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FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, JULY 7. Copy of a Letter from Lieutenant Simmonds, commanding his Majesty's gun-vessel Attack, addrussed to Rear-Attnizal Foley, and transmitted to John Wilson Crete:, Esq. ills Majesty's guo T brig Attack.' Dover Roads, July 5. SIR-It is with mush satisfaction I hpve the honour • o infirm you, thy in molting your orders, to cruize his Majesty's brig natter my command, for the ~ rotteiction of trade and the annoyance of the enemy, at six p. sr. yesterday evening, Calais Cliff bearing S. by E. four miles, I observed a transport galliot, a sloop, and a privateer, coming • out of Calais har bour, and endeavouring to run along shore : per ceiving this to be their °intention,. and knowing that the chewing a dikosition' to make an immediate attack would cause them all fa' Pat back, of run their vessels on shore, I made sail to windward, in the hope of decoying them so tar from their own shore as to be able to cut them off. Judging this to be the proper opportunity for such an attempt, I im mediately made all sail in shore, and at half-past eigh., manned And sent the gig away, with six men, under the direction of Mr. Couney, the Second Mas ter, still keeping his Majesty's brig towards the enemy. At twelve, there being light airs, and within half gun-shot of the enem7's shore, the Second Mas ter discovered the galliot in tow of the privateer. Mr. Couney, undaunted by such an unequal force, and under the galling fire of their musketry, imme diately boarded the transport, while on the other side she was bearded by the privateer's men; but on the Second Master'shaving killed one of their men in boarding, they thought it prudent to desist and sheer off, leaving th e boat's crew in possession of their prize. She proves to be the transport galliot No. 637, of 256 tons burthen, manned with 16 men, and armed with muskets • th e privateer was armed with a six pounder, swiv els, cohorns, .and musketry, and a complement of 30 men, commanded by Lieu tenant de Vaikseau Grothe. It is with great pleasure I have to state, that it has pleased GOD to spire the lives of the little crew of his Majesty's brig engaged in this contest, who have escaped, to a man, unhurt. - The gallantry displayed hy Mr. Couney and the men employed with him, merits any approbation that can be bestowed on them, for, independent of the fire Of the enemy's musketry, the vessel was ex posed to the batteries, which kept up a fire of round and grape upon them. _ From his Majesty's brig be ing .becalmed from the time the boat shoved off, I was unable to close with them ; my anxiety was great for the fate of the people, but from my knowledge of Mr..Couney's conduct, since he has been with me, I had great confidence in him. I cannot conclude without menti wing the steady conduct of my . cflicers and men throughout the 'whole pt the affair ; and had we been so fortunate as to have had a breeze, we, no doubt, should have captaried the whole I have the honour to be, etc. R. W. timmoNns, Lieut. and Commander. Rear-Admiral Foley, Cummander-M-Chief, !cc. Downs. CRQWN-OFFICE, JULY 7. ' . . Members returned to serve in this present Parliament. Borough of Bodmyn—The lit fight Honourable Charles Bathurst, in the room of bit. William Oglander, Bart. who has azcepted the Chiltern Hundreds.' Borough of Downion—:Sir Thomas Filmier, Knight, his M. iesty's . Atturney-Getieral. • MILITARY PROMOTIONS. WAR-OFFICE, JULY 1, '''• 'Rh Regiment of Dragoon Guartis--hmes Fawcett, .Gent. Illpf 1 • Comet, without purchase. sd Regiment of Dragoons--Lieutenant-Celonel Lord Chicks " Manners; from the 28d Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant. . Colonel, vice Mundy, appointed to the Sd Foot. . . 25th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Charles Frost, Gent. to be Sornet, by parchate. vice eenfold, promoted. ligth DittO.Cornet Daniel T. Curtis, front the 11th Light Dm ' gnarls, to be Comet, vice D'Arcey, promoted in the 47th Foot. 