The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-05-02 00:00:00

TiIt',.STATESMAN.

Ireland, the onus probandi,nb to expedieneysl4 vilth
them.

The Earl of LIVERPOOf4 adverted to the no.
ressity of the Bill being speedily enacted. lie had
fin objection to the production of information, pro-
vided it .ire not caned 'for in ontor to, delay the
nil asu re.

• After a few words from Lord King,and the Nohlo
Secretary, in explanation, certain accounts respect-
ing the issues, number, and amount of notes of the
Bank of Ire!aud, were ordered to be laid before the
House.

some conversation then took place, principally be-
tween the Earls of Lauderdale and Rosse, in which
the subject of the Irish Tobacco Duties Bill was re-
ferred to; when
Earl GREY begged leave to remind their Lord-
ships there was no question respecting the Irish To-
bacco Bill before the House.
BANK OF ENOLAND. ' '

The Earl of LAUDERDALE, pursuant to no-
tice, rose to submit, he said, one of the most import-
ant topics to their Lordships' consideration that ever
engaged the attention of the British Legislature. It
referred in no small degree to a Rill then before their
Lordships, which he deemed of such importance, that
the great question respecting the East India Companx,
was in his mind trifling, when compared to it. His
Lordship, then, in a speech of considerable
adverted to the prominent parts of the history .s
Bank of England from its first establishment ; its va-
rious transactions, and occasional connection, parti-
cularly of late years, with Government. To its im-
mense paper issues were, he said, to be attributed,
many of the internal evils experienced by the coun-
try ; from which, and the encouragement thereby
afforded to the establishment and issue of paper by
country Banks; the exorbitant prices of provisions
in various parts of the country proceeded. The po-1
licy of Government with respect to that great com-
pensation, was. suck as held out no prospect of its
ever resuming cash payments. He deprecated the
various political and domestic evils which he argued
must arise from an extensive paper currency, which
the Bill alluded to would go to confirm and extend
by making Bank notes a legal tender. The Noble
Lord described the motion with which he meant to
conclude, was for a Committee of the whole House
to enquire into the present state of the metallic and
paper currency throughout the kingdom, and into
such changes as have taken place in the nature of the
transaction of the Bank of England since the year
1797, and into the various prices of commoditiess
with a view to awertain whether there existed a pried
in coin, and a price in paper, and whether the prices
of commodities were not advanced in consequence?
He repeated that these important considerations cal-
led for the most- serious attention of their Lordships.
The distresses of the country were great, and its ge-
neral prospect alarming; and they were called upon
by every sense of feeling and of duty, to enquire in-
to the subject, with a view to ascertain the causes of
such extensive evils, and with the view of endeavour-
ing to remove them. His Lordship concluded by
moving for a Committee as above.
Earl BATHURST observed, the greater part, if
not the whole of the ground on which the _Noble
Earl proceeded, was an assumption that there was
not sufficient information to enable theta to judge of
the Bill now pending before the House, to which he
had made such ample reference. Their Lordships
would recollect the vast number of documents al-
ready before them, on the motions of the Noble
Earl himself, who, instead of moving for paper after
paper,might have ere now come forward in this general
wrong, and taken the sense of the House upon the
proposition. To his mind, it did not appear the
Noble Earl had laid any ground whatever for the en-
quiry, and he must observe his arguments, instead
of applying against the particular measure aimed at,
were applicable in any manner to a question of the
continuance of the restrictions on the Bank. The
proper course he thought would have been to move
for a committee in the first instance ' • but he could
not conceive that the Noble Lord had made out any
case for the present motion.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE supported the
motion of his Noble Friend, on the ground that
some limit should be fixed to the operation of a mea-
sure, which he did not hesitate to call the greatest

asentot arid& wore rejected. The Bill was ordered
to he.reported without any amendments, and the
Ilouse adjourned to Monday next.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
A new Writ was ordered for the Borough Langston, in the
room of the Hon. Captain Bennett, who, since his election, had
accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.
'Mr. EIRE presented a Petition from Nottingham, complain-
ing of the evils which they suffered from the practices of evil-
disposed persons, directed against the stocking-frames, &c. and
praying relief. Ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. WILBERFORCE presented a Petition from the Ship-
wrighft, of Bridlington, against the encouragement given to
building Ships in the East -Indies. Ordered to lie on the table.
On the motion of Sir G. HILL, an Account was ordered to
be laid before the House of the quantity of Irish and Foreign
Linens retained for home consumption for the three years ending
sth Jannary, 1812.
On the motion of Sir HOME POPHAM, the Papers present-
ed on the 2lss nit, relative to Captain King's Claim, were or-
dered to be printed.
Mr. J. SMITH presented a Petition from Nottiqgham, against
certain fraudulent practices, in the stocking manufacture. Or-
dered to lie on the table.

The Message of the Lords respecting the Fourth Report of the
East India Affairs, was taken into further consideration, and a
printed Copy of the Report was ordered to besent to their Lord-
ships.
Mr. MARTIN briniest in a Bill to regulate the Offices of De-
puty Romembrancer of the Court of Exchequer. Head a first
time, and ordered to be read a second time on Friday, and to be
printed.
On the motion of Mr. WHARTON, it was ordered, That at
its rising, the House should adjourn to Monday.
The Excise Superannuation Bill was read a second time, and
ordered to be eoesmistedtoo Monday:
The General r Bill was read a second time, and or-
dered to he committed, oi this day three weeks.
Oa the motion of Me: CALCRAFT, there was ordered to be
laid before the House an Account of the umber of Recruits
raised monthly, from the 24th December, 1811, to the 21th
April, 1812, by ordinary Recruiting, exclusive of the Foreign
and Colonial Corps. •
On the motion of Mr. W. POLE, Copies of the 13th and 11th
Reports of the Board of Education in Ireland, were ordered to
be laid before the House.

A person from the Office of the Chief Secretary for Ireland,
immediately presented the above, which were ordered to lie on
the table.
Mr. W. POLE gave notice that he would move the Miwg.
laneous Services for Ireland, in the Committee of Supply, on
Monday.'
Mr. WHARTON brought up the Report of the Committee
on the Copper Duties. Agreed to, and a Bill ordered accord-
infille Bill for better manning ships employed in the Southern
Whale Fishery, was read a second time, and ordered to be com-
mitted on Monday.
RIOTING.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
gave notice, that on Monday be would move for I
leave to bring in a•13ill to extend the provisions of the
Riot Act (which at present were confined to dwell-
ing-houses) to mills, manufactories, &c. Recent
occurrences rendered this a very important considera- '
tion. [Hear, hear I
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
brought in the Bill for the further prevention of the
conterfeiting of Bank Tokens. Read a first time,
and ordered to be read a second time on Monday.
The Report of the Embezzlement 13111 was taken
into further consideration and agreed Lo, and the
Bill was ordered to be read a third time on Thurs.
day.
A Message from the Lords announced their Lord.
ships' assent to the Irish Auditors' Bill-
The reference of Mr. Compton's Petition to the
Committee of Supply, was postponed to Monday
next.

In consequence of Friday being a day on which,
by the regulation of the House, Orders of the Day
preceded Notices of Motions, a conversation took
place between Mr. Whitbread and the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, in the course of which
Mr. Whitbread intimated, that if the expect-
ed debate on the Report of the Barrack Estimates
did not last until a late hour, he would submit to
the House his motion for the production of the Do-
cuments on which the Americans founded their
charge against the British Government ; but that,
should that debate be protracted to any length, he
trusted that an arrangement would be made, by
which a subject so grave, important, and pressing,
might be brought under the consideration of Parlia-
ment etas early a period as possible.