The Sun.
London, England, 1819-09-09 00:00:00

SHIP NENS.

Sam 7.—Arrived the :Mary Francej,
WILKINSON, front Davis's Straits, 5 fish, )40
butts ; Egginton, WILSON, from ditto, 6 fish,
270 butts ; Ingria, KNILL, from ditto, 4 fish,
150 butts ; and Elizabeth, COLQUHOUN, from
Greenland, 14 fish, 400 butts.
DEAL, SEPr. S.-7 Camp down from the River
'the General Palmer, Tauscovr, for Mali as ;
Thames, PEEK, for Now York ; and Eliza,
PMVELL, for the South Seas. Arrived. and sailed
for the River, the Donne Castle, HERBERT, front
and TOI)agO, lot' Grenada.
PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 8 —Caine into harbour
his Nljesty's ship Rosario, to refit. i',,ssed np
Channel the Niger, JEFFFItY, from Jamaica.—,
Sailed his M Ajesty's ship Hind, and the Dlidem
transoort,lor Chatham; also the Mercury, ALLEN,
for London.

HARWICH, SEPT. B.—Arrived the Henry Free.
ling packet with a mail from Cuxhaven. Siiled
the Auckland packet for Holland, and Castlereagh
packet for Cuxhaven, both with mails.
LIVERPOOL, ShPT. 7. Arrived the Jane,
GOULDING, from Amigos ; on the 11 th Aug . iii
!at, 35. long. 57.38. the Trio, from Sr. Vin-
cent's to London ; 24,h August, in Idt. 44 41.
long. 52. 31. spoke the DizAbeth, from Jamaica
to London ; 4th Sept., in hat 50. 49.10nv.. 8. 48.
spoke the Elizabeth, from Liverpool for Quebec.

Yesterday a Court of D•rettors was held at the
East India Howe, Men the unuer-rnenrioned
ships, taken up for the ensuing season, were thus
statio,ied, viz
Thomas Coutts, 1,834 tons, Captain William Nfarjoribanks
Earl of Balearras, 1,417 tons, Captain James Jitnieion; War-
ten Llastings, 1,000 tons, Caplan) Thalsas Larkins; Thames.
1,300 tons, Captains Charles I,e ; Orwell, 1,335 tons,
Captains Thomas W. Leech I tinni Marques of 11 untly . 1,400
tons. Captain Donald 111‘L• od—for Bonsoay and China.
Prince Regent, 953 tons, Captains John lanes; an I Dt2l;e
of York, 1,327 tons, Captain H. Campbyll —lse Matiras
and China.

Asia, 958 tons, Captain 'l'llonias F. Balderstau ; Ash,ll,
si3O tons, Captain Francis CresweP ; and Castle fiiintly,
1,200 tons, Captain Henry A. Drummond—for Bengal and
China.

Canning, 1,326 tons, Captain Wm. Patterson ; and Lady
Melville, 1,200 tons, Captain John Stewart-2-for St. Helena,
Bow hay and China.
London, 1,332 tons, Captain Peter Cameron—for St.
Helena, Bencoolcit, Penang and China.
Buckinghamshire, 1,369 tons, Captain Fred. Adam's; DU-.
nira, 1,.-Q5 tons, Captain M. Hamilton; Scaleby Castle-,
1,242 tons, Captain John B. Sotheby; Marchioness of 4,1 r,
932 tons, Captain Br :ok Kay ; (ieneral Hewitt, 894 tot's,
Captain James Peallon and Princess Amelia, 1,20 t) tons,
Captain Edward Baistt,n—for China direct.

\Hy the Malta Papers %ve find that the Dutch
stpladron in the Mediterranean had paid a visit to
the Port of Malta, where Vice-Admiral VAN
BRA&M, the Commander, was received with all the
honours (1,,e to his rank. Thesc Papers also con.
tain the substance of two very imporract derre:s
of the King of NAPLES, by which Sicily is at
last blessed with a tree trade in corn, so loni;
object of her wishes, and so obviously beneficial
to her best interests.

