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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOITSF, OF LORDS, FRIDAY, JULY 1. The Royal Assent was given by commission to tie Monet• Bills, and several private ones. Com missioners, the Lotd Chancellor, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Lord Bathurst. Counsel was called in on the Hclstone EleCtion Case, and shortly heard. Lord Bottuvonont brought np several. Petitions against the Slave Trade from Footscray, and other towns in Kent and Sussex. Lord HOLLAND presented Petitions on the same subject frthn St. Maiy's Whitechapel, and some towns in Yorkshire. Lord STAN HOPE moved the discharge of the Or dvr for the second reading of the Highway Bill, ftoM some clerical informality in the body of the instrument.—Adjourned: HOUSE OF COMMONS. Soon after three o'clock (the Speaker having talen.the Cliaii) Lord George Beresford appear ed at the Bar, and informed the - House that the Committee appointed by the House had waited nu his Royal Highness (he Prince - Regent, to know Al hen his Royal Highness would he pleased to receive the Address, when his Roya l Highness had been graciously pleased to fix hal f-past three o'clock that day. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, as the time that 1h:•d been fixed by his Koval Highness was approaching, moved that the House should adjourn until half-past four o'clock, to which hour the House adjourned accordingly. A little before five o'clock the Speaker resum ed the Chair, and informed the House that the House had waited on Hs Royal Hiahness with the Address, to which his Royal Highness had been pleased to return the following most gracious Answer : " Gentlemen, I thank von for this dutiful and loyal Ad dress, and for your congratulatinns on the conclusion of peace. My satisfaction on this happy occasion is greatly augmented by the lihowledge that those glorious events, which have thus terminated in the blessing of peace, are mainly attributable, under Providence, to the valour of my troops, and the firm ness with which Parliament has seconded their efforts. You may rely on my utmost exertions to promote your wishes with respect to the Abolition of the Slave Trade." ENGLIAII CATHOLICS. Mr. ELLIOT presented a Petition from the Ro man Catholics of Great Britain, praying to be so far relieved from their disabilities Its to be put upon the same footing as those of Ireland. The Gentlehlan said, it was well known to the house that there wet c many privileges - which the Irish Catholics enjoyed, from which the English Catholics were.excluded ; and he had no occasion to add, that there were many persons of this re ligion in England, who besides_ being of undis puted loyalty, were also. the hereditary possessors of Consideraille landed property, and who bad a right to complain of the grievance which excluded then. from entering into the service of their coun try. The Petition was received, read, and order ed to lie on the table. Sir J. HIPPESUY presented a Petition—of what nature could not be beard. ROYAL ASSENT. Tire Usher of the Black Rod having summoned the Hose to the-House of Peers, on his return, the Speaker informed the House, that the Royal Assent had been given by Conimssion to a number of public and private Bills ; for which, see our Report of the Proceedings in the House of Lords. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. At about a quarter before five o'clock, the Speaker being dressed in his official robes, and the House being crowded with Members, some of them in naval apd military uniforms, and a great number in the Court dresses in which they had attended the Speaker to Carlton-house. Lord CASTLEREAGH rose to state, that in con consequence of the intimation of the House 2 his Grace the Duke of 'Wellington was in attend ance.—(Hear, bear, hear !)