The Sun.
London, England, 1809-02-07 00:00:00

PISTILLATION FROM SUGAR:

The Cnkticgo.oti of the ExcttEtittm moved. the
Order of thta Day kr the second re ding of the Bill

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to cotitintii the Eill for • restricting the ni stillatioil
from Grain. ,

Si JAML:s HALL Opposed the Bill, a ciculated
to create a' glut in the market, and.consequently
piroduce an exuberant population., Which iii a few
years (though the Measure might be found expedi-
tilt at the present time); would feel the till ettl.tdi
'arising froth the circUrnstance of raising a fictitious
plenty, which Would not then lie found adequate
to the in'crea'sed consumption.
Mr. limaarvr spoke in favour of extending the
measure to Ireland. •

Mr. FOSTEIt was against the Rill, which he enii-
tended had lessened the Irish revenue one-third;
and promoted contraband and illegal private distil-
lation, among -a people whose feelings were a .con-
tempt of the law and a disposition not to obey.—
They saw that all the% Revenue Officers could not
keep down private distillation, because the Farmers
thought these Distillers good customers who took
the grain from them at their own doors. Upon this
account, and the difference of the price of the born'
in the two countries, he could not agree to the ex-
pediency of extending the operation of the Act
.to
Ireland,

Mr. EDEN confessed that this measure had been
found to afford great relief to the' planter. He con-
demned Ministers for baying rejected the overtures
made by America in. August, as, if the embargo
Were to be taken off, corn and flour t(i the annual
value of 9000,0001; (as in the year 1807); might
beltnported from thence to make up the deficiency
in this country. But Ministers were at that time
too much occupied in building castles in Spain, to
condescend to so low a subject as the subsistence
of the people. The quartern loaf was now at I sd. ;
and thus the people were obliged to pinch their
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.stomacns tor tne smart epigrams and sarcastic witti-
cisms of our Foreign Secretary.--(Here the Hon.
.Gentleman. was calla to order-41r. canning was
not in the House:)—fie gave his consent to the Bill
with this understanding-, that if channels of impor-
tation were in.future :tiered, Ministers would avail
themselves of the dispensing clause contained in the
Bill, and return to distillation from grain.
Mr. MAaato.rr. spoke in favour of the Biil, and
wished a power to be \gr4nted to his Majesty to
extend it. He charaCterised if as one of the most
excellent measure's ever adopted, for the relief of
the planter and good of the country, in promot-
ing the importation of our colonial,produce, while
it at the same tune prevented the exportation of our
corn.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER repro-
bated the line of conduct purtmed by. Mr. Eden,
who introduced, whether to the purpose or not; his
favourite topic of abusing the measures of his Ma-
jesty's Ministers. As he now confessed he had
been wrong in his opinion on this Bill' last Se,Sio2l,
that might have taught him to be less pOsitive in the
present instance, and to pay some little deference to
the opinion of others. He, then answered the
guments that had been urged against the Bill; and
thought it rather extraordinary that an Honourable
Baronet (Sir J. HMO should look to the distant
effeds ota measure which was only a temporary one.
If it was to do evil, through years of abundance and
replOon, he would find it difficult to persuade the
House to agree with him in condemning it: The
Right Honourable Gentletnan concluded, by stating
many reasons tor not•cxtending the 'measure to Ire-
land ; and mentioned:that he would, in the progress
of the Bill, move for the appointment of a Comtnit,
tee, to, consider of the proper time to open the infer- '
course betweentfie two countries.
Sir J. HALL and Mr. I-Ixn explained.
Mr. BALI] ANI thought that Ministers were guilty
of a great degree of pertinacity and partiality with
regard to Ireland, by introducing a .spoke into the
wheel, or in other words, a clause which enabled the
Irish, in.a variety of instances, to defeat the Distillery
Ad as passed last Session..
Mr.FOSTER, in explanation, said, with a consider-
able degree of warmth, that. whoever. was capable of
charging another Gentleman of so base and foul an
intention-, would be guilty 'or the. same condud him-
self. ' The Right Hon. Gentleman expressed his
regret at having said any thing that Could give any
personal offence to any Hon. Gentleman ; but he
.thought the charge was so undeserved and inconsist-
ent with the unitcam Character he (Mr. Foster) sup-
ported, that 'be was in some measure justified in
whOt he had,said.

