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London, England, 1810-02-23 00:00:00

HOVS OP COMMONS.

The Slainitnill havieg takes the chair at fear egeorh,
Wilmot thew, that the Hasse h•d been in the Mugge of
Lards, were they board Die Majo.aty'• Conentitatent read,
giVing the Royal Ansimot to several peignoir Nolte.
A Mower entre front the Leech, orilursting a copy of the
Fourth Repuet el the Cuwanittee neve the Vistilltitioa of
Illipiths frees Melneess.
OCH ELDT EXPEDITION.

Lord POSCHILITSII moved the Or.ler of the Day
for giving iwo the respecting the Expedi-
tion t.• the Scheldt.

Mr. %Visairron said. that the haste evinced by
ti e Noble Lor.l. an.l his friends, in the present its-
etatotw, did not accord with thrir continual dada-

r.tious of att lament to their coun rv, sad regard
to its interests. Important as the inquiry was, it
should not be poniard with such Avidity as to oh.
'inset other publ c business, more pres.ing in its
nature. But the real object of those gentleined
was will 'indent°. I, according to their own admit..
sio•, it was neither Owe nor less than to turn out
the present Ministry. en object which would be
answered aswell (if they were able to effect it) on
Monday as on Tuesday.
Mr. Witt was willing to concede twv
point' to the Right Hon. Gentleman—the one,
that Gentlemen so that aide had often espre-sed
themselves most auxtous for the welfare ht ihr
noun! ry. iu which expre..iim he believed them to
besineeee ; tl r other, that they were wort utotititt•
to turn o .t :het Niiiiistry, for that appeared to them
to he uu essential stco towards the eetnplettoo of
the ir- fur woich they were anxious. There
was another polo', %too which lie would iti.oriu
the lion. Gentleman, if he did not know it alr,wrly,
that they were anxious, not ouly to torn them out,
hat to pnaish thein.—( Load cries of hear ! hear!)
It wee tarns that the country should spelt its eyes--
that it ishisuld St solicitous for the dismissal of there.
ander whose government they hail experieuceileui
disasters. and from whose continivince they could
only look forward to a reueaal of the evils they laid
sow to deplore. When they 1,114 the Rigid llo-
wearable Gentlemen opposite (NI,. P • I) a..
'Deists& with Lord Chathqns and Lord Mule
grave. its plane for raising Portuguese. tioopa
to he employed iu the service of England, it we. owe
that The people should awake to a sense of their
situation • moil it became ur great niouieut to the
iutereata of the whits. whether Ministers should
he tallied oat on Sloiet.ay or o-t Tuesday, to-1.4y,
t"'llinfrOw. near ! hear.) But this was a
frifillinti ale -adv. J. ckledl. tht the very preceiii ig
evening the {loose had detr•rmittril to Corer into the
islourry, at 10, wls should it ft4iiiie to rho
as No., what einiligeiif eirciimatisuces had taken
plate sauce that r.” 41. which it iiii4ht be
dratrediewt to Gripe, rcdr, that They
wry, tom to de-chow. hhettotr the Illowe sl 1,1
Mn reessluti,ml Whether it should

Support its consistency, and vitirlicale its aurae-
ter ? The question apptared to bins of such nu-
purtatice, that he hop d they would persist in put-
nog question isittr qmstion, wail Munster. were
forced into cuiteession, and justice done to the dig-
uity of their ow u proceedings.
Mr. Srsvuss thou:Oit, th4t, . however anxious
Gesitlemen might be to turn Nlinisters 'out, the
question was trot of such importa.ice as to supercede
all public bit-mess. There was much business,
whtth would be materially interfered with, it they
resolved upon *oiu4 into the Committee immedi-
ately : thirty of the forty days of the Distillery Bill
wet...! expired. and it was iiecesqtry toad that should
paw, previous to their going two the input). As
to the thrrat of puni►hing, he thought it unfair to
prejudge that question by an opiuiuo so drenii‘e.
Lord G. L. Gowsa supported the tuoti 111 l .
Lord Puaeee+rtes • .111. tttat, in coosequersee of
the order of last night, lie hail reqinsted Lord
Chatham to ut:rold before fn•ir o'clock that that.
He was theu iu Nttrodaner, and lie h 4.1 it Irons his
Lorils.,ip's owls mouth, that he feared to attend at
a later hour, to cousequeoce of the state. of his
I 'Mill.

