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NEW THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. ON MONDAY NEXT, FEBRUARY 12, 1810, will be acted (for the fourth time) a New Drama, in Three Acts, interspersed with Music, called THE FREE KNIGHTS ; The Overture and Music composed by Mr. Mazzinghi. To which will be added the NeW Comic Pantomime of HARLEQUIN PEDLAR; Or, THE HAUNTED WELL. PdRLIAMENTARr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, FEBRUARY 9. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat at half past three o'clock, when the new BISHOP of CHESTER, (Dr. SPARKS) was introduced to the House with the customary honours. Mr. Garrow, assisted by Mr. Harrison, was beard at the Bar, on the Hon. H. W e ll esley ' s Bill of Divorce from his Lady, Char lotte : the usual proofs being adduced, the Bill was read a second time, and committed for Monday next. Mr. Bankes brought up the Reversion Bill, *filch was after wards read for the first time. • Mr. Hase from the Bank, b roug h t up the annual Account of the Conunis;loners for the National Debt; and there was also presented, at the Bar, the Fifth Report of the Commissioners for the Carnatie. His Grace the ARCHBISHOP of CANTERBURY money, that the Right Reverend the Bishop of Chester should preach be fore the Lord* on the Fast Day, Wednesday, February 28. THANKS TO LORD CANISTER. Admiral Lord Gambier being introduced, the Lord Chancellor, in expressive tame, presented the Thanks of the Longs to him, for his conduct respecting' the Expedition to Basque Reads. Lord Gambier acknowledged the honour thus conferred upon him by • the House; and declared himself particularly gratified by the per sonal approbation with which the Lord Chancellor had spoken of his professional exertions for his country. • PORTUGAL. • Before the Order of the Day was read, the BUKI of NOR FOLK took the liberty of asking the Noble Secretary opposite, whom he saw in his place, whether we were pl e d g ed, b y any treaty not yet kn o w n , to ass ist Portugal_ either with our money or our forces ? Marquis WELLESLEY replied, that, whatever understand ing might subsist on those important particulars, between this Government and Portugal, no treaty, to the effect spoken of by the. Noble Duke, was yet made. The Duke of NORFOLK signified it to be his intention, on Monday next, to make some motion on the subject of his present Inquiry. ; - the Noble Viscount's speech, which he conuidered as not being warranted or supported by the facts ex plained or to be deduced from the papers on their Lordships' table. For his part, he was ready and glad to admit, that he had been guided occasionally in his official duties by the sound judgment and acknoih.: lodged experience of a distinguished officer, Admiral Domett. He adverted, with some. pleasant:sarcasm,. upon the active zeal and expedition - With which the Noble Lord (Melville) had posted up from Scotland to introduce his motion, which, however from the reasons which he had stat e d, h e f oun d himself obli ged to oppose. Lord MELVILLE explained, and After some further observations from Lord MUL GRAVE, and a desultory conversation in which Lord, HOLLAND and Lord LIVERPOOL partook; the-Motion was, put from the Woolsack and, negatived. The House adjourned a utde after eight o'clock. H6(iSit OF COMIVIONS. Tbts being the last day for receiving petitions (Or private Bills a great number of petitions were presented, and ordered to be re ferred to Committees. A person from the India House presented certain accounts re lative to the debts of the Nibob of the Carnatic. Mr. Hale, from the Bank of England, presented accounts of the sums expended by the Commissioners of the-National Debt, for the extinction of the said debt, in the course of last year. Ordered to lie on the Table. • Sir CHARLES POLE presented a petition relative to the de lays in the Admiralty Courts respecting prizes, and the distribu tion of prize -money.