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HOUSE OF COMMONS. f

THURSDAY, i‘l'AT 22.
Lora JOIIN TOWNSEND presented, by command of
his Mai6sey, an Account of the Extraordinary Ser-
vices, frdm the 25th of December, 1805, with a Du-
pliCate thereof:—Ordered to lie on the-Table.
Mr-Alderman •COMBE brought up -a Bill for re-
pealing the Flaying A&. Read a first,
.and ordered
to be read a second time.
The'lrish Revenue Colle&ion Bill passed through
a Committee, and. the. Report was ordered
.to be re-

ceiVed to-morrow.
On the Motion of Mr. FOSTER, it was ordered,
that the' House should to-morrow resolve itself into
a Committee, to consider of the Irish Mail Coach

Aft, of the 45th'of the King.
Mr. ALEXANDER brought up the Report of a Bill
to amend the Irish Malt Duty Aa Of the last Session.
The Bill, with the Amendments, was ordered to be
engrossed, and read a third time to-morrow.
Mr. ALEXANDER. also brought up the Iteport of
the Committee on the Irish Stamp Duty Bin, which
wasagreed,to ; -and the Resolutions of the Cominit-
teeof Supply on the Arni.l.Estimates, which .were
read a second time, .and agreed to.
On the Motion' of Mr. V,NsxTTART, the third
reading of the Property Duty Bill was, deferred until

to-morrow. .
Mr. Meux,.from the India Board, presented vari-
ous Papers respeEting the Claims of Individuals on
the .Nabob of Oude ; which were ordered to be

printed.
Mr. FOSTER moved the Order of the Day for the
second reading of. the Bill respeaing the Drawback

'on Foreign Linens.
After a
..fe.W.l.vords from Lord TEMPLE and Mr.
Coitty,Yeltive to. the extreme importance of the
Bill, inasmuch as it not only -affeded the Irish, .but
the English and Scotch ManufaCtures also; Mr.
FOSTER consented not to press the second reading
until Wednesday next, for which day, it was accord-
ingly ordered.
Lord TEMPLE moved, -" that there be laid before .
the House, an Account of Irish Linens, not exceed-
ing 3 0.1 inches in breadth, exported from the etst
of January, 1798, to the 31st of December, 1805,
inclusive."—Ordered.: , • • , •
The Irish Defence Bill was read a third time, and.
ordered to be committed to-morrow.
A Message from .the Lords informed the House,
that their Lordships, had agreed -to the Additional
Force Repeal Bill, without any athendments, and to
several Private Bills:
- The SECRETARY at WAR 'brought up the Mutiny
Bill; which was read a first time, and ordered to be
read zi second time. on Wednesday next.'
M. ROSE gave .notice, that he would ta-mor-
row move for certain Accounts %vliich he thought
necessary'to, be produced, •in consequence of what
thi. Noble Lord (H; Pettvl had last-night said rela-
tive to the Public Accounts, and the state in Which
they remained uninquired into, and,unsettled ; and
.by the production of those Accounts he hoped he
should be able totrace out who were defaulters, and
who were not; and•he hoped that such as were proved
to be so, be their rank and•consequence what it may,
on them " the great axe would fall 5". and that they
would bp treated 'with. every severity their conduct
shouldmerit. He promised to send the Noble Lord
Copies of the Motions heshould make, and the Pa-
pers contained in .each ; and if the Noble. Lord
could make any addition to' them, so as to render
• them more complete and efficient, he should be
• very much obliged to. him,. and would_ readily in-
,. sert them for that purpose, his wish being to
ob-
tain the most complete discovery that was possible.
Sir J. NEWPORT moved for leave to bring in a
Bill to enable His Majesty to accept the services of
the,Militia of Ireland, under certain restrictions.---
Granted. •
'The Report on the Eledion Treating Bill was
brought up and agreed to, and the Bill. ordered to
be read a third 'time on Monday se'nnight.
ctisTo'si DUTY BILL.*
Sit-Jo FIN NEWPORT moved the Order of the Day
for the House to resolve itself into a Committee on
this Bill.
The House having resolved itself accordingly, on
the Resolution being read, that there be granted a
duty of 285. a ton on iron ; •
Mr. FOSTER 'said, he had not supposed the
Right Hon. Baronet meant seriously to persist in
the proposed duty on Iron, after a . similar tax had.
been rejected in England, on account of, its.impoli7
tic pressure upon all the manutitdures of the Coun-
try, and its consequent extension to the poorer
classes Ofthe.community. If this was found•to be
ai weighty consideration', in England, how much
more ought it to operate; when the comparative po-
verty of Ireland was contemplated. This proposed
duty would cause an increase of twenty per cent. in
the price of
,irOn, and prove almost ruinous to the
infant manufaduressof that Country, as no counter-
vailing duty was allowed on their introdudion into
England. A drawback was provided, in the case
of the small duty or3.s. per cwt. on sugar, and yet
to countervail the much more material tax upon
iron, no increase of drawback was allowed:. The
measure, if carried in its present shape, would. de-
feat itself, as not a Shilling 'of revenue would be
derived from it ; as it was only calculated to pro-
duce 15,0001. he hoped the Right Hon. Baronet
would adopt some of the Maq:preferable means
that presented , themselves of raising that sum, and
prevent the dissatisfaelion that would. ensue in Ire-
land, if, whilst in this ample and opulent country,
the tax upon iron_ was: abandoned as oppressive, it
should be inflicted there.
Mr. ROSE thought it was impossible the Right
Hon. Baronet Could press the Tax, as even in case of
providing a sufficient countervailing duty, if the ma-
nufaCtures oflreland were like those of England, the
mixture. of' foreign with native iron; would prevent
its being embraced. He was sure the Tax would
produce 'nothing ; add he was also of opinion, that
in estimating the duty on sugar, the Right Hon;
-oentleman had calculated. upon a greater, average
price (sos. per cwt.) than it would be found to bear;

