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ASSESSED TAXES.

Sir J. NEWPORT preseuied a Petition from the parish
of SI. Niels*las Without, in the city of Dublin, praying for
the repeal of the am emed taxes in Ireland.
Mr. C. HUTCHINSON said, be had been requested to
support the prayer of the Petition. He should be ashamed
to stand up in that House and demaud fur Ireland any
Taoism that could injure England, fiieltis most sirrecre wish
was to assimilate the conditilAs of the ten cyanid..s am
much ma pomible, and thee a remission of tams its each
coveter should proceed rui rime. But the House could
not osorlook the present forlorn mate of Ireland.—
It was tbe duty of Government to institute au iaroneuliate
inet's, into its constitutional evils mid into its Otters'sl situ-
ation, and if the result of that inquiry 'koala be that Ire-
land bad been taxed beyond its aus, he could not doubt
that the Noose of Coatroom would he its supprot to 507
pleasure that would aflorsl present relief. And if that were
dune, he would still, its spite• of all the gloomy prospects,
cherish the hope that Irelsod, insteed of appearing at the
bar a* the supplicant fur the remission of tome, would lie-
%come a source ofpuble soul strength to the empire.—(Cheers.)
—The Petition was ordered to be printed.
EXCISE LICENSES.

Mr. WODEHOUSE benumb' in the Rill pi? repealing the
Excise Lirensia-11 was triad a Gist iinit;, and uideleil to be
rend a second lime tu.sworriiir.
RETAIL BEER TRADE.

Mr. BROUGUA SI obtained limee and brought in a Bill
fur regulating Ibe Retail Beer Trade.—lt was read a first
time, aad urdrreil to be read a seemed time Am Moodily mat.
THE cutEr BARON OF IRELAND.

Lord LON DONLIF.KitY wished to kOOO front au Ho-
nourable Gentleman opposite (Mr. Rice)twhether he had any
objection to posipusie to a* early pe:iod iu 11v! ■eft Session
ease w►ich stood for this evening, relative in the Chief•
%roil of Inrhind. Als' fir ist he eool•1 see. smoopii all the
difficulties which hung about the can., it appears .1 to bin?,

Mr. SPRING RICE said; hr ?leper, the HMI.r oonlil
give him credit for einem sly, when he declared. that his snit
wish was to pursue that course whirls woirid beet toed, the
-gustier of the eane, sod preserve the rirgarty of the ailatimr-
,tratism of justice, There were assay iiC•ll/Itai ccccc on 'Wilt!
aides ; however, he trusted, that if he coneenicil to post poet',
(be ease, no imputation would be cast upon hint of a desire
to hold a charge over the head of the Chief Buon; *ad
ilie.menn time he hoped the !loose of COMMUIIII, oho aeicl
the gonedians of the niiniiiiistretion of the lawn, would Mere-
tigate the sulijict, and be prepared 14 novae to a Peal jedg-
newt at au early period in the next Session.
,THE CALCUTTA BANKERS
Me. BROUGHAM said, that in tatting she attention of
the House to thin subject, he should riot istresopy their
time very lone, as be had we • former ,nreseeou fully Cs-
object. The complaint of the Pttitioners was,
flast•Pli has.. had Wein borrowed by the Combs °Ube
security of a territory which wag seibrequeutly paelleireodik
pale of which came into the hand. of the Company th-an.
selves, sled their moiety yielded an anneal iiscoine of three
million. alerting; and these parties were now refused all
redress, sad were driven to Parli•meat as a matter of
The Hon.and Leashed Gentleman then iced several
docuommta tamed by different Governors-General Of India in
f of the claimant', and concluded by moving that their
Pclitioi be fettered to a Cuolinsitte.
Mr. ROBERTSON said, the money hail been borrowed on
the menet extravagant lease, and the Howie of Common's
should not inteifere to compel them to pay.
Mr. WETHF.RELI. maintained that the ohjectionn to the
claim were wholly unfounded, and read an extract from a
letter to strew that Lord Wellesley's °Anion sanctioued the
claim. The money wee raised for the Vizier in 1757, to pay
debts due to the Company. He remarked on the ~Malmo
of the policy of the Compaay in declaring sometimes for the
doctrine of interference, sometimes of non-in.erfereace is
the affairs of the native Priuces. He considered that by the
Partition Treaty, which they formed wish the Vizier, to lake
half his territory, that they had, se in the ease of as estate
demised, undertaken the responsibility of the claims upon
it. The Company could not deny the claim; they only
waived the rcspoasibility. They did it by their Goterutneat
at Calcutta, by refosiog payenint, and by the Company at
home, by declaring that they bad no power of interference.
It was difficult to detention in what condition alley stolid.
As traders they were liable to these contracts, bet they woe
also the envereiguty of she territory. Lord Timelier" sod
Lord Loughborough had both determined that they hail no
porter, as lord Cbaseellora, to compel the Company by lit .t
jurisdiction; but it was qaite plain, by all maxims (dotterel
and international law, that justice failing In the whom' •
titration of their Government, the sufferers could have a
remedy is the Parliament as the great Council of die
entity..
Mr. HUME objected to the interference of Parliament,
on the ground of forbidding precedents and practice, and
on all the testimony of recorded orders, minute", treaties,
and even the rakes of exception which were aerompauied
with specific reasons fur Interference. Ile described the
general mode Of raising money for the melly* Potentates,
which was never repaid, but by ditlitalt and tedium/ com-
promise, on 'cermet of the enormona interest charged. Had
these claimants cosseated to moderate their claim, they alum
might have been paid. He denied the responsibility of C.*
company, on accromi of Moir ho•log tokoo poo-
ofosioo of half the territory. The hordeers removed from -
the 'Vizier by that Treaty, had enabled hint to ama-s more
treanere then any monarch had been able in seeoropliat f.w
oratories, and to him the claim oiled to be referred, the
Cuespaity hoeing yet sufficient influence to iudoce bias to
pay the, money.
Mr. BROUGHAM explained.
Mr. PRENDERGAST explained the diffinilt and hard
conditioas to which he had to submit before he could recover
one half of a sum which was due to him on expeusee for
military preparations for this principility.
Mr. SMITH coafirmed the statement made of his case
by the last speaker.

