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avithin their reach, they would find them 
fuch as would go a great way to prevent 
the threatened evil. dude 
On the 4th, Mr, Curwen moved, in 
the. Houfe of Commons, that the houfe 
fhould refolve itfelf into a committee of 
the whole houfe, to confider of the game 
jaws, on the irth of March. He ob- 
ferved, that the injuftice of the game 
laws could only be equalled by their im- 
policy ; and that it was fomewhat fingu- 
lar, that England, which boafted of its 
freedom, was, in refpeét of its game 
laws, in a more defpotic condition, than 
the moft defpotic ftate in Europe; and 
that it required fifty times as mych 
money to kill a partridge, legally, as to 
vote for a reprefentative in parliament. 
After fome debate, his motion was car- 
ried, without a divifion. 
On the 8th of March, M. Ryder 
brought up a report from the feleét corn 
committee, which was read at the table, 
and is to the following purpofe: Refolved, 
i. That it is the opinion of this committee, 
that every miller fhall keep a pair of fcales 
and weights in his mill. 
II. That infpeétors be appointed to examine 
thefe weights, feize them if defettive, as 
in other cafes of falfe fcales and defeétive 
weights, and that millers hall be liable to 
the ufual penalties on conviction. 
III. That perfons bringing grain to the mill 
fhall be entitled to have it weighed in their 
prefence when brought. 
IV. That millers hall be obliged to make out 
returns of the produce, with deduétion of 
_ what is loft in the operation of grinding. 
¥V. That millers fhall, be obliged to return the 
meal thus afcertained, with deduction of 
the toll, where toll is taken in kind. - 
Vi. That no toll fhall be taken in kind, and 
that it fhall be received in money, except 
where mills have rights eftablifhed, or to 
be eftablithed, by Aéts of Parliament, fo to 
levy it. ~ 
VI. That millers fhall put up in a confpicu- 
ous part of their mill, a correét table of 
the different rates and prices. 
VIII. That where perfons are unable to pay 
money, the miller may, with the confent 
of fuch perfons, take a quantity of the 
produce adequate to the price eftablithed. 
Laitly, That Juftices of the Peace fhall be 
empowered fummarily to enforce thefe 
regulations. 
The refolutions were then feverally 
read and agreed to, and leave granted 
to bring in a bill in purfnance thereof, 
and Mr, Ryder and Sir Francis Baffett 
ordered to prepare and bring in the fame. 
On the yoth of March, a motion was 
made by Mr. Grey, which was fecond- 
ed by Mr. Fox, “ That a committee 
thould be appointed to enquire into the 
Britifh Parliament. 
expences, additional burthens muft 
15% 
expenditure and general ftate of the na- 
tion.’ In fupport of this motion, Mr. 
Grey urged, that although different 
opinions prevailed, with refpeét to the 
prefent firuation of the country, and the 
minds of men were much divided as to 
the expediency of the war, and the means 
by which it had been carried on, he was 
certain, that there could be but one 
opinion as to the neceffity of its being 
conducted with propriety, and with a 
due regard to the expenditure of the 
public money. Whether, from the pre- 
tent complexion of affairs, we were to 
expect peace, or to look forward to a 
profecution of the war; in either cafe, it 
was highly necefflary that our attention 
should be direéted to the ftate of our 
finances. If we were unfortunately 
doomed to continue the prefent ‘ruinous 
conteft, we ought not, he faid, to fuffer 
the minifters to proceed in a fy ftem* of 
{uch extraordinary and extravagant ex- 
penditure, as had hitherto charaéterifed 
their conduét, without infifting on an 
inveftigation of the mode of difpofing of 
the public money. We were now, he 
remarked, in the fourth year of a war, 
the expences of three of which were 
fully atcertained.’ By the public accounts, 
i appeared, that at the end of the 
third year, we had added the fum of 
77,900,000l. fterling to the capital of our 
national debt, exclufively of the unfunded 
debt, the intereft of which amounted to 
2,600,0001. A fum fo enormoufly extra- 
vagant, expended in the fhort {pace of 
three years, was of fo unprecedented a 
nature, as, he hoped, would be confidered 
as. affording fufficient grounds for him to 
call upon the houfe, to examine in what 
manner it had been difpofed, and to 
what fervices it had been applied. 
Mr. Grey farther obferved, that of the 
fums voted for the prefent war, almoft 
as much had been fpent without efti- 
mate, and confequently without the au- 
thority of parliament, as with it; and 
he remarked, that barracks had been 
built for an army of forty thoufand men, 
to be kept up in time of peace; and 
that fince the year 1790, eleven hundred 
thoufand pounds had been expended in 
the ereétion of barracks. He added, 
that, by the new fyftem, the peace efta- 
blifhment could not be lefs than twenty- 
two millions per annum; and that the 
permanent revenue was not likely to be 
more than 19,500,ocol. Confequently, 
if peace were made to-morrow, inde- 
pendently of the winding-up of the war 
be 
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