--Ordered to lie on the Table. A petition from the Catholics of Limerick, praying for an equal participation in the rights of the British Constitution, was pre sented and ordered to lie on the Table. Sir EDWARD O'BRIEN presented a petition to the same ef fect, from the Roman Catholic* of the county of Clare.—Ordered to lie on the Table. Mr. JENKINSON presented additionaliapers relative to the Scheldt Expedition.--Ordered to lie on the Table, ind to be • printed. Mr. BANKES mobed for the prod Action Of certain accounts from the Excise, for the assistance of the Finance Committee, which were ordered. Mr. WHARTON brought up a Bill for vesting certain parts of Windsor Forest in his Majesty, which was reads first time, and ordered to be reed a.stood time. • ..es convicted, 996 were executed, be portion of about three executions to four c In succeeding periods, a great diminution place batmen the number of convictions an ber of executions. In the London district, to 1809, only about one-eighth of the p victed were executed. He was now speal whole range of crimes, of those offences v age has considered as lastly punishable wit human passions w hic h are se - dangerous tc those violations of property accompanied - - , qoces of violence, or of injury to corn oerperration, which cann or too rigorous! gvesdng—(third time) The Free Knights ; with Is He a Prince ? Pisces for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. BRANDON, at the New iu Prince's Place, Hart-street, fr•,m tea till four. WAR-OFFICE. • 1 - I , IIE ANNUAL ARMY LIST for 1810, with an I Index, is now ready for delivery.—To he had of T.-Eger vo, Military Library, Whitehall. Allude princi pl ..rceny, which, asfar . --re rarely put intOexecu 4il the attention of the fice e ortion between the sintherkil Jeen committed in London and 11 „ding in a dwelling-house, to a value ~ed that r•irne amenable to the punishment and the number of persons who of late year tually been executed. In 1806, 3462 pets tried for stealing in dwelling-houses, of wl two were executed. In 1807, 3451 were t only one executed.—ln 1808, 8788 were t none executed. The circumstances of the t dered it impossible that all the conviction species of offence should be carried into effect jurors, prosecutors, and the Crown, all fel that it was impossible for the statutes in tl to be carried into effect. This alone was for all reasonable men, that such inefficient applicable laws ought no longer to lima statute book. It frequently happened, th; were deterred from bringing depredators ti meet, from the severity of the penalty whi be the result of their conviction, and per thereby led to the perpetration of crimes t punk) , which was held out to delinquents taw was at present put in force, the Judg circuits, and the Ministers of the Crown don, decided against whom the sentence 4 should be put in force. This he could not sidering as an unpleasant duty to be commit hands. He would not, however, venture to introduce any great change into our cries but would only suggest, that mere violatio petty, unattended with any circumstances o violence, or dangerous effects to commerce, be exempted from capital punishments. in view to move for a repeal of the Acts of : Liam 111. which made it a capitalfelony to ste; to the value of five shillings; the Act of Qt to a similar effect against stealing forty Ail -dwelling house ; and the Act of George stealing to the like value from any bark or any rive: or navigable canal, or en a what of which offences persons found guilty, on c were liable to the penalty of death. It wax the extreme penalty of the law was very ran execution against such offenders, but thi: owing to the leniency of the laws, but to th which had of late years been adopted, of such matters to be decided according to tl of the Judge before whom the matter was tr practice of leaving to the arbitration of the fore whom a cause was tried, the sentence to be carried into execution, was severely c( by Sir Matthew Hale and Lord Bacon. H the discretionary power at present grant Judges highly dangerous and such as no rr desire to be - vested with. In some cases, of a prisoner's - defence, where he has atte prove his innocence by alibis which the J thought