it was altogether .3 new and extraordinary measure
to make a provision of temporary War Taxes to pay
.a permanent Loan ; and even the provision math
'would fall greatly short of what it was estimated a
Sir JOHN NEWPORT said, that from the ob-
servations\made•by the Right Hon. Gentleman op
posite to him (Mr. Foster), it' might be
,supposed
that the Tax now
,proposed on Iron was exactly si-
mikir to the Duty which had been proposed on Iron
in this Country ; but the fad was direaly the re.
verse. • This was not an Excise Duty—this was not
a Tax upon native Iron, but on foreign Iron. It was
contended that if this Duty were laid on, there
ought to be a countervailing Duty in England. In an-
swer to this assertion, he begged to ask, how it
happened that no less-than five Duties had been im-
posed upon. Iron in this Country, without any coun
tervailing duty being imposed in Jreland ?—These
several Duties amounted to no less than 21. 1 os. per
ton, and when Duties to such an amount had been
laid on in England without any countervailing duty
in Ireland, he did not think it new fair to call for
a countervailing duty -in England when a duty of
11. 85. was proposed in Ireland. . If he had any
doubt upon this subjea, he was enabled to resort
to the best possible assistance, for he had the Right
Hon. Gentleman's own authority: The year before
last the Right 'Hon. Gent. had proposed an altera-
tion of the Duties, by converting the whole into
British currency, with the exception of the Imports
from Great Britain. Now it was impossible to
deny that this was an alteration of the Duty to the
-amount of a t -third per cent. without any counter-
vailing duty having been proposed. Here then
he
had the Right Hon. Gentleman's authority for what
•he Was, now doing. , It was true, that in the in-
stance he had alliided to the sum was small, but
that was of no importance,• the principle was
established, whether the sum was large or
But if Ireland had an absolute right to call for this
countervailing Duty, for this additional Duty of
11. ss. undoubtedly Great Britain had an equal right
to .cali for a countervailing Duty in Ireland, in eon-
sequence of the Duties to . the amount 21. 11 s. per
ton which had been imposed in Great Britain.—
These cases certainly did not escape the attention of
the Legislature at the time of the Union. It was
enacted that countervailing Duties 'should be im-
posed in each Country, and the articles are specified
in the Schedule No. I. ; but in that Schedule iron
and hardware are not mentioned ; they are included-
.in Schedule No. 11. which contains a List of Ar-
ticles which are to be subje& to a fixed Duty for 20
years. ConSidering, therefore, that this subjea was
fully within the contemplation of the ipersons who
framed'the A& of Union, and. considering that no
countervailing Duty had been called for in Ireland in
consequence of the additional Duties' in this Coun-
try, he did not think the Right Hon. Gentleman's
objedipn intitled to any weight. • With resped to
the objections made by the other Right Honourable
'Geritleman respecting Sugar, and by the. other
-Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Rose), he
begged to re-assert what he stated on a -former -oc-
casion, that all the Duties in Ireland were an-
nual. The Legislature never had felt itself
bound to continue the Duties of the former year, but
altered or repealed them whenever it thought pro-
