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mete, Ada *hire he fire,ctreti the interests dr the one,
it was equally hit object tb press as littk as possible on
those of the other.

Mr. HONE regretted tb see the light Hon. Gentle-
man now yielJing to that clarhour which he thought
had been unattended to. He thought it would be bey.
ter to postpone the clause to a future period. particg:
larly as he had no doubt that Parliament wbuld mess
in November—(A I nigh).
Mr. HUSKISSON trusted, that after the speech ho
had recently delivered in that House, and after the con-
duct he had uniformly punned, no one would accuse
him of yielding to idle clamour.
Mr. C. GRANT` defended his Right Hon. Friend
from the charge of yielding to clamour, and contended
that the present clause was necessary, in order to assist
'in maintaining that which had been the treat ol,ject of
our Navigation Laws. Toe alteraticins which had al:
ready been made in those laws had been made openly
but if this clause was not carried, those alteration;
without having been so intended, would go to depose
the shipowners of advantages which they now behe,ed
they possessed.
Mr. P. THOMPSON said, that all he wished was to
leave the shipowners at they were, and not to give them
any fresh privileges. He denied that his opposition to
this measure had been in tie least degree influenced by
private interest.—The Clause was then agreed to.
Mr. HUSKISSON said, that he was about to propose
arother clause, the introduction of which, he was sure,
would lay him under no imputatio2 of a wish to injure
the shipping interest. In the continent of South America
there were some very valuable mines of copper ; but
from the want of fuel, the want of capital, and the want
of skill, the operation of smelting it was difficult, if not
almost impossible. Now this country happily possessed
those advantages of fuel, capital, and skill,which would
enable us to make the smelting of that ore a profitable
brooch of industry. With the view of ascertaining whether
this could be advantageously effected, the Government
had for some time allowed the importation of copper
ore, for the purposes of being smelted and then exported.
The innovation thus made by way of experiment hav-
ing been hitherto successful, he wished to legalise it;
and he therefore proposed to introduce a clause permit.
ring the importation of copper ore for she purposes he
had mentioned, with this advantage to the shipping in.
terest, that these importations were only to be made in
British bottoms.

Sir R. VIVIAN opposed the clause, as he thought
it would injure the interests of the owners of copper
mines in Cornwall.

Mr. PIINDAhVES also opposed the Clause.
Mr. HUSKISSON did not think that the measure
proposed would injure the interests of the persons men.
tioned ; but even if it should do so to a small extent,
he thought the general benefit ought to be preferred
to the interests of any particular class. The effect
of the clause would be to establish a new and profitable
brands of industry; and he wished to remind those
Ho ourabk Members who had opposed it, that the im-
portations of ore were not for the purposp of home
consumption; but with a view of being 'Melted lot
exportation.
Mr. Alderman Woon made some observations with
reference to the time at which the proposed Clause wu
introduced, although he bad no particular objection to
the Clause itself.

After a few words from Mr. WMIIII7OII the Cause wu agreed
to ; 11$ were all•the ',then severally.
The House haring resumed, the Report was 'brought op and
ordered to be printed, and taken into funber tbmiMeratio
Monday nem.
TOILMILIt reuses SILL. • -
On Ole motion of Mr. Larrtiron, the adjourned debate on the
,Turnpike Trusts Bill was further postponed till this day se'ocaghi;
inset 'access SILL.

The SOLICITOR-6101E11.AL moved the Order of the Thy
for the House resolving itself into a Committee upon the Mesas
Process Bill.
Mr. HOBHOUSE objected to the motion. It was then half.
past ten o'clock, the House was already fatigued, and the subject
was one of importance, wind) required ample consideration.
After a few words from Mr. Secretary Bottum and Mr. V.
Hoasou, the motion was agreed to, and the Howse resolved its 4
into a Committee.--On eke moving of the first clause,
Mr. HOBHOUSE repe.ited his objections to the
measure being then pressed forward. But if the Hop.
and Learned Solicitor-General would make the sum
instead of 201. he would not offer any further objection.
The alteration proposed by the Bill, as it then stood,
was one which ought to be fully investigated before it
was adopted. When it was brought forward in 1811,
Lord Eldon and Lord Ellenborough were both adverse
to it, and Lord Hastings accordingly gave up the mea•
sure. He denied that the country had called for the
Bill ; the country had called for some measure to faci.
litate the recovery of small debts, and not the Bill before
the House. The effect of the Bill would be to diminish
credit, and that too at the very time when credit roost
required support. He saw no reason whatever for the
alteration from 151. to 201. and, therefore, unless some
pledge was given for the immediate introduction of a
measure to facilitate the recovery of small debts, or
debts under 201. he should move at every stage of the
Bill the sum of 151. be. substituted for 201.
Mr. Alderman THOMPSON was also averse to the
measure being immediately pressed. He knew that a
large number of his constituents were opposed to it, and
under aft these circumstances, he trusted that its coast.
deration would be allowed to stand over.
Lord ALTHORP approved of the measure. He ob
jected to arrests for debt altogether, but still he thought
that the work should be gradually proceeded in.
Mr. W. HARVEY was desirous for the postponement
of the measure.
Mr. HUME mentioned the measure which be intro-
duced some short time since, and which was thrown
out. Speaking on the 8.11 before the House, the Hon.
Member wished the sum might be
in er eased from twenty
pounds to fifty pounds.
The SOLICITOR GENERAL said, as the law stood,
the alteration would make but slight differences. All
the Bill said was this, no man sbaU be arrested on *Mae
process for less than 201. The expense of arresting for
151. was nearly 101. before the cause came into Court.
That sum the debtor was forced to pay his attorney
smallsums. The consequence was, that he was cri rpl •dr
and unable to pay his creditor. He thought it was Je.
sirable to eitend the sum, and relieve the misery of to-
milies. The House would no doubt consider 201. a bet'
ter sum than 501.

Sir JO6lll SZSZIOUT supported the Bill.
Mr. HOBHOUSE said, it had turned out as he so .
petted it would. He was unpopular in his opposition
to the Bill, and therefore shoeld not persevere.
The blank was then filled up with *o.
SOLICITOR-GENERAL nest adverted to
vexatious arrests. Writs were sued out, and pew°.
'neld to bail from malicious motives. In such toe'
(bete was very frequently no responsible petson• "g
stated the case of a person in the City, who was strew!
or 60,0001. The writ proved to be a malicious att :PP