'llsd Ditto—Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Robert hlanners, front the ' , gil Foot, to be Lieutenant• Colonel, vice Lord Charles Man , Kers, appointed to the Sd Dragoons. Id 14.41mi:tit of root—Colonel G. Basil Mundy, from the Sd". ' Dkagoons, to be Lieutenatit-Colonel, vice Lord Charles Man . . ners, appointed td the SAd Light Dragoons. ad Ditto—Lieittinant Robert E. Broudtton, from the 9th Aye, to be Captain of a Company, by purchase, vice Still, who retiree. - lith Ditto—Lieutenant John Wcpherson to be Captain of a Company, willghat purchase, vice Hamilton, promoted ; En sign Robert Wallace to be lieutenant, vice Macpherson. 7th Ditto—Captain Mathew Ford, from the 70th Foot, to be Captain of 4 company. vice Driwater, who exchanges. itli Ditto—Captain W. H. Davis, from the 47th Foot, to be Captain of ;Company, vice Sall, who exchanges. .5,5 d Ditto—Neville Custance, Cleat. to be Second I ieutenant, by purchase, vice Holmes, promoted; Hospital-Mate Thomas t initk to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Barr, promoted, . • • 46th Ditto—Ensign and'Adjutant Michael Puintdia to lave the rank of Lieutenant, 57i1l Ditto—Lieutenant John Ovens, from the Fermate' MI- , . litia to be Ensign, without purch ase. 04th thttc—Ensign John Shaw to be Lieutenant, without pur • chase, vice Grmory, promoted in the 59th Fuot. Xo be Eusians, without purchase—Lieutenant Thomas L. Whi taker, from the East. York Militia; Ensign John Norman, . rpm ditto. 1 lad Ditto Lieutenant Robert Barham, from tae East Suffolk - Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase. * 47th Ditto--Ciptain Wm. Sall, from the Bth Foot, to be Captain of a Company, vies, Davis, who exchanges. ...,410th Ditto—Lieutenant Art hur Brown, front the ad Garrison ?.. •Battalicio, to be Lieutenant, vice Jauncey, who exchanges. 411 sh Ditto—Charles Alexander M'Doaald, Gent. to be Ensign, t by purchase, vice Cruise, promoted. 41st Ditto..—Ensign Andrew Connell to be Adjutant, viceDreike t -.. promoted in 754 Foot ; Gentleman Cadet Wm: from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, - purchase. • - i .pith Ditto-Ensign 1.4. G. Finn to be Lieutenant, by notchin g vice Coppinger, who retiree. 20th Ditto.E-Captain A. C. Drawater, from the 7th Foot, to be ... Captain of a Company, vice Ford, who exchanges. - ••. *ad Llitto-.-rtiospital Mate John Rich to be Assistant-Sturm% vice Elmore appointed to the sth Drigoon Guards. /11th Ditto- Ensign John Chisholm to be Lieutenant, without. purchase, vice M`Gregof, promoted; John Smith, Cent. tialao , Ensign,vice Chisholm. :Seth Ditto—Captain James Campbell, from the 91st Foot, to b, . Captain of a Coinpany, vice M•Gregor, whit exchanges. jUst Ditto-Captain Robert C. Ling to ke Major, by purchaeos x ;die Andrews, who retires; Lieutenant George Pierian to he Captain of a Company, by purchase; vice Lang. ' "lid Dittci-4-ieutenantSimon Macken, from the Meath Militia, ' • to be Ensign . , *without purchase.. pith Ditto— aptaiti George Brpyrn, fro= the. ad Garrison Bate . Won in caPtala g Company , a vice Naa fi , deCeased. 21, th Ditto-- .ieutenant Edward Fitzgerald to be Captain of n Conspeny, without purchase, vice Mackay, plac ed upon Ha! Pay. " !Ist Dittpr-Captaln Httgli M'Oregor, from the 79th Foot.. to, be Captain of a CoMpany, vice Campbell, who exchanges. ' -.swat IDOssi..:.:Ea s dp Robert Mont. Hyroßton, from the 56th 'Foot, In be Lieutenant, by pnrchoir: jet Catlett Regiment—i t ientenant Roger Frederkk; • from the did Foot, to be tsapialn of a Coinpany, without purchase, vice - IINT) r`?g.l. IP * 1 . 1 P 1 0 93 4 4 .4. 1 e 12 ! - " • •' 1 • , . . • . ~ cr.* - . - id earthen Batts.hod—Lieutenant Thomas *MIA WI the elk Foot, to be Captain of a Company, vice Brown, appointed to The trade in this article had suffered less vaeration the 85th Foot ; lieutenant Henry F. l a u nce y, from *IA* than aiMost any other, as it had been steadily. in. Foot, to be Lieutenant, viCe Brown , who exchanges. •.; ' - . creasing even during the war. 4th Royal Veteran Battalion—Ensign Robert M`Mounteef tithe Lord ROSSLYN said, it had been increasing in Quarter Master, vice Alexander, deceased. some measure owing, to the war. The tax,• be con- sth Ditto—Ensign Miles Kewia to be Quarter Miter, vice Morton, pitted on the Ritired List. . tended, would fall peculiarly heavy on the lower 6th