-per. He wished the. Right Hon. Gentlenian had
- stated his reasons for asserting, that this Duty on
Sugar would not produce any 'L Revenue. The
average during the last year was .50s. ; the Tax
would certainly then have attached, and he saw, no
reason why it should not ,attach now. But the Right
Hon. Gentleman had accused him of not making
provision for the interest, of the Loan to this as-
sertion. he should give a very short answer: The
Charge for the Loan, not including the Interest that
might become due , upon Treasury Bills that might
,be hereafter issued, was 263,6661, ; the provision
he had made was 333,2441. which exceeded the
Charge by above 64,0001. and consequently ample
provision was made for the Loan. It was,true '.that
he had stated the amount of the Charge, on
opening the Budget, at 313,0001. ; but this was be-
-cause he had done what none of his predecessors
had done, viz. provided, by 'anticipation, for the in-
terest that might become due during thecurrant year.
This he certainly was not bound to do, and conse-
quently the Ways and Means exceeded the regular
Charges, as he had before stated, by 64;0001. ; and
even-if the DUty on Sugar, which he had estimated
at 60,0001. did not produce a single farthing, 'still
there would be a surplus of 40001. But he begged
that-it might -not for a moment be supposed that hei
admitted the position of the Right Hon. Gentleman,
that this Duty would- not produce any • Revenue.—
The Right Hon. Gentleman bad formed his opinion
upon the Price of the Day ; he had formed his-cal-
culation upon the average of one or two years.—
Upon these grounds he should •certainly persevere
in the Tax.
Mr. FOSTER said,. that the situation of England
and Ireland was such, that, although the -former
could affbrd to relinquish the'advantage of a coun-
tervailing duty, the latter was not in a condition to
forego the prote&ion of it, and allow this
_country
an advantage. The dodrine of the Right Hon.
Gentleman, that because an article was not found in
the first Schedule of the Act he had quoted; a coun-
tervailing duty was not to extend:. to it, was quite
,new, and extremely dangerous.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT said, he did not mean
that it was not competent to Parliament to extend
that Duty; but he would ask, since the Right Hon-.
Gentleman seemed 'so strenuous for the countervail-
ing Duty, why it. had. not been called for in the case
of the Duty on Cotton Wool, 'which had been inn-
-posed since the Union ? • .
Mr. ROSE said,that Duty was only a penny per
pound, and not an obje& of great consequence, and
he thought no omission ought to be pleaded as a
precedent for not now pursuing the right course.
Mr. CORRY said, he' was glad to see the princi-
ple of the Union so well agreed upon. Undoubt-
edly, a countervailing duty ought to he laid in either
Country, for a duty imposed on the other; and,
therefore, the Tax now proposed would have the
effed of equalizing what, by the increase of duty in
this Country, since the Union, without a counter-
vailing duty in Ireland, had been made unequal.—
He hoped the Right Hon, Baronet would make the
Duties on Ireand perpetual, instead 91 aurnial and
uncertain, as they now are.
Lord CASTLEREAGH spoke at same length
on the necessity of immediately remedying any
breach or omission of the enactments o,f the Ad Of
Union: fr- thought the 'Kali on Iru4 would have

