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• 'AGRICULTURAL DISTRRSSES. COMMIT TATION OF TY 1 - 1-IE 4 . THE MOST CELEBRATED PA`M THLEf 3 on the allow. Subjects are published in THE PAMPHUITEER which is printed occasionally, four Nus. annually. Mr. PRESTON'A Pamphlet on the P ;ay of Ac ,, teut-rustAr. INTZIESTS can Only b.. had in No. j•is! piiblshimi, price 61‘. id. which al.o con•alns tlfitiT other popular Pamphlets. Sold by Gale and Fenner; Longman and Co. London. and all othsakultselera in TOW N and Cuutury. Of whom Complete litormay also be had. PARLIAMENT/Mr .PROGELPINGS. HOUSE' OF LORDS. APRIL 11. ROYAL ASSENT. • Tice Royal Assent *ls given by Commission to the Pfintess . eitnetotte's Establithment iii 1, kloosparte's Detention Bill, the Helena Intercourse Bill, the Excise Dudes BM, the Lea* Ril°, the Promissory Notes BM, the American TPtle.Cisn'ets tion Rill, the. Irish Excise Duties Bill, the Bask Advanur s all, the Manchester Water-Werke Ml, the Enter Gus Lighp,Blll,' Ike Southwark Bridge Bill, ansLienradd Atha Prleatalilli.-seThe 'Commissioners were theutso•CßAsiczrioa. aid the Buda AC Mara t ssayar aad Hozeowur: the Transportation Dill was read a woad dm, and ordered to be printed. The Butter and Cheese impottadon Duty 111114 went through .the Committees. • Mr. HONK Sowttsta, Mr. C. GeAuf, and *them brought up from the Comnbms, the Corohers 11W, and the Highliad " Society's Bill, which were read the first time. : • • The House then Adiotinted to Friday, Apdl the sotto *- • HOUSE OF COMMONS. '‘ • The SPEAKER acquainted the House, that he had been up to the House of Lords, to hear the Royal Assent given by Commission to the Princess. Charlotte of Wales's Provision Bill, BoraPant's Detention Bill, end several other Public and Private Bills. Mr. Serjesnt 01431.0 W give notice, that he should move on ;the 9th of May, for the repeal of the Interest Laws. • The Coroners' Allowance : . Bill was read a third time, and peurd• ' Petitions were presented against the Duties on Leathtr, from • Abingdon, County of Oxford, Wattage, Tewlesbury, • . k-Moors, Enter, and the West at Scotland. NAVY PAN OFFIOE, Mr. ROSE wished to offer to the House, some explanation in answer to the charge made by a Noble -,Baronet last night, that the Accounts in the Navy Pay Office had not beep made up since 1786, at least ,iso far as regarded Ships' Books; he had made some inquiries this morning, and the result was, a dis ' covery that the Honourable Member was correct in his statement. This was to be accounted for in some measure, by the act of 1785, which had completely altered le mode of proceeding With these Accounts. When an inquiry was instituted by Oa authority of **that House IMO the Navy Offices, and particularly those of the Civil Department ; the Comptroller of the Navy, a most honourable and diligent Officer and who war also a Member of Parliament, had been examined before the Commissioners,. and admitted • that the Accounts were not made up; at the same time expressing his opinion that it was very proper they should be, as early as the beavy i press of current business would allow time to attend to them. There was another Gentleman in the Navy Department, to to was not stupefied in diligence and indefatigabi lity by any one, whom he (Mr. Roes) bad ever met with during the whole time he bad been In office.— This Gentleman (Mr. Daysh) did not belong to his department, but he bad been questioned on this sub ject, and though he was quite convinced of the pro. priety of attending to these Accounts, be was oi l opinion that no evil could arise from the delay, and that. it was of much more importance to attend to the current business of these Offices, taking the very firit opportunity to examine and settle the Accounts of th 2 period alluded to. He would beg to inform the House, that it was no easy task to get through this business; it required four Clerks to make the exa mination, and the Books and Papers were very vo - luminous ; however, he could give an assurance, that whenever the Clerks were disengaged from their • more immediately insaortant duties, this was one which should be attended to. . Sir C. POLE was glad to hear the acknowledge ment of his correctness, last night, as to the unsealed state of the Accounts spoken of ; but be begged the House to bear in mind what he had said t he had expressed a hope that the competent and responsible Clerks would not be discharged till this business was settled. He was deeply impressed with the im portance of acting in this manner; the public had a right to the settlement of these Accounts, for it was no joke to say, that the Ships' 13ooks had not been settled for so many years. TOBACCO. Mr. FRANKLAND LEWIS moved, that the Committee on the Importation of Seeds and Foreign Wool be instructed to consider of the propriety of in troducing the cultivation of Tobacco into this coun try.