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London, England, 1816-05-23 00:00:00

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Ow COrnitrYs . ICSI Was lanaaa 'WM .. .
it *au a 'ornekice, with btaghtr:tes, its •Ip • :It
btfbes. for conniving at • the, practices.iti q: : n i
(A ery e Ne, . 5p0)...11. I sal, .71,4.0 violin
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' klannuraole General, e, and 'Can. prove it. It eriu.
mho I common practice with the. gangers. to take a
}gibe of a guinea for not levying a One. He wouldi
say apiin, that the Magistracy of. Ireland niust b 4
?vigil Such 'a thine was detetitsined on by. the;
Duke of Bedford's Admintstratinit; but resisted by
'thepresent, and particularly by.tbe Lord Chancellor
-.l44oners, who would not appoint the most respect-
able man to the Magistracy unless recommended .by'
the Goeernor of the .county.' He himself had ..te-J
• ttanmended a Gentleman will wits a Catholic, and.
Lord Manners refused to appisint•him i Lord Do-
poglimitie, the Governor of the County, then re-,
cataidended'tbe same man, 'mad Lord 'Manneri still
'persisted iii his refusal: He would he ready to give
•a list of Magistrates in the county of Tipperary who
*we unfit to hold their euMmisaiOni.
Here. Sir G. HI LI. called the. 14ohoUrable Gene:
'lll to order, on the ground, that' the impiiiiitions
against the. 'ford Chancellor of irelaod were 110•
founded.
• 'General MATHEW said, he should not tronble ?he'
toine•atihnger, but wdttld. Persist in what hi said.
Mr. HART defended the Magiatrates of Ireland:
Me.sDALY- decl.•:red, *trim., his own knowledge.
,ffist*LSeerldineers had appointed. many Catholics to•
.abeOffka.Cf Magistrates, and that the Gentlemen ot.
itetind were most anxious to put down ilbeit distil-
ifida. . ' . . . .
Mr. PEEL said, he should pass. ever in contettie
the ludicrous charges preferred isxiinit the Lord.
Lieutenant anillowsi Chancelloe of Ireland: But ass
to imprnper Magistrates, if tfiti;lionsurable Geatle2,
man had any camplAints to prefer against them. the
proper and manly mode would be to bring them for!
ward regularly before the Hou.e. . The Lard Chan.i
tenor of-lielatid had resolved, in order that be-might
not incur the imputation of being actuated by pasty
motives, not to take the recommendation of any
• coma/ Member, but to act on the joint recommend*.
non of the Governors of Counties and the Judges who
went on the Circuits. ,
Mr. W. QUIN did not believe that the resident
GentrY ii Ireland could, after all their exertions,
prevent distillation so well as they wished.
Mr. W. SMITH considered that the whole system
of distillation was out of joint front one end of Ire-
land to the iither.
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Sir N. CO LTHURST should not offer any oppo..
shin to the Petition.
*The pe'iti.o, was laid on the table.
" Mr. SHAW stated, that the fines for illicit distil.

Istion had in one year amnuntcd to. 5Z93,000. r,el
Janis haet been filled up, for in,1814 there. hid been
#368 posons prosecuted. With respect to, the morals
of the people, it was in vain for the House to think
of granting money for the support of institutions for
the improvement of the lower orders, as Jong .as the
system of perjury was carried on which was at pre.
sent so common. The .a m writ of the Ones i)f seven
townies for illicit distillation was at2S4J6O. The
Hon. l&mber then moved-.4 That a Committee. be
spPoinied to inquire into the causes and effects of
illicit distillation, and the best means of preventing the
seam, and to report their opinion to the House"
'General HART. in sefopAng the motion Of his
Hon. Friend, iiiipleired the attention of the House to
the deplorable squation of Ireland.
Mr. V. FI'fZGERALD was astonished at the
dffent remedies that were proposed. so various
mid contradictory to one another. and so ineffectual
hi themselves.
Sir J. NEWPORT wished the Haase would not
be changing their systems so constantly and rocas.'
ung from one experiment to another.
Mr. L. FOSTER did not think that the fining
system bad had a lair trial.• and be thought -if it was.
discontinued. a very considerable portion of the. re.
tante would be lost.
After some farther conversatiOn. In which Mr..
Pus, Sir J. STISWART. Sir Geo. Hut., Mr. Pipets.
Sid Mr. SHAW took parts the Committee wak agreed
to led appointed.

• . SOAP inii•
Mit CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
waved the order et the derp for the Committee the
kall • '
Lord tdlal3N hoped, at this late hour, that this
important measure would be pi:spotted until another'
day. He had been given to understand, that an ar-
negement had been made by which the soap mann.
fishnets in London were satisfied ; but as he appre-
hailed that it would not equally please his consti-,
hudbilketnge4 to be distiactly mformed what was.
toe arrangement.
The CHANCELLOR a. the EXCHEQUER
lid that he had a reason for preasiiic the Commit-
ment to-night, with which he thought the. Noble
Led would concur. At present the consumers were
h fact paying the duty, to the tnaaufacturers; who
had proportionably raised the price of soap, and who
"ere able to retain the whole additional profit for
annelves, no Bill having yet passed. With xegard
le the arrangement, he confidently believed that it
owild meet with the concurrence of the constituents
of the Noble Lord, unless in the case of local or par.
eFulat objections not yet stated.
Mr. HAItVEY said that the manufacturers of
I°h soap might be satisfied,' but he doubted if the
manufacturers of hard soap were contented with the
amtament. The duties ought to be raised proporr
timid, on each kind of soap, and then many objec-
tioas would be removed.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
tad, that one of eat propositions in the Committee
would be to remove that disparity ; and he had an.
exxity to state, that with that amendment the menu-
LaSir big uren of. London sintild be satisfied.
W. RIDLEY rtinarked, that he thought
the soap makers with whom he was connected'would'
oat Complain if the duty were equal upon bard and
soft soap. Objections upon the general peinciple
treell yet reinttin. Potash was a most material in.
ruling in the manufacture ; and from a letter he:
ead received from Riga, be had reason to believe
Lib.it the export of potash from Russia would be pro- i
"'Wed in the coursed' twelve months.
Lord MILTON asked, if by the arrsairitene. the
hole of the drawback upon hard soap was to be
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Ibe..:CHANCELLO Et of the EXCHEQUER
mlema that' st Inge his 'intention to °Mit thaglaum