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4! $ ..:->,. . PilliLl4All NII4RT IN7 B LLIGEN CE. HOPSE OF LORDS, FEBRUARY 16. To BE SOLD; Pursuant to ad Order of the High Court of Chancery, made in a Cause 4' Stvwett. v. sal - watt," with the approbsgon of Imaas STireczN, E3q. one of the Masters of the said Conn; in the moral of March or April next, in Lots, . • AQUANTITY rf OAK and ASH TIMBER, now &mains in Saddle-hill Wood, Sheiderton, near Lud low, in the County of Salop ; and also lightreight Acres or thereabouts of Underwood, in tee same Wood. Particulars whereof are preparing, and will, In the course of a . fortnight, be ready to be delivered at the said Master's Cham bers, in Southampton-buildinsi, Cbanciry•bibe, London; at Mr. Moore 's, Solicitor, Furnixal's Inn, 'London; at Mr. John Lee's, Timbcr Sot vsyor, Shrew%bury; at Mr. Thomas Matthews's, Cove.street, I.utiiow ; and at the pc Incfpal Innsat Ludlow, Bronv• field, and the adj mein Towns; and the Timber and Underwood spay be viewed on application to Edward Barrington, of Shelder ton aforesa,ki. Tbe LORD ANCELLOR, biting drained at the Council at Carlton Howe, did not come down till half-past four o'clock, when tie took his seat on the woohack . LtlGH lr il DIVeIICE BILL. . .Lord KONTEaItT presented a Pedtiun from liars. Cathe rine Leigh, wile of Fraticis I.e gh, Clerb, against the Bill now bef•ke the Iletoe for the diso:ution of their marriage; and raying that some regular opportunity may be afforded to her of sbewirg t ',cis. I.ordolizi. 4 the ink , tious treatment she had received riot her e.%id :iushand, :.red that he is nut entitled to the relief proposed tiy the Bill. Tbe Peti: inn being read, his Lordship moved that it be takes Into consideration tau Tuesday next, which was ordered ao cordingly. , 6 . TRIAL ill( ilaitY IN SCOTLAND. Ihe LORD CH ANCEI.t.OR called their Lordships' attas- tion to et!. Bill which he hadgbe honour to present upon this subject before the recess, aud4feh 'had bees read s fintlime. •Since that period, howeirer, eagiving farther. consideration to the proposed inca•ure ' be was of opinion it sups susceptible of much hiprovement, by an ompsdpn of the phut. He thought the preferable, as well as claim* regular way, would be to withdraw the pending,,Bill, and present a new oue, framed on the v ed principli _ position meeting the sense of the House, .the Bill was seen y ordered to be withdrawn ;—and the Noble and Learned Lord presented a Bill to extend the Trial by Jury to Civil Caws, in Scotland, which was forthwith read a first time, and ordered to be primed. AM JOHN PALMER. Lord REDESDALE presented a Petition from Mr. John Palmer. Attorney at Law, complaining of certain unjustifiable treatment received by him respecting the lrish Appeal Cause •f Moore v. Blake, in which he had been originally employed as Attorney; and of the non-payment of hie costs; and praying their Lutilsltips to order such relief as to their wisdom shoal seem Met-% The Pe•ition Was, on the motion of Lord RLDISDALZ, refer red to the consideration of their lordships' Appeal Committee. Adjotaned till to morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Two Petitions were presented from the County of Suffolk, the one it,;.stist the Property tax, and the other against the , portation o: Foreign Corn. A Petit.tur was also presenter! against 'he Property Tax from the Occupier. ot Land in the county of Rwland. Mr: ibtWlNt, from the Office ot the Inspector-General of Im ports and Exports, brought up Accounts ot the Quantity of Foreign Aleal and Flour imported into England and Ireland, front the year 1814 to 11415, and also ot the tjaantity of British Grain exported during the cant period.-+Ordered to he on the table. Mr. LAN GTUN , from the Excise Office, presented an Account of the To . al Amount of the Duty on Hops, in the year 1014.