The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-02-20 00:00:00

COLD AVM YIELDS PRISON.

Mr. Sakai DAN intimated to the I 1
that he
now had procured, sod was ready to presciit, a Pe-
.kition similar to that he presented yesterday, with
those alterations hi the mode of designating the
Petitioners, which had been deemed necessary by
the Right Hon. (:eotleinan opposite. Although
he had ogreud to the vrithdmwing of the Petition
he had already presented. yet he still remained con-
vinces,' there was-no real groand for refusing it,
and Was-atthe same time assured of the Speaker's
friendly disposition to the right of petitioning to
the utmost Ardent. A t erteeptioa had been taken
to the sigiiatnms of the first Petition, bemuse they
had been skarribettas being of the Grand Jury, as if
some deception bad been thereby meant. He could
ittistin, the House that no such thing au intewled.
The tc•titi.niers hatitesseired an pinionr from the Court
to visit. tha ittiJUIIO stud he lied a document signet!
by the fts statism{, that so far riot n being eager
to inspe.n it, he was perfectly unwilling to under-
take the doti.. and was actually pres.o.l into the
situations. Color these eirennistanees, he should
sitlnnit to the Chair,• whether or not be might still
press that the former Petition, already presented to
tha House, might yet be ordered to be laid upon
. the Tahle.
Tbe SpEARes, observed, that the lion. !Itemiser
could net do better than acquiesce with the sense of
the House, atalready taken.
Mit Su,:itturot accordingly presented the Pcti-
voTsiell was read aloud by the Clerk, anti was
exat:tly is stilisttusee as the former one. After re-
eentitendlas to the consideration of the House the
Report p-evented unon this muse subject in the
month of October, !Roo, he moved, is That the Pe.
titian be Inid upon the Toble."

The entail:l.l.4Z of, the EIC11164):1 r.it still per-
sisteijii his opinion that the Petition, as it formerly
stoodwas perfectly irregular, and could not think
that Lis •oppesition to it might to he efinracterized
as a captious our, the Petitioners not having been
'therein described in the character, that belonged to
them. If persons called themselves calico-printers,
aud, in a petition to the Home complained of cer-
bun grievances in the trade, they not being then
ac-
tually calico-printers, surely it could not he argued
that their petition should be encouraged. He should
not object to the Petition, as it now stood, being
laid mica the table, although he saw no reason for
a Petition haring been at all presented, except it
was upon a pre,umptiou that Government would
not du its cloy. Nou, he had fennerly stated,
that upon a comuinnieution having- be. • made
to hint t n • su-tp•et, he had intimated hi.; wil-
lingness to lay the mutter before the Secretary of

State, as soon as any•
wade out. specific complaint could be
Mr. gecretatg Gin]gum .said, he had also had a
letter/upon the subject, which lni communicated
to the Secretary if State for the Home Depart-
ment.
Some further observations fell from the CIRRI-
cE cLoa of the EXCHEQUER and •Mr. Swenivan.
Mr. Mettisit observed, that there was uudoubt-
edly a letter written by Mr. Sheriff Phillips to
William Maiuwaring, Esq. who laid it before the
Magistrates of the Couuty. This letter had been
recited in the Petition now before the House, sod
he thought it would have been but justice to have
also iucluded the answer which was sent to that
letter.
Upon the question being put, the Petition was
then ordered to be laid upon the Table.

