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-, A_ . ...• -AN r 1 ,4 r ew fi r,. 0 ,4 1 , It tri --.4 t ' 114‘ ill ---. l lie k// -fir-A ... 1 11 NOTHurf te .:, C OVICTITII/• xojt. 1:0 11 NOIESEITO ra gs pr - 2, IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.+TtJ Qti Ay. cousatsoloy. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, AND EVERY WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY DURING LENT, The Public is respectfully informed, that they will be presented with an entirely novel Night's Entertainment, is Four Puts, on which occasion THE COLOSSAL ELEPHANT will go through Its OLYMPIC IMRRCISILSI To be preceded by a mast extraordinary Performance, by the Egyptian Magician Habit of Moscow, His Second Appearance in Enessid, whose Eallibitirms in Moscow, Berlin, and Paris, have heatcrowned with the most =inordi nacy ItICCCSS. THE CHEVALIER HUOUET, Naturalist. Purveyor to the Menageries of the different Courts of Europe, Instructor and Proprietor of THE SUPERB ANIMAL, WHICH IS TEN FEET IN HEIGHT, And weighs NINE THOUSAND POUNDS! Will have the honowt tb present her to the Public. and cause her to go through 'erne entirely new Raerdses, the same which sbe had lately she honour to perform before the King and Royal Fa mily of France at the Fete of St. Henri. In the eoursP of THE ELEPHANTINE EXERCISES! The following will be introduced : The Grand Obeisance, Balancing with the Trunk, the Service of the Elephant in War, The Elepheot Carpenter, The Elephant Housemaid, the Elephant Cash-taker. Monsieur Huguet will then cause this bansenseAnimal to follow bins ROUND TIIE THEATRE ow UER 79pf . !!!!! In the position la which the Indians Ind Wet Me iireaveri. She will take from his hand (he being thee on her back) abode of wine, draw the cork, and drink to the health of the Audience. The Elephant's position at a Tiger Hunt ! _ . The Elephant will distribute Sowers to the Ladles In the Bones. She will terminate her Extraordinary Performance by Carrying Twelve Gentlemen of the Audience at one time on her back round the Stage ! To conclude with a Grand Display, by Mr. H. Cblide, of FAIRY DREAMS. The first part of this interesting Display will consist of a num ber of Picturesque Views, which will dissolve from the sight of the spectators in a manner truly astonishing. The Views will con sist of. Italian Abbey, Moonlight—Grove with Garden—Vaults in St. Peter's Church, Oxford—Turkish Palace—Winter—Sum mer—Thames Tunnel—Temple of Love—The King's Cottage, Windsor—Virginia Water—Nelson's Pillar—View near Geneva— Napoleon's Tomb at &. Helena, with shade of the hero—Bsauti ful allegory of the Magic Rose, or the birth of Cupid. THE THEATRICAL MIRROR! Consisting of Striking Likenesses of the most celebrated Actors and Actresses, among which will be found Mr. Kean, Mr. Liston. Mr. Mathews, Mr. Yates, Miss Foote, Miss Chester, Miss Love, and Miss Fanny Kemble. Likeness of Lord NELSON, crowned by Fame. Striking Portrait of his late Royal Highness the Doke of YORK. To conclude with a Likeness of his MAJESTY, George IV. Accompanied by a grand emblematical pictorial group. These novel and interesting features will be relieved and diversi fied by a variety of grotesque and splendid diminishing and in creasing Figures, constituting a degree of grandeur. variety, and interest, never before combined. BOXES, O. PIT, 2s. GALLERY, 11. Doors open at Six, con:mace a Quarter before Seven. Half-price a Quarter before Nine. CONTRACTS FOR BUTTER, CHEESE, and OATMEAL VICTUALLIA C-OFFICE, Morels 3, 1830. THE COMMISSIONERS for VICTUALLING his MAJESTY'S NAVY, 4c. do hereby sist notice, That on THURSDAY, the 11th instant, they will be ready to re. celve Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat for • Eight Tons of BUTTER, Ten Tons of CHEESE; and Forty Toes of New OATMEAL, To be delivered into his Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford, one half of the Butter and Cheese by the 31st instant, and the re mainder by the 30th day of April text; and the whole of the Oatmeal in the month of April next. Samples of the Oatmeal must be produced with the Tendon. The Conditions of the Contract any be seen at this Once. Each Tender must specify the price la words at length, and be delivered before One o'Clock on the day appointed ; and the Per son who makes the Tender, or some person on his behaU, must attend to answer when called for. N• WALLER CLIFTON. Stocks, near Kendal. December 6, 1828. GENTLEMEN, IT is with great pleasure I communicate to you the happy result of my taking your Antiscorbutic Drops. 