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. _ z . . - el" • • lent' t.J cif DT" _ .2 4 hOSe si • -- • - r % T I T • lany , hereby I still 7061 -A \. nat a QUARTERLY GENERAL - COURT of th • t.,41 • i : • loth said CO3IPANY will be I.eld at their Home in Leaden- I ( 04 , ,7„ ) , r the nn VilpnvitsnAs. the 2Rri June next, at Eleven j L f „ '77 N AA , . ) tr e `,,-4 '.lOO --cc it 1, 4* . VAAT INDTAXOT-ISE, Aram 23, ISM. 11:E COURT of DIRECTORS s T the UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS . t. ENGLAND, trading to the EAST INDIES, do heieb give notice, That a QUARTERLY GENERAL - COURT of. th B tticl COMPANY will be held at their House in Leaden ball -street, on WEDNESDAY, the 23d June next, at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose declaring r. DIVIDEND from Christmas last to Midsummer next. That the TRANSFER BOOKS of the said Company's Stock will be SHUT on THURSDAY, the 3d June next, at Three o'clock, and OPENED again on THURSD Iv, the 15th July following, . And that. the DIVIDEND WARRANTS on the said Company's Stock, due on the sth of July, will be'ready to be delivered on TUESDAY, the 6th July next. PETER AUBER, Secretary. COO, SUS' I 06 )UrSt . the him, had 7 TA )N DO 1 LS !, A Y EN fNG, j uNE 92 1830. No. 11,786. PRICE 7p. DR. LARDNER'S CABINET CYCLOPEDIA. JAMES MACKINTOSH'S HIS TORY of ENGLAND, Vol. I. price 6s. will I.c pubiioled July I. • tant3 of Cove and Skibberecn, against any further ine - rPase of taxation in Ireland. duty of 21s. This is not all, the obleetitYnsi how ever, to be found in the practical details of this men- sure. I believe, and lam supported in that belief by many of the most - experienced merchants o' the day; that these twenty shilling sugars will be brought into eothretitioti with all the finer descriptions -of sugar, an 4 that the eaarse , grained sugars of Demerara will, through the proteis of re fining in this.-country, beat out- of the market, all the fine sugars of the old market. Those, and.sug gestions like those, are diffusing the greatest anxiety, alarthond agltation l among all those connected with the West India Colonies.. Then there is the clues- Lion of molasses. That &title is made from a de•l scription of sugar called " bastard-:' Is there no alteration to take place with respect to it ? If There is nor, I have no hesitation in saying that all those who have imported that article to the extent of some 30 or 40 3 000 hogsheads, must be utterly ruined by the quantity of inferior sugars which will now glut the market at the lONV stale of duty imposed on it. mow come to the consideration of the talettle- his th a LATOtICHE presented a similar petition from the inhabitants of " Kildare. ieri .l to rans sail with EAST INDIA HOUSE, JUNE 21, 1830. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of VOLUMES PUBLISHED. .VII. CITIES and TOWNS of the WORLD, 3 vol,. VOL I. with Wood-outs. •VI. LIVES of EMINENT BRITISH LAWYERS. By H. ROSCOE, Esq. I. IV. HISTORY of SCOTLAND; in 2 Vols. By Sir WALTER SCOTT, Bart. Sir MARCUS SOMERVILLE presented a milar petition from the county of Meath. Lord KILLEEN supported the prayer of the ENGLAND Trading to the EAST INDIES do hereby kil-e Notice, That the QUARTERLY GENERAL COURT of the said Company appointed to he held at their House in Leadenhall-street, on WEDNESDAY nest, the 23d instant, is made Special, for the purpose of laying before the Pro- Mr. O'CONNELL presented a petition from a parislL in Galway, against the. increase of taxation in Ireland.. The lion. Member also presented fb►n. petitions from different parishes in the county of Clare, with the same prayer. These petitions also prayed for the repeal of the Union. The,. Hon. Member, in presenting isimilar petition from a phice in Carlow, stated that the people in Munster were almost all in a state of starvation.- The lust year's crop of potatoes. was exhausted, and there were no hopes of a speedy supply, owing to the wet weather. The people were also ►n sc-me'places in a state of in subordination. s.- -- 11. HISTORY of MARITIME and INLAND DIS COVERY. Vol. I. prietors Draft of a Bill now before Parliament, called the " Relief of the Representatives of Persons who have ;lied " intestate in the Presidency of 31adras, in the East Indies, " and Inc the Relief of the Suitors of the Supreme Couit " of Judicature at Madras." PETER AUBER, Secretary. 111. DOMESTIC ECONOMY. By M. DONOVAN. Esq. Vol. 1. V. MECHANICS. By Captain H. KATER, and Dr. LARDNER. Printed fin. Longman and Co., and John Taylor. ROYAL ACADEMY SOMERSET-HOUSE. THE EXHIBITION of the ROYAL ACADEMY is now OPEN. Admission (from Eight o'clock till Seven) One Shilling. Catah'gue One Shilling. • HENRY HOWARD, R:A., Sec. PURSUANT to an Order of the High Court of Chancery, bearing date the 22d day of January, 1830, made in two causes, FLINN v. DAN SEY, and FLINN v. PEARD,.the Creditors of JOHN FLINN, late of Trafalgar-place, in the parish of Stoke Domicil, in the county of Devon, deceased, a Lieutenant in his Majesty's Navy, (who died between the 4th day of July, 1810, and the 27th day of October following) ate, on or before the 10th day of July, 1830, by their So licitors, to come in and ,prove their debts before Samuel Compton Cox, Esq. one of the Masters of the said Court, at his Chambers, in Southampton-buil.lings, Chancery. I ine, London, or in default thereof they will be peremptorily excluded the benefit of the said Order. ROARKE, Furnival's Inn; Mr. IL. GRATTAN•confirmed - the view given by the Hon. Member for Clare, of the distress in,lre land, which he described as very great in different parts of that country. Mr. GRATTAN also opposed the iNereme cf duties on Tobacco and on Stamps. Mr. O'CONNELL, in moving that thepetiti be printed, stated that the Land Tax Revenue, which amounted last year to 14,0001. and which last year had fallen off one-third, had this year fallen off 8001. in the first four months of the year. The HON. MEMBER also, presented a petition from the Metropolitan Political ,Union, praying . that voting by ballot in the election of Mem bers of Parliament might be adopted. The lion.