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-. ~. ale United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and Algarves, wishing to remove every obstacle to the faithful execu tion of the Convention signed in London by their re soective Plenipotentiaries, on the '2Bth of July, 1817, for the purpose of preventing their subjects from engaging in any illicit traffic in slaves ; and seeing the necessity of adding, to that intent, certain Articles to the said Convention, have, for this purpose, named their Pleni potentiaries, that is to say Majesty the King , of the United Kingdom of Great B: itain and Ireland, Ed ward Michael Ward, Esq. his Charge d'Affaires at the Court of Lisbon ; and his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and Algarves, Joze Ba zano Radeittaker, Knight Prole,sed in the Order of ( . :lOIST, and Chief Clerk of the Depaittnent of State for Foreign Affairs ;--who, after having exchanged their re.l.ective full powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed u , on the following Articles: AKTICLIt 1. Wits reas it is stated, in the knit article of the instruc tions intended for the British and Portuguese ships of war em. ployed to prevent the illicit traffic in slaves, that " ships on board of which no slaves shall be found, intended for the purposes of traffic, shall not be detained ton any account or pretence whatever :" and whereas it has been found, by experience, that vessels em ployed in the illegal traffic have put their slaves momentarily on shore, immediately prior to their being visited by ships of war, and that such vessels haste thus found means to evade turfeiture, and have been enabled to pursue their unlawful course with im. punity, contrary to the true object and spirit of the Convention of the ‘2Bth of July, 1517 ; the two high contracting parties, theretore, feel It necessary to declare, and it is hereby declared by them, that, if there shall be clear and undeniable proof that a slave ur slaves, of either sex, has or have been put on hoard a vessel for the pur pose of illegal traffic, in the particular voyage on which the vessel be raptured, then, and on that account, according to the true intellt anti meaning of the stipulations of the abovementioned convention such vessel shall be detained by the cruizers, and hually condemnesi by the Commissioners. t. Inasmuch as the Convention of the 28th of July, 1817, does not stipulate the mode of supplyilit , the absence of the Commissioners, occurring from any other cause besides that of death, which is the only ease provided for by the fourteenth Article of the Regulations for the biked Commissions, annexed to the said Convention; the two high contracting parties have agreed, that, iu tke event of the recall, or of the absence on account of illness, or any other un avoidable cause, of any of the Commissioners, Judges, or Arbitra tors ; or in the case of their absence in consequence of leave front their Government (which must be notified to the respective Com mision), their posts shall be supplied in the same form and manner as is determined for the case of death, by the abovementioued four teenth Article of the said Regulation. These additional Articles shall have the same forte and effect as if they were inserted, word for word, in the said Convention, and shall be considered as forming part of the same they shall be ratified, and the rata cations thereof exchanged in Lisbon, within three mouths at latest, after the date of their stgnature. In witness whereof the undersigned, being furnished with full powers to that effect, have signed these AN and affixed thereunto the seals of their arms. Done at Lisbon, this fifteenth day of March, in the year of otszl Lotto one thousand eight hundred and tweuty-three." • (LS.) E. \l. WARD. (LS.) JOZE BAZI LlO RADEIVAKEIL DO.tli A ICA. „., The following is an extract of a letter from Domimca, dated December 7 :—" An emissary told the Castle Bruce gang, that their freedom was arrived—that they had only two days to work for their masters. The con sequence of this was, a combination of the whole gang to come to the Governor, and that they plight have some pretext for such an act, they committed several petty thefts on the Manager's stock and that of the estate, and cut a great many of the young canes, merely to irritate the Manager to inflict punishment, that they might found a complaint. They were, however in sonic degree, disappointed, for he only took away their . noons (leisure after dinner time) for three days. This mode of punishment did not suit their purpose, and a difference in opinion, in consequence, arose among them, and they determined, instead of coming down in a body, only t+A ti should be sent to represent their grievances. —A man and woman accordingly appeared at Govern. ment House, when their case was referred to a Magis trate; they were in custody till the Manager oat sent fur to explain, who came to town ; in the meantime four more came from the same gang. They were brought beim e two Magistrates, and behaved in a m. , st insolent and provoking manner; yet these Negroes had received more indulgences than any gang in the Colony, and nearly double the