1 was for several months afflicted with the scurvy on my neck and face ; so much so. that the parts affected were nearly raw. I applied to several Medical Men for relief, but received no benefit, and I con tinued in this deplorable condition until I heard from a friend, the repeated cures your Drops had made ; and after purchasing two 41. Gd. bottles from Messrs. M. and R. Branthwaite, an amend ment began to take place, and I am now perfectly recovered, for which 1 return you thanks, and wish you to make it public, for the benefit of those who may be similarly afflicted. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, E. DIXON, 04 his mark. To Messrs. John Lignum and Son, Surgeons, Manchester. Witness Gerrard Walker. These Drops are sold in moulded square bottles at its. 9d. 4s. 6d. and I Is. each, by John Lignum and Son, Surgeons, &c. 63, Bridge- street, Manchester; Butlers, Chemists. Cheapside,•corner of St. Paul's, London ; 73, P r i nce ' s - street, Ed i n b urgh ; and 54, Sackville. street, Dublin ; Evans, 42, Long-lane, West Smithfield ; Sutton and Co. BowChurch.yard ; Barclay and Sons, 95, Fleet-market ; E.Ed wards, 67, St. Paul's Church-yard; F. Newbery and Sons, 45, St. Paul's Churchlard ; F. Newbery and Sons, Agents to the Sun Fire Office, 29, Dame -street, Dublin; Scott and Orr, 100, South Bridge, and 67, Princ e 's.s t r eet , Edi n b urg h ; R. Nelson, Glasgow; and all respectable Medicine Venders. Of whom alai, may be bad, Mr. Lignuses Improved VEGE TABLE LOTION, for all Scorbutic Eruption', price 21. 9d. dory included. Nc. Lignunis SCURVY OINTMENT may now be had of Mae above Agents, price IL fsd. each Pot, duty Included. TN THE MORNING OF LIFE, when the blandish ments of passion " take the reason prisoner," it is an evil mike to be lamented than wondered at, if, in the vortex of decep tive pleasure, the unhappy traitor again.t the laws of nature pays iu lonely disappointment a fearful exaction for his rebellion, in the compromise of his mental as well as bodily powers. To all per sons so circumstanced as to require the professional aid of men of experience, whose time has been for twenty years studiously and successfully devoted to the complaints arising from nervous de bility,whether natural or acquired, GOSS and Co. proffer the most consolatory assurances. The youth who has enervated his frame by the strangely fascinating sin, which the poor victim of folly will too readily comprehend wi thout further description, may find re lief from his misery, and be kindly taught to regain his lost place in the scale of creation. The sufferer who, from another extreme t indulgence has, with unbashful forehead. wooed debility, may learn to renovate nature and repair his abused constitution. The man of pleasure exposed to and suffering from Lues Venerea, however aggravated by malpractice of the quack, or the conceal ment from diffidence, may find a certain restorition ; and finally in cases where the delay of a connubial pledge has almost extended disappointment to dispair, they offer to the married female those hopes which she can reasonably appreciate. Remedies can be forwarded to any part of the world ; Patients writing for the same, will please to enclose a Beak Note. Attest dance at home for consultation as usual. GOSS and Co. bI.R.C. Surgeons. No. 11, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street, London. V Just published (Eighteenth Edition), 1. The AG'S of LIFE, a familiar commentary on the above diseases; ltd, The SYPHILIST, a popular treatise on Nee 'entree. fec. 3d, HY GEIA NA, addressed exclusively to the Female Sex. May be had at 20, Paternoster-row ; 59, Pall-mall •4, Cacbtrin•-stro44. Strand, Lond on ; o f P ott e r, 79, Grafter s -street, Dublin ; Trongatei Glasgow ; at 9, Carlton-street, Edi a b urg h ; an d of all booksellers. Price as. FRIDAY EVFNING, MARCH 5, 1830. N°• 13,414. MR. COBBETT AND THE CHURCH. ANAJ Last night Mr. Cobbett delivered a lecture upon the corruption of the Church Establishment, at the