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HOUSE OF LORDS, JANUARY 14.

Minister of the day: -He saw no TeasOo why ;
Parliament should not have ,been asseobled sooner.
.for this purpose, for it vets now evident, that since
the month of July last, none of the Physicians enter,
tained any hope of his Majesty's recovery; from tt
period, therefore, the Governweut was to be emit-
dered as fixed in the Prince Regent. He did not
mean to cast the slightest blame upon the Right
Hon. Gentleman, as perhips any other man would
have dor.e the saline thing, in'the same situation ; but
he could not help regretting, that in the practice of
Government, and the opinions of the'ceople, it was
no longer deemed necessary to look to Parliament in
such cases, rather than to the Executive Power.

Lprdships svene entirely ocupicd during their sitting this
d?,y in the trAnsactiort of judicial bu.tittess. Several orders were
chielly.withrevect to the wititdrttwing of certain Appealis
The CoilCderation of the I.ozburgh Cause
was again retstmel
Jiro form, and and soveral of the Agents aipeare...l at 'he Bar. N.
order was however made, save for the attendance of chose Gen-
Aosta .tormgrrviw.—Adjourned

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
said, that in the few rematks he should submit to the
House, he would follow the same tone in n hich
the Right Hon.- Gentlemen had delivered his ; a
tone of perfect temper and moderation. The c0m-
..r.....1 plaint which had just been urged, was addressed to
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
two descriptions of persons ; the one comprising
the Ministers, the other these individuals who
• Mr. Ftecretary RYDER- extended his notice respecting the 1
, thought it necessary to apply to Government, ra-
we watch of the Metropolis, so as to enable him to refer to
et an Petitions for this renewal of parochial Acta wen that I they titan to Parliament, upon a question of the
subject. i i description now before the Committee. For his
•
The cHANcp..l.ott or the EXCHEQUER informed the : part, he saw no departure whatever from constitu.
Rouse, that his Royal Highness the Prince Regent had been : tional principles in the conduct of either party.
waited on respecting the Estimates for the ensuing year, and had ; With respect to thine who had brought the subject
- given orders to the pro;ter Officers to prepare thesis, in order that under the view of Government, if their object was
they might be laid before the House.
to bring it before Parliament immediately, he did
rnie C iIANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved that the
Speaker should be requested to ctimmunicate the !banks of the .: not see how they could proceed otherwise than by
House, as voted on a former night, to (albeit lord IVlinto, . applying to that Government which had the power to
Lleatenant-General Abe rercrubie, General Auchmuty, Admirals ! assemble Parliament for the purpose of affording. re.
Arnie and Stopfurd, and to request that trn iey would also co- . b
dress. As far, therefore, as they were concerned,
munieate the • l hanks to the several Commissioned, Non-com- •
Tnissioned Officers, and i'rivates, under their command.— ; they had done nothing that should alarm the most ex-
Agreed to. , treme sensibility. With regard to the Government,
He then moved far an Address to the Prince Regent, praying, they had to consider all the circumstances. The
that he would be graciously phased to old, r an Abs:tact to be Right Hon. Gentleman seemed to think that the opi.
made out of the estimate csi his Majes.y's Cisil List Revenue, ' nion of the Physicians upon the state of his Majesty's
laid before Parliament on the 3tl of Ja:y, I'o4. Also an Account health!' formed a ground for the assembling of Par-
a the actual charge from the sth of :July, tight, to the sth Jury,
1811, distinguishing the amount of each ycar. sliernent, but upon this subject he (the Chancellor of
Mr. TIERNEY wished to have the period from the year ' the Exchequer) would be ready to meet him when-
. 1786, to tlie year 18)4, included, and pro; 0.,e..1 to make a mn.ion ever inquiry should he thought expedient. [Here
to that effect. . I Mr. Ponsonby denied having used such an argument.]
