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1 . 11.‘ • 0 1 ' .4 4 1 i . , . • • • • • • ; I I I • gab I r I • \• NATIONAL MONUMENT IN SCOTLAND, • TO COMMEMORATE THE GLORIOUS ,NAVAL AND MILITARY LATE WAR. ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE A FESTIVAL is to be held in FREE MASONS TA nom, Great Queen-street, on SATURDAY, the 22c1 Mif,llll9, It IS hoped *III be attended by the NOW men and Gentlemen connected with Scotland, now resident in London or the Neighbourhood, and by those Noblemen and Gentlemen belonging to other parts of eke linked Kingdom, who may be desirous of co-operating in so laudable a Measure. His Grave JOHN Duke of ATIIOLL, in the Chair. STEWARDS. • _ the Sail of Non-hit-sr, The Ea?! of Roster% r.y, The Elul of (ILAsoow, 'the kart of Ftra, Lord Setrouv, Lord BIOICATILX, Sir Joint SVICLAIL, Dart. ATtCIITBAI Dmitri' to be of the TAIL' Er Troilus, Ll. ls. each. u and at the Bar of the tar 'HJEA' Sit-Groans! Cteart, Bart. M.P. S(rJoxr SIA( °ltem' MUSILAY, Bart. Sir JAMES SHAW, Bart. WILLIA,t MAKI!, FA 11. P. J. Msewtst, Esq. M.P. Courts l'aotrea, Esq. 1.1.) CAMPBELL, Secretary. a at Six o'CLoes precisely. o be had of the Stewards, Secre tern. T! ATRN OF ANATON.IY, mEntoNE, &C. BLENHEIM-STREET' GREAT MARLBOROUGH-STREET. THE SUMMEIt COURSE of LECTURES, at thiaSeboel, wiG begirt on the following days: Anatomy, Physiology, and hkirgery, by Mr. Biomass, daily, at Sevrn in the Morning, on Tuesday, June 1.--Dissections as usual. Cbendctry, Mated& Medics, See. drily, at Flight W the Morn ing; Theory and Practice of Physic, at Nine, with Examina slam, by Dr. Acta. on Monday, June 7. Three Courses are given every year, each occupying neatly four months. Further particulars may be known of Mr. Brookes, at the Theatre; or of Dr. Ager, Mo. 69, Margaret-street, Cavendish square. This day were published, price St. seised, T HE FALL OF THE LEAF ; and other POEMS, 11 By CHARLES BLOKE, Esq. Author of " The Italians," " Philosophy of Mamie," &c. Printed for G. and W. B. Whittaker, N 0.15, Ave-Maria-lane. Of whom may be had, by the Lune Author, the Seviinth Edition of THE ITALIANS, a Tragedy, in Five Acts, WWI the final Preface. Price nil. 6d. sewed. • BANK REPORT. I This day wax published, price 2s. 6d. A N ADDRESS to the PUBLIC on the PLAN A proposed by the Secret Committee of the House of Com mons for Examining the Affairs of the Bank. By EDWARD COOKE, VA. Late Under Secretary of State for the War and Colonial Departments. • Printed for S. J. Stockdale, 41, Pall-Mall. Also, in One Vol. Bvo. price Bs. Mr. Chalmers on Currency and Commerce, with Sir G. Shuckburgh Evelyn's Table of the Necessaries of Life and De preciation of Money for 800 Years. CXt - ffriut - CE;um - 1. LORD DONOUGIIDIORNI MOTION. LIST OP PEERS WMO VOTED AGAINST THE MOTION. PRESENT—NOT-CONTENTS. Literpooi Kenyon Romney Se!sty Powis Dunstanville Mowery Orford Whitworth Roden Coartown Cho/Levine Carrick Farnham Gosford MMS. l'ork Beaufort Rutland Newcastle Northumberland Wellington Athol hfAanumsEs. Winchester Bath Cornwallis Rolle Baring St. Helen's Arden Bill Bolton Harris Colville De Clifford Er risk Wen A boyne Olisgow Galloway Verniam Brownies , Kinnoel Viseourra. Falnfoeth EARLIL Pembroke Bridgewater Denbigh Westmorland Huntingdon Wittebilsea Cardigan Shaftesbury Abingdon I larborough Macclesfield Pbrnfret Labe Harcourt Arbuthnot Plymouth Kul!Muth Bathurst BAildos. Aylesbury R&M Beauchamp Stawell Lansdale bistan Scarborough Dynevor Abergavermer Willingham Mount Edgecumba Swot D o p y &dolt PROXIES SVodetteme Gambier Gage Canterbury York Manors. London Exeter St. Asapb- Peterboraith Worcester Lineal Carlisle. Dronsors Oxford Ely Bal 'E r . St. avad t. Dudley and Ward Cotchetter Rum Napier Broderick Northwiek RihMesdale Middleton Gray Montagu Damon. Winchester Hereford Durham Bristol Cheater Gloucester Chichester. Dunn. TiArtwotid Luiborough Portin'tetuth Montrose Kellie ' Maatinzsans. Coventry Winchester Stardidpe Exeter §beffseld Huntley Nelson Thornond Fetters Cholioondeley Pmdett Lothian Chichester Hertford Viscoonts. Fly Curzon Northampton Carleton Salisbury Hood EMILIA. Maynard Home BA ROM. Longford - Le Despenser Idalmsbury licresford dorton 4krvirick Present, 97—Proxies, 50-147. LIST OF THE PEERS WHO VOTED TOR THE MOTION. rRESENT-CONTENT. Darlington Vssceenti. Delaware Torrington Spencer Melville Grosvenor