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Burgund d y and Puttee -50 s. 6s. Old Port - - 425. and 465. Do. Sherry - - - tilts. and 465. With every desctiptiOn of Wines, as usual, at equally low Prices to the above. ELIZ. A BiIOTTS and Co. April 14, 1122. _ 011, Tlll ROCCFRITS 01 , NICHOLAS. In which he will display the ♦arious astonishing Vocal" ions for which he has been in justly celebrated and distin guished on the Continent, and which have been represented with such signal approbation before most of the Crowned [leads and Princes of Europe. PERSON... 0? Tilt INTtRTAI,i,TENT: Vi:HILI Pray%Ns—Alderman Pil'bury, Captain Furlough, Nicholas (servant to the Alderman), Mrs. Pitlbury (wife of the Aldernim), Miss Flirtilla Pillbury (daughter of the Alderman). INSHIBLE Prasons—Andrew Stump (Surgeon Dentist and Trepanner), Jacob (his man), Pil'bury Minimus (an infant in arms). . 4 .SSCIIED Potsnits—'Squire Tivy and Nick Tongs. 5TN01.413 OF 7HE EN 1:i!t IAINML N 7 Rat I. Prod and Physic—Cupid tutaed Chimney Sweep. Part iT. 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Merchants, Captains, and ethers, cannot be tuo careful in the purchase of the above Articles for Exportation, as spuriJu► imi tations are generally in Cif:ulation. Messrs. Butler have cothtantly a supply of Medicine Chests completely fitted up, and adapted to all climates. They beg to state, that every Drug and Chemical Preparation sad by them Is warranted free front adulteration. Aran. 24, 1822. YESTERDAY TUE LOTTERY FINISHED DRAWINO. B ISII SHARED BOTH £20,000 PRIZES, and scut them to the following Places, viz. 19,007, £20,000. • - London Sixteenth Lancaster - Wednesbury Sixteenth Ludlow - Iluntingdcn Sixteenth Peterborough - Kendal Sixteenth Rithmond, fortis. 19,n3, 4:20,000. Half - - London Sixteenth - Frome Eighth - - Think Sixteenth - Lancaster F.tglith - - Leeds Sixteenth . Wednesbury Sixteenth - Ihiffield Ihlf - Eighth - Sixteenth Sixtruuth EISII also Sold Seven other Capitals. drawn Yesterday. and Twenty-three other Capitals on the previous Days of Drawing, making Two Prizes of Twenty Thousand Pounds, and Thirty two other Capitals, all Shared and Sold by 131S11, in the Lot tery which finished Drawing yesterday. g!.- A New Lottery will be on Sale in a few days. WANDSWORTH COMMON, SURREY. Excellent 11017SEHOLD . FURNITLIR V., PIER GLASSES, WING BOOKCASES, Eight-gay BRACKET CLOt'K, CHINA and GLASS, LINEN, GARDEN LIGHTS, TOOLS, and PLANTS, FARMING IMPLEMENTS, two CA um and HARNESS, about ET Gin: LOADS of MEADOW HAY, Cellar of remarkable line flavoured OLD and various other Effects. TO BE SOLD BY AVCTION, By 'Air. ROBINS, (Of Warwick House, Regent-street), At the 11::nsion, at Battersea Rise, Wandsworth Common, Surrey, On Momoar, the 29th of April, 1322, and Two following Days, at Eltvcri o'Clock, Dy Order of the ETerntors and Trustees of the flight lion. Sir JAMES M ANSFIELD, Knt. deceased, Lte Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pk a s, 111 - IE Capital FURNITURE ; comprising lofty Four-post, Couch, and Tent Bedsteads, with Chintz-cot. ton and Dimity Furnitures, excellent seasoned Feather Beds and Bedding, handsome Drawing-room and Dining-parlour French Rod Window Curtains, Sofas, Couches, Chairs, &c. en suite, capital well made Cabinet Articles in Rosewood and Mahogany, Wing Bookcases, Wardrobes, Chests of Drawers, Ilreakfast, Loo, Sofa, Card, Pembroke, and other Tables, Eight-day Bracket Clock (by bli.dge and Diitton), China, Glass, and Linen, Brussels and Kidderminster Carpets, Fenders and Fire-irons, and Kitchen Utensils, a Mangle, Garden Lights, Tools, and Farming Implements, light Cart and Harness, a Tumbler ditto, about tight )(mils of prime Meadow Hay, healthy Green-house Plants and numerous other Articles. Also the Valuable Cellar of ch oice fine flavoured Old Wines selected at a great exp'ense, consisting of about One Hundred and Sixty Dozen of excellent Port, Sherry, and Madeira. To be viewed on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, preceding the Sale; and Catalogues, at Is. each, may be hail on the Pre mises; and of Mr. Robins, 170, Regent-street. The Wines to be tasted on the Morning of Sale. CHOICE FINE-FLAVOURED OLD WINES. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By Mr. ROBINS, (Of Warw:et house, Regent.street, opposite Burlington-street), On the Premises, at Battersea Rise, Wandsworth Common, Surrey, on WIDNUDAV, May 1, at Twelve o'clock, By Order of the Executors and Trustees of the Right Honour able Sir JAMES MA NSFI EL U, Knt. deceased, late Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, riIHE very Valuable CELLAR of superior-fil .l. toured OLD WINES, selected at a great expense, from the best Vintages; consisting of about ONE HUNDRED and SIXTY DOZEN of excellent PORT, SHERRY, EAST INDIA MADEIRA. &c. To he tasted on the Morning of Sale; and Catalogues had on the Premises; and of Mr. Robins. No. 170, Regent-street. LOOKING GLASSES AND FURNITURE. QEVERAL large SECOND-HAND PLATES, 10 are now on Sale, at Courts and SON'S Manufactory, 93, Bishopsg-•.te-street-%itian.