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Post, Sheriff of the County, and by all intervening classes, doyen to • money, of redressing the lowest penult ; and it deserved the particular attention of p ublic , of LITERATURE, the House.of giving Constitutional advice to the Crown, should , : Dasurs, &c. (To be exercised by those who were 11 th Sir T. LISTHPRIDGE contended, that the distress sum- •L levoted to planed of was general all over the country, andthat the House • natives of the People. As these fu r : iIE ART& must, before long, take the subject into its most grave considers- heretofore exercised by those Representatives, it was , Lion. He bad heard with surprise the other night what had COVER LES and fallen from the. Honourable Member from Penrbyn, as to the clear that the P e ti t i one r s asked for no innovation, and distress being partial. If there were any owners of property the question was therefore a mere question of fact— ~t 11% t 1 .„ • rose and verse. who were net distressed. it was the Fundholders. And he • o v were tneodembers of that House the Representatives ' ' 'tied ORIGINAL was by no means certain, if the distress of the landed interest '• pith great var i ety of were not attended to, that that property would be as secure of the People? lie was here taking it for granted, - I , ~,, id amusement. A as it had bees. lie implored the House to exert its power to that the Members ought to represent the People, and the People only ; for he rejected a notion which had I t: the evils with which the country was threatened, before obtained some attention in that House, that the Mem. I A 4 w k . dis A il li ng d u t i sco shed yer b ies y t he was too late. ' I ANTIQUITIES After a few observations from Mr. Cuawsst and Mr. L. Kier, hers should represent the Crostin i and the Aristocr a cy, ' . i l as well as the Peopl e . Thi s h e thought a most clan- • 1 ulated to illustrate the Petition, with seven others from the same County, w as re - customs. To the forted to this Agricultural Committee. gerous theory ; and it was at all events absurd to .)' on b e pa id. This Lord NUGIINT presented a Petition from certain respectable ..ebb, and is rarely Freeholders of Aylesbury, complaining of Agricultural Distress, 11: lc , ; suppose that the balance of King, Lords and Com. sews. The Editors and the state of the Representation.—Ordered to be printed. MonS, was to be preserved only in that douse. If it INE ARTS to so. Lord EBRLNGTON presented a Petition from the Town of Cream, in Devnnshire, eomplainipg of Africulusral Dls- were so, it was impossible to say how soon the People i' heir progress. Ns- scape notice. The tress, and praying for a Reform ill Parliament. — Ordered to might become a minority, and there would then be dof the balance. He begged to observe, that fleeted. The Fill- be printed. in the measure he was about to propose, he should r a nd morality ; and The Marquis of TA VISTOCK presented a Petition to the an ea . liticat controversy. same effect from the County of Bedford. It was signed by Q uar t o , containin g 1,400 persons, and they expressed their conviction that although not suggest any new const i tut i on o f t h at H ouse. Not red early on Sam-. they sent their Petition to the h ouse it would n o t b e a tt en d e d 1 P.S•al. 1.“1. •I ......1.• __- _l_ _ . he 3- • 104, - - - AP s , fek /414 - V 7 111 11 ‘1,1111; " /4 !I' .1,11!'11. .1 977 FRIDA NOTICE OF SALE W PRIVATE CONTRACT. x,f ESSR S. J A Y most respectfully announce to the Nobility and the Public, that they have received direc tions ,n DISPOSE OF, at their Ware-rooms, POLAND Hoes; the :11-:1,.t of l'olantl-street and Bread-street, Golden-square a truly Unique and Costly Assemblage of FURNITURE a nd: EFFECTS, as follows ; First—Beautiful Specimens of Buhl in magnificent Armoires, Cabinets, Tables, Pedestals, India Cabinets and Stands, &c. Second—An extensive Assortment of Bookcases, Escritoires, Sofa, Card, Pier, Console, Writing, Ikjeune, Centre, and other Tables ; Sideboards with Brass Galleries and Branches. Third—A Suit of Drawing-room Chairs and Sofas covered with Velvet, with a variety of Sofas, Lounging Chairs, Win dow Scats, &c. A NEW WEEKLY LITERARY J: To-atoasow, April 27th, 1822, wiU be published, London, and is. if sent free by Poe , THE M US EU M; or, Record of Y Fuss Awrs, Somas, Auxuatoesn, the T be continued Weekly.) This work will be devoted Ist, GENERAL. 