Star.
London, England, 1803-03-25 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

On the motion of Mr. ISAAC HAWEINS BROWNR, the eon-
Bits-ration of the Report from the Great Grimfby Selcet Com-
mittee was pcltponcd to Friday the tit of April.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHRSVEII moved the renewal of
the Call of the Houfe on Thurfday next, and that the defaul-
.rs incur the ufual penalty.—Ordered.
TI.O CHANCELLOR of the ExcHEQ.lall then went below the
Bar. and preferited a Meffage Irom His Majefty.
The Meffage was ordered to be brought up and rad. It was
to the following effc6t
GEORGE R.

His Mayfly having te. en into his ferious confidcration the
many eminent Cervices of Sir James Saumares, Bart. K. B. Rear
Admiral of the Bluc, and particularly his engagement with the
Spaniards in the Streights of Gibrahar,oa the nth July, ads,
has deemed it proper to communi:ste this his molt gracious
confidcraticn to this Houfe, in order that his molt faithful
Commons may take fuc.h Repo as will enable His Majclty to
reward fuels fgnal ferrices, by the Settlement of an Annuity
of Iscol. upon the laid Sir James Saumares for the term of his
natural life. 0. R.

The Cu AN cat .i.na of the EscnrQulß moved this molt gra-
cious communication be taken into confideration in a Commit-
tee of the whole Honk to-morrow.--Ordered.

A Meffage from the Lords informed the Houfe that their
Lordships had agreed to the Irina Pottage, the Expiring Laws
13111, and feveral Private Bills, without any amendment.
The CHANcILLOR of the Exciicituca gave notice, that he
would to-morrow in a Committeewf Ways and Means, more
the means of difcharging Four MililOilf of Exchequer Bills,
which had been already voted.

Sir J. AI.:D[II6ON brought up the St. Giles's Burying Ground
Bill Read a Brit, and ordered to be read a fecond time.

Th... Duke of Athol's Bridge Bill was read a hrft, and order-
ed to be read a fccood time.

The Southampton Water Works Bill was read a Aril, and
ord.Ted to be read a fecund time.
.1 he Woolwich Truftce Bill was read a kcond time, and re-
ferred to a Committee of the whole Houfe to-morrow.

he ATI ()KNIT GL X brought up the American Con-
yentiou BBL Read a firft time, and ordered to be read a Cc-
cond time to-morrow.

The Arroa N sr GENZIAL brought up the Rcport of His
Majetty's Woods and Forelts BiU.--Orderod to be read a third

time to-morrow.

A perfon from the Infpedtor General of Imports and Exports,
prtfented certain Accounts, which were ordered to lie on the
Table.

The Greenland Hillery BM patted through a Committee of
the whole Houfc, and the Report was ordered to be taken into
conlidcration to-morrow.

The Clergy Non-refidtuceßill was read a 3d time and pared.

Scvtral I'4embers obtained leave of abfence, Come in.confe-
quence of having ferved on *deft Committees, and others on
to:co te it of ill halt h.

'the following Members were returned as found oa the re-
duced Litt of the Committee appointed to try the merits of a
P, anon, complaining of an undue Elation for the Borough of
Glafgow, Dumbarton, &c.

. .
Richard l'aync Knight, EN. Wm. Elliott, Efq.
Jamts euluhoun, FA. Fran. Fernand Foljamhe, Efq.
Wm. Chute, F.N. James RuUer (of Exeter). EN.
. . .. . .. ..

H. A. 111.244" Mon, Efq. -Andrew MAc;low.ll, Fig.

John Rutherford, fq.. Alexander Campbell,Th.: Hon. Robert Curzon Charles Chefler, htq.
Lord Pact
1 he I lon. T. Maitland,
Nominees.
The Lord Advocate of Scotland, }
The fullow;rg Mcnthert were appointed a Commits et. for the
trial of the Cont clt, d Licetion for ihc Borough of Oakhampton
Ri, h. Joi9b Northb Efq.
Lord Vdcount Alorpcth Henry Barthell, Erg.
The Hon. Thoo. Pane LordLouvaine.
The Hon. C. H. Hutchinfnn

The names were called over in the order here Rated; when
the Chak came to hi. Lordfkip's name, tome Honourable
hlettibtr laid he believed that the Noble I.ord bad underilood
has name to have been !truck off the Lift, and that his I.urd-
ihtp .4 quitted the Houk in confeptencb.
Tlw setsato raid, that the Noble Lord had no right to un-
dettlatti fa, ur to quit that Houk without being cetta' n. After
a hick paufc, the lion. the speaker laid, if the Noble lord had
any nds about the Hoof!, he would adsife them to endca-
‘aar to acquaint his Ltrdfhip; fur that the Members could nut
be (worn un the Committee, nor could that Houle atljount
ustsl they had, at lean., obtained tome further information on
t-elltbjeft. . . . .

