The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-01-30 00:00:00

~ ~K THE STATESMAN. mons House of PriwiitreAlikiii' He did sot think the people of this Moiety bad the power at present of riturningMtembere in the full, free, and unshackled Donner that was nrigiaally intended. The tight of the people to a share id tbe Legislature was nequestlonable. and deduced from a eery ancient source: The question was, whether the people enjoyed that right at present — be tbopght not. Tbe.objectieoe made to the caltfor Reform, he believed,. centered in the apprehensin thkt men of lees Influence and weight would be returned; and this the stsbilityof the Government endangered.. But h i e did not thinit mach weight was to be attasheli to this: He was not afraid of Prerog,ative, but be did think that they were losing that check against the indo epee Otengative of the Crown intended itt the testi. twin of el Lords. He had no feat that they should not baye Reform—he should as soon expect to see the light Of morning 'darkeeed, as the consequence of the general attain of Inowlede stopped.—(Hear, bear I) Mr. S. MUM:said be *as quite ready to agree to any Reformation; the precise abate, of which could be fore told. But who weld undertake to my,where the ma elite weuld stop s if once' int in motion They *ad seetaltefotosatlons commenced with the purest modem, aid on the mist prudent principles, end in revolotioa and disaster. Mr. Burke was occasionally quoted as a Reference.; but Mt. Burke had lived long enough to see the fallacy of his views of [Gianni and that from actual experience. Mr. Pitt also was a violent Reformer. bat be bad lived Meg novel to see the propriety of cheek lag. How absurd it was to say to the Agrlculturtsts that a Reform id Parliament would better their condition. It was from natural eagles that their distress bad arisen, not from legislation. During the late long and interest ing war, the landlord increased hie rent corresponding with the increase of prices; but when prices fell rent teas sot lowered. Thus there was an obvious remedy without reform. On the other hand he did foresee con etterablndamage likely to accrue from a change in the tepenentative system of the nature proposed In the Re. asehition.—(Here some manifestation of impatience wet, evinced.) -The Hoe. Gentleman observed, that if this was the *ay be was to be met, he should beg to decline proceeding. At the same time, he should say the inter 'option, on as important question like this, was most disgraceful. Mr. James thought that the opposition so unfairly Made to his Hon. Friend, arose from the apprehension that his argument would be too weighty for the prin ciples of his opponent. With regard to Reform it might be very well; but he feared that Revolutionists would press is among the well.meanieg Reformer's Until they could see something of their , way in the proposed change, he thought they had better act upon the safe maxim, a Better bear the ills we have, than dy to those we know not of." If their statennen were good, no motterwhether they were elected by Eve or die thousand eaters. He could not, under this rime, assent to the proposed resolution, and Mr. Slade supported the Re- solution. • Mr. R. Sitnit.—He was tatistled with the present system of things, and that every thing would be done forthe benefit of the people under the existing state of Government that would be done under any other. As for the clamour that was raised against a Standing Army, he was convinced that the army of the present day, at 80,000, was as much for the protection Of the 'right of the subject, as when it was only 18,000. He should oppose the motile before the. Court. After a few eiords in favour of the Resolution, from Mr. TAILOR and Me. GALLOWAY, Mr. Cnoacca made a few observations in opposition to the motion. The system and the House of COMM! were found to work well, notwithstanding the clamour about corrtt;t majorities. As to these corrupt majori ties, he would cite one instance to chew how much troth this in the charge. In the year 1821 a vote Of censure was proposed upon Ministers. It was thought by some that they would be forced to resign ; but the event was otherwise ; they had a triumphal acquittal, and he had taken the pans to dissect the'votes upon the occasion. From information add numeral he found thatof the 458 Members in the House or Commons. 