The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-03-30 00:00:00

FASHION AR LE PARTIES.

The Itarchiestes of Hertford will give a splendid rout
this evening at Hertford House, Illauebester-square.
The Duke of ?India eaten doted a select party sit dieser
yesterday in Norfolk Home. Si. Jasts's-square.
Count and Countess Munster entertained • large party
of distinction un Wednesday, at their house in Grosvenor-
place.
Viscount and Viscountess Granville had • dinner party
yesterday, at their house in Bruton-street, Berkeley.square.
The Earl and Countess of Pembroke will biker a large
party at dinner as Sunday neat, at their house in Privy.
garden'.

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PORBIGN iNrittLrGitifeEa
. a PARIS PAPERS:
)1141t19. 111 A SCR qt
The King ottmsrii 6 '.Fxsected here. Perris
rations are making{ at the Elysee de Bourbon Int
his reception. His Majesey's brother, the Doke
de Genevois, has peotested against the late pro.
ceedings at Turin.
The several garrison* in Savoy are ordered up to
Turin.
Baron nervier. the Asiatrisn Ambassador in
Piedmont, palmed Mood-Cents on the 21. t.
A leiter from Turin, dated Mardi 20, Oates that
on the 17th a division of artillery marched for the
frontiers. The citadel was to be occupied byithe
national guard,
A Journal maliciously remarks that the Nettles
Gazerrer had not arrived beet Priddy at Pant. This
Jourtiel probably does not know that the ordinary
couriers coming from that kingdom arrive at
Paris on Monday and Wedneulay only in each
Mark.
[From the Journal des I)elafs.]
NAPLIPS, MARCH 11.
TI e Government has just published the fire bul-
letin of our army. It is an-sobstatice a. follows:
" General Pepe having heard that the Austrians
were concentrating themselves in force at Rieti,
sent a string reconnoitring party against three.—
An engagement ensued, and the Austrians were
the attackers. Our soldiers sustained the attack
for seven hours. The General, perceiving new re-
inforcement. arrive to the Austrians, ordered a
retreat. The enemy returned to their positions.
They had many men killed. We had about thirty
killed find wounded."
On the Bth, at four in the afternoon, their
Royal Highnesses the Duke of Calabria and the
Prince of Salerno left this capital for the army.
The Prince Re,gent's departure has here re-
nounced to the Parliament by the following out-
✓age, which has this day been posted in the streets:—
" Tire events of the war render my presence -Willie army
necessary. lam about to repair to it, and shall make fre-
quent jimmies thither, dividing my time between the camp
and the capital, in order that the various affairs of the State
may not be neglected.
" During my absence my mind is tranquil. I lesee amidst
you all that I hold most dear is the world—my beloved family.
I confide in the affection which has been comiantly shown
me by the poprobasem of Naples, and in the excellent con.
duct and teal of the wallertal guard, which has enabled me
to render the insp. of the line disposable for the &fusee
of the country.
My confidence in the Neapolitans is unlimited, in the
same meaner as I see that theirs in me is equally so. This
reciprocal eentintest will certaiely he jestifie.i.
(Signed) " FRANCIS, Repot."
Naples, March 'l.
The Prince Regent has appointed for his officers
of ordnance, the Duke of Casoli, the Rance of
Allieno, the Prince of Tomtit., the Marquis Bran-
cacchin, Couut Niscerni, sod Count Porten*.
A decree of the Prince Regent orders all land.
holders and farmers, as soon as they see the enemy
advancing, to remove every kind of provisions and
forage behind the lines of the army. An account
will be taken of their !oases.
Our troops occupy Ascoli, under the orders Of
Crimp-Marshal Verdiacci, and maintain good disci-
pline, with which the Pontifical Authorities have
expressed their patitfaction.
[Front the ConsfinstfoneLl
Snme of our readers reproach as for our sitcom
on the actions between the Austrians and Naimoli-
tans. Our 'deuce *peeks for itself.
A letter front Turin, dated the 16th, soys that
the new Kiag of Stanton' has written to the Prince
of Carignan*, that he will accept the Crown, if his
brother's abdication be free, and if he persist in it;
but shut he will annul whatever has been forted
from the Regent by revolotionary influence, and
wall freely give a ceestitutine suitable and conform-.
able to the waste of the country mad to enlightened
opinion s.
Letters from Genera state that the late events io
Piedmont have produced &novena onisfsetion in
the western Swiss Cantors, the trade of which suf-
fered extremely from the prohibitory syrptern adopt-
by the Sardinian Government with repect to As-
reign oberchouelise. The inhabitants of Savoy hav-
ing been long deprived of at literary cominunim-
tion with France, have eagerly written to their cow.
respondents at Lyons and Geneve, so send them
political and constitutional works, of which they are
completely destitute.
TIRTIIITS, MARCH 12.
The war with Naples occupies, at tins moment,
all our commercial men utmost exclusively. T
exert themselves eagerly, in order to profit as mot+
as prostble by the present state of' affairs, and to
avoid the unfavourable changes which may arid..
All the armed ships ore fitted nut to reinforce the
Austrian fleet, which is its the port of Ancona. W.
see large detrecbmetsts of artillery and other owateriel
of war arrive in succession, to be transported by see
to A 11C0011, but there is nothing said about ens..
harking troops, although the report has Imes
current. Political circountsoces have canoed a
rise in several productions of the South. Corneae.
tors purelinci them in considerable quantities,.
Our maritime commerce languishes, and will pro-
bably cease altogether in a little time, saner we lase
the newt that the Neapolitans squadron *tattooed its
the Adriatic Gulf gives chase to all &ustrisn Yes-
*els. It is also said that it has made several prises.
The interruption of our navtgastiou sill prove very
injurious to us, if not quite destructive.
We are asessreel that the former Paeha of Jsuioa
has beau for acme time succesrfel.
INTRLLIGRIVCE FkOM ITALY.

