curitles for his appearance, to the amount of 20,0001.

Sir Robert Herries faid, that he, for one, was ready to be bound in any fum, if the learned gentleman would withdraw his motion.

Sir P. J. Clerke declared, that, being one of the Committee appointed to enquire into the contract with the Victualling Office, he would in delicacy, wifh to ule as little rigour as poffible, and therefore, if it fhould be moved to fufpend the refolution of expulfion for a short time, he would vote for fuch motion; but if the question fhould be put, fimply, as now stated by the learned gentlemen, he confeffed, that with the record that was then on the table before him, and which stood uncontradicted, he should vote for the expulfion.

Mr. Gafcoyne moved, that the debate on this question be adjourned to the 24th day of Janua

ry next.

Sir P. J. Clerke feconded the motion.

The Houfe divided on the motion. For it 62. Against it 131. Majority 69. The queftion was then put for expulfion, which was carried without a divifion.

4.] Mr. Alderman Newnham rofe, as he had given notice, to move for the repeal of the receipt tax. That tax, he faid, had not been at first much oppofed, because its effects. were not felt or forefeen; but now it had been tried, complaints against it came from every quarter, and he was perfuaded, that, as it was unpopular, it would be unproductive. His conftituents had instructed him to move for its repeal, and he knew it to be his duty to exprets their fenfe.-The constituents of the noble Lord [Jn. Cavendish] had also instructed his Lordship to vote against the tax; but as poffibly his Lordship might not have had time to read his inftructions, he would read them for him a loud laugh.] He defired the title of the act night be read, and then moved, That leave be given to bring in a bill, to repeal fo much of the faid act as impofed a tax upon receipts. He was feconded by

Sir Cecil Wray, who had likewife been inftructed by his conftituents to oppose the tax. He propofed, in the room of it, a tax of 10. a year on maid fervants for domestic purposes [a loud laugh] This tax would produce, he said,

out in his calculation. The tax of a guinea a head on men fervants produced no more than 47,000l. and if half that tax on maid fervante would produce 400,000l. a year, of courfe there must be near ten maids to one man fer

vant.

Mr. Coke, in fupport of a former opinion, "that no perfon ought to move for the repeal of a tax without having another to propofe," faid, there was a fpecies of property which had never yet been taxed, and that was, " pews in churches;" upon every one of which, if private property, he would propose a tax of 20s. and upon large pews for corporate bodies, zol. On every prebendary's ftall 40s.; on every dean's 51.; and on every bifhop's 201. For leave to erect tomb-ftones he would propofe a licenfe of 20s. each; and for burying in churches, 10.; which laft he was far from wishing to fee a productive tax. He had known a whole parish, he faid, kept from church a month on a perion's being buried in it who had died of the fmall pox. To thefe he added a tax upon dogs, which all together he rated at 530,000l. a year.

Mr. Sheridan fupported the receipt tax, on the ground of its being ahteady mortgaged for money advanced to the State. The receipt tax he allowed, had been objected to as troublefome and vexatious; that on tomb-stones was certainly not liable to the fame objection, as the people, out of whole fortune it was to be paid, would know nothing of the matter, as they must be dead before there could be any call for the tax. But who knows, added he, that it might not be rendered uppopular by being reprefented a receipt tax upon persons who, having paid the debt of Nature, had the receipt engraved upon their tombs ?

The Houfe divided: for Mr. Newnham's motion 47; against it 149.

(To be continued.)

Hiftory of the Proceedings and Debater of the House of Commons of Ireland, the firft Seffion of the Fourth Parliament in the Reign of his prefeat Majefty, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 1783(Continued from p. 159.) Monday, November 24, 1783.

Mr. Powys could never admit the doctrine that had been advanced, that members were to facrifice their own opinions to thofe of their constituents. He owned he had received inftructions from two very refpectable trading towns in the county he had the honour to reprefent; but he could not be perfuaded to give up a tax which, he was convinced, was an eafy, and would be an efficient one. nifters to ftand by their tax.

He delired mi

Lord Surry greatly refpected the inftru&tions of constituents, when he was affured the majority were of one opinion. He inftanced a city [Gloucefter] from whence inftructions had been fent to oppofe the tax, though he had reafon to believe the majority of the citizens approved of it. He believed the hon. Baronet who propofed the tax on maid fervants had been a little

fent of utmost confequence to this kingdom, which he would preface by obferving, that during the late war an act had paffed in England, fufpending a part of the act of navigation, by admitting the entry of tobacco from neutral places, but as Ireland was not confidered in that light, the importation of tobaccos from this country to Great Britain, was confequently prohibited, fo that our merchants are precluded from fending a fingle hogfhead to England, while the merchants of that kingdom, when they have more tobacco than they can readily fell, may pour in as much as they pleafe into Ireland, to the ruin and deftruction of the American and West India trade, we have fo dearly purchased. He therefore offered a petition from the merchants conftituting the council of the chamber of commerce.

