The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-06-01 00:00:00

nex Tbeeday *wing
to chivitahle 6ona-
'Oder an iimiressiun
Burdett), whose mo-
-1 stood fbr that day,
Brougham'''. Ms-
..
ttert•taiirlitig, however, that the Ilion. Baronet had
changed loss opiai•ob he would give hie notice for
Wedise.day, in the event of not being allowed to
introduce it sooner.

LONDON COALS.
Tie I,OID MAYO 2 presented a Petition from the
merchants and trades.s or the city of London, pray-
ing that the House, at some future time, might
take into their consideration the duties imposed op.
on coals imported into the port of London, with a
view either to the equalization of the duties, or the
adoption asap, measure which might tend to alle-
viate the pressuie under which the inhabitants of
the metropolis laboured. in couseqoesice of those
duties.
The .question..beiog put for bringing up the
Petition--r*
Mr. M. A. Ta•xxott seal, that if any measure,
such as that contemplated .by the Petition, were
proposed, he should feel it his duty to oppose it.
The subiect was before the consideration of the first
• 'statesmen, and Mr. Pitt opposed a proposition for
the removal of the coal duties in the port of
London.
The LORD MAYOR mid. that the petitioners
prayed only for an apsolisation of duties.
Mr. Leret.reon thought no measure could be
more unwise then to equalise the duty upon coals,
or to extend it to those genet manufacturing dm.
trial in which great epsantities of cools were con.
iressod. If a uneasier' of this kind was Inueght
11010tard in the next Session of-Parlissesitut. be
feel it his duty to oppose it.
DVODALII could not think that the city of
hoods was serious in the prayer of this Prtitimi.
He should feel himself called upon to oppose it
whenever it was brought before the House.
General THORNTON said, that, considering the
counties which the two Hon. Menshers who spoke
• hoist represented, he was not surprised at their op-
• • Posiiion. This tax was very severe upon the me-
...tropolis; it was continued long after die occasiou
;. -which gave rise to it had ceased to exist. It was
hard that no tax should be imposed upon cools
• where they were cheap, and a heavy one. imposed
in London, where the price was always compara-
tively high. He hoped that something would be
done in the next Session of Parliament to relieve the

metropolis from this duty.
Sir M. W. RIDLIT thought the pryer of the
Petition, if acquiesced in, would do serious iigury
to the coal trade. The real owners would be glad
to have a Committee appointed to inquire into the
subject, for they could Uses p►ove that their con-
duct was fair, and high price of cools in
Loudon did not dap upon them ;it originated
with persons in London, and perhaps the Hem
Gentleman (the Lord Mayor) would give them, if
he pleased, information upon that subject.

Sir CHAILSS POLS aid: ba had uo doubt but
it Ms. upon laquiry. amid be found Goa op-
.lplaiee mad .esiesi.--The Petition was nod, and
eased to be pnoted.

peso tai %Odom Rom lie Corporotiott
of Illisoom, ponying for • ropool oldie &Ain apes coal cor..
viol soutwaya.
PARISH VESTRIES.
Tie Lords' Aotoothosoto to ate Pori& fairies ROI .on
agreed to.
CONVICTS.

Oa Ibe 'WWI of Mr. waselre4 to be
laid spat the Was of all pastas trsasporad far sena years
N. New Booth Wales, from February, 1514, Nary,
1515, distiompisidag on sod daises anardiag so sp.
lb Man Trade Laws • yew and a wend
tivar.--Tlie Dell vas eoloalteed, the lasuitht Grind
the Hill ordered so hs end the tbisd am Moaday.
The frith Disseatiog f wti Menu 2111 was with-
draws by Mr. Peatell, qu.lli. suasetites of Mr. Peel.

REPEAL OF EXCISE LAW IN IRELAND, FOR
POSING FIN ES ON TOWN LANDS.
• General Flan., although sensible of his inade-
quacy to treat a subject of so mousentoas a nature,
and so ailictiag, as the sudden change which had
taken place in the minds sad manners of a people.
more mild heretofore, and more amenable to the
laws, and_ to every superior authority, than any
perhaps on earth, but now changed by the op-
pressive execution of an urcesstitntumal statute,
which authorises the punishment (without a passi-
bility of human wisdom or exertion preventing it),
of the innocent, fur the concealed crimes of the
guilty ; vet he did believe that even this arenas-
stance, afflicting as it was, could not, at that mo-
ment, have induced him to venture on a task to
which he WWI so unequal, had he not hoped that
British Mtinhers might have been inclined to take
moo their consideration the object of the several
Petitions now on the table. sod which he from
tune to time had the honour of presenting—ut first
tr•ort the principal laud proprietors and gentlemen
oho compose Grand Juries of the county of Do-
negal, and lately from the inhabitants of several
pa,u,lwv in that suffering pan of the United King-
d ; and had he not been urged by the unani-
mous desire of successive Grand Juries of that
...way, winch he had the honour to represent, but
more positively by the last, to state In the [louse
"'their unanimous and decided opinion, that the
present Eseise laws have hero utterly inefficacious,
and that a perseverance in the s)striii enlist lie pro-
dnetirr of ,hr worst conirequences." lie trusted,

l►isorvrr, ilt.it his inadequacy would be ropplieti
by the I ttttt may of the Itritta.h :Members. who" re.
•pact for justice, sod abhorrence of cruelty.
rtpaillral that of any of the absent Irish Represen-
tativra. That by the seventy of the finial/ system.
rud the craarl execution of the law by excia.eanett,
people orre allivrtt to drspeir Irian poverty : that
...mire ensued,cootagiota au the North of I►'e-

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that the Houle of Commons had still energy to re.
sent so gross an invasion of their privilege*, by rt.
4oule its authors with that severity which they
deserved.
The rapers were then ordered to be printed.
Mr. Booptutais.then obseived, that the letter to
wliic'h he ha* en a former night, alladed. namely.
that of Mr. Thompson. had tense out es boa god
document, and not a fabricstioa, ma seas &We-
tnen had declared it to he in their opinion.
Loral Loweneut declared hiss& isieightit ff tie
whole ttaosaction.
EDUCATION Or TIE Wit -
Mr. BROUGHAM said, that he had on
Rive,' notice. that he would ne')ot Taraday bring
for.ord a proposition relati've towcheritehle Nona-
tinny. He gave that notice '4i .der rn imPressiun
that his Hon. Friend (Sir F. Burdett), whose mo-
tion on Parliamentary Rehire stood tbr that day,
"mold live place to his (Mr. Brougham''' Un-
.