134 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. NONDAY, Ft:B. 12.2. Counsel were heard in the Scotch A ppeal,Craw ford v.Patrick. The Valt Dot Bill went through a Coimitteo. A Petition was presented from the Insolvent Debtors in the pol of Appleb, and ordered in lie on the table.—Adjourned. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. TUtSDAY, FEB. 2S. The 'Malt Duty fill was read a third time and passed. The Dal k Millinn Loan Bill, and Unclaimed Bill, were brought up from the Commons, and read a 61:4 time. _ Lor,' tla►t keshury laid on P'e table a return to the order for !axing int . ormation before the House respecting the execution 'if the French Decree of Blockade with increased rigour; and also a variety of papers relative to the American Treaty, &e.—Or dered to be printed. On the motion fur the second reading of the American Inter course Bill, Lu►;o IT: aIN I, said he should not advert to the instructions of the Treaty of 1705, which had taken place on the other side of the A think ; nor to the inronsistet►cy of NI blisters in bringing in this Bill after the decided opinions which they had formerly expressed on this subject. T tie :nth of the Kiog, which this Bill professed to continue. would be violated most materially by the new imposts proposed. There was, in violation of the Trei.ty, to be imposed an addition of 20 per cent. on tobacco. and about 40 per cent. on rice, exported. Wine, brandy . , &c. exported to Ali:erica, would also be liable to a heavy duty. though by - the freat v she was to enjoy the same exemptions s our own color,ies. The duty of 2s. per ton on vessels brought in under the Ord,. s in Council, and the compelling America': vessels hound from Europe to the Fast Indies, to it into the Last India Dock, were al.-o at variance with the stipulations of the 'treaty. and of ourse with the provisions of the present Bill. Lunn r nsr state.' that there would be found no ins o.i siste.srj in the pi oceedings alluded to. The American Inter course Act, passel last Sessior, would expire on the Ist of March. The Bill now before their Lordships did no more, in effect, than to prevent that Act from expiring before the other measures in their progress in the other House had received the sanction of tile Legislature. The Bill was then read a second time.—Adjourned. WEDNESDAY, FEB. Si. Heard Counsel in the Scotch appeal ('r;:wf•trd e. Patrick. The Ban'.4 Three Million Loan Bill, and Unclaimed Divi dends Bills, were read a ?econd The American Intercourse Bill went through a Committee.— Adjourned. T 111111511% V, FEB. 423. The Unc'aimed Dividends Bill, and Bank Three Million Lo in Bill, went through a Committee. L ,rd :Mt VIM rose to move the be coot' reading of the Brazil T , ade Bill. The only object of the measure was to make such an alteration in the general Navigation Laws as to admit the pro ce of the Brazils, when imported in,l'ortuguese .hips, on the sa , ne footing, as if imported in British vessels; or, in other words, to place the Colony, under the present circumstances, in the same relation towards us as tile Mother Conntry. Lorin .1 chi. 4ND el I not mean to oppose the measure under the present c rcunktanccs, but the subject w oul&require the oust sci bilk; investigation whene%er it came to be Considered with a iew to a permanent arrangement. The imports from the Brazils must enter most materially into competition w ith those from our own colonies. The Brazils furnished for exportation yeaily, about 73,000 hogsheads of sugar, and 2.1,000,00011 n. of cotton. The produce of all our colonies was, of the former ar tkle, 280,000 hogsheads, of the latter 16,000,000 lbs. It. therefore, struck him as a policy extremely questionable, to give facility and encouragement to the importation of foreign (arks aid produce to such an extent, at a period when we had a dead surplus of 89,000 hogsheads of sugar, and immense quamti tis!) of utht r commodities lying in the West India Dock Ware- FEB. 28. houses. Ile did not thick the evil would be removed Is) the permission to distil from sugar ; for, if the dsstillerics were confined to that article alone, the demand would not exceed 12,000 hogsheads. I.OIID iI.IWKEIBITRY stated the purpose of the Bill to be nn more than that of placing the colony, which had now become the seat of the Portuguese Government, in the same situation with the mother country.—The Bill was read a second time( LORD LA VDERD,II.F. moved that the paper containing infor mation relative to the more rigorous execution of the French Decree of the 21st of November, should he printed. toity 11.45t - ticsarai tlkonght that every purpose for which the paper had been required, would be ans.wered by its bring laid on the table ; and by not giving it further publicity, the in convenience of deterring commercial men from communicating intelligence to Government might be avoided. The 'notion was put and negatived; as seas also a motion by Lord Lauderdale, for a Copy of a Report o n an officer of the French Custom-house at Antwerp, relative to the execution of the Decree of the 21st of November.—This was the suppressed document to which his Lordship previously referred. On the suggestion of Lord Auckland, the third reading of the American Intercourse Bill was postponed to Tuesday next. Lord (7arlisle directed their Lordships' attention to the Order in Council of the 'sth of November, as bearin , upon the Art, 7th of the King, respecting the trade to and from the Isle of Man. By the Art, teas, wine, &e. could not he exported from that islatid hut to Great Britain t whereas the Orders in Conn eil permitted the free exportation of all articles legally im ported. 114 Lordship contended, that this was an assumption If a dispensing power, and urged Ministers to apply for an Act of Indemnity ; conceiving that the breach of the law corn nitted was the result of inadvertency. lie concluded with pro posing a Resolution, declaring the regulation referred to a ma nifest breach of the law. _ _ _ Time LORD eIIINCELLOR contended, that the words of the Order did not carry the meaning annexed to them by the Noble Lord, and therefore that no violation of law had taken place. l'hey bore reference not to the 7th of the King, hut to the Order in Council of the I Ith of November.—The motion was negatived without a diyi,ion. In answer to repeated questions from Lords Auckland and Lauderdale, Lord Bathurst stated, that under the Orders its Council the Americans could not export enemy's colonial pro- duce direct from America to Sweden. Several alterations were then made in the order of discussion of the different notices of motions before the 140u.e. Amongst these the second reading of the Debtor and Creditor Bill was postpomal to Friday fortnight.—Adjourned. FRIDAY, FEB. 26. The Ten Millions and a Half Exchequer Bills BM, and Pett: ) -Customs-Surveyorship Abolition Bill were read a first time. The Unclaimed Dividends Bill, and Bank Three Millions Loan Bill, were read a third time and passed. Lord Hawkesbury laid on the table a copy of the Correspon dence between Lord Grey and the Don. Mr. Stewart, elucida tin; the policy of the late Administralion with regard to Russia. —lt was ordered to be printed. Lord lauderdAs moved for an Account of the Ships sent into the British Ports under the late Orders io Council ; and also of those permitted to rc-sail, under bonds, with a statement of the conditions and penalties thereof.—Ordered. Lord Bathurst moved the third wading pf the American In tercourse Bill, which stood provisionally ftsr this evening or for Tuesday. Some conversation ensued between Lords Auckland, Bathurst, Grenville, and Ilawkeshury,w hen the Bill as read a third time and passed.,—Adjourned. EATER OtY, FEB. 27. The Royal Assent was given by Commission to tlip.Malt Pen sions, and Officers Duties Hills; the Bill for regulating the Issue of Money from the Treasury, for paying Exchequer Bills, the Bank Unclaimed Dividend Bill, the American Treaty and Con tinuation Bill, the Curates Suspension Repeal Bill, and t% private Acts. The Commissioners were the Lord Chaocellar2 the Duke of Moutrube, and Lord Walsingham.