Star. — London, England, 1812-03-10 00:00:00

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The Pad of I AUDERDALS moved fur Copies of certain ad ona' (molt of I. evmet4. 14-.1 j#.l4 fiU KS I* rash- that opportunity pf stating, that the :cowls of imports and twins nil not, es the Notre Ear! ;411. fed to imagine, include the cargoes of vessels touching her c wady on the r way front one fore go port to Amnia r; anl, 'e ore, tLe inference that the aceoustts were swelled by this .ans ors* crtutreoue. `lse Earl of I.A U ligiapitt.E still eontended,that the accounts ftlae:ou. ; and.Mendo ed another case which had come to tOOoledge since he had last adverted to tie tuliject in that e. lt was the ease if an American vessel Sound to Bor t, which was captured by one of oar cru sere, brought in, condemned as air se ; and yell that very Irel.lf 1, with the (-same carg , t, was permitted to go to Bordeaus, by means of a nee, which o a• a viola:ion of the law of Balking, besides Lav elle effect r.f piring a }Amino. amass) of our reports and im : f r the cargo of this ship had been, no doubt, entered both mporred and expor;el. Lord BA] FillitziT would not now go into the question, -tier it was contrary to the laW of nations to cap:ure a ves,el in:o a b'ockaded port—wht thtr it u as contrary to the law thins to cotrJento , uch a ut.stl at prize, and then to permit ergo to be exporter! ; hut be must state, in answer to the k I , arl, that it had never Leen pretench.d that the exports din toe aceßtints consisted of British produce alone. 'lire 'lto., no doubt, included produce which had been larded and then exported.. He farthtrr r.bervid, that the NobleFßA Mr, WORK RILL. had been Mistaki.n in another circumstance. 1; was true I On the motion ct Mr. Secretary RYDER, the where no duties were paid, a much larger quantity of goods 1 lat-rJs Amendments to the Frame-work Bill were taken lit be entered fur exportation than was actually e xvorted ; 1 into consideration. the real quantny was mated en the back of the dockets, and The SPEAKER called the attention of the HOuse from tie teal amount appearing upon these papers that the tents w, re made up. to the arnendmeTt of the Lords, to the clause tr,r pu- The Earl of I.AUDERDAVE wished distinc:ly to 1-arn whe- ni siting those who having frames broken in their accuunts wet kept at the Cust.m-hou•e of th e real quantity houses, did not inform in 21 hours. The Commons tett, AS appearing on the back tit theve dockets. hid rendered this offence punish4ble by fine and im (4:l 1)A I HUR:if answered in the allirmative.—The motion hen agree! to. prisnlithetit, to which the Lords had added the words 'our *el were le-and in the Appeal Boswell and Morrison.— "or either" thereby altering the penalty. This, he - pnetoors i f .4 hisky were the sithject of litiaadon in this believed, was an interference the House was not in ~ which has been depending since 179 u. Judgment to- the habit of allowing. The amendment was rejected. tow. Mr. W. WYNNE said, he understood the effect of !be .‘ r peal Ca,e, Lord Elgin against Maclean, the &tido° Court below ~ i a affirmed. this Bill had already begun to chew itself in Notting. , I ea h .1- Man .factory Encouragement Bill, and the House- hamshire, by shutting up all sources of information, (Miler,' IrOermitty Brit, were br ought trout the opinions of many of the Magistrates were read a firs lime. hostile to the measure. he Not ir k ,rorio Watch and Ward Bill was read a third time ,paipd. Mr. RYDER said, that if many Magistrates disap•- • DfIVIIIf!LANX.TIISATRZ. • proved, there were many who approred of it. He knew Lord DUNDAS moved the third •reading * of the of no sources of information which the B:11 could shut j.f i tne Theatre Amendment Bill. I up, for it was the peculiar misfortune of this case, Abe Duke of NORFOLK laid; that, as in all the that there were no sources open. 'Met stages cif this BA. I . their Lordships had dif. Mr. W. WYNNE said he did not allude to such in opinion . from him ? he shovld bow to that 1 informatics as could be brought into Courts of Jus tinkly, and loot oppese the thiid rea d i ng . p i g still ' tit*, but merely to private sources. sSenglit there were several clauses which would .