Mr. M. Surron opposed the motion. He
thou4ht no iiicinivenience could result from 'im-
mix of the inquiry, riot much would rustle f
deferring the ..ther hu•*meay i.n which the public
were .o much interested.
Mr. PUREE VA L var.ure that his Noble Friend
would not have supported the motion, if he had
tr-Esi itt time to beer the lint of argument which
was pursued by Fie lion. Gentleman opposite, (Mr.
Whitbread.) He huh threatened the repeuit ' of
question alter question, lot it wee for the House
to determine whether it Noshes he iiitinsolated.—
(Hear! hear If they baldest to ouch a line of
argument, there wee 1411 rt,J if their independence.
lie therefore would oppose the motion, anti hoped
that the House at large would express its determi-
o dorm not to be threatened or controlled.

Mr. Ttaanat retorted the charge of intimida-
tion upon the oppoiote side.
Mr. Lams opposed the motion. He referred to
the circumstances under which the resolution was
agreed to List bight. It was first prottoeed in the
Committee, soil rejected by a an ijetrity of one ;
but proismed afterwards in, the Hon*, and carried
by a majority of two. He had pressed the Right
lion. Gentleman to mate his reasons for propelling
it, but he did not etrideseend to do so. There
was much busiuests to be done ; various sums ex-
peoded from the Civil List were to be repaid ; a
sum of money for the support of French Emigrants,
was to 1* granted; (a leagh ) ; the Corn amills-
tion Bill was to be pas•rel. His Right Hot,.
Fr ends had as other thine than to 'proceed io she
inquiry, without asp) other slaty than asks neces—
sary to the sere i. e of the public.
Strangers were then excluded. and the House
disided--

Ay.s
Nue,

SlAjurity
CORN DISTILLATION DILL

Strangers bring re.silmitt d, -.
The Moue rx-.4.lred itself into a Committee oa
the Corn Distillation Bill.
Mr. G. Rost, alter a few words, in which he con-
tended that the measure would he beneficial to Ire-
land. in imosequence of the provisions. with Tomei t
to that country, moved, That Use prohibition
should lie mansard in England."
Sir Jou:, Neweuite was surprised the Right
Hon. Gentleman could state, that the suspension
of an advantageous trade could lie beneficial to
Ireland. A prohibition of the intercourse between
both couutrirs in the article of spirits, oits,:t pro-
duce the worst of ronseipeenees. It was against
the letter and tic spirit of the Act of Union ; and
he thought it rather hard that the letter should be
overborne, and the spirit mist', erprrted, to the in-
jury of the weaker (-wintry, whose Parliament was
merged in the Parliament of Great Britain ; such
a conduct nrtcr could be wise, fur it never could he
honourable; it was not wise to hold out to the peo-
ple of Ireland that the spirit should now be brought
to contend alpinist the letter of the Act of Union,
except whets the advantage of this country required
it, or the advantage of some partial hairiest in this
country, which was preferred to the interests of
'reload at tar .r. (Hear!) He defied them to point
cont a single instance in wiceli they resorted to suili
interpretations, that did net operate to the &wid-
e image pod the detriment of Iceland.—/Hear!
hear!)—Ht had been accused upon a fernier 11.41 it
of commencing a war of prohibition, he did not
wish fur such a war; but he thought that something
should he done in order to protect that country
against the pat tiality of Government; and, if pro-
hihitions were resorted to, they would not be
chargeable with having commenced the war. Ile
ridiculed the argument drawn from the counter-
vailing du.ies; it appeared to him to Imo MI. ileum
tranght with the mot Wel emiowineuers, leading
to a labyrinth, a-which thrt could sew no end. and
brioging with it a train of evil., tie must disastrous
to Ireland. and hi the nation at large.
Lord A. loi•vitrue expressed his .utpiise that
the Right lion. Gentlei.ian (Mr. Rose) should
have proceed. if to make his motion, as he had pro-
mised that his (Lord A. Hamilton's) should hare
pretedence.
Mr. Rose said, that he did not see the Noble
Lord in the Reuse ; he had now no obiretsou so
withdraw Ira scoti )))) its favour of the Noble Lord's.
The motion 'lola withdrawn—
Lord A. II•mi true mac to make his motion,
which was for extending the prorates'. of the Bill
to Ireland. If the ILI' should pas at all, lie was
desirous that it should pass gineralty, without any
exception or restriction iii fasour of any particular
part of the empire. The Bill was first intriwlrd
as a relief to the We't India islands, and a security
against an apprehended scarcity. The West India
interests required it no longer, nor was any scum city
apprehended, upon which to justify it now. lithe
agriculture of Ireland required any additional sti-
mulant, that stimulant would be hest afforded, by
withholding licenses for the importation of foreign
grain. Isnr did he know oh) two cavalries, pro.
fessirig tar he governed by thr stint lays as Eng-
land and In land OM, should he distinguished
Iron' roost* other its a 111•11.111 re like the present. If
wise prfililltLed to and prohibited
from exporting, Scotland would be nasterislly in-
jured. As to the wall of Indeed to be exempted,