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ON VIEW TILL TIME OF SALE. they sent their Petition to the House it would not be attended to. They had for a long time abstained from Petitioning for this reason; but they thought it right to state their grievances once more. They did not expect that the Minister would ho at all affected-by the account of their distress, as it would in so degree operate to lessen the power which he possessed, and which placed him beyond the controul of that House. They, were of opinion that he was never likely to abandon that power for the benefit of the People, and that Reform alone could give to them their rights. The Noble Marquis would as sure Ministers that this was the language of the whole country. They would say that the property of the country, and the re spectabk portion of the inhabitants, were in their favour; and if by that they meant the Noblemen, Gentry, Clergy, and others, who had an interest in upholding offices and taxation, be believedl they had a majority in their favour. But if they looked to a substantial body, to the commoners of England, to those whb had yet something to lose, and who were not supported by the taxes, they would find the general sentiment to be in unison with the prayer of the Petition. He wished them to go to any County of England and meet this body, and they would find how much confidence was placed in them. Those whom they had been accustomed to coerce, would teach them a lesson widely different from that which they seemed to have learnt elsewhere--( Hear, hear). • Mr. BPQUERN said that, after the energetic manner in which the Petition of these 1,400 inhabitants of Bedford had been supported, he trusted that he might be allowed to say a few words in behalf o! the remaining 90,000; and he believed that the sentiments of the great body of that number were in direct contradiction to those of the Petitioners. With regard to the Meeting at which this Petition was agreed to, he had re ceived letters informing him that every means had been used to exclude thwe who were opposed to its object, and that coma hies were stationed at the door, who would not allow such per sons to pass. As a specimen of the impartiality of the proceed ings, he had been told that the only speech delivered on the other side of the question was dismissed by the Reporter in four, lines. He bad reason to know and to lament that the distress of the people of Bedfordshire was very great, but they did not wish to mix ep politics with their difficulties. The great majo rity of the County of Bedford, as of all other places, undoubt edly considered taxation to be grievous, but they considered it to be the price of their redemption from foreign thraldom— (Cheers).--1-le thought the main cause of distress to consist in the system of the Poor Rates, and, until that system were looked manfully in the face, he expected no permanent or sub stantial relief. I ; I .' iirders for thisPaieilw 111 be received by Mr. MILLER, 69, Fleet Street; Messrs. Simpkin and Co. Stationers' Court; and all other Booksellers in Town and Country. It may also be pro eared REGULARLY by giving a GENERAL order to all Newsmen, Postmasters, and Clerks of Roads, in the same manner as for any Newspaper, Magazine, lee. All ADVERTISEMENTS are requested to be sent to Mr. Miller, 69, Fleet Street, or to the Printer, A. J. Valpy, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street; where also COMMUNICATIONS ad dressed to the Editor may be sent. 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DEILY, from the only Copy of the Process left by Dr. James in his own hand-writing, which was deposited with their (3 randfut her in 1746, when he became Joint Proprietor in this ce lebrated Medicine. Its efficacy in cases of Fever, and all other 17.fiammatory Complaints, is too well known to require any ob servation. Powd•:r and Analeptic Pills are sold by Messrs. Newbety, AT - rii E ORIGINAL WAREHOUSE, No. 45, in St. Paul's Church- yard, by their appointment at J. Sau ger's, 150, Oxford-stret t. The Genuine have, as usual, the name, " F. Newbery," en graved in the Black Stamps. DR. SA 'POWDER, AND ANALEPTIC PILLS. VHE I'ublic are respectfully reminded that the A. Sale of the above Medicines, invented by my grandfather, Dr. James, is nattered frays the fide ?!r. Ne.ebery's, to the house of Messrs. Butlers, where they can alone be had gmnine. It becomes the more necessary to recall this to the mirols of the tathe Sonsef ing lute .41,nt are now rending compositions if their own monvfaciare, as Dr. James 's Medicines ; and from the length of time Newhery supplied with the Genuine Medicines by my family, purchlstrs may be led