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The Conditions of the Contracts may be seen at this Office. Each Tender must specify the price in words at length, and be delivered before One o'Clock on the day appointed ; and the Per son who makes the Tender, or wine Person on his behalf, must attend to answer when called for. M. WALLER CLIFTO'. EAST INDIdi HOUSE, February 11, 1824. 11 1 1 - rE COURT 9f DIRECTORS of the UNITED commiXY MERCHANTS of ENGLAND, trading to t'le EAST INDIES, do hereby give Notice, That by a Deed, dated this day, a Fund has been provided out of the revenues of Tanjore'for liquidation of the Debts of his late llighness AiIIMR SING, formerly Rajah of Tanjore ; upon certain' terms therein provided, the Claims of the Creditors are to be in vestigated and decided upon by Commissioners appointed for that vrpose. The Claimants may avail themselves of the benefit of the arrangement proposed in their favour, by becoming Parties to the Deed, which lies ready for their execution at the Office of Messrs. Smith and Lawford, Drapers' Hall, Throgmorton-street, any Taesday or Friday, between the hours of One and Three o'Clock. JOSEPH DAB7', Secretary. EAST'INDIA ROUSE, February 11, 1824. ►(IHE COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITED COMP. I Nr of iIIERCHAATS of ENGLAND trading tc ee EAST INDIES, do hereby give Notice, Thata GENERAL COURT of the said Company will be held, ty adjournment, at their House in Leadenhall-street, on WED NESDAY, the , 2.5 th instant, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon, for the purpose of taking into consideration the proposition con tained in the following Letter, viz. "To the CHAIRMAN, DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN, and DI RECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY. " London, January 16, 1824. " GENTLEMEN—We, the undersigned Proprietors of East India Stock, request you will summon a Court of Proprietors for the purpose of submitting to them the following Resolution, viz. " That application be made to Parliament in the ensuing Session for the Repeal of the 46th Clause of the Act of the 55d of George 111. cap. 155, by which the Court of Directors is prohibited from sending to India, in the capacity of a Writer, any person who shall not have resided during four Terms at the Hayleybury College; and for introducing into the said Act a Clause, appointing a Public Examination, at such times and under such regulations as the Court of Directors, with the approbation of the Board of Con troul, may direct; tti which examination all persons shall Submit ;heir acquirements and qualifications for approval, previous to their being permitted to proced in the capacity of Writers to either of tat Presidencies, Fort William, Fort St. George, or Bombay. " Douglas Kinnaird, " Joseph Hittite, 0 Re. F. Beauchamp, " James Morgan, " Wm. Morgan, " Richd. " Chas. Wright, " John Addinell, " Randle Jackson, " Saml. Dixon." JOSEPH DART, Secretary. iBEN THOUSAND POUNDS WORTH of TABLE LINENS and SHEETINGS to be sold cheap; owing to the death of James Graham., Manufacturer of Table Linen, the whole of his Stock has been consigned to his Brother. in-Law, at 78, Oxford-street, the firm of AI A Leory and JAMES, for im mediate disposal. The Executors having fixed the price, nu abate ment can he made. Ladies are assured that they are full one-third less then any other /louse in Loi.don can even obtain them, much lest dispose of them; for as the quantity precludes the possibility of inserting all the different prices, a few only are given as under; 4,0 5 Bths and 7-Bths Napkins to match all the cloths, which extend from the smallest size to the largest ever nude, with every inter mediate size and quality. Such an opportunity seldom occurs; and what renders it more worthy of attention is, that the sales are to be made entirely for the advantage of the family of the deceased. —breakfast Cloths, 5-4ths square, Is. 6d. each; 6-4ths square, t;-4th, square, Ss. 9d. 24 long, 2 wide, 7s. the same size fine Hambro' damask, 9s. the finest quality, I Is. 9d. 3 yards long, 2 3 / 4 wide damask, i3s. tid. sold at every other house for 20s. damask cloths, Si lung and 94 wide, 17s. 6d. 4 yards„long rich damask, 20s. napkins 7s. per dozen, hat damask do. Ils. dinner napkins 16s. 6d. per dozen, fine damask do. 2os. ltussia sheeting 64d. per yard, very strong do. 9d. 11 wide, ls. and excellent make of Russia sheeting. 