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PRICE OF STOCKS

YESTERDAY.
Bank Stock, 230 23t India Bonds, i6s. 17s. pr.
Navy 5 per Cent. 93 92i 93 Excheq Bills, 3d. per day
4 per Cent. 784 78 A 2S. pr.-30. per clay, 35
3 per Ct. lied. 6r3620fa62 2S. js . pr.
3 per Cent. Cons. 6i n, Oinnium, a dis.
Bank L. Anil. 16 s.:6rhs Imperial 3 per Cent.
India Stack, 177 i 377 a Cans. fur Loth April, 6tiii

IPRTCE

From the LO A DoSeAZEri 1 B► 2

IPGr-Office, March 3.
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Royal Regt. Horse Guards, 'hornet I. G. Blencowe to be
Lieut. by purchase, vice Grubb.:, who retires.
Ist Regt. Dragoon Guards, .Serjeant.Major 1; Shetver to be
Adjutant, with the rank of Cornet, vice S..,eny, piu-

, .
muted.
Ditto, %V. A. Dobbyn, Gent. to be Cordc: by put.
_ .

chase, vice Mathews, promoted. • • - •
6th Ditto, Lieut..): Steptieuson, from the 43d Foot, to be

.I.leUt. rice Huish, who excliarges.. , • ..
3d .Regt. Dragoons, Ckent. Cadet_ Ga. Watson, from the
Royal Military College, to be Cornet,.witbout purchase.
4th Ditto, •Brevet Lieut -Col. B. Shore to be Major, vice
Ainslie, deceased. . • • • • • -.
Lieut. M. IV;‘lNJeill, from izth Light Dragoons, to be Cap.
tain of a Troop, vice Shore. •• • ...• •
6th Ditto, . Mansell Dames,, Cent. to be Cornet, by put-
chase, vice St. Aubin, promoted. • • • -
14th Regt Light Dragoons,Cornet I Clavering to be Lieut.
•by purchase,•-vice Badcock, promoted. •• • • ,
17th Ditto, Cornet F. Haworth to be Lieut. by purchase,

vice Smith, ',Wilo retires:. • ,
, • •
zd Rest. Foot Guards, Brevet Major I-I. W.. Rooke to be
Captain of a Company, without purchase, vice Ansley,
appointed to the Corsican Rangers.- . . •
ISt Regiinent of Foot, .L nsign 11. -Suckling to be Lieut. by
- purchase, vice Mackenzie* promoted:in.•the 6.iii Foot.
Ensign George Lsne, troth the Tipperary Militia, to be En-