- Gent. shortly supported the prayer of the petition. tians of my Right Hon. Friend connected with this project. He calculates the probable loss to the re venue, if there should be no increased consumption, at 400,0001. ; but he assumes that the increased consumption, will codlpensate for the half of that loss. That consumption by foreigners, unless the draw ks,,wie4liered,'Witi:**lsigki.notlitiligtua lieve; therefore, he miscalculates; and that as the increased consumption can only come on the 20s. sugars, his loss will, from that cause, be much greater than he .imagines. lie cannot gain any advantage on the low-priced sugars exported, be cause the drawback will absorb the whole of ,un• . ROYAL ACADEMY, SOMERSET-HOUSE. TWENTY GUINEAS REWARD. V it THEREAS TWO MINIATURES have • Y been STOLEN from the walls of the ROYAL ACADEMY during the present EXHIBITION, viz. : ' Au enamel Portrait of the Son of the Hon: George Agar Ellis, from the original picture by the late' Sir T. Etivrence, P.R. A., by Mr. W. Essex ; and a Portrait of a Lady, by Mr. Hay:er, sem Notice is hereby riven, that the above reward will be paid on conviction of the offender or offenders to any per son giving- such inform - ion as may kid to a discovery of the party or parties coxcerned in the robbery. HENRY HOWARD, R.A., Secretary. PURSUANT to an Order of the, High Court of Chancery, beating date the 22(1 day of January, 1830, made in two causes FLINN v. DANSEY, and FLINN v. PEARD, the Legatees of JOHN FLINN, late of Trafalgar-place, in the parish of Stoke Damerell, in the county of Devon, deceased, a Lieutenant in his Majesty's Navy,. (who died between the 4th day of July, 1810, and the 27th day of October following,) are, on or before the 10th day of July; 1830, by their Solicitors, to come in and claim their legacies, before Samuel Compton Cox, Esq. one of the Masters of the said Court, at his Chambers in Southampt..u-buildings, Chancery-lane, London, or in default thereof they will be peremptorily excluded the benefit of the said Order. it.- I :would ju-t ask the House to consider the prospect of paying 7s. or Bs. in the reduction of duty from the taxes of this country, by way of drawback, in order that the may be enabled to export a greater quantity of sugar . to Hamburg or the Baltic, and yet this is the projected advantage to be deriyed from a system of reducing duty, the most vicious that any Minister of this country ever contemplated. feel as strongly as any man the distressed state of all the West India Colonies; but feeling that I would give relief to all, instead of adopting a partial, unsa tisfactory, and injurious scale of gradation, which, by professing to relieve, merely adds to the blather', and is calculated deeply to injure the revenue of the country, without conferring advantages on any but the foreign importer.—(llear.)—l know that an in quiry has been commenced at the Board of Trade, And that Government intend to take measures for an extensive adoption. of the system of ad valorem duties. I think that system a good one; but at this STATE OF THE STRAND. HoIitIOUSE called the attention of the Noble Lord opposite (Lord Lowther) to the peti tion which .he .was then about to present. The petition was from a great many tradesmen in the . Strand, complaining of what were called the im provements of that neighbourhood. The part of the city where they lived was in a state of complete desolation. He had received repeated assurances, several times during these four years, that these im provements should be carried on as rapidly as posT sible, but he had been obliged frequently to com plain of the delay, in his place in. that House. The tradesmen who retained their houses, and were not among those who received compensation for being turned out of their houses, were the worst off. The petitioners were of this number, and they Com; plained that they could see no probability of the improvements being completed. Either these peti tioners had a right to compensation, or to have the street completed ; for they were much injured by its being rendered impassable. They ought not to be placed in a worse situation than if the alterations had been unde; taken by an individual. lie implored the Noble Lord to point out'to these people what course they ought to adopt to obtain redress. Lord LOWTHER bad much compassion for the individuals whose petition the lion. Illember had presented; but he could show that the office he pre sided over had not been dilatory. There were up wards of six hundred people to deal with, who had complicated interests in the property to be pur chased. At present, however, every house, except three, .was agreed for, l and all were paid for except seventeen. Seven yealis were allowed to complete the business, And he believed it would be done be fore that time. The houses were now pulled down —the ground was nearly cleared—and he expected that in six weeks the buildings would be begun. It was not doing justice to the Board of Woods and Forests to say nothing had been done. The site on which Exeter 'Change - stood had been cleared, and built on in less than a year. The plan for the other part of the Strand was ready, and h e e x pected. that_ the present desolate part would be built on in a very short time. NOW OPEN. A MSTERD4I\I.—In the Large Circle, PANORAMA, STRAND.—An interesting VIEW of this CITY, taken . from the Y. including the Port, filled with vessels of various countries, the magnificent new canal, Many of the curiously ornamented public and private buildings, an 4 an extensive range over a consider able part of the North of Holland. The VIEW of PARIS is open. ieir to ROARKE, Furnival's Inn. VIEWS of CALCUTTA and SYDNEY are exhi biting at the PANORAMA, LEICESTER-SQUARE. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. PRIVATE PUPIL. VAC.ANCY for a PUPIL is Now Open in the Fat - n 4 of a Married.' Cleigvnian, resident Twelve Miles from London, the . number of aose Pupils is limited to Six. He can offer the most satisfactory re ferences-to Noblemen and Gentlemen, whose sons have been under his care. HOUSE OF LORDS-(LAST NIGHT.) The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented a pe tition from Leicester,against the punishment of death for forgery. The Duke of presented a peti tion from Ipswich, to the same effect. Earl SPENCER presented a petition from Brain tree to the mine effect; also a petition from the Unitarians of Northampton to the same effect; also a petition from some place in Cornwall, to the same effect. • - Letters to be addressed for the Rev. J. C. C., Mr. Rod. hoOkseller, 46, New Bend-street, London. late period of,the Session there is no time for an inquiry into the best method of applying those duties, or for the adoption of any sugges:ions which might be made on the subject. Under these cir cumstances, I would really press upon my Right lion. Fricnd that which I urged on his censideration this morning—the propriety of adopting for one year a system plain, practicable, free from all objec tions, and calculated for. immediate adoption►. r would propose that system of duties recommended by my Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Grant) last year, and again recommended this morning. I would pro pose that my Right Hon. Friend (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) should at once reduce the duty on all sugars, of every description, from 275. to 20s. This would give relief to all the colonies—the old as well as the new. There would be no difficulty in carrying it into execution. It is simple; it would be effectual ; and I thoroughly believe it would not involve the revenue in the course of a year in such great — Wsses as the complicated, detective, gested, and partially understood plan of my Right Hen. Friend. I recollect the Right Hon. Gentle man said last year, in the debate on this question, that the reduction of duty to 20s. would produce a GREECE AND TURKEY. This day was published, Second Edition, in 2 vols. Svo. with 38 EngraVings ' price 245. TRAVELS to CONSTANTINOPLE, through Vienna, Hungary, Transylvania, Wal lachia, Bulgaria, and Eouinelia, aid from. that City to the Capital of Austria, by the Dardanelles, Tenedos, the Plains of Troy, ,Smyrna, Napoli di Romania, Athens, Rena, Parris, Cyprus., Syria, Alexandria, Malta, Sicily, - Italy, Istria, Carniela, and Styria, in the years 1827 and 1828. Lord LORTON presented a petition from Hal stem!, in Essex, to the same effect. Earl CARLISLE presented a petition from Dun garvon, against the increase of taxation in Ireland. 52 40 41 46 s. d. 6 11 Earl of ROSSLYN presented a petition from Lancashire, Cheshire, and Yorkshire, complaining of the evils they suffer from the introduction of mu- By Capt. CHAS. COLVILLE FRANKLAND, R.N. " His volumes teem with interest and instruction."— Sun. chinery. Lord WHARNCLIFFE presented a petition from Huddersfield, in favour of the abolition of sla very ; also a petition from Wakefield against the punishment of death fur forgery; also a petition from the Wesleyan Methodists of Settle, in York shire, to the same effect; also a petition from Har= bury, prayir the Assizes .might be transferred to Wakefield.* " One of the most picturesque and attractive of modern tours."--Morning Journal. Colburn and Bentley, New Burlington-street. TUE BARBARY STATES. — This day was published, Second Edition, embellished a View and Map of Algiers, and a Plan of the City of Fortificatinns, price 255. NARRATIVE of a RESIDENCE in ALGIERS, comprising an Account of the Author's Captivity, of the Manners, Amusements,' and Modes of Living among the different People of Barbary; with Ob- Nervations on the Climate, Population, Trade, and Produc tions of the Country, the State of Agriculture, of the Arts, Military and Naval Power, Christian Si ivery, Financial and Piratical Systems, Anecdotes of the Dey and his Mini sters, of the Late War, &c. &c. By M. PANANTI. With Notes by EDWARD BLAQUIERE, Esq. ‘• This Volume will be found to be an object of particular curiosity, from the minute and lively manner in which it lays open the interior of the Court of the Dey of Algiers. It contains the only complete and authentic Account, by .an eye-witness, which has hitherto appeared of the man ners and conduct of this Despot and his Ministers, and details such scenes and events as will scarcely seem credible in the.eye of an European." • Colburn and Bentley, New Burlington-street. Lord CA LT HORPE presented a petition against the punishment of death for forgery, from Mr. Rothschild and two other individuals ; also a peti tion from Bury St. Edmund's to the same effect ; also a petition from the Dissenters assembling at St. Thomas's-square, Hackney, to the same effect ; also a petition from Great Yarmouth, to the same effect ; also a petition from Si owmarket, to the same effect ; also a petition from Newport, in Monmouth, to the same effect ; also a petition from some place, in Gloucester, to the same effect ; also a petition from Durham, to the same effect; also a petition from Reigate, to the same effect ; also a petition:4rom the Juries at the Old Bailey, to the same effect ; also a petition from Redruth, to the same effect ; also a petition from Carlisle, to the same effect; also a petition from Evesham, to the same effect ; also a petition from Blessington, to the same effect; also a petition from the inhabitants of Oxford street, to the same effect ; also a petition from the Corporation of Norwich, to the same effect. diminution of the revenue to the extent of at least one million, if there was no increase of consumption to compensate for the loss. Now, I would take the benefit of the argument of the Right Hon. Gentle man when he introduced these resolutions the other evening, and I would anticipate, as he did, that the sere l est and lien !ars The petition was read and laid on the table. In answer to a quevion from Mr. HOBHoUsE, Lord