Star.
London, England, 1815-03-24 00:00:00

rottnan WINE MILL.

j The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
' moved the Order of the Day for the third reading of
the Foreign Wine Bill.
Alderman C, SMITH rose, for the pqrpose of
submitting to the eight Honourable Gentleman the
expediency of postponing the third reading of this
Bill to a future period, if not of withdrawing it alto-
gether. For his own part he had no objection to
the Bill, but in a political point of view he thought
it was likely to prove more injurious than beneficial
to the revenue of the counpy linked he could not
help thinking that the Property Tax, with all its
defectq, would have been preferable to many of the
new taxes which had been introduced by the Right
Honourable Gent/man. By imposing an additional
and heavy duty on foreign wine, the inevitable con-
sequence would be a diminution of the consumption,
and of course a reduction in the produce of revenue
to the Excise;—added to this, the deni.snd for Bri-
tish manufactures in Portugal wou1;1 be proportion-
ally decre.ued. Under 411 the circumstances, he did
hope that the Right Honourable Gentleman would
at least see ti:e policy of taking the subject into more
mature consideration, before he pushed the Bill
through its list stage.—(Hear, hear).
The CHANCELLOR of the k....XCHEQUER
had no wish to herrythis measure precipitately through
the House, and should therefore, at the suggestion
of the Worthy Alderman, postpone the third read-
ing of the Bill to Monday se'nnight. He thought
it proper to observe, however. waft reference to the
demand which Portugal bad upon this country, that
it even intended to protect her monopoly of the
Wine Trade, by a heavy duty on sweet wines.
The Bill was then ordered to be read a third time
on Monday se'onight.

LORD FOCH RARE!
141', GEORGE ROSE brought up the Report of
the Committee of Privileges appointed to examine
into the circumstances attending the arrest of Lord
Cochrane.

'the Report was read front the Chair. 4 was in
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effect as follows
Is The tommittee having read the setter of the
Marshal of the King's Beach Prison relative to the
arrest of Lord Cochrane, proceeded to inquire into
the circumstances which preceded that event. They
fopitd that 4oid CoCiwane was indicted and convicted
of conspiracy on the 21st of June, 1814, in the
,Court of King's. Bends; that he was sentenced to
twelep winnthe iniprisonmcnt in the prison of that
Cot" fad that the period of his punishment does
not terminzte:till the 2lst.of June, Isl 4. 'Chat as
Ear as they ltaYe been able to discover they do not
4nd that any paid= or remission cif the said punish.
meat finti been granted to Lord Cochrane ;. that be-
tween the sth and 10th inst. Lord Cochrane escaped
from the custody of the Manhal pf the King's Bench
Prison, and remained at large till the 21st of the
present month. That on the day last mentioned he
proceeded to the Clerk's room, for registering the
Return of Members, in order that his name might be
entered; that he was there told it was necessity for
him to produce the certificate of his return, and that
he sent a Messenger to the Crown Office, in order to
procure the said certificate. That he, in the mean
time, wept into the body of the House, and seated
himself on the bench ot the tiivy Connsellors, on
the right of the Speaker's 'chair, no Member being
then present, and 'prayers not having been read.
'rhat some time afterwards the Maishaa of the King's
Bench arrived, and took hint.into custody, notwiin.,
standing his pleading that he yfas returned 4 liVieltilleT
to serve in that House, and conducted hint hack to
the King's Bench Prison, where he still remains.
That trom the Return in thetrown Office, it appears
the said Lord CoChrane was rettuntd on the IGth of
July, to serve in *'arliameut as a Citizen ot West-
minster. That the Committee having taken all these
facts into consideration, and having considered whe-
ther there was any breach of privilege, there being
no precedent by which their judgment could be
guided, were of opinion, under the particular cir-
cumstances of the Cale, that it did not appear that
there were any privileges of the House violated, so
as-to call for any proceedings of that liouse against
die Martha! of the Ring's tench.',
Qs the motion ot the Cititzteu.nit of the Ex.
leliatuato the said gepon was ordered to be printed.
. • IXICNTIONS ON YARNING STOCK.
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,LOCKHART rote, in pursuance of his no-
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tlee, to move for leave to bring in a Bill to comet
some practices which be was sure the Home would
agree with him in believing were extremely injurious,
They were these—when a Sheriff, under the existing
laws, took farming stock in execution, he not oe,
that mArrnt
sold the live stock and utensils, but he also sold c,t,
straw of corn which was not thrashed, the growic„
crops, and the manure. This proceedir.g it w.;i
hardly necessary to state was attended with iminuc,
inconveniences, and reqeired alteration. The object
of the Bill he intended to bring in, with the leave nt
manure,covenar. t should tml
the House, therefore would be, where, unle- lease
or written contracts, particular cover.anb were ea.
ofapplicationsucori
be removed ; and further, that some of the bui'dinki
teredinto
prepared inf rptuhres pursuance
on the farm should be allowed to the purchase's (,1
stock, fir a reasonable tune to thrash such whe it a.
they might buy, in order that the straw might be ar.
plied as required. The Honourable Gentleman cuir,
eluded by moving for leave to bring in a ttlt tort.
gvlAte the sale of larch:tug stock takes. in extcutiou,
—Leave given.

AD.InURKVENT OF TUC IMusr.,,

The CHANCELLOR of toe EXCHEQUIIt
rose to move that the House should then adjo.irn
Monday se'nnight, a rnot:.:,s: to which he
heeded there would be no objection,
Mr. W. WY NNE said, he s!.ould not gire 114
least opposition to this motion, although he c;ikid
not help thinking that it would be inconvenient; zt
so critical 4 moment as tl a pre,ent, to adjourn for u
long a period Ills M.ijesty's Ministers were,
ever, better acquainted with the circumstances to
which he alluded than he u-as ; and were co doubt,
Acidified that it was not likely any ncc.tsion would oc.
cur which would call for the assistance of the Must.
He acceded to the motion, entirely from his cunt.
dence that Ministers wouLl not propose such an 22..
journment if they were not sati.fied of its propriety.
The House thtu adianned to Monday sennight.