sign. . . . .
loth ditto, Ensigns James A. Henderson, vice Macilonneli,
who retires, J. Pappard,' and Second Licur. R. Travers,
frOtti.the g3th Foot, to tie Lieutenants, witnuut pun:fuse. • .
izth Ditto. —To be Lieutenants, without puechase, EnSign
lames Powell, from the sth.GarrisOn Battalion,, vice shea.
promoted in the bourbon Regiment. Ensign N. Al Wove-
all Nunn, from 96115 Foot, vice i.rith, promoted in ditto. -
Ensign Henry R.. Shepard, from the b3d. Foot, vice
• wellyn, promoted.• •• • •
12th Ditto, Captaidthe Hon. R . King, from. the Half-piy
- of Bradshaw's Levy, ..to be Captain of a Coinpaily, vivo
Camac, who exchanges.
25th Ditto, Capt. W. O'Doherty, from the 57th Foot, to be
Captain of a Company, vice Falls, %via). exchanges.
26th Ditto, Ensign A. Arnott to be Lieut. without pur-
chase, vice Bray, appointed to sell Dragoon Guarns. •
29111 Ditto.; Ensign H. Broderick to be Lieut. by parehast,
vice Coker, promoted in the ;zit' hoot.. •
Both Ditto, -Ensign Henry Beere, lions the Tipperary Mil
• tia, to be Ensign.
36tliDitto, Lieut. D. Forbes to be Captain of a Company.;
withimt .purchase. El‘sign and Adjutant S. Wall to have
the rank of . Lieutenant__ Ensign. "i hums Griffiths to be .
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Forbes, promoted.
Butler, Gent. to be Ensign, 'without purchase, vitas`
Breacon, whose app,..intment has been cancelled... Volun-
teer George White, horn the 3Sth. Foot, to be ditto,
Utifliths. Serjeant-Major lohn Coleroft to be Adjutant,
• with the rank of Ensign, vice Douglas, who resigns the
Adjutancy only.
43d Ditto, Lieut. W. Huish, from the 6th Dragoon Guards,
to be Lieut. vice Stephenson,,who exchanges.
47th Ditto, Lieut. W. Atherton to be Captain of a Com-
pany, vice Ridge, deceased., . Ensign W. H. Green to be
Lieutenant, vice,Athei ton. G. Stewart, Gent. to be Ed..
Sign, vice Green.
57th Ditto. Capt. D. Falls, from the zs•li Foot, to be Capt.
of a Company, vice O' Doherty, who exchanges.
bath Ditto, Cornet G. Roepel, trot) the ist Dragoons of the
King's German Legion, to be Lieutenant,- without pur-
chase, vice Holmes, promoted.
61st Ditto, iohn Ellison, Gent. to be Eo.ign, by purchase,
vice M•Letid, proineted.
66th Ditto, Ensign A. Warren to be Lieutenant,without pur-
chase. •
Warren.
67th Ditto, Lieut. j. Alger to b.e.Captainjof a Company, by
. purchase, vice Butler, who retires.
77th Ditto, Ensign T. Molyneux, from the 4th Foot, to .be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Wilson appointed to
the 4th Ceylon iegiment.
83d Ditto, Ensign Broomfield to be Lieutenint,
without purehase, vice Tresilian, •who retires. Chins-
topher Lodewyk Wykherd, Gent. to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Shepard, promoted in the 12111 foot.
86th Ditto, Lieutenant Henry, Irons the Royal
South Down Militia, to be Ensign.-
gist Ditto, Brevet Lieut. Col. A. Meade, froM half-pay of
the late Regiment of Malta, to be Maim, vice Blainey,
who exchanges.
941 h Dttto, Lieut. j. Cooke to be Captain of a Company,
vice Anderson, killed in action. Lieut. julin N. jackg'ort
to be ditto, vice Williamson, killed in action. E limes
lames Tweedie vice. Cooke,•and .Scott to be Lieuts. vice
Jackson.
95th Ditto, Lieut. H. G. Smith to be Captain of a Com.
pany, vice Liniacke, dead of his•wounda • Second Lieut.
D. Forbes td be First Lieutenant, vice Smith. R. Knight,
Gent. to be Second Lieutenant, vice Forties,. Volunteer
lames Barkeley, from the 77th Foot, to be dine, vice Tel-
verb? promoted ui the loth Foot.
96th Ditto, George Wood,,Gent. to be Ensign, without itr.
chase, vice Nunn, promoted in the izth lout.
ad West India Reg. Lieut. W. Shaw, 110111 the Toth Foot,
• to be Captain of a Company, without • purchase, vice
Sorel!, who resigns...
Royal Corsican Rangers, Lieut. Col. Benjamin Ansley-, horn
the 3d Foot Guarsis, to be Lieut.. Col, without purchase,
vice Twyll, appointed to 25th. Light Drag:•.,ens.
4th Ceylon Regiment, Lieut, J. Fraser Wilson, from the
77th Foot, to- be ietiteoant, without purchase, vice
Buchanan, appointed to the nth Royal Veteran Bat..
talion. . .
Sicilian Regithent, Ensign Nathaniel Stroude to be Lieuten-
ant, without purchase, vice Odiartli, piotnoted Mille Cor-
sican Rangers. -- Higler, Gent. to be Eiisign,,vice
Stroude.
ith Garrison Battalion, Second Lieutenant John Marston,
front the half-pay of the late Barrack Artifi,ers, to ba En-
sign, vice Vowel!, promoted in the lith Foot. -
lith Royal Veteran Battalion, Ensigns Charles Hart and W.
Pettigrew, to be Lieutenants. Ensign and lotus
Crampton to have the rank of Lieutenant. Charles Alex-
ander, late Serjeant in the 45d Foot; to be Ensign, vice
Hart. Quarter-:blaster-sergeant Bond to be ditto,
vice Pettigrew.
Canadian henclbles, Lieut. from 36th Foet, to be
Captain of a Company, without purchase; vice Haren,
promoted.
BREVET.-Major G. A. Madden to be Lieut. Col. in the
Army. Capt. G. M. Milne, of the 45th Foot, to be
Major in the Army. Capt. John F. Burgoyne, of tile
Royal Engineers, ;o be ditto.
STA!' F. - Brevet Lieut. Col. I'. Pearson, from 23d Foot,
to be 1 nspetling field Officer of the Militia in 'Canada,
vice Johnson, deceased.
HOSPI I, F.—Surgeon W. 'H. -CO'ates, from half.
pay, to be Surgeon to the Forces, vice Biow nrigg, who ex.
changes. E. Dolphin, Getu. to be Hospital- Maie toe
General Service, vice Barrett, wno resigns. J. Lauder,
Gent. to be ditto, vice MansfOrd,;who resigns. .••
The s'ing's German Legion. -zd Light Battalion, Colonel
Colin Halkett to be -Colonel • Cumin:inch-tit.
Royal East India Volunteers.—ist leegt. Major J. Bebb to
be Lieut.-Colonel.
ad Ditto, Major W. Wigrain to be Lieut.-Colonel.
• . .3tl Ditto, Major I. B. Taylor to be Lieut. - Colonel
MEMORANDUM.—George Allan Madden, Esq. late Major
in the iztli Light lhagooois, is reinstaietiln his rank in the
Army, at the earnest request of the Prince Regent, and.
the Government of Portugal, in recompence for his ser-
vices in the Army of that country. •

0, 're of Cu:ln:ince, Feb. 17.

