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Tie Coals must be of the description denominated Adair's ~, Eighteen Moor. or of Coals equal in quality and goodoess, Till W required to be delivered, tree of every expense el ls, Kireo duty. either on shore or into vessels or craft at -lice he the River Fbames, and at Faversham, or at any Port A S ace in the River Medway, and also at the Port of Little syrriar• In the County of •usser, as may be required rother Particulars, together with 'be Terms and Conditions the Cinitrae , may be known at the Secretary's Office in Metl aforesaid, any Day between the Hwurs nf 'Fen and r e'Llock, where the Propu•als must be delivered seated up etidernal " Proposals for Coals;" hut no Proposal can be ;td after the saki 28th instant, at twi lee o'elieck at noon of sine day; neiiher will any 'Tender be noticed unless the twitting% or an Agent in his behalf, shall attend. By Order of the &aid. R. X. CRAW. Seersters. PARLIMVENTAIir PROCEEDINGS. the country. sad they could not find employment in it. The Honourable Baronet trnsted that this Peti• tion, united with the many others that had been pre sented on the same subject, would iihiuce that house to take the prayers of so great a pr. portion of the people into serious consideration, and that those Pe thinns would ultimately accomplish for t!.e nit:en a radical Reform of the Commons House of Parliament. Sir N. COL'I'HURST begged to hear his testi mony to the orderly conduct of the Nleeting wi:ich had agreed to this Petition; but he could not say any thing for the respectability of those who had sighed it. Petition read, and ordered to lie on the Table. HOUSE OF LORDS, M In a Committer of Privilezes, their Lordships took into consi deration the claims of Lord Brandon, to vote at the election of Representative Peers for Ireland, arc. which, alter going through the usual ordeal, were allowed by the Communes, anti a Report ordered to be made to the Haute accordingly. The House then resumed, and after prayer& were read, Counsel (Mi. W c rnekALL, At. P.) was hear! at the Writ of Error Case, Sir John St. Auben, Bart. • the Attorney-General of the Prince of Wales, as Duke of Cornwall.—Further heal-Pig to take place to morrow. The lottery Bill was brought up from the Commons by Mr. Recovex and others; the London and We•tmuuter Coal. meters' Ibil, and a few private tine, were preeented by Sir JAIIIES GitAliAll and others; and were all severally WO the first time. On the ntetinut of the Earl of HARD ir1:10E, a Menage vat ordered to he *eta to the Cornmous, requevlur the attrodattev of eertaui klembers of that Mutat uu their Lurdohtpe Committee on the Po.,r't, Lawn. LOTTERY ACT. Mr. LYTTELTON presented a Petition from Sarah Park, of East Smithfield. milliner and dress maker, complaining of great abuse under the Lot tery Act. Police officets, on the oath e t a Jew in- I:4r, named Solomon, entered her apartments in of papers, totiching illegal transactions re spatting insurances in the Lottery ; some were found thine, having been conveyed thither for the purpose. Shedinew nothing about them. She was tried for the offence, and on •the oath of Solomon, found guilty, and sentenced to two months' imprisonm-nt. About three weeks afterwards, the perjury being made ap parent, she was liberated; and the Jew was indicted for the perjury. Solomon had remove.) the indict ment into the Court of King's Bench, by a Certiorari. Under these circumstances she prayed the relief and interference of that House. The Honourable Mem ber said, he had taken pains to inquire into the cha racter of the petitioner, and he found from the repre sentations of the Overseers, that it *as unimpeach able ; and the case which the petition unfolded was only one of many offences that might be noticed, and that were encouraged by Lotteries, which still had the sanction of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and of the House. 3ONS OF THE CLERGY. MR ANNIVERSARY MEE I'ING of this Vi.cul.nt MELVILLE presented a Copy of the Navy -. Esti. ma:es fur the current Year, pkrsuatat to a recent Address of the House, which were ordered to be laid on the table. The West India Trade, and the Navy Bills lutenist Bilk, gemed through Committees., the whole Hoube ' and were-reported. The remaining Bins upon the table being respectively for. warded, an Adjournment took place. HOUSE OF COMMONS. A Petition was presented front Aberdeen against tie Cottage fax. General THORNTON postponed Ms Motion respecting the Public Whipping of Women, till Thursday, Juae Mr. CUR Vette presented a Pruitt in tram William Lekeeton, engineer, stating, that he held discovered a method to ensure the Safety of the Boilers of Steam Ensues praying to be examined by a Committee of the Hou s e.