he did not know that it was unanimous; and, for it
thou lemons, he hoped that Ina motion would be
acerdtmi to.

Mr. C. HUTCHINSON thought that the Noble
Lord's motion went entirely against the best in-
terests of lieland, which were her agricultural in.
terestr.—(llear hear !J—He (Lord A. Hamil-
ton) did not seem to think that Ireland was una-
nimous against the measure; but it was never
more unimienous upon any question that castie un-
der its consideratiou. Tile Right Hou. Gentleimin
opposite was also prepared toattuck Ireland, though
not so materially or directly. The principle of the
prohibition war a dangerous principle; it weat to
interfere with the price of corn, the most dangerous
subject for legislature meddling that a gove tttttt rut
count select. The great demand for sugar at pre-
sent removed one reason for the piolishition in
either country, which, he thought, should Le
coitclusier. tie claimed. upon the part of be-
hind, the right to to...et t her internal* and pri-
vileges, even though their assertion should be
thought ineonvenient.litre to any body of men.—
( Hear ! hear! Arar/J—He would have uo ob-
relit-tit to prevent the distillation boa, grain, if it
was necessary to prevent some greater evil ; hut
there was sin appreheissiun of scarcity now, oft- r
an alamialaut harvest. As to the union, he would
not now express his opinion of it. hut he cosisi-
&red ir, before it passed, as a measure likely to lie
injurious, rod certnitily disgraceful, to the coselitry.
, as it had taken place, he we. a Ming to
look upon it as on advantage. Hint, as fur us I.is en-
deavours could he a Ilfectual, he could do all in his
power to make it a brut hit to both. That Ireland
might not have cause to lenient the conneetion, lie
would oppose the motion under cosridenition.

Sir CISURIlkl.t.ll4lld, tliet it *O,llll br ru iiiiustict
In the landholders of the country, to paw. the ;no-
bibitut Bill in any shape.

Sir K. Put. remembered, that an Act of the
kind was intended in the Addington Administra-
tion. but Mr. Putt atleiped that it should he relin-
quished, a• contrary to thq leiter and the pliant of
the Act of Union. With respect to tke Union
itself. he had always roi.sidered that aile measure
an advailtiq;e to Ireland as well as England ; he
uwdersiond that laud in Ireland haul risen one-
fourth since that immure. An lion. Baronet had
threatened, that. if the prohibition was extended to
Ireland. he would endeavour to prevent the manu-
factures of Manchester. &c. from visiting that
country ; but that would be unjust. He considered
the core of Ireland as their own corn. and liable to
those regnlationst which were necessary for the ge-
neral good.

Sir Jolts INlEwsioaw wished for a c,onplete and
perfect isiti.rcotirse here een both countries, iii the
corn trade. He thought the prohibition altogetlit r
fatal ; that intenueddling, legislatitig despositioo,
which they were so Mrward to prsi tice upon all ue-
eik-ions, should be checked, and trade left mute to
th.elf. The question sits wit ism* whether the
people of Ireland slitadd drink MI gar spirits, hot
also whether they should drink illicit spirits' which,
with all the regard that Government expressed for
the moral, of the people , was more iiijitrious to their
morals. thau if no probilsie was resorted to.. The
Illsmmittee would de well to consider the conse-
quence of driving Ireland buck born a state of
toe state of pow u.Nke. (Hear ! hear •I lie
apprelteusion of impending sear city, should be fully
made out, before the legislature vett; tired to irate,-
fere in such cases. But there was another p
which he considered of material i5:4,141.1m1,, the
deficit. ouch would nr piti.lueed in the fteeetine;
that deficit must be made up, and what a pie-sore
would it iw opus. the people of Ireland, to he tirst
olistractid in their reve,ue, by the had polii y of
the Government, mud ohs-rear/Is obliged to supply
it Isom other sources 1-le,.r hear !) Such were
the grounds upon which he COMSideleli it elpt•tilent
Mt to exteirl the prohibition to Ireland. if they
should determine to adopt it towards Great Britain
herself.