—Agrced to. INSOLVENT DEBTORS. Mr. BROUGHAM rose to present a Petition from the City of Westminster, which, though not signed bii the whole number of the inhabitants, he did not doubt, spoke the sentiments of them all ; it was on the subject of the Rules of the King's BenCh Prison, a system in which were found the .greatest aggrava tion of cases of Insolvent Debtors,—fHear, hear), — as the purposes of coercion,, where it might be ap. plied to the advantage of the Creditor, were entirely defeated, and the fraudulent had an inducement to proceed in their nefarious speculations. The plan of such debtors was; when their necessities had hunted them to the threshold of a prison to get the rules, take a hackney-coach, and, driving along Westmin ster Bridge, enter upon comfortable lodgings, where they live in 'ease and plenty upon the property of their cveditors, for three months, and then get a re • lease under the Insolvent Act. It was true, that if • any escapes took place, from this laxity of detention, the Marshal of the King's Bench was answerable to the Creditors hi the amount , of the Debtor's liabilities. •But he would be careful to whom he granted this indulgence; and there was very little temptation to . exceed the *bounds 'of the • Martini's permission of freedom. There were several instances where debtors bad suffered no restraint et all; in one case, which • occurred no great while ago, the *debtor went to live at Hanipton Court by virtue of these rules:..-nay, in • onelpstanee, the iiergon who, in the eye of the law, • • was in close custod7, was in fact gone a voyage to the Cattineot. .Tbere was another flagrant instance effranterr and knavery combined .under this sys bear, which he could not help repeating to the House. •''' "A' man, wh• was going to take the benefit of the Act, bad the audacity to esti in his way at the shop of one of bit treditors, and there purchase a gold watch and chalk, to sport with in these circumstan- 1 • • • 'la rk : 41 7: 1 1 . * l . C. These were the grounds of-she ob'atw to system; it was radically bad, and produced invoice; ' lable mischief. The Fleet Prima, too, had its rules,, and the same kind of injury.to the h onest: part .ot• society resulted from them a from the King's Bench. If it were not for these abuses, the complaints against, the Insolvent Debtors' Act would not be so numerous. Mr. LOCKHART said, that if the Insolvent Debtors' Act were as just as he contended it was un just, these roles would operate as an excitement to..in. solvency Arid fraud. Mr. ABBItCRPMBIg did not wishio detain the House on this subject, btit as a lilember of the Com mittee, to which it was intended to refer this petition, he would observe that it would be the duty of that Committee to take evidence and examine witnesses respecting those- rulei, so that they might obtain a thorough knowledge of the system. He could add his testimony as to the abuses which existed among those who were not deserving of such indulgencies. Heirlieved that there were many honest persons sent to prism for debt, who afterwards, by the influence of baNcompany, had become capable of resorting to those schemes of fraud and injustice complained of. It was theduty of the Legislature to interfere, if the creditor would ant, to stop the progress..of the syi- Agin,. which had thus been brought under the hatice of the` House. Mr. HORNER expressed his pleasure that this discussion bad taken place, and was confident more good would result to the public if this subject were thoroughly invegigated, and the evil remedied, than from any measure which had been.adopteti for many years. , . :; -Mrs BROIIGHAM obseived, that it was only the wealthy and knavish debtor that could 4buse the rules. The poor most be *pored iN prison, while the rich had only to changeisiwthidence. Mr. BENNEW said, •that the sum derived an. nuttily from the riot .of oaks in the King's Bench was about £3,500, and that the Fleet was preferred in the winter, and the King's Bench in the summer. The Petition was ordered, to •be referied to the Committee on the Insolvent Debtors' Act. Lord CA sTLE R EAG H moved, that the Hpu se, at its rising, should adjourn to Wednesday, the 21. tit instant. SURGEONS' ELL. 