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near him. ft was contended, that a Committee tt
Ways and Means would give every opportunity fo,
ii full discussion of the merits of these ()filers i,
Council, but he was satisfied it would not. It
would not 'enable us to obtain that tvidente which
aCc inmittee of Trade could alone procure ; and
he hesought the House, before they ovoid submit
to put the beat interests of thettounteeliathe em
of a die, to seriously consider of the mefietlitiated
out for the investigation of this impostonsillatim.
A good deal had been said as to.thefininher of pee
titious on your bible for Peace. Red of the in 4
feet& they were likely to product. kie was rotas
advocate for those Petitions ~ but he thought it but
common justice, and that Ministeemwere most ins.
peratively called upon to mitisPi thoacientioresSsi
the measures lately adopted lief t lrise and never.
Gary, and to prove to the mercantile pot of it ex
44m justice and expediency of them, the mode inted
out was not the manner best calculated to ve thO
satisfaction. Form and re„' ularity wr- e thaa
ever requisite in the iinestigatiori thettecent
question, and he misted the House would adopt
that mode most likely to give the eatiabertion re.
quired.
Mr. ADAM conceived the manner pointed out
through the medium of a Committee tif Wsys and
'Means as highly irregular, and ill calculsted for
Abe invertigincou of the merits of the Orders is
Council. Those grand Cominitteesysere institutoi
in the best days °elite country, and there was net
in the history of parliamentary proceedings, all,-
tinetion more strongly pointed out by Mai aocesturs.
than that between those Committee* and the le-
stitutiou of particular Committeeis th the present
instance, His Majesty's Ministers have, thought
proper to depart from this wise and wholesome
system, and by so defog have involved the investi-
gation of these Orders in Council in a great degree
of complexity and confusion. The Creornittee of
Ways and Means, he contended, was nut at all a
fit channel through which the consideration of
these measures should be proposed to the Hoar.
He recollected in the year 1731 there was a duty
imposed upon yarn, it was sonte time after pros
posed to repeal it, and thouh this may be deemed
a measure of finance, yet it was thought fit to
consider it in a Committee of Trade. if on as
Occasion of this nature it was thought proper Os
adhere to system and form, how touch more so oes
a question like the present, which involves the
most important interests of the country ? fie
therefore trusted the House would reprobate this
departure from the mode of investigation pointed
out by our ancestors in the consideration of ins.
portant questioes, and that they would bring the
present one before them in a pure and unadulte.
rated form, and in the only way in which it can
give satisfaction, namely, that of &Committee of
Trade. . _-..

i"! 7. Rose said, that the 'Avoiding Or of the
House, made. in 1793, had provided the/ all Matters
df tnide Ooilici go through a Committee it Wilt
and Means. The manner adopted in tbKpresent
instance he dial not conceive to be as innovation;
Oil the contrary, every opponnnity that could ba
looked for as atharded for the eliscateiion of the

•tivrissares in question. He Conceived the Honour-
able Gentleman (Mr. Adam) had mistaken the
distinction pointed out by him, and than he hall
net proved the expediency of i ht mitonar ke thought
would be beat calculated for the investigation of
the nresent question.
litt- PoNdom ay thought the. nessourable Cele
then an, ...fly had just sat down, end itho had stand
that his Honourable Friend (Mi. Adam) bad tube
taken the present question, was himself labouring
under aMush greater mistake, Ha contended that
there was a most striking and material ditference
between Grand Coinmitt.rei and
.particular ones.
The object intended in the institution of the latter
ones was, that opportunity should forgiven to ob-
tain all the information that emild be had on the
topic to which they referred, ind due conelderatiola
given themr-auth as those for religion, trade, kt.
and surely it would not be contended, that it was
the practice to mix up the consideratiorvof these
distinct subjects in one Geand*Conmiittee. li bat
had been urged as to the Prerogative of tlyr Crowd.
in the homing of the Order's 01 • Cotiticit he Atonid
abstain from commenting ou. It world bre *effi-
cient to inquire, Whether the Crown hidlmen pro-
perly-adtised or not ? In His M•jeoyVilddrew.
no particular mode has been pointed out for the
consideration of these
important measures, it was
therefore competent to the House to say what
would he best to adopt.. Ha would state a ewe
fromthedoornals of the House, in which his Ma-

jesty's Prerogative had been exit reised ; it was in
concluding a treaty of-commerce imel.savigatioa
with His Most Christian Majesty in the year 1787;
that treaty was referred to Parliament to take into
consideration how they were to preceed upon it--and
how did they proceed ? lustmd of going into a Com-
mittee of Ways and Means, they resolved themselvis
into a Committee of the whale House, to consider
the exercise of the K ing'e Prerogative. On the 41st
February, this Comaiittee examined and approved
of it. Having examined the measure in tins way,
they then referred it to a Committee of Ways and
Means, to impose the necessary duties under that
Treaty. He was not inclined to attach Any biome
to the lion. Gentleman over against him for hiv-
ing proceeded in this manner ; but he could I,ot
help saying, that it was one ill calculated • to do
justice, or to give an opportunity for the complete
investigation of a measure of such parliament im-
portance as the present. The manner in whirl'
• this question can be examined in s Committee of
Ways and Means is only in reference, to the duties
imposed under the supposition of the principle of
the measure having been approve& hi .Parliament ;
but the wisdom, necessity, and expediency of the
measure, cannot be argued upon. If the Hon.
1 Gentleman opposite silleuld think tit to reject these
arguments, he would only Any, that it was dealing,
with a question of the kind in a meaner the most
scandalous and unbecomintlt.
Mr. TICRTI ST conceirml, that the-arguments of
the Right ;lon. the ChthicellOr of the, Exchequer
lay in a very small centre*, namely, that suAi-
cient opportunity had been given Ar: thu investi-
gation of the question in the tray grlotited. He
thought that no connilitne, t was. Mien* due :IT
the opportunity given. The Hasa. !Cesudealul•
et e
rlit
as well as he could I olk-ct him. had made use
of the word “41.‘cision," but he a , Ili''
proper to adopt the word ..docussion. willed to