Star.
London, England, 1801-04-02 00:00:00

INGLISM LOTTFRY.

The CHAVC;1:1:;)Rof the EXCIIRVIrt Mk In
ILIAC to the Committee the terms which he had
agreed on for the Earth& Lottery for ttioi. lie
rcgrettcd that the terms on which he had cm-
cluJed this hai gain were not fo advantageous to the
Public as he c.,uld have wifhed, but owing to the
contraftiws for the Englilh Lottery for iKoo hay.
ing loft confalerably by it, not haring more
than 34,000 tickets previous to the drawing. the
billJißgli Were much lower than lift year. He
coafklercd the deficiency is the Pale of Lottery

Ticietc to ante born the high jai.,. oi the
farics of life ; and from the id!: I ail 1
ranks of perfon . were uhlifeti to ilr.fc un tl,iir
oftial expenditure. The uinal ulam:el, he faid,
in whic':. the emaraeis for I.t.ttcties %vele be-
tween the pu:chafers nad the Chasice:ior of the
Exchcap ler for :he time b..iq; t!,..it a note
feat by the Chancellor of the Eva.;:eipt. v w U.e
Bank of I,:igl.md, tea's:.! I.l', cont.riui.). low•
eft price at which he c • difpoil: of the ;
that this note was not to be opened mail the ,
gain was coveladed. Thve par ies, ht faid,
waited upon him to bid Ltrthe Lottery, but, from
the realties ahead:. Hated. they were all below the
price he had determillw ko fell it at, he therefore
declined doling vat)) them; hut the payti-:s begged
permiffiiia to ronfult trgether,
to on his part, they returned with a C.-Ai proposM,
which he coldidered it li;‘, dot• to the public, un-
der all the circomilances, to accept. The price
agreed up,n was fourteeu pounds and 'ipence for
etch Ticket. lie had the tatisfaaion to be allured
by the Governor and Deputy Governor of the
Bank, after the baq.ain was concluded, that it
was not, under :all circuronances, a difadvaot
ous one for the public. Mr. Addington th_!:l en-
tered into a detail of the different price, of Lot-
teries (ince the year t 703, to thew that this was
not on the whole, a difolvantageous bargain, and
concluded by moving, that tfie firm of 701,2501.
bezaifed by way of Lottery," which was agreed
to, and the report ordered to bc received to-morrow.

COMMITTEE OF SECRECY.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHr (Lyra brought
up certain communications received from his Ma-
jetty, entitled "Copies of Extracts of Papers which
relate to the State of Ireland, and the proceedings i
of certain fetlitious and difaffeded perfons in both
parts of the United Kingdom."
The title of the Communications having been
read by the Clerk ;
The CHANCELLOR of the Excatolika addrefred
the Houk shortly to the following cited Sir,
As the tide of the papers which now lie on the
table futficiently defiribe the nature and objed of
the information they contain, it k my duty &only
to call the attention of the Houfe to them, without
entering into the particular details which they may
hereafter afford. It will no doubt be recolle&ed,
that when leave was given to bring in a Bill for
the Supprellion of Rebellion in Ireland, it was ex-
peeled by Gentlemen, that fatisfadory grounds
and documents for the adoption of that meafure
would be laid before the Houle. Certainly, Sir,
fuch an emit-dation was proper and Parliamentary,
and if it was not gratified in that particular in-
fiance, the difappointment could only be attributed
to the bong neceffity of the cafe, and to the prcf-
ling urgency of the moment. It was that necetlity
and that urgency which induced the Houfe to pro-
ceed without the documents required by the Gen-
tlemen to whom I allude. In prefenting the pa-
pers which have been received from his Majelly,
my great purpofe is to fatisfy the Houfe as to the
propriety of reviving the Bill againft Sedition and
dififfedion. It is in order to prevent the dangers
likely to arife from that part of the country con-
nected with the foreign and internal enemy, whole
favourite object is the fubverlion of the Conflitu-
tion, and the defirudion of focial order, that his
Majelly has ordered thefe papers to be laid before
the Houfe. After what has already happened, it
is not necelrary for me to trouble Gentlemen with
a recital of the horrors which the malignant and
reliefs fpirit that has already troubled the country,
may produce, unlefi carefully watched. lam the
more induced to prefi this confideration upon the
attention of the Houle, becaufe that fpirit has not
been able to refill the temptation of taking advan-
tage of the geuerai difirefs and calamity, and of
allying itfelf with misfortune, for the foie purpofe
of promoting its own unprincipled and delperate
views. It is not my intention to go minutely into
the particulars of the information which the papers
contain, as they will be bell ditiaiffed hereafter ;
and it is enough for me now to fay, that his Ma-
jefiy's Minifiers are poffeffed of fufficient commu-
nications on the fubjed, to jallify them in calling
for the invelligation of the Houfe. I (ball, there-
fore, without troubling Gentlemen any longer,
move, that the papers be referred to the considera-
tion;if a Committee. It is not for me to anticipate
the decision which may take place in confequence
of the grounds that arc contained in thefe docu-
ments ; and I therefore move, " That the papers
this day prefented to the Houfe, be referred to a
Committee."

