Star.
London, England, 1802-03-17 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The order was then made for appointing the
Committee, and all the Lords who had attended
this Sawn were appointed Members of the fame.
Adjourned.

MT. W. BOOTLI brought lap a DM to oblige Overfeers of the
Poor to keep a Rieke, of Par& Apprentices. Read a brit
and adaa to be read a frond time on Friday, and to be

Mr. Sisson brought up a 11111 for more efcaually &tin-
pithing and relieving the Mdoitrions Poor; for controlling the
Accounts of Overfeers, sod far better preferring the Lives of
adjudged Ballads. Read aMt and ordered to be mad ak-
coed time todnorrow fortnight, and to be printed.
Mr. ALIZANDZI be= Report of the Committee
es the Marine Forces NM which was agreed to,
and the Bell ordered to beetled a third time tasserrow.
The Report of the Osmealtme so the Men Tamfportation
Bin was brought up, sad die BM was ordered to be read a third
Note tsdnorrow.
Mr. Mdrr Coatis, porfuant to the Refolittians of a
Committee, applied far leave to bring in a Bio for emending
the thud for the payment of a Loan keened* granted to the
Merchants of the Wands of Gs:godsend St. Vincent's. Leave
Insa In Committee of the whole Hoek, the Chairman was di-
redid to mans for brave to bring In a BM to continue • for a
tenger time, and marl the A& ihr the his =fac-
ture of Sarah from Ries sod Parises from( . The Re-
port was wand sok reediest esesaltruw
in p Comenlitst of the simians/ifs, k was refolved to move
for leave to kin a Mtn mined the Laws felt regulating the
Mat Limo Tads. The Reset was Wm& up, agreed to, and
Bin ordered.
Mt. FOSTSI gave notice, that he would. to-morrow, move
for a writ fora new Member to fens for the cbcat's County,
io the room of Lord C.aßlecoots
Tilt PICKS OV

Mr. Manilas Burrou gave notice of st Motion
relative to the claims of His Royal Highnefs the
Prince of Wales. He named to-morrow fennight,
(this day week), as the day on which he &cold
make fome Motion relative to this fubjea.
TDB DVS* OW BEDFORD.
Mr. Foz rofe, and after a confiderable paufe, in
which he appeared to be much agitated, addreded
the Houfe in nearly the following terms:—The
- motion I am about to make is Co moth of courfe
that in common inflances I would not be jullified
in introducing it by any preface. If the calami-
tous event which has lately happened had only
robbed me of a friend, I mutt have fought another
opportunity of teßifying my affeaion, my venera-
tion, and my grief. Even now !hall by no means
give vent to my private feelings, nor think of ex-
preffing my fenk of the loft I have fuftained. But
the noble Perfon who is now no more was a eharaaer
fo extraordinary and Co meritorious, that if I were
not to deviate from the nfual forms of proceeding,
I lhould'be wanting in due refpea to his memory,
and I believe I &mild difappoint the expeaations
• of the public. Never did any event of this nature
excite Each general regret, the deepeft grief per-,
wades every rank, the whole community feems im-
preed with the death of a parent. It is from a
eonviaion that a public loft has been (Whined that
I now rife to fay a few words, and I trail that
every one prefent /haring in that conviaion I Sag
be heard with indulgence. (A loud cry of hoar I
hoar I hear!) However Sir, I than not detain
you long. This is not tie place, and certainly not'
the occafione to detail the events of bislife, or
to deferibe the features of his charaaer.. Such
was the admiration excited by his virtues that, to
expatiate upon them at large were it proper, would
he unnecelary. He is as deeply and univerfally
lamented as ever any fubjea was, and he mutt long
live in the vecollettion of a grateful pofterity.--
There was fomething fo peculiar and firiking in
his charaOer, it was marked by fo many ditlinaive
excellencies, that to do jußice to it is impotfible,_
gib

bat at the fame tins* all panegyric is needlefs,.
