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k" ~!f 41 r 7,• 1.113 K.) ./Tifi , ISUMBER 92601 CONTRACTS FOR RIGA ur' Si'. PETERSRURGH GOODS, DANTZIC or MEMEL GOODS, and NOR IP Y SPARS. Naro-ONce, April Re, Mi. THE P R ENC/1 1 .4 L OFFICERS and COM MISSIONERS of HIS MAJESTY'S NAVY do 1 1 P 1 ;ice Notice, that on THURSDAY, the 9th of May 'Tti at On e o 'Cl oc k, they will be ready to treat with such Per son , as may be willing to Contract for supplying His 4 i l ' , alesty's sev e ra l Dock Yards with all ar any of tlicjidlow "g Articles, via. RIGA or ST. PETERSRURGH GOODS, consisting- of Fir Timber hick Masts and Hand Masts. I) 4A - rzic or ME.1.1 EL GOODS, consisting - of Fir Timber Deck Deals and Oak Plank. OR WAYSPARS. Diitribistions of the Articles, and Forms of the Tenders, 'ilaY be seen at this Office. No Tender will be reveived Vier One o'Clock, on the day of Treaty, nor any noticed, lodeis the party, or an Ayent for him, attends. dr esse Every Tender most tie accompanied by a Letter ciiN in the Navy Board , and nifleiteLle% Tem reelmmtibie Persons, engaging to became bowed with the Person tender , i ",r, in the sums hereinundrr mentioned, for the due perfor prance of the Contracts respectively:- 10 e the Contracts for Riga sr Petersbuegh Goods £5,090 Do. Datittic or Memel Goods £5.000 Do. Norway Spars. - .£5OO ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, April 30, 18-22. WIDOWS' PENSIONS. NTICE is hereby given, that the WIDOWS s O of COMMISSION and WA Pensions ßANT from the FFICERS Cl st th arity ea lished for their Relief, will be paid their Pensions, due the 'ln March last, at No. 10 New-square, Lincoln's Inn, by E dward Finch Hatton ; E sq. the Paymaster of the Charity, 11 ;e Widows of Flag-O ffi cers, Superannuated Reat-Ad -" „Ir a's. 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ON WITCHCRAF No. III.; 46 1 , 1 . n. Progress, and Decay of Witchcraft.-20. Review, 2 2 AM BLAIR.-21. Literary and Scientific Intellience— Pie Drama; School fur Scandal, &c.-23. Re g . port of ....: 2 41c . - -24. Abstract of Domestic and Foreign Occurrences. 5. Monthly Register. Printed for Taylor and Hessey, Fleet-street. T, To SHIP-OWNERS and CAPTAINS. iIE Superior Advantage, both to SAILS and Th e STORES, of Prepared low-priced Brown Canvas, over I„," e 7 . 4 l , enslve Coker sorts, is fully proved by the following r;-_. 10 , Eden, West India Docks, March 2Gth, 1822 . o itv ! ItEmtx—ln March 1821, you prepared some Scotch " of rather an inferior quality fur the brig Enien, under it, cul litnand.—l had a quarter deck awning made of part of lac w e ll icli was hauled out occasionally on the passage to Ja. lo th ; likewise four weeks at Kingston, and at the Havan ppri f or near seven months; during the latter period we ex. 1 4 !need very considerable changes of weather. The awn tat to 3 good stale, and I have no doubt will yet last seve hut " 4 Kes• During the whole time at the Havannah it was ~ed thrice fot a few hours only. k e ; 4 ll of the time, near four months, a lower studsail of Co. lie c k can tag, new on leaving England, was used as a main. tott e :lninK, whets it wits found one mass of mildew, and su v ach, 3to be totally un fi t for service. I forward a piece of Aiit with my seal anneted, for your inspection, and beg you 1 1i ak C what use you think proper of it. WI " w l , e forward a piece of one of your prepared bolts, "til ltu t t Y some accidp u t got wet through seven or eight folds, st u , i, 7l not discovered till quite dry, when I made Glower Perfe,4:l, of it, which has been used the passage home, and is tla t i e 7.7 , )0,1. Any other canvas, I think, ould have been', wil K circumstances, totally useless. w ( I H ng You every success which your discovery mtrits, I rutlennen, your obedient , servatit, I`, : , . (Signed] W. U. ElitrlS. Browell & Co.; 23, Aldermuibury. 11411 . 1,,e, . •.. , , -1 7 A ‘ .11 ' 4.4,71010., .,;: ' „ 1 ' . 7 ., 1 -1 7_. , / , E, ( „, -- ... . . ..0:,..r,„,„...„,,,,,,*,,,. 7 .„,.. : 4. . ~ ~, . / i i „, , .4' rek .., k:/ - . - ' O / 2 r .,.., _Ta.h...„.,,._ \ AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. PETITIONS FROM NORFOLK. TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1822. passing under the bridge to be built in the place of the present London Bridge. Mr. Alderman WOOD said, that the only measure pending the House on this subject was one which was before a Com mittee up stairs, for the removal of the Waterworks erected against London Bridge. There was no occasion, therefore, to petition against that ; and the apprehension of any toll being levied in the event of a new bridge being built, he thought was idle, as the bridge estates had ample funds to defray the expense, even if it amounted to 400,0001. Mr. T. WILSON did not feel so secure of the capability of the Bridge Estates to pay all expenses. At all events he thought the House should lint sanction the building ef a new bridge without a guarantee that no toll should be levied. Mr: M. A. TA YLOR said that the opposition to the build ing a new bridge, which would so greatly auginent the public convenience, and by which so many lives would be saved, was an infamous proceeding. It originated with the owners of the wharfs in the immediate neighbOurhood of the Bridge, and was an attempt to make private interest a check upon the general good. The Petitioniragorderedtiriti Oftettalle; and on the mo tion of Sir W. Cuntrik, after a few wordS from Mr. Alderman Woof) ; it was ordered to lie printed. , . Mr. CORE, on presenting a Petition from the Hundred of Ersham, in the County of Norfolk, relative to Agricultural Distress, which was daily aggravating, said he was happy to see the Noble Lord in his place, who, on a former occasion, when he (3lr. Coke) presented a Petition from the county of Norfolk, stated that it did not express the sense of the county. The county had since taken the hint, and now petitions were preparing froth every hundred ; for the petitioners had no hope of relief from any plan of the Noble Lord, who managed the affairs of the country and that House single handed—(Hear, hear'.)