Granville Fortrieue Clifden Carnarvon Bulkeley Roadyn Say and Sae Grey Howard IlLarraerby Clinton Id ulgrave King Mint° . Duel° Sr. Germain's Paley Bradford Amherst Darnley Belhaven Cork Grantley Belborough Somers Canals Br aybrooke Breadalbane Grenville . lAuderdele Auckland Roseberry f !alt horpo Cbarlentont Lilford , Kingston Crewe Donoughmore Lyndoch Aberdeen. Bishop of Norwich. Mount Cashel' P ROX IFS. Fitt willinn Sondes Waldegrave Glastonbury Eglititown Dondas Carysfort Yarborough Ormond Cawder Viseurirs. Carrington . llereford Alvanley Bolingbroke ' Ellenborovigh . . Duncan Fsskine Anson I lutchinson Kt itit • Stewart . Montfort Illskop of Rochester. Thula Grantham . . ATuenlarle Molt.utd Content—n.o,4 ;0--Proxies, 36-106. DORM Kent Sows Somerset Grafton Portland Argyle Ithiatittsm Decirkigliant Lansdown • (Landes Date Atiksea • Tweedale Darby Am: 'wary Otford Dartmouth Covrperi I lefrington iYarrfiCk liardwicke Bedflrd Rortturgh Leinster Maativsss=s. Stafford Dowitshtte Wellesley Beadfort PARLIAMENTARY PIOC__ArDINGS. ' • HOUSE Of COMMONS, HAY 2*. SPIAKEII actittaintesi the Rouse, that Samuel Leve ring* Fat. who had gessented a Petitiosto the House wan piestai et an undue action for the Borough of Came'ford,. had not entered into the necessary recognizances ; and there , - fore that the order for taking the Petition into consideration was discharged. - I Mr. CUR WEN presented a Petition from John Desfreme against the Bill for amending the Bankrupt Laws, prayftsg to be heard at the Bar against the measure. Sir J MM ES GRAHAM thought the Petition irregular, and that it ought not to be received. Mr. CURWEN was satisfied that the House ought to listen to the complaints of all individuals; and there was no objection that he was aware of to hear him at the Bar, but that Mr. Du fresne was a prisoner in the King's Bench for a contempt, under the Bankrupt Laws. Ile did not know why the Petitioner had not been heard before the Committee. Mr. BRAND was in favour of receiving the Petition, but not ' of hearing the Petitioner. Mr. CUftWEN had intended to move that the Petitioner be heard at tke Bar, but he would refrain if the House thought it unnecessary. General 0 ASCOYNE said, that the Committee on the IBM had sat * for five weeks, and if the Petitioner wished to have been heard, it ought to have been there. After a few words front Sir JOHN NEWPORT, the Peti tion was laid upon the table. Mr. M. A. TAYLOR gave notice, that to-morrow he would move that the debate upon the Cainelford Election Petition should be adjourned until this day fortnight. Mr. S. WORTLEY withdrew his motion for to-morrow re garding the Stamping of Woollen Cloths. Mr. BANKES gave ndice, that to-morrow, on the second reading of the Marquis Cam den's 'PeUership of the Exchequer Bill, he would submit a motion expressive of the feelings of the House upon the subject. Lord MILTON moved* the Order of the Day for resuming the adjourned debate for the attendance of Mr. C. Pitt, pursuant to the prayer of his Petition. Mr. W. WYNN said, that he had found PO reason to alter the opinion he had at first expressed, fhat it was not within the jurisdiction se power of the House to grant relief ; or if it were, that this was not s case where it ought to be granted, as the come Petitioner might have earlier.—Question negatived. COURT OT CHANCERY. Mr. M. A. TAYLOR rose, pursuant so his notice, to submit to the House a motion, on a subject which he must confess was not very entertaining, namely, the Delays experienced by Suitors in the Court of Chancery. The mischief's occasioned by these delays had come to such a height, that the interference of Parliament was became necessary to prevent their extending to such a degree as would be absolutely intolerable. The Honourable Gentleman then re peated the statements which he has at various times made during the course of this and previous Sessions, relative to the accumulation of arrears in the Court of Chancery, contending that the appointment of a Vice-Chancellor, instead of facilitating the dispatch of business, the arrears of causes, and the number of appeals, had gradually increased. He did not blame Lord Eldon ; no man had ever held the office of Chancellor with endowments more eminently fitted for it r no man questioned his ability—nor his in dustry—nor his uprightness ; but the truth was, the duties of the office, including not only the immense weight of general equity cases, but also those matters of exclusive jurisdiction matters of lunacy—infants —bankrupts—were more than one man could august to. He repeated his opinion, that it was absolutely necessary that the jurisdiction in bankruptcy should' be removed from the-Lord Chancellor. The Crow*, ought to appoint by patent a new Judge for cases of bankruptcy. The information on which he founded this opinion was derived from the hest sources— from then of the highest rank at the &Ir. But it might be asked, why some of the Gentlemen in the Profession, who from their ability as well.