,
Mer ngcrs were immediately difeatched to his Lordf
honk in Portman-i'qu.trc.
In the men whsle the Speaker Lid, he thought it ncceffary
to inform the I tout, thr by At of Parliamcnt,no Member had
a right to t!epatt from that Houle when be had once been ap-
pointed on a Contetted Eiedinn Con-lid:tee, until the Lift had
bet n returned. or it eltofen by ballot, until (worn at the table.
Attar the Houk bad waited a coatiderable time, his Lord-
(Lip ante up to the table, made his bow to the Speaker, and
wa• proceeding to addrefit the Chair, when
1 he Ser. as ra bail, that he was fully aware the Noble Lord
mull fed fufficently the inconvenience to which he had put
th t Houle; that he (the Speaker) Wl4 confcinus it could have
::rife,, only iron, mistake; tot that the coufieleration to which
he bad alluded mull weigh fufticiently with his Lordfhip's own
mind to make any further comment or any reprimand from
him wince( tr“ry.
'lbw Noble l.orti then took his feat, and the remaining names
of the Commi.tce were called over—

I. J. Smith, Ell. R. N.:l. Bennet, Flip
k Pole Carew, Fit Hop. J. W. Grimfbane
I...ward I.cv.i ..1. 1 N. W. H. i.kowcs, EN.
I him.% :::Atik y. Erg. i Nomlne.a.
: . • I W:dtbeca I, 111.
I.nrd 1., c- ‘ CI .;.i I a kw wa- ' • :,: c-pt•-arion a+.l toe
( :.'l:..t. ' . • _•:ay. 'I he N..• • I ~..i ... , 1.,,,0...: t. th,

' • • r •hAt ha 1i..t•1 I quatt.
It .t • 1.0.d...ti1U01,1 "1 L.OOl. L.A.11 Lf.
W. L 6.1

COMMITTEE ON THE WOOLLEN TRADE.

Errata of the Report of the Committee tl whom the Peti-
tion of the leveral Perfons conc.rne,l is tilt. Wso 1-n Tra
and Manufadories within the Coupti— Wilts,

