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London, England, 1814-07-16 00:00:00

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BUILDINGS FACED with BATH STONE
LL at less aan half the experiee of common in such a
manner a. to Inalst the walls perfectly watt:• proof and kesp.
enrol ytriad with the Stone. Ar: ifieer. desirous of
uLdertaii.ing tr i< xurk may lee so' piled h Mattrials aids
n.
:it 'action. by PARKER and Co. liaLlstiite, w here, and at No. It;,
, Wr.ttninster, Roman Cement may be had as
usual on a. low terms as at any of the new establishment.; or
at Mr. CLarks (*antes, No. 1, Dean-street, Soho, who i., pre-
rared to unds rake the kind of work above described.

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woollen cloths, plaids, ur cantles. The DOUBLE GAM-
BROGNA ale made Into Shooting Jackets, Driving Coats, Morn-
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G. F.'s ESCURIAL BLACK CLOTH and KERSEYMEI
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tI
ley hare not been equalled fur fineness, softness, or elegant ap-
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rich black lustre.
An old Garment sent, vrith directions, win answer as well as
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vent-Gado.

The Earl of LIVERPOOL moved the Order of
the Day for taking into consideration the Message of
his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, recommend.
ing their Lordships' concurrence in aid of the Ger-
man sufferers.

His Lordship then rose to move an Address to his
Royal Highness, assuring him of their Lordships'
concurrence in the object of his most gracious Mes-
sage. It was known to most of their Lordships that
a subscription was some time ago set on foot by a
number of benevolent individuals in this country, in
aid of those individuals who had suffered in conse-
quence of the war in Germany. It was hoped that
the sum received by subscription would be sufficient,
not indeed e.,.tirery to relieve the wants and misery
of tf.e sufferers, but to preclude the necessity of any
farther appeal to the generosity of the people of this
country through Parliament. The sum raised by
this subscription amounted to about one hundred
thousand pounds. He held in his hand a paper,
containing an account of the distribution of that sum,
which had been confined to those districts that had
been the theatre of war. In sixty-three villages round
Leipsic there had been nearly half a million of pro-
periy destroyed.—(Hear, hear.)—The distress suf-
fered by these individuals could not be mentioned
without awaking feelings of commiseration for their
fate. Under the circumstances of this severe loss,
the Prince Regent . had deemed it proper to call on
the liberality of Parliament to enable him to furnish
some reliet to these people. Although it was not
altogether consistent with the rules of their Lord-
ships' House to specify the sum which it was pro-
posed to ask on this occasion, he would state that a
hundred thousand pounds had been fixed on. The
grater part of Europe had been in a state of war
during the last twenty }ears; but however hard the
war might have pressed on the inhabitants of this
country, from our situation we had not suffered any
distresses at all to be put in competition with those
.kliich Parliament was now called on to relieve.—
Through the blessing cl PhOVIDENCE this country
had never been the theatre cf war ; and the difference
in our situation, occasioned by war, was, lie might
say, nothing at all, when compared with the sufferings
of a country which was the theatre of war. The rebel
was proposed to be given exclusively to those coon-
tries which had been the theatre at war, and which
had suffered all its limn rs and miseries. He hoped
that an appeal would not be made in vain to that
generosity and bvnevoleace which prevailed in every
Lth.isli breast ; and that if they could not do all the
good which they wished. they would at least do as
much as they could. His Lordship concluded with
moving the Address.
Lord HOLLAND.—However he might feel for
the distress of that district of country which had been
the theatre of war, as a Member of their Lordships'
House, he felt also that he had a duty to perform
towards the people of England; and however ungra-
cious it might seem to oppose any measure like the
present, he considered himself obliged to protest
against it as a lavish expenditure of the public money.

There were two precedents for affording Parliamen-
tary relief to the suffering inhabitants of other cowl,
tries. The one was the case of Portugal. He had
voted, on that occasion, for the relief, which he con-
ceived to rest on a different ground from the present.
The sufferings of the Portuguese were occasioned by
the retreat of the British army before the French,
when they were called on to make a sacrifice of their
property, and to drive every thing before them to dis-
Lr:..ss the invading enemy. 'this country, therefore,
owed it to justice to relieve, in some degree, those
distresses which were connected with the operations
of the British army. The other precedent was in the
case of Moscow. This grant he considered rather as
an expression of the feeling of Parliament, than as a
relief to the suffering individuals, and in that view
he had voted for it. But at the close of a war, during
%Ouch the people of this country had been suffering
the greatest privations and distresses, distresses which
they knew were not likely soon to be diminished, their
Lordships were now called on to grant a considerable
sum of money towards the relief of individuals
abroad, the nature of whose sufferings was not even
before the House. The Noble Lord had told them
people of this country, from their situation,
been freed from the calamities of war. But with
thaththa ed the
exception of these sufferings, which it was not in
the power of money to relieve, let the Noble Lord
look to our figs of bankruptcies, let him consider the

twelve months ago; and now when there was but a
small attendance of their Lordships, the Noble Lord
had thought proper to make a claim for these suf-
ferers, atter an interval of several months. rois
claim ought to have been submitted in an carper'
stage of the Ses3i,ni. With as strong a disposition to
commiserate the calamities of the people of Ger-
many, as that of the Noble Lord, he really did not
think that all the sufferers of the different nations of
Europe had a right to come to us to be riilieved. We
ought, in his opinion, to look at home first. The
voluntary subscriptions did great credit to the gene-
rosity of the people of this country ; he would give
the motion a decided negative.
Lord BORINGDON contended, that a grant like
the present would demonstrate to all the world the
disinterestedness of the people of the country.
Lord HOLLAND and Lord BOIIINGDON mutually ex-
plained.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE observed, that the
Noble Earl (Liverpool) had stated the damage in
the country, which had been the theatre of the war,
at £500,000; but the people of this country had
suffered a damage to the extent of one hundred and
twenty-five millions a year. What country, he would
ask, had ever suffered so much as this ? It had suf-
fered all alcarg an extortion of money, such as no
country had ever before experienced. They ought
first, iii his opinion, to examine into the situation of
the people of this country before attempting to relieve
the wants of others. Two or three years the Over-
seers of the poor of Spitalficlds declared that several
individuals in that part of the Metropolis died of ab-
solute want. Though the wants of that part of the
Metropolis had been since diminished, he was con

