The National Register.
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THE NATIONAL REGISTER)

APRIL 11.

Statute Book with numerous Acts, coptaining a repetition of
the same clauses, in their application to the different parts of
the United Kingdom. These regulations, which he conceived
should have been comprized in one Bill, had been split into live
Lunn BATHVIM said, that the Bill which recently passed
was a Money Bill, and he apprehended that the practice, in
matters of that kind, had been to have a distinct Bill fur
each country.—With regard to the other Bills now in progress,
it might perhaps have been as well that enactments I-lAA been
comprehended in a single Bill, but .if they were proceeding
through Parliament with very little nitference in point of time,
no practical inconvenience could arise from the circumstance of
their Jiaving been proposed in the shape of separate measures.
Ills Lordship's motion was then agreed to.
The second reading of the Scotch Judicature Bill, which
stood for to-day, was, on the motion of the Lord Chancellor,
postponed to Thursday.
Lord Hawkesbury laid on the table copies of certain Orders
in Council, and also various Papers relative to the rupture with
Dearaark. They were ordered to be printed.—Adjourned.

tion from the Brazils, there would be a deficiency of IY or 14
millions of pounds in the yearly average of supply, should the
American cotton continue to be kept out of the market, and no
other source of supply be opened. An abundant supply, how-
ever, he was confident, could be procured from Gni- East ludic
possessions; but in the mean time the policy of retaining the
quantity on hand was obvious. This was the more necessary as,
from information received by Government, there was such a
scarcity of the article felt in Germany, that the manufactures
there were obliged to send large orders to Turkey, for an in-
ferior quality of cotton, ;lever used in this country but for do-
mestic purposes. Should the American Embargo be discon-
tinued, or, from other causes, the necessity of a total prohibi-
(ion cease, the means of exporting the surplus which would
then exist, were provided for by another Bill now on the table.
The Noble Lord theta quoted a variety of Acts passed since the
year 1794, to prove that exportation under licence from the
Privy Council was not a novel proceeding in principle or prac-
tice; and argued that; even at common law, the greater part of
our commerce could,; 0 no other way be conducted, under the
present circumstances, when almost the• whole Continent of
Europe was in a state of hostility with us. Without a licence,
every shilling's worth of property shipped for the Continent,
by a British subject, would be liable to capture by our own
cruizers. . . .

Lou,, Act's(Lazio thought the apprehensions alledged
justification of the Bill to he unfounded, but he was better
pleased that it had been proposed on such grounds, than
it should be recommended, as he expected it would have been
as a war measure, resting on the system of the Order in Coun-
cil. If it were to be regarded in the latter point of view, it
could not be called even an experiment, for attempts to mono-
polize the raw material, had been tried a hundred time over,
and without success, in all countries. He declared himself in-
capable of fathoming the principles of commercial policy,
upon which we were proceeding to break up the whole system
of our trader both in theory and practice. W hen he con-
sidered, that in defiance of all the impediments which our
enemy could throw in our way we had, (he could not glow
say have) an export and import trade of more than
100,000,0001. a year; and that the whole of the enemy's com-
merce did not amount to one-tenth of that sum, he looked with
feelings of the utmost alarm to the commencement of a war of
prohibitive regulations. Bonaparte could not but perceive,
that in such a contest, all the chances were in his favour, par-
ticularly in the present state of Europe.
The Bill was further supported by Lord Hawkeshury ; and
opposed by Lords Grenville and Darnley ; and, on a division
the motion for the third reading was carried by 44 to 11. The
Bill was then read a third time, passed, and was ordered to the
Commons.
'the Cotton Wool Duty Bill, and the Irish Bark and Cotton
Bill, were relit a third time and passed.—Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

MONDAY, APRIL 4.

Mr. Alderman Shaw presented a Petition from the Butchns'
Company of London, against the Bill for preventing the
Damaging of Raw Hides. Referred to the Committee on the
Bill, to be heard by Counsel against the same.
Petitions mere practiced from the Debtors in Londonderry
and Cardin* Gaols, praying relief. Laid on the table.
Mr. Taylor, in answer to it question by Lord Temple, de-
ferred until the sth of May his motion ou the Pal e..* connected
with the Expedition to the Dardanelle,:.
Mr. Rose presented a Petition from the Trustees of the
British Museum, praying the annual )rant of Parliament. Laid
the table.
Mr. Wharton brought up the Reports of the Committee of
Ways and Means and Supply of Friday last. The Resolutions
m ere agreed to.
Sir. A. Wellesley obtained leave to bring in a 818 amending
the Laws re•pecting the entering into Recognizance. in Crimi-
nal Cases in Ireland. The Bill was brought up, :read a .first,
and ordered to be read a woad time on Thursday, and to be
printe('.
Mr. C. Wynne, pursuant to notice, moved for the ?rodne-
Von of a Copy of the Minutes of Evidence, taken betore the
Sussex Election Committee, so far as the same respected Mr.
Sergisson. Ilis object was, when the Minutes of the Evidence
ebould be produced) to move for leave to bring iu Dill preventing