24 wide, 2s. 3d. 21 wide, 9s. 6d. 3 yards wide, 2s. 9d. with Irish sheeting of every width and quality equally cheap. Be particular — PA NTHEON HOUSE, 78, Oxford-street, corner of Winsley street, and exactly opposite the Pantheon. TIIE PATENT SEIDLITZ POWDERS. !UIIIS 3IEDICINE is prepared, as usual, by the Pro. prietors, Messrs. SAVORY. bIOORF., and DAVIDSON, 1.6, New Bond-street. To Identify their Preparation in future, a Labe!, on which the Arms of the Inventor are engraved, will be placed on each Bez and Bottle. _ _ the Medicine may also be obtained genuine of their Agents— Mecirs. Newberys, 45, and Mr. F.dwards, 67, St. Paul's Church lard; Messrs. Barclays, 95, Fleet-market ; Messrs. Butlers, 4, Cheapitle; *Messrs. Sutton and Co. Bow Church-yard;; Mr. San ter, 150, Oxford-street ; Mr. Hudson, 97, Haymarket ; Mr. Rich .rLi;, 11, St. James's -street; Mr. Johnston, 16, (:reek-street; Mr. R. Johnston, 68, Cornhill ; Mr. 'Mackrill, 3S, Whiteehapel ; )1t , ,r,.. Ward and Co. 524, Holborn ; Messrs. Hastings and White, ", Haymarket; Mr. Stringer, 4, Strand; and Mr. Kiddie, '2.4, 1 : 1 4AI-street, Covent-garden : likewise at one or more respectable Houses in every principal Town. CHILBLAINS, RHEUMATISMS, PALSIES, &c. CHILBLAINS are prevented from breaking, and their tormenting Itching instantly removed by WHITE HEAD'S ESSENCE OF MUSTARD, universally esteemed lot its extraordinary efficacy in Rheumatisms, Palsies, Gouty Af and Complaints of the Stomach ; but where this certain "nedy has been unknown, or neglected, and the Chilblains have ally broke, WHITEHEAD'S FAMILY CERATE, will the pain, and very speedily heal them. This Cerate is equally —,loos for all ill-conditioned Sores, Sore Legs, Scorbutic Erup Blotches, Pimples Ringworms, Shingles. lire: kings-out on I. face, Nose, Kars, an d Eyelids, Sore and Inflamed Eyes, Sore t'''ads, and other Scorbutic Humours. The ESSKNCIs of musTA RD is perhaps the most active, pe and efficacious remedy in the wadi, curing the severest ` 'ails and Bruises in less than half the time usually taken by any tr Liniment or Embrocation; it also heals Cuts, Punctures from Instruments, Nails, Thorns, Splinters, &c. with incredible without smart or pain, preventing inflammation and fester and is equally useful in the various Accidents of Animals; in "I"'•, it is a domestic remedy of such uncommon excellence and .ut il".Y2 that nu family sensible to its own comfort should ever be without it. prepared only, and 3old by IL Johnston, Apothecary,ls, Greek 'retts Soho, London. The Essence and Yips at 2s. 9d. each. the I rrate at h. 14d. and 2s. Bd. They are also sold at 68, Cornhilii, Pay be had of every MedicineVench-r in the United Kingchm:!• • 'l he Genuine has a Black Ink Sump, with the name of IL ww.::3;oc, inserted on it. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY l 3 1824. Just published, pr. 2s. CAIN AND LA M ECH ; or, The COMPARATIVE NU MIMES of SEVEN and SEVENTY-TI MES-SE VEN, illustrative of the lsth, the 23d, and 24th Verses of the Fourth Chapter of Geneois; a Dissertation; By the Rev. W. VANSITTART, M.A. Late Student of Christ Church ; Vicar of White Waltham, and Master of Wigston's Hospital, in Leicester. Sold by Rivingtons, London ; Parker, Oxford ; and Deighton and To-morrow will be publi,hed, price is. HONE'S NEW PAMPHLET. Sold by all Booksellers in Town and Country. 45, Ludgate -hill. DISON and Co. respectfully apprise their Patrons, and Ladies in general, that they have manufactured for the approaching Season a superb and novel collection of Lace Dresses, Scarfs, Veils, &c. and will continue to produce on every Monday an entire New Article of Female Dress, which System received so distinguished a patronage from the Beau Monde the preceding year. Devoting their attention to the sole Article of Lace (both British and Foreign, of which they are real Manufacturers), they presume to offer a more convincing proof of their superiority in Choice and Prices than by any elaborate specification, too often inserted to mislead. -237, Regent-street, facing the Argyll Room, GUNS, PLATE, and PLATED GOODS._ J. COLLINS, who for several years conducted the Busi ness at Wilson's Old Established Warehouse, No. 1, Vigo•lane,l begs to inform