• Mr. J. SMITH said it was thegeneral opinion that 1 It 0 amendment. Tilt Bill was founded on one such sources were closed by the Bill.' i Sntbot the Orient reign, which set forth that i Mr. RYDER said, no description of information .11.1ogiolated theatre teas necessary for the conve. ' Ind reached the Government; it was rather difficult eof It* inhatanuts of this mctiopolis. While to suppo't that the Bi:1 could close a door which was principle lets acted on, the people c. uld only en. never open. seco national theatteih When that regulation was : Sir J. NEWPORT disapproved of sanguinary pc. matte s there eas not one thild of the population in palties arising out of the passions of the moment, ! wets polls that thcre now ins thei dere, that which, he maintained, never effected their object. leh n.ight be proper then 'Etenhl net be so now. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ides, the way in sthiclrike managers of the tigo dented that it was ever represenied, that by making naltheatres mirk up tr Ab:e.inerease of papa. the offence a felony, the di:covet y of evidence would latiOn w as lay increa si ng their thriecs;.isa as to he be facilitated. Tie principle upon which the measure be*Yeind the rower pi any hum.in voice,, aye, - or ear. went, was, that by incre tsing the penalty,the dispu py this Bill, a pow( r was given to the Commi t t e e o f sition to commit the offence v- ould be lessened. MAWitgclreta, lei limit :I their pleasUre the number of After some further observations from Mr. C. -: - ..rte Lox- s. Now, as there way only two national ADAMS, a CoMmittee was appointed to prepare a istres, I e Contended that the people had a right to Paper containing the grongds of their disagreement. ry part'of them, and that none of their undonht. ' The Committee having retired for a few minutes, .. • • • • • •• • • " Sir ARTHUR PIGOT r gave notice that ht wcultt, to.raae. row move for 'rave to bring in a Lill reNpect:og, infant Suitors In C.:+urti of Equity. Upon the motion of Mr. M. A. TAYLOR, it was ordered, that the Committee on Chancery Ca:Ms shiaz,kl have have to sit, twtwithatiaiditig thu adjournment of the Hume, and tl.at tie m antes of evidence tater' in the Committea of last year be laid before the present Cuaunittre. An Account VIM brourt up from Chelsea Ho.pira! of the Amount of Prise luny, which was ordered to he oil the table. The Report of the Woods and Forests bill was brought tap and the recommitted for to-morrow. Mt. CROK ER (in the absence of Mr. Yorke) gave no. ice that the estimate of the sum foe the Breakwater bound, would be moved on Frid..y. The annual Indemnity Bin went through a Committee, the repolt to be brought up on Wednesday next. The Motion relative to the M.rri4e Act was r o,tponed to Wednesday next. The Legal Quays Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be cornmited to-morrow. • The Lottery Amendment PM w 35 r:arl a th'rd ern- and pasced. Upon the Motion tor the second resdilig of the Bai.kett Eln bezz:cmin• B 11, Mr. NIoaR IS opposed the principle of the 111'. Mr. Witco also was aVtISt• CO it. Mr. DRUMNIOND defended the Ei I, which was then read a second time, and ordered to be cou.mitted on Friday se'onight. larger grant, and t. Clerey were actuated The CEI A NCEI2 defended the limited of econ sly; there grant which should contended cur that 81 derstood, that this had been originally present sum was the s liament, and, consider; nut be considered a - whole to 150 or XI ginated with the. Ir; s:ecided opposition, highly obiactionable, at the national expertt an established religion, ture from consistenc . tholic College was an far would give it his he thought (taking' Baronet to lee quite, was no bad proof of ' he thought it rem i themselves to supply our own church, an. pear that etther here - were supp 4 with a proportional number gratuitously educated It was not intended tl..t the whole expcace el' establishment was to he eefrayed ow of the ea i purse ; such was not the origaal intent:4x,, but mere% ' that a basis would be laid for contriletteo. least the whole institution was support•!d at t!.e cu'il co pence—( No, No, from the Opt osition !)-1 . )- e c. : ,,,,,, of Dubl , n, though esteemed a rich 'm1 ) 141 11 .4 was not so amply endowei will: t!.e !mansar'. tous education. Before we sheaved such care op. I i viding able Divines for the Roman Cat' an l; c rt. ,pa of Ireland, it was incumbent on us to look mottro k 1 cauntry, to Wales. And to the N:1111 o - Englarl. t e are obord, in those places, to put up wit;, Cle m , men who have had but few or na advx - L •-!- of Universit y education. A ccordir of this extended damn.