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. . . , . X. 1 . • . ~: '' ' ' X' : " . ;,. .• . 414 . ' - 1 " • . - _ _ 1 ,1 . . 1° • 14* ,-.::;7* ( 7 ' t,l 00. i \ill * ..:, 1111 # 4 • • .. I s I 4.1 . 0111.0. 0 b • • , 11 . . , • P7... 5 aa 1 ,„,' .!*''' . 1 .._...... . ..„. , -r vb Lriticz, p gvErirEscr.. . , WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH•I9, 1828. . , i 4 NVMBER 12,815.] VICTUALLING OFFICE, March 10, 1828. "lIHE COMMISSIONEIIS for VICTUALLING his MAJESTrS NAVY, tic. dykes* give mike, ' That on TnuasDAv, the 20th Instant, they will be ready to receive Tenders in writing (sealed ttp), and treat for SEVENTY MILLE OF QUEBEC PIPE STAVES. - To be delivered into his Majesty's Victualling Stores, at Dept 'orti, one half thereof by the 30th day of September next, and the other half it, the ILth of January, 1829. The Conditions of the Contract may be seen at this Office. Each Tender must specify the price in words at length, and be 'llivered before One o'Clock on the day appointed; and the eon who makes the Tender, or some Pe rson on his behalf, _ 1 Oust attend to answer when called for. 1 M. WALLER CLIFTON. • COUNTY FIRE OFFICE RETURNS. V- --- TICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that all Persona I who. in 1827, ,had continued INSURED for SEVEN ;EARS, whether upon ANNUAL or SEPTENNIAL PO ISICIES, or whether they had been Claimants for losses or not, ' y receive a Return of Twenty per Cent. on their Premiums, on *Awing at the Head O ffi ce, in London, or through the Ag ents Minh whom they have Insured in the country. rll2 By Older, J. A. B. BEAUMONT, Secretary. _ Regent-street, March 18, 1828. Sussex, stable keeper and corn chandler, at one, at the Old Ship Tavern, Brlghtbelmston. April 10, Ro bert Grimston and George Wilkinson, Preston, Lancashire, corn dealers, at eleven, at the Office of Mr. George Noble, soli citor, Preston. April 10, Robert Bell and Robert Hedley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, woollendrapers, at eleven, at the Turf Hotel, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. CERTIFICATES, Aram S. Samuel Hayes, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden, bookseller. Peter Milne, New York -street, Commercial-road, and Thomas Hathway, jun. Wade-street. Poplar, merchants and ship.owners. Nicholas Bird, North Shields, Nort humberland, earthenware ma nufacturer and ship-owner. Charles Anthony and John Anthony. Devonpoet, grocers. Daniel Oliver, Manchester, druggist. Jas. Peck,*Bache. Cheshire, wine merchant. John Brett, Mason-street, Southwark, Surrey, horse dealer. Stopford Thos. Jones, Hunter street, Brunswick-square, wine merchant. Archibald Corbett, Friday-street, merchant. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. William Wallman Pattiason and John Allport,.l-ichlield, sur geons. Thomas Carr and George Thompson, Leek, Staffordshire, silk manufacturers. Berdee Wilkinson and Wm. Henry Atkinson, Crown -court, Old Broad -street, wine merchants. Robert. Edgar, jun. and Joseph Ainsley, Hart-street, Crutched-friars, wine and brandy merchants. John Baker, Thomas Baker, and Jas. Baker. Bedford -street, Covent-garden. Job Jameson and Job Jameson jun. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, tailors. E. A. Dickinson and W. H. Sidgrove, Nicholas-lane, attornies. Thomas Parr and Rdw. Parr, Liverpool, painters. John' Jones and John Begbie, Upper East Smithfield, undertakers. John S. }Brat and Beaumont Taylor, Huddershed, Yorkshire, fancy cloth manufacturers. T. Standing, Broughton, Yorkshire, and J. England, Geed-fields, Come, Lan cashire, corn millers. Richard Harrison, JOteph B atley, and Joseph Turner, Holtarth, Kirkburton, Yorkshire, woollen manufacturers. Joseph Atherley asd.J. Simpson, Mountsotrel, Leicestershire, sur geons. John Hotnby and Co. Blackburn and Manchester, cotton spinners and manufacturers. Francis Rashleigh and William Rashleigh, Falmouth, Cornwall, spirit dealers. Charles Wilson and William Hall. Bank Chambers, civil engineers. Thomas Flindell and John B. Flindell, St. Martin's-lane. printery. Arthur Short, Michael John Short, and William John Short, Ratcliffe Highway. Jonathan Hebden and Joseph Constantine, Rochdale, Lancashire, woollendrapers. Edward Beasley and Anthony Wood. London, East and West India brokers. William Burgess, William Heap, and Maria Heap, .Manchester, hosiers. John Ashworth and Jamei Ashworth, Rawtenstall, Lancashire, woollen manufac turers. William Bothwell and Joseph Fletcher ' Fountain-street, manufacturer,. John Sawbridge and William Sawbridge. Coventry, ribbon manufacturers. John Reynolds, Benson Rathbone, Thos. Reynolds, and Joseph G. Reynolds. Swansea, merchants. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT• .., was remedied. When they looked at the griming potation of Canada and Nova Scotia,"it could excite ne surprise that the expense of providing , those Colonies with religious instructors had increased. 'The Nobte Lord had said, that they ought to provide this for thetit. selves, as one tenth of the Government land had beef* appropriated for the purpose. •It vial; true, that not merely onotenth, but one-seventh of the waste ladd had been so appropriated: But 'the blobtel.ord forgot that this land was not Cultivated, and' 'wai entirely unproductive. Their Lordships must perfectly undir• stand why this land was tinproductive; because whsle Government was granting land - upon lonileases for nothing, it was not likely that any body would give, a rent to occupy the land reserved for the Clergy. The Church, therefore, could only be supported by the direct aid of Government. For the higher class of Clergymen' 2001 i year was a very small sum. He knew that toe the supply'of other places abroad, Government haft found great difficulty in obtaining proper persons cos i -with a more literal scale of remuneration. Lord CALTHORPE said, injustice to the Society, that tile means they had employed for the advantage of 'the Church Intel highly valuable. Lord KING then gave notice, that be should move, en Friday, for the Committee to inquire into the expenditure of the funds in. the hands of the Soeiety.—The Petition was then laid on the iatrie. CORPORATION AND TIST• ACTS. Earl FITZ WILLIA bl and. Lord HOLLAND presented Pe. titions in favour of the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts, from Northam, in Yorkshire • Edmonton and Tottenham ;, Cam.. berwell ; the Unitarian Chaplin Essex street, Strand ; . Norwich; Chenies; Bridport; Barnstaple; several Parishes in and about Halifax; Nuneaton; and several places in Carnarvonshire: HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH 18. Their Luedships.sat this morning in a Committee of Privileges, to take into consideration the Petition of CHABLIS Strom DODGEM, claiming the titles and honours of the late Earl of Waves' and At ICIIDOtta. Mr. Anast appeared on behalf of the claimant, in consequence of a resolution passed by their Lordships on the 3d May,l K 22, which required that on the death of a Peer of Scotland, no person other than the son or brother of the deceased should be allowed to vote at the election of a Rttpresentative In the Peerage, until claim should be best made and admitted by the House of Lords. The present petitioner wai the cousin.german of the late Lord Mom*, who died about two months ago. Mr. Avast moved their Lordships for judgment in his favour; and Lord Siva rressoav, as Chairman of the Committee, having put it to the vote whether it wu the opinion of their Lordships that the claimant was entitled to vote at the election of Representative Peers for Scotland, it *rat carried nem. con. APPEAL—THE EXTRAORDINARY MARRIAGE CASE. The Appeal cause of Macneill against Macgregor was again heard this morning. Mr. MILLER, for the Appellant, grounded his case on the absence of any proof, by the Respondent, of the Stu marriage being con summated—and on the Respondent's silence whets site, second mar riage was celebrated, although he was privy to the addresses of the woad husband, to the intention of the parties to be married, and to their actual marriage, which marriage was duly consummated in fiecie eccksia. The parties also lived together fur many years before tilt Respondent chose to allege his previous marriage to the Lady. Mr. Mu .sea, then, according to a suggestion which had been thrown, nut by one of their Lordships, submitted, that in case the House should decide the first to be a legal marriage, it should make a de claration that the Respondent should not be entitled to any benefit from the patrimony of the Lady. I APPROVED FAMILY MEDICINES, MESSAGE TROM THE COMMONS. Sir ALEXANDER Gomm and other Members brought up the West minster Sessions Bill. Sir W. Guise, Sir H. Comm, Sir Ain. GRANT, and other Members, brought up several private Bills. These Bills were severally read a first time. • ROMAN CATHOLICS. Lord COLCHESTER presented a Petition from the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the town of Colchester against any further concessions