- The SPEAREIt—" Is-it the pleasure of the House that his Grace be-called in i"—A loud and uni versal " Aye !" The huzzas in the lobby announced his Grace's approach. On his entrance, dressed..in his Field- Marshal's uniform, profusely decorated with litary Orders, and bowing repeatedly and respgct fully to the House, all the Members, uncovered, rose, and enthusiastically cheered him. The SPEAKER —" My Lord, the House has or dered a chair to be placed for you to repose on." The Duke seated himself in the chair, which was placed a few feet within the Bar, and put his hat on. The Members of the House then seat ing themselves, his Grace instantly rose, took off his hat, and addressed the Speaker to the follow ing effect : " sra,—l was anxious to be permitted to attend this Ho nourable House, in order to return thanks in person for the honour it has conferred upon me, in deputing a Committee to congratulate me on my return to -my native country ; (Bear, hear.9—and that; after the House had, amidst my exertions, animated mei)) , their applause on every occasion, which .appeared to deserve their approLation, the House, at the recommendation of his Royal Highness the Prince Re gent, has filled up the measure of its kindness, by bestowing on me the noblest gift that any subject can receive.(Re iterated am happy to take this opportunity of ex pressing my admiration of the great efforts made- by this House apd by the Country, at a•mcment of unexampled dif ficulty, in order to support the extensive scale of, opera tions by which the late arduous contest was brought to so fortunate a terminatien.—(Loaci Cries -of Hear, hear 1- 7 The wise policy of Parliamlnt, the unbending firmness of the people, and the determined spirit of the Government, gave vigour and effect to the flier ations„which were necessary to be adopted and, encouraged by the confidence reposed in toe, by this Ilouse, by the special favour of the Prince Re gent, an d by the zeal, ability, and perseverance of my gallant frien:ls i the General Officers of the Army, as well as by the bravery of the subordinate Officers, and the discipline and intrepidity of the Troops, I have been enabled to carry on the i operations of a protracted warfare, in such a inainaar as to receive tho3ot tuzlrks of approbation from the House, for which j now have to thank inn.--(Loud a.pplau • is, how- ever, impossible for me to express my thanks is language at all adequate to sny feelings; I can, therefore, only nsBare the Nome, that I shall always be ttady to serve Lis ilNeAy, And support the interests of the Country in any way in which wy abilities may be deemed useful ; and that; in whatever sitie,- tion I may be' placed, I shall ever feel must anxious to merit and to receive the approbation of this Dignified Assembly." Loud and long continued cheers followed this Speech, at the conclusion of which the SPEAKER rose, took off his hat, and addressed the Duke of WELLINGTON aS folloWS " 111 v Loan,—Since last I had the honour of addressing you from this place, a series of eventful :venrs have elaped; but none without some mark and note of your rising glory. "Tile military triumphs whieh your valour has nehiesed upon the llanlis of the Douro, and the Tagus, of the Ebro, and the Garonne; have called for the spontaneous shouts of admiring Nati;;Ws. Those triumphs it is needless an this day to recount. Their names hare been written by your con quering sword in the annali of Europe, and we shall'hand them down with exultation to our children's childre-a: " It is not, h:twever, the grandeur of military success which has alone fixed our admiration, or commanded our ap- plauses; it has been that generous and lofty spirit which in spired your troops with unbounded -confidence, and taught them to know that the day of battle was always a day of vic tory; that moral courage and enduring fortitude, which in . perilous times when gloom an,d doubt had beset ordinary minds, stood neveitheless unshaken ; and that ascendency of character, which uniting the energies of jealous and rival na tions, enabled you to wield at will the fate and fortunes of mighty Empires. " For the repeated thanks and grants bestowed upon yon by this House, in gratitude for your many and eminent ser vices, you have thought fit this day to offer us your acknow ledgments; but this nation well knows 'that it is still largely your debtor. It owes to yon the proud satisfaction, that amidst the constellation of Illustrious Warric , rs who have re cently visited our count' y, we could Present to them a leader of our own, to Whom all, by common accimnation, conceded the pre•eminente ; and when the will of Heaven, and the common destinies of our nature shall have swept away the present generation, ymsu• will have left your great name an iinperishable monument,. exciting others to like deeds of glory, and serving at once to adorn, defend, and perpetuate the existence of this country amongst the ruling nations of the earth. • " It now remains only that we congratulate your Grace upon the high and important mission on which you are about . to proceed, and we doubt not, that the same splendid talents, so conspicuous in war, will maintain with equal authority; firmness, and temper, our national honour and interests in peace." During the Speaker's Address, the cheers were load and frequent ; and at the close of it there was a general and long-continued cry of Bear, hear, hear The Duke of Wellington then took his leave, bowing repeatedly as be retired, and all the Mem bers, as at his entrance, uncovered, rose, and warmly cheered hint. Lord CAsTL , TEAGII.