vinced, that en many parts of this country there were
numbers of the inhabitants in as great a state of pra- '
vation as any objects of charity that could be found
abroad. There was no district of this country with- •
out many individuals Who had been deptived of the
enjoyments of their ancestors. It was galling to the.
people of the country to sec our resources bestowed
on sufferers abroad, while no notice was taken of the
calamities at home. Let any man read the evidence
delivered on the n..casion to which he had alluded,
and be would find that many men bad been starved
to such a degree as to extinguish existence. They
had no evidence before them of the distresses in Ger-
many, but the loose accounts referred to by the
Noble Earl; and yet, upon these accounts, they were
going to bin ,len the people of this coun,try e.ith that
charity abroad, which wog so intuit wanted at home.
After the way in whie% the roor of this cou7t;ry had
acquiesced in their atiol.s, he thought it would
not be becomin,s, in their Liu dships to pay attation
to the wants of Foreignets, while numerous classt's
of our own people were labouring under every kind
of distress.

Lord SIDMOUTH said he had heard with asto-
nishment from the Noble Lord who spoke last, that
they were looking abroad for objects of charity, labile
they were neglecting objects of charity at fp:me. If
there was one feature in the people of this conntry
more prominent than another, it was this—that the
diffusion of a benevolent spirit, shew•ing itse:f in an
anxious search for objects to display itself on, had
uniformly kept:pace with the patriotism and exertions
of the country. The charities of this country of late
years had far exceeded any thing which had ever
been raised during a similar period ; and for the ho.
nour of the country, he would again repeat, that
there never was.a period when the increase of charity
had so kept pace with our public spirit. He wished
also to remind the Noble Earl, that in the institu-
tions of this country there were means of affording,
to those who wanted employment, food, clothing,
and lodging, which the inhabitants of no other coun-
try enjoyed. With respect to Portugal, the sum af-
forded by the country had enabled the peasants of
that country to ensure a subsistence from the soil.—

This relief could not be considered altogether as an
atonement for the losses they had sustained in conse•
quence of the operations of the British army ; for the
damage done by the British army was comparat:vely
trifling—whereas the devastation of the French army
could only be compared to the visit of an Attila.—
The benefits derivec; by the Russian sufferers had
been great, though not equal to the former. In the
present case it was not intended, for that was imprac-
ticable, to obviate all the evils derived freni tie war
in Germany ; but they might go the length of allevi-
ating the most pressing evils, and enable the pcwr
peasantry by tillage to draw a subsistence from the
earth. The exercise of such acts of humanity was a
source of strength, and not of weakness to a coun.ry.
The time, too, was an additional recommendation to
the adoption of this measure ; for it would afford us
an opportunity of rescuing ourselves lion) the re-
proach of being actuated by selti.ll motives.
Lord HOLLAND wished to ask the Noble Earl
opposite what security there was that the sums given
would be applied to the purpcses for which they were
voted i He was not aware of the existence of any
Government in that part of Germany alluded to by
him.

The Archbishop of CANTERBURY said, that
a Noble Earl ( LauJerdale) had alluded to the great
distresses of the Soitalfialds reasiteactierer,. He pre-
sumed the islotile Earl had not be and pr h ibly of an
institution for the r, lief of the distressed m anafac-
curers of this country ; from which institution the dis-
tressed inhabit ints of Spiraltie•l is in p sr had
derived great assistance. T:te-e was no instaace, he
believed, in which the ch 'lilies of ihis country were
not well administered. It uas hardly nossible for
any Briton who looked at the situation of this coun-
try, and compared it with the distress which was felt
over a great part of Germany, while lie felt thankful
(0 GOD for that situation, not to feel at the same time
an anxious wish to afford every relief to the German
sufferers. Under these circumit ',ices, there could
be, lie thought, but one idea in the House as to the
propriety of the present grant : indeed die Noble Earl
himself (Lauderdale), now that he was satisfied that
we had not been neglecting our own poor, w0..1‘1
concur in voting for the grant. It was his opinion,
that the wants of the people of this country had very
properly been attended to. Ntr;th reapect to the dis-
tribution of the subscriptions, like all distri`iritions of
a like nature, it was impossible to exclude all possi-
bility of impropriety from taking place; but this he
would say, that all means within human caution and
care had been adopted to avoid such impropriety.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE wished to ask the
Right Reverend Prelate, if lie believed that the cha-
rities to which lie had alluded had left no distress un-
relieved in this country ? Had any grant of public
money been ever applied for in the case of our own
sufferers ? He complained, therefore, of the applica-
tion to Parliament for relief to the poor of other
countries, while our own were neglected. It was a
satisfaction to know from the Right Reverend Pre-
late that the subscriptions had been s,) well applied ;
but it was not the custom of Parlaameet to grant
money, and leave the disposal of that money to any
one ; for, by the constitution of Parli totem, mom. y
could only be gratiLed to responsible °dicers. A
check ought to be put :o such a practice. Nothing,
in his opinion, was more objectionable than that this
money should eo into hands that were not responsible
Parliament for its appl;cation.
The Address was then carried without a,divisicn.
Adjouraed till to morrow (this day).