LOWTHER stated that the improvements at Charing-cross must yet be delayed for some weeks. . _ increased consumption consequent on this reduction would amount to just one-half the loss ; for, as the Right Hon. Gentleman anticipated; an increase of two hundred thousand pounds in a reduction of four hundred thousand pounds, I may fairly antici pate that the increased consumption would give five hundred thousand pounds, if the loss of duty was a million; and I don't think I ant over sanguine in making that calculation.. After the very great rt- EAST-INDIA SUGAR. APPROVED FAMILY MEDICINES, Sdd by BUTLER and Co, Chemists, Cheapside, Corner of St. Paul's; SAVORY and Co., 126, New Bond street, and 220, Regent-street ; ODLING, 26, Ox f 3-d -street ; BAYLEY and Co., 17, Cockspur-street ; *INDUS 61, Wshopsgate, Without; CHALK, 47, Mincries; EASUI%I, Al4gate ; and ODLING, 159, BOrough. • "IR. JAMES'S FEVER POWDER—is universally approved by the Profession and the Public —and is administered with equal success in Fever, Inflam matory Diseases, Measles, Pleurisy, Sore Throats, Rheu matism, &c. When given in Colds, Catarrhs, &c. it is generally, found to check their progress, or shorten their duration. In packets, 25.-9 d. and 245. DIXON'S ANTIBILIOUS PILLS.—As a mild and effectual remedy in all those Affections which have their origin in a morbid action of the Liver and Hillary organs, namely; Indigestion, Loss of Appetite, Head-ache, Fla tulence, Heartburn, Constipation, &c., these Pills (which do not contain Mercury in any shape) have met with more general approval than any other Medicine;—they are found and acknowledged to be a most invaluable Medicine in tropical climates. - In Boxes at 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., 11s., and 225. TOWERS' FLUID EXTRACT OF BARK.—In the Fluid Extract of Bark are combined the fine and essential qualities of the purest Peruvian Bark, viz. the Quinine, Chinchonine, and valuable astringent principle in a con centrated state; it thus affords the readiest means of pre paring Bark Draughts of any strength with the utmost facility. In Bottles at 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and I Is. _ _ FO - THERGILL'S NERVOUS DROPS are much used by those who are afflicted with Nervous Affections ; such as Lowness of Spirits, Fainting Fits, Hystetical and Spas modic Disett.es, Debility and Relaxation of the System, and are highly extolled by those who have had recourse to them. ' In Battles at 45..6d., lls., and 225. HICKMAN'S PILLS FOR GRAVEL, STONE, &c. --This Medicine has been long approved for the relief of affections of the Kidneys and Bladder, which are attended with the formation of Gravel, Calculus, and those pains of the Back and Loins which accompany these affections ; they allay the pain, neutralize the acid which is the means of forming the concretion, and are found to succeed when most remedies of the kind have altogether failed. In Boxes at 2s. 9d. and I Is. BUTLER'S IMPROVED DAFFY'S ELIXIR.—This Preparation (made with the finest Brandy) will be found much superior to any other. Purchases are reque4ted to ask for " Batler's Daffy's Elixir," and to observe their name on the Government Stamp. In half-pint Bottles at 2r. 9d. TOWERS' SOLUTION OF CAMPHOR.—The So lution of Camphor is an elegant preparation of one of the best Medicines of the whole Materia Medics, by which pure camphor may be given in the fluid form of a Draught or Julep., In thus produces refreshing sleep, eases pain, calms the system, removes recent colds, and may often be given with effect where opiates wholly fail. In Bottles at 2s. 9d.; 4s. 6d., and I Is. PERRY'S ESSENCE FOR TOOTH AND EAR ACHE has been. found of such extreme service in relieving Tooth and Ear Ache, that it 11 , 8 been commented upon most favourably in several Medical Journals ; it affords in stantaneous relief, and generally prevents any recurrence of pain. In ttettiriat L. 1 d, and 2s. 9d. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE presented a petition from a place in Galway, in favour of the Galway Franchise Bill. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented a petition from Tavistock against the punishment of death fur forgery ; also petitions from two places in Kilkenny, against the increase of taxation -in Ire land ; also a petition from the New Chamber of Commerce in Glasgow, in favour of the New North Road Bill; also petitions from Maidenhead, and Stockton-on-Tees, against the punishment of death for forgery. The Earl of ROSSLYN moved the second read ing of the Capital Punishments' (Scotland) Bill. The Earl of LAUDERDALE a.ked a question relative to the introduction of a clause referring to the punishment of banishment as it now existed in Scotland. A conversation ensued, in which the Earl of ROSSLYN, the Earl of ROSEBERRY, and Lord HOL LAND, took a part, but it was quite inaudible below the bar. The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Thursday. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' BILL. On the question of the House going into Com mittee on this Bill, The Earl of MALMESBURY sail that he was desirous that the Bill should be divided into two parts, as he objected to the compulsory clauses. The House went into Committee. The LORD CHANCELLOR had no objection to strike out the compulsory clauses; they could not divide the Bill into two, but it would be sub stantially.the same thing to strike out those clauses in this Bill and introduce them subsequently as a fresh Bill. The Earl of MALMESBURY said, that he should prefer that mode, as he did not wish to pledge himself to the bringing in a new Bill on the compulsory clauses. The amendments were then agreed to, the House resumed, the Bill was ordered to be printed, and the Report to be received to-morrow. On the motion of the Earl of DARNLEY, the Abolition of Fees, on the demise of the Crown, Bill was read a third time and passed. EAST RE TFORa Counsel and witnesses were then heard against he East Retford Bill.