Mr. Pelham faid, that a petition from the mer chants

chants of Dublin ought to meet with every refpect, but the navigation act was a very old law, ⚫ and had been adopted by Ireland.

Mr. Fofter Whenever this question comes to be debated, I will fhew that it is one of the moft important that can come before the houfe; it is no less than "whether we fhall take advantage of our national fituation or not?" It is a question that deferves our utmost attention, and I am happy to see it so respectfully brought forward as by the hon. gentleman who reprefents the city of Dublin. The navigation act prohibits the importation of goods into Great Britain or Ireland from any place but the place of their growth and by the late qualification of that act, they were allowed to be imported from neutral places. Ireland is not a neutral place, but a nation in ftrict amity, and is therefore excluded from the benefit of this trade, at the fame time England may fend these goods hither: now, in my opinion the two Countries fhould ftand on the fame footing, and it requires no new law to regulate this bufinefs, it only requires that the old law fhould be conftrued in the fame manner in both nations; for if Britain will not receive thefe goods from Ireland, neither should Ireland receive them from Britain.

Mr. Fitzgibbon, Mr. Attorney General, Mr. Beresford, Mr. Mafon, Mr. Daly, Mr. Scott, Mr. Wm. Ponsonby, Mr. Lodge Morres and Mr. Jones, oppofed receiving the petition, as the title of a Council of the Chamber of Commerce was an unknown title.

Mr. Huffey, J. H. Cavendish, Mr. Molyneux, Sir Edward Newenham, Mr. Corry and Mr. Griffith, fpoke to receive the petition.

Prime Serjeant Kelly. For my part, though I hold an office under government, I never will object to this petition for the ftile; there is no fault in the ftile: here is a felect body of men called the chamber of commerce; the ufe of names is to know who the perfons petitioning are, in cafe of any impropriety we may call them before us. To this petition we have the name of an honourable member of this Houfe, he is answerable for it; it is acknowledged to be a matter of importance, and fhall we for mere matter of form, reject an important matter fo well authenticated? No, though I am on this fide of the Houte, and will fupport government in every honourable measure, and in none but honourable measures, I will receive this petition; no power on earth fhall prevent me. [Here a loud clapping taking place, the gallery was ordered to be cleared. As foon as that order was complied with, and the House was cleared.]

Mr. Fitzgibbon warmly cenfured the inde cent conduct of the gallery, and moved that the Houfe fhould enter into a refolution, "That, a grofs and indecent outrage, by clapping of hands, having been committed this night by the ftrangers admitted to the gallery, refolved that the ferjeant at arms do from time to time take into his cuftody any stranger or ftrangers that he shall ke or be informed of to be in the Houfe, while any committee of the whole Houfe, or the committee of privileges is fitting; and that this derbe strictly enforced." [The motion was

fupported by a great number of the treasury fide, and oppofed by the other part of the Houfe as ftrenuously.]

Mr. Flood, who came in late was an able advocate for the admiffion of conftituents to hear their debates, and declared that if gentlemen were not ashamed of their conduct, they had nothing to fear from its being known, and that it was unreasonable and unjust to preclude all from the galleries for the intemperate conduct of a few. Ayes 157 Noes

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Mr. Hartley's petition was then precluded by the question on the order of the day, which

was carried without a divifion.

25.] The committee to inquire into the state of the trade between this kingdom and Portugal, fat for fome time, after which the house refumed.

Ordered, the bill of fupply to be engroffed and read this day.

26.] The petition of certain merchants, ftiling themselves the Council of the Chamber of Commerce, praying to be put on the fame footing with Great Britain, relative to the conftruction of the navigation acts, was this day prefented by Mr. Hartley, and ordered to lie on the table.

Right Hon. John Foster-As I think the exiftence of Ireland, as a commercial country, de◄ pends upon the proper conftruction of the act of navigation, and the other acts made explanatory thereof, and for giving it force in Ireland. this petition merits our utmost regards; and as the hon. gentleman who prefented it, feemned to have fome doubt that the bill now before the committee of ways and means, might in fome degree tend to exclude Ireland from the benefit of thofe acts, though I am not of the fame opinion myfelf, yet I am ready to add to that bill a provifo [which he read] declaring that nothing therein contained fhall be construed to deprive this country of the benefit of the act of navigation, or the acts made explanatory thereof.

