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..... . . _ ,-„ ~,1 • tt, , .. fr",i, .—s •, . ' i lv .4 . 11 ., . - - -- - - ; , 4 . . ,- 7 j(4/44f 7 r te`' . . .. . .1-." - , t .• ~ .3 ...Cets • 03 i vi, ..- , • .-- , K af tk ‘) . 7 j LI .° 6 .. w _ ... k il .. -'.4 r d i iik' r. • • ).- . ......ir .. • . li I . . TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1810 tz -; 214] (PRICE SIXPENCE-HALFPENNY. LIST-INDIA ROUSE, March gls, 1810. HE COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITED T coMP44IO. e MERCHANTS cf ENGLAND, tratEcv f k, I.IST INDIES, do hereby give Notice, That a General Court of the said Company will be held at n e House in Leadenhall-street, on Wednesday, the lath of ) 61 next, from eleven o'clock in the forenoon until six in the .nirg, to Ballot on the following Question, viz. That thi. Court approve the unanimous Resolution of the Court of Directors of the 21st instant, wherein they state, s: t h e y have every reason to believe that all the Persons who were on board the Ship LORD NELSON, at the time of her loss, ! Ig o perished ; and that the occasion and citcumstances relating are wholly unknown, and therefore that there is ,enpossibility of enquiring satisfactorily into the loss of the ta m Ship, and that this Court are fully satisfied that the Ship stored in a sufficient manner at her outfit for her. voyage; snd that consequently no blame can attach to the Owners; and ttat. from the experience and ability of the Commander and (11: it is reasonably to be inferred that no blame attaches to them" ID order to determine by such Banta whether three parts in four c f t h e PI-olorietors present at such General Court, concur c :/: the Co•:rt eti Director, in thei I abovelmentioned Resolution., WILLIAM RAMSAY, Sec. This day was published, price 3s. 6de AN ADDRESS FROM A CLERGYMAN 'DO HIS PARISHIONERS, By RICHARD VALPY, D. D. F. A. S. Rector of Stradishall, Suffolk. Sold by the London sad Country Booksellers. rdiummeivrAßr PROCEEDINGS. HORSE OF LORDS, APRIL 16. Mt. Brougham was heard in the Committee of Privileges on behalf of Lady Essex Kees Claims to the Roiburgh Peerage. The Earl of LAUDERDALE moved for an Amendment of a Standing order (pursuant to his notice) which affected the sale of estates in Scotland. His Lordship's alteration was agreed to. The EARL of DONOUGHMORE presented another Peti tion from certain Roman Catholics of Ireland, and gave notice of his Intention to submit a motion to their Lordships on the subject of these Petitions, on the 21st day of May next. T day were published, in Elio. price 10s. 6 6 . boards ,This POEMS. By GEORGE TOWNSEND. Of Trinity College, Cambridge, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees; and Orme, Paternoster row ; and Dale/non, Cambridge. TM , . day was published, in 2 Vols. 12mo. price Bs. boards, 'THE MAN of SENSIBILITY ; or . The HIS TORY -IL of EDWARD and MATILDA. A Nova. Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 31, Poultry. INFERIOR CLERGY. Lord HA RROWBY laid on the table returns of the Annual Incomes not exceeding 8150 of the Clergy of the Established Church. Thls day was published, neatly printed in Foolscap octavo, price ss. boards, T HE SPANIARD ; and SIORLAMH, a Tra ditional Tale of Ireland, in the Fifteenth Century ; with other Poems. By PRESTON PITZOERALD, Esq. Tenui meditabor arundine Mitsam ; Nec injussa cano. . VIRG. Printed far Vernor, Hoed, and Sharpe, No. 31, Poultry; and W. Figgie, Dublin. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, t"• CLEcni-h:mse, Southwold, on Thursday, the Ilith pf April. IP 1 0, at Ten &Clock in the Forenoon, THE FOLLOWING GOODS, viz. TOR PRIVATE USE. Between "0 and 40 Gallons of Foreign Brandy, and 4 and 500 Ditto foreign Geneva, FOR SCHOOLS. This day was published, a New Edition, Octavo, embellished with numerous Plates, price 7s. board. GOLDSMITH'S NATURAL HI STORY, , abridged for the Use of Schools, on the Plan recommended by Mrs. Hannah More.—By Mrs. PILKINGTON. Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme ; 1. Harris; Darton and Harvey; Lackington, Allen, and Co. 3. Walker; and R. Scholey. Also, an Edition of the same Work, on large Letter ; 93. boards B. One-third of the value of each Lot to be deposited on day et . ` , alc; the Goods to be taken away within ten days, or Dtinsi! forfeited. No Goods can be delivered on the day of The Buyers to find their own Casks. ......." .1•0%.. a....." 1 ...-;;- T ......-• 4 1. tk l i Th their April rani Al . f ' 6 Co ii do o we it hal s a l , tarn 0 fall Id IV2 0 an( P as I , (,' tt te 111 four .--- A' t l : T' 1 N de ea tkt Dt tale. w--- If . . Li-1. l';:•12 I . i I. ... \V r! fc (7 ' c i S l c l l a a:Ho f 1: rat , r; of tom 1 21. Id inri nil Pie tow E' 31141 the 1 Pia bl : Pei: sod ft i2t, . 11. 10 ' f r . 1111.ce f ..., H. bn.ee fin , lir. i 4 / 1 t teze Te!.. i: Peet VII. Alen iii 1 i sc, lilt .6. R ~ Ile 12 22 ift u 4n A C 4 LI T the P,ll Iv lap No. k PORTSMOU I'll. TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION, •!:e flue Pose Inn, Portsmouth, on Thursday, May 3, 1810, at twelve o'clock at noon, HE FOLLOWING GOODS, viz. 136 Bales of Cotton, 7 Casks of Bees War, 955 Barrcli of Tut pentine, 10,000 White Oak Hhd. Staves 49 lit Ife6 of Rice, And 7S Hhds. of Tobacco. taut from the American Ship Huaow, from Wilmitigton, in thCarohna.—The whole to be viewed ; Catalogues to bebad ; f4:thLr particulars known, by application to DAY and PHILLIPS, Portsmouth. WANTED to Borrow, to the extent of Jewoo, secured on Freehold Lancia, in the County of Limerick, for which liberal terms will be given. Apply, by letter, rid ) to R. R. Northumberland Co:die-house, Charing , ' oqdon. ILK STOCKINGS—SeIIing off uncommonly deap, at No. 52, Cheapslde ; an immense Stock of all kinds Hosiery, Gloves, Flannels, Drawers, Ladies' Dresses, all in one, • Shopkeepers, and those wanting to buy largely, will find a rat advantage by an early inspection df these articles. A quart rr of white or black silk, ss. 6d. the best quality equally cheap ; era cotton stockings, at Is. per pair ; very fine, Is. 64. super, Ad ;brown cotton, for boots, I s. 9d. fine ribbed cotton, `2s. '2d.; sunny of gloves, from 10d. per pair ; and other fashionable rain, too numerous to mention. ilex to observe, they are at RADFORD's Hosiery Ware• ton, NI 52, Cheapside, near Bow Chords. EYTON, late Partner with the deceased Sir JAMES BtANSCOMII, has the pleasure of announcing to his Friends *tithe Public, the Lottery which draws the Bth of JUNE, gives tamest chance to the Adventurer for ad small a risk : Four Nies oridets, one Hundred in each Packet, are to be given by :be Contractors to the fortunate Holders of the first-dtawn Pt - it:shoe £l5, when a Ticket may gain upwards of £lOO,OOO, sad Sares in proportion. fr: has been truly lucky in selling Packets of Tickets '0•1, producing nearly £4OOO, and No. 3,618, producing i2i.765, was sold in Sixteen Sixteenths, and paid by him to the ?elective Holders, who received for each Sixteenth— £1,547 164. 3d. fru!: elicits a continuance of the public favours at is Lucky Ma, No 2, Cornhill, near the Mansion-Iluuse. W. TURNER, PROORIETOR OF THE LUCKY OFFICE, No. 1, SKINNER-STREET, 'PAVING really sold Shares of the Ticket, No. !=6lt, r!!e Grand Packet of Tickets, which produced and No. 7081, the Packet of Five Hundred Tickets, - , 11 , :et Four Prizes of £20,000, in the Last Year's Lottenes ; tita!‘e of No. 2570, the first X 40,000. Pritc, and 1 2 ! ,719, the itri2s,ooo; his l ate f r i en d Si t J ames Branscomb being deceased, btp to ceramunicate to his Friends, the Public, the unprece dexti great advantages IN THE NEW STATE LOTTERY, Drzwn the Eighth of June next, namely, by ()NE NUM BER, tlrryn a Prize above £l5, will be obtained Ike Grand Prize of Four Hundred Tickets, Which may produce upwards of ONE HUNDREb THOUSAND POUNDS! ! Shares in proportion. Siztftentli may gain upwards of Six Thousand icur.d;oiel ich in the last Lottery could only gain .Et 25 . 