The Marquis of Lansdown,on presenting the Report of the Committee on Foreign Trade, said, he would state, in a very few words, the objects to which it related. Those objects were, our Asiatic trade, and the facilities which might be given to it. The subject was considered under the three following points of view:—That part of our Asiatic trade which was 151 carried on by British merchants under licences from the East India Company; that part carried on under licences from the Board of Control; and that part which was not now, but might be carried on by British merchants, and was actually carried on by American merchants, with the city of Canton. The Report took those three heads into consideration, and displayed the advantages which might be expected from the alterations proposed; pointing out the manner in which those facilities might be granted, and stating the objections which had been made or might be made to them. Alive as the Committee were to the interests of all commercial bodies, and aware that no extension of the Asiatic trade, could be obtained without the consent of the East India Company, they had kept its interest scrupulously in view, and did not think that what they had to propose, would affect them, especially their home monopoly. They trusted, therefore, that they would meet with liberal assistance from the Company, in all those things which neither affected its interests, nor those of the strangers under its protection. He should now submit the Report to the consideration of their lordships, and of his majesty's government; and would only add, that the correspondence between the Board of Control, and the East India Directors, would be produced in a day or two, and might be joined to the Report in the shape of an Appendix. He should now move that the report be laid on the table, and printed.—Agreed to.