and Gloucefter, was referred.
MS. EDWARD SIIE:r %RD, :210ill:Cr, at I Tlry Ir. Gloucefter-
(hire, upward* of it year.., th'at if tac
Ratute of the yth Eliz. ch. iv. was d into Hitt% a very
great part of the trade of the cow,- y ot Gloucetter mutt be loft,
as a very great proportion of :.:c weavers at plerent employed
had not been apprenticed; teat, in his own manufaCtory, at
one eftablifhment, he employs about fevcnt y•five weavers, out
of which five only have been apprenticed according to the above
ftatute ; that at the other he employs about eighty-three, out of
which fivern have been apprenticed; the greateft proportion
Are men, tonic are women. With retped to the cloth-workers,
he has not one among the whole who has been appren:::_d
feven yearn; he infers, that If male but legal weavers were
employed, be (hookd lore the major part of his trade—Th .t
notwitbitanding the introduftion ,it toting looms (whi.ll of
late years have very much inereated the number of looms)
there is not at this time any turplus of competent and good
weavers exifting—So nceetr.r! is it that the manlier of wea-
vers Ihould not be &created, the coarfc woollen tr A:llas al-
ready been, in a great degree, loft to the county of Gloticater,
principally for want of weavers to carry on that hone.: of ma-
nufacture. He conceives that a very fhort period of time
(within a year) is neeettAry to acquire a proficiency in the art
of weaving—That, by the change in the nature of th, woollen
manufaCtory, in confequence of machinery, it ha' been, and
is necerfary to form monufaCturing eftablithments in villages,
where the advantages of water and fall are ne.terially coat-
&red, tirrefore, in filch Stuations apprenticed weavers are
not to be met with—That, in confequence of the great incrcafe
in the demand for woollen cloths of late yea: s, a great nomber
of p.oplc, of every defcription, have mho: in the trade as
clothiers, who have not been apprenticed, and toerefore would,
by the enforcement of the laid Ratute, be thrown out of hofi-
nefs; that he himfelf has never been fo apprenticed, neither
does kc know any one who has ; and he conceives it ncceffary
for the wall-being of the woollen trade,that the toanefaCturer
&quid, as occafion required, either from the opening of new
markets, or increafed demand in old ones, have it in his power
to employ fuch work-people in every branch zs may be requi-
fite—That if clothiers are rettrifted from the employment of
work-people who have not been appren iced, an extanfion of
their trade would be impoffiliple on any occafion of extraordi-
nary demand—That he believes it to be contrary to the fade,
that the number of regular weavers, able and willing to work
at the ancient and ufual prices, who are out of employ, is im-
menk, or that their numbers are daily increafing; be 'peaks
only of the county of Gloucefter That, from his own expe-
rience, the employment of perfoos, not regularly apprenticed
to the bufinefs of weaving, does not tend to deßroy the good
quality of the manufadure; that he has never known, or heard
till lately, of any profecutlons for enforcing the above Ratute
—That the number of apprentices has greatly diminitierd of
late years, which be cooceives to be the confequence of the
potent inmate of the woollen trade—That, out of the num-
ber
of perfons employed in both his eitabliflunents, he cannot
welly fay what proportion arc men to the women, (as they
work at their own houfes,) but a much greater proportion are
men—That by the introdualoo of the fpring Made more cloth
has been made, which could not otherwift have taken place,
from the want of weavers, as the operation of weaving is now
performed by one peefon infield of two, to the great Caving of
the labour; it being a motion of the weavers own adoption,
they are paid the fame per piece as before the introdseliun of
the fproig mottles—That he gives no preference to apprenticed
weavers, hot the very reverie, as they are in general old men—
That, as the trade is now carried on, a great many perfumer*
employed as work e, for their own benefit, at an earlier
age than they could have been under the operation of the ca-
nting flame, and that more women are now employed in
weaving than fortherly, in common with the inereafe of men
—That it has not been the praetice in Glouceiterihire for per-
forms to be bound apprentices in villages, (to which it is neeef-
fary to retort on account of water and fall,) nor does he think
legal weavers could have been found to be transferred from one
part of the county teethe other, failleient to take the appren-
tices; that he does not think any apprentices would be bound
on the condition to the woollen trade generally, fo as to be
equally transferred from one branch of the trade to the other,
with chafe who are now employed as workmen—That the repeal
of the Ratute requiring weavers to lave apprenticeiltips,would
certainly not prove ruinous to the legal weavers or their famines
—That many weavers receive work from different matters, and
have many warps by them at t►e fame time belonging to thole
different matters, by which means the return of the work is
very mach delayed, and therefere the number of weavers is
not in proportion to the quantity of cloth required to be made.
Being aged, Whether any profecutlona had been commenced,
or threatened, under the aforefaid &mute ; t.e Rated. that there
was s profecution at the laft rummer a Tues for Glouceiterthire,
but under what Renate he did not know, but be undcrftood ,
that it was eompromited by withdrawing a juror—He does '
not know that the defendant did undertake that in future be !.
would employ none but legal weavers, or upon what ter:, a, but
he knows that a great many notices have been given of prole-
cottons againft wafter weavers fusee, and that friendly facie:ties,
or clubs have been formed, with a view to commence protect.-
tioos againft thole who ufe or ezercife the trade of a woollen ,
cloth illegally ; in confirmation of which, the witnefs
produced a book, intituled "Rules and Articles of a Friendly
Society, or Club, called the Woollen Cloth Weavers' Society,
begun the lath day of September, 1 ;" and alto, copy of an
adrertifinicut, Inferred in the Gloucefter Journal, September
6th, Ifici, " calling a Meeting of one Weaver out of the pa-
rfth he reprefents, in order to determine on profaning thate
who enlawfully exercife or follow the trade of a Weaver.
(Signed) "W.H. J a 1 sor , Solicitor."