Mr. C. DONDAS thettght it it eerinu• thing to
meddle with the aereultural intere.t, ; but the
agricultural interests of IrtUrid hems( hi r greatest
prop, they should hr patio &tidy ith
respect to her; besides the ern!) was so abundant
there, as to r.nder It unneer.s.ary.

The Sol.lLlTarit CKNORAI. of Si nTI.IND said,
that lie had ogre, d to she prohibiting to•tor,; and
if it should now mow, hr was desirous that it
should hr g, carrel through the knigdom.
Mr. GnAl rAll nsa of opinion that they should
not interfere with the tillage mitt maiitif olive* of
Ireland, without rxatnn,i g the evidence upon the
spvestimi. The petitions from Ireland mated two
propositions distinctly, that it was injured by the
prohibition, mid that it was now in possession ore
great glialltliy 111 grain, alter su abundant hvrvest.
Those who supported tt e motion of the Noble
Lord, lied lint said one ors rd totem the Miens!. of
Ireland. to a question iniolving Irish interests. the
interests of other countrier of Scotland and of Eng-
land, mere appealed to, m II taken as the g•misids
of Legislative decision.—///ear! hear! hear '1—
It was unjust to sat.itio e her thus. It was ac-
knowledged that Ireland was a i.rariary for the
supply el England stud Scotland, mod yet the pro-
position went to injure that resource to which both
were co much indebted.—(//ear! Auer!) If they
resolved to injure Englasicl, if they malted to sa-
critic e her agricultural interests 111 Ititsie, or o her
causes, was It thert•forr [loot thr, retools u•\ trial It
to Ireland also ? It was the introrid
enlarge her agriculture; and the more die did so,
the greater mid snore permanent wos the resource
ea which both England mid Scotland bad to depend.
iii s'iort, her immediate interest was the gu nrral
interest of the whole. The only justilicattots lot
sloth a measure was necessity-Imill price ws a lint
sueitient. Where. then, he wend e.k, Iris the
loos ssity, when such plenty was proved arid ac-
knowledged to exist? It was said, behind should be
prohibited, because England was to be prohibited;
but all laws should be made sertisdam rufjertent
mu-
lerion; there were various taxes enroll
land, which were not extended to Ireland, and, tif•ma
the same principle. this measure should lo•equtary
ei,cuuiserthrd. The estension of it was 141•rifieiog
Ireland, not to the imerr, st of England, hot ;o a
cry. The Scotch were willing t • allow, that they
could not emst without supply from Idioms, let
them take care then how they would 'more 'he
source of that supply, by undertaking to legislate
for a coontr,rs of wltich they were ignorant.—

( Hear ! tear!)—With respect to the morals of
the country, the prolitlation of distilhitoil from
grain would not serve them, put vte sti3l "sow
work, and the sisraals of the country, hy that 0,,.,„.
be more effeettt Idly injured. nisi esertill ih:
bad effects of ass increased taxation, said, vonhi
be the inevitible coussAuence, and concluded "h
hoping, th.st Scotland might tong cos.t. nue to h,
supplied anis corn, and escry thing else, Inas
Ireland.

Sir W. W. WYNNE thought it • hnd eue3B„rf
4,.
together, hut itrt was to take pliice, Ireland
oot be exempted. . _

General TARLETOW Said. that if at. (.0,,r,,i41
of the Act did sot take place, the iot.-ri-gs of it
would lie vacriticed to the interest* of 4
Mr. L. FOISTER arid, he would enter vrcarit
against the sliort-siOitvd polity of 'hose mho
advibe aes • productive of mach
advantage.

