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DrTIES.
First Report (relative. to the Timber Trade) from the Select
Onniniitee of the Ilituae of Lords, appuiairil lu inquire
into the mean* of extending nod securing the Foreign
Trade of the Country, and to report to the House; toge-
ther with the Minutes of Evidence taken before the said
Cuinntittee.—Ordeved•tu be printed 3d July, MO.

By the Lords' Committee appointed a Select Committee to
inquire into the Means of extending anti reetiring the
Foreign Thole of the Country, and to report to the
*House; sod to whom were referred the Petition of cer-
tain Ship Owners of Sunderland, iespeciing the duties on
Wood; also, the Petition of the Directors of the Chaos-
. her of 51autifaeturea suit Commeree at Birnsietharns rela-
tive to Foreign Tiede; alto, the Petitios of certain Mer-
chants of Leith, relittive to the Desire MI ICIIIIII4I. ; also,
the Petition of Alert hauls aud other, engaged in Trade
with the British Colonies in North America, and in the
Fisheries of Newtoutidland, Nova Semis, nod New Bruns-
wick, resilleut in London, against any alteration in :be
Deities nu Timber: and also, the Petition of the Ship
Outlets of Lcith, Kirksldy, and neighbouring Ports,
agate's, any alteration in the Du:iea on Timber from the
Brit tilt Settlements of North America.
Ord. red to Report—That the Committee have met, anti
hare proceeded to examine evidence upon the pilots con-
*ldyll d in this Repent ; and having underatoorl that consi-
derable mixiely prevailed in the Commercial and Shipping
Wrier:is with respect to the'systein which Parliament might
think it expedient to adopt for the future regulation of the
Tinther Trade with the North of Europe, and the North
American Coloinee, have. thought it their ditty to direct their
attention, in the first instance, to that subject. They are
induced, from the PUMP motive, to sitlimit the result of their
inee-tieatiota to the House, wilt t *V3IIIOZ for the tempi.
notion of those inquiries which they find it their doh', in
pursuance of the inettnetiona of the House, to institute
ttttt the state of other !ranches of Ruttish C 11111 l aerce.
The encouragement afroriled to the importation of good
from the Brittsh Colonies in North America, bt the imposi-
tion of heavy duties on wood from Foreign Suttee, is of
comprraiively recent date, and does not appear to have
forme 41 e. part of the Commercial or Colonial pullet' of the
cutiotry prenotis to the late war. Till the year 1809 little or
no duty had been imposed upon the varioas opt curs of tim-
ber ; in that and the succeeding year, however, the nature
of our political relation with the Baltic Powers led to au
apprehension that great ditlictilly weight be found in deiiv.
• lug the usual rupplies of titnlier from flint gloater, not only
fur the general purposes of dumeatie use, but more particu-
larly fur the !nurses of ship-building.
It was, hogever, known that timber in any quantity,
although of au inferior quality, might be ohtnined iii the
British Colonies in North Asatrica. hot this hying a new
branch of trade, mid exiiu4a to some risk and uncertainty,
it was deed expedient to give the Canadian wood the ad-
vantages not only of nit exemption from all duty, on such as
was fit for naval purpose., and of a ditty little more than
nontio•l upon all other descriptious, but also of a cult-
siderable increase of duty un wood from the North of
Europe.
High permanent duties, and a temporary war duly, were
accordingly Outboard upon all descriptions of wood imported
front foreign contit: ies by the 49 Giro. 111. c. 98, whicb verse
doubled by the 50 Geo. 111. r. 77; and these were after-
wards partially increased by the 51 Gen. 111. e. 91, and by
the 52 Ceo. 111. c. 117, and a duty of 25 per cent. noon the
whole of the permanent duties was added by the 53 Geo. 111.
C. 33.

The several duties aforesaid were afterwards arranged and
consolidated by the 59 Geo:111. c. 52 ; and a schedule, !
taken from the said Act, of the details of the exiirtine duties
on all descriptions of wood imported front foreign countries,
is annexed to this Report.
The Committee have been informed by those of his Mn.
jexty's Ministers whir are Members of the Committee, that
the Canadiar, Merchant, were never led to believe that any I
of there duties would he 'termini-of, et expectatiou was -
however held out, that ilie duty of 21. Is first imposed would
continuedbe for :sine considerable time, trot no such caper--
gal was fairly retard with respect to the war duty, and the
duty imposed in 1813, and the exemptinit frosts duty on Cana-
dian
timber has 1.41WZ1” been temporary, and will, unless re.
tamed by Eat liantent, expire in July, 1820, although the
parties have been gavot to understand that it sissy he farther i
continued 1;11 March, 1821. Thor view of the subject has
been constantly captained to the Canadian Merchants in va-
rious rommunicatimia, to whirl) this question has led be-
twcen them sod the Board of Trade.
The Committee have not therefore felt that there existed ;
any circumstance coonecied w;th the period during which,
or the purposes fur which, these duties had been imposed, i
which could preclude them, or could preclude Parliament,
after the return of a general peace, from conzidering so int-
portent a question as the future regulation of this rierential I
branch of commerce, with a view to the permanent interests ;
sisal general prosperity of the empire.
Under this impression, they have thought it their duty to
ascertain from persons best euabled to speak front experience
upon those subject.--
First, the comparative qualities of won't imported from I
the d,ffereut ports in the North of Europe, and from the
North American Colonies;
Second, the comparative facility sell cheapness of the
supply of these diffelent species of wood, considered lode.
penitently of the ditties with which it has been charged ;
Third, the direction whir h tne system of duties in force
since the years 1809 and 1813 has given to the commerce and
cousumptiou of the country, as far as respects the article of ;
wood; and,
Fourth, the probable effect which any material diminution
or alteration of lituse duties might be expected to produce t
on the common olio's of the country, on its trade with Europe
stud with the Colonies, and on the particular tole-rests con-
error&
(If the fir imported from the North of Europe, that of
Norway is represented kJ he the must durable, although of
inferior dimensions; the next io durability is that imported
from the Baltic, more particularly from the ports of Dant.
zit and of Riga. The qualiiy of the Swedieb is nearly as
good as that of the Prussia,' timber. The thither imported
from tl,nsel, Daullig, and Rigs, is most applicable to the
porposes of shipibuitiling. The North American timber
Is noire soft, less durable, anti every descrip • of it more
liable, though in different 'teeters, to the dry rot, than tins.
her the produce of the North. of Europe. The red pine,
i however, whirl, hears a smell proportion to the other de.
seriph of timber, and I lie greater part of which, though
imported hoist Canada, is the produce of the United States,
i. distinguirlwd from the white pine by its great durability.
tht the whole, it is stated by one of the Comorissintiers of his
Illejesty's Navy, must distiuguished fur praritcal!knowledge,
experience, and skill, that the twitter of Cattail*, both oak
awJ 11r, doe"; not POSOeS., for the purpose of shipshnildine,
more than our-half the durability of wood of the same de-
scription, the produce of the North of Europe ; that it is
particularly liable to the growth of fungi, that species of
vegetation which is the furerusitter of dry rut; and that it
has brew observed by other professional Ines as well as by
binsairlf, that in most instances where Americas timber has
been brought Into cuttlact with that of this or any other
country, it has even had the effect of destroying that shirk
was is mums with it. The revolt of its application to lather
purposes of building is described by timber merchants and
6 carpenters to be nearly similar. The Canada pine is, bow.

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