Mechanics' Insti tute. The theatre was exceedingly well attended. The lecture occupied upwards of two hour* in the delivery, and was listened to throughout with the most anxious attention, except when there were interruptions by loud burgs of applause, or applause and laughter mingled. The following Is not given as a report of the lecture ; the pressure of other matter leaving us no opportunity to do more than to notice some of the leading points of it. Mr. CO.IETT commenced with stating that, _ tuff, he intended to express his opinion as to appropriating large part of what was generally tailed Church use of the pobliel and be did not propose tb net t, was —MOM bat Alituturt In one period or another, at lint or hie, the woula be appropriated differently from what it meant to contend that such other appropriation constitutional, legal, and just. But though he it would be constitutional and legal, if he did not show that it would be just towards the Clergy themselves, he would not ask it to be done. That church property was public property as much as a ship of war, he had no difficulty in contending ; nor was it what the parliament, supposing it to represent the people, had the right to apply to the public service in any way they thanght beet. How did that property originate ? The houses, Mk Midi property were granted by kings, queens, and private individuals tee specific purposes. The tithes were not granted to particular individuals. They were secured to the clergy for specified pur poses—it was property in trust—to be applied to maintain the Clergy for teaching religion—to keep the churches in repair—and to be applied in part to the maintenance of the poor.—(hear.) And be was prepared to maintain against any body, lawyer or not, that such was the nature of church property, and that it was so applied for upwards of 900 years. During all that time no such thing was heard of as pauper or poor rates—there was no tax for the poor. Why were there poor.rates now—charges on the people for building and repairing churches—for Sacramental wine— and for washing the clergymen's garments ? The people at large had to pay for all. Most of them knew that they had bad what was called the Reformation. It was a very good thing, no doubt, as far as regarded religion ; but that reformation took away from the church that property with which it had before main tained the clergymen, repaired the churches, and supposed the poor. Then came the necessity for the poor-rates now amounting to about 8,000,0001. annually, besides which thee could be little less than 1,000,0001. for repairing churches. As far as re ligion was concerned, that reformation was, he doubted not, a very good thing—he had now only to contend that another reformation was wanted as to the temporalities. If Henry VIII. and Edward VI. could take the whole of the property of the church, and If they could take the tithes, as they did, and give to laymen —the Duke of Devonshire for instancs—avowing that he possessed the tithes of 20 parishes in Irdand; surely a Parliament so excel isosseseed, lent as the one we now could not hesitate about their con. stitutional and legal ri t. At the reforthation all was taken—every stick and stone, and was given away. On one occasion, the King played at cards for the great tithes of a living, the church, and a ring of bells. (Much laughter.) The King lost. On another occasion he made a present of the great tithes of a pa rish to a lady who had pleased him very much by making an ex cellent pudding. But it was unnecessary to go so far back to show the right. The 13th Anne, 1713, compelled the rector, whoAld not officiate, to employ a curate, and to give him not leas than 201. a year, nor more than 501. the bad dress of the curates havig become a scandal to the country ; but if the Parliament had no ri ght to In terfere, what atrocious tyranny was it to compel the parson to pay a substitute after a specified rate I In 1813, just 100 years after. wards, Parliament declared by Act that the pay should be from ISM to 1601. a year, and also that the curate might have the house and glebe after cert ain rata : and if it were not public property, if itwere private property...is Mr. Plunkett had contended—was not such interference grosser tyranny than had ever been