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Lord Easats• rose. His Lordship said, he
never knew an instance in which Counsel were re-
fused the indulgence asked by the Learned Gen-
tleinau now at the Bur. It •as the practice of
Courts of Justice never to rrfute an acconimoda-
tiou of this kind, if the delay was not likely to lead
. to any injuriou4 consequence. He was not, however,
surprised that they, who would deny a man in his
last moments, a do a of hark, to prolong his life a
few hours, to make his peace with God, were
averse to grant another day for the discweion of a
question, on which depended the capital of a Bri-
tish merchant.

Lord liawaxsatiat asrain rose, and contended,
that there had been little or no cross-examination.
and that nothing. had come out from tl.e witnesses
at the bar, of which the Learned Co inset was not
apprised, cud must be as well pruparati to speak
theu as 10-1110ITOW.

The quo.tiou was then put for deferriag the
summing up uutil to-morrow, wild the Nome

Contosts - - Is—Nos-Costents 3i.

Counsel was then called, and minuted up the
evidence briefly.

Eric BATHI. AIM then rose, ■nd moved the third

reading of the Biil. Ills Lordship prefaced his
motion with a short speech, in which he said—" The
evidence adduced at the Bar, instead of weaken-
g the case, rather gibes strength to the principle
of Bill. Vie are told that there is only Bark
in the country sufficient for our own consumption
for 11 veare, and that the principal part of that is
involved in the present weasure. If the Petitioner
heea unwary, and yen:fired too much of his
capital in one article, is this House to be called on
to give hint redress ? We bare been told that we
are culling dnwit the wrath of heaven on us, hy
attempting to keep the Birk f..orn our enemies.—
Would not we rather incur that punishment by
leaving ourselves without a sufficiency for our men
necessities? The Witnesses at your Car have told
you that the difficulty of getting hark has increased.
If so, isnot the measure a wise and neces.ary one?

Was it ewer known that Bark was excluded from
rapture or from the penalty of the Blockading
System? No! and why not then be *wade a part
of the means of distressing the enemy ? Your ma-
nufactures cannot go to the enemy, although they
mast increase •v Sour hands, and will• you rinni-
Melt your supply of that a; tide which is necessary
for the preservation Of your own lives, and at the
same time ersahle the enemy to annihilate al! your
other trwie and commerce ? b 1 Lords, the nice- •
sure has me whole sups:foto., Si a wise and jtrif,:icas
one ; and I hop_ this Elonse obeyer will, for .he •tire
cola v.!nturesouse indothluol, forget the velure of
the c•wrotry."
L.rl Ea-c;tar—'• Mr Lords, I rise merely to
at-ite :how principles up,ou whch it is my detertni-
LlittiOn to record, upon the Jou:Toals of this llouse,
Inv solemn protest against this messure. Those
pro isles I hate alrea ly taken occa.ioos to submit
to you, and the snore hare considerel, the more
son I coo.rinced that they are founded in teeth and

Lord Boat annoys thought that the measure
was perfectly defensible, not merely ou the ground
of necessity, but upon every principle of policy
and humanity. He could not distinguish the
measure prohibiting the importation of Bark into
an enemy's lowa, from a siege or blockade. When.
a town wee invested on all sides, it was for the
pu •pose of subjecting the besieged to every sort of
privation, and it was well kuowu that the innocent
and peaceful inhabitants, including the sick, the
women, and the ("Milieu, were the first to experi.
ence tine elects of the siege. The people were the
first reduced to want, the garrison bring in gew
'torrid better supplied than the townsmen.—He
did not think, as the Noble Lord had stated, that a
siege was calculated for mere imuiedicte effect.
There were many modern instances of tedious
blockades and sieges. The siege of St. Sebastian,
in the Spanish war, iii the year 1741, if he re.
membered right, Listed a year and a half....
He could not estimate the duration of the present
measure, should it pass, but he did trust that the
measures adopted egainst the enemy would produt e
tl eir effect in a much shorter tune. Ile could
not, therefore, distinguish the present mea►ure
Coin that of siege, and he thought the analogy
complete between them. The mistilief in fact lay
in the nature of war, in which the Moonlit and
unotTending were of necessity doomed to suffer
equally with its instruments and promoters. It
was not fair to presume that the present measure
necessarily deprived the enemy of this medicine.
The Bill merely said, if they wanted it, and
would have it, they meat take with it a portion of
those other articles which they have been hitherto
in the habit of importing from this couut►y.—
lle could not see any cruelty or barbarity in im-
posing such a conditionu upon an enemy whose <mu
extravagant conduct had led to this measure. Rut
at what time and under what circuits-maces were
we called au to exercise a►l this foibeerance, and
-hew all this tenderness towards an enemv,who had
aimed at nothing leis than the annihilation of all
the trade and commerce of the country ? Were
we surrounded with allies, pressing upon a single
nation, cud pursuing every possible means to ef-
fect her ntter destr.,etion ? \e ; England ilea%
without friends, and without allies, was contending
ageiust France, with couf.derated Europe at free
back. We are fiihting against the inordinate am.
tat:on of France, her deep-rooted malignity, her
universal dniuinion, and in defence not merely of
our independence, but our very existence as a