to the Boman Catholics. Ordered to lie upon the table. FILIPARID AND 5014 AT Messrs. BUTLER, CHEMISTS, Cheapside, corner of St. Paul's, London ; Sackville-street, Dublin; • and Princes-street, Edinburgh ; And may be had of the most respectable Dealers in Patent Medicines in the Kingdom. ACIDULATED LOZENGES OF CAYENNE for habitual Sore Throats, Hoarseness, Relaxation of Uvula, fond a refreshing stimulus during Field Sports. These Lozenges lave received a ,patronage almost unprecedented in the above r:se4; they are also of great utility to persons in the habit of Public Speaking; and the highest testimony in the Musical World bas been advanced in their favour, where the voice has been in fluenced by a humid Atmosphere, and diminished in tone. On diis consideration they are particularly useful to Travellers, who ire unsvoidably exposed to damp. In boxes, at 25. and 4s. 6d. • ANTACID LOZENGES OF QUININE—The new Prepa ration of Bark, called Sulphate of Quinine, is the ingredient on Which the tonic propertiessof these Lozenges depend; but that the effects may be more adapted to the object for which they are in tended, Antacids and Aromatics are combined. • The Lozenges can be confidently recommended in all Affections of the Stomach, such as Indigestion, Heartburn, Acidity, Flatulence, and general 'Weakness of that Organ. They are found extremely serviceable in Gouty Attacks, especially when the Stomach is more imme diately engaged. In boles, at Sts. and 4s. 6d. FLUID EXTRACT OF SARSAPARILLA (simple and compound), for making the Decoction, as it may be required, in a manner superior to that generally used. A dessertspoonful wilt make half a pint of the Decoction ; it is used as ansalterative in Ifscrofula, Scurvy, Secondary Symptoms, and other cuaneous Dis asses, and as a remedy for theimpropet use of Mercury. lu bottles at 4‘. 6d. 7s. 6d. and 20s. THE VEGETABLE TOOTH-POWDER—This Dentifrice las 36 long been in general use, and an appendage to the fashion- able toilet, that it is almost Unnecessary to offer any further recom tuendation in favour of it. Composed of Vegetables, without the admixture of any Mineral or pernicious ingredient whatever, it is ' free from the usual objections so justly famed against the use of other Dentifrices.' Its detersive power is just sufficient to remove those destructive particles which adhere to tke Gums and the In terstices of the Teeth ; and if used regularly, will preserve them tea sound state even to old age. In boxes Ps. 9d. PECTORAL. ELIXIR —Experience daring a very long period has incontestably proved the superior efficacy of this Me dicine in all cases of Culd, Coughs, and Asthmatic Affections. By promoting gentle expectoration, and acting as an Anodyne, it very shortly relie ves the Patient of a slight or recent Cold, and a few doses are generally sufficient to remove those which neglect bas rendered more confirmed and obstinate, and which are accom panied with Cough, Spitting of Blood, and other serious symptoms. in bottles, at Is. 14d. and 2s. 9d. CAJEPUT OPODELDOC—Cajeput Oil, which is thebasis of this Opodeldoc, has been long highly esteemed on the Continent es a remedy for Chronic Rheumatism, Spasmodic Affections, Petry Stillness and E largement of the Joints, Sprains, Bruises, and Deafness: it is also an efficacious a; , plication for unbroken Chil blains. In bottles, at Is. I id. and 2s. 9d. CARDIAC TINCTURE OF TURKEY RHUBARB—A warm and pleasant Laxative, adapted to Gouty Constitutions, and particularly recommended at this season of the year, to all delicate persons, in preference to Saline Aperients. In bottles at 2s. 91. g The above Preparations, when Genuine, will have ..the Name and Address of Messrs. Pumas attached to them.—Parti attar attention to this Caution is requested. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, MARCH 18. COLONIAL OFFICE, MARCH 17. The King has been pleased to appoint Major General Sir James Lyon, K.C. B. to be Governor and Commander in Chief of the Island of Barbadoes. WHITEHALL, Blanca 18. The King has been pleased to appoint Vice-Admiral the Right Honourable Sir George Cockburn, G.C.B. Sir George Clerk, Bart. George Charles Pratt, Esq. (commonly called Earl of Brea:lock); and Rear Admiral Sir. Edward William Campbell Rich Owen, K.C.B. to be Members of the Council of his Royal highness the Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom. CROWN—OFFICE, Mancti 18. Member returned to serve in this present Parliament. Town and Port of Sandwich—Sir Edward William Campbell Rich Owen, K.C.B. Rear Admiral of the Blue Squadron of his Alajesty's Fleet, and Councillor to the Lord High Admiral. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. Mary Roberts, Penryn, Cornwall, mercer, from March 25, to April 8, at eleven, at the Golden Lion, Penryn. BANKRUPTS. _ _ _ Joseph Holland, Lincoln, victualler, to surrender, March 21, at oue, U, at twelve, and April 29, at ten, at the Court of Com missioners of Bankrupts, Basiughall-street. Attorney, Mr. John Taylor, Clement's Inn. William Johnson, jun. Think, Yorkshire, grocer and tallow-eland 'kr, April 9, 10, and 29, at one, at the Three Tuns Inn, Think. Attornies, Mr. Swarbreck, T hink; or Messrs. Milne and Co. Temple. Thomas Terry, Trlalton, Yorkshire, innkeeper, March 25,29, and April 29, 'at eleven, at the Blacksmith's Arms, Swinegate. At tornies, Messrs. Vigleswortli and Cu. Gray's Inn; or Mr. John World, York. Owen Sternal, Amhych, Isle of Anglesea, North Wales, draper, April 1.8, and 49, at nine, at White's Hotel, Manchester. Attor tries, Messrs. Ellis and Co. Chaucery.lane; or Mr. John Walker, Manchrster. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. Thomas 131utler,Gr;; 7 11;:lane, wine-nierchaikt, is in inset vent circumstances, and is unable to meet his engagements with his creditors—Filed March 18. DIVIDENDS to barnacle iCI BASINGHALL-STREET. April 11, William Ridley, Hatton-garden, carpet dealer, at eleven. April 18, Thomas Fox and James Didden Broadribb, Bristol, tallow chandlers, at one. April 25, William Horn and Richard Jackson, Redeross-street, Southwark. Surrey, rectifying distillers, at eleven. April 11, Joseph William Coes Bath, haberdasher, at twelve. April 11, Samuel Porter, stationer, at eleven. April 18, Thomas Rolph, Crutched-friars, surgeon, at ten. April 8, James Caldwal, Blandford-street, Manchester-square, tailor and stationer, at eleven. DIVIDENDS to be made in the COUNTRY. April 10, Thonias Annett, Ainmouth, Northumberland, corn merchant, at eleven, at the White Swan Inn, Alnwick. April 14, Thomas Crump and Thomas Hill, jun. late of Kidderminster, car pet nisnufacturers, at twelve, at the George Inn, Bewdley, Wor cestershire. April 18, John Clay, Kingston-upon-Hull, merchant, at one, at the George Inn, Kingston-upon-Hull. April 111, Wm. Toghill, Chaffin cl, Gloucestershire, clothier, at eleven, at the Rum. ester 'f.vern, All atiots'-lane, Bristol. April 11, Moses Robinson Williaen Ysrtridge, and Henry Tindale, BirmingbAn, wharfingers, at eleven, at the Royal Hotel, Birmingham. April 10, John Race, late of New Shoreham, Sussex, merchant, at two, at the Albion Hotel, Ileiginbrinistors. April 10, Wm. 3laiben, Iklibthrimiton, FfigN - CH PAPERS. PROM THE GAZETTE DE FRANCE, MAUCH 17. TRIESTE, FRB. 28... Our accounts Isom the Archipelago are to the 12th. Count Capo d]stria, entering on his functions as Pre sident of the Government, took the following oath : " 1 swear to attend conscientiously, and to the best of my judgment, to all the interests of the Greek nation which are confided to .me. I' swear by the holy and indivisible Trinity. to maintain the Statutes of the State as they have been decreed by the National Assembly, and to govern according to the letter and the spirit of the laws passed at Epidaursts. Astro, and . Trezene. swear not to lose sight of the safety and happinessbf. Greece, and to labour without ceasing toAccelerate its regeneration, in order .that-it may anyny 44. advantages' resulting from the Treaty of London of •thafith July,. 1827. I promise 10 submit my resolutions to the Na• tional Convention, which I wilt convoke in April." This oath was taken almost in the same terms by the members of the Committee of Government, after which Count Capo d'lstria was installed as President o► Greece amidst acclamations of joy. The next day ap peared the proclamation of the Senate, convoking the National Assembly for the Ist of April. Count Capo d'l s tria has invited the Assembly to assist him with all its power, and to take such measures that the . army.and navy may, above all things, subenie to discipline.