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footing than any compaa, upon that of mutual good
Offices, mutual interests, and mutual harmony.
Relative, Sir, to the proposition for giving Ireland an
export of woolen goods, I think all the natural rights
of a people call for it, and I think farther, that it may
be given them without the fmallell danger of any loss to
us accruing from it. Commercial persons agree that
the home confumpfion is very difficult to fupply< if
there is not a foreignexport. Now, Sir, it is not to
be supposed that Ireland can rival us in those cloths
which we export toiler, because we can, and do under
sell the Irifhfabrics in their own markets, though ours
are loaded with the charge of dipping, freight, com
mission, and a duty upon landing in Ireland; how,
therefore, can it be portable to suppose, that in such
goods, when they meet at foreign markets upon equal
terms, that those of Ireland should rival ours? They
cannot do it at home upon unequal terms, certainly,
therefore, not abroad upon an equality. Besides, Sir,
there is the eflablifbed capitals, ikill, &C. of this coun
try, which they will be long, indeed; before they ex
ceed. In addition to this cireumfiance also, in is to be
recollected, that the price of wool in Ireland 1s usually
15s. 103. and 17s. a done; whereas in England, at the.
fame periods, it is 9s. or 10s. but at present, in teat
kingdom, it is so low as Ss^an-d ,s. -If Ireland gets a
woolen trade it mud be by 'rivalling France, which I
think likely enough, and file will then by enriching her
felf infallibly enrich us. Ourexports of all forts to her,
upon a medium of fx years, amount to two millions,
of which woolen goods make about 200,000 b At all e
vents the fa£t will be, that the fuperl iteration of Irish
wealth will center in England as the feat of empire;
this is not peculiar to the present case, it always was
and always will be the fa&.
Sir, relative to the next proportion concerning Glass
I ihall only observe, that I believe it will be of very
little service to Ireland, and of no harm at all to Eng
land. The Irish have two advantages; they have help
cheap, and, like all countries not much abounding in
wealth, labour also ; but then, Sir, firing is so scarce,
th it I believe it will more than balance those, and there
is great reason for the supposition.
Tae plantation article. Sir, is more complex. I shall
propofc the two preceeding to be in one bill ; but as
this article must be much more minutely attended to,
- and as it will demand, perhaps, some information from
Ireland; I ihall propose it to be in a feperate bill.
The two great articles of import, ia # which it will be
right to indulge the Irish, from their importance to
that people, are sugar and melaffes. Now, Sir, the
case of these, receding duties is, that mufeova
do sugar, upon being landed in England, pays a duty
es 7s. 6d. per cwt. so much of which is drawn back on
re exportation to Ireland, That the duty there is on
ly 2od. and with melaffes in England 2I 13s. lod. per
ton, but toTreland, drawn back all to 19s. 3d.---Hence,
therefore, if duties are laid in Ireland answerable to
those which subsist in England, they will have those
commodities dearer than at present. But, Sir, it is
absolutely necessary, both in reason and policy, that
those duties fhoulJ belaid, for the interests of this coun
try would not fuffic ently be attended to, if Ireland was
put upon a better footing in her American trade, than
herfelf. It is to be confi :erd, th t her fituadoh in the
Atlantic is an objed mucn superior to that of England
in point of freight, time opportunity and fafety in war ;
to add to all that, more advantages than we have our
selves cannot be thought of. Toe cidadyautage of the.
duties will be made up in some refped by the free ex
port to the colonies. She was retrained in last feffiohs,
in hopes, coals, hats, gunpowder, and some other ar
ticles; it will certainly be thought right to repeal those
reftrj&ons.
But, Sir, great as all these advantages are, I will be
free to declare that I do not think they would fatisfy
Ireland, if (he was not to receive them with a good
mind, and in that old and wonted good humour, which
has formed, and I hope will form, the belt bind of
will not, I can only fay, that it would have very per
nicious effeHs on this country; but I am clear it would
be the absolute ruin of that. I have taken every meads
to be informed, and, I think, have good information ;
and from, it, I am persuaded that the Irish will be fa
tisfied with these terms; I cannot absolutely answer it,
but I have every reason to believe it.