-as infor mation and experience were best fitted for that task, did not bring forward this subject ? • The truth was, that these Gentlemen found it an ungrateful and dis agreeable task to appear in the Hauge to agitate questions relative to the Conduct of the Court in which they were daily exercising their profession.— This it was that left so important a questibn in the hands of so humble an individual as himself. But he was thoroughly convinced of the necessity of some measure being adopted to remedy the great evil. which he now brought under the consideration of the House ; that if he could not on this occasion persuade them to agree to a motion for appointing a Commit tee, he was resolved to bring it forward again and again, in every shape which he could devise. The great point on which he insisted was the necessity of I separating the - Bankruptcy business from the Great Seal. Many men of competent learning and ability could be found to preside in a Court wholly cievoeudl to Bankruptcy business. If this was not done the present arrears must continue, and they would pro bably go on increasing. An instance of the effects produced by the delay in this Court had lately come to his knowledge. Two old Ladies had an interest in some leasehold property, about which a question larose which required the decision of the Court of Chancery. A suit was commenced. The remainder of the lease was twelve years. It was thirteen years and a half before the cause came on to be heard, and by that One the lease of the property had expired, and both the Ladies, the parties interested, were dead. Was this the administration of justice? Was it not rather an absolute denial of it? Another point to which he found it his duty to call the attention of the House was, that in point of fact there was no ap peal from the Court of Chancery. There was a no minal appeal to the House of Lords, but it was well known that all appeal 'was even-there decided by the Lord Chancellor. The remedy which he proposed was in the first instance* very plain L-namely, to ap point a ComMittee to inquire into the facts, and re port their opinion. The inquiry should be instantly commenced, for it could produce no possible injury. With the view of giving full time for considering, be only intended to move on the present occasion, that a Committee be appointed, to consider so much of the Statute, 13 Elia. chap. 7, as relates to giving the ll,ord Chancellor jurisdiction in matters of Bank ruptcy. He accordingly concluded by a Motion to that erect. Mr. SINCLAIR seconded the Motion, not only from its general public importance, but especially because he thought it would tend to expedite and facilitate the decision of Scotch Appeals. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL remarked, that the great object of the Honourable Gentleman seemed to .be, not to do away with the office of Vice-Chancellor against which he so much complained, but to su peradd to the Court of Chancery a new Court, to, have exclusive jurisdiction in matters of liankruptcy.., His first objectival to the motion slow before the House was, that It was founded od statements which did not agree with the true state (Inlets. The hear ing of Appeal cases had been very much expedited Sligo Fla Us. Pufsik . i eci , considered faaourabl v t But him when selt he four 1.1 • ° srs all onoonime Gentleman enistaken respecting fluence in that House, but that the Clrince'i WaS C!