After a f:w words from the Chancellor of the Excheqi•er, He was sorry &he had misstated the Right Hon. Gen-
-Ihe SPEAKER suzgi stud to Mr. Tierney to suspend his mo- tleman, but he thought that the state of his Majesty's
don unfit tariter iny4ii y should he nude as to the hearing of health might even have justified the postponement.—
those periods upsn the question. Ihe stii.,,estion was acquiesced Tile
the s
f,ct ;lwas, that neither tate of his Ma es;
in, anal rcn l the is as :t origilially stood kr..:ed to.j
ihe .101, nor the situation of the Prince Regent, made
The CHAKELI.O it of the I.:WI-1E015ER novel for an
,Accqunt of the Saiarit q and dilbtlIS:::11c11:3.of his Mai. s:•its Este- ! such a step necessery, and should lit put entirely
bikitment atWinehor, iiicluel;nu the o;fices of Lord Chamber sin, i out of the etteniun. With respect to the measure it-
Lord Steward, Master of the llorso, and Master of :he Robes, 1 selfof prolobitieg the distillation from Grain, it was
tor the year euding the sth of July, 1811.—Agreed to. I necessary—but it ever there was a time when the Go-
The Sugar Export Rill went through a C:onurittee, and the I
i vernment should be. cautious of proceeding, that time
' iteport was ordered to be.received to-morrow.
was the present, after the discussions of last year,
Mr. WHAIeI'UN brought up the accounts of the Civil List !
and the reluctance manifested by the House upon
Revenue, "which were or-lured to be printed. Alsolitimates of :
the Allowance to Poor I.rench Refugees. iformer occasions. It was right to consider, in the
DIST' Ll. ERY ACT. I first place, in what manner it could be best carried
The House treeing resolved itself into aCommittee I into execution, for, when the distiller had gone
cn the Distillery Acts, • I through a great part of his process, to stop him would
Thu CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER not only be a hardship on the individual, but a hard-
expressed his regret :.t the necessity which obliged I ship from which no good consequence could follow
him to bring under the consideration of the House, a Ito the public—the grain by that time would be unfit
•subjrct ivhlr had occupied much of their attention ; for the purposes fur which it was intended. The
`in the course of last Session, relative to the distilleries. . proper way of proceeding was to give the distiller a
• ' Dining -the lest iccess, such a disappointment had ; reasonable time to work up the materials with which
taken place in consseuence e f the comparative failure Ihe was provided. For this purpose Government
:of the crop with that of the preceding year, that it i should give notice to the trade, that if Parliament
was become necessary to prevent distillation from , agreed, they would prevent the distillation from corn,
-grain, in order that it might be reserved for other Iby which means the distillers would have a sortof no-
more useful purposes. The subject had been so often i tice to keep their stock short. It was more convenient
eliseussed before, that he need not now dwell upon it ; to the trade, and provided for the commencement of
iat any kngth, but he would refer to the experience of the measure in -proper time, for even if Parliament
_Gentlemen, whether there was not such a rise in the had assembled sooner, it would have been hardly
grain markets as to make this stage expedient not wise to have proposed an earlier day. Under those
only as a means of encouraging the agriculture of the views he had acted. He hoped he had answered in
country, but also cf providing 11;r a period of compa. , a temperate manner the arguments that had been
rative distress. There was no probability. at least I temperately urged.
, • not such a probeblity as could be calculated on with I Mr. PONSONBY denied having said that the state
: any, degree of confidence, that we should be able to I of his Majesty's health required the assemblage of
fictive resources from the foreign marke:s. It was Parliament—all he meant to convey was, that it
urged in the debates of last year, that, notwithstand- . formed no obstacle to it. The arguments of the
ing the rise of spirits, there was no material diminu. ; Right Hon. Gentleman, be must conffns, made a part
Lion in point of consumption ; but it so 11:/wiled, of his ohjectiont to the practice which went to put
that there was a considerable diminulien in the dis- . every thing into the hands of Government. No man
filiation from grain. The period of distill:ion cum-' could start a subject in that House on the internal re.