—and they therefore looked to reform as the only source of effectual remedy. Ile agreed with them fully ; and hoped the example which Norfolk set would be followed by.every other county. If the farmers of that and other great agricul tural counties acted so, Ministers, with all their profligacy and corruption, could not long resist the voice of the people. He believed that voice must be heard, but not through that House. This was his opinion ; and the longer he lived, and the inure he reflected ; the more was he convinced of its truth. The Noble Lord had, on a former occasion, prescribed to petitioners time and patience, and itnputed their complaints to an ignorant impatience of taxation.— He had said so about five years ago; and certainly, since that time, the people of Norfolk had exercised a very ample share of patience, and their condition was far from being amended. He could not express what he felt, who had devoted his life to the noble science of agriculture, and who had seen that country flourish like a garden, which was now almost uselessly produc tive. When he observed the coldness and apathy manifested by Government towards the distresses of the agricultural inte rests, it was enough, to make use of the words of the Noble Lord on a former occasion, though lie could assure him he was in good humour; it was enough to put one out of humour,when it was seen, that aftef all which had been promised, no effectual relief was to be giVen, as WaS evident from the Report of the Agricultural Committee.—( Hear, hear !)—ln the mean time, the people who were accustomed V) hear one thing within doors, and another without, called for Reform. They prayed also for a reduction of taxation, for a reduction of sinecure places, and a diminution of the expences of the army and civil list. " Good God," said the Honourable Member, " was net attention to be paid by the [louse of Commons to the wishes of. the people ?" ' But it was not indeed surprising, when it was °fleeted or that many Members of that House were in habit of' stating one thing before their Constituents, and o expressing in that. place quite the contrary.—(llear, hear, hear !)—The Petition went to state the increase of discontent and tumult, and requested, in the first place, a full and adequate protection against the importation of foreign produce ; secondly, an equa lization of the Poor Laws; thirdly, an unsparing economy in all branches of the State, in the Army anti Civil List; and then the Petitioners stated what was perfectly true—that they felt it an imperative sense of duty to state their belief, that these evils could only be obviated by a fair and equal aa reprentation of the people in the Commons House of Parliament. 'This was the more necessary since some recent decisions of that HouSe, which had shut out all hope of relief from it. The Petitioners also prayed that some steps would be taken on this subject, to secure the country against general tumult and commotion, and restore it as far as possible to its former prosperity. This was the Petition of one Hundred of the 33 Hundreds of the county of Norfolk, and though he was not in the habit of troubling the house much with his presentations, he could wish to have the opportunity of presenting similar Petitions from all the others. II e supported this one with the greatest pleasure, because it expressed only just -demands and constitutional principles. Before he brought the Petition tip be would state what had occurred with respect to the- meeting of the Hundred, for the informatiOn of the Noble Lord who had expressed 'himself so great a friend to the right of petitioning. That Hundred had two Magistrates, who were both Clergymen, and he' must say there were in Norfolk many Magistrates who ought never to have been raised to the Commission of the Peace. A Requisi tion had been presented by the Petitioners to those Gentleman, who were well acquainted with the distress of the county, and so anxious were they to obtain the sanction of the 'Magistrates to their Meeting, that in their first Requisition they did not insert the subject of Reform. This sanction, however, was refused, and the Meeting was held to take, among other topics, Reform, into consideration.—(Hear, hear !) Mr. WODEITOUSE begged to offer a few remarks. With respect to the Report, he thought it right to say, it appeared to have proved generally unsatisfactory to the country. It did not protect the farmer against the importation of foreign grain, but he had no hesitation in saying, effectual relief could 'not be afforded till the gieat pressure of the public burdens had been mitigated.--(Hear, hear !y—As the language lie held was thought inconsistent with his Conduct in some instances, and as, he had been particularly alluded to by one Honourable Gentleman, and generally by several others, he was anxious to explain his reasons for voting in favour of keeping up the Sinking Fund; and for opposing the repeal of the Malt Tax. Whether in the present state of the country it was wise to pre serve the Sinking Fund was certainly questionable. But he, on giving the subject his best attention, could not make tip his mind to dispense with it, as it was difficult to calculate what effect this must produce on public credit. When the question on the Salt Tax was brought forward, he had looked at the peculiar situa tion in which the Government was placed. They had lost by the Malt Tax, .Which had been given up, 2,ooo,oool.