The Earl of ALBENIAIME•.—" MV Louis, this is
mse of the IDUSt Whit:Tan aLtd rosoous .r-.1•11'
that eve:- came bef•Jr. Ili. 1- a.,t—oded re
1.-! e:,.t a :tut

itt±twe ? Not the ba rtiV .
Bark. I had vat: th:s eit:re att.*.
tioo, awl ::c• rAke Qut a.).% vu e!,e-ny was
to Le I,vored td; tt, tor. wilbt ..A:as it ti.liott.

a,i ~,

did, that It its **Set tte sick and wounded eel-
diens—a bemuse• iedectiou fur Euglishmeti, the
boat of whose old morality it was, to assist and
clothe the wounded and sick enemy, even to
nourish them. blow ofteu, to the hotiour of Eag-
laivt, has the meanest man in our ranks deprived
himself of clothes and food to give to the wounded
enemy ?—And is it now for Ministers, by this new
morality, to stain for ever the honour, the humanity
of their country ? Do they wish to foams the foot-
steps of Bonaparte ? 'Let them recollect, that
this very systents now "recouirtiended for our imi-
tation, la the only preventive to ins beteg called a
troly great man. But it will not operate mgaistut
lima the sick soldier, for be assured, that Bens-
poste, whoeontrouls all the ports of the Continent,
will not let his army want Bark, let who will '
suffer. The poors—uot the poor and healthy,
hat the sick passant., .the women and children,
will be. the sufferers. What will this new system
drive His Majesty's present advisers to ? Not
*mildest with attacking au.innocent neighbour,
tuardarieN hia people, knotting his capital, and
stealing kis fleet, do they now declare war against
hostansty ? Ohl England, will you ever reguti the
honour you have lost ? If there was no other argte
mint against the measure' but its awn weakness, it
would be sufficient. I hold in my hand a paper
giyiug the price of bark on the I Ith of February,
1808, at Paris, when it was one shilling in the
jloond chenper than the market -price in this
country. N ill the Noble Lord, at the head of the
Admiralty, say, that even with our immense mari-
time forts., not one single ship in the year shall get
lota one of the numerous ports subjected to Frmii e%
If the Noble Secretary of State were to rise in his
Owe, and propose to destroy the French tinny,
engaging them in single combat with himself and
his colleagnee, it would jot more surprise rate; for
the proposition would not be more preposterous
thin the iwewat, nor be attended with more effect.
My Lords, I oppose this mecumre, because it is a
. weak one, and can lend to no possible gond ; be-
cause it is staiiiing the fair fame of our country ;
bet:Ouse it is against every sentiment of humanity,
which used to he the boast of our 'forefathers •
because it has a tendency to enforce on the mind:
,of the nations of the Continent, that we have for-
gotten that we belmtg to the human, race : and as we
were told by a Noble Lard opposite to us, that we
had many arms against us on the Continent, yet
we had mu to titans with we; because this measure,
being contrary toasty just principle, in either divine
or human laws, must inflame the nations of the
Coutinent against us, and render them willing
enemies.—lti feet, it would be the means of thror:-
ing an odium on the country, that centuries of
good acts could not expunge, and altitudes against
every principle that does honour to human nature."
The Earl of WLSTMOILLAND contended, that if
the measure would nothave effect at the present
moment on the enemy, it would in a very short
time, a. the waut of Bark would oblige them to
admit our manufactures. He concluded with ob-
serving, that the arguments of the Noble Lords on
brie oppneite side, tended,. as they had done the
whole Sessions, to favour the enemy.
Lord Houieeti expressed his surprise that His
Majesty's Ministers should press the measure, after
the evideuee Lino had been heard at the Bar of the
House that night. It was useless to dwell upon
its iuhunsaaity, for the morality of His Majesty's
present Ministers Ite.i forgotten the meaning of the
word. Every argument they had adduced in favour
of the measure, was refuted. If our army had be-
*gad a fortress or a city, and the place was in
wow of provision, our Commander would not be
justified in supplying the provisi'on ; but if they
asked for medicine for the sick, it was not the
practice of the old morality of this country to re-
fuse it. lie hoped the House would not pass a
Bill into. 111,11 which violated all the finer feelings
that characterised.this nation. As long as he had
the honour of holding a seat in that House, any
measure that tarnished the honour of his country,
be would oppose, and there never was u measure
more calculated to produce that effect than the
present one.

