Star.
London, England, 1801-12-02 00:00:00

SILLS 7110101 TIM COMMONS.

Thee private Die ilford, and others,
brought up from the Commons.
There Mils were read a fire time, and ordered fora [amid
reading on Tlturfday nest.
Several Bilk of nanaralizmion were read a third time and
paired. The Mak then adjourned till Thurfday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Read a feassid thee the 818 for preventing the Erportationm
and encouraging the Importation of Corn and Frovifions In Ire-
land, foes time to be limited, committed for to-morrow.
Read the third time the Hamburgh Naval Stores Repeal Bill,
'miffed, and ordered to the Lords.
On the motion of Mr. Bean or, the farther confideration of
the Report of the Committee refpeding the interference of
Peers in eletitions was put off till the fit* day of February.
Mr. ALEXANDER brought up the Report of the
Committee of Supply.
On the motion relative to the Army Estraor-
dinaries for Great Britain, being read—
Mr. Rossow repeated his objections to this grant,
nuJefs the Account of the application of the tall
Vote of Credit of two millions, thould be laid be-
fore the Houle.

The CHANCELLOR of the Excutoyta Paid, that
the Hon. Gentleman perfifled in confounding two
things which were completely different. The
Vote of Credit alluded to, had nothing to do with
the Army Extraordinaries, and did the Hon.
Gentleman mean to contend that provifion thould
not be made for the Army Extraordinaries, un-
lefs an Account was made nut, which it would

be impollible to prepare until the end of the year?
Ile hoped the Hon. Gentleman would be fatisfied
with this fiatement, affurin him that any further
explanatir,a he might think neceffary, be fhould
be ready to give him.
Mr. Rosso, complimented the candour of the
Right Hon. Gentleman, as perfealy continent
wiih his general condna and charalter, yet main-
tained that this fubjed required tome more fatis-
faetor y explanation.
The CHANCFI.I.OII of the EXCHEVER again rote
to afrure the Houfe, that the Account demanded
by the Hon. Gentleman fhould be laid before the
Houfe immediately after the'recefs--adding, that
he hoped k would not in the courfe of the *Mon
again be necefEtry to apply to the Houle for any
farther Vote of Credi:. lie could not help ob.
ferving, that it would be fumewhat more fair and
becoming in the Hon. Gentleman to withhold his
remarl. until he could perceive tome wilful delay
on the part of Government to produce the Ac-
count fo often menticmcd. The Vote of Credit of
May latt, which the Hon. Gentleman winged to be
accounted for, was in fail voted for the Naval
Service, and was aaually applied to that Service,
an.! therefore had no tonne bon whatever with the
Arms- Extraordilaries.
The Motion was agreed to,

Rosana nbjefl•l to the Motion for a grant
• • .t.!:e Ctimrniflionerc for paving. &c. the Streets
r, huhlin. cnntending that it did not accord with
'Lc fair interpretation of the Articles of the Union.
tn.par t . . •lat gr Int from the Confolidated Funds of
ti,•• it.sl Lou ;IC.
ti•rsr+a rtmrrkcd to the Hon. Gentle
t) is,, ..),..-rvations would he mnie IKrti
r. r wh.n z!. • gsculd htii.re rise