Royal Regiment of Artillery.—Second Lieut. 1. Townsend
to be t• irst Lieut. vice I. N. Charles, removed to the pth
Regiment or loot.
Gentlemen Cadets H. Stobart, H. G. Kersteman, W. H.
Weaver, A. Dlitiedl/, H. C. Ord, J.. L. Poynter, W..
Sharpie, W. Charleton, H. Dunnicliffe, L. Selwyn,
and K. L. Carstin, 10 be Second LieutenAnts.
Niectical tor. the Military Department of the

Ordnma.—loSeph Xearsley, M.D. to be Assistant_ Sur.
geon-General and Deputy InspcEtor of Hoal•itals
Assistant-Surgeuris W. Kebby, N. Fitzpatri.k, 'V. Young,
j. Scratchley, A 2, Thomas, N. P. Bradley, and E. Beck,
to be Surgeons.

Office aj ot diraNce, Feb. 29

Royal Regiment of Artillery.—Second Lieut. 1. Trotter to
be First Lieutenant, vice Maitland, deceased. Second
• Captain Robert Gardiner to be Captain, vice Rayttstord,
resigned. First Lieut. C. Clarke to be Second Captain,
"vice Gardiner.. Second Lieut. C. Drawbridge, vice J. C.
Illoomtield. First -Lieut. P . Stanhope to be Second Cap-
tain, vice E. Walsh, deceased. Second Lieut. H. Mor-
gan to be First Lieutenant, vice Stanhope.
•Ro)al Attiller► Drivers.-- White, Gent. to be Second
• Lieut. vice Blair., promoted:
-Regiment of Artillery, King's German Legion.—H. Baste!.
i;,ann, Gent. to be. Second Lieutenant, vice Rietkugel,
pronoted.
M.. cal Establishment for the Military Department of the,
Orthiance.—Second Assistant-Surgeons J. M regor R.
J. Ambrose, G. D. Hiekes, R. Cooke, G. dap.:
pier, G. Maurice, P. Vciiables, and 1. Miller, to be First
Assistant.SUrgeons.

BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.

John Roberts and Richard Roberts, Wood-street, Spits:
fields, Middiesex, silk-manufadurers.
BANKRUPT.O

Charles Fairbone, New-street, Fetter-lane, London, mathe-
matical-instrument-maker and optician, to surrender
March 7,1?, and April 14, at eleven, at Guildhall. At-
torney, Mr. Stott, G ray's-inn- sq
Joseph Cliff, .Aston, Chester, linen-draper, March 9, at five,
to, and April 14, at ten, at tl:c George inn, Leek, Stall-Ord-
shire. /Ural-Ines, Messrs. Killmister, and Challittor, Leek,
Staffordshire; and tMess►s. Dewbery and Haslewood, Con-

duit-street, flanover-square, London.
Hamill Arnold, Cateaton. street, London, warehouseman,
March 14, and April 14, at ten, at Guildhall. At.
torney, Philip Hurd, King's Bench Walks, Temple.
Edward O'Neill, Liverpool, Lancaster, cooper, March 17,
IS, and April 14, at one,. at the Star and Garter Tavern,
Paradise-street, Liverpool. Attorney, Mr. Avison," Han-
over-street, Liverpool.
Frankland Coates and John Walker, Cheetham, Manchester,
Lancaster, cam:mu-brewers, March 16, IS, and April 14,
at two, at the White Bear Inn, Manchester. Attornies,
Messrs. Sheppard, AdWigton, and Gregory, Iledford-row,
London; and Mr. Law, Spring-gardens, Manchester
Samuel Williams, Greenwich, Kent, tobacconist, March 7,
14, and A pril 14, at ten, at Guildhall, London. Attorney,
Mr. Dixon, Nassau.street,.Solio.
Matthew Stothatd, Saint lames, Gloucestershire, merchant,
March 19, 21, and April 14, at twelve, at the Commer-
cial- Roorns, Small-street, Bristol. ' Attornies, Mr. Ed-
ward Stephens, Bristol ; and Messrs. Sweet and Stokes,
I3asinghail-street, London.
Martha Nash, Harlington, Bedfordshire, widow, grocer and
.draper, ,March 9, 14, and April 14, at twelve, at Guild-
hall, Londi, A ttornies, ,Mr 'Townsend, Staple-inn,
London ; and Mr. rade, Hitchin, Herts.
Ralltri Broadbent; • A .uicile:;ter, Lancaster' vietualler, March
id, z,, arid April 14, at eleven, at the Mosley Arms Inn,
Manchester Attornies, Mr. Ellis, Chancery-lane, Lon.
don ; and Mr. Morgan, Back Mosley-street, Manchester.
Thomas Cood, Northumberland-street, Charing-cross, Mid-
dlesex, merchant, March 7, 2,8, and April 14, at ten, at
Guildhall, London. Attorney, Mr. Charsley, Mark-lane,
Fenchutch-street.

