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Tills day Was published, in 4to. price XI. 1.5 s in boards, THE FIFTH VOLUME of Dr. LINGARD'S HISTORY of ENGLAND; containing the Reigns of the Queens; MARI- and ELIZABETH. Printed for J. Mawman, Ludgate -street. Of whom may be had, the Four preceding Volumes. him, that the People also had a vested ieterest it:obtaining jut- ' lice at as cheap a price as possible. With respect tp jleprivieg the High Bailiff of a vested right, he undersiood' Nit to be a bankrupt Alderman, put into the situation for the purpose of , supporting him. The House seemed disinclined to hear any thing upon the subject ; and they would go to the vote quite es well informed upon this as upon many other subjects on which they decided. Mr. SUMNER opposed the Bill, at all events for the present. Mr. 11. G. BENNF.T said, the qdeetion here was, would the House sanction the payment of £l4OO fees upon the recovery of a sties of £l4OO, when the suitors to the Court were all me chanics and poor men ? Mr. LITTLETON thought at least the house should allow the Bill to go into a Committee. The gallery was cleared for a division, when the numhars were—For the second reading, 114-Against it, 2-Majority, 111 , . Mr. BRIGHT asked the Solicitor General when he Intruded to bring in the amended Insolvent Bill? The SOLICITOR-GENERAL replied, that in a few days he should submit a motion on the subject, baying had consul•a dons with deputations frnm the principal mercantile town., stating their views upon the subject. Mr. BYIIG presented a Petition from 'tessera' inhahltams of Islington against the Sewel• Rates Bill.—Ordered to be retcrred to the Committee thereupon. Sir G. HILL presented a Petition from the downy Treasurers of Ireland, preying for increased remuneration for their services. Sir J. NEW WPOR nppnied the prayer of the Petition. He considered these persons were already sufficiently remunerated. The Petition was read and ordered to he printed. Sir G. HILL presented a Petition from certain persons in terested in the Cotton Printing trade in Belfast, in fiiivour of the comineance of the Union Duties, and avian the repeal. The Petition, after a few observations from Mr. Cu tie - es; (who pro.. nthed to introduce an amendment to the Ilia when it was to b: brought before them), limititT, the continuance of these Duties to the year 192 e, instead of 1829, was rend, when Mr. SPRING RICE hoped that care would be taken of those persons' interests who had a large stock on hand, pursuant to the pledge of the late Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir HENRY l'A It NELL addressed the House in favour of the repeal of those Duties. Sir JOHN NEWPORT concurred in opinion with his Honourable Friend who spo!te List. The House certainly ought to have a leaning towards that party which had some right to consider themselves the weaker party of those whose interests were concerned. his Right Honourable Pried (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) would take the subject Imo consittcntion whim au opportunity offzred for the further rcpeal of texts. • • Colonel 11.16 WELL said there was nothinj which pressed more heavily on the poor ea• frelantt than this tax. He hoped, therefore, the Chancellor of the Exchequet would take it into his serious consideration. Mr. fiti ME said he would recomisend It mosestrenuously to the Chancellor of the to take from the Sinking Fund aen atuount a junl to chit rc:..ed from the Duty on Coals, and to repeal a t..; that (,reused so heavily on all classes. He would tivas Five p!easure to theF.....uch, the English, and the Irish. The l'etihion ss at read, and ordered to be printed. !Mail COROtitti. Mr. GOLIE,T.IURN prmented a INdelott from the Coroners of the County of Cork, complaining of this smallness of their sa. bry, and praying :hat the, House would take their case into con. sideration. • Tha County was 14.40 mike in length, and 61 in breadth; there. were four Coroners, and by an Act passed last Session, they awe deprived of all emolument, except £4O, the Grand Juries tiotliwi=g allowed to grant more for their services. This was a small ;um .elite divided ar.!ong so many. Mr. 1115:11E said he could teat believe the office was badly paid, b:cause there were numerous candidates whenever a va. c Incy occurred. This day was published, price 61. THE EDINBURGH REVIEW and CRITICAL JOURNAL, No. LXXV. Covrnars--1. Reflections on the State of Ireland, in the Nine teenth Century, Moores Loves of the Angels; Lord Byron's heaven and Earth.-3. Grattan 's Speectes.-4. Botany Bay. -6. Cobbett's Cottage Economy.-6. 