—Some of the larger sizes are admi rably adapted for large dining-rooms and elegant drawing-rooms. A large assortment of rich finished Chimney, Pier, and Cheval Frames, with New Glasses of superior colour and brilliancy; the prices reduced beyond all former precedent. Plate Glass for windows, Carriages, &c.—This article may also be manufactured as high as 130 by 72 inches, 120 by SO, or to any given dimensions. Noblemen. Gentlemen, Surveyors, Proprietors of Hotels and others, will find this Warehouse deserving attention, from its extensive variety of excellent Cabinet and Chair \York. The Upholstery arrangements display some new specimens of pecu liar neatness and elegance, with the still greater advantage of economy in the charge. Furniture delivered to any part of the Country, without risk of injury or expense of packing. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. --- • ' HOUSE OF LORDS, APRIL 24. Mr. Beacom and others brought up from the Commons, the Summary Proeeedhls and the Irish Commercial Credit Bills, which were read a trig time. . The Earl of COCILT6iN presented a Petition from New Ross, in the County of Wezford, praying fur the Repeal of the Window Taz.—Read and laid on the table. The Innkeepers Rates Bill was read a third time and passed. The Duke of MONTROSE presented a Petition from the Provincial Synod of Glasgow and Ayr, against the Catholic Claims.—Laid on the table. General Gaseovant, Sir F.. Emmons:Lt., Sir W. W. Wiiant, and others,, brought up several Private Lill' from the Com moae.—Read a first time.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. In consequence of the Order for calling over the Muse, on the motion of Sir J. NEWPORT, being still in force, the gallery was not opened till after the house had astemble,l, when the Order svas discharged on the motion of Sir JOHN NCWPORT, strangers were admitted shortly after the Sri.► eta had taken the Chair. Sir GEORGE DILL presented a Petition from the Al_•r chants of Londonderry, praying for the impo s ition of an addi tional duty on foreign cheese and butter. Mr. DAVENPORT supported the prayer of the Petition, and contended that a fair and reasonable protection ought to be afforded to the British farmer against those who carried thoir produce almost duty free, while the Engli►h agticulturist had to sustain the weight of severe taxation. After a few words from Sir Gym= Iltcc, the Petition was orderid to lie on the table. Sir IL SIIA W, in consequence of the request of a Noble Marquis not then in his place, expressed himself willing to post pone the motion of which he had given notice, respecting the Window Tax in Ireland, but was unwilling to put it off to a more distant day, without tome assurance that it should then take precedence. A short conversation followed, in which Sir G. Um., Mr. Aseacitomav, and Mr. CALCRATT, participated. The last men tioned Gentleman suggested that as the lion. Baronet of course wished to he his motion for tome day when it could be enter. tamed, he had better wait till the Chancellor of the Exchequer or some other Minister came down to the House, who might be competent to make the wished for arrangement. The subject was then dropped. Sir R. SHAW afterwards fixed his motion for Wednesday next. Sir J. NEWPORT gave notice of two motions for Wednes day, the Bth of May, for papers relating to Tithes and Taxes in Ireland. Mr. W. BURRELL presented a Petition from the Eastorn part of the County of Sussex, complaining of Agricultural Dis- to lie on the table. Sir W. GUISE presented a Petition from the Woollen Ma nufacturers of Gloucester, against a /1111 now pending for re pealing certain ancient Statutes of the realm, and among others one imposing a duty on foreign wool. Mr. RICARDO spc.e In favour of relieving the commerce of the country from all unnecessary restrictions. After a tew rernatks front Mr. H. Dovis, Mr. lltate, and Sir W. Gass, the Petition was ordered to be printed. I t Sir T. MOSTYN presented a Petition from Flintshire, on the subject of Agricultural Distress.—Ordered to be printed. A Petition was presented from the High Sheriff and Grand Jury of the County of Carnarvon, complaining of agricultural distress, and praying for the repeal of the Salt Duty.—Ordered to lie on the table. Lord EDRINCTON presented Petitions from the Hundreds of Witteridge and Clifton, is the cottuty of Devon, from Ex mouth, and from several other places, praying for a reduction of Taxation and Reform.—Ordered to lie on the table. Lord BINNING presented a Petition from the Shoe Dealers, Leather Sellers, and other Inhabitants of Chatham and Roches ter, on the subject of Agricultural Distress.