( ;nee tlai;eiroueitinentilf the Vice- Cl So far Chancery, that in fact, almost the only wee hisiat tho vi a . ; was the arrear of causes now unheard in t h e ca.C:ioeusrnt now i l es teh ition u . er su ta t Tlg v iltto p be ar ikl tw e a which had been set down within the last Ter m see down for hearing, and not yet heard, were , hose . resolved at once to bring it forwar d • ( Hear.) There-were now two hundred and six causes'repeal. Gentlemen who knew the a aac a t .,, T set down for hearing, all of which were set down in ; House, and of what it was Fompos, e. .. Hilary lernalast, except about seventy or eighty p , sur rased that such a proposit 'a ion wou. ca , (hear, heir.) As to bankreptor, it was an absolute of forfutd2ble enemies, all in co-ops attic a thing own inutvidilal interest, witho • • fact, that there now was no armor whatever, u. an: which had not happened for meny years. What then of the Public. In ',akin. those w fin became of the Honourable Gentleman 's reasons for i hostility against the measure, he bestow a l a erecting a new court for Bankruptcy ? He was as- encomiums on Mr. Crawshaw, who, fro tonished to hear it said, that bankruptcy cases were beginnings, had acquired a princely r oa „ all strictly legal. The truth was quite the reverse.' iron-foundry, and that by the most faithiel For it so happened that there was not a single bank- of every moral obligation. But is it in thsa,. - 1 ruptcy case in the Court of Chancery which did not or j ustice of the House, that because t il ev had ‘,•°,,-. involve a question strictly equitable, which none but these duties so long patiently, that they nev,e a Court of Equity could decide. But to talk of re- be released from their burden? The pccpie lieving the Court of Chancery from the pressure of minghtm complained, that if the duties are take business, by removing the bankruptcy business, was coastways, the while manufactures of that iat ridiculous—for the great pressure of business in that place would be transferred to London ; h at ti, Court was not occasioned by Bankruptcy cases, but a mere hypothesis unfounded in experience. '; by those of a general nature. The truth was, that of which he now complained had alreatis ever sines the appointment of the office of Vice Chan- such a magnitude as to demand an immedie'e cellor, the pressure of business had been diminished, It was not the application of philosophic.d „ and this great advantage had accrued that the Lord which could a ff ord those aggrieved relief. '1'1; 0 -- Chancellor was able to devote more time to Appeal must have radical removal of the evil. Scatlso s"s. cases. That Noble Judge was now enabled to sit in did not mean to include in his general pmpo s ia,,,, ; the House of Lords thiee days in th e week to die that the Gentlemen of that country need not eater . ' patch Appeal cases. On the whOle, the Honourable taro any apprehensions of an innovation. The ('ha. Gentleman had not made any sufficient ground for cellor of the Exchequer hid referred to him for a oh. his motion. He concluded by expressing his sense stitute, should he consent to the measure. Lst ho t of the merits of the present Lord Chancellor, whom first carry his motion, and then something might be he described as one of the most consummate Judges suggested equally productiVe. The Honourable Mm* , who had ever sat on the Bench. bet concluded by moving in substanc e for leave to Mr. MICHAEL ANGELO TAYLOR.—After a ,bring in a Bill to Repeal so much of the preeta general review of the subject, and enforcing his pre- as relates to the Duties on Coals. vious arguments, he pledged himself that he would Lord EBRINGTON stated, that *sae Ilonourahl e not relinquish the renewal of his motion, should he Mover had gone so fully and so ably into the sub. now lose it, till the House consented to a Committee `ject, he thought that there was very little left to: him of Learned Gentlemen to inquire into the merits of to induorthe House to agree to the motion. In the the allegations. In case of the "resignation or death counties of Devon and Cornwall alone, the duties of the present Lord Chancellor, which no man less averaged £70,000 a year, and the chief part of it sea t wished than he did, all the causes now in progress defrayed by twelve ports in those two counties. Th e must be renewed de novo. Such renewals would en- consumption of coals was not general in- Devon an tail upon the parties an incredible expense. There Cornwall, but confined to a small portion of the po were many cases, as, for instance, the Roxburgh and pulation. The duties were so oppreeiire in those no Queensberry, that had been waiting judgment