Mr. BARHAM assured the Right Hon. Gentleman,
that he did not mean in the remotest degree any
personal allusion to him, and therefore trusted no
further notice would be taken of these words.
Mr. BERESFORD supported the measure.
Mr. DAVIS GIDDY felt it his duty to (rive' his sup-
port to the measure, as being peculiarly adapted to
the present situation of Europe," but,not as forming
a part .of a system to be hereafter continued at the
will of Ministers.

Mr. &Lis' was of opinion, that justice was nit
done to the late Act in respect of Ireland, it not
,htiving obtained a'sufficient trial.

HusicissoN supported the Bill chiefly on the
ground that distillation of spirits trop sugar was. in-
dispensably mecessary for the prosperity of our cO-
lonial trade, and that the temporary suspension of
distillation from corn could not in any material de
gree be injurious either to the landlord or farmer.

Mr. TilciaNroN supported the Bill on general
principles.
Mr. !MACLEOD thought, hs there was a very plena
tiful crop of all kinds this last harvest in the High-
lands of Scotland, that. the operatiOn of the Bill
ouolit not to be extended to that quarter,
/he Bill was then read a second time, and com-
mitted for Thursday,—Adjuurned at Half-past Teu
o'Clock.

THE SUN.

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LONDON,
i'UtSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1809.

Captain• Pitcro, of the 'Achates Sloop, arrived
yesterday at Portsmouth, with dispatches from
Admiral' CoCHU,ANr., at Bartadoes, with which
he came to town last night, ,bat the contents had
not transpired when this Paper was put to Press.
We have not hewd that the attack on. Martinique
ha l been made when the dichates came away.

Nkte are still unable to communicate to our Readeri
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any intelagenCe from Spain. The last accounts from
Portugal were hrOught bya Veisel which ..arrived at
Plymouth on 'Saturday; .and left Lisboa On the 28th
ul% ; at that time, no accounts had been received of
the P'rench having 'entered POrtugat We are happy
to find that all classes of PeoPle in POrtugal are tin-
! animous in their,rdetertnination to resist the French;
and the Government is making the Most vigdrous
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preparations tor defence.

A Morning paper, Which appears by no means
Satisfied with the.progress of the Inquiry respe6ling
the Duke of Yonx, says, that it is a most seauina.-
ble diversion to Minikers. Whether this observa-
tion is intended as a sneer upon Mr. WAantx or not,
we do hot pretend to determine, 'but certainly many
Of the Opposition now seem to think it necessary to
disclaim all connexion with him in this bUsinesa.--•
But the Paragraph gees on to state that the Inquiry
" is carried on at the Bar, a tribunal to which the
" House would not refer the case even of a contested
ele6tion fora Peer's Borough. But it is thdught
" ddiisable to chuse this Courts where there are no
" fixed rules of evidence, nor any evidence tipt:n
" oath ! How longls it to be suffered to continue ?"

With respeO to the disc. very, that contested elec-
tions are not tried at the Bar of the House, itcer-
tainly is not very new, because since the passing° of
Mr. ,GRENVILLE'S ALI, they have . been tried by a
Tribunal constituted under that Mt. But the great
point of the paragraph seems to be, that a Court has
been chosen- where there are no fixed rules of evi-
den&: upon oath: Chosen, by whom ? Mr. WAR-
DLE, having brought the subje6t before the House
of Commons, knew that there were only two modes
of proceeding—either to refer the business to a
Committee above stairs, or to a Committee of the
whole House. In either case, the, rules of evi-
dence would be the same ; in neither case would
the Witnesses have been examined upon oath ;
the only difference is, that, by the mode now
adopted, the examinatiou is more public. What,
then, is the ground of this complaint ? Why, that
this examination is carried on in the same way, and
upon the same principles, that all examinations before
the House of Commons ever have been.

