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gat.—* 4iseettragement to farmiis. and to Prikturtlen-
and, by diminishing the quantity, was sure in the end
to raise the price. This measure introduced a certain
price, beyond which barley could not rise ; but im-
portation had never operated as a maximum. The'
expence of carriage, insurance, &c. &c. contributed
to encumber importation • and though the importa -
tion price was 83a. the barley here sometimes
rose to 475. before the importation of foreign barley.
Thetnportation was far foam being such a discou-
ragement tp agricultural production as this Measure
.vas. He then proceeded to state the mistake into
which the Right Honourable Gentleman opposite
had fallen: if the Right Honourable Gentleman
drew his inferences from the calculations and evi-
dence in the Reports of 1808, barley upon the plan
now proposed could have no chance with sugar.—
They were not placed on an equal footing. He then
read part of the evidence from the Reports, contain-
ing the opinions and calculations of certain eminent
distillers, and chewed from these that the Right lion.
Gentleman was mistaken in his conclusions, and that
his equalization scheme was utterly erroneous, pro-
vided the evidence in question was to be depended on.
In opposition to this they had nothing but the ift,re
dixit of the Right Hon. Gentleman. This was surely
a strong reason for further investigation. Observing
upon what had fallen from his Noble Friend (Bin-
ning), he stated that complaints had been made to
him ( Mr. Adam) from various quarters, from Forfar,
Kincardine, &c. where this measure was considered
as one great cause of their distress, though no doubt
there were other causes. The greatest writers on po-
litical economy had disapproved of all limitations on
I the growth of grain. This was a great question, in
which the landlord and farmer united to preserve the
interests of Agricultnre. Consider, he said, the situa-
tion of Europe—it was no longer a great republic
• where the wants of one country might be supplied by
another. We might be shut out entirely from the
Continent, and left to our own resources. This then
was not a time to depress the farmer—to restrain the
growth of grain. Or if you must try experiments,
you ought at least, to be as certain as possible of their
• effects ; and again, therefore, he maintained, that there
I was the strongest ground for further investigation.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
said, in answer to what had been stated by the Hon.
Member for Dublin, relative to the expression of years
in the bill, that no more than one year was intended,
and that the suspension of the right to export from
Ireland to this country distilled spirits, should only
continue for four months. With respect to the ob-
jections which had been urged, from a supposed hos-
tility in the bill to the interest of agriculture, and par-
ticulirly the agriculture of the county of Norfolk,
after what had been said by an Hon. Friend over
against him, he was astonished that any one should
again get up and predict the ruin of agriculture. For a '
considerable number of years past the produce of this
island has been unequal to the consumption. The
45,000 quarters of barley consumed by distilleries at
most in England and Scotland, bore so small a repot.- '
tion to the barley grown in the country, that it would
never warrant any of the gloomy predictions held out.
It had been said that nothing had been done for agri-
culture. If agriculture needed encouragement, cer-
tainly it ought to have the preference to sugar ; but
the fact was, that notwithstanding the prohibition of
distillation from grain for these two years past, agri-
culture had been so much on the increase, that for the
last year 153 Inclosure Bills were passed, and for the
present year, 168 Bills for England only, of which
21 were for the county of Norfolk, and 19 for Wales,
which he believed had few, if any, Inclosure Bilk be-
fore. With respect to what had been said by his
Learned Friend (Mr. Adam) it had been found by
Mr. Benville, since the period of the Report, that by
an improved method, they were enabled to draw spirit
from sugar so as to afford an additional halfpenny on
every gallon of wash. The present system was only
intended to be permanent, if found practicable at the
end of a year. , The only danger to be apprehended
was to the revenue, because it might be impossible to
prevent distillation from grain while duty was paying
on sugar.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT deprecated all tampering
with agriculture when not justified by necessity. He
considered the clause objected to by the Member for
Dublin not warranted by the resolutions, and sur-
reptitiously introduced—and he was astonished that.
the Irish Chancellor of the Exchequer, the only Irish
Member in the Committee, could so far desert the in-
terests of Ireland, as-to consent to the introduction.
It was a violation of the 6th article of the Union.
Mr. TIGHE said this was a violation of the. only
article of the Union in favour of Ireland. It Members
would give themselves the trouble of looking into the
articles of Union, they would find that the exporta-
tion from Ireland was confined to Members of Parlia-