The following intelligence concerning the.sAiro
in the South of Italy hes been communicated Ity
a gentlemen who left Pesaro on the 17th. Bologna
on the 18th, sad Turin on the 41st, who intritred
anxiously and believed with caution—one who is
perfectly conversant with the people and event, of
Italy, end who is uttrely iaespelsla of tnurraprt...
'gating or garbling what he ksiessa:—
" At Pawn, wher• ho harl.taiienthaa. • abort time Won**
left Italy, great care had boon sko. 10 bcci,. fie. 44 ash
tic all news of the asovesnents of lite array. The Aoashatt
°facial accounts of the ,Alit of Rieti, and thr si•bsetrapt
samosas of reef divisions of Wahanden at l Stutteriterna
is Ovals. eansiiltated their whole taitalhgeaun. flea dr^.
int at Bologna, however, on the 111 b„ he truly Irsai
authority is which he was led to plate mourn credit, the
true state of the campaign, su far as naganged the ope-

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ratios. 10 that 'parte,. The feemidalie 'Wan ef
attach of Pegs im Walisse4se's verge may
tier, that the A0'116281 seat on the fury
wentaded to Fuligno. The retreat of the Neapolitans, •
die division of Siotterhotai had heed ordered up to sopi
wog that of Wahratudeo, he describes-solely as a feint leg
dire tbetroupe opposed to Pepe from tae midis body
Oda design was riveted with souse' 11011, that the l
Nails hue few prisoner., awl tarried off nearly al=
weaned. Chita Mettle fell haerea conquest into the
hands of the wieners, the pripolatiaw retreating aloes( with'
. Ile erals aswiruesgiag Or the whole of the provisions and
sworeebles. Aquila as. also, in like manner, stripped sad
alloodowed. As the retreat of the Neapolitans was inure
'•ralid than the adman@ of the Austrian troop.. General, Prim
so said to have (aired on thent very considerabry;.wboo,
• exidtiog a esoldsseat asnovis the otountains, be effected a
.ilinetiageoith the. maim body of the Neapolitan savoy, sinter
,eke omiagoosi of Caveraosea. Thee. appears to be some um-
vertainty whither thie raptenseot inrhided the simile, (wooly
i• pert of General Pepe's diri.ion ; but we are inclined to the
taller eoppialtion. thir informant ban an doubt that it
irks • peseracnted plan, agreed on between Pepe and
•sr.oicesihßiidenseadisflgly um the jenetion taking place, it was
.solved loshashealge to the main body of Ike Austrian army
der /Minuet, thee advancing on Ike road to Naples. The
armies Net on the high road between Val 3lootone and St.
Cerhealo, on the 34th nest, Tip battle was extremely hag,
letOWdoirtnil obatissur4y essareste4 but ended in the total de-
emed*" Austriawa, who Bed ite all direction.; and accord.
lestm dtwriaet aresioate. received from the neighbourhood of
the field of hagia, the Neapolitans were iu fUll pursuit of
thi;ra.'l
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MADRID, MARCH 14.
Wises /roof Ceuta, of the 2d March, gibe the
• fcllowintruccoonsa t—
t Tuley Ibrahim left Tangier yesterday for
'fi-touts, prising by the dishici of Anglian', mitre
other side of the chain-of mouestains allicreides
.his little lieninsule from the continent, le was
..•.cotripanied by • a thousand horse of Cheluisg,,
heside the suite of nobles whom he brought with
1 him, among whom is Cid Egleach Alarbst du
/lllacem, counsellor and director of the father of
lbahim Maley Eli Al-cid in the ;lege which lie
- laid to this place in the years 1790 and 1791.
• • The prodsgelity of this young candidate for the
Crown appears to increase his party against his
'uncle Muley Soliman, though thelatier has received
field pieces, purchased at Ciibraltar by Bets
~titier, the (71.1111101 .of Morocco, which have been
landed at Lamche. The nephew has given 20
Iliaetats to .the cavalry, and 10 to the infantry, of
• nil the troops of this canton, and it is reported thing
:the people of taw country ray that God waist. him.
• We have heard to-day • heavy cmisonade towards
,Tetuan, whic4i, being • repetition of what we heard
yesterday on the same side, giver remora to su•peet
'filet it proceeded from resistance to Muley Ibrahim,
sind not to rejoicing, especially becattre WIN% Baja,
the governor of that city, is • decided supporter of
Maley Seditious, the actual Sovereign of Morocco.
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LISBON. MARCH 15.
The Cartes still continue their discin.eions very
regulasly, without any extraordinary uceurreners.
The bases of the Constitution use now pisblidwel so
the following Decree, psiuted fur the use of the
Msrsnbers of the.Certrs:—
. The General sad annserviiiney Corte of the Portuguese
twilit*. before proceadiar ie form a political Coastilmicite,
set:liaise and Jeerer a. Ibe bases of it the fullowiag princi-
ples, as being the best adopted to secure the individual
rights of die cities*, sod to estalthsb the orptsizatiou and
limits of the political pewees srf the State.
• The fifteen articles of the let section, "on the

