The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-04-18 00:00:00

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late onliarpilybeen pursued. The lion. Gentleman
, proroodcd to cominertt on the evils which had been
brought on this country by the stoppage of the trade
- with America, and on the failure of our Orders in
MISCELLANEOUS.
The London zed Middlesex Penitentiary Howes Bill, and the Council:l which had ended in our granting licences to
Coffee Duty Regulation Bill, were read a second time,and ea.. permit thA, importation o nearly all the manufsctores
milted for Monday. of the enemy, which it was Our interest to prohibit.
The further consideration of Blachford's Divorce Bill beige( ~...
resumed, Counsel and Witnesses were called to the Bar; Ste nardly an ything was excluded but wine and brandy,
farther evideuee WAS adduced as to the fart of the adultery: a and the only restriction on the importation of their
part of this was a letter from Mrs. B. to her husband, which in. commodities ITU, that 51. per ton in British mania.
eluded a confession of the fact. Upon the whole, the evidence •
was such as, in the ?pinion or factures was to be exported in return for the imOot
The LORD CHANCELLOR. should induce their Lordships In many instances,•howeveri for 51. exported-, .
to give a second reading to the Bill, titougsa the simple confes- ...h, h., imported. To palliate that conduct which had
sion of the woman, uncorreboratetby other evidetW, would he Dun--
tar from sufficient. The Bill was then read a second :ime, and lea to these evils, it was now proposed to throw open
committed fist Monday. a part of the trade to India. This, however, gave
The Duke of BLAUFORT presented *Petition from the .
Merchants, Traders. and Ship-owners of the City of Bristol, , bun. but little consolation, as he feared its effect
against the renewal of the East India Company's Charter. ills' would be to endanger our Empire there, and to raid
Grace also presented a Petition from the Bristol Wet Docks'
Company, to the same egret. These documents were ordered those who endeavoured to avail themselves of the
to Ile on the table. , change. •
Lord Viscount SIDMOUTH (Lord Precident) presented a 1 Mr. BOSE thought this subject would be better
Petition from the Corporation of Dublin, against O. Claims of •
theirish Catholics, which being read, his Lordship moved, that i discussed when the papers which were ordered to be
the Petition do lie on the table. produced were before them. The Honourable Gent.
Earl STAN HOPE said, be would not oppose the motion, be- had said, that, by our licences we let itt those coma
came bethought such a Petition.shotild lie on the table.
The proceeding was ordered accordingly. , modities of France which it was most our interest to
Lord REDESD ALE moved, that the order for their Lord-' prohibit. Now he would observe, that en hiwns
ships to go into a Committee on the Insolvent Debtors' Relief which
Bill, on bloaday next, be discharged, and a similar order made were permitted to be imported, there was a
rise sMaeday se'nnight, which proceedings accordingly took ; duty of GO per cent.; and this, he thought, was some
place. I protection. With respect to laces, ice. he would ob-
The remaining Bills upon the table being forwarded in their I
reepectivestages, their Lordships adjourned till Monday. I serve, that on their importation no duties were im-
' posed by the last Administration, as it was felt that
they would have little or no effect, and in this feel-
ing their successors had participated. That some of
out manufacturil - towns had suffered to a *milder..

DIP&RIAL PARLI.4MEN7'.

ROUSE OF LOMA, Mart U.

•
lIOUSE OF COMMONS.
On the Motion of Mr. HUME, a Return of the number of
Cadets sent out to the establishments of the East India Como- iy

of fleagal, Madras, sad Bombay, were iodised to be laid be-
fore *House.
CATHOLIC BM kNCIPATION. •
Mr. WHITBREAD presented a Petition, signed
by between 8 and 9000 persons, Christians of va-
rious denominations, praying that the most perfect
liberty .of conscience might be granted to all classes
of his Majesty's subjects. lie -had had the honour
of haying this petition put into his hands by a Gen-
tleman most distinguished for his virtue, and who,
after many years spent in the same way, now at the
Close of life (though nevertheless healthy) was still
active in the cause of his fellow-creatures, and still
anxious to employ the remainder of his days in
spreading 64 peace on earth and good-will towards
men." After saying thus much, he need hardly de-
signate the person of whom he had spoken • it was
s
almost unnecessary to say it was the Rev. Mr.
Wyvill.
The Petition was then brought up, read, and or-
dered to be laid on the table.
Mr. WHITBREAD then presented similar Peti-
tions from many places irt England, from Sheffield,
Leeds, Manchester, Exeter, Halifax, Nottingham,
Bristol, Hull, and Berwick, which were read, and
ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. WHITBREAD said heshould have thought it
necessary to submit some proposition to the House on
the subject matter of these petitions, but for the pe-
culiar circumstances Of the present time, which in-
clined him to wait the issue of the motion of his
lion. Friend. At present he was content to refer
these tb the Committee on the Catholic Petitions.—
Be, however, gave notice that it was his intention,
unless the Court of King's Bench, on a case pending
respecting the new construction which had lately
been put on the Toleration Act, determined that to
be the legal construction which had been the liberal
one, he would on Wednesday, the 49th April, submit
a motion to the House the object of which would be

