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; • e- • ^.7 . ~.~ ~,~ . , ~,,, , NUMBER 7489] - BAST-Lirl3l.4,irovai, Marsh 6, 1611. WHEREAS,, jtetrnratice of the 61h Section of the " yt4 C e 5h.1,4,.., of tit UNITED COMPANY MERCHANTS f ENGLAND, Irritate to the EAST-IN DIES, it it ad-timid, 'That a I.ist ,hail be published fourteen days before the As • nuadElecnon of Directors, containing the names of such Pro " prietors, qualified agreeably to Law, if shall signify, in writing, • te the secretary, their desire of becoming Candidates for the Direction, sixteen days before such Annual Election"—The Court of Director* of the said Company de hereby give Notice, in order t!ir the Proprietors may conform to the said Bye.l..aw , that the ensuing Election of Six Directors of the aaid . Company, for boar years, is appointed for the tOth of April next ; 'and that Such List will be published fourteen days before the said Bier; Lion, as the abeve-menrioned Bye-Law directs. WILLIAM R.-1 its Ar. Neer:hire. • HOUSE OF LORDS, .MARCH 7. Their Lordships, in a Committee of Priiilegea, beard Con ed and evidence in the case of the Berkeley Peerage. • • Serjeant Bell' and Sir SA MU LI R ostii.xr were heard for the Peen: Claimant, and the ATTOIN LY•GLNERAL for the Crown. The greatest part of their argument was applied to.the . question, whether a deposition of the late Earl Berkeley in the Court of Chintery, declaring the legitimacy of his eldest son, could be received in evidence. After Counsel bad withdrawn, the LORD CHANCELLOR stated his opinion to the House, that such a deposition in another 1 cause in the Courts below could not be received there between Ithe Claitn,wt and the Xing. Further proceedings were postponed WI to-moil-ow at one o'clock. The House then resumed, and after Prayers were read— , Lord G. L. GOWER brought up two Private Bills from the Commons, which geese severally read a firit time. :Mr. Jo un s o N, from the London Dock Company, presented a **port, and also an Account of the Receipts and Disbursements laf the said Company, from the 30th November, 1809, to SOth November, 1810, which, were ordered to lie on the table. A Report of the proceedings In the Consistory Court of the Bishop of London. in the case of Loveden v. Loveden, being presented at the ' a Bill to dissolve the marriage hetween )Award Loveden ai Lvedeo, Esq. and —, his now wife, was road a lest this*. , The Malt Duty, and the Archequer Bills' }Ells, were read a third time and passed; On the question for lb rileammitment of Taunton's Divorce Bill, Lord Lauderdale and the Lord Chancellor made a few observations, the result of which was, that the evidence was or dered to be printed, and the further consideration of the Bill postponed. Adjourned till to-morrow, when the Royal Assent will be given to certain Bills, by Comtniuisin (the first), uader she au- ', thorny of the Prince Regent. , 15t,1451 r.l '..3 •••—••• • i•-••••• • • 4 .HOUSE OF COMMONS. Amongst a, variety of Private Bills gone through the first and second readings, the Colchester Navigation, and Town Pelle, Bills, were, on motion, postponed until Mehday next. Lord A. HAMILTON postponed his motion respecting thsi regulation of the Press of India to this dayfortnigin. A Message from the Lord; signified their Lordships' agreenrynt to the Mali Duty Bill, several Exchequer Bills, and the Irish Treasury Bill. Papers for the last three years, from the Excise, werepreseated, and ordered to lie en the table. Mr. WARD postponed his motion on the Navy Estimates until to -morrow se'nnight. Mr. DEN on a future day, would move that the accounts of Sums of Money granted by Parliament to the estabiishment at Sierra Leone, should be produced. Mr. H.. 141,-I'IN inquired. if the Office of Cashier of the Excise in ;•lootiand,was filled or not and with what provision ? The CHANCELLOR there were ineektilies taken for filling the vacancy, with tome re duction of salary. 'lhe Bill, on the Irish Bleaching Act was read a first time, and ordered till* re)d a second this day se'nnight, and printed. Sir J. NEWPORT moved, that certain Annual Expenditure of lrehisti, for the last Year, should be laid on the table. Ordered. Mr. FOSTER moved that the Committee on Commercial Credit should be discharged from that portion of the Orders of. the House which related to giving their opinions, and stating of facts on the same to the House.