from any duties thereby to be impofed, the probate of any will or letters of adminiftration of any common feaman or foldier, who fhall be flain or die in his Majefty's fervice, a certificate being produced from the captain or commander of the ship or veffel, or captain or commanding officers of the troop or company under whom fuch feaman or foldier ferved at the time of his death, and oath being made of the truth thereof before the proper judge or officer by whom fuch probate or adminiftration ought to be granted, which oath fuch judge or officer fhall be authorised and required to adminifter, and for which no fee or reward fhall be taken.

Ordered, That it be an inftruction to the faid committee to infert a clause or claufes in the faid bill or bills to exempt from any duties upon ftamped vellum, parchment or paper thereby to be impofed, any perfon or perfons that fhall be admitted to fue or defend in forma pauperis, fo far as relates to the fuit in which he or they fhall be fo admitted to fue or defend.

Ordered, That it be an inftruction to the faid committee to infert a claufe or claufes in the faid bill or bills to exempt from any duty thereby to be impofed, any warrant inade by or recognizance taken before any juftice or juftices of the peace, or any proceedings which fhall relate to any trial of any common foldier.

Ordered, That it be an inftruction to the faid committee to infert a claufe or claufes in the faid bill or bills to exempt all indentures of apprenticeship, where no apprentice fee fhall be given, or if any be given it fhall not exceed the fum of ol. from payment of more than 6d. duty for every such indenture.

Ordered, That it be an instruction to the faid committee to infert a claufe or claufes in the faid bill or bills to exempt from any duties thereby to be impofed on pamphlets or newfpapers, all acts of parliament, proclamations, orders of council, forms of prayer and thankfgivings, and acts of fate which shall be ordered by his Majefty, his heirs and fucceffors, to be printed; and all votes or other matters which are or fhall be ordered to be printed by either Houfe of Parliament, and all books commonly used in any of the fchools of Ireland, or books containing any matter of devotion or piety, and fingle advertisements and daily accounts, or bills of goods imported and exported, fo as that fuch accounts or bills do contain no other matters than what have been usually comprifed therein.

Ordered, That it be an inftruction to faid committee to infert a claufe or claufes in the faid bill or bills, that the Comptroller or proper officer of the ftamp duties fhall certify, once in every week, to the Accountant General, the amount of stamp

duties paid by the diftributers or other officers of the ftamps to the feveral collectors of inland excife, under a penalty: and that the collectors be made fubject for all fuch ftamp duties, fo by them received, to the fame mode of account, and the fame regulations and rules as they are or shall be subject to in respect of any duties by them collected.

Ordered, That it be an inftruction to the faid committee to infert a claufe or claufes in the faid bill or bills, that a fum after the rate of 10,000l. a year, from the 25th day of December, 1783, to the 25th day of March, 1785, fhall be paid to the trustees of the hempen and linen manufacture, out of the aids and duties granted this feffion of parliament, to be by them applied in fuch manner as fhall appear to them moft conducive to promote the linen and hempen manufactures; and that fo much of the produce of the duties on teas as fhall amount to the fum of 7300l. per annum, during faid time, fhall be placed to the account of his Majefty's hereditary revenue.

Ordered, That it be an inflruction to the faid committee to infert a clause or claufes in the faid bill or bills, that all commodities whatfoever, which fhall be imported into this kingdom. from Scotland, fhall pay the fame cuftom, duty, and no more, as commodities of the fame nature imported from England are by law fubject to pay.

Ordered, That it be an inftruction to the faid committee to infert a clause or clauses in the faid bill or bills, that so much of the feveral duties fpecified in the report of the committee of ways and means, to be granted in lieu of all other duties now payable on export or import of thofe commodities which they are refpectively impofed on, as the hereditary duties of cuftom and import excife on fuch commodities would amount to if they continued payable, fhall be placed to the account of his Majefty's hereditary revenue, except in refpect of the duties on teas, touching which a fpecial provifion is made.

Ordered, That it be an inftruction to the faid committee to infert a claufe or claufes in the faid bill or bills, that a separate account be kept of all increase of duties, aids and taxes which fhall or may accrue by means of the discounts and allowances for prompt payment of the import excife, and allowance of 5 per cent. on payment of cuftoms inwards ceafing to be made.

Ordered, That it be an inftruction to the faid committee to infert a clause or clauses in the faid bill or bills, that the sum of 2000l. granted laft feffion to the lord mayor, fheriffs, commons and citizens of the city of Dublin, towards carrying on the BallastOffice wall, and the fum of 1000l. granted this feffion for improving the harbour of the faid city, be paid to certain persons to

be therein named, for making moorings in the faid harbour, or otherwife improving the fame.

Ordered, That it be an inftruction to the faid committee to infert a claufe or claufes in the faid bill or bills, that fuch furplus as there fhall be on the 25th day of December, 1783, of the duties heretofore granted for the payment of the interest and principal of the loan, and payment of the annuities, granted for the feveral fums of money borrowed pursuant to feveral acts of parliament, fhall be laid out in the purchase of loan debentures, or in paying premiums to fuch perfons as having any Treasurybills heretofore iffued in their poffeffion, fhall be willing to take debentures, carrying an interest after the rate of 4, per cent in exchange for the fame.

