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IpAULLIAMENTiIItr PROCEADINGS.
HOUSE OP COMMONS, FEBRUARY U.
ik from madey presented an Account of the In.
...„, ao bed be to the Salaries of the Commissioners
r-gbodae and Excise, as alto to the law Officers of the
ppiigadend, since the tat of Joinery, 1815. Ordered to
lobe table, and to be per-c.f.
oro. CLERK, in rising pursuant to his notice to move for
brieg in a MU for aseertairing and estabilehing a unifor-
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rehass and measures to be used throughout the klog-
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Magid it necesory to call to the recollection of the House
iodatoo Tam egos Ctunmittee had been appointed to consider
meet, Wins upon the 14 eport of this Committee that the
he whited to bring hi was tonaded.' Howse
The Hse would
deck was necessary for hint to go into a
detail of-the incurs.
teat were felt from the want of any.eniforpity in the
Aits sod awasures. The only alteration that was proposed
07k.aleseiSure of capacity. It was also proposed to adopt
odaideesirdupois instead of the Troy weight, as the former
„affely ouch more generally used. The standard measure'
1-odad, it was known, had beeq.Beed by au Act of Kure l'
to whin 2150 cubical itlaarn; whereas it had been ace'
bey the Committee that the standard bushel measure
wait Esehequer contained only 2i 24 cubical inches. Thee
a mew proportional deviation or difference front thei
bed by the Act of William, to all the lesser measteree'
oke, quart, iv.) kept in the Exchequer. The new stem.
jowl which it was now intended to establish, would eon-
., pounds weight of pure water at the tanperatue eof 56
Wltsreolseit'ahermorneter which was equal to 1121 s tub'.
• ' Great advantage would be found from the simplicity
die standard measures. Only cue measure of capacity
.to vied for all different articles, instead as formerly, a wine
imdFr
oete,beer measure, Ste. Sufficient time would be allowed,
op & operation of the Act was to commence, to allow the
to be known in every part of the country, and
=measures to be made, so that they might be at once
wadi over the kingdom. He vets anxious that no ounces.
Oki Amid take place, as already many complaints had
tats him by the manufacturers et weights in different
astif, that their trade was in a great degree suspended, in
wpm 01 the enactment being expected.. It was therefore
1011111dee toprepose that the blanks of the Bill should be im-
posr mod op, and that it should be printed, in order that
swims miabt be generally known. He concluded by moving
0108 le bring lathe. Bill.
br a few words from Mr, W. SMlTH,expressive able ap-
ologist tithe new plan, and his wishes that it might prove sue.
oaths NI was brought in, read a first time, and ordered to
"mil a Mond time to morrow. • .
ir 0. WARRItNDER brought up the Estimates of the
tog retoired fur the Transport iervice for the year 1816.
Waal to lie eta the table, and to be !waned.
itIt.WARD brought up an Account of the effective strength
rth cop of Royal kugineer.' 51 on the 25th Deeember,lBl
Disbar Account as to the Corps of Royal Artillery.—Oi.
'dab so tbe table, sal in bm printed.
Ur. WSHINGION brought up (..vies of the Coereepoe.
ocodunge the Treasury and the Board of Revenue, on the
Odd Revenue Cutter" in 1S t5.--Ordered to lie on the table',

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bsprioted.
osioN Stock Bill was read a second time, and ordered
; be comaitted no Friday.
Mx. GOOCH rose tor the purpose of asking the Honourable
deb a fortbefolk, whether he had flied tile day on which be
neirdiobiegkeward the motion for repealing the Malt I as,
oltidikektigfren notice ? He asked the question, because he
rished to Mitres/tit when so important a slue/akin was agitated. '
Mr. CUE said he could not yet fir any day ; but thought It
"Moot be until alter the Assizes. He would take care to give
disuse timely noticed the day.
_I,I Uri BlNSOlgbazor Wskwasordoned
be Clerk of the Crown, for the election of a
imaiissianer to serve In the priient farlianseot for the Shire of
Worm' in the room of the Hon. Charles Hope, who, since
slretioo,ltas accepted the office of Steward of tie Chiltern

iiiitted Bs Shop lifting Bill was read a second time, and ordered to
on Friday.
%Order of the Day for a Committee on the Convention
kmerics, was postponed till Friday.
PROPERTY TAX.
A Petition was presented from certain inhabitants
Borough of Montrose, against the Property
It was read, and ordered to lie on the tAble.
k GOOCH presented a Petition, signed by a
number of the Landholders, Farmers, and

tiden, in the Hundred of Lowell, in the County
Sallmeok, complaining geuerally of the enormous
ware of Taxes, especially the Property Tax, and
ars o3ore exclusively affecting the agricultural in-
to. It was read, and brderect. to lie on the table.
The same Member presented another Petition to
a same effect, from a number of most respectable
mom, Landholders and others, in the Hundred of
Amused Carpen, in the same County, which was
aio wad, and ordered to lie oa the table.
fair SAMUEL ROMILLY presented a petition
!loft:via inhabitants of the Borough of Arundel,!
the Property Tax, He stated, that the pe-
wee-es understoud that a pledge had been given for
tetrscootinuance of this oppressive Tax, as soon
I the war should be terminated. It wail hardly
, ,ectuetY fax him to say, how far his opinion coinci•
re With that of his constituents. But he wished to
6thit, the extlielt opportunity of correcting him-
E;in a statement which he had made yesterday, m-
ove to the persecution of the Protestants in the
ash of France. He had yesterday stated, that the
tuber of houses destroyed in the Department of the
Pad was two thousand. This was quite a mistake.
net he ought to have stated was, that nearly that ,
"'her of individuals, of the Protestant persuasion,'
eibe!ti robbed by the populace, under the pretence
etrying contributions. The number of houses de-
,efed was only 240. There was another error on
issubject, which was not his. He had been tepte-
Wed as having said, that the number of women eh!
Led been treated with indignity was 150 ; whereat
uhe4 only said, that SO women had been abeam/.
Wof these that eight bad died in consequence. He
%eluded by moving, that the petition be read.
Mr. JONES wished to take this opportunity of
Wing his reasons for opposing the Property Tax.—
ngh he
_approved of the amount of the propcsed
altery establishment, he by no means wisbcd
Petite of that extensiye establishment to be defrayed
the continuance of a tax of so unequal and op-
e a nature. Until the present military fervou
der
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uPoll the Continent, he felt how necessary it,
'raw ns to keep op a large army. His opinion 08
IN subject was not so much grounded upon an
"Iteltason of a reaction in France, as from -the Isl.
1,1211, Preponderance of a great Continental power,
ire dominions extended from the Sea of Azof to
~C49Ph of Bothnia, and which, not even conten-
-7211b such a prodigious extent of territory, had
711_, *nest the whole ut Poland. He agreed with
'lllVent writer, whouhl that Enaupe might one