erroneously to !t:ppuse, that that supply is still continued. To guard against the ill effects of spurious Medicines, purchasers are requested to observe csrt that every Box of Pills and every Bottle and Packet of Powder, now &ors a Bed Government httemp awl e .Label signed with my name. K. G. G. .1 A Al Sold by 'sutlers, Chemists, No. 4, Cheapaide, St. Paul's ; and '220, Wpm -street (near the Argyle Itooms), lanitlon ; 20, Waterloo-place, Edinburgh ; and 34, Sackville-street s Dublin iad by the principal Medicine Venders throughout the United Ab.h:gdom. Mr. MABERLEY moved for Returns of all Clerks ap pointed to civil offices since the Ist of January, 1816. Also for Returns of all Clerks who had retired upon allewances since that period.—Ordered. Sir R. WILSON called the attention of the House to the severity exercised by the Excise towards individuals who sold preparations from wheat in the form of powder. He held in his hand one of those preparations which was called " Medi cated Powder," and he understood that this, as well• as other similar preparations, had brought prosecutions upon the persons who sold them. Ile thought these proceedings most cruel, and of no service whatever to the Revenue. lie moved for Copies of all Instructions given to the Solicitors of Excise fur prosecu tions in such cases. After a few words from Mr. 11. Davis and Mr. Lusunrcvor, the Returns were ordered. Mr. HUME moved for an Account of all Patents, granted within a given period, for Printing Machines used in the service of Government or any other establi,:iment. Also for Returns of all Stationery supplied to the Irish Government Offices by Sir A. King, *ith Copies of the Invoices delivered with the same.—Ordered. Mr. H. G. BF.NN ET gave notice, that he should shortly move that the evidence taken before the Opthalmic Committee be printed. Mr. I'ELIIAM presented a Petition from the County of Lincoln, praying for Parliamentary Reform. The lion. Mem ber stated his opinion that the landed Interest of the country was not duly represented. Sir R. HERON had been present at the Meeting, and al though some good and loyal persons might have been alarmed at its numbers, yet he could assure them, that they exhibited none of the dreaded signs of sedition, and that they entered the Castle-yard in most constitutional confusion—(A laugh). The inhabitants of the County of Lincoln were almost all engaged in agricultural pursuits, industrious, and contented with tiara. lot ; they formerly did not interfere with politics. But now they saw that all propositions for retrenchment were scornfully re jected, and when they saw the distress which surrounded them, they united with the common voice in tailing for Reform. As there would shortly be another opportunity for him to deliver his sentiments upon this subject, lie should reserve himself, and not detain the House further at present.—The Petition was or , dered to be printed. NEWFOUNDLAND. Sir J. MACKINTOSH seeing the Hon. Under Secretary for the Colonial Department in his place, was desirous of put ting a question to him. lie had upon a former occasion men tioned that he had received certain co:nmunications from some of the most respectable inhabitants of the Island of Newfound land upon the subject of some defects which existed in their I louses of Legislature. He wished to know„,whether it was the intention of Government to bring forward any measures fur remedying these defects? Mr. W I !mar could inform the Hon. and Learned Member, ' that it had been the intention *f the Government to have pro posed measures for the purpose he had mentioned, during the present Session. But the Governor of the Island had intimated a wish to have some personal intercourse with Govirnment be fore such a step was taken, and that was the reason of the delay which had occurred. lie could assure the Hon. and Learned Member, that the earliest opportunity would be taken fur at tending to the subject. Sir J. MACKINTOSH said, that after the explanation he had heard, he was content to leave the matter in the hands of Government,who were better able to manage it than any Mem ber could be, and because anything coming from them, stood a better chance of success with the House. AuRICuf,TURAL DISTRESS. Sir W. LE'AION presented a Petition from the County of Cornwall, complaining of Agricultural Distress.—Referred to the Committee. Similar Petitions were presented from the eastern part of Sussex, and from Oxfordshire. Mr. HILL presented a • Petition from certain Noblemen, Gentry, Clergy, and others, of the County of Salop,. praying generally for relief front existing distress.