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on the preceding eveiling, embraced subjects of a was, in fact, such an interference with the official
very extensive and most Important nature, and as duties of Ministers, as, he emit-rived, with all de-
they would be fully discussed net a future day, he ference to the Hon. Gentleman, could tiot be con-
would not take up the time of the Committee by sidereel fair and proper.
making any observations on them, but would pro- Mr. F. Dot/Gres did not mean to ark any quell.
creel to put the first Revolution into the bands of don. the answer to which could involve the +secrets
the Chairman. of Government. But. as he thought, from what
The Chairman (Mr. Baounee) then read the had fallen on a former night from the Noble Lord,
following Resolution : that Government contemplated the step which he
1. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that, genre had alluded to, he did not conceive that there was
the termination of the war in the year IRIS, the property any impropriety in the question.
tax in Great Britain, and other taxes in Great Britain and Lord CASTLICREAGH begged of the lion. Gen-
Irelloil, to the amount uf 18,000,0001. per annum, had ex-
tlnan
pired, or bees repealed, or reduced. ei riot to be too hasty iii drawing colocluilions.
There being a general cry of " Read! read !" Ills Majesty's Government would pursue that course
when Mr. BILOCIDEN had finished the first, the which appenred to them to be correct.
FOREIGN ENLISTMENTS BILL.
CHANCELLOR of the Excneneen. read the re-
The ATTORNEY-G6NERAI. 'tweed the Order of
11101111111 g Itraolutinos 1-i-
-2. That, by the Act of the 55th of his Majesty, the re- Ithe
ments Bill.
Day for the second reading of the Foreign En.
venom of Great Britain sad lreland was consolidated. The list
net separate revenue of Ireland heing 4,501,0001. and Sir R. IVti.sote said, when this Bill was intro-
Me charge for the fended and untended debt being 63111,00/01- d uced by the Attorney-General, that Leerned Gene
whirl, charge exceeds the whole net revenue to the amount demon, in order to take all the responsohility of
of 1,000,0001. without affortlisig any thing for the support of
such an unpopular measure on himself, declared
the Coed List and other charges, and that no provision has
been made by Parliament for the same. that it originated solely with him—that it was en-
-3 That the...mantic' to be voted for the year will probably tirely his act. The Noble Lord, however, had re-
amount to 20,500.mi01 lieved I from that responsibility, for he declared,
4. that the amount of revenue applicable to She sip- in the course of the debate, that it was not an ab-
Owe will nut be more than 1,000,0001.—leaving a deficiency
stract proceeding. hut was intitnutely connected
to the amount of 13,500,0001 to be raised by loan.
5. That the Sinking Feud, fir the reduction of the ea- with the foreign policy of this country. To render
fluvial debt, fur the present year, amounts to 15,500,0001. the 801 l less obnoxious in the eyes of the flume
thus exreediug the sam weeeriary to be raised by tono,noot. and of the country. it was said that it was
O. That to provide far the 'Memories of the public service, brought in to supersede two Acts of Pasha.
sod to make pruvwssa for the eminent of the national debt,brought in
.resent,.. which were ;sordid in their operation, and
it is absolutely necessary that there should be a clear sur-
plus, beyond the expenditure of she country, of not lees inflicted the imilieliment of death cm those of-
than SAOO,OOO/. per mums—and it is, therefore, expilient fences which the new Bill would only visit with
to raise the taxes of the country to the amount of 3,000,10'1. fine and imprisonment, iti the first instance, and with
per annum. trensportation in the second. The {utter punish.
Mr. GREN}F.Lt. paid, he understood the CllBll* I meet hail, it seemed, been abandoned, in ohedi-
cellar of the Exchequer would, to-morrow, Hire ester to public oi )i ll inio—but the making the offence
certain Gentlemen, for the purpose of discossieg eeleeioue, oligitially, sufficiently proved the uniater
the terms of the loan Inc the prevent year. New. of those who formed the Bill. It was vaid that this
as the terms of that loan mutt be very much leder- I measure was mead to repeal the 9th and ..29:11 of
enced by the Resolutions which had just been read, Gm°. 11. Those Acts were 'mooed under special
he took it for gnslited, that the Right Honourable 1 circumstances, stud the princiiile on which they
Gentleman would nut, in the course of the negoci- were formed nes not suffered to mix with tile
anon, pledge himself, either with respect to the I general policy of this country—that !Jolley, which,
amount of the lusts, or to the appropriation of the
as a tteulrel power, England hail always pursued.
