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London, England, 1801-04-02 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLMM ElvT;

HOUSE OF PEEIeS,

WEDNESDAY, APRIL I.

The several Bills before the House were forward-
ed in their respeEtive Stages.
Some private business was disposed of, after
whict? their Lordships adjourned till to-morrow,
when we understand a Commission takes pl*e for
declaring the Royal Assent to certain Bills.

HOUSE OF COMMONS,

WEDNESDAY, APRIL I.
..
The Millers Indemnity Bill was read a third time
and passed. •
The Report of the Committee of Supply for Ire-
land being brought up, 7
Sir JOHN PARNELL said, that he observed
that some of the Charges which had heretofore been
voted annually, were now proposed to be made per-
manent, which he thought ought not to be done un-
til they bad been investigated in a-Committee.
Mr. CORRY said, that the Charges to which the
Right Hon. Baronet alluded, had a:ways been voted
during the Adniinistration of that Right Hon. Baro.
net, and consequently, he' could have no doubt
of their propriety. The whole of them did not.
• • amount to above 60001.-a year pad, therefore, he
thought it would be better to. vote them at once,
than to go through such a detail of.minute Sums
every year, especially as the nature of them were
per fall)! well known, and they had been regularly
voted almost time out of mind.
Sir Jour/ PARN6LL explained.
Mr. HosHous and Mr. SHERIDAN expressed
their disapprobation of treating this as trifling, be-
cause the sum was small, as the principle was the
same, whatever the sum was.
The Resolutions were then agreed to. •
EGYPT.
•
•
Lord H4WKESBURY presented several Papers re-
- speCting Egypt, which were ordered to be printed.
IRISH BUDGET.-
,
Mr. CORRY moved the Order of the Day for
ring-into a committee of Ways and Means, and
that the Accounts presented by_Mr. WEATHERALL,
should be referred to the said Committee.
The Haase then resolved itself into a C6m_
.. mittee of Ways and Means, Mr. BRAGG! in the
Chair.

Mr. CORRY said, that in discharging
~the duty
.which it had fallen to his lot to perform,- it would
'be his objea to take up as little of the time of the
Committee as possible. If, however, there were
any parts in his statements which the Committee or
any Gentleman might wish. to have explained, he
. would give it with the greatest pleasure. It might
(se expected before he entered into the 'statement of
the charges upon Ireland, that he should say a few •
words about the Finances, of that Country. In
, doing So, however, he should endeavour to give
the Committee as little trouble as possible ; he
should begin by stating thicharges which Ireland
would have to bear separately from Great Britain,
ibtu her joint expences in consequence of the Union,
and then he 'should state. the Ways ,and
which he meant to'cover the Supplies. It must be
in the recolleetion of every Centleman who heard
him, that the principle of the Union, which in
his opinion had been so much to the interest of both
Countries, agreed upon war, a principle of com-
plete and entire Union of the Governrraents of the
two Countries.—As far as respeaed.atbe Govern-
ments that principle had been comAttly carried
into effea.—lt was no longer an Union of two
Crowns, it was an union of the Sovereignty, But
owing to some circumstances subsisting antecedent
to_the Union, it became necessary, for a short time,
to administer the Finances of the two Countries in
a separate manner, And not in that perfe& • Unity
which it was the °hied of the great measure to'
which he had alluded, to deft. As, therefore, at
present the Finances of the two Countries were sepa-
' rate, it would be necessary for him to state them in
two points of view; both as they affeEted Ireland
separately, and in.conjunaion with Great Britain.
He would now proceed to state the separate Charges-,.
the first Of. which was the Interest of the Na-
, tional Debt, which formed thegreat Article of the
. Separate Charge upon Ireland,. as the Military
Ex-
pence formed almost, the whole of her joint Charge.
With.respea to ,the Debt of Ireland, . it would ap.
ear to cars accustomed to the Millions of this
Lountry, to amount only to a .small Sum ; it was at
//resent no more than 36,006,0001. It was, howe-
ver, a burthen of great importance to that Coon-
, -try, and which had increased most rapidly during'
the present war. The prOportion
,of the Debt of
Ireland, at the commencement, of the war,, was to
the Debt at present, in the proportion of r to 14.
I-Icr Debt at that 'period was to that of England,
as r to r 00, but now the propOrtion of the Debt
of Ireland was to that England,' as s to
tut a large .part• of the Debi of
,Ireland was
in 5 per ,Cents. and irthey were reduced to 3
per a, Cents. in which ,a great part of the, Debt
of FAgland colisisted,.. and if the Irish Debt was
all reduced t 0.3 per Cents. •thenits prdportion would
be'as t to 'EI to the Permanent Debt of England.—
He mentioned this to shew, that if in the prosecu-
, lion of the arduous contest in which we were now
engaged, Great Britain had incurred great burrhens,
Ireland had also increased her's, in a: very great de-
gree She had made very great fioancial,, and from
the unfortunate situation in which. she had been
,placed,' great military exertions, also, without
. murmuring ; and he trusted from the improvement
in het-situation, which he doubted not would be
the result of the Union, she would be . enabled to
bear them withoutdlificulty.".The interest upon this
Debt amounted ro a larger sun) than those who were
only accumstomed to 3 per Cents.. would at first
suppose ; it amounted to 1,696,D001. In • this
statement, he did not include the Taxes which
it would be necessary, to lay on in, consequence
of the Loan for the Service of the present year.
Of this Debt Ireland had been under the necessity
• of borrowing so large a sum in : England, that the
interest which she paid to this Country amounted
nearly to One Million. , The Sinking Fund of.
Ireland, which. was included ._the :sum he had