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AMERICA.
Lord SHEFFIELD, pursuant to the intimation
he had given on a former evening, called the atten-
tion of their Lordships to this ‘ithirft, respeetng
which a Bill was then before their Lordships, and
stood upon order for a second reading that evening.
He addressed the House at some length upon the
occasion, and recapitulated most of the arguments
he had formerly advanced against the measure al-
luded tn. His principal object, in the ',yearn' in-
stance, he said, was, to induce the I louse to post-
pone the farther progress of the Bill for some time,
in order to afford an opportunity for the numerous
descriptions of individuals deeply interessed in the
measure, to come forward in their behalf, with ap-
plica!ions to the Legislature. The Noble Lord par-
Veularly adverted to the interests of the ship-owner s
of the port of London ; and observed, that not
only with !espied to those, but vas ions others of the
petitoiners, he could pledge himself to prove the
truth of their impartaoa allikations, at the Bar of
the House. His Lordship delniered himself in a
low tone of voice, and read the greater part of tns
speech two] papers which he held in his hand. He
contended tor the paramount importance of the Na-
vigation Laws. as the principal sourer of the wealth.
the power, the commercial prosperity, bus. above
all, Ole naval superiority of the country. His a:-
jell sins not now to discuss the principle of the
pending measure, hut to induce the postponement
of it ahogether, fora short interval, for the reasons
he her stared. The Noble Land again recurred to
this epoiat ;inportaintst M the general subjea, of
which the Bill in question made a part, as aifeding
the commerce and mantifidtin:s of tr.e United
Kingdom. He adverted to the statement of
Noble Lord, who decidedly supported the ,measute„
on a former night, to the cleft, that in consequenc.:
of a due commercial intercourse not being oilliored
between the British West India !stands. and the
United States, and which induced a partial famine,
not less than 15,000 Slaves had perished in one
year ; this statement, in point of at, he could,
from good authority, contradid, as, at the period
alluded to, scarcely more than a with part of the
number mentioned, or 1,500, had perished, and
that owing to causes of a very cliff rent nature tnan
rornmelcial ,nuncourse, and principalty from the ef-
fect of hurricanes. The system of suspension, it
rootinued lunch longer, would operate most inju-
riously on the commerce of Great Britain, and espe-
cially her carrying trade in that quarter, which al-
ready was rapidly declining. Alluding to the all
itself, he argued, that the charge of responsibility,
which it meditated, from the West India Govern-
ors, to the Administration at home, should be
rrong objeßion to it, did ne other exist; and, to-
wards the conclusion of his arguments, his Lord-
ship noticed the injurious Midis which the measure
must produce on the Irish Provision Trade. What
it was his intention to propose now was, that the
present discussion should be postponed till Friday,
16th instant. Previous to which, the order for the
second reading of the Bill in question was, by desire
of his Lordship, read, who immediately moved—
" That the said order be discharged."
The qiieston was then regularly put ; when, after
a short pause,
The LORD CHANCELLOR expressed his
opinion that the Contents had ; upon which,
Lord GRENVILLE said, " The Non-contents
have it."
Their Lordships, however, did not divide ; and
Lord Shetheld's motiog, as above, WAS negatived.--
'1 he question then became, that this BsL be new
read a second time,

The Duke cf MONTROSE expressed his sur-
prise that no Noble Lord had thought proper to
state to the House the grounds upon which the
measure proceeded, or the necessity that existed for
its adoption, especially when the great importance
of the suhjed was considered. Tho measure
went vitally to affect a trade wbich employed
more than one hundred thousand ts.ns cf ship-
ping, and between six and seven thousand seamen.
He contended, that no necessity existed for the mea-
sure, particularly at a moment when a closer and
snore a7M-able connedion with America was about
to be finsped. I 4 Grace supported, with much
force, a great deal of the argument advanced by the
Noble Lurd who opened the discussion. If the Bill
should unfortunately pass, he took it for greeted,
that contrads would be entered into for the supply
of the islands from America, and particularly in
•what respelled the fishery, which had hetetolore
been effected, almost exclusively, in British bottoms.