—R e f er r e d to the Committee on tee Steam Packets. Mr. CURWEN presented a Petition from Trowbridge, pray. ing a revision of the Poor Laws..—Referred to the Committee on the Peor Lave. The Lords' Amendments to the City Gas Lights Bill were read and agreed to. 'fbe Returns of the Application of Queen Anne's Bounty, since the last accounts, wets presented, sod ordered to by on the table. General FERGUSON presented a Petition from Cupar, Fife abbe, praying for such Reform in Parliantent as that Hume, as inyestigatlon, inyestigation, should deem best; but the Petitioners dee med some Reform to be absolu.ely necessary, espetially after the measures recently enforced in spite of the People's opinions.— Read, and ordered to he on the table. _ _ _ Mr. BENNETT said, that he also had an oppor tunity of observing the gross abuses which prevailed under this system, and be thought it unworthy the Ministers of the Crown to sanction a measure capa ble of such abuse.—The petition was then read and ordered to lie on the table. 4 " • ••• • " 7 . 1 ▪ Ni fe k i 0 ; :hi rtzt. vro cr;* :5!1 1 seri , Wet 4 the d . fse r d, re d. To-r , behre Did j .l l the P.c Ni Ariel mum * C:mbr Tafotr h r.tf lk :Ivor Lr. C • tl Dr. PI • ‘k test' INISoff Istro tylps N: t • Oh Um , nit wAre the s, use VI It i ;lain by thi th ploye used Posed Th the in • the 1 1, theß dities 01 4 ' niter etMrt p*ck.t the tr the pi tim those the e (whit to giv he en bottl e Low e duns tity ti To gdant and y prop° reasm at wh Th tiso ) sevet r ;piny tunna adept trade tie u NIJ SUStai tot CI pay t n it aitid beside all 6, let it Price be lb Bottii it 10 1 klaci Bu of tht it can that ins '1 cow,. tees, ' "'lope tine ruin, to s, ;he t •.1 . CHARITY will be In the Cathedral Church of Sr. Paul, the Cittl of. May ; urban a Sermon will be preached 'we to Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, his Grace the rl, clibisbop of Canterbury, their liordship. the Bishops, the t Finn the Lord Mayer, Sheriffs Albs[ men, Cle. g• , &e. by ![7. Laurence Gardner, te.G 11111:Tioterni Curzon Chupei,and Avant Morning Preacher at St. George., Hanover square. jj'EWARDs.-His Royal Highness the DUKE of KEN I', gt keit 11.11 the Earl Verulam, the Right :lon. the I.otd yrior, tih. Hon. Mr. Justice Burrough, Francis Zlitton, Esq 'itanc.:l,vabey, D.C.4-.Chancellor of the Diocese of i:ochatt-r, ree. J.111:e. Wood, D.D. Vice Chancellor of the Univsrsity of ,*ledge, John Archer Houblors, Esq. M.P. George War sat 0:or Esq M P the Rev. Thomas S,kes, A.M. Vicar of Guile- Nortliantp.on Jake; the Rtv Harry Powell, A-M. lee ' Fs./ hionidon,Esks ; Stephen Guider, John Marks, John W Wain Meredith, and Lancelot shadrrell, Esqrs. Music vri.l tonal*t of the Overuse of Esther. Mr. Hans Grand Deft:risen Te Deism and Jubilare, with the Chorus the " Hallelujah, for the Lord God Omnipotent ...eh," an Anthem composed on purpose for this Charity, by ll,yce, and Mr. liandeFs Grand Coronation Anthem. That to be conducted by Mr. Grestoree ; Leader of . the Band, Ware.— -*The Tickets tor the Cathedral and for the La. Mtechanr 'faylors Hall to be had grans., of Messrs. Nur. and hell, Booksellers, Bond-street ; Hatchard, ts.rs Piviegrens, St. Paul's Church-yard; at the First Fruit, en.ple; and of Chants Bicknell, Esq. Spring-garden or. she Srcrrtary to the Stewards, by whom benefaction, Chancy wilt bt thankfully received.—Doors open at to. .he v hole of the Collections at St. Paul's and Mgr. qiegie Hall will be appropriated by the Stewards in Ato 1.1,i the Children of necessitous Clergymen. N Ttli. SioNB BOTTLES plat' BILL. TO THE EtHIOR OF THE STAR. !any Ariel vations on the tendency ot the proposed tor t ling a dirty of Ss. per cwt. on all Earthen , Bottles under the size of two quarts, as far as ,irae will affect Blacking Makers and others, who these la tries. is uneerstood that the Glass Bottle Makers corn , that they are injured in the sale of their bottles, the Clay Bottles not paying duty. But the fact , that glass bottles never were, nor can they be em ployed for the purposes to which