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PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.' • HOUSE or LORDS, MARCII 24a. TLa Eirl Arioetre. Lord Csaanrasee, and the Bishop of Lveot.l4, took tht nal., and their seats. , Tisiawnee'i and I (Alford's Divorce Bills passed through Com tc.ttec s of the house, received Some Slight amend •vhitql were nrilered f ri be reported on a future day. .t 4 M BIER presented a Petition from Uxbridge, pray a a;.t.sinn of the Criminal Code. Mr ‘Vaeroes, from the Secretary of Slate's Office, presented Ole copy of a Report respeetng the Jury Court in Scotland, which was laid upon the table. Baoenee, accompanied by several Members, brought up a Message from the Commons, communicating to their Lord shit), copies of tho R, pm - rs of the Committee of that House on the Police of the Metropolis, which were forthwith referred to the Lords' Committees on the State of the Prisons. Lord G RANTHA presented a Petition from the Grand Jury of the County of Redford, recently assembled at the As siut, praying for a revision of the Criminal Code. The Earl of ST K presented two Petitions from Gateshead (a suburb of Newcastle) in the County of Durham-ea the first respecting the Equalization of the Duties on Coals, and the second against' the renewal of the insolvent Debtors' set. The Nassau Salt Rill. :he American Wool Export 'don, and the frill East India Goods Nil, were regal the third time, and passed. On tit.- motions of the Earl of LIVERPOOL, the Canso& dated Fund Surplus and the Exchequer Aids Bills were seve rally read the second time, and committed for to-morrow. The Flustraailry Horses. the Duke of W.ellitagton's Estate. and,the Netherlands Slave Trade /fills were also severally read the second time. Their Lordship, then, pursuant to the Order of the Day, re solved into a Committee on the Poor Laws Amendment 13111. The different clauses and provisions were then gone through by their Lordships, and one Arne:admen:, on the proposition of the Et et.of C . 0., importing, that Magistrates may take certain steps for the telef of Paupers, in case of a Select Vestry net meeting in time, was adopted -by the Comminste. The hors -then resumed, and ordered the Report to be re ceived' to-morrow.— Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. Jorntsrow (from the' Office of the Grief Secretary for Ireland) presented an Account of the number of Officers en gaged in the Collection of the Revenue: in Ireland.—Urdered to lie on the table. Mr. CALCSAFT (from the Audit-Office), presented certain Papers from the Commissioners for Auditing Public Aecouuts. Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. POROTER presented Accounts of the Receipts and Ex penditure of the Liverpool Dock Conmany.—Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. SMITH (from the Commissioners of Roads and Bridges; 6e * a - pain to . Committee? . presented "Accilunts of the Expenses incurred for making Roads w and Bridges in the Highlands of Scotland.—Ordered to lie on The SPEAKER did not know of a precedent for the table, such a Report as had been made by the Committee, Mr. Jl. A. TAYLOR. brought up the Report of the Cow.- and consequently he could know of no precedent for mittte on the Mary-Is-Bonne Petition, respecting the Water Couvuoi .s and obtained leave to bring in a .1111 to secure the that course of proceeding which had been founded on that Report. The House well knew that by the Parish a be tter: supply of Water. Mr. LA MIITON presented two Petitions from the Ship.. standing orders of the House no Petition for a Pri. Owners a-d Merchants of Sunderland, and from the Coal %le. vate Bi could be received till it had been referred tern of the same place, in favour of the Sunderland Harbour proven: it Bill.