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Lord ?EMMY. mo.etti, rs that the,- be laid berate 01
El,tust, au Actuuirt o: Irish 1.1., $, nut exceeding Mil we`.' 6 i
Ineamii: deported to the West holies, from 41w C Ist Of Jmu
are, 1)96, to the 31st of Deceinhet,illo3, inclusive " 01•
dered.
The Irish Defence Hill was read a second time, and adored
to be committed to-morrow.
A Message hoot the lords iisfortw,rl the House, that their
Lordships had agreed to tie Addition d Force Repeal Hills
wit out say any mime its and to serval I)6ra:en:lN
The he.retaty at tt,' sr brought op the Mutmy Hill, which
was r••ad first time, and ordered to be read a second time on
11 olio, dor next.
Mr' RCMP: gave notice, that he would to morrow mots for
c 'nail' Accounts whirl, he thought necessa-y to he produced,
in ct inentretice of whot the Noble Lord (11. Petty) had lest
night OW, iel.title to the IsUililC ce.unti, and the state in
whit* they remained whey tired into, and tinsettled , and by I
the productioi. of thwart A-manta, he hoped he should be able
to nee • wet who ii,ne de,amtera. and who were not; and he
hoped that .itch as were proved to ov no, be their rank or tvm
sentience what it may, en thou " the great axe world tall
and that they would be treated with every severity their con-
datt merit. Ile promised to send the Noble Lord
:copied Of toe Motion• lie should make, awl the papers con-
tained in each ; and if the Noble Lord could make any, addi,
Non to them, ao as to render thou more complete and tr.
fie:tin, be should he very much obliged to him, and woult
readily insert them for that porticos, his wish being to obtain
• the most complete discovery that was passible.
Sir J. NEWPORT moved fur leave to bring in a Rill to
enable lin Majesty to accept the services of the Militia of
Ireland, under certain restrictions —Genrd.
The report on the Elee'ion Treating Hill was brought up
and agreed to, and the Hill ordered tu be read a Hind time SO
Monday seMnight.

1/11S11 CUSTOM Wry. 1t114..
Sir JOHN NEWPORT moved the order of the
day for the House to resolve itself into a Cum.
muter on this Bill.
The Hodge having resolved itself accordingly,
on the Resoltutoa being reed, that there be granted
a duty of 28s. a ton on Iron;
Mr. FOSTER said, he had not supposed tl:e
Right Hon. Baronet nteata seriously to persist in
the propasr,.. duty on iron, alter a similar tax had
been rejeaed in England. on acceunt of its impoli-
tic pressure upon all the mannleaures of the coun-
try, and its consequent ex...mien-in to the . poorer
classes of the community. It this WAS found to he
a weighty considerati‘m in Eaglard, how much
more ought it to operate. whets the comparative po-
verty of Ireland was contemplated. The proposed
duty would cause an increase of twenty per cent. in
the price of iron, and prove almost ruinous to the
infant inanttleaures of that country, as no ceunter-
veiling duty WAS allowed on their introduelion into
England. A drawback was provided, in the case
of the small duty of Se. per cwt. on sugar, and yet
to countervail the much more material tea *non
iron, no increase of drawback was allceecd. Tee
measure, it c.-dried in its present shape, would de-
feat itself, as not a saihing of revenue weald be
derived from it ; as it was only calculated to pro-
duce 15,0001. he hoped the Right Hon. Baronet
would adopt some of the many preferable means
that presented themselves of raising that sum, and
prevent the dissatisfaction that would ensue in Ire-
land, if, whilst in this ample and opulent country
the rat upon iron was abandoned as oppressive, it
should be inflitted there.
Mr;ROSE thought it was impossible the Right
Hon. Baronet could press the tax, as even in case
of providing a sulfide:it countervailing duty, if 014
manufattures of Ireland were like those ot Eng- '
land, the mixture of foreign with native iron,
would prevent its being embraced. He was sere
the tax would produce nothing; and he w.is also
of opinion, that in estimating the duty on sugar,
the Right... Hon. Gentleman had calculated upon a
greater average price (.50s. per cwt.) than it would
be found to bear. It was alus„ecther a new and ex-
traordinary measure to make a provision of tem-
porary WarTaties-to pay a permanent Loan ; and
even the provision made would fall greatly ehott of
what it- was estimated at.
'Sir JOHN NEWPORT said, that the tax on
iron was in no respeCl similar to that which had
been relinquished in this country. as that now pro-
posed was only on foreign iron.' .If a tax could
only be fairly imposed, by laying countervailing
duties, how did it happen that, since-. the Union, no
less than five angmentations of duty, amounting to
21. pis. per ton, had leen laid on in Great Britain,
without any countervailing duty in Ireland And
such being really the case, how could Ireland want
a countervailing ditty for a tax of 11. Ss. 'I he
Right Hoa. Gentleman (Mr. Roe.) had himself
furnished an authority to shew that a countervailing
duty was not considered necessary, as in the act of
44th of the King, exp. 57, in the Schedule, No. 1,
iron and hardware were not included. The Sugar
Duty had been calculated in the fair way of -an
average of two or three years, and there was
the strongest assurance that it would be produc-
tive. It was said, that he (Sir. J. Newport) had
made no provision for the loan ; the charge, how-
ever, fur interest this year, was 268,8661. ; and, as
the Ways and Means were taken at 333.2491. there
was a surplus of 64,3741. for the security of future
interest, in addition to the estimated duty of
60,0001. on sugar. The Right Hon. Gentleman
concluded by 'eying, that he certainly held himself
bound to persist in the measures he had proposed.
Mr. FOSTER said, that the situation of Eng-
land and Ireland was such, that, although the former
could afford to relinquish the advantage of a coun-
tervailing duty, the latter was not in a condition to
forego the proteetion of it, and aUow this country
an advantage. The doltrine of the Right HOW.
Gentleman, that because an article was not found in
the first Schedule of the Ali be-had quoted, a
countervailing duty was not to extend to it, was
quite new, a id exiemelv dangerous.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT said, he did net merit
that it was not competent to Parliament to extend
that duty : but he would ask, since the Right
Hon. Ge.alernan seemed so strenuous for the coun-
tervailing duty, why it had not been called for in the
case of the duty en Cotton Wnol, which had been
imposed since the Union
Mr. ROSE said, that duty was only a penny per
pound, and not an objet of great coastquence ;
and he thought no emission <eight to lee pleaded as
a precedent for not now pursuing the right course.
Mr. CORRY said, he was glad to fee the prin-
ciple of the Union so well agreed opts. Un-
doubtedly, a countervailing .deity ought .to be laid
in either country, for a duty imposed on the ether ;
and, therefore, the tax now proposed would have
the effect ut equalizing what, by the increase of
duty in this country, since the Union, without a
ceuutervailiog duty in Ireland, tad been made