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The Loin C 11.% C LOR being detained on important business Carlion.liouse, d d nut come dawn to she House utvll nearly Iva o'clock. Prayers by the lishop of Cuss IY. It being read, the :misideration of the Feu Branch of the above irnpUrtvalt cause was resumed. Mr. Lat.cit, as Counsel for the Appellant, Mr. Ekri.t.runzu :Etta, was hearsl in continuation, anti to the cud of hip rtp.y, !Well lasted until near seven o'clock. The LORD CHANCELLOR observed,. that with reference o the great importance of the case, and the very long and able rgunsenis which wete urged at their Lordships bar e it would to proper to allow sorue interval for the consideration of their ..ordships' jud g ment. He did not row feel himself prepared to lame any particular day for the final consideration of at case in litestion; but when lie should, he proposed to take the; liberty to Omit a mo ion for that purpose. The Private were resp,ciively forwarded t and the House touted till Monday. tioutE OF COMMONS. Mr. MANNING brought In a ,Bill for extrndine the Lonion luck lard, which was NO a irsi and ordered tfa be read second time to-morrow. A person front the Adrniralty prcaented an account of the Money belonging to Suitors in the High Court of Admiralty, and in the Courts of Prizes. The House proceeded to the further consideration of the Re p'.rt on the Lot- Is' Amendment Act, which was agreed to, and the Bill orOered to be read a third time on Monday neat. 'The Reports on the East India Lean Bill, and the Coal Trade 1311, were brought up and agreed to, And the 13.11 s °Acted to be reed a sh . rd time on Monday next. Mr. IMLFORD brought in a Bill fur the erection of Penh. tcritiary Houses in London and Middlt sex ; read a first time, and ordered to be printed and read a second time this day three wet ks. Lord pA LMERSTONE saiJ, that in consequence of the ab s nce of the Right Hon. Gentleman (11r.Tierney), who was pre treated by an accident from coming down to the House, and who wished to be present at the voting ut.the Army Estimatss, be was desirous to postpone them. Mr. WHI I'I3REAL) said, that though the Right Hon. Gen tleman was at present unfortunately detained by the accident, there was every hope that he would be able to come down on Monday, to which day be would recommend the pettponement of the Estimates. They were accordingly postroned to Monday. The Corn inittei of Supply was postponed to Monday next. Mr. W. WYNNE moved for Returns of the E.tatliehments of the different corps of Local Militia and Volunteers serving in the d &rent Counties, and of their Nutuber, at the last Re turns.--Ordered. Mr. VANSITTART moved for an Address to hla Royal Highness the Prince Regent, praying that he would be gra ciously pleased to order a Copy of the Report presented to lArd Liverpool front the Com:id—lows of African E.tquiry, bearing date the 9th of July, 18 11, to be laid be:ore the House. Upon the motion of Mr.'WHITBREAD, the Wootton Basset Election Petition was postronci to 'Tuesday three weeks. Mr. BARING gave no:ice that h.: would, on a future day, move for copies of the memorials presented by the merchants of neligoland and Malta against trading licences. rMr. H. MARTIN postponed the notice which he had given of a motion for have to Is.ing in a Bill to regulate the Office of Registrar of the High Court of Admiralty, trum Monday to Monday furtnigl.t. FUNDED EXCHEQUER BILLS. The House having resolved itself into a Committee of Ways and Means, . The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER lard, he had given notice yesterday of his intention ,to move in that Committee a Resolution for funding Exchequer Bills in the Navy 5 per Cents. It WAS est, he conceived, necessary to enter into any detail ed view, and should therefore proceed to state the terms to the House. The first propos i tion was, that for every £lOO of Exchequer Bills dated between the Ist of March, 1811, and the 18th of February, 1812, funded in the Navy 5 per Cents, the person so fund ing them should receive £lOB in the 5 per Cents. the interest on the bills to be paid up to the 9th of March inclusive. The calculation was taken on the 7th of February, the day on which he first sent the notice to the City, at which period the 5 per Cents. were at 61 , , which would give the acceptor £lOl. 10s. 3d. for every £lOO funded, besides a bonus of the ;n -wrest, up to the 9.h of March, of 7s. Bd. on tach *lOO, making, on the whole, ael. 17s. 1 Id. per cent bonus. The 5 per Cents. were consequently depressed in some measure since the proposition had been origi nally made. They were this day reduced to 93tb, at which price the bonus experienced by the fuming would be 17s. 7d. instead of fly 17s. I le. wnit.l), however, he thcught sufficient profit to rechice,the holder; of Exchequer Bills to the amount of millions (the sum to which he inte n d e d to iptit.the acceptance) to fund. The state of the hind, as lie had already observed, was not so favourable as at the time when the offer was made, but there were various contingent benefits to which the Housemight look o.i the following )ear, especially in the event of Reece. It was his intention likewise to propose, that Cle..4lnotint of Exchequer Bills to be solu:Aled should not 'weed f 14,000,000. He hoped, notwiths.tand . , :fig the present depression, th at nu conssuerable dis itptointetene would take place, and that it not the eiline, at • coasiderabla proportion of that amount would be funded in the 5 per Onus. /le had re . - • VirvPd to thiltqlfs tale af. (ailurn, .the power ill creiting 8 per Cent-, to n*. the deficiency by Ow • 1444 TR bC raised for the service of the present year. • The Right Honourable Gentleman concluded, with moving two Resolutions.