—The Petitions were ordered to lie on the table. to a Select Committee, which Committee was to re- TLe No Small Debts' Bill was read a second time port whether or not the standing orders had been and committed. complied with, and the matter of the Petitions. In Sir J. NEWPORT postponed his motion respecting thd State the present case there was no standing order to be of Disease in Ireland tili FriOay. complied with, and the Committee had of course Lord H. HOWARD brought up a Report from the Com mittee on .he Election Petition from Hedon, declaringthe Sit- only to report this, and go on and report the mat ting Members to be duly elected; but at the 13121•4131 e stating ter of the Petition. He had only to repeat, that as the Petition to be not frivolous nor vexations. he knew of no other instance in which such a Report Petitions were presented from Warwick, Northampton, as the House had now before- them had been made, so Gateshead, in the County of Durham, and Kirby-Stephen, in he cou ld kn ow none • o f Cumberland, .against the renewalpf the Insolvent Debtors' Act. Ordered to lie on the table. of the Honourable Baronet had been offered under Dr. PHILLIMORE cave notice of a motion on the 6th of such circumstances. It was clear that they had no April, for the repeal of the Salt Duties. precedents to guide them. On an unsatisfactory Re- Mr. BROGDEN brought up the Papers ordered by the . Ifouie specifying the quantity of Salt delivered, free of duty, port being made, it had sometimes been referred in the last yekr,..—Ordered to its on the table. back to the Committee, and this might be dune in LONDON CLISIeT• the present case. Sit JAMES GRAHAM called the attention of the Mr. WROTTESLEY said, as there weressins. Remit to the situation of the. Clergy of fifty of the cedents to guide them, the House could decide on Parishes in the City of London. The 'Petition which the mot* as they might think proper; but be hoped they had' pct to the House, and which had been the case of the petitioners would. be suffered to come referred to aSelect Conamiuce, had been reported on fairly before them. He trusted this would not be by that Committee, and in that'Report it was said refused, as he, for one, was of opinion, that the the allegations in the Petition had not been 'proved: Committee had come to a wrong and most improper ll:living this opinion, he considered the Committee conclusion. had travelled out of the course which they ought to Mr. Alderman WOOD remarked, the Honourable have pursued. The Petitioners had abstained from Baronet had represented him to have signed a paper coming to that House for relief till their stipends be- ,in which that decree was acknowledged which he came so inadequate to their maintenance that they rhad denied to exist. If the Hon. Baronet had read could no longer avoid making that appeal which through the paper to which hehad referred, he would they had made. In thirty out of the fifty Parishes have seen that it was not exactly what he had sup the Petitioners performed the duty in person. In 26 posed it to be. No evidence bad been given in oppo- Parishes there were no Parsonage Houses provided, sition to that furnished by the Petitioners. It was and in consequence they were obliged to pay in rent the common sense of the Committee alone that had and taxes a sum fully equal to the stipend which they decided against them. To spew in wbat a melan received from the parishes to which they belonged. choly situation some of the Petitioners were placed, Some of the first ecclesiastical characters in the he would state the amount of some of the livings: country were in this situation. By a Decree speci- That of Allhallows gave the incumbent 4911. per lied in the '37th of 'Henry VIII. it had been provided annum ; St. Pam's, Cornhiil, produced 6321.; Sc. that they should be entitled to claim 2s. 9d. in the Vedast Foster gave 6001. ; and he read over a list of pound after the Ist day of March, in the year 1545, others, the emoluments of which varied from 3761. on the rental of the City, in lieu , of tithes. They, to 6001. In almost every parish a cuarte was en. however, made no claim for any particular sum, but gaged to perform the duty for a salary of6ol. or 701. threw themselves on the liberality of Parliament.