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ast, and survive the limited period of ten years,
which had been marked out for its duration. The

Honourable Member adverted to many advantages
of this system, and particularly dwelt upon the ad-
vantage afforded by the change in the Navigation
Laws, which freed British vessels from the restric-
tion imposed upon them of victualling at British
ports.
Sir J. GRAHAM vindicated the petitioners from
the charge of inconsistency, and read passages from
the petition in support of that vindication.
General GASCOYNE said, that he found a con-
firmation of the statements and opinions which he
had made on a former evening, in the speech of the
Honourable Member for Bridgenorth (Mr. War-
burton), who had a large capital engaged in foreign
as well as British shipping. It appeared that the
British Ship-owners were realising nothing, and pay-
ing the expellees of their trade out of their own
capital. They resembled farmers who paid their
rents out of their own capital, in the hope that some
turn of events would take place out of which they
would realize profit.
Mr. HEATHCOTE deprecated a discussion on
this subject at present, as, at this advanced period
of the Session, there was no likelihood of any new
measure being adopted. He was glad to learn that
the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Courtenay) and
his Colleague had intended to devote themselves to
this subject, and hoped that, from the inquiry, bene-
ficial alterations would emanate.

Sir J. YORKE regretted that he should have
said any thing unpleasant to the Right Hon. Gentle-
man (Mr. Huskisson) who bad just left the House.
lie was sincerely sorry that that Right Hon. Gen-
tleman should have written a despatch at two o'clock
in the morning, the consequence of which was his
eviction from office. It was a source of general re-
gret that the Right Hon. Gentleman, did not remain
in office to superintend the working of that system
of free trade which was fathered upon him.

Col. TRENCH vindicated himself from a want
of courtesy towards the Right Hon. Gentleman
(Mr. Huskisson) in not giving him notice of his in-
tention to make mention of the subject which he had
that night noticed. Several moMths ago, he had
written a note to the Right Mon. Gentleman expres-
sive of his intention► to make mention of the subject,
to which the Right Monourable Gentleman made
no reply. He had also intended to mention the sub-
ject when the subject of the shipping interest was
under discussion to a late hour. He had not, then,
however, an opportunity of doing so. And further,
he had requested his Honourable Friend, one of the
Members for Scarborough, to communicate his in-
tention to the Right Hon. Gentleman.

Sir C. BURRELL wished to be informed whether
any direction had been given to the Contractors in
the Dock-yards not to use British timber; and
whether an order had been given for 336,000 loads
of foreign timber? If such orders had been given,
they evinced a most undue preference in favour of
foreign produce.

The 'CHANCELLOR, of the EXCHEQUER
said he did not possess any positive information on
the subject himself, as it was not in his department, '
but he collected from his Hon. Friends around him
that no such orders had been given.
Mr. C. GRANT warmly complained of the injus-
tice that was done his Right Hon. Friend, the late
Secretary of State for the Colonial Department,
with respect to the reciprocity system. That system
dated much farther back than 1824 or 1821. It
began in the year 1810. It began by Orders in
Council; by Acts of Parliament. Let any rational
man look at the state of the world 30 or 40 years
ago, and at its state at present; and then say if it
would have been possible to retain the system of
impotent barbarism which formerly prevailed.—
(Hear, hear.)—At the former period, America was
a province, subject to the will and the laws of the
metropolitan country. At present she was inde-
pendent and supreme. Would any man say that the
same system was applicable in the one case as in the
other ? He must protest against arguing this ques•
tion on narrow limits, when the whole course of
nature, and all the wants and wishes of civilized
life, had undergone so great a change. What we
•had done, we should have been obliged to do in
spite of ourselves. We had been surrounded and
hampered with inextricable diAulties. We found
ourselves in a situation in which the other States of
the world would not submit to adhere tolobsolete
usages. The progress of freedom and intelligence
demanded that we should endeavour to keep pace
with them.—(Hear, hear)—lt demanded that we
should contribute to the establishment of a great
commercial and independent system, by which, and
by which alone, the welfare of the world could be
securely established.—(Hear, hear.) He trusted
that this question would henceforth be argued upon
such great and generous principles. NO man who
Tooke.', back on the history of past times, but must
see the impossibility of reviving those exploded no-
tions and maxims which, however consonant to
those times, were most unsuitable to the enlight-
elle,' period in which we lived.—(Hear, hear.)
Sir J. YORKE was glad to have been the
cause of the splendid oration which the House had
just heard; although in what he had said he had
never contemplated it.
After a few words from Mr. IRVING, the petition
was ordered to be printed.