I have only at present to repeat once mo. e, that these
several propositions are brought forward under the
idea, that what we give to Ireland,will by no means be
taken from ourselves, as there is every reason to think
that both inlands may increase in prosperity without at
all injuring the other.
After a short iouverfation, the whole passed with
great unanimity, and no thought of a division.
Angers, Dec. 17. Yeflerday a terrible fire happen
ed here at tneCiftle, woere 800 English prisoners were
confined, and by whom, it is said, the place, was set on
fire, in hopes of procuring their liberty, as they en
deavoured to prey.nt all fuccours being given. Some
of the ringleaders have been ctofely confined, and
will be Severely punished. The whole Cattle, a large
magazine of hay and flraw, were consumed, and the
damage is reckoned very considerable.
Toe Count Duchaffault has been sent for to Court,
to concert with Ministry the plan of operations for
the ensuing campaign.
The Count d'Efiaing being under a necessity to
drink the waters, on account of his wounds, it is
thought he will hot be employed this year.
Hague, Jan. 11. The States General published an
Ordinance the gift of last month, by which their High
Mightineffes' forbid and prohibit all the fubjefts and
and inhabitants of this Republic from failing towards
Gibraltar, or to carry, or cause to be carryed, any
ammunition or provisions into that fortrefs, on any
pretence whatever, during the siege of that place, or
to keep up any correspondence with the besieged, on
pain of incurring the displeasure of their High Migh
t'ineffes, and a forfeiture of 10,00) florins, to be p id
by the Captain of any vessel, who, after having know
ledge of this Ordnance, shall be known to have enter
ed the port of Gibraltar during the siege, o't by his
own consent to permit his vessel to be ta^h by any
men of war, or privateers, with an intention by that
• 1°
connection ,with this country- if a contrary spirit
should arise in that country, which I hope and trust
means, under pretence of being taken, to carry his
cargo into that place, and the vessels who may be in
this predicament are to be answerable for the payment
of the above forfeiture, and as such are liable to be
fold for that purpose.
L OND O N,
Jan. 18. A report was yeflerday propagated, that
their High Mightinesses h*d caused it to be fignified
to Sir Joseph Yorke, his Britannic Majesty's Ambas
sador, thet his absence could very well be difpenced
with, and that he has actually fet-off from the Hague
on his return to England.
Friday night some dispatches wsre brought from
Newfoundland, which were immediately sent up to
Lord George Germain's office, by which we learn that
the American privateers have made much more ha
vock amongst the (hipping in that trade, than they
have any year before Tince the war began.
A letter from Paris, fays, " Orders have been sent
to Toulon to flop the departure of a squadron at that
Fort, and now ready and under failing coders, till the
return of a chourier frem the Court of Madrid, who is
gone thither with some very singular and interrefting—
difpatches." ...
The Marquis of Carmarthen has written a letter to
William Chaloner, Esq, chairman of the Yorkshire
meeting, full of the ftrhngerf approbation of the late
proceedings and measures of that great and refpeftable
county.
Jan. 19. The present American war has cost the fol
lowing sums above the peace aflablifhment.
1775 £.1,782,000
1776 6,103,000
1777 6,614,000
1778 10,172,000
177.9 14,000,000
38,671,000
Outstanding debt; 24,925,000
Total, £.63,596,000
which is the sum we must fit down under the burthen
of, if peace is concluded this year.
It is confidently reported that Patil Jones is cruizing
with his squadron about the Land's End.
Yeflerday orders were sent from the admiralty to Ply
mouth for federal ' frigates to put to sea immediately.
It is said they are going in quest of the above adventu
rer.
It is said that 3000 troops are ordered to ba embark
ed early in the month of March next for Quebec, at
the particular request of General Haldimand, he hav
ing received certain advice that the Congress are media
ting an attack on that place with 10,000 men, under the
command,of general Gates.'
A letter rom Arnfterd^m f?y% that the Dutch had
laid an embargo on their own trade, until a squadron
now fitting out was manned.
