The National Register.
London, England, 1816-03-25 00:00:00

TUMID MARCH 19.

Mr. WESTERN present. t t Ft ;awn, signed by a nnmher of
the most respectable owners and ocettpi.,rs of• land it, the coun-
ty of Essex, setting • •lii the hardships tinder vt hieh they at
present laboured, and I.ray;tag a revision of the present system
of Tythes. The }Um. Ntember took this opportunity of stating
iiis opinion that the pr,2:eut system of tythes was one which
wss hiehly bortlicnanthe to the cultivators of land, and which
culled wittily for the interf•renre of tl.••
Mr. Lucxn 4RT agreed in what had bt.ea stated by the Hon
Itlember. (Mr. W.)
Atter a few words from Mr. COKE, the petition was ordered
to lie on the table.

Mr. P. Moor n presented a petition from Rear-.1,;.air0l
Graves, claiming a mikes/I of certain rieVilllCC,, %% It: ch, he
stated, he I. smtained by the improper sale and transit*, r a
aixt i part of the Bahama Islands, which be claimed in right of
his wife, Arrhella Graves, to %chow family the land ill (1111t.Fii011
had been granted bye patent fl ULU the Crown.—The peiition
was ordered to lie on the table.
. .

Mr. Cutts presented a petition from certain owners anti oc-
cupiers of bv.a in the county elik, proving the House to
take into consideration the distressed state of Agriculture.

Sir W. Wiihnt prescrted a tram eeriain owners and
oreup!ers of land in the county s t Deithigh, st twig !lath the
hardships ender which they at present laboured.
Mr. BROUGHAM :coved for a return of all goods seized as
contraband, on board transports, widiiit the last &ix mouths;
and „Iso fur rop•ra of co! resimudence between Sir 11 owe Pop-
ham end the Treasury, relative to transport.; in the service of
Got eminent, or pretending io be in the service of Govern-
ment, having contraband goods un board.—After a few words
t•rom Mr. Vansittart, the muttons were agreed to.--Ad-
journed.

WEDNE4DAY, MAECII 20.

Mr. ilvng brought in a Bill fur buildieg a new Church in the
Parish of St. Pancras, which was read a first time.
Mr. W. Burrell presented a petition horn the Rape of Aron-
del ; and Gen. Ferguson . ne front Forfar. praying the House
to tale into its serious consideration the present distressed state
of Agricultural Interest, and the laws relative to the Distil:cries.
Laid on the table:
O n the motion of Mr. Mellish. the New River and West Mid- •
diesex Water-work Bill was ordered to be read a sceoud time
this day. six numths.
Mr. limn euxm presented a petition signed by :,000 mer-
chants and tradesmen of the city of Wesaninster ; and Mr.
locitanT one from Mary-le-Bonne, against the insolvent Debt-
WIC Act. The former gentleman stated, that during the three
c••at•s this Act had heed in active otter:l6ou, persons had been
eelestsed whose debts amounted to .1,-.97,1.191. ; and the amount
Of the composition they had paid was 14191., or between a'
fourth and a fifth of a farthing in the pound
Mr. A BERCROMOIE admitted what the lion. Gentleman had
stated, railed lei ►he most serious enquiry; but he conjured the
House net to listen to the accounts, which were exaggerated,
snail a Committee had looked into the subject. At ml event,
it often h livened, that the creditor was more in Ciult than the
debtor by h.s awn carelessness.
Mr. li uoceMAM repe;fted his fanner statement.
The petiti•n was laid on the table.
REPEAL OF 'CUE WAR MALT-TAX.
Mr. VAN6ITTART rose and stated, that he should on Monday
next, it; the Committee of Ways aid Means, move to (manne
the several War Duties of Customs and Excise, with the excep-
tion of the Malt-tax. No doubt surptize would be excited, that
he should relinquish this tax, after having so recently, by the
decision of Parliament, been obliged to forego the-Property-
'l'ax. But since that decision had been come to—whether
wisely or not at was not for him to determine--it was of little
consequence whether a larger or smailir sum was obtained by
loan. 'l•he object he had in view in relinquishing the Wm
Malt. Duty, was to give relief to the 'mitering tenantry of the
couutryt relying on the wisdom and energy of Parliament to
make: good the deficiency—(liver, hear !) --He should nt I, after
CV% communication., consider himself• at liberty to make ivy
further concessions in respect to the agricultural interest, tuts
to relieve them frets the Horse-tax ; which, ht the eVrilt of the
Property •tax taking place, he hod stated he should do. Nor
should he consider himself bound to relinquish aoy of the other
resources of the country.—The itt. Hun. Gentleman then sug-
gested to the Hon. Gentleman t Mr. Wasitßa) the nett sAty
p..stponing his notice of motion for a Coin Mute, on tile agri-
cultural distresses of the country to some' distwot time. -
Mr. COlie rejoiced that the lit. tion.Gentleman had deemed
t ex( edieut to allow the- Wat Malt Las to expire. he niuser• ea,
that the agricultural iutcreat had buckled for relief the fast day