Star. — London, England, 1810-06-15 00:00:00

LLOYD'S, Junnl4,.lBlo. t --At a Gent ral Meeting 01 the SU :• Ck I HER S to flys Hodse held this day, -.PER YAUX, Esq. in the Chair : The Proceedirgs of the General Meeting held on the 29th of !glumly last, were re ad dllti confirmed. lhe Requisition for this Netting baying been react. the follow*. Report. was hatuled to the C'hairman, and read by him : The Special Connnit ere appointed on the 2fot h of January last, • by the -gibe( rthers to this blouse, for the purpose of counter tiling the plan of a projected " Marine Insurance Company," and of opposing aoy appllvtion which !nicht he matte to Par- iliatnent, or to the Lords of the Privy Coutvil, for an Act or ' Charter to enable such Company to effect Marine Insurances, and to take all such nltsUltaft'S as they should deem expedient -for that purpose, beg Lave to report, Iliac in pursuance of such appointment they immediately re tained the most able Courtal at the Bar, and having solicited and obtained on the following dal an audience of the First Lord of the I'reasury,they stated to hitu not merely the grievance-5 such aChar - ter woofl occasion to the Suhscribers to this House in general, but silo the impol!ey of the measure In acommercial point of view. . Yoor Committee, after this,el rested a Memorial to be• prepared; and the same was accordingly presented, not only to the Lords of the Privy Council, but to the Lords of the Treasury, and topic i *ere als.l sent to ail the law officers of the Crown. Your Connonitteeshortlyafter learnt that a petition to the House of Commous had been presented by promoters of the new Ma= rifle Insurance Company, and another by the Directors of the Globe In. uranee Office ; and having obtained a copy of such Pe* Odom, it appeared, that they had a double object lo view, namely, to procure for themselves new charters, or to obtaio a repeal of et-) much of the ,Act of 6 Geo. f. c. 13, a gives exclusive privi leges to the Royal Exchange and London Assurance Companies, to effect Marine Instirances. Those Corporations being naturally alarmed at these petitions, Invited your Committee to join them in their endeavours to de feat tbe,objvcts of the petitioners ; and your Committee, after Mature consideration, being fully convinced that the repeal of the abarters would be attended with greeter evils to this House than accede to the invi- Wen in the House Committee, Mr. fitment, and moved 'Jprm which occa . Marryatt matte item they can be it should be iv -. Ivlarryatt per yen Committee carried, a Selec considering the and, without the • and respectabi irnittee, it could list, that there the petition, and having had before m .v Company establishing the .em of Insurance, Ives to support the d as they were of great respec• , idence was produced id that there does of a new Marine the Select Com an investigation, _ to the House of , mlation for the esta- your Committee rs of Parliament tviug prevailed on :beta to print I,is reason to believe !tee was presented ined, your Corn evideiice, resolv ' .ce; and under ,:er repot-. (which ter for tlieir adop dish it, with oh koic,•ki ; and this ince Comm.): s. :he pronto-,- - i of - ir•ared on I ol,taining a Oar ing merely for its 1, c 18, as gives and London .ts• and of lending occur t• many i.jt etion to it, .is • busitooi to all, of the meusere, lead your Corn- told Be attended the Conimurcial single new Char legal restraint Fire-office in into a Marine In. would alao be in Great Britain Inv ink 1. CommiTtee, fv:m ration since. they which in its et toted at pleasure c r•aait 4, would not tr Und, rwritt•rs, productive also inwrousScheint s it and delude the 'dant upon every :he Law should trpose a Petition was lons against the Bill vhs.ribers to this stl, Agents, and 'din:;ly made fcr had attended for press .4 ocher to brought it, second reading moving it, and the wing taken place ,n of Parlianwn•, y have 1 0 :40011 to .J, and thy shall upon aay pru- 'n ft-rlings,, Con of azkr owledg : great attemicy.) the hrertsts of w..ich he adv.;- , and before the owned) ICXMORTON. übli%lted in such itlidirs of this Ibis Meeting be attention winch And tat ;hey be •hall be rendtred this Meeting are Marryat, Esq, , but in thr HGuse opposing die pro f insttratwe, 'X, Chairman. this Meetisigtu. even, in the (Ike. 1 1 41ZLIAMENTARr PROCEEDINGS. f • • ' HOUSE OF LORDS, JUNE. )4 qi - Tit the Committee of Priviltlges on the Panburfireatsge,; Sir Samu.