privileges the law allows, Int. pig got, every Saturday since crop was finished, in addition, a regular allowance of fish and salt, when it could be got; and, instead of any severity, they had experienced the utmost lenity and comfort. This wa, proved by the driver, and some of the people themselves ; and the driver distinctly and maefully stated, that for some time past he could not get the work of the estate done as usual—that the Negroes were sulky, and insolent to him—that their constant conversation was about free dom, which he supposed some persons had put into their heads. Ile said he knew the same ideas prevailed among all the gangs to windward. " Our garrison altogether, does not coivist of more than 180 men, of whom not more than 80 are effective, and about as many of the third West India Regiment ; how far the latter can be trusted on such a service as they are likely to be required for, i, a m atter o f d ou b t, particularly those at Prince Rupert', , , where there is not a single white soldier to controul them. We have ap plied to the Commander-in-Chief for a reinfo: cement, but I fear we shall be disappointed. Our population, you know, is upwards of 16,000 slaves ; our Militia, small in number, is dispersed over the island: hence the difficulty of assembling them to act efficiently upon an emergency, and, even is the case of concentration, the estates must be left unprotected." Letters from Smyrna, down to the 18th of December, make no mention of the Greeks having made a descent at Scio, or in the neighbourhood of Smyrna. Letters from Corfu of the 27th of December, say that the garrison of Patras, after the defeat of the Paella of Scodra (or Scutari), seeing the troops which were collected before the place, and the preparations for an assault, left the fortress, and took refuge in Lepanto. It appears that there has been some serious disturb ance in the College of Louis le Grand, in Paris. - The Mohiteur calls it " a plot" and " a rebellion," and states that it was prevented from breaking out by the expulsion of one and forty young men, before the signal for action was given. The other Journals seem to con sider it as connected with political antipathy, not to the young men themselves, but to their parents. 1111 that is certainly known however is, that the number of dents expelled amounted on the whole to 11.5, and that the dissatisfaction hitherto confined within the walls of the College, had extended itself to numerous families, i forming a large and wealthy portion of the community. The Consiitutionnel ob-erves, that some of the expul sions of the students took place at a late hour in the night, and that among them a young man had been mentioned whose family resided at 1.50 leagues from Paris, and was turned out in the capital where he had neither relations, correspondents, nor resources. ~~~ : - y° P.AILI.4.IIENTARY PROCEEDIGNS. - HOUSE OF COMMONS, FEBRUARY 4. At a few minutes after four the Sre.teea took the Chair. Seve ral new Members were sworn in and took their seats. hind STA NLEY presented a Petition front a certain person in Manchester, praying that a Company might be incorporated fur lighting that town with gas. Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW gave notice of a motion for leave to bring in a Bill for the Repeal of the Usury Laws. Sir WI I. LIAM LEMON presented two Petitions, praying for a Repeal of the Duties on Coalta—Ordered to be printed. A similar Petition from the Borough of Eye was also ordered to be printed. Sir .1. NEWPORT presented a Petition front the Tanners of the City of Waterford, praying for a Repeal of the Duty on Lea. ther.—Ordered to lie upon the table, and to he printed. The SPEAKER then fixed the days of sitting for the different Committees. lie likewise read ever the Rules and Orders if the House upon the subject of its privileges. Mr. LITTLETON, in the absence and at the request of his Honourable Friend, the Member for Stafford, rose to move for certain Returns respecting the Vagrant Act. It was not his inten tion at that moment to occupy much of the time of the House ; he should therefore merely state, that it was his Honourable Friend's wish that the documents he (Mr. Littleton) was about to move for should he in the possession of Honourable Members before the dis cussion of the subject which it was the determination of his Ho. insurable Friend to bring on. The House was not, perhaps aware, that the present Act, which was only to remain in force for two years, was in every point an amelioration of all former Acts on the subject ; and to his Honourable Friend was the country indebted for that Act, under which so much advantage had accrued to the Public, and by which, since its enactment, upwards of £lOO,OOO had beets saved. Ile felt satisfied that when it came to be discus sed, the House would find that that Act had been much misrepre sented. Ile should not take up more of the time of the House, but to move—That there be laid before the House a Return of the number of persons committed under the Vagrant Laws to the se veral Prisons and Houses of Correction in England and Wales, I the Ist of January, 1823, to the Ist of January, 1824, sped. fying the particular act of vagrancy. Also a Return of the seve ral sums of money paid by the respective Treasurers of Counties in England and Wales on account of vagrants for the same period. These Returns were severally ordered. Mr. Secretary CANNING presented the Copy of a Convention concluded with his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Austria, for the settlement of the Austrian Loan; also an additional Article to the Convention concluded with his Most Faithful Majesty the King of Portugal, for preventing illicit traffic in Slaves.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. 110BHOUSE gave notice, that he should on Monday, the 21 of March next, m ove f or a Repeal of the Taxis upon Houses and Windows, unless in the interim a notice should be given by the Right Hon. Gentleman (the Chancellor of the Exchequer; of his intention to relinquish these duties. Mr. CA LCRA Ff gave' notice, that he should, on WedneKlay• the 25th instant, move for a Repeal of the Tax upon Leather, un less the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite should give a notice in the interim that would save him the trouble. Mr. WESTERN gave notice that be intended, on the 11th of this mantis, to bring in a Bill for altering the present qualifications of Jurors. • Sir J. NEWPORT gave notice, that he should, on Thursday, the 18th of March, move for leave to bring in a Bill to Repeal the 9th Wil. 111. cap. ?. and for securing to the Protestant Dissenters and Roman Catholics, his Majesty's subjects, the Right of Burial. Mr. ABERCILOMBY gave notice of a motion that he would make on the 26th inst. for leave to bring in a Bill for the more effectual representation of the City of Edinburgh in Parliament. Mr. J. WILLIAMS gave notice, that on the 24th inst. he would submit a motion respecting the Court of Chancery. Mr. WILLIAM LAMB presented a Petition from the Mayor and Common C6uncil 4f Canterbury, praying for the repeal of the duty on coals. Mr. Secretary CANNING, in reply to a question from an Ho nourable Member opposite, said that the Returns of the existing amount of the Land Forces of his Majesty would very soon be laid upon the table. In the meantime the Honourable Member might rest assured that not a single man would be raised beyond the num ber voted for the service last year—(hear, hear). Mr. ROWLAND HILL appeared at the bar with the report of the Address to his Majesty. FOREIGN POLICY OF GREAT BRITAIN. Mr. HOBHOUSE rose for the purpose of asking two questions of the Right Honourable the Secretary for Foreign Affairs ; and seeing in an Honourable Mem ber's hand a paper, which he supposed had reference to the Address voted last night, he (Mr. Hobhouse) should take that opportunity to enter his protest against the supposition that he had concurred in that part of the Address which bore upon our foreign relations. He had attended to every wind uttered by the Right Ho nourable Gentleman opposite (Mr. Secretary Canning), and confessed that the language of the Right Honour. able Gentleman, whets speaking of South America, surprised him. The Right Honourable Gentleman said, he thought it was a grace and favour to Old Spain that she should have an opportunity afforded her to recover her Colonies; on that point he perfectly agreed with the Right Honourable Gentleman ; provided the King of Spain could call his country, his capital, his Crown his own, he had doubtless a right to make that attempt ; but would the Right Honourable Gentleman say, that while there was 70,000 French troops in Spain, while Barcelona on the one hand, and Cadiz on the other, nay, every fortress in that kingdom were in the hands of the French—would the Right Honourable Gentle. man say, that while Spain was thus held in virtual posses sion by the French, Spain should be allowed to employ her troops in attempting to recover her Colonies? Was the King of Spain free, he would ask ? How could he be deemed free? If he had not been flee under the Ccnstitution, surely he could not now be considered tree, when foreign troops were in possession of his country. If the French troops evacuated Spain, that unhappy Monarch would not remain many bouts upon the Throne. For that reason too all his troops %%vie in dispensable at home. He would ask, whether, so long as the French troops should remain in actual posses sion of Spain, the British Government would sanction an attack upon her former South American Colonies, by that nominal King of Spain for their recovery ? With reference to the occupation of Spain by the French troops, the House would recollect, that when the sub ject was under discussion last year. one of the papers laid upon the table of the House stated that no perma nent occupation of Spain by the French was in contem plation ; but we had a right to demand of the Right Honourable Gentleman, had he had any later commu nication from M. de Chateaubriand on the subject of fixing a time for the evacuation of Spain by the French? Of 150,000 French troops who had entered that coun try, 70,000 still remained in it. He would ask, was there no guarantee given that those should be with drawn ? For, thaia guarantee was necessary, would appear evident, when