—(Cries of " No, No.'')—They had lost that sum bY it, including the duty given upon- the stock on hand. The repeal of the Salt Tax wounrhave taken from them another million, and this too at a time when the Government was engaged in a most difficult ne gociation to reduce the 5 per Cents. Under th. se circumstances he had not thought it right to vote against Ministers on that oc casion, and on looking back, he could not regret the course which he had taken. VVith respect to the Salt 'fax, lie had no hesitation in stating, generally, that it ought to be repealed._ Whatever the good it might produce, its repeal was desired by the people. It was not a clamour raised against it, but tha people really desired that it should be taken off; and that was a sufficient reason for relieving them from the bur den. Ile had now a few - words to offer on what had fallen from his Hon. Colleague on the subject of the meeting at which this petition had been voted. Ire had alluded to the refusal of the Magistrates to sanction it on the requisition being first pro posed. After the language which had been held at some of the meetings which had taken place (he spoke not so much with reference to meetings in Norfolk as to those which had been called in other counties); he did not wonder at there being a reluctance on the part Of the Magistrates to comply with the requisition. Ile felt it incumbent on him to explain more particularly the situation' in which the county had stood. They had unfortunately had two men executed in it, who, at the moment of their leaving the world, had declared that the outrages which they had committed had no object but to frighten the farmers into increasing the allowances of those in their employ. The House might recollect that at a meeting which had been held iii the county of Surrey, Lord King had held forth at some length on the Inuits of Mr. Cobbett. That speech had been printed on hand-bills, and circulated in Norfolk. Norfolk was held to be the best place to circulate this Paper, because it was known that there great distress prevailed.— When a Peer of the realm thought proper to bestow unquali fied praise on a man, who, it was known, had no regard for the right to property, he could not but think such conduct danger ous. In his opinion, it was most improper—most unkind to the country*, and most unworthy of the situation which that Noble Lord held in society. It had been imputed to a Noble Lord, that, looking over the signatures to a certain Petition, he had denied that it was respectably , signed, because he did not find appended to it the names of persons of rank. It seemed to him almost impossible that such a remark should have been PARLIAMENT, MONDAY, OF LORDS, MONDAY, APRIL 29. t., O P- ue Earl of LAUDERDALE presented a petition Coro the Owners and Occupiers of Land of the li e f of Forfar, praying for Agricultural re -4.---Laid on the table. r• BROODE w and others brought up from the Commons the 1. 1 ; k at Ireland Bill, and the Dover Gas Light, and the Edin g.' Road Bills, which were read a first time. Th e AGRICULTURE. the , 0 arl of ALBEMARLE presented two pet d itions f r om of Blow, Add nriel% and Occupiers of Land in the HondrF cul t : x i : l d ,Wals . aro, in the County of Norfolk, praymg s for Agri en i'w-tief- His Lordship stated that these pen n ow ners unanimously; adopted, and were signed b y . rion t e i b r u e s t s r eal ee. t a b„ and occupiers of land, all people of the highes t _p _ th “it y . Every individual in both Hundreds had subscribed ap e c tri ca ' astiorir difference of opinion existed on the necessity of the Earl I.I4..V.A.LTIIORPE wished to confirm all that the 4 4d th"' said concerning the respectability of the petitioners, Noble l aria. e r eality of the distress experienced in that part of }Jag -1,,e This was the more afflicting, as those two Hundreds far'rrel_rernarkable for the fertility of their soil, the skill o f the aarndi opeir vicinity to excellent markets. pe'rlf...er): ROSEBERRY also bore testimony to' the re; t ena , s inty o f the petitioners, some of whom were his own Was ~ ., t , arneuad7ost of the rest we ll' known to him.—The petition a nd laid re s ent . table. Q i er ti r 8 UFFIE L D' pd a similar Petition from the th e Cousadnty :.cupiers of land of the Hundred of Parham in Norfolf— Laid'on the table. TThe E ar l D ISTR.ESS IN IRELAND. ik , o . of DARN LEY stated, that if the subject were dil l * ;:'9rought forward by his Majesty's Ministers, he should roo st p his duty to call the attention of the House to that Lind. ..k 'l"tant object,' consideration of the affairs of !re tttry „,_ t nere wa s a degree of increasing distress in that coon ie """u kcc an amounting to famine, though he hoped and trusted t10nit,...'4"3!" r eceived Were exaggarata His object in men tllll,kizis ,this distress eras to obtain some assurance from his ,o.,c)._,,:abYecfsaiNcioitinelstve,,hr.ziehthalitetheee ue su d bjee pos t u h b ed ly occupied their atten entertain no d . oubt. 11' " ' W eb had betn made in other times to discuss such question did not now apply. The superabundance of produce which occasioned distress in this country might be rendered available to