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IMPEUIAL PARLLEUEN7.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, FriatuAßT- 11.

ROYAL ASSENT.
At ►alf pest three o'clock the Lords Commissioners, the
LORD CHANCELLOR, the Earl of SHAFTESBURY,
end Viscount MELVILLE, dressed in their rubes, took their
seats en the Woolsack.

The LOR CHANCELLOR directed tile Deputy Usher
of the Black Rod to inform the House of Common. 'bit
their presence was required, in order to hear his Majesty's
Asereit even by Commission to certain Bills.
' in a few Minutes the SPILIIIILER attended by several Mein.
hese, end the Officers of the House of Commons nrrirrdr
when the Royal Aasent was declared to the following Bills:
The besiarrettion Revival (Ireland) Bill, and the Ittibehe
Corpse Art Suspension (Ireland) Bill,
The SIPSAItIte sad the other Member, of the Hebei, of
Cosmos tbeti retired.

PRIVATE BILLS.
Oa the motion of the Earl of fitiIAFTESBURY it was
ordered that Olt) Petitions for Private Bill. should he re-•
retired after Friday the 15th of March, and no Report from
the dodoes tia Petitions for Private Bills *Would be facetted
after Wednesday the 17th of April.—Adjourned.

TIOVSE OP C 0115101415, MONDAY, FteRUMILY 11.

At lialtpast three o'clock the SPEAKER took the Chair,
epos which the Deputy Usher of the Black Roil summoned
the Otiose to the Honer uf Peers, to hear the Royal &vont
gives to the Insurrection Aet and the Suapeusitus of the
Habeas Corps. hit fur the preservation of the peace in
Indeed. The SPEAKER forthwith attended, sad after an
absence of a few minutes 'chirped aad informed the House
that the Royal Arcot bad been given to the two Billie above
freitaliosted.
A person from the Bank presented to the Honer an Account
of the Amount of Exchequer Bills in circulation.
Mr. DUN DAS bearoght up a Bill fur Lieliting and Paving
the Streets of Edioburgh. It was read • first lime.
AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS.
Mr. GOOCH pretested a Petition front certain Hundreds
in the County of Suffolk. romplwnitig of the very great
agricultural distress, and praying the House to lake some
measures for their relief. As to whether the remedy they
prayed fur %meld or would nut be applicable, be should give
no opinion.—ordered to he printed.
Lord LOVVTHER presented a •Itoilar Petition from err.
lain Hundred* in the County of iYestmorland.—Ordered to
be printed.
Sir. PELHAM presented a Petition of the same nature
from certain Hundreds in the County of Lincoln, and is do-
ing so he wished to express his determinatiun to support all
measures of economy and rt treoehment.
Mr. DUGDA LE presented. Petition from the Chamber
of Commerce at Birmingham, praying that the Committee
on Foreign Trade should be revived.
An Order was palmed that the Index of the Journals of the
House of last year should he no kited.
Lord EDWARD StEHERSKT presented a Petition from
certain Hundreds to for Couutp of Gloucester, praying fur
some relief to Agriculture.
Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL presented a Petition
from Dover, praying for some relief to the agricultural inte-
rests. They lameeted exreediagly that uo steps had bee.
taken last Stelli..ls to effeet that object, except the repeal of
the Agricultural Horse Tax.—Ordered to lie en the table.
THE SIX ACTS.
Mr. BARRETT wished to be informed whether it was tie
hawk's' of-his Majesty's Minima. to bring forward a men.
sure to revel the *Miami Meeting Bills.
Mr. LENNAR stated,that it Wig his intention, in tlion
course of the next month, to submit • proposition on the
subject to the cossideration of the Haim.
Mr. HUME moved for • vaeietj of papers, amongst which
were the sononnt a the di bt due by toe Go,. eat to the
nest India Company, rip to the ill of March, 1811, fur
stores, expedition.t, dm. &e. diatingumhing the old account
from the new, soil elating fur what purposes tt was due. He
also moved for au account of all stints paid to the Commis.
siosters of Sewers in 1800 and Ilt2l, for a retort. of MI as.
aessaseuts Bud Lead tax for she county of Middlesex, and cities
of Loudon and Westminster, 'lariat the last twenty years;
fur She amount of the revenue cullected in Gibraltar, in the
years 1601) sad 1821 ; for the returns of all fee, paid in all
regulated public office+ (Excbeluer exeepted;, from the
period of the lass retorts to the. 6th January, 1821; for an
aceonot of all peusiona, superatietuations, &c. in the collec-
I tion of taxer its Scotland; sad for an account of the gross
produce of the revenue of Great Ilritaist. Aid the Honour-
aisle Gentlemen cuncladed by giving notice of his tutentiuu
to submit • proposition nu Thuraday next to the House, re-
lative to hackney coaches.