the Nobility and Gentry that, in consequence of the late Proprietor having relinquished the Concern in his favour, ha has opened a Shop, No. 12, VIGO-LANE, where he is carrying on the business upon the same plan which has given such general satisfaction. He has selected a large assortment of PLATE and PLATED GOODS of the very best Manufacture, and has also on sale a large Collection of Town-made Detonating and Flint-Lock Guns, by all the first London Makers, Travelling Pistols, Court Dress and Regulation Sw COLLINS begs also to call the attention of Gentlemen out-fitting for India to his Collection of Guns, Pis tols, and Canteens, which he engages to furnish to them in a man ner equal to any House in London. Soria, Cambridge. This day was publi,lied, in Bvo. 15s. in boards, THE ANNUAL BIOGRAPHY and OBITUARY, for the Year 1824. Containing Memoirs of celebrated Per sons who died in 1822-23. CONTENTS—Viscount Keith; J. P. Kemble, Esq. Dr. Hutton; Mrs. Radcliffe ; Mr. Bloomfield; General Beckwith; Bishop Mid dleton ; C. S. Lefevre, Esq. J. Nollekens, Esq. Dr. Jenner ; Gen. Dumouriez ; Earl of St. Vincent ; J. G. Angeretcin, Esq. Earl of Hopetoun ; Dr. Baillie; Lord Glenbervie ; Sir Denis Pack; Da vid Ricardo, Esq. Sir H. Raeburn ;J. Schanck, Esq. A general Biographical List of Persons, who died in 1822-1823. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. Of whom may he hid, The preceding Seveu Volumes, price 1 5s. each. MRS. GRAHAM'S NEW WORKS ON SOUTH AMERICA. _ _ Next Month will be published, by LoNcsisz, Missy, Rao, Oanz, BROWN, and GILEZN ; and JOHN MURRAY. I. JOURNAL of a VOYAGE to BRAZIL, and RE SIDENCE there, during Part of the Years 1821, 1822, and 1823 ; including an Account of the Revolution which brought about the Independence of the Brazilian Empire. By MARIA GRAHAM. In One Volume 4to. with Engravings. I I. JOURNAL of a RESIDENCE in CHILE, and VOYAGE from the PACIFIC, in the Years 1822 and 1823; preceded by an Account of the Revolutions in Chile, since the Year 1810, and particularly of the Transactions of the Squadron of Chile under Lord Cochrane. By MARIA GRAHAM. In One Volume 4to. with Engravings. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION. This day was published, price 7s. hound, THE NARRATIVE PARTS of the Old and New Testaments, printed verbatim from the Authorised Version, in a large Type, fur the use of the Junior Classes in Schools, and illustrated with one hundred and twenty Engravings. By the REV. S. BARROW, Author of School Sermons, Questions on the Old and New Testaments, &c. &c. Printed for F. Warner, Stationers'-court, and to be had of all Booksellers. N.B. Five thirmazo QUESTIONS expressly on the contents of this desirable Volume have been published, in the Copy-book Form, . • 9..5. with a Key for Tutors, at Nine-pence, for the purpose of adapt in the Work to the Interrogative System of Instruction. This day was published, much enlarged, A Fourth 'Edition of OBSERVATIONS on STRICTURES of the REC TUM and COLON, andother Affections which diminish the capacity of the Intestinal Canal in those parts ; including Spasmodic Constriction of the Sphincter Ani (with a Translation of Mons. Boyer's valuable Paper on that complaint: Hzmorrhoidal Tu mours (called Piles), Excrescences, and Prolapsus Ani ; accom panied with the mode of Treatment, several Cases and Yngravings. By W. WHITE, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, Corresponding Member of the London Medical Society, and one of the Sur geons to the City Infirmary and Dispensary. Bath. il,th kv Gvel. Market-place PARilled by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, anu Paternoster-row, London ; and sold by W. I3ulgin, Corn;street, Bristol ; and by all Booksellers. This day were published, in Bvo. price 2s. OBSERVATIONS and CASES, illustrative of the EFFICACY of OXYGEN, or VITAL AIR, in the Cure of Cancerous and other Glandular Enlargements. By DANIEL HILL, M.D. Surgeon, London-street, Fitzroy-square, Honorary Member of the Medical Society at Guy's Hospital, and Fellow of the Horticultural Society. Printed for C. and J. Rivington, St. Paul's Church-yard, and Waterloo-place, Pall-mall; T. Cadet, Strand; J. Hatchard and Son, Piccadilly ; and Callow and Wilson, Princes-street, Soho. Of whom also may be had, by the same Author, Practical Observations on the use of Oxygen, or Vital Air, in the Cure of Diseases; to which are added, a few Experiments on the Vegetation of Plants, with Five Engravings.