' file GI °ICC WATIStY, of Warminfter, in %ghillie, being
examined, laid, That be has been a clothier ao years, but late-
ly out of buftnefs--that the gig-mill firit began to be introduced
into Warminiter in the month of April or May laft..—Being
alkyd, Whether he knew of any combinations iu confequence
of the iutroduCtion of the gig-naill f be laid, there were nearly
three-fourths of the Menton who quitted their mafters, and
'vide(' to work upon cloth after the gig-mill—That with re-
(peel to their riotous difpofition, there are now four persons in
the different gaols consided for alraults and riots; and that
many barns and outhoufes of the clothiers have been burnt, and
guns have tarn fired at night into the houfes of the clothiers.
and their workmen, who had become obnoxious on account of
ufing the gig-milL
Mr. WILLIAM SIIIIPPARD, clothier at Frome, in Sonierfet-
iblee, about I 4 years, being examined, laid, That in all mar-
kets both home and foreign, the preference given to Gloueef-
terflire cluih. was fo very evident, that he found it neceffary
to fend the whole of his broad cloths near ninety mile, weekly
to he dreffid by the gig ; fence the introduCtion of the gig, his
flock is leffinell, and the cloths are wonderfully improved—
that the neeeffity war fo gre;.t, that laft year and the prefenthc
has been obliged to accept orders to a very Large amount, deli-
vered ill an unfildfhed Rate, after being milled, fo that the mer-
chant who had received them. had them dreffed by the gig
after his own manner—that be (the witnefi) tried every thing
in his power to Email them himfelf, but found it impolfibre;
and rather than give up the orders, acceded to the term—that
the introdudluon of the gig-mill will be highly beneficial, and
that he has engaged to his workmen that he will employ them
at tas. per week as long as they are able to work. And being
allied, Whether he knew of any combinations of any worknacn
in confequence of any attempt to introduce the gig-mill into
his neighbourhood I He raid, that meetings of &carmen are
privately held to receive lubfcriptions fo as to provide for thole
out of employ, and they produce a ticket to as to entitle them
to their weekly pay.
Mr. RICHARD Bowing a, Solicitor at Bath, being examined,
raid, that he does not know of any profecutions being commen-
ced againft the clothiers for ufing the gig mill, but has been in-
formed by Mr. Wilmot, folicitor for the fLearmen in Wilt_
(hire, that he has received inftrudions to commence maims
againft loth manufaelorers who perfevere in tiling the gig-mill.
SUL:I[C a and 3 Philip and Mary, chap. 1 it, fcclion a and 3,
read.

CIA It irs Efq. (a Member), Salinghall firm,
int•rchloit, tying cx ,mii ,!. f thAt the nal ore (A los buiintf.
i• r!kit Ily in the tale of N..nifh wool and rope:line clut:i. And
be 1.a.l any ii.lormatioa to give te7peel-
.,i ~1 the c!.4l.i,rs the rZpeal ur altcraaun of
That he conceived it ~ould he onset-
d.rai:n.r.:al :Lac ary LAWS Oswald be A7ca1,..1 which toil

to pasted labourdra in different branches of the Mannfadkay
That it appeared to him that extreme caution will be necolTa-e
in repealing certain rcltrietiec ads, of which the rnanufaet
revs jultly complain, that others which tend to proted 111-
banters be t.ot blendeil in that repeal. That at one pee-inl f
the war, he believes between 1797 and 1799, from tin fearei;y
o. Spina wool, the labourers could not be employed in th-,
menufaiture of fuperfine eh th, and at that periods
dt gr:.;,:it,
bon of the manufaurers enrolled themfc.ves in tke
sini entered in the army. Sublequent to that period, the
iriportatlon of Spanifh wool, and cunfiderableordeis for d,
ig
called fur the inereafod introcludion of machinery;
he conceives, at 'he prefcnt period, choir men wt., haver .
turned to the clothing towns, and arc capable of refutning the,
employment, Mould have that given them before ary furl hi.r
additions are made to machinery ; that thofc men fh'iutil,
conceives, in every degree, be proteded at this peri.d,
off-r; are made to induce manufadurers to quit the country
order to eltabli(h the manufacture in Spain, with 311 t lie ado
tag:. to he derived front machinery. That iteis.a fad. w,ti,„
his own kn iwledge, that a inanuladturor who is C,311.ii,t(..1: '3
introduce and cftablifta the minufadory.on the fo.ning wn:sa
it is conducted in this country, may have too)guinea; pat
Annern fecured to him for a certain number of years, or
portion of the -dean:ages to be derived from the ni iota; .ctioy
at his option. That as a cafe in point with the Coe-t of N,a;..,
and to thew the goad faith they have preferval, under limilr
eircumitances, with otter manufacturers, folic years floc:.
about the year 1780, a tanner was induced to pat to Spain, and
was offered by that Government every facility to ettaLlifh Joe
builneti on a large kale; be fixed that a large capital would he
necefrary, which was lurnifbed hint, the witnefs heiieve.,
the amount of 6c,oocL; that a proper fituation would he zi
ceffary to eftablilh the bpfusefs, and to was defired to was
the country, and to ha on any fituation molt likely to arfn r
th purpofe; that he was in coofequence put in poffefion or ,
convent, at a fhort diftance from Seville; the friars of the 0-•
dcr of St. Jago were removed to a different ltuation, to mit-
room forte labourers be thought neceffary to bring iron, .
laud; that nearly ao Englifh families did in confequence knit
there, protected in their religious principles, and allowed evcr•
requikte for their comfort and convenience; and that this eft•
bliflunent has fo far frcrecdcd, that the export of tanned Ica
then, which at that time was very confiderable, is now reduced
to a very incoaderable quantity. To (hew how much into.
relted Spain Is in the eftabllflunent of the manufadture of wool-
len cloth on the principle in which it is concluded by machia•
cry, it mull be oblerved, that the raw material, namety, Spa.
vim wool, can be procured at one third Ids than here; and th it
oil and ((sap, two other material articles in the manufade,.,
may be obtained at very little More than half Ike eott in r....
country; and confequently, if our labourers, from want of en.•
ployment, are driven to Sick that in another country, whiz,
they are deprived of here, we mutt naturally lore our foreig ;
trade for this article of fuperfine cloth, which can be renders;
fo much cheaper In Spain—that without the introduction -t
machinery into Spain, he conceives it issprae9icable for them
to rival this country in the manufacture of Cloth—that if crta•
ehinery was eftablithedin any other country,this country cook*
not rapport a competition in the foreign market—that he has
heard from the report of osanufadurers thendelves, that per-
Cons arc out of employment in confequence of the life of ma.
chinery.but does not know it as a fadt,that he has niter publicly
pledged hinsfelf to cafe his endeavours to prevent the further it
dualan atmschinery. He aryls had any communication
the labourers In any brunch of the nsanufaetate—that be to..
not Rate particularly as to thole reftrldions of which the n.r.
nufaeturcrsjuftly complain, but they ate thole which Freda .1
the exportation of unworn cloth, and as to the mealiutng
folding of cloth and others.