for 18 counties, that several manufacturers had been ruined months or two years; those causes had cost the par- A china manufacture had been lately attempted st ties £5,000 or £6,000; and if the Noble Lord should Plymouth, but in consequence of the heavy dittiam resign, or if any fatality happened, these cases must coals had failed. As the duty on coals affected the be re-heard at the expense of the parties. Give him manure, itconsequently affected the growth of cora; (Mr. Taylor) but a Committee, and he - would spew therefore it operated as a direct tax on agriculture that the Vice Chancellor transacted all the business Mr. LITTLETON confessed he was fit a little of Chancery, and the Lord Chancellor nothing .surprised that the Member for Surrey she Id has The appointment of the former had in many instances brought forward a proposition hostile to our,sviten superseded, and totally altered the constitution or of Finance, when the Minister and the House wen office of Keeper of the Great Seal. The Vice Chan- anxious to improve it.' In his censure of the duo cam's appointment took place in 1813, and not, on sea coal, or coal carried coastways, he proceeded withstanding this great auxiliary to the Chancellor, leY a grand retrograde movement to - the remoteness the Chancery business was still in great arrears, and of Richard IL - With in dill fine display of g*ing .the suits delayed, to the prejudice of the 'parties. It in the historical acCODISt of the coal duties e ise bad was not his ()fr. Taylor's) opinion alone, but the ge- better confined himself to the time of the Revolution, neral language of Gentlemen at the bar. Whatever when those duties first began to be modified into a might be the sentiments of some Gentlemen, he regular taxation. To agree -to the HarableGes. could easily prove to the country that he was right, tleman's proposition would be great it ice to max .A(1 that hewie in the faithful discharge of his duty resp e ct ab l e char acters who had embarked large ca when he submitted his present motion to the House. pitals in important national concerns. He enema- A division then ensued, when the numbers were— rated the various counties that would be affected by Ayes 49—Noes 77—'-Majority 28. the proposed change, and those that would not feel DITTIItS ON COALS. it. He insisted, atat the grand projectors of the /14. HOLE SUMNER, in introducing his mo- measure had been much disappointed ; that their tion for a Repeal of - the Coal Duties, so as to render meeting at Tom's Coffee-hoese and other places, had them more equal, acknowledged that if any thing not been productive of the PetitiNts expected ; could more than another justifY taxation, it was ter- ther had they been able to otithin one from West- Wray a deity on coals. But then-he thought that it minster. Nothawing moved for the.printing of any I should be on a principle of equalization, and not by of the numerous Petitions which he had presented the oppression of one_part of the community at the against any, alteration in the, duties,: tie.llonourabie nmpense of another. The Honourable Member then Member took to hirnself,.Soute.ceecfit for hydro iron into a . detailed historical account of the rise and made such a saving to thmpublic ; and he though [progress of the coal duties, tracing them to the most that if the same Ihie 'of conduct were followed by remote period on record, namely, to the reign of other Gentlemen, the expense of printing, which had, Richard the Second, in 1379, when the inhabitants.of in the lasofew years, increased incredibly, might to Newcastle and Sunderland, being threatened with 'kept within some reasoableboonds, It might notbe some enormous tax or contribution, petitioned that courteous to oppose autumn AC i very . c•innweace Monarch for leave to fit out his then intended arma- menu, but he thought himself called uoterbefehlk went, provided he would be graciously pleased to be duty to-oppose the -motion. - • contented with a duty of 6d. per chaldron on coals. Alderman WOOD saw the Him. Mover and his In the reign of Elizabeth it was increased to is. per friends between two fires—between the Chancellor GE chaldron upon all coals ; and in the days of Charles the Exchequer and those who declared themsebts IL it was considerably increased, from which duty Sit hostile to the motion. While formerly the Chancel- Thomas