IRISH MILITIA.
Sir Jame Ntsvroar rose iu consequeace of the
notion he had lately given, to move for certain
papers to explain certain ineon• isi.encies in the
'wide of executiot. of the Act pawed iu the hitterend
of lust henries, for raising. the Militia in Ireland.
ha thuertel, the bonuty given to volunteers into
that service was fixed at !bur guineas; but in-
stead ef that being adhered to. bomities of 14, J 5,
or 16 guineas, had been given, merely .because
these mums lied been alluded to in a subsequent
pat of the Act. Tice Act directed that the Lord-
Lieutenant shall ordervestries to assemble, to or-
der an' equitable assesament.apon the particular
parishes, but such was taw case, that after having
raned the tax, :hey had ballotted the parishes.
Ile was at a loss to know upon what principle this
'could be dune, since Parliament had only eutho-
need one option in dais particular. Another 06-
li:cline to the mode of aisaessiueut was, that the
*hole burden was arapo.ieal upon the resident te-
aming. and not upon the hand-holders. • This be.
conceived to be pellectly unfair, cod tended to
reader them dissatisfitd. His object was, that the
community should have-ao ground for sarng, that
they a ere aggrieved. If the ballot be at all to be
reset teal to, the first principle was that the appor-
tionment should be upon fair and regular returns, •
made at smell diaatanc:s of time, so that it might
be known that no parish or district goes beyond the
fair proportiounicat of the general quota. He un-
derstood froze thique.titeathle authority, that the
Lists of 1793 and 17na had been resorted to for
raising the apportionment in 1807. Nc wished the
House to assert its own rights, by taking these mat-
ters into consideration, and acting in canfonuity
with the p. i triples of the Irish Union. He need
scarcely observe to them that power had been al-
ways found to be susceptible of greater abuses in
proportion as it is exercised in a distant part of the
empire. It was for that reason that he now aimed
at a eorrectim of those abuses which. were more
prevalent in Lrela id than in Great Britain. The
Right Hon. Gentleman theta moved for
Copies of all Orders or Proclamations issued by the
Lori Limb-omit, or the Privy Council of based, di-
recting the mode of rcaLle men for the Militia, under the
provision of the late A. t of His preset* ?Haitian either
by ballot or by enrolling themes Vuhentems."
To this 'maim, no material objection was stated ;
but the observations of the Right Hon. Mover oe-
...taloned a conversation of comiderable lengthi
which Sir A/Titta Wetntsnre, Colonels 40., ay,
Vraeass, and lisewent., statoil serious' partieu-
lars in answer. Itt the 6MP..• r.l this eonversetion
it was stated, that as the Execu ti e Poeer hid why
acted according to the itaitherisy of the are, it wad
iu the Right Hun. Mover's power to have objected
to the partieular provisions of it, at the time it was
pining through the 110ilse. it was else stated by
Col. DARBY, that to his knowledge MA, lists had
been made oat for the counties of Cavan, Wexford,
and Carlow.

Mr. WINDHAM defended the arguments of Sir
John Newport, and said that it wls not yet,too late
to rectify the Act iu its particular. provisions, as
well as to rectify the mode of its execution.
Sir Josue Newrear added, that he was ready to
prove his assertion that the Old Lists of 179 s
and 1797 had in gen. ,al been used tinder the Act
of 1807, a hieli fur v.u•iuus reasons lutist prove
most Ulljubt.
The first motion beinA agreed to, the same Right
lionourable Creatlenian tluni moved fur vari,us
othrr necessary documents connected with tins
subject. all of which, after some occasional Miser-
! softens and trifling amendments, were also ordered
to be produced. •
Mr. lloasym gave notice. that he should, to-
morrow, wove for the postponement of the Elec-
tion Petition for Great Crinishy, on the ;;round of
the nerewary recognizant:es not having been en-
tered into.

General GASCUIGNS moved for two amounts te-
lative to salt exported 'from this country for the
last three years, and the duties paid thereon.—
Ordered.

Nir. BA NILES moved for an acrouat of all exemp-
tions tzranted to Foreigners, in respect to the duty
on dividends, in the various funds of GreatEritain,
under the Property Tax of the Bth of April, 11417.
Also accounts of the note. in circulation from the
English std Irish Banks, from the Ist February
1807. to Ist February
Mr. Hamm Naomi again pat come questions
to the Ministers, touching the appointment of an
Agent at the Island of Ceylon, the answer to which
we di.l not distinctly hear. The I lou. Gentlctuau
ended the conversation by saying, he would deem
it his duty to make • specific motion upois this
subject, upon same futons day.
Upon the motion of Mr. WINDII 01, the Ser,rtl
Resolutions of the house respecting the military
force if the country, at the dose of last Sessions,
were ordered to be reprinted.