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(LAST NIGHT.) WEST INDIA PLANTERS. The Marquis of CHANDOS presented a pe tition from certain West India Planters, against im posing any further duty on West India produce. Mr. HART DAVIS presented a petition from the inhabitants of Bristol, against the tax on coals_; and also a petition from certain butchers in Bristol, against persons who hawk about meat. Mr. KING present e d P et i t i o n s f r b m the inbabi- Mr. lIUSKISSON presented a petition of the Liverpool East-India ,Association, against the pro posed alteration of the Sugar Duties, which the petitioners said would be injurious to the East India Sugar.—Petition laid on the table. The Rye Harbour Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Thursday. Mr. S. RICE presented several petitions from the city of Limerick, complaining of the new Stamp Duties.-- . --Ordered to be printed. WAYS AND MEANS. On the Order of the Day for going into a Com mittee of Ways and Means being read, Mr. SLANEY expressed a hope that the Chan cellor of the Exchequer would permit him to name some evening when there was a probability of his Bill (the Employment for the Labouring Poor Bill) being taken into further consideration. He thought Friday might be allowed for that purpose. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that Friday was Supply Day, and there yet remained a considerable number of votes to be dis posed of. The lion. and Learned Gentleman need not, however, be under any apprehension that pro per time would not be afforded him for the object he had described. SUGAR DUTIES. The House then resolved itself into a Com mittee of Ways and • Means, to take into further consideration the Resolution respecting the Reduc tion of the Sugar Duties. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved that the Resolution be read, and it was accordingly read by Sir Alexander Grant, the Chairman. " That it is the opinion of this Committee, that towards raising the supply granted to his Majesty, there shall he charged the following duties upon sugar imported into the United Kingdom ; that is to say— " Upon all brown, or Muscovado, or clayed sugar, being the produce of, and imported from the British possessions in America, or the island of Mauritius, according to the average price of brown or Muscovado sugar, published in manner directed by law, viz.— " If the value of such sugar shall exceed such average price by more than one shilling the cwt. 1/. 7s. " If such sugar shall not exceed in value such average price by mere than one shilling the cwt. 1/. ss. 6d. " If such sugar shall be of less value than such average price by two shillings the cwt. 11. 4s.''' •" If such sugar shall be of less value than such average price by four shillings the cwt. 11. 2s. 6d. " If such sugar shall be of less value than such average price by five shillings the cwt. 1/. " Upon all brown, Muscovado, or clayed sugar, the pro duce of, and impel ted from the British possessions in the East Indies, the cwt. 1/. 17s. " Upon all other such sugar, the produce of, or imported from any other places, the cwt. 3/. 35." "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, before they became a subject of 'deliberation in the House, begged to add, that a duty of 14 2s. Gd., as. it was printed in the Resolution, should be only 1/. 25., and he thought it tight at the same time to state, that the East India sugars of the low price were to 'pay the - same scale of duties as the West India' sugars of - the 'Same kind; but the higher de scription of tait Lidia sugars were, in all respects, to remain in the same relative condition as to duty as they had been before the contemplated alterations. Mr. HUSKISSON—Sir, As I perceive it is not the intention of my Right Hon. Friend (the i Chancellor - of'the EicheqUer) to propose-any othiT alteration or modification of these resolutions, than that he has just now announced with respect to East India sugars, • I must Crave the indulgence of the House while offer a fetii obserVations, on what otipears to me to he the most extraordinary and the aiast incomprehensible, and the. least. practicable proposition that ever was submitted to the Parlia trent of this country. The resolution was proposed on Monday last, and the consideration of. it post paned in order to allow it to be. printed. I am glad that it was so postponed. It has given time for its consideration, and I believe there never was a Pro• position connected with alio trade of this country which, note that it has been considered, is viewed with more alarm, or seems better calculated to pro dire endless trickery and confusion than that which is now before us.—( Hear, hear.)—The pioposition, if I understand it right, goes to. reduce the duty on all sugars of a certain description : of, quality and prise, from twenty-seven shillings to twenty shillins, and my Right Hon. Friend alleged, as the reason for the reduction, the diStaessed state of the West, India colonies. In order to prove this distress, the Ilight Hon. Gentleman, when he brought forward his propositions, cited the case of. two estates, and explained the extent of the produce and the cost of cultivation. These two estates were, I presume, in a aikrrs o aame island, and, probably, in -the same parish ; but if he had taken the whole of the old islands' be louging to Great Britain, as proofs of the distress of the West Jodie interests, I believe the illustration • would not have been inapplicable. or exaggerated. L-,(1-lear 8 hear, hear.)