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questionof greater niugOude could 'tete°,
before the House cdcospaeseep, lima the one whet
arose uppn •
thguintion to prepesst the Petition free
Liveipool on Thstraday night. „This is a Petition,
from the 'America* „Merchautater Liverpool, curry-
log on three-fourths of the Alllfelill tnutie of Eng-
land, againA the Bill now patiding iu Parliament
fbr ilirryu;g the Orders in Council Bill into exe-
cution. They state in their Petition, that the Bill
so far from being what it profcases to lw, " A Bill
for the Protecias of the Trade and Navigation of
this cosatry;" is a waste* pectiliariv calculated to
involve the commercial interests of this country in
absolute ruin ;_ and they ask permission to prove by
evidence to the Home of Commons and to the
country the truth of their allegations.
When this most important Petition, signed by
hundreds of the most respectable merchants in
INglend, was about to be presented, an objection
was taken by the King's Ministers, that " the Bill
in question imposed certain duties, payable to the
Crown, that it was therefore a Bill of 15ttpply, and,
as such, no Petition front the•subject could be re-
ceived against it." And, is this opinion, a majo-
rity of the House of Commons concurred—this
mesueralue decision can never be forgotten, and
never sufficiently lamented by • the people of Eng-
land. The Bill in question is two-fold—the car-
rying the Orders in•Conucil iiitis execution,' is one
part, (and this is a pure regulation of trade) ; the
imposing the duties centaurs' 'in the Bin is ancii
tiler part, and this is a question of revenue. 'Ei
a standing Order of the House of COMIItO64 eat
put of the Bill which relates to the regulatioti of
Trade, should have originated in a Committee of
Trade and Navigation, for the purpose of discuss-,
lug it as a commercial question only ' • and by ano-
ther standing Ordered' the How' e that part of the
2iltalstels alines to it* dirties. ought to on
isserCesetmkthe ilf 'Simply. Upon the palmist °c-
agiest:this Mamie atogether and at awe from
the:o=m of Supply. in absolute defiance of
' Older, whids prescribes the Commit-
ataill=
.e..aad Navigation for the discussion of
iid patter it, and to the exclusion of
iiiii* objections issee the
iskrent body of Trade
birdie cottony, .wllicts mi hare been urged
is stab Committee ; . when the merchants
if Baleandamilidlhsnsselves et the only-resource
Idt t thems that at
_ptiziati "the-Hone of Com-
mas...against the MU . thee they are
Zits. the very pinnies who, by violating the
Order in the first instance, have precluded
41,4isimesioa Apes the nernmercial part of this
Vthat forsooth on. they assioitt be iseerd--
is a woe, bill...4hat there are duties in
hat the amp of Parliament is, that such
a
as these camel be received again* suds
t this is out A the outrage apse the pe-
titioesors.-the peewit ..Bill is stet a Revenue Bill,
=it tse ?tk of 912441 Bills, against which Peti-
by usage :of Parliament. be present-
odsn-y"thing like it. The Revenue Bills, to
*sills into nil. applies, are the ordinary Tax
At spas the subject of these realms, " • the
Istriplies for the current year ; and the declared
renelbafor inch nage is, that were such Petitions
redorlVO is the same Session with such Tax Bills
46 deeds of Petitions" from all the intirridnals
alliethd by spelt Taxes, would he poured upon
"'the Table of the House of Commons, and thus
abstract the ordinary supplies and service of the
year." The present Bill has no common feature
with an ordinary Tax Bill, it imposes no duties
upon the subjects of these realms—it affect* Fo-
reigner', and Foreigners only—it does not profess
to provide for say part of the supply for the'ems-
rent year, nor indeed cesdd it, because it is a mew
sure of entirely 'milkman 'duration, depending
solely upon the exercise it $r King's prerogutire '
la' evoking or continiting these• Orders in Council.
Was there ever, therefore, scant glaring injustice
to the people of England, as to preclude them, in
the first instance. by the violation of a positive
standing Order of the House of Commons, from a
statement of their injuries, and then to made their
complaints in the second, by an affectation of ad-
herence to usage, in a case where no usage applies !
Was there ever such a palpable invasion of the
Bill of Rights, under cover of the most contempti-
ble quibble ? Let the two observations which
were made in illustration of this n (weeding by Mr.
Tierney and Mr. Wteitleread. never befiergettel
' TiF Ilse people- 'Of Inlaid. Mr. Tierney issitir—
" 4. the doctrine contended for respecting usage be
true, a Bill may be brought into the House it
Comment, to-marrow, to take away the estates if
soy number of men in England, and let there be
only a stamp prescribed by the Bill, the duty of
which shale to die Crown. and then all the per.
sons losing that estates by such Bill. will have wo
right to petition against. because each a mamma
of grievous op on is a. Money Bill."—Mr.
Whitbread ass 4 4. our waters, in granting a
Money Pin. kael used to sack a grievance to it, sir
order that a supply to the Comma and relief to the
=gliNiffilt irk hand its. Lind together; but that
times were now • about to reverse the
practice, and that a Money Bill was now to he
tacked to a grievance, in order that distress arad re-
tain' *gig £ impierod together. Never was a
Kinistry so defeated] in argument upon this
occeision,.negoisjoridg entitled, front their 4-anat,
to the indignation cif this five and
1 sefieviar cowry. Then supporters were seen
grad ertitiag dating the unequal cornet
ausiatained be their superior ; and, though the
result of the division has left them, in pdade of
numbers. a majority of votes, we appeal with con-
ficlesiessto thepeeple of England. and even to the
Members of the House of Commons themsel tee,
a Nether this division has left to isspi,:istvr a par-
ticle of well-grsonded and lioniWinkie triumph.

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