—Agreed ti. • The Bull, for Incorporating a Company for the Encouragement of the Herring and• Cod Fishery, was read a lirtirtinisi. • RIRMIKOHAM 'WATER WOZICS' ELIA.? Sir C. MORDAUNT moved the reedit% of the Bill for .the establishment of Birmingham Water- Works a second time. Mr.CURWEN observed,that aCommittee, chosen out of the most respectable inhabitants in and about Birmingham, had considered such a motion as the • present utterly inexpedient two years ago. He cer tainly deemed it proper that the Gentleman who moved for that Bill, should explain the motives he had for acting in defiance of the public opinion: Three thousand pumps were kept continually going and supplied the • town with abundance of :water : what . more than plenty WAS needed ? He would feel dis posed to take the sense of the House upon the present business, and not altogether to trust to the plausible schemes of chimerical projectors Sir C. MO RD AUNT said, he would not any more that' the ingenious Gentleman uphold the extrava gance of whimsical projectors; but the opinion of al most the whole town could not be chimerical, they felt a want ; and whenever want was felt, chimeras ceased. There was a tolerable plentiful supply of spring water ; but the present complaint was for the lack of soft water fit for the uses of washing. The Honour. able Gentleman would consider that as a want surely .of some' importance. He agreed, that the sense of .the House ought to be taken in a Committee ; and then the unprejudiced opinion of the House would be known, and the Bill, he was conscious, then would FOE SALE—For the BENEFI of the UNDEKWKI I IRS, On Friday, March IS, at ten idea in the forenoon, rrHE UNDERMENTIONED GOODS, viz. Is Butts and Ullager Malaga Wise. S Boars Ulnas. S Empty Casks. Salved from the Wreck of the Davtish Bet Tassuluiliza, P. J STRAND Master, from Malagi.—And IS Pipes, s Utlain. Hhds. and I snail Cask I 3 ". 111611 47 Empty Casks. Salved from thr Wreck of the Brig P m NSLR, EDMONSON Nader, Not Tarragona. For Samples aid further information, applyto Messrs. wc ca sad Sous, Britoil Side. JOHN LTISCOMBE., Broke... Plymouth, March 1, 1811, FOR SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION.) • . teJ At the London Tavern, yonfiolaotreac t Staznediatolg•aftar dla , Wines. exißattpait, 'THE dew Carvel-built and'fkist:faiiing Schooner, HMO DIY NORIS, of the fbilewlng . dhttenalant : Learh SI feet 4• inches/ n • arappa 11 urea 74 -95 Tons. Breadth 17 34 Square stinted. pierced for and mounted with 14 guns—a atrong well-built vend, particularly suited for a Yatcht, or Passage Yetsel -her Stores ,' are also new and abundant ; prize to His AtiajecysSilip'.lbi.tolfai I. DovocaS , Esq. Captain. For ixtrentokialitod farther iatormatton. apply to the Count- Sag-House of •• •. Motors. HAWK:e..R and Soni c Plymouth, —arch 5, , Briton Plymouth. 5U11,44i t , 0.5 MILM FIWAI LONDON. a_, CAPITAL FA M. ilicl. pg,__II7I7ATION OF MANOR. 'lti -Isr QIN l.f ASZ, . Auld knee .404 IsYLady.Day next, AMOST.' desirable • VAX.M, comprising a • ve+ y comfortable modereitHhasboirearthe re.isience of a Family of respectability. good (kaadea, Beene; Stables, Sheds, Sco. souther House and Homestead., aw.t shout 560 Acres of very capital Arable, Meadow. Pasture - and Wood Lind: The Manor extends ewer a coitideleilite space of •ground, and Is well-stocked with Game. The , Dwellint.housee and Farm Buildings are la eleyllent repair.: Tier I .and dies within a Riag ,fence, and,is is good conelition, a considerable pertind .haalng been for some time in the hands of the Proprietor. For tunher Particulai-s if‘ply to Mr. lames, Land Agee', Wee; Beswell-oatirt, Lisendes4an, Londe*. ", '. ARMY. NvANTs w.6itnation, as MESS-MAN, a Persnn who can be well recommended from tie Regiment be lately lett..--Letters (pnet paid) addreued to H.J. He. 4, Jelin street. Gtru .Portlandiureet, London, will be immaturely at tended to. Wo ANTS a Situation, as Bailiff and Gardeer, or Bailiff or Gard , seer, a middlesged single Man, that per understands the fractital part of both businesses, and can he well retommended.