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pantry was now placed, it did appear to Gehtlemen. who were acquainted With the present state of our circulation, that the Bank Rebtriaion Act ought not to be repealed, not because the Bank Company were unable to pay their debts in specie, but because there would be a difficulty in keeping up the necessary pa per circulation. An Hon.. Gentleman had-under stood him to compare the situation of the Bank in 7797, with its present situation, aad thence draw an unfavourable conclusion with resped to the latter. .He had never made such a comparison to draw a conclusion' unfavourable to the present period, nor would he have been justified in doing any thing like it. He concluded by moving for "An Account of the total. Amount of the Money raised for the Pub lic Service, in each of the years from 1790 to 1 . 8 1 t, 'both inclusive, distinguishing the sums raised by an increase of the national debt, from those raised by taxes - ; and also the Amount of the Loans of each year and of the sums expended by the Commis poners for the liquidation of the National Debt." The motion was agreed 'to. The Offices Reversion Bill was read a third time pnd passed. SCARCITY OF CORN. Mr. M. Fr . A .GENALD was unwilling to suffer.the Slam which had b?en given of a scarcity of grain in Ireland to continue to spread. It could not be denied that in some counties a temporary deficency had been felt, yet he believed such local deficiency was correBed by the g eneral produce of the country. He, however, still th ought it was incumbent upon Government to dire& their attention to the subjea, and if the alarm was groundless, to correct the im pression which had gone abroad. He was against meddling with the Corn Laws, as the interference of Parliament or of the Government with them, was generally produdive of more mischief than benefit. If the alarms which had been given were .well founded, he thought it would be well to stop the distillation from grain, as he understood a double consumption was the consequence of a distillation from grain being allowed. The effe& of this was very bad, as the low price of liquors tended at once to discourage industry, and to encourage immorality. He concluded by moving for an " Account of the number of gallons of Irish-made Spirits, on which .fluty had been paid in Ireland, - from the sth of Ja nuary, 1811, up to the latest period to which the same could be made out, distinguishing the districts in which it was collected,_ and -the amount of the duly paid thereon." Mr. W. POLE said, that he had no objeaion to grant the information required by the Honourable Gentleman. In the general view which tae Hon. Gentleman had taken of the subje&, he perfealy agreed. He understood the Hon. Gentleman to state that be did not think that there was any ground for apprehending that there, was a scarcity of grain in Ireland. He had taken every means in his power to obtain (he most accurate information upon - this subjeB, and he - was convinced there was no danger of scarcity. It was true that the prices of gr in l were very di ff erent in d , ff erent - parts of Iteland;sut that variety of price did not arise from any deficiency of grain. Very unpleasant circumstances had oc ourred in different parts of Ireland, where the people had endeavoured to prevent grain from being sent to the' Dublin market, under a mistaken notion that it would cause a scarcity; but when a free intercourse Was opened between the different parts of the king dom, the result was, that the markets were all sup plied, and the prices lowered. He was therefore warranted in saying, that even in the distrids aJ ltided to by the Honourable Gentleman, there was no reason to apprehend a scarcity. He agreed with the Honourable Gentleman that if there was any ground to apprehend a scarcity, it would become the duty of the Irish Government to stop the distil leries; but he knew, from information upon which he could place the most perfeet reliance, thatall the distillers in Dublin, Cork, and Limerick, were now supplied with grain to carry on their business to the fullest extent for ten weeks to come. The Tegular time at which distillers ceased to work was the Ist of June; last year they ceased on that day, and he had no doubt that he could