Lord Mutottats—n The present is a necessary
measure to meet the Berlin Decree. The Noble
Lords had spoken much about its inhumanity, but
where could be the inhumanity ? They held out
that the enemy were not in wa:it of the article ;
and if they were not, they could not suffer by the
prohibition.—The Bill is only a measure Of rt st
tipu ; for if Frauce will hot Like nurmailmfacturcs,
she should not have our Bark. There was a quan-
tity of iv in the country, and lie would not ii.ty
that for this we were not Marked to the lendable
enterpose of one of our merchants. lie trusted,
however, that the person would not stiffer, as it
wits in the power of Fits Majesty's Mit.isters to
grant him a license to export a putt of it, at any
tune the enemy would allow the manufactures of
this country to he imported to the Comment ; hut
isswas impose 'le any merrhant, however enter_
prising, could vcpect that his foreign article should
have the prof n. to our own manufactures."

The Earl of LAtirtanaLE could not be silent
• and hear the language which a Noble Earl (West-
isteelassil) had used that night. Ile would invoke
the censure of the /louse upon such language.
Would. any Noble 1..0nl sit passire and hear any set
of Lords told they were using arguments to enforce
the cause of the euenty ? lle Mul often listened
to the Noble speeches with apatite ; but the
words wean so striking, that he could not help
taking them down. Wax it to go abroad to the
peeple of this great empire, that there were persons
sit that Howse defending the eoe:ny. %Vito were
the argument* that brought forth this aceusatioa ?
1T as it-not proved in the evidence at the Bur,
that yoar ineasurc a, your Orders in t'otincil, had left
thougands of your as.mnfaettirers in idleness, and
would eventually reduce theta to twzgarf ? Wi.nin
would the non-:tuportation of bark injure ? Nut
France, bat the pea.antry• of Spain, and the coun-
tries denending on Bonaparte. And what is the
tiro mis.tto.i made h.: the Noble Lords? Why,
that they ,could trcia: tOr the •xportation
of bark, it th- eaeuty would take a:leipoil quantity
in value of our manuftentrr% in cm-Ilan:v.. z.stp.
pose the enemy a4rertl tl. that prropo,,ttion, hied
sent Mr. Deuttnalt an order for too p ',ands of
bar?, ; be would apply to Mi.ihrters fur a h, crew;
then they would say, " We must send tan kiln-
Jresi yards of eat,,:o ; there is Mr. B. i• 1 Yr.; k-
shies:. who supported us ,th I{l-4) „L.,

at the last contested election foCtliat county,
against Lord Milton, he ought to be encou-
raged." And by this mean* Ili* ought
Ministers
would rime another E• urcv of exteading the influ-
ence of the Ciown._ and endangering the interests
of the .country. A Noble and Leerued Lord,
whom he sew iu his place (Lord litslesdule) had
about four weeks back wad that the in( reliant,. of
tilt/ country were gro!twing great lc-riche', to an ex-
t, at before unknown ; and it was necessary that
the Crown should grow strong iu proportion. lie
supposed the present measure, by ruining one
merchant, and obtuining for Ministers influence
with a few individual manufacturers, would bring
the merchantssad the Crown on a level.