the House should recollect the so lemn declaration of the French King last year, that not man of the army of observation collected upon the frontiers of Spain was intended for the invasion of that country. After such a breach of honour as that—one of a nature which if committed by a private individual would cause him to be expelled the society of Gentle men--could any faith be reposed in mere pledges.of the same party ? He should now refer to another point, and in doing so felt pleased that the Right Honourable the Colonial Secretary was in his place. He would ask that Right Honourable Gentleman, had he received a copy of a Proclamation of a most extraordinary nature that had been issued by the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, Sir Thomas Maitland? If not, he (Mr..llobliouse) could supply him with one. By that Proclamation it appeared that Sir Thomas Maitland, on account of something that had occurred, had placed 1.0^•, - twd of the islands under quarantine for thirty . days; but Sir thomas Maitland had doniMore.. for in his Pro clamation he had anathematised the Greeks, who were engaged in a war for the recovery of their liberties, and without stating for what cause. On such occasions, it had hitherto been the practice of those who fulminated an anathema to state the reasons for such a measure.— On that head the Proclamation was silent, and spoke only, as in contempt, of " a person called Prince Mauro. cordate," who had arrived, and in consequence of which two of the lonian Islands were put under quaran tine, and this we had done (as he understood) to prevent the impression going abroad that the British Govern ment had countenanced the persons engaged in the dread ful slaughter and atrocities that had taken place on the occasion alluded to. He held in his hand a letter from Ithaca, by which it appeared that so far from Prince Maurocordazo being the instigator of the bloody scenes referred to, he had used every exertion to prevent them. The facts of the case were these:—a small Greek squa dron chased a Turkish flotilla, and made themselves mas ters of one vessel. The Turks, while the Greeks were getting on hoard, effected their escape to the shore on the Island of Ithaca, whence they opened a fire on the ship, of which the Greeks were then in possession. The Greeks accordingly landed, attacked the Tut ks and put some of them to death. In alluding to this circum stance it would have been only fair for Sir T. Maitland to have said that the violation of our territory was not confined to the Greeks. Here the Honourable Gentle man referred to the case of the Turks following a Greek vessel into one of the ports under our protection—that of Tripolizza, where they boarded the vessel, took out the crew, and on the shore which we had undertaken to protect, beheaded six of them. In his proclamation Sir T. Maitland made no complaint of that violation of our neutrality. Prince Maurocordato, of whom Sir T. Maitland spoke so contemptuously, was the person who, after the bloody affair of Tripolizza, prevented outrage and atrocity of every kind that might otherwise have been committed in reprisal. He trusted it was in the power of his Majesty's Government to give a satisfac tory proof that we preserved our neutrality fully and impartially. It was possible that the Right Honour able Gentleman opposite might not be in possession of the proclamation of Sir T. Maitland ; he (Mr. Hobhouse) would readily furnish him with one. Mr. Secretary CANNING said, he always felt much obliged to the Honourable Gentleman, or to any other Honourable Member, for any information with which it might be in their power to supply him. In rising to answer the questions of the Honourable Gentleman, he hoped it would not be expected of him to answer the Honourable Member's speech. The first question of, the Honourable Member arose from his having con founded in his (Mr. Canning's) speech of last night a statement of principle with a statement of fact. It oc curred in that part of his speech where he (Mr. Can ning) was speaking in reply to the Honourable and Learned Gentleman (Mr. Brougham) with reference to the Message of the President of America, where he as serted that the mother country had a right to attempt the recovery of her former Colonies. That principle he felt justified in maintaining. On the other hand, he thought that it was incumbent on a Power circum stanced as we were, to declare that no foreign country which had no connection with the mother country had a right to attack the Colonies of the latter under the pretence of recovering them for the mother country.