—Letters (pest paid) addressedi, B. Post Cite. Bracknell. Berke, will be duly attended to. RELIEF OF THE BRITISH PRISONERS . IN PRANCE., THE COMMITTEE beg to state, that there are , at present upwards of 10,000 British Prisoners in the diffe rent Prisons of Prance, for the mat pert In great distress ; and that the Subscription is intended for the alleriatiou of their sof fe:iegs in some degree, by assisting them with articles of Cloath itsg, B edding, Feel, and such other nmessaries as they stand the lest its need of. The Committee conceive that this is a ease which must excite fie sympathy of their Countrymen at large ; and,, therefor*, withatt offering any elaborate address, they trust to their gene rosity and humanity for supplying a sum commensurate to the suasion Subscriptions are received at Lloyd's, and by all the Banking haute. in London ; likewise by SirW.Forhes and Qrs. Itlinburgh; latianclic and Co. Dublin ; Robert Shaw and Co. Dublin. Subscriptions advertised - .d 9.531 14 Subscriptions since received : The Hen. the East India I A Collection at the Parish Company £3lO 0 Chureh.of Tottenham, • William Ramsay s isq. S 0 Middlesex, per Charles lc' Pearce and Son I 5 Pratt, 30 1! 3. N. and B. Pieria I * II 0 I Fred.'Cavendish, Esq. 30 '0 A Collection at Lyitips 'Robert Sparrow, !sq. 10 Its - Beale, Jr - siio 10 ston, pee Rev. loin P. 6idola St Is W. L. SO 0 St. Miry's Church, Red ford, per the Rev. D. Abbot 10 0 Ileorge Brows, Toi. 1 . 0 10 The Right Hos. the Earl of Galloway 10 10 Ross, lrliuitis, Sr Co. of Matta; per Mears. Harms aM CO. Messrs. Timms Coutta Daniel lLsq. llbw* and Sens .10 10 Tehn Maitlard, Esq. 10 10 Sir lames & Co. 10 10 John Crawford, Esq. 10 10 'rhos. Ryder, Esq. 10 10 Osbortlei & Caldwell 10 10 Francis Garratt and Sons 10 10 John Harabrisugh, Esq. 21 0 Edtn. Hambrou:ll, Esq. i ' I John Hantbrough, jun. 2 2 Megars. Eras.Vitibon and pass unmolested. - Sir Peter Moore and Mr. Joddrell supported she Bill ; and Mr. Dugdale, Lord Grenville Gower, Mr. Hawkins Browne, and other►, opposed it.—The . House then divided—For the second reading 42 Against it .55 Majority 13. AIRIMAL& ANT) CASIS IN EQUITY. Mr. M. A. TAYLOR rose to bring forward his motion relpecting the cases of suitors in the other • House of Parliament, and in the Court of Chancery lad Co. 21 0 James Meyer, Esq. 25 A Collection at Fulham • Church, per the Revs , Joho Owen 0 142 as. rd. A Collection at FramAeld Church, Essex, per the Rev. John Thomp son, sglB. 4s. 2d. Otgood Gee, Esq., 10 • Wm. Blunt, Esq. of Bu- . rhos, pet the Peters iekl Neri Bank The Proprietors of the Observer 5 The Rev. Fence Renee, Rector of Beccles 5 3 A Collection, after a Ser sten preached at Ike, 41 . Ter the VA. Aioger £9f-141d `The Apollo Lodge of , Ireesassons, Bucks 11 11 The Lead Company, per Larclay and Co. J 4 49 The Right Hon. Nlidr. Wm. 1/Pliterheny 10 10 Pistor and Wilkes 10 10 Gardens and Ilicidulpla Is le The Rev. G. A. Hatch, Friday-street j A S The United Parishes or St. Matthew, Friday. street, and St. Peter, Cheap 'JO 10 Thomas Solly, Esq. 10 10 The Worshipful the Car isenter's Company 21 • TIN Pmprietors of the San Newspaper 10 0 R. .A. and C. Pott 10 15 H. Blaslantl and Son S 0 Thomas Downey, sur geon,- R. •N. 1 1 Onunaney and Druce 10 10 A Collection at the Pa rish Church of St. Ma ry, Newington Butts, Surrey, per ,the Rev. Itobt. Dtchinson Cu rate &Lecturer .LS4 I it. Id. Thos. Bell and Son £lO Is The Hon Gentle Min regretted that he should be com. pelled to resort to the painful necessity of calling the most serious attention of the House to the situation of appellants in the highest Coutt of Judicature in the kingdom, and to the cases of • suitors in the High Court of Chancery. He had thought that after the assurance which he received during the last Session .from the Right Hon. Gentleman (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) that something should be done to re dress the grievances or which suitors complained, that he should have been spared the trouble of intruding himself again on the notice of the House. As yet, however, notwithstanding the promise given, nothing had been done —at least no active measure had been I taken. It was true that a motion had been made in the House of Lords and a Committee appointed to inquire into these cases. (Here the Speaker interrupted the Hon. Gentle man, by reminding him that he was not strictly in order in making references to the proceedings in the other House of Parliament.) S S las Vansittext, per Messrs. J. Jackson and Co. f 5 Smith, Haanstede, aad The Worship fulthe Dra per's Company SS 10 John GxUbe, Esq. S s 1 A Collection at . Moles worth, F • ' --- Mr. M.A. TAYLOR proceeded, and admitted that ' he was not in order, observing, however, that in allu ding to those proceedings, he spoke of the House or ittrisdiction. In the Houle of Smith f I ,Livnbolten, per Lords as an appellant _ Ws Chach 1 -The Rev. W. I"ii 1. 