The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-08-07
FOREIGN.
HOUSE OF June II
July IS.
ORDERS IN COUNCIL.

ORDERS IN COUNCIL.
Mr.. ~Brougham said, he rose to bring be-
fore the House a proposition ON a subject
which had already occupied much of the
time IF the House, and which he was con-
WINGED was the most important the House
gould at present attend to = and to call CT
Gentlemen to perform their duty to the
country, by declaring their, opinion, and Civ
ing their advice to the Grown en- the subject.
Notwithstanding the mass Of evideiCa Wick
had been presented TO the House, he was
convinced there never was q subject which
laid in a borrower compass, or in which the
truth laid nearer the surface than the pre-
sent. Ills task, therefore, would be short !;
but there was one object painful, indeed, in
the extreme (; but painful rs it was, to it
he must advert. and that waG the painful
pictures Of want and ruin which had been
derajso IL evidence :. Evidence given by
persons who, after having by a life of indus
Try BY which they had realised an .ppulent
fortune, now fonnd themselves stript by de-
goes OF that fortune, and prevented from
assisting as they had been uscd.to do, their
la6orious fellow subjects, except indeed by
Fastening their " ruin by the operation,
rs they all agreed in saying. OF the Orders
IN Council--these Orders in Council which
tour years ago, were passed by those who
pretended to be their friends, though even
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1ation. They now, however, after four years
Of trial, came to the House asking to be re
heved from the cares of those their pretend
Cd friends and surely it was something that
Yorkshire, Lancashire. and W~arwickshire,
he'd united, and, as with one VOICE, come to
the bar VI the House, ard entreated for the
repeal of those now tried Orders in Council.
1he HOnourabie Gentleman then adverted
TO the various Petitions which had beca
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ny OF which he acknowledged, were extra
VACANT, and even IudicroGs. Amongst O.
ther objects of petitioning had been that Of
throwing opcn the trade tr India and "a
mongst the Petitions inteSded to be p'esen-
ted 10 the House, he had seen one from a
set ct persons praying to be allowed to eX-
port black cattle TIC the East-another from
the pot;eries of Stafordshire, praying to be
allowed to send their manufactures to Chi
ma ami another from the town Of fewcas-
Tie upon IyGc, praying permission to ex-
port Goals 10 scpply the lighthouses at Cal
cutta. These indeed, were ludicrous To
read, bnt Melancholy indeed to reflect on ;
since they proved ihc height of distress
which existed great enough to make men
lose sight of reason and good sense in pur.
suit Of relief.
The Hon. Member then proceeded TO take
a review OF the state Of tie hardware ma
nutacturing districts, particularly Of Bir-
minSham, which town, he said, and the dis
tricts tor - miles round, which formerly
employed near 100000 wcrkmen, we're now
reduced to distress +; half the WORK men,
quite out Of employ, and the remaining
half finding il for only half their time, and
working then for little more than half Tie
usual wages and the masters declaring
yhat uaiess SOME change took place, they
should no LONGER he ablc 20 omoIov rver
that number * that rate. in a conversaui
on which he had The honour of holding with
mat distinguished CHARACTER (the late Mr.
P~erceval} that great man said" True
you have mace cut ycur case, as far az re