(Mr. Fox was here much affeited. •
He continued)
I will not give way to the warmth of friendfhip,
qgo into that minutenelk which his many good
ualities would demand, and in which on another
occafion I might be indulged. Suffice it to fay, that
his lots is to be the more deplored, as he was car-
ried off at a period of life when he was young
enough to enjoy all its bleffings, and vigorous
enough to perform all its duties ; when he himfelf
looked forward to years of happinefs, and when
fociety might have expelled to be long benefited
by his benevolence, his energy, and his wifdom.
His charaCter : was formed he had palled all the
dangers to which he was expofed. The pr.hlic en-
oyed a certainty of continuing to derive from
him the benefits he was conferring, and had his
lifebeen anufually long, it would have ftillgathered
luffre as it advanced to its doh. Had he been
fnatched away in early youth, however difireffing
the event to his relatives, the public calamity would
not have been fo confiderable. The fairer pro-
mifesare often fallacious, t' a bell founded hopesare
not always fulfilled. It might have been thought
that, like others, he would have plunged into dif-
fipation, that he would have been corrupted by
flattery, that he would have bartered his princi-
. pies for power. His life was cut off at a moment
when a certainty had been obtained of the way he
would have employed it. His death deprives Co.
ciety of a large furn of happinefs which he would
have been the means of bellowing. Again, had
his career been fully run through, our admiration
and our gratitude might have been encreafed, we
Mould have felt lefs acutely the pangs of regret.
He would have done all the good for which he was
deftined, and would have fallen maturely into the
tomb. Every thing confpires to raife our wonder.
His merit was the greater,not only becaufe he was
entirely the work of his own hands, but becaufe
virtue is greater in high nations, as it is more dif-
ficult, and as it embraces a wider diverfity of ob-
, jab. He was not fo much diffinguifhed from
others either by his high birth, or opulent fortune,
as by a peculiar character, which he owed entirely
to the native force and vigour of his own mind.—
This led him to the purfuit of utility, which be..
came the prevailing motive and the diffinguilbing
chara&eriftic of all his anions. He was born to
a fituation the molt difficult to keep pure the affec-
tions of the heart, and to cultivate the faculties of
the underflandiug. When yet a child be came into
the poffeffion of his honours and his fortune. He
was furrounded by dangers which have perverted
and corrupted the bell difpofed minds. He few
nothing in the world but what was fair and invit-,
ing. Under thefe circumaances, would it have
been furpriling if his heart bad been hardened, if
his views had become contradted, if he had wanted
the common fympathies with &hers, if he had
thought of little elf* but unitfual gratification I The
Roman fatyrift had juffly obferved
Rum calm (caw CCIIIIMIMIS in Ilk forma.

But he remained untainted. He became a man fuch
as the mon favourable fituations have feldom for-
med, Amidft profperity he learned all the virtues
of adverftty. No man ever put himfelf fo low in
his own ellimation, and others, fo high. I mean
that a WM idea never lurked in his mind ; that
indifferent about perfonal comfort, be looked only
to the community; that the grand Rudy of his life
was to make his fellow citizens wifer, better and
happier. Nor did he, as Come who have acquired
the name of philanthropifts, confider them only in
the bulk, regard them merely as a body corporate.
He was tenderly attached to individuals, and alive
to all the charities of domeflic life. From his fla.