4 Lords . then a motion had been made— s. awase.p..4, THOMAS FERGUSON, Seeresu7 L ca ti o .,4 4t reet. (The Speaker again, to order, requested the Hon. "... .i . . .. . 'lf 9 • 0, :,./.. ~....: S./. i l. •Mk i '... ...• , . . . L .. • : Centienre ii would abstain from making allusions to' was that of children claiming Loa... - ...„ ._ _ those ptpceedings , because this House his: no distinct titled to a marriage settlement. In an other,__ Woe „knowledge of them.) i that of suitors claiming a beneficial interest in !roses. Mr. M. A. TAYLOR. then declared, that though ;It had happened that before the decision of the snit 4 Committee for investigating the state of appeals the leases had expired, consequently the party inte. had in another piece been appointed, yet he should' Bested was deprived of his right. In other cases . of not be deterred froth offering to the House his opi. tenantry for life, the tenant had died before the deci. nions as to the, line of duty which ought to be piir- sion of the Court. These then were some of the cases sued. When it was made known to the House that of hardship. Would it then be too much to ask for re great abuses do exist, not from the conduct of the dress? In addition to these grievances, he would state, Judges, for that he was happy to say was far above from the list of cases in arrears, two cases of appeal, 'suspicion, but from the delays of justice,.oceasioned lone an English Writ of Error ; the other, of a Scotch by the vast number of suitors which came before the Writ of Error. In the latter case, though the Court, it surely then would not he denied,, that in ap- !Lords of Session had made a decree in favour of the pealing to the justice of this . House to render to the , party, in 1805, yet he was served with a Writ of objects of the realm what they had the. right ,of Error, and the business came before the House Of Maiming, healid no more than en act of duty. What Lords, and remains as yet undec ided. T he Respon e desired the House was, to appoint. 4 Corrunittee .sent, an Ensign ie the Army, was in consequence; 1 4o inquire into the state of appeals, by searching the by being kept out of his right, reduced,to great dis.. ds' Journals ; meaning to follow.that ;notion try .tress, and but for the kindness of some friends, who I.or y another which might be attendedovith odvantageo ( knew his claim to be founded in justice, and procured Aim effects to the ;majors, he trusted. it ,would not be I for him an Ensigncy, he ,must have been literally "Imputed to him that he came forward arrogantly istiirving. The other case wasthat of two Ladies iif pith idle plans of innovation. All he desired for the.lthe names of Bacon and Wren. entitled to propertA, - subject was justice, and as my-Lord Coke very con- but of whiclea persoa named Clayton claimed tin* stitutinnally had said—o Let the suitors in Court he fourths. This case was heard in a Court of Law in heard fully without denial, and have justice speedily 1801, and they got a ?adieu in their favour. elapa I vrithout delay." That was what he now asked. To um. however, put in his writ of error, and brooghe shew that some alteration in the mode of administer- the subject before the Hcnese of Lords. There ft h 4 ing justice in the Courts of Equity was pow requisite, continued ever since. The unfortunate Ladies are at he need only state the information which he had re- a very advanced period of life, and by this conduct ceived. This information, which might not be strictly 'of Clayton debarred the enjoyment of . their r ght clot correct, but which, however, would be gathered from only for, the present, but . perhaps eventually. The the Register's book in the Court of Chancery, that Houseiait was sure would do' sornaing to remedy suits had been so long before tb.at-Court that many the evil, something to expedite the business, because persons interested therein had died before,theatermi- iif they did not, they would by their refusal be doing nation of them ; more than 'half of the property, the , whit,my Lord Coke reprobates, 0 denying of jtero object of litigation, was consumed in carrying on the ltice." The Honourable Gentleman did not mean to • suit, and the survivors having no right to the property limpute to any one person in the Codias of