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a Pet Hon eeer;et the NIL but from whom to adopt it, certainly the grounds upon Which it was
t came, err. beevlaren erese ted, we could not learn. now brought forward, tvere wholly untenable.—
Alter some cOriv.eleatioiti respeaing the further When in' 14308 it was introduced,
_the priceS of coin
proceeding in 'the. Bill, • were high, '‘and those of sugar extremely *low'; at
Lord DARNLEY moved that the further prove •d- present the cern' was in every part of- the country'
ito;s he deferred till Monday, next. abundatrt, whilst sugar had considerably inereesed in•
Lord GIIENVILLE again _ rose, and- callieig to tlis • value.. At all times iie.deprecated,,that mischievous
c reojleeliOn of the 'House :an opinion which he had intermeddling spirit which Would inter withethe
more than once expressed' to their Lordships,, would . exertions •of che fareitere and ultimately decreasethe
now take occasion to repeat. it; and obset4e to their acted quanti.ty of the food of man. ;rhe most cere •
Lordslips, that it seemed of late to beta settleci`sys- taro way-to procUre at all times a supply of food,
t,,n) wi h l'.4lnre;ters to take every oppOrtunity' of de- • and guard against the, evils of failing oarvests, wAs
Frodireg the prOceedings of that Utilise. • His reason • to encourage a surplus prodeaion of cOrn; .and that
for thiiiklig so Was this, drat it was not uponeone aurplus,prodoaion conld ooly be encouraged by al-
occasion; or as it were by accident; that they ate rowing the/ fullest and most unlimited consumption.
tempted thus to let down the .itignity'of their Lord- ' This, hetontendedi was-forming the best granary, to .
ships'‘ House, but ,It seereedld be their deliberwe, which, tinclt.ir an aceidental pressexe, the Sate could
systematic intention. If anyone Metter were More look fer supply..
peculiarly to be seriously attended to, and gri!vely Lord HOLLAND observed; that much rniseoncep.,
discosscd in that, Hoese, it Was subjeEts Of. tion -upon' that :subjed existed; both, within that
ture ; yet after the discossions on the subject of the klouse,and out of 'doors. He denied that it was.
i.
Scetch Legisleture, ,when it had been ,ordered that queation between the corn geower and the West
the report of the Commissioners on that Bill be laid India planter. It was in his opinion a fairer -view
before the House, that ort!er had never beerl coin- of the question, to consider it as a stregglebetweeno
. plied, with, although for'months hackthe 'report of the British West- India-planter and the landiee!der of
these Cominissionet's had been lai-f b4frate the other . once. Upon. eyhat,.principle, 'then," of just policy
'House. of PtoliaMent. In l the same disrespectful should the legislature refine to yield to the colotri. s
Manner were: their Lordship:, tr.-eased 'on the present, that preference which the present measure Oford, d
Occasion. The Bin, tl,e subject of the present dis- them
cdion,.has bees mere than three weeks beforethe i Lord HARDWICKE exhorted the House to pause
'other House of Parliattenfe brut only--,three days are bef ire.itegave its assent to a propoition, at all times
.
•Alleewed their lerrdstips t for ,the discussion. Yet, hosile to. the interests of aerieultotu, but at, this
•ic%tiat is the Tendency of -that Bill ?; Does it not go nioneert not • even kvarranted by one of the reasons
to subvert tine ity,ficuhural system of the country; a . which.indliced its adoption.
sister ;which of bc-.•-eti so mach improved, .Lord LAUDERDALE alSbeSpolie ogMnst the tnea-
q„.i with acrd prosperity of which stire. . ,
the gerieral ltoerov,-enent pre,eserity 'cif the 7 After some,obsery from -Lords !Limerick and
country are esserel,illy, tuirt iinentilly, and .Bathurst, the question foradjoueeing.the discussion !,
tahlv •cotnieded. It rricnst materially tee:;ffeei e until Monday was negatived with Out a &visite), and
the landed interestdf This-country ; and yet it is riot e the Bill was read a' third time and, passed
thricglit propereo sallow it a fair discts.sion in their - • EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS.
HOuse, to whore the landed'inteiest of j . Lord HOLLAND, seeing the cebinetsMieisterain
:this country did not Like' to 1 e considered. as 20 fo- their placed partieuhirly the Noble Lord at, the heid
reign., If coMpleints are made of such a mode of the Admiralty,
.ettpreased his anxiety 'to knoW
of ,proceeding;,,what. is,, the apswer ?;--The Bill whether there was groond for the statement which' '•
must pass great inconveniences Would, arise from lately appeared iii a French State Paper, namelY, that
Any delay in passing it-=-pass -it . therefore now, a convention at Morlaix for an exchange of . prison-
'arid we will allow you "to inquire afterwards into ers war broken offby this.coUntry, lest it should lead
its merits4pass the Bill :flrt., and, then we w:1-11 to a negociation.lor peace. • i
grant a Committee to inquire .into and reeert iLord MULGRAVE :ISSUred the Noble Lord that it'
the .conseverices 'thar may result. from it. -Could was .wholly'unteuncled,' aed -that the proposed_ ar-
any thing, be more insulting to the understanding. rangruent %vas broken off. upon, its own. Peculiar
'of the House ? Was not 'this. a new instance merits, without any reference to a negociation for
of that 'system of . spoke, and by which peace.
'Ministers • end-eavonied. to degrade this *HOuse in i Lord GRENVILLE- direeted the 'attention of their
their own eyese and in the eyes of the country ? Lordships to the return of, a Mr, Catlihev ropdlo the
- Bills are.brotiglit in a few 'clays before they expire. ordeeof that House, • requiring the av'erage Drives of
The House is told the, twist:be passed withpet de- corn, during the different periods when distillation
lay, and tberfore they-a:-e -passed witliont inquiry front grain was suspended. -To that order a return
or discusSion. The molt distant and the most, agri- was made more in -the nature of an'epigram than
cultdral parts of the Country are anxious to petition the account that was due to :the dignity. of A-
ttie House against thje Bill; but no tioie, riot a few ' House ot ,Parlitenent. That Gentleman stated,
days,- will be alloWed them. to prepare
.tbeir that he could not give any such return, as. hedid not
titans. - Their rea4ens and lamentations the ; know the periods when distillatiou froM grain was
question are equally-disregarded. Co,uld any thing ' prohibited. As an officer of Government it was,
'be more absurd -than 'the -doctrine which was his duty to know • What the law of the countri had
attempted to be set up that night, ,rig. that enforeed. His Lordship supposed that the House
you-could continue a Lill that had ceased toexist ? • would see, the 'necessity of having *this return
'ro see in_ to tire absurdity Or 'such e, propOsitiOn, a amended.
common knowledge of the English language, a very -' Earl 'BATHURST stated, that he did not see. the ,re-
sreent acqoeiretance with logic, would be__ requisite. turn until he. was on his way to the House that daSt,
IA as ti pw..4sweto,conlobnd such words as ttrose He they felt that it was an improper.. one, and
(motile and io‘ti,ipire? You continue that which , gave. instructions 'that it should be fOrthevith
hes not ceased
-to exist--toCootihue the existence, of ; amended.
A
a thing it .must-rernaitLin being=--hot when a thing Adjourned Half-past Twelve until Monday,
has xi)ir.ecl, 'when it lies ceased,to exist, can runs be.
said to continue ?_-!--The- absurdity is too gross—but,
. the pridical effedisi that must arise from this absur-
dity are mischievous in the extreme, and must be
cautiously-guarded aglinst. Not-enlydoesithe pre-'
sent Bili'violate the principle, but. it. goes to ex-
sieguish the very spirit Of the Ad of Übiori. ' It is
a most flagrant violation of that conpad. Tht soul
of .that compact exists ,in
,a reciprocity of interests
between "the LWO Countries, which„ will mutually and
equally inchrre-to defend whatever interests may be
attacked. But here you separate :the interests of.
the t countries. ln-Ireland you permit the dis-.
frern corn';- and, so far you atilt encourage,
or rather fear to discourage, the agricultural pursuits
of that part..of 'the. Empire. In Great Britain yeti
• prohibit it, and in thesameproportion you'd° in-
jury 10 the farinerand,th land-holder., As long As
yott favour agrietilture in Ireland,, andeediscoera&e,it
in this country, 'can ~lreland be naturally expdct.,
ed to unite with yhu in reje4ing the prohibitions"
imposed op Great Britain ? This, an tang many other
reasons against the Bill, demands the more serious
attention, the more so, as it would ,appear to he the
design of Ministers to render the prohibition perpe-
tual io Great Britain. • In such an attempt they can-
nut be too early reje6ted,and frustrated; etrd.he most
earnestly requested 'their Lorafibipii seriumsy to turn
in, their minds the fatal consequences of so impolitic
measure.