Sarah Baines and john Gale Baines, Bradford, Wiltshire,
-bakers, March t 6, at five, i 7, and April 14, at twelve, as.
the King's Arms inn, Melkshain, %Viltshire. Attornies,
Messrs. l•rowd and Co. Serle-street, Lincoln's-inn„ Lon-
don ; and Messrs. G. and F. Moule, Melksham, Wilt•

John Buckley, Halifax, Yorkshire linen draper, March. 19,
-Ito, and April 14, at eleven, at the White Swan Inn, Half.
sax, Yorkshire. Attornies, Mr. Wiglesworth, Gray's-
inn London; and Messrs. Wigldsworth and ompson,
• Halifax.

Samuel Ic.,ttre Liverpool, Lancaster, timber-m...rchant,
March 17, t 23, and April 14, at eleven. at the Globe Ta.
veal, lohn•street, Liverpool. Atturnies, Mr. Thomas
Windle, john.strect, iltdiord-row, London ; and Messrs.
ninth" and Ilinde, Fenvvii.k.street, Liverpool.
RiLiimd Cook, liedborough,,Wiltsnire, plumber and glazier,
March IS, at '4, and April 14, at eleven, at the Black
ilear on, Devizes, Wiltshire. Attornies., Mr. Tilhy,
Devizes, Wiltshire ; and Messrs. Nethersole and Portal,
Essex-street, Landon.

John Ernst Grob, College-hill, London, sugar-refiner,
March 7. 17, anti Ap it 14, at eleven, at Guildhall. At..
tornies,- Messrs. Rose M uuniUgs, Gra}'s inn-square,
Lincion.

William -DeGlsworth, Scarborough, Yorkshire, grocer, March
2,r, and April 14, at eleven, at rite Bull inn, Scarbo-
rough, Yorkshire. A ttornic,, Mr. William Rosser, Hart-
Jett's-buildinT,s, Holbarno London ; and Mr. li. S. Rob-
_ son, S,..aiborough.

john ;iryant and "i•hornas Catclipool, Ipswich, Sufklk,
maltsters and rmr,hrlnts, :March it, 13, and April 14, at
el2vt3i, at the 'k at and Crown, I pswtch, Sullblk. At_
tornes, illet,srs. Pearson and Bunn, Ipswich, Sutiblk ;
amt. Mr. Sainuci Taylor, lohn-street, Bedford-row,
Loudon. -

[Di yidends, &c: to-morrow.]

IMPERIAL EARL lAMEN2.

HOUSE OF PT RS,

TUESDAY, MARCH 3.

in a Committee of Privileges their Lordships
made farther progress in the discu,sion of the claims
-to the Stratford P...erage, the further consideration
of which was adjourned in the Committee till
Tuesday se'nnight.
The Howie being resumed, Prayers were read,
and their Lordships preceded to forward the Bills
upon the table.
The Sugar Bounty Drawback Bill passed through
,a Committee, and was reported without any amend-
inent.

The Revenue Penalty Amendment BUT was read
n second time, and referred to the consideration of
p See,c:t Committee.

The Report of the Nottingham Fratre Breaking
Prevention Bill was taken into consideration, and
agreed to by the House, and the Bit ordered (as
we heard the Noble Speaker) to be read a third
lime on Friday.
The Nottingham Watch and Ward Bill, the
Southwark Clink Liberty Paring, and the Ipswich
Road Bill, were brought up iron the Commons by
Mr. LUSHINGT-ON, Sir J. GRAHAM, and other Mem-
bers, and severally read a first time.
After disposing of some private business the House
edjournvd till to-morrow.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

'TUESDAY, MARCH 3.

Mr. WHARTON moved for a new Writ for the
Borough of East L, w, in the room of Richard
who had, since his election, ac-
cepted the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hun-
dreds.

The Lottery Bill was read a first time, and or.
dered to be read a second time to-morrow.