Mr. Titters. Paid, he did not rife to oppofe the
motion which was ilia made : but he could not
help expreSing his furprize and concern, that, up-
on that part at kali of the communication which
related to the people of this country, there was not
a direa Meirage to the Houfe from his Majefty.—
Such a proceeding would be fatisfaaory and grate-
ful to the Houfe, and he was lorry it was not
done ; particularly fo, when it mull be within the
recollation of every Gentleman in that Houfe,
that the Right Hon. Gentleman who lately retired
from office had, in one of his late fp,:cches, extol-
led the loyalty of the people of England, and ex-
prefred his gratitude to them for the exemplary
patience with which they bore all the difirefres oc-
calioned by the high price of every necell'ary of
life. He was, therefore, furprifed that the cha-
nt:ler of the people of England &mid be painted
in the light it was by the present communication,
without Tome better authority on which the Houfe
could rely. With refpeet to that part of the com-
munication which related to Leland, he was hap-
py to find that an enquiry was to be gone into up-
on the State of that Country ; bccaufe the Houle
would not have to vote a fecond time for a Bill
for ellabliaring Martial Law in a part of the iTn:ted
Kingdom, merely on the assertions of Gentlemen
who came from Ireland : he was confident thofe
Gentlemen believed all their opinions to be cor-
rect ; but it was necell'ary to confider the impref-
fions under which they were delivered, before
they could be admitted as fatisfaitory evidence of
the real (late of Ireland. He hoped the enquiry
that was about to be entered into would be a full
enquiry ; and not a !tally and precipitate Rep to-
wards tarrying any particular mature into effea.
Ile hoped the Members of the Committee would