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indiridrtal riglitaliCille citizen," are fur the most
,part left as they •1 first proposed by the Coin.
mutter appointed ha.illraw them up. Art. 8,9, 10,
relate to the liberty 'of the press. The free corn-
nunication of his thoughts is one of the most pre-
cious rights of tiiim, therefore any citizen miry ex-
press his opinien un every subject, without deprnd-
i•ig on a previous censorship, being responsible for
the abuse of this liberty in cases which the law de-
tesmincs. •

The Cortes shall mike this law as loon as possi-
ble, sod shell appoint a Special Committee to pro-
. .tect the liberty of the press, and repress ill abuses.
Ac fur the abuse which may be made of it in
out matters, the Bishops ?vain time censorship of
wriliugs published ou religious dogmas and mu-
.salliy, and the Governasessi *ill aid the Bishops in
punishing the guilty. twri
ill the second section is istrodkfitfied Art. 23, which
Asp,
The Constitution must clearly Is the division of the
shire Powers, the lisecative, the Iwgialative, and the Jo-
Metal. The Legislative resides is the Curies, depending on
- else sanction of the King, obi) is never to have un absoluse
••• -Veto, but only a stsspeossve Veto, according to the manner
• ...which the Constitution shall determine. This dues nut is-
etude the laws ;awl, be the premed Curses, which shall nut
. be subject so any Veto whatever.
• It The Executive Power is in the King awl his Ministers,
gaits( under his autborisy. The Judicial Power is in the
Jtidees.
!b. The direct initiative of the laws belongs to the Cortes
ot4nr.
16. The King Cannot he prevent st the deliberations of the
totes, but only at she Uptlll nig awl close of the Session.
• 1•11. The Cartes are to 'mine the Regency, when ii is nee
eremary. They slime can approve treaties of alliance, sub-
..ey, or cutuateree, allow ar refuse the ratraace of foreign
troops, fix the slue, weight, staudard, mid impression of the
30. A Pr. tnauen t Junta of the Cortex shall reside at the
• 31. The person of the King is inviolable, but the
Minia-
' tees art responstil;e.
31. The Cartes is the Civil List at the beginning of every
31. There shall Le a Connell of State composed of Mem.
bees proposed h) the Cartes.
34. The iseapowt..nt of Sexes, and the wanner of raising
%him, shell be Chud by the Curses Ante,
The Decree bears the signatures of all the Members of the
Cusses--(Maria 'fa Revacia, Alareh II.)

A letter firm Waterford, dated March 26, says—
•' The Catholic Clergy of Dublin uteri this day oil
the subject of the RUWNO Catholic Di►abillly Re..
mortal Bills ; and those of Curl on %Verities'lvy—.
called by tiktir respective Prelates. 'Chore of the
diocese of Waterford meet neat Thursday."
. A uotentous gang of sheep stealers. five iu num-
her, are on custody on venous charge' of (doily as
Surrey. They were app►ehenided for killing and
trek's away two sheep belonging to Mr. Brooke►.
hotelier. at Ewell, Surrey ; but there are various
ether charger, mod the living is described as the ter-
ra/I of last Vert Of Surrey. They will be eaautiued
this day.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE_.
COURT OF CHANCERY, LaNcotaes
TIMMIDAY, Mimes. 19.

TILE EARLDOM OF STRATHMORE.
S VRATIIMORS V. STRATHMORE.
Mr. Anestcaosiim stated, that his Lordship bad
berm so kind as to allow him on a former day to
have this petitiutt put in the paper fur this day, but
by some mistake of the Registrar it was omitted to
be put iti the paper. It was merely to confirm the
Muster's report, and perhaps his Lordship would
allow them to mention it then. The Master wits of
opinion that the Pi:dotal' minor ought to he served
as heir to the Scotch estatcs, and that his petition
ought to be prosecuted 111 the House of Lords,
claiming to be entitled to the Scotch title.
Mr. HART kited he had only received a brief to
oppose the petition that morning, and he had not
had time to read it.
The Lotto CHANCELLOR—." The House of
Lord* will not do any thing respecting the title un-
til the claim+ of both parties are before them."
The Solicitor fur the minor said, thisi the peti-
tions of booth the clamours had been 'invented to
their Lordships.
The LORD Custicnr.t.Ost—." That mac he as it
respect+ the Scotch title, hut the House of Lords
will nut proceed in it mild the question relative to
the English tile is also before them, for the minor
csionot be legitimate in Scotland and is bastard in
Euglasid at the some time. lam aware that it
is a mistaken notion goose abroad, although bas-
ildived here he would be legitimate in another
country. The greet quest" here is, whether the
lama is legitimate in England, for if this boy is
served fifty times us heir to the Scotch estates, and
the Court of Session mottle filly order, on them, the
Ilmint of Lord+, on inquiring into the dignity of the
Peerage, would not attend to Oust fact."
Mr. HART said Sr! .hail not read leis brief; but
when lie had. and found there wus tiny thiii„,n•
further in it thins had beet, suo-gested by kid Lord-
ship.- he would take the lib;sty of nseutioning it
on atonic future day. 40.,t,
Furtkrleattpderatiou,seditatned. .t .;
AftIIALS IN TIM:NOUSE
kNOWI.I4 V. SHEPHERD. ""
MCACIIIT slated, that he was Instructed to say
that the Committee of Appeals, in the House of
Lords, had refused to receive an appeal it, this,
comic. until his Lordship had given his judgment
on a _motion in that Court, which was pending.
The LORD CHANCELLOR—" You have been mis.
informed; the Committer of Appeals refused to
forward the appeal, because the cases of the parties
were tint laid on their Lordship.' table in due
time. The solicitors of Otto suitors neglect the,
orders of the House of Lords, mid, I may say, have
been in the habit of putting their order. into
order. The order of the House on this point is,
that after an appeal is presented, the yeses should
be laid on their Lordships' table in a certain num.
bee of given days, winch was neglected, in this ease.
The Appeal Committee, at in, last silting came to
a resolution, that they would not again allow the
order of the House to be relaxed. If this concerns
any solicitor in Court, he way carry away with lam
the infortnatiomor
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MA mixasouss-mitiT.
ROBBERY AT LORD CLAREMONrS
James Doyherly and Michael Machin erre charged with
stealing • bad and other articles from the house of Lord
Claremont. Dogherty was a confidential servant in his
Lordship's family, and the rubbery was committed when the
Lunge was nailer repair. 11 was proved that Machin had
conveyed part of the property Gum Dogherty In a female
dealer in marine slam, who bought it, arid the bed was
found wills her on a search warrant bring granted. The
Prisoners were committed fur trial, and the dealer in dares
was bound over to give evidence.
A female servant iu the family of the Donative Barrette
war rhargedrith stealing a valuable diamond ring from the
casket of the Comdex,.
It appeared from the statement of the Marquis (le Chem-
bre who married the daughter of the Coolness, that the.
keys of the casket were Lanigiug in the room, where any of
the servants who hail access thereto might have unlocked
the depository of treasure. The Countess hail been bulk-
Awned fur several days, load ant having had ore talon for her
jewels, she did out discover the rubbery until last week,
when the ring in question, a euld watch, and other articles,
were missed. fiuspictuu fell upon tau finale stomata,
who haul access to the room, and one of them was discharged
in cunerquenee. The Prisoner, who wan rook in Ike family,
offered the diamond ring to imam, sad she was apprehended.
Iler defence was, that she picked it up at the street-door
when she was cleaning the burps, and that she bad mid her
1.11(ow-servant of iti but this was deined.—Sbe was re-
manded.
BANK FORGERIRS.
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A young man, dressed in fashionable style, was charged
.with utlrrtug Purged Mites of tea and five pounds, to a very
considerable relent. His family and ruustrwous are most
resteciable. He WAS remanded upon tire differeut charges.

