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IMPERIAL PARL LIAM" NT. HOUSE OF PEERS. 'TUESDAY, MARCH 13. THE Bills before the House were forwarded in their respedive stages, and some routine bosiness was disposed of. Sir J. W. ANDERSON, attended by several Mem bers, brought up Boycleil's Pidure Lottery Bill from the Commons. The Irish Priests Orders' Bill was presented by Dr. Dt7IGENAN, and a few private Bills were brought up by Mr. BALDWIN and other Gentle men. On the questicn for the first reading of Boydell's • Picture Lottery Bill being put, The Earl of SUFFOLK rose, not to oppose the Biti, which he was rather friendly to, but to make a few observations upon a subject of some national importance, and which he conceived in some degree connected with the measure under consideration. .\Vhat he principally alluded to was the present state , of the Art of Engraving in this Couutry, which he conceived, either in consequence of the neglect of the Artists employed, or of having in general fatten into incompetent hands, to have considerably declined of lace. In former periods the superior execution of the English Artists in that line, not only enhanced the credit and the -reputation of the .Country in that resped, but produced effects of no small consideration with resneet to its commerce and revenue. The first English print which found its way to the Continent was, he. believed, that fine engraving from the pieture of the death of G ee neral Wolfe ; this was executed by that ingenious and admirable Engraver, Mr. Woollett, who had expended great pains and trouble, and employed an interval of three or four years in producing that exquisite specimen of the Art : these successful exertions deservedly gained in the event 6coo!. or aoool. There was also another engraving, a copy of which he had in his possession, namely, the Battle of La Hogue, which did the greatest honour to the Artist who engraved it, and by which, he believed, the sum of 4.0001. or soool. were de servedly gained. So by these two prints only a profit of about 12,0001. accrued to an Artist of this Country. He adverted to these facts chiefly to shew what English Artists were capable of performing, and who at one period were unrivalled by those of any other nation. This, he was sorry to have oc easier) to observe, was far from being the case at present, and to this cause was perhaps chiefly to be attributed the defalcation which of late years the Revenue exeerienced on that Lead, in consequence of the diminished exportation of the article alluded to ; and this amounted to a very considerable sum. He repeated, lie did not mean to oppose the Bill ; Tie had the *hest respea for the worthy Alderman in whose behalf is was brought forward, and whose 'spirit arid exertions in the line in question'deserved the highest encouragement and applause (Mr. Alde: - . loan Boydell Walrbelovv the Bar.) To him' no part 'of what lie had olOj'rved was applied; bat l;e . thought it incumbent.upon him us take the epportunity, to throw out what -very forcibly struck him, in the way :of suggestion, and in the lio . pc that what he said mi g ht be produalve, in some degree, of beneficial conse aesquaneel.- ..:- The -Bill was then ordered to be read a. first t:irne Accordingly the title and breviate of the Bill were read by LORD - CHANCELLOR, who - afterwards einitted the Woolsack; and observed, tier eon- Ctieretilti part of what had faihen frjoi toe Noble -Earl who had just spoken ; but first,_ with re •speCt• to the Bill itself, he observed he was not friendly to the general Principle of Bills - of? that de s.ctiption-; they should be, very cautiously adalit • tech--and aanCtioned by the Legislature only upon `vet) , particular and special oceasionsln the prtnent instance the, seipport which he gave the Bill j st read, proceeded from the very highs, sense he ervertained of the - merits of very respectable Magistrate who solicited the Measure, to whose great and spirited exertions in heinging the Sister. Arts which were the subject of the Bill, to the very high state of perfettion in which they then manifestly were, the Public and the Country owed much, and on, chat ground he agreed with the Noble Earl that great indulgence and en_ couragement were due. After some Cirther ohaer_ vatioos on this point, the Noble and Learned Lord preceeded to observe that be agreed with the Noble Earl that the Arts alluded to h a d o f late years con. idderahly dealined in this Country, and that 'its Comtheree, in those respede, was by no means in so flourishing 'a state as it had been ; hut he differed from his Lordship as to the causes of these effects ; they were by no means, he thought, owing to the decline of talent or perseverance in this Country, to r r he want of eminent Painters, or adequate En_ gravers, but the falling off was, in a great degree, sr be attributed to the unprecedented and uojustifia _.