tnent and Distilled Spirits. The Irish Parliament was
not a national but a sectarian Parliament, and its
dissolution was contemplated by the people of Ireland
with apathy. They sold their liberties for distillation,
and perhaps it might be objected to them that they
were not unjustly now suffering the curse pronounced
on him who sold his birthright for a mess of pottage.
The question was then loudly called for, and the
House divided—
For the 2d Reading 74—Against it 49—Majority 25.
oavw ANC! ESTIMATES.
The Report of the Ordnance Estimates was
brought up,
Mr. HUTCHINSON observed in the Estimate for
Ireland the sum of £100,589 for fortifications on
Spike Island in Cork Harbour • a sum of 86,400 for
the powder manufactory at Ballingcalling, and two
other sums of £3,100 and £10,400 for a magazine
on Rocky Island, and new works on Howl Cowling
Island. He said the powder was conveyed for six
miles by land-carriage, of which half a mile was
through the populous city of Cork, where an explo-
sion might be productive of the most awful conse-
quences. To obviate this risk, a canal might be car=
ried from the powder-works to the river for a length
of about three miles, which would reach that part of
the river where it becomes navigable, and could be
made at no great expence, by which means the pow-
der could be conveyed to Rocky Island.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT objected to the lateness
of the hour for bringing on business of such import-
ance. He objected to the sumptuous nature of the
buildings for the Artillery Officers in Ireland.
- Mr. ASHLEY coogEi. said that he was not
aware of what had been suggested by Sit Uonourable
Member (Mr. Hutchinson) to whom be felt hiniseli

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tinder abligithni for the Coninitinientiti 4rhith
be ttended
The,Oiffscent, items of the. Report 'pare then selia-
rat,ly put 60 %greed tn.—Adjourned.

THE EVENINGTATt.

LONDON.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL f
PRICF. OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE
3 per Cent. Cons money, 641 65—for account 64i 61
Reduced shut- .4 per Coot. altut-5 per Cent. Navy 9"
Excheq. Bills 3s. to 51. pr.-3.7indt, 245. 25i. preta.
PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY.'
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S per Cent. Coss. 641 th Infp Ann. 01 3-16/14
4 per Cents. shut facheq. Rills, par Ss. prom.
5 per Cent. Navy 91i S: ate Lottery Tickets £22 101
Lutz Ann. shut irons. for aec. diii
Swedish Papers to the 19th ultimo were receiied
this morning, but they contain nothing relative to
the political circumstances of that country. A Canal
is about to be dug between the Seine and the Baltic.
A subscription has been set on foot in Denmark for
the relief of the Danish prisoners now in England.
The illness of the King of Sweden proceeds from
shivering fill.
Private letters brought by the Heligoland Mail of
yesterday mention a circumstance which has occa-
sioned a considerable sensation on the Continent.—
The Archduke of AUSTRIA, brother to the Empress,
has suddenly disappeared with his most valuable
moveables, and i: is believed will soon be in Eng.
land. Some say that his rett-eat is in consequente of
his being threatened with the vengeance of NAPo-
LION for his expressed disapprobation of the union of
MARIA LOUISA with that Ruler. He proceeded, in
the first instance, to Salonica, whence he is under-
stood to have sailed for this country. The following
is an extract from a letter upon this subject :
" Our Emperor's brother, the Archduke FRANCIS,
who embarked at Salonica for England with about
three millions of money, besides jewels, has probably
ere this arrived with you. His absconding causes
some bustle in our Cabinet, and nothing transpires
about his destination. It k difficult to guess its ope-
ration on our gouty state body, and the haughty minds
of our neighbours."
Advices from Gottenburgh one day later than
those brought by the mail, mention an occurrence
which has excited much conversation in that town.
On the 22d ult. an English cutter cut out a Danish
ship from Wingo Bay, which coring to the know.
ledge of the Danish Consul at Gorenburgh, he com-
plained of the affair to the principal Magistrate of the
place, who replied, that without orders from his Go-
vernment it was not within his province to interfere
in the matter ; but added (sarcastically, vie presume),
that the Danish Consul might, if he thought proper,
procee,d on board the British ship of war, and claim
the vessel on account of his Government. The Con-
sul, feeling himself dreadfully aggrieved by this an-
swer, immediately sent off a remonstrance to Stock-
holm on the subject ; and the next mail will probably
tarnish us with an siccount of the proceedings of the
Government on this case.