Sinking Fund, or to any other point, that could I Before lie showed that this Bill was nessentloy the
have the effect of precluding Ilion from areitig on consideration of the House, it was necessary that lie
what might appear to be the delilierete mese and should state a few historical facts, connected with
judgment of the Holm, when those Resolutions the Statute' of the 9:h and 29th of Get,. 11. The
come to be discussed on Monday next. He looped former Act was p.a,rii in the y e
.ir 1736. who,
the Right Ilion. Gentleman a otild keep himself die- was the sometime of Eigland at that time ? All
engaged, so that lie might ire enabled to proceed in &trope was 1,111014 ed no war, and England was
the way that scented to Ise must proper and advs. solicited to mediate a 'race between Frence noel
able, after the do eisioti of the Howie on Motiday. i Austria—and,
indeed, to effect a 1/11C.fie8i1011 he-
tic was 111111181111 that this should he distinctly kitting*, I tweet' all the belligerent parties. King George IL
in order that nothing might occur between the accepted of the situation of Mediator—and, when
Right Hun. Gentlemen atoll those loan-contractors I England was intrusted with that sacred duty, it
which could letter the judgment of the Irleuse, in certuinly was right that her subjects slionloi be pre-
any degree, with respect to those Revolutious ; mud I vented, while she was endeavouring to secure a peace,
more particularly with respect to the uldAtcatiwi `)f from supplying any of the !Jame* with the memos of
the Sinking Fund in diminution of the lime war. On it account British milojects were restrained
The Cuttectekoo of the EXCHEQUIIIt Said. the from joining guy of the belligerent powers. But
House must see, that, in the mottle centre' of this the course adopted by the Noble Lord was quite
proceeding, his object v •s, to give the contractor". ddiereost. AVlsile negoociations were going on, he
before they agreed to any loan. an opportunity of I po minted armaments to he fitted out ill British
forming a full idea of the sentiments of Parliament ports, for the purpose of lostoting the South Ante-
on the subject of those Resolutions. Nothin.4 riCBllll—but. when all hope of an amicable adjust-
would he doer, on one ride or the other, to Iced mem with the Mother Country was at an enob.theu
himself or the contractors, or to fetter lio discuss:um he came down mid said, "No inner succour shall lie
or determination of Parliament. sent out to the South Americans." This was not
The House then resumed. Mr. BROGOLIe re- I dune to preserve neutrality, but to prevent the
ported progress, and asked leave to sit again oil I weaker party from receiviug assistance. The see
Monday. I coed Act was passed in the year 1756. What was
the cause of that measure? In the month of olenuary
the French %rove! on all the British property at
Dunkirk. In the month of Match a one-sage
came down to Parhatnent, voting, that the Keg
had received information that it was the intention
of Frstice to invade either England or Irelend—and
at that period the Pretender was in the 'might -
hood of Paris, attended by a great number of his
adherents. Ili slots state of thing, the 29th of
Geo. If. was passed, to prevent British subjects
from jonaing foreign powers, 'l'llis was correct
for it was impossible to say what foreign stele or
potentate would become the ally of France or of
the Pretender. Those A. is then were had recourse
to, iti order to meet extraordinary circumstances.
In the some way, the Arts of James I. and 11.,
which related to foreign enlistments, were passed
with reference In special cioctornstalocee. The Act
passed in the reign of James IL woos occasioned by
the necessity he was ler of recalling *eerie!