-1 Romilly was heard in reply on behalf of thevaintat,-- Further hearing to-morrow. The Highway Bill, the Drury-lane Theatre Stn, the Inland Coals Bill, and•other Bills, were brought up from the Commons by Sir John Sinclair,. Mr. Peter Moore, Sir James Gkiltarn, Ad= miral Harvey, Mr. Byng, Mr. Steward, Mr. Lygon, and other Members, and read a first time. The kith Insurrection Repeal Bill, the Irish Flax Seed Bill, and the Irish Assessed Taxes Bill, were read a thrd time and passed. The Innkeepers' Rates Subsistence Bill, and the Irish Trea• sury Bills? Bill, were read a second time and committed for to morrow. _ _ - The Scots Civil List Dill passed through a Committee, and was reported SLAVE TRADE. ' Lord HOLLAND gave notice, that on Monday next he should make a motion on this subject, and moved that their Lordships be summoned for that day.—Ordered. DERE FPREST BILL. Lord REDESDALE made several objections to the Bill, stating that the allegations hart not been made out, and that the interest Of certain Petitioners had been neglected; a:-.d therefore moved the recom mitment. Lord SHEFFIELD said the recommitment was' proposed with a view of defeating the Bill. The Petitioners bad been heard two days by Counsel in the Committee ; that the Noble Lord who now ob jects made every amendment he conceived necessary except one, on which . the Committee disagieed : that the measure has been in agitation many years, and has been approved of by the Crown, and upwards of four-fifths of the Commoners ; that there was no op position in the House of Common;, nor until it was referred to a Committee in t!ie Lords. It had teen whispered that it was a job ; if so, it was a job in favour of the public. The object of the Bill was to take upwards of eight thousand acres out of a state of waste and abuse, and put them in a state of the greatest public utility ; that on an average 491 years Bere Forest had produced £45. 12s. His Lordship stated '.om certain documents, that the quantity of land allotted to his Majesty, or rather to the Public, for the growth of timber for the Navy, would pro duce more oak timber, it properly inclosed; than the whole quantity of foreign oak that had been imported in ten years ; and as much as the Navy Board has reported to be necessary for the supply of all his Ma jesty's dock-yards for upwards of four years. He said, that in general he was no advocate for Royal Forests ; that they would be more productive of tim ber, and more beneficial as private property, but as it required two or three generations of prudent per sons, not necessitous, to suffer timisor to grow to a great size before cut down, he thought it highly ad viseable to reserve a proportion of the Forest Lands, well inclosed, and free from common rights. The House divided on the recommitment—Ayes 5 —Noes 21. A Petition was then presented, praying to be heard by Counsel, which was ordered on the third reading the next day. VEX ATIOUS ARRESTS. Lord REDESDALE moved that this Bill be committed, upon which Lord E L LEN BO ROUGH re-urged his objections to the Bill, and st tted, th it instead of answering the humane views which seemed to have &mated it, it would rather have tlr effect of defeating them. The LORD CHANCELLOR thought it would be for the benefit of the creditor to io.vcr rather than to raise the sum. The Bill was then committed, when several amend ments were inserted in dr, avid the Report WAS ordered to be received to-mot row. SC)TCII JUDICATURE RILL. Viscount MELVILLE moved the third readiry , b of this Bill. The Earl of LAUDERDALE restated the for mer objections he had made to '''is measure in its pre nt shape. He aftermird; movi:d an ainendmi-nt, " That those only be rerminerated who were men tioned in the schedule." The applicaeon of thi, amendment was towards the compensation intended for Mr. Thomas Scott, the brother et Walter Scott • the czlebrated Author of Mar nioi, Ti:! Lay *f tioe Last Minstrel, tee. Eff... It appeared the tanner wa , appointed to the offi c of an Evractor, at a 41pli. when it must have been foreseen those of Auld be abolished. Mr. Thomas Scott had not been con nected, previously, with that sort if situation. hut w is recruiting for the Manx Feneibies, in the Isle LI .lan, at the time, and had not served the o!Th7e, but performed its duties thro,lgh die means of a deputy. He considered this transaction a perfect j•,b, and, on that account, ought Lot to he cotptenanced by Par. liarnent. By the present Bill, Mr. T. Scott would have .CJ3O for life, as an indemnity for an office, the duties of which he never performed, while those clerks, who had lalLir,A for 20 years, ha , l no ade quate rem unerati,n. - Viscount MELVII.I.7 supported the general pr-- visions of the 3iil. al respect to Mr. T. Scott, he certainly kat in business, had met with misfor tunes, an!, on ac. mint of his circum,tances, went to the Isle al Man ; but, with respect to his appoint ment, this was the fact : A situation in the same office with that of his brother bee-ante vacant, of .