JET. 34.] THE ORDERS IN COUNCIL. II 



counties with which those towns are connected, will 

 not be wanting in their endeavours to press your case 

 upon the attention of Parliament. 



" For myself, I can only say that my humble efforts 

 shall never be grudged in co-operating with you for 

 the attainment of your object. The usual professional 

 avocations of this season oblige me now to leave town. 

 But as soon as your petitions come before Parliament, 

 I shall hold myself ready to return to my attendance 

 in Parliament at the shortest notice ; considering the 

 support of your applications, in the present state of 

 the country, as an engagement greatly paramount to 

 every other. I have consulted with Mr Whitbread 

 and other friends in both Houses of Parliament, whose 

 judgment deserves a degree of confidence which I am 

 far from reposing in my own, and their concurrence 

 in opinion with me makes me the more decided in 

 what I have now stated as an answer to the com- 

 munication with which you honoured me. I am, &c. 



"H. BROUGHAM. 



"J. WALKEB, Esq." 



On the 3d of March 18121 brought the whole ques- 

 tion before the notice of the House of Commons, and 

 moved for a select committee to inquire into the pre- 

 sent state of the commerce and manufactures of the 

 country with reference to the effects of the Orders in 

 Council and the licence system. Opposed by Eose, 

 who insisted that the Orders in Council were a measure 

 of sound policy, and that if repealed we should open 

 the trade of the whole world to France, I was warmly 

 supported by Alexander Baring,* and as hotly opposed 

 by Stephen, feebly by Canning, who only went so far 



* Afterwards Lord Ashburton. 



