr. M. A.. TaTtoß brought up Several •artedmenta, which were added to she Stage Costi.es BPI. •He also moved that Mr. Kirkman Finlay should be added to the Committee on Steam Eaglets. BREACH OF PRIVILEGE. Mr. M. Well, brought up a Report from the Com mittee of Privilege', winch stated it to be the opinion of the Committee, that Christopher Bolton, Caius Thompson, Charles Frost, and Archibald Busier, had committed a high and very gross breach of the privileges of the House, by en tering an action against Mr. Ryles, Warden of the Fleet Prison, for releasing Hobert Christie Berton from his ens iled,' the said Prisoser having been returned as • Member to serve is Parliament. .Mr. M. !Vv., moved that the House shoold concur with the Cnumnittee, so it was certainly a troy gross breach of their privileges to bring an action against au officer of the law for obeying one of the most ancient and established rules of the Hosas..--The motion was agreed to.. Mr. Wulf tbea moved that the ulfenarre should be sum mooed to usurer at the bar of, the House as that day se'a sight.—Agreed to. NE%%INGTON CHURCH BILL. Mr. Motu* summits moved the Order of the Day for the seesird reading of the Newington Cloned, Bill. Mr. Dewtsom felt it his duty to oppose the Bill. By an Act aisle late Majesty, the parishioners were t. be assem bled in the vestry, when the buildiag of a church wee in question, and obey were to decide iro it. At three diluent vestry meetings of the parishioners, the measure had bees negatived by a large majority. There were to the Petitions which accompanied the Bill, thirty:six signatures. To the Petitions leanest it, which he had just before presented, they* were 2,800. There were about 4,000 house. is the parish, 4,000 under 2W. a year lent. There were 30,000 inhabitants., 7,000 of whom were receiving parish relict but of a rental of 00,000/ there were 35,0001. eipeuded in wiaietaiwiog the poor, and that harden was increasing dally. The church was at present very thinly attended. Wbes the ne cessity of building $ sew church was proposed, the inhabi tants offered to pay for a third service an the evening, as was provided for by :he Act of the late King, which Sae refused by the Rector, whose respectability, he was, notwithstandiug, very ready to admit. There were besides three plates in the pariah where the service of the Church of England was per. r i mmed, the Chapel. of the Magdalen, the Asylum, and the Ritlawiliropie Society. Front all these considerations, and set !Sheds( in the necessity far building a new chords he moved that the Bill should be read that day six months. Mr. 1101./1v Sousa contended, that the Church was at the extremity of the perish, that it would only hold about , 1401011 parsons, including several hundreds of charity children who slams anted in a gallery church. the roof, where =allure pariosacoudel not sit. There were, therefore, 26,000 preemie left without accommirdation tes say their prayers in the Established Chinch. The motive of the Rector could list be interested. The artist who forakheil the estimate could have so Mdneestent to overrule the price of the wader- Warts. II appeared that 15,0001. would be the whole re pupae chargeable on the parishiouers. A rate of W. for ten yaw would pay it. Mr. Dittman explained. Sir R. Watson supported the anstmilinest. Dlr. PINS. supported the or.ginal 'autism. Sir W. DE CILIDPILINT supported the asatotharat. - -- - - - - The Gallery was cleared f ors disuses. . . . le f. f the us iginid Notion .... 206 Apiest it , 2$ Majority l7s . Oa our rehire to the gallery Mr. Irvin moved the Order of the Day for the Mouse ed. , 1 Naming Oa adjoururd debate ma the Aldlaomugh Elective* Mr. P. Mooaa preersted a Petitiow from 'lle. C. W.' &pon t prsyiug the House would am cermet prapr •f Williams Often, leading Inmost, the afoot of the littlug Mlasibur, Is 'stead oho tires fur reasivigg his qualikatio.s. TM Ileeelies wss lieu pit sad carried L ter ,tes days fur. • ° • MYy t ao• . • • . lher time to Ire sh o wed the agent of the sitting M. .:See to put in his qualiticatton • TIN sojourned debate on the Bestow Elretian .lrc•i ►esumed. Air ROJIIIIIT Ft/anti "'One and said, the Minim h■sit.t (ermined to reject the chino of Ili. people of kinglmid fir a tome equal represeinatiosi, was a very suilleretri renown, why they should Mortlake fullest enjoyment of whet they *ere , pleased to allow thrtin; •nd he contrtolvii . ktint the Vey of Algiers ass not mete incapable of sitting its that }l«Ji.•, lien Mr. Elite, who holds the .114erligiu t.f Dept.lyGil.wi•t Secreta►y at the Gape of Cowl Hope. Mr. %from tltoorthl ii was nut open Kow fOr the Noma* to go into the WI I lie. Sir Ilon•RT Flatted agreed with the Hon. G.nll• 110111 It was in the Committer ouly that the Tifton... inikit, to ip• agitated. Mr. TitrRNFY said, as it was an adj0urn...1..6 , 61de, "sod many Members were not present at the nod fu.t, perhorei Ike Hon. Gentleman wookl repeat the selnitativ of 11. s atone. dents. Mr. COMITENAT said a few words, hit the noise in the Gallery prevented our eatehisig a wont th.it tell firms him Mr. BERNAL evil the real parties were Me tlecoire, e hit had thought proper 14 elect a (;elll l .1 , 1041111 who wa. at.ro.4, •od they therefore ought lo be situitril to ifefiud their sec tion. After some further conversation, in winch Mr. Tie►ney. Mr. B. Emilie:rat, Mr. B;uu*ham, end Lord Castlereagh 1.,.. • vitt, the garstio•s wt►e put and reified, Wel Oar weer be diseharged, and the Militant liken solo cunsultrititaii bu the 18th July next. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' DILL. • Lord AtTHoitte, on ruing to rli.,tre llir Order of the Day far the second reading id the litsidvelot Debtors' Bill, said, he nerd 1101 enter new anyA 13.* ralSlloll WI the principle of the Bill, as ii.at vas fully approved by the House. He 'midst theieforr only state the alterations which lie propiised by eio. Bill.he held its his bend. His Lordship stow recw ',knitted the heads of the altetaiinos peopostid, .std concluded by moving the second reading. Mr. MACDONALS objected to the peopmed in creme in the number of the Judges in the Insolvent Debtors' Court, and gave notice of his in:v.:Am' to more a 4 an at:send:new. that oar Judge elsou.il be appointed, with two eitemitimots. A Member, whose mime we could not learu, spoke in favour of a discrimination fp he vseicisril between the fraudulent and the innocent itisolveid, •as to the length of imprisoninviit prior. ..a claitnii. 4 4 •his disclierge ; and thought in . cases of fri.uic.the 'Court should have power to o..truutto a Jury. 11 e :strongly objected to the eitenintinii of Croat' diva ote from the operation of the Bid. ~. S.r Fniticie thistalitiglr and Mr. LITTLETON supported the Bill. Lord A t - ructer said. he would not have inserted the clause exempting the Crown debtor s . from tine loperation of the Bill, lied he not feared, from tic • opposition of the Aittitiley•Genertl.on a former -occasion, to have risked line loss of the gin, hod:ne left it out. The Bill was then read a second time, and com mitted for Wednesday next. On the motion of the CHAINCBLLOt of the EX CHEQUER, it was ordered, that tne,House, at its rising. do adjourn to Tuesday nest. ..' . Petitions were presented from owners and uccti piers of land in Cheltenham cod Corliwall, com plaining of agricultural distress, Lord MILTON presented several Petitions trern Merchants mid Manufacturers of Wakefield, Sear. borough, Leeds, and other towns in . Yorketiiie, praying for a repeal of the Wool Tax. .. Mr. Minute presented a Petition from Not tingham, complaining of their eatreme distres.. The whole of the foregoing Petitions were Ur dered to lie en the sabk. TAX ON FOREIGN WOOL Lord MMTON, in risiang to move for leave to bring in s Bill to repeal the tax on foreign woo!, observed. that he had been asked to undertake , t,e management of such a measure by such s'number of his constituents. that he could not refiner his assent ; but in forming the onitnons be entertained on the subject, he assured the House that he was not swayed by the feelings or interests of hil t cosi. stituents. He could truly say. that whoever might have been his constituent's, his opinions would Lave been the same; because they were (manned me prin. eipleusrliich appeared to have truth for their has:s— ow those general , principle. of poliiioul re.ement y which, he believed, were not to be shaken, and "3 their applicant* ter. the present case.—(ileor.)— He said 'that the it wino° of the tax on fur.seti wool haet Session *as a deviation from all aclttiaw. !edged principles. He said, that it ii• Jet been the. invariable practice of this country belts, to intro duce the raw material of manufacture air cheap as possible. and that it in any instance, as in the caee of tottoti, it bad been departed Ir o n, it was at a time when the manufacture cf the article was in such great kospetety as to It able to bear the pressure. But neither what had been done in re ' itard:to that article, or silk, established the pru dence of the attempt in the•esee in queetion. Tins question was attended with a soectes of diffieulty its arguing it ; it was • kind of Protest,. Soule Gentlemen who had supported the duty, 'Oohed on it as an object of revenue ; to others it prevent. ed it•elr as a—PrOttCtion of agriculture. But it was plainly impossible that it could do these two two things at the same time. If it advanced the revenue, it would be by a great importation of foreign wool.; and then it would injure the• agri culturist.• If it served the agriculturist, it •watald be by checking the importattou of the article from abroad, and in consequence it would not aid the re. venue. Hr asked then how would those Gentlemen, 'who voted for it as a protection to agricti:tore, re lehricile it to themselves to support its cootinuance 'who believed that the Goverurneut would now '(which he believed was the fact) he ready to give it •up if they could point them • an equivalesit 'poiiit of revenue ?—(Hear.)—t..st year it NNW 'only be sheen by inference that the measure would be inoperative as a source of revenue. Now the returostin the table, as far as they went. alteweit a 'moot extraordinary deficiency in the itnivistatiois tar 1:y a reference to the eacume,,t •irhicb 'sheaved the quantity of the article imported du tag the year eliding the sth April lasti—iit would ap pear, that in the first eight tuunthaof that period. the importation of weatel at the old duty was . 11,500,0001 h. weight, and during the last lour months, at the new, about 231,0001 b. weigh IHear)—so that during the last four menthe, win* the new tax was in operation, we had imported about 1•50 M part of what we had imported in the right months preceding. This, therefore, Pertnest to prove that the importation costal met support ti • tax laid 011 it. Be knew it 'QOM be said that pee viouv to the tau coating into operation there was a 1