- IE/tarred to lie on the table. Mr. Vat mitts froM the Trinity House, brought up Accounts of the Receipt and Appropriation of the Corporate Rates, el* 'acted the Trinity. Molise, undet the Pilot JUL— Order ed to lit on thstable. Dmiasassity SIM want shnusayb a Committee of the whole BMW, and the Report was moiled to be received to-morrow. The consideration of the Report on the Mtge Duty Bill was postponed till Tuesday neat. of-111 STRU ri . presented a Petition from the Hundred 1;r and 'town of Mallon, • praying an alteration in the Corn Laws.. PAVING AND LIGHTING. Mr. TAYLOR, as a preparatory step to the Mo tion of whiCh he had given notice last week, respect- Methe st.tte of the Pavement and Lighting of the tropolis, moved for Accounts of the Assessments made in the united parishes of St. Andrew, Holborn, and St. George the Martyr, for Paving and Lighting from Lady-day 1810 to 1814, and for the yearly Accounts of the Churchwardens of the Parish of St. Ann's, Limehouse, for Paving and Lighting the streets, under whatever trust levied in that parish, during the same period. The SPEAKER observed, that of course the Honourable Member had satisfied himself that the Churchwardens were the proper persons to give the information. Mr. TAYLOR stated, that he understood they were the second trust, and therefore conceived them the proper persons to procure the information he wanted. He then moved for similar accounts re. ;petting Whitechapel Htgh.street,Whitechoel Road side, and other burets adjoining, Rosemary-Lane, Osborne-greet, and Mary.labonne. _ _ The Motion was agreed to, and the Papers ordered tb be laid before the House. . ITJCS 1$ COURTS. Sir JJHN NEWPORT called the attention of illse Henn to the neglect displayed in the non-execu *ls of its Orders. On the 23d of November last the Ming had ordered certain papers to be produced, • flifirsliting tbe,leas taken by the Registrar of Will in Ireland.' Ott the 29141 of the same month, a copy df the Accounts of Fees taken in Chansierriind Rolls of Court had aho been ordered,- as well as other papers of that kind, on the Ist day of December, 'rid yet, althuUgh they might have been produced w.thout any difficulty, and to copy them would not have takca.more than three or four days, eight or nine *Ulu bad now elapsed, and they were not yet in.. .the possession of the House. After expatiating oil the unwillingness of Government to procure In formation. on those subjects, and the delays with which they nipped his course, he moved that those Papera should be laid severally before the House forthwith. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, who spoke very low, was understood to state s that he would not , oppose the introduction of the word forthwith," as far as tht Papers regarded England, but that he could not answer for those concerning helAnd, during the absence of an Honotitable Friend of his. Sir JOHN NEWPORT, despairing ofjetting ai• autwer %% hen Ilk asked a question, adopted the cif ly. way which rem.,ined, which was to cause the orders of the Noose tu be enforced forthwith. The inotiou wectben put, and agreed to. Mr. C4LCRA FT would ask of the Chancellor of the EsChequer & without despairing si—getting an answer, whether. , be had Anrnietion to contempla timi sespeeting East India-Shipping The CHAN4,;ELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied, that. he bawled totting that *Oct fee= ward very early. POIIT oFFICI6 Mr. BASICES, in • coasequotco .of what had passed yesterday, did not think any preface seem. sary, but would move, that there be laid before the HOUR', Copies of the Plans, if any were perfected, of the new intended Post-Office; plans of the ground, and estimates of the expence of its erection, of the removal of the houses, and the .compensation to be given to the parties in possession.—Ordered. The Civil 1..* Account Bill was read a third time * and passed. NAVIC Barr aturtoNs. On the :notion of the CHANCELLOR of the Exam QUER, the House having resolved itself into a Com mittee of the whole House on the .Bank Restriction, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated, that it would not be proper, at so early a pe riod, and before every thing had been decisively settled in Europe, to call upon the Bank . to renew its payments in specie. Notwithstanding the satis factory events of the last year, prudence still re quired sorr.e delay before a measure of that impor tance should be adopted. When the exchange should hive completely recovered itself, and the price of bullion should have returned to its level, then re:- strictions on payments in cash would become unne cessary. At the same time, however, the favour able circumstances of the last year, and the happy conclusion of the war, had already produced an im provement in the exchange, and a fall in the price of bullion, which gave him room to hope, that before a lonaperiod had elapsed, it would be in the power of hiCMAjesty's Ministers to remove further restric tions, and restore the usual circulation of the coun try. ' For the present, he therefore should move for leave to bring in a Bill for the purpose of continuing the Bank RestrictiosnAct for a time to be limited. ' Mr. TIERNEY agreed that the Bank could not be expected immediately .to resume payments in specie. The point was, to what extent should the period of the existing restrictions be enlarged ? He thought it could only be ascertained by a Committee of Inquiry, but would save further discussion now, and would urge his arguments when the motion of which a Noble Friend of his had given notice on the subject should come forward. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was happy to find that the Right Hop. Gentleman waived further discussion, which, in the present stage of the measure, could not produce any beneficial effect. Leave was then given to bring in a Bill. The Bleaching Powder Bill went through a Com mittee, and was ordered to be read a third time to morrow.—Adjourned. COUNTY' MELTING ifT JIACKNET. Yesterday, at one o'clock, the Sheriff of Middlesex, Messrs. I.euan and RSAY, took the Chair; and the Un der Sheriff read the Requisition for calling the present Meeting, the purport of which was to petition Parlia ment for the Repeal of the Property Tax. The names to it were JOHS CARTWRIGHT I W. BENTLEY, HARVEY CHRISTI* COMM, ke. As soon as the Requisition was read, Mr. Sheriff LEIGH informed the Meeting they were convened there in consequence of the paper which had been just mad to them, and that he and his col league were ready to hear what any 'Gentleman pre sent had to offer on the subject. Major CARTWRIGHT then addressed the Meeting. He arid, that when an individual stepped forward to complain of and to stem a torrent of corruption so powerful and overwhelming as that which now ra vaged this country, it was necessary he should gtwd himself against the misrepresentation of the venal tongues and venal pens which the supporters of this corruption never failed to keep in their pay. For that purpose, he would wish , with the leave of the Meeting, to follow the example of a Gentleman of high rank and great popularity, and request their permission to read his speech, which would have the further good effect of saving their time, as he could by that means deliver himself with greater facility and speed than if he were to do so from memory alone. lie then proceeded to read his speech at great length, in which he endeavoured to sheer, from the most celebrated authorities, that no tax in this coun try could be imposed which was oppressive, but it must, on that account, be unconstitutional. This, he argued, was peculiarly the case with respect to the Property Tax • and such an engine of arbitrary power, in a country ;id to be free, could. not have operated so long as a scourge on the people if they had been fairly represented. The grand remedy, therefore, for this and every other evil of the kind, was a Re form in the Commons House of Parliament, without which, though this odious Tax should now be done away, it would ere long be brought forward in some Giber shape. Alter drawing an awful picture of the situation of this country at the present moment, front this necessary reform not having taken place in 1790, when a petition for that purpose bad been presented to Parliament, and disregarded—from which disregard sprung the-unnecessary war, that caused the expen diture which game birth to the odious tyranny of the Property Tax. He congratulated the Meeting on the awakening state of the p u bli c m i n d, f rom which he ventured to hope that the foul vapours of selfish. ness and faction—that the dense mists of ignorance, frivolity, and prejudice, by the joint effect of all which the political atmosphere had been rendered as un 'wholesome as a Walcheren, might, by Gon's provi dence, suddenly melt and vanish, and our constitu tion burst forth in full splendour, enlightening all minds, cheering all hearts, uniting all wills. Then, Gentlemen, said he, but not till then, shall you see hurled down from their lofty pedestals those abomi nable, reptiles, monsters, and demons,. the gods of corruption, whose images, like the plagues of Egypt, now every where blast our light—whose Pandemo nian Temples are seen in every rotten Borough, and whose tottering cathedral, once a Christian chapel, stands near the Treasury. Having thus troubled you with my sentiments on your evil and its remedy, your bane and its antidote, with your leave• I will move the Resolutions 1 have , to offer. He then