The Sun.
London, England, 1809-03-23 00:00:00

• IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOIiSE OF PEERS,
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23.

In the Committee pf Privilege's on the Roxburgh
Peerage, Counsel were shortly heard, and iurtlier
proceeding was postponed till Monday.
The Cape of Good Rope It ade Bill, the Bermuda
Spirits Bill, and Campbell's Divorce Bill,. were read
third time and passed.
The North American Fish Importation Bill was
read a second time, and committed for to-morrow.

The Royal Marine Mutiny Bit!, the Jamaica Free
Port Bill, and the Expiring Laws Bills, passed
throllgh Committees, and were reported.
Alcock, from the Treasury, presented an
Account of the Pisposition of Monies granted for the
service of the year 1808, so far as 'relates to Great
Britain.

Mr. Court, from the Post Office, an Account of
Balances in the hands of. Deputy Postmasters, &c.
Mr. Young, from the Custom-douse, Annual
Accounts relative to trade and Navigation.
And Mr. Montague, from the Chamberlain of
London, Accounts ordered by Act of Parliament to
be. laid before the House.—Ordered to lie on the

The Crown Office Clerks Bill was brought up from;
the Commons by Sir Wrn. Lemon and other Mem-
bers, and read a first time.

Adjourned till, to.i-norrow (this-day).

ROUSE OF 'COMMONS. ;
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22.
The SPEAXER informed the House, that Monday
text being the last day for receiving Private Bills,
'be should come to the House to•inorrow and Friday
'at.a qiwter past three o'clock, for the purpose of
sth,mi taking his seat, if enabled so to do.
• Leap-e was given. to the Selett CornMittee appoint-
ed to.lnquito into the abuses in the disposal of Of-
'flees conrite,4, with the East India Company's: ser-
% ice, to report to the House from time to time. .
The Commilree on the Plymouth Police Bill was
postpou4d till Friday. A message from. the Lords
stated, that they hag) agreed to the Cape of Good
'Hope Trade Bill,
.and to the Bermuda Bum .Bill
.also that they had passed Campbell's Dixorce
Mr. %Vim:wimp moved for an account of. lees '
receited aOhe Admiralty for licences and paits,es to
vest ly sa.iling contrary to law, also to Letters. of
lar,iuy;atitt vessel -sailing without convoy, for the
tist tiv years.—Ortlertku.
A p;,. on from lice Office of the Chamberlain of
the City of London, presented his annual account.
A person from the Treasury presented an account,
showing how the money voted for the setvice of the
year 1808 hld been disposed
kperson from the Postroirxe presented on account
of the Arrears of that Mee.
Sir.A.,WeLLESLEY ppstponed the Committee on
the Irish Enlistment Bill from to-morrow till Mon-
day.

The SECRETARY at WAR obtained leave to bring
in the Innkeepers' Allowance Bill.
MU,tTIA.
Lnrd CASTI,EREAPti gavenotice that lie should on!
Monday move for leave to bring in a Bill for alter-
ing and amending the-Local Militia Bill of lasi Sea-
'ion. He wished to have the Bill brought in, so
that there might 'be tune to consider it during the
Recess.
The Office and PensiOn Duty Mil, and the Dover
Lands 13t11, were severally read a second time, and
ordered to be committed for to-morrow.
..• littstt EliA X SE •
Mr.TOrrea having moved the second reading of
the Irish Flax Seed Bounty Bill,
Mr. A. BARING said, the bounir propoold by the
Bight llonoutable Gentleman must operate only fur:
next year, and so could do no good. He understood
that the chinate.of Ireland was not tit for ripening
flax, so that it could grow to seed. He Submitted,
as the Bill could produce net imtnedi,ite boletit, it
would be better to posipohe ti till a later wriod in
tbeSession, when it alight be seen in what situation
me were likely to stand with America.
:Mr. rosTati
,asserted, that the climate of Irelatut
was ~.ouiplett:ly fit for producing the very best reed.
Ilia grower, ied,;ed were in the ttse of 'cutting the
flax' t.-arlyi that it might bring a higher price in the
rt 13111.0, So lii it it was sL,idoio aLowed to Vow, to
seed. The objed of this Bill was to render Ireland
independent of . America.; and he was satisfied it
would have that effect; nor only so; but would ren-.
der England in that resped independent of America
also, - If the flax, 'however, did not grow to seed,
• the pUblic would be no loser, as .irt, that case they
would not. have to pay the bounty.
•Mr. floarree conceived that the history of the
trade itself showed, that. Ireland could not provide
the fine part of the trade with the commodity re-
quired from within herself. He thought' this one of
tbu most absurd systems of barbarous warfare: which
went as far as. possible to drive us back to the barba-
rism and imeolicy which marked the days of the
Stewarts. The time of sowing was the first ,or
second week in May, .so the measure, at all events,
could have no rife& this year.
Mr. fstteevAe said, it weultf be absord to. say
that no circumstances couldpccer 'which Should make
us depart from any established principles we might
hove laid down. The prOtietit was in his opinion one
of those cases in 'which necessity requirekl that we
' should adopt some means of averting an evil' which
seemed to threatenireland in destroying her' staple
coi;:tuodity..
Mr. PAItN;LL said, that there was no inconteni.
rice of any magnitude which would fall more easily
in Ireland than the one now qUestion., There
*a4 hardly a grower of who was not also a great
sigricatUrist ; and of course the capital which was
t retAttred in the dne could be easily ttirried to the
4f tin occonlinodation, on the other hand,
were' immediately to by brought about with Arnerica,
the growing of de, stud in,lrelatul must turn to be
bad stiac
kir itcria supported the Bill, and defended the
principl6 of our Navigation Laws.
oaf, lieland depended on. the
MaiNfitOure, and f ho Mapufaaure
(fepended on a supply of Flax Seed. It we could
int 4 ff4t AllieriCtip ton question theft.
bto-e were we to loolf, for it ? He atiswered,
irelaud 414ti1. It wit; a questiOn of necessity,