'Mr. ROSE moved the third reading of the Sur• goons' Bill. Mr, 440 RNER considered it quite reasonable that the public should be protected against persons exer cising the profession of surgeons, who were not com petent to the important functions which their vanity might lead them to take upon themselves; but it was unjust to declare that none should be admitted to practice who were not Members of the College. Mr. BROUGHAM understood that this Bill pro posed to enact that no person should be allowed to practice in England who was not a Member of the College of Surgeons in London. and none in Scot land who did not belong to Scotch Colleges. Now, be could easily conceive, that, great inconvenience might arise from such a measure. independent of its injustice. and the obvious tendency which it had to retard the improvement of the art generally—(H:ar, heer)..--He would suppose himself travelling with a friend on the borders between England and Scotland, and that his friend should fall ill, or meet with some mime accident in a place where he could procure no better medical assistance than a cow-leech, or a bone setter ; he should not like to get into the hands of such gentlemen, and this Act would forbid him to send for Mr. Bell. who resided on the other side the border, and might be the my man he should prefer ' consulting in such a case; by such a law we should exclude the best medical school in the world, for such he believed Edinburgh was allowed to be, from sending its skilful disciples amongst the southern parts of the island. We should also be prevented from sending for the best advice iu special cases, as it was called, in his prufession. There was another point of objection to the measure, it would check the growth of intrinsic professional merit, and would sacrifice the highest talents, just merging from ob. scurity, to an impolitic measure of mistaken precau tion. Had such a law existed some years ago, as that now proposed, the country would never have had. the advantage of the highest medical ability that this age could boast in Dr. B.tillie and Sir Everard Home —( Wear, hear). —The talents of the two Dr. Hunter's would have been lost to is s; and Mr. Abernethy would never have assisted to form the students that should follow him in reputation with the next gene ration. There were also two Gentlemen who had been eminently useful to the country, in restoring the sick and wounded of the field of Waterloo, Doctors Thompson and Somerville, who might never have felt a pulse, breathed a vein, or performed the com- monest operation in their profession, if this, law bad been in being before them—(lieu, hear). Mr. ROSE explained. After a few observations from Sir M. W. RIDLIY, the Gallery was cleared for a. division ; but the Bill was afterwards withdrawn. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM , . Sir P. BURDETT presented a Petition from Hud dersfield, requesting a reform in the representation, and the shortening of the duration of Parliament to one year ; he stated, that there were a great number of petitions on this subject ready to lay before the House, but it had been thought advisable to present this now, to draw the attention of the Legislature to the subject. It was signed by ten thouiand persons. Lord LASCELLES said, that the subject of Par liamentary Reform couldnot be very popular in York shire he thought, for he had beard nothing of this petition till the Honourable Baronet inttoduced it, and he thought it would have been decent in the petitio ners to have acquainted him with it, as he was one of the Representatives of the county. Mr. BROUGHAM said, the Noble Lord must be wrong as to the feeling on this subject in that part ' s of the country, fir the petition was signed by the in. habitants of twenty-four parishes, and the number of names was 10,000. Lord LASCELLES repeated his obseriations, and the petition was laid on the table. Lord COMPTON moved for an account of the Duties on Leather; with the drawbacks & &v. for the last seven years. Mr. j. P. GRANT moved for a tariety of returns respecting spirits made in Scotland. • Colonel