The National Register.
London, England, 1816-03-31 00:00:00

BUTTER ANN) CHEESE TRADE.

The House having remived ibell into a Committee on the
nutter Laws, on the motion of Mr. Robinson, and the Cheese
Laws, on the motion of Mr. Gordon.

Mr. ROBINSON proposed, with the view of relieving the agri-
cultural distress of Ireland, that the duty on importing foreign
butter in British ships be iaised 20s. per cwt. and to 255. per
cwt. for foreign butter imported in foreign vessels.
Sir J. NEwrowr approved of these Resolutions.
Sir F. FLOOD did nut think the proposed protecting duty
went far enough; be hoped the House would make it 30s. the
difference was but a trifle! If there were nut some such pro-
tectim•' duty, pressed' down as Ireland was by taxes, the Dutch
would overwhelm us with butter, such advantages had the
" growers of butter" in tnat country! (a laugh. ) Let it then te
30s. and let it he said that the Government of England 'yield-
ed to the representatives of Ireland. He begged ten thousand
pardons for trespassing no long upon the House, but liu; exist.
etiec of Ireland was at stake, and when a sulkject like that
of butter was under consideration, how could he say lesst—
ka laugh wad hear.)—He moved as an amendment, that the pro-
tecting duty he SO.. per cwt.
Mr. V. FITZGERALD feared that the rTnendment would nialse
the protecting duty tow :44—!.1.:4 original proposition was he
thought quite high enough.
Sir N. CoLviti kyr and Sir J. NEWPORT trusted that the
amendment would be withdrawn.
Sir F. Ftoou certainly would not give the Committee the
trouble of thrilling on ttie amendiuent, which he should with-
draw. Motion agreed to.
Mt. GORDON Ii1011:Vit the cheese trade ought to be set on
the same tooting with that of butter, and he should therefore
move thst the protecting daty ou (Meese be increased in the
same proportion us that on butter. That on butter had been
increased front 56. to 20s. victim should move that the protect-
ing duty on cheese be increased Alin; as. to iris. per cwt.
After some observations from Sir 'l'. Acland, Mr. Robinson,
Mr. Methuen, Mr. Hall, Mr. Egerton, Mr. Thompson, and the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, the motion was agreed to.—Re-
port on Monday.
LOTTERIES.

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Mr. Lirrterom moved for an account of the number of
Lotteries since tell inclusive, together with the amounts of
what they bad produced to the revenue.—Ordered.
SMUGGLING IN HIGH LIFE.
”;:ams:tra-..!...-sdel. that list4e ettoold be laid before the
House, an account of the quantity of goods smuggled in the
Assiduous transport, with the names of those concerned fu the
smuggling as lodged in the Custom Howe. He then moved
for copies of all correspondence between the Custom House
and the Treasury respecting the seizures hi the Assiduous
transport. The Hnu. :tlembcr then submitted a variety of
motions on the same subject, the substance of which was, that
there should be laid before the House, copies of all memorials
:mil papers addressed to the Treasury on the subject of the
seizures in the Assidlloll6 (11111,1)011; di list of the names of the
persons to w nom the packages were addressed as ordnance
stoves; a list of the similes of the persons to whom the pack-
ages were addressed when the outer cover was taken 011, and
an at-gaunt of all the seizures nude daring the last two )ears.
T.;:e everal papers were then ordered.
BANK ADV.ANCF: BILL.

The CHANcEu.oit of the Excitrqvut tuoietl, that the Bank
Advance Bill be read a third time.
tinr.;tivet.i. hat ing called the attention of the Home to
this swijeet before, should only rilke a few el .creation, oil it
is ate resent stage of the Bill. 'lle Him. 'Member then en-