prevail upon them to cease at the same period this year. As, they had tht.rvfore already a sufficient supply of grain to carry them ott till within a few days of the time at which , they would naturally cease 'working, there was no reason to apprehend that they would come into the Market, and by their purchases increase the price of the article.. It should also be observed, that the grain in the possession of the distillers was in such a state, being either malted or kiln dried, or in some such state of process, that it cupid not be made Ilse of for the purpose of food, even if the distilleries were sopped. He hoped; therefore, that the Honour able Gentleman would see, that the measure which he had suggested could not tend in •any de gree to atiord any relief to the people of Ireland.— The price • of grain had certainly risen in Ireland, - but that was not owing to the distilleries, but to the tree in ercoorse in grain which subsisted between Great Britain and Ireland, and the price in the for mer country being so much greater than it*was in the latter, a very great export naturally took place front Ireland. He most highly approved of the free intercourse in grain between the two countries. No plan at all acquainted with the state of Ireland could shut his ryes to the astonishing improvements uhich ii3ci taken elacein the agriculture of that country in consequence of the At proposed by the Right Hon. Baronet opposite to him (Sir John Newport) for fa cilitating that intercourse: But when he stated that tie price of wheat was t 6s. a barrel more in London Shan it was in Dublin, it was impossible to suppose . that a great export to this country should not take place. Whether, if any serious scarcity were to take t lace in Ireland, it might not be proper for Govern •tnent to take a review of the Att to which he bad alluded, was another question ; but certainly, under the present circumstances, he for one would not consent to touch that Aet. G.mtlernen wefts not, i perhaps, aware, that in the last year the import of grain into this country from Ireland was in the pro ' portion of one to three of what Great Britain im ported front the rest of the world, formerly the average of the proportion was only as one to ten.— . ''he importation of graM into this country from Ire land was not only great, but it, was progressively - increasing. The importation in ;he last four months was greater than the whole importation of any one preceding year, and the importation of the last month was greater by one-tourth.than thepropor tion of the four months. tte did not think it tie. cessity to take up more of the time of the Hoote, as he did not mean to give any opposition to the Hon. Gentleman's motion. .If any case of - scarcity were to arise, the attention of the Irish Government would of course be most closely diredted to the sub jeEt. At present he agreed with the Hon. Gentle man, that there was no ground for any such appre hension. The crop of potatoes,. it was true, Was rather scanty, but they were of a good quality ; and he was sure that, from the steps which had been taken to enable the farmers to carry their produce to, market without interruption, the prices of grain in Ireland weiuld not increase, and therefore that there would be no occasion for the interposition of Parliament. Sir J. - NEWPORT agreed with the last speaker, that there was no Scarcity, and that the advance on the price of grain was to be ascribed to the causes he 'bad mentioned; but expressed himself strongly againit a maximum, which would have the effeCt of producing the most injurious consequences. Agri culture would be much injured by such a measure, as the farmer would not exert himself as he otherwise would, where the law of maximm, like the sword of Damocles, appeared suspended by a hair over his bead. He hoped that no attempt would be made to introduce a maximum upon the export from Ire land; but he was rather apprehensive, from some thing which dropped from the Right Honourable Gentleman, that he had some intention - of that kind. Mr.W. - VoLa, in explanation, said, that the Right Hon.. Baronet had misunderstood him ; what he hnd said was, that in case of a serious scarcity in Ireland, it might be proper for the Legtslavure to review the Intercourse Aa ; but he certainly ne►er had expressed the slightest intention of adopting a ►naximu►n. Mr. MARRYATT hoped the same power would h& vested in the Prince before the Session passed away, to enable him to suspend the distillation of grain in Ireland, which bad been given him of supending it in England. - The question was then put and carried. Mr. M. FITZGERArD moved for accounts of the quantities of Corn, Grain, Malt, Meal, and Flour, exported from Ireland, from the sth linty H y. 181 1, up to the latest period lo which they could be made' out, distinguishing the places from which they were sent, and the ports to which they were carried.