Lord REDESDALC argued in favour of the po-
licy and propriety of the Bill. It was calculated
to make trance feel the pressure and evil effects
of her violent decrees against the commercial in-
terests of this country. He next al hided to the
comments made by the Noble Earl (Lauderdale)
on the vote which lie, and many other Noble Peers,
had given on a measure lately submitted lo the de-
cision of that House. In the line of conduct which
they pursued, they acted; though in opposition to
Ilia Majesty's Government, from a sincere con-
viction of its rectitude. And he was convinced
from as proud a feeling of iudependence as elm-
recterisod any members of either side in that House.
Its answer to the severity of that 'measure, as
affecting the Petitioner, who had that night been
heard at the bar, it was to be recollected, that
there was by this Bill a discretion vested in His
Majesty's Pnvy Council, which he was aware would
be exercised with'the most lenient bearing towards
the interests of the merchants and manufacturers
of the country. Ile should, upon every consider-
ation of the question,- give it his most decided sup-
port.
Loral Glii:NVlLtr, in a most eloquent and im-
pressive speech, reviewed the various evasions prac-
tised by the Noble Lords opposite, with the hope
of at laat fix tog upon something either in the shape
of argument or illustration, to justify the system
of policy on which they had begun, and were de-
termiaed to act. There was no expedient too con-
temptible, no device too wretched, under which
thty bad not endeavoured to shelter the various
measures of their Government. The grant ground
upon which they justified their Orden in Council,
was •the Order of their predecessors, of the 7th of
Jaituary, lgo7. It was in the recollection of the
Hodge, that when that Order was first canvassed
in the Le4islature, it called forth the loudest op-
Eosition and hostility from those very persons.—
They were not only hostile to its operation, but
were averse. to its principle. Yet scarce a few
months had elapsed, when this very Order was made
the defence for a new course of measures, totally
inapplicable to the circumstances of the case, and
attended with effects neither within the compass or
object of the Order to which they referred. What
had the House beard that bight at its Bar?
what manner were the object and motives of the
present Bill justified? By the examination of the
persons moat able to afford accurate information,
at was sheath that it would not only prove to-•
tally inefficient, but that it was rested by
its defenders upon a false assumption. They
had assumed, first, that there was • great want
of the article of Bark in France, and that the
pressure of that want would compel its- Govern-
ment to relax the severity of its commercial policy
against this country. In both their speculations
the facts were against them ; the French people
having • large quantity of that article ;` and . there-
fore there existed no such necessity as the 'Noble
Lords were induced to expect. Bat was there no
sense of the great injustice under which the Peti-
tioner must suffer by this nugatory bill, when,
by
an act of the legislature, the whole valise fan
' article, which, to the amount of 600,0001. this Mr.
Deuft:adt bad purchased under the faith of Go-
vernment. was totally diminished, and thrown upon
his hands as a dean weight ? The Noble and
Learned Lord has said, that the Petitioner
had to confide io the discretion vested by this
bill in His Majesty's Privy Council. Against
such &doctrine he should ever protest. He should
protest against that House voting against its
own views of right and propriety, under the falla-
cious hope that the Noble and Learned Lord,
(Redesdale.) or any other Member of Administra-
tion, would exercise with caution and lenity the
monstrous power committed to them by Portia-
meta, and that their character or conduct should
be the only guarantee to the people of this country
against an extravagant abuse of the unconstitu-
nonel authority vested in them by this Bill. Was
Parliament not competent to exercise a due dis-
cretion, and to temper their proceedings with a
due regard for the interests of the persons who
must now feel aggrieved by its enactments ? Or
was it the determination of His Majesty's Govern-
ment, to reserve for itself every exertion of forbear-
anceanal acs uiercencorwhilst it vassonlleft to that
!louse to pass measures of severity and hardship?—.
And for what object was this system to be pursued ?
It eras to induce France partially to relax its ri-
gorous decrees against this country. So this was
the proof of all the energy and promptitude, of
all the vigour and resmarces, of the Noble Lords
opposite. Thus ended all the vaunting hopes and
ruiglify promises of those who were to subdue even
the violence of France. to curb her aggressions,
to force her own menaces to recoil upon herself, and
filially to reduce her to an abandonment of her own
rigorous expedients, from the pressure of those pri-
vations which she must endure br our blockade
of her numerous ports. With all this out-
side 'hew of purple, the only object to be ob-
tained was the success of a contemptible con-
tria ogre to insinuate into France those article* of
British manntlicture, from her inability to obtain
which, was aunrcd her ultimate distress and
discomfiture.. The Noble Baron took • coinpre-
tomtit% e view of the various observations lie had
heard adraticed, mail of the reasons which induced
him to vote fur the rejection of this Bill. He told
thcen, that, aithi all their cunning and devices, it
would prove hut waste toyer, and he ails happy in
the coutemplation of its faeinre. Ile felt happy,
that when, in the insolence of el'insed and uncoc-
rriitiled power, man dared to violate those tight*, fur
the protection of which all atithorit, and predetni-
'lance n.is conferred, ;hat in the 'ovum-oh:nee of his

