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IMPERI dL PARLIAMENT.

,HOUSE OF PEERS,

FRIDAY, MARCII IR.

Scotch Appeal.—Lothian and Others, ru. Hendor.
son, Riddell, and Co.
The ,SOLICITOR GENERAL was heard in con-
rtinuation, and at , considerable length relative to
this case, . the further hearing of which their
Lordships postponed till Monday.
The several Bilis before the House were forward.
eel in their respe&ive stages-; among these was the
Greenland Whale Fishery, which was read 'a third
time and passed, and a Message sent to acquaint the
Commons therewith.

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The Exchequer Bills Loin Bill, the Cinratnon
Duty, the Annual Indemnity Bill, and one Private
Bill were brought up from the Commons by Mr,
ALEXANDER.

Two Private Bills were brought up by Sir C.
BUNBURY•

These xveie severally read a first time.

The Order for the further consideration of
CREWE'S Divorce Bill, which originally stood for
Monday, was discharged, and a New Order made
for considering the same on Friday next.
Some private business was then disposed of, and
the House adjourned till Monday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS,

FR/DAT, MACH 1,2.

tN'T It ; , ETH Ea A LL, from. the Commissioners of
the Customs in Ireland, presented an Account of the
Exports and Imports of that Country, which were
ordered to lie on the• Table.

Mr.CORVY moved for an Ahstraa of the Re-
ceipts and Issues of the Exchequer in Ireland, from
the sth of January 03ot, to the sth of January
1.80 z.—Ordered.

Mr. CORRY presented an Account of the Re-
ceipts and Disbursements. of the Commissioners of
Accounts in. Ireland, from the 25th of December
z So., to the zsth of December 1801—which was
ordered to lie on the Table.

Mr. CROFTON, from the Treasury' of Ire-
land, presented an Account shewing how the Mo.
nies granted for the service of Ireland, for the
year JBoi, had been disposed of, whiCh was or.
dual to lie on the Table. - An Account of the Re-
ceipts and Issues of the Treasury of Ireland, for the
year 18o,t—which was also ordered to lie on the
Table.

Mr. CORBY moved the Order of the Day for go.
ing into a Committee upon certain ACis respeding
the Revenue of Ireland.

The Order having been read,'

Mr. CORRY moved, that the Account presented
on Wednesday last, by Mr. CROF rojg, of the Per-
manent Charges of Ireland, be referred to the said
CoMmi tree.

Mr. FOSTER said, he wished to ask his Right
Hon. Friend, what his obje& was in referring this
Account to the Committee.

Mr. CORRY said, that his Right Hon. Friend,
svho was so conversant with all the business of Ire-
land, could not but know that there were certain
Permanent Charges on the Consolidated Fund of Ire_
land,, which Charges were founded upon Ads of
Parliament, all of which had passed under the eye
cf the Right Hon. Gentleman himself, except one,
which pissed last Session. These Charges, the
Tight Hon, Gentleman must know, were in their
nature permanent, and invariable in their amount.
The House would, perhaps, be surprized, when he
acquainted them, that although these Charges were
permanent and invariable, yet there was no per.
manent provision made for. paying them out of the
Exchequer of Ireland. Therefore the situation in
which they at present stood, was this—there were
permanent charges, without any permanent Fund
for defraying them. The amount of these Charges
was noless than between three and four millions.
The first Item in this catalogue of Charges was, the
Interest of. the Debt of Ireland, and-the Sinking
Fund,- which every one knew must be provided for.
The next was the Civil List, granted in the same
manner as it was in this Country, and upon a Simi_
par principle also, viz. upon a valuable Considera-
tion given in lieu of it by the Crown. These. were
unprovided for. It was unnecessary for him' to
enumerate all the particulars of these Charges; it
was sufficient to inform the House of their nature.
It was now proposed to renew these Grants of the
Irish Revenue, which, in Ireland, had always been
voted annually. It was proposed to-renew them to
meet the burthens of the year—burthens which, in
„..ieeir amount, could admit of no question :—bur_
thefts whieh did not depend -upon any Vote of Sup-
ply—burthens which were 'not now to be granted,
but which, .nevertheless, pow remained‘to.be pro-
vided for. It was to provide.a Fund to meet" these
Charges, that he now proposed to continue the Irish
Revenue Ads, and, -he believed, a more unexcep-
tionable Motion could not be brought before the
House.

Mr. FOSTER said, his Right Hon. Friend had
not answered his question, the objet of which was
to ascertain the ground of the present Motion.—
The Right Hon. Gentleman had said, that there
Were permanent Charges in Ireland, for which no
permanent Provision was made, but :he had not
stated whether he now: proposed to make these
Grants permanent ; he took it for granted no such
intention was entertained. If the Right iron.
Gentleman now intended to make them permanent,
it would effed a complete cli.lnge in the system of
the Irish Establishrncn,t, without any notice to the
People of Ireland that any such plan was in agita-
tion' or without any one Member from that ',art of
the United Kingdom being apprized that 'such a
Motion was to be made. He therefore must intreat
his Right Hon. Friend, not to push his Motion in
the manner he now protx)sed. .If this was a pfo4-
position only for continuing the Revenue for two
months, in conformity to the Supply which had
been voted, he should riot oppose it. But in his
opinion, ;his plan of voting the whole Revenue
at once, and as it were in the lump, was neither
agreeable to the praftice of the Parliament of Ire-
liMd, nor of Great Ilritain—because by this mode
of proceeding, all power cf examining and discuss-
ing ;!le subjett in detail was Vecludcd, as the