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up the .tight or searching mereetnt vessels fee "nig-
lish seatnen and contraband goods? The 'Right
_Hen. Gentleman concluded-that part-of hiS' speech
by expressiuga hope, that nothing had fallen from
him which coal be.coasti ued as militating against
the conciliatory measures which it was the most sin-
cere wish of Ministers to follow towards •America.
As to India, which had formed another topic of the
• Hon. Gentleman's speech, the case was simply this:
thexharter .of - the. East India Company was 'very
near. expiring ; vast acquisitions of -territory - had
been obtained in that part of the world ; and, under'
..I,be existing circumstances, it had been thought ad-
vhible take _the sense of Parliament on any new
syatem which might be adopted to secure to this'
country the.utmosr advantage from the resources. of
'our' Eastern Empire. This was a subject for future.
..consideratiore and any details on, that head would
have;beenell placed .in the Speech.. As- to the ab-
horrence expressed by the Honourable Gentleman at
the doctrine supposed...to be beld.out by his Noble
Friend .(Lord Jocelyn), that the personal character
of a refer might be a sufficient ground to refuNe en-
terjeg into..negociatian with him, he gas glad to
find that his.. Noble Friend had disclaimed it, as he
certainly did for his own part; but surely his Noble
Friend, or any other Gentleman, might, in the
course of debate, allude to particularitiesin the elle-
ra6ter of such a Ruler which rendered peace with
him rather improbable. The- Right Hon. Gentle-
man meant merely to answer what had fallen from
the last Speaker {Mr. Whitbread), and having, as
he trusted, refuted, seriatim, all the objeetione he
had made; he would now sit down wish the hopes
that • the House would not be prevented by the
gloomy picture drawn by the Hon. Gentleman,
from concurring in the Address _to_his Royal High-
ness the. Prince Regent.
Mr. WHITBREAD said, he could not. help coin-
plaining of an expression contained in the quotetion
applied to him by. the Right Hon. Gentleman. He
hoped the Right Hon. Gentleman would not be
inclined so use language in that House, which he
would not use any where else, and that, the House
would feel the propriety of his (Mr. W.) calling
for an explanation.
The CHANCELLOR 6f the EXCHEQUER said, that
(rotation he had made use of alluded to a spidet
weaving his web, and nothing could be farther from
his mind titan intending any offensive application ;
Limiting indeed could be more disagreeable to his
feelings than by any expression to incur not the
Hon. Gentleman's but his own displeasure.
~ Mr. I,y4LTBIII3AD' declared himself satisfied with
the explanation of the Right Hon.-Gentleman, but
he was. sure, that, if the..expression had been used to
the Right Honoureble.Gentleman himself, he would
havelele it necessary to.eall for-an explanation:
General TARLEToer.took a-view of our military
policy, .and inferred from various events of the war
that. England..was .incapable-of contending _ with
France :even :the Continent._ He inveighed in
strong terms.against the Guerilla
,system, which he
described as depriving lite country of -regular sol-
diers, ana.by that means ruining the cause. After
some observations on the conduct. of the Portuguese,
he concluded by declaring against the Address. -
Mr.CRERVEY begged leave-to call the attention
of the .liouse to aepert of the-Speech. which had not
yet been eoliced....lt was customary,. in former in-
stances, when thellouse was called upon for sup-
plieseto state the prosperous condition.of the trade
and revenue of the country ; but no allusion was
made to those points 19 the, Speech of the Prince
Regent, because he believed, they were -declining.
He thoughtit .right that the House should know
its means, before it proceeded. to apply e hose. to any
purposes,- and.with that view it was his intention to,
move for papers before he.sat down, -which• would
pot them- in possession- of, their true extent. He
believed it would. be found upon investigation that a
chminution :had taken place .in the Consolidated.
Fund and War taxes, of not less than three millions
and a half, and one million and a half. •He wished
to know how this defiCiency was to be made up,
hither by. new taxes, or iu what other manner ?
In order to obviate the inconvenience and mischief
of proceeding without a proper understanding on
this. held, he should move for the postponement of
the Address to that day se'nnight. It this motion
was agreed to, he would afterwards ,move for Re-
turns of the state of the Consolidated Fund and
the Taxes. This he thought the more necessary, as
representations had gone abroad, tending to give a
contrary impression. Whether he was right- or
wrong, the papers which he moved for .would shew.
As to what had been said in the Speech respeCting
the East India Company, he hoped that the subject
would receive mature consideration, and that when
itSfasbrought forward, Gentlemen would be ready
to decide upon this question, whether, if we were
at peace to-morrow, all the world should be at li-
berty to .trade freely wilt India except England
herself? He concluded with moving that the Word
" now" should be left out of the motion before the-
House, for the purpose of inserting " this day se'n-
' night."
The CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQ.IIER Observed,
that the revenue of the last year was most extraor-
dinary, being considerably.greater than that of any,
former. year ; andeaithaugh the. revenue of'tbe pre-
; .sent year was, not se large, yet heeled the saiislac-
! tion to state, that the total receipt was much above
Abet of the year preceding the-last', andehat- the
receipt of the last quarter was considerably above
that• of the preceding year. It was true that- the
a •
three first quartets of, the Customs had 'Ditch dimi-
Dished,. but. the Consolidated Customs for the last
..,quarter, compared with the corresponding quarter
. of the -year, were as thirteen hundred thousand-to-
nine hundred thousand,• so that there was good
ground for believing that, a stop was put to-:this dea
preasion. As to the moseimportant part of the re-
venue, the- Excise, which viers fair times the
amount of the Customs, that considerably exceed-
ed the receipt of the last year. The total re=
. venue was certainly, two mi;lithis less than that of
last
.vear, but then the revenue—of last year was
tdore;than two millions above that of the !year
preceding.
Mr. ‘VIIITBREAD contended, that the Cu4orns
were the criterion of the commercial prosperity of
the country ; and it appeared that they had fallen
otf. Did the Right Hon. Getitirman suppose that
ihe-ditnieution on.. the Excise must nut necessarily
follow I It was our- duty to investigate our probable

NIA S WOOD, of No. 35, Maiden. lane, .Covont-ga Men and