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.11:1,Y 19. tot Bill he should move for leave to bring in, woull be to consti. tote the crime a felony,. punishable . as hereafter might be agreed 00 , with transportation e i t h er for lite, fourteen, or seven years —When it %%his known that prisoners of the highest rank in the army ot the enemy had e ff ected their escape by means of an org anized syste m tOr colive. ing them out of the country, by a succession of per sons sn aN to elude pursuit, the House wou'd see the necessity of pro viding against the danger.—(Hear, hear !;—He therefore moved for— " Leave to bring in a Bill for the more ellectued punishment of persons aiding mr assisting the French Prisoners of War to escape out of the country." Mr. VI'iriTRRILAD hoped that soma measure would be adopted for an exchange of prisoners. Lord CASTEKRILAGH assured him, that his Majesty's Government, as had been proved from papers on the Table, had not lost sight ot any opportunity to bring about an exchange. The Atilt that no ex change had taken place did nut rest with them. The earliest oppor tunity should ne taken for a renewal of the Negotiation with the French Government, consistent with the lumina and dignity of the country. Leave was then given to bring in the Bill. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER afterwards brough t it in. It was read a first time, and ordered for a second reading to-morrow. NIGHTLY WATCH. The Nightly Watch Bill, as we understood, was postponed for three mouths previous to tile re-opening of the Gallery. it was of course lost. The Privy Purse Bill was read a first time, and ordered for a second rca ling to-morrow.—Adjourned. TUESDAY, JULY H. VOTE OF CREDIT. The CHANCELLOR ot the EXCHEQUER moved the us►►al vote of 3,000,0001. wlikh, after some observations en the impolicy of the war in the Peninsula, by General Tarleton and Mr. Hutchinson, was agreed to, and the Report ordered to be received to-morrow. Sir W . ScoTT brought in a Bill for the better regulation ot the Eccle siastical Courts in En);land in the collection of "I iihes. --------- CAPTAIN KING. Lord FoLKsToNE rose to make his promised motion relative to Cap. teen King, and entered into a detailed re-statement of all the proceed. of that transaction, which, as we have already laid them before • the public, we think it unnecessary to repeat. His Lordship .con euded by moving, that the papers presented to the House on the of April and the Ist of May, relative to chat case, should be leferred to a Committee. Auer some discussion, the motion was negatived without a Mr. BENNET r, seeing an Honourable and. Learned Gentleman (Mr. Manners Sutton' in his place, wished to ask if any general order had been issued, fonnded on the opinion expressed in that House, that it wes illegal for ail officer to cause a man, after receiving as many lashes as lie er,uld bear at one titne, to be led out on a future day, to receive the remainder of the punishment to which he had been sentenced. — He also wished to know if the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had ad vised the issuing of such order ? Mr. M. SUTTON did not know that any such order had been issued ; and up to this time he had not tClt it to be his duty to advise the issu ing of such an order. Mr. BENNETT then stated it to be his intention to take an early opportunity of bringing this subject under the consideration of the House. MR. ST. JOHN MASON. Mr. SHERIDAN called the attention of the House to the case of Mr. Si. John Mason, pursuant to the notice he had given. The Right Ilon. Gentleman reduced a letter from the Duke of Richmond, on the subject of the arrest and detention of Mr. St. John, with a copy of a letter 'tom J. S. Townsend, Esq. which contained the whole ot the evioence aeaitist Mr. St. John. From this letter it appeared to aiathe really did not wish to exaggerate, or to plac e the subject in a ludicrous point ot view, that. Mr. Mason was detained, first, because lie wit, the cousin of Emmett, and secondly, because he had one day come too late for dinner. (A laugh.) After some further observa tions tat the hardship of the case, and on the absurdity of the charges preferred against Mr. Mason, in the evidence to which he had advert. ed, the Right Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving, that the paper transmitted by the Duke of Richmond should be referred to a Select Committee, and that Mr. St. John Mason should be heard before the said Committee. After a debate, in which Lord Castlereagh, Sir F. Burdett, Mr. Ro binson, Mr. W. Smith, Mr. Bathurst, Mr. Tighe, and Mr. Hutchin. son participated, the House divided. For the motion , 11—A g ainst al—Majority, 40. MR. FLErCHER. Sir F. BURDETT moved to refer the Petition from Mr. Fletcher,. the brewer, compl a ining of oppression on the part of the Officers of the Revenue,. to the consideration of a Committee. The CHANCELLOR Of the EXCARQULR and Mr. w‘aatvflit referred to the papers on the table to prone that the petetioner had been guilty of a complicated breach of the xcise Laws The motion was negativcdwithout a division. " !WIPP griggilw,w l MP. muiEF7 -- TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER. 441 BILL FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE PEACE. Lord CASTLEREAGH, in moving the Order of the Day, for the House to resolve itself into a Committee on this Bill, observe I, that it was his intention to propose, that the House should go into the Committee, pro torma, for the purpose of receiving an Amendment which he wished to be incorporated into the Bill, and that the Bill should then be printed, and re-committed to-morrow. The House resolved itself into the Committee. Lord CA sTIFREAGH stated, that the present qualification of Magis. trates was 1001. a year in landed, or 30 - 31. in funded property. It was desirable, however, that in the disturbed districts, a greater number of Magistrates should he created than could be done consistently with this rgulation. He should therefore propose a clause to empower his Majesty to put into the Commission of the Peace individuals whose qualifications were less than those which the law at present prescribed, observing, that this power was only to be co-existent with the Bill, and co-extensive with the disturbed districts. Mr. Ti ERN Ey characterised this proceeding of the Noble Lord as the most extraordinary of all the extraordinary things he had ever known him to do. Having got the House into the Committee, on the pretence of introducing some little technical alteration in the Bill, the Noble Lord proposed a clause, the effect of which would be coin , pletely to chance the whole character of the measure. The propo sition was neither less nor more than to enable Government to super sede the respectable and estiblished magistracy by the substitution of their own agents. In common decency, he trusted, that after making so great a change in the Bill, the Noble Lord would not press the re commitment before Thursday. Lord CasTLEßEacti replied, that he saw no reason for the surgest td delay. The clause might be discussed not only in the Committee to-morrow, but on the Report, and on the third reading of the Bill. He, however, agreed to withdraw the clause for the present, and to introduce it at some future period. After some further observations the Report was brought up, and ordered to be taken into further consideration to-morrow. The C:IANCEI.I.Oit Of the Excn roe ER moved for leave to bring in a Bill to enable the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the custom 'louse fees in the West Indies, to enquire into the amount of the pro T petty cif the Crown in South America and the West Indies Leave was given. The Bill was th-n brought in, and read a first time, and crdered for a second reading on Thursday next. Lord PALMERSTON!: moved for leave to bring in a Bill for the pur pose ofextending the sante all •wance to Foreign 3s to British Officers wounded in the service. Leave being given, the Bill was brought in I and read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow. I Adjourned at half past two. ------ WFDNF.SIIkY, JULIi 15. There being hut 35 members p:esent at 4 o'clock, the House of course adjuurned. . THCRSDAV, vs.•; 15. On the furttter consideration of the Bill for Preserving the Public Peace, General larleton, Mr. Giles, Mr. Tierney, Mr. W. Smith, Sir S. Romilly, and Mr. Sheridan strongly opposed the clause em. powering, Magistrates to enter any in •ti's dwelling and seize his arms, consideripg it an infringement on the rights and liberties of the subject, h the state of the country by no means justified. Lord CAs ri.ER and others supported tlheclausei and argued, in reterclice to the apparently quiet state of the disaffected districts._ that althosigh the disturbances mi g ht have decreased, the bad spirit of them yet ellisted. The disaffected might be a little quiet at the ap proach of justice, and while Parliament was considering the means of quelling the,;r outrages; but their dispositions would not the less shew themselves afterwards. The Committee divided, when the clause was carried by 77 against 18. Mr. SHERIDAN gave notice, that on Monday he should move for the correspondence that had taktP hl ce tet ween the British and French Governments ; at the same time he expressed himself highly satifie I with the conduct of Government on that I:midi:cis. Mr. BATH uR ST moved the first reading ail Bill (vim the 1 orris tot facilitating the administration of justice in the Count of Chano;ty. Sir S. Rost' 1.1.‘ wished to call the attilition of the House to the gravity and importance of the measure, which went, in tact, to take the Chancellor out of the Conic of Chancery, by giving him a deputy, and to place him entirely in tile Honig, of Lords, for the hi-aring of appeals. It was a B:II, easing the Lord Chancellor of the greater portion of bin ditties, 111't at the saine time securing to him all the tees and e:noluments in the same !winner as if he had d.schArgen those duties. 1:e misted it was not the intention Ministers to press it through Parliament this Session . Lord C s STLZR EA.G it said, it was I l se wiab of Ministers that the lilt should pass the present Session. Mier soinediscussiOn, the ilia Ails I read a first time.—Adjourned. rttnAv, JULY 15. flit V.ere 11 , 171ttg be• n present at luta o'cloch but 17 Vembers, -- " 7 04C lleCeSSal ily A .10U riled. • • • 4 • • 4 ~ I 1. ' `1 4 •