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lands, towards building a bridge over theriver Arran in Scotland.-• • - . ; *■ - . * •» A. Mr. Dempster,' Chairman.It being then refolved that the above fum fhould be granted for the faid purpofe, the Hoiifeagain refumed itfelf.^ . ’ .• * lt;*% ' .■ •• s m • ' 4 #* •^ /, Hawkers and Pedlars. .■r ’ Jr • a * •Mr. Dempster prefen ted a petition from the Hawkers and Pedlars of Birmingham,' Sheffield, and Manchefter, in England-} and Glaf gow and Paifley; in Scotland; praying a repeal of the A which increafed their licences, andcii*cumfcribed their traffic. : . .. iThe petition was received, read, and ordered to be laid upon the table. . ' _ , jThe order was-then moved, for the Houfe to ; refolve itfelf into a Committee on the bill for.Mr* Pulteney objected to’the claufe. He ’ laid they had been accufed of'beiri^ firmgglers,-by thofe who were in reality the fmugglers. Itwere' the Shopkeepers who .’vvan.ted -the fuppref-fiop of thefe perrons, that they might be at liberty to vend their contraband-: articles, anddamaged commodities in a more- extenfive man*ner. From the reprefentations of.-aJMember of . the city of London (Mr. Alderman- Sawbridge)the merchants and traders of thiA-iiietropolis con fidered Hawkers and Pedlars as the greateft advantage to their trad e, a ncl to commerce in general. They can fed goods to be fold that would never otherwife, be vended ; for thefe and otherreafons, he thought the prefent xlaufe fliould be rejeed.Some other Gentlemen fpqke in this convert fatiqn# The queftion being called, the Com*
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Morning Star
London, Middlesex, GB
Tue, May 19, 1789
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