--r After a few words from Mr. BERNAL, Sir U. MAarts, and Mr. 11. GURNEY, the Petition was withdrawn. Mr. DAVIS presented a Petition from the Miniatcr, Church wardens,abd others in the Pariah of Bedniinster, against any fur- ther concessions to the Roman Catholi.3.—Laiti on the table. Mr. C. H. HUTCHINSON presented a Petition bons the Inhabitants and Householders of Cork, against the Window Tax. Ile freely set forth the injurious effects produced by the tax in question, and contended that from its operation fever had raged there and continued to rage, and that no tax could be more objectionable.—The Petition was ordered to lie on the table. Other Petitions on the same subject were pi asented from the Parishes. of the Holy Trinity and St. Nicholas, and ordered to lie on the table. Sir N. COLTHURST said, when this question came before the House be hoped it would receive that attentive consideration to which, in humanity and in justice, he thought it was entitled. Mr. H. G. BEN NETI gave notice, that he should to-mor row move for certain papers relative to Mr. Theodore Houk; and that he should, at the same time, put some questions to the Right Honourable Gentleman opposite upon the subject of the affairs with which that Gentleman had been connected. LEATIIER TAX. Mr. DENISON presented a Petition from the Leather-dealers and Tanners in the neighbourhood of the Metropolis, praying for a • repeal of the Leather Tax. The Petition described the Tax to be the means of taking twice as much from the consumer of leather as it gave to the Exchequer, and represented it to press on that description of leather worn by the labouring classes, so as to make a difference of from two shillings to two shillings and eight-pence on a single pair of shoes. The consequence was, that with an increasing populltion, there was a clitninished consumption. This considered, when the quantity of hides produced, which at present could not be consumed, wai borne in mind, he hoped the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the Ho nourable Member for Northumberland bringing forward his motion on this subject next week, would give it his support. This Tax he considered most injurious and oppressive. It ope rated as a poll-tax, which chiefly fell on the poor, but was not felt by the opulent. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUFAI did not op pose the bringing up of the Petition. The Tax he did not con sider to be injurious or oppresive. lie should, of course, give the subject his belt attention. Mr. CA LCRA would wish to know what taxes were in jurious and oppressive, if thliwere not ? While on his legs, Ye wished to ask a question : in two years from next May, country bank notes for one pound were by law to be withdrawn front circulation. lie (Mr. Caleraft) had received many letters on this subject, and now begged to ask the Chancellor of the Ex chequer if he meant to submit to Parliament any regulation for the further, or perpetual exclusion, of the circulation of country one pound notes? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, if on this occasion he mi g h t b e a ll owe d to answer a question of so much importance, had to r e ply, that he knew how much the whole country was interested in the arranement adopted wish respect to small notes ; and in a very short time, probably hi the course of next week, hr should have some communication to make to l'arliamcnt on that subject. • TAXATION IN IRELAND'. Mr. ELLIS held in his hand a Petition from the Householders of the Parish of St. Mary, in Dublin, praying the lei eal of the Irish Window Tax.- This Petition deviated somewhatfrom the usual source of Petitions to contradict statements which had been. , . . made by certain persons in power: . • respect to the ' temilsion of taxation whi c h h a d b ' nted to Ire land since the pea c e. Referring•to e port f the Finance Committee in 1815, th e y * h ewed that it had * we been proved that Ireland tor several'yeari during - Ai . war had made a greater adiPance in permanent taxa tion than England herself, and assuming this fac; from the talcolations Contained in the Report on the table of •the House, the Petitioners contended that' Ireland was entitled to a remission of taxation in something like a fair proportion to that enjoyed in England. From official documents they stated Eng land to have remitted,• siege the close of the war, by • the Property Tat, fonnekr Millions and some hun dreds of thousands of pounds; by the-repeal of the Malt Duty, L -4 4900.000 ; by the alterations made in. the Customs, EI,105,000; and by 'the reduction of • the Assessed Taxes, and other remissions, the total charge from - which England had been relieved , since the termination of the war, was no less than E 10,677,691. But from this amount was to be de duced the t met which had since been imposed 1 these altogether amounted to 23,885,885. Deducting then from - The taxes impoicd since - £20,677,891 - 3,885,885 There remained . .E 16,791,806 from whit!) sum, in tares, England had been relieved