The'expected official dispatches from Lord Witt.-
. LINGTON had not arrived when this Paper was put to
press; but the wind being now favourable they may
be looked for hourly.

Accounts may also be momentarily expected from
Cadiz.—ln the mean time we subjoin a letter from
an Officer belonging to the 37th Regiment, who was'
in the battle of Barron, brought by the Ann of Lon.
don, which arrived at Cork, in 14 days from Lisbon,
on Thutsday last. The Ann has brought no freslf
particulars respecting the retreat of MASSEXA
" ISLA DE LEON, MARCH 8.
14 I cannot attempt to delineate the transactions of yesterday .g
the ever memorable sth of March, a day that will ever be re-
membered by the Prince's Irish, sad by those who witnessed a
scene of enthusiastic valour never surpassed, sad I will venture
to say, never equalled.—We prothily bring with us a trophy that
will long record the result of two successive charges against two
regintenrs,•the Bth and 47th (French). The former came into
the field, 1600 grenadiers, the finest looking men I ever saw; and
from the centre of their column we took their Eagles, one of
which is now standing by the side of Major GOUGR, who glori-
ously led on the regiment : the man who had charge of the other
was obliged to throw it away from excessive fatigue, and a wound,
wLich you will not wonder at when 1 tell you, we were under
arms thirty-two hours, and marching sixteen hours before the
action commenced.—The scene of this charge will ever be die..
teeming to my feelings : the French waited till we came within
about twenty paces of them before they broke, and as they were
in column, when they did they could not get away, it was there.
fore a scene of meet dreadful carnage.—They appeared so fright.
ened and confounded, they made, while we were amongst them
(about a quarter of an hour) little or no opposition. We should
have taken or destroyed the whole regiment, but at this moment
the 47th French regiment came down on our right, and General
GRA unm, who was during the whole action in the midst of it,
pointed them out, and begged Major Goole would call of his
men.—l will net say all, as we were in the midst of the Bth
French. With the greatest difficulty, by almost cutting them
down, the,right wing collected, with which we charged the 47th ;
but after firing until we came to within about 50 paces of them,
they, for us fortunately, broke and fled ; for had they done their
duty, fatigued and jaded as our men were at the moment, they,
must have cut be to pieces. We were therefore, after they broke,
unable to follow them; but took the howitser attached to them ;
thus ended this glorious action, after two. hours and a half's roar
of cannon and musquetry. 'The Spaniards were not engaged.--
We had *boot 4000, the enemy about 9000 men opposed to us;
and they will long remember it.
" General GRAHAM sends the Eagle to our august PatroaNtliet
Prince of WALE, as an offering of our devotion. Every thintle°
now quiet. We daily look forward, to finding the enemy bre
raised the siege—it is certain they have lost 301,0 men ; our Isms
ere 1:100. 'I he wounded however, being taken care of, are Mpg
very well. The name of the place where the action took !has
his Pigiadela Barrusa."
The 87th is principally composed of volunteers
from the Irish militia.—Major GOUGH is son to Lieu.'
tenant-Colonel Gouou, who commands the Limerick
City Regiment. The 87tb was raised by Sir Joust
kov.mx, the present Colonel, and is, called The Nam
of Wales's Irish Volunteers.


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