tibn the fphere of his acquaintance was more eaten-
five, than almoß that of any other man, and no one
did he know in whole welfare he was not intereft-
ed. Here he made no diainaion of ranks, and to
be a fellow creature was a fufficient title to his re-
gard. He not only liberally of lled with his purfe,
but he took a lively concern in the object of his
bounty, and often communicated as much happi-
tefs by his friendly folicitude as by his unbounded
munificence. It may be faid, that he has left be-
hind him no children to lament hii untimely end,
and to imitate his brilliant example. But if all
thofe are to be coafidered as our children whom
we eherillsed and petaled, whom we have render-
ed happy by our good offices, and whom we have
bound to us by all thetiesofaffcion and gratitude,
no man ever had a family more numerous, or was
more pioufly mourned. This dilconfolate circle
does not comprehend only his relations, his tenants,
his krvants, and his'intimate friends, but all who
came within the fphere of his benevolence, all
whole welfare he could in any way promoti.---(
I • will not dwell upon his amiable difpofitions
in private life. But there was one quality which
to particularly diftinguithed him, that for the fake
of others I cannot forbear from holding up this
part of his ehara&er to imitation-1 mean his
fleadinefs in friendfhip.. Some are warm, but vo-
latile and inconftant. He was wavm too, but
firm and unchangeable. Never once was be known
to violate any of the duties of this facred virtue—
where his attachment was placed, there it re-
mained. Of him it might be faid what can be
faid of few, that if you enjoyed his friesdfhip at
the beginning of the year, you were Pure of pof-
feffing it, in a Rill greater degree, when the year
had elapfid. His difcrimination was too quick
that he fhould be blind to imperfations and vices,
but his feleaion of friends was fo judicious, that
he fcareely ever had occafion to difcard them.—
It has fo happened that Come have crown better
as they advanced in years. But it is to be heard
that it is a more common cafe for men to lofe that
opennefs of heart and generofity of fpirit which
had formerly diftinguiffied them, and which are
reckoned the attributes of youth. Here it was
the reverie :—np one ever laboured more to make
himfelf matter of any art or fcience ; no one in
the hope of wealth, power, and immortality,
ever fludied with greater ardour to excelin poetry
or eloquence, than this truly noble perfon to do
good. He had made this the regular difcipline
of his mind; it bad become the fixed habit of his
life. High as was the pitch he had reached, be
,daily improved.—[Afr. Fox wee ben again tomb
#11,41.]-1 t would not be eafy to (peak of fuch ai
man, though I had not beloved itim,.though he had

not always behaved to me in fueh a manner as to
fill my bofom with eternal gratitude. Upon a
*anger who had heard of his name the molt af-
Riding reflections mutt intrude. One great fea-
ture of his charader was, that he negleded what
was merely ornamental. and devoted his whole at-
tention to public utility. This was fo much his
object, that by degrees he ftudied it in his private
am u femen ts. He walled that not a moment of his
time Ihould be loft to fociety, and that none of his
purfuits fhould have his own gratification folely in
view. So totally had he given himfelf up to this
object, that it became his amufement and delight,
and he carried it to a length that might, if any
thing, appear cenfurable, as, if it had pleated
Heaven to (pare him to us Tome years longer, he
would have found that his almoft princely fituation
was not equal to it, and that his zeal for the moll
laudable and ufeful purfuits might have involved
even him in embarraffment and difficulty. He
did not reek to enjoy life himfelf, but render happy
his friends and fellow-creatures, and as few ever
ftudied this end fo completely, fo few have ever
fo completely attained it. I am not qualified to
(peak of tome particulars which do the high& ho-
nour to his memory. But Tome who know how
much the welfare of the country depends upon
agricultural improvement, and how he, more than
any man, has been inftrumental in promoting it,
could (hew that in this re(pefl he conferred the
mat folid obligations on his country. His motive
I am perfectly competent to appreciate; he thought
that at this particular moment it was the =oft
areal purfuit inwhich he could be engaged, and I
know well that if any way had been pointed out
to him in which he could have been more eaten-
fively ufeful, be would have entered upon it With
equal ardour.
