The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-12-31 00:00:00

west of employmest, acenenpasiod by an ear-
seal prayer that some mesas might be devisid of @D-
alai them to earn their bread through the sweat of
darbrows. .titer begging pardon fur presuming to
I amp* to the Ilium any Juirisrular mode of providisig
he their employment and relief. the Petitioners took
leave to state. that in the draining and cultivation of
lose million acres of Irish bog, such a unantity of work
might be found as would enable them to support them-
selves- They farther stated, that having been resident
many years is Ragland, they had received fur their la-
bour a great deal of Eieiglisii money. and " as one good
tars deserves soother,' they submitted, that if the plan
which they had mentioned were adopted. means would
be found for the employment and subsistence of a great
somber of English and Scotch labourers also, as well
as for themselves. The Petitioners dwelt upon the mis-
fortune which they particularly littered is the present
scarcity of work, in eonsequeure of their exclusion from
any participation in the employment that altered, pre-
tereoee being generally given to the English and Scotch
labourers; but with this preference they did not find
faith, because, as they observed, " Charity begins at
boon."—They had heard, they stated, a great deal of
bother about Paper, and Bullion, and Radical Reformers,
bat they believed that the distress, of which they en-
dowed so large a share, was owing to the want of work,
and therefore they prayed the House to consider of the
hest means of removing that want.
The Petition was ordered to lie on the table, and to

be printed.
A Message from the /...cds stated their Lordship.' ass
sent to the -Newspapers Stamp Duties Bill, the Seditheelli
Libel Bill, and the Bakers Regulation Bill.
Lord CASTLF:IIEAUII moved that the iimeatilleelds
a' its rising, adjourn till the 15th of February.
Mr. ORENFELL said, that before this motion Wile
put, he felt it necessary to enter into some explanative
ee to a statement which hail gone abroad with regard lel
what he had said upon a former evening, and thus so'
do away the effect which the statement was calculand
to produce upon the public wind. Ile alluded to the
observations attributed to him upon the presentatioa aft
• Petition some nights ago by the Hon. Member be
Bramber (Mr. Irving). In these observations he weal
described to have cast some improper reflections apse
the object and character of the parties by whom that
Petition was signed. But nothing, he declared, could
be farther front his intention, and that in fart he mid
no such thing. Ile had, indeed, hail no opportunity
of seeing the Petition at the time he addressed ti,
Horse on the occasion alluded to, nor did he at all know
the Names 'of those by whom it was subscribed. But
having since seen that Petition, he found names annexed
to it which were connected with some lif the most re-
spectable mercantile houses in the country—for in-
stance, those .f Raring and Brothers, Scott, Inglis and
Co., Puget and Bainbridge. It was impossible then
that be could have advisedly charged suchmerchants
with soy thing like over-trading or over-speculating.
His observations were meant only to apply to the p-
enal systens--nausely, that the system of the paper cur-
elegy was connected with the system of over-trading or
omr.speculating ; but he inteside.l no reflection what-
ever upon the Petitioners, who comprehended the most
respectable merchants in London. The Petitiou was
indeed signed by 70 or Ml siterchanta of so high • cha-
meter, that it wonl4l he impossible to end any set of
men is the empire less likely to engage in any thing
like over-trading or over-spec.lating.
Lord CASTLEItEAUII observed, that from some-
thing -said by the Ilan: Ileatlemsn or the occasion -al-
luded to, he seemed to entertain a doubt whether the ar-
rangements concluded last Session with respect to the