€4:I0 per annum, and he thought it his duty to pronn.te a person who had meritoriottly titled the situation which was afterwards granted to Mr. 'l'. Scott. His brother was, tuerefore, so disinterested as to have hint p. pointed to the inferior, instead of the superior situation. The Noble Viscount saw no injustice in the case, and there was no partiality but what was excusable. Lord HOLLAND thought, no man who knew him would suspect that he was unlavourable to n,en of literature ; on the contrary,. he felt a great esteem for the liter:try character of NValter Scott. He and his colleagues ever thought it their duty to reward I:terary merit, without.regard to political opinions ; and lie wished he could pay the same compliment to die Noble and. Learned Viscount, tier he must ever recollect, that the poet, Burns, of immortal memory, had been shamefully neglected But, with regard to Mr. T. Scott, the quest:on 'Was quite different, for he was placed in a situation ‘vhielt he and his brother knew, at the time, would be abolished ; and horn Par. liament he claimed an indt:mnity for what could nut be pronounced any loss. It was urijust as it regarded others, and improper, as it respected Parliament. The Earl of ROSSLYN made a few oLiservations, gent'sally,. in opposition to th • The Earl OfLAUDERDALE r m u Iced, if the situation had notbeen granted to Mr. T. S •coLt ' , is • - would have been filled by some one jn rotation, .+' serving 144 prornotibn'anithe preSent irilemnity. • i The aniendment was then prilisoieU by the LORD CHANCELLOR, and negatived without a division. The Bill was accordingly read the third time, and passcd. • • HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Drury-lane Theatre Bill was 'passed, and ordered ts the Lords. _ _ _ _ The Act for applying the fees of the Officers of the House of Commons, which amounted this y...ar-to the si..n of di ,092, ha ring been read pro forma Mr. PER CEVAL st.oved Ado resses to his Majesty, for gratirti,g the following su:as, which were agreed to. • sBeoo to R. S. Lashiogtou, Esq. Chairman of dot Ways and , £2ooo,lueludir.g.his fees, to J. rarniah Dyson, Fieq:ittiond Clei k of the House, for his services during the prest-nt Session. £l5OO to Jthn I.ey, Esq. third Clerk of the House. • - - £5OO to John Clementson, Esq. Deputy Serjrant at Arms. £le:.o for printing the Journals, under the exclusive direcdon of John Ley, Esq. senior Clerk; and £350 to George Witham, Esq. Clerk of the Committees. A message from tie Lords announced their Lordships assent to the Irish the fish Light-house, and she East India Ships Bills, and several other pUblic and private Bills. sir James Hall and Mr. Brougham postponed their respective mutions. 1 he third reading •f the Vote of Credit Bill was postponed till to-morrow. On the motion of MA LOCKHART, the report of the Trus tee, tor purchasing an totate tor the descendants of Lord Viscount Horatio Nelson, was ordered to be laid before the Holies. ' On the motion for the House going into a Cernmittee on the Poor Settlement Bill, Mr. WHITBREAD mewed as an amendment, that the House should go into the same Committee this (ay three. months. Mr. LOCKHARI' expresses: his dem:lnitiation of taking the sense of the House. Mr. HORNER supported the amendment. Mr. DAVIES GIDDY expressed his intention of bringing in a Bill relative to this subject early in the next Session ; u w‘uld embrace the regulation of the value of tenths. Sir SAMUEL ROMILL'e opposed the motion, and gave no tice that he would next Session move for leave to Lrit:g in a Bill fox making a Cx-months retidence a settlement. 