Ordered, That it be an inftruction to the faid committee to infert a claufe or claufes in the faid bill or bills, that the additional duty of 10d. a gallon for every gallon of aqua vitæ, ftrong waters or fpirits made or diftilled within this kingdom for fale; the additional duty of 8d. per gallon on imported brandy, ftrong waters or fpirits perfectly made; the additional duty on foreign fpirits above the quality of fingle fpirits; the further additional duty of 10d, for every gallon of rum or other fpirits of the growth and produce of his Majefty's fugar colonies in America; thẹ further additional duty of 1s. 8d. on all brandy, geneva or other fpirits imported, except fpirits of the growth and produce of his Majefty's fugar colonies in America; and the additional duty of 6. per pack on cards, be applied, in the first place, to pay an intereft at the rate of 4. per centum per annum for fuch part of the feveral principal fums formerly borrowed, and carrying fuch intereft, as fhall remain unpaid on the 25th day of December, 1783; and, in the next place, towards payment of an annuity of 24,000l. a year to the governor and company of the Bank of Ireland; and, in the next place, towards paying the annuities for the feveral fums of 265,000. and 175,000!, and 300,000!. granted by feveral acts of parliament heretofore palled; and, in the next place, towards payment of the expences which fhall or may be incurred by fending or remitting from time to time fuch of the faid feveral annuities to the city of London as are or fhall be made payable there; and, in the next place, towards payment of an interest, after the rate of 4 per centum per annum for the debentures, amounting in the whole to the fum of 315,000l. which have been iffued out of his Majefty's Treafury for the payment of the prizes of the lotteries heretofore eftablifhed; and, in the next place, towards payment of an intereft, after the rate of 3a. by the day for cach 100!. for the feveral principal fums heretofore borrowed and due upon Treatury-bills, and which thall remain unpaid on the 25th day of December, 1783; and, in the next place, towards

payment of a like interest on fuch Treasury-bills as fall or may be iffued to the perfons who fhall fubfcribe any fum or fums, not exceeding in the whole the fum of 140,000l. which fhall or may be borrowed to pay off fuch Treafury-bills now outftanding as are to pafs current in the receipt of his Majefty's revenue, on or immediately after the 24th day of June, 1784; and, in the next place, towards payment of an intereft, not exceeding 3d. by the day for each 100l. for fuch futher fum or fums of money, not exceeding in the whole the fum of 300,000'. as fhall or may be borrowed towards fupplying any deficiencies which have arifen or may arife in the aids granted for defraying the neceffary expences of government; and that the furplus of the faid duties be applied towards difcharging of the faid feveral fums due by Debentures or by Treafury-bills as shall be directed by parliament.

The Right Honourable John Foster prefented to the House, according to order, a bill for granting to his Majefty the feveral aids, duties, rates, impofitions and taxes therein particularly expreffed, to be applied to the payment of the intereft of the fums therein provided for, and towards the discharge of the said principal fums in fuch manner as therein is directed, and for fuch other purposes as are therein mentioned; which was receiv◄ ed and read the first time, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow morning

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 20, 1783.

Mr. Gardiner.-I came down this day to exprefs my warmeft acknowledgments to this Houfe, as well as to adminiftration, for the kind concern they have expreffed for my fituation, by keeping the committee of ways and means open for the purpose of receiving, if the House fhall judge it proper, a measure which I mean to bring forward, grounded on the committee's report appointed to take into confideration the state of our manufactures.

I find it neceffary on this occafion, to acquaint fome friends to the measure, who, out of a zeal for its fuccefs, wish to have the duties we propofe laying, introduced into one of the great money bills, that the duties now payable on these articles are not in the money bills, the forming part of the hereditary revenue, and of courfe the duties that we may now get laid, muft be in a bill by itself, to which bill, if it paffes the Houses, I think no minifter will dare advife his Majefty to refufé the royal affent. As to this honourable Houfe, I am convinced that this bufinefs muft gain ground by delay, for every enquiry will add

ftrength to the reafons for its expediency. I therefore requeft my Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Fofter) will adjourn the committee until Monday.

There are fome mifconceptions of this bufinefs gone abroad, that I intended to include or connect a prohibition of the exportation of the raw material with the duties I wish to guard our manufactures with; I do not mean to blend those objects, they must form feparate bills; and for the prefent I fhall confine myself to the import duties on fuch manufactures as we can make in this kingdom, on which fubject I have, for fome time past, collected all the information in my power; among others, I have read a number of pamphlets on the fubject, particularly one written by a Mr. Fofter, Chaplain to the Dowager Countefs of Northington, which contains fuch convincing arguments on the neceffity there is to lay on thefe duties, that any man must be of his opinion.

In what I propofe, I am very far from having any idea of prohibitory duties, I only want reftrictive ones, and them only on fuch articles as can be manufactured here, as I before mentioned.

I think it proper to advert to fomewhat that happened a few days fince, I mean the conduct of people out of doors, who filled the avenues of this Houfe, as if to intimidate its members: I have always been fupporter of the dignity of the Houfe-I fent to them, and declared what I now do, that if fuch improper conduct is perfifted in, I have done with the bufinefs. I have, however, the pleasure to find, that the mafter manufacturers have entered into very ftrong refolutions on this fubject, for preventing a repetition of fuch unwarrantable behaviour.

Mr. Hartley informed the House, that a great number of weavers had waited on him, and affured him the violence complained of did not proceed from them, but gave him to understand, that they were fet on by perfons enemies to the measure in queftion; he advised them to carry themfelves in a quiet peaceable manner, and parliament would do every thing in their power to serve them.

Mr. Gardiner prefented a petition from the white cotton manufacturers.

Referred to the committee to enquire into the state of the trade of this kingdom.

Sir John Blaquiere moved, that the petition from the working filk weavers, now lying on the table, be referred to faid committee. Referred accordingly.

Mr. Hartley prefented a petition from the fail-cloth manufacturers of the city of Dublin, praying to be put on an equalizing footing. Referred to the committee of trade.

Mr. Green moved for leave to bring in a bill for regulating the tolls and customs of cities and towns corporate. He faid, the