An engroffed money-bill was prefented to the House.

Ordered, that the fame be prefented to the Houfe of Lords by two of the members of this Houfe, for their Lordships concurrence.

Mr. Grattan-I move to take into confideration, on Friday next, all practical retrenchments in the collecting of the revenue. From what happened in this Houfe on Saturday laft, particularly refpecting the addition of 4000l. per annum, to the falary of the Chief Governor ( measure which, had I been prefent, I would have most strenuously opposed) I am induced to move for an immediate enquiry into practical retrenchments,-Ordered.

Report was made by the right hon. John Fofter, that the committee had gone through the bill for granting to his Majefty several duties therein mentioned, without any amend

ment.

Mr. Foster-I move that a claufe be annexed to the faid bill. "Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforefaid, that this act fhall not extend to allow the import of fich

wares and merchandizes from any place contrary to the true intent and meaning of the act, called the Act of Navigation paffed in the reign of Charles the II. and by an act passed in the fourteenth and fifteenth of George II. and by an act paffed in the feventeenth and eighteenth of his prefent Majelly for the extending of certain provifions."

Mr. Hartley-The intention of this petition is to examine into the conftruction of the act of navigation.

Mr. Fofter-I wish to introduce a claufe to elwiate all doubts, relative to this country, as a commercial country; if any doubts remain, I do not wish to have it introduced at all. Mr. Hartley-I know that the petition is prefented with the best intentions.

Mr. Foster faid, that the act of navigation was an Irish law. If gentlemen wifhed for a feparate act (though in his opinion, not neceffay) he fhould withdraw the propofed claufe, and move that the bill fhould be engroffed.

The Houfe in a committee of ways and means, Right Honourable John Fofter in the

chair.

Sir Henry Harftonge faid, his letters received this day from Limerick acquainted him, that the city and its cuftom-houle ftill remained in the fame defenceless state it had been in for fome time paft, for want of a garrison, there not being a fingle foldier there and called up on the right hon. gentleman in the confidence of Government, to declare why a military force had not been quartered there for fome time palt.

Mr. Pelham, in anfwer, faid, that in purfuance to an application from the hon. baronet, orders had been fent for the march of the troops to do garrifon duty in Limerick.

Sir Henry Haritonge rejoined by an obfervation on the flewnets of their march, it being the 23d or October he made an application to the right hon. gentleman.

ed.

Mr. Chatterton moved, that a bill to prevent frivolous and vexatious arrests should be printHe obferved, that the feffion before laft an at under a similar title had paffed; that it had injured all credit among the lower clafs of the people, particularly at Cork, the inhabitants of which had petitioned against it, and it had been fince repealed. – Ordered accordingly. 27. Mr. Fofter prefented an engroffed bill for regulating the fugar trade, and granting feveral duties therein mentioned.—Ordered to the Lords.

Report from the committee to enquire into the petition refpecting the inland navigation, Received and ordered to lie on the table.

The Houte refolved itself into a committee on the petition of Robert Brooke, Eiq; of Profperous, Thomas Burgh, Efq. (of Oldtown) in the chair.

Mr. Arbuthnot, fupervisor of the linen-board, was examined, who, among other particulars, depofed, that he had been fent by the linen board to Profperous, in the county of Kildare, Mr. Brooke's manufactory, where he found buildings had been erected, fince the 11th of Oftober last, which had coft, by the builder's imate, 2,833 the principal of which was a

houfe 300 feet in length, and 3 ftories high, capable of containing 300 looms, for the purpose of giving employment to weavers of Dublin out of work ;-that a great number of that defcription were there employed and fubfifted until they should get employment, at the rate of 9d. for the men, 6d. for the women, and 4d. for the boys and girls per day.That at faid manufactory of Profperous there were actually 300 looms at work, &c.

Mr. Fofter faid-The witnefs is employed by the linen-board to go round the kingdom, and make his return on oath. After expatiating on the great merit of Captain Brooke, Mr. Fofter mentioned that he had a refolution to propofe with their approbation: He mult observe to gentlemen, that this could not be called a grant of public money, it was only a loan; there was no tax to be laid on for it.. -He then moved, "That the fum of 25,000l. be advanced to Robert Brooke, Efq. in Exchequer bills, payable the 25th of March, 1784, he paying intereft for the fame, and giving proper fecurity for faid fum of 25,000l. and for employing 2000 perfons in the manufactory at Profperous, from the 25th of March, 1784, to the 25th of March, 1794-"

Mr. Pelitam declared, that captain Brooke was called upon by government when various petitions were prefented at the castle, stating the wretched fituation of the weavers: CaptainBrooke informed government, that, with their affittance, he would give employment to feveral of them; and on confulting with lume of the magiftrates, it was agreed to fend down to Profperous fuch unemployed weavers, properly certified, as were unable to get employment. Mr. Pelham spoke much of the utility of the measure, and faid he would give his hearty con

currence to the refolution.