—The Second Edition, with an Appendix, Bvo. price 7s. 6d. LONDON REPOSI'T'ORY for the CABINET-MAKERS SOCIETY, for every Description of CABINET FURNI TURE, FEATHER BED and MATTRESS MANUFAC TORY, N 0.71, Cornerof LEADEN H A LL-STREET, London, opposite Aldgate Pump, READY MONEY ONLY. "HE Society of Cabinet-Makers respectfully inform the Public that they *ill continue the above Establishment, for the Benefit of Industrious Mechanics who have large Families, by offering them Manufactured Articles in the Cabinet Line, of the best Workmanship, and Cheaper than any House can do in London, there being no other profit required on the Goods but the bare house and other expenses; at the same time will be sufficiently sa tisfied with having constant employment for themselves and families. This Society was Established in June, 1818, consisting of 20 Mechanics, adding the number of their Wives and Families, amounted to 66. The total Number now receiving Support through the Means of this Establishment is 125 Mechanics; adding the number of Wives and Children, 625. The Society and their Families beg leave to return their sincere thanks to those Ladies and Gentlemen who have hitherto honoured them with their Orders and Recommendations, and shall always feel happy in their endeavours to give future satisfaction ; at the same time solicit a Continuance of their Benevolence, whereby they may be enabled to increase the Number of the Society. The following Articlea are inserted as a Specimen of the very Low Prices, all warranted.-Ready Money only. • Full size Mahogany four-post Bedstead, lath bottom £3. 155.- Full size tent Bedstead £l. 65.-Bordered hair Mattress to fit £l. ls.-Mahogany Drawer, solid ends £3. 35.-Feather Bed £2. 105.-Ditto, free from dust and smell, full size £3. 10s.-Six japanned Chairs of any description in oil £l. 65.-Best do. Wash hand-stand iris.-Ditto, Dressing Table 165.-Hearth Rugs 14s. -3 feet 6 inches, Chest of Drawers £4. 45.-Three-foot mahogany Pembroke Table £l. 18s.-Three-foot ditto on pillars and claws £5. 155.-Mahogany Dressing Table £l.-Ditto Bidett, best £l. 45.-Ditto Box Glass, 2 drawers, best British Plate 155.- Ditto ditto £l. 63.-Ditto Swing Glass, large size, commode 35.- Ditto ditto 45.-Ditto ditto Bs.-Ditto ditto 125.-Tray Stand 7s. -Long Mahogany Tray 125.-Japanned Book Shelf 75.-Tea Caddy 10s.-Music Chairs-any pattern Bs. 6d.-Eight Mahogany Chairs, covered with horse hair, brass nailed £6. 65.-8 ditto ditto £6. 13.1.-8 ditto ditto £7. 75.-8 Trafalgar ditto £B. 85.-Nla hogany Sofa to match £6. 10s.-Ditto Couch £_7.105.-Ditto ditto £B. 10s.-Set of Mahogany Card and Sofa Tables, on turned legs, banded in rose-wood £B. 155.-Set of Mahogany Tables, ;wo Card and Sofa, on pillars and cl..ws £l2. 125.-Ditto, the best that can be made-to order or pattern £l6. 105.-Straw Palliasse .£l. ls.- Tent Bedstead and furniture £3. 155.-Bamboo Bedstead and French elliptic top, with drapery and fringe, £B. 108.-Five-foot mahogany four-post Bedstead and furniture, with French draperies, lined all through, complete, £l5. 10s.-Five-foot ditto ditto £l6. 10s.-Ditto, ditto, with cornice, of a superior make, £lB.los. -1/itto ditto, with gold cornice, elegant drapery, £20.-Draw ing-room Curtains, of the best Moritie and Chintz, fitted for window, 65.-Ditto ditto £7. 75.-Ditto, of a superior and elegant style of work, £lo. 10s.-Drawing-room Sofa £6 65.-Ditto £7.75.- Ditto £B. Bs.-11or5t-liair Cushions, each I ss. 6d. RN ELL,-Comnion do. 4s. %V. T I Agen. COUNTRY DEALERS SUPPLIED. Goods packed free of expense, except the materials, and sent to all parts of Great Britain, and to the East and West Indies.-Cap tains fitted out, and Merchants supplied with Cabinet Goods for Exportation. * 4 , 6 Apartments Furnished at a few hours' nodes, and Houses in two or four days. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FEBRUARY 12. Mr. JONES fixed for Monday next, a Motion, as was under stood, '1 on the subject of the Welch Judges. Admiral SOTHERON presented a Petition front the Victual lera of Newark, against the Duty on Licenses. Mr. GOSSET presented a Petition from Truro, praying for the , Repeal of the Coal Duties.