- At the same time he announced that a trench and a Rus sian frigate will shortly appear at Egina, to discipline the Greek marine, and to teach the mancauvres of the naval service. The Greeks who were in prison at Na poll di Romania, as accused of the crime of piracy, have been set at li berty, with the exception of those who are liable to ac cusations for murder. The President published at the same time a proclamation, to invite the Greeks to ab stain Iron this crime, which will henceforth be pu- I nished Kith all the rigour of the laws. Small vessels have been fitted out to examine the most secluded bays, and to destroy the retreats of the pirates. Convinced of the necessity of meeting the calls of the State by extraordinary expenses, the President and the Government have agreed on the urgency of a new loan, which 'is to be negcciated in England by Count Vial() Capo d'lstria, brother of the President, who is now at Corfu. The Ipsiriot brig, the Hector, which accom panied the from Malta to Egina, is said to have sailed to Smyrna with a Commissioner of the Government on board, who is the bearer of dispatches to Admiral de Itigny. It is said that the combined squadrons are going to assemble in the Archipelago, where they will be at the disposal of the three Ambassadors, who are going to commence new nese ciations at Corfu. The persecuted Armenians of Constantinople have applied to their Chiefs at Venice, „requesting to interest the Holy See in their favour.--Augsburg Gazette. FROM Tit* MESSAGEtt DR; CHAMBRES, MARCH 16. CRACOW, ISlAacki 2. A division of the Itussian corps stationed at Lublin is gone to Cbelm, to replace the troops who have been sent to Bessarabia. All the depots have received orders to equip, Wain, and send immediately to the regiments the recruits in proportion as they are enrolled. At Warsaw, where the hatti-scheriff of the 18th of Septem ber was made known by the Augsburg Gazette, there is only one opinion—a cry of war; and the signal is im patiently expected prom St. Petersburgh. The return of the Grand Duke Constantine, whose presence will decide the question, is looked for almost with equal impatience. The Senators appointed to examine into the affair of the Polish conspirators are now engaged in drawing up the report to be presented to his Imperial Majesty. Se veral of these unfortunate persons will be removed to St. Petersburgh, and it is presumed that in a few weeks sentence will be passed upon them. It is asserted that the answer of the Courts of Prussia and Austria yeas received yesterday, respecting the disputes that have arisen in our Legislative Body, which were submitted to the three Sovereigns for their decision, who are said to have declared that the composition of the present elective Chamber by no means answered the views of the three Powers who, at the Congress at Vienna, had stipulated the integrity of the free state at Cracow — that the resolutions taken by that Chamber were repre hensible, and consequently its dissolution was indis pensable. The old order of things is therefore going to be reestablished, and the President, Woodcialci.who had been removed from his seat, is re-instated in it. It is said that a deputation from our city is lining to Vienna, to express the public gratitude to his Imre fiat Majesty. BrCIETY FOR PROPAGATION OF Tllit CONNIE.. Lord KING brought forward his Petition against any further grant of money to the Society for the further Propagation of the Gospel in North America. The Petition was signed by a Clergyman of the name of Griffin, who had been to the United States. The grounds on which it was presented, were the inefficiency of the Society, the misinformation given to those who directed it, and likewise considerable abuses that ex isted in the distribution of its funds. Against the pe titioner's moral' character nothing whatever could be said, and the Noble Lord believed him to be a person fit to be accredited, in as much as an offer had been made to him by a person coming from the Society—first of fifty pounds, then of one hundred pounds, if he would no. bring the subject before the public. The Society fur the Propagation of the Gospel was incorporated in 1701; and existed for more than a century on voluntary subscriptions. In about 1814, grants from the Ciowa towards its support first began. Those grants increased until, in the Estimates of the present year, the sum for it appeited to be 16,1501. and there was reason to be• 'imam Society intended to call . for a considerable deal more. It Was ineurporated by Royal Charter, and was Lir the purpOse of•providing learned and orthodox Clergymen for the admini tratiou of Goes word and the &mania in the llorth• American Colonies, and for instructing his Majesty's subjects against Atheism, superstition, and idolatry. But the object s;emed to have been almost neglected.. The grants had been applied to the orthodox Clergy only, leav ing the Dis enters, who formed the greater propor tion of his Majesty's subjects in the Colonies, with out aid. This the Noble Lord considered • a :mit application of the funds of the Society. The Clergy of every denomination, whether Episcopalians or others, were entitlei by the Charter of the Society to the advantage of their funds. In the North Ame rican Colonies the Protestant Clergy had been pro vided for in the most ample way. That Clergy, which he called ultra orthodox and pluralists, de rived all the advantage of the funds of the Society.