The Statesman. — London, England, 1824-02-13 00:00:00

4f (f-c-luxes_tiz 16 .-,, , ..,.. r.7 , 7 _. .... ---rr••-------.- -, . . " . "‘ -- T - ..7 . - 4- - 'lrr Pr i r -- .5r.:1 " * •,, , ,- . , , • • , . .. . rPT Vent -,, . . . r..„.. ... z . . . ... -- -,:t•.•4•Fc (ter . , . • . .... sh. • _ ~,„....A L ‘,.., , . , . - • .407,...... i' , - f t • k ••• ..• . ........ . .... c ...., lit • , .) .;„... (..)iir.r.suy..,lo .. f • I • ( - . 7 0 . 4 • • V.. (1 3 a. t 4, No. 6002. . , WA [Tim AN, MAYOR. A COMMON COUNCIL, holden in the CH AMBER of the GUILDII A LL. of the CITY of LONDON. on THURti- DAY, the hith of FEB., 1894, RESOLVED, ,Ji lIAT it appears to this Court that Coals imported into the Port of London are subject to a very heavytax ofos. 441. per Chaldron, and an extra 6d. if imported from New eaNtle, making together 9s. 10d. per Chaidron. That Coals i m ported into any other Port In England pay at the highest rate `a tax of es. est. per Chsldron only, and that in the principal parts of the country they are subject to no Tax whatsoever.— That the poor end industrious Housekeepers and Mechanics residing in and near the Metropolis during a winter, and ppm contrary winds, are subject to great hardships from the I ish pi ice of Coals. That they feel it their incumbent duty to state to the Legislature the present burthensome and oppres silt` nature of the Tax, and therefore that a Petition be pre sented to the Honourabe the House of Commons from this 'curt, preying such relief as to the wisdom of Parliament may seem meet. WOODTHORPE. W A ITH M AN, MAYOR. A COMMON COUNCIL holden in the CIMIRER of the C UMW ALL of the CITY of LONDON, on THURSDAY the 12th of VKR ~ Ifk24, e Rear) LIMO. THAT it appears to this Court that a Redottion - bf 16.6 d. to ths. per Chaldron has taken place since the ces sation of the War, in the price of Newcastle Cents, at the Ship. ping Port ; but, that no such Reduction has taken place in the prier of Sunderland Coals. That, takiwg into consideration the above Reduction, as well as the repeal of the War duty of 3s. 2J. per Clialdron, toge ther with the very great reduction which there lus been in the balite of Shipping, the cost of Provisions, and the rate of iVages, no adequate reduction appears to have taken place in the price of Coal in the London Market ; where, on the con trary, this important Necessary of Life has, at various recent periods, maintained nearly the War Prices. That the Report of the Coal and Corn Committee appears merely to represent the conflicting opinions of interested Par firs, wiihout suggesting any other Remedy than the •ppoint• aunt of 12 additional Meters ; while it is clear, from the Re tune. annexed to their Report, that such increase would he perfectly ieadequate to the removal of the evils corn. of. Ti,at the !report of the said Committee states, that the prices f Coal in the market do not appear to them to be excessive ; het the Committee do not state upon what grormils they have come to this conclusion; nor does it appear to this Court that the Committee have considered, or enquired from any other Par' ties than the Owners of the very Ships engaged in the Coal trade. what elect the reduction in the value of Shipping. Wages, and Provisions, ought to have had on the price of the Article in the London market. That it appears to this Court that the sole use of a Public market. supported as it is at a great public expense, is to ;leant the community against imposition, by securing, amongst ether thinsts, the supply of the Market at the true and fair value of the respective kinds of Coals, with a reasonable profit to the Dealer ; and that, if this principle were acted upon. it would be the obvious interest elite Coal Dealer to obtain, and there• fore he would be able to sell, his Coals upon the most mode* rate teens. - That a practice hi,s prevailed of Coal Merchants and Fee tors becomlitg'StemselvePPreighters, Whereby nominal or fic titious bargains are nadelar !frees parties acting in the double character of Bayer and Seller, by which meetly excessive prices are established, to the manifest Injury of the lower classes, and of others who are obliged to