TOying the prcduce of the duty, :1-

r.V.V said,, he .'was not a friend to
•Iron,. but be submitted to it as the
Ace of evils. When Gentlemen oh-
because it affeCted the manufaCtures,

.need the measures by which the Right
onet was to raise a considerable revenue,
w. ~„jiey be sO.O-ood as to point out what course
could ° possibly be = adopted, by which
tri.Simanufakqures of the-country would not be all.
would not accede to the duty on iron
it' ii•viogfed a principle-Of the 'Union"; but it did
dot apppr to him to do..tg: The duty on Sugar,
safficien t was provided without it, to .-cover the.
Loan, was imposed, became a duty was, also im-
posed in England, and he considered it to be intend-
ed as A security for the future interest of the Loan,
in addition to the faith of Parliament. He admitted
the Iron Duty was rather a strong measure, but he
did not know any that. would be less severely felt.
Sir WILLIAM YOUNG, Mr. PARNELL, and Mr.
Efusx.issog, said a feW words in opposition to the
Taxes. • .

Op account of a verbal omission which Mr. Fos-
tint pointed out, the Cornmittee did not proceed in
the Bill; but the Chairman reported progress, and
obtained leave to sit again to-morrow.

AMERICAN INTERCQURSE BILL.
Lord TEMPLE moved the Order of the Day fbr a
Committee on the Motion for leave to bring in a Bill
for regulating the Intercourse between America and

the West Indies.:
The Ho-use having tesolVed itself into a Com•
mittee, after a few cursory observations from Mr.
ROSE, Mr. Fox, and Sir WILLIAM CURTIS, a dis•
cussion of some length took place'; which, as the
merits of the measure have been already amply and
ably discussed in the House of Lords, it will not be
necessary for us to report fully.,
Lord TEMPLE stated briefly the nature of the
measure, and the grounds upon which he was in-
duced to bring- it forward ; and be had the satisfac-
tion to say, that they were sufficient to convince
his mind, and to trust that they would appear sa-
tisfaetory to the House. From the great increase of
the population of our Colonies, it was fotind im-
possible that they could produce a sufficient support
for their population. Every principle, therefore,, of
policy, justice, and humanity, demanded that the
subsistence of the Negroes, from' whose labour we -
derived so many advantages, should not be left in a
precarious state. It appeared by .a Report of the
Government of Jamaica, that in consequence of the

interruption of the Intercourse between America
and the West. Indies during the American War,
15,000 'Slave§ had died for want of food, or from
being subsisted On -unWholeserne food. The -Prin-
ciples of our Navigation Laws, though. good is
themselves, could not be strialy adhered to in all
times and all circumstances. Ever since the period

of the year 1793, the Governors of the West India
Islands had been in the habit of Suspending these
Laws on their personal responSibility; and by the
last Dispatches from Jamaica it appeared, that the
Governor felt himself impelled to continue the Sus-
pension still farther. The Bill was intended only
to transfer the responsibility from the Governors,
who could not be acquainted with the general policy
of the Country, to the Privy Council. The objet:t
Of the Bill was not to repeal or definitively to sus.
pend the Navigation Laws, but to enable the Go-
vernors to do that by law which they were now ac-
CustOrned to do without law; on all these grounds
he moved that the Chairman be directed to move
for leave 'to bring in the Bill, &c. •
Mr. ROSE thought the present Bill went to re-
peal one of the most important Laws on the Statute
Books. -He contended that there were British Ships
enough unemployed to carry on the Provision Trade
to the Colonies," and at'nOt more than two per cent.
more charge for freightage than the Americans.—
From the year 1784 to 1793 the Colonies had been
supplied by British Ships as plentifully and cheaply
as they could by the Americans ; an,d'the Shipping
had got up, in the. Islands, and in our Continental
Colonies, to 935 Ships, a Tonnage 1 0,0, and
6,500 Seamen. , Since 170'theShipping, &c. had
decreased; 'in consequence of letting in the Ameri-.
cans. He allol.ved that this was not . owing to the'
Vest Indies ; but insisted that the Governors if
supported from home, could remedy the evil. He
had reason to think, that there were persons in this
Country ready 'to embark in the Trade, if they could.
be allowed two Convoys in the year. The opening
the Ports to the Americans gave rise to smuggling
of East India goOds into the Colonies. The Noble
Lord might see a Letter from Admiral Cochrane,
that the West Indies are inundated with such goods.
He contended, that the present measure, so tar from
shifting the responsibility, would remove all respon-
sibility and that it would have an operation inju,
rious to our Foreign Fisheries, to the Linen and Cot-
ton Mallufaftures, to the' East India Company, and
to the Irish -Provision-Trade. He had 110 objection to
the Chairman's asking leave to bring in a Bill; provided
the :Noble Lord would 'consent that a Committee
shOuld be appointed up stairs to examine into the
merits of the case on both sides, which might be
done in four or five days.
Lord TEMPLE could not accede to the proposi-
tion of the Right Hon. Gentleman. He saw no
reason for appointing a Committee up stairs to in-
quire into the fads stated in the preamble, .which
could not be disputed.
Mr. secretary Pay allowed that the Americans
had no right to complain of our Regulations respeet-
ing our trade with our Colonies ; and amongst the
Many complaints he had heard made by the Ame-
ricans, there was no complaint of this kind. The
present Bill was not to repeal, but to suspend the
Navigation Law. There was a material difference
between a Bill to ,repeal, and one to suspend, be-
cause the suspension implied the existence of the
necessity. Notwithstanding all the Right Hon.
Gentleman had 'said, he did not think that any one
of the Ship-owners, or any of the Colonies, would
be injured by the Bill. Since the year 1793 it
,had
been found .necessary occasionally to suspend these
Laws ; and this Bill only threvi the responsibility
from the Governors on the Council of His Majesty.
If the Ship-owners could ob% late the necessity, they
might prove that to-the Privy Council, and so pre-
Vent the Proclamation for the Suspension} from
being issued. It had. been said, that the Governors
could remedy the necessity, if well supported from
this Country : but what better support' could they
have than an Order of the Privy Council, which