the stone bottles are principally applied ; seethe, tan the glass bottles be for these pnrpos.s, even should the duty be im posed en the stone ware. The only effect-that can be produced by-laying on 'proposed duty, will be to ruin, to a certain extent, Potters who make the bottles, and to Thin entirely Blacking Makers in London. For the commo - of the latter can only be made portable by ern sing bottles able to stand the rough usage of alters 'and a hirfingers—since the low price of the - ..tmodity admits only of the coarsest and cheapest pickages as crates, old baskets and t ' ike. Indeed, trade cannot bear the expense f• kages fit for protection of glass bottles. Na s t diminu of the potter's trade, together - ‘• the ruin ot trades which can only use slob ,bottles, be only public loss ; for a great q lily of salt licit pays a high duty to the revenue) is employed Jere them their glazing in the furnace. Thisaleiretill ae entirely lost to an extent far beyond what the stone bottle duty will bring in ; whilst a number of people employed in the manufacture of salt, will be thrown out of employment in proportion to the quail thus ceasing to be demanded. L'o this it should be added; that a considerable qdantity of Blacking is now exported to foreign parts, `d yet this trade must be entirely annihilated, if the Pivoted duty is laid on, when we consider that one :taunt of our possessing that branch is the cheapness which the article can at present be exported. The coals employed in burning the stone-ware yield in duty a considerable revenue. This late will be lost, and - the number of sailors re suited for the transport of the coals, as well as the tunnage, will be reduced in proportion ; without any adequate increase of revenue from glass, the Blacking trade being ot such a nature, as entirely to exclude `* use of glass by way of substitute. :hr are these the only evils which the revenue will sustain from any reduction of the Blacking Trade ; the articles chiefly employed in the manufacture high duties, as the Oil of Vitriol, Vinegar, Stegar, Sealing Wax, Cori:, Paper for Labels, and other ttides which areas. Bret known only to the makers; licks the great revenue paid in Advertisements in the London and Provincial News-papers. Besides, be observed, should any rise take place in • the -of Liquid Blacking, and which must inevitably 4 the consequence of an advanced duty on Stone Bottles, the country people would immediately make lot themselves, and thus the manufacture of 'king would we entirely destroyed. Dot, above all, and setting the individual interest the Blacking Proprietors quite out of the question, tnnot well escape the notice of the Legislator., the Pottery Traue must suffer with the Black -6 Trade, and also that numbers of persons will coni , •quently be thrown out of employment, as Pos. Workmen, Clerks, and -Agents of various kinds, iperred all over the country—a circumstance at any to be deprecated, but peculiarly so at tbe present menu, altest Covet lament ire obliged to apply tot sanctio:. t Parliament to measures for assistiosi. unemployed Poor.—.l remain yours, very truly, RICHARD TtIMUSR4 Blacking Manufactory, 11 I, Lcn4on JiTuad, boutlawark. . - Mr. H. A DDING TON pmented Lord Sidmouth's Circular. and the apeman at the Law Olken uj the Crown.—Ordwal to be printed. The High Coostabk's Remuneration Bill wet read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Thursday. The Newfoundland Marriages ILU went through a Cc.nunit. tee.—Report brought up, and ordered to be taken into farther, acoashieratwa en Friday next. INJIILTN REFORM PETITION. General MATHEW said he had a Petition to present from the inhabitants of Dublin, signed by many thousand persons, praying for a Reform in the Representation of the People; but - previously to pre senting it he would say a few words. The Petition was couched in sound, energetic, and Constitutional language; and it was from the once wealthy and commercial, but now impoverished and depressed Capital of Ireland. After the late decision respecting • the Catholics, it might be considered almost useiess to approach • but the Petitioners were not without 1 1 hopes that ;he voice of the people might ultimately induce that House to attend to their prayers, for a more perfect representation in Parliament. They beheld mixed with the representation. a corrupt usur. pinion of the peepk's rights ; and that ill-fated