Star. — London, England, 1808-02-11 00:00:00

CAPTI*RFS. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT rose, he said, for the purpose of making a motion, which, upon the face of it, he thought could not be objected to, although he had not given such a previous notice as fixed the par ticular day for stating it to the House. 1k should move, That there be laid before the House an ac count of all captures made by the naval force of this country, at the disposal of the Crown, since 1792, specifying the sum arising from each capture up to the present day." The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that the most regular mode would be, to give a notice of such a motion, and there would be no loss of time in. doing so, as some Honourable Members might, perhaps, think of objecting to it, although no real objection might exist to the granting it. If the Honourable Baronet thought proper to convert his motion into a notice for to-morrow, he (the Chancel lor of the Exchequer) would then be prepared to state, why it should not be granted, or that the terms of it should be modified. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT intimated, that he had no objection to comply with the wishes of the Right Honourable Gentleman, and therefore should withdraw his motion for the present, and confider it a notice given for the production of such a document to-morrow. CURATES' ELL. On the Order of the Day for the • second reading of the Curates' Bill, Mr. DICKINSON begged to trouble the House with a few observations, previous to his moving that this Bill be read a second time. It was a Bill, he said, to repeal an Act passed last session for suspend ing for forty days after the commencement of the pre-• sent session, an Act passed in the 36th of the King, relative to clergymen accepting augmented Curacies, and rendering those who did so liable to forfeit their benefices. His reason for wishing the Act of last session to be repealed was, that it was passed through the House at the close of the session by a kind of sur prize, and was merely to suit the case and promote the interests of one single individual : it was passel also on the ground of a hardship on that individual, which arose from► ignorance—a plea that ought not to be allowed ; for it was against a maxim of the law, ignorantia legit non excusat ; and Clergymen, of all others, ought not to be allowed that plea. Mr. Scott a clergyman, had forfeited his benefice by acceptance of an augmented curacy ; and Lord Oxford, who was the patron, had presented Mr. Graham with the same, who had actually been inducted into the rec tory, before this Act of the last session was brought in to suspend the law on that head. Bills to suspend laws were but bad precedents at the best ; but this was a very unfair business, and as such he thought the Act could not be too soon repealed. He therefore moved, that the present Bill, which was to effect that salutary purpose, be then read a second time. Mr. LOCKHART justified his having brought in the Act passed last session, on the ground of its tak ing in the cases of more than one individual—he knew of three or four ; and of its giving time to the House to consider of the statute of 1796. The particular clause in that Act which related to this acceptance of an augmented Curacy having been added to the Bill in its last stage, and the preamble being altered to make this Bill apply to it—he thought, therefore, the Act of last Session ought to be suffered to exist to the end of its limitation. Mr. LUSHINGTON supported the second read ing of the present Bill, on the same grounds as Mr. Dickinson, of ignorantia legit non exesuat. Mr. WHITBRE,"*.D opposed the second reading, on nearly the same grounds as Mr. Lockhart, with regard to the Act of 1796, and that Lord Oxford was perfectly apprised of Mr. Scott's having been presented with the augmented Curacy of Tichley,and had written to the Lord Chancellor on the subject.— He denied that the Act of last Session could he said to be passed by surprize, for the Right Hon. the Cha ncellor of the Exchequer had spoken on it in that House, and the Lord Chancellor had made some ob servations on it in the other. He thought Mr. Scott had been very hardly used ; and his 'case had been aggravated by bringing in this Bill, against the second reading of which he should vote. He thought the Act of last Session ought at least to be permitted to expire, as it had now so few . days to come to its natu ral dissolution. Dr. LAWRENCE was in Lrour cf the repeal a the Act of last Session, and, therefore, for the second reading of the present Bill. He insisted thjt the Act of last Session pass?d the House by complete surprise, not to suspend, as had been said, a partial case, but, on the contrary, a general law. It went to *face the property of the patrons to benefices, and though in fe your of the Church, the heads of the Clergy were so ashamed of it, that they had brought in this Bill tore- , peal it, though it had so short a time to l ive, t o sh e yr . their disapprobation of it, and to mark with that an Act obtained in so great a hurry, and at the end of the Session. He thought it would be for the honour of the House to wipe away all memorial that such an Act should have received its sanction. Mr. SHE MOAN