this Bill would ofre'tlierri ? As tile measure was
only to provide for a temporary Suspension of the
Laws of Navigation during the War,. it was dif7
ficult• to perceive how any permanent interests Werth
to be affe6ted by it. 'The considerations urged by
the Hon Gent: .would be prOper..to be attended to
when:ver, if ever, Peace should take place—when
a permanent arrangement might be the snbjeet of
discussion. Would • one S,hip leSs.go out if this Bill.
should pass, or one Ship more if it should not pass ?
The inquiry, proposed by the Hon. Gentlernan; was
totally &reign to the Bill. under consideration,Avhicli-
was solely intended to cast the responsibilitiron the
Privy Council, in Whom it ought to reside and in:.
whom it had in general cases been Jodgea,
sides, it was desirable not to suffer the cases of
violation of Law to be multiplied, for the purpose of
afterwards indemnifying the parties. It was dif-
ficult to conceive why any objection should be made
tp a measure which was intended only to enable His
Majesty to give power to his Governors in his Colo-
nies to do that which heretofore they had 'done

without any legal power.
Lord CASTLEREAGH was glad to hear that
the American Government did not pretend to a right
to trade with our West India Colonies, farther than

as our convenience permitted : there were many
individuals in high stations in America who had
much larger pretensions ; and he did not wish to
encourage these pretensions at a time when pro-
hibitory measures. were meditated in America
against our trade, and claims set up, which, if esta-.

blished or allowed, would be-fatal to our maritime
power. The Bill now proposed, went. to take away
the controul and responsibility froM the Governors,
who were cognizant of the necessity, and to lodge
it in the Privy Council at home, who knew nothing
of the matter. To give the power in the first in—
stance, would give a facility to the creation of the
necessity ; whereas, if the sanction was to rest on
the establishnient of the fad of the necessity, more
caution would be observed. The United- Kingdom
could supply the West India-Islands fully with salted
provisions and salted fish ; it was only sometimes
that a supply of corn and timber was required from
America. He thought a better 'system may be
adopted than either a general prohibition or a general'
permission. This system would ensure a constant
supply to the necessities of the Colonies, at the same
time that it would prote& British' produce and Bri-
tish navigation, and the maritime strength of the
British Empire. Whenever our maritime interest
came in competition with our commercial interest,
the former was uniformly preferred. The question
before the House was by no means pressing. He
wished, therefore, that time should be given to them
to consider how the shipping interest would be af-
feeted by it. He trusted this measure would not
be carried by force of numbers, as the Tortola Bill
had been pressed forward, in defiance of the unan-
swerable arguments of his Right Hon. Friend (Mr.
Rose).
Sir TV. YOUNG defended the Motion,. on the
ground of the necessities-of the-Colonies. It was
forbidden by law to send more than 32.000 barrels
of flour annually from the United Kingdom to the
, West India Islands ; and the consumption was up-
wards of 150,000. The Navigation Ad had been
frequently mitigated in time of war—for instance,
in allowing British Ships to be navigated by 3-4ths
foreign seamen instead of 1-4th. The West India
Planters were so dontie&ed, with their consigners
Isere, that they could not avoid taking out their ge-
neral supplies from them, and their own general in-
terest was the best security.against their encouraging
the Trade, with America to. the prejudice of the
Trade with Great Britain. The situation of the
case was this—the Governors-of the Colonies stated,
that unless this measure were passed the Colonies
would be in Want of pro Visions. Was it pleasant to re-
fuse such an application ?
Sir C. PRICE wished to go into a Committee of
Inquiry, in which the effeet of the proposed mea-
sure on the Shipping Interest snay be fully consi-
dered. The decrease of Ship-building in Britain,
from the year 1790, was most alarming, as would
appear from some Accounts on the subject moved
for by him., The Colonies could now be effe&ually
supplied by British Shipping.
Mr. ROSE wished an Inquiry to be instituted,
to ascertain how far the number of Ships in the
Trade was likely to be affeded by this 'measure.
He was assured that a number .of persons were
ready to embark in.the Tradeif this measure did not
pass, who would undertake fully to supply the wants
of the Colonies from the United Kingdom.
Lord TEMPLE stated, that after every inquiry
and every exertion of the Board to which lie be-
longed (the 'Board, of Trade), it was found that a
sufficient supply could not be had frOm the United
Kingdom.
Mr. ROSE referred the Noble Lord to Messrs:
Milligan, Henry, and Inglis, who had respedively
bad communications with him on the subject.
Sir W. CURTIS wished for a Committee of Inquiry
to ascertain how the Shipping Interest would be af-
fected by the measure.• Our Ships and our Sailors
were the Wooden 'Walls of Old England.
• Sir. JtvrEaf asserted; that Newfoundland alone
was sufficient to supply five times the quantity of
fish required for our West India Colonies.
.After a few words in explanation, between Lord
TEMPLE and. Mr. JEFTEMES,
The Motion was agreed to, the Report received,
and 'leave given to bring in the Bill.
Lord H. PETTY gave notice that he should to-
morrow move that the House should, at its rising,
adjourn till Wednesday.
The third reading of the Tortola Free Port Bill
was postponed till to-mOrrow.—Adjourned.