coun-. try, part of which be represented in that House; felt the sad effects of the defective state of Parliament. The consequences were seen in a ruined agriculture, a destroyed commerce and trade ; and in a degraded nobility, an impoverished gentry, a famished people, an insolvent trade, and a bankrupt nation. The Par bament of Ireland had voted for an hereditary union •—a vote that they had no right to give; but that vote was obtained by corruption. He was prepared to prove, if the House afforded him the opportunity, that the Members, at the time of the Union, sold themselves. Some sold themselves for Places and •Pensions; others for Bishoprics and Archbishoprics; even the Judgment-seat did not escape the influence of corruption; and others b .rtered their country's condition for honours and ribbons, which would hang around the necks of the possessors as long as they lived, the badges of their degradation—(Hear, hear). The Petitioners, amongst other things, prayed fur Annual Parliaments, and they had great authorities and extensive practice of the. Constitution in support' .of their claim. The authority of Justice Raymond' was great and decisive, and the Bill of Rights de. dared, a declaration that was agreed to, that there ought to be frequent Parliaments. But the establish. ment of the Revolution had been disturbed by the '1 • Septennial Act. That Act was avowedly only for a temporary purpose. The cause of the Act having teased, was it right to continue it:! They had now no Rebellion to dread: there was no fear of any re bellion but in the imaginations of a weak and pusil lanimous Committee, and a corrupt Ministry. The desire of keeping their places alone induced them to raise the alarm of Jacobinical conspiracies, to frighten the Nobility and Gentry, and persons of landed pro perty, into the support of the Administration ; and they succeeded in frightening those who were ready to believe in every old woman's tale—(a laugh)—or in gun-powder, pop-gun, or tmarnaanusa plots !—. (Muds laughter).—All things tended tustiew the ne cessity of Reform aad be implored them not to for. get what had been impressively auo truly stated, that it would be better for them to promote Reform within, than to expose themselves to the danger of Reform being attempted from without. The Petition was brought up, read, and ordered to lie on the Table. coax RUCIRM PiTITIOII. Sir F. BURDETT presented a Petition from Cork, for Reform, signed by 10,000 persons. The disuesi of a vast portion of the inhabitants of that city' was unequalled by any thing that had ever be . L uxe been known I and they mainta i ned that a Re 'form •of Parliament would remedy those evils in' the bistro* which had brought about the present calami. tons state of affairs. The condition of many of the inhabitants was deployable; they arm. unable to have PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT felt himself placed in rather a singular situation in bringing before the House the motion, which he felt it his duty to bring I forward, and of which he had given notice, respect ing Parliamentary Reform. At any former period to supporling such a question, he should have con sidered that he would be doing sufficient it he h id presented to the House such proofs as would make it clearly out to them that elections of Mem bers of Parliament were not such as, according to the spirit and letter of the laws of the country, they ought to be. At any former period, it he had proved that elections,, not in one or two instances only, were carried err in a manner which was most improper, and which in its nature combined every thing most hostile to the Consitution—if he had made such a position good, he should have considered that their was sufficient reason fur a Reform; if he had made ' out that gross corruption prevailed, he should have, thought that h. had done alt that-it was his duty to do, and had :hewn enough to cause the people's vie , veneer to be taken into consideration. But he now felt himself peculiarly situated ; for about that which would have been looked upon in former times with horror by all parties—about that practice, of which the knowledge of its existence would have formerly been sufficient to have caused all to agree that there was a necessity for the application of tome remedy, anew doctrine had arisen; and it appeared, that what had been considered formerly as indefensible