0. Like w.y..th, S c h eme contains Two Elundred Thousand rounds in 'n ll 4 Money; and, being Drawn in One Day, every Ticket au the tante fair chance. 'fossil respectfully solicits the continued favours of the Pub Iltaisla?sures them, his greatest pleasure is, and ever will be, in 'M Capital Prizes, at his I.ucky Office, No.l, SKINNER-STREET. I'EVI PLAN , Wi th Additional and Superior Atitranteges. RICHARDSON, GOODLUCK, and Co. KECOMMEND to the notice of the Public the ; NEW STATE LOTTERY, w hi c h is to be Drawn I . ith of JUNE nett. nit Lottery is on unproved Plan. scheme contains Priu s of X2llOOO 4 Prises of £.1,000 ........... L 000 co sco " .......... • ....... 100 44 ... SeC " Ti2 c l Ac. , 5 ,000 Numbers, Four Titters of every Number, u c u 4 FOUR F.XFRA PRIZES of laq WHOLE ricicers h : Sy this improved mode of Adventure A aingle Ti c k et may ga i n •ClOO,O O n R ef 0 yuvu t 450,000 An Eighth • - X 12,500 I 25,000 A Sixteenth • ••• - 6 ,2 0 TLC ttoC4 41,1ci rid Shares ar e on S a l e b y R I CH A R DS ON , GOOD i7 ('lCo. SANK BUILDINGS, CORNHILL; and facing •'t 1‘ of the Kings Mews, Cbaring- Crosse the only O ffi ce • mt %old ia Shares, I'm Pram o f X 30,000 • • And who Sold and Shared In the last Lottery, we Pr;z-s of „C , 20,000 14 °• 9 ;24 8. 20,000 4 %.). n. - 34 ••• ••• ••• 20,000 •• ••• .114 9)9 D. /IWO-2952 • • ga,ooo-4,436 C. £5OO. J 44} " publi%hed, handsomely printed on a fine yellow Move paper, demy quarto, price 1.55. boards. Volume XIX. art 11. of THE ENCYCLOP/EDIA BR.ITANNICA ; or, :Ir t A Dictionary of arts, Sciences , and Mlicelian"" ; coastratted on a Plan by which titre different Sconces 6414 i Litera- ARTS are digested into the !hem of distinct Treatises or Sys -3-::,3;..c,cn-prehending the History, Theory, and Practice of eacl l t l , k 4 1 , 1 7'.8 to the latest Discoveries and Improvements ; and Lu ll . " g unit given of the various detached parts of Knowledge. ru.ted tar Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, No. 31, Poultry, Lon- Constable and Co. Edinburgh ; and to be had ot every &Amber 13 the United Kingdum N. B. XXth Volume, which Completes the Wont, will P Akshtd am Mooch. This day was published, in 5 vols. Bvo. illustrated with 108 En gravings, price XS 15s. 'THE Beauties of Scotland, containing a clear and -I- satisfactory account of the Agriculture, Commerce, Mines, and Manufactures, of the Population, Cities, Towns, Villages, &c. of that Kingdom. - Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme ; J. Cuthell; J. and A. Arch ; J. Harris; 3. Richardson; J. M. Richardson; and Crosby and Co. N.B. A few copies on fine royal paper, SS Ss. This day was published, a New Edition, elegantly printed in post 1 2mo, with Heads, price l2s. boards, THE. LETTERS OF PLINY THE CONSUL. With Occasional R.lmarlo.-111 WM. MEI.MOTH, Esq. Printed f Vernor, Mood, and Sharpe, Otridge and Son, J. Walker, Cuthell and Martin, Lackington, Allen, and Co. Ling man, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Cadell and Davies, R. Lea, J. Nunn, J. Richardson, Dalton and Harvey, J. Murray, J. As perne, J. lio ker, 1. M. Richardson ; and A. Constable and Cu. Edinburgh. POK SCHOOLS.—'Phis day was published, In Two thick Volumes, in Octavo, price XI. 4s. boards, 'T'HE MODERN PRECEPTOR ; or, a General Course of Polite Education • containing Introductory Trea tises on Language, Arithmetic, iook-keeping, Algebra, Geome try, Geojraphy, Astronomy, Chronology, Navigation, Drawing, Painting, &c. Agriculture, Geology, Moral Philosophy. For the Use of School . Illustrated with 27 Plates and Maps. By JOHN DOUGALL. London : Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, Poultry ; J. Harris, St. Paul's Church-yard Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme ; and Gale and Curtis Paternoster-row; J. Clarke and Co. Manchester ; and W. Robinson, Liverpool. '1 his day was published, Neatly half bound, roan back, price .its 103. or %age paper, ism. penal quarto, half bound, Russia backs, price £5 ss. THE BRITISH ATLAS; comprising a complete -a- series of County Maps (58); 21 Hans of Cites and principal Towns ; and 21 Views of Cathedrals and remarkable Buildings ; intended to illustrate and accompany tlie Beauties of England and Wales. London : Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe ; Longman and Co. ; J. Cuthell, J. and A. Arch, J. and J. Richardson, J. Harris, it Crosby, W. Fatten, and it. Wilkinson. 