feria, into a vat iety of statements, which tended to Phew, Mat
the Bank ought to lend their money at a much lower rate of'
interest. As long as he was supported by the House, as he felt
he should be in the present question, he should persevere in
what lie felt to be a duty he owed to his constituents and the
public.
The CHINCELEOR of the FACHIQUER remarked, that the
money was obtained at a considerably lower rate of interest
than it could be had in any other quarter. There would be;
saving to the public of 69,0001. per annum by the bargain. HE
should not waste the time of the House by going any farther
into detail, but should' rest satisfied with affirming that the
bargain was every way advantageous to the public.
After a protracted conversation between Mr Ponsonhy,
Lord Folkstune, Mr. Bankes,antithe Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, the Bill was read a third time.
On the Order of the Day for the House to go into a Com-
mittee of Supply, and that the Exchequer Bills outstanding be
referri d to the same,
Mr. FINLAV addressed the House at some length on the sub-
ject of Naval Officers, for whom, he conceived, that adequate
ailvantaees were not provided, and he objected generally to
the principles on which promotions in the Navy were fonnaed.
Sir (chase HOPE said, he would take notice of the subject
alluded to by the Hon. Gent. when the questiou came pro-
perly before the douse.
The House then resolved itself into a Committee.
TheCiesseettoe oh the EXCItEeLER MOVedablialof 151,5511.
for paying off the Annuities granted under the Loyalty Loan.
He a se illnVed a RIM Or 92,0001. for paying the iutet est ou out-
standing Exebeeeer
Sir G. Wallies:eosin moved to grant a sum of 82,6191. for de-
fraying the exisenees of the Navy (Mee.
al r. re rem VITI.K said, that on the whole, not more than !S
clerks were reduced; bet there was an increase of expenditure
to the 41110111 R or 19,0091. The whole expense was now much
greater in peace than it was in a late year of war. The ex-
pease of the Navy in general hail been during war about 20
nrllions; now the expense was nine Within,' ; and yet, uot-
withetauding this great reduction, the expence of the civil es.
tialdishinent was slot n the least diminished.
Sir G. WARRENOER 4f.d, that the civil expeneesof the navy
hod always increased, even by the operation of dischargiag
the fleet there had beets greater reductions In this branch of
the service, compared with the last year atilt. war, than took
place in 1803, compared with the year preceding that period),
which was the lust of the war also.
Mr. Ti FAN EY said, there had been an increase in these esti-
mates of 20,0001. over those of 1811, which he called the lest
of the war, for he hail purposely passed over 1815, which he
did not consider as a year of Naval war. In 1801. there was
an expectationi,i' war breaking out immediately. It was, there-
fore, too much to tell bins he had failed in his argument Is' COMM •
paring the present estimates with those of that period. It ap.
peared that delay and reflection had produced a saving of
140,0001. in the Ordnance Estimates, reduction had also tarn
'dace in the Army Estimates, and why the Navy Estimates
alone should be fought through the Committee he was at 41.5.6-
to imagine.
Mr. CHOKER entered into a variety of 5,.--'''"Utents, to shove
that a re.lnetion such as eves esetCl'''e was impossible, but
every exertion 'would be made towards a retrenchment.
After some observations from Y.r. Croker and Mr. Baring.
the latter proposed that the es;;mate fur defraying the expenses.
of the navy-office :nal navy board should be postponed, which
was negatived, and the resolution agreed to.—Adjounted.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
FRENCH PAPERS.
PARIS, Kasten 22.—Among the remarkable traits in tale
discourse of-eae Curate of Vincennes, on the anniversary of the
death 91 tile Duke of Enghien, the following was particularly •
not!ted :—Awaked at midnight, on the 21st of March, to be
conducted to the place of execution, the Prince asked the
Officer who was the bearer of the order—" What do you want
with me ?"—A profound silence—" What o'clock is it?'—w Mid-
night," replied the Officer, in a gentle tone.—" Midnight!" ex-
claimed the Priuce, " that hour is fatal to me; hi. andnight .
was taken from my house at Ettenheim—at midnight the dun- ;-z
geona of Strasburgh were opened for nie—at midnight I was •
torn from them te be conducted hither—it is now midnight •
I have lived long enough to know how te die!" •
The Americans value the prOperty taken from them at N.
plus, in the time of Joseph, at seven Mlllions,and they demand
it from the preseat Government..
P MARCH 24.—The atfair of Sir Robert Wilson,
Hutchinson, and Mr. Bence, will be dr' j"'
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definitively judged in the
conrse of the _ wing month. It is even snppe,ud that shelf
trial will cpine ou before the Jury in the early pad of April.
M. DeserC, Cininsellor son of the First Presideut of the Court
of Cessation, will preside at the A.ssize.
The following article is e•tracted from the Memorial Bordo- ,
lois of the 16th lust :
On the 11th of this month the English fleet, which entered
the port of Genoa ou the ah, have &tiled on an expedition, the
object of which was kept a profound secret.
I' he gmperors of Anstria and Russia. and the King of Pruss
slat will proceed, In the course oftlie spring, to oplitz, Sot- the
purpose of holding a ctmferenee.
Fondle continues to sojtSurn at Dresden, and is occupied, ac-
cording to report, in writing a justification of his conduct.

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881-7SStLS PAPZRS.
Deuces, MARCH 21.-lAat Sunday there arrived her% by
the li..rge from Ghent, an English Commissary of War, coniiiig
from Valcocienues, and having its his tare eight or ten little
chests full of gold coin, valued at 2,000,000 of Dutch florists A
he is going to England by limy of Ostend..
Bets...FAA, IIARCH23.--Tltry write front Cambray, that the
house which the fluke of WeOinetiai is to inhabit in that Own
fa ready to receive him; it has been hired for the whole time
that the Army of Occupation is to remain in France. The
Noble Lord will reside itheroat, ly at Paris and at his head-
quarters at Cambray.
The Austrian Archdukes continue to visit at Brussels
thing remarkable.
Bp-Art.lN, MARCH 12.---An article under this head relates .
length the applications of Prince Blucher and of Mr. itildrrn-
trop for the restoration of the works of wit, and the giving -
of some manuscripts mid books iklangiog to the Univrret
Heidelberg, takes by the French from Koine out of the
tine I •ibrury in the Vatican, which were removed thither
Heidelberg durbeg the 30 years war.

Two Eigtishmen, named Williams and James Roberts,
ed wits embezzling a large sum of money belonging
house ul l'uwaooil and battery, at Rri,tol, with wliieli they
tied to France, have bLicii arrested at Chatellerault with the
nnlk of the property.

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