—:he one providing that every person who funded Exchequer Bills, dated between the Ist of March, 1811, and the 18th of February, 1812, in the Navy 5 per Cents. should be paii the interes; up to the 9th Or 'March, incluAve, and en titled for every 4100 to 410 ti Navy 5 per Cents.— The other limiting the sum to be act lundcd, to 414,00 0 ,000. • Sir THOMAS TURTON said he was quite at a' logs to suppoie, how the Right Honourable Gentle- ! man could expect to add the sum of Jel 4.,000,0t)0 to a fund which must have experienced a great depres. sion. H. approved of the principle of dividir.g as much as possible the sums to be raised, among the diffasarat funds. 'lf the Right Honourable Gentle. man's object could be accomplished, he saw no ob jection to it, but he must put out of his calculation entirely, any advantages likely to result from a state of peact—toithat state, however desirable, they must look with little hope, after the declaration of an elo. quent Statesman, that “ war was now the element in which we must live' and move," The consequence of the present proposition, he believed, would be,' that the stock would become a heavy stock. But after all he would a,k, what a loan were they to ex. pect this year ? for th's was but the commeneemeht, the prelude to the grand drama to which we were still to look. Mr. BARING said, that the rise of stocks in the las: year,. justified the Right Honourable Gentleman in proposing the addition at that period, but there was a m aerial difference between the last and pre st nt year, notwi.hstanding which, the Right Hon. Gentleman propoud to depress the fund still further, by his own act. Mr. SMITH said, from all he could learn, he did not think the Right Honourable Gentleman would he able to find the Exchequer Bills this year to the amount proposed, and therefore he thought it better not to attempt it. He was also apprehensive that the system might be carried too far, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER `said, there was hardly an argument resorted to by the Hon. Baronet (Sir T. Turton), on the present occa sion, which he did not urge against the proposition of the former year. He appeared to think that there was some ditErence between the notices of both years to the City, but he would state that, in point of fact, there was none. It was true, there was a greater de prec:ation in the present, but the excess proposed above the former,' did not amount to more than Jaal,ooo,ooo. The - Hon. Baronet might . say that he did not succeed in his proposition last year. It was true he did not obtain the entire sum immediately, but he 'made up the deficiency only by enlarging the time. The Hon. Gentleman who spoke last gave reason to suppose that the calculation had varied since the valuation was made; but he believed, that since the offer %sant into the city, no diminution had taken place in the value of Exchequer Bills. The other Honourable Gentleman feared that the prin ciple might be carried too far. Ile (the Chancell of the Exchequer) allowed that it might ; but the question was, whether it was so in this instance ? It would be found, that if the 5 per cents. were depress ea, the S per cents. were depres.ei also, and that the 5 per cents. had kept tip their relative value, nut withstanding the operation of the Sinking Fuad on the a per cents. which never operated on the .5 per cents. The fair and competent way to compare them he thought, was to take them at a period before the present measure was in contemplation, in which case they would find that his statement was correct, and that the present comparative state _of those Funds afforded no ground for assuming that the measure was carried to an extreme. Ilis impression was, that it was doing material service to the general state of the Futai to divide the Loan into different parts and different periods. It was giving encouragement to those who funded Exchequer Bills, and increasing the credit of Exchequer Bills themselves. It was natural to wish that the field should be extended as much as possible, and in that view he was sure that the House and the country agreed. He was confi dent that this plan held forth greater advantage to the holder of Exchequer Bills than he could obtain by disposing of them in any other way. He had never stated positively that the whole would be obtained, but he hoped it would, and if not, at least he expected that it would be realized to a great extent. After some further conversation between Sir T. Turton, Mr. Baring, and the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, the Resolutions were agreed to, and the Report ordered to be received on Monday next. I•:OTTINGLIA gt RIOTS. ..... Mr. RYDER said he rose