— per annum. He hoped no addition, on account of One of the Members for the City of London, had the Petitioners, would be made to the burdens of the persuaded a majority of the Committee up stairs, already over-taxed citizens of Lo ndon. that in point of fact there had been no such decree. Sir W. CURTIS believed the worthy Alderman He (Sir James Graham), however, would be content who had last spoken had been misinformed in some to rest his case on this, that the Decree would be instances. He had stated the Living of St. Peter's, • found in the Statute Book. He might add, that in Cornhill, to be worth 6321. He had reason to believe every year, he might say in every term, the Decree it did not produce more than 3001. had been acknowledged in the proceedings which Mr. GIPPS said the question before the House had unfortunately taken place. In . a hundred cases was, whether the stipend which had been given to the the,Decree had been recognized, and its force had Clergy of London, more than a century ago, was 'never been disputed till lately. He had even seen a sufficient for them nevi. He thvogist-obey paper•signed " Matthew Wood," connected with an fair Claim to have their 'case considered, and was inquiry made on this subject, which admitted such a sorry they had been treated with so much severity in decree to exist. After this, he was astonished that the course of the presencdebate. any man should say the allegations of' the Petition Sir T: BARING stated the Curate of St Anit's and had not been made out. lie trusted the House would St. Andrew's, Holborn, bad but 2001. and 3001. per permit him to bring in a Bill to make for the Fed= annum, though he had to attend to a population of tioners such an adequate provision and lair compel:- 6,000 persons. He complained of the charge of va cation as they had a right to claim. It was said that pacify which had been made against the Clergy._ some of them were otherwise provided for, but he It had been said they let out their hous e s far profit. could state th at sonic of them had vet? lit tle indeed He believed there was not one of the individuals who hit what they received from their several parishes. had signed the Petition presented to the House who Ile. therefore, notwithstanding the report which had would not be ashamed of such conduct. been wade, would move for leave to bring in a Bill, 'Mr. C. W. WYNNE knew ones of the Petitioners, to amend an Act made iii the reign of his present who though not resident in his parish performed . Majesty, for relieving certain incumbents Of livings not merely the. Sunday deity, but all the ditty theft is the City of London. was eo be performed in it., He then M. consistently Mr. _HARVEY contended, the Decree which had with the rules of the House, a BR(.rzughtbe brought been alluded to by the Honourable Baronet, had in on the Report of the. Committee. la world-then . never beenrntrolled in the High Court of Chancery. be for the House to enter into the merits of the ques- That if cKollc4 on or before the first day of don. He should vote for th e mot i on . Dectile, march IA die year. 1545, was thenceforward and for Mr. Alderman WAlrklbid.ti remarked', that it ever to bilYe the force of law; but not hewing been the general question henlbeen y diseusseit $0 enrolled, it was' Of course void and of no effect..-. ib e H on . m em b er s * . the •example • When die Petitioners *ere - tailed upon to prove that' had been set by the ilpfk Banni4lffir Graham), Dectek ift:tiitestioit had'bein enrolled, what did and after so intscishist bei*iitiukrn i apa efieltaq ile7 do'?''Why, they'pfodticed the Statute of Henry wou ld bear With ha erbilellee ttakeltiir • VIII. whlth had the decree chronicled at the foot of servations. There was great diferenise hemetenodie it had parishe s , Writ sad fiesPloseing--102e it, andscoatmdzd, that btra , ;s:. it. was em.c, nerally, even to the most inconsiderable, adva-rtages • wereattached which renderedibelkeirg . highly desk-- 4 able. The cases of serve of the petitioners were rti. - 1 ;ther eutious—for instance, that of the clergyman of St. Anne's, Blackfriars ; he had been recently elected by the .parishoners, after great solicitations on his part ; and no sooner was he fairly seated in his pul. pit, than he turned round upon his friends, and in sisted that he . ought to be paid twice as much as he now received. The same remark applied to the Mi nister of Aldgate, a Being in the gift of the Corpo ration of London, and for whom an Hon. Baronet '(Sir W. Curtis) had solicited his (Mr. W'aithinan's) vote. What sort of conscience could these gentle men have, thus to demand That new taxes should be levied upon those to whom they were indebted foe all that they enjoyed ?