Equity any when the case was at length heard. When, there- dereliction of doty :on the contrary, from the high,- fore, such grievances were proved to exist, it becaMe estio the lowest they most conscientiously discharged the duty of the Legislature to supply the remedy, and their duty, ~The ;Lord Chancellor, with the most he called upon the House now so to do. The pub- scrujaulons retention to' the interests of the public, te lic contributed enough for doing what,actually wee lee . tedifie most respectable men ,to fill the offices. — not done. The exorbitant sums paid for fees on ' Bat„thoughthe hesd a ofthet Court were the most up trials, evidently sheered that at least the public were right and-conscientious)ucige that ever sat there, let entitled to have justice. It might be said. tbak the ' e st 'fat possible that:Solicitors might not be the most second Lord at the head of the Court employed- the active. It was therefore the duty of the Legislature whole of his time in giving his attention, to the, cases to supply the deficiency, and appoint one or two more before him. Why, so he did, but was it possible for Judges to dispeee of the business. He trusted that it any man, however eminent his abilities or sedulous could, not be said, that in moving far a Committee his attention—however anxious to dispose of the husi- lie was running a race with the House of Lords. No ness of his Court, when it had increased so much, such thing; All he wished was, that the House woidal could he do what a Judge had done fifty years be- by the appointment of 4 • Couvoitfee ascertain what fore, when the number of the cases were, nothing in number of appeal were really before the Lords, comparison with the present aifne; ,In former times, which they tnigholearn by inspecting the Journals of in cases of bankruptcy only, namely, in 1731, j'tst that House—that being done, he would next desire before Lord Talbot was made Lord High Chancel- that the Committee shoold-oscertaiikethat number of Iles, the commissions sued pia inahat year, amounted Causes had been disposed of its the Court of Chan to 160 ; they, notwithstanding the prosperity of eery in the last five years. This was the object which the country (about which so much had been %win- he had in view, and.it was not an answer to him to ted by Gentlemen opposite), in 1809 amounted to say that it had been i made in another place 14 days 1100 ; and in the .present year as he was informed, ago. He did assure the House, that he never had a to upwards of two thousand four hundred: ( Hear.) 'Chancery suit, nor would be have one. He would r i acsides this accumulation, there were those of wills, I .rather put up with the loss of 2 or reSOOO than run settlements, and a variety of other cases, came under i the risk of a decisioto—The Honourable Gentleman the cog i nizance,of the Court, to an amouht four or l thenonoved— five times greater than in Lord Hardwick's time.— " That a Committee be appointed to in:pe o e t t . the Journal. it Was it possible, then, for one Judge to get through of Lord ~ n t o is a r d portth ern u e tn num be r his Ap o pea t m ls ... now be suth an immensity of business ? With every respect , t f he fi th o a n t se ti The hest motion which the HonourableGentleman fcr Lord Eldon, whom he had known for many had to make, he observed, was to ascertain the num years, it was in his opinion impossible, however desi. her of motions and questions decided and heard in the rous he might be of doing his duty to the public, to Court of Chancery during the last five years, and the get through it. In moving for the Committee, he arrears of business in that Court. assured the House he meant nothing invidious to the On the question being put— Noble Lord. He asked merely .for justice for the The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER public. How were they to get redress ? In former was disposed to give the Honourable Gentleman the Mmes, in strict couforynity with the letter of the Con- fullest credit for the principle on which he had acted, stitution, our ancestors had wisely provided for that in bringing the subject under the consideration of the redress by appointing what was termed is a Com- House ; but he did not see that even if the motion mittee of Courts of Justice." It was established in were acceded to, the object which he had in vie* order that the subject might have recourse to it for would be obtained, and