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a mockery, whilst the Clergy of Ireland were allowed to hold'
a plurality of living►s. • .
Lord MILTON- opposed the motion.
Nr. GRATTAN conceived that the Amendment might be
withdrawn upon the promise of the Right HoM- Secretary for
Ireland to bring for Ward the subject in proper form.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT persisted in his motion.
The House divided on the question—
For the Clause - . . 38
Against it 75
Majority - _37
The Report was then received, and the Bill ordered to be
read a third time to-morrow,
BONDED WHEAT.
The House went into the Committee on the Warehoused
Wheat Bill.
Mr. ELLIS said he should bring up a clause to allow (',la-
than Wheat, now warehoused, to be brought into consumption
free of (hay. There were 50,000 quarters of Canadian Wheat
in this country, and the question was, whether the owner of the
same was entitled to exemption front the duty.
Mr. L. FOSTER opposed the clause.
Mr. W. -WHITMORE and Mr. CURTEIS also opposed
the clause.
Mr. HUSKISSON thought the Owners of Canadian Corn in
this country had to complain of some hardship. Ile therefore
should support the clause.
Sir J. NEWPORT concurred in the motion proposed by his
flight lion. Friend.
Sir .1. WROrrESLEY wished the House to consider whe-
ther the introduction of the clause would not destroy the good
effect of the Bill.
Mr. W. HOItTON. opposed the clause.
The house divided on bringing up the clause,
Ayes - 43
Noes

31 ajority.

-26

The clause was consequently agreed to.
When strangers were re-admitted, Mr. CURTEIS was pro-
posing a clause to prevent frauds by the substitution of one
kind of flour for another, or of plaster-of-Paris for flour, by
giving the Lords of the Treasury power to exclude wheat from
being brought in on pretence of being ground for exportation.
Mr. 11l:SKISSON had no particular objection to the bring-
ing up of this clause,:-but he thought it unnecessary, as he had
no doubt the officers were capable of distinguishing flour from
plaster-of-Paris.
A convesrsati:m followed, in which Sir M. W. Ridley, Sir
J. Sebright, Mr. Huskisson, Mr. Ellice, Mr. Gordon, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. b. Forster, and Mr. Glad-
stone, participated, the clause was brought up.
Mr. 1115SKISSON objected to the wording of tho clause,
and after a few words from the CaAscELLott of the Excuc-
u.t7l:u it was withdrawn.
The !louse then resumed, the Report was brought up, and
ordered to be taken into further consideration on Monday. The
Bill to be printed.
The Lancaster County Courts' Bill was read a second time,
and ordered to be committed on Tuesday.
The other Orders of the Day were disposed of, and the
House adjourned at Two o'CLocx.

TREATY BETWEE:,N,GRBAT BRITAIN AND THE

NETHERLANDS.