1 he Committee was then postponed till this day three months. The Assesstd Tax Regulation Bill was read a tiiirel time and passed. LOCKNART gave notice, that next Session he would bring in a Bill for regulating the Bankruptcies ariAt.g from a non payment of the Assessed Taxes. feat tbe,objects of the petitioners ; and your Con Mature consideration, being fully convinced that the Sharters would be attended with greeter evils to this the grant of any new one, did not hesitate to need tation ; and notice of a motion having been given of Commons for the appointment of .a Select Cun Marryatt and Mr. Grenfel opposi-d such appointmen to substitute an open Committee in its stead. Urine sion this Committee cannot bet notice that Mr. M a speech in the House which is beyond any eulegitin Stow ; and considering it of great importance that it art - ally known, the Committee solicited from Mr. mission to print ir. Their tfforts to obtain an ope were, however, unavailing, and the motion being cat Committee was appointed for the purpose of co state and means of effecting Marine Insurances, and slightest Intention of detracting from the honour at lity'of all the individuals who composed that Comm not hot strike the eye of every man who read the li were many whose partners were subscribers to the who were of course interested in the plan. The Select Committee being thus formed, and hay them such witnesses as the promoters of the n thought proper to produce, for the purpose of es • want of facility and security by the present sy tem several of your Committee presented themselves I Interests of this hinne, and they trust, that, aided by others of the Subscribers, and by merchants of tabili y and experience, such a body of evidence Its emild not fag to convince every impartial mind t not exist any solid ground for the establishment of ; Insiltrance Company. O; this (spinier', indeed, thi inittee the appear to have been ; for, after an i h lasted s x weeks, the report they made to Conetions concludes, wi bout any recornmendatice Lioineat of a new Chartered Company. During the period this investigation occupied, yo ght it .right to circulate among - -; the Members stem. pamphlet, written on the subj.et ; and havi:ll Mr. Marryatt, as be'f'ore stated, to permit then speech, tha: also was circulated, and they have rez wi h the best effect. 'So soon as the r. port of the select Committee to the House of Cot ennts, and a copy of it iibtaine mitten. cenceiving it not to be supported by the ev eel tie counteract the effect it was likely to lend .c stood eig that r. Mai iyatt bad pr. pared a counter he ha,: in vain prui,os 1 to the seine; Committer f It ') it was determined to .s ply to him to pahlis 'see sat tins ( T oil the roper , in which he acqiiies Pan phlet was also sent to the M 5 others of the Pious A bill was next brought into Pal-nal:tent by the the new 111:aine Insurance Company; and it app. • ir, that they now abandoned the • iLa of el, ter, or any act or incorpora:ion. The hill having obj rep-..al of s , muds of the act of 6 Geo. 1, th exe.usiva privibge to the Royal Exchange ant %trance Compto.a.:s of insuring in partrership, a ▪ ey re, bottomry. lie first view of this Bid it may possibly 04 tinderwritris, that there was no very great 01-je bell g calculated mer. ly to open the lnkurance 1 upon equal terms; tot , upon ri.e consideration o 1 end the consequences to which it would naturally le anittee were unanitin usly of opinion that it wool with much greater evils to tl.is House, and to eh World at large, than the establishment of any sire tered Company. The eft et of taking off the legs posed by the act would instantly be, that every London and Westminster would be converted into surance Company; that many other Companies established in 'motion, and all the out-poris in would likewise have their Marine Insurance Comp It was therefore the decided opinion of your Cot every thing which had erne under tlo ir considerat were appointed, that any alteration in the Law, w frets might permit Insurance Companies to be form under the denomination of Joint Stock Compani orly militate against the Oft, rests of the private and be injurious to the Merchants, but be p, of great public Mischief, by opening a fi. Id for num art: epeculatious, particulaity recd wed to tempt ; Puldic, from the chaecesabst are necessarily attendi specie. of Insurance business. 