--(Coughing, and other symp toms of impatience here interrupted the speaker jar some maments.)--He could assure the House that in his-individual capacity he would be the last man to intrude upon its notice, but in his representative cha racter, one of the first to demand and in,ist upon a hearing whenever he thought it his duty to deliver the sentiments of his constituents—(Loud cheers.) — The clergymen of the city of London, who were fattening upon the bounty of the citizens, wished to lay new burdens upon those who could ill support what they were now compelled to sustain-wand he would resist it with all the powers he possessed.— (Cries of Hear, hear.) The petitioners stated, that before the time of Henry the Eighth, 2s. 9d. in the pound had been paid in lieu of tithes in the City of London; this, however, was not the fact, as there was no proof of £ decree to that effect being enrolled in the archives of the roper Court. If some cler itymen Were not sufficiently provided for, let them me and make their complaints fairly before the House; but this they could not do, and therefore preferred pressing a claim which had no other sanc tion theft their cupidity to establish it. A set of ava ricious individuals had combined together for the purpose—yet there were, he was happy to say, fif teen or sixteen honest clergymen, who had refused to sign the petition. They were ashamed to identify themselves with the object of it, and he would main tain that the demand which was made, had never been required in lieu of tithes, but always as a com pensation for the support of the poor, and for the ex penses incurred in repairing the churches. The clergy had received an increase to their incomes in 18%, and he saw nothing in the character of the times from that period to the present, that copid justify an ad ditional increase. In 1801 they were subject to the operation of the Property Tax, but that tax being now done away, they had the less right to press for any further allowance. He thought that the Committee had acted most consistently and wisely in declaring the allegations in the petition not proved. Mr. PELL called upon the House to look at the monstrous consequences that must follow, if the de cision of a Committee upstairs were to be suffered to preclude the House from taking into its consideration a case once referred to such a Committee. He di rected their attention to the rummer in which Select Committees were usually constructed ;—he consider ed the late Committee to have exceeded its powers ; and insisted, that the decision it had come to ought not to prevent the House from ir.qehing into the merits of the case. length, ber - political. every rejected usual adds ask to Mr. WILBERFORC4444 always a ought a Com mittee up stairs like a Grand Jury before which one party submitted its proofs without being confronted by the other. When it should come before the House, that would be the time for entering into the general merits of the question. He wished a more ample provision to be made for the Clergy. By not doing so, they justified those pluralities of which they were all apt to complain. They ought to enable the Cler gymanto live ort something like a footing ofequality with his neighbours and he could not approve of the conduct of those who, always professing great affection for the Church, when brought to the test, acted as if the Clergyman ought to be confined to a miserable pittance, barely enough to supply the wants of nature. Mr. PLUNKETT was of opinion, that it would have been better to move that the Report should be sent back to the Committee than to move as the Ho nourable Baronet had done, for leave to bring in a Bill. There could be only one feeling in the House on'the propriety of attending to any claims made on the part of the Clergy, and sf they found themselves compelled to refuse what they desired, he was sure they would do so with much pain. If the Committee had gone beyond their powers, the Report should go back to them, but if now, on their report that the al- 1 legations of the Petition were not proved, a Bill were to be introduced, it would