committed by any band of tyrants in this whole world ? Again, in 1798, there was a Land Tax ; that was redeemable; the tax was saleable ; even the Land Tax upon Church property was sold ; so that the Church pro. petty was a bso lutely alienated—curtailed of its value and extent: that tax and the sale of the tax, were applied to the public service, by Mr. Pitt, to carry on the war. Then the principle was there again admitted, that such property could be interfered with, for the public service and emergencies. The tithes of the City of London, were 2s 9d in the pound on the rack-rent, producing, he should think now, little less than half a million. Formerly the endow. ments of Blackfriars, Whitefriara, the Charter-house, &c. had maintained the poor. Did any one think that the tithes were for the clergy alone ? If there had been any man in the Common Council, or any where else, with a head upon his shoulders, instead of going about dundering In courts of law, the clergy would have been required to maintain the poor out of the tithes, for he was pre. pared to show, against all lawyers and judges, that the tithes were as good u ever for that purpose—No law had ever yet said that the tithes were not to be a part appropriated to the maintenance of the poor. Had the city gone and assigned the clergy fur a portion of their revenues to maintain the poor, their wigs would have been a little puzzled to find an occupier. That, however, was the way to do the thing: and he maintained that there was no law to change the distribution. Mr. Gobbet' then noticed, at great length, and with much point and emphasis, the manner in which Mr. Ruggtes had shown these principles in 1792, in a pamphlet, which lie was obliged to retract. Mr. Ruggks did, as he was pre. pared to do, advise that the principle should be applied to the A i ? ey Lands. Mr Cobbett then cootended that there had much conning about the Reformation affair. As to the lands being with lazy Monks and dissolute Nuns, he thought it could not be worse than it was, for the Monks and Nuns did support the poor. The Aristocracy got all t amongst others Sir John, afterwards Lord Russell, got Thorney Abbey, Woburn Abbey, Tavistock Priory, Covent-garden and Long-acre ; and, much as he had heard of the Russells he de. nied that any ow of the family had ever rendered any one public. service. (Hear, hear.) The French Revolutionists put up the church property to sole : our Reformation gentry divided it amongst themselves. But he verily believed that Mr. Ruggles' advice would be adopted—that the Church property would be in part appro. Inland to ha former uses. If the vexatious tolls of Covent.gaiden were done away with, vexations which injured thousands, and all for the benefit of one useless man, it would he much better than talking about adding six representativesse the present 6.58. (Cheers.) Mr. Cobbett then detailed at great; length the state of' the Church. There were 11,222 parishes in England ; 301 had no churches at all, and yet tithes were enforced. There were 1,002 parishes where the population averaged under 100 persons, and where the tithes in many. instances, produced 4001. and 6001. a.yertr. There were 1,004 parishes where no parsonage house existed, and yet the law compelled the clergy to maintain the house t 7,000 parishes were served by curates, and yet the rectors had vowed that they were called to the cure of souls by the Holy Ohms. Bishops received 30,0001. and 40,0001. a-year. One had died worth up wards of 300,0001. personal property i and that same Bishop of Winchester had sold small beer out of the palace at Fainharn, and by license too. (Much laughter.) He then contended, at great Isigth, that the debt was commenced to support the church as by law established; that the septennial act was passed fee the Niter purpose; that the wars had the same object; and that thesehee the parliament, having the right to touch the church Li so pro iitit appriate it to meet the interest of the debt, ter con 4 10 the support et the pear,. ice. He also dwelt eueegly and ho. 'aiteeesly on half-pay Asses having taken holy oldies retaining half.pay—ar.d various ether series, concluding with dedsriag that to the acts of the Church, he the len WS yeses, woe matey swiss ' the 41 adder ender which dee countryaew hibeneed, satithet thee would he se ebetemeit efesidett dherallsil. 