— That was a principle known to Spain, to France, to all Europe. The right of the mother country to seek to recover her Colonies was admitted ; but the interference of a foreign country for such a purpose could not be allowed. With respect to the second question, he felt some difficulty in answering it. The Honourable Gen tleman, in referring to the dispatches last year produced, had deduced from them that the permanent occupation of Spain by the French was not intended. Such had been his (Mr. Canning's) belief then, such was his opi nion still. In compensation for the harshness with which the Honourable Gentleman had spoken of the French troops, he (Mr. Canning) must say that although he retained the same sentiments upon the aggression committed by them, their conduct had been as unexcep tionable as in a situation of such great difficulty it was possible is could be. Ile did not defend the act of aggres sion itself, but he would say, there could be cited no case in which foreign troops were called in by one of two con tending parties and had incurred so little blame. On the second point, he felt as much confidence now as he did last year. Thee was no danger that Spain would be perma nently occupied by the French ; and if the Hon. Gentle man were to ask what was to be the term of the occu pation—and if the question were put to him (Mr. Can ning), " should the French troops evacuate Spain now ?" he would, as a friend to humanity, answer " No"— (Cheers). With respect to the Proclamation referred to by the Honourable Gentleman, and to the alleged con tempt intended to be expressed of Prince Maurocordato, he was sure there was no inclination to disparage that individual by the words quoted—they were merely in tended to describe him, for he was not in reality a Prince. The Honourable Gentleman had asked what outrage, what breach of our neutrality had been com mitted by the Greeks to call for that Proclamation ? A Greek squadron had pursued a Turkish vessel, which took refuge on the coast of Ithaca, one of the lonian Islands. The crew, consisting of 120 men, fled to the shore for shelter. The Greeks pursued and massacred 90 out of the 120, and this it would he recollected took place on an island under our protection; and he was sure the Ilonourable Gentleman himself would not say that this was not an act for remonstrance—(Cheers). — The Honourable Gentleman accused his Majesty's Go vernment of partiality ; bat it would be proved that the strictest neutrality had been ordered by our Govern. ment and pertinaciously observed in the lonian Islands; he was convinced that not a single instance, could be brought forward in which the British Government had departed from the most scrupulous system of neu trality—( Chat s.) Mr. WESTERN could not help expressing his sur prise at the declaration of the Right Honourable Gen tleman that he would oppose the evacuation of Spain by the French troops. It was his intention last night to have offered some observations upon the Speech and the Address, but the Honourable and Learned Gentle. man (Mr. Brougham) had caught the Speaker's eye, and he (Mr. Western) gave way, although it had been his intention to move an amendment to the Address.— With respect to the projected attack upon the South American States, he could not bring his mind to believe that the English Government would suffer such an un exampled <outrage upon the law of nations to be corn mitted ; nor could he believe that it was altogether wise to abandon that policy which this country had hitherto followed. CoIoneIPALMER felt it his duty to am:, his opinion upor. the subject under discussion. The conduct of his F-7-- ~., Majesty's Ministers, with respect to Spain, had 'be e , wholly indefensible. If only half their naval establish, ment was sent out, it would have been more than soft. dent to prevent all the disasters that occurred in Spain. What would have been the moral effect on the rest ~1 the world, had England stood forward as the Champio n of the liberties of Europe ? This would have made ail the difference to Spain. She would then have made 4 struggle for her Constitution, and he had little doubt would have been successful ; for " Thrice is he armed wbo hash his quarrel just ; And he but naked, though locked up in steel, 'Whose conscience is corrupted." The Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Canning) d e . dared, that the peculiar object of his contemplation was the interest of England. But was this the way to support it ? Had not the policy pursued brought down on them the execrations of every nation where anything of liberty existed ? The Right Honourable Gentleman alluded last night to the case of the mur derer who suffered at Hertford. The Holy Alliance might be compared to him. They went directly f or . ward to their object, while the Right Honourable Ge n . tleman and his colleagues, like humane accomplice,, supplied only the rope and the sack. The principal agents, the Holy Allies, were, in his mind, honouraltie and humane compared to the accomplices. Some ?:- lowance was to be made for their prejudices as des potic Powers. Ile could also excuse their Minister,, who wete but their slaves. But the same excuse conld not be extended to the disgraceful policy of the Mi nisters of a free people. Even the King of Spain, monster or madman as he appeared to be, was more excusable; for it was the policy pursued by England, her ttescherous neutrality, that gave rise to the scene: that were now and had been lately passing in the Pe ninsula. The Right Honourable Gentleman shewed his consistency by offering congratulations to the King of Spain on the success of his cause, and refusing an asylum in Gibraltar to those who Bed from persecu tion. As an Honourable Member (Sir