37, one way pr another, were always absent; of those who remained, 205 constantly voted fiti, Ministers, and 221 constantly easel with the Oppositioh.. The remainder, 195, were independent In their votes, and with the House thus roustituted, Ministers lied a majority of upwards of 100. This fact would speak more plainly than any thing that •could be said on the subject of thi alleged corrupt state of the House of Coatroom.' After a few words from Me. &morn In support of the motion, Mr. AM. Wareintrio replied: . _ • The Revelation Wu then "pal wed. truly 10 or dissen'Sent voices. Mr. Aid. WAITIIMAN then proposed timpetition,whieh was read, in the folloWing form Iterwrit—That while your Petitioners deeply syt pathise with the sufferings of the Agricultural Interests, they beg to represent to your Honourable House. that they are 'themselves also suffering under the pressure of accumulated burtliens which become daily more in. Mipportible by the depreciation of every description of property : while, idler right years of profound peace, no proportionate reduction in taxation bas takes place, nor have soy measures been adopted for the repave' of na tional grievances. That they have marked the numerous encroachments that have been made, since the period of the Revoln'lon. upon the constitutional debtsand consequentlylopon the property, of the' subject; but more particularly the acct. Prated progress of those encroachments during the late 'sign. and since the commeneemeot of the late ware; and they have observed, that they have kept dod pace with the corruption, dependence, and consequeat ineffi ciency of the Representation: by which every. or any, set of Ministers have bees enabled to exercise an num trolled infloenee, and to carry on their project., however adverse ro the interests of the Nation. That your Petitioners therefore submit, that the pre. Orin enormous Willies and distresses of the ninny lave net adleen from any unforeseen or unavoidablsj _gams*, lot leave-beim theriteresary result of a lone cqnnie of corrupt 4reence, extravagance. awl misrule; Korai rashly sod astir undertaken, and olutormoos 4 ationessaury . 'establishments : all of which could may bate arisen, and grown up to their present port's. .tout magnitude, flow the want of that constitutional petrel over the servants of the Crown which can only be fond in a free and uncorrupted Representation of the Pap!. in Parliament. That, without recoiling to former timer, your Pod- Goners need only revert to the reign of Charles the First, where the sunroofs first to control the proceedings of, and then to govern. without. a Parliament, brought that deinded monarch to his unhappy end; while similar connet in the two sueceeding reigns, and the lonic intlidlOni attempts to corrupt the Parliament. led to the expulsion of James the Second from the throne. That so sensil.le were the great statesmen of that day of the baneful effects of attempting to destroy the inde• pendence a Parliament, that in the Bill of Rights it was declared," That the election of Members of Parliament a ought to he free ; and that foe the rediees of all griev- I, antes, and the ausentlicineireeethening. and p 0' ing the laws. ParhaMents eight to he bell frequent • iy :" and the presinhle to the said Bill stated. a Test • frequent new Parliaments tend very much to the happy " union of King and People." . That your Petitioners have to lament that, surrounded with difficulties as there ancestors then were, their inten tions thus expressed. of rendering the Representation hare perfect, and preserving its inJeplutaance, were nut carried into effect: teem the coustitutioual barriers they set up for the security of the people were found but feeble goat& spinet the assaults of selfish and di• signing Ministers, who have perseveringly and systema tically so usderinined the independence of election, that is most of the Soeottglis scarcely a vestige of freedom now remains. That you, Petidooks beg to draw the etteation of yont Hon. House to fasts which must lead to the inevit able conclusion, that if the Representation was het eon= eidered adequate at the period of the Revolution. and to the state of the country at that time ; that, from the great changes that have slice taken place lathe male lion and the circumstances of the country, with general dissemination of knowledge, it must now have become wholly inefficient fot all the great and beneficial purpose! of Representation. That your Petitioners beg to impress upon the coast& eration of your Hog. House, that the population. width:. at the Revolution 'scarcely exceeded five millions, now exceeds twelve millions, and including Wales fottrtetin I millions; which, with the population, of Scot. l laid and Ireland, amounts to twenty one millions. With Me vast increase of population, extensive towns hive arise% and industry and property have been dt‘' recta Into new channels ; and your Petitioners calt- 1 644, that.if no other argument could be advanced la favour of Reform, the existence of so immense a mass of unrepresented population and property would alone be sufficient to induce your Honourable House to admit them into the exercise of their undoubted civil rights, by a full and equal participation in the elective fran thise. That when the present state of the representation is considered, when it is notorious that the most glaring bribery and perjury are habitually committed, that members are sent to your Hon. House, not even by the choice of those fee who Donainally, elect them but by Individual proprietors of boroughs, that, in violation of the Constitution and the orders of your honourable house, numerous Peers are to be found among those proprietors, and that Parliaments, which, In the language of Air. Burke, were not instituted to be "a controul upon the people, but a control for the