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tort' to the parties interested.

Mr. WALLACE adhered to the preference which
be had expresied, for fixing the month of July
as tho term of the continuance.

Mr. ELTACF. seemed -toconsider that it would
be very advantugpops if the COmmitte :now sit-
flak, on foreign Trade would .:ate a -short Re-

port on this subject, at as early a petiod as was
consistent with their convenience.
Sir I. COFrIN observed, that for the last 25
years, the British merchant had been in the ha'bit
of importing from Quebec, timberwhich had been
actually cut at Lake Champlain, and was im-
ported as British timber. He wished to know
(as we understodd the Hon. Baronet). whether
there was any account from the Collector of St.
John's, of the quantity of.timber that pasi_e_d?
Mr. IVALLAcE replied, that there was consi-
derable difficulty in ascertaining the quantiry;
but that he did not believe the -facts were. so
strong as they .were supposed to be by the lion.
Baronet.—Another Hon. MEMnER rose, but the-
Speaker suggested the, irregularity of pursuing
the conversation, and it was dropped.
Mr. BEN Er 'presented a Petition from a Li-
censed Victualler of the name of Samuel Meek,
who had been deprived of his license by the
Magistrates, and whose case had several times
before been mentioned.in that House. It prayed
that the Minutes of Eyidence Which related to
his case in- the itepOrt of the Police .Committee
might be printed. The Hon. Member gave-no-
tice, that on Friday next he would move that the
prayer of the petitioner should be granted.—Me
petition was brought up, read, and ordered to be
printed.
On the motion. of Mr. 147.4 E, a Return was
ordered to be laid before the 'House of the Ex-
pence of Printing for the Houses of Lords and
Commons, and forthe Public Offices in this King-
dom, and of the Expence of Paper, &c. for the
last three years.-Also, an Account of the Va-
lue of Stationery furnished to the Houses of
Lords and Commons and the Offices of Govern-
ment, for the last three years.—Algo, an Account
of the total number of Shipping, British and Fo,
reign, that have cleared out of all the Ports of
Great Britain for the United States, the Cape
of Good Hope, and New South Wales, with the
amount of tonnage and the number of passengers
for the last ten years.

Mr. KEITH DOUGLAS presented a petition
from certain Ship-owners of Leith, connected
with the Coal Trade. The petition stated the
Coal Trade in that district was nearly annihi-
lated, and the petitioners attributed the circum-
stance to the Legislative measures of the year
1816, concerning _the duty on Coals. Those
measures, it was stated, promoted the Coal Trade
of Newcastle by increasing its exportation, while
that of Leith, from the admitted inferiority of,
the Scotch Coal, had gradually declined from
that period ; and the petitioners, therefore, pray-;
ed that the duty on Coals might be so regulated
as to restore. the. Trade of the two Towns to their I
former state. The nom Member observed, that
he could not state from his own knowledge that the
failure of the Coal Trade of Leith had entirely
originated from the cruse mentioned by the peti-
tioners; but as they were a respectable and, suf-
fering body of men, he trusted the House, would
give their case its most serious consideration.—
(Hear, hear, hear !)—The Petition was then
brought up, and ordered to lie on the table and
be printed.