PALMER, moved for a return of the number of smell arms in the Tower, belonging to the Ordnance depsesment, with the sweet of if the seta branch oritilkartenee, and an . t of the contracts for Bintilngham arms in 1814. COLOSSAL .17,11PA*TM ANT. Mr. CREEVEY wished to ask the Honourable Secretary for the Colonial Department, respecting' the returns ordered of the number of officers in that department ) he understood there were eighty some time ago, and that now the number was reduced to thirty. Mr. GOULBURN hoped the papers would all be on the table at the 'meeting of Parliament after the recess, and it was intended to take some steps with regard to persons holding of f ices in• the colonies, re siding on the spot. Mr. CREEVEY then gave notice that he should submit a motion to do away all offices in the West- Indies, where the holders of them lived in this coun try, soon after the MCA% but be could not name the preciseday. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved for a variety of revenue returns, which Mr. Arbuthnot afterwards brought up. :together with the Correspondence between the Officers of Works and the Treasury. Mr. CREEVEY wished mask the Chencelior of the Exchequer, whether any loan had been made to the town of Liverpool since the last inquiry? On bat day, he saw by the Papers, that the Right Honour. able Gentleman was made a freeman ot Liverpool,l and the ground of this proceeding was stated to be the many. services he bad rendered that town ; he, therefore, presumed, that since the transaction before explained, there might have been another of the same nature. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied, that there bad bees none since then. The SOLICITOR GENERAL stated, in answer to an inquiry from the Honourable W. H. Lyttliton, that be should submit a motion to the House on the subject of Lord Cochrane's charges against Lord Ellenborongh, on Wednesday, the Bth of May, Wile Noble Lord did not render it unnecessary by soma previous proceeding. He had not the slightest inten tion of anticipating the Noble Lord ; his only object was to provide for the settlement of this business by a definite time, by a motion of his own, if the Noble Lord did not bring the subject forward earlier. (limr. laWr.) . Mr. tiROUGHAM.—" Seeing the Learned Gen tleman, who is a Law Officer of the Crown, in ltii place, I think it right to state the object which have in view in the motion of which I have given notice, on the subject of the Liberty of the -Press. The motion which I shall have the honour.of submitting to the House, is intended to incluife three thing% which will afford a better security to the liberty of the subject; first, to allow evidence to be given to the facts in cases of libel, but not to admit the proof of them to be a justification ; tecond, ,to restrain ex officio informations ; and, thirdly,, to, provide some alteration in the system of special .. Mr. WESTERN moved for , an actoutie of the quantity of ale and beer brewed in the last fear, and the quantity of leacher • and tallow imparted. tor the last ten years. The Bank Restriction Art was postponed to Mon day fortnight, on the request of Mr. HonNea ; and the Assessed Tax Act to Wednesday se'nnight. General THOItNTON.put Off his motion respect ing counterfeit Bank notes to Wednesday se'nnight. An account of the duties on customs and excise, from 1792 to the present time, sheaving the additions and progressive rite thereof, was ordered on the mo• don of Mr. BROUGHAM. 4 Mr. EENNETT moved for a variety of papers r lative to the colony of New South Wales ; among otters for an account of the number of the convicts that had died on their passage, from 1810 down to the latest period ; for an account of the present stock and population of the colony, distinguishing the free, inhabitants from the convicts • and for an account of the general expence of the esta blishment.