be taken hum the tn.f. 01 Howl., and that
they would mala. a !lilt ae.l y ri port.--
With regaid to able diftflC .!
cXIII ill
En:;1:411j, C,ol!ti IRA Bull, 1:1) faqir&
at the coin:lam:vat ion he had 1, .vel a eel he hoped
the It epeit the teminiitee 55,,e1.1 thee. that his
Ml.oftets lad taken tip an en•
g, minded .1: ,
Lotd • re lie era' to fie,:
dalerer.c.! et • ei'eicei pi.t all a. Io pail cf.the
emilmy whiel, related to tte1.:1,,!. the
Islll for contititting Matt,el Lie ~, that cettetry,
his M:ije(ly's Nliniitei e exti enieiy &foe-
hle that an enquiry eew propoied
flee tlei be gone into, in erelo to in prele the flutile
1111,)re itromely with the. neeeti:i e :ne.tfut
but n: Maieity's Miiii!lers were not tieei
feet I ill (lit feia., Which had nee cote,: to t;
latotel_eige ; aati as that Bill was to have ....pit eel
fie they 'Bout ht the authority of the Parlia-
mtnt rat he: eel, Which had pa lett that .1 `t, to-
ge•her te ith the oethnony of to 711.01) Gentlemen
trent that teem y, to be a luific: yeeeeld for
continuing its ditr:den her three months longer.
hopeci as att.( etly as the Hon. Gentleman who
fpcet lath, that it would appear there was no
; ground for going into an (-wintry concerning tine
praaices of diftffieded petiole. in England ; for he
muff exprefs the p.,,reat tatisfation he felt, then he
retieded that :melt! the moil unexampled di:I: els
1 and difficulty o.:calioned by the (Caton,- of every
1 neceffitry of life, thete never was a period when
the people manifefled filch patience under their
fuffering,difplayed more loyalty to their Sovereign,
or more love for the Conflittnion of their countr.,.
But unfortunately it happened, that in the courte
of the IA two months certain difaffeded pert-ens,
I who had never 101 l light of the plans they had
formed fin. the dearudion of the country; taking
advantage of the diffreffes oc the times, were car-
rying on pradices that were highly dangerous, and
required Ipeedy and efficacious mcafures for fop-
preffinn. For the truth of his ilatements he could
appeal to thole Memliers who came from certain
populous dittrids of this country, whether the prac-
tices he alluded to did not exiff. His islajefty, there-
tore, thought it proper to make a communication
of papers relating to thole prat ices to the Houle ;
and therefore the Houle could not do otherwife
than refer them, puriliant to the praaice ufiiaily
obferved, to a Committee. He Ihould rejoice more
than any man in that Hotife, if it should appear, on
inquiry, that none of thole evils of which a repre-
fentation had been made to his Majesty, did exiff ;.
and that confequently there was no neceCGty for
meafttres of precatttion. But Gentlemen mull re-
coiled that the titivation of this country was owing
to the prudent measures which Parliament had al-
ways adopted whenever a cats had been made out
of the real exiffence of danger ; and if any tuck
danger or neceffity Ihnuld appear to exiff now, he
was fure the Hume would have recourfe to &natty' •
precautions.
Mr. PITT--.-" Sir, I fee no difference of opinion
with retina to the prefent motion, and indeed, it
is not potlible that any difference of opinion could
rein, when we are calicil upon to take into con-
tideration communications from his Majefiy, which
appear to relate to the Gritty Of the country. I
thould not detain the Houle by offering any obler-
vations upon the fubjea, if the Hon. Gentleman
had not alluded to a lentiment I formerly uttered,
he forgetting at the fame time the Wages and
opinions by which thatfentiment was accompanied.
I have uniformly exprelled a deep fentiment of
gratitude to the great bulk of the people, not only
for the loyalty but alfb for the unexampled pa-
tience they have contiantly manilelled amid the
sharers occafioned by the vilitation of unfavous•
able feafons. But the allufion made by the Hon.
Gentleman is nothing more than the ufnal min
rept eleotat ion carried on in this Houle throughout
the whole of ten years, when the praftices of
foul and treatimable confpiracy were at work. I
have been always grateful to the great mafs of the
people, for the extraordinary merits they have dd.
played, and if, in addition to the patience they
have evinced, we mention their loyalty and affec-
tion to their Sovereign ; it would be fingular were
we, as a return for their laudable condua, to
hand them over to the machinations of a com-
paratively (mall but delperate fit of men, always
ready to avail themfelves of every cirettmllanee
of diffrels and difficulty. The bell mode to Phew
our gratitude to them is, I conceive, to oppofe
thole dangerous principles, which cannot exitt here
without bringing. to our minds the horrors which
have taken place m Ireland, and occurred in a great
part of Europe. With recsea to the fads contain-
ed in the papers, which have happened fence my
departure from office, I cannot pretend to any
knowledge of the particulars ; but it cannot be a
furprife to me to be told that the difaffeaed are
at this moment availing themfelves of the difficul-
ties and difireffies of the country, for I know it to
be a part of the nature and fpirit of facobinifm,
to ally itfelf, as my Right Honourable Friend ob-
ferved, with diftrefs, to make misfortune the fore-
runner of deflruaion, and confummate the ruin
of the country. I have traced there effeas in
every country of Europe where Jactiiiinilm ob-
tained a footing ; I have traced them in this, up
to the period when I retired from his Majeffy's
lervice, Co far Was. I from Rating, as it had been
thrown out, that this mifeltievous and malignant
tirit had been changed. If the Honourable
Gentleman willies for further ilaisfadion and
confutation, he has nothing more to do but to re-
fer to the Meeting of Parliament before Clut id nets.
which was affembled for the purpofe of Ale viatiug
the diftrefs produced by the tearcltv. He will
there find, in the Ipeech delivered by .his Majcflye
awing exprellions of indi:;natien at the pro dices of
thole dilaffided perfons who were always ready
to take advantage of the unavoidable misfortunes
of the mars of the community. I have never
fence had occa;ion to ckatage my opinion, fit that
the charge of incontinency as altogether unfupport-
ed. It would, indeed, be abfur.: to neglea
tions necedary to prevent the attempts made to
difturb the great mars of the people in the en.
joyment of thofc bleillngs which the wifdons
of Parliament has in every emergency ettdea-
rourfd to retain and fecure. Sir, I beg par.

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