—" Sir, in commemoration of so proud and so grateful a day—a day on which we have had the hap piness to witness within these walls the presence of a Hero, never excelled at any period of the world, in the service of this or of any other country—in commemoration of the elo quent manner in whiCh that Hen) was addressed from the Chair, on an occasion which must ever be dear to English men, and which will ever shed lustre on the annals of this House, I move, Sir, That your Address to Field Marshal lais Grace the Duke of iVellington, be printed.—{Hear, hear, hear .9 The SPEAKER put the question, that the Ad ? . dress of the Duke of Wellington, and his own Answer thereto, be entered on the Journals, which was unanimously agreed to. Thus ended the most dignified, and. at the same time the most affecting-prOceeding that we ever witnessed in Parliament. c AP.RE. Mr. BE NET, tniverting to the Petition which he had yesterday presented from ,111 - is. M. A. Clarke, stated, that since she had preferred that Petition she had been removed into one of the State apartments ; reserving so himself, there fore, the right of taking nit the subject at a fu ture period, if he should think proper, and more particularly that part of it which related to the unjust and highly criminal practice of taking mo ney for allowing a prisoner to reside out of the prison, within the rules, he should decline pro ceeding any further in the business at the present moment. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, he was--sure it would he highly gratifying to the House to know, that some time ago the Vetitioner having stated her complaint to the Noble Lord who presided over that Court, in the prison of which she was confined, that Noble Lord had deputed a most hOnourable person, Mr. Law, to inquire into the truth of her allegations. The Lady had fancied (it seemed) that as a matter of right she was en titled to what were called the State apartments:, She was, however, convinced of her error, and told that the moment the best apartments fell, she should have her choice of them ; but that the Marshal of the prison had not the power t o dis possess any body for h er accomrsodation. Mr. W. FITZiiEttALD moved the second readint of the Irish Peace Bill. Sir F. FLOOD complained of the unfairness of represent ing Ireland as being, in general, in an unsettled state, when, in fact, many parts of it were as tranquil as Eo g l an d......Th e Bill Was read a second time and ordered to he committed on Monday next.. Mr. W. WYNNE moved far an Account of the Expence in cured in Improving his Majesty's Woods aud s Forests up to the sth December, 1814. The Irish Glass Bill was read a third time and passed. The Irish Drawback Bill Went through a Connnifee. —Report ordered to be received on Tuesday next. The Scotch Linen Lill scent through a Committee.—Report ordered to be received on Monday next. IRISH BUDGET. The House having resolved itself into a Com mittee of Ways and Means, Mr. V. FITZGERALD said, he- rose pursuant to the notice which he bad given, to call the atten tion of the Committee to the consideration of the state of the Finances of Ireland. On the only pre ceding occargion when he had the honour of bring ing this subject forward, he had felt strongly the embarrassments and difficulties which attended the task he had to perform. These difficulties and embarrassments were now so far from being diminished, that they were rather aggravated, by the amount of the burthens which it was now his duty to propose. It was painful to him to be un der the necessity in the present year, -the coin niencing year of peace, to be compelled , to ha pose fresh takes Upon the ptoilie of irelaml, at time.when ParLainent had been enabled to re lieve • Great Bsitain from similar burtheiss. 