—l believe all the ancient islands , belonging to this' country, Jamaica, Bar badoes; Antigua, St. Christopher's, , Dominica, every . one of those islands 'are in a state ,of much greater distress theft those which have been re cently annexed to our pbssesaionso The land of those islands produce now a much smaller quantity of sugar by comparison than the islands which are now in cultivation, and which are not so worn out and exhausted by repeated- crops ; but at .the same time, by the superior skill employed in their cultivation, and by the judicious application of capital in their management, the sugar that is pro duced is known,altheiigh small in quantity, to be of a very superior quality. Now the resolution of my Right Hon. Friend professes to relieve the dis tressed colonists of the West Indies; but that dis tress' frcitn these pectiliar circumstances prevails to an infinitely greater extent by comparison in the old colonies titan the new, and the resolution, therefore, by' endeavouring to extend the sale of the coarse sugar produced by the new colonies tends of course to exaggerate the distress, to perpetuate the burthens, and to increase the difficulties of all the old colonies, where relief is known to be most required.—(Hear, hear.)-s-The islands of Barbadoes and Antigua, although two of the most fertile of the old colonies are kuowit not to produce more than .one-third of the sigar grown, upon lands of the same extent in the richer and more fertile new colony of Demerara; and, therefore, the proposition which goes to . increase the sale of the sugar of the new colony diminishes in a proportionate extent the demand for the limited produce of the old colonies, which must, from the circumstances of that limitation ) , be most in need of its assistance.—(Hear.)—.Before I go further, how ever, I would ask - the Right Honourable Gentleman to explain to me the meaning and bearing of the resolution which he has prooosed, notwith standing that it had been extensively circulated and amply considered. I know from the best in formation, that there is not a man in this city, what-. ever may be his situation, planter or merchant, buyer or seller, or broker,- who .thoroughly understands the manner in which the Right Hon.-Gentleman proposes to bring his plan into ope ation. Sugar, it is well known, is sold at what is called the long price—that is the price'including the duty. Now, to take the first instance, supposing that a man sold his sugar at .515., or at 475., he would in the end obtain just the same price. If he sold his sugar as worth 54.5., it would - be considered 7s. better, and the duty paid must be the high one; so that in fact as the duty in one case might be only 205., and in the other 275., the price obtained by the planter might be just the same. This, however, is not the only difficulty which these resolutions produce. I would ask thißight Hon. Gentleman in what pos sible way he can hope to check that fraud and col lusion to which they hold out so much temptation. — (Hear, hear.) —Sugar is not sold in small quantities, but generally in very considerable lots, of perhaps 50 or 100 hogsheads at a time. Was this purchase, then, to be made with no better consideration as to quality and price than some fifty or one hundred sheep in Smithfield market ? Some sugars are worth 30s. Some are worth 60s. How are the grada tions of the Right lion. Gentleman's scale to be es tablished, if the whole fifty hogsheads are purchased at 200 is a broker to be at liberty to pick out a hogshead, and say, I like this ? and is he to take it at the price of the others ? How did the Right Hen. Gentleman propose to guard himself against tricks of this kind ? Is a valuation to be upon each hogshead of a whole lot? How are the duties to be paid ? Are they to be paid when the purchaser pleases ? If that be so, then the purchaser will watch his time, tender his duty when the price is low, keep the sugar till the price rises, and then sell it at great gain to himself and a great loss to the revenue. Again, in taking the j averages, how is the Right Hon. Gentleman to guard against_ the lowest duty on the primest sugar ? These and fifty other modes of trick and evasion will be resorted to for the purpose of defeating the object of the Right Hon. Gentleman's plan. I can conceive too many cases in which, from the nature of the Right Hon. Gentleman'S scale, it will be utterly impossible to ascertain at what price the sugar is sold, or what is the duty payable on it. I will take a peculiar instance of this: suppose my Right Hon. Friend (the Chancellor of the Exche quer) to be a seller of sugar, and that he has a broker dealing with him for a purchase. Sugars, as I have observed before, are alwayi sold at the long price. Well, the price agreed upon in the case I put is 525. The Custom-house officer appears to take his part in the transaction, and the seller, as usual, demands an account of the duty he has to pay. The average price of the duty, lie it recol lected, I would assume to be 255. Now the price at which the sugar was sold being 265. Gd., the duty to be deducted would he 255. Gd, The resolutions of the Right Hon. Gentleman say, • however, that if the price be more than a shilling above the average, the duty must be 275. This would leave the seller only 255. Now, under the new system, utrum horum, which is the price? If they pay on the net price, the duty is 275. If they pay on the gross, ii is 2.55. Gd. I think, the result will be in many cases to force the Government to become the purchasers of all sugars in the maiket. How this Government is to dispose of the sugars after they have purchased them is another considera tion. If a seller chooses to dispose of his sugars at 255., and the Government officers think they are worth 265., what then, I ask, is to be the result ? except that the Government must become the pur chaser of all the sugars that are brought to sale. These are a feiv, but not all the objections I find to this plan. ,With respect to the drawback, I have other and more serious objections. Does - my Right Hon;Friend m e a n to say that he will continue to pay a drawback of 6s. or 7s. the hundred - weight on all sugars exported from this country ? The plan now before us will lower the price of all the higher desciiption of sugars; but it cannot possibly raise the price of the lovver, and we shall in future have . to pay diliawbaCk, of 27i.," but ono ductions of taxation which have been announced in the