—Ordered to be printed. A similar Petition was presented from the Ward of Cordwainers, by 'Mr. Alderman SMITH. Mr. WOI)EHOUSE also presented a Petition from a Parish in Norfolk, against the Coal Duties.—Ordered to be printed. On the motion of Sir EDWALD KNATCHIULL, a Return was or dered of the number of persons on the Home Circuit liable to serve on Juries, so far as the same could be made out from the Sheriff's books. Estimates of the Extraordinary Expenses of the Army, the Co lonies, and the Office of Ordnance, were presented, and ordered to be printed. On the motion of Mr. Helium ' an Account was ordered to be laid on the table of the amount of the Income and Expenditure of the Country, the Public Debt, &c. &c. from the sth January,l623, to the sth January, 1824. On the motion of Mr. DAVIES, certain Returns connected with the Irish Port and Excise Duties were ordered to be laid on the table. On the motion of Mr. blastaxv, Returns were ordered of the amount of the Gross and Net Revenue of Great Britain from 1791, to January, 1824, the charges of Collection, the amount of the Pub lic Debt, the interest paid thereon, the amount of the population in each year, &c. &c. Similar Returns were ordered for Ireland, from the sth January, 1816, to the sth January, 1824. Lord ALTHORP gave notice that he would to-morrow move for leave to bring in a Bill to alter so much of the Act of the 56th of Geo. 111. as empowered Landlords in Ireland to distrain on growing crops; also that on Wednesday next he would move for leave to bring in a Bill for the more speedy and effectual recovery of small debts. M. la vs, ra bare to brine in a Bill for enabling a conveyance to be made of a part of a house vested in the Postmaster General, which was afterwards brought in and read a first time. Sir J. NEWPORT gave notice that he would to-morrow move for certain papers relating to the Commutation of Tithes in Ireland. The Report of the Committee of Supply was brought up, and the Resolutions agreed to. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave notice that he would to-morrow move that the Ilouse should resolve itself into a Committee of." Ways and Means, and when the House was in a Committee he would move the Annual Sugar Duties, and the other Annual Duties. IMPRESSMENT. Mr. HUNIE said, that in consequence of the absence of several Honourable Friends, and a desire on his part to obtain some fur ther information on a subject so important, he should defer his Mo tion regarding the Impressment of Seamen, which stood for the 19th instant, until the 2d of next month. It was his intention to move for some Papers, and for the appointment oi a Committee to investigate the whole question. TREAD•MILL. Sir F. BURDETT said he held in his hand a Petition from Mr. Stapylton, a Magistrate of the West Riding of Yorkshire, com plaining that in Northallerton, persons, before conviction, were con demned to the public and degrading employment of working at the tread-mill. He (Sir F. Burdett) doubted whether it was compe tent to the Magistrates thus to punish a person before conviction, for a punishment it certainly was in every respect. It was of im portance to ascertain whether the law conferred such power. If the law admitted of such an interpretation, the sooner it was amended the better, that a stop might be put to so oppressive a measure. Mr. Secretary PEEL said there was no doubt that the Ma gistrates possessed the power. The expediency of exercising it was another question ; and he had no hesitation in saying that he consi dered it impolitic. The chief use of putting persons to work pub licly at the tread-mill was to operate as an example, by attaching a stigma on those who were so treated. It was clear that it must cease to produce the effect if inflicted indiscriminately. He thought, therefore, it would be expedient to provide that persons, before conviction, should not be put to a species of labour which ought to operate as a degradation. An opportunity would soon occur of making such an alteration in the law as would prevent the recur rence of the practice. Sir F. BURDETT said he bad no doubt of the illegality of the practice. It was a proceeding that could not in justice be counte nanced. The Judges did not determine the legality of it in the Court of King's Bench. They decided merely, that when prisoners were unwilling to