-spdpCt ot; a certain Nation on the Continent, w $ xertions were calcalated : to draw, as to a col:hewn cc within itself,. every thiog.that was rare or valuala!Lx•i - 4 the kind;- and which had hither -to been piffe4, l ,-ed . tp aeotain, ureenol . ,ested in other Countries ; at - lett] this they effeCted, not by t h e fair and ordinary ri-.,ode of purchasing such 'articles, but by the e uriexatri:pled praelice of forcibly taking them irons the resp' eciive Countries to which-they be longed. The other brought "up from the Commons, were then ,eeverally read a Lrst time ; efier. w hi c h the House. adjourned, till . .h.IALF PAST TWO 0"cloCk fei-morrow, when some Judicial Business etands:upon order.. , HOUSE OF COMMOIVq. TUESDAY, MARCH 13. Mr. CoARy moved a .new writ for the City of Dublin, in the room of jotiN CLAUDII.I3 Bzu.r.s -4oßp,. Esq. who has accepted the office of 's- Cheator of Ulster. An Account was presented from the Starpp Office of the arrears and Balancc3 from , the distri_ tutors of - Stamps.—Ordered to lie on the Table. D4r[V;o:rst - r - rART moved that a COMMittee be ;ppointed to prepare an account of the allowance 4 to Adjutants and Serjeant_Majors in the Militia.— Ot,!ert'd. 'Mr. VANS/TTART moved that a Committee be appointed to prepare an Estimate of the Pay and Coating of the Militia for Great Britain and Ireland. • The Neutral Ships Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed to_morrow.—The Irish Malt Bill went through a Committee, and the report was ordered to be received tomorrow. The CHANCELLUR of the EXCHEQUER rose, in pursuance of a notice he had given in the last Session, and renewed in the 'present, to move far a Committee to inquire into the difference.of duty that ought to prevail between Malt made from English, Barley, and Malt made from Scotch Barley and Big. By the Ad of Union, it was provided that Scdtland should only con►ribute one half of the Malt duties then subsisting. When the last duty was imposed, in consequence of a represen. tatiora from the Landed Interest in Scotland, Parlia _ merit was induced to lay a• smaller duty on Malt made from Scotch Barley, than upon that which was made train. English Barley. In making this Motion to inquire whether any difference should subsist, he did not mean to admit that there could he the slightest question upon the At of Union ; he only did it in c rlipliance with the wishes of the Landed Interest of Scotland. He was desirous not to give any opinion upon the question at present, or to prejudge it in any manner ; his objel was to have the subjeifi fully and fairly investigated.—He concluded with moving for the Committee. The Motion was agreed to, and the Committee named. Lord A. HAMILTON said, as this was a question that entirely related to Scotland, he hoped that all the Members for Scotland would be appointed on the Committee. The C 11.1111 CELLO R of the EXCHEQUE said, he should oppose any proposition of that kind, because it was a question that materially aOded the Landed Interest of England ; at the same time, he would not oppose the nomination of Any Gentleman whom the Noble Lord should -propose to be on the Committee, Alter - a few words from Mr. COKE, the Com mittee at first proposed was agreed to, with the ad. dition of Lord DOUGLAS. Mr. CURRY moved the Order of the Dty for going into a Committee on the Irish Duty 'Sir 301 IN IviWPQRT said, that after repeat. ing his thanks to the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. CURRY) for the candour and liberality he had shewn, and also expressing the thanks of his Constituents, he. rose to express his hopes that the Right Hon. Gentleman would (considering that the schedule might not have been examined in Ireland, in general, with that attention that it required) relin. quish his intention of proposing this as a permanent Bill at present, bur that he would now consent to vote the duties for one year. He was perfektly of opinion that great advantage would result to Ireland from voting these duties permanently, and .making the system to assimilate as nearly al possihle to Great Britain., and therefore he only wished the de lay of one . Session, in order to give the Mercantile People- of- Ireland full time to consider the suhjel. He hoped the Right Hon. Gentleman, with a con tinuance of that candid disposition he had manifest ed. would feel the necessity of complying with the wishes, - the feelings, and - perhaps the pt-judices of the people:of Ireland. . -lle.thought it right to 'add, _ . that