The Fair Circassian sailed from the Downs on
Monday Jost, on b,,ard the ship Lord Exmouth,
fur Gibraltar, from Whence she is to proceed to
Contantinople, and thence to Persia.
yesterday an I,que,4 was held at the Middle.
sex Hospit:d, before T. STIRLING. Esq. Coroner,
on the body of George Stockdale, aged 30, who
was killed by a fall from a ladder, while at work
in the house of Mr. Tringham, of York-s. reef,
Marylebone, on Tuesday last,--4terdict-,-." Acci-
dental Death."

PA RLI AM ENT ARY PAYERS.

EMPLOYMENT OF THE P gra OF IRELAND.

SECOND REPORT.

EXTRACT OF THE REPORT op THE SELECT COM-

MITTFE.

In considering the caws:es which discourage in-
distry,in Ireland, it is inipossible to *overlook the

la,w-ntabic circumst,ture, almost peculiar to that
country, of the non-resideuee of a great propor-
tion of the pronrictors ; and especially of that
portion which could tTP,flt con,ribute, by their
rank, their wealth, and their mmal influence, to
operate bene6cally on the habits 2nd comforts nt
the lower clasAes. The expendit Ore of income in
Endand, -resulting therefrom, enhances the claim
of eland Oil the genet otts consideration of Par-
liament.

Ou the subject of mulricultural improvement
your Committee, (controlled by the perniam ni
principle of avoiding linneees.tarily to tomper with
so important a hi ancli of industry,, tthd leaving it
to its Kest encomagement, the operation of a ;ice
market), neverilieless thilfk it necessary tit point
out time extent to which Ireland may be improved,
find its power of production of human food vastly
extended.

It appears in evidence, that there are of reclaim-
able Bog in Ireland, two millions of piste acres,
of a soil suited to the production of grain ; that
the measures suggested by the scientific pers\ons
employed under the Bog Commissioners, witch fa-
cilitate the application of private speculation to
such improvements ; and that in order to give ef-
ficacy to those suggestions, a General•lnelostire
and Drainage Act, on the prineirle of that for
England, would be highly important ; bqond that,
as the basis for earticolar local Acts, your Com-
mittee do not venture to go, save in recommend-
ing, that the powers given tinder the Act of last
Session be extended to exempting from interest
such advances as may he made for " Public
Works," on doe security for re-payment of the
principal within a limited number of years. A
reference to the Reports alluded to will evince the
great source of eteploym,nt which the improve-
ment of the Bogs of Ireland wool,! offer to the
population ; and the facility of ttansport by ca-
.nals through site% level lines, ‘sould ensure to
Xneiand supplies of grain at moderate pt ices,
which might I,nder it wholly independent
,of fr,-
yeign countries for the food of its manufacturing
population.
The Mountain Districts of Ireland, at present
compPratively unproductive, are capable of high
improvement ; they consist of about ore and a
halt millions of Iridi acre,l4, of which it rpnear4
that about one half is suitable for agticultore, the
remainder for much improved Tiasturage, rear-
ing or dairy p,:rposes ; anti the entire eminently
suitable for iranting, much of the worst of it hav=
ing been old forest laud.
The Dente of the evidence relative to 'those
Mountain Districts has led your Conimittee to
consider of their improvement, in conaexion with
that of the Fisheries, of which the principal lie
along the coasts of those distric',.
In whatever view it can be considered, whether
es a source of National wealth, As a mats of em-
ploying an overflowing population, or as. a nor-
set y of the best seamen, your Committee cars not
too strongly impress on the House the importance
the Irish Fishery. I addition to Cue evidence
on that subject, stated in the Appendix, your
Committee have referred to several Reports of the
Irish House of Commons, from the year 1733 to
to 1799, all demonstrating the highly advaotage•
ous situation of. Ireland, as a seat of the fiOieries,
which could alone have been rendered unprofi-
table by a most perverse and injudicious system
of laws.

