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added that of property to four times the 
amount of the fum borrowed. After a 
few obfervations from Mr. Buxton, the 
petition was received and referred to a 
committee. 
Alderman Lufhington upon = fimilar 
principles prefented a petition to the like 
effect, from the planters conne¢ted with 
the Iflands of Grenada and St. Vincent, 
which was likewife received. 
On the 2d of Oétober the Houfe went 
into a committee on the report of the fe- 
le& committee, on the petition of the mer- 
chants of Liverpool and Lancafter. Co- 
Jonel Gafcoigne moved that they receive a 
loan of £/.500,000 by an iflue of Exchequer 
Bills. Mr. Tierney difapproved of the 
meafure without further and lefs interefted 
proof of its neceflity. Mr. Pitt fupported 
it as a meafure of a general as well as in- 
dividual expediency. Mr. B. Edwards, 
after alluding to the 50,000 hggtheads of 
fugar at Liverpool, faid, there were 
180,000 in London, which was double the 
quantity of any former year. The duty 
at 20s. per cwt. amounted to £.2,500,000. 
‘The fugar in London had been configned 
to merchants, who had been drawn upon 
at the rate of £.30 per hogfhead, to the 
amount of £. 5,400,000, which laid the 
merchants under an advance of nearly eight 
millions, of which they could not for fome 
time be reimburfed in confequence of the 
foreign market not being open to them. 
He faid, the planters had lolt £4,500,000 
at St. Domingo, befides immenfe fums at 
the other Iflands, and that without the 
aid of Parliament 19 out of 20 of the Weft 
India Merchants muft ftop payment. 
Mefirs. Manners, Vent, Nichols, and Pitt, 
Colonel Gafcoigne, the honourable Mr. 
York, and Sir W. Pulteney, fpoke on the 
motion, which was put and carried. The 
Houle in a committee agreed ic allow a 
drawback on fugar exported, when the 
price fhall be below a certain fum, and 
that fugar imported fromthe Weft Indies, 
fhould be permitted to be warehoufed. 
On the sth the bills for the propofed re- 
lief to the merchants and planters, for al- 
lowing goods imported from the Weft In- 
diés to be warehoufed, for regulating the 
allowance on drawbacks, and for allowing 
merchants a further time for the payment 
of their duties, were read a fecond time and 
ordered to be committed. 
The Houfe went into a committee of 
fupply on the goth of September, Mr. 
Bragee, inthe chair. Mr. Wallace mov- 
ed the following votes for the ule of the 
navy, which were agreed to; viz. 120,000 
sien for two calendar months, beginning 
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the 1ft of January 1800, wages for ditto, 
at 37s. per, month, £.444,000 ; victuals 
for ditto, at 38s, per month £. 455,000 ; 
wear and tear of fhips in that pericd 
£.720,000; ordnance ftores ditto, £.60,000 
making inallthe round fum of £.1,680,000. 
Mr. Pitt alfo moved, that £.3,000,000 
be granted to his Majefty, by way of fup- 
ply, for paying off that fum iffued in Ex-_ 
chequer bills laft feffion, which was agreed 
to. The report was ordered to be received 
the next day, 
On the 2d of Oétober, the Houfe went 
again anto a committee of fupply, when 
Mr. Windham, after {tating that the army 
eltimates before the Houfe were for two 
months, moved, that there be granted the 
fum of £.510,516 for 90,047 men. The 
motion was then agreed to. 
The committee alfo voted £.16,648 for 
maintaining forces in the plantations, &c. 
£.92:635 tor defraying charges of corps 
of cavalry in Great Britain, &c. £.232,998 
for defraying charges of embodied militia, 
and a royal corps of miners in Cern= 
wall, &c. £. 40,000 for defraying the 
charges of the increafe of the rate of fub-: 
fiftence to inn-keepers and victuallers, &c. 
£.120,000 for defraying the charges for 
barracks, &c. £.230,000 for the charge, 
of ordnance of land fervice; £.121,510 
for the ordinaries of the navy ; £.115,62§ 
for extraordinaries of ditto. 
On the fame day, the Houfe, in a com- 
mittee of ways and means, voted the du- 
ties on malt, mum, cyder, perry, fugar, 
tobacco, and {nuff ; and that £.2,500,000 
be railed by Exchequer Bills. 
The Commons ina committee on corn g 
Mr. Pitt wifhed it to be generally under 
ftood, that even though our crops might 
turn out better than we had reafon to ex- 
pect, it was yet the determination of go- 
vernment, that our ports fhould be open 
for the importation of corn from abroad, 
till the 30th of September 1800, ii order 
that merchants might have certain grounds 
to go upon, and that government would 
not, by purchafing, interfere with their 
{peculations. 
In the Houfe of Lords, on the 1-th of 
October, Lord Holland, in purfuance of 
the notice he had’given, called the atten- 
tion of their Lordthips to various ftipula- 
tions and provifions in the late treaties 
with Ruffia. His Lordfhip not only de- 
tailed his objections to the treaties in quei- 
tion, but entered very comprehenfivcly inte 
the fubjeét of the war. He cenfured the 
ftipulations.on the part of this country, 
as extravagant and prodigal in the ex-. 
treme, and entered into fome calculations 
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