IRISH TITHES.
Mr. HUME gave wow; that out Tuesday, the 26th in-
stant, he shout.: call the attention of the House to the tithe
artent in Ireland.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT moved for some papers relative to
the Porit.ollice of Dublin.
• Mr. RICARDO moved for an account of the quantity of
Irid imported into his Majesty's Mint since She let of Ja-
staary,lllls, to the Ist of January, 1822, dustinguishisg the
rarearect So each year.
Sir. PASCOE, GREN FELL moved for an accouut of the

The Hewn then revolved itself into a Committee.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER made a
proposition, which we could out distinctly bear, about the
Lottery.** we understood.
Mr. HUME wished to know If it were the intention of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer to submit le the Howse his
' entire plan, and the whole events of the year, before he de-
molded any supplies. This be considered the proper clone
to be pursued, fur the House should sot be taken hy
_sure
prim at flee letter end of the Scoville, when freqnently large
'estimates were demouded whew there we►e only a few Mem-
ber. in the House. As for his foot, he should oppose t►e
granting of tier shilling roil the ',tire demote& cite before
she House. This had Mee the practice in farmer times,
and he hoped this wholesome praetiee would he resumed.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated, that
it was the inmedion of hie Majesty's lifteisters to submit to
the guessed entire view of the subject. whereby they should
be enabled to noderstautl the event of the &mods that
would beneressery.
Mr. PETER MOORE felt obliged to his new. no d
(Mr. Home) foe his timely ititerfereore. The Mine the Id
;Mil peat ewe Alibis until titer eerertaiwed One
asstemat of the last year's supplies, but the demands for Use
present year.
Mr. DEN NETT eoweerred in the wish that h■d been ex.
pressed, that no mem/lira should be granted until the House
had a peered view before them of all that would be hortatory.
The practice latterly had been to bring forward the heavy
ntimates at the latter end of the &SCUD, when the House
was weary ie opposing them.
Mr. WHITMORE wished to ask the Chancellor of the
Exchequer what bad been done in cousequeuce of the Re-
port of the Commissioners appuioted to Inquire into the
Office of Receiver. General ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER Stated, that
every thing bad heel, done that depended on Ministers, but
that some Perlistneutary proceeding was necessary.
After some obeeorations from Sir J. NEWPORT and the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, which se could
044 distinctly brae, the Honer resumed.
The Marquis of lON DON DERRY expressed • wish tbst
the Hon. and Gallant Gentlemau opposite (Sir Rolaert Wtl.
sun) would pusipone his qui-atom which stood fur to-morrow
evening.
Sir R. WILSON stated, that he should have no objection
lu postpente it, as it was a question iu which Ministries were
concerned, provided his Noble Friend (Lord A. Hamilton)
would give him precedence of his quell too.
Lord A. HAMILTON consented to girt precedence to
his Hon. sod Gallant Friend.
DISTRESSED STATE OF The COUNTRY.
Mr. BROUGHAM said, that in rising to submit to the
Wu* the motion of which he bad given notice, he felt
strongly the term-may of claiming the iudulgenee of the
House. Ha was perfectly sensible that there were many,
very many in the House into whose hands that important
question might have been much more safely intrusted; and
bed ant the Hon. 31ensber for Estes been prevented by sun
vere iadispositioa, he (Mr. Brougham), although lie doffiered
from him to some potato, should have remained quite sites.
tied to amuck it to his charge. With others *loom he had
converaed with upon this most important question, the dif-
ference or opinion was so wide, that he reeolved himself to
undertake it, at the risk of all the disairautages, of which
nu man was more sensible than Inumli. fur the purpose of
peetooriog conaistrocyll consistency indeed, which, God
keen., lira Within the Igo few years, Ibid. 17, 19, rod 41),
been attended with the must *taut consequences. He prig.