Mr. W. POLE gave notice, that on Friday nest
te would move the Supplies for Ireland in the Com-
mittee of Supply._

The Wootio-Basset Election Petition was post-
poned to the 44th.

EMPLOYMENT OF FOREIGNERS.

Lord FOLKESTONE gave notice of a'rnotion for
Tuesday next, on the suhjett of the Employment
of Foreigners in the British service. Seeing the
Right Hon. Gentleman (the Chancellor of the Ex.
clxquer) in his place, he wished to know whether
the Commissioners for managing. his Majesty's pri-
rAC propeity were yet appointed. as reason for

putting the question was, that he was given to up:
detstand they were appointed, and that one of them
was a Foreigner.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the
ap;rointments had taken place, and one of them was
a foreigner, the Commissioners being Mr. Simeon,
Colonel Taylor, and Count Munsrer.
MR. WALSH.

- The SPEAKER said he felt it his duty to inform
-the House that he had received another letter from
Mr. Walsh, stating, that he was now able to come
down to the House, and desiring an early decision
on his case, the eat her the better. It added, that if
the subject was not taken up before the expiration
of a fortnight, he feared he should not be able to
attend.
BANKES said, that in consequence of- the in-
thitStion now made to the House, he would move
to discharge the order for Mr. Walsh's attendance,
as it _stood at present,- for the purpose of 'altering it
to Thursday next.. The alteration was accordingly
adopted.

Notice was given of a motion, :or Thursday next,
for papers relative to the prosecution of Captain
Tomlinion.
mepliits IN COUNCIL.
_

Mr. BROUGHAM saidhe rose inconsequence of a
notice he bad given to bring forward a motion af-
feaing the state of our commerce and nianufaelures,
a motion which embraced so' vast and so compli-
cated a variety of detail, that if he had been aware
of its extent at first, he doubted much whether he
would not have consulted his prudence and relin-
quished his usidettaking. With such claims to the
indulgence of ilia House, he would only preface his
observations with observing, that his obje& was to
induce the House to. go into a Committee for the
purpose of inquiring into this important matter.—
He had to address himself to various descriptions of
persons, all agreeing that the voice of this country
was raised in complaint, and he hoped all were
unwilling to say, that these complaints wcre with-
out foundation. until they were examined. Great
difference of opinion existed as to Ilia causes of the
present distress. Some disaoroved of the mea-
sures of 1806, which were followed up by the Or-
ders in Council of 1807. Others who approved of
the further -Orders in Council might disapprove
of the particular mode 'of relaxation which was
adopted. Others again, who regarded the origi-
nal measures as a grand experiment of counterac-
tion to the policy of Friaice, would wish to examine
its effeets. There was another class, of which be
must acknowledge himself to be one, who, having
condemned the whole from the commencement,
were willing to skew that the prediCtions were ful-
filled even beyond their most desponding expecta-
tions.—Last of all, there was a class who, under-
valuing the commerce and rnanufaaures of the
country, supposed that nothing was to be appre-
hended while agriculture was encouraged. all
those different classes he had to address himself, and
he hoped they would all concur in giving their
voices for inquiry. His obje& was to inquire into
the result of the experiment of 1807, *and to ascer-
tain whether it had oppressed or assisted the enemy ;
whether it was not better that we should retrace our
steps; or if we were to persist, that we should adopt
a more effeanal,intelligible,and operative Mode ofen-
tot eiug out tucasurc3 against the commerce of France ?
Unless they were'prepared to tell the people that our
present evils were irremediable : that they were
such as moat be endured by patience, rather than by
hope, the House could not refuse the proposed inves-
tigation. The system upon which we had so long
professed to act, was, in the outset, retaliation.—
What then was the system of the enemy upon
wind) it was a retaliation ? To sum up all in one
word, it was a system of hostility to commerce, a
wish to sacrifice the trade of France to the destruc-