alleviate that which existed in Ireland. At all events a good effect would result from an intimation, on the part of Government, that the subject had attracted their attention, and that they were ready to afford every kind of re lief in their power. The Earl of LIVERPOOL admitted, that as far as infor mation had been received, it Was true that in some parts of Ire land great distress existed. That distress, however, had not been overlooked by his Majesty's Government, and measures had been taken to administer relief according to precedents, which had proved successful. As to the general question of interference, he thought that an extreme case alone could jus tify such' a step, and that nothing would be more likely to create a famine than any interposition on the part of the Govern ment or the Legislature itt the subsistence of the country. It was by the exertions of individuals that that subsistence was best secured ; and when a foreigner expressed his surprise that London should be supplied without any regulations, he was justly answered that London Was so well supplied only because there were no regulatio'ns. lie appealed to the Noble Peers, who had lateeti fr om Xrdand, Whether they were not satisfied that' wh atever could be done to relieve the present dis tress would he done, and was doing ? Lord STEWART presented a Petition from the Chamber of Commerce of Belfast, 0414 for an additional duty on fo reign butter.—Laid on the table. The Flax and Cotton, and the Summary Proceedings Bills, went respectively through Committees, and were reported.— Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. This was the last day for receiving Private Bills. AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. A Petition was presented from the County of Wexford, com plaining of Agricultural Distress.—Laid on the table. Mr. PELHAM presented a Petition of a similar nature from Lincoln. The Petition stated that the present state of the country threatened to overwhelm the whole Agricultural popu lation ; and expressed a belief that nothing but a reduction of taxation can relieve them. Sir R. HERON said, he feared.that his Majesty's Ministers, and the majority of that House, did not seem yet to be aware of the full , extent of the evils which oppressed the agricultural and all the industrious classes ofthe nation.—The Petition was read, and laid on the table. _ Mr. CURTE IS presented a similar Petition from the Eastern part of the County of Sussex.—Laid on the table. Mr. C. DUNDAS , presented several Petitions of a similar nature, from owners and occupiers of land in the county of Berks.—Laid on the table. Mr. TRE.MAYNE presented. a Petition complaining of Agricultural Distress, from the county of Cornwall.—Laid on the table. _ _ _ Mr. GOOCH presented a Petition from several considerable land owners of Foxley, in Suffolk, complaining of Agricul tural Distress. The Petitioners prayed that such a reduction of public expenditure might be effected as would justify a fur ther reduction of taxation, but they expressed an apprehen. sion that no immediate relief could be derived from that source. He viewed with great dismay the distressed state of the Agriculturists. A renussion of taxation he knew would assist them ; and as far as a reduction of establishments could enable that to be done, he would do it. Ile had felt it his duty to move, in the last Session, that seine notice should be taken of the numerous agricultural petitions on the table of the House. In the Committee which was appointed he was nominated Chairman, and he would not flinch from any of the responsibi lity that might attach to him on that account. It had been thought proper that that Committee should be re-appointed this year, but he was sorry to say that their report contained no thing satisfactory to the country. It proposed no measures calculated to aflbrd immediate adequate relief. It should, however, be borne in mind how difficult it was to discover any such remedy for the present evils. The markets were glutted to the extreme, and corn must either be removed from the market, or more money must be brought into it for that purer pose. A prohibitory duty on the importation of corn was what would be most beneficial to the farmer. 'When the ports were opened in MO, by means of a fraud, seven hundred thousand quarters of oats were admitted ; and with an average consump tion of thirty thousand quarters a year, it was surprising the effect which that importation had in lowering the prices. lie agreed in the system of duties, but not as to the quantum: the duties recommended by the Report were not sufficient- This country could not maintain her station in Europe if its agriculture were allowed to sink. The Petitioners; amongst other remedies, prayed for a Reform in Parliament. In this he did not agree with them, being satisfied that Re form would not put one shilling into the pocket of the Bri tish farmer. Mr. HUME observed, that this was , not the first, second, nor third time that the Hon. Member Who had just sat down had expressed his anxiety to relieve the distress of the agricul turist. In the numerous motions, however, which had been made for the remission of taxes, and the reduction of expendi ture, he did not reccillect having had the pleasure of having the Honourable Member in the mini:Why. What was the use then of presenting petitions of this kind, and talking about raising the price of corn, if he did not assist in lowering and abolish= ing useless establishments, in order to effect that which he ac• knowledged to be the only rem:dy ? The only way to relieve the country was to reduce the price of production, and to ex. , port the surplus corn to other countries. To the year 1760 and 1770 this ,V an exporting country. He hoped the lion. Mem= ber, by his future conduct, would make up for his past onus sions.