The Sun.
London, England, 1821-03-07 00:00:00

HOUSE OF. COMMONS.

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A Clerk fronl the Bank presented:paTsurint to
nrd,r, ri Return of the Public littlances t 1 itit hands for •Ft
tin), up to the COI ut Jasonary last.—Ordered to lie

A111:1-101.7SE WINDOW TAX.
CienerlC f;ASC:OYNE presented a Pctition from certain_
1-etaiLStiopheepers of Liverpool, complaining of the. Tax
upon the Windows of tlktir Warehouses; and praying relief.
From' t..bls Tii X the- Petitioners observed, that merchants and
Others were exempt, whale it was eery oppressive upon them.
The.,C,..lfant ()dicer was apparently proceeding to make fur-
tfirr statements. when
• The SPEAKER interposed, and submitted to the Gallant
Gens)ral, whether, as this was a public Petition "which might
cteate'ciiscossion, it would not be better to postpone present-
it:t it until the private business was gone through. •
General GASCOYNE observed, that he did not mean to
say u;uch:ruore, and he coirld not apprehend any discu-sion
upc;ri Merely presenting such a Petition, which he wished to
hare laid upon the 'rutyte preview' to the discussion respect-
ing the Window- the(
that was fixed for this evening.—The
Petition was utdered to lie on the Ta'ile.
AGRICULTURAL LIORSES.

Mr. CITRWEN gave notice of his iritetitnm to more, On
the tt.th of. April- next, fur the Repeal of the Agricultural
llcrse Duty.

COALS

A Bill eras brrintst In to prevent Frauds in the Adrueasnre-
meat of Coals to the sicinity of the Thames within cer-
tain districts.—Read a first, aud ordered to be read a second

AGRICULTI7RE, &c.
:Mr. DAVENPORT presented twelve Vaitions from certain
Occupiers of Land .and Grtqeers of Corn, in the county of
Chester, praying a consideration of 'their distressed stale, and
complaining, that the present rate of inwort duty upon FO-
reign Corn, did not afford adequate protection to domestic
Grower, or encourage him to pursue his industry, much less
to extend his exertion.. 'the Hotionrable 'Member conclud-
sid, with declaring his. emit e concurrence in the sentiments
icf the Pet itiuncrs.
Tio.“' Petitions rie.te ordered to be on the table, and to hr
printed; as were several other Petitions of the same nature,
which weir presented by Mr. bartes Dursdas, from Berk•
Mitre. The latter Petitions prayed, that the Committee
to be appointr4 this year, to consider the cosr of the Aori-
cultnrists, might be invested with riinelt more e:stended
powers than these granted to the Counuirtee of the last