Z-AMMIRP

Houfea—from what 'Fund that grant was tti
charged ; for to the vote of the Committiestf Sup-
ply they did not properly apply.
Mr. Rosso); Paid, that he was yeflerday given
to underftand, that the article of the Union, re.
lative to this fubjea, which he read to the Houle,
would be fully explained this day, fo far as it
could comprehend any fuch claim as that under
confideration.
Mr. CORRY agreed with the Speaker in thinking,
that the prefent refolution did not in the fmalleft
degree refer to the fund from which the (urn was
to be provided, but folely to the propriety of the
grant ear. The (uric when voted might be pro-
vided for either out of the Confolidated Fund in
Ireland, or by the eßablithmetit of local taxes, in
both of which cafes the Hon. Member's objection
would be inapplicable, that objection being found-
ed on the idea that the expellee would fall on this
country. This was the whole fubtlance of what
he had offered againft the refolution, and therefore
in the prefent Rage of the bufinefs it was unnecef-
Cary to go into any longer argument to prove its
irrelevancy. Hi thought it his duty, however, to
{late to the Houfe, that the grant in queftion had
been given by the Parliament of Ireland for a con-
fiderable number of years without a finite excep-
tion. The inhabitants of Dublin were fubjee to
certain local taxes, to defray the expence of the
particular ferrite to which the fum proptsfed to be
given was to be applied; but Parliament had
thought it their duty to -vote an :tdditional fum for
the purpofe of accomplifhing the objea in a man-
ner more complete than the fum paid by the inha-
bitants could effect. This they were indeed bound
to do, not merely by confiderations of public uti.!
lity, but by a fort of tacit contract. Certain funds'
formerly belonging to the corporation had been
invefled in the hands of Government, and every
confederation of good faith called upon the Parlia-
ment to grant fuch fume as would be fufficient to
make good the deficiency created by this trent-
ference of property. On this principle the grant
had never-been omitted during a tingle Segion. On
the particular claufe of the feventh article, which
hzd been referred to, he had only to make a very
few obfervations. He would elk, what was the
nature and objea of this claufe ? It was a claufe of
flipulation that Ireland Mould not be deprived, for
the next 20 years, of any grants which had been
formerly made, and that tilde grants thould be
regulated by the average of the fix preceding years.
It was not, however, as the Hon. Gentleman teem-
ed to think, at all of a reftridive nature ; for Par.
liament, though they could not grant lets than was
provided, might enlarge them to a much greater
amount. The fuppolitton, therefore, that this grant
was not within the meaning of the claufe was
wholly unfupported, either by probability or by
fa& The Refolution was then put and agreed to.
On the Refolution for granting a fun] to defray
the expence of widening the greets of Dublin, Mr.
Rosso?. again (poke, but it is unneceffary to re-
Rate his objections, as they were merely a repeti-
tion of what he had more than once pretred on the
Houfe. He was extremely urgent to have an ex-
planation of the 7th Article of the Union from Tome
of the Members on the other fide of the Houfe.—
This called up
The CHANCELLOR of the Excaloyse, who pro-
(did that the part of the claufe which referred to
the fubjee before the Houfe had been fo well ex-
plained by his Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Cony),
that it was impofftble for him to add any thing
more fatisfaitory. It was, he believed, evident to
every Gentleman in the Houfe but the Honoura-
ble Member himfelf, that the chute in queftion
was entirely, as had been already explained, a
claufe of flipulation. What had been raid about
this refolution fixing on this country the whole ex-
pence of the grant was fully proved to be com-
pletely erroneous. No man bound himfelf by agree-
ing to this refolution to any thing farther than that
the fpecific fum fhould be granted for a fpecific
purpofe, and the mode of providing for it was a
matter of fubfequent arrangement. But what, he
thould be glad to know, was the effeft of the Ho.
nourable Member's argument ? By thus infecting
on the inexpediency of this country bearing any
(hare in the local expenditure of Ireland, did he
mean to affert that Ireland contributed nothing to
the local expenditure of this country ? To perceive
that this idea was falfe, a degree of diligence much
inferior to that which the Honourable Member was
poffeffed of would be neceffary. In mentioning
that Ireland did contribute to local expences in this
country, he did not mean to infer that, therefore,
England was to contribute to this particular grant,
but cutely it was a propofition altogether inadmif-
fible, that no contribution ought to be made be-
caufe the object to which the contribution was to
be applied was of a local nature.
Mr. ALF XANDER role merely to deprecate the
mode of difcuftion adopted by the Hon. Gentle-
man, in (peaking of the proportion of contribution
made by the two countries. What effee, but one
of the worn kind, could relish from circulating an
opinion among the people of this country, that by
the Union they were burthened with an additional
expence of a million and a half a year ? This was
a loofa afertion which could promote no purpofe
but jealoufy and diffention betwixt the two coun-
tries, when the great objea in view was to remove
every ground of animority and prejudice, and to
make the two united nations one in intereas, in
willies, and in power.
Mr. CORRY enforced theft tenements, and Pro-
duced a number if inliances in which Ireland con-
tributed to the local expenditure of this country.
Lord C.:isomeric merely obi-erred, that if the
explanations already given were not fatisfaaory,
none that he could offer would be able to remove
the Honourable Member's temples.
The Refolution, together with thofe that te
maitied, was then put and agreed to.

WAYS AND SttASIL
Mr. A i r Iriivnet brought up the Report of the
Comrnittrt of Ways and Means.
The firß Rvfolution being read—
TheCN.Sep toaof the ESC., Fort e moved, that
leave th.'nld be given to bring in a Bill founded on
the r..id
Sir Joni. PARNS Lt. Stilled to know whe:htr Ire-
land u a no be inclutkj in the proviiitin of tkis vote,

Tkiltdid not appear that any arrangediteta
jezade for that country. On the fubjed of
s for Ireland, he tbought they ought to be
oontraded for as ftr as prattacable in that country ;
five was in many inflances capable of contributing,
and among the moll revere grievances Ireland had
at prefent to complain of, was the balance of ex-
change with this country, fo much againft her,
which mull be confiderably increafed by the remit
Lances neceffary to pay the interet of fuch Loans
contrafted in England.
The CHANCELLOR of the ExcarosEs raid, the
obfervations of the Hon. Baronet were entitled'to
&lions confideration, when a Loan for Ireland
Ilsould be in contemplation. At prefent the quef-
tion was as to Exchequer Bilk, r,000,0001. of
which were to be applied to the fervice of Ireland.
After Tome remarks by Mr. Vanfittart and Mr.
Corry, the motion was agreed to : as was another
motion by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that
it fhould be an inffruetion to the Committee on the
Exchequer Annuity Bill, to make provillons ac-
cording to the Refolutions of the Committee of
Ways and Means.
CORRESPONDENCE 'KITH FORRICI COUNTRIES.

Lord G •is raid, that he had yefterday,
taken the liberty of announcing his intention of
this day bringing forward a motion for leave to
bring in a Bill to regulate the Commercial Inter.
courfe between this country and thofe nations with
whom our hofiilities had lately terminated, flaring
at the fame time, that he was not then aware of
the extent towhich it might be necerary to carry
filch a meafure, but from the confultation he had
fince had with perfons intimately converfant with
the fill:tied of our Commercial Relations, he un-
derflood that the different alts framed during the
war were fufficient to anfwer the purpofe of regu-
lating our commercial intercourfe at prefent. But
there was one oonfideration which rendered it ne-
cefrary for him to bring in a Bill, namely, the
prohibition which there efts contained againfl tor-
refpondence by letter. He therefore moved for
leave to bring in a Bill, to do away certain re-
Rraints upon the correrpondence by letter between
perfons refident in this country and perfons in cer-
tain foreign countries."—The motion was agreed
to—and the Bill was accordingly brought up—
read a fira, and on the motion of Lord Glenbervie,
read a fecond time, and committed for to-morrow.
His Lordfhip gave notice, that he fhould to-mor-
row propofe that the Bill fhould go through all
its Rages and be fent to the Lords, as fer obvious
reafons the utmoll difpatch was necelfary.