differed with his Learned Friend who had just sat down, and particularly 'objec ted to that kind of episcopal repartee, which charged that House with having suffered a Bill to pass by surprize ; and by way of reprimand and reproach to that House, had passed a Bill to repeal it, though there were but a few days before it would die a natu ral death. It was neither more nor less than desiring the House to stultify themselves, and to acknowledge that they had been taken by surprizc in so important a matter as passing an Act of Parliament. If that were the case, however, what were the Bench of Bishops doing at the time it passed the other House ? were they taken by surprize too ? The maxim of law had been resorted to of ignoraxtia lrgi,, &c. but there were cases in which the House considered ignorance of the law as excusable, and stepped in to relieve the parties, such as giving further time for people neglecting . to qualify, and in the case of the whole Clergy against qui tam informers Sn an obsolete Act .of •Parliament, that House passed a sweeping Bill,suspenClitig thelaw, in their favour. :.This was not a single case : one Hon. Gentlemari'dillared he anew of three or four of a similar nature ' • and another Hon. Gentleman had declared in other place, that if he was inclined to take advance of the law as it stood under the Act of 1793, he could vacate upwards of two hundred livings. He thought it trifling with the feelings of men to ask for a repeal of a Bill which had but a few days to run before it would expire, and it should, therefore, be permitted to die a natural death. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that as he had been particularly alluded to as having made observations on the Act brought in and passed last Session, he wished to say a few words at present, to shew the reason why he was now of a dif ferent opinion on that subject. When the Act of last Session was first brought in, it was described to the House that there were many cases in which Cler gymen were alarmed fur their rights, and that if something was not done before the end of the Session by suspending the law for a limited time, to give the House an opportunity of considering the Act of 1796, much mischief to them might ensue. Instead, how ever, of there being many similar cases to that of Mr. Scott, it turned out that there were but three or four at the moat ; and instead of Mr. Scott being injured, it was Mr. Graham who had really been so by the j -Act of last Session, for he had actually been inducted into the rectory before that Bill was brought into the I House. The Right Hon. Gentleman who spoke last had said, Why not suffer that Act to expire of itself, and that he did not like the episcopal repartee which required the House to stultify themselves. Ile thougl4 otherwise ; for the House of 'Lords had done by them selves exactly the same as they required of that House,. and no more. If it appeared to have come in the shape of a reprimand or reproach to that House, he would be against the Bill t but he was in favour of it, and thought the Act of last Session should not be suffered to expire, for ;hen the House would not do justice to the rights of Mr. Graham, which had been injured by, it, and which would also be left in considerable doubt as to his being reinstated in them. • The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow. AGBEEMENT WITH THE BANK. Lord HENRY PETTY said, that he observed,. from the Papers that had been laid before the House, that the Bank had agreed to grant a loan of three millions to Government, on condition that the public accounts should he continued to be kept with the Bank, in the same way that they had hitherto beeir. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in one of his leis:. ters, seemed to have given his dissent, and in ano ther his consent to this proposition. He wished that' he would now explain this apparent inconsistency. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER re plied, that it was understood between hint and the Bank, that no alteration should take place in the modi of transacting the business between that corporation and the public. Though he did not understand him self as precluded by the agreement from causing in cer tain cases a more direct application of the money issued from the Exchequer for the public service than had hitherto been practised. The House having resolved itself into a Commit tee of the whole House, to consider farther of the sup ply to be granted to his Majesty, • The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ex pressed the high satisfaction which he telt in calling the attention of the Committee to an agreement that. he had entered into with the Bank, and which was so advantageous in all respects, that he presumed the Committee WO . 