ill-established, •that circumstance against him. Sometimes it was held as a aggravation, that the offence was cot= place where such offences were rare, and that they ought to be checked, or that they mon, and therefore ought to be punished their multiplication. Many instances mi duced of the different judgments which ha( aounced upon the same offence by differ( Here the Honourableand Learned Gentler some cases in point, and concluded with leave to bring in a BM to repeal so much of the •10th and 11th of William 111. away the benefit of clergy from persons 's shop to the value of five shillings ; sp n Act of Queen Anne which relates to s dwelling house, warehouse, &c. &c. to forty shillings ; and of the Act of Geo vessel in any navigable river, &c. &c. Mr. WINDHAM spoke against the r Mr. HARVEY would not oppose the The SOLICITOR-GENERAL cc avow that he had a great predilection fo forms of law, and should view all prof lions with a jealous eye. - Mr. W. SMITH made some observe fell from the Solicitor-General = and ap motion. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL ext The CHANCELLOR of the E 3 should not oppose the motion in its pre Sir S. ROMILLY regretted that he conceived by almost every Gentleman part in the debate. But neither ' -- -...tations would deter , ON WEDNESDAY NEXT The State Lottery will begin and finish Drawing. D TCHARDSON, GOODLUCK, and Co. Stock .i."- ProAers,.corner of Bank Jitti'dings, Cornhill, and facing V:: I ;re of the King's Mews, Charing Cross, respectfullyinform t:Te public, that they are setting Tickets and Shares, and have rns• on sale, Two, Three, and Four Tickets of the same Num ber, which may obtain the following great Prizes : Four Ticketl of one Number - .CBO,OOO Three ditto - - 60,000 Two ditto - - - 40,000 Vnc (406 - • - . - 20,000 _ Mares in proportion. - , WEDNESDAY NEXT. CIVIFT and CO. remind their Friends and the I) Public, that the LOWERY will Begin and Finish D!aawing 07 WEDNEST,AY, the 14th.-I'he Scheme centains only 5,000 S..albers, and the following. PENSION TO LOAD WELLINGTON. Lord LIVERPOOL rose to move the considera tion of his Mafesty's Message, for conferring on Lord Viscount Wellington the net sum of £2OOO a year, compensatory of his great services, and enabling him and his heirs to support the dignity to which he was now raised. Were it not for some things that had already past, he (Lord Liverpool) would have thought it ,w-holly unnecessary to offer any induce ment to the Motion, which, conformably with the Message of his Majesty, be had now to move. Glo rious and decisive as he still thought the victory of Talavera, and he must continue to think so, that was not the only ground on which Lord Wellington was entitled to the compensation of his country. Portu gal had twice been delivered from its fate by his ex ertions. To say nothing of his anterior services— services greatly estimated, and calling for full tonsi. deration at the present time ; his life had been spent in the service of his country. Nothing more need be said by him at present. Earl GREY opposed this grant, painful as was his duty, on the same grounds as he had already resisted the YOLC of thanks for the battle of Talavera. He should say no more ; but reserve what he had yet to offer till the bill, framed for the pension, came up from the House of Commons. cAPrrAL PRIZES: 4 of.. £20,000 I 1 0 of. . £',ooo .1 _ . _ Belida; 4,960 inferior Prize:; from .4.'100 to pl 5. 4,099.... a 545 5OO 5 ° 48 - 500 4,855 5OO 2,097 5OO Were Sehl and Shared in the Last Lottery, at SWIFT and CO.'s OFFICES, No.ll, Poultry, No. 12, Charing Cross, and No. 31, Aldgate High Street, Mr. LUSHIN3TON brought up the Report of the Malt Duty Bill, which was ordered to be engrossed, and to be received on Monday next. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER aciptainted the House, that his Majesty had been waited upon, with the Address of the House, rer the production of certain communications from the Austrian Government,. relative to the Expedition to the Scheldt, and which his Majesty. had been graciously pleased to order to be presented to the House. The Papers were then pre seated, and ordered to he on the Table. Sir F. BURDETT presented a Petition from the Inhabitants of Westminster, (See the Proceedings of the Westminster Meet ing) praying for a Reform in the Commons House of Parliament. ...Ordered to lie on the Table. Mi. PARNELL moved, " Thdt the Report of the'Committee appointed in 1804, to inquire into the State of the Currency of Ireland, be epprinsed. - 4 Sir E. KNATCHBULL moved for certain additional Papers relative to the Expedition to the Scbeldt.-Ordered. fire. Secretary RYDER presented certain Accounts relating to Irish Benefices—Ordered to lie on the Table. Mr. MANNING gave notice, that on Wednesday next he should submit to the House a proposition relative to the New Marine Insurance Company. The House then resolved itself into a Committee of Ways and Means ; when several Resolutions were agreed to, and ordered to be reported on Monday. t; ere Prizes in former Lotteries, amounting to upwards of a NELLION STERLING, have been Sold in Shares. NEXT WEDNESDAY. who in the L AST LorrEitt Sold • in Shares: VAR ... A ... ,C 20,000 I 2,618 D Z 20,000 I) ... 5,000 I sft3 B ... 1,000 a.. 0 ... A ... 1,000 I 830 B ... 1,000 ... D ... „ 500 I 4,855 ... ... 500 '.st.avr selling Tickets an. Sharea for the Grand Lottery that Bcgtos and Fiorshes on WEDNESDAY NEXT. The Scheme contains 3,000 Numbers, 40 Capitals, 5,000 ?Tito, X201:!;309 in Money, all to be distributed in ONE DAV!! in. cr.c Number must gain EIGHTY TUOUSAND POUNDS. The Duke of NORFOLK could not agree that the ,battle of Talavera, though nobly and well fought, was either a victory, or decisive. The motio* was at length.put, and carried without a division: 6 ,' Penons in !he Country may he supplied with Tickets or Mato, by bending their Orders (Post or Carriage paid) ac cstipankd with good Bills, Bank Notes, or Post-Office Orders, to either of BlSifs Offices, Nu. 4, CORNUILL, or 9, CHANINO. eltoSS. NOTICE RESPECTING THE CRIMINAL LAWS. PAID ON DEMAND. CA:3 - - £20,000 133 - '10,2Q4 - 20,V00 8,831 - 18,394 20,000 8,716 19,544 20,C .111 19,570 2,279 - 10,000 17,127 Besides Prizs of £2,004 £l,OOO, £5OO, ate. THIS Grand List of CAPITAL PRIZES was ` 1 " Sold in Shares, in the last and three preceding Lotteries, at the old-established State Lottery Offices, N 0.16, Cornbill, and St. Margaret's Hill, Borough, of HORNSBY and Co. who were also the first to seE Two Prizes of £30,000. HORNSBY and Co. respectfully solicit the favours of the Pablir in the Nev State Lottery, which abounds with Capital t.!o.nct.s; they also beg leave to assure their Friends, that they Il lx their best end e a vo u rs to procure P r i zes wort h y their pos -Ang. Tickets and Shares are selling at ehe lowest Prices, and all Orders by Post or Carrier executed to any part of the Globe, m the same terms as if present. Cr To be Drawn in ONE DAY—WEDNESDAY NEXT. Two ' three, and four Tickets of the same Number may be had, that £40,000, £60,000, or £BO,OOO, can be obtained by one adventure NAVAL REVISION. Lord MELVILLE, drawing the attention of their 1 1 Lordships to the Reports of_the Commissioners for Naval Revision, stated the Reports to be of high mment to the country; and on which, he thought, there could be but one opinion in that House.— It was not a question of party, but a question which all parties should meet. His Lordship now gave an account of the origin of the Reports which were the object of the motion. He had, till these pa pers came out, no regular Reports of the state of the Navy; since the close of the last century. Fifteen of the Reports were, nevertheless, lying on the Table of that House • though, of these, four only were yet attempted to be acted upon. Having read various extracts from-the first to the tenth of the Reports, (which he did to spare their Lordships the pain of hearing dry details from his mouth), he wished mere ly to call their Lordships' attention to the leading purpose-of his' Motion. All the Reports were meant to be brought to the test of use to be tried ; and, if then found insufficient to