—Ordersd to be printud. Mr. RA MSDEN presented Petitions from Rotherham and three other places lu Yorkshire, complaining of Agricultural Digress._ Mr. M AIME presented similar Petitions from the County of Norfolk. Stouter Petitions were presented front Radnor, and from the liondled► of Wallington and other parts of Devonshire. DIA L. KECK presented a Madan from the Cv..rtfy of • Mr. F. PALMER was present at the Meeting in question, and denied that constables prevented any one from entering the door. The reason why the Petition was not more numerously signed, was, that the Meeting was called at two days notice; and there was another circumstance which also prevented many signatures from being added. The Under Sheriff, after the Meeting, put the Petition in his pocket, a situation in which it was impossible for any man to sign it—(A laugh)—and kept it there for the whole of that evening. During this time the Free holders were running all over the town, looking for the Petition, and nobody could find it. With regard to the speech that was omitted, he was sure that the Gentleman who reported th,• pro ceedings suppressed the speech out of pure consideration for the young man who made it. • . - After a few words from Mr. M'Quxxx, in explanation, the Peti:iou was mil, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Mr. COKE presented a Petition from the Owners and Occu piers of Land in the Hundred of Oarrew, in the County of Nor folk, complaining of the distressed state of Agriculture, and pray ing Relief and Reform.—Ordered to lie on the table, and to be printed. __ _ PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. Lord JOHN RUSSELL then rose and said, he had to call the attention of the House to the great ques tion of Parliamentary Reform. He should move a Resolution that the state of the Representation re quired the serious consideration of the House, and if he should be so fortunate as to carry that Resolution, he would move for leave to bring in a Bill to effect some alterations on that subject: Although he felt considerable anxiety on the subject, it was not from any fear that the question itself would fail to engage the attention of the House. He was aware that it was a question which, if carried, involved in the opi nion of some the ruin, and in that of others (who he believed were the majority) the salvation of the coun try. He had, therefore, no doubt that the subject would engage the interest of the House, but he feared the weakness of the advocate might prove detrimen tal to the cause. The question had obtained the con sideration of men of the greatest talents ever produced in this country, and on that account alone he should be discouraged from taking it up, had he not in some measure served an apprenticeship to the cause of Re form. He had always, however; preferred supporting' the Reform of others, to the putting forward of his own. Yet he was encouraged to bring the subject forward this Session in a general shape in consequence of the advantages of our national situation. We were in the possession of external peace and internal tran quillity, and the time was therefore most favourable for the calm deliberation of the question. Petitions had been presented to the House on this important subject from various parts of the country, from seve ral counties and many large towns ; and as the Peti tioners did not insist upon any exclusive plan of Re form, he thought they were particularly entitled to attention. To shew that the doctrine of Universal Suffrage had lost many of its supporters, he had only to refer to the fact, that, at a late Public Meeting, when the venerable and respectable advocate for that species of Reform proposed a motion in its favour, no one was found to second it. This, he thought, skewed a dispcitition on the part of the Public to accept such a measure of Reform as the House, upon deliberation, , should be disposed to grant. He now came to exa ‘ that he thought such a suggestion would be abso lutely wrong, but merely because he thought the evils complained of might be removed without so extensive ,a measure. In order to ascertain a cor rect answer to the question of fact with which .he had set out, namely, whether that Houie did or did not represent the People ? he would examine the state and condition of the People on the one hand, and that of the House of Commons on the other.