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BAKERS_ REGULATION BILL

The Earl of LAUDERDALE said, that there was a
standing order of their Lordship. that every Petition which
related to trade should be referred to ■ Select Committee
before it was read a first lime, be would therefore move
that the Bakves' Rerolatio•11411 ab•ald be referred to •
Select Committee of their Leetiships.—Ordered.

FREE TRADE (EAST IN DIES).
The Marquis of LANSDO*N s'id be had two Petitions
to present which required ccupsiderstion, from Our im-
portance of the sobjects and the respectability of the peti-
tioners. He therefore thought he would not be doing bit
duty to their Lordships if ho did ant explain them ; they
were from the Merchauta aud .Ship.ossisers of Liverpool. The
first prayed for the removal of the restrictioe on the free
trade to the East Indies, which pretested goods from being
earned there In vessels under 550 tons. The second Petition
prayed that their Lordships might take into their considera-
tion the situation of the East bodies, and throw open the trade
in sugars of that country. He wished to be under 'food as nut
urging any thing detrimental to the West ledia Islands, but if
England was to look to auy country for the consumption of
her manufactures, she mast look to the East Indies, which bad
a population of 100 millions of their fellow-subjects who would
consumer great quaotity of their nutanfacturcs. Their Lord-
ships ought to lake tato their consideratius that they owgbt
to have the article «f sugar hunt the country where the
growth of it was the least expessive, and which would opts
a market fur their snanufactores—tbey ought therefore to allow
sugar to be imported front the East Indies. Of late years
that article had been liable to an increasing duty, which
amounted to almost a psobibition. He coosidered they were
Woad to take the produce of all counties that took our
manufactures. A monopoly granted to one part of his
Majesty's subjects was wrong, but a distinction being made
belong two bets of subjrets, was much more so. The peti-
'losers asserted that the West India Colosies were not able
t i supply sufficient eosin. foe the home consumption—with
that.inertw
lienbletedvied to b duotac true,grethat
eThe pet Wooers also sorest-
which he the sugar-refiurra had
been obliged to reduce the somber of their pals one-third.
To obviate this falling or its the niption, he would
suggest that they should be allowed to reline sugar in
bond, which afterwards might be exported, which would
make this country the depot of all sugars. blaring nude

The Petitiooo were lies ordered to be prioted.
WEST INDIA TRADE BILL.
The Marquis of BUTE rose for the uorposeiof
proposing sn odditionel clause to this Bill, the ob-
ject of which was to deprive all West India Island.
of the advantages contained in the Bill, that did not
adopt the same regulations as Trinidad, with re-
spect to the registration of slaves.
Earl BATHURST said, he saw no reason whatever
why they should admit that clause, for it had no
conoexiou with the Bill. He was willing to admit
that the more efficient the iegistration of slaves
was, the better, hut he could not consent to the
introduction of the clause.
Lord HOLLAND said, he could assure his Noble
Friend that if he opposed the clause which he
wished to have added to the Bill, it was uut be-
cause he did out feel that the abolition of the slave
trade should be paramount to every consideration
of commercial advantage ; but it was his thorough
conviction that in many of these islands that ob-
ject had not been sacrificed, and in one very con-
siderable island, he meant Jamaica, lie could speak
from positive information, that no invasion of the
principle had taken place. He could not there-
fore consent to a clause which would hold
menace over these islands. He had no wish upon
that occasion to revive old animosities, hut he could
not help reminding the House, that an endeavour
to prevent an intercourse between the Untied States
of America and these islands, had caused the death
of 15,000 negroes. When the planters were placed
in the condition in which the inhabitants of every
well regulated country should be, then would be
the time to devise effectual means to promote the
prosperity of the country at large ; but to en-
deavour at this distance to legislate fur them exclu-
sively, must, in his judgment, have a most dan-
gerous tendency. Ile lamented exceedingly when
this country had the opportunity to enforce the
abolition of that most disgraceful and iniquitous
traffic, that she did not avail herself of it—that
opportunity she had at the time of the peace, but
it was neglected. He hoped, however, the huma-
nity of those who had it in their power, and whose
exertions he could not sufficiently applaud, would
ultimately accomplish that most desirable object.
Ths Marquis of LANSDOWN said, that these
islands evinced any thing rather than a disposition
to assimilate their registration to that of Trinidad.
The Bill before them had his most unqualified ap-
probation. But although lie was friendly to the
principle of the clause of his Noble Friend, lie
could not consent that it should be annexed to the
Bill.

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The Marquis of Burg then withdrew his clause.
Earl BATHURST piopo•ed • clause relative to fa.
reign shipping, which wits agreed to.
The Bill wits then read a third time, and a met.
sage was sent to the Commons requesting their
acquiescence to the amendments which had been
added.