Session.
t±P.TEIS presented a Petition, which, he said, wa,
moat respectably signed by a number of persons- who as.cupied
no less than 20,000 acres of Land in Stissex, and which Fray-
TA/ relief from the present distress of Agriculture. The Peti-
tioners stated that. in their upinion,no relief cupid be afforded
try any thing short of such a tax, upon the Import of all Fo.
reign Corn, as should be equal to the difference between the
expense of growing Corn inToreign nations and iu England.
Such* tax aloes eitulerserve, as the Petitioners conceived, to
znrceed adequate protection to the Agriculture ut this country.
ordered to lie nit the table.
Mr.I)ICKINSON i;resented a Petition from certaiu Wool
len Manufacturers, in Somersetshire, praying' for the repeal
of the Ditty lately imposed upon the Import of Foreign V. oul.
Ordered to lie on the table as was a Petition, to'the'sante
from the Woollen Matinfacturers of Shepton Mallet,
In. the same County, which was presented by Sir Thoma.
Lethbridge, who rdeclared that lie Old not at,all agree with the
opinion of the Petitioners, although lee felt it
_his duty to
present their Petition.
ifir.•llY.NG presented a. Petition from certain Occupiers of
Land in the Courty of Nlidillesex, who were in possession of
:shout 12,000-acres of:land, and who prayed that, for the re-
lief' of the distressed agricultorists, a further Duty should be
imposed upon the import of Foiteign Corn. 'train,' the pro-
priety of attending to the case of the agriculturists, consider-
ing that in the comae of last Sessions tin less than 2SO Pe-
titions' were .presented to, that House -upon the subject,
which Petitions were signed by abure 100,000 orisons, who
were occupiers of many millions of acres.—Ordered to he
laid an•the Table.
the motion of Mr JAMES, Copies were ordered of the
Correspondence which had taken place, with the Estimates
presented, and. the Expcuce incurred, witlirespecCtu Bar-
racks at Carlisle.
Mr. WKOTIESLEY; after stating that his ,bject was not,
to propo.e any alteration in the BanlirtiptLaw, but merely to
arses the administration of that law, with the.otlicets acting
in exeeutioivolit, put under certain regulations., p stpuned
limit Tuesday west bia p.romised motion with respect to the
regulation of the sew' Bat.kruptcy Court.
Mr. SYKES presented a petition from certain importers of
fora let ,Kitiptou Hull; complaining of the state of the
Coo II Lists. and particurarly of the law lately enacted to re-
sl rain the I a; put t of foreign. Grain. , The Petitioners also emu-
pl,,iiresi•of tire evils-arising to the courary front the measures
ta4test to hasten the Its:stir/rot ionof Caste Payments. They dis-
claimed, however, any' wisto to return to the system which
had e eisted 'for S. inatty years of restraining tie Bank front-
making CaSli Payments. • Ott the cent: cry, it was their de-
, sire todtave the country gratlnalfy relieved from that .s)stem,
in the hope that upon the complete-lean in plum of Cash Pay-
ments the evils which afnieted us miglifeease.--=Ordresl_to
.lie on the Tattle.
Mr. WESTERN presented Petitions,-complaining of agri-
cultural. distress, 'front Chelmsford a int itoinfordj and also
tenor I*,noomOceir piers of Land in ESseX, whose. farld'amotirtled
to 'alone 350,0 up acres. -The. Honer Aleolber• declared,
that he wily agreed with the sentiments of those Petili4t.actes,
anti thertefrinion, that ti.,r.sli•tresS...as..lll a great.
oseastre-owi,ig to the iusdeqoate protection afforded to agri-
culture teyahepresent rate of duty npsin the impost of Foreign
Corn. •
A fte!''zi few 'woicis from Sir E. HARVEY in support of this
P,t hint]; it was ordered to lie On the Table.
Sir F,A..)Ni :st.NVEY. presented a Petition front the Trustees
rrf Water Works,' with respect to the Bills
samttelrof the Act of Charles
it. is were:RA.(4 .--.ltu,ldiatg. alum the Wharfs or sides of the
fyln3,Vq:..;Tctavie..l9 I...and,in,pridge,: and prayiog to he
Conip,l against the said Bill.
Mr. C. CA lIV Kiel' rose uit correct a iniataltei which appeared
to. exist with reg.,4rit to.the Bill allsidek to by the P.etit loners.
That Bail, het.. could astute the parties who signed this Peti-
aS well as others, slid by-no ort:ans propose to trench'
upon the rights of any body, its only objectln;ing tn•sreure
the rights vt particular persona against nit existing grievanee.
Sir J. YOItKE, understandLrig that the object of this bill
was to cereal the law preventing 4eer,ons front hitilding on
thelitmeJiate side :if the Ricer •Pharnei fr4ur Lorillon Bridge
to the:letup-re, felt lumscif called' upon to oppose it: for 0
WAS the.repoaelt Foreigners, upon our ideas .of taste
and coneeinetice, that we had Milt large quart
noble river We had'Uot•Sileo eitAks as were on-the banks
of the Srirtr ~..S,Paris, and on theltrivon Tie, at Bordeaux, as •
well as in othe'r..plaes hick lee tufit seen.
Mr. C. CA,I.VP.:fIy °bores:el; that it the Gallant Officer
senitlihixtenst his nautical ..exen rsions from'. :he Temple to
London. Btiihte,-14..wauLd..sec how very little sef the ground on
either side was e'en now without a building, and that cOnse •
Tandy his g'itilitracheii:e iiriaproVement, fry assimitafintr:the
banks ofithe.Thaines', which weir `crowded with tea .le and its
appendages, witholmse of the. Seiite ,which lead no trade
whatever, couo,only he indulge-et in his imagination.
Sir- W. CURtllS'spoke in faterur s the Bill. The Petition
was, ordeeol 10..1ic sin. t
I% Mrs I..ocF,HAftl%presented a Petition-from certain Occu-
pies pf Land iii Herefiirdshire. prayitig relief. These Peti-
tsotOrs.-,llTe Gentteman nbst•reed,'ilid not by any means
protio?e-4s tiMcb qte. funds.for relief of the land, nor did
they suggest agcy new tistriliutiGo of taxation. They were
eat, indeed. Advocates far any such measures. They only ob-
served, that the adoption of such measures rnizlit become a