ip feared that in his mode of treatise tills question he should
give hole satisfaction no t►r great outereat concerned.. Some
might be disappointed in the remedies be should propose;
to others it might be displeasing to call upon them to inlet
the measure' of the Governosewi ; but he called spun them
Neither to look to the right nor the left, to disregard the
quarter farm w►ence the measure originated, for he knew it
world •be most strenuously oppoeed by the Ministers; but
he called epee them merely to consider it uo ha emu merits.
and at lesigth to do their duty to their deeply-injure) eons.
trope*. On some be should have to call to retrace their steps,
On none to reuioince their consisteuey; fir it often happened
that the thing which even by a VIM nit,, was called coos*.
teary, proved upon *Rectum to be uu more than a peeve.
trefanee in rerun; and we km.w that experiesee is a hard
modem* to nossiiling pupae; and if a man peresived hews.
iu error, aril the lose et consistency was test times stronger
than it was, inaulmeas sod wisdom called upon him to ter.
reel lb—Otter, hear.!—He should be naked, no doubt, why
he diet nut wait until Ministers had submitted their plan to'
the House, end be confessed that at first night the quire* .n
appeared a souuml one; and rehear he shuu!d have (oral
it difficult to answer that qiestion, had it not been for what
they had beard the Gist night of the Session, had It not been
for the foretaste of the system intended to be minuted,
which they bad discovered hi the speech of the Chancellor
of the Exchequer. Fur if they were told that a reduction of
sages could •Iford no relief, say, shit it might aggravate their
distresses, who could expect from • gum** Minister is.
palmated with such ducteines any alhiriatora of the burdens
of the country ? He might, perhaps, hear again contra.
dieted the opinion delivered by au Houourable Member
on the third night of the p►esent Session; bet he
thought it good and safe authority when a matt beard

soprani of Bank iota. sad Bark pat bills in circulattou With his ow• ran certain salvia. avowed; and it wssref
up to the Freest period. tno imputiace to assert thew ninon had been mosiepre.
AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. I iented, when the Individual who alma them lea been it.
Sir CHARLES BURRELL presented • Petition frogs tbeekd by tome, op/mitts,' opium' by all—icy, one of his
the once prospects'', &wench of Rramber, complaining of the r own (Merida bei dem in his place and stated that that dor-
great agricultural distress, sad praying that the same pew Iris. laid lb, reunduaboo of igui wow he should give. If the
tecito• ihinild be exteudiol to them as to the isau•facturille Hog. Mmullier did swit slick slat the reatetaun of Kamm.
interests. t would send ma tart he amid ham denied it no the m-
ile. COKE presented two Petitions from differrat Hera cleat; he amid an lege lie it to der fineretary of tise Tr.,
decals In the Cumay of Norfolk. praying aloe relief for me,. ei, whiter, witsemen am some dawn ie ?4 boors afire
agricultural dialer's,. The latter tostained • pm's, 011 W to deep tm, as embeses. gam mom dot be bad het. ion.
Parliamentary R. farm.
bir JOHN NEWPORT moved for certain I. relerstramel. OW lareeiterdnidle lam the ipiratiog. How.
Patio Nina% net, holed gain awarseilledlieliting net sem arrest pervatit d
to tie Yiee-Tienorer's Other in Ireland. all But tarameareo die Illiefeloso lesseded to bring fie sod.
INSURRECTION ACT. lii bud seed it light Ilieseink eity hi did an wait net
A Message fens the Lords was received. statist that the Illhassers bed nopeasdllbeir pin? To Nit be stoehl say,
Inonrreesioa Act and Sitspensimi of the Babas Cerra Lel If be bad on mingllll.4 age= re propeas any plan in-
had passed into • law. membered with gageemerebiesems asp remedy, nes:item, ur
COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY. mill it *het pee nit, ling digit he new ream. for Mai-
ne CHA'NC'ELLOR of the EXCH EQU ER moved, that saline. tat MI I. wens* ass the reeogettio• of a
the Move do resolve itself loco a Committer of Supply. great pried*, wink it we emsweislay necessary to (he 111-
On the motion shed the Speaker do leave the Chair— Weems a tit owns? dint Oa Uses, noted pledge itself.
Mr. BENN ETT rose. He had given notice ono • former If that sellnes is anletisplansege die other side proceeded
Gimbel thee ripen the Arai mention of supply, he shodkl on An lining** et steeled Illlbliallite burden,' thee tiny
call the etrolemie of no Been to tie ersoseetion Mad se. , mai Be VP-Ma
% 111 oldie he-.
an "Innon'es 00
revenge the fildretNi fleeral. Bet as his Hes. Friend (Mr Innired, findinfininironnillePorled br lb* moillolifY of the ii".P.