4 a. 1 till there was a rammed's of the Um* f 101 l 1 11 11. abject 4 the speaker hang to show doe a psi meld W a Lsetl jells esieveantly, be leboleeee she eiripmeos slob. be the *epee sereeellase et tbesseeeer. - bhp Cabot eordZ ik atablet lent anthem, Mislead ley throe esneder 1 of lissom , -• PRICE 7D. OF A mnwsritilad MAJORITY. . From a Me* Alper. How probable it is that Shalimar of easseasia, as at preserve constituted, will pan the imailleief Reform. may be redly col lected field a brief analysts of she majority of 188 on Lord John Ressell'ereatulan. Than Wed then against it the following highly disinteremed persons t Right Ron. R. Peel, Home Right Her. Sir G. Murray, S je c tlo r r e it . Secretary artier' r Tiede. Right Hon. Lind Ashley, of the Board of Control. Right Hon. Marquess Onham, ditto. George Bankes, &q. ditto. Henry Bankes, Erg. father to the above. William Bankes, Lsq. !mother to ditto. J. T. Fane, Esq. Clerk to Privy Seal. William Yates Peel, Esq. Under Home Secretary. Col. Jonathan Peel, brother to do. Sir George Cockburn, Lord of the Admiralty. Sir George Clerk, do. Right Hon. Lord Castleragh, do. Right Hon. J.W. Croker, Seaetary to do. James Farquhar, Eq. Deputy Registrar to do. Hon. Hugh Lindsay, Marshal to do. Sir T. B. Martin, Comptroller of the Navy. lir H. - - - Right Hon. Sir H. Harding., Secretary at War. Right Hon. R. E. Somerset, Lieut.-(iarezal of Ordnance. Sir Henry Face, Surveyor-Oeneral of do. Spencer Per cival , Esq. Clerk of do. and Teller of Exchequer. Col. F. Trend), Principal Storekeeper. Hon. E. Phipps, Clerk of Deliveries. Wm. Holmes, Esq.—but no, we must count him in his proper Place. Right Hon. Lord Downes, Secretary to the Muter-General. Right Hon. Sir J. Becket, Advocate-General. Horace Twiss, Esq. Under Secretary to the Colonial Department. John Calvert, Esq. Secretary to the Lord Chamberlain. Hon. J. R. Townshend, Groom of the Bed-chamber. Sir J. Nieholl, Principal of the Arches, Keeper of the Preroga. dve Court of - Canterbury, Commissary of the Dean of Arches, Oficial to the Archdeacon of Middlesex and London, and a Lord of Trade and Plantations. Right Hon. W. Dundee, cousin of i Viseount Melville, Lord Clerk Registrar, Keeper of the Signet, and Registrar of the guinea L 3 Scotland. Right Hon. Sir W. Rae, Lord Advocate in Scotland. Sir E. B. 8u en, Solicitor-General. Right Hon. Lord F. L. Gower, Secretary of State foe Ireland. John Dogherty, Esq. Solicitor-General for do. J. L. Foster, Eaq. Advocate-General for do. Right Hon. Sir G. Hill. Vice-Treasurer for do. Sir Alexander Grant, Chairman of the Committees. J. L. Dowdeswell, Esq. Master in Chancery. G. C. Newton, Esq. Commissioner of Bankrupts. Sir C. Hulse, Verdant of the New Forest. Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq. King's Printer. This is not a bad turn-out of plateaus. Nor war the army back ward at the call of the Great Captain. We had, among others, foe we have not time to run through the list with much minuteness—. Lieut.-General W. Peachy. Lieut.-General Sir W. H. Pringle. Major-General Lord Charles Manners. Colonel Lushington. Lieut.-Colonel Arbuthnot. Lieut.-Colonel Mark Beresford. Lieut.. Colonel Dalrymple. Lieut.-Colonel H. Dawkins. Lieut.-Colonel Lord Arthur Hill. Lieut.-Colonel Lindsay. Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. H. B:Lygon. Lieut.-Colonel Hon. E. Cuat. Lieut.. Colonel Lord Robert Manners. Major Sir J. Brydges. Major Lord T. Cecil. Major the Margolis of Worcester. Capt. Lord William Thyme. These officers, of course, knew their duty, and fell upon the left of Lieut.-General Sir G. Murray. The navy also obeyed the boat swain's whistle, and took their ground under the Lords and Secre tary of the Admiralty. Here are a few : Viee-Admtral Sir John P. Beresford. Captain A'Court. Captain hind John Hay. Captain J. Bastard. Captain the Honourable A. Maitland. Captain Sir Christopher Cole. Captain Lord HLnry Thynne. Captain Meynell. Nor, when we consider that it was a question affecting the stabi lity of rotten boroughs, can we be much astonished at the votes of— James Alexander, Old Sarum ! G. Lucy, F uwe y H. Alexander, 11trnataple John N. Macleod, Sudbury James Balfour, (;rail Sir Serope Morland, St. Hawes J. Baillie, Hedon 0. Mundy, Boroughbrklge M. Berne, Dunwich John H. North, hfilboume 1). Barclay , Penryn H. S. North, Heytesbury K Baker, Wilton Sir G. Philips, Wootton Bassi* Lord H. Cholmondelcy, Castle I [oolleague of Twit's] Rising M. G. Prendergast, Gateau J. Cods, Reigate E. Rogers c Hiahop's Cud, Sir K. Carrington, St. Mayes 0. L. 