'd find no difficulty in approving of!' it. As the papers containing the terms of this agree , ment had been printed, and were in the hands of Ho nourable Gentlemen, he did not feel it necessary to go much at length into these arrangements. The Committee would be aware, that the Committee on the Public Expenditure, in their second report, had directed their Inquiries to three distinct points. Ist, The profit derived by the Bank from the management of the public debt : 2dly, The balances of p ublic ge money remaining in the hands of the Bank : and, !idly, To the state of unclaimed dividends. On the first of these heads it naturally. suggested itself, that in consequence of the great increase of the. debt, it might be managed on terms more advantageous to the public than when its amount was smaller. This idea was the basis of a new arrangement 'between him and the Bank, respecting the allowance to be made for the management of the debt, of which the following was the substance : 3401. per million per annum, upon the whole of the Unredeemed Debt, whenever it may amount to 400 millions, and not exceed 650 millions. 9001. per million per annum, upon the whole amount of any et-"' CCU of Debt unredeemed above 600 millions ; the said 600 mil- - lions continuing, in such case, to be managed at the Aforesaid rate of 3401. per million per annum. 4501 per million per annum upon the whole unredeemed Debt, whenever it may exceed 300 snillions, and not amount to 400 millions. From these proportions it would be observed, that the allowance was reduced from 4501. to 3401. from ' whi the public would derive s a savinvof about • a-year. If there were any CCL!'ntlernen who Might lie of opinion :that a still more advantageons ent might .hev been made, he requested ) t il a a t. 3i t t e en;lwould take into consideration the circum stances under which the present had been formed, and that they would bear in mind the contract exist int between the public and the Bank, in virtue of which 4501. per million was to be paid to the Bank foi their management. And if they did this, he was convinced that they would agree with him in think ing that it would have been no less unjust than un wise, to employ the force of Parliament in breaking in upon the terms of a positive convention. The new arrangement had been made With the consent of the Bank Directors ; and had he, in the face of an exist ing contract, arbitrarily imposed terms upon them, contrary to stipulations forMally entered into, the country would have lost more by a breach of faith, than it would have gained by any additional savings which might have resulted from it. The abatement was fully as much as, under all the circumstances, could be expected ; he should therefore abstain from any farther observations on this head, till he saw whether or not objections were to be made to this part of the agreement. The next article of the agreement was, that the Bank should advance three millions, as a loan to Government during the war, without interest, in con sideration of the balances of public money which were cons tantly m their hands. In the report of the ColtiMittee, 'average amount of these balances was stated at 11,104,9191. But the Committee had introduced into this calculation an item, which he thought did not properly belong to it, viz. the sum remaining on account of the Commissioners under the Convention with the United States of America, amounting to 475,029 L which rather belonged to the head of a private custom, than to that of public balances. Atter making the deduction, the public balances would be found to amount to somewhat more than ten millions and a half; but 26 in future they might be a little diminished, he would calculate ' them at ten millions. The Committee appeared to have formed a sort of estimate of the advantage which the public might derive from this source, an the following passage of their Report : " The autho rity of Mr. Pitt, and the consent of the then Governor of the Bank, established a general principle of parti cipation in these profits of the Bank, which arose from their exclusive privilege, and from the balances of public money in their hands, and whether the partici pation be in the proportion of one fourth, one third, or one half, it cannot fail to be extremely consider able." From this it appeared, that the largest ex pectation of the Committee did not go beyond a half of the profits, and therefore it would not he unfair to , take the medium between their lowest and their highest estimate of a fourth and a half It was necessary too to bear in mind, that having already lent three mil lions to the public, at three per cent. the public was a gainer of two per cent. upon that sum, or about 60,0001. a-year, which was equivalent to a loan of 1,200,0001. more. It was but fair also to take into consideration the amount of the average balances in 'the hands of the Bank, at the time when Mr. Pitt made his last agreement with that body, which were somewhat about two millions and a half, so that when these sums were deducted, viz. the balances then ex isting, and for which a compensation was already given, and the 1,100,0001. gained by the public on the loan of three millions at three per cent. the balan ces., for which the public had a fair claim-to compen sation now, were reduced to about 7,500,0001. rhe Bank then had consented now to advance to Govern-' ment three millions without interest, which was al-; lowing the public nearly one half of their profits up- I on these balances, and when the million and a half that they advanced last year was taken into account, would be found that the public had mare than a moiety of the profits, which was surely a fair partici pation, and more than the Committee in their report I seem to have calculated upon obtaining. From a misunderstanding which prevailed between him and the Bank, during the whole course of the ne glaciation, he was unable to state to the Committee -the acquiescence of the Bank to the third proposition, which he was about to make, at the same time it was at once so advantageous and reasonable that he had not a doubt but the Committee would adopt it. IA the Report of the Committee of Finance the average amount of unclaimed dividends and lottery prizes had been stated at 964,4151. out of which 376,7391. had been already, in the year 1806, advanced to Governs ment without interest. What he meant to propose therefore, was, that 500,0001. should now be advanced from this fund, which would still leave in the hands of the Bank a sum of 100,0001.