to move for leave to bring in a 13111 on an occasion well deserving the at tentton of the Legislature. He had a painful duty to discharge, in adverting to circumstances which had lately taken place in Nottingham and the neighbour ing counties, disgraceful to the character of the country. He had to assure the Hotr;e, that the hopes which he entertained of their cessation were realised, though n ,1 in such a manner as to extinguish' the fear of their breaking out again. He felt himself bound to bring the subject, before the House, where there were so many Gentlemen competent to decide upon it, and to recommend the best means of check ing such disturbances. It was notorious to the House and to the country, that the dwellings of individuals were entered by armed men, who destroyed varieties of machinery, and cat tied on a system of riot border ing upon insurrection, in a manner which never he lve had disgraced the history of this country. The fist intimation which Government had of their pro ceedings was on the 14th of N ovem b er , when appli . cation was made to it by the Hipi Sheriff and Ma gistrates of Nottingham for military assistance. A troop of dragoons was ordered to proceed to that place in consequence. Things immediately became quieter, but on the 27th the scene was changed again, and the Lord Lieutenant of the county signified his apprehensions that the same disposition was likely to extend to the counties of Leicester and Derby. From the 140 of November, to the 19th of Decetnber, be, tween 800 and 900 cavalry, and 1000 infantry, were ordered into Nottingham ; a greater force than Lad ever been employed on a similar occasion, In the latter end of December the prospect again becami more favourable, and there with reason to supporA that, partly from the military force r and partly 1r0,04 a better system of police, the rioters were suppressed but again they broke out, and "two additional rep, meats were sent. to the at . ststonce of the nailitary • force. He wished the House to understand that ' military assistance was never refusel. It was in stantly granted on the same day on which it was applied for. On the '23d of January he received the depositions of witnesses, taken in that place, and the object was to lay them before the Attorney-General, preparatoty to sending down a commission to ay such persons as might be takca. lie had dispatched Mr. Couant, an intelligent Magistrate, to ascertain ' the best way of proceeding, alai muff° all the ! informatiln he could. the next step resolved upon ' was, to recommend to his Royal Highness to issue a `proclamation, Wieling a reward for the apprehension i :led prosecutien of sueh as were concerned in these. riots. He allowed that it was a doubtful step, and each as was never before reser ted to, but he conceiv ed was fully justified by the urgency of the case.—. His view at present was not to answer charges brought against the Government, but to explain all the steps that had beets tried before he procee.lei to the extremity intended by his motion. The progress of those disturbances was most extralrdiniry, not- i withstanding the assistance that had been given.— They arose between the workmen and the manufac turers. The machnes they destroyed were not the property of the persons in whose houses they were, but were hired out by the manufacturers, or by per sons who made a sort of trade of hiring them. He believed it might have been the c Ise, that some of the owners of the houses in which they were kept were accomplices, which would acccunt tor the cir cumst.nce of so little information being o!nained, and so few apprehensions effected. The whole sys tem was carried on with the gr.ettest secrecy and ' management. In many ins:ances the machinery was broken without any no:se, when the military were in sight, and in one instance when they were wahin a hundred yards of the !itemises. It happened at aro tiler time that five or six persons Were placed outside a village to prevent all ingress and egress, whi;e 30 of the party destroyed all the frames in the place, and escaped without the knowledge of any person. These acts required legislative interference. One of the causes to which he had heard them stscribrd was the great employment afforded at the period of the speculations to South America, and the subsequent falling off, which about two years ago Freduced great distress, aided since by the interruption of trade it had produced those consequences. Whatever ground of complaint the workmea mieh. have against their emp'qyers, it was impossible to countenance such a manner of redress, by which whole families were driven to ruin, and which threatened to chive the manufacture's (tom the county of Nottingham. The only question was, sVbether it was not right to avempt a legislative enactment? • By the 28th tithe King, the breaking of frames was made a simple fe lon), punishable with transportation. His intention was to make it capital. He was no friend to the in crease of capital punishments, but property must be protected. He did not rest his proposition on the Ifrequency of the offence or the difficulty of the de tection, but on the necc , sity of keeping down the spin it. He quoted the opinion of Sir Matthew Hales, to shew, that when offences became enormous and dangerous to the State, they should be punished with death ; and stated, that from six to ten thousand pounds worth of property ea.. destroyed by those tio u:us individuals. There was another measure which he should introduce, to enable the Lord Lieutenant of the county and five Justices to calla General or Special Sessions in times of ills urbence, for the pur pose of sweating in Constables and Petty Constables, and choosing from persons of about '25 years of age, a sufficient number to establish watch and ward.