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Conduit-street ; Bell and Braalfute, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, atbiin. ColoaJ BAG WELL sail, that before a person could become a can,lidate he must beii ypossest.ed of £BOO a year, or have OC4GC a year in reversion. There were ten Comers in the County of Tipperary. The fiou-e must perceive that so small a suns as .4 , 40, divided among so many, was nothing like an ade— quate remuner..tiu:l. Sir JOIIN NrWiOIIT said, th,:t their fornier sonrce of emolument be r.i.zzorird, or that some other provision should be made for then). Mr. M 91tT1N (of Galway) said, he admitted thnt they were b idly paid. if no other provision was made then what existed at present, it would be impaisible to find persons to execute the duty. Taere would bl very few candidates in future. They would be numerous enough, indeed, if they were allowed the same emoluments they eilyed before, for tile fact Was they plundered the Public. One Coroner in his county walked off to America with £6,CGO in his pocket. Air. BaCCHER, Mr. liercusxsoN, Sir N. Commons?, and Mr. &us, supported the Pe.i . i .n. They were of opinicn that the al lowance to Coroners was quite inadequate. The Petition was read, and ordered to be printed. Ex-oFFieso INFORMATIONS. • Mr. S. RIC:: moved, that Dillon Nl`Namara and Terence O'Reilly, Attornies of Dublin, :dinuld be called to the bar on the 9:h of May, to be examined as witnesses. This day were published, P.egantly printed in Three Pocket Volumes, with Engravings, from designs by Leas, price £l. Is. In boards, rrHE POETIC A L‘VORKS itQBEItt BURNS, including the Pieces published In his Correspondence and - .elques; with his Songs and Fragments. To which is pre ::ted, A Sketch cf hls Life. Printed for T. London; and A. Constable and C.o. I!...nners and Miller; Fairbuirn ; A. Black ; W. Blackwood; IV. and C. Tait and J. Anderson, jun. Edinburgh. Of whom may also be had, The Watts of ltoszat Bemis. Eighth Edition, to which are added, some further particulars of his Lite, new Notes, '..!..ittrative of bis Poems and Letters, and many other Additions, ty Gilbert Burns, in' fora vols. Bv3. with u Portrait, price il. 16s. in boards. After a few observations• from Mr. C. HUICIIINSON and Sir °totter. Hitt., Mr. T. WALLACE objectcd to the propriety of allowing these parties six or seven years to give them an opportunity of disposing of the stock on hand. Mr. CURW EN presented a Petition from the Butchers of Whitechapel Market, praying for additional Duties on Foreign Tallow.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. CALCR AFT said that the motion of which he had given notice for Thursday last respecting the repeal of the Lea ther Tax, had been postponed Co the 9th of Nlay, and placed. among the Orders. lie understood it had been done by the Se • cretary to the Treasury ( Lashington). The 9th was fixed without his (Mr. Caleraft's) concurrence. He had no objection, however, to the day, if the Right Honourable Gentleman (the Chancellor of the Exchequer), who had a motion fixed for th,e same day, would give him the precedence. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, he had some hopes that the Hon. Gentleman had given up the intention of bringing the subject forward. He could not, without great in convenience, assent to the proposition of the Hon. Gentleman. After a few observations from Mr. Gotu.snaN and Mr. Lour moron the convermtlon dropped. Mr:Secretary CANNING appeared at the Bar, and read the King's Answer to the Address voted on Thursday morning. Mr. SCA R LETT gave notice that be would, on the I Gth inst. bring forward a proposition for improving the mode of proceeding in the County Court of the County Palatine of Lancaster. Mr. MUN I)Y presented a Petition from the Inhabitants of Derbyshire, against slavery In the %Vest Indies.—Ordered to be printed. Lord FOLKS?ONE presented a Petition from Marlow against the Game BilL—Ordered to lie on the table. DUBLIN COMMISSION GRAND JURY. This day was published, In 4to. with Sixteen Engravings, price £1 ss. boards, Vol. VI. P.m I. of . , . SUPPLENIENT to the ENCYCLOPMDIA BRI TANNICA ; edited by MACVEY NAPIER, /I.R.S. London and Edinburgh, . This Half Volume contains a great variety of Articles and Treatises, written by John Barrow, Esq. Jean Baptiste Biot, Member of the Royal Insriane of France ; William Jacob, Esq. Professor Jameson, Francis Jeffrey, Esq. Dr. Mac Culloch, Rev. T. R. Malthus, J. It. 111‘Cullocli, Esq. Charles 111 4 Laren, Esq. James Mill, Esq. Dr. Roget, ltev. J. B. Sumner, and other well known writers. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY 2. Appeals were proceeded with at ten o'clock, but there was nothing of I nterest. _ _ _ At ;bout a quarter to four o'clock the LORD CUR/MIRROR, the Earl of Snnr•rasnutty, and Lord REDESDA LE took their seats before the Throw!, robed as Lords Commissioners, for the pur pose of notifying and declaring his Majesty's Assent to divers Bills, and the Yeoman Usher of the Black Itod was directed to inform the other House, that the Lords named in the Commis- . sion (which was dated yesterday), were sitting to receive the Commons in this House. Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh ; and ITursr, Robinson, and Co. 90, Cheapside, and 8, PaU-Mall, London. Within a few minutes the SnAcee of the other House, ac companied by several of the Members, and attended by its offi cers, came to their Lordships' Bar, when the Royal Assent was declared with the usual forms to the Bills undermentioned : via. ••• The Semna FIX of this Volume, which completes the lVork, will be publishes' in OCtober next. ' The Grants of Aids Bill for the Service of the year 1825, the Military and Naval Pensions Bill, the Revenue Departments ConsoWakes' Bill, the Innkeepers' Allowances Bill, the South ainpton and Devon Bridges Bills, the Forfar Court-House Erre- I tion Bill; the Sudseit, Leicester, Stroud, Stockbridge, York, West I Riding, and Devon Roads Bills, and also two Inclodure Bills. Adjourned during pleaure. The Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND, on the resuming of the House, presented a Petition from the Ship-owners and Traders of ! Newcastle•upon-Tyue, praying for a repeal of the Coastwise Duty on Coals. Viscount SIDMOUT II moved the second reading of the Generil Jade Bill. The said Bill being read a second time, his Lordship nest moved, that the further consideration of the Bill should be referred to a Select Committee • which motion was, agreed to, and the Committee was pointe d meet on Tuesday. The Larl of SHAFTESBURY then presented a Petition from the Directors of Bethlehem Hospital, praying to be heard by COunsel against the abovementioned Bill. Bridport and Scarborough Harbour Edit were respectively I read a third time, passed, and messaged to the Commons. hlr. Mssos, from the East India Company, delivered the Monthly Het urns of Salaried, Gratuities, and Pensions, as granted by the Board. puhlished. to Oae IN. Maw price 7a. THE AYRSHIRE L F EG . ATEES ; or, The Pringle ti do Anchor of" AWSA LS 011 TUB " Tux Timm," Am The Second Edition: To which Is added, The Gathering of the West. " hinted for William Blackwood. Edinburgh; and T. Cadell, Sand, London. _ . . 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Gentleman was this—whether, in justice to the Sheriff, whose conduct was to be mash a subject of investigation before the House that night, the Right Honourable Gentleman would fur nish either a copy of the affidavit, or the name of the perslin by whom it was sworn ? Mr. PLUNIMTT said, he did not see how this applied to the suhj-ct that was to come More the House. lie certainly shotdd not communicate the information desired. He never heard a more unreasonable demand. He was required to give up information that had been communicated to him as the Law Officer of the Crown. The !intl.& would immediately see the inconvenience to which such a course must necessarily lead. NEALE'S WESTMINSTER ABBEY. Tzio day was published, in Two Volumes, royal 4to. with 61 Engravings, price £lO. 104. biaarda, THE HISTORY and ANTIQUITIES of the ABBEY-CHURCH of ST. 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Ile therefore took this opportunity to assure their Lordships, that it was certainly the intention of the woollen manufacturers to liddress Parliament on the subject ; for it was impossible to suppose f9r one moment that the growth of English wool could prosper, if charged with the duty at present paid. Was it either just or proper, when their Lordships were encouraging the in troduction of foreign wool, to burthen the people of this country with fresh duties on the importation of the raw material? Ile had also just learned that an additional duty of sd. on 'very pound of wool had lately been imposed on the exportation of the raw material front Spain. Ile had. however, no intention to oppose the•present Dill, but should call their LOrdships attention to the subject on some future day. After the above Bill bad been read a third time and passed,. the House adjourned to Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The House was summoned to the House of Lords, to hear the Royal Assent given by Commission to several public and private Bills. DENNISON presented two Petitions from St. Mary, Newington, and Clapham, in favour of the Court of Requests Bill. On the Report of the Newport Pagnel, Read Bill being brought up, Mr. CARTWRIGHT objected to the clause A; as affecting the rights of another trust, and moved an Amendment. After some observations from Mr. S. Worirt.ev, the gallery was cleared for a division :—Ayes, 15—Noes, 53—Majority, 38. Mr. CALVERT resented a Petition from the Inhabitants of different Parishes of Southwark, in favour of the Court of Requests Bill..