11 the difficulty which he had to encounter was, fit one point of view, increased by the nature of the systein which had been adopted with regard to the Finances of Ireland, and by her not being called upon to hear various taxes which were im posed upon Great Britain, on the other band,. a certain degree of benefit was derived from that remission of burtnens which she would otherwise have been called upon to bear, because she was by that exemption enabled to support those midi titmal burthens which iCnow became necessary to impose. Having made those preliminary observa tions, he should now proceed to state to the Committee the amount of the Supply, and of the Ways and Means by which he meant to meet it. The first article was the deficiency of contribution of 181:3, amounting to 4,466,4711. The next was the estimated quota of Ireland for this year, amounting to 8,782,689/. The interest of the pre- Sent debt, with the Sinking Fund, was 5,546,2991. making altogether a total of 18,795,4551. He would next submit to the Committee the state of the 'Consolidated Fund. The ballance in the 'Treasury on the' sth January, 1814; was 1,383,7581. and there was remaining a ballance of the Loan of last year, made- in this Country, 2,953,1471. making together 4,336,9051. from, which, deducting the arrears of the principal of outstanding Treasury .tßills and Lottery Prizes, 28,4801. and of Inland Navigation 69,5961. mak ing together 98,0761., there would remain, as the surplus of the Consolidated Fuird, 4,238,8291. — The total of the Supply the Committee would re collect he hail stated was 18,79 . 5,455 i. Irish cur rency, and he ,s..ould now state the Ways and Means by'whiCh he proposed to cover this Supply. The surplus of the Consolidated Fund he had stat ed as amounting to 4,238,8291. The Revenue he estimated 5,350,0001, The Profit on Lotteries he took at 120,000/. The balance due for Sea men's Wages adyauced 71,000/. The portion be lunging to Ireland upon the sale of Naval Stoics being 2-17ths of 576,351/. was 73,4561. The Loan made in 'lreland was for three millions, and that made in England 51 millions or, in Irish 'cur rency, 5,958,3331. making the total of the Ways and Means, to cover tiff e Supply 18,811,618/. Time charge upon the Loan made in -Ireland, and he was happy to say that there never was a Loan made, under any circumst a nces, u p on ", terms 'more fa vourable to the Country, was 5/. Isls, 9d. per cent. amounting to 167,6251. and the charge upon the Loan contracted in England, which was at time rate of St. 18s. 91d. pei cent. was 353,900!. mak ing together 521,525/. which was to be provided for. Before he proceeded to enumerate the Du ties and Taxes- which he meant to submit to the Committee, to cover that sum, 'he felt himself authorized to state the view under which he should propose his Resolutions to the House.— The Committee were aware, that by the Act of 'Union, a power was given to the United Podia meat to review the provisions cf that. Act, as far as they related to the state of die Finances of the two countries, and to .make such arrangements re specting the debt of - both, as might, under all the circumstances, be deemed. advisable. Without going into all that extent of observation, which the consideration of that subject would necessarily lead him, he might be permitted to state, that it was one of the tu-mosi importance, and to .repeat what lie had said upon a former occasion, that it was one which could not be effected till Parlia ment could be enabled to take a general and coin prehensive, view of the Finances- of both Comm- tries. He had expressed his hopes, on a former occasion, that the next time he opened to the House the state' of die Finances of Ireland, he should have to call the attention of Parliament to this most important subject, and he bad the satis faction of knowing, that what he bad then said had met with the approbation of those public men who bad turned their attention to this sub ject ; but the Committee must be aware, that this was a subject of so much importance, and cm-' bracing so many considerations;. that it could not be taken up with too much delibera tion: Whatever' anxiety he might have felt to bring this subject forward, yet he.was pre vented by one cause, which weighed Much with his mind, and which he had no doubt would have great weight with the House. He did not think it would have been right to have called the' at. tention of Parliament to this subject during the absence of his Noble Friend, (Lord-Castlereagh) who