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----r-~ ~.~ . •• • • 411 • • . ,~~.: ~ _ . • ' , -- • ,:,. ..a1 .....-..... ' , ........ • 11 1 1P 1 1. tb P - -•-.? Ac . . ,:k...*.,. , I b .., , itj ~ L TO BE SOLD BY PRIVATE CONTRACT, IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. SEVERAL POST-OBIT BONDS, for Sumo varying from THREE HUNDRED to SEVEN (THOUSAND POUNDS, payable upon the decease of Aged Persons. For particulars apply to THOS. TOOKE, Esq. Solicitor, 41, Stamford-street. April 16, 1831. PRIVATE TUTOR. AVACANCY for a Pupil is now open in the Family of a MARRIED CLERGYMAN, resident twelve OWL'S from London. He can offer the most satisfactory references to Noblemen and Gentlemen, whose sons have been under his care. Letters to be directed for the Rev. H. 0. to the care of Mr. Searle, Bookbinder, 77, Lower Grosvenor -street, London. ADVERTISEMENT EXTRAORDINARY. AUTHENTIC RECORDS of the COURT of ENG LAND for the last Seventy Years, collected by an old Associate of Royalty ; in which are detailed many Curious and most I m portant Circumstances, embracing Scenes and Transactions that occurred at Curzon-street Chapel, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Brunswick, Bath, Claremont; also, in Italy, Lake of Como, Pessaro, Brandenburg House, Windsor Castle and Cottage, Brighton, Sudbury, &c. &c. &c. forming a Complete History of Events of the most ex traordinary character and of the deepest interest, and which have never before appeared in print. HIGHLY INTERESTING INFORMATION ! ', CONGREVE'S GOLDEN BALK" TUT UST cratnonox TOT TIM FUSIZILT, U OF TNT UTMOST CHILDREN CUTTING THEIR TEETH. THIS remedy possesses superior advantages to all others, in counterandng the dreadful effects arising from painful den. dtion. It is a well known fact that many thousand children are car. tied off annually, at this important crisis, in fits and convulsions.— No antidote hitherto introduced for alleviating the distressing paroxysms endured by the tender infant, at this period, can boast of equal merit. It cools and comforts the gums; assuages the most violent anguish consequent on their inflammation ; and its demulcent properties to soften and render elastic these acute parts as generally to produce the teeth In their regular order with incredible ease and ra pidity, without constipating the bowels and exciting other baneful ef. frets ; by which the necessity of lancing the gums, so pregnant with dangerous results, is entirely superseded. The fond mother, sympa thizing with her tender offspring in its writhing agonies, will be lost in astonishment at the value of this discovery. It is introduced at the lowest price by the Proprietor, from the pure intention of rendering universalbenefit to this class of sufferers, who ever claim our warm est sympathy. The following Letter will prove it is "rhe Mother's Best Companion for the Nursery.' ----- No. I, Queen's Row, Palmer's Vi ll age; Westminster, Nov. 7, 1830, Si a—ln hopes that a ll parents will try the same remedy, I have thought it my duty to inform you that your Golden Balm has wrought the greatest wonder in my Child, aged 7 months, in taking one bottle only. I cannot describe the agony site endured from her gums before its use. Night after night she deprived me of rest by constant crying, and nothing seemed to give her a moment'e ease, and I was often afraid the would expire in convulsion Sta. Her gems sae very hard, and much swelled and inflamed. She had wasted away to a mere shadow. But, Sir, only judge of my astonishment ! A few drops rubbed on her gums gave her immediate case. I applied it two or three times a day always with the same effect ; her bowels, which were very costive, be. came regulated ; and I thank God the child is fast recovering its flesh, and strength. She has since cut two teeth with considerable ease. In writing this I perform a duty I owe to you and the public. Your bumble servant, Witness, Sarah Raeford. MARY CARTER. The above article, and the Balsamic Elixir," as stated below, an prepared by the Proprietor, Henry CongrevP, 30, College-street, Chelsea, with the greatest care, from the original recipes, his Lae father having been a medical man of very respectably, extensive, and suc cessful practice, during a period of more than a quarter of a century. The public may confidently rely on their intrinsic value, which, in private practice, and since their public introduction, have been de veloped in an astonishing degree. Sold in bottles, at 13/d. each, by moat of the respectable wbgbiesale and retail Medicine Venders in London and the United Kingdom. From whom may be bad, CONGREVE'S BALSA Al IC ELIXIR, so justly celebrated for the cure of Coughs, Hoopla: Cough, Shortness of Breath, Asslunas, and all Disorders of the Chest and Lungs, for which it is an infallible remedy ; price Is. I id. 2s. bd. and 4s. td. the bottle. N.B. None are genuine unless signed by the proprietor, in his own name, " H mar Cowoaeva," across the Government Stausps. CHILDREN'S CO I IFOIIT.