'l his day was published, in octavo, price 10s. dd. THOUGHTS on FOX and HARE HUNTING. In a Series of Familiar Letters to a Friend. By PETER BECKFORD, Esq. A New Edition, Illustrated by Plates from original Paintiar, engraved by Mr. loin Scorr. si quid novisti rectius iitis, Oandidus imperil; si non, his utere mecum. Hoa. Printed for lames Cundee, ivy -lane; and Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, No. 31, Poultry. ••• A few Ctpies are printed on fine extra wove royal, price I ss. boards. '1 his day was published in Qua' to, By Cale and Curtis, Paternoster-row, price 2s. 6d sewed, 'THE PATRIOT'S VISION, a Poem. To which is added a Monody on the Death of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox. Where may be haj, the State Chronicle, or Parliamentary Re porter, published in Numbers, at Is. each, every Wedneadiy and Saturday during the Sitting of Parliament. ON 'I HE TAlik.S DOR b 211.15. Lately published, in large Bvo. the 3d Edition, with vet" , con- siderable Additions, price 7s. to be had of Messrs. Sherwooii, Neely and Junes, and Mr. Walker, Paternoster-row ; of tie Booksellers in the country, and at No. GI, Frith-street, corner of Soho-square. 13 RA CT ICAL ESSAYS and OBSERVATIONS 1 - on the treatment of some particular Disorders of the Human Frame, especially those latent causes producing debility and mor bid affection of the nervous system, incident to the different stages of life ; destroying the functions of the finest organs in the animal oeconom y. By St. JOHN NEALE, Esq. Of the Royal Academy of Paris, of the University of Leyden, and Practitioner in London ; forMerly Surgeon-Major to the sth Re giment of infantry, the 16th, (or Queen's Regiment of Light Deagoons) and the Royal Military Hospital at Chatham. TEGG'S NEW CAIOCATUREC This day was published, by Thomas Tegg, No, In, ch ea p s id e , price only One Shilling each, being half the price other Dealers charge, THE following New and justly-popular CARI CATURES, for APRIL, viz. 1. The Arch-Ducliegs going to take her Nil Po Political. S. The Somersetshire Dumpling. Ditto. S. The Winding-up of the Medical Report. Ditto. 4. Britannia Lamenting the fate of her favourite Son. Ditto. 5. The Midnight Mistake, or Stinking Breath. Humourous. 6. ikirst going alone. Ditto. 7. Practical Education. Ditto. 8. A New Cock wanted for a Young Wife. Ditto. 9. Easterly Wind', or scudding under bare Poles. Ditto. W. The Sublime and Beautiful. Ditto. . _ N.B. The larkest Collection in the World. Where may be had, price 91. ornamented with 16 Engravings, by Itovriandson, coloured, Advise to Sportsmen, by Marina duke Korkwell, Esq. Lord HOLLAND repeated what he had before felt it his duty to suggest the propriety and, under the present circumstances of the country (ptessed as it was on all skies with excessive burthens) the necessity, of a farther disclosure than the papers now presented could afford for the information of the House on the subject to which these papers related. His Lordship noticed the impropriety of calling oti their Lordships to vote any large sum of money to the relief of the church at the end of the Session, as was done in the last Session, as a question of such magnitude required the consideratioh of many im portant points. It might, for instance; be necessary to have a fuller return of the church income, to know the numbers of the clergy, and whether they were or were not too numerous ? He wished to say nothing that might be construed as disrespectful to the clergy ; but he must say that, upon the whole, he thought the Church of England was magnificently endowed. Lord HARROWBY contended, as he had done before, for