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IPRICE STX'PENCE tiALPPENNY.

HOUSE OF COMMONS,

MONDAY," FEBRUARY 12.
Sir GEORGE WV'AP.ENDER prescnied a Petition from
:Glasgow; and one frOm 'Port Glasgow; praying t;:-ee
continuance of the prohibition 'of Distillatlyn from
Grain.—Ordered to.lie on the table. •
Sir PA4II.RICk. MURRAY ,prekmted a petition from ;
Edinburgh to the sane 'effe&,--Ordered to lie on
the table. • , h
Mr. WHARTON obtaioed leave to bring in the
usual Annual Qualification Indemnity Bill;
The. Second Reading nf,the Windsor Forest Bill,
was postponed till to-morrow.

Vie Malt Duty Bill was read a third time, and
Ordered to the Lozds.

M.C. BYNG obtained leave. to bring-in a Bill to
enable the Proprietors orthe \Veit Mitiel:e:lex Water
Works to borrow further sums. of Money for the
improvement of the snue.—Leave'gropted. ' •
Mr. WI4ITVICL brought up to the Bar rCi-UtIlS •
from the CotruoissiOiiers fir the red:a:lion 61 the
-National Debt pf Jr, land

Mr.-Bost gate notte, that be would 'defer the
consideration of the Distillery Bill till to-morrow.
•A Report of the quantity of corn', malt, and grain,
imported for the last je'ir into this coontry fruakdre-
land and alliA her_ countries, was ordered to be laid
before the House. .

The Reportof the COmmictee for improving
Westminster and the two Houses of Parliament was
presented, aid 6rden,,d tO be printed., ,
Tire .Malt Duty 13111 was passd, and ordered to,
the. Lords. . - •,

fir. LUSHINGTON brought U the Report of the
Connoitt,:te'of'Ways rtici Means for issuing Excht..
qt.v.r Hi.li to the amount of 1'2,600,0-001. and a Bill
was' orders:d thereon.'

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Ordered, on i'he motion of the CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHERUEE, thdt the Rev. ‘G. Andrews, Dean
of Canterbury; do preich before the House of COIH•
MOUS We(JiriSsday the- ~.mth init.. being the 'fast
Diy, at St. INlararr2t's Church.
Mr. W-4abt.E gaVenoticc, (hal he wonld move,
on Wednt,:sday" next, for sevcrid Pipers, rel itive to
Civa Arnirs of the Navy, and ytith'reipea to
the Whic SittliatOtiS in the Niwy are ()h-
-onied.

MT. WHARTONMed for an Acccitint of the
-amount Of the Dory' fijid on' Prinnissory Metes ond
13.11 s of Exchange not re-issued; for di,: years 180.7,
8, .;'ll,l 9 ; 'which was ordered actordiogly.
Mr. A. Cdorlß moved (or Reitlrns t,t-- the Effec-
live Force, ,b ith Rcgdars and Artillery, employed
in the-E*.pedition to the Scheldt, together With we
Returns of the nutabt:r of the'sick,from the last Re-7
ports. Rotgrns 'brought t2p.,
'Mr. Glics deferrod'inoving the Second Reading
:of the .134nktTssDraft Bill' till Thursday „ext.

OF AN - •
The Hon. C. H. HUTCIIINSON said that he would.
make a few,prefatory observations before Liz! o OU4
lay his intended proposh ion before the HOuse.l
wished to draw their attentiorLto the necessity which-
existed that those papers he moved for should 'lie,
laid before them.. He said, that _Ministers either
were or were not ignorant of the state ,in 'which;
Antwerp aCtually was. If they were igeorant, they
were greatly culpable; if they were informed, they
wereequally culpab:e;nn the one hand oron the other
' they were highly 'culpable. Lord Chrtham's dis.e
patch of the 28th, of August stated, that Antwerp
was cCrripletely fortified ; that it would require a rt.....
Oar siege ; and that the ulterior objets of the Ex- ,
pedition could not be acconfplishcd. Why did not
Minkters,knoW. this before a' Such an Expedition
should net have been fitted out upon either doubt--
ftil or insufficient infbrmation. But it might
objected, that to lay before the House 'the paperslhe
moved for, lA7ould prod4tive of inconvenience to
the public sevvie. This he thought a ridiculous 02-
jedtion. He could not see whatdanger inconve--
nience could possibly result from laying before them _
.a..hare plan of the s'ate of Antwerp.- This did not
necessarily involve any Improper 'discoveries of the .‘
sources t rorn. vA, hence they derive their informa-.
Lion. It might be said, that the necessary inform'a-
tion would be had in the Secret Committee but he
thought that
,that HoUse was intitled_ to every in-
' formation respeCting this disastrous Expedition which
could he laid before it %trial safety and -coni:enitnce _
to the- public service.—He then 'moved, that any
plan or planS of the fortifications of Antwerp and
Fort Lillo, which Ministers were in possession of
previous to the sailing of the Expedition, be bid be-
foi'e the House; and also copies of such informa-
tion as they received of the neiure, condition, and
extent of the preparations at Antwerp.
The CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER opposed
the motion as preuin H
azure and. invxpedient. :e
wished the House to .vait the Report. of the Secret
Committee, as itwould be highly incenvenient to
divulge the sources froth which their inform:Rion
was orawn. • • •
Sir JOHN NEWPORT supported the Motion of his"
.Hon. Friend he had not called. for the source, but
the information. _
Mr. YoßK's did not know whether there might
or might nbt particular..plans of Antwerp or
Fort Lillo iu the hands of Ministers,- but he should,
rather supposj they bad no other that. what every
other person might purchase in the shops, be 'Should
therefore take no notice of
.that" part of the. Hon.-
Gentleman's motion; buthe could' not help obset v.
ing that in that 'part Where lie moved for the
gence to be laid before the House, he seemed to
impeach the Secret Committee, and as a Member of
that Committee, he *would oppose it. Did the Hon..
Gentleman impute to that Committee any detelic.
tiOn of duty ? No, he could not. ,He .(Mr. Yorke)-
therefore moved- the previous question.
General rARLETON supported the motion.
Mr. WnyinEAD said, that -the- CorrespondenCe
with Austria wasa_matter of much more delicacy •
that the infOrmation now required, and yet: that
was.laid before the House. If the motion :was, to