With regard to his political principles and opi-
nions, raid Mr. Fox, this is not the opportunity
which I (hould take for defcanting upon them,
particularly in addreffing myf,elf to this Houfe.—
The call of thofe opinions, undoubtedly, was fo
widely different from that of the majority of this
Houfe, that inflead of forming a fubjedt of pane-
gyric, they might rather think it required excul-
pation and apology. To thole who feel fo, the
only apology I can offer is, that there are tome
in whom it may be remarked, that the love
of public virtue is hereditary; and that if the
Duke of Bedford may be thought to have carried
this fentiment too far, and even to have retained
fomething of a high or aritlocrmical demeanourfin
times which we are taught to look upon as the heft,
the times of Athens and of Rome, thofe who were
moft eminent were always thofe who were Ma
influenced by the example of their anceftors. It
could not have been material to have remarked
in one of the family of the Claudii, a partiality
and predilection for the privileges of the Patri-
cians. It was not unnatural in a defcendant of the
great Earl of Bedford and Lord Ruff& to be ani-
mated by a fervent love, and to difeover more
than a common leaning towards the rights and li-
berties of the people of England. But of this I
am Cure, whatever contrariety of opinion may di-
vide parties in this Houfe, that fteadinefs of prin-
ciple, and firmnefs and confiftency of charader,
are qualities which, in themfelves, will ever claim,
from the liberality of political difference, a Lifting
approbation and 'aeon; on thofe I am confident
it will be needlea for me to expatiate in the Duke
of Bedford. The Hoare and the public know to
what an uncommon degree they were his.
I now dole what I had to offer. To thofe who
look for perfedion of charader it is Tome confola-
tion, in the midft of their grief, that his exit cor-
refponded with the part he had ailed. I have faid
that difintereftednefs was the moll ftriking feature
of his charader. I have raid, that in the height of
profperity he had all the virtues which are fuppofed
to fpring from affiidion. Another trial awaited
him, and he went through it with the fame fpirit.
It was now to be teen bow he would be affected by
bodily torture and the near profped of diffolution.
At a moment like this it would have-been excita-
ble if his feelings had been concentrated upon his
own fufferings and the awful event which awaited
him. But he was till himfelf. The welfare of
others till engroffed his attention. Indifferent to
his own fituation he coolly employed the few mi-
nutes allotted to him in making various arrange-
menu which might fecure the comfort of thofe
who were to live when he was gone. At aft he
refined his being with all thesfisrtitude and refig-
nation of thofe who have been held up to the imi-
tation of mankind.

Let it not be thought, Sir, to whatever degree
I may be fuppofed to feel the obligations of pri-
vate gratitude or affection, or in whatever light I
may view sations which, whether in relation to the
largea and moll important, or to the very lead
concerns of my life, will endear his memory to
my heart to the latell hour of it; let it not be
fuppofed, that fafely as I might trufi to the gene-
rous indulgence of the Route to Rate m feelings
of the excellent man whofe death we deplore, I
have taken this unufual opportunity of exprefng
them only to ftrew flowers over his grave. No, Sir I
it is for the fake of impreffing his great example
upon the Public; it is that men may fee it, that
they may feel it, that they may talk of it in their
domeftic circles, and hold it up, wherever it can
be imitated, to the imitation of tbeit children.—
Thus it is, that if we can fuppofe him now to
look down upon us, and to be fenfible of what is
tranfatting in the world, we may be fore he re-
joices that his death is as ufeful as was his life,
since its effea is beyond all others to teach man-
kind, according to the philofbphical, although
perhaps the too fanguine notion of an illufirious
orator of antiquity, that although the aaions of
vice are confined in their infiqcnce to the immjedi-
ate milchief, they produce virtuous lives again in
its example, and is made to endure for ever.—
There is a beautiful pafikge in the fpeech of a
young orator, which, to be fore, favours more of
the generous ardour of youth than the cool reflec-
tion of age—" We have this," fays he, 46 to com-
fort us amid( all the ills of our condition, that
crime is only fuccefsful for the moment, while
virtue lab for ever;and does almoft as much good
,by its mantle of by ks immediate effeas."
Mr. Fox then handed up a Medea to the

Speaker for a Writ for Taw;loci, vacant, 817
which of cootie was agreed to.
IfINANCII Of IRELAND.
Mr.- Colter moved the Order of the Day for
the fecond reading of the kith Duties Continuation
Bill.