was employed upon a greakpublic Service, and which he had executed in ti manner so ho nourable to himself and so glorious for time Coun try. He did not, he said, think it right to take up so important a measure in time absence of his Noble Friend, who was the Minister for Ireland at the time the great measure of the Union was brought forward and completed ; and he was happy to say, that no great inconvenience would result from the delay. With this view of the subject, be had felt it to be his duty to take care that the Reso lutions which he had now to propose, should he of a nature to lead to, and prepare the way for future consolidation of the Finances of the two Coun tries. It would be necessary, before such an ar rangement of the Finances of the twotouotries as 'that which he had alluded to could 'be proposed and effected, that Ireland should have made all tK, exertions in the way of Finance that was in , her power, a nd th a t site 1 e should have b e en br oug ht into a state of taxation upon those articles which might be deemed luxuries, corresponding, as near as the situation of the two Countries would ad mit, with' that of Great Britain. Therefore, though some objections might be made to the de tail of the Resolutions which lie should have the honour of bring forward, yet lie felt satisfied that, upon consideration, the principle upon which those Resolutions were founded would counterbalance any objection that might be urged against them ; time first reduction he should have to propose would be for au equalization of the, Custom Duties of Ireland .to those of England. The supply of last year had, to a certain extent, been provided for by an increase of the Duties of Customs, for he had felt it to be his duty, when his Right,Hon. Friend pro posed to augment the Custom Duties in England, to make a similar proposition with regard to Ire land ; and accordingly the Dnties had been hs creasedrin some instances, 25 per cent. Although , aid lie had licit bad the s hoat fortnni in aa '1"-05 Lions which he had brought forward last yeat - ie meet with the :concurrence of some of the Ciono anen on the other side of the HOase, yet he % i sure that that they % . viluld he glad to learn that duties predictims respecting the produce 'of these (I° o , o had not been accomplished: Ile was 'i.tre tha.ool, would be more pleased to km - ) that be' s ll be right iii his Estimates rather than thAt t t lien should. There was not one of the D u t jes d es ; proposed which -bad not answered he and pectation. Ile thou g ht, th ere f o re, that the ‘vhichbe had stated would dispose the Coal" 1 ) ; to concur in the Resolutions he should u"'_ i v ter poe; for, though he . was quite convinceut ou pl there were strong reasons why irefaud be exempted from sonic sources of to which : Great Britain was liable ; Y et jar' respect to the duti e s of Cu s to m s, he saw " 4 . ' 0 1 son why any difference sho u ld su bsist, er c " 1 1 arrangement was ultimately to take idtiee•oti would be, he felt, hut candid in him t () 1 ,0 that he meant now to bri ng tinder ,the yu c ltt‘i Daties many articles which wer e Clot 5111 1 1e io lcl them before, and articles, too, wkich were ac' in the Manufactures of Ireland ; but he silt't'h M i c h company his proposition with regulatbla s ; he trusted would remove the tears .Of at yvtio were the .most anxious about the s t ' r i c ieg those Manufactures: - There were sev eral now exempted from duties, such as ashes' dye-stuffs, &c.; now every Gentleman a dl , l : '. o l e r ' e with Ireland, knew that great qu an tities c i e O r ; articles were imported, not for the use o' l 1 ,00' 6 nufactures, and consequently th e Revetta' s : a e c i, in proportion. He sh o uld, th ere f o re, 1 3- o% o ' that the ditties should he the same as " I ` 9 Britain, but with a full dr aw b ac k uport s-I t , i rel should be employed in , the li ne n mandf"ctioel and he shouted - be happy to receive . any sagg i that would enable him to m a k e the dravi''' the manufactureg as complete as pos 0) 1. 