—Mey will not suffer from the HOOPING COUGH, and their TEETH will come through easy, nor will they be afflicted with the Wind, Convulsions, or pain in the Stomach, by using Dr. 3IYERS'S DENTITION SYItUP, which acts like a charm when the child is in pain with cutting its Teeth; and the Syrup, rubbed • few minutes on the Gums, immediately relieves the pain, and it' often used the Teeth come through easy. Children are in gener al afflicted, while Teething, with pain and wind in the stomach, convulsions, &c. In short, it is a fact that Mothers and Nurses are often mistaken ; for when a child is cross or uneasy, they imagine it proceeds from pain of the Teeth ; but by rubbing a little of the Syrup on the Gums, and giving it half a tea-spoonful to drink, it will befound of great benefit if it proceeds from any other cause, and has proved of greater benefit than from any other remedy ; and, by mixing often a teattspoontul of it in the child's food, it will be found of great benefit. In short, nobody ought to be without it where children are; for if a child wakes in the night in pain, either with its teeth or wind, or pain in the stomach. by rubbing a little on its gums, or by giving it a little, will immediately rind relief. It is also the best and most simple remedy torah coughs of children. from the tooth cough to the hooping cough. Even grown persons will find it the best remedy for colds, coughs, end astlimathic consumption; also persons who have short breath will and great relief by taking half a table-spoonful now and then. It is actually the only remedy for tender and .bad nipples, as the Syrup is so healsome, innocent, and pleasant, that if a little be put on the nipple before the child is put to the breast, It will immediately suck it, and wiU prevent the nipple from breaking, and if broken it will soon heal it. CAUTION T 0 Paartars.—There are other Syrups selling for the use of children while teething, which arc generally prepared with Syrup of Poppies, or Opium, or some other slow poison. These make chil dren, it is true, quiet for a little while, and drowsy, and as if it did thtm good (though they are inwardly convulsed); but mothers and rums should not be deceived by any of them. Such is not the ease with the Dentition Syrup, which is prepared from a prescription of the late celebrated Dr. H Myers. who particularly recommended it for children. Indeed, several parents have declared, since they have used the Dentition Syrup for their children while teething, that their teeth came through so easy, that neither the mother nor nurse knew it; while, before they had recourse to ir, not a tooth came through without con vulsive fits. In fact, mothers will not do their duty, or have proper feelings towards their dear babies, if they do not purchase a bottle of the Dentition Syrup tot a trial, as it also prevents the agony that in fants suffer while teething. It is warranted of so innocent a nature, that it may with safety be given to all infants ; and is so pleasant that no child will reject it ; and the proprietor will not only be obliged, but will thank all who have the care of children, to show a bottle to their physician or medical atteo dant, that parents may be convinced of its efficacy and its innocency, :red that it is the most valuable medicine ever discovered for babies what: teething. The following case is one out of hundreds, which will convince ma. :hers that they should have the DENTITION Srau P always in the aurssty, where children are :-..-Mr. Hankee, No. 193, Great Portland. `tart, has a remaekubly fine boy: when about six months old, hit fa tar came with the utmost anxiety to Mr. Prince, No. 9, Poland-street, Ir. the month of July, 1825, and begged for God's sake to let him have quick a bottle of Dentition Syrup, as his dear boy was dying with con. tuitions, through his teething, and would no t t a ke a ny no ur i s h ment . Mr. Ha nkee has declared, that as soon as he took it home, and had his child's gums rubbed with it, and gave it a little to drink, according to the directors, from that moment it began to recover, and has been re peated whenever the child was cross: he is now a fine boy, and his fa ther has oaten declared that be really believes the Dentition Syrup has saved his child's life. Be particular to ask for Da. MYERS'S DENTITION STAMP, at 2s. 'hl. a bottle, or 8 bottles for 11. Sold and prepared by the Proprietor, Prince, 9, Poland-street, Ox ord-street ; Sanger, 150, Oxford-street, opposite New Bond -street; 'rout, 229, Strand; Johnson, 68, Cornhill; or of the Principal Me. licinc Venders. s t• Forwarded to any part of the Country, or to the Continent, by ,nding a remittance. Direct to the Proprietor, Mr. Prince, 9, Poland. •tteet, Otiord.street, London. Keep in a ll climates--the older the better. M e rch a nts and C a ptains ill receive liberal allowance for exportation. Fur the convenience of Merchants and Captains in the City, who have et any particular Wholesale Perfumer or Medicine Vender who serves them, and it is not convenient to come to Mr. Prince, 9, Poland-street, by giving their order to Mr. Johnson, 68, Cornhill, it will be executed, ••, Mr. J. has it in his pow: to give the tame Discount as the Pro prietor allows. _ CAtTION.