On the queltion for the fecond reading,
Mr. Fos vea raid, that the objea of the Bill that
before the Houfe was, to continue at once Eleven
different Ads of Parliament and Duties to the
amount of 3,000,0001. The Bill had, he raid, been
brought in in inch a way, that they were complete-
ly taken by forprize, nor had they time to prepare
for its difcuffion. Money Bills in Ireland had uni-
formly originated in the Committees of Supply, or
Ways and Means, and became the fubjeft of (eve.
ral dircuffions, but as this Bill Rood, it contained
igoo articles of Duty, of which it was not poffible
to difcufs one, as not one of them was enumerated
in the Bill. He knew that a difiinftion had been
taken between a Committee of Supply, and any
other Committee of the whole Houfe; where the
Supplies were wanted for the fervice of the year,
and where they were not ;.but he was of opinion,
that this Bill was in a limiter predicament with
Supplies voted for the fervice of the year, and that
it ought to have originated in a Committee of Sup-
ply. There was no reafon in exiftence why it
Should not have thus originated : neither in the
formation of the Confolidated Fund, nor with re-
ined to the Civd Lift, which had been alluded to
on a former occafion. The Civil Lift was voted
in 1,93, not as a Grant of the Crown, but rathe-
as a reftridtion, preventing it from exereiting cer-
tain rights • the Civil Lift was, however, charged
on the Confolldated Fund, and mull be confidered
only as an annual charge. There were feveral
other charges which mull be confidered in the fame
light ; amongft them was one on Account of the
Officers of the Houle of Lords in Ireland, who
were now, however, provided for under the A. of
Union. There was alto a charge for the payment
of Treafury Bills. There Bills were not made pay-
able at any particular time, but the Parliament of
Ireland being aware of the amount of them in cir-
culation, had uniformly voted a fufficient rum to
payihofe which were out (landing; but the Treafury
was not authorized to pay a tingle Bill out of its
Funds, The queltion was, whether this was to be
confidered as a permanent or a temporary mea.
Cure? if every article of the permanent Charge
was admitted, it would amount to 3,5c0,00a1.
The Revenue continued by this Bill he would .
take at 3,000,0001. this added to the other re-
tfources, would make a film of 4,z00,0001. ; if the
permanent charge of 3,500,0001. was Set off againft
this, there would remain 700,0001. which mull
undoubtedly fall within the province of the Com-
mittee of Supply. The whole of the Revenue was 7
in fad, to be applied to the Service of the year,
yet this bill was hurried through the Houfe, fo ob-
(cured, as not to be known. There was another
°bled of this bill, which was, to continue money
bills that paired previous to the Union, whilft the
Aft of Union had altered all thofe Duties. This
Bill continued above Soo Duties on the Manufac-
tures of Ireland, all of which were concluded by
the At of Union ; sop Duties which were im-
pofed when Ireland Was confidered as a foreign
country, and which the Aa of Union had therefore
abolifled. If this was the cafe, it was imp Able
that the inanufaanrers of Ireland could go on with
confidence or fecurity. There was a claufe he ob-
ferved in the prefent hill, by which it might be al-
tered dnring the prefect Seffion, yet it appeared
that the duties were- to be continued for nine
months ; he could not approve of this mode, as it
went to place the manufatanTers of Ireland in a gate
of the greeteft uncertainty, they not knowing in
confequenee how they were to regulate their con-
duit, or to what they were to troll. Amon'((
the Duties to be continued by this Bill was the
6 per cent. duty, for the repeal of which the Right
Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Cony) had hiinfelf prefent-
ed a Petition, and which it was underftood was
adually to be repealed. What kind of Legiflation
was this—avowing at the time of enacting a Tax,
an intention of repealing it. The Houle was
called upon to aired its attention to the five of
Ireland, and upon what documents ? How many
Papers relative to that Country had been printed
fince the Union ? One, and one only, which pur-
ported to be an account of a year's revenue, and
the tranfaitions of a whole year with the requifite
vouchers, and when there vouchers were examined,
they were found to be only for nine months. He
did not know to what this contradiction was to he
afcribed, unlefs it was to the propenlity imputed
to Iriihmen of making bulls. He was of opinion
that the fubjed demanded an attentive and minute
examination, and he thought it necelary to (tate
to the Houfe the Situation of Ireland, that it
might be fairly appreciated. Laft year the ba-
lance-of trade was againft Ireland to the amount
of 5,000,0001. what/ in the year 1786 it was
I,BochoooL in her favour, and Since that year,
there was a difference, taking the Exports and
Imports together, of 2,700,0001. againft her, out
of a trade, which in the whole amounted only to
12,0z0,0c01. The flipping of Ireland had mate-
rially decreafed. Her debt, which in 5793, was
only 2,300,0001. was increafed, in sBOO, to
36,000o:001. whilft the debt of Great Britain was
not even doubled within the fame period. Such a
Situation required, it mull Surely be acknowledged,
every care on the part of Parliament, and ever)
degree of &ill on the part of his Majefty's Min' •
fters. The courfe of Exchangehad alio hien again.(
Ireland for four years preceding; and for four or
five years pall, the had been in the habit of borrow-
ing money from Great Britain. This Situation wAs
rendered flillworfe by the increafe of abfentecs, who
drew from the Country immenfe rums. Upon the
whole, Ireland was drained of at leaft 5,000,0001.
a-year, whilit nothing went into it. This feeincd
a paradox, which he had never been able to ((Ave,
nor could he conceive how the country could fultain -
fuch a continual drain, without receiving any thing
in return. If this brief notice of the utuation of
Ireland, Should Serve to rook the attention of the
Houle, there was no affiftance which it was in his
power to. give relative to the fubjed, which liu
would not diem-fully afford, in cafe the Houfe chof.:
to proceed to the iaveitigatiou. lie did not with

eluded with moving
Committee to confider
Union Aft, which he
Lord THuaLow tho
the Committee thould
• whole Aft at once into
Lord Atm [LAND wt
obferved, that the ap
Union was not the r
tence, but that it wa
that form, with a ',iv
at the Elation which
Union, but thofe who
land, and actually prefi
to prevent jealoufies oa
with to be elated, and
reeding in another col
proxy. It was bower
elation to bring forwa
pro fed by his Noble
RIDLIIDALS of
taking the whole of
derauon, that might b
flop, but at prefent he
the eleaion of Peers.
The order was then
Committee, and all th
this Sawn were appoi
Adjourned.
HOUSE C
Mr. W. BOOTLe brought
Poor to keep a Rieke, of
sod ordered to be read a
printed.
Mr. Simeon brought up
Acding model:Sewing the he
Accounts of °Team, me
adjudged Ballads. Read
coed time tomorrow forte
Mr. A LIZA
as the Marine Fore=
and the Bel ordered to hem
The Report of the Comi
an VMS braes tot up, sad the
time tomorrow.
Mr. Alderman Coatis,
Committee, wad far kai
V the dine for the payment a
Merchants of the Wands of
givea.
In Camiltice of the
redid to name for leave to
leoger dine, and ansind the
tweet Sarah fras Ries am
port was mitred robe remit
p Commlint tithe wit
for leave to babes ditto
ha Limo Troia The It,
a DM ortleral.