their end, to be re-consider ed, and even revised : each, of them terminated with a recommendation of that kind. The House would form some judgment of the importance of these Re: ports, when he told them, that the first contained re gulations for the expenditure of their dock-yards; and that, among other weighty matters, the 11th Re port proposed to regulate the conduct of the Victu alling Board. Experience of these things was the source of his anxiety. The-e Reports had not been properly applied ; and, had that been the case, they were never meant as absolute and irrevocable instruc tionS for the government of the navy, but to be re vised even before acted upon, if thought fit.— Lord Melville expressed his regret, his deep regret, at the premature suspension of the serious labours of the. Commissioners for Naval Revision : if the public had paid a few thousands for them, the public would have been effectually reimbursed by the good which that Commission would have done. Regrets were, however, now unavailing. All he wished now to do, all he could now hope, was to attract their Lord ships' attention to the great object he had at heart. He entreated them not to abandon the conduct of their navy to the caprice of every Lord of the Admi ' rally • or, to the variations of every comptroller of the Navy. Lord Melville concluded by moving, That an humble Address be presented to his Majesty, requesting that he will be pleased to inform the House what steps had been taken conformably to the Report of the Commissioners for Naval Inquiry, and whether it was the intention of his .Majesty's Ministers to act on the recommendation of that report. Lord MULGRAVE entered into a wide and cir cumstantial defence of the measures pursued in that department to which he had the honour to belong; and expressed some surprise at . the drift iad goirit of Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY rose, in pursuance of the notice which he gave a few evenings ago, to bring under the notice of the House some parts of the criminal law as it at present stood. He thought he was discharging a public duty in calling the at tention of the House to the subject. Wilk he had to propose could not so well be considered an altera tion, as an Amendment in the Criminal Law. The - £lO,OOO 5,000 . - 5,000 - 5,000 • - 4,000 Papers he had lately caused to be laid before the House went to shew the number of persons who had been capitally convicted of late years; the numbers who ,had been executed, and the numbers who had been transported. It was, however, only to the number of offences, which as the law at present stood, that by the strict letter of it were considered as crimes fit to be visited - with the punishment of death, to which he should direct the attention of the House. It was a subject which had long been a matter of complaint s with all these who had paid attention to the Criminal Law of the country, that the list of offences which were punishable with , death was more numerous in. England than in any other nation. It was said, that ' the laws which enacted such severe punishments were not acted upon. But was this right ? If laws were improper to put into execution, why were they not .repealed No laws were ever enacted, except with a view to their execution ; and doubtless those acts which now stand upon the statute book as dead letters, were rigorously enforced at the time when they were pass -1 ed. Of this nature was the statute which subjected any man to the penalty of death who should be proved to have been one month in the company of gipsies. Sir William Hale has recorded an execu tion upon a conviction of this sort. From the evi dence of writers of various classes, it might very clearly be deduced, that the sanguinary statutes enacted by our ancestors were as sanguinarily exe cuted. Sir John Fortescue, who was Chancellor to Henry VI. in his Treatise on the A dvantages of a Limited Monarchy, which was written during his residence in France, for the instruction o f Prince Edward, the son of that unfortunate Monarch, re lates, that there were more persons