Ditto—Lieutenant Robert M`itipin, from the Itch Royal and would be as oppressive and unequal as Veteran Battalion, to be Lieutenant, vice Roy, placed on the it must be unproductive. He was sorry to object to Retired List. c l asses, any tax brought forward at present, but this was one 1 Royal Staff Corps—Ensigns Edward Boyd and James Horton t• of the worst that could be devised. be Lieutenants, without purchase. i The Earl of ROSSE supported the measure, and The King's German Legion. ed Battalion of Light Infantry—A. Roell, Gent, to be Ensign, contended, that it gave no unfair advantage to Ire- . vice Egmont, promoted; J. Tulleke, Gent. to he ditto, vice land, since, in fact, all the finer leather, manufac- Biedermann, promoted. cured in Ireland, was imported from England. 4th Battalion of the Line—Paymaster-Serjeant William Lewis The Earl of LAUDERDALE had never known de la Farque, from the 3d Light Dragoons, to be Ensign, vice Cradle, promoted, a tax so improvident in principle, as the one under 7th Ditto—Ensign F. Leopold, from the Duke of Brunswick consideration. It seemed to be the only legacy of ' Oers Light Infantry, to be Ensign, vice Bachelle, promoted ; the last, to the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, Ensign Blottnitz, from the Duke of Brunswick Ode' which the latter chose to take. All the other tnea ' Light Infantry, to be Ensign, vice Foto°, promoted. Clarrison•Compeny—Serjeant Rumaou, from the Ist Light sures of the late Minister had been, one by one, sa ' Battalion, to be Ensign, vice Berne, appointed to the 6th Bat- crificed and abandoned.—(Hear, hear.)—lie should talion of the Line. be glad to know what measure of importance they The Duke of York's Greek Light Infantry Regiment—B. We. had not abandoned ?—(Hear).—The tax on leather :nova, Gent. to be lieutenant, with temporary rack. Bourbon Regiment—Ensign Thomas Gordon, from the 2Sth had been often proposed, but always given up.— Foot, to be Lieutenant, without purchase. • . Respecting the manufacturers of Ireland continuing • IIOSPITAL STAFF. • ' much behind those of England, he had heard of ho To be Hnepital-Mates for General Service: ' reason, except the necessity of their getting oak-bark Hugh Mulholland, Gent, vice Bolton, promoted; John Richard- from this country. Now Scotland manufactured son, Gent. vice Smith, promoted; Wareant Bospital-Mate Cohn bievewright ; Warrant Hospital-Mate Thomas Lewit. much leather, and could compete with the manufac- DIEMORANreIe. i.turers of England, yet she procured almost all her The following Appointments, as stated in the Gazettes of the 25th : bark from England. The Scottish trade was a young June, 1811, and 19th ult. have not taken place, iz. • one, but it was- fast growing. The present measure I. Henderson, Gent. to be Ensign in the sd Foot, and Foieler gave a bounty to the Irish manufacturers of shoes, Price, Gent. to be ditto in the 48th Foot. . I The undermentioned Officers are superseded : at the expence of the English ones. His Lordship Quarter-Master— Murray, of the i Sth Foot ; Ensign R.Dixon ' then condemned the practice of bringing on such of the 71st Foot; Lieutenant and Adjutant .--- Jeffreeof the matters in a hurry at the end of the Session, when ' 6th West-India g egiment . there was no time to discuss them fully, and receive ERRATUM in the Gazette of the IStk ultimo. the evidence of persons most chnterned at the Bar of For James Ogilvie, Gent. and William Gauntlets, Gent. to be Deputy Assistant-Commissaries-General, read Assistant Com- the House. The proposed tax, he contended, must nussaries-General James Ogilvie and William Gauntlett to be affect the exportation of leather, which amounted to Deputy Conunissaries-General to the Forces, one fourth of the whole manufacture in this country, County of Hants. and there would be no want of skilful emigrants from North Hants Regiment of Militia—Frederick Coventry, Esq. to hence to Ireland. He seriously.. implored Noble be Captain. Dated June 18, 1812. South East Hants Regiment of Local Militia—e William Thomas, Lords to consider the matter fully, and not send back and John Joyce, Gents. to be Ensigns. the manufacturers to their starving and hallemploy- Western