The measure was obviously unnecessary ; because
the governors could now do every thing they pos-
sibly could alter the BM should pass into a law, and
they were prone enough to open the ports in the
Wi.st li.dies, being au-rounded by persons whose iit-

The Earl of LAUDERDALE contended, that
I not one argument urged by the opposers of the mea-
sure in question, applied to the Bill itself, but
to subsequent or future . regulations, which they,
in their groundless fears, apprehended would be
brought under the consideration of the Legisla-
ture. The grounds or reason., however, for the
Inshore in apes:ion, were the soundest of any upon
which a Legislative measure could possibly pro-
ceed ; to wit. a knowledge ttost we should be com-
pelled, from necessity, to have recourse to such a
ineesure ; a necessity which had already induced the
passing of no less than seven ditfoont Bills of in.
demeity, in behalf of the Govermu, for unavoidable
breaches of gle existing law. With resoeEt to the
apprehensions entertained by some Noble Lords, cf
the injurious effeEls upon the commerce and naval
strength of the country, he must confess, he saw
it in a very different point of view. Even admit-
floor that sues t. WA liter Of Men were thrown out of
the merchant ...rem*. in consevence of the mea-
sure, surely the Admiralty could And instant em
ployment for them, or many more ; it would not,
theretore. go to injure that great bulwark of the
Empire. As to the policy of the measure, he
thought it obviously better, instead of suffering
the recent piactice to go on, to vest the power
and attendant responsibility in the government of the
country.
Lord MULGRAVE professe, himself by no
means convinced by what had fallen from the No-
ble Lord who spoke last. With respetl to the Co-
lonial system, which formed so important a topic in
the present discussion, he thought the great ad-
vantage of possessing colonies, was the enjoyment
of an exclusive trade with them ; and which privi•
lege in the mother countty was but just and rigot,
in return for giving them birth, and subsequently
supporting them ; a principle which, in the former
discussions of this subjed, had not been sufficiently
attended to. The argument, that the provisions
and articles required could be had cheaper from
America, did not appear to him to be conclusive
upon the point. He would admit the application of
the Noble Earl's remark, that our seamen may
be increased by the consequences of the Trlea•
sure; but no farther than in the first instance; pro-
spectively, it would tend to diminish the number, by
destroying, so far, a nursery for seamen. He sup-
ported the arguments of Noble Lords at h:s side of
the qeestion, with resped to the great commercial
magnitude of the subject, and pa:titularly as it re-
garded the concerns of the shipping interest, who,
he trusted. would be heard by their Council. He
expatiated upon the great importance of the ship-
ping interest. as the principle support of our foreign
trade, being its necessary carrying medium, without
which the manufactures of the country could not
fluid their way to other countries. In short, the
shipping interest was the vital principle of our
commerce.
The LORD CHANCELLOR quittedthe Wool-
sack ; he observed, that if he understood the Bill
tightly, which, however, he thought very plain.
none of the arguments hitherto adduced, had the
least application to it. He thought be knew what
he read, and if be did not misread it, the language
of the meamble of tire Bill, was sufficiently plain
to warrant his assertion, and which was ac-
cordingly quoted by his Lordship; the Bill, there-
fore, was no more than eventually to enable the
said Governors to exercise the same discietion le-
gally, which before they were in the helots of (m-
-ing under toe pressure of circumstances ; and for
which, from year to year, they applied fora Par-
liamentary indemnity; the present Kill went to au-
thorise the same discretion, when the necessity of
the case appeared to them to require its ezercis:!;
that is, the Bill, went to permit His Majesty, by the,
advice el His Privy Council, to permit, prosoeft-
ively, the exercise et such a disc.etionary power in
the Governors, when they should see the necessity
for using it He deprecated the conjuring u,s, as
some Noble Lords seemed to do, gloomy nrcNwlts,
and prophecying the greatest national calamities,
on an occasion, which merely went, in a decent and
constitutional mode, to enable His Majesty, with
the advice of His Privy Council. to vest, occasion.
ally, discroti.marypolter sicertaib of his Govciars.

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on; common source. and posses ed a sitnil.ari v
language, of feetinzs, habits, and of :saws : and, in
conclusions he insisted the pi tociple upon which the
measure prneeedect, was founded in true colonial pa-
licy, borne out by every rational enlightened view
of the subjea, and seen by the spirit of the Naviga-
tion Laws itself.
