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London, England, 1820-05-27 00:00:00

BOROUGH OF BOSTON.

The House next'restimed-rive adjourned debate
on Mr. COU'II'TENAY'S motion to postpone, from
the 6th of June to the 18th of July, the Petition
against the repo.° of Alr. Ellis. '
Sir R. HERON 'objected to the tirne being en-
larged; to 'grant theTrayer of-the Petition would
be uselessl since, it time was given s 3 letpired,
Mr. Ellis could never take his seat. He was dis-
qualified by the office be held. It might as well
he said, if Getton or Old Sainin were to diet the
Dey. of Algiers., and a Petition should be pre-
sented against ,such.return,. that time should be •
given fur that person's arrival:
Mr. J. WYNN thought the Peritio'n shotild hav'e
the attention of the House; and its Prayer Ile
granted, that -the whole matter might go to a •
Mr. TIERNEY wished to know if a new writ
could be-issned,
The SPEAKIIR stated, that ,no new writ could
he issued till the present Petition bad been dis-
posed of.
After sonic observations on the part of Mr.,
BATHURST, Mr. BROUGHAM, and Lord CASTLE..
REAGH, the order, was discharged, and then fixed'
tor.tbe 18th of July.
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INSOLVENT DEBTORS.

Lord Arruoar moved tlfe second reading of the
Insolvent Debtors' Bill. No doubts, he observed,
could be entertained as to the principle of the WI,
that the Debtor was entitled to his liberty upon
giving-ufi his property to his. Creditor. Mauy
objections had been made to the former law ; the
principal of which was, that the Court had not
sufficient powers to examine into the state of
the Debtor's property, as the examination took
place in open Court. Another objection *as',
that the Debtor often remained in prison till
he had spent his property, and then took the
benefit Of 'the Act ; but by the present Bill the
petition of the Debtor Was, to be presented With-
in fourteen days, after which he Was to have
no contrail over the property.' As objections it:ad
been made to the Agents of the Court as not pro-
perly qualified, the prese'nt Bill event to enact;
that the Court should nominate the Attornies for
the Debtors,_
without interfering with those of
the Creditor. By the present Bill, the Creditor
could comp'el the surrender of all'the'ptoperty;
and 'should any property devolve to the'Debtoi.
after his insolvency, he could stop it in its pro-
gress. The Bill proposed the appointment of
three ComOrissioners instead of one; and that' he
thought' preferable to the • 'appointinent of EMI,.
miners, as in commissions of bankruptcy.
Mr. MACDONALD objected to that part of the
Bill that went to appoint three'COmmissioners. in
place of one. By the appointment of two Exa-
miners, the object could beequally well attained,
and at less ' expence ; and lie should move an
amendment to that effect in- the Corrimittee.

A Memsaa stated, that thougtc he should not
oppose the second reading, he thought one Judge
sufficient.

14RIGHT conceived adistinetion ought to
be made betwixt the honest 'and the frAudident
debtor. it would also be •of advantage if the
Court had the power of summoning a Jury in cases
of difficulty. No exception should made, as
was done by the Bill, against the debtors of the
Crown, Ste.
After a few words from. Sir F. OmmANEY, and
Mr. LITTLETOisIi

Lord ALTHORP, in reply, stated, that the ex-
ception in the case of Crown Debtors had.ori-
ginated with the Attorney-General ; and he bad
acceded for fear of losing-the Bill. The stnnmon-
ing of a Jury would-be attended with expence, and
the Judges would be anxious-to relieye th.emt:eives
from responsibility by calling in the aid of a Jury.
The Bill was then read a second time, akd com-
mitted for Wednesday,

ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. •
The CHANCELLOR'of the EXCHEQUER • said; aS-Par=
liament never sat on the Anniversary of the Restoratrop, he
5110ffitt fIOW Iti.Ve that on its rising the House should adjourn
till Trrestlay.--Thé motion' was.agreed to.. •
Lord MiLTON presented pine Petitions from different
places in the•Conrity of York, praying for the Repeal of the'
Tax on the Importation of Foreign Wool. ,
• •
Mr. D. onaniur preSented a Petition from the Proprre--
tors of. Landio the 'County of Corny:all,,praying for Relief.
Similar Petitions were presented from Cheltenham and Stow,
in the County of (116m:ester, • • •

Sir T. AcLAND presented a Petition from Barnstaple,
prayink "toritn 'Alteration in the Law -regarding. the Malting
of Grain.