—a sum equal to an swer any demands which were likely to be made upon it by persons to whom these dividends were due. To this measure, however, he had not the consent of the Bank, nor was it necessary, because the public had an undoubted right to take the use of their own mo ney. Indeed, on reviewing the different branches of , the transaction, it was material that Gentlemen should not run away with an idea which he had seen in print, that we were now laying violent hands upon the profits of the Bank, and that the Bank was lending money to the public out of its savings. On the contrary, it was material to impress upon the pro prietors of Bank Stock, that it was merely advancing money to the public out of the deposits made by the ' public, and that had this been refused the public might in future have so employed or regulated the issues of money from the Exchequer, as to have saved the interest of money which it was now obliged to pay. Upon the whole, he conceived the arrange ! ments to be fair and advantageous to both es, and he was confident that the' ommittee wou ld h ave pleasure in adopting them, as they would materially diminish the burdens, which it would be necessary to impose upon the people, to meet the expenses of the current year. He concluded his statement with mov ing, a That there be paid into the Exchequer the sum of 500,0001. out of the unclaimed dividends and lot tery prizes ; provided always, that there remain in . the hands of the Bank, after the payment of this sum, ::together with the sum, 376,7391. formerly advanced 'from the same sum of 100,0001. for the purpose of ' satisfying the demands of legal claimants." Mr. BANKES commenced with complimenting his Right Honourable Friend on the able manner in which he had given the statement he had made to the Committee. He had, !griever, one or two ob servations to make on the nature of that statement; and he would begin with oliservin l last part of what had fallen from hi! able Friend. He entirely agreed the present instance, the Bank w: own money, but that of the Public. included nearly the 100,0001. whit the Act of 1771, Ad been left for unclaimed dividends, but there had , ttlaimed• Lottery Prizes to the 'amount He could not see why those shoult' tinct, or not be comprehended, as mer. According to the Report sioners for auditing Public Accounts lowance had been made for the increasing. • The business was at , at less than 2001. for every million, for the 'sum 'of six millions, 3401. be paid. This, he confessed, he thougln and even in the bargain that was the great Statesman then living, great man in error, and that the seen that business in a better part, should have preferred a barg , was a larger deduction from the though the loan should be smaller mer was permanent, and the latter ther consideration was, that the hands the entire controul of the coinage, was as easy for them to coia money the sum lent to Government, as amount of what Bank Paper w; day. His last and most serious Ihe was inclined to disapprove drew the. Bank into any connection At the same time, if asked whether ewe in the present bargain, or . ness adrift again, he should be di it as it at present stood. Mr. TIERNEY said, that he. Hon. Gentleman would be disposed ever observations he felt it his duty Committee, with the Lame temr (Mr. T.) should make them. As the Right Honourable Gentleman only fault he bad to find was, that Gentleman had seemed to think bargain was a matter of gain could be no objection to the nature he thought differently, and his nature of the bargain was, that vc) the guardians of the Bank, and li; a restriotion with regard to the was extremely indelicate (to give for the public to make any gain I The Right Hon. Gentleman had prove that the Bank was only , own money, but if this was not purposes a loan, he did not know the Bank was not to make too TIII gain by them ; the Bank had, public money lying in their hank money they lend us three mallow please with, and without interest of three millions without interest, the interest of that three millions, would not be so objectionable, present plan there is a loan of three cording to his proposition there payment of 150,0001. and thus' principal could pay to us the in their hands, with this proviso . take into their own hands the management without receiving any additional • He thought it a bad bargain, have 100,0001. for the management —He would take upon him to Banker would refuse to do busines! 