in• England year ly executed for highway robberies alone, than in France for all other 'crimes in four years. In the reign of Henry VIII. it is stated by Hollinshead and other credible historians, that about 72,000 per sons were executed, which was after the rate of about 2,000 a.year, during the reign of . that Monarch. In Queen Elizabeth's time, the number of execu tions fell to about 400 a-year. From that period to modern • times, there were no data upon which to go. Sir Stephen Theodore Janssen, who was I some time Chamberlain of the City of London, published tables of the number of persons con victed and executed In that district, from 1749 to 1756, disosult of which went to shew l • d iet of 4.28 , . TO BE SOLD'BY AUCTION, IT Order of the Honourable the Commissioners of his Majesty's Customs, ill the Long Room, Custom House, Liverpool, on ViDNSDAY, the 14th February, 1810 , at Three 'o'Clock i't the Afternoon, 3 11 ND RY QUANTITIES of GOODS, eon de.nned in the Court of Exchequer, consisting of Coffee, : T it*, Tea, Rum, B ran dy, T o b acco , T o b acco &gars, Snu ff , Tit*, Mats, Candles, Cotton Wool, Sweetmeats, Staves, Hides, im„ Dsr Root, Tamarinds, Old R o p es , T ar , Turpentine, Old nil, I.:es-wax, Oil, Chccolate Pearl Ashes, Bar Iron, In ), Drd Cilico, Wheat Flour, Rice, Gum, Copal, Silk Hand t;iannack, Deal Boards, Spars, and various other sorts *Timber ; and also an open Boat, called the Peggy, together Cth her Materials. The f:oods and Boat may he seen, and Catalogues obtained, ' - ?.?plication to H. S egar , i n t h e L ong R oom on Monday and "malt, the 12th an d 13th Umlaut, and on Wl : dnesdaYl previous loth! Sale. FOR SALE BY AUCTION, At the Dulphisi Tavern, on the Quay, Falmouth, on Thursday, INe•lsth of Fetruary inst. by ten o'clock in the forenoon, e rHE Prize 'Brig OEVENUM, with all leer Stores. Lenti,:h 92 Ecct 5 Inches. • Breadth 14.4 Feet 4 Inches. Depth in the Hold 17 Feet. Altneasures 232 'l'ons, will hurthen considerably more. Lilt of oak, and the bottom sheathed with an inch fir in good She is a remarkable crong•built Vessel, and well '"ullattd to take the ground with a. cargo on hoard; admirably Irt4l4(l aPted for the New Brunswick Trade, or any other where flx:d stowage is required; well found in Stores, and may be sent 1° ! 12 2. an easy expence.AQj • lYinz at the Bar, in the Port of Falmouth. Masts, Yards, Standing and Running Rigging, with all 7 4 ,„ .! as they now li e. s , yesid was taken and con d emne d as Pr!ie to a Squadron s 'll/esty's Ships order tbr Command of Vice-Admiral the George Bei keley. TMntodes And further Paiticulars, apply to Messrs. M il '2 Halford, Loudon ; Mr. Francis S. Symons, Merchant, or 10 ANFIiONY FOX, Broker. purpose. Lord GEORGE GRENVILLE motion, which was then put, and lear Mr. HUTCHINSON moved, that presented to his Majesty, praying la. laid on the table bf the 'House, Copies munications as might have been recei% nisters relative to the state of Antwerp p sailing of the Expedition to the Scheldt. At the suggestion of Mr. RYDER, tics for Monday. Lord PORCHESTER moved the ( Day, when strangers were of dared to wii a 0 :7; 4 • • • •• • • • • • } ~ Lm F rn• Der, • CV on 1 • 4 No. r '4 pl r. • • CC' ta CI A b 11),' • A, ▪ 14„ of r, the h S t 3hn D. Or. Al I e mI I Tw t rde 6 1 • la IP At ■ • rj to • 0 t. . , . - • dr . 1 . 1.• , ' I ' (,- - - 4 3- .) %• ' C e , ...„, (4,, i.... • 4 .) ~,,," . • • . 4., • v:." '.; k . .j . . f it .... %‘.‘ . ::....:: , (.1 . : . ~t , i''' '' t ti 1 1 , . ' - - .. l'' .‘ '• ‘.- * ..;::. . 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V 1. d , t 111 11 N :Nig i i inn , i • o'l ns e rove e ti •1 31 4i' AEC ti press' D .t he e mar m; n• • I ii hirr t h t• i VII 0 !1 4., an u now 5.1 11 pra be u Hoe 71. have ,ii. :1 stay the a ,itior 11 .Ale 1 .IEF • .... ~ Airr NA Pr ~. •IF.I• 4 - • _ - FURNISHED HOUSE. lITANTED, for six or twelve months, a Furnished v v HOUSE, vontokipg no, less than Bed-roo.us, and itivi from to somas North of London. A few Acres of LW will be required. Direct, post pia, - to A. 13. at the STAR Once, temple -Bar.