—" Laid upon the table. Mr. CALVERT Moved tl e ic . sglond reading of the South wark Court of itectire,ts Bill. • Sir J. YORK E said, he feared this Bill was brought in more as a populak thari .a. just Measure. Hs abo considered that the costs upon iicoirc a rliqg of small debts by the Bill proposed, would Le at £l6O per cent. in place of .C:l5 per cent. as by the former regulatiehl. Ile.should therefore molts, as an Amendment, that the Bill lisjreid a second time this day six months. Mr. DENNrSON supported the Bill; in the firer place, be .lauseli went to remove many grievances on the poor, and, in the next, because the increase of the population required such a Court. Mr. CA LV ERT said, the proposed Bill would materially alter the rate of fees, which of itself viould be a good ; particu larly in taking out summonses and decrees for small debts. Sir J. GRAHAM objected to this Bill, on the ground that it tended to take away vested rights, created by Act of Parliament' so far back as 1806. The fees in Southwark might be higher than in other plaCes, bat no ring bad yet said they were vices:Ave,' Mr. I. A M BTON defended the Bill, as both just and neces- nary. 'I he_ Honourable Baronet raid the slick Bailiff and other : 05cerstad vested interests; and Lan - .ston) wall tel Mr. Imo N LOW said, that when he brought torward his Motion on the 15th of Past month, the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Plunkett) took occasion to inform the House, that be had in his possession, among other affidavits, one which went to prove an intimate connection between one of the person! charged and some of the Grand Jury; a connection of such a nature, that if known to the Ili;Ist llon. Gentleman in proper rime, it would have formed ground enough to challenge the whole an ay. He (slr. 13rownlow) was desired to give this statement the mo-t absolute contradiction. The Sheriff denied all connection be- tween the panel and any of the persons charged. It appear.d that the affidavit to which he now alluded had no jurat. Ile wished to know whetheriba affidavit, a copy of which was de manded b y his Hon. Friend ( Mr. Ellis) was lathe same predicament? Mr. BEICETT observes!, that the Hon. Member might have known the precise nature of the former affidavit from the papers on the table. _ _ Mr. PLUNKETT said, he kept the alb:Hs:its as private do cuments.. They had been communicated to him privately, to dir....ct his conduct. It could not be expected, under these cir cumstances, that he would give up the names of the persous.— It was true that the affidavit alluded to had not a jur.it, hoz the Hon. Member (Mr. Browniow) was not therefike to conc:ude that all the others were in the same situation. AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. Sir E. HARVEY presented a Petition from the Clergy, Landowners, and Agriculturists of the County of Essex, cont.. plalning of Agriculture( Distress. The Petitioneri praytd-that protecting duties might be imposed on foreig n corn, and com plained that the taxes repealed iii the presentSesiint would not afford them any effectual relief. Lord 311Ll'ON . said . , he was not of the same opinion u tie Petitioners with respect to the imposiiion of protecting duties. He fully concurred with them, however, In thinking that thg repeal of the Assessed Taxes would 'not give effectual Those which had been repealed were not well selected for the relief of a:riculture. What benefit could the agriculturist derive from a repeal of the duties paid by the landlord on carriages and hupters? The-vray to afford effectual relief west, to lessen the expense of cultivating the land. Mr. HONEY WOOD supported the prayer of the Petition.— Ordered to be printed. • COA LS. Sir E. HARVEY preset:zed another Petition, praying for repeal of the D.:ty on CPAs carried toasiways.