—As there are spurious in circulation, be particular and 43erve, each Bottle has Prince on the cover and seal, and the Pro krictor's name, A. Prince, 9, Poland-street, Oxford-street, London; waltout it, is not genuine, and to imitate it, is felony. THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 21, 1831. N°. 13,764. TO NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN. FLETCHER, Military Tailor and General Clothier, A.M. 35, New Bond.street, favoured by the sanction and patronage of many Noblemen and Gentlemen, who have condescended to notice his exertions whilst uncles an t to a very eminent West.end House, where his opportunities of acquirement have been of the most extensive character ; and believing that Gentlemen are every day be coming less influenced by a mere name in the choice of their taller, when it can be sufficiently attested that they may now obtain their clothing upon such terms, which, when compared with any other First. ate Tailor's, will prove what great economy may be elected in that bomb of their expenditure. Fifteen per Cent. deducted from the Credit Prices for Cash. The following wale of Priors is owslidently submitted s Credit Price. Cosh Price. L s. d. L s. d. Dress Coats, Sheer Black Ditto, ditto, any other colour." Great, or P'rocl Coats, Blue se Black, skirts lined with silk . lB 6 4 18 0 Trousers, Blue or Black 1 0 0 1 14 0 Ditto, any other colour Waistcoats A Suit of Livery complete 5 0 0 4 5 0 A Stable, or Working Dress 1 9 0 1 4 6 Reghnestals, ticc. on equally advantageous terms. Gentlemen are invited to look in as they pare by, and exercise their own judgment ; or, by addressing a line per poet, will be punctually waited upon. A CARD. STRICTURES CURED BY AN INTERNAL MEDICINE. ENOU'S URETHRIC POWDERS are an effectual 1.%) Remedy for Stricture and all Diseases connected with the Urinary Organs, [Aver Complaints, and general Debility of System. Pr, pared only at 15, Wakefield -street, Bruswick-square. Sold in Packets IL 2s. each, or Five Packets in one for 51. and may be had of Messrs. Barclay, Farringdon-street, and Mr. Dicker, 235, Strand. See " Practical Observations on Stricture and other Meares of the Urethra," describing an effectual mode of cure by an Internal Medi cine, and proving the application of Instruments unneceseary and ge. nerally productive of Injury ; also, on the Origin, Symptoms, and Treatment of Stricture in the Rectum, by Ur - ILLIAIt REirou, M.R.C. Surgeons, London, published by Sherwood and Co. Paternoster-row, Price 3s. fid. POLAND. To convey to our readers an account of Poland in its ancient integrity, and as it ought to be restored, we copy the following from a Geographical and Historical Dictionary of temporary population, published in London in iti94 : Poland, called by the inhabitants Polska, from the word Pole or Polo, which in the ticlavonian tongue signifies a plain, is an elective kingdom of Europe, that comprehends the ancient German &math, and the eastern part of Germany, towards .he Vistula. It Is now much greater than formerly, because Lithuania and several other provinces are united to it ; for befope it was but burly what we called the Chest and Little Poland. It has Aluscovy and Tartary to the east, Transylvania and Moldavia to the south, Germany to the west, and to the north the Baltic Sea, Livonia, part of White Itunia or Blu.cory. ft may be divided into the Cheater and Lesser Poland, in which last stands Crewels, the capital of all the kingdom. In Great Poland are the cities of Posnan, Kaßich, Cinema, &c. Be sides which, it canpreherds the provinces of Mambo, wherein arc Warsaw and Plunk° = Cujavia, wherein is Übrlislaw, Royal Prussia, that takes In Dant:le, Silting, &c. and Russia Nigra, with the cities of Leopold and Prczmyst. Lithuania, wherein are the cities of IVI Novogrudeck, Minsk. tee. is divided into Vulhynim, which takes in tire cities of Luck*, Kiow, &c. PM°!la, where is ofteleek, Etc. Platria, In whirl, stands Berne!, end Bsmogitia whose capital is Met:Aki. This kingdom may, moreover, be divided into 94 Palatinacts, cad , Palatinate having Crate Hans under them, that in the whole aunt'y amount to the number of 87. There are in it two archilishouricks, which are those of Onesna and Leopold, and fifteen bishopticks, several ahbies and universities, as Craeovia, Royautnont, Konigsberg, Zanioski. &c. The air of Poland is very good but piercing, the soil very fertile but woody, especially in Great Poland. It has