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and an experiment must he tried, if Ireland could
not stlpfily herself.'—'Gtialemen said, the 'Entuitrgo
might be taken off in America. Very well. 'But, if
not taken off, then we will have no linen ; and we
have no linen we will have no Itrade. Why, then,
'he asked, should Ireland not try what she could do
within herself ; and instead of continuing, dependant
on the caprice of others, Indite an experiment of her
own internal resources. On
,these grounds be 4p-
proved of the measure of the Hight Hon. Gentleman
opposite.
Sir). NEWPORT sid, if the American Embargo,
were taken off at t his moment, still he would agree in
the present measure. He was not fn' leaving Ireland,
in such an essential point, of the discretion and good
will of others. Neither on America, nor on any
other,eountry ought Ireland to have to depend fur
the staple of her own country.
Sir Gaottoz Hut observed, that, in Ulster, if
a stop were 'pit to the Linen Trade, the people
would .be unable to pay their debts, or, lucked, ,to
exist.

Mr. SHARI'S observed, tjiat Gentlemen on the
Ministerial side supported the Bill on very different
principles from those who supported it on that side
of the House. Mieisters supported it as a tempo- ,
rary measure merely, in which view there was an
etuanswerable objection to it, namely, that it was
too late. There could not, in his opiniou, be a
fairer description of the present Administration, than
that it was an 'Admioistration of exceptions from
every establishdd system.
The Bill was their read a second time and ordered
to be committed.
The ISlelta ,Court .Bill was presented, and
read the fast acne. Ordered tor the second reading
torrnoreoVV. -
Xtt.tett 414 LT
Mr., VOSTErt, in consequence of the telethon o
the Bill yesterday, tot imposing a duty of es, per
barrel additional. Upon Malt in Ireland, aftef some
explanation of the cotyse he should now find it ne,
cessary to pursue, in order to avoid so greet a loss. of
.revenue as that rejection would occasion to the Ways
and Means Of the year, moved, that the House do
to-morrow resolVe into a Commitee, to take into
consideration the Ads for imposing Dutieson Spirits
distilled from Sugar in Ireland. Ordered.
Sir JOHN NgWi'ORT had no objection to the mea-
sure proposed by the Right Una. "Gentleman, so tar
as it would go to make beoefieial regulations, but
thought it an extraordinary proceeding to attempt to
raise large sums in the shape .efe-eventie in Ireland,
before, the accounts of former grants were laid before
the Now;e, or any general tatetnent made respect-
the finances of that country.
.MreFosTelt •had no objedien to state 'et 'any time'.
his opinion respetting the finances of Irelepd, though
he did not• think that the proper moment for so do-
ing. The Right Honeflaroto must be aware that
a sum not less than twenty-icier millions had already
been voted by Parliament for the settee(' of the pre-
sent year, two seveuteenths of which, te.irg nearly
three milholl4,Vere to be provided for by Iteland.—
As the expence upon that sum was niteady in pro-,
grass, and actually incurred, which renatred it ne-'
cessary to provide successively the n c.rns of meet •
ing it, when the general statement of the finances
of the Empire should be brought forward by his
Right lion. Friend (tlm Cliline4or of the EXellt.:-
quer), whereby he e null be enabled to ascertain
the quota of. Ireland, he should h2ve no hesitation is
opoing the Irish Budget iu a COrlittei.: W4yi
and Means.
Sir JOHN New teraT again adverted to file circum-
stance, that the Papers had not been laid before the
Hume, shewing what hail bootne ofti*.mdney
voted in former years.
Mr. Foereet replied, that the accounts of the last
year were, by Ad of Parliament; to have been pre-
sented on the ellt of March, but as the.eth of March
fell on a Sunday, they. had been preseeted on the
following Monday. One or two of the papers,
from' some unavoidable were not then ready,
but they. had since been presented ; that the
;light lion. Baronet, could nut have any groundiof
complaint upon that head.
The. Motion was then agreed to, and the Com-
mittee appointed for to-morrow.