'Thompson, Hydrator, D. Gilbert, Bodmin Bethel Welland, Sudbury H. T. Hope, KIM Loot Sir Geo. Warrender, Westbury J. Irving, Bomber [colleague of Peel] Sir J. 1). King, Wycombe Hon. John Wortley, Bossiney W. bake, St. Michael's land Valletort, LostWithiel J. Loeb, St. Germaine And at least a dozen others of the same independent constituency. We say nothing of the cousins and kin of these gentlemen-- nothing of those who formerly filled ofiice, and expect to fill it again—but just taking our li.ta are they are, we have here a fine body of men told of by-- George Robert Dawson, and Joint Secretaries to the Treasury, Joseph Planta, and whipped in to their posts by— William Holmes Esq. Treasurer of the Ordnance, and Whipper in.fieneral to the Ministerial shit of the House of Commons ; consisting of— fsi actual placemen, 17 officers in the artily, at the order of the Duke, 8 officers of the navy, at the orders of the Admiralty, 3t members for rotten boroughs. at the orders of the borough. , beings totile of the whole," amounting to 109 out of 188 I r i d ge : ? 4. more minute and accurate exaniination wmald add to one pe obey of the classes we have above enumerated, at least fifty of the remaining eighty-eight, leaving two or tint dawn, who have been soacared by the dread of Jacobin involution, or muted by the roguery of the whip in their pre'ext of supportiag reform, that they can never consent to . any &iteration of the present h em. After what ve" have said, we do not think the to of ffie sides hose 11011 to rejoice over. Strike out cis seetostt only, sod the Aliv woad love bees— enstion ... • • Agiltdtl cr, - -amm , ..llollse ohs boornelssid i = s L e. soglipplealusilo bt • " • v • • %ma * ' • . The royal assent wns given,iitT;Minission, to the CansoMated Fund Bill and the Lunatic Asyludo Balances' Bill—the commis. Mowers being the Lord Chance Mir, Earl Bathurst, and the Earl of Shaftesbury. Earl DUDLEY presented a petition from a parish in Stafford. Shire against the 4 - truck" syktem. EAST INDIA AfFAIRS Ecirl. BATHURST moved icr several returns connected with Vat India affairs.--Ordered The Noble EARL then moved for leave to report from time to time the evidence taken before the Select Committee sitting on the logoiry into the Trade with India and China, and to have the re. .p printed.—Agreed to. The Bishop of LONDON brought in a bill the object and tide of which were not beard below the bar, which was read a Brat time. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE took that opportunity, having three or four petitions to present against the renewal of the East India Cempsay's Chaster, of stating, that the petitioners had es. Ces"la desire of wnature ring what the of the evidence given be i s the select comntittee was, if they could be made acquainted with the proceedings consistently with the forms of the house. The solOeet "Wein* of considerable importance to them and to the coppery. It was very natural for the petitioners and the public to be snxious to know what was the nature of the evidence *Wens' 1 3 , •- fore the select committee, and if the tams of the louse permitted, be, for one, should like to here the evidence made known ; titer,. fore it was with great satisfaction that ha heard the 'lode, of the noble peestdent, die chairman who presided over the committee, that the committee should report front time to time these proceed. infs. He hoped that every facility would be afforded to hAvr the evidence seen, in order that the petitiooers might be able to k::ow what evidence they Mt it right to t.nder on the subject. . Petitions from the merchants, Imanufacturen, awl tradesmen of fillargow, of Blackburn, in Lancashire, and the a of the Dock Company at Hull, against the renewal oft Emit It d.a Limner, were then presented by the noble marquis, and ordered to be Warred to the committee. ossoospoo—cOLOolLit a7rtODSTURS. The Duke of GRAFTON presstat 1 pilaw how the gen try. freeholders, and others, of the county of Suffolk, complaitire of Metro's, and suggesting the repeal of the Acta which impt.ee duties on malt and be r. The noble duke spoke at some length.