read the Resolutions throughout, which Pere very long , and which, from the .first to the eighth, foamed ver-i b tam the Petition to he presented to the Houseof Commons on this subject, which Petition concluded with the following prayer, That the prem . . unconstitutional Property Tax may_ wholly cease on the sth April next; and that your Honourable House • witl, Aiwa daisy, Mu your slacks thOusbes to a fill restoration of those ocreerighte of the Ps** in the constant violation of which, legislation and taxation are at present unconstitutionally exercised ; a course which hath already been prolific of countless calamities, and which, as it appears to your Peti tioners, bath hitherto directly led, and so long as per severed in, must continue directly to lead, to the erecting of a settled tyranny on the ruins of public liberty—an experiment of the must gloomy and hor rid aspect, and pregnant with nought but the direst evils to our deeply-tujured and unhappy country 1" Mr., BZNTIALY seconded the resolutions. The Go vernment of the country had cajoled the people into all those measures that had been ruinous to OW finances. After twenty years we found ourselves in the situation of a ruined people. The country had been deluded by the false statements of Ministers, of the flourishing situation of oar affairs, into an unne cessary war. Such was the state of the country that it was impossible for the farmer to exist, without some relict being granted him. The landlord should lower his rents, and then tae farmer would be able to supply the country, without the necessity of having recourse to foreign supply. The National Debt amounted to above 900 millions, and the fee simple of all the land in the kingdom, at forty years pur chase, amounted to no more than GOO millions.. This looked like the case of a steward to a Noble man, who tells his master that his title is disputed, and that it mast be defended. He is allowed to do so—and after twenty years litigation, lie comes to his LOrd, miff says, "We have won the dol."- 4i Well, but what has become of my rents ?"---" Why my Lord, your rents have been all absorbed by the law-suit, and your estate is also mortgaged for more than its value—but then you; title is clear and undis puted." Such was the situation of this country aster a ruinous war. It was agreed, that to save time the question on the Resolutions should be put upon the whole toge ther, and afterwards that on the Petition which grew out of them. Mr. Maxim opposed the whole, chiefly on the ground that a reform of Parliament had been intro duced into the argument of the respectable Mover, when no mention had been made in the requisition of such a measure being intended to be proposed. He thought such a proceeding eras neither 'foie nor candid because be was certain, had it been men. tioned in the requisition, the meeting would have been much more numerous. He had always objected to a Reform in Parliament, and from what he had now heard, was not at all inclined to alter his opi nion ; at the same time, he did not the less respect those who differed with him because they held a con trary opinion. As to the Property Tsr, be did not view it in the same light with the respectable mover of the question. It had carried us safely and honour. ably through the war, atid placed us on our present enviable situation of enjoying the blessings of peace. Mr. Bvso apologized to the Meeting tor offering himself to their attention at so early a period of the debate, but he was under the necessity of attending another duty, which was as important to the interests and dignity of the county as the present—he meant a motion of which he had given notice respecting the Treasurer for the county. • He hoped, therefore, thit ras soon as he had delivered his sentiments, the meet , log would excuse his immediate departure. He had always been, and always should be, a staunch f;ond .to a R.eft..rm in Parliament; he bad often assured his constituents of this, and now begged leave to repeat, th'at Le would vote for such a Reform as should give to every man a right of voting who contributed to the support of the Government by a direct taxation— (4filtlatiser.) As to the Property Tax, he had al ways viewed it as an odious tax ; not on account of what he paid te it himself, but from its oil:restive et fects on others. As a Landholder he knew well he only paid a tenth, and noinore. His tenants might perhaps have been in, many instances obliged