Mr. Griffith faid, that from his local knowledge of the town of Profperous, and reading the allegations of Captain Brooke's petition, he was competent to declare, that they were not only true, but rather moderate; he faid, about fix or seven days ago,, he went to Profperous, examined the houses, looms, &c. and faw competence and industry in the countenance of the people; he particularly examined how thofe people, fent lately from Dublin, for want of employ, were difpofed of; He faw fome at work, others preparing work for the loom; an univerfal fatisfaction, prevailed with thofe, who, a few days before, were configned to dejection and mifery: he hoped that though he gave this refolution his warm fupport, he would not be charged with inconfiftency, as no man had a greater regard for public economy than what he had; but encouragement to your manufactures will be a great means of equalizing your revenue. He faid, he knew the petitioner himself; he knew him in Afia and in Europe; and a man of greater worth did not exift: he hoped the committee would not think that his private predilection should influence his voting on this occafion.

Sir Henry Cavendish obferved, that the witnefs had said that Captain Brooke had got 30001. from the viceroy; it was not right that government should give money without consent of par

liament,

liament, and come now to parliament to fanctify it. This is not the only grant given in that manner, the king's letter having that effect in a grant of 1000l.

Mr. Fotter faid, he knew the Right Hon. Baronet's skill in thort hand, but that conftruction was by no means warranted. In Lord Temple's administration a number of cotton manufacturers were going to America; Captain Brooke was applied to; he found out where thefe men were, brought them down to Profperous, and Lord Temple gave him 1000l. which was fufficient for the expences he had been at. He faid, that if money granted by a Viceroy be not well applied, the Viceroy gives it at his own rifque.

Sir Henry Cavendish afked what fecurity could Captain Brooke give, either for the momey or keeping 2000 people employed for ten years?

Mr. Fofter faid, a bill would be brought in for this bufinefs, and care fhould be taken for the fecurity, and keeping the perfons employed; and he affured the committee, that without proper fecurity no money should be granted,

The Provost faid, from the information be had, great exertions had been used, by Captain Brooke to make his manufacture a national object: As to the fecurity that the hon. baronet Speaks of the House of Commons is not competent to take fecurity; but the bill may direct fecurity to be given before one of the barons of the exchequer: He faid there were two circum ftances that would induce him to agree with this refolution; and the one was, that in Lord Temple's time, captain Brooke prevented the emigration of a number of manufacturers to a rival country; and the other was, that he acceded to the humane purposes of government, when our poor manufacturers were starving in our streets, by engaging a great number of them at his own rifque.

The refolution being put, the committee divided, when there were,

For agreeing to Mr. Fofter's refolution,
Against it,

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28.] Mr. Fofter prefented, purluant to order, a bill for the advancement of the trade between this kingdom and the United States of America. He obferved, that this bill was limited in its operation, being only to remain in force for three months, as, by that time, fome more permanent regulation than the prefent bill, which was only a transcript of one paffed in England, would take place by a commercial treaty or other, wife. This bill enacts, that veffels from America may be admitted to make their declarations or invoices from any port in Ireland, though they shall not produce an American cocket or clearance; as alfo, that American veffels may bring cargoes of their produce into Ireland, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

P O E The Merry Moralift: or, Sketches in Verfe on various Subjects. By Roderick Rhymer

NUMBER II.

Introductory Lines.

Mr. O'Hara. There were lately granted 12,000 men for the peace eftablifliment of Ireland, but if there can be any reduction made in the expence of that establishment, it would be highly improper to decline doing it. The fituation of this kingdom is not as it has been; fermerly Great Britain protected Ireland from ditferent motives than what he does at prefent, England confidered Ireland as her property, as her farm, and our countrymen as flaves of a plantation; but we are now to be protected from different motives, a fudden change has taken place in this kingdom. During the laft feffion this nation obtained all the could defire, and much more than we could have expected; we have acquired new trade and new confequence. We feem to be an ifland rifen from the fea; the doors of our prifon are open to us, and our better angel points to scenes of wealth. He wished that a strong connection fhould fubfift between the two countries, and that we, fhould remove every cause of fufpicion; he was on that ground in favour of the peace establishment; but in his opinion many articles of expence might be diminished. He therefore moved, "That a committee be appointed to take into confideration the military cftablishment of this kingdom, and to report to the Houfe what retrenchments may be made therein."