work, the Magistrates might confine them strictly to the prison allowance. This was getting rid of the question by an indirect way. He contended that before conviction, humanity and justice required that every fair indulgence should be extended to prisoners. He wondered that Magistrates could persevere in such conduct, after so much had been said on the subject last Session. Mr. Secretary PEEL said it had been provided by the Bill I passed last year that prisoners should have sufficient sustenance. His own decided opinion was, that prisoners, before conviction, should not be put to work at the tread-mill. Mr. S. WORTLEY said the King's Bench hid decided that the practice was legal.--(Sir F. Buxom across the table—No).—He admitted the inexpediency of it, and be was glad that his Right Honourable Friend (Mr. Peel) had intimated an intention of set ting the matter right. o Mr. J A MES said a few words in condemnation of the practice, , and contended that the Court of King's Bench had not decided the I legality of it.—The Petition was ordered to lie on the table. EMIGRATION OF ARTISANS. Mr. HUME rose to bring forward his motion rela tive to the exportation of machinery, the emigration of artisans, and the combination laws. The subject he said was one ('f the greatest importance. His object was to move for a Committee to inquire into those laws, which affected a very considerable portion of the population of the country. Two years ago be presented a Petition on the subject, signed by 15,000 individuals, and he then gave notice that he would bring it under the consideration of Parliament. He then found that it had long occupied the attention of an Honourable Mem ber (Mr. Ricardo) since deceased, who promised him his assistance in the prosecution of the objects he had in ♦iew. When the House recollected the candid and able manner in which the Honourable Gentleman delivered [PRICE SEVEN—PENCIs. his opinions upon this and other subjects of the highest public interest, there was, he believed, no person who heard him that would not concur in acknowledging that no inconsiderable loss had been sustained by his death—(Near, hear). Through goad and bad report, he steadily went forward to his object of endeavouring to mould the laws in conformity to those principles he was so capable of expounding—(Near)—and however others might differ from him, his opponents could not deny him the praise of upright intention. Though his principles met with opposition, many of the conclusions he drew from them had already been fulfilled. He (Mr. Hume) originally gave notice of this motion, mainly depending on his assistance ; and he could assure the House, that in bringing it forward now, he was in fluenced by no party feeling. Though the motion was one of rather a complicated nature, that circumstance should not deter the House from inquiry ; for he thought it possible to bring forward such information before a Committee, as would induce the House to concur in his views. At first his intention was, that only the laws affecting the emigration of mechanics and the ex portation of machinery should be considered. He had since thought it advisable, on the suggestion of many. Honourable Members, to add that body of laws known under the name of the Combination Laws.-- These laws had a more extensive effect than could be well believed ; and it was unnecessary for him to say that great advantage must arise from inquiry hurt the sub ject. He had no hesitation in laying it down as •s gene ral principle, that any laws, the effect of which was to fetter men's labour, and prevent them from employing it to the best advantage, ought to be repealed, unless it could be shewn that some vital interest of the country required their continuance. It was not until lately that any approaches were made towards acting upon the principle laid down by Adam Stnith—L:Here the Hon. Gentleman read a passage from the Wealth of Nations ; the import of which was, that any restriction laid upon the labour of a man's hands, which was his property, was a violation of natural right.