Mt. Flinn gave Drake,
for a wit for a new Menthe
io the room of Lord C.aftko
Tin pall
Mr. Mammas Susi
relative to the claims
Prince of Wales. He
(this day week), as tb
make Tome Motion rel
TIM DVS
Mr. Foz rofe, and a
which he appeared to I
the Houfe in nearly t
motion I am about to
that in common idiom
in introducing it by ai
tons event which has
robbed me of a friend,
opportunity of teilifyin
von, and my grief. Er
give vent to my prival
preffing my fenk of dm
the noble Perfon who is
fo ettraordinary and fo
not to deviate from the
I &add be wanting in
and I believe I &mild
• of the public. Never I
excite filch general rq
vades every rank, the s
prelfed with the death
conviaion that a public
I now rife to fay a ft
every one prefent Glaris
be heard with indulge
kar I hear !) Howevt
you long. This is not
the occafione to detail
to demi), the feature
was the admiration etc
expatiate upon them at
be unnecarary. He
lamented as ever any ft
live in the yecollation
There was fomething 1
his charaOer, it was nt
excellencies, that to do

to oppofe the continuation of the duties alluded to
in the bill, for a !bort period, as the money might
be immediately wanted ; but he objeaed to this bill,
underftanding it was to be continued for nine
months, becaufe it prevented them from doing any
thing relative to the tulle& during the prefent fef-
fion. Why could not this bill be voted in the fame
manner as the fuppliesfor England, for two months,
the fubjed might then be taken up, and the ltate of
Ireland difcuffed : let a new book of rates be form-
ed for that Country, and all the old and obfolete
duties (buck out. He was decidedly of opinion,
that the bill ought to be continued for two months
only, inflead of nine months, for which period it
was now propofed to continue it.
Mr. CORRY denied that he had ever drawn a
melancholy piaure of the Rate of Ireland : on the
contrary, he had always exulted at her growing
profperity and at the rapid increafe of her inchillry
and manufaeures, and he trufted in the end he
might add, her incrrafe of wealth alfh. He thought
the Right Hon. Gentleman bad not (hewn much
candour in Rating the run of exchange and the ba-
lance of trade againft Ireland in thofe years he had
mentioned, without at the fame time noticing the
caufe of it, which was the rebellion, then raging at
its utmoft height. He defended the prefent bill,be-
caufe it was a permanent provifion for permanent
grants and debts. He differed altogether with the
Right Hon. Gentleman in regard to the order and
principle of the bill, and alfo as to the piaure he
bad drawn of the country. He infified that from
the firft moment of the union having taken place,
the Houfe had looked with the molt eager eye to.
wards the advancement of the interefis of Ireland;
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and he thought the prefers bill calculated to pro-
mote and forward thofe interefis.
Mr. FOSTER, in explanation, laid, that he had
allowed the indußry and manufatures of Ire-
land were the only fources which enabled it to keep
up againft the run of exchange againft it ; that he
would not have drawn the piaure he had done of
the beggary of Ireland, had he not alfo mentioned
that he knew there were remedies for it. This bill
was for the current fervice of the year, and ought
to have followed the regulations refpeding fuch
fervices.
The CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHRIVER defended
the Bill before the Houk, the principle of which,
he laid, would be an inßrument in the hands of
Parliament to check the abufes of the Executive
Government. As to the interefis of Ireland not
having
.been fofficiently attended to, he mug fay,
that neither hinifelf nor his colleagues could be
implicated in any fuch charge. From the firft
moment they had entered into office, an uninter-
rupted attention had been paid to the interefis of
t!iat country ; and he could Rate to the Houfe,
that a fyftem was already in confiderable forward-
nefs, by which the various difficulties alluded to
by a Right Hon. Gentleman would be removed.
It was on all hands admitted, that the agriculture
of Ireland was in a very fic.urifhing Rate ; and if
that was fo, it was impotlible it could be in that im-
poverifhed condition mentioned by the Right Hon.
Gentleman. Agriculture was the firft source of
stealth ; and in proportion as it improved, i: al.
*ways diffufed a fpirit of induftry through a country
which gave rife to extenfive manutlaures, in
which he was Pure that Ireland would film flourifh
in a manner the had never done before. I'i.e
Houk might be affurcd that Minifters would never
lose fight of the intereft of that country, nor omit
any meafure that could promote her profperity
and happinefs.
Mr. ORMSBY fpoke in favour of the Bill ; which
was read a fecond time, and ordered to e com-
mitted to-morrow.—Adjourned.