Lord H. 4 kV KFSBURY was pleased to perceive,
that whatever difference of opinions might prevail,
as to comparatively minor considerations, upon the
general subjeft of the Navigation Laws, the same
spirit manifested itself as well in the House as in the
country. is Lordship contended for the para-
mount importance of these, and argued, that as far
as it was praCticable, it was incumbent on the Go-
vernment to as and carry into eft& the spirit and
princ;ple of these laws. To these, the great naval
and commercial superioriry we enjoyest, was chiefly
to be attributed ; and one of the greatest objells in
supposing a colonial system, was the interests of
our nartgaem, and the maintenance of the
laws made for its support. Having stated what
he conceived to he the real question upon the mea-
sure, his Lordship observed, there was no case
made out to warrant such a Bill as that under
consideration ;land he seemed to disapprove of it as
much is point of policy, as he was disposed to deny
its necessity. He was fully aware of the impoitaace
of the vrlitical and commercial intercourse with
America ; but to this, however. he would nut con-
sent to sacrike the nghts and the commerce of the
subjeas of this country. After arguing for some
time to this effea, on these various topic., with bis
usual ability. his Lordship expressed his disapproba-
tion of the Bill in question.
Lord GRENVILLE, in consequence of points
athich bad transpired in the course of the debate,
wished to tremble their Lordships with a few oh-
!creations. A great deal of what was said, seemed
of a prospeaive complexion ; in that view. be owniel.
be did not possess foresight enough to say, what at
a future period may he the best commercial system
fur tl,e country to embrace. in what circumstaucea
may occur, to rer.der any one particular system
preferable to another. Sauna their Lordships had
gone into the conederatioa of abstraa theories. and
upon topics which had not the least reference to
that regu;arly before tt:e House A Noble Lord
(Hawbesbury), had conceived the idea of com-
m-rce and navigation clashing; for hr. part, he '
believed that such a case never yet existed. The
hiss of the thirteen Provinces of America had Fawn
adverted to, as inducing a con•ulcoin in our com-
merce, yet it prodwed no such elfat ; after that
event, the relati.ms of commerce tern:tined the
same. Nay, the commerce and navigation of the
country hau equally i.creased since. He deprer-
coed, as erroneous, tbe princiole of adhering
too rigidly to old institutions, alter the causes
which led to th 'be had ceased to ens: ; and said, that
true policy accominxtlated itself to the changes
wrneignt by time, arid ro the varying ..i:uations of
couutraes. lhry st.ouW out criosnirr thr-i•-!ves so
' circumstanced as !hoar awes en who de. r in-
stance. ttr env Laws in quest— ; w at the
tine, did a.t onside themselves as bound say aut
praflice.
Lord ELDON, M rising, declared he d.d not
mean to r rook'' the Hesse at that Lute n a-. a: any
great kagth. particularly after the arlu_ais duty of

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tile fdrenoen ; but having, in sane tdestsure, been
instrumental in inducing the Noble Lord Oh;
to brng forward ;he discussion of this question on
this day, he found it necessary to intrude a few oh-
lervations on their Lordships. He was inimical to
this measure, horn the principles of it, as they went
to legalise an Atl, which, by the law, as it at pre-
sent stood, was unlawfal ; and, therefore, he con-
sidered it dangerous to leave that in the power
and discretion of persons entrusted with official si-
sue ions in tho,e islands, which, at any time, might
be vseicised in too great a degree. It would, he
continued, be a very hazardous experiment to re-
sort to, and should only be thought of when our
navy was not sufficient to suppiy those islands,
without having recourse to the assistance of other
nations. After taking an enlarged and general
view of the suttjeft, the Noble Lord concluded, in
de.:laring, that, from every argument which had
be .n made use ot, and every consideration he could
wive the measure. be could not see the necessity of
it; and, therefore, should give it his decided dis-
approsation.
Lord SHEFFIELD, in reply to the several ar-
tts.nents on the other side of the House, shortly ob-
i.-: vet, that notwithstanding all that had been said
is support of this measure, not one argument or
re ison had been adduced, which could lead him
Inman opinion of the necessity or propriety of such a
procte :ing, and be therefore declared it his intention
to support the Petitioners against. this Bid, in every
stage of it.
After a few further observations from Lord
GRENVILLE and Lnrd ELDON, the question
was put for the second reading of the I3dl, and car-
ried without a division.
The Hill wait hen read a second time, and ordered
to he Committed on Thursday next.
The other Orders of the Day, mostly of a private
nature, were then disposed ot, and the House ad-
10Y..1nd till to-morrow ; when their Lordships stand
summmed upon ell second reading of the Slave
Trade Limitation Bill.

PIOUSE OF COMMONS.

A %towage fro-n the Lords anonumd that thee had agreed
to the W. • India LOT one.y and 4orrie prtv rte Bitls, •oil that
they woe r iteo eed fan ..er on the Drina t..urd Voscount
, on Thurrtar nest.