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nrrtssftily alterrrat:te,.if the .agricultini,t's were not entibitd
to pa; tbeir proportion of the pnblic taxes, by the establish
ment of an adequate protertin duty against the import of
foreign corn, -Ind thus. granting to agriculture; the nitric se-
entity- .against competition Itott 'via; present afforded to
mnitifact nres. Ord,ervit to lie on
Mr. lIONYWOOD presented a Pet-onm front a•gvsat and
re•pectahle bot,y.of the Agriculturists of Kent,. praying the
!loose ter tahe into .consideration the titAnialleled distrits
ander which Aoiculritre wai at preslAt, it!if had- Itek:ii for
some titan suff,riug. • NVith-the s.-iititntotts-of the Petitioners
he frilly catrctltted, espcertlly in their tl,sire to be telictod by
a rrkloction of taxatii,il,rtott by tell-et-1;1)1(15.in and economy in
those branches of out vied-anti-military tiepartntentlktwhirh
hail rows} so excessive through the long anti unnatural WM'
iu !rich the country bad been so long engaged, had to which
war. with its c..nitequences, the .distress of the country :was
mainly owing.
Sir E. ii.N-ArCIIBUIL-deciared, that be was by_ nu means
dispotert to oppose. this-Petition, although he most say,
that he could not consistently concur in many of their sen-
timent 5. _

ItOtERT WILSON said, that Tie oivedit to the inter-
,
ests and opinions of his Constituents to submit a few olise_rva-,
tions upon the subject to• which this Petition referred; he
lamented the distress of which I he.Agrienituriits eomphincil;
het he lamented nearly as Mitch the delusion. under which'
they were Wing; fur, instead of calling fur a'rednetion of
that enormous taxation, which was the cause of all the cala-
mities undtt which they, is common with the other classes of
conimunity, at present laboured, they applied for more
protecting duties against the import of Foreign Corn. But.
he cant Mord Gentlemen to bewate of making any stleh'pro-
position, as it must serve very considerably to inrit ate and dis-:
content the public mind, and so to aggravate the. evils Which
at present afflicted the country. The fizsllant °Slicer, how-
ever, conclnded with Sayit)e, .that he 'should trot oppose the
inquiry proposed:by the Petitioners.
lIONYWOOD observ4d. that if his Gallant Friend
would refer to the words of :lie Petitioners, he would find that
they suggested no such remedy for existing distress, as he
appeared to thuds. and that their main request was for au
inquiry into their situation.
Sir R. WILSON disclaimed any intention to apply his re-
marks to the Petition presented by his Honourable Friend, of
which be fully approved, as it applied for economy and re-
trenchment. But what- he had said was clearly applicahle,to
other Petitions presented to the course of the evening, which
distinctly desired the establishment of further • protecting
Duties. The Petition was ordered to lie on the 'fable, as
were Fifteen Petitions complaining of Agricultural Disirrts,
which weft presented by Mr. GdOCH, from) tinffolk. The
Honour4ble Nlember stated' that these Petitioners occupied
above 100.000 acres of land. .

The Pe►ition presented by Mr. S. WOrtTLEY last night,
was ordered to be printed, upon the motion of that Honour
able Gentleman.
RIVERSIDE BUILDING.

Mr. T. WILSON liTeiented a lietiti‘m from certain Mt,r-
etrants and Traders si.f London against the Bill toe allowing
the further Erection of Buildings un the side of the Thaone.
towards London ,Bridge, the petitioners urging that such
erections-would interfere with the'beatth, light, and conve-
nience of the inhabitants of London.

Mr. C. CA INERT observed, that these petitioners, instead
of residing in the vicinity of the Thames, were resident about
Crooked lane, in the centre of the City, and could hate no
particular connection with the hanks of theriter.
, Sir J. YORKE remarked, that the last speaker appeared to
think that no one could feel any interest about the Plaines
who did not reside upon its banks. But it so happened. that
although he (Sir .1.) was not once oft lie happy ducks who tioat•
ed shout this user, he was vvry- much interested in the p're-
serration of its beanie and ciineenienee; and therefore he
meant to Vutc against the Hon. Member's 011.—This Petition
was ordered•to lie on the table.