Clark received £5OO a year. In the time of for of the Exchequer had given them hopes, he n or William 111. it was furtf.er augmented to ss. per left them to be attacked by the Member for Stafford. chaldron, by way of a temporary duty for the im- and others who opposed the came. The coals is provement of- the resources of war. By the 9th of von and Cornwall were often carried 20 or 30 nab Queen Anne, there was a further additional duty of inland at ,a considerable expense, in addition to ;:.g 3s. per chaldron. The two last 21/4mentations were excessive duties. There appeared such a rnonoi !! rendered perpetual by an Act of George I. and by of coals in certain counties, that the manufacturer the 17th of George 111. a Regulation Bill -was passed, found it necessary, for their own supply, to be imposing upon London 9s. 4d. per chaldron, and 6s. proprietors of coal mines. The worthy Alder' in all the outports. The duty for the former place bestowed many encomiums on the Hon. Mover, als alone amounted to 12s. 10d. per chaldron, being a he hoped would allow him to be called hii Honour sort of consolidation, including rneterage, on that ne- able Friend. Me had very ably detailed the risetal 4essary of life. Great part of the London coal duty progress of the coal duties, and notwithstendiag . th was attached to what was termed the Orphans' Fund. ridicule of some Gentlemen, he was perfectly ng . ig He did not mean to speak disrespectfully of that to go back to the days of Richard 11. when the dour charity or any other. His whole object was to move first had a tangible shape. To have confined hinu for there peal of' the whole duties, In order to prorose to die Revolution would not have been sufficiendf some other plan equally. beneficial to the public reve- illustrative. With regard to the duty itself as 3 ittie. In corroboration cf his sentiments, the Honour- matter of finance, he did not care whether it sal ible Member quoted Dr. Adam Smith, and Dr. An- taken off or not ; but let there be some equalisation` derson. He thought it exceedingly bard; that coals let the whole country be charged at the rate of carried coastways, should pay a heavy duty, while "per chaldron. But he called upon the Uhancellur coals carried inland pay no duty at all. But some the Exchequer to say w hy he fay.outel one c ountl . Gentlemen said, that if this iluty be repealed, it would more than !mother ? Why did he favcur Wales nose yaia mast numbers of manufacturers, by producing than Cornwall ? In the latter place. the poor ms' issifttfacturers at or near London, who would rival or had frequently not been able to earn more th an tsc, letidersell those in the inland counties. Their had all, shillings a week, and yet he was to be burthene. l , po doubt, their local attachments and local prejudices. the oppression of his superiors, through the medo o The present duties not only affected London, but all of the unjust and abominable duty on c oals. He hi•! the counties circumjacent, particelarly that to which known instances in which t he p oor of the c i ty the belonged (Surrey). There were sixteen counties London had paid seven shillings per, sack for it coah., if that paid the heavy duties now complained of, white He did not care how the tax was imposed, twenty counties paid no duties whatever. In our made equal. population, it might be said, that out of nine mil- • Colonel WOOD opposed the Motion. In WalS` lions, four millions and a half pay 065,000, nearly Coals were not only fuel, but its many instances £1,000,000 sterling, while one four'saillions and a served for tillage, or the improvement of the Lin half pay no duty. As an argument on the part of by burning lime. And - what wriuld be our those who opposed his proposition, it had been ad- lain agriculture without this auxiliary to oor "vanced, as no small consolation, that the wages in The Member for Surrey was s upposed to pi . r , London' were higher ; but It ought at the same time good. substitute for the duty on Coals ; but lie to be recollected, that the duties are higher also ; and acted with good judgment and discretion in not c that the pear Man frequently. pays 44d. mote per ,closing Nos tax, as the Chancellor of the L‘c 3- bushel for opals than the rich man. At or.e time he might be rapacious enocah to have takes ate ,t OM vE I v stn L P o 7al er;i u r .;•:t : fi r w