—The Pet►tion was read and laid on the table. LEATHER TAX. Mr. LOCXHART presented a Petition from the Tanners of the County of Oxford, praying for a remission of the Leather Tax, in consequence of the increased Talue of ruoney.—Laid on the table. .... ..... ______ Sir R. WILLIA3IS presented a Petition from the Tanners of Carnarvon, praying for a repeal of the Leather Tax.—Laid on the table. SCOTCH WHISKEY. An Hon. Member, whose name could not be learnt, pre sented a Petition from certaifrgrowers of grain in the Counties of Stirling and Perth, whop had suffered by agricultural dis tress, praying that the restrictions on the exportation of Scotch Whiskey might be removed. The Hon. Member stated (that neither in policy nor justice were these restrictions warranted. Mr. S. WORTLEY thought this was a subject well worthy the consideration of his Majesty's Mintste:s. Sir T. LETHBRIDGE had long considered the subject, and certainly thought that the restrictions on Scotch Spirits ought to be taken off.—The Petition was ordered to be 'orbited. Mr. BUCHANAN presented a similar Petition from the County of Dumbarton.—Laid ori the table. Similar Petitions were presented from the Counties of Aber deen and Banff.---Laid on the table. WOOL TRADE. Mr. S. WORTLEY presented Petitions from several Wool staplers of the West Riding of the County of York, and from Halifax, against a Bill pending in the House for the admission of Foreign Wool, duty free.—Laid on the table. The Hon. MEMBER presented a similar Petition from cer tain Ship Owners in the ports of the West Riding of Yorkshire. The Hon. MEMBER also presented Petitions from Hudders field and the West Riding of Yorkshire, in favour of the York shire Poll I3lll.—Laid on the table. On the motion of the Hon. Gentleman, the second reading of the said Bill was then postponed to Friday next. Lord NORMANDY presented a Petition from Whitby, York shire against the Yorkshire Poll Bill- Mil. G. W. BEAUMONT seconded the prayer of the Peti tion.--Laid on the table. AMERICAN TRADE BILL, &c. Mr. CHETWYND presented a Petition from the Mer chants of London interested in the trade with the British North American Colonies, praying that the Bill pending In Parlia ment for the regulation of that trade might not pass into a law, and that they might be heard against it by Counsel.—Laid on the table. 31i. 'l'. WILSON presented a Petition from the Merchants and Woollen Drapers of the City of London against the Ame rican and West India Trade on the table. Sir W. CURTIS presented a Petition from the Ship Owners of the Port of London, and others, against the American and West India Bill.—Laid on the table. LONDON BRIDGE. Sir 'W. CURTIS presented a Petition from certain Coal Merchants of the City of praying .that the Muse would not sanction any Bill for imposing a toll on all barges SUN. made, on such an occasion,. in a free country like this. He did not believe that the Noble Lord near him, nor his col leagues, nor the House; knew how intense was theerisery under which the agricultural labourer groaned where the distress was most severely felt ; but he should not do that Noble Lord jus tice if he were not to add that he did not believe any man— not even his Honourable Colleague, felt more anxious to afford relief to the sufferers, if he could see his way to do this without injury to the general interests of the country. The Hon. Mem ber for Aberdeen was accustomed to taunt those who sat on that side of the House with their inconsistent conduct, as he describA it to be. He (11r. Wodehouse) had been taunted with his having voted last year, first against reducing the army by 10,000 men, and then against taking 5,000 from its numbers: He looked back on the votes which he had given on those oc casions with much satisfaction, and regretted the reduction which had taken place. If the effect of this. redUction were properly explained to the public—if it were seen. dial, men who had been twenty years in the service of their ccnintry,were sent out again to rot in places were they ought not to have been. - called upon to . serve any more, he thought the Public would be inclined to say a fig for suclfwistionrand constitu tional retrenchment. When Gentlemen were so fond of taisrit2 - ing others with inconsistencies, he must remind them of theirs. After calling fbr the reduction of the Army; when the first question of the present Session was brought forward, that re lating to Ireland, the first words uttered were, " Why not proclaim martial law?"—(hear, hear !)