seem that the Committee was of no use, and that, be the result of their pro ceedings what it might, the course to be pursued in the House was the same, as, if they had reported that the allegations were proved, a Bill would have been brought, an. The SPEAKER re-stated what he had formerly said on the peculiarity of the present case. He re marked the House used different terms in forming its Committees, and when their opinions were wanted, this was stated in the first instance. The opinion that the allegations of the Petition were not proved was certainly a statement which they were not autho rised to make. The Standing Orders of the House directed them in such cases to report the matter of the Petition, and precluded them from hearing the opposite side. Under such circumstances it would be diLS of sot and of who; agitaticas. relied pc - Lon; 1.• .117 need text actcr what nd :bey noted they tural cries tered pitied these Theatl they swered, rendered heard pressions greatest proceeded all milinstrous to require them to give an apittion, The cobra he had described was that which, With this single exception, had been uniformly pursued. Consistently with the forms of the House, leave might be given to bring in a Bill on the present occasion. And by adopting this mode .of conduct they would deal fairly with the RepOrt, by differing from the Committee.' Another -way would be to return the ikvort.to the Committee; and a third would be to disagree with the Report, rniione - of these cases, as it appeared to him, *ou!d the forms of t h e }louse be 'violated; but it was of gr4at importAnee to the Souse bow they formed their Committees, and tharwrtopir aiatt should be givon wheie this we. 4 not directed. - .1/Iir—WYNNE thought the best way 'of getting '=ia of the Report, would be to disagree to, it at once,' and tber,.give leave to bring in the Bill, . i The $P R. th at le4ve tb • tl iheirr ea, the *M.' I.,stooLW_ 4)14t A N igreein i g to z Report, and would , Kohablz.beitliellw kiimrs4 Mr. lIRArD sugrat: that it utt be ItttVr nond cry Commisary troops the I'4 borne, told every , w. 4 14 41 cr~a 1S riout" bingo' the • ."-- - • , . gomthie,lrieedwewrieth.in &Le' ave.r.ros 4 f resolve that the St ßto a sa n b d eid it c : Orders had not 1 plied with. • • ' . ...'or. tcr a . o,:tsz The .:e. c e.s, „ lra' StaT h isii e n S g PE ArC Orders E then given to bring in the Bill. Mr. CRUX ER nicived for leave to brine in a Bra ro t , b t v h y a e s ki E l t a r i i:ps:: h o t :f r *l o P l u c tt Y 4 . 4 - 1 : l i e L 4 l- : )! ., r ;:e l a : f ;/ a t a i s r :; s i t y , t r an i S i d ' : o ii r i r e . j i ' er a : : .. d ! d a j .. . t : 0 „ . i .; : i 131 7 , :7 1 : • era ..0 tc at that . 3:riall 31! 7 ° F second time onday. tit; Mr. G. LAMB said, he wished to ask a quest on t ,.. relative to which several rutin-Airs - .ay.: rheGad Ifs 1 ,,T,... 1 t er!" 1 ' know whether it was the intention of his A: : , I ' " t4 ‘ . ) :•AZIOn 'VETS llMstet. 4 propose any additional Duty on Malt? assi,ssin The CI:ANCELLOR of the Exeritett:Ett p it ~, whi i t wee not the intention of Government at prLsert t•;, ; ',,.. - ;" . i heniril'i saddi ti onal g d h t u toll.' t b 'n .i7ing ar f t,i s c r i v e e . ard i , fr at sa at l y tt ru i t g ure ' r . t1c t , :.1.-- rid: ste a tr. . o o . ‘;:i 1 measures as might be thought necessary. e lir.i Lord PA 1.• 111 I:: RSTO N gave teethe, that on Friday he i s . :3 be tended to propose a Vote on acc oun t o f the Ectituat t i,i Army. La .0;0 1 The Order of the Day for reporting the names of ti e - . 1 - t he absent at the Ballot of yeiterday was eaten into oinid ' ir Fr .., of and the Defaulters ordered to I t r ito_rnerrow. ; :bi,. Th,: Douse resolvd it:self ' a Committee on th e e- Lieonces.—Report to-morrow. Se :y " 4 G. - , tl.e motion COY a Committee on the Game Laws' . of the . 0 aCt:-Z. men[ Ilia, .Ne .1.:...) Mr. iiIIAND said, be only meant in the Coromftr ee to twee . e rathl sense t verbal Amendments, and t o h ave toe Bill ••.i:.ied.—•• ,of p;,p;, future stages he intended to postpon e till aster thul.:...ter .r.: 11 Mr. F. DOUGLAS said, he approved of the coots, o: tt; ~.A . ltion ceed log adopted by his Honourable Friend, but wished s• -Z,i, • cz• 111 ° underitood that his objections to the BM remaiacd uncl,l,;d ••recipits After a few words from Mr. Baintes,Sir J. Simla : ...