Lord Temple,pursuant to notice, begged leave to call the attention of the house to the state of the Woollen Manufacture of the country, and of the laws relating to that important subject. A committee had been appointed last session to consider of the matter, and had taken a large mass of evidence upon every part of the case. It had been the intention of the gentlemen who promoted that enquiry, to follow up the investigation by some legislative measure, which might provide some remedy for all the inconveniences resulting from the operation of the statutes then in existence. The dissolution of parliament, however, by precluding the house from instituting any proceeding upon a report of the committee of another parliament, had made it necessary to take up the business anew. The course he proposed to follow, therefore, was to move that the laws relating to the Woollen Manufactures be referred to a committee, and also the report of the committee of last session. Upon the report of this committee, the house would found the ulterior measure that was necessary for the interest of this important branch of our manufactures. From communications which he had had with the parties most interested, he had the satisfaction to state that they did not propose to bring forward any fresh evidence, but were prepared to rest upon the case they had made out last session. He expected, therefore, that the question would be brought to issue in the present session. But whatever pleasure he should feel in bringing it to a satisfactory termination, he was not disposed to object to hearing any further evidence, which might be thought essential. It was his wish that all the parties interested should be fully heard, if they had not felt that the case as made out before the former committee was fully sufficient.—The several laws relating 241 to the Woollen Manufactures, and the report of the committee of last session thereon, were then, on the motion of lord Temple, referred to a committee.