% there establis't fa' the Catholics an Lei bridge or Oxford. As the ori, proper limit, he was for abiding Mr. GRATTAN briefly at points of the t.peech . of the precedi did not follow, he maintained, limited by the original grant h for to admit the idea of a Rom: , was admitting the idea cf a pro , Iblishmetit. The establishment rested not only on policy but on religion of the State was ment Ireland, he supposed it to be un. sense; it was light, therefore, wl was forced upon Ireland, a coat wards Scotland, that some ca ! that religion which the people ' tired. It was necessary, begat left but between Cathol city and ito the Protestant RLligion was . it has been tried, and has failed, 1 crease it has been unsuccessful. Itherefore, was, whether we would tinue Christi i..i . y, or suffer ther and he km. w no rafo ial Christ wit , . would not say that the profession , religion was to be preferred t s D:ism. It u:at now be said that the people are to be &sided 1 introloc:ion i f disci partly tiisl 'yal, Cath , lie. Th . s was shi ad..peed u.e religion, should not be gr,:ssly were occ 4sirm.illy pro; grant of the Reshot, tl..num lof Ireland. It was S.ll 1 fir toe surpoll of establi, for all est.h..sliments Iwas also s , :cl, that an the Established C.ur, possibie o I' any Iliad i 11101iC Church of 'mix Protastant ? Would , of Dobson Coliege, ti s'lops, that the t ) tlx, , no:hill; ? C. mpar ni i lot ced to sty, th.:t Le tittle a ricl,e., aod t,i ment. Ile w..tild not I because lrel.tnd is Cal 1 this tsrahlishment, ant entitled to protection. ' no , . only the desttuctit also to manifest the m. ireligious tenets. Comely, I the grant entirely insuffic, Amendment. Mr. WH.TBREA_ foundation ter the assertioos lytisin on the part of ' the Secretary to pros false alarm, and its obi this country from look( dispassionately. There than the grant of 1607 the touchstone of a when the Minister opposes whose principles he proles , . poses the oatiction of going one step tarther ' away this Catlwiic Estal I was one thing to which ' ' of the Protester is of : of the power of Bonaparte : authority of the former en object to be dreaded. is, by his conduct, drie . , to seek for that educatio, home. If there be danger the country would see who The CHANCELLOR still, that ever since sum ganted, except ltial;, who then voted one of those who did 1 of opinion they ought Sir :JOHN INISWPONT, WILLIAMS WYNNE. spot . Sir JOHN NEW r(,) promoting the Catholic . he wanted was to protect Mr. WHITBE.EAD Mr. Rime brought pp the Report, :greed to, and Lord Watatoete was sent to demand a con ference with the Lords upon the subject. most FATI}IATIes IN Stll'l'LY The House having resolved itelfinto a Committee of Supply, Mr. W. W. POLE moved the following Resolu tions, which were agreed to— For the Prosecution pf Felons, .C 2,500. For Criminal Pros?cutions, A:2S,LO°. • For the expenses ot Fratique in the Putt of Dufribis £4 04 7* For Treasory Inddcats £4OOO. For defraying Lottery Expenses, £1,476. For first Fruits, £1 0,000. For Non-tosilorming hlinhters, £9.481. For Seceding Ministets, £441. For defraying the Eapersres rucorred by the Trustees of the Linen and Hemp Manufacturers, For the Commissioners appointed to suprly lugs, £3,9C0. For Howtb Hat buur, Xstr,ooo. For the Dublin Society for the Encouragetrent of Arts. Ste ! .Ctu,ooo. For the Farming society, £5OOO. For the Cwk ln.;itution, £3,500. for the Protestant Charter &hinds, £41,509. Upon this Resolution a discussion took place, in which Mr. HUME suggested the propriety of extending . the new system at education to the lower class ot people in Ireland, who wire now in a state of extreme ignorance. He proposed, that out of the schools one ot two boys should be selected fur the' purpose of be ing instructed, according to the new system, in read ing, writing, and arithmetic ; this would not take more than two years and three months, and they would then be competent to extend their knowledge to others. This plan would give the benefit of edu cation to many mere than were sow instructed, while it would not require a greater expense than, as things now stood, was at present incurred. Mr. POLE said, that the observations of the Ho nourable Gentleman were not applicable to this ques tion which related to the Protestant Cherter Schools, and not to the people of Ireland in general. - After a few words from Mr. FITZGERALD, Mr. W. SMITH, and Mr. GItATTAN, the Resolution passed, For the Foundling Bolin', £30,250. Fe; the House of Industry, £41,902.. For the Hibernian School, 413 .666. For the Marine Society, £2,856. lior the Female Orphan School, £1,506. For the Westmorland Lock Ho , pital, £8,647. Fur the lying-In Hospital, £3,171. For Sir Patrick Dunn's Holital, £3,016. for St. Stephen's Hospital , £1,4e4. For the Fever Hospital, 2 1 000. For the Commissioners ot Cuaritable