At a meeing of the Gentlemen, Clergy and Free
holders of the county palatine of Chester, held at Nor
wich in the said county, on the 13th day of Jannary,
1780.,
Resolved, That it is the opinion of a majority of this
meeting, that it is expedient a petition be presented to
Parliament.
A petition being proposed by Philip Egerton, Esq:
was, with some alterations, agreed to.
To the Hon. the Commons of Great Britain in Parlia
ment affimbled.
The Petition of the Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freehold
er^ of the County Palatine of Chefter-\
Sheweth,
“ THAT your petitioners, having taken into con
fideratjoil the distressed frate of this once flourishing em
pire, humbly beg leave to repfefent to Parliament,
that under the mmy and heivy burdens with which
your petitioners have been loaded, they cannot but ob
serve with concern that no attempt has yet been made
to reduce unnecessary expences ; either by the aboliti
on of sinecure offices and unremitted pensions, or by
any other means whatever ; so that while the landhold
er, merchant, and every other description of indepen
dent men in this country, are every day feeling the dis
tresses of this unfortunate war, the placeman and pen
fionerare the only perlons exempted from the general
calamity.
“ Resolved, That the thanks ofthis meeting be giv
en to Sir Henry Manwaring, Bart. Chairman.
" Resolved, That a committee of twelve gentlemen
be appointed to carry on the correspondence for ef
fectually promoting the object of the petition, and the
following gentlemen compose the committee :
And your petitioners shall ever pray, &c.”
" Resolved, That the thanks of this meeting be given
to John Bower Jodrell, Esq: High Sheriff, for his rea
diness in calling the meeting of the county.
" Resolved, That the thanks of the meeting be given
to the Noblemen and Members of the House of Com
mons, who have honoured this meeting with their pre
sence or fapport, and that a copy of this Resolution be
inferred in the papers with the names of the Noblemen
and Members of the House of Commons annexed, viz.
" The Eari of Derby, the Earl of Stamford, Earl
Cholmondeley, VifcountfKilmerrey, Honourable Booth
Grey, Honourable Willbraham Tollemache, Sir George
Warren, K. B. John Crewe, and Richard Pennant,
Esq.
" Your petitioners therefore implore Parliament,
that they will not grant any farther taxes, before a
ftrift attention to oeconemy, and a plan for the reduc
tion all pl i®es of exorbitant emolument, and the abo
lition of sinecure offices and unrasritted pensions be a
dopt^d, and that the savings arising therefrom be ap
plied to the expences of carrying on the war against the
House of Bourbon, and other exigences of the state.
" Your petitioners also confider it impofTible for our
happy constitution to exist, unless Parliament be inde
pendent; and we cannot but feel the utmost uneasiness
at those symptoms that have appeared to the contrary,
and which prove the necessity of excluding certain de
scriptions if placemen, pensioners, and contractors.
We also hope Parliament will take some measures to
check the interference of Ministers in the election of
Members to serve in Parliament.
The Honourable WILLBRAHAM TOLLEMACHE
in the chair.
The Hon. Richard Barry:
The Hon. John Smith Barry.
Sir Robert Salif. Cotfon, Bart
Philip Egerton, Esq:
John Crewe, of Bolfworth, Esq;
John Bower Jodrell, Esq ;
James Tomkinfon, jun. Esq;
The Rev. Offley Crewe, Clerk-
John Lawto, Esq ;
John Glegg the younger, Esq;
Edward Moulfon, Esq.
" Resolved, That this meeting do adjourn to Thurs
day, the 20th of April next, at the Shire Hall, in the
Castle of Chester."
Jan. 19. So entirely have French intrigues got posses.
fion of the Court of Peterfburgh, that we cannot now pro
cure the very fame assistance tue Ruffian Mioiftry offered
us some years ago though we now offer much higher terms
than they were willing to take them.
Certain advice is received, that the Dutch have, fat
some time past, been engiged in a certain eptirprize on
the coast of Africa, where several veffe,s from Europe,
supposed on a trading system, have lately arrived under
convoy of an armed force , from which it was apprehend
ed some fettlemient on the main Continent, South of the
, line, was in agitation.