the sufficiency of the present documents for the object proposed. Lord HOLLAND again rose, and, professing the utmost deference and respect for the whole order of the clergy, maintained, that at a period when the public burthens were so weighty, and when the im poverished laity were about to be called upon to ad vance £lOO,OOO to the Church, it would well be come the advocates of the measure, to shew how far the Church establishment was not sufficient for its own due maintenance, and whether incidental defi ciencies in the income of the subordinate clergy, would not more readily, more properly, and more naturally, be supplied by the supetabundant revenues of the higher clerical orders, than from the overdrawn and almost exhausted purse of the industrious laity. He was clearly of opinion, that those incidental applica tions to Parliament were improper, and that some rational acid constitutional establishment should be formed. And such an arrangement, notwithstanding a suggestion which had been uttered by the Noble Lord (Harrowby) opposite, he thought would come with peculiar fitness and efficacy from that House, the deliberations of which would have the full advantage of the learning and wisdom of the Reverend Bench. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. BRAND gave notice of bis intention ro bring forward a motion for a Reform in Parliament after the recess. Mr. MANNING gave notice of a motion on Wednesday **en night respecting the I.ondon Docks. Mr. VRENBERGAST deferred his motion, for papers respeera ting the disputes which occurred sonic time since.between some British and the Chinese at Macao, until after the recess, on aro. count of the non-arrival of certain dispatches► The LORD ADVOCA I E of SCOTLAND presented a Bill for better regulating proceedings in the Scots Court of Session.-'- Read the first time, and ordered for the second reading on the lit of May. His Lordship a'so presented a Bill for better regu• Lt ng Proceedings in the Court of Comtnissariel in Scotland. It Is as read the first time, and ordered for the second reading on the 3d of May. Mr. ROSE moved that the House resolve into a Committee, for the purpose of taking into consideration the expediency of permitting the importation of sugar, coffee, and other produce froin Uuadaloupe into this country, on the same footing as the produce of the other British West India islands. The House resolved into a Committee accordingly, and Mr. ROSE moved that it is expedient to permit such importations on such footing. After sonic conversation on the subject between Mr. BARING, Mr. ROSE, Sir THOMAS TURTON, and Mr. MAR.. ItYAT r, the motion was agreed to, and ordered to be reported to-morrow. '1 he annual accounts of the income and expenditure of the Bri tish Museum for the /ears 1809 and 1810, so far as the same could be nude up, were presented at the bar; received, and or dered to lie on the table. The Innkeepers Military Allowance Bill was read the third time, passed, and ordered to the Lords. Mr. I.USHINGTON reported, from the Committee of Sup ply, the Resolution for granting .R4OOOL in remuneration to Cap tain Manby, for his invention and exertions for saving the lives of his Nlajesty's subjects on the shores of this kingdom.—Resolu• tion agreed to. Sir SAMUEL ROMII.I.Y postponed the reception of the Re port fro n the Committee on the Privately Stealing liill , till the first Tuesday in May. PUIVILEGL Mr. WALLACE said he rose, not for the purpose of making any formal complaint, but to awaken the attention of the House to what he conceived a great disrespect to it and one of its Members. He would not now argue on the importance of the people being made acquainted with the proceedings and the senti ments of their Representatives in Parliament, but if the matter was permitted, it was incumbent on those Gentlemen who reported the debates, to give them with impartiality and fidelity, that the public might n't be deceived, and the Members misrepresented.