The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-02-21 00:00:00

SILK TRADE.

Lord A LTHORP praianted a petition from the Silk Throws-
ten of Burton-upnn-Trent against the impartation of foreign silks.
A similar petition was pretknteil by Captain Percy from George
Urge, silk throwster.
FOUR AND HALF PER CENT. DUTrES. _

Mr. NOM E moved (We a retu ir; or ti; e TiMrta;t 07;ha 4 • far
Cent. Duties, with the amount of pensimis and charges paid thereon.
—Ordered. Also for the amount of seizures of slants made in the
district of Dublin for one year, with the amount of lion imposed,
and whether those flacs were levied or remitted.
AVEST INDIA. COMMISSION.

Lord NUGENT wished to know. a l.at was the intention of Go-
vernment relative to Mn. Wallace's report. lie could not collect
whether it was thcit de!ennination to bring in a bill founded on
tl..t report. Ile was also anxious to know if they purposed tt
bring forward any measure relative to the Courts of Justice in the
West India Islands.
Mr. %V IL3IOT HORTON (as we tinderstood) said that there
was hut one Commissioner no* surviving ; that they would in the
course of the month have an opportunity of obtaining information
(tom him, and that would be the time for Government to come to a
decision as to the course they should pursue.
lard NUGENT said that after the explanation given by the
Honourable Member, he would be contented to give a conditional
notice that he would (if the subject was not previously brought for-
ward) bring in a bill relative to the Administration I,IJ sauce in the
West India Islands the first open day after Easter.
Mr. %VII ITMORE moved for au account of the quantity of
foreign rapeseed imported into Great Britain for the last three
years.—Onleted.
Lord FOLKSTONE said that he held a petition in his hard.
not, indeed, numerously signed, but by a single individual. ye
' whose talents he had the highest opinion—he meant Mr. %Vinton%
Cobbett. That petition related the currency. Mr. Cobbett'is
predictions as to the result of former measures connected with that
subject turned out to be true; and he, Mr. Cobbett, was of opmisms
that the measures now before the House would be productive of the
same injurious effects. lie coincided with these views, and had
the greatest confidence in the reasonings of the petitioner on that
subject. lie, in that petition, waned the House rot to pass the
bill now agitated without accompanying it by some protecting mea-
sures, which he conceived to be the reduction of the taxes to the
state they were in before the circulation of paper superseded the
metalli: circulation of the country.
Colonel JOHNSON thought that Government had relinquished
the measure, and would never again revert to their original opi-
nions. Ile hoped the views of the petitioner would have th, weight
they certainly were entitled to. rite following petition was theft
read.
" To the Honourable the Corantors of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled,

" The Petition of William Cnbbett, of
.Kennington, in the County
of Middlesex,
" Most humbly shows,
" I. That your petitioner, perceiving that there is a Bill berms
your Honourable House, to limit, and, after 3 'certain period, to
prohibit, the circulation of ' Promissory No,es, under a
meted sum in England,' most respectfully begs leave to pray you
Ilonourable Ilouse to reflect on the evils that may proceed from
such Hill, if unaccompanied by other measures; which other mea—
sures do not-appear to be in the contempiation of your Honourable
House.
*" 2. That the last sixteen years have witnessed four sudden
changes in the value df money; that every change has been attended
with great masses of ruin; that at every change the working
chases have been sunk deeper and deeper in poverty and in want.
till at last they present a spectacle of human wretchedness and de..
gradation, such as the world never before beheld ; that all this ruin
and misery have been moiled by Acts passed by your Honourable
House ; and that previous to the passing qt every one of these Acts.
your humble petitioner has distinctly and publicly pvedieted the
fatal consequebees of the sold Acts restlectively, each sod every of
which has fulfilled his predictions to the very leuer.
" 3. That in the ebovesenen I nel hill, now before your florontro
able House, your humble petitioner sees a design to cause gold and
silver to be the circulating money of England that he knOnlisie
well as be hums that the burns, that if gold an'tl silver be thireiren.
liming money of England, more than half the Pmeit Dowtfaal
amount of the taxes cannot be levied, without producing ruin
wretchedness absolutely insupportable; and thit, Magma, w
he expertise' his profound gratitude to your Honourable House,t
your laudable design to restore to the people the security styes by
his Majesty's coin, he trinsfluirobly but most earnestly
Honourable House to ranee the ilia to an amount not
tbst Witch *as tbeiraulouat before the small paper rneleg an
the coin of his Majesty.—Aud your Petitioner will ever mese huts.
blw pray. WILLIAM. CODISETT.
•• nth February, UM"