NAVAL INTELLIGICA'CF.

PLYMOUTH. MARCH 27.
Arrived else Mph's, Towns, frown Nrwcastk for Rio Juneau ;
Antelope, Minna, Isom London fur Vigo; and Swift, errata,
'from Palle fur Siewfuundland.
TOOMAT, MARCH 17.
The Unison, Pock, from Ponle fur Slessismdlanit, parted
will• the caller, and put into Turimay.
rai.atouew. MARCH M.
Arrived the Sistannr parker, kith a mast fr ll.l/1101i. in
Iris days ; Dyer, from Loudon for Glasgow ; and
another alt Rams unknown.
PAH bark the lady Arabella packet fur Lisbon. The wind
hai just changed fruits the bowfin:int to the NAV and still
COW 11111 Cd 111 blow a tremenslun, gale; and we much fear the
skips id the roads la the Slat may have auslaisird damage.
RAMPGATT, MARCH IL
Arrived the Fame, Steelman, tr,uss Lundun fur Dart-
mouth; and Catherine, Griffiths, frorn Polhill/ for Rye,
with the loss's,* an anchor stud cable each.

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IFORIEIGN `TRADB-.01? rut cotmrsr.
TIIIIIEII TRlAllis
REPORT Q1.T04 saufri4lNlMlNgrav •
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(Cauutstils.fritipso Papirleablefirrifil
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roe 14(4 rue Vadat attached by diferest wit.
senses to the *hal silfr4tu east particular coustry, will
be sees in the evidence of tier R. thetopieta. Mr. Hillard,
Mr. White, Mr. Copland, Mr. Churchill, Mr. Smith, Mr.
Hsieh, Mr. ftelthooteri sad others, to which 'Oar Collloiii.
tee flush it. sufficient to refer.
That the supply of rood to meret the demands of the Bri.
fish and Irish market might be obtaisted with greater facility
and cheapness to the rousuiseer (if theorems of purchasing
and transport iug it at tie lowest rate were the wily comb-
derations to he attended in), a reference to the account of
the charge' of obbliaiag and I misreporting it from the northern
'Will of Estrum., iutlepesideitt of the doily. will leave an
doubt; and affilhouth minter the pressure of the duly, the
demands °film eowutry for superior purposes may have been
such as to lead to the imp ortativo ha • certain amount of
timber from the Baltic, it yet must be obvieme, that whole
this duty bears upon it with its prverni weight, it is to those
higher purposes sleet to which that species of timber cam
be •pplicable; and that a great proportion of wood of su
inferior quality must be forced lato consumption, both in
avowed submitutioa for the superior timber in building+,
which thereby become less maid and lasting ; and in a frau-
dulent application of it, when that of a 'superior kind has
been contracted for, which, aro urdiag to the evidenre, if
practised, ran be with difficulty decried ; expedients of this
stature would probably not be oesoriod to, if the differevice
of price was reduced, and the todoiremeut to !otter the Aine-
ricau wood were less powerful. It appears, too, by the sal-
mission of some of the principal dealers, that die differesoce
is at 'several sorb as to he prejoodirialtu the trade itself, mid
to bring tutu the market from the Colonies an excessive
quantity of limber of a very iuferiur duscriptiun, both ill
point of quality and preparation, and that some alteration of
the duty, calculated to approximate the relative prices
of the timber frum the North mad from the American Colo-
nies, would be desirable. if only to coilline the supply oof
the market to a more earefelly selected and belt. r prepared
cninisomlity. In additiou to these iticouvenieneee, the
monocle' of the duly levied on Baltic toonbee, and the iss-
creased price which, under the operation of that duty, the
Americau timber most have burr', may be cuiosielered cm a
bounty paid by the consumers of the United Kiamoluns fur
the heaths of the North American Colonies, and the support
of the saperflumis shipping, to which the transport of their
wood is said to afford the only employment.
The prudential considerations by which the application of
the some principle appear to have been limited, are. the
danger incident to want of compatition, from the exclueion
of culooni•I tisailser, and from a reliance fur our supplies uu
a single source: the passable failure of puma!, retina the '
North of Europe, is a moment of necosusity: the isiainte-
sauce unit empluvuent of our *hipping, and the effect that
might be ;produced us the various jots testi, connected with
oar America's trade, and the capital embatiod in the elan-
lolishmeuta for carrying it nu. The Sallie prod. mill cssusi.
der a, in the °pie l ttt s of your Committee, at peesent fur-
Mil any reconsmeedation oil their pert, bowline entirely to
take away the legiedetive prole ctiuu hitherto enjoyed by the
irolonial trade; but, as the cement of that pealtekl" 1s ad-
mitted us almost all bawds to exceed the necessary bounds,
they hove directed their attention to 'vermin to what
antuout that protections, and in what mode, should be pro-
spit nicely continued.
In so far as imy alteration iatrooluced is favourable to
foreign wade, it roust lime a teudency tu produce an
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smutd importation from the Ninth of Europe, twit thereby
pen Hay to induce an inereameel Mewled true{ that gleaner
