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soasidere4 as their ebenene, and therefore we Sat almitins to
Preserve it. Osidiffilabel bad brought the Cithidesibto a state
of rule, which, be hawed, it would be impandble to pet theft
Out 0f.41/se bow titst of the quest* ; and the clash was
that they.l net be able to pay gosh own eaptuSs. Ile
thought It thtgular to Mae the try oftn.tragta "Pi/ at ,the
Bast India Interest, where, tiltvery letPli, an lenglhfinian email
not put his foot without4llimuffi pot tell hob there
was a betwfit of one none and 'a half million, being
given to the West India Interest, for be did not know where
that weskits. If there was any probability of the Sieve Trade
being revPsed in our Colonies, be should go any length to pro.
'cubit, but that shield be proved-hifere they legislated rr sttle.
tively as to the West Indies.
Mr. ELLICE this Blik.becaneeit was an adverse
towards a system of tree trade. It wartee late to go into the
generattrade of the West ladles,' evideinaily with_ the greet
capital and vested rights which eidasiLbelhe West lodks. V
it were not so, be should say that the f the West
Indies should be thrown open to the 'World He would
*import any measure which would raisonithe intolerable trice-
once of AM per esist.im Bast India amourectures ; but that was
bet fumed on them by the Wen India interest. The Chan-1
color of the lechequer was *sliest pesos so answer why we
bud not ewe at 3d. per pound. -lie apprehended no dasw tq
the Navipidaet Laws fries this measure; and if the Hon.
Baronet (Sr Willem °Nth) would assist him and the Member
for Nevrciude, hineWmg rid of the • War Ctinvoy Duty, he
woad do a eenidebble halide to the shipping interest. This
would be eensolditg the benefit and advantage of his commits-
bits meek better this by apposing this Bill. Ile ItaCebteitei
an molest of the charges to which a ship was •subieseed la area
of 488 West India Islands—charges imposed for no public pur-
pose, but to 1111 the pockets of various officers, who, if they wen
necessary, might net be overpaid. In Trinidad there bad beep
charged, in 1814, for the Collector 55 dollars, for the Comp-
troller 40, for the Searcher 13, sot the Naval Officer 27, for the
Harbour Muter 15, and various others, in all amounting to £B9
us a vessel of 300 tons. In 1820 and 1821 these charges had
locsissed to £132. Whether these charges existed now in all
the islands, as a Commissioner had been recently sent out to in-
vestigate these matters, he knew not; but a British ship in ali
British Colony was subject to Four times the charge of a foreign
ship in foreign colonies. If our security depended on our naval
strength, our dutydwas to make the charges on our shipping as
small as those osrfort4gn shipping. They must be put on an equal
footle. with the shipping of other countries, or the main stay
and strength of England was destroyed. When they talked of
the distress of the British farmers, though by no means over-
coloured. yet he was afraid be could draw much stronger pia)
tures of the distress of the %Vest India interest, and their case'
was about as hopeless and desperate car that of the agriculturists.
In St. Lode, the distress was beyond deseription. It had apa
relation of 14,000 persons. In 1114, it paid hardly a single tax
under the French Government, except ,ellOO a year to the Go.
'armor. We had sent several Governors there, one of whom was
obliged to bar cashiered, and others imposed grievous fees, being''
without coutroul. The annual Importation of Sugar from that
Island, was about 60,000 hopheads. In 1817, they were afflicted
with a grievous hurricane, and they bad since been obliged to
pay exorbitantly for their Government, and other Officers.-1
Why was not a Major of a Veteran Battalion sent there as Go-
vernor. and not an Officer of high rank ? The consequence was,
that the Colony was getting gradually in debt, and how was it
to get out of it? The like was the case in all our conquered!
QIIt lee. Poste remedy must be opposed to this, by regulating
the rate of impost on them. Instead of twelve shillings
sixpence, as formerly, the Chancellor of the Exchequer now
leek twenty-seven shillings. The alteration in the currency bad
also materially affected the state of the Colonies, where the Colo-
nist was in all cases the debtor. In 1115, a debt of .0100 was
paid by £l5O of Colonial currency; now, for the same sum, he,
' was 4Uged to pay £227 of the mosey of the Colony. The
egetal invested in shipping was 50 millions, and the profit OM
Op ton ; now it was only £lO. He supported the Bill.
Mr. RICARDO thought that there must be some mistake in
the etatancet of his Hon. Friend relative to the effects of the
degrades k the currency. There was something so extraordi.
any ie the taatement that be believed there must be a adage
la It. His Hon. Friend's speech furnished the very best argu-
ments in favour of the principle of a free trade. He 'hewed in
the strongest light the miseries of the present system of mutual
=. It was not true that if the importation duty were
sugars we could be benefited by it, because the pro.
duets would take care to make a proportionate addition to the
price. He (Mr. Ricardo) did not agree in this opinion. He did
not think that if we were now to forego the duties on tea, the
Chinese producer would make any attempt to raise the price of
the commodity. It must be always the policy of producers to
send their commodities to foreign countries at as low a rate as
they can. In fact, the question here was between the rich lands
of the part of our colonies, and the poor lands of another. He
considered that it would be more beneficial to encourage the
East India produce for this reason, that the poor lands of the
West India colonies absorbed a vast proportion of human labour,
which might be beneficially transferred to some other employ-
ment. Ile contended that it would be cheaper for the con-
sumer to purchase East Bulk sugar with a duty on importation,
because the labour of man in those colonies was followed by a
greater proportion of production. This was his general view,
although he admitted that the West India planter was entitled
to some protection. He was for every measure that approached
to a system of tree trade, and therefore be gave his support to
this Bill. Once to do away with monopolies—let the principles
of free commerce be established, and never again would the
House be tormented with applications from we party to make
a sacrifice of the interest of another.