- ;,.,1 mad CuisweN, and Lord Lownica, the Bill was committed, ...;.lit t . ' • ill:fea , Report brought up, and ordered to be further considered oa.`, ,13th of April. a nsmbli . The Innkeepers' Rates' Bill was read a tecond sitne :cals.• , bea33 !tiered to be committed to.morrow.--Adjourned. ' ' H . A gee . _ . --....._______-------- __. ----- ,orities i THE EVENING STAR. era , and ... TRACT • LONDON. aurae , wesk th THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1819. 1::tual Lar-Dai.—Hioliday at the Bank, Exchesner, and Scsd, :‘-, e may h - House. . clay fa, ed to 'I nee, A I' The Paris Papers of Monday arrived tllis rr.or:::',.„ but are nearly wholly filled with t'.l.: sPezches, 4 This m; length, delivered on the preceding day in the Ci; - aa. ant, a ber of Deputies, on the proposition respectit,3 . ..:e .try, fl Election Law. The barometer of Oar se.:;.) - ns, v. serves one of the Journals, is now more than ever Tnw B political. On Saturday night the question with ai.:cs :er me every man accosted his friend, was to the Frcpc -% - 1 . Bago rejected? It appeared to have wholly superseded the ..ry, to usual salutation, Cori:went vous pc? tea voac? It is ~ r., . e, :ved frc adds the writer, with a good deal of point, thatto .d, and ask if the proposition was rejected was in other wc:ds . ril. to enquire Comltent sc poree la France? •-:., is 1 It is reported in Paris', that in consequence c: the got's d difficulties which have been raised as to the reeeptiat . e by ; of the Persian Ambassador, his Excellency had e. •e Comt solved on taking an abrupt leave of the French Coat, , 'min." and was to depart for England on Tuesday. L lette The Journal de Paris quote:: an ch ,;it of thej:tim Janua nal de Gaud's, that Ger.eads GROUCEI and RIGAVD n the are both on the eve of returning u - em Ainc:::l ' . kade M. CARROT has quitted Alagleburgh and gene n ooner, reside at the little town of Offenbach, near Frankfcg. • the to The large Swiss village of Azmoos, in the (Eric! 3ecron of Sargans, Canton of Saint Gall, has been r.ea4 IRON wholly destroyed by fire. O 4 139 houses, only - 24 have escaped. A similar calamity bele; this vile Caasu in 1716. , nt met EXTRACT OP A LITTER P/Old NISIIIS, MAUI 8: :enter 0 " For the last two years we have experi‘nced the most by* ith the agitations. The facts which lam now going to detail may to our 0 relied on with perfect certainty, and for their truth you have my .olitical personal guarantee. It happened very unfortunately, that tie Swiss regiment•which carne in place of our famous di:basin , 'the 1; • National Guard, kit us at the m o ment that we stood mots m tidy be need of protection. Yesterday cur fine fellows, under the Fe' losed v text of a report which they themselves had spreall, that awn." .robabl actor called Huet, front Paris, was so be hissed, because Letts tatty s what they call a Royalist, assembled in crowds at the Timm, .e and disturbed the spectators by their brawling and vocifestdom ather • They had distributed gratis tickets of adniladan to fifty or se/ her 1 noted assassins, who bore as their badge not cocksdes hardirei '• X rna with green, but white cockades wLicii covered cue side zi ti.it hi; me hats. When their favourite actor appeal, he was :::Wvol I..ves u with applause and shouts pf ' brave; which cc:utilised for a ession quarter GI 41 hour, and which produeed green: terror than i'ie . most violent menaces. After having renewed th.s tur.silintis or scene without rezeiving any provocation from t,be Plcsema!a, nil der, hey threw on tiv stage alleviate cisailits ofj;eiirdely4 07 "- :•1 endis tiaras lilies, one of them of extraordinary t:ze. Fla - ..eits: - . 1 %; this :ries ' put it on your lieci,' costtintied sr., inng, and we-e V. d,:tior., toted so loud, that the actor himself became cc.lftsed :::d rai. car Go pitied like the audience. During the interval beeveen :he :.:3, . :hese hired rulErns left the Pit, and repaired to the cafe ef :11 v: raise Theatre, where they were liberally supplied wi'h d;i-.k, n: le in that hey sung :raids I 1 Lug menaces.C , .lllitit their tutuultubus songs or vociferated their i:rc7ci- ." At last, tired with using provccrions which were rtt v.'