tiun of the trade of England. It was true that, in
some moments, while self,ring under the vexation
of severe naval losses, Buonaparte bad expressed a
wish for " ships, colowes, and commerce ; ' but--no
sooner had- his mind resumed its tone, than be
turned tothe prosecution of his favourite policy of
sacrificing his own trade to the ruin of ours. Nay,
he (Mr. Brougham) was disposed to go further, and
say, that he had a hostility to commerce itself, with-
out any view to us, as if there was something in its
nature injurious to his views upon the liberties of
mankind. The conscription itself was inconsistent
with trade; it was a sacrifi '7, of commerce to power,
and the same diaposittion was manifested in the va-,
rious measures of his Government, as well as its his
answers to the petitions of his merchants. To them
he had declared that ".it was too late in the day to
think of trade ;" that the failure of their commerce
was so mnch the better, for " he would have sol-
diers and peasants alone." It was also to be collet-
ed from the publication of his minister, Talley-
rand, in which he maintained the superiority of agri-
culture to commerce since the stormy period of the
revolution ; the latter having a tendency to unite
men, the former to separate, to dispirit, and, dis-
organize them. His system WQS war with com-
merce ; with commerce as with liberty ; with the
mother as with the child ; with those principles
which were favourable to the world he hated
and inimical to the power he bad usurped. . He (Mr.
B.) Was'not disposed to believe him (Buonaparte), or
hisnew made Duke, upon their own bareavowai; tor it
waa easy to suppose the case of a Prince and Minister
of France presenting such a compound of villainy
and fraud to the world, as to render us the more
guarded in proportion as their vows and oaths were
more positive and awful. But the system of
Buo-
naparte being, from the evidence of facts,- such as
he had described, they Were next to inquire what
system it was natural for England to adopt on the
other hand. The obvious.policy of England was
to'encourage commerce by all means in her power,
and to encourage the trade of neutrals. Not of the
neutrals most contiguous to France, and therefore
most exposed to i s power, but of that neu-
tral which was separated from France by an
ocean, impassable to her, owning ,the same
interests, and speaking the same language
with England, and being the only nation, be-
side ourselves, in which freedom could be found.
It was lamentable to consider how entirely the re-
verse of those measures was adopted. We had not
only not done our best to secure the neutrality of
that power, but we, had adopted a system against
'neutrals which went to oblige them immediately to
declare for one side or other. He should say no.
thing upon the negotiations still pending with that
country, but could not help regretting having heard
on a late occasion that the hopei of a successful is-

sne were represented as slender. But looking to tile
effects of the system we bad pursued, they would
find by the papers laid before the House in !SOD.
that the whole of the imports and exports of 180 S,
as compared with those of 18.07, fell short by no leas
an amount than fifteen millions. It was l'ound ne-
cessary in 1809 to substitute a blockade to a flamed
extent, which was done by the measure of the 26th of
April in that year. This measure be contended was in
elfea getting rid by one sweep of the whole princi-
ple of the Orders in Council. The principle was
to cripple the French commerce, but this, by open-
ing an inlet to their commerce, defeated the princi-
ple. As to the flourishing representations of our
trade in 1809, he would set against theill the seiz-
ure of our vessels by the enemy in 1 s to, by ;which
upwards of nine millions sterling was lost to this
country. The seven millions Droits of Admiralty
which we had taken from our friends and natural
allies in the course of eighteen years of war, was
more than counterbalanced by this fatal seizure of
Buonaparte. He denied that Buonaparte had gone
on relaxing his decrees after the paring down of our
Orders in Council. In 1809 we relieved the pres-
sure on his commerce, and in 1810 he came out
with two measures, ten thousand times more stria
and more pressing on his commerce and our own.
He riarculed the Bark Bill as an attack on ill:: hu-
manity of Buonaparte, by persons who had aI:A a)s

denied him the possession of such a feeling. He
should next proceed to state the fads on winch his
inferences were built, though the' numberless
lions preparing in.many parts of tIV-3 country, the
list of bankruptcies, which was doubled since the
Orders in C .uncil, the list of the poor, which had
increased in Liverpool to sixteen times its former
amount, were faCtt which would bear him out, et en
in the teeth of the papers On .the table. He cud
not shut his ears.to the cries of the poor people ; he
could-not be indifferent to the petitions that would.
shortly come-from Warwickshire, Yorkshire, Not-
tinghamshire, and parts_of Scotland; nor could he
look upon the returtw-of Mr..-Irvine as of greater
authority.; he might be called the saviour of the
nation ; the Gazettes might be represented as mi-,;-•
taken; the country might be held up as flourishing,

commercial, and gay, but it must 13:: in defiance of
all those proofs of misery which obtruded themselves
daily before our eyes. Bur lei them see what was
he state of thingS in 1811, even by the documents
of Mr. Irvine himself. The official value of the ex-
ports for three quarters of the year 1810, was
27,000,0001. The official value of the exports for
the three corresponding.quarters of the year 1811,
was only 16,00(;,0001. being a tailing off of eleven
millions in the three quarters, and by calculation, a
falling off of fourteen. or fifteen millions in the
wnole year of official value; or about 21,000,0001.
real value. The answer to all this, it seems, was
that there had. been no considerable falling off in
the exports of last year, as compared with the ex-
ports of 180 g. It would appear, however, that the
the d4erence was-only two millions, and that the
exports of ihe'three quarters of the year 1810 weie

to the amount of nine millions less than the
exports of the.three corresponding quarters of 180 g.
But he would, go back to a comparison with 1808 ;