namr, , 01:2(1:1-at Crecer oft lir Iraive-ree irit..rpo4t4l.
as l cv..ins.:•;i by rhymeiLl bounw the rail attualpUi

of violence, converted the very expedients for their
operation, into instalments of prevention mid de-
feat. The Noble Baron concluded by calling
upon their Lordsoips, as they respected the dignity
of their OWO HOUSe, the character of their country.
and the interests of humanity, to reject this weak,
wretched, degrading, and nugatory measure of
contemptible policy.
The LOAD CH.ANC:j 7.0 g having !eft the Wool:
sack, declared, that though ninvillnig, after the
very long discussion of the Bill, to cuter fully into
its merits, y et lie could not so d'er the observations
of the Noble Baron to puss wilisout one remark in
reply. If this Bill was so ciegrAtliii and so ab-
horrent to the lawS of humanity and of nations, in
what manner, he would be glad to hear from the
Noble Baron, was the Act of ITO to be defended.
which declared corn, beaus, uud pulse, contraband
of war, mid subjected to punishment soy of the
Majesty's liege subjects, who should have nttempted
to supply France with those articles ? It was irre-
concilable, at least to him, that to prevent that
people from getting Forced was wise and politic, but
that refusing thew physic was inittunan. Ile was
aware that the Act of 17:17 referred principally to
this prevention of any truiterous correspondence
between the two countries.

Lord thittivitte roc to explain, and contend-
ed, that there was a wide and 'palpable difference
between the two periods of time. In 179 i France
stood alone, and the other powers of the Continent
were in clove alliance with this country. Unfor-
tunately the reverse was our present relation with
the enemy. Ile could not congratulate the Noble
and Learned Lord on the candid inference he laud
endeavoured to draw,although it had scarcely fallen
from him, when he actually anticipated the answer.
Lord HAWKS:I/IVRY considered the instances of
his Noble and Learned Friend truly in point, and
strongly contrasted the inhumanity of starving the
whole people of France, with the alleged janitors-
lityof the present Bill. _ _

Earl ROSSLT N proved, from the present prices of
the article, that no such pressure as that alleged
existed. and that it ass nugatcry in the extreme to
give a legislative sanction tie' this measure, so ridi-
culously designated by the Noble Lords opposite,
as the security and stdvati u of our manufatturers
end merchants.

The /louse then divided, and there appeared for
the third reading,

Contents ....56 'Proxies 54 110
Fot:-Conte sts 20 Proxies if? 44

Ilsjerity oti
Lord GuE vt Lbw move 4, " That a clause should
lie added to the Bill, that any individual who may
sutler by it, on makini out his ease to the satisfac-
tion of both Houses of Parliament, should men et
compeummoin"

Lind HAWK- MVOS opposed the motion, u Un-
precedented.
The motion was then pot and negatived.
The House adjourned at TWO •'CLOG[ THIS
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