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PRICE SIX-PENCIL.
Council reinitided him of the story of two men has- ..
Ing agreed to light in this way : st vein use opened
iiag • in eac of their arms, and the struggle was ai • , he I.ife
should stand the loogere or full the soonest. I' a ,
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Lordship reed a statement made of the exports .i. d •
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imports for one quarter, ending on the sth of 11..
nuery in the present year, whereby it apposite l.
' 31.35' that cum:tierce had suffered a divninntion •of snot t-
es and
1.400,0001. in that short time, part of which :sad
Jelly be been subsequent to the Orders in Council.
Ea:-1 theruener hail no objection to the:Noble
•. Lord's motion; but, tat the same time, diserelrith
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ra" him respecting the statement concernimg es.
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tr; 1. ports and imports, fur although a considerable di-
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!i,,.... (he inimition of conimerce had taken place, subsegiser t . .
tars, in to the (letters in Council, yet if we rtgarded the
(littemotieu pawriewis to these orders, for a lehgthi if
time, we should percive that other causes might .
Piersee, exist sufficient to produce such an effect.
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, LOA/ CRIINVILLE, in • speech of great kngth,
LEO and strong argument, pressed it upon their Linde
ships' esswidenition, that it ueirld be hieunnseet
upon the Noble Lords opposite to abandon there
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Or in Council altogether, when they found all .
red uni-
their expeetutions disappointed respecting ens up- • . '
t, i sad posed advaittage which was at first appreheirded --. ;
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ar • demised. 'l ate arguments against r,:ttlriweinuideB titt imyntil "It
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test of reason and opinion, and had been con-
TIAN I were strong and cogent, and ince ,es, tainted
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rith
the the with the copituercial world had giver, their tes-.
ux p, i timony at the bar of that House, e tier their na; be,
roes, tlisit they expected ruin would 'revue ,to o:ir '.
trade and our commerce, if those Orders in Coe,- . •- -
Yorke.
cif were acted upon. In addition to the teat of •
.-- . son and opinion, we had now the test of eept• • r ....
Ise far as to ahew that none of-the benefits ex:. ". •::
had resulted from this measure, tat, on the
tniry, great injury had arisen its the great_
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minution of our imports and exports. It. c 5....
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funnier . enemy had derived the best plan he 'peesitey
could invent for the destruction of British come 1
iu Yew merce, it would leave been to have pri.;:soleit :•:fif
y a ibe .upon merchants to live that advice *Ministers.
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which lad to the issuing of these Orders in .. ;
Works. 1 Council. He was astonished et the time erhen -
"--"-. merchants of London could be so far infatuated .
as to think that such Orders could have any bear.
&lel effect whatever, bat now they had come for- , •
ward, and confessed their error, being very ready to
till the concede they had been under great mistake with
' is reeard to the result which they had foun to he wiel's 4.
ea_ very different from what they in the first idnstance
were disposed to imagine. Our ptrength. .35 3 ~^at and . e...e.:....-...eier-Iltmeillltt tillell otie commerce, and ws
loose of had been destroying the sinew of that arm which
a filet alone enabled us to antion the contest. He had
•no hesitation in predicting, that when these papers •
)f call- I were produced, the test of experience would pro. F
f con- flounce what a pernicious effect the Orders
A true in Council had produced, and that 31inisters •
:uasiou would be compelled at last to alrandon their
; order favourite orepring. If they would listen to him,
tot eft. I he would ad‘ise them to gite the measure up at
f their once, and not wait for u convenient opportunity
I these to free themselves (rain this measure, with a less
t ~,o, charge of inconsistency. Every month; every •
,tall do week, every day, and every hour were pregnant
, ills with fresh mischief and ruin to the v,tal interests
resent- I of this country. No persou could be more btu..
lich he diosie than be was, to avoid say discussion whit k -
rim' he I might tend to disturb the peaceable dispositiois
attests just at this time manifested by this country and ~
melee, the United States of America, and he considered
o their that a sufficient ground to preclude hint from • -
Paper entering more fully at this time into the subject,
ewe of relating to the Orders io Council.
to pa,. Lord HAWILKIMIURY considered it unfair to draw .•
he one this conclusion, that because a diminution 1, ..,
lowing taken place with regard to our exports and imp.). I
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after tlw issuing of the Orders in Council, the:e
be hely such diminutiois must have been occasioned by
t e',o6- those Orders, and not any other means what-
AIY "Y ever. Noble Lords aught to consider, that about -1
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the same time our situation with Europe was mate-
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rially altered from having gone to war with Russia
nil he and lientuark, and be thought more tune was re- - 4
d have quired toshew what effect had been produced frees
Lord- those Orders in Council.
to was The Earl of LAI:DRIIDALS condemned the th...
lay of time upon such an important subject, whin
1 all its ruin was making its way, iii all directions, amongst •• •
'wilt's. the trading arid mercantile class of people. They iii lre..
had
already had snfficient evidence at their Lord- i
add he .-
ships' bar, and before the other House, which
et de. onght to put an end to the speculation of Ministers
effect; upon the ruin of Commerce. It had been stated
tad on on oath, by a man from• Manchester, that he had
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mean- employed fifteen and twenty men, who were new
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Me for out of employ ; and he declared when he same-
ins• far times met thim ti, such was the change wrought by•
eat to hunger, that he did not know them. His Lord- i :
be ne,_ ship observed, that the countetiances of these mere,
mode rendered ghastly for want of food, were the kit 1'•
i here- possible description of tlie bad effects produced
.1. t.,.t,. from the Orders in Council, tied could not fail :o
interest the heart of every feelitig and good mach
papers The UMW CIIAtICELLOIt observed, that the Too.
an ac- tion had been put and agreed to bait' an borer see, •
le last and still • their Lordships were continuing in de-
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that hate upon that motion. He rose merely for the
o evi- purpose of protesting against the ductrilke which . .
)rders had been maintained by some Noble Lords, thet, erv..-- because diminution had taken place in regard to t •
mil it our imports and exports, since 'the Orders in •
A had Council had been issued, therefor. the Orders iu r 1
t been Council had been the occasion of that duninu-
ion of boo. It was iocumbent npozi Noble Lords, in ..
to our the first place, to prove that this diminution LA 1
;onion been ocessimied by those Orders in Council, and 1
speed- not from any other source..euid it was also neer"-
Noble eery that they should prove a worse state of time*.
field, ' would not have ensued, if no recourse boa Lot. n ' ,
omph had to the Orders in Council.
1 die. Lord Hoateesn shortly repressed his astonish-
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Ts in ment that the motions should have been pot aed