—To him it appeared that there was no small inconsistency in declaring against a standing army, and then, on the first appearance of disturb ances, to call,for martial law. Mr. HENISON approved of all that had fallen froth, his lion. Friend (the Meniber for Norfolk), and considered that the reduction of taxes could alone afford relief. With respect to what had been said by his Noble Friend ( Lord .King) to which allusion had been made; he could state, that he had pronounced no unqualified panegyric. on Mr. Cobbett. As nearly as he could recollect, his Lordship had said that he had in his eye a writer, to whom, whatever people might say of his sentiments, the public was under great obligations for the clearness with which he had expressed his opinions, which were very often right. Whatever he (Mr. Denison) might think of that writer generally, he agreed with him that it was impossible for the country to bear the taxes under which it now labouxed, and pay them in the present currentY, Mr. RENNET concurred with the last. Speaker in what he had said as to the words used by Lord King. But if that Noble Lord had pronounced an unqualified panegyric on Mr. Cobbett, wily should he not do so if he thought proper ? lie had as good a light to give his opinion as the Hon. Gentleman opposite had to give his. He thought his opinion was quite as good, and he regarded it as worth more than that of the Hon. Gentleman. The acuteness of his Lordship ( who was the li neal descendant of Mr. Locke), and the attention he had paid to public affaira,. gave his ideas. a degree of weight and im portance of which he might justly be proud. Had.• Lord, King been in the House of Conunons, he would not have presented them with such a strain of curious contradictions, both in prin ciple and in practice, as they were favonied with daily and hourly by the Hon. Gentleman. The /10n. Gentleniao on this Occasion had picked up Some newspaper statement, and oh this , had come down to, attack the character of Lord King, while he justified the Magistrates who had refused to sanction the Meeting at which this Petition was voted. The Hon. Gentle man had given them to understand that in one instance he meant to change his course, and when the question on the Salt Tax was next brought forward he expected to see him opposed to Ministers. Ile hoped he would change his course in another instance, and not again come to that House on a mere statement from a newspaper, to vilify the character of a Nobleman in a manner which nobody could listen to but with equal disgust and surprise. 11r. WODtHOUSE said Lord litng had described Mr. Cobbett to be the most able writer which the present or any other times had produced. That person had been staying in Norfolk some time. The SPEAKER reminded the Hon. Gentleman that he' must confine himself to explanation. Mr. WODEHOUSE sat down, but again rose on the ques tion that the Petition should be received Mi. Cobtrett, he said, had been staying in Norfolk a considerable time, repre senting himself to be the farmer's friend. Last year the same person passed himself oft' for the labourer's friend, and descrihk ed the farmers to be the greatest brutes. breathing, who cared not about starving their labourers, so, that their awn profits re mained untouched. If such a man were to be held up to. ad-. miration by a Peer of the realm, Who could' contemplate it without trembling for the consequences ? He meant not to vilify Lord King, but he was not dispoded to qualify any of the words that he had used.-.' Mr. NIA BERLY said it would be well if the lion. Gentle man stood as well with his constituents as Lord King did with those who had formed the meeting which be had addressed, for what he had said called forth shouts of applause from ail pre-. sent. He contended, the lion. Gentlnman had acted incon , sistently in voting for the supplies which had been called fur by the Government, anti then refusing them the ways and means necessary to meet them.—The Petition was then read, and ordered to be printed. Mr. COKE presented a Petition on the same subject from the Hundreds of North Ervingharn.—Ordered to be printed. PETITION ROM YORKSHIRE. Mr. SYKES presented a Petition from certain Agricultur ists in the Hundreds of Holderness, East Riding of Yorkshire, complaining of distress, praying for the imposition of a large permanent duty on the importation of foreign grain, and call ing for a redtteiion of the public burdens. The Hon. Member said, he differed from the Petitioners as to the propriety of lm posing a large permanent duty on importing grain, but agreed with the other parts of the Petition.—. The Petition was ordered to lie on the Table. SUSSE PETITIONS. Lord G. CAVENDISh preSented two Petitions from the owners and occupiers of land in the county of tiussex, signed by persons of respectability. Ile expressed a hope that the Noble Lord would take a more enlarged view of this subject than had been taken of it by Ministers in the early part of the Session. lie hoped the measures to be proposed would not be founded on that flimsy report which had been produced from the Agricultural Committee, but trusted that something more adequate was about to be brought forward. lie was of bpi_ nion, that unless a previous reduction of the public burdens took place, no other remedy could be produced that would prove sutlicient.—The Petition was ordered to be printed. • PETITION FROM NORTIIU3INERLAND. Mr. BEAUMONT presented a Petition from certain occu piers and owners of land in the district of North Durham, in the county of Northumberland, on the subject of agricultural distress.—Ordered to be printed. . . .. LEATHER TAX. Mr. GRIFFITHS presented a Petition from the Boroughs of Ruthyn and Denbigh, praying for the repeal of the Leather Tax—Ordered to life on the table. 31r. MAXWELL presented a Petition from certain Farmers and others in'the county of Renfrew, on the subject of agricul, tural distress.