— This was an unfair distribution of the money in the hands of the Society. Bishop Stanley, who did not find it convenient to reside in North America, had come to reside in this country upon a pension of 1,0001. a year. He found that several assistant missionaries v. ere residing in London upon salaries or pensions of 2001. a year. The greatest part of the allowances were made to the clergy of Canada, who already had a tenth of the lands laid out for their maintenance. These allowances were unfair. The petitioner stated, that in the last 14 years the Society had drawn 131,8121. from the pubic, and 10,0001. had been, collected, in addition, under the royal letter. Having adverted to all the points in the petition, the Noble Lard concluded by moving it do li: on the table. The Bishop of LONDON was unwilling to follow the Noble Lord through all his details. He should, however, observe, that the Noble Lord had not read the reports of the Sociey, or he would have seen that the funds in their hands had been properly applied. More than 100 Churches had been completed in Canada and Nova Scotia. Other Churches were building, and it would appear from the correspondence, that there had been no lavish expenditure. The Right Rev. Diocesan did not wish . to speak with harshness of the petitioner, but a letter he had received described that gentleman to be a person of violent temper. Having read the . letter, in which the petitioner was mentioned in strong terms, the Right Reverend Prelate cited passages from the correspondence received from Canada on the sub ject of the Church Establishment, and concluded by observing, that he bad stated enough to defend the Society against the charges made by the petitioner. Lord Kum explained. Earl BATHURST said, that from every opportunity he had had of noticing the conduct of the Society, he must award it the praise of great attention to the objects for which it was instituted, and of the strictest probity in the application of its funds. From the multiplicity of duties devolving upon the Society, it was improbable that any of its members should be prepared to speak on the instant to the particular outlay for any particular district. It was not true that the grant of public money was progressively increased. The only considerable increase which had really taken place, arose from the determination to increase the stipend of those Mis sionaries, who had only sixty pounds a year, to seventy pounds. This took place when be had the honour o f being Colonial Secretary. When the North Ame• rican Colonies established the religion of the Church of England, they unfortunately forgot to make any pro. vision for the Ministers of the Church of England, and it was only through this Society that the defect Lord HOLLAND, in presenting several of the Pea• tions, was not disposed to anticipate the discussion upon the question of the Repeal, but he could not avoid saying, that he bad for the 'last twenty years been in the habit of presenting similar Petitions, under some doubt as to the ultimate success of the 'Petitioners; these doubts were now removed, far when he- looked at the votes of the CoMmons of England which lay upon she table of the House, he had no doubt that the voice and opinions of the people of England would at length be heard. lie therefore eontentitrecti the present moment as one of satisfaction and exultation. The other house was now employed in considering the details of the **wadi& of relief; and he thought the people ought to accept any Mug for the present, which would promote the obje ct ti t er bad in that object recommended by Locke, which would produce absolute liberty, just and true liberty, equal and impartial liberty. CONSOLIDATION OF sTATUTEI. • , The Marquis of LANSITOWN rase,. pursoint-to notice, to move the second' mailing of 'his two Bills to: consolidate the Laws. One applies to all offences against the person; the other is to regulate evidence in criminal cases. TficNoble Marquis said he had been