— He was ready to allow for the defects, the difficulty, and the want of convenience ; but he held in his hand a morning paper, in which the speech of an Honour able Member (Sir John Anstruther) delivered during the debate on an Hen. Member's letter to the Speaker, was grossly perverted ; and he also complained that a combination had been entered into not to give the speeches of two Right Hon. Gentlemen in the news papers, because it was said they spoke with disrespect of those Gentlemen. He made these observations without the concurrence or knowledge of any of the Members to whom he alluded, and he merely wished at present to hold out what, he said as a warning, and to have recourse to some strong measure, if the evil was not corrected. Mr. TIERNEY said, lie wished to stand clear of having sug gested any notice whatever of the subject alluded to by the Hon. Member. Mr. WORTLEY thought that if some other newspaper took up the matter, this combication would be brolva through. The S PE AKEIt here interrupted the conversation, ivy obierviag, that the present conversation was irregula-. CONFINEMENT OF MR. GALE JONIES. Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY rose, in conseqUence of his notice of a motion for the discharge of Mr. Jonee fom his confinement for a contempt of that House. Though the opinions which he (Sir Sarnuel) had ex. pressed on the legality of the warrant under which Mr: Jones nowsuffered were still perfectly unaltered byany thing which he had heard, his present motion was to rest on the plain and single ground that the punishment had been sufficient for the offence, such as that might have been. He understood that when a similar motion was made on the 12th of last month, some ei , sons objected to it, i t founded on reasons which r could not acknowledge. It was a principle of that mu• tion that the power exerted in the commitment was illegal; but he (Sir Samuel) though far from giving his assent to any thing that could countenance th y ` '^ doctrine then held, would not now lose a single vote by any onneceslary resort to arguments which had excited the op position of any Member of the House. Yet in this he did some slight violence to his own wishes. He had wished to have had an opporm. nity, and the present might give a fair one, of restating some of those opinions which he had formed only after serious thought, had delivered with much and anxious sincerity, and which he still retained as fixedly and firmly as ever. Those opinions, falling into the usual handling of all sentiments deliyered by men in public capasities, had been much misrepresented; and it was a wish which he could with difficulty deny himself, to have justice done to them. But his object was now of a higher rank: a bigherand more serious feeling than any thing connected with the vindication of one like him. self, ought to influence him. He was to speak for the liberty of a British subject; and to that duty and that object he felt that all others must gin way. He could discover but one objection to the meamre which be was about to propose, and that from the practice of the House in requiring a petition to be presented at their bar, acknowledging the justness of the punish. ment, and expressing contrition for the offence. It might be a fair object of question whether there was any thing in the principle of that House, which utterly prohibited a spontaneous act of justice; or whether it was beyond the privilege of any Mem ber, to suggest that act of justice? It might be asked, whether such a requisition as an acknowledgment of the offence, wa; strictly within the power of - any court dealing in jus tice ? But the House would feel that their power wa; to be exercised with less violence to human feelings that that of any other jurisdiction; and that if they were powerful—if jurisdiction had been entrusted to them by a people loving their liberties—if they had obtained a right to inflict punishment,' that infliction r was to be the rarest exercise of their strength they were to feel the solemn pledge under which they stood, the great responsibility under which they were charg ed to administer justice tempered with mercy. If this, principle was true, it war not to be permitted, it was not to be justified, that the House of Commons, or any human tribunal, should extend its punishment or its power to the mind. It was not given to the strength of man to reach the mind of man, and it should not be aimed at by his ambition of rule. The thoughts could not be forced: there was a vigour and spring there, which at once defied and eluded human dominion.