— Agreed to. The Irish Sugar Drawback Bill was read a third: time, and passed. The - Irish Militia Bill, the Irish Militia Families Bill, the Bill for Granting Relief to the Wives of St idlers embarking for Foreign Service in Ireland, and the Bill for vesting certain Powers in the Coad jutors of Archbishops and Bishops in Ireland, were read a second time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow. The other Orders of the Day were then dispos , :d of, and the House adjourned. From the LONDON GAZETTE, Mirth 17, 1512. DIVIDENDS. May 2. T. Starkey, Chingford, Essex, innkeeper, at ele ven, at Guildhall, London. April 13. I. Angell and W. Frankum, Reading, Berkshire, woollen-drapers, at eleven, at the Broad Face Inn, Reading. April 24. J. Ingleby, Lygan•y-wern, Flintshire, and C. Ingleby, Soughton, Flintshire, lead-merchants, at eleven, at the - Feathers Inn, CHester. April 4. R. Naylor, Chigwell, Essex, merchant, at twelve, at Guildhall, London. April 25. I. Greening, Crooked-lane, London, orange-mer chant, at one, at Guildhall. APtil 1 4. I. G. Weddell and 1. Lloyd, Fen-court,' Fen church•street, London, corn-ladors, at ten, at Guild hall, London. April 21. I. Inskipp, jun. Battle, Sussex, carpenter, at twelve, at Guildhall, London. March 24. J. Short, Saint Catherine. lane, East Smith field, Middlesex, vidualler, at twelve, at Guildhall, London.' March 24. 1. Lemay, Pennyfields, " Poplar, Stepney, Mid dlesex, vidualler, at eleven, at Guildhall, London. April a.. los. Smith and John Smith, Birmingham, War wickshire, linen-drapers, at eleven, at the Shakespeare, Tavern, New-street, Birmingham. April 13. T. Ashmead and W. Furlong, Bristol, haber dashers, 'at two, at the Christopher Inn and Tavern, Bath. April 28. G. A tkinson, Leicester, grocer, at eleven, at the White Hart Inn, Leicester. April 23. W. Swann, Stockport, Chester, brazier, at three, at the Warren Bulkeley Arms, Stockport. April 14. Thompson Pearson, South Shields, Durham, shipwright, at eleven, at the Golden. Lion Inn, South ' CERTIFICATES, Ari TL 7. T. E. Elt, Holloway, Middlesex, turner. E. Prior, Picket -street, Temple-bar, Middlesex, dealer and chapman. 1. Richardson, Bethnal-green, Middlesex, merchant. R. Barker, Kingston-upon-Hull, merchant. 1. Hill, Park-street, St. Mary-la-bonne, Middlesex, plais- tercr. I. Parrott, Frith -street, Compton-street, Soho, Middlesex, c.onfedlioner. 1. Webb, Hisley, Gloucestershire, clothier. W. Smallwood, Bloomsbury-square. T. Hinde, Liverpool, merchant. ). Price, Birmingham, brass-founder. S. Shaw, Eawoo4l, Lancashire, calico-printer. P. B. Lithcrland, Liverpool, mcrchant. 1. Coseter ° Doswell - street , Aldergatc-street, Middlesex, viduallsr. At the Assizes for Wiltshire, great attention - had been excited to hear the trial of .L Deacon, com mitted with Elizabeth Deacoa, on a charge of steal ing a parcel from the Old Taunton coach, contain ing notes of the Yeovil and Wincanton Bank, to the value of VOOOl. the property of Alessrs Whitmarsh and Co. Every preparation for the trial seemed to have been carefully made; twenty-three witnesses were in attendance; but when the trial was about to be called on, the Counsel for the prosecution ap-. lied to the Court for it to stand over, one material witness being still absent. The Judge expressed his willingness to acquiesce in the proposal. Deacon declared he was ready to take his trial, stated his long confinement, and the hardship of continuing him in prison for a farther indefinite period, and claimed that either his trial should go ou or that be should be admitted to hail. The Court ac 7 quiesced„and admitted him to bail, himself in a re cognizance of i 