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London, England, 1803-06-16 00:00:00

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Admiral BeRIMS, moved that the Wool-trade

Regulation Bill be read a third time to-morrow.
Mr. Batlion raid, that this Bill went to the repeal
of all ate prefent laws upon the fubjeet of the Wool-
len Trade, and he wifhed to referee his femirnents
upon thatfubjed until after he bad read the evidence
which had been given upon it before the Committee
to whom this Bill had been referred. He did not
Bate this heftily, or with a view of confidering
what part he fhould take in the matter, for he was
determined to oppofe the principle of the Bill. He
had made inquiry how loon the evidence given in this
cafe could be printed, and he underflood it would
take at leaft a week ; he ftibmitted therefore the pro-
priety of poftponing the third reading of the Bill for
a period that might at leall citable the Houle to per-
sire the evidence on which it was alledged to be
founded ; he thought the period for that purpofe
could not be earlier than Friday fe'nnight.
Admiral BEILKIL EY laid, it was abfolutely neceffary
that. the Bill Should pars this Setfion. This was only
the Second inflance in which the Houle had ordered
the minutes of a Seidl Committee to be printed ; the
former one was that of the London Dock Bill, fo
that it was by no means of cow* for the Hottfe to
have the minutes of a Committee before them. If,
however, there minutes could be printed in a mode-
rate time, he Should have no objection to defer the
third reading of the Bill until they Should be printed;
h it that was not to be expefted in the prefent cafe,
and as it was efrential that the Bill Should pals in the
prefent Seffion, he mull perlill in his motion for the
third reading of the Bill to-morrow.
Mr. BuasaNDohrerved that this was a Bill of great
importance ; the Woollen Trade of this country de.
trended upon it. The evidence given before the Com-
mittee to whom the Bill was referred, had been or-
dered to be laid before the Hours and to be printed,
i• therefore Bruck him to be a very extraordinary
ciicumflanco to defies that the third reading might
take place before the Houle could have any know-
11, dge of the fags on which the Bill erns founded. It
would give him concern if the Bill did not pars this
)ear, hut perhaps another week's time might bring
the evidence before the Hoare, and therefore he Should
wills to potipone the third reading of Bill for ten
days.
Mr. DICK rxsom (+reread, that the Committee to
whom this Bill was referred. was an open CoMmittee.
and the matter had been amply invelligatede for
which reafon he was againft any further delay.
Mr. Nooks Wit that this was a matter of great
i e., and althoLgh it was raid to be in danger
of • 101 l for the Sefrion if deleted another week
in that oak, yet fo dangerous did it appear to him
int
to pats it without a fall perufal of all the evidence,
that if it was put to him as a queftion. whether he
ityould have the Bill read a third time to-morrow, or
1011, he had no hefitation in raying " loft."
: The tetellion was then pat, that tini, rill be read
a third time to-morrow, and the Houle divided—For
the third reading 26—Agairal it tg.
Mr. Benoit, then prefented a Petition f'nm the
Cloth Weavers of Wilts, Gloucefler. and Soloed...L,
graying leave to be heard by Coun&l againft the
Woollen Clothing Bill.
Admiral Bsa sssss could not conceive upon what
Li-311nd it was that the reran retitle* could be war-

ranted, teeing diet Collard had already been folly
heard again& the Bill before the Committee above
(Lairs.

Mr. &tools (poke in fupport of the Petition, and
Paid, it was his hope the Houfe would not refute to
hear the Petitioners by their Counfel againf a Bill
which was now about to be precipitated to a third
reading, without giving the Houle an opportunity of
reading and duty confidering the body of important
evidence which would prove the impropriety of pal-
fing the Bill in its prefent form.
Mr. Drewz tasow oppofed the prayer of this Petition
on the fame ground. There was no objeCtion to the
Petition lying on the Table until the Bill thould be
read a third time, provided that took place to-mor-
row, and further delay was quite unnecetrary.
Mr. SHERIDAW alfo very ftrongly reprobated the
precipitancy of palling this Bill, without allowing
Members time to confider the important body of evi-
dence before the Committee, which the Houle had
ordered to be printed for the very purpofe of due
confideration, before the Bill fhould go forward to
the third reading. He did not fcruple to fay, that
fuch a proceeding would be moll nefarious : but as
the Bill could not, in courfe of order, be read the
third time this day, he trotted that if the Petition was
allowed to lie on the table, Gentlemen would by to-
morrow fee the policy of pcdponing for a further
reafonable time the third reading of the Bill.
After a few words on the fame fide from Mr.
Dickenfon, tenor, the Petition was received, and
ordered to lie on the table.

MIDGET.

Mr. DENT rofe to obferve, that it had been MO.
neouGy (fated, that he had, in the difcuilion on the
report of the Budget yellerday, acceded to the prin-
ciple of exempting from the propofed new tax all
Funds the property of Foreigners; that he fhould
when that medure came forward again in the regu-
lar form, take the fence of the Houle upon it.

HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND.