•
Sir A* TUIII ON amid, the re-%1 t.! ,•t
preeeot risituttosioo *Ns, to "verifier 'he 4
EuglAnd to those of Irehentl ; uhcl
would *hew. %%nether Ott
purthility to the loiter, iierp.
ter. EnTliltN WAlfi Y few words,

Mr. Fu Li., it ma& ittatoFt speech, in the se
of whirh. hr ttu4 beers-at •iturs railed to order.
After some ithiriviitinns froth Sir JA II L,
the tpirotiou ellll pui. Upon the tin iota', the IiU4LN
bens St rte.—.

For the eiotioit
Aguinat it
Majoii4
.—....
111 r. ROSE then mural, " Ti 111 It la the .1,
or the Committee.' that the act of the .0.11 11,e
ICiuK rboullti be further ecnoinue.l."

I I•)

After • ft a oils-rvations flow Mr. Pima&
John Newport, Mr. Foster, Mr. Hutt 1,4
Mr. Wm. Smith, mt was agreed to m‘i.hout s miim..iss.
The House resumed, and time Report was II •
ceit ed.

It was then moved. That instructions shstld
be given to the Coiumittee to make a prorisios
with respect to Ireland in thr
Mr. Ross then moved the [louse tutus Corn.
mutter ow the Yrohtl►ition or the Dittillatam
in which the shove Bill was introduced. Th.:l3
west through the Committee. The Repeat to Le
reteived to-morrow.

The House then went into the Committer 4
Inquiry into the Expedition to the Scheldt, siki
strangers were ordered to withdrew.
We understand the Earl of Chatham undenrest
a long examination before the Committee.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LON DON.
•FRIDAY. FgaguAltv •J.

We this day present to the world a most Mu
portant JUCUllletil—the Petition of the Catholics
of England. We sincerely hope it may be oust
atteutively perused by all r I mites of his. NIAJESIICS
IllihjeCtP, ill Mlle, that the liberality of sentiment
which it expresses, the character of the Pet:howls
who have signed it, cud the justice of the prayer
which it coition's, ouiy be coolly and iinavoisily
cos sidered.—W hat ! are me us ti.S enlightened
age to refuse to tl e descrod..tits of the Tatrott
(a mime coupled N i• Ii alum:A all that is ,7reat lit o!t
alicietit histurj) to the CI erosos, the trey 1..
seetidaiits of the companion nt our Usti: l'itiNts,
the enjoytneuteof diose hereditary teats which our
Kings of old granted to them for their no! le
tild valorous deeds? And why? Forsooth, be-
cause they believe in the spiritual jiiiisdicios
of the Pore, in prayivg for the deed, and is
re iiivocartsurs of the orisistroitce 61 the S.o.i.
in Heaven. So did their ancestors, who
fought for England's glory—who rout' ihuted
lobate to the psiong of the et.ii lite. of prov..o
plea:moire, against the vim:or:al ocioschinco of
the Pore. aho laid the foundaitim of brood;
betty id Ruilynicaile—aho comfit -red at Cressy,
Poictiers and Agincourt ; and who asserted, as (hid
res. IA desceiolsots do. upon oath, that 'wittier
the Port. of Roue. nor any other foreign
Pr. 1, tr, State, or Potentate, had, or ought to
have, pity temporal or eitil
,iurisdief
superiority, or tore-rusioret,
within this Realm. diteetly, or tothirol!,

We 111:s day insert the \bowies of the E‘i,lenco,
on the eighth .luy Of the Walehere• Ingnhy. Thry
are given •1 length. The inajorney wOW contem-
poraries glee only as garbled No count.

1 Ffigenia, a spattiali frugate, is .irrred nt 1"t-
-mouth, horn Gnu hula, with displit he% I'er -
ntent.—She sailrit on the 1 Jth In:44w ; aid, • •
tuiderstantl, brings un el cutout. that all hall,•,
up in Unit., and that the Kw It of the le 0,, ~
that trotter. nava with the then ultie• that
reu .t 1 thew.
In the Cuurt of King's Bevel', I rateray, i„ ILc
Call'A' CH RISTIANA W. Ktltc, the
settled to 4001. damages bring inkett, to he
in the hands of ITti,tees, rm. the rule ti%e 01
Plaintilra tlatightes, Nli•s CHIA% I t+ A, wit„
the Urtiutlunt had elept It.
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Officer in the Citiartlo, a is fetelet guilty
assault, H 1 JAWS LA1'1.15115, A Cet..l:o•l, • " •
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