able extent, hey had no doubt ; but whetbersiko
had so suffered in consequence of tie Orders' life:
Council, was a very different question.
Sir C. MORDAUNT offered a few observations
on the presetit state of Birmingham, as when such
hard words as ruin awl starvation were used, he
thought they ought not to go unanswered. The
town was not in that deplorable state in which it had
been supposed to be. As a proof of this, he coald
state, that the recruiting service in that neighbour-
hood had been very slack. He .did not say it tad
not suffered ; he admitted that the people of Bir-
mingham had endured a great deal, and with great,
patience, but hitherto a want of employment had sot
been very severely felt by the industrious, though it
was feared it soon would be, as the stock iu hand
was so great, that work would not long be found un-
less that stock was got off. If, however, much was
felt here, much also was felt on the other side of the
Atlantic. An American could not shave himself,
nor catch his mice, for want of our commodities.—
He concluded, observing, that if it were shown to the
people of Birmingham that the present system ought
to be persevered in, they would quietly go to their
gardens and dig potatoes.
Mr. BARING explained.
Mr. WHITBREAD said, the House was boued
to believe the lion. Member who presented the Pe.
tition ; but surely they were bound to believe thip
Petitioners also, who were the best judges of their
own distresses, and who stated that, but for the et.
ertions of the master manufacturers, and their kind
attention to the situation of their workmen, they
must have perished. The journeymen in Birm
ham, indeed, had not been out of work, but why
had they not? Namely, because their masters, unlike
the generality of persons so circumstanced, had con-
tinued them in employment, even while they had no
vent for their manufactures; and had expended their
•iitals ;• ',:tain; them, and ;- warding off from

to make the liberal, the legal construction.
Mr. LYTTLETON presented a Petition from
Dudley against the East India Monopoly. Ordered
to lie on the table.
BUT VIM CHARTER;

capitals in maintaining them, .in _
them those calamities\felt in other districts, and in
preserving them from the commission of those dread-
ful acts, of which, unfortunately, at the present mo-
ment, every newspaper furnished us with fresh and
- mela details. In such • circumstanr

Mr. CREtVEY; as he was not present on a
former evening, when the Right Hon. Gentleman
had been said to state it to be h 4 intention to bring
forward his proposition on the hbject of the renewal
of the Fist India Charter, in the week after next,
wished to ask if such was his intention. He then
observed, that there were a variety of documents on
this subject, which it was desirable the House should
peruse before they went into the discussion, which
had not yet been pat into their hands. The pro-
ceedings of 1793, on the subject, and a very volu-
minous Report, which had been printed, were neces-
sary to be considered, before they decided upon the
nen. agreement. He wished to know what *as the
intention of the Right Hon. Gentleman, as a know-
ledr of it w of - LII it Irtar tt the it

more melanci ty ,aiis. _
the Rouse was peculiarly called on to do all that in
them lay, to ward off impending ruin from persons.
of this meritorious description ; and to do what
Gentlemen on the same side of the House with
him (Mr. W.) had been daily urging the Right
Honourable Gentleman to agree to, namely, to
appoint a Committee for the purpose of enquiring
the causes assigned in these petitions be or be not thy'
true causes of the present distress of the manufactnr.
ing districts of the country ; or if it be for the general
good of the Empire that these districts should be ea.
crificed. He begged of the House to recollect the
march of the Chancellor of the Exchequer this year,
compared with what it had been last year. Last year,
when a calamitous case was stated, though by, no