Mr. DENMAN presented a Petition, signed by 8,000 of the
inhabitants of thc town of 'Nottingham; praBln, for a rip'eal
of Um Cum.-Laws. The Petition was ordered to be printed.'

DUTY ON FOREIGN WOOL.
Lord MILTON, pil,rttiatit Co-notice, rose to move
the reveal of Lin 'fox o❑ she importation of yool

from abroad. From the importance of the subject
to his constituents, be cnnld not dedine the duty
they had imposed upon him. Bret he was at the same
time convinced that his opinions as to-the impolicy
of the tax.would have been ehe same nit( ever his
constituents bad been. These opinions were foande
ed 'on the soundest principles of political eco-
nomy, as applied to the particular question. The
duty upon cotton and raw silk was no argument in
favour of that on wool. It bad always been the
policy of this cottony to import the raw material
of its manufactures at:as cheap a rate as.possible.
On the subject of this tax it had been said, that
it would protect the agriculturist, and add to the
revenue. Butt those views were incoMpatilie
with each. other ; and he was confident that the
tax would be given up, if inoperatke as a means
of revenue. A great deficiency had taken place
in the importation of-wool: In the eight aioroba
preceding the imposition the duty, the importa-
tion had beenll,4'4,ooo lbs. and in the 4 months
after the laying on "of the drty, it had only been
231,000. A diminution of -are woollen toiroutac-
tore had taken place in all parts of the kingdom.
The quantity of broad cloth nriiled.last year in the
West Riding of Vol kshire had been somewhat
less than 7,000,000, yards, the same quantity that
had been milled in 1794, thongh the ppyttl I 91).
of the country had sointleh increased since that
period ; and that decrease was to be aset ibed to
the falling off of the foreign trade. The do-
cuments at the Custom-house, were no
proof 'of the real st;rte of the trade of the
country. lino,- count! ies court, exhort only
the raw material; such as Poland, Norway,
arid Sweden : hot it was necessary that Eng-
land should increase in wealth, to support atm
load of taxation. The value of the Wool when
matfufactured was quadruple, or quintuple that of
the raw material. At the eeaminatiori I4st winter,
before the Privy Cooocil, it appeared. that in the
trade in woollen cloth to America the advantage
to England over the Flemish and the French ma-
nufacture was 71.: per cent , bring nearly as 02i
to 100; but by toe new duty that ladvanrage bad
been ieduced to 97 or 98 no 100. It was plain,
then, that a risk had beet; incurred of losing die
trade to America, which was of _so much iMport-
anceio this Cottony. In other parts of the world
the British manufacturer was hard rout by the
manufactu'rers of the Continent. Great distress
prevailed in the Manufacturing Districts, and in
the town of Sheffield the Poor Rates bad been

doubled since the last year. He s1)(7,11t1 trove tor
leave to bring in a to repeal th.e-Tax*, the
:grininil that it was neither a protyction to Agri.
culture, nor an addi:inn io the Revenue, and was

adverse to the acconittlation of capital.

Mr. T. WILSON s,!conded the :notion.- He
de-
clared it as his opinion, that-unless. there was a
reduction of nine or ten rr cent. in the price of
our woollen miAnufactnre, we should be cut out of