Yesterday, about one o'clock, his .MAJESTY ar-
rived at the Queen's Palace, from Windsor. His
Manny was not • able to travel by the regular
roads, on accostig. of the Hooded state of them, but
went over SUDbmy Common to Twickenhatn,where
he changed hories; 'and proceeded through the town
of 'Richmond, through Putney, down the king's
Read,. through Pimlico, to the Queen's Palace,
where he was received by the DtikeS ot YORK, Kewr,
CUMBERLAND and CAMBRIDGE.--At tiA.4 o'clock
his MAJESTY held a private Levee, which was at-.
tended by

• The Archbishops of Canterbury and York; the Lord
Chancellor; the President of the Council ; the Lord Privy,
Seal; the First Lord of the Treasury ; the First Lard of the
Admiralty ; the three Secretaries of State;- the Chancellor
of the Exchequer ; the Secretary at War; the Lord Chain.
berlain ; the Loid Steward of the Household ; the Judge of
the Admiralty ; the lodge of the Arches Court the king's
Advocate ; the Recorder ut London ; the I,3ukq or Mon.
trose; Earls Mount Edgeeurnbe. Morton, and Witiolleisea ;
Viscount Melville ; Lords Arden, Bestial:ld; Culthorpe, ALA
Amherst.

The following, had the honour of being presented
to his MAJISSTY

Admiral Da Courcey, upon his return from service.
Sir John Nichols, upon his being appoi,nted a judge of the
Arches Court.

Ur. Christopher Robinson, upon his being appointed the
King's Advocate.

Sii Samuel' Hood, upon his 'return from service oft the
Coast of Spain.
Lord Calthorpe, ?Upon his coming of age. •
Lieutenant-Colunel Murray, upon his return from being
Quarter-Master-General to the Army serving in Spain, and
tne Hon. Captain*A. .Gordon, Atd.de-Carnp to: Sir David
Baird, on his return from Corunna. •
Lieutenant-General Hope, upon his return from foreign
sery ice.

Admiral Bertie and Vice-Admiral Sir jarnes.Saumarez, on
their return from the Baltic.
Lieutinant-General Mackenzie Frazer and Gen. Beresfortl,
upon their return from Spain.
Capt. Arbuthnot, ur the act h Regiment of Light Dragoons,
Aid-de-Camp to Major-General Berestord, upon his return
from Spain. „.
Major-General Ferguson, upon his being appointed to coin-
mann the Sicilian Regiinent.
The Dean of bxeter, upon his being promoted to the
Deanery of Salisbury, by Lord Charles Somerset.
ear. PiercY, AideNtle-Camp to the fate Lieutenant-G6-
nerat Sir John Moore, upon his return from Spam. -
Mr. Moore, to restore the ribbon or the Order of the Bath,
which belonged to the late Sir John Moore,
Brigadier-General Stewart, upon his return from Spain,
and upon his appointment et Governor of. Fort Charles, in
Jamaica.
His MAJESTY save private audiences trt the ,Duke
Of PORTLAND and ,the other Cabinet Ministers who.
Were all present, except We Earls of CHATHAM and
BATHURST.

His MAJESTY held a Privy Council, at which
Sir JoHN NICHOLS was intronneed, and sworn in a
Member, and look his seat at the Hon. ,Board: ac-
cordingly. HIS ' IMAJusrY proceeded to prick for
the Sheriffs l'or the year ensuing.
The K iNG returned to WiniLor last night, by the,
same road that he carne.

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The Admiralty has already taken measures for
blockading the. ports of Ferrol and coruntia The
!Verge, of 74 guns, If.tizOketh, 74, ZeulUtis, 74, and
implacable, 74, are ordered on that service, and have,
we believe, already proceeded to their destination.
The KING hays been graCionsly. pleased to confer on
the 84th Regiment, commanded by Lietitenant-Ge-
neral BERNARD, the name of " Yom and LANCAS.
Tutt,".in addnion to its numerical title✓. The second
Battalion of this Regiment, consisting of i 000 tine
young felloWs, chiefly, from the Counties above-
mentioned, raised by General BaRNARD in less than
six months, are on their march to Ipswich, in a com-
plete state of eampment, andyeady for any service to
which their enquiry may call them.
There is nu alteration in the price of Broad this
week.

NAVAL NE v-ir

PORTSI‘I6IJTIT., 6.--ArrFiecl ThisM i:e'c•ty't
.Ship ,ichfite's froth the yrest 10111 e, .and the trail:
port Amphitrite, RAITR, one Of 'the "cdtz:
troy, last froth Falmouth.. •

FEB. 6.—Arrived and sailed f'or the Rivei
the Hy, OTWAY, from
.St. T,ucars; and the Harriot;
LISTEN, from New BrUnS%

theailed Sloop, for nan~s~
gate, with he'r mainmast 'split, and bowsprit sprung.
Arrivtid his Majesty's Ship.///yetriou'i, from Ports-.
mouth, and remains lb the POWns with the `rest cif
the Ships As per lasi.