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Majesty's Ministers taking die business into their
own hands, upon a large and comprehensive scale.
Ile Doubted, however, the effeft of what had been
suggested hp the Nohl-!. Lord, as there were ia ex-
istence a number of obsolete ads, which, since the
improvements made in machinery, could he only
app!ntahle to such a state. of the manilla:Lure, al
could now and no sale in any part of Europe. He
hoped that some measure would he adopted in the
presentries.ion, as there were certainly very great
differences continually subsisting between the mss.
ters, the workmen, and the middlemen.
Mr. C. BROOKE said, he was so sensible of t!..
necessity of some effeetual regulations, that he was
willing to give every assistance in his power towards
a revision of all the laves upon the subje.f.
Mr. H. LASCELLES wished to submit whether
it would not he proper to appoint a Committee for
revising the laws relating to the Woollen Manufac-
ture in general
Earl I'EMPLF. replied, that he did not know of
any objedtion to it.
The SPEAKER thought it might be right to
remind them, that the prastice of the House, with
the view of convenience, in such cases, was to ap•
point a Committee of revision, in preference to bring-
ing in a number of diEerent bills.
The Petition was then ordered to lie on the table;
as was also another Petition to the same egret, from
the Manufadtuters of Wilts, Lancashire, and Glou-
cestershire.
Lord OSSULSTON gave notice that he would
tomatwrow move for an accosnt of the debt of the
East India Company in Great Britain.
bdr. WM. SMITH presented a Petition from the
Merchants trading to Sweden, which had been laid
before the Board of Treasury, who approved of its
being brought forward. These Gentlemen were, in
the year of scarcity in this country, examined before
a Committee of the Privy Council, which sat upon
that subjedt, and were encouraged to embark in a
scheme for importing Swedish Herrings to this court•
try, which, it was thought, would afford great
assistance is the people of this country. For this,
°Nett, they immediately dispatched a vessel to Oct..
teoburg, to make purchases, before the knowledge
of the circumstance should reach that country, and.
enhance the price of the article. In that unslertak-
ing they employed an immense capital ; but, owing
to the circumstances of the times, arising from the
Northern Confederacy, the Ministers of the cis •
thought it their duty to impose an embargo oa
vessels bound to the ports of the Baltic ; and, as a
similar measure was taken in Russia, Sweden, and
the other Northern Countries, all intercourse was
stopped ; and though the Petitioners used such means,
as were in their power to bring the herrings to this
country, and male all the advantage they could of
them, yet, owing to the circumstances alluded to,
they were losers, by the speculation, to the amount
of 3:5,0001.

The Petition was ordered to be referred to a
Committee.
Mr. Johnson, from the Chief Secretary's Office,
in Ireland. pursuant to OrJer, presented an Ac-
count of the Kimber of Writ', acc. issued from the
Courts of Law in that Country.—Ordered to lie on
the table.