Star.
London, England, 1807-07-28 00:00:00

HOU3E OF COMMONS.

This hying thr laft .I:ty for receiving the it, pnrPs nfCommittees
no private bills.the Houfe was occupied tilt t.early five u'cluck on
that buft.oefs.

H Lareelles, anti smother Member:terl th.ir feat,.

Rend the third time. the !inrn.y Grand Canal hill the Btehegnee
BEM Bill. the Royal Property Settlement RW.apd sec Annual
tbahll4.-atlon Indembity Dill ..—Paffed and or-dered to the Lords.
-Reportt.ti, the Pldlautbrupie Annuity Bill —Ordered to be en.
geoff d.
Mr. GRANT prefented petition. from the patilhe. of Sr. Cenrge
the Martyr and St. Andre*. Holhoen, spina the Parochial Poor
Hill —Reit-rt....1 to the Committer on the Bill

Mr. ROSIi oitt fined ler.ve to bring in a bill for the Commercial
Interchange of certain enumerated commodities, between our Co-
lut ica fn Nonh America, and the United &atm
_ _ .

The F.aa In.!ia jurifalietion Lid! was read the third time.—
Pafred. and 'mitred to the Lords.

a• weal r 4RI.ETON prefented a Petition from the Merchants
of I retro+ praying. that the India Bond Bill mie'•• not pars into
a law until a full enquiry Mould take place into the Company's
affair. The prtiti,tn Baud. that the Company had never paid
their ivitalments. in cot.fiCeration of their chartered monopoly,
to the clicionon of all other Britifh trade with India.
1 he SPEAKER obferved a look (kin of parchment accompany-
ing the petition. and :diced the Hon. Member what it was
Oe tent TA Ft I.F. FON banfwertd, -it contained addit inral figna-
tures to the petition, and that there were five lkins more to b.:
added- _ _ _

l'bc SPEAKER. raid. this was urually inadmiffPle, as no names
cot•.td he received but thofe attached to the petiti.n.
Ornet.l TARLETON aufwered, there were a thnufand re•
fps table namc, already Signed to it, attilmoved that it do lie on
the mtge.—Ordered.

Mr 11013/-10USE reported the !rim Parry Bill and the. Gib
raltar Calico Export Bill—Ordered to he el-Tread.
Read a fecund time the Military Mnquiry Continuation Bill, and
committed For to morrow.

Itea,l a th'rd rime the Malt Itegalatlon, and the E:cifeAmend•
must EU—Paired and oidered to the Lora.
NEST INDIA DOCKS.

On the readity, of the Order of the Day, for the third reading
of the Lond'.n reading of
lu 11, winch was for advancing
30,0ce1. to the Welt India Dock Company,
Mr. WILLI AM SMITH rofe and laid, that he had the !name.
don of a very numerous dials of traders, in Welt-India produce,
to oupofe this bill ; of the progrefs of which, to its prefect (Lase,
he was wholly unaware, until informed by mere accident, nor
could he have obtained a printed copy of the Bill, Loft through the
kindnefs of an Honourable Friend near him (Mr. Alderman
Shaw), in order to be fully apprized of its obje...ft. The perfons
who inftrudted him, to oppofe the Bill, and the lift of 60 dif whom
he had in his pocket, would have come forward with a Petition
againft it, but for the very advanced period of the Stain. They
complained of very oppreave grievances, and impediments to
their trade, caufed by the condina of the Dock Company, and
they dared only to regifter their proteft againft granting to the
Company, by this Bill, the fum pro?nfcd, and thereby further
Confirming their monopoll, until they lbould redref. the griev-
ances romplaincd of, and which the parties aggrieved were ready
to Rate h 1 Petition.
Mr. Alderman SHAW. as a Nicrisber of the Dock Company,
deilared, that, in the courfe of hi. experience aniongft them, he
never witneted the Righteft elifpofition on the Company or their
fcrvante to Inconvenience, much lefs to opprefit or injure any man;
on the contrary it was their earnett with, as well as their inrerelt,
to give facility and accommodation to every trader Miming to
thole Docks, to the utmolt of their power; and he wa. ccuivinccd
they would, at any time, be ready, with the utaroft cheerfulnefs
and alacrity, to remove, upon reprefentation, every cattle of eons-
plAnt to the utmolt of their power. Betides he begged leave to
nbferve, that the 30,0001. granted by die Bill, was not for the
private adiantage of the Company, but fur public purpofes ;
namely. for building a patty wall between the outward bound, and
the homeward Dock, and thereby, the hater to prevent depreda-
.ion+ on the Ihip owners, and frauds on the revenue; to build
[ olßee. for the accommodation of his Majefty's (Akers of Cuftome

-,,ere and to era barracks for the conicolmee of the troops, It
y• -a foudd neceirary to employ, in order to prevent depredation...
thrrefore hoard the Houle, feeling the neerflity of thole ar
.i, gement. tor the completion of the Weft India Docks, would
-tot. wsr hoot fume obvious grounds, Meet the Bill.
Mr. tl.l.rman CO MBE allowed that there were many com-
p! lota made of difappointment and impediment, fitch as *Uuded
IA by II w H tumble Friend who oppored the Bill, but they were
loch at htd no tionlit the Company would be ready to tome
upon lair reprdentatiou.

Mr. Alderman 14113BFRT fu ported the Rill .414 old the
!Guava of slit Company, and loomed that the hintormn.hletkr.
tieman who Art forward the nti Mo.. ha I no. hinif It more
frequently 'Kited the Docks, and wit..effeil the al terhy and eir•
patch th. re evinced for public act:no-nu doi .11 s..d that h. 1 3.1
heard the Rory only from pr.jutile d yerfons whore •coMpl beg
arofe from their ow., irregularity. ratlwr than ram any fault of
the.cempany. If carts were crowded th; re in 'mho %ob rt, as
rendered it intpaihic fur Item tole loaded within the hour. eady
appropriated to tidbit& ;t was undoul•ted y ..pe ev. and TOM.
tintts ; but how were chef;nmpany blame ?Ih•e w T Many it
believed, who did not like to feud fa• far toe the a .lay-.',•a d
were aver:e to the Docks on that account. and ..tlerrs lk !cod Merel
them ou account of the death blow they ha Igi t • (mutating,
and to plunder upon the properly of the U'cil Indio me-retinue,
from the nirme::t they entered the river till they were clean 1 at
the Cultornhoufe, which exifted before thole Dock. w re erette.ll
but the importance of thole Dock+ to the public wraird be better
eftimated by a calculation which he could prove music'', that be-
fore the ereet,on of dinfe Docks, the plunder of Writ India pro-
duce upon the trade in London. amounted to balfa milonn annu-
ally, bullets the proportionate If, to the revel:or. lie truee.l,
therefore, the II ufo would not. open flight and unexamined
grounds, wi: hhol I the aid propofei by this Bill, front a. oleat
of fuch public importance.. • •
The Bill was read the third time, paired, and ordsrrd to the
Lords.