to pay more, but this particular county, which 1:e had the honour to represent, contained in it the City of West minuer and a .large district besides, in which there were innumerable shopkeepers. This was the de scription of personsowhose hardships he most sensibly felt and deplored. They were obliged Co pay a tenth of what was imposed on them, and if they refused on the score that the assessment was not correct, they were subject to an inquisitorial power that could pry into their most secret concerns, and, to avoid which, they would submit to an imposition grievous in the , extreme, but, perhaps, less destructive tban the dis- 1 covery of their real circumstances—a mode of salva tion nearly equivalent to death itself—(4Wasuer.) Entertaining these sentiments, the resolutions and pe tition bad his approbation, and, having declared this, he should beg leave to withdraw, in order to dis charge that other part of his duty to which he had pledged-himself before the present meeting was ap pointed. (He then withdrew.) Mr. Miu.tasa said, his duty as a Magistrate also . called him to attend the same business as his Ho; nourable Colleague was about to attend, and for that reason he should likewise beg leave to retire, which he did immediately after Mr. Byng. The question that the Resolutions which had been read do past, was then put, and appeared to be una nimously carried but on the contrary spew of hands being requested by the Sheriff, three solitary emblems under that designation were held up against it. The sameeru the case on tlse question that th e p et i t i on do yass.• Thanks were then moved by Major CA . UTWRIOUT, and unanimously voted to the Sheriffs, for their con vening the meeting, and for their impartial conduct. Mr. Sheriff Rate expressed himself very !ipp; dor. his conduct had given satisfaction to the Mc link;, but candour would not permit him to let thew belga taw without his declaring that he did no: approve either of the Resolutions or Petition. Major CARTWAIGSIT raid, that this Meeting tidying been held under the authority of the Sheriff of Mid dlesex made it a Corgi Cow t he thereiore moved, that the Sheriffs &MT countersign . the Petition in their official capacity, which would remove all objec tions that might occur on the ground of the w.on of numbers. The Sheriffs objected to do this till they had more 'seriously considered the question; and it they found it assenary their signature should appear in their ofcial cheracter r tbey would not object to it.—Loadappiaisss. Thanks were unanimously 'voted to Mr. BM for his feral conduct in Parliament, and pilticulaily for bis ieclatratioos made this day. WEST iwiwn. KINGSTON, (Jameasca) DECEMBER 17. Le Decouvene brigantine, of 12 guns, which had sailed for the purpose of communicating with an ex pedition from &mope, returned into port on Monday morning. Early the preceding morning, off the east end ) ti& fell in with the Veageur, of 7+ gem% with fourteen transports, having on board the 4Sd, or Monmouthshire Light Infantry, and 7th Royal Past leers, with a detachment of Royal. Artille►y sad Ca valry, comprising upwards of three thousand men, commanded by Major-General John Lambett, de stined to join the expedition under Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane, K.B. which lately sailed Prim ... Negri! Bay. The Vcngeur sailed from Plymouth on the 2.1 d of October, and passed Port Royal on Sun day Right to leeward, and is to call off the Isle of Pines, to receive from a vessel of war further instruc dons respecting Sir Alexander Cochrane's ultimate destination. The brigantine Edward is cruizing off the east en.l. to communicate with the Sultan and Sceptre, of 74 guas each, with several transports, which are also destined to co-operate in the expedition noticed above. The Seahorse frigate, of 88 guns, Capt. Gordon ; Carron firig, of 18 guns, the Hon. Captain Spencer; and Sophia brig, of 18 guns, Captain Lockyer, were left cruizing off Pensacola. . The Spanish ship Cantonada and schooner Juana, from this port, and British schooner Cossack, from Port-au-Prince, which sailed under rinivoy or the lArgo frigate, of 44 guns, Captain Fothergill, ar. 