The revision and :simplification of those laws,
and the direct application of encouragement tinder
them to the resident fishermen of the coast, your
Committee consider essential to any successful
fishery iu Ireland.
The failure of the existing system may be prov-
ed by the- fact established. in the public Accounts,
that while in the last year herrings were imported
to the value of 58; Hai. the export trade, within
the last three years, has fallen to a twentieth part
of its former amount.
The actual condition of the fishermen on the

coast appears to be miserable ; and yet their ge,
nerel habits, character and qualifications, are
Mgt;ly deserving of liberal encoural;ement.
It appears from tie whole current_ of evidence,
not only that the western, northern, and southern
coasts of Ireland, afford every advantage for a

Bay or Coast Fishery, but that they are eminently
suited fOr a deep sea Cud .J'ishety of great import.
'once, calculated to afford permanent employment,
ndent of tha' for the product,on of oil from
the' whale and baAing•shark, which abound in
the c,,ntiguous sears. Without enlarging on the,
imp°, ranee of this subject, your Committee refer
to t! e evidence in their Appethlix, as well as the
Toluminousiestimony contained in the Irish Jour-
Dals i.efore referred to, and they particularly call
the attention of the House to that of Mr. Td6
ford, which has milder' them to take the benefit
of experience from au improved sysiem of Fishery

1. vs, mid of Parii2dieutary cucouragement,
Misely applied and eminently successful in the case
9f Scotland. The inesiiinable benefits of the

measure, which hAS opened through the Highlands
o Scotland suitable noes of road into the seats of

the fisheries troin the more improved disliicts,
form strong contrast to the numerous instances

iu which public int;ney has been injudiciously ap-

plied to local objects. The establi;iiment of sue-
.cesstul fisheries. it. consequence, has materially aug-
mented the national wealth, and opened sources
.of the most valuable industry t and it appears to
your Conmittee,. that so extensive a national be-
,~►efit was never att.iined for so moderate an

penditure.
- In the case of Scotland, in 1802-3, the•Tteastnl{
,adop,ed the principle of applying the, public money
for the great ultimate public object of cncourag=
ing the iii.sberies ; and,,,vith that view, they ot•-
dcred sut veys to be made by skiltul engineers, and
.approved a scheme for openintz. the Highlands on
a prospective estinte of 150,0001., to be met by
an equal levy on the districts to be thereby im•

proved ; of 'die signal snee'239 of that scheme your
Committee have the most satisfactory evidence.
On every ground of policy as well as justice,
your Committee earnestly recommend the applica-
tion of the precedent of sentlaud -to the High-
land Districts of Ireland. It appears in evidence,
that the circumstances of the countries in ques-
tion are remarkably similar ; they are both moon-
tainons and tincoltivated, and abound with an
unemployed popolation. The Irish soil is stated
to be capable of higher cultivation., as better in
and equally abounding with manures, which
at present cannot be' transferred for its improve-
ment'beyond the mere precincts of the sea. It
_abounds with the best natural harbours for safe
anchorage and shelter, but is deprived of the be•
nefit of these from the want of piers or lauding
places, which it appears could be constrocted at
modertve expellee. These favourable fishing
itations arc also, for want of roads and bridges,
cut off from ;titmouse with the interior, from
which capital may be expected, and a market found
for the coast fishery.
To zJi these natural claims to similar encoo,
yagt.ment, those disJics of Ireland add the very
serious-on?, that front the non-residence of a tua7
jority of the proprietors, they do not possess
within themselves the means of effecting !hose
objects by-ptivate exertion. It appear, moreover',
that in the case of Scotland, no combination of
private individuals, -with equal funds, could have
effected the same amonot of good which has been
wrought under the Parliamentary Commission for
Scotland. And in any measures which the wis-
dom of Parliament may adopt, the power through
leh;ch it is to he exercised should be removed
front the influence of local interests and partia-
lity in its application. It is no small recommen-
dation of a similar experiment in Ireland, that
the amount of money requisite for its completion
is so small as' not to present any obstacle, even
in the present difficult situation of the finances of
the State ; and that its application would more-
over be justified and facilitated, by the powet pos-
sessed, under the Grand Jury system of Ireland,
of taxing the land to be improved in an amount
.equal to any public grant, by which ;Duch of the
difficulties encountered in the Scots system would
be avoided.
June 7, 1819.

LANCASTER ASSIZES,' SEPT. 6.