-- The petitioners, he said, wished the malt and beer duties to taken off, which would afford them, although small, sonic relief, and be a first step towards removing their distress. They also re am:in:ended the most rigid economy in every department of govern.. Ma 6 and the removal of all taxation which mote immediately upon the labouring classes. He gave the ministers credit C li their desire to economise, and promote the interests of the coun try, and for the great measure which they had carried towards the close of the last session of parliament, he was diapered to believe that the present session would not pan away without their suggesting wine measure for the relief of the suffering po. pulation—( Hear). The Earl of SXRADBROKE bore his testimony to the distress which, unhappily pervaded every part of the county from wherce the petition came Farmers, he said, whose circumstances had bassi good, were under the necessity of disposing of their stock to she wawa disadvantage, to pay the demands made upon them. In almost every parish were to be seen, work•ng on the roads, from $0 to 60 able.bodied men, who could meet with no other employ mese. To inquiries made in every town respecting trade, the art. sorer was the same : " Trade never was so dull nothing is doing." The timber merchants, who, in 1814, sold timber at six shillings a foot, and that readily, said that timber equally good could nut now be disposed of at any price. In short, all trades were suffer. lag with the agr iculturists, Lord CAL I'HORPE said that every part of the empire was suffering from distress. The degree of distress, however, varied, some portions of the kingdom being in greater distress than others. It was the bounden duty of Parliament to endeavour to ascertain the nature of the distress, with a view of affording relief. His 31a =minister; were called upon to do their utmost to diminish the which pressed so heavily upon the people. He, for one, was disposed to give the government credit for their sincere anxiety to diminish the expenditure of the country, and thereby afford relief to the distresses which unhappily pervaded ever/ part of the king dom. He thought that the taxes which pressed moat upon con. sumption and the raw material might be much diminished, and yet leave the resources of the empire in a flourishing condition. The distresses of the country was a subject worthy the inquiry of parlia ment. and he hoped that his Majesty's ministers would afford every facility to further those views, and diminish the burdens which now pressed so heavily upon the people. On teher occasions when in. quirks had been granted, great advantages had been derived from them. He trusted that no impediment would be thrown in the way of a full investigation into the distresses of the people by the 00. mernment. - - The Duke of WELLINGTON—" My lords, I beg to assure the noble lord, and the house will, I think, accord with what I say, that his majesty's government are disposed to afford every infortna. Lion in their power on the subject alluded to, and that they ere din. posed to afford relief, the estimates which have been brought tbr. ward in another place testify. Those estimates have been coosider ably diminished in the present Session of Parliament, compared with preceding Sessions. So, also, were they greatly dinduished the last - -it, in comparison with Others. lily lords, with respect to diminishing the expenditure, all that I can say on the subject is, that every thing which his majesty's ministers could do to reduce the expenses, consistently with the safety and honour of the country has been done. No expenses exist, my lords, that are not absolutely necessary for maintaining the interest and honour of the country — extended as those interests are to all pats of the globe. Although it is perfectly true that this is an island, and only formes small por. tion of the globe, yet the interests of the country extends to all parts of the maid, and must be maintained at the expense of the country. There arc only 12,060,000/. of expenditure susceptible of reduction. and within the last