rose for the purpose of proposing certain Resolutions recommending the Prohibition of all Distillation from Grain in Great Britain, for a time to be limited. He regretted that the comparative failure of the crop for the last year had rendered it necessary to resort to the same expedient. The principles upon which the question rested, had already met with such ample discussion in that House, that he should not think it necessary to enter at all into its abstract merits. He had, however, merely to state, that as the Revenue might suffer materially if the duties resulting from spirits distilled from grain were to expire as soon as the prohibition commenced, it had been thought advisable that the duties should be transferred to spirits distilled from sugar. After some further observations, expressive of the necessity for resorting to the restriction, and his regret, that such a measure should be necessary, the right hon. gentleman moved the following Resolutions:

did not rise to object to the Resolutions, but to complain of the change that had been wrought in the constitution of the country, by the usage that had silently grown up amongst the people, of looking for the relief of the respective grievances of different trades and interests, to the executive government, and not to the constitutional source of appeal and redress, the parliament. He did not wish to impute any blame to the right hon. gent for the course he had pursued; but he regretted that a practice had been silently growing up, which seemed to have rendered such a course of proceeding in some measure excusable. The government, however, had no reason for not acting decisively; for since July last the King's. physicians entertained no expectations of his Majesty's recovery; therefore ministers might have acted as decisively and as promptly as the occasion and the interests of the parties required, if the agricultural and colonial interests were so far involved as to call for immediate and effectual relief. He did not see why ministers should not have seen in that circumstance a sufficient reason for assembling parliament. He meant no particular imputation upon the right hon. gent., but he regretted that departure from the sound political maxims and conduct of their ancestors, which made parliament, and parliament alone, the great resort to the people for all species of redress which did not come within the laws of the country. In parliament all interests were represented, and in parliament were at all times to be found persons the best informed upon the several subjects upon which redress could be sought for.

complimented the right hon. gent, on the candid manner in which he had made his observations; at the same time he could not admit the existence of what had been called the growing practice of those without doors. When parliament was not sitting, the parties interested could only apply to the executive; and even if parliament had then been sitting, the prohibition could not have been earlier than it was now to be.

gave notice, on the part of a noble friend then absent (lord G. Cavendish), that that noble lord would, on Monday se'nnight, submit to the House a motion respecting the present State of Ireland.

wished to know if the right hon. gent, would have, any objection to state more specifically the object of the noble lord's motion.

replied, that the motion of his noble friend would relate to the present State of Ireland generally, and more particularly to the existing state of the Catholic population of that country.