Peokenglijies) would inahatit a question So the. considers.- Met ISM was got their hands% if it formed es part of their
tins "sal tie Hawse which would embracei that topic, be anus* to neon tanatins thee the sooaer the Hoag sane-
should sot take the sentient the House upon it. However tined lie mitgoder pritamyilleilia better, and lint allow gIWINI
'be felt it to be hi. duty to make a motion, in order that a to pruned IllidtAtitif costly estietates.—(Hear, hi ar.)—Hßll-
extruieelinary a tramactlon sboolii be recorded upon the lag (eft it nterresbry to manse much, he should Wow prorerd
Jeanie!, of the ilone, as diet the body of the Queen of Eug- to the ilnlinefent .gentliell bride theta, and endeavour to
Bled had been fought for in the streets of the metropolis point Out the rtelstate of the country; aid hr coureived it
bed the! live. bad bees lost S• the coldest ; and be wished quite soporfloona to waste the time of the House its describ-
lis knit appear, that when the Crown came to demigod ear lug th• vast alsoont of dialing *lnch exist/A, *hick pressed
leMs, . sane or the representatives at least evinced a regard so heavily on the psblie sad name interests. With respect
for the liens of the people. lie should therefore move ohm to agricultural dating, all men admitted it■ exitance; it
instead of the words " that the Speaker do lave the chair," was indeed laggented,nd very properly, io tint Speech from
iberfollowlag cords be inserted:—•t That this House &s hall- the Thome. Sew here were who Battered themselves the
late en.inriiiiry into the transactioos that metered at the distress was partial, end embed to partial districts: he bad
Queen's fatieral, and the lives het spot that occasion.° takes porticulat pain to teguire, as far as regarded En ft-
Ile Marquis of LONDONDERRY apprehended that ladd....pamiL.them era: Ilar hi I444lairimerwiaLs'./ha tknia„ buodl:
there was nu necessity to reply to the statement of the Huu. Pasta "'" I" "we' they were better a- --a- in --' o•-et"
part of the kingdom at large, sad eves 01/18 was prince-
Menilwr, rime particularly as the discussion at that question
pally iroalitunl to Yorkshire, in the neighbourhood of the
would be intro.inced at s tame period. He considered the
. course pointed by the Hon. Gentleman very novel and en• anagramming loans and in the counties of Durham sod
traordinary.
Northousberlsod. With these exceptions, nothing could bo
Mr. BENNETT said, it was no new practice ahem a
more fallacies. than the opiriou of ribosewho considered
•ly {the distress Itinittel ie its operation. If he bud nut beard
grievance was complained of to take the earliest upportual
to seek fur rrdress. that opals* race or twin 'fated, lie should scarcely hats
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believed that aseertimas would he made, ouhappily so widely
clammy to the fact. datiber mistakes notion was, that
the distress was peculiar so the agriesch•rist. But, glut &a-
ims should have lasted so loot suit pressed so heavily ox
the agriculturist, sod sot is emu quests e affect the retreat*.
der, was whet be was CA capahte of comprehending ; for
sltboogb it omit be admit t• d they were out so badly off as
the agriculturists, yet very low iudeed were the profits of the
sossufacturre, Is tames called floussalsisig. In the iron clot.
Wet, Birmingham, meetings had iota lately held of the
'wester manolieturees, in consider, sill refs reset to 'herr
treat tomes sod seamy gains, on calcMati•g the hataate fief
the last Christmas with the former, the propriety of dim-
'Mies their labour, is consequence of the diminished &-
sand sad cussomptiosi, sod of seducing the number of
their f es, which the House mist me was lonising
less than lopping off a considerable portion of enemnrree.
Looking to the vast amount of the debt, and steles how It
reseed upon all classes of the country, one was oats-
rally led bock to see what we had bees doing fee the last
thirty or forty years. The House would perceive that he
' was awl Illeintiat toga into any detail; bet there were fasts
Metals, plait, and twoleot, which he felt that he would sat
beslolog his dilly did he not side to the Noose In Isis place.