people," become. thereby instruments in the hands of administration, your petitioners humbly conceive, that the existence of such abuses is wholly incompatible with the public safety, and must lead, if not speedily corrected, to a train of calamities. That your petitioners have also to state other reit: ions in support of the necessity of reform. At the re volution, and long subsequently thereto, the present extensive and organised means of influence and corrup tion were not in existence. At the accession al William 111. there was no national debt; since that time a debt of eight hundred millions has been created. The annual taxes have been increased daring that period from two to sixty millions; and the peace ex penditure is no less than 53 millions. The expense for the collection alone is now double the whole na- tional expenditure at that period. That endless source of vexation and oppression, the Excise, which even the influence of Sir Robert W alpole ' could not ex tend, is now increased from half a million to nearly thirty millions per annum. The Assesed Taxes, another source of vexation and oppression, and which at that time had no existence, are now eight millions and a ball I per annum. The Poor Rates, scarcely then knows, have been increased, even since the year 1792, from two to about seven millions. The Stamp Duties, no less burthensoms and partial in their 'operation, were net then known, as also other grievous imposts that could be mentioned. Standing Annie* were not then toler ated : during the reign of William 111. they never ex ended ten thousand men ; and your Hon. House is aware of the stand that was made in Parliament, in the reign of George IL, upon constitutional grounds, against the keeping up of a force not then amounting to 19,000 men; but now the country has, in time of peace. to sup port an army of eighty thousand. To the above men• tioned sources of inflame may be added, the increased number of Peers, many of whom, poor Petitioners have reason to fear, ewe their sevaneemeat edify to their influence in retuning Members to your Honourable House. The introduction, also, of Scotch fnd Irish Members into your Honourable House, who are mostly returned by the same unconstitutional means, has greatly adtled to the preponderating infieence of the Ministers of the Crown. That your Petitioners have also to observe. that the ex tending the Duration of Parliament bytbe Septen ni al Act was another measure that conferred upon Ministers and their dependents an undue and dangeroas aegaisitioto of influence, and has been a fruitful source of corruption among electors. The said Act was pesetas a tempo rary measure to meet a particular emergency, bat not without great difficulty; and has always be ee css sidered, by some of the highest authorities. as an nntrarrantable and unconstitutional assumption of power by the Parlia ment, for the exercise of which authority they had no more right than they would have had to render them selves permanent. That your Petitiosere having enumerated the fore going facts, cannot omit stating some others respecting the present actual state of the Representation. That in a Petition presented to your Hon. House in 1793 by the Honourable Mr. Grey (now Lord Grey), it was alleged! and offered to be proved, that 307 Mem bers of your Honourable House, forming a majority therein, were returned, not by the voice of the People, bat by 156 Peers and other powerful individuals; and is the said Petition they attributed the eagerness with which seats were sought, to the increased National Debs and consequent increase of influence—the debt being at that time 244 millions, and the annual expenditure 16 millions. _ _ That your Petitioners beg particularly to impress upon the minds of your Honourable House, that if the national debt, which bad been accumulating for a cen tury, could in 1793 have so powerful ea !Mitotic', 1$ bow mach higher a degree must its pernicious operations" have been increased, when from that time to the presentl it has advanced from 244 to the enormous manual of 800 millions! That they beg therefore to salt au tun loa of your Honourable House to the following additional Glas s , 'which they believe to besubstastially correct as far as facts of such a nature can be ascertained. That there are is your Honourable House no less than 89 Members who hold places, sinecures, or pensions on• i der the .6overnineut, who share among themselves 183,3721:85. Wed. of the public money, and who, se your P4liioners are informed and believe, invariably vote, :very few exceptions, with Ministers; and that the indirect influence in your Honourable House is further augmented by the great number of Members who are the relatives or dependents of persons holding similar pieces and appointments, as well as by the even• sire military, nav4l, chorch, and colonial patronage. That the Boroughs in Cornwall send to your Honour. able House 42 Members; while, exclusive of county MemSers, 43 only are returned by sixteen other coun ties, including Lyndon and Middlesex. That the said county of Cornwall contains a popula• tion