Mr. PI.UNKETT would not give • derided opinion.
The claims were • fair subject foe inquiry, though the jus-
tice of then, might be questionable. That the interim had
been paid for several years together, wit. • cirenaistauce
which ran in their favour. He thought one object of the
Petition was very desirable—that the !Huila) creditors
should be put on the same footing with their British fellow-
subjects. A... 1 it was guar plain to him, that if they suffer-
ed injustice, they must be remedyless without the laetrile-
's-nee of the Howie.
Mr. WIGK A M cont►nded that the East India Company
might not to be called upon It was a debt due from the
and he only ought to be compelled to pay it.
Mr. P. MOORE gave at muck length a history of the
transactions on which the Petition was founded, and es.
pressed his astonishment h•w the Hon. Gentleman, who was
the professed ageut of the Petition, could hare given his
CUllliiellallft to It.

lord A. HAMILTON supported the motion for a C im-
mittee. Hr dot rot mean by voting for a Committee to say
that the Company ought to pay the debt-011,40-Imi as fat
as he was at present advised, he thought that some part of
the debt ought to be paid ; that a part of it ought to he paid
by the Company ; ■ad w►at he wanted was, that it should
be mark clearly to appear what proportion of the debt was
due, and by whom it ought to be paid.
Mr C. W. WYNN was disposed to erred, to the motion
*for a Committee, because every this( he had yet heard or
' sees CollOreted with this matter, presented the sopaaranee
of a prima fiefs ease, of so womb doubt and ii.ffieulty as
it was impossible to clear up before any other trihulial *ha*
a Committee of that House.
Captain MA FICK LY spoke against the Resolutiou for a
Committee. .

Mr. MONEY said, that upon • full examination of the
&corncobs before the Muse, he foistid all the most nistersal
allegatiosts he the Petition mat noly not substantiated, hut
for the mot part completely disproved.
Dr. PHI ILI MORE said, if from an attentive perusal of
all the docuinenta on the table of the House he could have
some to a satisfactory eisoclohion that no claim was nr could be
made out, than he should undoubtedly have lain prepared
In vole again‘t the °lotion ; but, from the roust atfi alive
examinatiou that he had beer( able to give them, sot being
alit-, for want of proof of the allegations. to form a
cis' opinion whether the claim was well or ill founded, he
was analoo•, fur the sake of not refusing justice, that a full
inquiry should be made, in order to ascertain how far the
claim could be substantiated ; and being of opinion that
such as inquiry could sot be satisfactorily punned before
atiy other ihihutial than Committee or that Hols.e, he felt
it to ha' bin duly to vote ter the appointment Or Committee.
Mr. G. SMITH spoke agatost the motion.

Mr. RICARIM) raid. be hail listened to the whole di.eur•
same with the greatest attentios, soil the coucln•iuy to which
lie had came, from the perisioil of the document. and the ■r•
cameos upon that it would he moat impolitic
tool unjust to •ppoint a Committee. lie thought the Right
Mo. President of the Board of Control. and the other How.
Member of that Board a ho had spoken *ince, could not have

read the documents 'Aston to the subject which were Go
the table of the house.
Sir. C. W. WYNN and Dr. PHIII.ILIMORE Hy
raptainsd, and stated that they ►ad read the w►ole of the
UUCUMI WIN and it was the at/certainty of opinion is which

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