— He might be tsl.l that some of this was law already, but it was I.IW which had fallen into disuse, and some of the provisions would be found to be new. When he stated that he was sanguine in his expecta tions from it, he went upon the representations of those who were likely to form a judgment. 114 had the effect of establishing watch and ward, the diAtur bailees would be put an end to. The Right Hon. Gentleman then moved for leave to bring in a Bill for the more exemplary punishment of persons guilty of frame-breaking. Colonel EYRE (Member for Nottinghamshire) seconded the motion of the Right Honourable Gen tleman, assured as he was by most of the judicial persons in the coulty of Nottingham, that it was the only measure which could .be really serviceable.— However severe the enactment, if effectual, it would be humane in consequence. For the very parties who were engaged iv the work cf derruction, while they were still injuring the property of others, were still mote seriously injuring themselves, as they anni• hilated the means of future occupation. Notwith standing every possible effect, the outrages had exist ed for many months. The Magistrates of the county had exerted themselves to the utmost ; and he must do the Government the justice to say that they had most readily come forward to second their efforts.— They had acceded to every request of the Magis. tracy ; they had ordered various anJ considerable bodies of the military to march to their aid ; they had lent them the assistance of several active and skilful Police Officers ; but such was the existing state of the case, that unless the offenders were detected in the act, it was next to impossible to apprehend them. I Mr. J. SMITH (Member for Nottingham), con-I ceived the disturbances, if not opposed, would be most dangerous. He did not agree with the Right Hon. Gentleman, that they arose in consequence of the men being unemployed. One of the great causes for complaint was the mode in which the misguided men were paid, and because they did not receive wages adequate, as they supposed, to their support. The mode of payment by the masters was, in some cases, by linen-drapery goods, shoes, it m, and provi- , lions of various sorts, which they estimated in value at much less than the twenty shillings to which they might be entitled, Other causes were to be found, as the manner of measuring out the work, and there were cases in which individual maeufacture's op pressed the workmen. If these combinations were not put an end to, considerable dangers might arise. With respect to the penalty dr death, he thought the difficulties of conviction would be increased, if the Legislature were to impose so capital' a punishment 1 for offences of the kind now alluded to. The Ho , pourable Gentleman expressed his thanks to the Right Honourable Gentleman, for the zeal, abi, lity, and solicitude which be had shewn to preserve the peace of the town and county of Nottingham— The Magistrates,of the town of Nottingham had wi sed themselves with a degree of gnaw' and vigour dit—and -es : ed ::: ::4 1 1 i 1.1 which reflected on them grtat ere tints had also contributed their assistan ce to quell th, in spirit th e o fr town,iot w c h o i cnltrahi containing g so unhappily abouticn sops—which town he was free to confess WAS in a state of the deepest distress. Indeed he never saw in aay town so much of distress and misery —( flaw, Afa r , . 4 With such a population, the exertions of the Magi o tracy li id kept the puldic pe ice, and it was uttparal. lele..i. that th..y lase su done. 'rise betaking of f rown was 0 it done by Large: mobs, but br vu . or «,,, some . inn s three or lour, wl:u went in the dead df Right to commit those tinlaw fill acts, ;Ind thereby escaped tli t u•most vigil nice. Th., interp, , sitiow. of the I.egid a . ture became highly necessary. Mr. C. WYNNE. thought enquiry negilit to pm. cede the interference o: the Legislature, and was • thcrefotc d'spoied to prefer a Committee, before t'e rno.ioa for leave to bring in the Bill was agreed to,— Enquiry would show the misguided men that the ell. of the Legislature was r.ot removed from them ; and it they had grievances to complain of, those ries?. :wets wouli be redrt:swd. Btivre he could emus! to make new enactment; of a pc:la' store, he m ost be satisfied the ;Teo nt Statutes were inside:k at to the purposes fur se:: ;:h th..s , were framed. Colonel FUN KLAN 1) adverted to the moth of Elisabeth. in reference to the striate was t h e • subject, and panegyrised the abilities i f Bacon at & 1 hales h, Members of the Legislature, which pa sse d the motto.