of 250,000, and nearly 45,000 houses, and only ebont 1,200 persons return the said 4i mem bers: That were the said voters uninfluenced, your Petitioners con ceive that this return could in no sense be considered a representation, even of that county ; whereas, they are notoriously corrupt, and mostly under the dominion of patrons. That the county of Wilts, containing a population of 220,000 and 42,000 houses, returns 32 members; and, as your Petitioners are informed and believe,' the eke dons are wholly nadir the control and dominion of about 21 isdividuala, among whom are *owe Peers. That the said commies of Cornwall and Wilts toge ther, seed 74 Members; while nineteen other counties. with a population of nearly tour millions and a half, send only 76, exclusive of county Members. That the county of Sorry. containing more titan 18 4 000 inhabitants. sod 64,000 houses, returns 14 Members: That, exclusive of the electors of South wark, about 3,000 in nunsher. the other 12 Members are returned nominally by about 5110 person,. but in fact by about half a degen patrons. That at Nation. Bletch ingly, Reygate, and Haslemere, in the said county. Which return eight of the above, the elections are • prose burlesque, the inhabitants having no more con cern therein than the Emperor of Morocco. ; That while these, with (lid Sarum and numerous other places, which are too well known to be pointed oat, re twain an indelible stain upon the character and sense of the nation, Birmingham , . Manchester, Leeds, and Hali fax, containing together a population of more than 400,000 persons, and ether large 801 l populous towns end districts. and seats of industry, intelligence, and capital, are wholly excluded from their just and constitutional share in the Legislature, having no choice whatever in the election of-Representatives. That Middlesex and Lancashire, containing a popula. tion of nearly two millions and • quarter. return only twenty two Member,: including the county and London Members. That in many of the large cities and towns a very small number of the resident householders have any *hue in the elections, elitist of the voters being non resident. At Liverpool. for instance. where the population con sists of nearly 119,000 persons, the voters do not amount to 3,000; and two.thirdsof those are non-resident, while opulent and respectable householders neither have nor ma obtain the right of voting. That et other places the election is confined to close Corporations. composed of a few self-elected At the city of Bath, containing with its suburbs a popu lation of 53,000, the inhabitants have no voice whatever in the choice of Members—the two Members bring re. turned by a close self elected Corporation, consisting of 33 persons only; and at Marlborough. containing upwards of 3,000 iohabitaets. the Members are chosen in like meaner by a close Corporation of twenty bur genes. tccently redoced to only live voters. That your Petition'', have judged it proper thus to point out a few instances of glaring inequality: but your Honourable House mien be 'Mare, that there are a great number of similar instances which could not be enumerated in the sp.ice of a Petition; and that in. stances of bribery.perytry.and corrupt influence pervade the whole system, potsneing the morals of the people, and threatening thr subversion of the Constitution. That it is notoriously known that seats are sold•at enormously high prices : and your Petitioners submit. that it is against all experience and credulity to suppose that those who thus obtain their seats in your Honour able House will not indemnify themselves by shamefully bartering the interests of the public for their own emohuneet. That, further to show the progress of corrupt influ ence, your Petitioners beg to state. that the number statutes found necessary to preserve the freedom and independence of Parliament, to regulate elections. and to prevent frauds, bribery, Sic. down to the Revolution of 1688. amounted only to fourteen; those passed from that time to the death of Oro. 11. were thirty-five. and those passed during the reign , of Oeo. 111. were filly one; making together ninety statutes. That your Petitioners conceive. that if dm present dist and embarrassments of the eonotry, the disre gard which has year after year been shown to time Peti tions of the People, and the majorities whisk , have appeared devoted to the Mite in support of measures hostile to their rights and interests. and against the declared sense of the nation, were not of thenmeives suf ficient evidence of the inadequacy of the Representation. the foregoiog facts cannot fall to produce conviction of l its utter isellicacy to correct abuses, and game the People against the encroachments of power. That although your Petitioners commit expect that a reformed Parliament could immediately remove evils so deeply rooted. they feel confident that. as the want of this salutary mid vamtitutional control over the Minis ters of the Crown has been the great source of national evil, a Parliament fairly chosen. which shall represent the feelioge, opiniops, and