The following Refolutibhs and Petition were taker
from the London Evening Port.
LEWES, January 20, 1780.
At a very numerous and refpeHable meeting of the
nobility, gentry, clergy, freeholders, and other
inhabitants of the county of Sussex, held at the Town
Hall, in Lewes, this diy, pursuant to .notice given by
the Lord Lieutenant, in the Lewes Journal, and other
public papers for that purpose,
The letter to the High Sheriff to call a meeting, and
also the High Sheriff's answer thereto, were read.
Resolved unanimously, that William Frankland,
Esq; be requested to take the chair, and tie took the
chair accordingly.
Resolved, That in the present situation of public af
fairs, it is expedient that this county should petition
the House of Commons for redress of grievances.
Resolved, That a Committee toe appointed to pre
pare a petition to Parliament, consisting of fifteen
gentlemen.
The Committee then withdrew, and being returned,
produced the following petition, viz.
To the Hon. the Commons of Grest Britain in Par
liament assembled.
The humble petition of the noblemen, gentlemen, cler
gy, freeholders, and other inhabitants of tlxe Coun
ty of Sussex,
Sheweth,
THAT your petitioners cannot view the rapid de
cline of the Britilh empire, without calling upon this
honourable House, by every tie of honour, imereft,
and religion, to avert the ruin that menaces this lately
prosperous and happy nation, by & timely exertion of
those powers with which, by the constitution, this
.honourable House is inverted.
That among the many causes which have contribut
ed to produce our present calamitous situation (-11 of
which, we trust, this honourable House will fpeedrty
investigate and redress) your petitioners beg Ie ve to
point out the neglect of public oeconomy as a grievance
which is capable of receiving, and Hands in need of,
immediate remedy.
That your petitioners conceive the system of finance,
as at present established, to be of most ruinous tenden
cy, the national debt being thereby so greatly aug
mented during war, and so little reduced during peace,
that it increases without end, and cannot therefore be
supported by any finate, much less by diminished re
sources.
That your petitioners are alarmed by the pra&fce
of government in laying falfe efiimates before Parlia
ment, by those estimates being constantly exceeded,
and the parting of the public accounts inconceivably
delayed for many years, by the extravagant waft of
the public money, the evidence of pensions unmerited
by public service, and the continuance of sinecure plates
and exorbitant emoluments of office, to an immense
and still increasing amount.
Your petitioners therefore lament, the disuse of the
ancient practice of appointing Commissioners of ac
counts from time to time, for the examination of the
public expenditure, which might have prevented the
growth of those evils.
That your petitioners believe, that the undue in
finance of the Crown, deriving its, greatest support
from the uncontrouled poffeflion of trie public purse,
is a principal cause of our present calamities and is
highly dangerous to liberty.
That your petitioners think it their duty, to ac
quaint this honourable House, with the distresses which
your petitioners feel from the losses in trade, the decay
of manufactures, the dim.inifh.ed value of lands, the
high price of money, and the increase of taxes; they
are so universal and so heavy, that unless the utmost
frugality be exerted to keep our burthens within the
firict limits of necessity, it will be impossible for the
people to fupport' those extraordinary exertions, which
a vigorous prosecution of the war against France and
Spain may require.
Vour petitioners therefore humbly pray and firmly
expert that this honourable House in discharge of the
high trust reposed in them, will take effectual mea
sures that money supplied with so much difficulty from
the private fortune or industry of the fubjed, may be
faithfully and frugally applied to the purposes for
which it is granted, that such regulations may be estab
lished as shall bring the public expenditure to speedy
and flriCt account, and that some plan for the reduction
of all exorbitant emoluments of office, and the aboli
tion of all sinecure places, and unmerited pensions be
adopted.
That by these means the dangerous and unconsti
tutional influance of the Crown may be deminifhed,
and the burthens of the people alleviated.
And your petitionars further pray, that no frefh
supplies may be granted, or nev y taxes laid on the fup
j,ft, until these their just grievances are redressed, ie,