LONDON.

FRIDAY. MARCH as.

k Last-DAL—Holiday as the Public °Aka.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
3 Per C. Cool: money. 64—Ditto, far April ace. 6sf.
Osmium i 4 dif.
PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY:
Rank Stock Exam. os. to is.diG
3 Per C. Coot. 64iii Otani= t si
$ per C.Ana. 9E} sp9i 99 Enka Tickets 17L
loap.Am. zt s-16 Coa for Ap. ace.64l 65 i

Yefterday afternoon difpatches were received at
Lord HAWRISBUILY'S Office from Naples, vit
Paris. Difpatches were at the fame time received
from Lord WHirwoß TH. Nothing has tranfpired
refpe&ing their contents.
No mails of any kind have arrived this day from
the Continent. Letters by the French mail of
yefterday ftate, that it is generally underftood is
the political circles in Paris, that the matters in
difpute between the twocountries are nearly accom.
Modated. The high price of the French funds
(hews, that to be the belief of the moniEd men
there. It is not probable, however. that any
thing like a permanent peace can be expeded,
i even if the points on which our Government infills
fhould be acceded to by the FIRST CONSUL; for
it is plain that we 'hall be more indebted to our
armaments for what we may obtain, than to a
fettle of moderation, juftice, and good faith aetu-
ating thole who at prefent hold the reins of Go-
vernment in France. Should the fame difpofition
continue, what are we to ezpeit when we (hall
again have difmantled our fleets and dithandcd
our foldiers ?—A new alarm to force us to incur a
trent expence, and to diftrad and harafs the com-
mercial fpeculations of our indutlrious citizens.—
It is poffible that the Frenci calculated on cf.
fefting this on the prefent occafion, without any
intention of carrying their provocations to loch
a length as would make hoftilities unavoid.
able. If this be the policy of France, it mil
be confeircel that nothing could be deviled
more prejudicial to our intcrefts as a nation.—
Should the prefent difpute he accommodates!, .1
few months will (hew whether the French Go-
vernment are following a fyftem of the kind we
11 have alluded to. It is juft a year this day fince
the Definitive Treaty of Peace was figned at
Amiens ! Have we fince had any thing like a ftatc
of profound tranquillity ?
A letter from St. Maloes Rates, that upwards
of 8o gun boats had affembled at that port, and at
Cherbourg; and that a great number of foldiers
have been marched into that neighbourhood. for
the purpofe (as it is given out) of aftilling in the
the completion of the new works carrying on ilicrc.
—The Telei-raph, sl,i.h is feldom employed but
on extraordinary occatims, has lately been it•
forted to.

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