induced to turn his mind to the improvement of the law„ during the time he occupied his late office of Secretary of State 'for the Home Department. The assistance received from learned 'persons bad enabled him to bring forward the measures then before the House. One of hit Bills comprised the substance of no less than fifty•six Acts of. Parliament. commencing in the reign of Henry the Third. He did not con:fair it necessary to state the effect of. those statutei, :brit should reserve himself for explanation on any of the, provisions of the said Acts. The Noble Marquis them. poirite4eut the alterations his Bill would , mike is Via • law or petty. treason, murder, Manslanghter, Elleriborough's Act, concealing pregnancy, and :wing., means to procure abortion.. In Lord Etlenboroogh% Acr, the Nr.blt Marquis's Bill 'made' the attempt to ins , joie or murder with a blunt instrument liable la the same punishment as the attempt with a Cutting' instrument. By. another section it was proposed to• extend the protection -to the buyers and•sellers corn, by the punishment of those 'who' attempted' to impede them, as was the case in some parts of the couns. try. The thirty-first clause of the Act would give a discretionary power of imprisonment to the Judges„•in cases where seamen were abandoned on foreign coasts. According to the law, as it at present stood, the Captain of a vessel who so alloved a seaman to be left.behind was liable to a short imprisonment only. By the Bill which he was now supporting, it was proposed to; grant an unlimited discretion in the Judges—and this was the more necessary, because it was impossible be forehand to define the extent of the crime. Men might be left on foreign coasts, under such circumstances' as would actually amount, in a moral point of siewoe murder—for if left on a desert island, or roct;• it would be little short of murder—and yet the punish- mean would be no gre der, by 'the law as it now stood, than if they had been left behind on the coast of France or Portugal. He had now gone through the leading features of the Bill relative to the law of persons, and he would therefore proceeJ to say a for words on the second Bill which lay before him, the amendments proposed to be effected by which were of a miscellaneous nature. In the first place, he proposed 10 ' -admit the - affirmation of Quakers as evidence in erinti4l . , as it was already received in civil cases. Ile could quitte a very high authority to show that this was an alters tion which should long since have been effected—an authority no less than that of the great Lord Mansfield, who was perhaps the fittest person `that could he found to improve the. law,. both from his knowledge of general principles and. from the experience..• no. • cessarily resulting from the time he had so ably - dispensed it. The law, as it at- present stand, 2 had been attended with great evils—trials had not taken place, and crimes had not been prosecuted, beeau* the evidence of Quakers could not be. received. •Me • (Lord Lansdown) was aware that depredatinnsrtad been carried on to a great extent at Manchestei upon , Quakers, who were selected as objects of plunder, because it might be done almost with impunity... 4 He knew also that notes, the property of Quakers,'.' had been abstracted from coaches and banking house. 4 the parties taking such property knowing the difficulties , under which the owners must labour if they attempted either to recover their property, or prosecute the:of:is_ fenders. He should go still limber, and remind tlitiC ,Lordships, that in Hoddesdon a murder had been committed, and in the presence of no less then 100 [persons, and yet the murderer escaped punishment, because those four persons being Quakers, their evidence could not be received. He knew a more recent instance in which the ends of justice were defeated: he alluded to a forgery committed upon a bank, ape of the part nets in which was a Quaker, and he. being the only person who could depose . to the handwriting, it became. impossible to bring the criminUl le punishment: it • should be remembered, that the 'Quaker' so giving his affirmation would be equally as liable to punishment for perjury, if he spoke falsely, as if be•ivent through , the ceremony of an oath. It seas ' . indeed, somewhat inconsistent that one species of i ffi tination ihoold be to lerated and another . xejected,.,:, If • a-murder were cons• initted on the Thamesgthe et ideace of the lowest Chiba/ i. J. i;', t::s • F 41 fr i i, I : . 1