it.appeped to; trim that uhcommon pains had bePrm used..in• preparing this schedule, both with respeel to accuracy, and to consult the intereit of - the Mercantile People - tif Ireland. He trusted, therefore., that. the Right Hon. Gentleman would consent to postpone making these duties permanent , till next Session. • , Mr. LORRY seid, that the measure then under the consideration-of-the House ; was one of which notice had been giveo,fer three Sessions. - - the _last- Session the Schedule was, afinally sprepared, without limitation. In *the present Session a Sche dule was prepared, departing in some particulars .front the Schedule of last Session, and it was circu lated with as much diligence as was in the power of the Government of Ireland ; and lte.ltad had isle sa. tisfattion, as he had before .srated, of receiving the approbation of a great part of the IVlerc:mtile est oClreland. He had received' the approbation of that Mercantile City, represented by the Hon. Ba ronet who had spoken so favourably of his exertions. In the city of Cork the greatest satisfaaton pre. vailed, not withstanding that upon some points their wishes hail not been complied with. With regard to 'the Merchants of Dublin, lie wished to say a fetal; words, because a Right Hon. Gentleman had said, that there .were thirty-eight articles with which they were dissatisfied. With regard to these thirty-eight articles, there were in faet but four in which their wishes were not complied with. The first of these four articles was foreign Herrings, the Export duty upon them was not taken Off; and this was done with a view to encourage the British and Irish Fisheries ; but even if - this duty were taken off, it could not .he. supposed r4at they were not to he sUbjea to the same burthens as - British and Irish Herrings, that is to say, the duty upon and .Staves, and those duties amounted to two-thirds of the duty upon foreign Herrings, "SO that the difference 'Was in fad ,very The second article was Foreign Oils. It was desired that the duty should be lowered ; this had been done, but not to the.extent proposed. It had 'peen lowered to. assiMilate..it with the duty in the British Schedule,' which' (lad been laid on with a view to encourage the British Fishety, and if it was placed in the same situation, he conceived that here was no ground for coriiplaint. The third ar ticle was Foreign Hops; had before' stated the grounds upon which their wishes in this article was resisted, vii, to encourage 'the growth of British .H9ps. The third article was a desire they express. cd that all duties should he taken off all Exports, This was a propr;iition which he really could' not have presumed to make to the House, H e wished to speak of the. Merchants of - Dublin, with the greatest resped ; they were men of the greatest re speetability, and is point of capital, compared wish the extent of their trade, were rm.: irferior to any set of*Mereliants in the world. With regard tq the remaining articles of the 38 which had'heen tioned, viz, Dregs, Dye Stuffs, Foreign Salt, Dietr. skins, Bear-skins, Cocoa Nuts, and a variety of other articles, which it was unnecessary to enu merate, their Wishes had- all been complied- with. He therefore would contend that these Schedules had all been made with the greatest care and minute. ness, and had met with the general approbation of the Merchants of Ireland. But as it had been re. presented to him by many Gentlemen of the greatest respeCtability, both in public and private, that full opportunity had not been given to the Mer chants of Ireland to consider this subjea, he was sure it never could be the wish of Ministers not to coincide with their wishes, if it could he done without injury to the Public Service. He was therefore disposed to comply with the wish expressed by the Hon. Baronet, and only to vote the duties at present for one year, in order to give the fullest opportunity of examining the subjeCl, and to give every possible proof of the wishes of Go.: vernment to comply with the desire of the Mer chants of Iceland. But at the same time that he maintained the propriety of the Schedules, he. was glad that this discussion had taken place, because it proved the general concurrence of opinion upon the. propriety of making these duties perpetual. In consenting to move these duties for, one year at present, he wished -not to be understood to pledge himself that the Schedule that would be presented next year would be the same as that presented this year ; he only pledged himself that it should be laid before the people of Ireland time enough to enable them to coniider the subje& maturely.