interests of the Nation at large, would gradmilly remove their grievauces, and reconcile the people to such burthens and privations as may be unavoidable. Your Petitioners call to the recollection of your Hon. House, that in this mixed Government of King. Lords, and Commons, the Representative Body forms an' essential and fundamental part of the British Constitution,—that it is the only safeguard of the people against arbitrary power—the great bulwark by which the life, the liberty, and the pro perty of the subject can alone be - protected,—that, in the words of that great statesman, Lord Somers, " the House of Commons Is the great inquest of the whole kingdom, to search into all the oppressions of the King's Ministers"— that, in the language of not less authority, that of Mr. Lo " the Supreme Executor acts contrary to Ms trust. whets either employs the force, treasure. or °Rees of the soci to corrupt the Representatives. and to gain them to hie put. poses, or openly pre-engages the electors and prescribes to their choice; what is it but to cut up the Government by Its roots, and poison the very fountain of public security'" And they may also quote the memorable words of Lord Camden—" Taxation and Representation are Inseparably united: no British Parliament can separate them; to endea your to do it, is to stab our vitals. Taxation and Repre sentation are inseparable: this position is founded span the laws of nature, for whatever is a man's own is absolutely his owl ; no man has a right to take it front him without his own consent, either expressed by himself or his representa tive. Whoever attempts it, attempts an Injury; whoever does It, awaits a robbery ; he throws down the distinction between liberty awl slavery. Taxation and Representation am coeval with, and entitlel to, the Constitution." Your Petitioners disclaim all visionary and impracticable projects of Reform. They are desirous of seeing the Bee entiveelovernmeut guarded by all its constitutional peer°. .t Otis; they are desirous of preserving to the Hereditary Branch all its just privileges but they are also desirour of seeing the Representative Body placed upon its true basis, and rendered the real and efficieot representation of the people. Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray. That your Hon. House will take all these facts and circumstances Into your serious consideration : that you will come Immediately ell practicable reductions to be made In the public expendi ture. and adopt such measures as may effectually restore to the people their just share in the Legislature, by a full. fair, and Bee Representation In Parliament. Mr. Favann seconded the motion for the petition. Mr. CAWTHoRN then proposed that a clause alluding to the Emperor of Morocco should be strockomt.which was agreed to. Aft e r a few other veriest alterations had been made in it, it was carried in thstalfirinative. It was then moved and carried, that the petition should be presented to Parliament by the members for the city: and that socb members of the corporation as were no.tn. bees of Parlismeot should be requested to give it their support. Tanks were then voted to the Lord Mayor, and the Court broke op, 'The Jolly Butchers' Clare-ntarket, the house of Mr. George Robinson, was mentioned by mistake, in the liow•street report in yesterday's STATESMAN, in. stead of the Hatcher■' Arras, /as a hour of resort for characters of the worst description. r - 7 • pf _ ,__. ~~ Y LOURE OF KINWS BENCH, JAN. 29. THE KING V. BENBOW. The defoidant appeare d in Court to plead to an indict ment preferred &Oust h im by the Society for the Sup. pres4ion of Vice. Pis ply.. of Not Ouilty was re. col del TUB iEY6 +. NITTIATOLD AND BALL. 51r.fttorks moved that these defendants shobild b e brought up and discharged from the county gaol of Norfolk. At the la.t 'smiles fur that county they w ere convicted of s conspiracy. and had evar since remain e d in gallon. No notice bad been given by the prosecu. for of his intention to wore forpt,lgutent.and therefore they were now entitled to apply to the Court for their discharge. The Court granted a rule to stew cause. —ow— COURT OF EXCHEQUER CHAMBER, Jan. - - - Before all the Jridges. VIZ KING V. WAIT. The defendant in tibia case w is convicted on the 7T of December last, at the 0111 Bailey, of forginv tie name of John CoN and the defendant, as trustees under the will of a person named Jetties Fitrhard. The con. vietion took place principally in consequence of the evidence of Coe. to whose testimony toe prisoner's Counsel objected, on the ground that he had such an interest in proving the instrument a forgeryoic render. ed his an incompetent witnesS. The learned Judges, Mr. Justice Bayley. and Mr. Baron Darrow, overruled the objection, and_ the prisoner was found guilty, The point was not reserved by the Court at the trial but is consequence,wa understand, of an application in it titi a n. quarter, a writ was directed to the Twelve Judge, directing them to consider t h e point. Accordingly,this day. Mr. Campbell was heard by their Lordships in support of the