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London, England, 1821-05-22 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

SECOND REPORT from the SELECT COMMITTEE
appointed to consider of the MEANS of IMPROVING
and MAINTAINING the TOREIGN TRADE of the

COUNTRY.

The SELECT CommxT TEE appointed to consider of the
means of maintaining and improving the Po-limo:1 TnAnt of
the Country, and to report their opinion and observations there-
upon from time to time to the House;—have, pursuant to
the Order of the House, considered the Matters to them re-
ferred ; and have agreed to the following REPORT :
From the period of their submitting to the House their last
Report, the attention of your Committee has been directed to
the Commerce of the United Kingdom with India and China,
and the Trade between those countries and, other parts of the
world. The advanced state of the public business, and the ad-
ditional evidence yet to be received, before they can consider
themselves as having completed their investigation into that
branch of their inquiry, affords them no expectation of being
able to produce a Report, embracing a general view of the sub-
ject, in sufficient time to admit of any measure being founded
upon it, and receiving the approbation of Parliament previously
to the close of the Session.

It has, however, occurred to your Committee, in the course of
their inquiry, that there are some branches of the trade, in re-
ference to which further facilities maysbe afforded, with great
advantage to the interests of British commerce and navigation ;
and that such facilities cannot be delayed to a future year,
without the risk of losing much of the beneficial results
which, at the present time, may be expected from them. This
impression is founded rather upon general principles, and cir-
cumstances of general notoriety, than upon any particular evi-
dence adduced before your Committee, however the tendency
of that evidence may have been further to establish the expe-
diency of the-measures about to be proposed.
In adverting to the peculiar system of laws by which the
trade of the East Indies is regulated, the House cannot but
observe, that the subjects of Foreign nations, whether European
or American, are in possession of privileges far more extensive
than those which are enjoyed by His Majesty's subjects gene-
rally,. and greater, as to many branches of circuitous and
foreign trade, than have been accorded to the East India.
Company itself. To relieve . the commerce and shipping of
this country from a situation of such comparative disadvantage
(for the continuance of which your Committee. can discover no
sufficient reason) they feel the expediency of some measure,
the principle of which may be, to allow British subjects, as
well private traders as the East India Company, to carry on
every sort of traffic between India and Foreign Countries (with
the exception of the trade in Tea, and that with the United
Kingdom and the British Colonies, with which they do not
propose any interference) which foreigners are now capable of
carrying on ; and have therefore come to the following Reso.
lution, which they submit to the House :
Resolved, That it is expedient to permit his Majesty's sub-
bects to carry on trade and traffic, directly and circuitously,
btween any. ports within the limits of the East India Company's
Charter (except the dominions of the Emperor of China) and
any port or ports beyond the limits of the said Charter, belong-
ing to any State or Countries in amity with his Majesty.—
May 18, W2l.

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TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1821.

PARL I AM ENT,

HOUSE OF LORDSz MAY 21.
Several private Bills were brought from the
Commons, and among them was one for lighting
the town of Barnsley. in Yorkshire, with gas.—
In reference to this Bill the LORD CUANCELEOR
observed, that he could have no objection to any
town being lighted with gas, but that he must say
that the effect of the escape of the gas in their
Lordships' house 'had been quite intolerable that
morning. Any Noble Lord who Was present
could confirm his statement—that it was, quite im-
possible to remain in the House in consequence
of the noxious effluvia.