—He hoped therefore that in conceding to the wishes-of many of the Mercantile People of Ireland; it would not he considered as any dereliction or abandonment of the principles he had advanced ; he should there fore in the Committee move a clause to limit the duration of the Bill for one year. There was how ever one point which he wished to Mention, which was, that the duties would expire on the zsth of March ISos, and as the Irish Members were prevent ed by their military duties early in the Session, con siderable inconvenience was felt from the duties ex piring so soon ; he therefore suggested the pro priety of taking them fur five quarters instead of four. Mr. FOSTER said, he thought it would be better not to limit the duration of the Bill, which con. tained many permanent regulations, but to vote the duties for one year as usual. _ _ Mr. COk WY said, he did not wish to vote them for five quarters il - there was any olijeetion to it, but he should consider this as sufficient notice, if in the early part of next Session he proposed to continue the duties for three-months longer, in order to give ample time to consider the subjed.. Mr. BOROUGHS concurred with those Gen-: deepen who had borne testimony to the candour and liberality of the Right Hon. Gentleman, and said, that he conceived that the notice given by the Right Honourable Gentleman- would .be suf. ficient to justify him in bringing forward this sub,. je e r} early next Session. Mr. CARR also expressed . Ms thanks to . the Right Honourable Gentlemiti for the liberality and candour he had manifested upon. this subjeEt. After a feW words from Mr,. Fox, and Mr.' HuTCHINsoN, the Motion for going into a Com. mittee was-agreed to, and the Boitse::cordingly resolved itself into a Committee. • Mr• CORTY prerotroa Clauvo to I mat 0)4 Juni. tionof the Bill to one year. ' • Mr. FOSTER said he Would not objea to this Motion, lot he thought it would v be better to ote the Duties for one year, and not : to limit the dura tion of the Bill, which contained a number of re. gulations, ,which it would not . lie wise to limit to One year. .1, Mr. ORMSRY said, that this. Bill contained Clause to enable the Officers "t 4 colle& all arrears of Doty, and he supposed. the Bill of next year would contain a 'imilarCliUse. _There was one circumstance which he wished 63 meniinn, which was, that in the former Bill• there'`l,vas a Clause to continue the regulations respefting"the American Treaty during the continuance of that Treaty; The Clause in the present Bill:continued theo regulations for one year,. provid&-i the Treaty should continue so long,. The Motion of Mr; C9Rlty- was agreed to, and the „Bill passed the Committee, and the Report was ordered to be received to-morrow. The Hoose having resolved itself into a.Commit tee of the whole. House upon the Irish : buttes Bill, went through it, and 't he House having resumed; the Report was ordered to be received to,porrow. CORN ..INg MALT. The CILINCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER took notice of a Petition which had been presented on the isth of Feb. last, on behalf of a great class of Persons who were growers of Barley and Malt sters, grounded on a complaint against the. existing Law, for imposing a Duty on Malt by the last At of. Parliament upon that subjed ; that the Corn Act also was extremely inadequate in its. provisions, par tial and oppressive in its operations, and highly inju. rious to Agriculture, and, praying that ,the -whole of slit bystem way be rcvibcd,tice. He - had reason fot believing that this subject would undergo a thorough investigation; in - the Most effectual manner by those who were the best qualified to form a corred opinion upon it ; for' • which - reason, in-order that the Public might have the full benefit of their labours, he in.: tended at an early day after - the approaching Easter Holidays, to SubMit the stibjed of thiiTetition to the consideration Of a Committee cf that House, so far as it related to Complaints against the Corn .. Ad of the jsth of. the King, and that,stich Com. mittee should consider the matter thereof, 'and de vise such alterations as may be necessary according to existing circumstances. Mr. POST . EP wished the Right. Hon. Gentle. Man to extend his views further, and to takein the whole syitem of the Corn Laws as they now stood, both wish regard to England and Ireland, and put the whole Law into one regUlar and solid system, for that the last general A& which applied to that subjea had produced some injurious Ofetts upon Agriculture, whiCh had been impeded in its progress in a manner which had not ben felt before the passing of that Law. We thought it -his duty to throW this out as a matter for the serious consi deration of that House, and of the