establish, in pretending that the Duchy .of Lauen-
burgh (as well as_ the rest'of the Eleaorate of Hano-
very is a-French conquest ceded tb Prussia Iva formal
Treaty, and that the taking possession of that pro.
vinceonght not to be. considered as an attack ou' the
Swedish Army.

" If; in Corlsequence of his engagements:with the
King of Great-Britain, 'His Majesty wished to em-
ploy all his efforts for preserving to that Sovereign
a part at least. of his hereditary possessions on the
COntinent, and that at a period when the projeets, of
the Cabinet of Berlin were no longer doubtful, he
has since found, in the intimacy of that Cabinet with
BONAPARTE, and above all in the measures it has
adopted against the English commerce, motives too
powerful not to adhere,mvariably to that line of con-
dud which he had traced out 'to himself from the
first ; accustomed for a long time to rank Prussiain
the class of his enemies, by her alliance with a Go-
vernment which is at war" with Sweden and her
allies, the King, setting out from this principle, only
considers that which has taken place. as a necessary
consequence._

" In wishing to deprive his Britannic Majesty of
a .State which belongs to him; by shutting to his
Flag the Ports and Rivers of the North of Germany ;
by solemnly declaring at the same time that all this
had been done in consequence of an agreement with
France; the King of Prussia gives already sufficient
proofs of his hostile intentions towards the three al-
lied Courts. If, after this, he attacks the Swedish
forces in Lauenburgh, the King can only interpret
such connuel in one way. Wherever the .Swedish
j_forces are, they cannot be attacked without the King
considering .such attackts a declaration of war, and
it is in this light-that-he will view it.
" The Court of Prussia pretends, that it does not
wish in any case to pass its proper Frontiers ; but, in
the mean time, it comprehends under this denomina-`
tion a part of the'EleCtorate which is occupied by the
Corps under the Count Da LOWENH I ELM, which will
never refire froni`it but when compelled by force of
arms. If this *Court wishes to colour its aggression
by certain pretended rights on Lauenburgh,.andshall
strike the first blc,w, in order afterwards to pretend
that it was obliged to defend itself, it is not the less
certain that every impartial man will appreciate
Without difficulty the force of such crooked reason-
ing, and will acknowledge the justice of that cause
which the King, our Master, has determined to sup-
port. _

" It is with-sentiments of perfeet consideration,
that I have the honour to be, Sir, &c. &c.

(Signed)

" GUS; DE WETTERSTEDT."