Regiment of Essex Militia. ed journeymen , to carry on their trade at a loss till William Adair M‘Dougal Gent. to be Lieutenant, vice Foaker. the next Session gave them relief. After' aba.ndoe pated May 29,1812. ing their Orders in Council, on which they stated Adjutant Francis Russellto be Captain, by brevet. May 20, 181 e. • the salvation of the country depended, Ministers w. st Norfolk Regiment of Militia—Joseph Deighton, Gent, to be Rnsign. Dated June 5, 1812. would have, r.ext year, to lament their perseverance County of Derby. in this tax. Derbyshire Regiment of Militia — Thomas Briggs, Gent , to be The Earl of LIMERICK supported the measure; Lieutenant. Dated June IR, 1832. • and the House divided, Chatsworth Regiment of Local Militia—Emanuel Parker, Gent. ' For Lord Spencers Motion, 12 —Against it, 32. to be Ensign. Dated June 24, 1812. Belper Regiment of LoCal Militia—Ensign Samuel Harvey to be The Bill was then reported, without an y amend- Lieutenant; and William Harrison, Gent, to be Ensiga.— ment.—Adjourned. Dated May 27, 1812. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JULY, 1. Royal Regiment of Artillery. Second Lieutenant Alexander Ramsay to be First Lieutenant, fact, and he would ask if the respite had been wi t writing Mr. W. POLE said, the respite must hive bee n writing, as th at was the common practice. B o i t the time of this transaction he was attending his d" . , in Parliament ; and th e first information be had ci i was contained in an anonymous letter, thr ~e.• him with assassination if the man should he readola 1 ' Mr. TIGH E then moved for Copies of any Re s * Reprieve, or Parlon, granted by the eord Lim.. nant,of Ireland to Walter Hall, convicted of in Dublin. . . Mr. W. POLE asked, why the motion for Pam on this subject had not been more correctly woedd before? - Great and shameful misrepresentatioso h a l gone abroad on this subject in Inland. It was irk the man had been pardoned, because he was ant Man :—the fact was, that the Judges represented's the Lord Lieutenant, that this uneortunate m an h. boured under a temporary derangement of mind, , that he was not a6t subject for execution. It appeared he committed the murder on a young . ' whom he met, without any-malice; and chile help, boured under violent intoxication, and temporary• sanity. But as no plea of insanity had bee* he was convicted and sentenced. But the da, conviction, the Judges Osborne and M'Lelaad,, Tota to the Under Secretary, staying this fact; sad the Lord Lieutenant could not, of cour s e, do less ti n extend mercy to him. The roan WAS now on his Ipq to New- South Wales. Not knowillg what roc s ing the Hon. Gentleman meant to adopt, lie had en course now to pursue, except to gnat this e l w ans , Con.. The motive of :thp Hon. Gentleman un s , w et this question hang over till neat Session ; by tiiti:k great prejudice would exist in no - public mind. • Mr. WHITBREAD did not 'seewbareeeak the Hon. Gentleman hid to hike up this spina • warmly, and to enter on a defence bet-Mean; thus . was made. From every thing that now appo c u e thought great blame attached to the Iridillettra ment. Because a man was subject to infolirm a k and because in that state he committed A rautdo n must be pardoned, although the law of the allowed of no such defence. Many other men had been ex,:cuted for murder could have set op ' much better plea. Lord CASTLEREACH said, it was impar . for the House to decide as to the conduct of the his Government, who acted solely upon the report olds Judges who tried the man, and the Judges were slut persons best qualified to give an opinion. Sir FRANCIS BLlRDETTagreedthat the.ledp were the moot proper persons to give an opinion; kst it was the duty of the House to investigate the ccii, duct of the Judges, against which he conceived tine ' - for :- j r HOUSE OF MMONS. Sir THOMAS PLUMER to the oaths and his seat. Mr. W. POLE moved that t ere be laid before the House co pies of the Correspondence wren the Lord Lieutenant and othcn on the subject of the Du lin Police.