therefore he did not conceive redress. But even this Committee was a thing un- there was any ground for entertaining it. At the known to the Legislature now. The oldest Officers same time, while he admitted that the Honourable of the House had not the least recollection of the Gentleman had used great candour in his speech, he sitting of such a Committee, therefore that mode of could not deny that great grievances do exist—that obtaining redress was now entirely done away. In There was a deficiency in the power of administering cases of Appeal, in the highest Court in the king. justice in various points, and consequently that it dom, tardy was the progress of justice there, for the b ecame t h e d uty o f t h e Legi slature to see that defici reatrons before stated. He was informed that at this ency supplied. But When he stated thus much, he time there were .300 Appeals waiting for hearing in must also observe, that this increase in the business ;he order and course in which they are set down.— of the Courts arose principally from the opulence of The,neother of causes heard in one year were not t he The House would keep in mind the more than thirteen ;of course, unless some provision country. particular points of jurisdiction to which the Honour were made by the Legislature for the disposing of able Gentleman had directed their attention in the them, 20 years would not be sufficient time for hear- first instance, namely, the number of appeals unde ing them. Did not this circumstance call for a re- laided in the other House. That being the first medy for the evil ? It might. be said, what hopes of the grievances complained of, the subject had could he (Mr. T.) entertain of obtaining redress for I b een taken - up by that House, and more correctly the subject, when men of splendid talents and great Iso than by this House. It would therefore, in its abilities could not avert the evil complained of ? . To ' opinion, be advisable at least to wait and see whit this he would reply, that his duty told him something course that House would pursue on the subject.— must be done ; and when he recollected the promise I With respect to arrears of cases in the Court of Chan- made to him in May, since which, a period of eight leery, when it was recollected, that in the House c( months had passed, and things remained in the same i Lords, the Noble Lord who'presided, alio sat in the state, he could not but feel that it was necessary this ICourt of Chancery, the best course to pursue would House should at least appoint a Committee of In- be to ascertain, in the first instance, in what way-the quiry. The great fatigue which the Lord Ch;ncel- teases of Appellants might be accelerated, so as to ad lot had undergone, both in the House of Lords and iminister strict justice • and then to ascertain whether the Court of Chancery, was such, that only one cause facilities " i greater mig h t not be afforded, in order to had been heard, and that was not decided. With the I expedite the business ih the other Court. When the assistance of the Master of the Rolls, the list of causes Hon. Gentleman talked of providing some remedy was se great, that more than one hundred were in for the grievances, he Conceived, that without aban arrear. Some of the cases which had been decided,' doning that duty which most certainly belonged to from the very long time they were in Court, involved this House in point of redressing the grievances of ,much of hardship and distress to the parties con- the subject, it would not be too much to say, chit cerned. He would instance one—the case of Miles, be- , that justice would not be delayed in the- quarter in which a widow claimed under a testamentry where at•prese nt it was under consideration. It wa s ' quest of her husband, mid the question which arose ef no use, under these c'rciamstances, for the Heu s i out of that bequest was, whether it did not bar her , dowry? In the agitation of that question,.to adopt the measure of the Hon. Gentleman, and he a period' *as sure that no person would be more ready to ad of from 12 to 14 years had elapsed, in the course of m i t t h an t he H on . G ent l eman t h at t h e subject va; ' which the widow was reduced to the utmost distress, one which involved much of intricacy, and required l and the decision was not yet known. Another case great consideration. The public, feeling that the fact . . . . , . - - '~',~, ;'T~-: : 7 1Z