corruption, was now the proper means of carrying on the Government of the country. The House and the country were unblushingly told, that the corruption which existed was necessary for the conducting of the Government; and that what had been formerly ima gined the seeds of disease, and the marks of the de cay of the Constitution, the people were now told were the seeds of that tree whence the Constitution had originated, and that they were essential to the practical Government under which they ought to live. It might be considered singular that he should come to that House with the question—indeed, mere appeared something contradictory in a person's coming to receive, or to demand redress from those, of whose offences he complained. He could not, however, help believing, that when the House came to consider the general voice of the people without their walls, and the vast number of petitions which ' had heed laid before them,, that they' would not en. tirely torn a deaf ear to'their complaints. When they considered that more petitions had been presented, complaining of the great grievance of a detective re-, presentatioo ; that grievance from which all others Mad sprung, irons which they wished to be relieved ; when they recollected that more of those petitions had been presented lately than there ever had been presented on any subject at any former period, he could not suppose that they mould be entirely ne glected. When on formes occasions motions had been made similar to that which lie intended to lay before the House, it had been said the people could nut desire a Reform in rarliatnent, for where were the petitions which ought to have come from Manchester and from 13irmingham f There had this year been petitions presented, however, from all the places, the silence of which had before been adduced against Reform; and the House had before them petitions signed by perhaps a million of people. However, the House might consider the complaints made as well or ill grounded ; however they were to be in the end reMedied or rejected, he hoped they would at least think it rather indecent not to consent to inati• Lute some inquiry upon the subject. He thought that the subject of such complaints should not be consi dered as wild and visionary, as such as rational peo ple never thought of, and that never really had ex istence. What the people wanted, however, were looked epoo as the objects of new•tangled ductriucs. The principal of those visionary theories was that of annual Parliaments, which was looked upon &sot wild motion never before heard of. He wondered how Gentlemen could have been so far misled as tear, to have considered that as the old and establisheil course. It was plain.that in the earliest periods. . it was delivered down by authors, and as it had beta known even by tradition, that bad been the constitu tional practice, and tl.e use of our ancestors for cqn turies in this country. But it might be said, that that, was not of great importance to the question, which, in reality, was not what the Constitution had been, but what it ought to be. It that doctrine, however, was found to have its origin in remote antiquity, he considered that a complete answer to those who took upon themselves to say that it was new and unheard of. MIA doctrine was found to be the practice at and before the time of William the Conqueror, by ' tradit:oa as well as by what had been written by au thors of the earliest times. Andrew Hail, in 11:s Mirror of Justice:. had sai I, that Parlietneets were a year, and that it Was the King's defy to call thenr often. The Writs run Is weivie. and is deed it generally happened in a country like this, that three were often dill - lc-airs of various kinds to encounter and to remedy. Thus the Ho he nad evi dence that Parliaments had heen asseml:leltwice a year. It the House found Edward the Confessor to have followed such laws as would be seen to have been followed by a reference to his time, and that William the Conqueror had becon:e Kiog of Eng land, and had sworn to obey the laws, they would find great evidence for annual Parliaments. If, however, it was said, diet William the Conqueror was a perjured man, and infringed upon the laws of the country, that would by no means show that the people should give up their claims to their rights, and that they should surrender those liberties to which they had always through all history