—thdered to be laie on the table. GOULDURN presented a Petition from a person named Jos,pli Stephenson, concerned in the Irish Linen 'trade, praying repeal of the Duty on Coals. The repeal of this !ai be of the greatest imparta:.ce to Ireland, and therefore ht: hopt.ll Mr. PLUNKETT said, he would take the oppor• utility afforded by this motion to lay before the House a fact which he was not aware of on a former occasion, when his conduct in filing an ex qfficio in formation was under ccnsideration. It was then con tended that he acted without precedent, and that since the time of the Norman Conquest no instance could be produced of an Attorney-General having proceeded by information in any case where an in dictment had been previously thrown out by a Grand Jury. He then stated, that thouglehe could pi °duce no precedents, they still might exist ; for that the re cord of such a proceeding could not be fourd, as in other cases, either iri the pleas or in evidence. It so turned out, that a Gentleman named Foley, an attor ney, with whomite had u t the pleasine of being ac- quaintei, actuated by a sense of justice, took the trouble of inquiring into the subject, and communi cated to Dim by letter a Case in which an ex ojkiv information had been fi:ed by the Attcirney•Genersal after-a bill of indictment had been-thrown out by a Viand Jury. He would state the case to the House. In October, 1811, a bill of indictment was preferred against a person named Leech, for writing a letter to Sir Eiward Littlehales, offering him a bribe if he '.could procure a situation fin. the writer. The bills were sent up to the Grand Jury of Dublin, and ig nored. • The Court; being surprised at this decision, ordered pew bills. They were sent up, and were also ignored: Each bill consisted of three counts: the first, charging that a letter had been wr itten offering a bribe; the second, charging generally that a bribe had been offered ; and the third, severally, that a let ter had been written, reel money had been offered by the writer for a place. The bills having been thrown out, Mr. Saurin, then Attorney-General, filed an ex officio information against the individual. Here therefore vets an instance similar to that for which so heavy a charge had been brought against him: one • in which, after bqls of indictment had been ignored * the Attorney-G..neral proceeded by information. He had ..rested copies of the indictments and of the ex officio information ; but he would not propose that they should be laid upon the table, as it might ap pear as if done td inculpate his predecessor, which was by no means his intention. He thought, how ever, that it would not have been trespassing on the time of the H to strew, that twelve years back the same proceeding had been resorted to, for which he had been so severely censured. The Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Sautin) who preceded him in office, was never called upon to account for this application of the law. He did not suspect that he was stepping beyond the bounds of duty ;"but conceiving that there wa s a case for excrcifing the power with which he was vetted, thought himself called spots to proceed by inforniation. Ile was satisfied that the Learned Persdii to whom he alluded filed his information ten. der the conviction that he was not going beyond the ordinary line of duty, and therefore the circumstance made no particular rreptession on his mind. Had hr recollected it, he was sure he should not have hesi- • tated to supply him with a precedent which came home so comple:eiy to the question. Mr. DENAAN asked whether the case had gone to judgment ? • Air. PLUNKETT said it had not. No plea had been entered:, but the Court, ill consequence of the youth of the person, and his having lost his situation, did not think it necessary to inflict further punishment. Mr. ABLIICROMBY said, he felt some surprise at hearing the case referred .te by his Right Honour. able and Learned Friend (Mr. Plunke t t.) T he charge against him was, that the proceeding was unprece dented, unwise, and contrary t ) the spirit of the B r i. tish Constitution. It would have made an important difference if this precedent could have been referred to when the question was.befure the House. The question was one peculiarly interesting to all persons of the profession of the law, He begged leave to• ask the Right Honourabl e an d L earned Gentleman whether the person who now filled the office of " 4 ' l 'lAt. ONLY ONE DAY MORE, NEXT THURSDAY. CARROIL'S great Luck still continues. He SolJ Ten Capital Prizes the First Day of the present Lottery, amongst which was No. 553, a Prize of £20,000 (being the only one yet drawn); and in the Last Lottery, which ended the 15th J a nuary, he also Sold in Shares Two Prizes of ./.:20,000, One of £lO,OOO, and many other Capitals, making in all Three of £20,000, One of £lO,OOO, and other Capitals, all Sold Lv CA ILROLI„ in the short space of Three Months, at his Of ices, 19, Cumhill, and 25, Oxford-street. The present Lottery will finish drawing on Thur.day Next, eth flay, that being the Last and only Day, when all the fol lowing Capitals must he Drawn, viz. 2 of f.:20,000 I 4 of 0500 2 -1,0001 16 - . 200 Besides many others of £lOO, X.:O, &e. • itlo . 311. 1 , le; i• t:Cekt {. O u3cts, ,eY: fMI ri..1141; r • tiwo • , cc ri• yep.' 7 :ckcW^ . - vagiii