—Ordeked to be printed. WifieN4FigPECTING CATHOLIC PEERS. Si; J. N.I:WPORT had understood that the Right Hon., Gentleman, the Member for' Liverpool, was indisposed, and therefore supposed, it might be intended to postpone the motion of which he had giVen notice for to-morrow, respecting the ad mission of Catholic Peers into Parliament. He wished to know of a Right lion. Gentleman opposite, if he could inform him whether his Right lion. Friend (\ir. Canning) had come to such a determination ? Mr. HUSKISSON said it was true that his Right Hon. Friend had been indisposed, hut he could assure the Right lion. Baronet that:it was his firmest intention to bring forward the motion, of which he had given notice, to morrow. STATE. OF IRELAND. _ _ Sir E. O'BRIEN wished to take this opportunity, the Se cretary of State being present, of calling the attention of the /louse to the State. of Ireland, and to the situation of thf; county in which he resided. The SPEAKER remarked, the Hon. Baronet could not, consistently with the usage of that House, found a speech like that which he proposed to make on a question pat by one lion. Member to another. Mr. PEEL could not pass over the reference which heel been made to him, and begged to state that the attention of Govern ment had already been called to the subject on which the Hon. Baronet had proposed to speak. After a few words from Mr. H UT CHI wsox, Sir E.O'BALEY 'again rose to speak. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY suggested that the Hon. Baronet had better give notice of a motion on which he could found the statement which he wished to offer. A short conversation followed, in which the CHANCELLOR. Of the ExcnEttunt and Mr. WILBERFORCE took part; and the Marquis of LONDONDERRY having presented a Pe-. PRICE S EVEN PENCE. tition—(where it came from could nut be heard in the gallepy.) Sir E. O'BRIEN again rose, and stated the subject on which he desired to address the loule to be so important ; that he could not lose one moment in bringing it forward. The evil to which he alluded pryssed severely on the county with which he was connected ; and in his judgment it extended to several other counties. Ile was proceeding to open his state ment, when_ _ _ , Mr. BANES submitted to the House, that it was out or order to offer the statement about to be made on a question with Which it had no connection.—(Grits of " Go on"— •" iTcp; go.") Sir E. O'BRIEN again ("tiered himself to.address the Ch a i r . The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said the statement would be better deferred till his Right lion. Friend, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, should be to his s place. ; He expected he would be in the House in the course of the evening. The petition was then read and ord'e - Eed - to lie on the table. Vie Marquis of LONDONDERRY said he was about to move that the Speaker should leave the Chair,H as he thought. the discussion on the Agricultural Report could be more con-• veniehtly taken in a Committee. tie moved that,th, e ordcr of theday for raking into further c o nsideration the Report of the Agricultural Committee should be read. Sir E. O'BRIEN then rose, and expressed a wish to be lowed to enter on his statement then. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY thought it would be better it should be postponed till the Chief Secretary for fre.; land was in his place. Mr. BROUGHAM was of opinion that whatever course would be most for the convenience of the House ought to be 'taken.ne would submit that bringing the state of Ireland forward in the middle of a debate on another subject would be more inconvenient than entering upon it now, though the absence of the Chief Secretary was no doubt an inconvenience of some importante. Ha wished it to be considered whether it would not mote Mar the dipected debate and the matter itself, supposing it ttTie urgent and important, if it were introduced by way of interruption, and would cause more inconvenience than could result from its being offered now. The Secretary of State was present ; he must necessarily be in a great measure acquainted with the subject, and the absence of tue Chief Se cretary was therefore of no importance. Mr. Secretary PEL had no wish but that the subje c t s h ou ld : be brought forward when the fullest explanation could be of forded. The Learned Gentleman had conceived that in his - (Mr. Peel's) department, much on this subject must be known;- but he must be aware that the details came more under the ob-. servation of his Right Hon. Friend the Chief Secretary diary under his. He knew that he had had sonic communication en the subject that very day, and therefore again submitted that the better euuise would be to wait till the Chief Secretary was present. Sir E. O'BIZIE.N gra; the case Was urgent —ln his county many thousands of persons were at present unable to obtain more than one meal a day ; and was not this; he would ask, a. sufficient ground. for contending that the subject was One of the first iinportance ? Many of the inhabitants of county, were obliged to subsist on a small quantity of oatmeal and Water creases throughout the day. Nothing could poksibly have induced him to come forward on the pre. sent occasion, had not the subject been of so crying anature that it could not be delayed. In the month of August last in the western part of Ireland, an immense quantity of rain fell. The wet weather continued for twenty days, and when the in, habitants came to look for that food which should have fur-. nished them with their ordinary nourishment throughout the coming year, they found that their whole crop had failed, and was rotten in the ground. Considerable distress had prevailed, —but it w,al only very lately that the melancholy situation of a , considerable portion of the population of Ireland had been ascertained. From what had recently transpired, he had not' the smallest doubt that the wants of the people went so far beyond their ordinary resources, and beyond all cakulatiun, that