—Ordertd. Ihe Levant Irade Bill. the Wood and Ashes Bill, and the '- , 1 tin uuslithsed. were grounds impeachment. And he believed., public were greatly indebted to the Hon. Gen** who brought this question forward. Mr. W. FITZGERALD justified the *Ahead the Irish Government. Mr. MARTIN (of Galway) acquitted COaft vice Hammond, resigned. Dated June 15, 18i9.. JULY 4.—Corps of Royal Engineers. Second Captain George J. Harding to be Captain, vita Squire, decea►ed : and First Lieutenant John N. Wtlis to be Second Captain, vice Harding. Dated May 20, 1812. Starch Bill, were read a third '1 he Report - of the Poor Returns Bill was brought up and the Bill ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. Mr. WHARTON obtained leave to bring in a Bill to remove Goods from one bonding house to another. Tire House went into a Committee to consider the prevention of Smunlitig, and leave was gives' to bring in a BLI. The House went into a Committee on the Isle at Man Trade. Report to be received to-morrow. Mr. BYNO brought up several Petitions, from the pariaus of St. Pancras, St. James, St. Andrew Holborn, St. George the Mar tyr, and St. George Bloomsbury, against the Nightly Watch Bill. 'I he SPEAKER informed the House, that the Lords had made an alteration in the mode of raising money in the Irish Grand Jury Presentment Bill, an alteration which the House of Commons never allnwed; upon which Mr. PA an cu. moved, that the Bill Di takes into further consideration this day three months.---. Agteed to. Mr. GIDDY brought up the report of the Committee on the Civil List Expenditure Bill. Ordered to lie on tie table. Mr. WHITBREAD objected to the Printing, as an useless ex. Per ment for pardoning this loan, because it was *OIL sequence of a recommendation from the Mr. 4t at the same time he could not approved& of the Judges. And if the man had lieeriesem, oughtnot to have been sent to Botany Bay. Alto Jttages, their recommendation w4l illegal and Mr. BROUGHAM said, it was difficult to my the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland did not stand so*, ted, after the reasons given by the Judges'. hail the-conduct of the latter, then, the House watwit vestigate ; and, with so little information as the Wig had before it, he deprecated rdirctrssion•that impel( a very high crime to two Judges. k was well WWI . 'that t intoracation was. no proof of insanity, led eadi . be no defence for a crime. He was inclined to thwt there must have been some error in copying tbe kt fers of fhe Judges, who, he believed , had good Ilb• PdIRLIAMENT4Rr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF I.ORDS, JULY 7. On the motion of Lord ERSKINE, the farther consideration of the Banbury Peerage Claim was postponed, till the second Tuesday of the next Session. The English Local Militia Bill and several others were brought up from the Commons, and read a first time. • The Earl of LAUDERDALE moved, that the Irish Stamps Bill be ['minted ; and upon an objection to this by the Earl of Liverpool, on account of the extent of the Bill, Lord Lauderdale said, that this was a reason why it ought to be printed, that the House might the more easily examine it, u the Irish Bills had, in many Instances, been fotind full of errors. • The Earl of LIMERICK said, that the Noble Earl was always attacking Ireland. He did not see any necessity for printing the Bill. The Earl of LAUDERDALE asked whether the Noble Earl (Limerick) really considered It as a proof of hostility to Ireland to take care that the law for governing that country should be as clearly defined as passible ? It might be a proof of hostility to those who drew the Bills,—to Gorernmeatof Ireland; but to the country itself it was a proof of friendship. Lord HOLI.AND said, that if the Noble Earl (Limerick) would suffer bins to speak of an Irish Bill, he would , rnendon, that there was a great error In the Irish Popularion Bill,not, how ever, attributable to Sit John Newport. Earl STANHOI'E laid, be was half an Irkhman, and it could not be imagined that he wished to speak against Ireland ; but there had been an Irish Big o n the table, enacting, that the names of certain anonymous peMbs should be set forth at full length : but be had detected many more monstrous absurdities In Eng •ltah Bills. The Bill was ordered to be printed. • s I.ord HOLLAND gave notice, that