present Session, I certainly am not one of those who can say we are in a condition to spare 500,000/. of our income • but I would call the att e ntion of the Right Honourable Gentleman to the propositions which accompany these resolutions swi:ll respect to the Spirit Duties. The Right Hon. Gentleman proposes an additional duty of 6d, per gallon on all spirits, British arid Foreign. This duty, supposing the consumption to be the same as last year, would produce just 750,0001. The Right Hon. Gentle man, at the time he explained the system of finances for the year, took credit for 300,0001. which he .expected to be produced by an increased duty of 2d. on Scotch and Irish, and ls. on English spirits. Now, allowing that 300,0001. to be deducted from this 750,0001., there would still retain 450,0004 as a set-off against the probable loss of half a million, which might be incurred by that reduction of duty which I recommend. I therefore say, that the re duction of revenue on the who le income of this year will be little or nothing compared with the benefits that are likely to result from it.—(Hear.)--- Feeling, however, as I do on this subject, I would say, that even if we :were to suffer some loss for the first six months, such is the deplorable state of the planters in those colonies—such is the suffering and distress to which many highly-respectable families, and the children of affluent parents, have been reduced by the general fall in the prices of all West India produce—that I think it would be a wise and sound policy on the part of the Parlia ment of this country, to manifest its sympathy and its feeling for that long-suffering class of our fellow subjects, by offering even at some temporary incon venience to ourselves, all that relief and assistance which, in the present distressed and embarrassed condition of all classes, it is in .our power to give them —(Hear, hear.)—Much as the West Indies had been promised, from time to time, nothing had as yet been done for them. Up to this hour, although every class in the country had received some relief, nothing has been done for them. No attempt has been made to relieve their staple com modity . from the burthen which oppresses it, although the reductions which have been made in the duties on coffee, and the other articles of the same description, give us reason to hope that the effect of such reliefs would tend to increase rather than diminish that revenue which is supposed to offer the obstacle. lam bound to say, while I thus claim for the West Indies some relief from the Le gislature, that since the duties which I wish reduced were first imposed, we have passed laws with re gard to their property, which, however wise, pru dent, politic, and humane they may be, are yet, in a pecutsiary.poirit of view, calculated to produce a very injurious effect on their estates.—(Hear.)—l mean those laws which are applied to them as the owners of slaves.—(Hear.)-1 would take one of these laws, which I think more than any other en titles the West Indians to claim some relief from the Government which imposed it. I allude to the law which prohibits the West. India planter from removing his slaves from oneisland to another, or' even from one' colony to another, no matte; how great may be the demand or the neecssi;y for such removal. lam sorry to be compellA discnss in a British Parliament any quest ionllavi:tg refrette, to a right of property in our fellow in•itic:s. Rot th e West Indies are placed in a very peculiar situati,n with respect to the estates whir!) thee cult' They found those estates burthened With shaved placed under their authority by many acts of the Legislature, and they are bound to rev:Live them _ selves with regard to them as property in a. manner peculiar and embarrassing. .1 have said they cannot remove them to any other colony where they me y he more useful. I may lie told they can sell !hem if they do not want so many. But they cannot be dis posed of in an island where the land is overstocked, mad if they discontinue the cultivation of sugar, be • cause it is unproductive, they still fu r ther incieasse their difficulties, because they do not require one tenth part of the number of slaves for the cultivation of any odes' description of produce. I may be told, however, that it. is in the power of the planter to emancip a te the negroes if he cannot employ or. st.p.- • port them t but there again the law interferes as:d prevents emancipation, unless the negro can support himself e because he most eitherwise become a but then to the community.--e(llcer.)—Titie, then, i; the state of the law. Ernidtly tile negroes they cannot; emancipate them they eat:not—support them they cannot—(Hear)—and there are I know, not one, but several, islands at the presei:t motnerst in wide!) the :thole produce of the land is insisfiicient for the support arid clothing of the itegroes avbct are necessarily retained oti it.- , -(Hear.)—These are the - regulations of which, be it recollected, I do net complain, nor w!sich I do not wish to see altered ; but this, I say, is the situation in %Thiel) you have placed the West India proprietor—these ere the regulations you have imposed on him ; and lehink they very much strengthen the claims which, In common with all others, lie has on the Parliament of the country for relief.—(f4ear.)