--Ordered. Mr. LUSH INGTON presented the annual ac-' , count of the amount of the public debt. and of the money received by the Receiver General of the Land Tax, and remaining unappropriated in the Bank of England. The Agricultural Horse Duty Regulation Bill was read a second time, and committed fur this day fin t night ; and the Innkeepers' Allowance Bill was read a third time and passed. The other ortiets of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned to Wednesday senuight. The motion for the repeal of the Taxes upon Lea. Cher is expected to come on the 29th of this month. The real question then to be decided by Parliament, is no less than—Whether a manufacture, which an eminent political writer states to give employment to an en►urable capital larger than any of our other ma nufactures, and is carried on almost entirely by moans of manual labour, shall be lost to the country, so far as the manufacture depends upon the foreign ma terial and foreign consumption—or whether it shall be allowed the same encouragement as most of our other great staple manufactures, and be permitted to use the raw materials in the most economical and most advantageous manner, and thereby greatly extend it self as respects both oar home and foreign consumption? —The objection to the repeal is the foss of about £4 , 00,000 per year to the revenue, which from the relief that would be given to so great a portion of the people as those concerned in the Leather Manufac tures in particular, as well as to the Agricultural Interests and the Public :it large, there can be no doubt would be immediately maJup by their greater ability to contribute to all the other taxes. When we consider the distressed state of this. trade, and the be. neficial consequences that.would attend the repeal of these taxes, and that the Minister, during the war, only saved the tax by a majority of four•; we cannot doubt but if the trade continue to pour in their Peti tions, they must succeed in an object which tt appears is not less for the advantage of the country, than •Ices. the different branches of the Leather Trade. SOCIETY FOR THE GRATUITOUS CURB OF RUIFTWIE. We heartily congratulate the Public on the receut establishment of this most humane Society, under the Patronage of his Royal Highness the Duke of Straurs, and sanctioned also by the suppoft pfneveral eminent Surgeons. A Special Meeting was held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand, on Tuesday evening, the 9th inst. when several Resolutions were then read and agreed to. The Thanks also of the Society were .voted to the Chairman, the Hon. Weau- INGTON SUIRLr tr his able ooadtwt ay:Wu. By the account , to remain at V set out for Art frsuisa for Par that Princess public at Perm, duchies the hap " Dear Count _ the distresses which . desire Is to contribute, by . -- my power, to 14. T i me theme In consequence, h Frt'cularly recomtn e nd lo , binder kinds of fetes on my arrival. The anew i tt o,f'Z' tscluneut width my subjects can give me, and th e most art ; to my beast, will be their distributing among the ind:cts itthe sums whiclt they destine to these fetes. (Signed)"Matte 'suites, " Schoenbrunn, February 28." According to a publication made at Para's, the following is the tille which this Princess has adopt s N Her Majesty the Imperial Princess Archd uc h ess ol Austria Mana Louisa, Duchess of Puma, h agestia, and GUSSIeIIa• " VIENNA, MARCII By accounts from Moldavia, of February 13, that province is entirely free from the plague: there a only a fevrpersons attacked with it at Gallatz. T he accounts from Wallachia are very satisfactory o n thi s head. The five infected persons at Jessenovatz and Run, in Slavonia, are nearly convalescent; and the two of the 2d ReAiment of the B4nnas, who remained at Detbjeza,. will be shortly entirely recover e d. T he communication with these three villages will unn be opened again, when the houses and effects hue beet% purified, so as to leave no ground for appreheri t i on . All Dalmatia enjoyed the best health on the %at February, and there had been no new accident at Raguse, so that it may be hoped that the contagion , will soon be at an end in that province. The communicati.)ns between the suburb of Lulu' and the town of Spolaho„ as well as between Ike islands of Bram. Lesina, and Lissa, were roesub. lished on the 21-th of February. ROME, MARCH 19. We have here . the following account from Grit Vecchia, Ist March : _ di While a convoy of vessels, taking advantage the favourable weather to sail from the Tiber to Ci vita-Vecchia, and another was going to sail fr here to the Tiber, there appeared off Palo and S Severe a' large Turkish *zebeak, which put out tw bouts, and eagerly pursued with the nearest yes These spread all their Sails and escaped; some \ them 'sought protection under the Tower of St.Ss Vera, ma the coast. The pirates' boats boldly pa. sued these, notwithstanding