the fOreign markets. lie offered his best thanks
to the Noble Lord (Or the vei y able and zealoui
manner in which he had.athocated the cause.
Mr. WESTERN could not concur in much of
what bad fallen from. his Noble Friend, One
consequence of, the. duty had been, that the Ictig-
of Spain had taken off the duty on the exportation
of Spanish Wool. Should the importation of Fo-
reign Wool heincieased, the growth of Britidt
would be, proportiotiably diminished. In the eight
months before the new duty, the importation had
amounted to 36,000,000 lbs., and that had caused
thy s a hsequen t deo ease
The CHANCELLOR of the E%CHEQ.UER observed,
that the question, was not to be looked at from the
number and respectability of the petitioners. The
tix as yet had had to fair trial, nor could the
principles of poliiical economy be applied to ati
article kinder a double n,onopoly. Belot e the late
war,. the quantity of Wool itriported in 1790
and 91, had been 2,500,000. Ibi. ; and previou's
to 1014, had never"' exceeded 10,000,000
After the PeaCe of Paris, it rose to 15,000,000
lbs. ; and in 18.18 the quantity imported
amounted to 26,000,000 lbs. In. 1790 and 91,
the value of :British Wool ' exported, had
been 4,500,000/.; and in 1818 and 19, had only
amounted to 6,500,0001.. It was- plain, that the
goreign Wool interfered with, the sale of the
'Britidi. The fine IVOOI, 7which was two-thirds of
the whole, was imported froM Spain and Saxony,
and nearly paid 'the whole of the duty... For the,
last few years the. average import had been.
19,000,000 lbs. A
,revenue of 250,0001. was to
be
.made good, and that' hail been hitherto pre-
vented by the glut of the matket. The long wool
of this country could not be rivalled by that of any
other, and short wool front abroad was mixed with
it, which had only been imported within the last
few years, and would be little affected by the duty.
Should the British wool Grower be ruined by a
wear importation of foreign wool, the manufac-
turer would soon be involved in the same fate.
The growth of British wool, .which in ABOO
bad been. 140,000,000 lbs., was at the present
160,000,000. The export of wool had not de-
cieased more than that of other articles.(.Hear,
from the Opposition !)—and that was in a great
degree owing to the- cessation of. exports to Ame-
rica. In consequence of a return to cash 'payments:
in that country, the circulating medium hail been
diminished fromllo,ooo,ooo dollars,to45,000,000;
and that had affected every branch of her trade.
Buff tlfe'cOmmereitil spirit of America would soon
revive, and with that the trade. of this country.—,z
The manufacturers of, France and, the Continent
were as much distrcssedoas our own. With the
views he entertainetl, he must oppose the 'no-
tion, and propose the..previous question.

Mr. S. WORTLEiY stated, that ssisisin the last
two years a great change for the worse had taken
plaee in. the appearance of the • prole in :York-
shire. The distress of the matiutacturcrs had
beeir proved by facts ; and thoughi.be was in the
habit of supporting Government, he omit say the
tak was a cruel blow inflicted on a Stiffering peoa.
ple: All the manufacturers were of Opinion, that
the was most fatal. .

HusxissoN thought, that if we proposed
the moflopOly of Bri‘its.h which others were
unable to compete with, there was no fear of. our
being driven from _the foreign markets. He denied
it was entirely a new principle to place a tax on
raw ptothice; and in support of his assertion he'
would instance the tax 'placed out cotton, on dm-
her, on,iton,. on. oil, all of Which, were, raw ma-
terials. The depression its the rivolira tracie Wt;s

avrt confined to that alone, nor rt N 3 the general
depression of manufactures confined to this coun-
try alone. To lay all the blame on a miserable
trix on vtool, was, be thought, vrry far from
making out their case. Upon the whole, he
thought the tax on foreign wool was the best tax
that could he laid on in the present .state-of affairs.
Mr..Cuay.'etg spoke in favour of the vrigi,al
motion. A more impolitic tax never was, in his
opinion, imposed.
MT. PHILLIPS supported the motion.
Mr. Joki N Sri►': took tic same line of ar-
gument.
Mr. BARRET supported the motion. He con-
sidered it necessary to encourage the wool growers
of this country in nrett!rence to foreigners. There
was three ya.rs wool unsold.

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SUPPLY'.

On the admission of strtitTers the tionse was
its Co.. tnittee ot Stlpply, in which the C;HAN-
c~tt •~: nil tLet EysC:l-1? QV H 111“Ved a Ilcsoloti01)
for gt.an'ing irs f.;t- the set vice of rht
yt-,1-, the s.ntin (}t 7,000,0001. The Resolution