— The greatest tyranny, the most impotent tyranny, was that which attempted to influence the work ings and forms of the intellect ; it was an attempt which justice never made, and which was never made by power but to its own defeat, There was one spe cies of Court, which might be an exception—thos e spiritual tribunals which were the fruits of a-dark ag and equally adverse to the spirit of law and of religion. Their justice might now with safety be called perse cution ; subsisting before the day of reformation, they were guilty of the crime and the folly of attempting to coerce the mind, demanding confessions of guilt where the resistance of the accused was the firmness of vir tue. This attempt ended as all undue exercise of autho rity must end ; those tribunals, unable to make con verts, were found to be content with making hypo. , crites. (Hear, hear.) Opinion must be free, or there could be no such thing as rational liberty. Supposing, `for the sake of the argument, that the most ground less opinions were to be sent abroad : he would take the instance of a man asserting that the best form of government was a pure Monarchy, and that the Houses of Lords and Commons were an idle excres. cence ;—would any Member of the House think that nothing could atone for the opinion, but the self-de. gradation of the author that bitterest and most into. lerable extreme of punishment; in which a man is forced to be the instrument of his own shame ?—that he should be forced to do that stern and cruel violence to his settled sentiment, to break in upon the opinion which he had formed with strong sincerity, and that they should give him that last and lowest pain which man can feel, a degradation in his own esteem ? If this power were in the House, it was the most enor. mot's that was ever confided to man, and could not 'be admitted without the most undeniable proof of the trust. But if this practice of petitioning had been frequent in former times, it should be remembered how little such times could be formed into precedents for this later age. Better times had succeeded; a more generous spirit had been brought into action; the feeling of the world was ameliorated an d so f tene d It was surprising, on looking over the records of yeirs not very distant, to see in what extraordinary degradations that House seemed to think its autho rity most honoured. Not fifty years since, in the case of Alex:inier Murray, that person was ordered on his knees to receive the Speaker's reprimand at the bar, but whiei he refused to submit to. In the case of the Cornwall Election, two men of respec ttable rank, one of them a Baronet, were forced not merely to receive the reprimand on their knees, but to acknowledge their offeni fore the Judges and the been now two months in when he had been 21 Lion was mentioned in the !iv offence at the assizes, be county. Mr. Jones had n jail. On the 12th of March, days in prison, and his situa- Ile House, it had been ihaughc This day was published, in Six Volumes, Octavo, embellished with upwards of 430 Plates, engraved in Outline, price £7.45, in boards, r 'HE H ISTORIC GALLERYof PORTRAITS and PAINTINGS, containing correct Copies, in Outline, of the most admired Paintings of celebrated Painters; with Cri tical Remarks, and a Biographical Memoir. Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, No. 31, Poultry. N. B, A few Copies are printed in Quarto, with Proof Impres • sioni of the Plates, price £l3. 10s.