for tlw manufactures "(Great Milers; and your Committee
are inclined to believe that an iierreanool demand would be
the result, 'as well fount the desire for lie itieh masitsfseturas
that is said strongly to prequel iu those rennotrive, as (rum
the extent to which the export of them has becu maintained,
netweilistanding the burdens imposed on she importation of
this important Branch of their produce luso the United
Kingdom. Your Commitiee tto 0111 think it improbeble, that
a denim Aim of the export of wood lomat the British North
American Colonies noight,on the other hissed, be experienced;
seise dimioution, as far as the trade is coucerueok would
desirable, and intl. eat can hardly fail to take place,, errs.
Ariatipeodent of may alteration of duties, owing to the excess
beyond the cousumptiose of the country, to which the impor-
tation has been, by peculiar circumstance la, recently enlarged.
' The causes to which we may attribute thus excess, ars, in
.part, the prolonged expectation of an alteration in the isle
ul dein.% combined with the desire to take advantage of the
time the present law may euntiore, mod to auticipate the
imps-R.lin change by the greatest possible previous impor-
tation; and is part, to the amount of *hippie' (greatly
elm tooling the actual demands of our commerce,) which bar
been throws. out of einploonsetot by the conclusioo of the
wee, mid tither circumstances, and %thick has larch since
eitored In this breech of trade, not so much because the
•neeptos meta wee attended with advantage, as because it was
profmable to the vessels lying entirely idle, incurring ex.
pause, and deteriorating in value.
As our Watercourse with the Noerthe rn Slates must be lie-
' hie to be inaluenced by the Huemiations of political everts,
and as the exclesiou from their ports, which has bees Once
expericuced, may at some future period recur, your Com-
mittee are appreheimive, this the cons. quouees of any Inca-
more that might have the efoct of placing our dependance
fora supply of limber exclusively on those countries, usight
Weenie eventually the occasion of serious political iunsakire-
admire and danger; and by the exclusion of competition,
possibly defeat the expectation of comparative cheapness to
the comouneers of this comiatoy.
The alarms represented in the Petitions from the ship.
ping lumina in veriuus quarters, which have been referred
by the Hume to your Committee, appear to plumed 011 II
• presumptiou of the necessarily destructive afros of any
alteretiosi made M the s 'timing duties, a
arcurdiogly deprecated with coirespooding earnestuens—
Your Committee feel the respect due to an interest so Ma-
peotaist to the power and safety of the country; suit if all
the weight is nut given 111 the represeistatsuus of the Pete-
timbers which they may caper 1, it is because the alarms ex-
pressed in them appear to be carried to caress, and the ob-
jects sought not condairiee to the general esmiweteial in-
terests of the kingdom, in which their emu must be insepa-
rably involved.
Your Cuentnitioe set so reaaon whatever to imagine that
Yhe alteration whirls they have iu contemplation, would be
attended with the effect of depiiviult the American Colonies
of their due participatiou in Ilse bent fits of the wood trade,
although it might have a moderate sold temporary tendency
to the reduction of the inipurtatious from throne, and so
far may, is. the first instance, and fur a given period, affect
the interests of the ship-mimes. la fact, the Interco of
the ship-watiem is the one Must conceived in the present
question; while that oaf the Colonies themselves, important
at it is, is still a compelativev subordinate owe. Your
Committee fully concur iu the unthaws of that policy which
leas rendered the British shipping a lavourite object of iii
Mullikin and vigilance of Pali111110111; hal they Cannot Soul
that, beyond the eats lit which may be rationally deemed
essential to she sari., and defence of the country, eiery
other cussideeration is to he sacoiticed to that oatojece, or Mat
it is consistent with the public welfare, that the case due lu
Ilse interests of our merchants and manufacimers, and every
regard to our (amigos conomoocial relallons, should be Ant-
oine, foe the purpose of supporting by artiheial 1111101/1 •
mermaid' marine in a state of magoiluole, at which it huts
arrived (rum arcideetal causes alone, soil which Is &wither
conducive to the coonaserceal pr *verity, tier essential tu the
polit•cal security of Ile 11.111411; and in which (unions by the
(opening of new moneys of elUtilUillielli; or the estemmou of
those exietiuz,) the regular of the eullutry is incapa-
ble of maintanoing Of this, the greet depreciations
which all property is skipping is repiesesiled to have under.
gone, appears to pair Committee to famish 'Whetted
proof.
The degree in which the shipping may he aTected by any
dialogs that is adopted, must depend upon the influence
which sorb change is likely to have In leliliCllllC the export
of rout/from the Colonies. Front the ',redeem. of periwig cun-
versant in the uses to who la wood is applied, your Committee
collect, that fur umuy of thuse use+, the rued imported (ruin