be wouki, on an early day, =ova the secontlre-ading of his ex-officio lufotnution Bill. .nce, hut it was ordered. I.ord FOLKSTONE postponed his motion respecting Captain Jag till bur. day. The Mauure Bill, after being read a second time, and corn• oitted, was wihdrawn for amendment. '1 he Committee on the Malt Bill, after some observatlous from Mr. Baring, Mr. Brand, and Mr. Wharton, was postponed. The Frame-work Knitters' Bill was committed, the Report re ceived, and crilcred to be taken into consideration on Friday next ? ' The Chancery Affidavit Bill was read a second time, and or. dered to be committed on '1 hursday. • AUCTION BILL. Mr. VANITTART stated, that being awark_elsat several eae.' fel alterations Might be made in die Auction &IT, be shosidarme to postpone the second reeding till this day fortnight.. Mr. SHERMAN observed, that he bad expected, after the information which the Chancellor of the Exchequer bad rectilved, Semail• sons-for their recommendation. He thought it soil 1 strange proceeding, to inflict :mother punishment's , a man c ordoned on the groui.d of insanity—peril. the law and rractice of Ireland was different* what it was here. At preseru, every thing appig unintelligible, and must remain so, until tulle mation was given. .Mr. TIGFIE, in reply, said be could,if an is tigation were entered into, prove the greatest WWI prepense on the part of the convict ; for thus Ate morning, when he took up his firefock, he that before night he would take away.theliteoflr Papist. After the parade, he deliberately lodollf. musket with bell ; in the evening besot in i ' into she middle of &SP* MARRIAGE ACT.- I that he would have postponed the Bill . _ the next , _ , man the streets stept The Earl of RADNOR rose on the out* for the second read,- the Right-Hon. Gentleman been as ready to listen to hafonneJon I t o ok a deli berate ing of the Marriage Act Amendment Bill, and observed, that k lon the-Leather Tax, he woakl not have carried It with a majo- 1 at the same time, that he had killed %event Net aim, and killed the man; ;Heel Would be desirable, by some Clause in this Bill, to guard spinet 1 rity of only eight. He trusted it would be a lesson to the Right ' the practice of taking out licences for the marriage of minors, 1 Hon. Gentleman. . lother pers. the illegality of which led to the most serious consequences. In Mr. VANSrI'IART would not penult Rebels before.. He had, at the time, the hopes of lIS In pressing the Bill i p unit y before his eyes, 'because many 0 " a recent ifistance, a young man who had obtained a license und e r through this Session. .v , a false representation , had come forward himself to annul hi s Mr. BROUGHAM congratulated the House on the abandon- who committed similar offences got off vs , .P.' , nishroent. His object, then, in bringing the marriage, and the Eitleslastical Court bad accordingly set Mk meat, observing that it would h a v e prov e d an oppressive tax.— , It was then ordered to be read this day two months. forward, was, that an enquiry might be In4a: marriage aside. His Lordship conceived that such abuses were . diegracefel, and that some remedy ought to,be applied without . STONE BOTTLE BILL. • • the distribution of criminal justice in Irelands delay. On the question that the Stone Bottle Bill be committed, was necessary, in this case, to have the notes The Esti of REDESDALE s aid, If the offence was to be pr . /. Sir S. ROMILLY objected to t h e ta x , as it would operate to :' Judges laid before the House ; and when dletLs, et. vented more effectually, it might be done by takin g care that the 1 an increase of SO per cent. price on the article. done, sir he was confident there would appear or fact of the panics bein g of a g e should be clearly ascertained, or ! . Mr. WHARTON interrupted the Honourable and Learned ' ' ARd _ the parties takin g a false oath punished in a mann er t o p revent I Member to state, that the Bill had been considerably altered and been no ground for a plea of insanity. the thing from ever happenin g . modified since its first stage, and no longer applied. had been insane, why not pardon him altogelhar . The Bill was then read a second time. ' Sir S. RpMILLY