T. Lethbridge) said last Session, this was the time to look the dangers of the country in the face. These dangers ere immi nent. Now, after eight years of peace, there was no reduction of debt, and the weight of taxation still pressed heavily on all classes. They had before ex pended millions in supporting Spain against the attacks of France, and now they suffered her to be conquered without a struggle; while France was combined with the other Allies for the overthrow of British interests, and the storm would not be long before it burst. He would not detain the House longer at present, as another opportunity would occur of pointing out what appeared to him to be the dangers of their present situation. Mr. HUME said he wished to say a few words rela , tive to the documents read by the - Member for West minster, for the purpose of preventing any wrong im pression from being made either out of doors or in the House. What he (Mr. Hume) complained of was, that the Greeks were held out as the only party guilty of the breach of neutrality complained of, and that the parti cular atrocities alluded to were not characterised. as they ought to have been. He protested against the statement of the Turks having been butchered in cold blood. It was done in the heat of action. It was unfair to hold out the Greeks as the only guilty party. lie regretted to say that great atrocities had been corn. nutted on both sides. They commenced, however, with the Turks, and not the Greeks. He was anxious that the country should see what the conduct of Sir Thomas Maitland had been. If any favour 'could be shewn to either party, one would think he would have been more disposed to extend it to those who were making a strug gle for their liberties; for it was well known that, when a Member of that House, Sir Tl! smas Maitland was as strong an advocate for freedom as any man. He (Mr. Hume) had further to state, that the Greek Government were most anxious to make every amends for any viola tion of neutrality they had committed. He could not but regret that the Proclamation had not been withheld by Sir Thomas Maitland, and he thought it his duty to protest against what appeared to be partiality in him. Sir T. LETHBRIDGE said be rose in consequence of the allusion made to him by his Honourable Friend (Colonel Palmer). It was true that last Session he called upon the House to look the existing dangers in the face. .He was, however, happy to state that a great change had taken place with respect to that most important in terest—the agricultural interest. He thought he now perceived a permanent amendment. He hoped and trusted the agricultural interest was not improved from mere accident, or from causes that might cease, but from such as were permanent. He could not join in the views taken by the Honourable Gentleman (Colonel Palmer) of the state of the country. He thought it never stood higher in the opinion of Europe and of the world ; and he must give his tribute of applause to his Majesty's Ministers, for refusing to take any part in the late struggle. The result proved that they had acted best for the interest of England. Mr. W. SMITH said be hoped that no negotiation for terminating the differences between Russia and the Porte would be concluded upon without placing Greece in a better situation than the present. He was sorry the Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Canning) did not find it consistent with his duty to give some sort of as surance to the House that no termination should take place that would leave Greece a prey to the barbarous revenge of the one Power, or the insatiable ambition of the other. The Report was then brought up and agreed to, and the Address ordered to be carried up by such Members as ale of the Privy Council. Mr. HUME gave notice that he would on the 12th inst. bring forward a Motion relative to the state of the law respecting the ex portation of machinery, and of artisans leaving the kingdom. The same Ilonourable Membergave notice that he would on the 19th instant,submit a Motion relative to Impi'essment in the Navy, and move fur certain returns connected with the subject. On the Motion of Mr. Wattau, various returns were ordered relative to the quantity of wine imported and exported last year, the amount of duties, &c. - Mr. GItATTAN gave notice that he would to-morrow move for a return of the number of constables appointed in Ireland under the Act passed last Session, as also of the number committed under the Insurrection Act, in the course of last year. On the Motion of Mr. WXSTRILN, a return was ordered of the number of persons committed to the jails of England and Waits up to the 25th of December last, and of the number then remain ing in prison, distinguishing those committed for felony, and those for misdemeanours. (hi the Motion of Mr. neva, various returns relative to the in. come cud expenditure of Newfoundland were ordered. On the Motion of the same Hon. Member, a return was ordered of the nuniber of Persons returned as liable to serve on Juries is London and Middlesex, in the years I s'ho, 1821, and 1 S. The House adjourned at Six o'Clcc k. 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