(Froth a Brussels Paper.)
Bilussu.s, MAT' 23.—The Treaty of London
concluded on the 17th of March, which was lately presented to
the Second Chamber of the States-General, is accompanied
by an explanatory Memorial, showing the Bounds end expe-
diency of it, the entire substance of which we have already
published.
The following note was delivered by the English Plenipo-
tentiaries to those of the Netherlands, on the clay on which the
Treaty was signed :
"On proceeding to the signature of the Treaty which has
been agreed upon, the Plenipotentiaries of his Britannic Ma-
jesty feel a lively satisfaction in expressing the justice which
they do to the spirit of good will and liberality manifested by'
their Excellencies the Plenipotentiaries of the Netherlands,
and their conviction that both parties are equally disposed to
exeeitte sincerely and in good faith the stipulations of the
Treaty in the sense in which they have been negociated.
" The differences which gave rise to the present discussion
are of the nature of those which it is difficult to arrange by
formal stipulations. Consisting in a great degree of jealousies
and suspicions, and occasioned by the acts of the subaltern
agents, they can be terminated only by a frank declaration of
the intentioa of the Governments themselves, and by a mutual
explanation of the principles which guide them. The dis-
avowal of ,the measures which had retarded the execution of
the Convention of the 13th of August. 1814, will have proved
to their Excellencies the Plenipotentiaries of the Netherlands
the scrupulous exactness with which England always fulfils
its engagements.
‘4 The British Plenipotentiaries recollect with real pleasure
the solemn disavowal on the part of the Government of the
Netherlands, of every project ne aspire at either political supree
macy or exclusive trade in the Indian Archipelago.
" They readily acknowledge the prompness of the Plenipoten -
tinries of the Netherlands to enter into arrangements calculated
to encourage the most complete liberty of commerce between
the subject of the two Crowns and their respective dependencies
in that part of the world.
" The Undersigned are authorized to express the entire ad-
herence of his Britannic Majesty to the enlightened views of his
Majesty the King of the Netherlands.
" ppreciating the difficulty of suddenly adapting to a long-
established exclusive system the principles of commercial policy
which have just been established, the undersigned have been
authorized to igree, that the Molucca islands shall be excepted
from the general stipulation of a free trade, as the treaty de-
scribes it. They hope, however, that since the necessity of this
exception is caused only
by the difficulty of abolishing at the
present moment the mono* of the spice trade, the effects will
be strictly confined to that necessity.
" The British Plenipotentiaries consider the term Moluccas
as applicable to the whole of the Archipelago which is hounded
on the west by Celebeii, on the east by New Guinea, and on the
south by Timor; but that those three islands are not included
in the the exception, which would have been extended toCeram,
did not the situation of that island with respect to the two prin-
cipal cues for the cultivation of spices, Ambeyna and Banda,
require a prohibition of traffic during the whole time that it
shall be necessary to maintain the monopoly.
" The exchanges of territory which have been judged neces-
sary, in order to avoid all collision of interests, impose on the
Plenipotentiaries of his Britannic Majesty the duty of giving
and requiring some infbrmation respecting the subjects and
allies of England in the island from which it is going to with-
draw.
" A Treaty concluded with British agents in 1819 with the
King of Acheen is incompatible with Art. 3 of the present
treaty. The British Plenipotentiaries, therefore, promise that
the treaty with Acheen shall be reduced as speedily as possible
to the terms of a simple arrangement for the hospitable recep-
tion of British ships and subjects in the port of Acheen. But
eta some of the conditions of this treaty (which have been com-
municated io the Plenipotentiaries of the Netherlands) will be
advantageous to the general interests of Europeans settled in the
eastern seas, they confidently hope that the Government of the
Netherlands will take measures to place those advantages above
all violation, and they likewise express their conviction that no
hostile measure towards the King of Ache= will he adopted
by the new possessors of Port Marlborough.
" It is no less the duty of the British Plenipotentiaries to
recommend to the kind and paternal protection of the Govern-
ment of the Netherlands, the natives, and colonists subject to
the ancient English factory of Bencolen.
" This appeal is the more necessary, as at a period so late as
18113, conventions were made with the native chiefs, in conse-
quence of which the situation of the natives has experienced
essential ameliorations. The compulsory system for the culti-
vation and supply of pepper has been abolished; encourage-
ment has been given to the cultivation of rice ; the relations
between the agricultural class and the chiefs of the districts
have been regulated ; the property of the soil has been ad-
judged to the latter ; and an end has been put to all inter-
ference in the details of the internal administration, by re-
moving from the advanced stations the EuroNan residents,
and putting in their place native officers—the object of all
which measures was to favour the interests of the inhabitants.
" In recommending these interests to the care of the Go-
vernment of the Netherlands, the undersigned request the
Plenipotentiaries of his Majesty the King of the Netherlands
to assure their Government that the British Authorities will on
their side show particular attention to the inhabitants of Ma-
lacca and the other possessions of the Netherlands ceded to
Great Britain.
" In conclusion, the Plenipotentiaries of his Britannic ',Ma-
jesty congratulate their Excellencies the Plenipotentiaries of
the Netherlands on the happy issue of their conferences. They
are convinced that by means of the arrangement which has just
been concluded, the commerce of the two nations will, pros-
per, and that the Allies will be able to preserve no less entire
in Asia than in Europe, the friendship which has so long sub-
sisted between them.
" Now that an end has been put to the disputes which for
two centuries have occasionally produced irritation, there can
no longer be any rivalry in the East between
the Belgiannatioonfslibbetriatlfoprolicy which theyv have
thee
the more solid establishment of
Englishti day a
ands
is
_
those principles
lemnly recognized in the face of the universe.—The Under-
signed being," &c.
[We shall give, in another Number, the Note of the Pleni-
potentiaries of the Netherlands, in answer to the above.]