silver and irou mines, wine and excellent fruits; abounds in honey, wax, venison, fowl, wood for building, heaven, otters, elks, and such other wild beasts; copper, lead, iron, and e.ipecially fine steel. The gentry are tall and strong, manage their fauchons with much addrcu and dexterity, and arc both learned and liberal; but yet fierce, proud, obstinate, and jealous of their liberties. This obstinacy and jealousy of their liberty has often given the Tartan and Muscovites an opportunity to over.run and destroy a great part of their country, and was the reasou why the King of Sweden, with an army of forty thouiand, reduced to the last extremity, a country whose lust armies generally surpassed 2u0,100 fighting men. For their misunderstanding is such, and the authority of their prince so little, that before the diet is assembled and the gentry come to a resolution, the enemy have time to do what they please, there being no place of strength to put a stop to them until they come to Warsaw. The Polanders are good soldiers, especially the cavalry, being armed with a coeliac, two pistols, an hatchet at one side and fauclton at the other, with a quiver lull of arrows, and a bow behind their backs, which they niake use of after they have discharged their fire.arms, when the enemy runs. They are great travellers, faithful, eliging, and civil to strangers, magnificent in their cloaths and entertainments, which are frequent among them. They use a great quantity of saffron, spice, and sugar. In their manes they pretend to a great deal of devotion, fast Fridays and Saturdays, but will be drunk, and fight lustily on those days. The peewits are the porest wretches in the world, having nothing in pro Fer, and being subjects to lords that treat them worse than galley. slaves. The noblemen have power of life and death over their domes. tics and peasants; and if a neighbour kills a boor, it is but paying the price he is rated at, and the business is made up. And whereas in other countries, a nobleman is said to be worth so much a year, here he Is said to be master of so many slaves, who work hard, live on little, ant'. dwell in pitiful cabins, daubed with mud and covered with straw. Their chil dren play, era, and sleep, with the pigs, whilst the father snakes use of Ibis horse's manger and coris.stall for table and bed. There are no inns in the country. The gentlemen, when they travel, lodging with their friends, or being treated by the boors, who are obliged to entertain them ' upon such occasions. If any of the gentry happens to be taken prisoner, the king is obliged to ransom him. Their drink is beer and metheglin. They drink nu water, because it stinks in Poland where it stands in the plains. Their women are of short stature, very simple, yet want not good manners. The men are somewhat jealous, and entrust them only with their nearest kindred when they ate In the wars, or absent from home. They speak the Selavonian tongue ; besides which they all speak Latin. The first duke of this kingdom was I,echus, who began his reign about 550. His posterity continued in fourteen descents to Micislaus, or hilesku, who began to reign in 964, and who was thy first Christian duke. lioleslaus, the sou of dlicislaus, received the title of king from Othu, emperor et Germany, when that prince visited the tomb of St. Adelbert, who was killed by the Prussians. This king left 3licislaus 11. the father of Casimir 1. to whom his son Boleslaus IL succeeded. This last, surnan.td the Cruel, put to death Stanhlaus, bishop of Cra covia, whereupon Poland was deprived of the title of kingdom until Primislaus was chosen King in 121f5. Lewis, king of Henget y, chosen after Casimir the Second, left two daughters, the youngest of which, called dedurige, being declared Queen, married Jagellon, Duke of Lithuania, who thereupon became Chris tian, and took the name of La dislaus IV. and united his territories to Poland in 1380. He bad for successors Ladislaus V. Casimir, John, Albert, 1. and Sigismond 11. which last dying without issue ice 1572, the Po landers chose Henry Duke of Anjou, son to King Henry 11. of France, who was ciowced there in 1674, hut coming to France to succeed his father Charles IX. in 1576, some of the electors named Stephen RA thori Prince of Transilvania, rod another part Maximilian Archduke of Austria, which occasioned a war, wherein the first got the better ; but dying without children in 1586. Sigismond 111. son of Job', King of Sweden, was put upon the throne in 1587, and alter his father'. death took possession of the Crown of Sweden; but the Swedes re voked, and chose Charles Prince of Sudermania, Sigismond's uncle, made war against Poland, and possessed themselves of Riga, in 1626 : Sigismond died in 1632. His son Ladislaus succeeded, who dying in 1648, John Casimir was chosen to succeed him. He voluntarily abdi cated the Crown, and was succeeded by Michael Korihut