% under circumstances slot dissimilar oh!: the present state of the county. He wished it to be recollected, that the House was called upon no t to make laws for the preservation of Ole proper t y o fi, ‘ dividtuh merely, but for the general security of the ; State. The necessity of Legislative interference was 1 manifint ; because, with All she assiduity and v i g i. lance of the Magistr acy, they had pot been able IS put down the disturbers of the peace entirely. Mr. VECK u as against delay. The depredaticeo • complaiwd of were done by armed persona. That ? t ciictimstance would, in his opinion, t ,, tally supersede ! the necessity of inquiry. Beside., it had spread through some of the midland counties. Mr. SHERIDAN was reluctant to originate bills which went to extend the Penal Code without mai. ous,enquiry. It must be recollected that the speedos in Gentlemen would go for nothing I but py re .mittee was appointed, and they made a commending the extens'on, then Nye House wro4 have Lulli.:km auth,srits tip which to act. He con ceived there was groat blame somzwhere in pernat., , ring the disturbances to arrive at such a height. Mr. H. MARTIN, tic a magistrate of the mot/ of Loicester, declared, that every exertion bad best used ta put down the disturbances within the cousty where not a single frame hid been broken . Ile bnej some information w.-ti'd be laid on the table tope tify the extension of capital punishments. Mr. BABINGTON was perfectly cnniinced, whatever was their object, that the system of Wei. ing the lolv was prevalent, and was extending through some of the other counties. He was dispo ed to vote for the appointment of a Committee to enquire into the facts, the report of which alight smn be mode. It might be necessary to pass an Act of the name now proposed, hut then he thought it di .uld only be a temporary one, to meet evils which only was of a temporary nature. He had no objection to the second Bill, even without the form of enquiry. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER imagined there could be no objection to the dill at proposed by his Right Hon. Friend, for a watch and ward, with an instruction to the Committee to extend the provisions i f it to such parts as to them s'..oeld appear most proper and necessary. No Gentleman had suggested any doubt of the ezisrence of the era complained of ; therefore, when it was proposed to have a Committee to enquire, he thought it was a pmpos:tion which was not necessary to be entertained. ,No practical good could be derived from the appoint mein of a Committee. He agreed with the Hirano. rable Gentleman (Mr. Babiagton) that the Ball should be of a temporary nature, and that the House was not called upon to legislve for posterity. Witt respect to the illustrious names mentioned by his Honourable Friend (Mr. Frank land) he much doubt ed whether, when those great men legislated, there was that general notoriety of facts which subsequent times afforded. The objects of the present meisuie would be to correct the evils oad to produce that state 'of tranquillity so much desired. With respect to what had been stated by an Honourable Gentleman as to the mode of payment to the workmen in yob. he thought serious inconvenience would accrue if the Legislature was to interfere. Where there was dis tress appat en!, it would be the most unjust way to pre scribe by law to the manufacturer the mode of pay ment, which would have the effect of inducing :hem not to engage on any terms, Mr. 1V Hal 3 R EAU contended, that it would he unjust to entertain the Bills without a previous in : query. He could not consent to multiply the penal statutes ; and the question was, whether the Os already in force were not sufficient to retest t'ic crime ? It WAS not a very light matter to esoct the penalty of death, and if a Committee was Fo. pose. , he should readily concur in that mucks -I.'here Was blame originally attaching to the depaft anent which should have taken cognizance of the rim- He was the first to call the attention of Parliamere to the subject. He was happy now to add his teak mony of applause to the conduct of the Right H o Secretary, who hid done his duty in a most exemplar,' manner. It was also a justice due to the Magistroel to say, they had done their duty in the same iname.f. They had cured the evil in the town; but out 010 town there were not the same facilities for vigilancri 1 and there might be the necessity for a watch arg th ward in the county. He agreed with those ' 64 thought the laws referred to of Elisabeth, were aK` proach to the Statute Book. Mr. HERBERT, before he could consent m op e° to the number of capital punishments, must I! . _, vinced that the existing laws were insu ffi cient. tx_n there was as yet no pro al t us there had been no 117. on the subject. An Honourable Member bad 601 ' 14 in the course of the evening, that the riots which ban extended themselves so Leicestershire, had been poised by the activity i f the Magistrates. He . ifirm ,a o the House to kno, why the Magistrates of No:, or hAmshire had failed in doing that which the S i r trates of Leicestershire had so succ.es-Pti __. p.lshed. It was therefore his intention, wales soa r other Hon. Member would undertake the * MC‘c NT lie april)trAtlß cg. '.lttS9ll3*r.t'. in - . a V a S S 1 1 1 1 1