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that some provision should be made, 
for building parsonage houses in 
small livings ; and giving some as- 
sistance to the curates, who might 
be dismissed by the operation of 
the present bill: . and he would 
wish to follow it up with some mea- 
sure of that sort; but he had not 
introduced it in that now before 
the house. 
Leave was then given, to bring 
in the bill. The next day the re- 
port on the Grenada loan bill, was 
taken into consideration. 
Mr. Wilberforce considered it 
impolitic, to continue this measure 
at the present juncture. When 
first this measure was brought be- 
fore parliament, they were told, 
that the money would soon be re- 
‘paid; but instead of that, frequent 
applications had since been made 
to parliament, for farther loans! 
Although he was no enemy to the 
West Indian interests, yet he did 
not like to see large suins of money, 
which could be better employed at 
home, sent over, to what he con- 
ceived, the most vulnerable part of 
eurempire. He thought the same 
money employed in our own coun- 
try, would be laid out, both on bet- 
ter security, and more to the public 
advantage. 
The chancellor of the exchequer 
said, the honourable member had 
not sufficiently taken into conside- 
ration, the peculiar embarassments 
of Grenada, and St. Vincents, in 
the year 1795: he had not suffici- 
ently weighed the advantages of the 
West India trade: nor did he seem 
to have recollected, that every 
hogshead of sugar, or puncheon of 
Tum, was paid for by British manu- 
facture: he could assure the honor- 
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able member, that governmenf. 
had taken great pains, to be. satis= 
fied, that the persons who received 
this loan, were sufficient securities - 
for the re-payment of it; they 
could not however, fulfil their en- 
gagements in the present year, 
without the most serious inconyeni- 
ence ; and their present application 
was not for farther aid, but for far- — 
ther time to make good their in- 
stalment, in the re-payment of what 
had been already borrowed. This 
was an indulgence, they were enti- 
tled to, from the liberality of the 
house. 
Sir Robert Peele was friendly to 
the measure, and approved of the 
principle upon which the loan was - 
first made; it was demanded by 
the West India gentlemen, to ena- 
ble them to defend their property, 
at a time, that it was perhaps very 
doubtful, whether government 
could have done it or not. He 
thought the claim of the gentlemen, 
extremely moderate and reasona- 
ble ; and that perhaps they might 
with justice have demanded, not 
merely a loan, but an indemnity 
for losses, occasioned by the inade- 
quate protection their property had 
received. Astothe objection, that 
property in the West Indies was ra- 
ther of a precarious nature, he 
thought that was rather a reason, 
why it should be assisted in time of 
need, by the powerful arm of the 
government. 
Dr. Lawrence thought, that there 
had been no impropriety in origi- 
nally granting the loan; and it ap- 
peared to him, that the same rea- 
sons required its continuance. He 
feared the islands would be in a 
dreadful state of confusion and 
misery, 