—They are ti,e ird lass ,to which, since the peace, no relief has : been frequently avowed its this House that they deserved that relief. It has been frequently promised them,- but, unfortunately, taxes in this country are never remitted swipe* en some case of great difficulty, and when the urgency of the moment imperiously demands it; and when that moment comes, the claims of the West Indians, however strong, or however pressing, Were always deferred, to the louder and more pressing clamour of those interests which were more immediately connected with our domestic embarrassments. Toe West Indians, after long suffering and great putience now claimed from Parliament the fulfilment of a por tion of its promise, and they come to us, I say, with additional claims on our bounty, because of the re gulations we have thought it necessary to pre scribe with respect to the management of their properties. For these reasons I recommend the reductions I have proposed;. and I again en- treat the Right Honourable Gentleman to, con sider the natttre of his plan. if that plan does not work, as I contend it will not, in the way he. expects, I entreat the Right Hon. Gentleman to look at the consequences. The Right Hon. Gen tleman in his Budget proposed to confer a boon on the West Indians by the imposition of Is, a gallon on all British spirits. It was felt—it was acknow ledged to be a boon, and it would. have given relief without the slightest prejudice to any other interest, however the contrary may have been supposed. But what will be the situation of the West Indiana with that boon taken away and an additional shilling im posed on rum, if the measure of the Right flon:Gen• ti e e i l g ie h relief r bleat t Gentleman l ion. seex- ,to adopt .the measure of last year; for that he shall have rts a ? fails, therefore ls asitin entreatustto givet eR t my vote. I do not say It is the best that could be de vised ; but it is the only intelligible, feasible, and prac ticable plan which at this period of the Session cart be put in execution. I implore the Right 'Hon. Gentleman to consider the consequences which re sult from these discUssions, and frotn . this continual alteration of opinions; its effect has been to suspend all trade at this the most active period of the year. I am now standing here as the representative of, I admit, in a general case, all the interests in the Country; but I am also the immediate representative of the second great commercial town - in this empire; and I speak the opinions of the great pottionof the evensive and important interests of that great em porium of commerce, of all those closgy bOund connexion with all the West Indian colonies, when I say that this system of indecision, and of experi ment, produces there the greatest alarm, inflicts seri ous injuries on commerce, and is calculated to unsettle all the transactions between mat; and 'man. , Only look as the spectacle which has been produced by the way that Government have proceeded with the Spirit Duties.—(Hear.)—When the Right lion. Gentleman proposed to lay a duty of one shilling on British sprits, orders were of course sent out to the West Indies to make more rum and less sugar. Is it nothing to these interests' to have declarations emanating from a Government like this,.taken tip and abandoned without system, foresight, or consi deration ? Look at the course that is pursued with regard to other articles. Three months ago it was f announced that the growth of tobacco in this country would be encouraged under certain regulations... Orders were of course sent out to America to stop" the importation of tobacco in anticipation of this change. Now, however, comes a determination that tobacco shall not be grown in this country; Is it to be conceived that a vacillation of this kind does not produce the most injurious effects on the irtte rests of individuals? I say, Sir, it is' the duty of a Government to digest its plans better, and when they are thus digested, to be more steady in its re solves. They ought to come to Parliament with a fit, and proper, and well-digested systeM of action. Their measures should be prepared in such a man ner as to effect the least possible mischief to the commerce and the existing. arrangements of society whenever change is rendered necessary ; and when the means of that change are acted on with wis dom and foresight, they should be rigidly adhered to. In the great concerns of the general policy of this country, whether foreign or domestic, it is not fitting that temporary.difficulees should be ever met by temporary expedients..—We cannot manage the extensive and complicated transactions of Govern ment in the same manner as he'would manage an army, and put forth a law one day as a kind of advanc ed guard, which may be ordered to draw back the next day.—(Cheers.)—l am not stating my own feel ! ings so amebas the feelings of the people who are placed in such a state of alarM and difficulty that they do not know one day how to proCeed, because they know not what the next may bring forth. It is not, therefore, in the tone of angry reproach, but of a'_'- monition, that I call on the Right Hon. Gentle man to abandon that course of explanation, retracta tione adaptation, and alteration, which unsettles all the transactions of commerce, and renders the measures of the Goverment suspected or dis liked. The former mode of proceeding was much preferable; namely, that a measure should be de liberately considered by his Majesty's Government before it was brought dowq to that House. Infinitely superior was that to the system of introdUcing a plan without sufficient consideration, and then if a clamour were raised, and if petitions were pre sented against it, abandoning it without any consi- . deration at all. A great complaint had recently been made of the number of petitions presented to the House. Why, that was the necessary result of bringing forward subjects without an adequate pre vious investigation. lam decidedly of opinion, therefore, that a proposition should be well consi dered by the person who undertakes to make it, be fore he brings it forward, and that he should not bring it forward in an undigested state, and thee' allow it to be kicked out .for the - purpose of substi tuting another. I confidently predict - that the pro position now made by the Right Hon. Gentleman will not - be found practicable in its details; and that it will occasion a considerable loss to the revenue ; while, by equalizing all the duties. en sugars to 20 6 ., those evils will be avoided, etnd stirisfistnitsta will be given to all parties. Ti - .'e CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER 4 2 10 10 Is. .—.