WAS no mai Impoi nee presein
moment, when all the out-ports had sent Delegates
to Lon:len, who were anxious to ascertain whether
it was his iatention then to commit it to Parliament
or not.

means to be compared with the present, he himself
moved for a Committee, even though them was, no
hope of pointing out a remedy, or of affording any
relief. This year he refused all enquiry whitevert

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
haring already stated his intention of bringing the
subject before Parliai tt in the week after if

when it was asked too, as the only means of allaying
those feelings of discontent which existed in the
very heart of the country. When the Right
_obtSlifed

Oit. menu in .4e wee. next,
he had had any reason to alter his intentlOn, should
have thooght it his duty to state that fact to the
House. At present he had no such statement to
make, and it was his intention and his hope, not
only to bring it forward, bat to pass the measure it
might be thought proper to propose in the course of
the present Session, through both Homes of Parlia-
ment. He knew that there were delegates from the
out-ports in London (some of whom be had seen),
and he knew that it would be a disappointment to
them, if he should be disappointed in his present in-
tention. It was, however, impossible to pledge
himself to bring forward a measure of this descrip-
tion precisely at the time which he had mentioned.--
He could only say that he still hoped that it would
be in his - - to bring it-forward early in the weeit

'Houourabl• Gentleman, smite time ago, ob.
the concurrence of " the House to an issue of
Exchequer Bills for the relief of our manu-
facturers, &c. it was agreed that It should be
paid back in instalments. One of those instalments
was already due, and had been paid. A second in-
stalment became due to-morrow. Now, he asked
the Right Honourable Gentleman, if he had not been
inform4l that such was the state of the persons to
whom the advances had been made that they could
not pay this second instalment? And that if de-
manded, Birinitigham must be nearly ruined ?—tb'
so, ansi if the master manufacturers are so reduced byl
the sacrifices made by them to keep the workmen in
existence, that on the very day before this instalment
becomes due, they are not in a situation to pay it.

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after next.

ORDERS 1 V couNctt..
Mr. WILBERFORCE presented two Petitions
from Ilallamskire and Si ' in Yorkshire, against

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did it not become him (Mr. Whitbread) to *sic of
the Right Honourable Gentleman, when .tOse
manufacturers state the Orders in Council to Jse
the caust of their ittability to pay this instal-

,heilield,. uation. . .. __
the Orders •le 'Council.—Ordered to he on the ntept, to go into a Committee on the Orders in.! persons `taken horn the plough, bui men who having
table. i Council, for the purpose of seeing if these Ors'i served long apprenticeships to their business, exer-
Sir C. MORDAUNT presented a Petition from • ders ii, Council, were the cause of such calamiti..." Qf eis3d it as an art in-Which skill and ingenuity, more
Birmingham against the Orders in Council. ! not ? The Honourede Baronet he thought had been ! than strength, were required. -60 this aceontit their
Mr. BAKING felt it to be impossible, 'when such Aithgr toe free with America, Let it be recollected ' masters had been cohered to coDtihue them in employ-
- Petitions were- presented from our most populous that now America did nor, as roimerly, require nails ; rent, • though at wages barely sus Cient to keep life
manufactusiag towns, to refrain from calling the at- from as. Her manufactures would every day be im- ' togethee. 'They could not disband theiraverkincu, 1
tention of the House to the-subject. These, it wee proving; an irwe,nowpersisted in ourselves shutting': though it now appeared they must shortly do so ; and 1
to be A/erred, did not come from persons who were her ports againsfus, they might in all probability, in ;let it he recollected, that the moment such men were!
sion. if Ministers virtuous and able were got to many other articles of iron manufacture, continue once distended, they were distmoded for ever, and
influediliod by a desire to obstruct tbo measures of shut against us for ever: If sugh•clisorders ai now that.outaufacture cggld go longor..
Government ; bat from persons who had not come preyeilel in Enoland NO been heard-ark Ireland, . this.country? Why miglit neftlee ittC4uncii 1
forward till their Own ruin and the !marring state of. that country Would be said to be in a data of iasur..' go before a !select • ativelt 0 Vitt qtteStion
%carried on in
des,
those under them forced them to come to that House, reerim, ; And oimiot ti4cagops of this ferment ipot tal relating to the Air.Ce7ZWitefittiteetsi le whith eq-
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mid state the fond regatta of the system Which bad of be fully enquired into f;. . 'dance was gone into as to .the evils that 7,94 arise