The,Earl of LIVERVOOLc contended, that there
vas ,groland) for
.the charge made by. the :Noble'
Baron (Grenville), that the measure at present udder
Oisen:sicitc.wps improperly pursued through that
Ho;ise. -It wag, ~above all other q, one which-. bad,
for alength of;_time, been tinder the contetn•
plaliorn 'of he Legislature.. Withort going-at length
into the" ciPtail of the,grounds by which (he conti-
nnanctrof the prohibition 'was supported, he Was
fully, at issue with the Noble Lord opposite:, that
ti i'xisip:d at this ruotnerV as strong inducements
to do expedit'.ncy of fis
.contiollinet: as when the
invasurts Were fir ,t tidopted .by .the .Legislature,
•The,grour.:ls . then tested, upon the high prices of
and the arguments from inch a cause
.were
now, he contended, .as cogent as they were Oa the
former occasion. '
The Earl of !ABERDEEN differed from the Noble
Secretary in every View of the que4tion he had
taken. He.denied that there Was. any thing siinid
lar m the case row,, and4hen thp prohibition was
first carried into rffea. Ar' that time there way a
apprehension of scarcity of cornap-
plil;,lble to the food of ; as, the prospe& now
pr,'sclited, the case- was 'fortunately the. reverse.
',Viirro was
_another ground why the prohibition
eilould cease, arising fp)01 the. quantity of.•cla,
nia':;ed barley remaining- on hand since tile last liar-
v3st, which would be'appllcable to thp purposes of

ROUSE OF COMMOA,S,
• FRIDAY, MARCH 9.

' A new. Writ was ordered for ,the Borough of
flythe, in the room of T. Godfrey, Esq. deceased.
. On; the motion of
.Sir S. RomiLLY, the second
reading of the three Privately' Stealing Bills was post,
'poned to Thursday se'nnight. •
A. Person from"the.tondon bock .Qpmpany pre-
sented, their .Annual Accounts.—Ordered .to lie on
the table. -

Me' SPEAKER acquainted the House, that the
Clerk had ptepared the usual East India Judicature
Lists. , • •
On the motion 6f Mr. -BATunitsT, Copies were
ordered to be laid before the Hothe of two Letters
that badimssed between Sir Luc:as4 pepys, and. the
Secretary at War, on, theUbje4 of the Nalcheren
Fever, with a Report thereon.

(1, •-,„, 'l ;I I .)Cl.
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' Lord Viscount grbmourti took a conrwrphensive
vi.!w. Of the stibjef4.'" The principle hp 'had at all
!tales reprobated, but if-at any time it was expedient