Re held it to be perfectly clear that no motion cools!, with
justice to its finanees. to Si. commerce, to its week's, to Its
prosperity, to Its espitsl; to the incomes of hash% ideals, the
may solid foundation of all stational capital and wealth—
Ibitt no oaths cefsild with inspuoity persist In that toms,.
which we had now for many years bees pursuing. He would
tabs the expeoditsre of only Hum years; arid them net as •
sample of the whole expenditure, of which we were wow et-
pretesting the bitter effects, bat u those years in which
that expendttnre bad bent at its greatest amount—he
seen* the yran 1813, 1811, and 1816. Tha animal ex-
penditure of those years was, is. as average, she rllO/11111{111.1
sum of one buodred and thirty•tto
It was to be understood that is this calculation he isicluded
the exprose of collecting and managing the revenue;
amountisig to sun the average of them ys.sars betweei four and
Ave solllionm because it would be taking a partial sod in-
adequate view of the subject to eiclede it. It was a true
tax ; it was money paid by the people, takes Nom their
Whirs% 004 of their pockets ; it went Into the Treasury,
and, be was sorry to add, for the purpose of supporting tbs
palroaage of the Crows; it bad every one quality of am
venue, whether la a Imactal, contaaescial, or political point
of view. Now, however, he should Merely examine it is a
commercial point of view, hatending 10 rome to the FFlttocol
ronsisterstiou of it afterwards. Including this item, the
avenge expeodstiore of the canals* for those years was, as
he bed stated, 131,000,000/A but if he added to this the
poor's sod the county rates, whscb fur lissome periods were
8,000,0001. Obis he should have fur the total .sow/dote
140,000,000L—(Gies of hear, hear, hear.)—For me less
a period of time than three years was the prodigious
sem of one b•ndsed and' forty millions takes estowalty froze
the pocket, of this people, and with what fissility, (vim dif-
ferent classes, Ise should slot at present stop to decide. A
hoselred and forty trilliums of mosey were elstrnesed front
the subject, of tbia empire, either from tlseli income i• the
way of taxes, or from their ammoniated capital is She
•ay of loan, and used for purposes be should out now ex-
pose ; and if one of these years, 1816, were 'steeled, the
exprediture of that would appear to have been ass less thou
the monstrous and almost ineoottiveble sum of 146,04,0601.
slid in stating it at this be spoke wahlo the mark. Noe,
victimise of the interest of the debt, the charge of ritauageng
the cspeodititre of that year was eighty-four amino's-, and
Hie reverse was eight.-five ; so that there was hut oat tai'-
lino complus to provide for about sixty esilliona--seue mil-
lia wherewith to pay the interest and expeosrs syf the debt
of the country. If a ems iu private tallied gone no to Os.
pitch, that his income was tees thousead pootiAs a y.ar, os:•1
tha ',fermi of his debt wss nearly the samr, that s
would be obliged to ley out almost every fa, thing of .• • --
come its maintaining his credit, and then be would by 1,4 it •
situation of this country. The words which would poses s,v
be applied to a person of his affairs he we. smositiog 1..
speak, being desirous to avoid speaking diarespectfolly
the credit of this country. But let every man who hem*
dim emasider in his own miud, as be Might, mute deco-
rously, what the real situation of that 1041ir111111i se., she.
'her he were in trade or in the farming interest, and Stich be
was bound to conclude something the same of the insocial
state of this country. He was unwilling to say what would
appear lobe the care and good seenagensent with which tn....-
vast sums had been employed by those she had the direction
of them. Hairier sees four hundred millions spent is throe
years—basing seen, Independent of loans, two bismiseet and
Illy millions expended, taken iu taxes from the pucks to of
the people—hamog seen such sums diverted Into this ruus4o
as staggered credulity, and distanced imegiisation--be ant
most to say whither this was a waste of the •e•
sources of i he country or uot.—(Hear.)—nui be begged kaso
to state, oa much higher authority that his own, that of the
Finance Committeeof 1817, is how accurate and strict a man-
lier the employment of thitienottey bad breo overlooks d hl
Richt Honourable Gentlemen apposite mud his lionuurab.e
colleagues, It was in the retiglection of the House
what mode that Committee had bees chosen. The hilesobeis
of it were the appointees of the Athottostratiom 11.4,4 not
mean to deny that there were sot amens them Mme moat
•petcht, independent, sod bononrahle saes—hot. 1,3 Ter the
greater proposition of thous were this, who alealii *acted