two years, 2,000,0001. on this particular pate of the expenditure, have been actually saved. Them are other parts of the expenditure which cannot be touched. Ido maintain, 111 lords, that government have done all in their power in redusing the expenses of the country. With respect to the military force, every thing to diminish it had been accomplished. The number of troops was lower than it was in the year 1792, if their Lord ships took into consideration the additional °ninnies 'low be. longing to the mother-country. (Hear.) The military establishment was lower now than at that period, takin4 the facts to which I have alluded into consideration. Your lordships will not fail to bear in mind the conquests that have been made since the year 1792, amid the necessity of having large bodies of men in the colonies thus con quered. There are some parts of the world—souse very important stations, necessary fur the maintenance of the interests of this coun try—which have been added since that period ; for instance, the Cape of Good Hope, the lithuridus, Ceylon : io all these eleces ere had no stations in 1792- Then, again, in the Mediterranean, there was Malta added, and the lonian Islands. All them stations, my lor), require a considerable military force. These colottiss canret be maintained wahout expense." The navy establishment, as the noble duke was understood to say, was, at present, higher; bet there had been a necessity of employing addition-LI force in differ, I' I parts of the world. Their lordships, he was terseatitel, ceuld rot &she the stations to be abandoned, and that they would tetanal): every diminution of expenditure bad Leen resernd to, consistently with the true interests of the country. Lord CA LTHORPE explained The Earl of AIAL3IESBURY said that tittle was toe point not adverted to by the noble duke, connected sit!: the colonial ex p.nditurt—a very important point—which cost di • country prodigi. outs sums of money, besides the lives of many valuable soldiers— a point upon which no noble lord had dilated—he alluded to the colony of Sierra Leone. (Hear, hear.) He was surprised that no noble lord had called the attention of the house to that subject. lie believed that the umiatetiance of that colony bed cost the count.y a million of moan,. Large as that sum was, and knot as it had been, that was not the mrst--for thousands of lives had been Pa. critics-de (Hear, hear. hear.) How many gallant troops, besides seamen, had los t their lives in that nistrable ell.nate P Whether on the land or on the sea, so dreadful was the climate, death w,.11- certain to overtake the victims. The object for which that unfornt. note colony was established bad failed. He regretted the them . "tenet, being anxit us to see the wretched and inhuman traffic put an lad to. He wished to know why that colony had rot b e en rhned 1 The expenditure was peat, and, if raved , would wae relief. There were other colonies, th e expentlitute of . e wished to me di 11l inithed, and saw no reason why such a Moro 'Nutlet not be adopted. At the colony ofNew &win Wales —the es wary had been scarcely colonised in 1792*—tlitire were Ito leas than two regiments of infantry stationed—;He ), het des the ci . t i vil establishment^. The colony, however. to %Web he had . . to call Celt lordships attention was the one which he had pre. y named—Sit nra Lone. Both as nspcettd "humanity and -*mono, that colony ought to be abaadoned. No man as i.e had before said, mould be more anxious to see that abensinableitade pug down than be was, but the kiudest motives li:ad been attended with theasoet fatal results. What a loss of treasure and of life had the paaarettlas of that colony coat this country ! The noble earl then Weeded to speak of the currency euession believing that part of Illie distress had arisen from the seas tit dtiO eurreticy. The noble iota who moved the askkos, and die 'ebb land who arcooded it, Weft of - ' "--- - ' - ' the distress as bang their lordships knew (the Earl i f Malnies s wee net iso prevalent also ebeeght that the - ' aware the Coins lin the.- reennt Ice- KestHon. 11. ooulbunaiatioelloc sidle gxchacluer. i light Has. J. C. Henries, President of the Board of Trade_ . 'PP a raj Right Han. C. 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