Mittlett either iarliaptesibig,, oz plefloak or oa good, or
nearly asithillsal &might from the North of Europe. In re.
sAggrUell the fire)fire)geneription, art aiertiosied masts for
ips of large diroesesiosea, both ships of war, and the morel '
valuable de...feinting of inerehant-ners, which este 064 he:
footed looter North Ahieredies Coluoies, MA "%eh mud there.,
fore form a considerable article of memos& iota this sounder
• eider almost any stale of duties. To the second, all artirleal
in witch facility of .worklag, awl an extensive sserface and
freedom from kneels is required, and to whatever extent
pine timber for these purposes Is employed, the American
wood. even at float priers, would have a prefeream• To the
last, the application to all inferior poirmwes, as for pschine
chests, end vermeil objects in the interior of houses, or its
situations where it has the benefit of • rice circulation of
air: fur such woes it may be fa rly supposed, gad indeed it •
is more than once admitted, that the cousideration of mere
cheeped's would cast the bslance in tamer of the produce
of our American Provinces.
The aggrer.te of these applications of timber form a
very considerable of h -C geucral consumption of the
country; apd it appears to your Committee, that it would
require suMething little short of equality ite point of price
wish those of the Baltic, to exclude the timber sod dents
of the British Colonies from Importation for these purposes.
Nor mast it be forgotten that the experience, obtained
within she lost few years, of the qualities and value of the
American wood, which has had tarn effect of remark%
much of floc iorejeselice that pervaded against it, iu NO fir
must probably have contributed to induce • petusaueut tx.
tendon of its consumption.
By the estimate of some of the witnesses, the excess of
supply of Aiudicass purr beyond the demand, is staled to
be at present considerable, isistonuch that a heavy his is
incurred by the importers. This circumstance even Weeder
the existing ditties, cannot fail to lend to a redoctiou in its
future importation, and of comae to a itionnutiots of employ-
ment, iii the must degree, of the shipping engaged in she
trade. If the effect of an alteration, of duty eleusild ftr a
time increase liar demand for northern timber, It must also
undoubtedly laud to a similar cusesequeute, MA likely to be
more than ptt belly couutefbalaneed by a curresponeliog ies.
crease of demand for British snipping la the trade with the
North of Europe, from the ports of stitch it smaller ouniber
of vessels may be sullicieut fur Au equal innomit of impor-
tation. ,
By a diminution of the demand from America, the capi-
tal invested rs, sawmills nod establisheueetia iu thu-Cestossies,
stated at 1511,0401. nosy he liable tu some injury. 19.114
he
recollected, however, that the advantage given to they
American cutout'', trade, out vehicle these_ estaelotteleinesets•
were founded, lass already extended lacy I the period ON'
which those engaged io it had any right to calculate ; noel
having speculated uu their own views of public policy, they
nett have no just grinned of consplaiut, iu Ow event of
Isar-
Isament Inking a differed view of • hat 'het policy requires,
tied subj,cting these duties is/ some neudilleatnne beyond the
expectation which they Last formed.
• To the Cauadtaie inuprietor, the principal value of the
(imbue trade 11.1111C0111 to COU•lill it the employment it affords
tu the prrsons couerrucd in agriculture and their sees ants,
eloriug a certain period of the year, to court.) the wood
,dews She places a here it has been teeled, to the places from
whits, it es to be conveyed to the port:, of export; while the •
p irt of the bushiest which belongs to cone.; and rafting, is
us messy iusteeuces preformed by admires panning from the
Uuned States for 64i. purpose, who ate understood to he
more expert ise 'lease operatic's.. than the labourers of the
British territories.
If what has Weir stated by your Committee leads them to
expect suttee elinnieutiou of the export of the Acadia's. Colo.
Mee" (rum a change is, the scale uf existing duties, they have
also reason to believe that it is only by a temporary
restraint of that export that the character of the wood is
likely to be improved, 'end its value eventually increased ;
suck a Jentiounun, therefule, is is itself by nu means, in
the coutetuplatiou of your Committee, a salficiert groused
of objection on the pars of the Colonies toasty alteration that
may be propoordt wilds et he such an 'Boothe* as shall be
calculated extetentely to exclude hum coustomptior the tied
• her of the North American Coloisied, deal iraseiefer the trade
..hoftereigners. Within,. ditties limits, the trade of the Colo-
sirs of Great Britain has a joist claim to encouragement and
support from the Mother Ceautury ; and to arch claim your
Committee ale SWOOw ill give full weight. It is not, hos-
over, a question whether item encouragement and support
*boob, be given or a ithhuleleu ; tout adenitineg it to be due,
to what extent it should be curried, in justice to other in-
terests, which have also their peculiar claims to atieotion,
sod which at, its the opinion of your Committer, also
deeply involved its this discussiou. On the fair regard
she% n to foreigu resolute, the extent of VW commerce witb
them may depend, audits proviebug with too much partiality
fur the interest. connected with the trade to and GYM our
Asnericsee Colonies, we may put in hazard all those still more
extrusite interests that ale engaged is the esport to those
dosustries which are directly concerned to the timber trade
(if not odour foreign trade generally), by such a proof of ele.
liherste preference of a principle of reeirICIIVC, as tic rule of
our cogiarcrcial pulley.