Mr. Maton moved the following amendment, that, "may with propriety be made therein,” Mr. Secretary Pelham feconded the motion.

Mr. Mafon moved an amendment after the word "made," "or ought to be made with propriety;" which amendinent was agreed to.

Mr. Pelham laid, there were now more mea in the regiments by ten men per company, than there were last peace eftablishment.

Sir Henry Cavendish. I do not rife to oppose the motion, but without any pretenfions to prophefying, I can see that the chairman of that committee will report that no reduction at all can be made of the military establishment, and I think it would be better for the firit mover to point out the particulars of the reduction.

Mr. O'Hara laid, the enquiry would go to the whole, and the particular parts would be pointed out of courfe, and he could not fee any reafon why the Hon. Baronet fhould be prophetic as to this report.

Sir Edward Newenham faid, this motion comes in a very questionable fhape: it originates with a member who voted for an augmentation of the army, and it is feconded by the Viceroy's Secretary, and fupported by a commithoner of the revenue; I like it not-it may be fo fhifted as to injure this kingdom, and cannot cafe the establishment; the report of fuch a committee (compofed of minifterial advocates) cannot prove of national advantage; I fhall give it a negative. The queftion was put and carried without a divifion. (To be Continued.)

T R Y.

Crouds of burfing applaufe never hear the loud

roar,

But provoke all around them to cry out no more!

On the Operations of Pride.

WHAT refiftance fome very good people will make,

When to give them advice you the liberty take; In a matter which highly concerns them; but pride,

Is to mortals fo nearly by nature allied,
That it oft, while it keeps a fnug place in the
breast,

If provok'd, rifes up, and difturbs e'en the best.
Thro' all ranks of mankind, from the cot to the
throne,
[prone,
To be proud, men and women, are ever more
And appear oft, from pride, in fo comic a light,
That they forcibly mirth from the graveft excite.
It must fairly, I venture to think, be allow'd,
That the peer and the peafant are equally proud;
Tho' their pride may be fhewn in a far diff'rent
Style,

In the firft, and the laft, it will curl up a fimile,
And convince us that none from a paffion is free,
Which by no means confin'd is to you or to me;
Move the mufcles of wretches we look at with
fcorn,
[adorn;
Full as much as of those whom bright diamonds
In fhapes diff'rent indeed is this paffion difplay'd,
But by this we are all, poor and powerful,
Iway'd.

On Coffee-Houfe Politicians. POLITICIANS there are who, devouring

each page,

May be faid, very fairly, to read with a rage; Whole attention a vigorous paragraph rouzes, Which relates to a fomething that's faid in both

They give force, double force, to the fallies of wit,

And make Laughter, his fides holding, ready to iplit.

To what place fhall we turn our inquifitive

eyes,

Where of Fashion the freaks which around us arife, Do not rouze the keen fatirift, taking his aim, At all thofe whom he, pointing at, marks for his game.

In their drefs, it is certain, bold females ftrike out,

What furprises, but elevates not, at a route; And give birth to a number of strictures fevere, While they, fond of distinction, fantastica ppear. On Matrimonial Motives,

TO recount all the motives which urge men to wed;

Were as eafy a task as to waken the dead;
For innumerous reafons which cannot be told,
Men in vent'ring on marriage declare themselves

bold;

In the choice of a wife fome are govern'd by pride,

For the woman they care not, if greatly allied:
There are others, who feel not the family fpui,
With a character fati-fied, free from a flur:
This regards not the face nor the mind of his

to go,

While thought on thought impels an empty figh,

I bear about a heart in filent woe.
Ah! lov'd Euphronius! what far diftant day,
Shall kindly fet a captive spirit free;
When fhall thefe warm affections wear away,
This panting bofom leave lamenting thee?-
Perhaps on this dull, puny planet tofs'd,

For years to come, the fport of wayward fate,
O'erlook'd by friendship, and by folly crofs'd,
On me neglect and poverty await.
Perhaps in exile doom'd to wander long,

Where weakness, and where mis'ry mark away; Where wildom calls not, where no tuneful tongue Of foothing friendship pours a tender lay. But-not the pleasures this vain world can boast,

Or friendship's tie (if such to come there be); Nor what too oft has flatter'd fancy most,

Shall fteal a heart devoutly given to thee. If fages tell us true, beyond the grave Live Virtue's habits, fhining as before; The patriot there, fhall pant the realm to save, And virtuous love shall laft for evermore.

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