Right Hon. Gentlemen. ApDINGTON said, that this was a sUbje4 which was under the particular attention of a Right Hon. Friend, of his in that House, and whic h ,. would bring forward for the attention of Pc ir ' d la c ; 'tient; and the House would then have to coos' he whether they would go into a Committee upon .t u n broad principle which the Right Hon• had stated, or give instruetions to a Committee how they were to take the subjeet into consideration. a Mr. CORRY said, it was in his contemplation to hire brought the subjed under the considela" lion or Parliament on the renewal of the Pct, &C : c Mr. ALEXANDER brought up the Report of to Committee of Ways and Means. Gentlema n The Resolution which was for raising VI Millions by way of Loan on Exchequer Bills, be read, agreed to, and a Bill was ordered to brought in pursuant to it. Mr. CORRY moved the Order of the Day on the Irish Countervailing Duty Bill. The Bill passed through a Committee o f Ll ': whole House, and the Report was ordered to b received to-morrow.—Adjourned. MAILS. DU*. AZO V". Hainburgh 0 Lisbon PRICE OF STOCKS, TYII3 DAY AT TWZILVIL O'CLOCK. Consols - - THE S U N. SOLFM QUIS DICERS FALSVM AUDEAT LONDON, MARCH r 4, 1804' . " Queen's liouse, March i 4, Igc4' 14 Hz MAJESTY recovers daily. • . (Signed) "L. PEPYS. "F. m1040'4.0 " H. R. REYNOLDS. " W. HEDEg °. I,O Yesterday morning His M AJESTY wa lked t ut Queen's Garden,. for a considerable time. - / ).bo twelve o'clock the LORD C HANCELLO R bad an ati, dience of His MAJESTY. ; n The Aggressor was the Gun-brig towing t he French Gun-boat and two Schuyts mentioned in Paper of yesterday. That Vessel and the /Wi ll ' Sloop fell in with these, a n d a t hird Schuyt they drove on shore. They were running 31°4 shore to Boulogne, and are laden with stores al b geneva. They are gone into Ramsgate Harbour. No account of any further Captures has yet be e/1 received. . . WE this-day received a regular set of Mori/trio to the 7th instant. = The Paper of the 2 9111 containthe Arrest of General PICHEGRU, in the same tetry as stated in our Paper.of yesterday ; so that 4fi longer can any doubt be entertained with resr; s , the late of this unfortunate Officer. The te o 4o l the Body have passed a' La*, -making it c' S i g, crime to conceal ,. or to.b.e,accessaik in CooC ° 1 35 / g(-IRees, or any of the sixty Brigands assert ed / . 1 ; the. French Government to be in Paiis, in t ut pay of England ; and this Law was passed . wittW i l e me discussion. and adopted in the su mann er b 1 t Tribunate. Ths'Orators of Government fade few observitions tipOn the alleged ConiOraci, whit were echoed by the President. No.'mention wha4ver is made in these Paper s GetneralwillM :om it E e A o u n i i ' l7 PC( l )b s a a b n l y y i a d ll a ti g ie proofs ilien‘vlic:ll e :14119 it.may_be thought necessary tq bring forwar d ar , not yet. prepared.. Meanwhile .no. aft i s left tried t o persuade the People of France, and rope, if it w ere possible to i m p ose so U P % common sense, that the English Governmeo is-at the bottom of this Conspiracy. For this I' pose;, several articles appear in the Monitearn t he bricated no doubt by order of fioNArial - g ' nd objet .of which i s t o i m pr ess t h e b e li e f that Wi 11, has numerous Agents at work in ev t ry q natte r ' • c ° . bowing to effect the assassination of the Chic' - A a sul; and the overthrow of the Government, specimen of these articles is the following : They write from liamburgh, that the English hay p . ploycd 60 millions in intrigues in France. Dit A K Bich, Sm tt at Stutgard, their, Agents at 0' 1 '; burgh, Frankfort, and in all places, have considerable 01 at.their.di§posal. ; 0 ' General PAty tilt, specially charged w 'icit thc spedion of .the Coast of the Department °- Pridee l .states l clo-that in the night o f the z 6th ° ' February, a Pinnace having a dozen Br' 0;, 3 : 6 tin board, stood alon4 the Coast for more g to three leagues, and tried three different times land, making several signals; but having Per cel 0 0 the mounted Chasseurs following them, th e Y St- out to sea. • at , The Mon;tezfr of the 6th says, that a ir") Letter.ftorn London, of the z;th February, writ, an, by a . persqn attached to the Royal Fami l y' th nounces that the King was so ill, that dear, ‘4 , tuld certainly be the first news they would hea be Happily the news which they will he w ilt a( a very different nature. filled : with The Maniteurs of each day are chiefly t he Addresses' to the First Consul on his escape fr °Pl c ? n l piracy, in _which the Most fulsome ra riegf t he is-heaped upon. hitn, mixed with expressions ttiost inveterate hatred against this CountrY• On the sth the French Funds were