In maintaiubig the original duty imposed expressly for the
purpose of eacutuagenieset to the Ninth American trade, it
cannot be contended that et ery claim on public faith is nut
fully satisfied. Is puha of expediency, however, and i•
coosideratiem of the interests ienderecl, your Cetsmsttev are
disposed to think it may be allowed to go eves something
farther iu favour of the Celerities. The difference created by
duty um timber ausesuis at present to 31. 51. per load ; if,
fry the effect of the alieratiou, that sbuuW be reduced to
51. which would leave a proteetioo, after providing fur
the ordinal) difforeuee iu freight, in the actual *elites price
of the respective dr scriptiama tintbearif 11. les. per load in
fa of the imports float our North America. Provinces,
your Committee cannot but think, is recommending such a
difference, they shall at least be free from the charge of nut
having sufficiently listeued to the pretensions of the
-parties whose interests are iovulvrd iu the colonial
trade, and tendered as great sacrifice ern the part of
the cousin', both to the shipping and the columieit,
as they can persuade themselves the House will be
disposed in sandlot. At thus rats of difference, it ap.
pears to your Committee, a fairer competition will be gives
to foreign produce, and a freedom of choice (which, woad,'
the present relative prices, can hardly be said to raise) will
be secured to the consumers, between the descriptions est
wood brought from the respective petiole of supply, while a •
certain and large proporeion of the consumption of the.
Coiled Kingdoms will be assured to the American Colleliellia•
' en the applications of their timber to those ores for whash
its finalities sod comparative price must give it a metastasis.
However the teselescy of the evidence generally anyito,
to reconimesid au alteration is the duties, to such an,amelsed
as may pause • corrective to the trade, without enfirding
seaterielly the consumption of the American tleiberi a
cousiderable variety of upierion was expremeil by tie wit.
nesse examined, as to die extent to which au alteration of
the existing duty might be erre ied, without danger to the
fair desuusif for the produce of oar American Cabmen.—
Amidst the different opinions seven, it was difficult fur your
Committee to determine the precise amount by which the
relative differeuce betseen the colooial timber and that
fr the Northers States should be reduced, and in fixing
Neon 20s. they have nut only taken that sum as a point be-
tweru the extremes, but hare been iteflueured by a el fer-
rite* to the acres ... s of the market in several years, and
paiticuleily iu IRIB, 1817, 1818, and Ifiln, as it is gives is
o paper adrkd iu the AppeUdia, and lit the t vulture of two
ibe wstorsoes; whew it appears we bore brew, seeuriiiiwg
to the remarks of one of them, in a 4ateral wad healthy
state; whitu a fair cumpetitiul 'seated, when the prejudice
entertained against America. timber screed to be ins the
deeliese, and the gleaned for it iteginewsing. The relative
price um. at this perind, shout or orally three iu four,
has recently been reduced hu our-half, on log to the Num° u •
ral tummies* islet which the market leas Ira s is brought by a s••
cessive importations, produced by the visions eireuiosiaures
whisk, at the present moment, have Nosh Hoard to disturb
the ebausiels, and change the charocter of the trade.
Your Committee next prueuedeil to e.nosider, in what
mode that alteration of duty should be ill.rted, tl ilier tiy
reductinee of duty us Halite Mots r. by sal impor.itioh isr
July em Americas., or by a rotithihrtioss of hods; suit thy
ersolt of their consideration Igo beers, a preference of the
last mode of producing the release approtiatti tttt they hare
itC.3llinended, iu the pieces of the r...pettliver &wart blue of