'lacy therefore resolvad that any alteration in rho be most strenuously opposed ; and for tl is purpose immediatelt, presented to the House of Commons a passing into a Law, and praying that the Subs, Horse, tnig it he heard against it by their Counstl, la ',nesse' An Order of the Iloese was accordin tl a. r fpote; ant', Mier Corn-el aid Agents hat three ii-shis withou. being called in, .(front :he l'ublic business) the Honourable Gentleman who t half ,lion the fieh ins ant, (When it stood for a IA among the otter Order , of the i)ay) declined insvi. Pitt wee therefore I- se without any ti:sceosion havir. to is t' tits. Worth r it vcib he resumed in the next S.-ssion c yoar Committee emote pu.itively state; but they 11 believe that the objett is hot altog •ths r abandoned, that tore teal it .heit they to keep a wateaful eye u c gc fur that purpose. , set teonntuttee cannot, in jts'iee to their own clu .e :hen report, w.:itountakteg the oppurtui yof 1.. g 'hew übdg.ettnis to Mr. 111aititYAT1, tot the g, atot unwearied z al he has shewn in eroteetieg tl this Howe, aid tor the utiesan pled ability sci h w, to ed tbeit cause both in the Mien.- of Conelioes, a ictect Commute. • :'s, I etli June, t o. t . • - J. I. ANGERS' EIN. hiIAW. T. PARRY. J. F. 1 liuOCl Ii CLAGE T. REED. G... UNRO. J. IN h.:. T. NeNt.'':\ LIMN/. F. Z. ' J. R t.. • 'l'. HA1.1.11.0 Restive& unannot usly, That the Report be ;obi Vesespapers as toe Ccantr.ittee fur awn:terns the House sliallthink proper. Resolved titiatmously, That the Thanks of •thh given to the Seecial committee, for the greet alt they have Slatted to the interests of this flouse, and rem:les:ed. to continue their exertions, if the same "hal Di C 4 /sail - . Resolved ueanimously, That the Thanks of tl.is eartieulaily due, and : lei bee thy given, to Joseph hl for tit' great *Nifty at:d zeal displayed by him both of Conintoos, and in the Select Cionmittee, in oppo posed alterations in the existing system of marine hit (signed) JASPER VAUX, Resolved un anion oust y,'llat the ihanksot this Met to the Citairmatt fp; his able and impartial wild= It ASSESSED TA XF.S. -The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the third reading of the Assessoi Taxa, Bin: Sir THOMAS TURTON said, groat praise was due to the Right Hon. Gentleman the regillations which be made to prevent vex.dious sarcharge;, hut he was of opinion that duriog the recess g should be digested for the purpose of 'n.odifyirvz die Income Tax, and rendering it lieloer and !cgs lair thensome to the lowsr and middling classes of the people. An Hon. Membo h..• 1 given n-tice early in the Session that he would F ropiTishon to :he House to render the Inci . :La• T.. a,t(. ; .'elur II- limes'. sary ; but if that : rclitnpit.t 3 his intention, he would hiinst 1., e.; xt :itisstor 4 propose a substitute I r the tax. ;I.e .s. m his opinion, a very gre :t ..i 1; :)1 the tax, as it %vas in -re sive!, ,Laa the higher rinks of the ciinmenity. was convinced that the scale was not equ.t.:l a person who had an income of X2OO atTord to p year as well As the person who had an income of d:2103 could pay R2)O a-year. It was also unequal, inasmuch as a min who had a large family paid as much a., a b ichelor who had no family at all. IT was also against the exemption granted to forei , • which amounted to £69,000 a-year, and he .nought they ought to pay their share of contribution in thir country, while we expended so much in fightiro2 battles abroad. From what had been sad •rs a for mer occasion, he apprehended that it was the inten tion not to ccnsider the Income Tax at' a war tax, but to make it perpetual, as it was said some taxes would he abolished in case of peace, and part of the Income Tax would be still continued, against which he would enter his protest. He was against the scale begin ;ng as low as it did, but it Wai said, it wotild he th. more productive because it spread five: sr: hirge mass of the people, but the fact was, they w )uld soon extinguish the means of contribution, as many were now obliged to live on the:r carital. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUITR obslrved, that the present Bill was for it:gal:ding :he anode of collecting the Assessed Taxes.an, newv.hcd to set the Hon. Bar net right with respe'.