The Order of the Day being read for the Houfe to
refolve into a Committee of Supply,
Mr. I. H. Baow II a moved, that the fecond Report
of the Committee fur inveßigating the furveys of the
Scotch Highlands, be referred to the laid Committee
of Supply.—Ordered accordingly.
The Houk then refolved into the Committee,

Mr. I. H. BROWNe (aid, that as the Report now
referred to the Committee had been feveral days
printed, and in the hands of Members time enough
for full confederation, it would, of coma, be unnecef-
fary for him to trouble the Committee at any length
upon the fubjea of the Motion he was about to pro-
pole for their adoption ; namely, That a furn not ex-
ceeding zo,oool. be granted to his Majelly, for the
purpofe of making roads and crating bridges in the
Highlands of Scotland. One of the great objeas in
view, was to improve the valuable filberies in the
eaftern and weflern coafts of the Highlands ; the in-
terefis and improvements of which had been confi-
derably impeded and retarded by the want of that
communication between both fides of the Country,
which under the prefent Motion it was propofed to
effett. No man felt more deeply than he did, the
necerary caution which fhould at all times be obferved
in voting awiy the public money, more efpecially at 1
fuch a crifis as the prefent, when the Country is in-'
volved in an expenfive wat. But the exigence of
that very war wa amonga the firongeft arguments,
to prove that the grant for which he bad now the
hononr to move, fo far from being improvident or
unfeafonable, would prove, in fa& a meafure of the
foundeß political economy; as by opening a commu-
nication between all the inhabitants of that part
of the Empire, who hitherto had always, in the
wintry months and rainy feafons which prevail there,
been cut off for great part of the year from all com-
munication with each other, by the deep fnows and
drenching rains, which lodge for months, or roll in
perpetual torrents through the deep ravine that inter.
feet the Country, and ifolate whole diftritts from the
refl. By opening the communications with roads
and bridges, not only the conveyance to and from
the filberies would be facilitated, but the bufinefs of
agriculture promoted; and the Country being thus
rendered tolerable to its hardy and indufirious inha-
bitants, they would be no longer induced to emigrate,
as for many years pall they have continued to do ;
and thus one of the moll valuable (burets for recruit-
ing our armies with a hardy and valiant race of
folliers, would be arengthened for our defence, which
in the prefent Rate of that diftria, was hourly exhauf-
ted by a depopulating fpirit of emigratien. The objea
in view was not to produce thofe improvements foie-
ly at the public expence, but to encourage the land-
holders of the Country to contribute at leall one half
the amount of the climates for making loch roads
and bridges, the other half to be defrayed out of this
fund. No land-owners to be compelled to open a road
through their own particular diflriass but merely en-
couraged by an allowance of half the eflimate ; the
exceeding., if any, to be difcharged by the landhol-
ders. He concluded by mowing a refolution, that a
fum not exceeding ao,ocol. be granted to hisMajelly
for the Paid purport.
Mr. BASTARD was decidedly againfl giving away
the public money at t' is cri.is, fur soy other purpofe
than the public defence; and Rill more efpecially did
be object aglinfl granting it for the purpofe now
propofed, as he could not fee why the agriculture of
the Highlands ofScotland, hich were exempted from
the Land-tax, fbould be improved at the expence of
premiums levied upon the lands of England.
Sir Rosser Busron raid, that no man regarded
with more ferupnlons jealonfy than he did all grants
of the public money ; bat he really did not confider
the fum now claimed fo much a matter of boon to the
Land-Proprietors of Scotland, as of national policy
in giving employment to the nil numbers of men in
that Country, who were deflitute of any lucrative oc-
cupation for their fubfiftence ; and would nut fail, in
rant of fuel; employment, to emigrate, as they were
hourly doing,to the depopulation of that diariet from
whence we had foconflantly drawn, and had Bill real.
fon to expell, fo many brave foldien for the defence
of oar Country, and more particularly at a erifis like
the prefent.
Air. W. SMITH (aid, that the porpofe avowed of
opening the communication between all parts of the
Country was truly deferable : but it coold not be ex.
petted to be carried into slat at the Cole expense of
the land-owners, on difirkis where the whole fee-
Pimple of the antes would fiercely defray the coll. I
But it was shun, of as much national importance as
any other, to opca a cinosuoicatiou bctWeta this

fart of the realm and that inhabited by Co many va-
luable members of fociety, who, in a political point
of view, ought to be wnfidered as conftituting a very
eonfiderable portion of the bell wealth of the empire.
namely, its population, its induftry, and its Rrength.
He was as ready as may man to admit that the exi-
gencies of the public defence at this moment demand-
ed the molt economical hufbandry of our refources,
the aloft fctupulous and vigilant faving of the public
money; but while the houfe was voting fuch a fum
as 3o millions for the firß year of the war, could it,
he would elk, be called a wife or a politic economy,
to refuge 20,0001. for the purpofe not only of keeping
within the Country thole very men who were fo con-
fiderable a part of the army, for our defence, but for
the perpetual improvement of thatdi ftriEt of the realm,
which was to be the fcene of their refidence, and by
rendering it tolerable to.themfelves, and advantageous
for their indußry, to prevent their emigration, and
irrecoverable lofs to the Country ? The objell, there,
was, in his mind, not a local, but a national one ;
and, on that ground, Ihould have his (uppers.
Mr. W. DUKDAS (poke warmly and forcibly to the
fame purport, and obferved, that if this meafure
were delayed, it would come too late ; for if once the
men were emigrated, they were for ever irrecoverable.
Mr. WILBERFORCE alio firenuoufly fupported the
Refolution, which palled, and was ordered to be re-
ported to-morrow.