the House w;ouTld recolle6l that that was the worst
year of exports. The failing off of the exports of
the year 1808 being fifteen milliurc„ as compared
with 1807. In the "three quartets of 1808 the ex-
ports were eighteen millions. In !he three quar-
ters of 1811, sixteen millions, a difrerence in teal
value of 2,500,0001. With resf•ett to the expos is
to South Ametica, the House had only the Custom-
house returns, -which could not be considereu as a
fair test of the real trade. By those returns, it ap-
peared that the official value of the exports in 1811,
to America, exclusive of the United States 'and the
'West Indies, exceed those of the year 1807. by 8
millions. flow little harmonious was this state-
ment 11010 the Custom-house with the a&ual situa-

tion of the country ! Those who did not pin their
faith to Mr. Irvine's books, when they saw the
wretchedness that prevailed in the country, could
11,4 help suspecting ethat those exports went to a
market not open to receive them. - The great ex-
cess of importation in the succeeding year strongly
confirmed this suspicion. He proceeded to consi-
der the relaxation of the Orders in Council under
the name of Trade Licenses, a relaxation which
sheweda complete want of confidence in the suc-
cess of the original measures. The increase of the
licenseS was prodigious. In 1807, sixteen hundred.
were issued; in 1811, no less than eighteen thou-
sand, thus subjeaiog the whole foreign trade of the
country to a new system. What was • the natural
result of these licenses as they of eded the enemy,
neutral powers, and this country ? With regard to
the enemy, in proportion to the extent of thelicenses
was the principle of the Orders in Council aban-
doned. With regard,to neutral powers, the sys-
tem tended to benefit those alone who were
under the influence of France, and to whom
France looked for the support of her Marine.—
With respeCt to this country, the effea on
our shipping would be most apparent,. by a com-
parison of the British and foreign shipping employed
in 1806, with the British and foreign shipping
which had been employed in, 1810. By this com-
paiison it would appear ,that in that period the
amount of foreign tonnage and foreign shipping had
more than doubled ; being at-, the first period,
567,000 tons of shipping, and 29,000 seamen ; and
being, in 1810, 1;138,000 tens of shipping, and
60,000 seamen. The British ship-owners as the
memorials from Hull, Shields, Sec. sufficiently tes-
tified, sustaining thereby the greatest injury. A
considerable diminution had taken place in the
building of merchant.ships. In 1805, ships were
built to the amount _of 90,000 tons. In 1810, to tiro
amount of only 61,000 tons. By the system which
had been pursued, the trade had been thrown out
of the harmless and distant power of America, into
the hands of those near us, and ready to assist
France in her hostility. Nothing could be more
annoying and injurious to the trade of this coun-
try, titan the systematic, and every day's interfe-
rence wiih it to which the Executive Govern.
went had resorted. The President and Vice-Presi-
dent of the Board of Trade, were at present the
great merchants of the country, and not the resi-
dents in London, Liverpool, or Hull. They em-
ployed their mornings not in devising the means of
proteCtiog British Merchants, of annoying those of
the enemy, or of diminishing the hostility of neu-
trals, but in making assortments of cargoes, an oc-
cupation to'which, with all due respect to them, he
conceived that they were wholly incompetent. 1-12

did not obje6t to the Right Hcn. gentleman ono
site on the ground of his political or natural, but o
his mercantile incapacity. The habits of his lift
had as little tilted him for the task which he bad no,
dertahen, as a Right Hon. Secretary of the Trea,
sury who had lately come out as an eminent poet,
-had, in his (Mr. B.'s) opinion, been fitted by hi:
habits for the task which be had undertaken. I
was really ridiculous to contemplate the Noble Lorc
at the head of the Board of Trade, settling the vari-
ous component .parts of a cargo. Sometimes deter.
mining that it should consist of wool, scissars, nails,
-and cotton twist ; hesitating whether or not tel eavt
out the scissars ; and, finally, perhaps, detertniniq
to omit the nails, and allow the • scissars to be in:
eluded. He did'not impute any abu,e in the grant
ing of licenses ; he did not mean to accuse c._;overiv
meat of partiality in that R.:sped. But it was evt;
dent, that those' merchants who were consulted by
the Board of Trade on the perpetual changes that
were taking place must have very little conning, il
they could not make a probable guess with respect
to the projeated prohibitions and admissions whict
to them would be just as great a bonus as any stock•
brokers would receive to w. how the Chancellor of
the, Excitecioer might coammtlicate, the terms el
which he tne.aut 16 fund Exchequer Bills, or tc
contrast- for the sale of the, Lottery. The trier-
chants also consulted .by the Board of Trade w(-rci
not such men as the Member for Worcester, or tin:
Menthei-s fur the City of London. No; those who
were :seen clearing outwards 'and inwards- at the
office were I;etierally neutrals, and their agents job
hers and brokers from Duke's place. These Were
the persens whom the Board Cf Trade thought
proper to consult, on their commercial rep..
lations. By
,the perpetual Changes in their re-
gulations, the enemy were continually enabled
to anticipate and frustrate our wishes. But one
most deplorable t4:feci to which the new system had;
was on the morals of those who were employed ut-
der it. It had beenn said., by a high authority (Sir
W. Scott), that it was a series of simulation and
dissimulation from beginning-to end. It would have
been still more accurately described,_ had it been
called a system beginning in forgery, co;itittuht;
in perjury, and conversant with every descripion
of fraud and enormity. He described the nature
of the licenses and the deceptions which were
practised under them, (reading a circular letter
which had been sent to. various merchants in Lon-
don, from persons who at uaily proft!...!ed to esta-
blish themselves for the sole purpose of making
mutated papers. If this was the kind of viitory
which our commerce was to enjoy over the de.
si4ns of Buonaparte, he disclaimed' any share in
the triumph. After dwelling at considerable
length on these and similar points, he concluded by
moving,
‘. That a Select Committee be appointed for the pu.P-
pose of taking into consideration the present state of the
Lomtnerce and manutadures of the Country, particulaily
with reference to the Orders in Council, and the License
Trade."

