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London, England, 1813-12-10 00:00:00

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PALMMENTeIRT PROCEEDINGS.
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HOUSE OF LORDS, DECEMBER 9. •
The Royal Marititt Mutiny BM passed through a Cominii
and was reported.
Garde''s Divorce Bill was read a first time. •
• The Police Bill, the Brandy Bill, and the Fratne-brea.._
were read ,a second time, and committed fbr to-morrow.
The London Militia Enlistment Bill, the Sun fire-office Bill,
the'Sun Fire Life Insurance Bill, the Dorset-square 'lmprovement
Bill, the Montague-square Impreeemeat.Bili,. the Bryacipone-
i square Improvement Bill, the Irish Illicit DistilLition Bill, the
British and With Spirits Interchange Stispenston Bill, and the
Irish Peace Preservation Bill, were 'nought up from the Com-
mons, by Sir WILLIAM cuitTlS, Mr. SHAW LLFZVIPA, Mr. !DLR.
and ether Members. and read a first time.
Ihr/OLVENT DEBTORS.. • • •
The Amendments made by the Commons in I ord REDIS‘
DALI'S Bill for amendiug the Insolvent Act of last Session, were,
on his Lordship's motion, agreed tc ; and i Message sent to the
-Commons, to state that the Lords .bpd agrted:to the Amend
till tomorrow(thisday).
HOUSE OF COMMONS. . •
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Snittots, Clerk of' the Arraigns, brought tip the Rep Orr
of the State of Nee/gate, presented to the fudges at tie OW
Bailey by. the Grand Jury.of Middlesex, .which was *Nereid tti
be laid oil the table and printed. • • . -•
The Irish County Police. Bin; and the Irish Spirit intercourse.
Bill, were aevetaliy read h third time, and passed, and ordered'
• to be carried to the House of Peeri free the concurrence of their
Lordships. • . .
tivi Irish Illicit Distillation Bill was read it third time ant
passed. •
• : Bill • for the Better Security of the Docks, and Ships of.
War' at Portimositb, wasiiiad a second time, and admit twilit
tonectirow. • •
Og tht ntation of the ettmecsr.toamf the EICHEQUIR, the
Exchequer Bills Bill was read a-second time and ordered to be
citnmitled"to-snorrow. , • :
Tbo *use wing resolved-lldelf Into a Committee. upon the
...Act of the 484 of his present Majesty respecting French Wines,
• leave was. liven t 6 theCnxiseitLxisa of the Excnteokit to
bring in a Bill to remove doubts respecting the Payments of
Drawbacks on the Exportation of French Wines.
Mr: CotteTNIY brought up the Report of she Committee or
Supply, which was read and agreed, to.
A Messenger from the House of Lords announced, that their
Lerdsiiipa had *greed to the amendments adopted by the'Omie;
mans m the Insolvent Delmore Act. Amendment Bill, /Mont'
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any alterations. •
The East India Shipping Tim Was read a third time', and

passed. • _
Mr. HARVEY said, no provision bad been made hitkertn
for the Preservation of certain descriptions of Wild Fowl, and
the Decoys in widish they were osu.ally caught. The flocks 111
wild fowl which v!sited various districts of England during ek.
Winter time were become a valuable kind of property, and
Ought to be secured from premeditated or casual molestation
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be would, therefore, ,propose to introduce a Bin for the Beuer,
Preservation of Will Fowl. •
Leave was given, the Bill was brought up, read a first time,
and ordered to be read a seemid time on the sd day of March,.
INDIA-DUTY BILL. • '•
The CHANCELLOR of the F.XCHEQU'EIt
moved the order of the day for -the third reading of
the East-India Duty Bill.
Mr. FAWCEI' complained that the clause in the
Bill whichtegulated the mode of collecting the duties
at the outports, assumed that the Officers o>
would be well acquainted With the valoe..of 'all de.
scription of goods which arrived ; this he considered
as a serious hardship imposed on the Officers, and he
doubted much if they would be found so fully quell-
Sed as the clause had contemplated.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
said he hr'ped the House would not eonsider his con.
duct as disrespectful if he passed over all the Hon.
Member's observations in silence. He apprehended
that the House would concur with him in the clause
wh;ch he was about to propose for the prevention of
the illicit importation of teas, and should further en-
actments on that subject be found necessary, they
would be submitted to the consideration of Parlia-
ment. He proposed therefore to introduce a clause,
by way of rider to the Bill, ordering A deseription'to
be given of all boxes or packets of goods or mercb.an-
dize shipped from India, to be delivered by the Pro-
prietor into the hands of the maitervol the vessels on
board of which they were transmitted' to England.
This motion was complied with, and the clause
ordered to be added, upon which the Bill was read a
third time.
EAST INDIA CIRCUITOUS TRADE BILL.
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On the order for going into the Committee,
Mr. GRANT rose to state his apprehensions of the
consequences likely to result from the proposed
change of system in carrying on an East-India trade,
upon which it had been the settled opinion and prac-
' tice that it should centre in the mother country. On
the opening of the discussions respecting the Com-
pany's charter,' be had, as far as his abilities permit-
ted, expressed his objections to the intended deviation'
from the established system. The principle of this
Bill went to break down the ancient policy. In his
apprehension, it would diminish the intercourse of
this country with the East Indies; while at the same
time it would increase the intercourse of the East-In-
dia merchants with the other pat is of the world. He
could not see that the Bill prevented ships, after
clearing out in this country for India, from carrying i
on trade in other countries to a great extent ; at any I
rate, they might return home in ballast. There was
no probability that the manufactures or trade of 1
Great Britain could be promoted by this measure ;
but he feared that the trade of other countries would
be benefited. Ourtnanutacturers could hope for so 1
extension by it, since North and South America, and
particularly the Brazils, received British goods al-
ready
by other means. Under this new system,
might not ships go out to India merely in ballast!—
This might enrich persons in India, but how could it
advance the interests of Great Britain ? The profits
would rest with the India merchants. He could not
see how the carrying trade was to be secured to us;
nor what was to prevent the Spanish merchants from
coming over here from South America, settling here
with a view to the East-India trade, and carrying
away many of its advantages. We should enjoyless
of the trade in East-India products to America and
other parts, while the American traders would em-
brace the opportunity of trading in Indian imports
with the North of America and the West Indies—a
trade which should always be supplied from Great
Britain al-ne. It was a proper provision to preient
ships from touching at the islands, &c. on their re-
turn to England ; since otherwise they might make
their depots at those places. The tendency of the
Bill, lie repeated, was to take away the trade from
the mother country. It should be recollected that it
Naas by a course of this sort that our American colo-
nies were in a great degree enabled to shake off the'
dependence upon Great Britain ; and the effect would
be to render the Yndia merchants less dependent
s,,me persons, he feared, were at once fey a direct
' ..:.rornerce between the East Indies and Foreign Eu-