the fire from the tom r• e • The c r e ws lanfferand fled' into the Tower, where; great many peasants from - the neighbourhood vai :also assembled. Besides the arms of the little gars son c there were SO muskets in the Tower, which wee distributed among the fugitives. The Musselmet approached with uncommon boldness, and had al 'ready taken possession of two of the vessels, when fix litisk fire from the Tower compelled the trio n he which were towing away their booty, to let go, ate retire with los' to their zebeck, which sailed away tie .following night. On the 13th two Barbary pirate appeared off Flumara, and captured, near Purl d'Auzio,'a Neapolitan paranzella. coming from Cr vita Vecchia, and afterwards a Sicilian vessel!hde with wines: hound for Rome, the crew of which, howeier, escaped to this place in their boats. We have daily pirates in sight, by which the aavigativa is almost wholly stopped." The following tragical stories are recorded in the German Papers : EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM /41)13, APRIL 5. " A tragical scene has just thrown our town terror and consternation. The Jay before yesterilar, about eight in the evening, Mrs. Papillen, the mo ther of a family, enjoying a decent competence,cm. emitted an act of despair or madness, to which tie annals of the human plod scarcely furnish a parallel. Being billowed by her three children, a buy of fadr years of age, and two girls, one eight the other five years old, she draggcd them to the well; there sett ing the two youngest, she threw them in ; the eltis-st girl struggled a long time in ter meher's arms, tr. tering aenizitig but fruitless cries. The barbarous mother violently seizing her, threw her into the well, into which she at last threw herself also. These four unhappy victims have been taken suit dead, slid the assistance of art was lavished on them in vair. Yesterday evening at- nine o'clock they were buriel It seems that this woman, whose mind was doubtless deranged, had meditated this great crime during the whole of. the 3J; on that day she performed her tie votional exercises, and distributed abundant alms' EXTRACT OF A everre FROM MONA, APRIL 7. ig Our town is still full of tenor, at the dteathl crime in it. All that is related in the Oracle of 7th is exact; but, to complete the dreadful recital, the following details must he added :—Mailaise Papillen had formed the project to destroy all ha family, besides the three children who were the vie rims of it : she had two others, her eldest son was at &boarding school at St. Chislain, and the youngest at nurse in the country. This mother, whom oLe does not know by what name to call, had sent ac order to the nurse to bring her the infant on the day' destined for the accomplishment of the 'raged! , which the woman tetused to do. At the same tire she charged the St. Ghislain carrier to :catty tops other son affan (a kind of cake) which waepoiese 4 with a letter, desiring him to. rat it alone, without giving any part to his school-fellows. On the w d thisfon was spoiled, and the carrier fearing he 6014 damage the other goods which be had. with i all threw it away. If we add that this wretched woo; was five mouths advanced ;. !ter pregnancy, we sh' l l have an idea of the destruction which shelled calmly meditated. While the dreadful scene WAS pow her husband was at the Coffee-house ; she had hi the cruel precaution to leave a note on the tabi... pointing out the well as the grave of *elf 31 children." ERDAL TIIE CORRESPONDENTEN Or AFRIL.S, HANOVER, APRIL 2.—We hear that the folio* extraordinary, almost incredible, tragic event, Leta happened in a Hanoverian country town s—A of three hale children threatened one of theta, is presence of the other, in a joking manner, to cat its now, for some naughty trick which it. had.O. habit of. Soon after, she was busy down stairs; bathing the youngeat child, who teas but his .t. up Appri on hearing a dreadful cry is the tipirer I • 0011E1N PAPERS. • VIENNA, MARCH 24. :Mate from Italy, their Majectie e Verona till the 25:h. where they %, 01.4 . Venice, and the Archduchess W I arms. The following letter , writtesi e to Cottnt Magnwli Cerati, has been mab ' rola, and promises the inhabitants of tit applest fate tinder her government 1 t Bobscawst—l team with the mow heti, irk filth Kill °ppm, my subjects My Mott ard. t . Abuts, by all the means in my pow er . ,„