The National Register.
London, England, 1816-04-14 00:00:00

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tium and the Pancras Church Bills, which were rend,A,lirst
time.
The House went into a Committee on the Bill fur distablair
Napoleon Iluonapa rte.
fl,e Earl of LAI:DEED tr.r. moved an Amendment, to leave-
out all the words applying the terns af " prisoner of. war" to
Buonaporte.
'flit, Amendment was negatived without a division.
l'he Earl of LAUDERDALE said, that altlinisgßparsons were
• liable for assisting Buonaparte out of the bounds of the
island of St. Helcua, yet it was ambignolis; and he should,
therefore, move the insertion of the words " or further" the es-
cape of Bnonaparte.
This Amendment was agreed tn.
Lord iiiii.Lasu mused a proviso, that no defendant, agahist
whom Buonaparte might bnng an uctiou, sbonld be idlowedio
plead that he was an alien enemy.
On this Ainendinsut the House divided..-For the Amend-
ment, 5. tgaiust it 10. The preamble then received some
verbal anienihnauts, and the Bill meet through Me Coentsittee;
and was ordered to be reported to.inorrow—Adjorrned.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL IG.
Earl Bathurst presented an account of the thaw already paid
by France, as part of the war contribution to-this country.
Had a Noble Marquis been present. be could have *hewn hint
that this and every sum which France bad to pay yearly, would
be more than sufficieut to defray the expence oar army in
France.—The account was laid on the table, and orderearto-
be printed.—Adjourned..

THURSDAY, Arm:. 11.
The Royal Assent was given, 6y Commission, tn—
The Princess Charlotte's Annatty Bill, Ittionaparte's Deteo4•
Lion Bill, the St. Helena Intercourse Bill, the Excise Ditties
Bill, the Lead Bill, the Promissory Notes Bill, the American
Trade Convention Bill, the Irish Excise Duties.' Bill, the Fixol.
Advance Bill, the• llnnchester Waterworks Bill, the Exeter
Gas Lights Bill, the Southwark Bill, and several others •
of a private nature.
The Transportation Rill was read a second time. The Bat-
ter and Cheese Bills went through the Committees. The
Coroners, and the Highland' Snciety's 818. were read a first
time.—Adjourued till Friday, die ioik instant.

Y, Apari 8

HOUSE OF
Petitions were presented from the Tan nets and Leathe r.sellene
of Cumberland,Ludlow,Macclediekl,belep,l)nricana, andothor
plates, against the Tax on Leather ; from the licensed Vio-
tnallers of Cauterisnry and Knareshorough, against the Li-
cense Duty ; one from the Freeholders of Somerseaohire against
the Leather-tax, the Poor's-rate, and.tbe oppressive weight of
Taxes generally; and praying for every possible retrenchment
in the expeaditure; also from Worcester and Beverley, against
the Insolvent Act; and one from Dumfries, praying relief ter
the .Agricultural Interest.
Mr. HARVEY presented a petition from the porter and ale
brewers of Norwich, praying that some allowance should be
made to them, equal to the war duties, upon the stuck in hand.
The Hon. Member eontended, that unless some such waxers
were adopted, the repeal of the war duty would prove an in-
jury toeliens.
Mr. CakreaT was convinced, unless the suggestion was at-
tended to, the brewing trade would be suspended. An Hon.
Hart. (Sir.M. W. Ridley) had said on a. former night, . that if.
this duty were token ott, porter ought to be, lower a penny in
the pot. That Hon. Bart. should have recollected, that whets •
this duty was laid on, the brewers inerearevl their price wily •
one lialtpeunr, and it would now, when the ditty was taken ott,
be lowered a kalfpenuy, , and that lie thought might satisfy the
Hon. Gentleman.

Sir M. W. ltinesx desired only that the reduction:hi the
price, now the duty was about to be t skim ntE, should be equal
to the advance which took place at tile. time the duty was laid
on, and that the quelik of the article sold should be file uane,
lie con•idered that the greet root of evil in this case was the.
monopoly of public houses which existed amongst the great
brewers.

Mr. C. liAnctuir contended that the advance of one for.
thin; per pot !tinee 117,12. %% as by no weans equal to the advance
which ha.l taken place during the tame period on e% et y atitor
article of life.

Mr. WESTERN wished for the immediate repeal of the ditties
in every respect, as the only step which .could afford relief to
the barley growers.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER would advise this
hreuers, as a measure of economy, to brew ncdiately and
iargely, and to buy up aU the malt they could before the price
of bailey, and consequently of malt, shook' increase, a circiiin.
stance which certainly must occur, and that at no very alistant
perioil.—(A.lattgh.)
Sir F. Ituftnim presented a petition from time county of
Wilts, complaining of the weight of taxation under %%Inch the
country laboured : it also complained of the la rgemilitary
tahlishment proposed to be kept ; and of the present state
of the Representation .of the kingdom, and • pra) ed Parlia-
mentary Reform.
Mr. METHUEN stated, that he had understood *here were -
not more than 20 persons present at the meeting at which this
petition was agreed to. Another petition, which, he trusted,
would convey the sense of the County, was in preparation, and
would, in a iCW dAys, be presented to the House.
Mr. DocoL as a lid, reship. to the House cuing into a CUM.
mittee, he wished to ask the euble Lord whether he had" ob.
jeetion to producing certain Papers relating to the receipt and
application of BSO.OOOI. from France, and which, without any
application to parliament, had been appropriated to the pay-
ment of the army. He at present knew of no part of our Con-
stitution which gave so dangerous a power as this to the Minis-
ter of the Crown.---if a power so dangerous to the Constitut:on
did ekist, the House sh.oild lost. no time in interfering and pot-
t;?i,. 3o cod top. He .I'lo'll now, if the Nehle Lord had no oh_
jce tun, 111!)Ve for Pr' • s relative to this subject.
Lard CAtTLEItE/AGJa bad LW o!).iPetion to We motion, amnia,

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