—As the law now stood, any Gentleman might go to France or any other country, and spend the whole of his income there, while the mechanic was denied the same privilege. Laws to be just ought to be equal. On information given to a Magistrate that a mechanic was about to leave the coun try, he might be sent to prison till he gave good secu rity that he would not go. The effect was to increase the difficulties of emigration, but not to prevent it, for it was known that mechanics in great numbers found their way out of the country. They who recognised the principle of emigration by assisting persons to go to Ca nada, the Cape of Good Hope, and other places, should not surely refuse to the artisan the opportunity of con verting his time and talents to the best advantage. No man would willingly leave his native country unless he saw a prospect of converting his knowledge and talents to greater profit than he could at home. The second object he had in view, the exportation of machinery,v..as nne which appeared to some of a more doubtful nature, as to its expediency, than the first. The same principle, however, in his opinion, applied to both, but the latter would perhaps require more investigation to remove existing prejudices. When the House heard all the evi dence, they would be able 'to judge what alteration it might be expedient to introduce in the existing laws.— When they knew machinery was exported, arid that ma: nufacturers of machinery went abroad, and constructed such machines as were required, hewas satisfied theywould come to the conclusion that it would be for the interest of the country if this great branch of industry was added to their other manufactures, aril that England was allowed to supply the other nations of the world with machines. The rude material from which they were constructed was cheap, and in no department of industry was the manufactured article sold for so large a sum as compared with the prime cost. If it could be shewn, as he knew it could, that in other countries they were reduced to the necessity of making their own machines, which they would more willingly get from here if they could be obtained ; this would be another motive with the House for altering Cle law. They should consider that there was scarcely any machine for which a patent was not taken out. This could not be done without a specification, of which a foreigner could easily obtain a copy, and thus have the machine constructed at home. Thus it was clear that the paten tee and the country were injured, and that they deprived themselves of considerable advantage by not allowing the manufacture of machines for the foreign market.— The next point, the Combination Laws, might be dis patched in a few words. As the law now stood, work men were not allowed to consult together as to the amount of wages that was a fair compensation for their labour without incurring the penalty of fine and imprisonment. They did not enjoy the same ad vantage as their employers, who might reduce them to any rate of wages they pleased. Ile heard of resolu tions come to by master shoemakers and others, declar ing that they would not allow more than a certain price. The result of this was, a great dissatisfaction among the working classes. It would be said that if the laws were repealed the workmen would become troublesome by striking for wages. This he felt confi dent would not be the case if the law was altered.— Workmen never struck for wages unless when forced to do so in their own defence. He had it upon the autho rity of an Honourable Member whom he did rot then see in his place, that if all the Statute Laws affecting masters and workmen were repealed, the Common Law would be sufficient to meet all the mischievous effects that could arise from combination. It was important then to reflect why such Statutes should be allowed to continue in existence. The reason, he might be told, was th difficulty of repealing them. He was certain all difficulty would be removed when proper information was obtained on the subject. He knew that some short time back, at a meeting of the weavers of Spitalfields, when the question was put, they all de clared that they were still willing to remain under those laws. He had no doubt that such a declaration would not have been made if they had not been led astray by some interested persons, some specious declaimers who attended the meeting. Inquiry, however, would open the eyes of these persons, and spew them the error under which they laboured in supposing that such laws could' be for their interest. He hoped he had said enough to .t. ,? I