. Ili swered, they assembled at the outside of the Theatre, r.r.e. ft: , :-. rendered the:metres to the most violent menaces. The? " 1 7 c : heard often to exclaim, ' When shall we begin?' v.-lth otters:- l ll'i ,1 'readout of a similar kendency. The avaence dispelledlg :11 a 'is ,j - i It lreatest constetwariaa. Ihe ,rut m 4 did 0,4 slop - here, 73 4 if* Mg iroceeded in a body to the Place slo la aaseeir, in oilicieltiira SO Armed, ill attempts to disperse them, and I have been assured •...—• •- e ee l pry of ' V iue Charles I.' was there repeated several Ores. : ..... - aen 1 t:ommisary of Police has attested this fact in his evider.:c. l.e t t le no; roops were brought forward, the Swiss had Ica tae eiv i z:ad 'hence he garrison did not consist of i..1.:0 rehn, wi:broat any zavit.ry. to the ro these troops, their General politely add, ' lily fActlis 1• 0 to the loam, it is late, the roll-call is benter.-i' One of their o::icels old them with kindness, to ps and see :heir sweetheart% UN scaTCC 4 more . extraordinary and quite certair, because observed 4 and c very body, is, that the Prefect abd the Mayor, 3J in;evie, Ocean rallied thicusigh the moh, without orderilk ft to dltp...rse, 11 Eve Ix he authorhy of their luf See. To-d 7 the city he in egisulf% Fog reWisli are isienibled bet the Pita 4'13 C[[[ued. AC eie P°" . . 11' s e 1 lout agitators zre agile Out into sativity. it is said that C.kre• &rile has been bent IR fauyillaya. 1.-: hoc, we are asa-74 o c'f . th e he polecet.oi thrlir 41 1 1i1.c . ..: e a the • • •• ••:it/OPT l fitils ;.TErEll e rATED atAacn l obtr. 10. .. 4 " Probably since ike lintel , which I wrote you 0 1 1 the Stk,,4 , sill A Vlbr fre "JVretyed forber ., detalls ern' the state of the p el ,. NI 'it'd ° 411 0 1 i ."1"44ii ta"eilmOsi s ae (seem , ass the 74. l'llolllr git full forceoflaw, though-the conditions pn which (timed' been isste4hait neetfillson =tithed. He wit' „pf opining thadtbefeitiastos were tndeavouriaMst I slew, but Sure dereei,•lo ; accomplisis designs *hkh dtey dared not to nnfesbLat came, as they( knew the rapaCity which we* theft charaeterittic; would net foil to , cause the House to repel-them with indignat dim if they were fully known. He ,wAs convinced, that till they could get possessiou of one-sitth (which the two and ninepence mentioned in the Decree would amount to), they would never cease coming, to Parliament for relief. . The Honourable Baronet• had endeavoured to awaken the sympathy. of the House for these Gentlemen, but he (Mr. Harvey) stated almost all of them to have £440 per annum, and some had £6OO or more. About twenty lesel pluralists, and if they had no residences in the City, it was because they were the best calculators is it, and preferred letting their houses for the sake of the profit that might thus be obtained. If the Clergy of the City' had come forward to complain that the provision made for them in 1804 was not sufficient for their maintenance, leaving the 37th of. Henry VIII. out of the question, be should not so strongly have objected to the proceeding, but they did not dare to come to the House on such grounds. Not one of them dared to call on the House to take his individual case into consideration. The value they themselves attached to their own labours, might be collected from the sums which they paid to theCe rates who officiated for them, and who received £5O, £6O, or £7O per annum from those who were in the yearly receipt of £lOOO, £l5OO, as £2OOO. He thought the Petitioners spewed themselves unmindful . of !heir duty, and of the sacred character which they ought to preserve, in coming to Parliament -so re peatedly to get their emoluments enhanced. To him. :t appeared too much that the Chairman of a Com mittee, at• the head of a majority of three, should' now come to the House to impeach the decision de. liberately come to in a Committee that had been . numerously attended. Mr. DENT wished to know if the course taken by the Hon. Baronet was that which was most conform able to the forms of the /louse. He would ask if the better way would not be to refer the Petitions back -the' II '