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Lord A. HAM/LTONconsidered this a. measure
of the utmost importance. He bad received many
communications respeating it, and hoped that time
would be allowed to all parties to investigate its
merits.,
The LORD ADVOCATE was disposed to accede
to any period of delay that could be reasonably ex-
peded, and -he had no doubt that upon a fair con-
sideration of its merits, Patrons as, might atpre-
sent misundersand it, would. be reconciled to its pro-
visions. To aflbrd therefore to any who opposed the
measure an opportunity of correcting their • err Ors,
and amending their feelings, he proposed, if the Bill
should be read a first time, to move that it be print-
ed, and the second readiog fixed 'for this ' day, three
weeks. •
The House having resumed, the Report "was re-
ceived, and the Chairman obtained leave to bring, in
the Bill moved for by the Lord Advocate.
The House in Cothmittee on the West-India
Trade. •
Lord HENRY PETTY felt: that it would be un-
necessary to trouble the Committee with observa-
.
tioris to any length upon a, subjea so generally ac,
ceded tO, andithe principles:Of Which were so well
understood. -The claims of the West-India 'Mer-
chants would always meet with from Parliament
every due attention. It was unnecessary to state how
their interests were materially injured by the home .
markets being ,overstocked with sugar ; it was
therefore necessary for their, interests, tis.
for other weighty considerations, • that the expor
tation of sugar from this. Country, should .meet
with every -parliamentary eticouragement.-: In. the
Committee of Ways and Means, though he had
not .distin&ly specified it, he should propose an
additional duty on Brandy; the great objea of
this duty. was to encourage. the home consumption
of RUM j and, the better to effect that., .-he should
move for•an additional duty of 2s. 6d. per gallotton-
all-Brandy imported for. home consumption, and a
duty of one shilling per gallon on Brandy imported:
into this Country for the purpose of re-exportation;,
be should. pro,pose:an additional duty of ten shiliins
per hundred weight on double refined Sugar;. and a
duty of two shillings on Raw and:Muscovado Sugar,
subjed to the provision, that when the average prices,.
in the Notices of the London Gazette, Were at or
under forty shillings per hundred, the duty should
be two shillings, and when abOVe forty, and nut 'ex-
ceeding forty-five per hundred, the duty 'should be
one, shilling.
The Committee then agreed to Resolutions to the
above purport, 'and the 'report was ordered to be:re
ceived to-morrow.

Mr. WILLIAM WYNNE. moved that the Minutes
and Evidet?ce a the Committee'on the Sugar lirade
. be laid before the'House.—Ordered:
Mr. HonuousE brought• up the Report of the
Irish Sugar Draw7back
Mr FloatiousE brought up the Report of the Irish
Quit Rent Bill. They were each ordered to be read
a third time to-morrow, and, with their 'several
amendments, to be engrossed, as was also the Report
Of the Irish 'Spirits'Drawback Bill.
Mr. /for HousE brought lip the Report of the Irish
Auaion Read a second time', and ordered to be
.•
read a third time to-morro,

The German Yarn Bill was read a scoOnd tune,
and ordered to be committed for to-morrow, •
Adjourned.

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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1807.

LAST night Paris Papers to the 10th, and other
Foreign Journals to the 14th inst. were received.,--,-
The former contains the 54th Bulletin of the Fi-ench,.
which adds very little to the intelligence which haS
already reached us. It is stated.that General BEIN-
pINGSEN has been invested with the supreme cam-
maid .of the Russian Army. Weare, however, in-.
cliped to believe that it is only during the temporary
absence.of Gen. KAMINSKO, who went to-:St. Pe-
. . _
Pe-
tersburgh the beginning of last month, we under-
.
stand, to Propose some arrangements rspeding the,
future operations, of the caMpaigu.
The Dispatches received yesterday .fioin Lord
HUTCIIIN.SON are dated the 17th alt. „ His Lordship
was :with tlw, KING of PRUSSIA at Memel. The re-
port that .General Moterina's Division had'received .1
orders to march to Poland, appears to have been ;
only a feint to deceive the Swedes., liar. his whole I
Corps has suddenly advanced into Swedish Ponie-
rania, and the siege of Stralsund will, it is said, he.
immediately commenced.

into con,iilerntkid, in the fast instance, In a Com-
I mittee of the whole
After a•few &n-ds from IfOrdA. HAMILTON, the
Hoose resbived into the Committee suggested by the
S3efter ;
.the ResolutiOn ptoppsed was agreed to ;
and'on the House resuming, the Chairman', Mr.
HOEHOLISE, obtained leave to bring in the Bill,
The House, after Lord H. PETTY had announced
his-Majesty's-acquiescence in the measure, resolved
into a similar Committee on the. Motion of the
Lord Advocate; and the Noble Lord proposed that
leave should be given to bring in a Bill to improve
the stipends of such of the paro-Jhial Clergy of Scot-
land as are precluded from farther augmentation by
the exhaustion of their tythes.
Mr. DUADAS was as anxious as any man
that the Clergy should in all cases be adequately
provided for, hut particularly those of his native
country. He would, however, protest against that
part of the Noble Lord!" Bill which proposed to al-
low Clergymen to feu their glebes, as such an allow-
ance "would afford to many the opportunity of be-
coming too rich, for the purpose of their sacred duty.
The Right ,Hon. Gentleman hoped that full
.time
'fl
would be granted for the consideration of this ea-
sure.