**: tc his prehending that the Bill hi ought in Ile: pre at Ses. sion, relating to the collecting of the A stered Taxes in Scotland, referred in the least to :!.e pe:i , ettt ding . .he Income Tax. It had na sash reference, a•id on he return of peace the House would :hen be the best judge what ought to be done, consistent with the state 4 the finances of the country. A , to taking aw.4y the exemption allowed to foreigners, that was a mat ter which he would turn in his min.: during the pro rogation, but wished not to be considered as making any pledge on the subject. Mr. HOWARTH said, hz would early in the next Session move, that the exempt;ons allowed to foreign. ers should be taken away.—The Bill was then read a third time, and ordered to the Lrrds. EAST INDIA trIAN £II.L. On the ender-of the day having been read for the third reading of the Bill, for p,ranying a Loan of 41,500,000 w the East India Company, Sir THOMAS TURTON opposed to Bill, as he considered it money advanced which never would be paid. He t'ien entered at scrne length into a state of tit., of of the Company, and observed, that private accounts had been received, that four French frigates had attacked Benevhlia, and sent a force on shore which pillaged the place. Mr. CR LEVEY supported what had fallen from • the Hon. I3.uonet with respect to the affairs of the Company. _ _ M. WALLACE observed, that the expellees of the Company arose trom the state of political affairs, and that the wars of which the Hon. Baronet com plained, were necessary and justifiable. • Mr. DUNDAS said the Bill would remain in force only one year, when the licuse would see whether the. Company acted up to its agreement, or not, and con tended that the million auda half was a loan and`not an advance to the Company. Los d AR,CHIBALD HAMILTON did not ex pect, from the state of the Company's revenue, as dis closed by the papers on the table, that the loan would he repaid to t h e pu bli c . A t t h e same t ; tne , h e cou ld wish that some Gentleman, competent to give hint iitharnation, would state the.pr.obability, if any such them was, of a surplus revenue, SQ as .at sktly future period to give hopes that it would be opuclft . • 'Sir TPIOMLS TURTON, in etpl anatic,o, that he had imputed to the Gov ernment in In& v:ialt of ruling by rapine and bl oo d s h ed. stated that the the territories w:Te acquired b y memeets. With reapect to the loa n , he consider that the Company asked the money vance of claims, and not lay way of Li m e . Mr. CREEVEY made a few observations planation, in the coutse of which he di s d a i r idea of giving opinions on the next Report, whi r l, could not be so indiscreet as to antieip.ite. Mr. ROBERT THORIiTON was dispeso admit to the Noble Lord that the public cult; ' look to any prospect of payment until a the charter was obtained. The Company in nion had been hardly dealt with, for he m ust that the country had prospered as much Cal a , Company is the Company had benefited by siatance received from the country. With te. the loan, the lien. Gentleman seemed tc• thi it could not be obtained any where else, and the Company ought to be grateful to ft. opinion the Hon Gentleman was mistaken, (Mr. T.) would tell him where he could and even to a greater amount. • Bonaparte happy to lend the money (a /augh ), aye, and whole of the Company's debts, and give tern 0 years purchase for their territories. Tliete not be any intention in what had fallen from nourable Baronet, and •fhe other Honoue,ibl e Ge n . Litman, to insinuate that the COmpany's affairs had at prospered under their piewitt nianatatmeet, be. cause the face was, that they had actually pov e/ ad more 4o than at any former period. The a tar ica i t i ts under which they laboured were Pet prine;palty their own seeking, but arse in consequence of the wys in which th ey had been engaged ; w ars w hi c h hewas justified in denominating the am of th e Hoare of Commons, and therefore the Company had the right to claim assistance. The Honourable Gentle. man contended, that the trade since 1 793 had always bet n frosperotishat it was sufficiently so as to et . able the Company to make a large dividend. tie trusted that as the Government in India had ineuneil vast expences, in fighting to maintain the Britiltie. terests, that the House would not be disp lid to make them bear all the burthens, because it thr a ad the result must be, that if the war was contieuea)exr Seer year, they must come td P.irlienkent for lrells loans. When the report was made, the House atiela be satisfied that the present loan would not bt itepta. '.perly used. All that the Company !lesire.l was, that their affins be s•rictly and d Tply scrutinized; they vereno- afraid of the examination. • Lord A. HAMILTON made a few oteervAinns in expl .nation, and th , .n the House divit!..d cm T I T •-a reading of the Bill : Ayes 52---Noes.lo— .42.