Donations, £6OO. Forthe Association or' discouraging Vice, £2,423. For the College of Surgeons, £s,4u6. For the Green-coat Hospital, at Cork, for the Education of Soldiers' Children, £7OO. For the College of hlayuooth, £8,975. Sir JOHN NEWPORT, when this last grant was ' proposed, rose and offered many arguments to the Committee for increasing the sum. The discussion which took place on this subject, though carried on with spirit, was not distinguished by any considerable degree of novelty from that of last year on a similar occasion. The Honourable Baronet, who took the lead in the debate, seemed to think, that the conse ; quence. of confining the grant to the precise estimate were not seen by the Conimittee, or it they were that they would-vote tor the extension of the grant. As the sources of Roman Catholic education were dry ! ing top on theCoatiuent, it was necessary to make up • for that deficiency in the numbers of the Priestlier( d, which was' likely every year to become greater and greater. The Irish population was 'increasing, and demanded an additional supply of Cergymen to mi rester to their • spiritual wants. It was at all times highly advisable to educate the Clergy of the Roman Catholic persuasion. at home, to preserve them free from foreign influence and foreign attachments, but particularly so at present. Tne estitilishment of Maynooth he thought very inadequate to the purpose of a proper supply. Two hundred Members, -the number of the students by the present regulations, ' afforded forty for the priesthood every year, even supposing that none of the 2(X) should adopt a diffe rent profession. Allowing five years for their com plete education, this would supply, independent of casualties, but forty; but, according to an accurate table of reckoning, the discovery of price on a subject perfectly analogous to the present, the number neces sary every year would be in the proportion of fifty. nine and one-haW. He would ask the Gentlemen on the opposite bench, whether they would, as moral men, ley their hands on their hearts and sty that dry could on justifiable motives withhold religicus instruc tion from so great a proportion of the people; for the question was not between the Protest int and the CA. t h religion, the idea of conversion having been given ; but was;whether a large proportion of the people of Ireland *ere to have the benefit of the Catholic, or be left entirely destitute of all religious instruction The Parliament in 1807 bad sanctioned the grant of a larger sum ; and if increase was necessary in other items of the estimate, on account ef the de 'mess of provisions, and other causes, as stated by the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Pole), he thought the Lime reasons might be given for an increase in this depart ment. The Roman Clergy of Ireland he &se, ibed to be a body of men el exemplary lives, pious, assi duous, and applying fiemselves const intly to supply ; the spiritual wants, and, as far as in their power,. the temporal necessities of their people. The interest , of the empire required that an adequate provision should be made for the instruction (.f the Roman Catholic population of Ireland. Do not Lay that flattering unction to your souls, that you can make them Protestants by a deprivation of the means ef practising to the Roman Catholic Religion. He concluded with moving as an Amendment, that ,C 13,000 should be grauted, as in 1307, insteed of the sum proposed, Mr. Secretary RYDER opposed the extended grant. He was against it, because be ileitight the College ofMaynooth actuated by a spirit ot pi osely tisrmeiangerous to the Established Church. It was contrary to principles of bound policy to be over liberal to Dissenters of any kind, and it never had been practised. He would vote for the original sum, because it was the usual sum .granted. Colonel DILLON spoke in favour of the Amend ment, and argued against the impolicy of withhold- 1 ing what the necessities of theCatholicEstablishment actually required. He was surprised at the observe. tions which fell front the Secretary of the Home De. payment. The People of Ireland would judge of the spirit and teoper of the Hcuse by their conduct on this night. Mr. HERBERT, at Kerry, spoke in favour of the • of lidlo eLdJ,d:n.L,;:;Oriyeandß.noa:—n'"".""llllllllt,hstlclPn)if:raGlgt:tttl?h:ec4neittepEßar)rCro9j"omaCn;:Ynuntipr,EC'Qrll:4cili.'tl:ijki iiiihtfolls"4l; excite diseusssion ; it was I Br9und--but he begged to be 4 sitio was not a withdrawing u t the I Iy granted ;it was not so. 1 Wit ; S to original grant o f the Irish A idering the total amcuri,t, it w ,. 