menced in' the month of July, when the prier: of grain '. gulations of the country, which would not find a
.evas raised, the spkits of course advanced in a pro. , number of persons acquainted with it, and capable
bortionate degree. From the conversations he had iof offering the best advice. But as he had already
ad with the distillers of this town, he found that stated, there was a growing practice which had a
they did not think this measure would materially in- , tendency to supersede the constitutional interference
crease the distillation from sugar, and therefore he of Parliament. He acquitted the Right Hon. Gen-
would propose to make stich an addition to the duties tleman, but that practice he must deprecate as pro.
on the sugar wash, as would compensate for the deft- ductive of the worst consequences.
ciency, As to the foreign spirits which would come i Mr. ROSE said, that in every case of Revenue
in competition with the home produce, he thought it they must always go first to the Government. And
desitable that no addition'al duty-should be imposed I Government had certainly acted with' great caut:on'
.upon rum, but upon foreign brandy he should pro- lin this case. They had expressed no opinion, but
Pose an addition of twelve and a half per cent. He merely stated that they would await until Parliament
concluded with moving a stria& of Resolutions, the I met, and then take its opinion on the subject. If, as
',first of which declared, that distillation from grain I the Right Honourable Gentleman had suggested,
'- should be discontinued from the first of February, • they had called Parliament together in consequence
1812, to the 81st of December. The second cm- :of the representations made to them, that one eircen-
' powered his Rbyal Highness the Prince Regentemlstance would-excite an alarm in the country, 'Which.
Continue or discontinue the prohibition by proclama. would raise the trice of grain mattrially. In a for-
lion from the month of October, as circumstances mer instance, an alarm was excited by the letter of a
might seem to require; and the third imposed the ' Secretary of State ; much more might it be expected
same duties Upon- distillation from sugar, with those . from such a step as that recommended by the Right
which were imposed upon distillation from grain.— I Honourable Gentleman.
There were several other Resolutions referring to I The several Resolutions were then agreed to, and
subordinate arrangements. ; the Report ordered to be received to-morrow.
' Mr. PONSONBY said, he did not rise for the I The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
~ . purpose cf offering any opposition to the motion now I said, that while the distillation from grain was per-
before the Committee, but merely to make a few ob. I mitted in Ireland, the exportation from that country
sorvations upon the course which was of late pursued should be prohibited.
* both in and nut of the Houc', with regard to measures I STATE OF IRELAND.
'. of this eetnre. There appeared to him to have crept , Mr. PONSONBY.—" Sir, in the absence of a-
in a sort of charge in the opinions of the people, and : Noble Friend (we understand Viscount Milton), I
' in the Constitution of the Country, in this respect. I rise to give notice that be will, on Monday se'nnight,
* The course in former days used to be, to aesemble I submit a motion to the House relative to the present
. Parliament on any important occasion, not to call state of Ireland."
. . upon the Executive Gov:rement to act of itself ins- I The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—.
mediately. He did not mean to say that there were .4S I could wish the Right Hon. Gentleman to inform
• po eases in which the Executive Government should . the House more particularly of the nature of the ia.
net on its own respons.bilay, at all risks; on the con- • tended motion."
' 'Teri, he would allOw that there were many in which Mr. PONSONBY.4," In confining myself strictly
11 would be the height of folly and madness not to do to the notice, I have only complied with the rules of
1.0. But this was a question which respected the the House, which do not permit a Member to expo-
agriculture of the. country, and was not included ; date on the subject, at the tune of giving notice of a
etriong those instances of extreme emergence which 1 Motion.”
called for the immediate hand eif Government :it The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—
we ul3 have-been more wise to have assembled Parlia. n I only wish to know the specific object,"
Mew, and taken its opinion, in the first instance. He Mr. PONSONBY.—n The object of the Motion '
;bought lie could observe in such acts a sudden change is to nine into consideration the state of Ireland, par-
•in the cpiniens of the people cf this country, who, ine titularly tire present condition of the catholic popu-
etced cf *lcing to Payliernent, looked pipes to the ration of that'countrp".--stkdjourned,