100,0001. if there were left 10 ' He contended, that it was trighl; public should be participators out. of the restrictions imposed present plan too of Government recourse to the Bank for a loan _ ing a proper confidence in the resources try ; it would be hard to convince - - there was not some shifting in • steps were adopted by the Ceirre notorious how they were censured Besides, he believed there Dever a loan could be more readily negotiated stagnant, and there was a good hand. The Honourable Gentleman . to read extracts from the correspondonce Bank and the Chancellor of the to prove the reluctance of the Bank . first proposition of the Right Honourable and he so far agreed with the " wonder at its reluctance to put own reach. Besides, he thought should be cautious in taking those til the circumstances of the Banl , ascertained. For what had been Bank since the year 1799? They amongthemselves to the amount had increased, their dividend cent; Wcrold the Right Honor state to the House the circumstanr was he prepared to say, that this the taking off the restrictions much good come of such intercourse. 1795 (great a man as he was' best in a contest with the Bank. a sudden panic, would listen diate repayment ; but now they advances with the greatest composure. sion they lent usthree millions, whi( would cost them three pence. make a fresh issue of notes to millions ? or did they mean to the country, by refusing to di And here he could not help that, at the time of the renewal pany's Charter, it was currentiv was one million of notes nary calculation. Re could should have 100,0001. clear profit 3401. on every million. The - were notorious, and they were them out of their own means. dividends, he thought it a mere the Bank to - make the show made. I Mr. THORNTON denied make an issue to the amount merit. xusxissow entered mkt ii 6hi : n a wi a sg s d i n thß i fi l r o bt ig lt h li trn o u rne. l 6 l , 7 l - ,. • dig. t t b il:Matilltietd:64liifiiresultoediewd"obwfr4arlit as well as th e f ) h u i i c a h, be ac h c e o lr : • the Bank %rare not ° ver Or th e pa an d that it would t „ r expence, if we -took mount a 1 • into our own Imtds• t of • th e c ot : ma d e for the pnblic. lists in 1786, a j T k ai Mr. B ankes), that debt as contin ua l - 1 1 . tie r ' otanagement might has /. Mr'svri• TthfitheOßbarNTgaoNituitzi that time arrao.; it not been for the Acts in, but, at p re .,7 le i bo way. But taking the: I. per millio n %ea . ' s ,'" ' A ct ed the Right Hon. Cr thought ero r hi tan 7 . ' t h e Exchequer') had rect ; -• then concl u d e d hr . a llowed him. Witl he did thi n k t i a ; r ant , h e thought, that th Commissioner' I n a te r a dvaritage from they light. lie, f qr his t h e i nt erest r ecommendec rg:tin in whi,h rh o i s i er ice to the Bank would ni rate of allosra lut. ro erely lose this,nterest of th yr er ; becaus e t h e fct Bills. All he said, dic C°lltiligent• Az. parliament to look with Bank had la Bank Notes in circulation. .oinage, and d ot „ t h e Commissioners of the Si ,ey to the amount ce c on venient to b ecome subset as to issue drier: th uslance in the Bank would,b vas cancelled r ale H e w ished it, therefore, to objection was, t h at of ' tmn with Ministe r ,. co nsidered as any infringer r co ther he would a t • • Mr. HIJSKISSON, in l• , rn i i f gh co t tl set the whole b citl ;i. • t h a d been taken to evert thin g tei • tshcreibeC°rlns tiOl disposed to agree s should not be precluded ft for reducing the balances. he hoped the Ri g k Mt. D. GIDDY obser r o r a s n used CO receive wh at . o f the. Bank might be enla: duty to offer to th, cap ital was still ; raper with w hi olic capit al that they did not. fks to the manner a they must be losers by len nun's statement, 11,, Lord H. PETTY said, that the Right H. transaction he hardly the c that, provided the the House with any obser to the public, the ft pct of the unclaimed divi re of the barg a i n . ts. to concur in the view of vital objection to.ri e apposite. The Thmk Di: while the public were conferences on this subje had imposed u p ai i a lefinition 'of an unclaime e issue of specs; allowed by certain Acts re it no worse awe) seal definition he should by such restriction was not claimed in the q d said a good deals feittace to the rent quart giving us back y e tut could be taken, ougl of to all intents aid to the public service, an , tw what a loan rat ; was a n ample sum to nuch by us, nor we t o TheHonourable Direct to • a great amount,: dated an instance of a ands, and out of that Put he must know, that lions to do what two Rich instances sho rest ; now, ii.insteal sod at any' rate it wool st, we had from thew recourse to the Exchee ms, the arra:waist the Right lion. Gentl for according 15the pert of.the arrangemen hive millions, hilt as, Sea Directors would re would be ankatama misled with it. - the Baa Iregist thi Qs anotherltanch of interest of what lq segenriast of the• Debt," too-, that:flag *it fee:though' he thought tanagement bf the Stith rove economy, yet l payment for sot agltnu,lnd not etactlY that the Bank they tertainly had a ri enlent of ten • • • gdet merely, as bankers say, that no privtat Irak large, yet the Pull mess to the amount it fsiarn'their undertakinE millions in his hanek since if touldnot be n sly improper, that the witisent a . much larg in any profits *On to • the Bank. 1 upon the Bank ; Ming lielst to be viewed wi being obliged to have and therefore did fiot look likehati Variety of this part resources of the tom With regard to the ,nee a F renc h man t hat - the loan of three milli( n this. When sinuln Gentlemen (Mr. Bani lac del Consists, it was (Mr. • Tierney), in ex trod in this country... to the mode which h: r was a pe n ta d i ne tia l stance. His Right 1-1 negotiated ; trade wo ,his loan would not h sad deal of money ei illsia for the restriction tlernan then proceeded ita that, he did not kt spondonce between is that the House ought he Exchequer, in aria striction should not b Bank to accede to de :Wm in this transactic ionourahle Gentles." mod by its necesssity Bank, that he did Mt it was clue to the pub t six millions out ci ,litich should in the 1 night that Parliament might be taken o hose three millions, us. Omar accepted, wi tank were more clearly it 'would be attendec een the conduct of the die public and the B hey had divided bourn canary to advert to nut of four millions, and ante there was no d from sevea to ten per of all consideration ionourable Gentler:4v the Directors said ls stances of the Bank sc rive a profit from th this step would retua :tuned by the Chant ; ? But he never knee at a loss to know oi tercourse. Mr. Pitt, II agree to advance ti s), came off but second striction. He soul ik. Then the .Bank, in °alp taking the pi Ito nothing but inure- . dtrive.some profit f key can deal out large flans the Bank, in anposure. On this occa- their hands. If the ,which he did not believe three millions on ac ce. Did they mean to be losers but gainer the amount of the three .—hut he wished to o injure the commerce of tat if they did not liscount private bills 'earn from some so: reminding the House, . easomodation to th ewal of the Bank Com- Millions than befon afloat above the cs ch " ntly reported that tbtit • Advantages wh teigthria t n h d e Perma ßight l not see why the Beak ma might be raise profit in addition to the Sao that elf to expenses of the Pal s from taking a Nen well able to deft*/ Mast of the bal is. As to the unclaimed was very probab titre trick on the part d that he was glad, of reluctance they had - brought so far to A Noble Lord (( ed that the Bank would subjects, and he 1 it of the loan to Govan- Directors, that th dividends, but the red into a long Moe% Was glad the Rig tetded in convin PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, FEBRUARY 10. Mr. Mitford from the Treasury and from the Commissioners of the Customs in Scotland, presented Accounts respecting vessels enployed.in the Whale Fishery, which were ordered to lie on the Table. _ _ _ The Earl of DARTMOUTH stated his Majesty's answer to certain addresses of the House for papers, that his Majesty would give orders accordingly. Adjourned till to-morrow (this day). HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. NiITYORT, from the Treasury, presented at the Bar an Account of the tountits granted for the regular supply of the London market with fish. Mr. Fowicetazo, Clerk of the Privy Council, presented at the Bar an Account of the Fees paid for Licences from the Privy Council, since the month of May 1809. A new Writ was ordered for the election of a Member of Par liament for the Borough of Althorpe, in the room of Lord Henry Moore, who has accepted of the office of Muster-master General in Ireland; Sir THOMAS TURTON gave notice, that he will propose certain Resolutions, relative to the question of the Carnatic, on the 21st of March. _ _ - . The Brazil Trade Bill was committed in a Committee of the whole House, and the Report was ordered to be brought up t +-morrow. Lord TEMPLE moved that the order for taking into consider ation the Petition against the Bridgewater Election should be postponed from the 17th of March to the second Tuesday of Apra, on the ground of some of the Witnesses having been sub poenaed to give evidence on some trials at the Assizes, at the time now fixed for taking it into consideration. Mr. Rose, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Adam, opposed the delay, on the ground that it was better that the trial on which these witnesses were subpoenaed should be put off than the trial of the merits of the election. With the leave of the House Lord Temple withdrew his motion. Lord TEMPLE gave notice, that to-morrow he will move, that there be laid before the House copies of the Note addressed by Lords Holland and Auckland to the American Minister,dated December 17th, 1/406, relative to the Treaty. Mr. SHERIDAN gave notice, that on Monday next be will move that there be laid before the House, copies of all the corre spondence between his Majesty's Ministers and the Court of Stockholm, after the taking of Copenhagen, upon the subject of retaining possession of the Island of Zealand. I taint: Motif in Irt Sir certai the 2 TIC who' t Lc ation poop AFL' vent DOW M f VP° on w the t Vs+ that by L Deco rnov 'pm Stoc retai put of hac • tiCl ITIO cou cou spe, Pre saic an of t Ho root tar- stat ofit had Ris will an, to-r of t vitl this said ins sent rela and ben, sess the prix the also whi to 1. igno othi a cl of, was salt ton in t law was Ac mo tha the ing of 1 to ela an in n 1: A• en in , D on • re tc ' cc S' h rt A el r: tl r,