—The 1141 w,.s then passed. It deif ifs i rldia any He Ea by tho se dined t. I in ad. n% in cr. imed a:l Whicl, l ea rntse4t. :uttitl nut :ness 4 l n 11 . 1 Bpi C ,r,te n l tae I any as . relsect 1 , hiak that tlarrefir c In th for he ebtsio it s Wo! , 1 s I Id pay th e len 15 et icre cm2A n the Hs. THU ADMIktALTI COURT'. -. On 0. , r return to L.A. G4llery, we futini rho there• tort of the 3i.1 for making Rego' tonne in the Alt :m.4l,y t..:otals had been taken into f g .litt:::: 0c1i,!1.. ration. Mr. H. MARTIN eves speaking, and staani: l' r; objection: t the Bel, w ae ceutended;fairported to be in reality it WAS not. haste. I tf ia • :• tr.! c.lled a Bill for regulating the office of the Lourts Admiralty, ought to be entitled " a Bill to Ferenc R Cour L ." The Hon. and leered eleutternan conceived that -the object which u , re. fcssed to have in view was to reform the abuses in r-eard to the enormous fees taken by the Itegistree and the Marshel ef the Admiralty. now the very re vers' woeld be its effect. When the me 'sure for the ablation of reversions was in agitation, it was not in tended to regard remote interests,nor indeed dielPar l• ;merit when le N tslating in regard to offices where enormous rrofits had, he might say, scandalized the country, ever retard remote iaterests. He willied to know, therefore, why the particular office of Reese .•ar, to which the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Per ceval) had the Reversion, deserved to be extorpted from the general reguletion. Formerly when the Bill was before Pirliametit for suppressing the fees in tho office of Tenets of die Exchequer, no reference WAS bad to a Noble Lord who then held Lie situation of Chencellor. The place of Registrar was given lathe present possessor by a Nebie Lord at the head of tho Admiralty, and the gift was afterwards conirmed by the King. Inc the first instance, therefore, the ap pointment was illegal. His Majesty cniild not be said to have any interest in the office. The Honourable And Learned Gentieman contended, that any Anises could not be regulated by Act of Porliameat, but must be done by Hs Majesty in Council. In that vinion be was fortified by the opinion of the Learned lit ire at the head of the Admiralty Courts, wh" in the Case of the Rainsbergs, where tie Marshal claimed such Large foes as astonished me Judge, that learned person bad stated " that it belonged to his Majesty "alone in Council, to make any alteration in the table of Fees in any of the Courts of Admit:shy." . Net one word was said about the Marshal in the With respect to the money of the suitors. the Ries Hon. Gentleman in answer to a question put to hart the other evening, whether the Rer-istrei - rraincd e: made use of the suitors' muni s, thet Right Hor. Gentleman declared di it he did not Now he. (Mr. M.) had in his pocket a letter trorn 'the Right Ho:- Gentleman which stated a difierent thing. It was an undoubted fact that the Noble Laid who is 'tic Re ' gistrar never did retain one factuing of suitors' nu n.l as forming a part La the profits of nis officc upon has examination before the Committee. tie saw no rea son why the Registrar of the Admirahr should not by compelled to deposit in the dank the saner mo nies as in like manner is required from the &f asters in Chancery. He believed that t!.e real object 14 this Bill was to prevent its being so paid in, and therefore he should object to it. altogether The CHANCELLOR ut the EXCIIE , I,:UF.R observed, that the Honourable Gendernen had :..ken great merit to himself for his peaetration it. oiscever ing that the title of the Bill was larger than its con tents. He had called w ith much gievey upon him (Mr. Perceval) to explain or point nut ail one pas sage which related to the Martbal's Unice. With respect to that oilice, it must be in the lecolltction tho House, that when the Bill was 0: igihatly inaoa duced, it was professedly fie. the purie se at A guas- . Ling the office of Registrar only, and the but et course applies to that particular (Alice. The Honou rable Gentleman had said much AbOUL the tele ot the Bilk; it tire tide wits objectionable, that might bs altelectl on the third reeding. It was ratht r s it; tiff the ii9souretge Gentleman. should now obila