0001. and fotir sureties in 2001. each. Xesterday morning, at ore o'clock, a fire broke out in Colebtook-row, Islington, which, through the exertion of the firemen, and a plentiful supply of water from the contiguity of the New River, was got under without. damaging the adjoining houses. MEL,4I‘4I, bAiIiNG OUTRAGES. • The folloWing statement, which unhappily rests upon an authority that precludes the slightest sus picion of its truth J exhibits no ordinary features of ferocity, although unattended ; by any fatal conse quences. About threeo'clock on the afternoon of Ike 21 s t of last month, the • house. of James Whelan, of Knockaska, in the pariah of White Church, in the county of Waterford, was attacked by four men, .who had blackened their faces with a view to avoid deteaion, and who were •all doublyarmed. One of them had a gu n and pistol, and each, of the other three a pistol and blunderbuss. Immediately on entering the house, • one of them fired at James Whelan's ! daughter, and wounded her severely in the head with slugs, thus committing an act of cow ardly be-b a rite, which, so far as we know, is with out example even among the atrocious achievements of this description. Whe n the patty arrived at the house, they were seen by a young boy, son of the Proprietor, who in stantly went to a field, where two labourers were at work, and communicated to them what had occur red. Whelan is a respectable farmer, and had been entrusted with arms for his defence, as hia house had been attacked on some former occasions. The two labourers, who knew where the arms were de• posited, immediately repaired to the 'house, with the firm and laudable determination of defending it at every hazard. Their design, however, was frus trated by the precautions which had previously been adopted. One of the party stood as sentinel on the outside, by whom, they were compelled to go into the kitchen. On their entrance, one of them was knocked, down by a blunderbuss, and the other twice fired at. The first shot grazed his thigh, and the second penetrated his knee, and disabled him, perhaps for life, Resistance was now at an end, and the fire-arms, consisting of two .blunderbusses, a case of pistols, and a gun, were unavoidably deli vered up by Whelan's wile. The party then went off, but they stopped , seve ral persons whom they met on their retreat, and de manded money from them. One.of them soon af terwards returned, and came to a house not far from Knockaska, inhabited by nu old man and his daughL ter, from the former of whom he demanded a gui nea. The man said he had it not, but he would go out and procure it. On his return without having , obtained it, his visitor attacked him with a blunder busa,sed broke it on his head and arm, infliaing on him several severe' wounds. From this house he went to another, at no great distance, where he re mained for some time. Meanwhile an alarm had been excited, and four or five resolute men endea voured to trace the party but without success as to three of thetn. Two of these men, named French, followed the man who returned into the house where be had last gone. On their entrance he presented a blunderbuss at them, and demanded who they, were, and, on hearing,from them their names, he said they might sit down. He was also traced to the house by another man, named Bluett, who having livened for some time at the door„ and having beard the voices of the Frenches, on whom he knew he could depend, at last went in, when the same question was put to him,' and the same threatening attitude'as had been before resorted to. Bluett gave a name different from his own ; the man immedi ately replied, that that was not his name, and put his hand towards his side to take a pistol from it, his - blunderbuss, as afterwards appeared, having been previously discharged: On this, Bluett immediately rushed upon him, and threw him down, and-the Frenches coming to his aid, the criminal was dis armed and secured; after having received several se vere wounds on thehead.' He was then taken back to the house of the old Man whom he had sociuelly beaten, and there left bound, whilst those-who had seized him went to communicate to Michael Barron, Esq. what had happened, and to receive his directions laow to aa. On their return to the house, for the purpose of conveying the prisoner to a more secure place, they were detained for some time at the door the daughter of the old man, who appeared to faint t hro' terror. While rthis scene was aEling, the prisoner, it would seem, had in the ,interim been unbound, es caped through a hole mode in the back part ol• the hous6, and has not been since heard of. When the attack was made upon. Whelan's house, he was from home at a funeral, and returned only in time to hear one of the shots fired, and to see the party at some distance on theirlttreat.