nothing but Parliamentary aid could afford them relief. The counties of Kerry, Mayo, Roscommon, and others, -in short nearly the whole of the counties in the provinces of Mun ster anti Connaught, suffered under this terrkde calamity. He called on the House to consider what would be the effect or such distress in Warwickshire or Lancashire, or other populous counties in England. He put it to them what must be the re sult of such distress pressing upon a million or a million and a half ofsutfaers-4iist resa which greatly- surpasses that experienced in 1801, or at any other period within his recollection. He knew it was a very general feeling that there was plenty of corn ; but what was plenty of corn where people had no money to purchase it ? He knew that great exertions had been made and would be made by the resident Gentry to soften thecalamity.. But what could the Gentry of a county do for 150,000 people All the rents, all that could be raised in the county; must prove insufficient to remove the evil. Whatever measure might be adopted, he feared that thousands must perish from famine, or front the diseases attendant upon a state of famine, before re lief could be atibrded. The sufferers did not conic before the. Parliament as mendicants, but they called for employment - Iry which they might be enabled to subsist themselves, Le r their rates be mortgaged for two or three years--let addi tional numbers be employed on the roads or on the public worksi; but he prayed them not to let thousands ,of men die from want without one effort to save them. lie trusted it would not be said that - it was out of their power to mitigate the evil. The Honourable Gentleman proceeded in the most earnest manner to impress upon the House and the Govern ment the necessity of looking into the subject without, delay. He felt that if the Country Gentlemen of England com plained of being overstocked with grain, if relief were afforded to Ireland, a market would soon be opened for their super abundant produce. He went on to draw a most melancholy picture of the state of Ireland, which since lie came away had become such that not a night passed without sonic outrage being committed, tier the poverty was such that the sutilters were core paled to seek by robbery for the means of existence. farmers were running away, anti the niost fearful desolation - was witnessed. He hoped the case of the sufferers would niece with immediate attention, and that those who bad bravtly fought the battles of England in the hoes of danger would not be kft to perish from famine. Mr. W. W. BECHER seconded the recommendation of the Honourable Baronet, but in a tone so low as to be scarcely audible in the gallery. The Honourable Gentleman was under stood to say, that Unless prompt and effective means of relief were afforded, the Irish peasant auflabourer must remain to tally deprived of food. . • . Mr.GOULBURN said, that he had not expected the present discussion, or that the Government of Ireland should be. now called upon to explain the measures which it intended to adopt for the relief of the population of the distressed districts of that country, The Hon. Baronet knew, that if he had not chosen - the course of coming to Parliament for a grant for that purpose . it was not for want of disposition to sympathise with, and to relive the unfortunate sufferers, but because he was unviirring to bring the subject more forward, and to increase its publicity. The Government were first bound to examine what extent of relief was required before they adopted any definite mode cf, applying it; and according to the lion. Baronet's own calcu- Litton, the sum of 400,0001. would be necessary for the, county of Clare alone. Ile would therefore ask the House, if it t]iti ro.it behove the Government to be cautious how they exposed them_ . selves to similar demands from other districts by any preci pitate manner which they might adopt. I❑ the South of Ireland, there was undoubtedly a great defie:e:icy ir. one of the crops which formed the principal food of the pour, namely, that of potatoes. But he had "every reason to believe, that in many districts the potacoe crops had not failed, and that in many more the corn crops had been nbiin dant. At this very moment, when the price of potatoes was so extravagant, that of oatmeal was lower, even in the County of Clare, than it had been for a very considerable period past. The lion. Baronet had said why not appoint a Commis: inn to inquire into the state of things; he ought to have atlded that Mr. Warburton, the Gentleman who waited onthe Lord Litu tenant to apply for relief for these districts, was desired to re turn by that Noble personage, in order to ascertain more ex actly the extent of distress, and the means of the resident gentry to afford relief, in order that the assistance given by the Government should be proportionate to their subscription's, —(Hear, hear !)—He had heard to-day that the Oeutleman i4A whom he had alluded had returned to the Lord'Lieutetrant with the required information, so tha. - . Government would now know how to proceed. He was not aware that the House could.- reasonably expect any further information from him as to the' intentions of the Irish Government. It was most lamentable, that at the present moment the people of Ireland should 'be afßicted with these visitations, because nothing would operkte So much to effect the continuance and spread of disturbarces.— . Would to GOD that all the evils of the country could be remov ed ; and he trusted the House would do the Irish Gevernmeritt r :it '4 ft