objection, and Mr. Sergeant Bone t/ a r t argued against it. When the arguments terminated, the Court was cleared, and the Judges remained in consultation for some time. Their Lordship , retired from Court a kiw out pronouncing their opinion. THEFT BY A RESPECTABLE FEMALE. A few weeks ar o Mrs. Sigley, the t!singhter of a re. spectable independetit gensleasass, and the .rife of a re spectable druggist in Charlie's How, to whom sbe hail been married but a short time, went into the shop of Mr. Watts. linen draper, in Deansgate, under pretence of buying lace. Whilst attending to her, Mr. Watt i missed a piece, and felt confident that she had secreted it. He 'endeavoured to look ieto a small basket she Lad in ber band. bat could not effect his wish. However, his suspicions wets so well confirmed by. her manner, that he took the desperate resolution of detaining a woman of lady like appearance. Her basket was eearrhed, and the lace, (raise about a) was !mead in it. Thus pub licly detected, lar, Watts had no alternative but that of prosecution. She was carried before the Magistrates, who, in consideration of her family, admitted her to bail. Last Thursday she surrendered herself, and was pot to the bar, where she pleaded goilry. Mr. ARM* lITRONO then, on the part of the prosecution, having de tailed the facts of the case, and the necessity which Mr. Watts had to bring it forward, front depreda tions of a similar kind being oaten committed in his shop, said, that baring learned the respectable con nectsoneof the prisoner, and witnessed her contrition. he wished to recommend her to the merry of the Cour. Mr. Wiattams, who had been retained on the part of the prisoner, said that the Learned Counsel for the pro faction had anticipated Lim in what he has to say, fie should only add to his statement of the prisoner's coll. nexinos, that they were all plunged into the deepest dia. ,tress by her unhappy error. They were people of ac knowledged character, whilst she was as yet too young to have established one (she is not twenty years of are) and Ire hoped. for the sake of her distressed. respectable, and deeply affected basband, who stood by his sad . and under the circumstances detailed, that the Court would pass a lenient sentence. After a short con sultatioa, on the part of the Bench, the Chairman said. that the Court had cossider-d the cage, which was simi lar to fear or five which had come before him since he bad been Chairman, and he did no t see th a t h e could Jeetly pass a different or more lenient sentence in this, tbanin the cases he bad allnded to ; since he saw no thing like extenuation in the conduct of the prisoner.— A desire to appear above her real situation in life, by dressier finely, had evidently induced her to steal the lace. .To steal so light an article as valuable lace, was a crime easily accomplished ; and he knew that many drapers in this lowa yearly suffer to considerable amount , by depredations of this kind. The Court certainly took Into consideration the youth of the prisoner, but still were obliged to keep in,view the duty owing to the publiil its sentence therefore was, that she " he itnprisoneiLand kept to hard lahoitr, in the House of Correction, for rite space of Six Months." The prisoner, who appeared to be far advanced in a state of pregnancy, and wept inert randy whilst she was at the bar, then retired.—(Man• 4.4 eater Herald.) POLICE. BOW-STRIET.—On Tuesday evening, at a late hour, Margaret Meaney, a young woman, apparently about 26 years of age, was brought before Thomas Halls, Esq., by Limbrick and Bond, jun. two of tint officers, and charged on suspicion of the wilful mur der of her infant child, in the month of Jane last.— Juliet Meaney, her mother. was also charged on lOW pinion of being accessary to the crime. They lived at the time mentioned at No. 14, Gee's -court, Oxford. street. After a long investigation slrs. Meaney was discharged. and her daughter was remanded until Si. tardily meat. Tut &Lima Exurr flox.-,—T. James, the soi-divant " Birmingham oat-rider." was brought up I n fur. Cher examination, charged with having stolen as eight guinea snuff-box from Mr. William Watkins, at Rowbotham'sfinish in James-street, Covest-garden-- ender pretence of borrowing it for Mr. Yardley. Mr. Yardley attends! this examination ; and de posed that be knew nothing whatever of the prisoner. nor bad he commissioned him to borrow Mr. Wm. kin's snuff box. The prisoner, was fully committed to take his trial for the offence. What are technically termed gentlemen met to the amount of about a thousand yesterday, at the Old Hats, the fight between Cooper the liypsey, and the Bristol Cabbage, having been fixed to take place there; but Cooper's constitution and General Frost out agreeing, Mr. Gully, the ostensible barker of Cooper, paid forfeit of 251, on the preceding eceniog. DIED. On Sunday .evening, the 26th inataat, at his house, Crown-cow, Walworth, in the .561 h year of his age, Mr. W. Petty. On the Sikh inst. Catherine, wife of W. T. Delia. of 10. Ceornitill. 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