4 paltry pittance, amountin g i ll t 160,000. Had not the gr am ish Parliament, it Would btM ~ as ;iniirn.ili.us in practice, TM le. Tlie.education of Di seiu to ence, was contrary to his il ls f r " :ion, and betrayed 4 strap per: icy. But as the surport ot th e c, an appendage of the Union, h e T h : is sup-fort. The numb er ed Dart the statement of the H correct as to the number • If the liberality of Parliame nt , ase ivied with the Roman Carbolic [y the deficiency. Compai t d e s id with its wants, it would ncti eor in Ireland, we were until. l''!" to putup wlth - Cler. ..' wa r t r: n ori e gidn a ia d i v g a g r t r o : the Os aszatri4e in p: 4 :: i m the s was no limit, unbl i g 84 v i and lniversity such as Gt. • tots lg re c b e y d t i hn answered4the h a il Speaks. 1 t t i°nr , r d" , , that the Parlionad i for i !m m rs in n e glh at n h g oli n c o e fa o * ls srovisinn for th t e$ Petheledl4 nt of such a CA I on just . ce. Whe n t till! whc nioned, in speaking Of nderstood in a nation a when a foreign relit nduct not obseryed islet are should be mkt, heal le professed and pr and use no option was a .d Deism. Proselyii Iffu esc ' s s found nopractica . fror led, evtq effort ti of a L ld en Thi a:le c 7l l re si su jef' to . R e ln'Le ( to to fail into Di NE det tian,linwerer b;gfitnit ; low )fession of the Catbrk No -- I..:__ 5. ...... people are to be &Tided by* lid i icticns, partly disloyal, pal a 0 not to be hoped far, ILA ling Z. , the provision for iti .apt tar, it:adequate. That asse a ram ovided for, he instanced la; a ., !., nw a to the Presbyterian Cr t ,:i said. that the Gorctrunou PI pm ablishments ; this was an err ( I are supported by the Nance. r ag t equal provision is not m 440 rch .s ti,r the Catholic ; btt . . on ( , in his senses to say that the' In I land is such in pmporona to it be said that the geed 1: th.it the ample estates oft!. B oi • and glebes of •the Clergy the tg the establisi.nietrt. t. 10, it could not conceive on the tip r n the other A poorer Ifolls of c It st.irve Chriatial sty is tied r r : mholic. The Union s •• L.ii nd . rom what tarn moist as i. But the object sierial le 1 ;ion of t!•.vir p. Phial tightli env most determined l.'otaitl _ ll 'Wit nceiving the ravioli We Cm sufficient, he would "Om • Mr AD denied that theism' , al ssenioos of an Attempt • ha f the Catholics, Ali,: ea , me his assertions. Tll l imp object was to deter the Port 1 An to the question - 11101 ere was nothing mare : lit Ka; and this he ora L new era. ant be.tbusglit ott rppoires the authoriti Inc proles •es to reveres ep e e Lk api of Parliament, it wou_, P they to follow it up. al"* . 'fah ....stablishment altogetho'. ' esti ich he would direct the 1 England—they had dood ad . err apart. and the Popes . . 2. bel mer over the latter ;if W imi ded, the Minister al this . sea (riving the Irish to the P .A. .. ilki :atiojt which be duo IP" 1 Poi danger from such a j,. 1 1 1 to who was the aatthur aa , ani .1, LOR of *g a g 1 ' the Union had 101$ tby the, late Admiebto l6 . • for wh !d the s'uns of AISA00;w• fro d not th ink that right. e a ht to resort to the Old • aa sr, Mr. Wurrsasah , Pal ;poke briefly in ;tel. 1 tQ RT disclai re m t . 11 bee dic Religion in 1 P i r otect it. • • last Al). thought the : . , day were pubilshed, handsomely printed ins Vol:. 9vo. with 44 ,bea.ara , l E. ravings, pries El. Is. in boards, Nil; by ROBERT 4UItNS will) an tlccount Oth 1,114!, and Mist:44lloAm Remarks on his Writings, int pua e aqua marten of tUe Poet. 'I hk edition contains Poem sad Let' 11102 not Wined an pr.. Cuyne. ed.tion. Inberbh Prinfedior the Trustte of the 1:•r J mei Mon. and sold by 1 Ins. Hiniiiton, No'. 99. Piturnosttr-row ; stud lc. No. 495, 'Holborn, bondon ; MA Bssaute, kiln. ; V. 4, siciL r, PALERMO } JANUARY a, !SIL (PaIyATZ LETTER.) •. at order fcir the trial of the prisoners arrested on 2.1 of. December has been authorised by his Ski. Majesty, and issued an the 27th by Lord Wm. ITINcIC. it is composed as follows :. rajur-General Heron, Presidcat. fajor-General M'Kenzie. fajor-General Bingham. lajor-General WlnCe. Nor General Ht:iiniker. sprain and Brigadier-General HB3. clone, Adam ligadisr Prince of Scaletta. good Rsinirts. olontl Coes? or;. :olonel Lucchesi. • clan,-1 Cassia°. !ajar Bores. he Court assembled Ar the 6th of January to )mence its proceedings. The eyes of all Sicily are bn its 4ceisiims. It has already brought to light h of the intrigue carried on here and at the (pp°. past. The Neapolitan Moniteurr are