—W4lerfotd Chronicle. A daring set of insurgents to the amount of 20 and upwaids, on Wednesday night, the 4th instant, attacked the .house of a farmer of the name of Ito gets, at Baldinstown, near Garristown, demanding artnii, or that - they would bum the house. After a desperate resistance made by Rogers and his brother, the robbers succeeded in breaking into 'the house through the thatch, which they plundered of pro perty to a considerable amount, and carried off two houses, with bridles and saddles. After which the same gang broke into the house of Mr.Nich.White, of Beashellstown, near Garristown, which they also robbed of property to a considerable amount, taking Mr. White's jaunting car . and a saddle horse to convey away the plunder. In consequence of private information communicated to the Magis trates of Police, they sent to a house in . Bull-lane, where a considerable "part of the property- .stolen from Mr. 'White was discovered ; and by the lance of the Police, two of the principal ring -leaders of the gang were afterwards a;prehended and brought before the Magistrates of the King's Inns Police Office ! Ormond-quay, where they were fully identified and committed to Newgate, to abide their trials at the next Commission.—The public are much. indebted to the alive exertions of the Police o n this occasion, which we have every' hope wig break up the entire of the gang.—The horses and jaunting-car have been also discovered at livery stables in Dublin, and restored to the o wner.—(Dat lin Journal.) The late Marchioncs of BucturiGnial was not only disiinguishud Er her t.,te in the Fine Ails, ,but fyr such skill in d:a, ,, ing as would have been highly creditable to a pro,;.inal Artist. 41R, grP...itiVSOk eiND fruNErielL. this truly'valcabl'e and respeaed, man &parte.; this life on the 7 - ih inst: at his house. in. Frith-streer ; and his death is deeply and sincertly lamented by his afflitited relatives, and ab extended circle of 041 -viving friends. .• To those who had the happiness of being inti 'tnately known to Mr. Swain.son, it would be unne cessary to say any thing respetting his merits : but to others, it is but justice to departed worth to de clare, that he was a warm, and even enthusiastic,. friend to the cause of humanity in general. libmani nihil a me a lien rim polo--seemed to be the spring from which all his actions flowed. ln his privarei friendship, and in his personal attachments, his zear . scarcely. knew any limit, exhibiting a benevoltrAit of heart scarcely to be met with: 'On all occasions, lie was particularly anitious td afford every assistance to tho4e, who were ctimbiAg up the hill of science : fully conscious also of the infirmity of human judgment, he was always the., first to make every allowance for what he conceiveci to be errcr in others. The greater part of his valuable life was devoted to the noblest of purpose s , v i z , an unremitting study hoW he rilight.most effectually remove or alleviate the sufferings of his fellow -creatures, by preparing and administering the celebrated Vegetable Syrup Of De - Velnos, of which he was the sole proprietor. This itirpoitant duty he discharged with fiddiiy diligence, during a period of thirty years; with a success which has hitherto been unequalled in the annals - of medicine. In the performance of this duty, his liberality was - erninently_cunspicuqu4. His constant hingUage was, thaii. the greatest hap piness of his lire. colidsted in being a!t)- to mitigates the sufferings of his fellow men, and his aetiOUS'ab• ways kept pace with his professions. accompaued by a few sele& friends, were, on Saturday the fourteenth instant, • interred in a family vault at Twickenham ; v,-here, ird on by an ardent, desire to increase his •knowkdge iu the vegetable kingdom, he formed a botanical garden ; i.vhich has long been not only the admira tion of the nobility and gentry in the ne-ighbour hood, but of men of science, in almost all parts of the island. By his death, the valuable medicinal recipe for the Vegetable Syrup of De Velnos, becomes the property of his nephew, Thos. Canham, Esq. who is prepared by an assiduous study in Mr. Swsinsou's school, to promote the wonderful effeAs and exten sie utility of. the medicine, by administering it conformably to the expetience of his very respected relmive. In that school he has learnt, that the systems or Galen and Boerhaave seem to be revivitz; and that the humoral pathology is likely to prevail in the mutability of fashions. The state of the Mood, lymph, and humours, is becoming the obie6ts medicine, and praaitioners find it necessary, not only to remove, obvious superficial symptoms, by air, exercise, and sea-bathing, but to purge tt , e in ward malady, which like a worm gnaws the coats of the constitution. In the season of fashionable emigration, they seek temporary relief by plunging into water, or by change of atmosphere, but do not get rid of the noxious influence of their internal' habits. Mr. Canham has seen, with satisfaCtion, the happy efforts of Mr. Swainson to relieve symptoms, which were the effeas 01 intemperance, sedentary habits, study, and indiscretion committed by the patient or his ancestors. The humors] patlylogy on which the credit of the Vegetable Syrup, and the success of the late Mr. Swainson has been so long, supported, does not restore by violence, but by gra-. dual'and permanent means which ameliorate /tie whole constitution. Mr. Swainson, and Mr. Can- - ham following his praCtice, avoids copious evacua tions, because they enfeeble the lacteals and ituloce dropsy ; and in cases of nervous, gouty, and scor butic affeetions, in paralytic and epileptic they accelerL,e the bile ; and in all the affeCtions the liver, in which the S)rup is used, and this complaints called bilious, they are very pernicious. Mr. Canham has witnessed with sorrow the ap pearance of brave men, with deranged and vitiated digegion, with copious and acrid bile, with elleat_.4 perspiration disordering the intestines,. and diminish ed strength of ihe fibres :all these, owing to surd' en changes of scorching heat and suffixal* atiuos pheres into cold and -wet seasons, to crud e alitneists , . excessive anxiety, and. to long and continued la-. ligues, would have been relievyci, by the seasonable use of the Vegetable Syrup. Mr. Canham therefore hopes, that he shall be am successful as his excellent predecessor, 'in impress ing on the minds of the afflicted, a proper alarm'in the first stages of all debilitating d;seases ; for a corpse may be as soon re-animpecl, as an asthma, a consumption, or a cancer, cured, which is fatly mat wed. B IRTIIS. On the gth inst. at Sheerness, the Lady of Willi am Cock.* craft, Esq. Commanclor of His Majesty's ship Susacx, Sun. .On the t4th inst. at Twickenham, the Lady of H. Bel lairs, Esq. of a Son. The same day, the Lady of f. H. Stacey, Esq. of Har— ley- place, of twin I)at4liters. On Surnlay•the Ist!' inst. at the Bishop of Lincoln's house, Great George-street, Westinilister, the Lady of W. I.E. 'foal, line, Esq. of a Ihiughter. m A R Rib 6, On the 3d irkst. at Inverness, Mr. Wiliam Machean. rt London, to Janet, the third daughterof Alexanda 1 14zer, Esq. On Saturday last, at St. Andrew Undershatt, Leadenhall. street, W. S. titford, of Union-s - rect, llishopsgate, Ac countant, to tliss Nancy Wabters, of Leadenhall.street. DIED. On Saturday last, on briad His Majesty's ship Defiance• \ in the Downs, after a short illness, in the prime .of John Clarke,• Esq. Assistant Surgeon. At his seat at Hartland Abbey, Devon, aged 73, P. Or chaid, Esq. in 'four successive Parliaments Representative.- of the Borough of Cal:ington, and for many years Colonel of the Norti► Devon Regiment of 'Militia, Ou Sunday evening, at Chelsea. Miss Isabella Lucas. On Tuesday evening, in Curzon-street, Miss Ddne, only daughte► of the late C. Denim, Esti COAL MARKET, MaxcH Ships at Market. Ships sold. Price. 46 Newcastle , . .2I .Ors, od . to 5 rs. 7 Sunderland 4i 4zs.ld. to 445. od. i Cinders . . . . o . —s. od. to od.