proceeded to observe, that he understood ' Why inflict a lighter punishment on him ? " LEATHER TAX. - the tax was not so much intended to benefit the revenue as num The motion was then agreed to. The Leather Tax Bill was committed. - other rival trade. Mr. WHARTON said that the tlass-bottle trade was muck The Duke of BEDFORD strongly objected to the ' - 1 a. that he would be pleased to direct that dorm 1 injured by the manufacture of stone bottles of, two quarts, for Mr. TIGHE next moved ate Address to *e l , tax, as injurious to the agriculture of the countrre Spruce beer, &c. • and that it Was found necessary to balance this lai d before the and as falling upon the poor more heayily than on I mischief by an im ' position laid on those bottles. • ge House the notes of tbe Jodie 4 4 the rich. .• I After a few words from Sir C. Puce, Mr. GIDDY, and Mr. i Mr. W. POLE gave his assent to the SWUM WHITIMILAD who hop ed that sufficient time would be allowed Earl SPENCER followed on the sam e side, and ' before the third readir to consider the subject more fully, the assured the House there should be gives to thr id il l i stated that he was informed, there were about half a , Bill was committed, and the Report ordered to be received to- every opportunity of giving the Lord liesterl ag y million of people engaged in trades in which this nlcuT°W• the information necessary to elucillate this ems. formed the chief article ; and 18,000 w er e emp l oye d ; CRIMINAL LAW IN IRELAND. I Mr, BARING could not seewhow. inathe metropolis as shoemakers. He was told t h at ' Mr. TIGHE rose to put a question to the Minister . was exculpated, in a Coe where they tniscred 4 P I P imlss one-fourth of the vast number of peopl e h e h a d m en - for Ireland relative to Walter Hall, convicted of nishment on a person repreaented to umn as ....., aimed would be thrown out of employment, if this murder in Ireland, and afterwards pardoned, Walter In this country such a traasactioil wPuld 1101 " r tax should be agreed to. This was a serious co ns i- , Hall was tried for murder on the 16th, arid sentenced te d surpr i se an d indignation, • " deration in the present state of the country. He also to be hung on the 19th. He had received a respite, INDIA. .tinderstond, that by means of this tax the Irish leather however, to the 25th of the same month, on which Mr. CREEVEY called the aucntionef the MIT manufacturer would, have a great advantage in the day he was reprieved.—He wished to know whether to the subject o f his East ID& R e s olutioast._ o 4 l :oo 4 market. ' His Lordship concluded 13y moving, thai the man's respite in the first instance was the act of conversat i on too k place, as to Wher..ssr 7 all the cfauses in the liill relating to Hides and Lea- the Lord Lieutenant or of the Sheriff ? • should be postponed or not ? chef should be left our, ' . I Mr. W. POLE did not conceive himself bound to. Mr. CKEEVEY said, he would * t hen The Earl of LIVERPOOL s aid, t h at i t was i m - answer any questions put in a peremptory mannerA.- state hi s R es eh tt i o p s wi t hout comment sr ' ;,,,g PrS' l rd ° possible to find any tax to which a plausible objection He would, however, satisfy the Honourable Gentle- - They were three in number. The first wilagini% "sight not be stated, but this tax was as little objet- man, by gating that the man in question had been the increase of the Company's 4rbt ia fa& allsr. - Wheble as any. The trade Wis. a growing one, the respited by the Lori Lieutenant t that he was after - cond, we nature p( the frequent appftes s tss'' .; revenue had been increasing, and be thought the ar- wards reprieved ; and this was done'on the recottk• ha d b t , 4 l4 p4 d e to t h e House fur bus IV 4 41 ` gument as to the tax falling heavier on the poor was mendation cf two Olthe Judges. was cite impolicy auendegiLthe sever* Sr!" If t„..h.; —..u•ther in the shoes. •.. . , Mr. TIG4 - iE said t he had no intention of banguourawf 1 rit much t9O strongly. 9fl4e rsT w? 4 *Yill,ri it Tim gap ire durableh a d been Rude to th . enu The H" . 4 i st i ?eremeorT. die wis4e4 to know the ewe of The g len nrocec od 1,0 react *Se gnSON S' • :. , ft' l ,. bi 1) 1 II of , fir .•