Mr. MARRYATT supported the Bill. He dwelt on the
policy of affording protection to the West India planters, whose
situation he described to be most calamitous.
Mr. WILBERFORCE suggested, that for this measure of
concession to the West India planters that body should, in re-
turn, give the security of a general Registry Bill, to prevent the
illicit importation of slaves into those colonies.
Mr. BERNAL strongly opposed this suggestion. The mea.
sure was not a boon to the planters so much as to the ship.
owners of this country, now in the utmost distress.
Mr. MANNING corroborated the statement of the llon.
Member for Sandwich.
Mr. BROUGHAM declared that he was confident his Hon.
Friend (Mr. Wilberforce) never intended to bring forward any
thing like a sweeping headlong measure of emancipation. lie
knew that the distresses of the West India planters were great
beyond measure, and that they exceeded the distresses even of
our landed interest ; and he hoped that the present measure of
relief would be extended to them, without being clogged by any
conditions wliatever-4Hear, bear).—But he hoped they would
see the propriety of redeeming the pledges they had given in re-
prd to slaves. He would say, that if a measure of relief was
pot afforded the planters, the West Indian Archipelago would
very soon be laid waste, and there would be a total revolution
of property in the Islands. In the meantime he hoped the
colonists would immediately adopt measures for the gradual
amelioration of their slaves.
The question was now put and carried without a division.—
The Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed
this day week.
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EMPLOYMENT 07 THE POOR IN IRELAND.
Mr. GOULBURN brought in a Bin to authorise the advance
of .00,000 to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. The Bill was
read a lint, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow.
In a Committee, Mr. GOVLBURN moved a Resolution.
that £50,000 be granted for the making and repair of Roads in
Ireland.
Mr. W. BEECHER approved of the measure ; and was cos.
Went that the happiest effects would arise from the liberality of
the 'Wish nation.
Mr. J. 112•11 TH thought the usgareipse men ankliated to
do good than any measure of am Orrimmisil Phy for one,
would vote for a much greater sum.
Mr. W. SMITH spoke &oh% support of the NOM He ex-
tolled the conduct of the Draperr Campany, for the manatee in
which they managed their extrosivoestates, anti Os beaslicisi
erraugeruents which they made to mimics the canderts of**
.tenantry in Ireland.
hit. R. MARTIN regretted the ahmsce oiiMFibiner
for Aberdeen, to whom he was
lootismf eilikeesbe a he
'creations. He had, with that attention to the oblic
welfare which so we/ became idigag the
intention of submitting to their • woe
IMs respecting the tithe systems of Dr....11.1W•
ever might be the'merits el that he caw
ceived that in his proposed uftiamiabing he was irepeomplog the
strict Use of his duty, sad eagagthg is coarse diassel war-
fare for which he was bat ilide .uslabiA—(lll4lll4 taw 9.—lt
was not to the accurate investors et steebitala mei earetpaid
salaries that web a opts= of eseleiheed and, preecriptlve pay-