anxious, but 'sin, to finkexcuses, or rather deny, the fact of assaspins being pent from Calabria, to remove °Rears of this army. It is not I?xely that men, icending the scaffald, should, when every hope of - vas lost, die with a falsehood •on their tongues. it is well known who these officers were ; the one igh ra4k was the particular object of this ruffian omission : his activity had rendered him obnoxious the enemy for some time past, accustomed to carry their intrigues without interruption, across the every night. The /lank companies of Meuron's regiment, of the and 44th, have arrived here from Malta, and :ourt of Palermo, however reluctantly, are ac- Ig to the demands of our Minister. No appre i• n need be entertained for this country—our I y is,in a high state of discipline, and our flotilla in , ry imposing attitude. 'iie French Itaye four regiments immediately op :e ; they manoeuvre on the hills frequently, and sham battles, but their troops desert to us almost night ; and every account from Calabria repre. • that untortunate country in a miserable state. wife uf the letter-carrier, who brought all the :rs io our secret service, to and frorn'the French ral and his friends at this side of the water, has Cruelly toriured, and afterwards hung at Point p, immediately opposite, by order of the French ittai 4 whose constant pr:rtice is to sacrifice a le famity,.wben onu person of iris suspected 'e ar appears, to occupy immediately all the As posts of the Island, and to have the command Sicili.in troops ? pAß.....baartri:elß PROcEEDINUS, ed rights should be taken from them for the purposei of accommodating the rich and great. He should, therefore, moye an aineadosent tb the clans - 0, for the purpose of depriving the Committee of Management of any power over the private boxes. He thought, that, in a late case, the mereitie c,,f the prim in one Of the theatres lad been,ln his opinion, very tinfairly resin ed by the public, considering the increase of price of every other artiele. Yet it was hardly any wonder that the people did resist that increase, when they saw a great number of private boxes unoccu pied, while the parts of the house allotted to the pub lic were so full, that those who had paid thEir money could not be. accommodated, On the occasion of that resistance the prices and the private boxes were regulated at a meeting !!etween the public and the ' managers, but by this 13111 no such resistance could be made, as it now would be enacted into a law. The LORD CHANCELLOR believed it was of little consequence tehther the law authorized private boxes or not, for he believed that formerly the box. keepers, for a douceur, used to turn public boxes, for a night, into private ones. The Earl of ROSLYN defended the clause, on the ground that, by the present Bill, only fourteen private boxes were prcposed to be erected, and in the old Drury-lane Theatre there were thirty-four or thirty-six. The Amendment was then put and nngiCved with- onta _ _ _ The Dirac of NOR FOLK objected to the clause, empOwcring the Committee of Management to lease out for 21 years the private boxes. He should, therefore, move, that the word " twenty" should be left out, and that the word ,! one" should be sub stituted, in order that a fair competition should be given every year. The Earl of ROSLYN opposed the amendment,' which was negatived without a division. The Duke of NORFOLK next objected to the clause respecting the patent, as ;ending to encourage a monopoly. He instanced the case of a former Earl of Surrey, who had the power of licensing all the public-houses in London, by putting the chequers (his own arms) on them. If that power had been continued to . his successors, they must have been the richest men in the kingdom, The Noble Duke then moved an amendment to the clause, which the Earl of Rost.vx opposed. The Earl of LAUDERDALE belieited that theatrical monopolies were as bad in principle, if not in effect, as any other monopolies whatever ; and al though he did not consider this Bill as encouraging monopoly, he should move that the further discus sion on it should be put off till to-morrow, in order that their Lordships, who had not attended the Com mittee, might have an opportunity of considering the Bill. Lord REDESDAIS, Earl GREY, and the Marquis of.Doommt shortly supported the motion for delay ; and after a few words from Lord ERiKINE and the LORD CHANCELLOR, the motions for the delay, and the amendment of the Doke bf Norfolk were nega tived withi,ut any divisions. The Biii was then read a third time and passed. Adjoin nod.