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tith salt, and a declaration of are.eiwiiiency of atil.
couragirig its importation ihto trelaa, in -pfiferetkii
to foreign salt..thoved, that the 'House' shbuld
morrow' • resolve itself, Into- tt. Cimirnittee4. tif the
whole House, to .'consider of the preient duty on
British salt impot•ted• into frelanet—t• • -
Mr. FOSTER exphfined the stint:l'oh ibeteleen the
White and the Bay Salt, Wand obserVed,- that the dif-
ference on theduty of-the two -descriptioits of salt
imported into Deland was, to allow for the greatei
impurities existing in the Bay Salt, whiCh *as made
by the sun, while the other was the produtt Of the
.operation of fire. The two ,kinds were net ih com-
petition with one auotheri-as they were heed for
different purposes, the Bay .Salt not melting in a
warm climate, where the Other would. 4t such a
!ate period of the Session, without the possibility of ,
obtaining any infortanttion on the stabled', he depre-
cated going into a Committee in conforin'ty with
the Hon. Gentleman's motion. He should be very
happy to enter into the consideration of tlsimpOrt-
znt subjeta at as early a period in the next SeSsion,
the necessary information .could be procured.
After %further conversation, in which Mr. Hutch-
inson, Mr. Jacob) the Chancellor of the .Ekchequer,
Sir J. Newport, and Gen; Tarleton, Gen. Gascoyne,
withdrew his Motion ; giving notice; that early in
the next. Session he would submit to the House ai
Motion on the subjed.
A new writ was Ordered to ba made out for Glas-
gow, in the room of Lord John Campbell, who since
his ele&ion had accepted the office of Steward °Ethic
Chiltern Hundred.
MR. BEAUCHAMP HILL.
Sir J. NEIVPONT in pursuance ol his notice called
the attention ,of the House to a violation: of the Sta.
tote Of Regulation of the Revenue of Ireland. ft
it should appetir that a promotion had been mad: : in
that department of the State, in express opposition
to a disqualifying aft, and even as a reward for tnis
condu6t, it surely was a subject dernitidirig the at- ,
tention of that House. The individual to 'whom he
alluded was Mr. Beauchamp Hill, who having vio-
lated the law 'by taking eo guineas a nsotttlt for doing
that which by the law he was bound to do .without
fee or, reward, was subsequently, on the Nth March;
18-08, promoted to be an fospetior General in that
vary department in which he hadcornmil led't his groan
miscondua. if such proceedings were passed over
with impunity, the statutes would become waste
paper. The .I-lon. Baronet concluded, by moving
three Resolutions. to the following effect.
" That it appeared to the /loupe that by the Statute of the
46th of Ceo. 111. c. 88, it was enacted, that any Officer of
Excise in Ireland, who directly or 'indirectly received front
any Distiller, &c. any fee or, gratuity, should be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanour, arid should be rendered incapable
of serving again in that department.
.! That it appeared to the douse, by the Fifth Report'd
the Irish CollifillSsioiters, tint in Sept. 1806, Mr. !Beau:
champ I lill declared heroic the. Comnussinners, that he had
r.ceivetl twenty guineas per mouth from two distillers in
I reload."
That it appeared to the I linve, that notwithst:indigg
Mr. Beauchamp Hill had, by Ins own confession. violated
the tatute and Regulation of the Revenue of Ireland, and
had ilicurred the pm:l:tics thereof, he was, on the Bth of
March, t8.:8, promoted to the responsible office oilnipee.tori.
Getter oin that very department of ten Revenue, the duties
of which be had taus diredity violated."

Mr. FOSTER observed, that the confession made
by Mr, Hill to the Commissipners bad been entirely
voluntary. The corruption was so extensive, that
all th,i Surveyors were implicated ; but if the Go,
vurnment of Ireland lra.l 'discharged the whole, they
would hiwe been left without a Imo to do the pub,'
lie business. There. had been •.a kind of understood-
ing with Mr. Chid, that on hit dovuloping the whole
truth, 'he should befndernnitied from prosecution ;
and he had been informed that he was a very excel•,
lent ottiver. UndOr All the cireutnstances -of the
case he felt it his duty to move the previous tides-

Mr. Hurcutirsox defended the Revenue
partment of Ireland from *imputation, cast upori
them by the Right lio.:Gentletnan, who had just
spoken,. of bcint-Wholly: corrupt. It was u most
disgroattl and libellous charge; but even had every
man been corrupt, every man ought 'to have been
dismissed tram his dike. He could • not conceka
it possible that any decision could make a more un.
favourable impression on
-the public mind, titan that
the House of Commona should. go to the previous
question, on a subjea of this nature. Since he had
come clown to the House that evening, he had heard
with great satisfacaion, that Ministers had advised
his Majesty to, Appel- the commission granted to a
Noble Lord, and which was the subject of discus-
sion on a recent evening. He trusted that a similar
recommendationn,would take place on the present .
Occasion.

Mr. Fos-ran explained, that he had stated hisbe-
liet that very tew of the inferior Officers of the
Excise of Ireland were free from that species of cor-
ruption, and that the pra&ce was so general that it
Must be known,by their superiors;
Mr. CROKRR stated the inadeqUacy orlhe salary
of an Irish gauger, before the late increase, to keep
him alive, and.their not starving he considered at a
proof of their taking money from distillers. • Ger.
tlemen might argues on' iih,traa nolnical inciplep,
that the crime was•ationairiatile; hut it did not meet
With 'so MOO • reprehention as in the present in-
Stance, when the Custotn-house fees in. England
and Ireland were brought before the klou. , con-
demned and ahrlished. He entered into compari-
son between the offences of Mr. Hill, and th© per-
sons removed, to Whom, he sucteeded; the latter
were guilty of Subornation of, perjury, and the Tor,.
trier simply of taking n monthly gratuity, such a 3
was received by every supervisor in Ireland. The
praCiice of taking these tees was not considered des
honourable ,or disgraceful, andit was sattaioned.
its generality, and connived at by the liJard; of lie.
venue. Lord Annesley, in 1804, wag tie= person
who instituted the inquirieS into this sancta, and
brought the whole matter to light. Yet lAA An-
nesleyWas the,person who,: from lytr. 'he:a:champ
Kira excellent chara6ler and the testimony of
his superior officers of the aaive .and able manner
in which-he always ,performed his duty.. reccin-
mt.mded him for this preinotion, Lord Annc.:,..-v
euthoriscd him to state_ that he took the
sponsibility of this appointment on l-ie
declared that it appeared: from the pipers on tt:G
table, that all.that the Right Hon. Baronet lsac.l ;*-
serted with resped to Mr. VeauchainP Hill having
been reported to Lord Annesley for tlpprssilig tie
acco4ntr of many hundred bsrrels of Malt, and
which report Lord .Annesley suppressed, was a;t„..
gether unfounded. -Mr.llll was not the Su:.,er-