• Lad OSW LS TONE %violins,/ the Hotne.ithat Ifs Ma
jesty had b. en waiter on wide their last Adds.', send would
be tiles e., to give orders accordingly.
sir. JAMBS FITZGERALD loosed for an Account of all
ba mei Money wad he their sh Treasu,v, a. far .ts we ennui
co -6 (or the screw, of the Courts of 1.,. tit Ireland; but,
twat taformed by the SPEAKER. that it was ifeles.an, ter hint
to o.saatn iii pus', of axaohation nt the Cotten, and Mr.
VAbiIiaTTAR having sued that ht• did nut reel himself art.
tbutt..ist ts express that approbation, he gave notice that
• siine for ant: M 41,41 taw•rd to-morrow
Kir Sc tact Smith op the Rep in of the Con.
milts@ m the Iron Estoort Dvtiry t, hiett was Ordered to be
referred to stir t.o omntee t.,e Iron Trad,.
The Lead Arlsucate of S,ol.atid brunt in the Rill for
remote an MCI OSA of salary to the Judge. of the Court or
Adintralt. and th C,mnts-aries of th C.ty of Laiiihurzh ;
which was read a bad, and ordered to be read a secoad time to-
Morrow.
UV. IRON DUTY.
VANSITTAR on aec.ounrof other IT MN! Ilt hosinees,
wbi rattgt twee* Clam the antiunion of the Hots- to a
tat, li-orr to morrow, awed that the men omitmeot of the
Rill POT IMpOdist additi mat duty on Pug Iran to: deferred till
Fraley nest, which Wig &reed to.
Rl' PE I. OF THE AD% untikL FORCE ACT
Mr. Secretary WINDHAM, without any pre-
fatory ritiservation, moved the Order of the Day for
goiag int , a Committee on Rik Bill.
Mr. JOHNS'TONE opposed the Speaker's leav-
ing the Chair, and wished to state to the House the
motives which in•lused him to objet to the mea•ute.
It was true, he said, that he disapproved of
'the Additional Firma Bill, on its first introduetto•i,
em account of what he considged to be its in-
elfi _jersey, and to lA* an enlarged view of the
new and cornprebens vs plan, which it was in
contemplation to propose; now that plan was
siihmitted. but in such a shape as must have his dis-
approbation. When the Right lion. Secretary
described the present military state of the country,
as one which may be compared to a battalion with
clubbed at ms, he expriled from him a 11301 d efficient
system than that which he disclosed ; but the argu-
ments of his 800. Relation (Sir James Puheney),
appeared to him couclusive in respell to the cha-
'offer of the soldier, and the extent of his service.
He could not be red to behave, upon any calcula-
tion he could form, that the advantage of IS. per
week, and the Chelsea pension, after a sea vice of 14
years, would be so strong as inducement to enlist-
ing, as the ',resent bounty, which the Right Ho-
nourable Gentleman declared his intention to di-
minish ; nor did he think the plan altogether such as
ought to have been looked for, considering the es-
t i• and compass of the Right Honourable Gentle-
aan's talents. He was solicitous for the a option
of the same Irish in the army, which obtained and
hod so striking as influence in the navy, in regard to
rotnotion. sltentd Mile liked* eesside.rable
augmentation of the serkants and officers, for the
• reward of merit. The Right Honourable Secretary
bad taken a review of the several services of Europe,
but in doing so he did not seem to notice, that in
the military services of other countries, promotion,
as in our navy, was the reword of merit. Those
who displayed meritorious exertions, and were dis-
tinguished in the reports of the General Officers,
were always sore of being promoted. and he wished
the same rule of conduct to be observed in the
British army, as it would certainly afford the strong-
est incentive and best inducement to engage iii the
profession. Such was the case is France for more
than a century under the last monarchy, and such did
it cortinue during awl since the revolution. There
was not, he was convinced, any man who would be
so unjust as to feel any jealousy for promotion ob-
tained by distinguished and meritorious services.
He would also recommend the same principle to
prevail in the and the Mote so, at that body
was now meant to be reduced ft, .m 3.1,000 to 40,000
men This sort of encouragement snould be held
out to them, and he should be also d; Sirius of seeing
these piopos• d to be redricect. Lallot•ed for into the
Regulars. Their gteat utility was evinced in the
commencement of tie present war ; tor, notwith-
standing their reduction at the conclusion of peace.
Oleic were isnmedia.ely fortod to come forward as
many res.reCtab.e aid highly disciplined men, a.
composed it during the former war. 'Die 20,000
meow to be now reduced, if balloted for the army,
tit aollitiun to what might be drawn from the saute