Wiesnoviski, who died lu 1672, and has for his successor John Sobieski, who is the thirty-second King of Poland, renowned for his relief of Vienna. As to Government, Poland is monarchical and sristotratical—mo narchiati because they have a King ; but aristocratical, because this Prince's power is so limited that he cannot, without the consult of the PRICE 71). Senators, undertake any considerable matters. Others add to the two fernier, a democracy or popular government, which is that of the nobles. The Archbishop of Gnome, Primate of the kingdom, has the adminis tration during the interregnum. He assembles the States for the elec tion of a new King, appoints the time and place for it. The King being chosen by the plurality of voices, this Prelate calls him into the middle of the Assembly, and then leads him to the Church. where he 4 swears he will preserve theprivileges of the kingdom, and observe the established laws, which ob bim to do nothing without the a p petite. don of the States. In bus ess of importance the Bing sends by his Chancellor letters, which he calls " instructionis litters," to the palatines, to acquaint them with what he designs to propose to them, and the time that he would have them come to Court. —Upon the receipt of these letters, each Senator examines in particular the nature, quality, and consequences of the propositions, to which he has full liberty to make what answer he thinks salts beet with the public and his own private interest. Ths king leads his letters also into the Palatinates, to assemble the i g eblr r who choose a nuncio, that is, a man of parts and omity to &for the province r, but they must all spec unanimously [a thekr ": r e i foe if but a private gentleman refuses his suffrage, it blade theelactios, and the province troir leaving either tots or privilege in pe states. When these provincial asserubbea are ended, the mom And sundae came to court, where, the king, attended by his chancellor, proposes the thing anew, and hears their advice*. If they all agree, mums reelemante, aniline dissentients, as they speak, things go well. If they differ, then the dict breaks up, and each returns to his home. Among the cities, none hut Cracovia, Dantsic, and Willis have the privilege to send deputies to the diet that sit among the nobles. Thick provincial assemblies being open to the meanest peasant, the enemies of the state never fail to know what is debated in them, to the great ding. pointment of their undertakings. The king's principal revenue consists in the vat-pita near Crawls, in the copper, lead and silver mines, and tribute from the Jews. The crown genera l has peat incomes, and by virtue of his of fi ce, is grand. muter of the !dog's household, grand-master of the ceremonies, intro ductor of ambassadors, lord high steward, sovereign judge, eke. The generals of the kingdom and Lithuania have a sovereign and unlimited power in the field. Besides filiation and Chatelaine, the towns have their burgmves, judges, and magistrates. As to their religion, they were formerly idolaters, and And the same divinities that the Greeks, Romans and Germans did. lbesullisn affirms in his Treatise against the Jews, that the Gospel was peached in gantlet* but we know it was not received in that of Bungle, WIWI L Poland, till the tenth age. The reformation, about 1533, bar es : these countries, hut was never generally embraced. The Gr ee k has some footing here too. But the most general Is the Roam CAC. lie. Gregory Pauli, minister of Cracovia, preached Annaba dem about the year 1566, but Sigismunti Augustus expelled him, together with George Blandrata, Lelio &wird, Valentin Genii, and some others. Fattens Socini, who gave name to the Socinians, came afterwatds, and left his disciples there, who continued till 1660, when they were be.' nished by king John Casimir. _ In a future paper we will introduce a similar article OS modern authorities. DX:KE ON 157. Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state. Thus people, riches, trade, power, change their stations, flourishing mighty cities come to ruin, and prove in time neglected desolate corners, whilst other unfrequented places grow into populous countties, filled with wealth and inhabitants. But things not always changing equally, and private interests often keeping up customs and privileges, when the reasons of them are ceabt:d, it often comes to pass, that in governments, wlwre part of the legislative consists of representatives tt!ln•3en lit) the people, in acct of dine this sepresentatinn be comes very unequal and disproportionate to the reasons it was at tir,4 established upon. To what gross absurdities the following of custom, when reason has left it, may lead, we may be staled, when we see the bare name of a town, of which there remains not so much as the ruins, where scarce so much housing as a ebeepcot, or more inhabitants than a shepherd is to be found, sends as many representa tives to the grand assembly of law-makers, as a whole county numerous in people, and powerful in riches. This strangers' , stand amazed at, and every one must confess needs a remedy ; though most think it hard to find one, because the constitu tion of the legislative being the original and supreme act of the society, antecedent to all positive laws in it, and depend ing wholly on the people, no inferior power can alter it.— And therefore the people, when the legislative is once con stituted, having, in such a government as we have been speaking of, no power to act as long as the government stands; Ellis inconvenience is thought incapable of a remedy. 158. Salus papvli supreme: lex, is certainly so just and fundamental a rule, that he, who sincerely follows it, cannot dangerously err. If, therefore, the executive, who has the power of convoking the legislative, observing rather the true proportion than fashion of representation, regulates, not by old custom, but by true reason, the number of members, in all places, that have a right to be distinctly represented, which no part of the people, however incorporated, can pretend to, but in proportion to the assistance which it affords to the public ; it cannot be judged to have set up a new legislative, but to have restored the old and true one, and to have rectified the disorders, which succession of time had insensibly, as well as inevitably, introduced. For it being the interest, as well as intention of the people, to have a fair and equal re presentati►e ; whoever brings it nearest to that, is an un doubted blend to, and establisher of the government, and cannot miss the consent and approbation of the community. Prerogative being nothing but a power in the hands of the pi ince , to provide for the public good, in such cases, which depending upon unforeseen and uncertain occurrences, cer tain and unalterable laws could not safely direct; whatsoever shall he done manifestly for the good of the people, and J►e establishing the government upon its true foundation is, and always will be, just prerogative. The power of erecting new corpo►ations, and them ewith new representatives, carries with it a supposition, that in time the measures of representation might vary, and those places have a just right to be repre sented, which before had none ; and by the same reason, those cease to have a right, and be too inconsiderable for such a privilege, which before had it. It is not a change from the present state, which, perhaps, corruption or decay has introduced, that wakes an inroad upon the government, but the tendency of it to injure or oppress the people, and to sel op one part or party, with a distinction from, and an ttaeyt•al ouljection of the rest. Whatsoever cannot hut he acknowlcdyedtuheofadvantage to the society, and ;mope in fieneral, upon just and lasting measures, will always, when dune, justify itself ; and whenever the people shall chose their representatives upon just and undeniably equal 'ilea sures, suitable to the original frame of the government, it cannot be doubted to be the will and act of the society, who ever permitted or caused them so to do.—Chap. XIII. of Locke on Government. Meetings were held last night in the Borough, to con cert measures for ejecting an unworthy representative of its patriotic spirit. The cloven foot appeared on the subject of the Ballot ; and the Boronians had originally much faith in their adoption of a man who had retailed, at second-band, all the tales of Arabia as solemn facts. There ought to be no clitilculty in such a district, to find a man of integrity, in whose hands the electors could agree to confide their liberties and public interests. HOUSE OF LORDS, Aran. 20. Counsel and witnesses were heard for Turton's Divorce Bill. Fur ther roar Wings on Monday. The Earl of KINNOULL presented a petition from the noble _ men, gentry, and justices of the peace of Perth, praying for reform. Lord SUFFIELD presented 50 petitions against slavery. Lord AUCKLAND presented 52 petitions having the same object. Sir A. OaAXT and several 'aerobes from the Commons brough; up the Duchy of Cornwall and the Colonial Trade Bills. The Idarquis of LANSDOWNE presenud the petition of the boust bolder, and rate-payers of Castle Baynard ward, in the city of Lundell, in favour of reform. The Duke of GORDON presented petitions to the same effect from Elgin and Rosae. Earl GREY presented six petitions to the same erect. Ft V , \\ 01V' N Api \ CAZt XXV rm. tignamitiqb t 1788. 111LACIki . OF ',lynxes. Lord KING prevented a petition from J. iTlak Imo, printer of the Times, in custody for a breach of privilege. and moved it be read. The petition was accordingly read by the clerk at the table. " To the Right Honourable Lords Spiritual and Temporal. " The bumble petition of John Joseph Lawson, now in custody, sheweth, that your petitioner feels sorrow and regret at having given offence to one of your Lordships, and your Hight Honourable House. Your petitioner b egs pa r don, an d humbly begs he may he so at liberty by your Right Honourable House, and your petitioner will ever pray," &c. Sec. The Earl of LIMERICK repeated his former declaration—namely, that he was influenced by no personal motive in bringing forward this muter . He had cons id ere d t h e paragrap h of which he com plained a puss attack ou the dignity of that house—Having brought It under the consideration of their Lordships, be had done his duty. He did not wish to move for any severe punishment, at the same time he was aware that offenders of this sort had been visited with severe punishment. In 1798 the editor of the Chronic& was sen tenced by their Lordships to a fine of 1001. and them months int iggsonment in Newirate for a libel.—lt was not his denim to pursue That course; but he would leave the ease in the bends of their j elardships. The Bali of MANSFIELD proposed that the petition do lie on the table sod he taken into consideration to-morrow. Lord KIND.—.I conceive after the punishment the petitioner bas suffered, that the better course would be to call him to the bar to Lc reprimanded and discharged. Earl BATHURST suggested that the debate on this subject should be with closed doors. The Earl of MALMESSURY thought the discussion on such a *abject could not have too much publicity. The man might be brought up to-morrow and the question might be debated. Earl GREY did not deny that cases might occur in which it would be proper to debate in secrecy ; but in most cases it was better to de bate openly. The noble earl added that he should have been satisfied with calling the individual to the bar to be reprimanded and discharged ; but he did not object to the proposition for adjourning the matter till to-alert's:lW. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said, a resolution stood upon their journals, by which it appeared the editor of a newspaper bed pub lished a scandalous libel on the house, and he thought the confinement of the offending party for a short time was not punishment adequate to the offence. His hope was, that their lordships would adopt means to discover the author of the libel. " I hope , said the noble marquis (looking hard at the Lord Chancellor), " you will take measures to dia. cover the individual who masks himself. I think, if the individual who wrote this paragraph has any teelinA at all, he must on this occasion have bitter pangs of conscience in his own mind, when he sees your lordships about to punish the publisher, who only obeyed the orders he received from his employers." When he heard the noble and learned lord oo the woolsack address the house on the subject, it appeared to him that the noble and learned lord was an advocate fur the offender, rather than the jadge. (Order, order.) The LORD CH ANCELLOR rose.—" I assure the Noble Marquis, so little do I dread him, that I have no objection that he should go on, and make an exposure of me end himself. I care not one rush 'for him. I would rather meet his charge than his insinuation. I never insinuate—l charge. I know he is incapable of supporting what he insinuates, and I call on the Noble Lord to charge me with something." The Marquis of LONDONDERRY did not charge the noble and learned lord with any thing. No one felt more respect than be did for the noble and leaned lords splen'lid talents, but the noble and learned lord should as* put him down. The noble and learned lord, by his eloquence, could make the worst appear the better reason. The noble marquis described the proceedings on the preceding evening, and oh served that the noble and learned lord (Wynford) had recommended fine and imprisonment. He should beg leave, if necessary, to move we a copy of the effidavit made by the Timis at the Stamp-oflice, for the purpose of finding the writer of the h. He believed Mr. Law son to be as innocent of writing it as lie The LORD CHANCELLOR said he did not knew whether he tti...skt not setivilOrt nu own tttgnity better by abstaining front notice or the observations made by the noble marquis. Under whatever view ho considered the speech of the noble marquis, it was the moat extiaordi nary distortion of facts he had ever heard; but the most serious pan was charging the Lord Chancellor sitting as judge, with becoming counsel for the offender. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY explained.—The words he ut. tered were—lt almost made him believe the noble and learned bold was counsel for the culprit. The LORD CHANCELLOR.—My lords, I believe that this is the first time, and it may be the last, that I have called a noble peer to order, and I know not whether I should not best consult the con venience of your lordships and myself, if I took no notice of the speech of the noble marquis. But I must set myself right in some few par ticulars. The noble marquis has accused me of acting as counsel for the offender. The Marquis of LONDO NDE RRY.—No ; what I said was, that your lordship wok that course which almost induced me to believe that you were counsel I r the offender. The lASRD ('HA NCELLOR.— Well, good arguers, like the noble marquis, have got a way of wrapping up their meaning in words little capable of being understood. I ant a plain man, and will state to your lordships, without any of the semi-professional subtlety of the noble marquis, about what I really did yesterday. The noble lord is p er f ect l y right in allowing no man to prevent him discharging what he conceives to he his ditty, and far be it front me to say anything that would tenth in the smallest degree to make him retire from his duty in Parliament. But I wish, if the noble marquis has any charge in connection with this subject to bring against me, or any other member of this house. lie would come boldly, straightforwar dl y, and manfully, and put it in such a shape as that I can meet it (Hear, hear.) The charge of the noble marquis would almost make your Lo ctshipa believe that I had acted as counsel fur the culprit. (Hear, hear, hear.) — The noble marquis has found it very convenient, however, to give but an imperfect account of what I did say; and I am in the judgment of the house, whether I did not state, that whatever might be the advice I should feel called npon to give your lordships, that it was a case ab. solutely clear against the offending party. The result of my experienc e is, that the discussion of the privileges of this house tend notin g to support its privileges and keep up its dignities. But, my lords, that I should agree foe a breach of privilege of this description, that a man should be sentenced to pay a fine of 1001. andimptisowed tine months, would be utterly impossible. Before I did so, I must lave the matter well sifted. I could never agree that an individual should undergo such punishment, who had been tried by no jury, who had had no counsel to take up his defence, but merely on the sug gestion of a noble lord, who thinks proper to get up in his wet and make a complaint against him. If such things were to be al lowed, every individual in his Majesty's dominions would no doubt he liable, on the application of a noble lord, to be sent to New gate, and confined interminably. If the 'noble marquis thinks at is a matter of course that his majesty's *objects should be sent to prison every time they were charged with a breach tirprivilege, he and I must argue that point. For these reasons I, a Mend of the privileges of this house, and an enemy to any thing like a breach of them, trust your lordships will have the prudence and the discretion to pause ere you give, in so solemn and grave a manner, your lordships counten ance to ouch questionable proceedings. He repeated, that he was a friend to the privileges of the house, but could not consent for such a breach of privilege as that brought under consideration, to line a man 1114 IL and send hint to prison for three months. They might go on upon such a course of proceeding until they made the House of Lords an Inquisition. He would not admit that they had the right to proceed in that way. lord WYNFORD said he had not spoken of fine and imprison merit. lie had spoken of fine, and no imprisonment unless the fine was withheld. In that 011ie the party must remain according to the practice of law until the tine be paid. The Marquis of LA NtsDOW NE proposed, that Mr. Lawson should be °nitre(' to appear at the liar again to-morrow, then to be repel 'winded, and afterwards discharged ; but should any ooble lord propose Ito carry the proposition farther, it should have his decided opposition. Earl GREY, woo spoke almost inaudibly, was supposed to say, that discussieee on such subjects aid not enhance the dignity of that house. Lord '1 ENTE It DEN said. that when the court of common law or tkreti a fine to he paid, it invariably accompanied that sentence by order ing the party to be confined till it was paid; and he could not conceive but that both the houses of parliament had the same power. The power was given for the sake of the public at large, and if the houses of par liament had not the power of vindicating their privileges, there would be an end to all good order. The LORD CHANCELLOR was surprised to hear the bird Chief Justice of England declare that Parliament had that power, which bad been disputed in the stoutest periods of Parliamentary privi, leges. This was a disputed power. Let any man bring forward a motion, and the Noble and Learned Lord might be able to persuade the House that they had the power, but if be did, he (the Lord Chancellor) should feel himself mistaken. If they had the power, the very circumstance of the Noble Members of that House being the Judges of their own cases—not always the most ca/m, temperate, and