— The former, he would shew, had materially Changed, while that of the latter had remained stationary. The accordance, therefore, between that House and the People had been destroyed. If he proved this posi tion by the statement of acts done by that House, which it was impossible could be done by those who really represented the People, he thought it irresistibly followed that it was the bounden duty of the Hot .e to set about a reformation of the evil. The condition of the People had changed most essentially in the last forty years. The first distinguishing sign of change was in the increase of wealth. This had increased the importance of the middle orders, who were the most respectable of all. They were equally removed from the extremes of poverty and idleness, the former leading to positive crimes known to the law—the lat ter inducing to every species of vice. The middle classes, indeed, formed the safest pillar of the Consti tution. Another remarkable change, though it might be called an evidence of the increase of wealth, was in the growth of our manufactures, which had risen from an annual average in 1792, of thirteen millions, to one at present of forty millions. The great in crease in the home consumption of British manufac tures was particularly deserving of notice, that con sumption amounting annually to twenty-three mil lions in the article of cotton, and seven in that of wool. It was to be fairly inferred from this circum stance, that no inconsiderable part of our population drew their subsistence entirely from manufactures. But the most prominent indication of change, and that calling for the deepest attention, was that of the extraordinary increase of intelligence among the People. Intelligence had increased in a degree far surpassing that of the increase of our wealth, and li terary talent had been so much encouraged, that it was known that one eminent author had received no less than 80,0001. for the profits of his works. He had ascertained, on inquiry, from a first-rate bookseller, that his house disposed of five millions of volumes annually, maintained sixty clerks, paid 5,0001. a year for advertisements, and gave excellent employment to 250 book-binders. Circulating libraries in the me tropolis had increased in number since the year 1770, from four to one handred, and in the country there were upwards of one thousand. There were two thousand book clubs in diarent parts of the king dom, which were the means of diffusing infiama don in all directions, and upon all subjects, The circulation of the two leading periodical Re views, the Edinburgh and the Quarterly (boll' writ ten with considerable ability), was as great as that of f all other periodical works combined, at a retied of not more than thirty years back. And to shew how science was finding its way into, and was Invited by the humbler classes, he had only to state the fact, that a friend of his was able to obtain, at a petty shop in the town of Inverness, a scientific work which he could not procure in the city of Oxford! his friend being told at the latter place, that works of that na ture were never obtained by booksellers unless they were previously ordered. The spread of intelligence 'was materially increased by the Lancastetian and Na tional Schools, and by the publication numbers of cheap editions of the most considerable works of his tory and genius. He observed that Hume, Button, and several valuable Encyclopedias, were in a course of publication in numbers, at sixi.ence each. This facility to the dissemination of know ledge, it was true, had received a check by an Act passed in the year 1812—(Hear, hear! from the Opposition, an steered by the Ministerial Benches).—Another great stimulus to information was in the Bible and Reli gious Tract Societies, which published four millions of publications annually. All thee circumstances tended to shew the material increase of knowledge among the middle and lower cla sses . B ut t hi s know ledge hacl taken a political turn, as niiht be col lected from the increase cf Newspapers, for a return relating to which he had some time since obtained an order of the House. That Return, though'at pre sent incomplete, enabled him to state, that-twenty three millions of Newspapers were circulated an nually in England and Wales. The Noble Lord here went into a detail, showing, in the amount, that Newspapers had doubled in number and circulation witlith clue cs last thirtyi y ti e n r,s. would now pro cee d whetherPaienunent had altered so as to represent this ma ease of knowledge on the part of the People. That an exami nation o f qu a to examine i this nature was absolutely necessary, cou ld, be ;t !~i . i, ~; i i :t