been seen to be so much attached. From Henry 111. even to Edw. IV. the House would find evidence in favour of an nual Parliaments. They were, considered the pro per Parliaments of the country. There were some. times such gross abuses of the Constitution that some Kings had been dethroned, and the Governn.ent had not always been according to law, and certainly thine times were not to be taken into precedent. The House knew, however, that laws had been decisive that Pariiaments should be annual. In the reign of Edward 111. an Act had been passed, which enacted that Parliaments should be annual, but then it should be considered what had been the practice in the early part of our history, and the House would find, that through the whole of h s long and glori.aus reign, than which a more brilliant period could not be found in English history, Edward die Taira was in the habit of annually conveni ig h s Farl‘aments—s (Hear, hear.) The law was not that the 1 artiament wrould last for a year, so much as that the King should not go a year without a Parliament, and that as soon 14 it bad done its business it should he die s .Ived. Some Parliaments were even elected fcr shorter time than one year; there had, indeed, been some times two in a year, sometimes three, .:rd there we, an instance of there loevoig been five new elec tions in one year. When, Vied, he saw that that had 'been the practice of old tim,s, and when the people claimed to have what had been the practice restored to them, he thought that he had a right to contend, that the Kiug ought not to prorogue the P 'filament to what extent of time he pleased, but that it was in). perious upon him that the period of prorogation should be less than one year. There were persons who had written with very great research upon the subject, and from them it would be found, that from the earliest times down to the Mei year of Henry VI. the Parliaments had been freely elected, and had been elected twice, or even thrice, in one year ; and there was no evidence whatever of their having been continued longer than that period. Proceeding with the history of the country, the House would then come to the period of the civil wars, which was cer tainly a period from which it was plain to every wise man no precedent could be drawn, for those were times when Laws and Constitution were but little regarded, and when fence was the ruling power in every transaction. It was true, that from such a period little could be deduced; but even then he was astonished to see for how short a period Parliaments had been constantly held. Though the ehuse of long prorogations might have been establidied, their were not touch empli,yed till the time of Henry the Eighth. When that hlonatch wished to get divorced from his Queen, and when he had quarrelled with the Clergy and the Pope, with the iiitenti , al nt cot. bling him more readily to carry through the diveree, and that great measure called the ftelarmatioo, he kept a Parliament undi sso l ve d f or fi ve y ea: s , ai d Was the first instance that a Peoliament was konele to last so lung A time. The ream for a Parl.ameht being kept together for so hiiig a period was obvious; it WAS a determination to carry through such mea. sures as were not in conformity with the will and pleasure of the nation at large. The King interfered to give an object which was not agieeable to the will of the nation, and kept together that let of men whom lie believed willing to give him greatest sup port. Bishop Burnet had said. that the King had taken great pains, and bad used great means, to flat ter that Parliament, and that he had got together such a set of men as would be most willing to prose. cute his purposes ; that he had kept them assembled till they 11.1 d passed time two great measures—case di. Treace, and, what was then called, the plunder of the property of the Church. Religion, it appe: red, was then used as a cloak to political schemer, as it was „ ow employed fur other objects—(l/, ; ? r, luac, /..mar.) When the House arrived at Edward VI. they w rata find that ihotector Somerset had kept, for purposes of his own, a Parliament assembled fcr five years. Queen Mary then came to the throne, ohoee rigs had been so much abused ; but whoever looked into it would see, perhaps with notch surprise, that the Catholics, when they came into power, smastieg under all the plunder which had been made of them,