Star.
London, England, 1815-06-07 00:00:00

INSOLVENT DEBTORS.

Mr. HORNER preiented petitions. from the deb-
tors confined in the King's Bench and Marshal.sea
Prisons, against the proposed alteration in the law;
relating to Debtors.—O;dered to lie on the Table.
EAST INDIA SidIPIING•

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUEL
having moved the Order of the Day tor the Howe
resolving itself into a Committee on the East Indic.
Shipping Bill,
Mr,. Alderman APZINS rose to (wore the w.o•
Lion, arguing on the great injury which the operaticr
of the Bill must cause to the thip.huilOing establisl:
menu on the River Thames. If buat in India

were suffcreil to be registered as Btitisli, and intitlec
to all the advantage of home.huilt vessels, the destryc
lion of our own ship ding would be the inevitable coo
sentience. He read a docume).t laid before the How:
JlCommons, by which he 'hewed, that between tht
years
.1810, and 1815, there was built in India, ship
ping to the amount of 38,000 tons, while dur:n? t1:-
same period there were built or the Thames or.l,
‘26,ern. Of the India built shipping there wer.
28,000 tons appropriated to the trade with India
while of that built on toe Thames there were
18,0(X) assigned to the same object. Between th:.
years 1795 and 1804, the average nurnher of ship
built on the River, were seven annually ; hut be.
tween 180.5 and 1813, the numb nr had tallcia to two •
and the workmen employed were reduced horn thre
or four thousand to three or lour hundred personc._
The consequence of a reductiun so extensive, and i,.
a concern so highly impottant4 may be appreciatcr
from a consideration of the great tactility with will&
ships were prepared from the Thames estahlishrnent:.
in case of any extraordinary enitiy,ency of the coun-
try, and how well those ships were capal,le sti,
raining the severity of the mast tremendous Lagage
merits. He particularised the CAW of that Let whtc.:
was Rued out in three mouths, (or Lord Duncat

and which gained the glorious victory off Campo
down. if, said he, the ship-building establishment
be transferred from England to India, and such at.
other emergency occurs, whete can the country lot:
for so ready an assistance as WAS exit received ?
could it be obtained from India ?—(11:2r, hecr.) H
contended that no apprehensions could seti.o.ty b.
entertained fur the scarcity of oak timber, and 17
mented on the number orworkmen whom the preser
Bill would necessarily throw nut tit employment.
Mr.WALLACE replied, that rheprotection whir •
it was intended to extend to ship building in Indi.
was only such as the political and commercial state
of that country required. The general tendency ef
tt.e Bill was very much misunderstood. Ni) intentioo
existed of admitting India built ships into every
branch of our trade. They were to be confined to
the Indian commerce, for which British ships aloe
were wholly inadequate ; we should, therefore lose
it altogether, unless we had recourse to Indian ship,
Oe ;his the out.ports were well aware, and so tar w.
the shipbuilding interest in them from being injury:,
by Indian competition, that the tonnage built during
the last year exceeded considerably the usual averar.
The out-ports, then, not being affected, it was fair to
consider the present question as one peculiarly affec-
ting the establishments on the Thames, which, whet.
compared with the rest of she kingdom, or oppose •
Et.) the commercial interests connected with the
ship-building, were but of comparatively trifling in.
portance. He argued against the opinion of the Bilt
being hostile to the spirit of the navigation laws o :sir .
regarded not ship-building, but principally cbmmerc
and seamen ; and he quoted the words of the navir.
don laws to shew that India, as being part of his fil• •
jesty's territories, came within their scope and ()per:.
don. On such a principle America formerly, err
Canada at present, enjoyed the advantages of havin
their ships registered as British, and surely Indi.
had an equal right to receive the same advantage:,
as far as affected her own commerce. (Near, hear
With respect to the depriving so many shipvmghtset
employment, that he thought was caused, not so
much by the building in India, As by the peace sad
their own improvidence. Their charges were so escn
bitant as to drive from the Thames every species ei•
ship-building, except that of the most expensive rue .
and when deprived of it by the peace, their %item
of course was destitute. He contended that the ship
ping employed in die India l'rade .was nut one-fift'•
of the entire building of England, so that touraths
of the general trade still continued. Such would lo
the case on the supposition that all the ships so en)
ployed were built in India; • but there were many tea
sons to prevent that. Ships built in India were, r.
the first launching, dearer than those in Englak,
because that most of the articles used were brougnt
Erma England, such as copper, nails, cordage, canvas •
anchors, &c. &c. by which mote than one-third the
expense was actually paid in this country. If it We'
a question of past services, he considered that the le•
dian ships had as many claims to a participation iv dr
advantages of ships built in England, as those wh
weredesirous of excluding them from those advantage
Nothing could be more impolitic, in his opinion, tea.
the exclusion of cheap ships, at the very tipie she
the ships of all the world were entering into compt
tition with us. In support of the expediency of the
measure, he considered no authoeity was neon iinr
tent than that of the Marquis Wellesley, who 114
declared it of the highest importance to the prosprriv
of the port of loondon, which would thereby becom
the emporium of Asiatic commerce for the whol
world, and upon these grounds he, had been the ur.
wearied advocate of this Bill. It any thing wa
wanting to confirm his opinion upOu this subject, 1.
was the evidence which had been produced befor
•
the Committee with respect to the state of the grog'
of oak timber in this country, from which it appear!.
that there was actually a practical scarcity—oto °°
viate which it was absolutely necessary to have re-
come to foreign countries for the necessary supplies
for the Navy. •
Mr. MARRYATT was fully aware of Ole 'nit
ranee of this *lett in a commercial point
c
1k did liac consider, liowever, on a mow

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2.1., the arguments which had been urged in favour of
8,. that any thing had been adduced from
i.,;)ence its expediency could be.inferred. •
ltrt a few obscryatinnvfrom Sir Charles blonck,
s-d Binniog, and Mr. Marryat, the House divided.
into t ornmittee. 514-Against it. fa—M.i-
The. House ;hen adjourned.

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•WgDWISDAY) JUNE 7; 1815.
ICE W s roczn,llo:4 DAX Er TWELVE O'CLOCK.
tstiuced 5711-r4 P0CC1.7,14..0305. sbut—for opg. Sof
.crr 1 Y pte.-44r4tAIMIL 0,716.bs i—Bouas as. 66. pr.
isctatiour Bells Ss slis:.titt=•Lottery Prods.

, .
By referringlO our Plymoiih letter, it will be seen
it another act of liOstility has been committed by
11, country against the French. The RHIN frigate
fled from Plymouth on the .29th of May, on a
3,zt• off the trench coasts and two days afterwards
}lured the Aletis trench brig from Rouen, bound
Brest ; it suu.st therefore. be presiAnwd, from the
)ve dates, that the RAIN had Admiralty orders.
,d as the last privt sent in by thc Daum frigate to
.ntsmouth on the 31st ult. has not been released,
Ar may be considered as begun. 'L'he Alexis above
ientioned is commanded by Captain Mu.t.bt, and
rived at Plymouth OR Monday.

we hare received Brussels Papers to the 4th
,stant. They announce the arrival of the Russian
ivance on the Rhine in the vicinity of Kehl and
cr.s,t,urg, so that we may speedily expect to hear of
le commencement of hostilities. We subjoin ex-
-I.ict: from time papers: