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a r idag out of them, namely, illegal .ineoranei. This arF emcnt might perhaps have applied when . the Lovelies continued drawing for 40 days together. ? but he thought that evil was almost entirely done wa y by the present system of Lotteries ; and he ; as o f opinion that so far from being productive of b o rn, the State Lottery, did much in keeping down Pfirate Lotteries and ' Little Goes, which were al yrer, found to be mare numerous during the inter- Ta ' s between the drawing of the State Lotteries s e e n during the time they were drawing. With es expe nses of prosecutions for illegal. f iect to the I ns urances, &c. wli ca had been alluded to by the laoneurable Gentleman, if he would inquire, he weald find a great majority of those prosecutions s i ve ea cifences not originating in the State Lottery, L e t in ettempts to overturn, pr at least to undermine it. . 0: ,, p,0,1a Hon o urable Gentleman then proceeded i s siereod the various prosecutions which had taken I ; . , ze en- efi . ,eices against the law an this head. With '`:to.ect to the price charged fur a Ticket by. the Contractors to the public, he did not think it was HALT than was necessary to give them a fair profit.., Persons were left to their °V II option to purchase a Ticket or not : if they bought who were rot able to a ir oo l it, he could not but regret it. And no man would feel greater pleasure than he should, if the lower orders of the people would, in future, instead of turchasing Shares in the Lottery, invest their money j a Saving Ilaeks. Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY thought that this was a most serious question. In his opinion, every time the House %oats! a Lottery Bill, they voted, that a ro sier et persons who, up to that time, had been virtuous and honest, should become vicious, idle, and &prayed. This was apparent from • the evidence taken at different times, before the Committees of the fiuose. The Honourable Gentleman then corn waled, in severe terms, on the Lottery puffs and adeertisements which, from time to time, were pub lished and distributed amongst the people, and were reticular - 1y calculated to lead astray and deceive the lower orders, and to tempt them into the com mission.of crimes which frequently terminated in their ruin. The Honourable and Learned Gentleman Oen ad , e.rt.ed to the increase of crimes in the metro polis, in the covrse of the' last year. At the com mencement of his Majestyts reign there were not more than coot hundred prosecutions for crime in one year, row there were fourteen hundred ! This was a proof of a most lamentable increase of crime, and he could not divest his mind of a conviction that much of this increase had its origin in the State Lottery. Mr. WILBERFORCE strongly reprobated the system of . 1-ailing money by Lotteries," which, he contended, in their narure„tended to destroy all morality, and to tempt the lower orders of the com munity to tbe commission of every vice. Mr. LO . :2K HA RT was of the same opinion. Mr. LI'S IiiNGTON appealed to the House whether it sees consiyeet now to awes to the present hesolutiens jrO abolishing • the Lottery atter having rated the so:r, to he raised by is? Lotteries were not now attenees: with such pernicious effects as in former years. His R:glit Honourable Friend, he was sure, would be li..ppy to abolish them, if any other means rteld hoz ie . :noted out for raising the tnelley that they yielded. Ms. 12.TrTr.R.WGRTI - 1 did not rise to offer any new orgonsent against the system of the Lottery, but to state. it:l ieaance of its per uicious effects sr liich had come I,),:irr his owia noti::e. • lie had examined some of 'I :els convicts in Newgate, and found that the irregr; :rilies in which they had commenced that conduct which led them to their fate, had been pro duced by the gambling temptations of the Lettcry. Lord CO.'s-11-TON opposed the Resolutions. Mr. W M. SMITH could see no danger of an en enuragenvent to gambling from foreign - lotteries. It might be made penal to take orders. One of Os:: greatest evils of the war, he had always thought, arose from the vestintrable sources whence the money to carry :t on was drawn. Qoack medicines had barn allowed for the taxes they y irides! —public.frouses were encouraged for the same reason, and gambling was patronized eri sOsi;lar grounds. Wheal any one entered upon the sun ect or the>e abuses, arid at. ttonoted to point out their bad effects on the health, tin. triorAls, aiol maw,'" y of the people, it was always thou A ht a shilicent (I,.:fence to say that they yielded a revenue. Ti;ey were allowed to be injurious; but they produced money, and money must be had. Mr. EA RCLAY also supported the motion. Mr. LYTTELFON replied. The House then divided—For the Motion, 21— Against it, 47—Majority against the Motion, 26. IRISH GRAND JUR[EB. Upon the motion that the House resolve itself into. a Committee on the Irish Grand Jury Bill, . Sir F. FLOOD stated his former objections to the measure. If the Bill passed into a law, he could call n rotting else but a Legislative arraignment of the Irish character and of Irish Juries. The House went into the Committee on the Bill. Lied CAS TLE REA GH wished it to be under stocd, that he was a sincere friend to the measure.— In coeseuerice of what had passed on a former night between himself and his Learned Friend (Mr. Horner) i.e wished to introduce a clause into the Lill, involving oso important points; providing, Fast, that the Judges .srnuld, at their discretion, direct the information, 1).-4 , 7 previously sworn before a Magistrate, to be laid L f' .1 ••• a Grarßi Jury ; and, secondly, that if before :toe D-Anci Jury a le !mess should have sworn falsely, i: s'aiuld he lawful for any one of the Jury to give evidence upan the trial against that Witness. He concluded with moving the clause. - Mr. A.BERCROM a proposed an - alteration to he made io the proviso just move.!, to tire effect that 1 ' '; , 't - I:ttetion should be granted by the Judges to :: (7 ' 110 '. 1 Tul y =less a fee mal application should be i.o . .iesis!:, enaoe, bt..tingth , ir seasons for such request. I . l ld CASTLER Li'iCsH would rather leave it enerely at the discretion cf the Judees. Mr. IVEBBER supporte d t h e a mendment of the Nefie Lerd. Sir JOHN NEWPORT was desirous that a pre eise ii!le of conduct should be 7 rescribed to the Judge, teat the practice might be uniform at different Assi7.es. It was ccrt , iolv 1f the utmost importance to guard as much as possible ag:iitest perjui y. 1 -od Cis6TLEREAGIi had no objection to tn, edify his claus e so as to meet the views of the I nenslq nil the Bill, among whom he . profeased him tele enc. Mr. VONSONLY tho ugh that the clause of the Nohle lord would defcat the Oyeit paitioge of the Bill, to which he said he was s 6 Friendly. Leaving it to the discretion of the Judge, was giving him a diffi cult task. The discretion ought 'rather to be given to the Grand Jury, who might require the evidence before the Magistrate to be communicated to them, when they perceived any thing suspicious in the viva wort testimony given before them. Mr. PEEL observed, that if it were found on the trial, that, in addition to the written evidence sent by the Judge, witnesses were not examined by the Grand Jury, it would be fit that all the proceedings should be annulled, and a claw with that provision would accomplish all practical purposes. Mr. A. COURTENAY was in favour of the mo dified clause. Colonel BARRY wished to know whether it was now the law of England that a Bill should be re.' jected on which the Grand Jury had not taken viva vote testimony ? It it were, lie had no objection to the principle of this Bill, because it would assimilate the laws of England and Ireland. The oaths taken by Grand Jurymen in the two countries ought to be the same. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL thought that the Bill would be incomplete without the clause. Sir J. STEWART and Mr. V. FITZGERALD supported the clause. Mr. HORNER thought it would be possible so to word the, clause, that it might_be introdUced on the third reading. The clause was then withdrawn for that purpose ; and the report was ordered to be re. ctivcd this day.—Adjourned. THE EVENING STAR. 1.0 ND' )N. • THURSDAY, JUNE 13, ISI6. PRICE OF S'T'OCKS TUN DAY .V1"1 WEIN E O'CLOCK: Reduced 63i—Con'. stint—for opening 641 65 4 per Cent. 741-5 pt .r Cent. Navy phut—Bonds Is. dia. par OnuJunt 223-I.xeliequer Bills, 3s. di*. is. pr. The Onmium hold_•rs, a few days ago, petitioned the Bank to postpone the final redemption of the Om►►ium pledged at the Bank, which was to be redeemed on the 12th July next, to the 21.'h of the same month. Yesterday, however, Mr. i-ImE g:ive notice, that the Bank Directors had resolved net w comply with the prayer of the Petition. We have received the Paris Papers of Monday.— They contain the act of accusation against the five ' persons implicated in the publication of the libellous, or rather treasonable Paper, callcd the Nab, Tri.-:l2re. The ringleader of these disturbers of the public peacc of France, was one BAbeuf, the con of a celebrated re volutionary character. The younger Baheuf was a bookseller at Lyons, on BoNArnaTe's return 170 m Elba, but from Olt instant he assumed a military dress, and celled himself a Geteral. He did not accompany his Master, however, to Waterloo, but remained at Paris to write li!)eis on the friends or peace and good order throi)ghoiit Ew . ope. The trial was to commence on COURIER EiCTNAORDINARY OF MONDAY MORNING. The marriag.: of Lis Rea; Highness the D'tc Berri will take place on the 17Lb, but fetcs not begin until tl:e 19th. ' C4urt of Assiz , * %%11 t!.is clay try the affair of the Nain Tricolor-A The Captain of Artillery, VoDee, mho was arrested ,at Havre and coitveyed to tl:e military prison of the Abbey' at lag accused of stealing a consi derable quantity of GPveri.nient powder, preoably • could not endure t•hc Liea of bcing condemned to an infamous puniihwriu, for he has killed himself in ptisnn with a knife , . Yester.lay, r tiing his sentence, General' Bonn:lire SAW : I t)!ieech you, and it is the • only favour which I ask, to order me to die rather than condemn me to degradation—l have not the slightest reproach w make against myself." Lieutenant Pelieton heard his sentence • with the profoundest silence : he then said, u I swear upon my honour, the General has nothing to reproach him. self with." Didier received his sentence at Grenoble on the 7th, and was to stiffer on the Bth. . PARIS, JUNE 10. The trial of General Bonraire has presented a re markable peculiarity; it is the first in which, inde prndent of his duties as a good citizen, the question was agitated respecting the obligation in the oath of a Chevalier de St. Louis. During the trial cif Mar shal Ney, as English General of the high:st having seen a copy of the oath, asked if Ney was a Chevalier de St. Louis. --'c Assuredly," was the an swer. s' Then," said the Englishman, 66 after such an oath, I do not sea how his sentence can be dela ) ed three minutes." We are assured that Marshal nissena is very ill, and the state of health of Marshal Augereau is very Fecal ions. The assassin Mieton, while the Judges were deli berating on his fate, tried to escape from his gaolers by leaping out of a window, but he was prevented and secured. As Bon naire's sentence implies infamy, he has been formally degraded from the Legion of Honour. Yesterdaya General Court was held at the East India House on special affairs. After the usual forms were gone through, the Chairman, Tiles. REID, Esq. stated the purpose of the meeting, which was to receive a Re. port from the Committe ot Bye Laws. Mr. HOWOETII, as Chairman of the Committee, explained the nature of the alterations which it had been deemed necessary to make in the existing laws. The Report having been read, was, after a desultory conversation of nearly two hours, referred to the consideration of a fui.ure General Court. On the grant of £4,500 to Lieut. Col. Bauca, an amendment was proposed by Mr. Hume, aad seconded by Alderman ATKINS, which being lost by a ♦ery large majority, the resolu tion of the Court pf Directors was confirmed.—The , Court adjourned at three o'clock. ELECTION, JUNE ii. inunva nAlt. . This hat been the most Uproarioni day since the commencement of the ilection. Numerous bodies of sailors (chiefly American) haie surrounded the hus tings, and prevented any thing from being heard out. side. Mr. CANNING'S oratory is therefore - in a great measure lost. The tumult and disorder on his leav ing the hustings for Colonel Botrna's, this evening, was greater than ever, and a few broken heads were the consequence. At the close of the Poll, the numbers were, kor Mr. CA NNI N 0 ttoo—For Mr. LET L A Ka 706. 7'HE ARMY. The 9th Regiment of Light Dragoons are to do the London duty. The 20th Light Dragoons hive returned from the disturbed districts to Hounslow. The 16th Foot has removed from Fermoy to Li. merick. The head-quarters of the 2i)th Foot, are at Sligo. A drift from the 2J battali,al of the 27th, and part of the 1 Ith Foot, arc ordered to juin their respective corps in FrAnce. The 61st Foot are ordered to embark at Ports mouth for Jarnlica. Monday morning, at three o'clock, a detachment of ►he West York Militia marched from Nnrwich to Harlestun, in consequence of an express having arrived from the Magistrates of that place, who were fearful of a disturbance during the fair in the neigh bourhood. This morning a strong detachment amounting to ,608 horses of the 2 I Regiment of Life Guards as sembled in the Regettei Park, and afterwards n3arch ed to Wo:niwood Sertsbs, where they went through a number of evolutions preparatoty to the grand mil:tary spectacle which is to take place on %%Nai -1 bletcn Common on the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo. NJ In'ELLIGENCR. I.I.OYD'S, JUNE 13. A letter from dated Miy says—" A Spani!..it t•lunp of war and a schooner sailed yesterday in quest of the pr;v4teers mentioned in my List." FALMOUTH, JUNE I!. Arrived the Fox packet, with Mails from Matt,' and Gibfilar: the le!t the foimer the ‘21411 and the latter the I Ith May. The 33 instmit, iu 13t. SO. long. '2,1. 2.5. spoke the sloop liidtist:y, from Cork for Ntwfoundland, out fifteen days, hitt n with settlers (52).—N0 sailings. PLYMOU TH, JUNE 11. Arrived the Speculator, COCK, from St. Michael's. Yestrrday, almot eight leagues from the Lizard, fell in with ti e Hannah, that was wrecked un the Ma. uaclei rm her heaio-ends, with five or six pilot boats ahont her, end:Nivonting to tow her into nhour.— iLe ricked up o. puncheon of rum, .sup. Fobei tz.. have belooged to the Hannah.—Wind N. vortTsmou CH. JUNE I?. Nr arrivals. Sailed the Chance, Rum, for New. Southerly. RAM6GNIT, JUNE 12. Arrived from Ostend the Industry Dover Packet. bringing over Lieuteuant-CoIoneII.LMILLYU, of the 2sth regimen, and Cap tain GAM MID, 72d regiment. both desperately wounded at the battle of Wa , erloo. Several wounded privates of different regi ments Wan were landed out of clef✓ ves‘el. Sai'ed for Ostend last night the Marquis of Aitglesea Packer, Canrati Forrta, with Passengers—from whence the Lord Liserpool and Eclipse Packers arrived this morning, with a in eat ✓.umber of Passengers, among whom were many Military Officers. The 'CRANK:US frigate arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday last from Portsmouth ; she is to take out a General Officer to the West The ltAmtures, of suns, kto lie at Leith, as flag ship to Admiral Sit W. J. Hoeft, %rho cum mAilds on that station. This is the first instance of Leith being a naval station in peace, with an Ad. miral commanding. The letter which has been received by the Gover nor of the. Russian Company from the British Consul at St. Petersburgh, relative to the long talked of Tariff, stating that orders had been received with it at the Custom-house in that city to continue in force the rules and regulations formed daring the unfor tunate d;fference between Great Britain and Russia, and ever since acted upon, has occasioned a great sensation amongst the Merchants in London, who have it in contemplation to call a meeting on the occasion to consider of the best measures to he recommended to • Government. to procure a repeal of the Orders in question of the Russian Government.—Mr. BAILEY, the British Consul residing on the spot, and who ought to be the best judge of what is likely to pro duce the desired effect, strongly recommends that all the rules, regulations, and Custom-house laws, esta blished by the Tarrf of 1811, regarding hills of lading to order, and other points; be most strictly ad hered to, and that the expediency of the same be speedily made known to the :rade. WINDSOR, JUNE 12.—Yesterday her MAJESTY, Prin cesses AUGUSTA, ELIZABETH, and MARY, left the Castle fur Ascot Race-course. They proceeded to l the PRINCEC REGIIN TIES st Ind, where the Doke of Granter:sum was in readiness to receive them. There was the greatest assemblage of Nohlity that has been known for a number of years. After the conclusion of the second race, her MAJESTY, the PRINCE SE!, the Duke of Geoucarren, and suites, went in their car riages to Marquis CORNWALLIS'S marquee, where there was a sumptuous collation provided. Atter they bad partook of the refreshment, they returned to the Rectaser's stand, and viewed the other races ; and at the conclusion, proceeded to the PRINCE REGENT'S cottage, where they partook of a sumptuous dinner. THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE'S HeaLTH. — We have the pleasurn to state that the Princess CHARLOTTE was yesterday entirely free from fever; she had, however, a rheumatic affection in her head, but her cough was better. Monday, at Brighton, as two men, of the name cf HOLDEN, brothers, were standing out in a small boat of their own for Worthing, a gust of wind upset their bark, and though the most -prompt - assistance tam the shore was rendered, both perished. MECHANIC4L CHIMNEY SWEEPING: YeiterclaY a natherotis Meeting nf Lidies anti Qiit7. Ilea fen was held at the Mansion•HoUse, to Contitici nt the best meant of abolishing the priatice of Sweep:. ing Chimnies through the industry of Days, and of substituting, in its room, a simple Mtchanical paratus, which would answer every purpose. The chair was taken by the Lotto MAYOR, * wild opened the Lusinesi of the Meeting by adverting to the cruelty and inhimsanity which attended the pr . 6 salt practice, and the efficacious means by which it could be obvi.tted. His Lordship had received seve ral letters, showing not only the infant state at which children were employed in the unwholesome and dan ' gerous occupatirn cf sweeping chimnies, but also the success with which the mechanrcal substitute was ap plied in Scotland and elsewhere. Mr. Time read to the Meeting the Re;:ort of tl , e Cornmittee appointed to consider this subject. and in an eloquent and farcible speech pointed out me lancholy nfliktions with which chi!dr:•n were visited by the c Intinucice of the present p.a.:ice. He also dwelt on the Ilistotical fact, that this practice was un- . knows until at the ct the last clminry, and that consequently Inechalic..l me;:us must have been previously found cft.cttu.•l. The worthy Gertle:nan conclad,-d by moving a g eso:ution for the establish- ment of a mechanical system. Sir FItANCI7 BUIiDrTT carte forward to second this Resolution, amid great :To The Worthy Ba ronet declared, that he nsver performed a task with more perfect satisfaction than be did on the present occasion; eor seas be aware of any cptestion of more public in:lto:mace than the removal of the evil which they were then called to c :rider. It was one d: tr to the cause of humanity, .rood little inferior to the great I cpeestion of the Slave Tralle, ellich had at kneel been set at rest. It affected that class of society t:;et were in a state of orphanege, Friendless and neproec ted, under the lash of a t a,k• master ( Greet apthers.) fee Worthy Baronet the v on eloquent picture of the miseries ef Wants, some under font and tire years of age, wile are consigeed to tee dreary and covet oc cupation of chimney-sweeping. Tice superstitions sacrifice of children in early times, w:45 in all propor tion less crust than that now prevailing of consigning them to this trade, whore they grow up in siticnets, suffering, and depravita, until they are too big for their business, and are then d:selissed without the means of eatning a livelihood, and at length, per haps, end their days ots tie gallows. To say that particular aim:ties required this a; placation of human labour, was to say nothing, for the plain answer would be, that no such ellimnies shonid be suffered to be constructed. The state of those poor sweeps was such that " the world was not their ft iend, nor the world's law." Every ptit.ciple of policy, humanity, and reli . ent, called for the abolition. of this base practice.-- t he worthy refronet then ably explained the sepctior value of the machine, not nnly for cleattsitig chimnies, but also for extitiouishing fires, for it had Leen boomd in such cases of infinite velee, by being dipped in water, and then applied to the tinr!. In reference to 4 recent citcumstaace (the It-es:mit:A of a boy which had been the subject re legal inquiry et the Old Bai ley), the wore:). Baronet stated, that it had been at first eis ietetition to sit bnet a motion in tle: I iteess. of Commons on the subjt et, but he was dit,,UHLICLI this, on the suggeseen oat the impropriety of such a course, while the case of an indivitinai was in the progress of legal inquiry. Bat, until some legislative enactment could be digeoed and arranged, est wooia recoeimend that the patisees should adopt local regulations, and appoint in each a master chimney s.veeper to sup:that:ad the employment of the appa ratus. The expense of this course might ultimately be repaid and rendered profitable, as in the case of scavengers, by the sale of the soot. , —(Hear, hear.).. He concluded by enforcing the claim of the poor children of England to at least she same sympathy from their countiymen as the sable sons of Africa. The speech of the wo- thy Baronet was throughout received with loud applause. Several interesting Resolutions for the promotion of this humane and eettevolent purpose were then moved by the Hon. P. &RIM. DRUMMOND, the Hun. Mr. EL G. Beestee, Mr. HA 1.1., Mr. Wierre, Mr. Yousro, Mr. Ittavcitorr, Mr. Dee KPp Mr. Virl LK. EN, Mr. FOSTER, Major- CARTWRIGHT, Dr. Lusiitxuron, and other Gentlemen. Their general purport was an engagement not to employ climbint buys in future ; to do every thing in their power to induce their connections to adopt a similar reseitnion to promote, in their respective districts and parishes i meetings and resolutions to abolish the present inhu man practice, and to apply to, Parliament for the purpose of enforcing the objects of the Institution. A Master Chimney Sweeper, named 13 Vdi EL, of F.eatherston.street, made an ingenious appeal to the Meeting, deprecating the indiscriminate censure thrown upon the Master Chimney Sweepers, by an assembly where all the :pokers, he observed, were on one tide. There were, he said, bad men in every business ; but he remarked that .the evil was in the system which had hitherto been followed ; because there was a necessity that chimnies should be cleansed, and ether means were not generally known than the cruel and inhuman one of employing chllthen. He was, he said, as ansicus as any one could be to see a better system introduced—nay, more so than the greater part of the humane assemblage new occupied in devising means for lessening or removing the miseries and cruelties of the children—for he knew more of the extent of the evil than all them to, gether, and, indeed, it esas rich as called loudly on every person of feeling end humanity, to encourage and promote the adoption of another and a better system. The LORD 1 1 / 4 Lsvon, in the course of the Jay, re. peatedly promised his film co-operation in the objects of the Meeting. A number of Ladies And Gentlemen of the So. ciety of Friends were present. BLACKHEATH PEDESTRIAN.—E ATOM% performance on Blackheath yesterday again attracted a great con. course of spectators to witness the continuance of his exertions, amongst whom were several sporting Gen tlemen, whose opinions were, that it was impossible for him to undergo so much fatigue as he is now en deatouring to accomplish. This Morning, soon after res l e e nt p u r a cs : nine o'clock, he finished his 207th mile, observing, that he hoped be would, in a month ' s time, be able to convince the Spy riuffilhgllGmegnthryis of present tr bability of his ultimately dertaking. I