Star.
London, England, 1824-02-27 00:00:00

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the destruction of the ma.tufactiire: of .Ireland. He
did not so tnuCh•allude to the Nottern puts of that
Kingdom, where the linen manufacture hoi.heen l•rt.tx,
established, and where its effects had been to imodnce
wealth and comparative haiTiness amongst the people. , ,
It was in the We.t of Ireland, where the heen tra le w.t.
but slowly making its advances, and wfic!e tl:e with-
di owing of the benn:y would in all pro!)anility give it
on untim:.ly :.:lieck, and destroy it 1.. r ever. ..1::d that
this would he an et'il of the moat i •colen:ol,le titaimi-
tude, he need only appeal •to tlnlse Gentlemen who
knew that country, and most be aw.ire of the:-bahits..ol
order and civilisation with which the introdu.:tion of
the linen manufacture was always accompanied: In his
(Colonel Trench's) opinion, no sum of money was equi. .
valent' to the go ,d effects which were produced. by
Oving, the poor an employment °ldris nature. He did
;not mean to deny.that the Chancellor of the Excite-
Auer's.views upon this strhject were rgl.tt in the ab-
stract. lie (Colonel Trench) allowed that bounties were
in opposition to the general and first principles of com-
=merce. But was Ireland in that state in Vl 11 ich you could
nlith safety adhere to first et inciples, making no allow-
ance for circumstances? He thoush not; and it was
his firm opinion that the removal of the bounty would
be the destruction of the linen trade in th,! South and •
West of Ireland. However small that bounty might
appear, lie (Colonel Trench) had an opporxtr,ity of
knowing how touch it operated upon the industry of
the people. His own experience taught him tl.e.value
of such a stimuli's. But the misfortune of Ireland was, .
that this pittance hid often been diver led from those to
whom it ought to have been paid. through the roguery
of London merchants—(Hear, hear, and a Imtgb).. --In
the. Report upon the Lineo Trade last year, it appeared
in evidence, that a man of the name of Milne had.the
knavery to make up and sell coarse linens, upon. which
appeared the name of“ Wilsoirof Coleraine," which he
had fraudulently affixed to them. It.was thus that the
Irish. manufacturer sustained a doable injury, in the
first place by the subtraction of the bounty, and se-
condly, by having inferior linens pa- sed as his. The
Honourable Alember concluded, by repeating his con-
viction, that the linen trade of liehtud would be ruined
it the Chancellor of the Exchequer persisteJ in with-
drawing the bounties. He trustei, however, that the
Right Honourable.Cientleman would be prevailed upon
to reconsider the subject, when, he (C,donel Trench)
trusted he would feel, that hower.er just his general
reasoning upon the subject of bounties might be, it was
totally inapplicable to the present state of behind.
Mr. NIABERLY said, lie did not rise for the purpose
of going into the gener4l question, but to C*l)reas his ,
(*llion that the Chen:eilor of . the Exchequer had ,
acted wisely in repealing the. bounties on . linen, even
with tespece to Ireland, which would lot, he was-cos.
vinced, be so much injured by the proposed measure art
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the Honourable Alember seemed' to aporeheed.• • Her
situation had been much ameliorated since the last year
with respect to the flat crop, all of which she would be
able to save, and which would aniko, on 'the average,
/.:15 per.acre. Under those Circumstances, it was-not
to be apprehended that the w ithclmwing .of so trifling
a bounty would have the fatal effects alluded to by the
Hon.-Alember, particularly, 'as by a mode which he •
(Nlt. Moberly) held some hand in introducing. the Irish
were now enabled to drt.ss their 'flax in such a manner
as to make it vie with the fine-,t produced by Holland .
or the Netherlands. He looked -finwaril4-teith much
satisfaction to the prospect which this. fact. adforded of .
adequate employment to the miserable:4'nd, starving
population of that country. With respect to that part•
of the Honourable Member for Alserdeert's motion,
which referred to the interior kind ofilirren, be allowed,
that if the bounty on that which sold for. 7.l.einchitodeto
were alone taken away, the consequences would fall
chiefly upon Scotland ; but the Honourable ~Member
must recollect, that while the bounty on coarse linens
was taken off, the duty on heerpoveuldbe lessenerie That '
duty was twenty-five per cent. which taken 'off weight
counterbalance ;he u ithdrawing i•f the • bountiets,47o •
this measure Parliament had pledeeditself, and hiociis
sure the Right-- lion. the Presideet• of‘the Iloard4of
Trade would not deny that it had. Thus; the disasi-
vantage which it had been said would- accrue ,to the
West Indies would exist no longer, as-the people of thit
Colony, in consequence of • the reduction of Iltie.dutit,
would-get their linens just as cheap as hefore-ohe with-
drawing of the bounty. He was sure, under all rhe'cir-
cumstances, that the Chancellor of the IT ,chequer would
so act as to give trisfaction to all patties.
Mr.-WALLACE -denied that be wasindividually
responsible for any promise relative to the reduction of
the duty on hemp. . .
Mr. Al ABERLY replied, that he meant the Govern-
rrent, and not the Right Honourable Gentleman. '
Ali. HUME'S motion was then agreed to.
REPRESENTATION OF EDINBURGH. • -
Mr. AI3ERCROMBY moved that the Petition which
he presented from the City of Edinburgh, -last Session,
praying for a more effectual -Iteoresentation in Parlia-
meat, be read; which was- accordinory read by the
Clerk. The Honourable Gentleman theqrxise and said,
•in obedience to the with of a nuinber of -individuals, a
respectable body of his fellow-ctruntrymen, he last year
had tbe honour of presenting the Petition 'which had
been. just read. %%lien he received-that Petition, the
House was occupied with. very urgent btoiness, and
therefore postponed the übsetiatians he had to make
anti' a moreconvenicilt opportunity,' its order that the
.l't ition might receive the • updis ided- attention of the
'House. lie had. been desiroAs, on the preterit occasion,
tb have the Petition tear]; because it contained an accts-
rate detail of the state of Edinburgh, and the grievance
of %%hid' they complained.; and, moreover, he Was sa-
tisfied that it had seldoarliapperiedlhat Petitioners had .
• addressed the-House in mime rcspeetful language.: If
unhappily, the House shauld..itot be incleied to grant
the object sought by. the Petitioners, he should have-the
bitterness of knowing that its :allure must arise from
the want of proper talents in the actvocareovhom• they
had unwisely chosen. He was not insensible to•thadif-
ficulties- which presented themselves- in exposing the
epstxraneLeeelitinitzso;ynstitlieleetentin.edore
the
Agitated a • d
But -ththeth;mtosyrest-etmhetf,aecrets n
and cirruni- •
justice of a change in it woold-
aiirear. With this belief, therefore, he was induced to
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