since the peace. Ireland had participated in the re; lief thus afforded to the amount of about three hun dred thousand pounds, leaving nearly sixteen millions remitted to England, in which she did not participate. Ireland had heel relieved from the Malt Tax, amount ing to £106,700. To sheer the spirit in which this Petition was drawn up, he thought if right to say there was a sum of £4.7,000, to be borne by Ireland in the present year, which, as it was not to be a per-' manent charge, they excluded from their calcu;ations. Altogether they shewed there was a remission of taxes in favour of Ireland to the amount of £391,000,. the taxes laid on at different periods, since the peace, amounted to £352.852; and thete reduced the net sum remitted to Ireland to £38,148. He would ask if this were a fair and a proportionate reduction of taxation, for one country to be relieved to the amount of £16,790,000, while but £38,000 had been takeri from the burdens of another? Sir J. NEWPORT said, on a question like this, all that he had.to say was to request the House to look at the'whole beating of the case before they came to a decision. Ile wished the allegations of the Peti t ioa to be inquil eii into, and if they carried conviction 3s to their truth, remission of taxation ought not to be opposed. He had on former occasions opposed the Assessed Taxes in Ireland. The want of suf ficient ventilationand air had produced a contagious disorder, and if some relief were not afforded, it wai but too probable that such a calamity would occur . 4gain. At ;13 events he %visited the subject to be ac; eurately looked into, that it might be seen whether it were not due to Ireland to remit the Window Tar. In his opinion this impost was so injurious that it ought to be given up ; as relinquishing so much of revenue as that gave would be paying but a small price to accomplish a very important object. Mr. CALCRAFT did not wish to oppose the Pe tition, but he thought the subject of it was rather in.. vidinusly put forward. Whether the evil complained of were English or Irish, but one feeling.would exist in that House. If a case of hardship were made out affecting the health and comfort of any considerable body of subjetts, whether they were English, Scotch; or Irish, that House would be equally ready to relieve the sufferers. He, for one, should he disposed to sup port, not only the repeal of the Irish Window Tar, but the repeal-of the whole of the Assessed Taxes in Ireland, which produced but little more than £300,009, as he thought it the duty of that House . to make the residence of the Irish Gentry in their own country as easy and as comfortable as the circumstances of the nation :and a due regard-for public credit would per. mit. Having supported many motions for the repeal of taxes in this country, he could declare that he was as anxious for the remission of any oppressive tax in Ireland, as he could be for that of any impost which fell on the country in which he resided. Mr. ELLIS said, that the Petitioners had thought it incumbent on them to prove wkat had been stated was erroneous, and to meet the gratuitous assertion l of Ministers, that Ireland already enjoyed more ' than a proportionate relief from taxation. The Petition was ordered to be printed. Mr. ELLIS then presented a similar Petition from the Lord Mayor and Corporation of Dublin, and other Petitions to the same effect from different Pal rishes.—Ordered to lie on the table. PUBLICANS . LICENSES. Mr. HUSKISSON presented a Petition from cer tain persons in the vicinity •or Reading, complaining of agricultural distress from the brewers' monopoly,. which they described to have caused a great falling off in the demand for barley, and a corresponding deterioration of the quality of beer. They therefore prayed the house to alter the present system and make the trade free. This question involved a sub. ject on which he had spoken on a former night, which the House would shortly be called upon to take into consideration. He had no local knowledge of Reading and its neighbourhood, but from letters which he had received ; and if the facts stated in them were t. ue, the brewers monopoly was complete, for in that populous place not a free house remained. This was stated to arise from the .citcumstance that the Magistrates of the county who granted the publicans • licences, were the brewers. It such wore the case, it must appear that those engaged in the trade of brewing ought not to hold tie situationsof.licensing Magistrates. While on his legs, he would remind the House, that he had beer induced on a former night to express surprise, that in consequence of the noresiuction in the price diminished duty on malt, of beer had been announced, and indeed to remark on the avowal that no reduction was intended.... ' and the. aottse was given to understand, that. the This avowal was afterwards qualified and explained, I I 1 , ,1 ~~ '!. ~