'rived at the Havanna on the ltth ult. Major-General the Hon. Sir Edward Michael Pa kenham, K. B, sailed from Cork on the 12th of Oil tuber last, in the Leonidas frigate, of 56 guns, Cap. Lain Seymour, with several transports with troops, also to join the same expedition, but it is supposed will first call at Bermuda, having been appointed Commander-in• Chief of all the troops destined against the southern possessions of the United States. The Curacao Gazettes of the 2d instant, conta;n a decree of Petion, of the 15th of October, %Oki. oy the duties of importation on British manufactur.e are reduced to 5 per cent. A few days previous to the Haytian schooner Messagers sailing from Port-au-Prince, an American letter of marque arrived there from the United States, but no news had transpired from that quarter. BRUSSELS AND FRANKFORT PAPERS. BERLIN, JANUARY 31: The levies of recruits which have been made here, and which some people bays regarded as indicating a new war, are mere measures of precaution, such as the Powers have employed to give weight to the Negotiations at Vienna. The countries exhausted by twenty years of war are in want of repose, and the Allied sovereigns, whose hearts entertain the most arden wishes for a happy peace, will. doubt less, do every thing to destroy, by unanimity and justice, the plans that intrigue and cabal may form; and to give, at length, their people the blessings of permanent peace. The rdoms (or the Emperor Alexander and his august spouse are now prepared in the Palace here. Among the furniture is. for the latter, a bed, which .cost 8 0 00 dollars ; and for the forme?, em 'broidered SOpha, which cost . 1000 dollars. VIENNA, FEBRUARY 1. Since the 28th, on which day Austria gave in its Note relative to Saxony, the hopes of a speedy issue of the Congress have renewed, with an appearance of certainty. The middle of February is generally assigned as the time when the chief affairs will be terminated. This opinion appears the better foundej, as it is positively asserted that Lusatia and tw: - , circles of Saxony are ceded to Prussia, an 3 bat, the other hand, the whole of Prussian Poian 3, and A considerable part of Austrian Poland, fall to the share of Russia. It is not said how Austria to be in demnified. The Emperor of Russia has expressed how much he is dissatisfied at the reports of an .y -proaching rupture between the Powers on the Cora:- nent ; that on his side, he would do every thing in his power to avoid it, and that he hoped that the dif ficulties would not be of such a nature as to occasion a new war. LETTER FROM VIENNA, FEBRUARY 1. The affairs of the Congress have suddenly taken a new tom, at the moment when every thing seemed to announce that Russia and Prussia persisted is their projects on Poland and Saxony. Austria, always conciliating, bas proposed an accommodation, which those P --- accordinj all _'owers, ig to appearances, are dis. posed to accept of in a great degree. But what is this project I that is the grand question. If I had only to repeat the reports that circulate, as well at Court as in the City, one might compose the strangest or the most enormous article that ever attracted the ,qrsidstmcs of all countries. What is certain is, that Saxony and Poland will retain a political existence, but these countries will not remain entire. As for the Sublime Porte, you may believe that Austria and Russia retain some resentment at its past conduct. An officer of high rank in the Neapolitan service, :arrived here last night, express, with dispatches from King Joachim Murat, which are said to be very pressing. The Court of Rome on its side sends coo Frier after courier; makes demands, renionbtrances• and reclamation*, which are in general little attended to. The Powers are busily employed in the affairs of the north of Europe ; they will think afterwards of the South, the lonian Ibl.knds, and Naples, and the estaiec of the Church. It is much to be apprehended that the latter will lose a great power. part of its temporal VIENNA, FEBRUARY Q. We are generally persuaded, that the principal siness of the Congress is terminated, and that it i employed at this moment merely in tracing lines of demarcation. The end of January was WO! in final results, and particularly in terminating, to Ow general sati%taction, the uncert a inty res p ect ing 6.zon) Leipsic is, however, s till a subject o f discussion. MILAN, FEBRUARY 1. The Governor-General of Parma has prohibited the exportation of corn, on account of the general scarcity which prevails in the Parmesan and neigh• horning States. The individuals arrested at Milan have been trans. (erred, it is said, to the tortress of.Mantue. where th e , commission appointed to try them will assemble.