Mr. ROSE was anxious to make same statements
of fact, which, he was persuaded, would de away
all the effea of the arguments so ably urged by the
the Hon. Gentleman. He did not deny that the
manufacturing districts of the coentry experienced
much distress, particularly Birmingham, the trade of
which place depends materially on the connetaio3
with America. But when the Hon. Gentleman eon-
' tended, that that distress °Ovulated in ehe Orders in
Council, and was a ground for their repeal,- he
would ask him, what were the fads on which he
founded that statement ? He would refer to the
papers on the table; "and he must observe, that the
Hon. Gentleman questioned the accuracy of Mr.
Irvine's figures, only when they opposed his state-,
ments, and not when ley seemed to support them.
For his part he never knew the corredness of the
Cusiorn'-house accounts doubted, nor could he al-
low that they were at, all liable to the objections of
the Honourable Gentleman. 'What did those
counts state ? The Orders in Council were issued
in 1087 ! The accaunts stated, that ib 1807'
the general exports were 35,800,0001.; that ia-
-1808 they were 34,800,0001.; that in 180 y,
they grew to 50,000,0001.; and in 1810 they mete
45,000,0001. All this was official value, so that the
increase in real value was near 30,000,0001. The
Hon. Gentleman, however, contended, that although;
the general exports might be increased, yet, that the
particular exports to America were decreased.
How was this borne out by the accounts ? In 1807.
the whole of the exports to all America and that
West Indies, amounted to 14,800,0001. In 1803
io 1b,800,0001. In 180 y (in which year the
Non-Intercourse Aa took place in America) to.
19400,0001. ; and in 1810, to 20,418,0001. nuk-
ing a difference between the years 1807 and
tilt), of six million pounds sterling in the ex-
ports to all America, and chiefly attributable(
to the increase of exports to South America.--
Did he thence mean to infer that we ought to be
indifferent with respect to our connection with the
United States ? By no means. On the contrary,
he had always said that the interests of Great Bri-
tain and the interests of the United States were
closely conneaed; but it was too much to expea
that we should allow Attlee ica to treat us in a man-
ner different from other countries, The Hoe..
Gentleman had been very witty in his de,criptioel
of the people wjto he supposed were consulted by
the Beard of Trade. He could assure the Hon.
Gentleman, however, that he was completely mis-
taken with respea to the company which he (Mr.
11.) kept ; nor was the assortment of cargoes the
moraines occupation of his Noble Friend and him-
self. A considerable pc-etion of 'their time was
taken up in considering what articles it would be
safe and proper to allow to be imported into
this country. The Honoarable Gentleman as-
serted that the British shipping had been injured
by the system of licenses. The accounts on the
table, however, shewed that there were.Boo,ooo.
tons of British shipping, and fourteen thousand Bri,
tish seamen employed More than when the Orders
in Council were promulgated. He admitted that
the foreign shipping had increased in great propor-
tion. But if foreign shipping had not been employ-
ed, what would have become of our commerce ?
How could it have been cart ied on with those ports
which were shut against British shipping ? Woufil
Government have been justified in letting the ma-
twist:lures of the country perish in warehouses ra-
ther thau allow and sanction them to be transpot fed
to those ports in foreign shipping ? That the Bri-
tish shipping was completely employed was evident
from the increased rate of transnorts. To 1 Qn-7