4' 0 '00 .1 1 ' estimated the increase of Customs at 2— a i torl The next head of provision to which be 1 0 ; call the attention of the Committee, wa 3 the Distilleries. After the long a nd alaius ' t" a je discussions which had taken place on the 51 :0 9 of Irish Spirits in the. last and precedidg li t ` 4 0 6 perhaps the Hon. Chairman. would recode si ft mention of this article. But he looked W i t ', t tg principal source of Supply, and he fait t '' l 3 ,tli e could do so, not only without trenching , oP Q interests of the Irish Mannfacturers, l ' e a o happy to say, that he proposed the increas e _ ',or he was about to offer, with their entire ° l , l O O rence. It was satisfactory to feel that, effectual or not for that object, they, in ei'", kl ci ! la ' co lt in it, and' he , in recommending it to l'ar b i were mutually facilitating that intercnrse ' Spirit Trade which, up o n ev e r y grou nd of ir S o llec i policy, upo n ever y argument o f imperial. aa d i c al iO r dye interest, on esa;ay principle of pledge d ,,: r ; W I ; andptiblic faith could not he p e r manen tly of ed. it would he a strong recommendati °ll , b iti'' l measure, which had already been sanciiode" id o; Hofpse ; that,while contributing to o ur rev e ' co ol'.l would prevent, as he sanguinely hoped, it i , l o !; 111' 1 that system of smuggling which it had D I- ft.;‘ 4 ; had prevailed so universally, and which b e had prevailed, though not. to the dege ce ce 'i ll', / ,„ had been stated. The• Bill.-which had l''5";11 nt House of Commons bad ithposed stills in Ireland an increase of 25 per .cco t ;-:00 g';„ - present-charge,-making the charge in a " I v a nO t a; lon still atimmit to 90 doubling - s . within tl' e t in Instead of ..k.was right.to state, t i " 1 . 0 0' . ',',. 1 4 Bill, which had passed there was an otdisl reSpect• to one class of the suuialler StinSY.s Bare had proceeded on a wrong calculation; , 'Sse:,e ever, he should propose to rectify in t he c alr' i Regulation Act - now before the 1 1 °":0 11 ';; Right honourable Gentleman,. here 6 t 4 ` ,( a •asi. [ , O though under the name of Regulatio: t i fact, a new' duty. wts a duty `v'olat tradetaus well able to bear, and he di" , . a . j, I ,K tate to state that would b e pa „auco:f estimate made in the former amou at o f would yield, on this increase a' je es cit ,„,!• hundred and sixty-nine thousand sive of the increase on small Stills, 1 1; 0 0/.10 disposed to take it more safely at 3d 'tans gi.„‘hr annum, and that we can now impose . o t increase of duty, for such in fact it iy t , r est e ts : with the concurrence of those most ' ll a t ich but with the confession and' eviden ce e d t l ' e have before us 'produced •by that 0 0 ; i5 : sure to which so much allusion has ," e ' l ,e by whiCh only half duty was cbargc" , ht tiller for the.excess produced, and 11 ,„ a citY ac t had a direct interest t o d ec l a re his 0 c 6.'000/ . . he work. Be estimated the charge at 3 v . c 5 annain. Another head of provi.iein t ae , on certain new Stam a be p Duties. ,ct or , th e which he should . propose . with resrlr-don of Stamps were two-fold, namely, reg. l l l '" botP fl fe present duties and a new duty, source of aid to the finances , a 0,35,0.1, as well 115 I TO of good polic) . 7, he should ventare..r:cb:ahcli mend. - With respect to the first, a hail had the honour of introducing' tia ., 10 11 :;,0 had already received the sanction ° p c Coll ect : 3 ot waS intended to insure the be It i t was of the duty on leg ac ies ill lrelaucla. ten unknown to those who - had sat . , ~a n o n of ,7 4 Committees to xvhom the cousicl e ;_ it t he Irish Finances had been referred, Cato udlaea in this respect had been hitherto. c . : , (be det` i l ductive. would not impute th is ' that nano' `ape of. the former law alone, aithoila;. bot h. hY most imperfect ; but be hoped tlraioosa hats regulations of that Bill which the sott o j oie curved in, and by that departmenti .1 1 servio g l,li ce.rtainly, while he had-the 1 101101.1 „( I ,st Crown, he should deem it his (11 1 0' : Isi a aaa ble: ; `ie to enforce, there will be a v er y e° 13il o' mentation of the Stamp iteveo,":ol.oc httlelfri question bad been the c °l3 i,iel l riations„ Avhich the circumstances of of that. sv 1 ; on the slo uchtic! a l i ich, had made necessary, had been passed in Erighind ; a t i t o a carried iuto execution by that / laced , lut e ) I,li wa- gece' head of which Mr., Caw! - . 00 of a , been so e ff ective in the coilec t _ l a thos e at beyond even the calculation t o .:s .0,000 , 1 0,: yt prepared svitu of originated it ; he should take. indebted to. .i its saying that he had been g reat , l , Y a 'r(ect-i-'ll v ;i :0 01.1 Officer for-the assistance 6eil . t i c p c t 0 , 0 • • -, preparation., pn-eximilllittiol.l 1,1(1 o f find, that not only the r ate