English regiment*, who were in the employ of the
Prince of Orange—and who, lie tested, would ha
induced by that Niece to serve against Ilion. The
Act which was assented to sit the reign of Wil-
liam 111. was also introduced under the preestire
of nrceesite. 111 short, out one Act, Moeda,. to the
measure then before the House, hod ever beets
introduced, except when England was a ptinci-
pad in the quarrel with some foreign state, or
where she agreed to conduct u tiegocintiont be.
tweets belligerent parties. What was the opera-
tion of these Acts I From the moment the royal
assent was given to them, they were costeigued to
the tomb, where their rest was never disturbed. No
punishment had ever been inflicted under the 9 h
or 19,11 of Geo. 11. When persona appeared in
arms against their country, they WI suffered wider
military law. or else the law of high treason had
been enforced ugainet them. This was the ease,
within their own remembrance, a lien, a few years
ago, a 'member of sadism were mist biome lions the
Isle of France, and tried and convicted for hoeing
entered the Freuch service. 'rim this abatement
was correct, was easily proved by a rsference tu ler-
tory. In 1746, a vessel lauded a Freuch force on
the comet, which was, in part, comtnanded by Irish
officers. Those iudividuels were toot prosecuted
under the Act of the 9th of George 11. but were
treated as prisoners of war. Here he begged lease
to relate an anal dots in some degree connected
with this circumstance. It would be recollected,
that in the year 1793 or 1794, General O'Harr.
who had been in the service of France, but hail
left it. was made roomer at Toulon. The Na-
tional Convention ordered him to be tried tnr dis-
ernburking on the Freuch coast. and assisting the
peasantry in ass ineurrection against the existing
Govertiment—with the aseuraioce, that, it' found
guilty, his puseishmeut should be death. On that
occasion the Duke of York *elected au officer,
whose name would speak much more than rosy
panegyric he could pronounce on him. he meant
the present Lord flincimoson, to pottiest against
the Decree of the National Convenient, and to

SUPPLY.
Mr. BROGDFN brought up the Report of the
Committee of Supply of the preceding evening.
The Resolutions, providing fur the charges of the
Navy, Ordnance, Transport Service, Exchequer
Bills, and Irish Treasury Bills, for 1819, were
agreed to.
EAST INDIA COISPANY.
Mr. HUME inquired whether, in making provi-
sion for the present year, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer had taken into account the large stun of
money which was due to the Bust India Company
for expenses in Ceylon, and other traiisitctimis in
the East ?
The CIIANCELLOR of the EXCIIFQUER icrti no
hesitation in saying, that no provision had hef•n
made on that account. lie did not know how the
balance stood on either side—but he trusted the
Company would not require any re-payment this
year.

WEAVERS OF CARLISLE.
Mr. CUILWEN, seeing a Noble Lord in his
place, wished to draw h►s attention to the distresses
of the unfortunate weavers of Carlisle, whose mi-
serable situation was described iii a Petition which
lie had submitted to the House a few days since.
lie begged to inquile, whether it was the intention
of Government to take any step fur the relief of
those poor people, whose conduct had been most
exemplary—who wished to do nathiug but what
was legal and proper—and whose case was there-
fore peculiarly worthy of serious consideration?
They were desirous of going abroad—and this was
the very momeut when relief of that kind could
be most easily extended to them—as ships could
now be taken up at a very cheap freight, which
might return to this country laden with timber
from our North American Colonies. lie there-
fore wished to know what the determination of
Government was, that he might apprise those poor
people of it.
Lord CASTLIUMAGG said, the Petition of those
individuals had been placed in the hinds of the
Secretary for the Home l)epartn►enit, who had lost
no time in laying it before the Prince Regent. By
his Royal Highness's command it had since beef
transmitted to the First Lord of the Admiralty, in
order that he might state what could be done on the
subject. He believed no report had been yet made
on the subject. The circumstances were certainly
very calanutous--but the lion. Gentleman must
be aware of the great difficulty which mast attend
the adoption of a hasty lor partial measure.
CESSION OF PARGA.
Mr. F. DOUGLAS inquired of the Noble Lord,
whether his Majesty's Government had adopted any
proceeding to prevent the surrender of Varga to the
Ottoman Porte ?
Lord CASTLgggAGU said, the Hon. Gentlemen
must see that it would be attended with great iii-
couveniente, if 'Ministers were called on to answer,
in the progress of their duty, whether they had, or
had not sent out certain instructions ? An answer
to such a question necessarily. involved some notice
of the nature of the iustructious themselves--end