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Meat should ediiiiiitteo, heat!}—.The "Arsis..,aY
fraud were Me flout AVM*
nure.ftaika tii Um, of he
that he slab& veflopkr her!"—(ll= •
Be trusted that thefles. Cleadentan wd
those branches at isegnemuselast for which he seense4=itto
tined; and that he. waidenot venture to item widh,disaa
kegs questions et Tolley !Thigh re mots eau" midi'
vigorous views than that lianomtW Member had heretofore
developed—(Hear hear!), -
After some tartlet observations. Weis dlihrent Members, the
Resole tioas were agreed to, and a BM ordered to be brought in.
_ The other Orders of the DI were then &spend of. and at
Twelve °TM& the Ileum ar

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COURT OF KING'S BENCH-'HIS
JUDGMENT UPON THE NAM. OP WEEtME.TH.
In our lin page IrM be foend proceeding fn the Court of
*lug's Batch yesterday in this case.-:-This morning the defend-
ant was ailed wp to receive the judgment of lice Court. Their
were eo fled, but the Noble Awl wad frau I
Mer leadt=woowe'eptitemilerduditTe. beCian ittifedrellobleall
Mr. Junk* Saga thew proceeded to deliver the judgnsest
of the Court, and eamilselthed at very great length on the coo-
. duet of the Noble Pat, in eadessouriag to provoke Ilfr.
Wood to got a *ad, a Gentians who, the. Learned Judge
sad, was only acting as.stedipter, and was swatted by the de-
fendant himself to that tam The judgment of the Court wits,
that the Noble Defendant should be latptisaned in the custody
of the Marshal of the Manlike* for the period of threw months,
and at the expiation of that time to and sureties to peep the
peace for three years, himself in .02,000, and two sureties in
X5OO earls. --The Noble Defendant then retired in the custody
of the Tlpstaff.

THE KING'S VISIT TO COVENT-GARDEN
THEATRE.

Ills Mammy left his Palace in Pall-Mall at a qoafter before
seven o'clock, yesterday evening, accompanied by the same at-
tendants as to Drury-Lane Theatre on Wednesday night, with
the exception of the LOAD CWAXIIRLAIN, who is recovered from
his indisposition. His Mannar• and the Royal cavalcade arrived
exactly at seven o'clock, escorted by a party of the Life Guards,
where he was received by Captain Foams, Nr. Watt err, Mr.
Fawerry, Mr. C. Klemm, and Mr. liaanntot, who conducted
his Maszerr, in full dress, to the Royal box, which was splen-
didly decorated, and bill• of the Play and Entertainment,
printed on white satin, were plated before his Miners and the
Duke of Yeas, Ate..
Among the few spectators admitted in the lobby to view the
approach of the Royal Visitors, were bfraSinninis and her amiable
daughter, who gracefully saluted hit Masnry as lie passed, and
which was returned in the most condescending manner. -
On coming forward to the front of the box, his Maatrrr was
greeted with a moat rapturous and universal burst of affectionate
loyalty. The house literally rang with a spontaneous effusion of
heart and voice, which gradually subsiding, seemed to melt away
into the more harmonious, though perhaps not more gratifying
expression of the same feelings, as embodied in the noble Anthem
of M Coo save the Kim !" It was enthusiastically encored after
which were performed with great eclat the Play of The lAte e
Java, and the Melo- Drama of Cherry and Fair Star.
At the end of the first Piece (during which his Manta•/ fre-
quently joined in the plaudits which were called forth by the
masterly touches of Youso, and the exquisitely blended tones of
Mill 51T2111114 and Miss SI. Tam) Gust taw the ling was re-.
peated, by the entire vocal strength of the House, and followed
by Rule Britannia. The same cordial salutation was renewed on
the falling of the curtain a little after twelve o'clock, when his
Idassert left the House amid universal cheering.

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