The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-06-02 00:00:00

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. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, Jun E 1.

The Dere Fore 4 bill was read a second time, and after
soo e conversation het wren Lord Howl of C .ilsecio atm, toe
Ea I ot Limerick, Lords (Woolley, Redesdate, and Lord Vi,-
yowl Melville, chasinitud f r a,Y ethicality. Lord Viscount
111• lei le funk the oppo: amity of Misery lag upon the great
Imporafee al magma; ~.ensures in time to ensure a supply
of anther from tile Royal Forests, ur ()thereat. 111 the course
of a few'yeara the British. Navy wuu.d be wholly depeudetot
on a supply of foreigtfaitaber.
The I-1.• of Man Smuggling Hid, the British Fisheties Bill,
Ito Stair% Conches HAL the Poor Badge Bill, and several '
other Bills were brought up by Mr. Lushiligion Sir JOhn
Siuclair, Mr. Wilbraham 'Bootle, Slialantes Graham, Sir J.
li, Cott rill, Laid Henniker, and other Alembics of the
Ifouie of Cniumon's, and read a first lime.
Tbo Stamp Duties Surplus Appropriation'Bill was read a
second time, and committed fu Tuesday. Several Accoomts
relative Is the Stamp Duties, 'Were (sedge(' on the motiait Of;
the Earl of Lauderdale.
'Some papers bere preseled telative to the Caledonian Ca-
nal. and the Earl of Lauderdale took an (opportunity of cen;
Wring this u.alertaking, as a great waste ot money, without
nny public mita:, there being nothing of any Importance to
convey by the Canal.
GAS AND COKE, DILL
bora SHEFFIELD moved the third reading, and said it
has been the wish and the endeavour of the Committee to
which the Gas and Coke Bill was referred'. to obv,iate thetas-
jectiorn to it. The must diligent search ha; been made for
objectiam, and be andentnod most, if Mot all, have been
moved; unleia those to the'rlause which misters the subscri-
bers separately noi,nntiwerable except to the. amount of
their stock or subscription, and Ails clause could not be given
up without sacribcing the main object of the 818. He ob-
served, great undurtekings comma be promoted and establish-
ed by icdividualsa and it has bee,t gencially found expedieut
to form companies for carrying ou several branches ot. trade;
and uodertakongs which require a large capital, and a steady
perseverance not dependant on the exertions or life of an in-
dividual. • England oyes much of ber prosperity to such com-
pneies.—lneorpormoted (limp:ones were the parents of almost •
every braselial our foreign commerce • and to encourage
them great privileges were granted, and for a lung term of
aeon they enjoyed motalpotasand"esclusive sights, and o' her
advatditaesy.* hitch, w lieu the eoutitry became rich and more
• corn:nen iat, Iv ere found. to. be not only unnecessary, but preju-
dicial, eheckitig.emerptiae, and preventing competitions Toe
Petitioners tar this Bill desire none of the privileges that were
objected to in the old caarters ;alley desire ro inanopoly or
exclusive :tarts; and to he !imam' to the term of twenty-one
yeas. As to the suggestitons-whielf have been thrown out, in
threat couiradiction to the plain meaning of the Bill, that 'it
"mitt virtually give a monopoly anti exclusive rights—that its
peevish'p are obligatory ou the aublic—they were ton refined
ur sublime for his contpreheosi..n. Utiles, the subscribers,
who mire very numerous, awl of course can have little to do.
