The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-04-30 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PAILIAIIENT.

ROUSE Oir LDRDEL—Toasshr.
The Weights and bleasere 9111 wan brought up from the
House of Commons, and read a first time.
A person from tie Directors of Margate Pier presented
certain accounts.
Lord ROLLS presented a petition from OaltbiteptOn
agelnst the Coal Duties.
The Dills on the table were raid in their stages, and the
Hoes. adjourned.

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HOUSE OP COMMONS: TttsDA
AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. •
Col. WOOD presented a petit's.' from the Freeholders of
Brecon, complaining of Agricultural Distress.—Ordered t
lie on the table
Sir THOS. LETHBRIDGE presented a petition from cer-
tain Freeholders and Occupiers of Land la the parish of Ci.;
reneester, in the *minty of Gloucester, complaining of
' Agricultural Distress.—Ordered to lie oo the table, and be
printed.
A similar petition was presented by the Honourable Re-*
ronet from certain Freeholders in the county of Gloucester,
' prating the relief of the House from Agricultural Distress.
—Ordered to lie oa thetable.
DUTY ON COALS.
4iir WM. LEMONS presented it petition from Out eoutiAt
Of Cornwall against the CoakDo.las.
,%...,erdered to lin on till
tette, ha be prlrdcd. •
'Sir. .COURTENAY peeseeted is polities from Exeter,
-pitying the repeal albs Rill which imposed. Duty on Coals.
—Ordered to he on the table, amtbe printed.
POSTPONEMENT o,l4olloWit.
iIIt:AIIERCROMBY gave nodes of the postponement
01610001 u retail,* to William Murray lipstbwick to the
Wet May...
Mr. CREEVY Postponed his 1111406 motion gabs lee-
ward Islands until the f4d of May. '
LINEN YARN. '1
Mr. ELLIS presented • pedant's lima UltallManefae-
tutees of Ireland, praying that a daty mkt-birrit upon Li-
nen Yarn imported in that country. •
Mr. SPRING RICE spoke in favour of the petition,
and lamented that the Chancellor of the Eschaquer was not
in his place, as he w*e4 to ark him a question upon this
subject.
Sir GEORGE MI. said a few words In favour of the

petition. • I
Sir HENRY PAIDIELL hoped that the numerous regu- I
hitless amounting to two or three hundred, which burthee- '
mil the linen trade, -would be simplified, and a fresh code in-
'reduced.
Mr. DAWSON deprecate& any measure which discourag-
ed the linen trade In !rebind. He hoped ifauy pew laws
were made, that previousix the merchants of that country
would be made acquainted with them.
After some further conversation betweer Sir GEORGE
HILL, Sir JOHN NEWPORT, and Mt. ELLIS, the peti-
tion was ordered to lie on the table,and be printed.
Mr. HUME presented a petitton trom Ammo, Aberdeen,
praying fora repeal of the Wigs on Mote.
To a question put by Mr. HUME, •
The CHANCELLOR of-the EXCHEQUER said it was
his intention to propose the repeal 'ltems duties.
Mr. ELLIS presented auctloo from Watshom, near
Bridgwater, against the D es Coals, .and he begged to
know if the Chancellor of the fichequer Wended to take off
soy duiles
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, there
was a material difference between the tazesitpon stone and
'Male. He had seceded to thi Hen. Member (Mr. "fume)
ntsyleedng thedety upon sisoeviietile Gould not pledge
Minaldrtbst;lbe Dutymn • Cosi* model be dew of " From
Aktlimstee, nieveoes aipottating ft Most 4101010/. wasiwt-:
Iseled, whilst the latter yielded about a seiliion.
The petition was ordered to lie on the able, and to be
printed.
Capt. MABERLY presented a petition from the shoe-
makers of Daventry, in Northamptonshire, praying fora to-
tal repeal of the I.eather Tax.—Ordered to lie on the table,
and to be printed.
Mr. D. BROWN moved for a Return of the Schedules of
the Duties, Sc. collected by the Clerks of the Peace in the
several counties of Ireland.
Mr KENNEDY, Iticeeebly to his motion, moved that a
Select Committee be appointed to inquire into the state of
tits roads leading front Glasgow to Port Patrick, and to re- j
port thereon.
The CIIANCFLLOR of the EXCHEQUER recommended
economy if the Committee should find it necessary to repair

the road.
Mr. KENNEDY wades few observations, and the Com-
mittee was appointed agreeably to the motion.
On the motion of SirJOHN NEWPORT, Sir A. Bradley
King and W. Stothard, were summoned to attend the House
on Monday next, to give evidence on the motion of Sir
Freida Burdett relative to Mr. Sheriff Thorpe.
MR. GEORE WHITE.
Mr. HUME rose. pursuant to his motion, and called
for the production of papers relative to the dismissal of
Mr. White fromalie situation of tax-gatherer in the Ux-
bridge and Kensington districts ; also for the copies of
the correspondence between the Board of Taxes and Mr.
Sabine, the gentleman holding a situation above that of
Mr. White.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, if
he unders•cood the motion rightly, it was calling for pa-
pers which bad been transmitted to and from a district
in which the petitioner, Mr. White, had been engaged.
The Right Hon. Gentleman contended, that a Board
constituted like the Board of Taxes, had an undoubted
right to dismiss one of its officers, if they saw sufficient
ground so to do. The House should not interfere in oc-
casions of this nature; if they did, it would make it ex-
ceedingly inconvenient, rendering Public Boards liable
to be called upon to produce documents which might
prove injurious. The House would not take away from
those bodies the right of dismissing their servants. The
Right Hon. Gentleman said he should hay* no objection
to giving up the correspondence called for in the latter
part of the Hon. Member's motion, provided the Commit-
tee, after inquiry, should think the petitioner bad been
improperly dismissed.
Mr, J. CA LCRAN'T observed, that his Hon, Friend
(Mr. Hume) had taken up the part of ail injured indivi-
dual; at least so he understood, but he-knew nothing of
him whatever, and as this was a special case,he trusted
that the documents demanded would be produced.
Mr. CANNING concurred in what his Right lion.
Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, had advanced.
The first papers called for by the Honourable Member,
Mr. Hume, related to the malversation of the petitioner,
and there could not be the slightest reason for withhold-
ing them; but with respect to the second list of (lore-
went!, the copies M.all the letters and.torrespontienre be-
tween the, Beard •f Taxes and theaccuser of the petition-
er, there wan a great objection to their being proinced.
But if the Committee should require them after the in.
quiry, the papers certainly should be presented. It nas
an assumption of the facts as stated by the Hon. Member
his moving for the two lists of papers together. But if
it should appear to the Coalmine': that the petitioner
WAS-111 injured individual, then the second papers might
tie demanded.
Mr. HUME considered the correspondence highly im-
portant for the justice of the case. The ground upoa
which be called for the correspondence was, that the
letters pointed out the fraud. He accused the Board- of
Taxes fcr having dismissed Mr. White without a sliffici‘
Flit inquiry ; and lie charged the Treasury and the Goa
vernment with a dereliction of their duty. A sum of
money, amounting to 2401., had been collected by the
Commissioners, a considerable portion of which lead by
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