.5 • .; s'
-
timber, by lbe a 104. on the AtSeism timber,
awl a txors 11MAitni from the dotty or aka. I'm-
";=ffrram
ectuatliits"proiCtelh at
oce ther9rv;antili'igi! at they haveostereirnies In
'temptidiest by removing the excessive inequality of the pee.
• wet lifleall, facilitating our intercourse with &reeve us-
.llrovie, sad marking our desire, as far as circumstances will
. peseta!, to adopt more liberal principles than those ha which
oar commerce with them has bees hitherlu igeoresed.
I F
I Time stale of the duty on deals will out, is the °pinkie of
your Committee, allow the same degree of relative mine-
' truer to be applied to it, which has been recommended fur that
us timber.
The rate of ditty on long &Mara preseat falls considerably
below that ow timber, whilst ua those of short lengths it ra-
ther exceeds it. be what principle this distinction it favour
:of dm% as compared with timber in the lug, originated,
paori(bemOtart are at a lost to discover, and are averse to
• rellestansesd a costianasce of it, at least to its present extent.
The, feel. however, eossiderable difficulty is tworresing to
equalise the duty on limber and deals, which, if eir cteil be
a milliliter of the deity on timber, niust be attended with 4
• large sacrifice of revenue, and if by an additive to shut
on deals, might tend in some measure rather to impair iha ,
sexist the foreign trade of the kingdom, by the effe t ii
would liege on the experts of wood from abuse Slates, of
which deals form the greatest proportion. This, in the
opinion of your Committee, precludes the application of a
rule of eh let equality to deals and to timber ; but it appears
to them, that while the amount of duty on timber isreducod
in the degree prupused, a small increase on deals of large
dinivusivins will, in some measure, lanes the distine-
tion, at least as far as that class of deals is concerned.
thi the shot ter deals, they rreuturnead some reduction
of duty, less with reference to the manner in which the
duty •t present bears upon this description of deals iii
eseparises with timber, than is consideration of the
difference is the quantity of wood contained iu a give:,
number of de .la of the larger and smaller dimensions,
which seems' to call, in respect of the latter, fur a more fa-
vourable assessment. Another alteration which has soy.
gested itself to your Committee, is one that has reference to
deal ads, on which a comparative low duty has been hid
doers') levied, in order to •tcometorlate the shipowner,
in broken stowage; this indulgence has been found to lead to
great abuse, in covering the introduction of timber of this
description am cargo (a practice never contemplated) to an
esteot enrol injurious to the revenue. They therefore sub-
mit the propriety of confining the length of this chits of
deals lib 111% reel, and making a moderate reduction in duty
to which they are at rest lit liable.
_ _ _

In eonseqosence of the Report referred to them, the mud,-
of levying the duty oil dells and wood of the other dna.-
nanations, under which it in imported 11110 this count.),
according to the callow I , has heed au object of your
Cunuuitteea examiseation; and although the redection of
them all to their cubical rmdruts ill assessing the duly.
• lull the first view of it, the most easy as well as the
mod tquitable principle that could he adopted, your Corn•
maitre lone found reasons in support of coutinuiug the ea-
noting mode (both as a matter for cosivesienee, end as mo-
tiering a degree of equality In fereete the countries by which
our impostatious of wood are furnished), sufficient to pre-
. vent their proposing to the House to relinquish it; in pre-
raving the mode, however, they ere or opinion, that an
itopiovemeist may be introduced into the scale Slow io 110.,
by admitting a goadatiou of duty, between the dial aids and
deals of the largest class, which, it appeals to your Com-
Inittro, would alai,' more of ctually that adiantace by
which t►e existing etude of levying Ike duty is chiefly re•
emiumended.
Your Committee have abstained from entering, in this
Report, into details upon the subject of batteus, oak plank,
slaver, deck-plank, paling-boards, masts, spars, and the oilier
various denossiniations under which timber is imported. to
which their attention has been directed. The duties on
these will be influenced by those on the more inspoeteest ar-
ticles, and will make a necessary part of any manure that
may hereafter be submitted to the Nouse.
The policy of a kgislative preference being given to the
importsr.on of timber in she lot, and the discouragement of
the important's of deals, seems to your Committee very
doubtful, both breast.. they are of opinion that any asram-
gage to be expected Nom the coaversiou of timber into deals
in this country will out be sufficient so compensate for the
correspondirig disairvastage to the general costumer (no
whom the deals would come with a considerable Mecca e
of cost), and because it is founded on a principle of
• which they are most arkeso to see brought lam
operation its ally new iestaia,-e, without the warrant of
some evident and great political expeilieury.
Your Committee have discovered in flee accounts before
them. that the protective duty in favour of !latish shipping,
leas been mode to operate in different degrees on the im-
portation of wood of different descriptious, varying from
24 to 5 per can at:d in some unimportant instaaets falling
below, as in others considerably exceediog these rates, on
the value of the particular article imported ; for this in-
equably, which introduces much perplexity into the collec-
tion of t►e duty, there dues not appear to be any sulEriert
reason, nod they the►efine submit to the consideration of the
House lb. propriety of making the same duty attach on all
Ituportatious of wood in foreign ships alike, and that the
amount of difference between the importation in the foreign
'hip and that in the British ship, should be fixed fur the
future at 5 per ceul.
One only further reeummeeilation has suggested itself to
your Committee, which, be coecluding their Report, they
are desirous of uffe. iug to the House. II bas appeared in
the elide-lice, ilia a great proportion of the limber which
it imported hone the province of Causda, is the growth
of the United States, and has been permitted to be received
into that province free from Juty, and has front thence been
exported to the United kisigdom, with all the benefits
and immunities conceded to the produce of the Britirk
terrinory. Tu obviate the objection to which this practice ap-
pears to your Committee to be liable, they are of opiedos,
that with every exportation of timber from the British pro-
viuces in North America, a certificate of its being the pie_
duce of these provinces should be required, and that timber
imported without such certificate shim Id be hereafter charged
with the same rate of duty as would be payable on it, if On-
posted directly from n foreign state.
submitting the result of what has occurred to theta in
As eserse of their inquiry into this important subject, yore
.Cossidute have ouly to add, that in the recommeedatione
which they have tendered, it has been their endeavour,
to the utmost of their power, to con e ,liate the claims of al-
Irene iuteresta, and Ihe conteudiug rousederations of policy
film &mended their attention. If what they propose falls
fort short of n recur trace to those sound principles by which
all commerce ought to be tegislaied, they trust it will ap-
pear to the House, that they have proceeded as far as,
under present circusestauces, is cuimisteut with an gut-
tattle retard to the protection due to extrusive interests that
11.11/i g WWII up under an established system, and which must
be deeply affected by any material and sadder charge to
o Lich that system is subjected.
Mend 9, 1821.

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