ith the conduct of the Ins-Mesa are exempt from the tope*
ration of the Banksupt Laws, as is usual in such cases, the
Undertaking 'mat entirely fall to the ground. • Nothing is de-
sired but what has usually and lately been granted to compa-
nies of the same mature, via. Insurance Companies, Naviga-
ble Lama Companies, Companies for the supply_ of large
towns alb water' to the Flour Company, to the Vi'hitstable
fr'sbery, to tee Northumbi:rland Fishery, and the seine as
was greeted to the Highgate Archway, on the very day the
objection to this clause was tint steed. •He was in no shape
or in any degree persoually interested in this Bill; lie was re-
quested to attend to it by some folends, which having done,
and having carefully examined the evideuce a:al several state-
ments respecting it, he was convinced that great public benefit
might be derived if the ututertakine succeeded. It is he;
merely Gas Light which a ill he old: tined, and much money
saved, mow paid to (foreigner-, for tallow and ail, but several
other articles, of perhaps still more importance, such as
coke. tar, pitch, asphaltum, Amoniaeal liquor. and essential
oli, for which we are in a great measure depentlynt upon
other countries; and all these will be obtained holm coal, an
article which this country postaases in an eminent degree; and
which will nut be wasted in the operation, but will continue
good fart, and for many purposes in an iniproved state; and
too t of them may be procured from slack or refuse coal,
w -lied now lies useless in vast heap?, and is Considered of no
Earl STANHOPE mentioned the pernicious effects of the I
gas, when caperinseuts on it Were tried at the Lyceum, four
or live years ago, and the dancer which might arise in the
metropolis, if this mode of lighting Was resorted to; from a
whole dotrint being soddenly left in darkness through an ac-
moron maim -IM% to nue of the snails tubes. The Duke of
A.totol ulcteud. d the Bill, and the Mal quis of Lansdowne oh-
served, that a great improvement had taken place in the ex-
periattenis lately made with ate gas: After some observa-
tm s from the 1...arl or Lauderdale and Lord Redesdale, tine
Bill was read a third time and ;eased, with amendments, add
cent Mr to the Commons. . •
Una we third reading of Card's Divorce Bill, Earl GREY
snored to leave out the clam.- prohibiting the attending puts
ties from iluermarry iog. His Lordship declined entering lotto
cuss argument relative to the stamlni!.order, in pursuance of
which this clauses was introduced, it being his imention to
noose the reseiniiiim of the errata but at all evetes the clause
was woolly tmorces,ury, nod after a few words from the
Earl of Lauderdale, who alas also hostile to the, order, the
Bill am read a third time, and passed, and orderea to the
C iiiii toms. . •
Tice Earl of 'JARN LEY'rtuated for returns of the state
of the sick temps who had returned from. the Walenereit Ex-
pedition, mind copies or extracts of the reports of Colonel*
of regYments employed in that Expedition, retalecting the
state of their regiments, &c. His Lordship observed, that,
although from the late period of the Session, it was not his
intemaino to institute only isuptiry upon this subject, still he
•thinight it of importance, that inawination of the state of
the troops should he laid before the House, and he feared .it
.would be found, that nearly half the army employed in that
disastrous E s ;wait' Oil, had been rendered, from toe effects of
the Warhol-en laver, wholly unfit for service.
The Earl of 1 cVER POOL agreed to two of the 'Tontines,
for a Return of time sick, mid the Rephrts of Colonas of
Regiments; but could not consent to aaloird, for the Pro-
Auction of a Statement of the Efficitiocy ot particular Re-
giments.
Earl GREY said, that the last object might he at-
t .imied, by a general Return of the State of the Ilesals of
the Troops.
The Earl of LIVF.RPOOL objected to this, observing
that sal:lent inforinmaion would be obtained from the duce-
omen's, to the production of a Web he bad consented. The
nature of the Wttichereu fever amts, be said, well known,
and that the persons attacked were liable to relapses in the
sprang; amid the present spring, he observed, had been parti-
Cul.irly talfavoutaale.
Eacl.6ll,BY observed, that the imitate of the fever was
welt known. and might have been sufficiently known to Mi-
nisters to prevent the sacrifice of a fine army in '.Vaileheren.
After some &Aker conversation between Earl Grey, the
Early of Roslyn and Liverpool, the two mutions• were
agreed to, mind the third negatived. •
Earl S CA N HOPE, after some ohservationa upon the dis-
cordancy of the opinions of the Commissioners ender the Stott
Judicature Act, as appeared by their Third Report relative
to tee e pediency of introducing Trial by Jury, on civil cases,
into Scotland, moved that they should deliver their respective
individual opinions in writing to the House. •
A long conversation ensued, in which the motion was op.
posed try the Earl of Liverpool, the Lord Chancellor, Unit
Lord Retiesdale ; and supported by the Earls of Lauderdale,
fin..lyn, Lord Holland, and Earl Stanhope, iu reply. The
house at length divided—
Couteots 6--Not Contents 10—Majority 4.
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Adjouraed till to-morrow (this day).