purchase at a season when the demand very much exceeds the quantity which, upon the Parliamentary restriction of 424 Chaldrons per day, can be delivered by the present limited number of, Meters. That it appears that the Public are open to Impositions by reason of the precise description of the Coal not being speci fied In the Land Coal Meter's Ticket; there being, for instance 12 or 18 sorts sold under the denomination of Wall's End ('vale, the priers of which vary from 10 to 15 per cent. ; by want of which sufficient description in the Meter's Ticket, the Dealer has the power of selling Coal of the lowest value at the price of the highest, to the manifest injury of the Public end of the fair Trader. That it appears that Ships have had to wait 10, 12, 14, 16, and, in many cases, 18 days for Meters, in consequence of the number now appointed being so inadequate to the prompt dis charge of the Ships as they arrive, which detention occasion ing. as it does, an extra expense of 4/. or U. per day to every Ship so detained, necessarily adds from 3s. to bs. per Chat' Oron to the price which the Public must pay for such Coals ; imolves the Dealer in the necessity of keeping a largeresta- Hislinient of Craft, and a larger stock of Coals afloat ; and creates an apparent and artificial scarcity of the article, when, in fact, there may, and frequently does, exist a surplus supply, thungli, owing to the skive stated causes, the same cannot be brought into course of delivery, and has, in fact, little more effect upon the Market than it would bate if the Coals still re mained in the Pits at Newcastle. That there ought not to exist any delay in the discharge of Ships coming into this Port with Coals, and that therefore, there can exist no reason why the number of Meters should lilt he increased to snch extent as will best insure the imme diate delive►y, pros ided such increase can be effected without imposing any new charge upon the Public, and without reduc• Ing the emoluments of the Meters below that rate which seems likely to insure au honest and faithful discharge of their d ties. That from the rear 18' . 0 to the year 1810 the Meters did not earn more than ISOI. to VON. per annum each, though the prices prot,ision., and of the other necessaries of life, were 30 or to per Cent. Welter then they now a►e ; but that the Meters mou earn. upon the average, more than 2801. and nearly 3001. per annum each. That to remedy the evils already described, it is the duty of this Court to direct that at least 40 additional Meters should forthwith he appointed; so that the number should be MS, itisteail of I ; which inerrase may be made without in the slightest degree adding to the expenses that now fall upon the Public, and without reducing tbe emoluments of the Meters below 9110/. per annum. That in future the real and full description of all Coals. sold, ought to be specified iu the Meter's Ticket, under a: penalty. That all possible measures ought to be taken to pot a stop to the practice of persons being suffered to impose upon the Pub -I.e, by acting in the double character at Buyer and Seller, and; being thus enabled, by fictitious Sales, to regulate or affect the I tire of the market. That the reduced price of labour, and the diminished iutluei of property in general, ought to produce a proportionate re duction in the price of Coal at the Shipping Ports ; and that , u niescNitch reduction should take place, it will become the duty of this Court to apply to the Legislature, to permit the O pen and unrestricted admission of Inland Coals, or to adopt uch other measures as may seem best calculated to relieve Inhabitants of this Metropolis from a Monopoly, which "'" so materially enhances the cost of so important a nacos ctry of life. WOODTHO&PE. R,EFUGE for the OMIT rrtrrit—The SEVENTEENTH ANDIIVEJIKARY DANNER of this Institution will be held at the City of London Tavern. Bishopsgate Street, on THuItSDAY the 46th day of Fob. )€54. His Royal Highness the Duke of YORE, President, i 0 the Chair. STILWAIDS. 111. Hon. Earl of Taakerville John Masterman, Esq. ? . !.e Hoe. Mr. Jamie* Best Robert Milligan, Esq. bit G. Robinson, Bart. M.P. Francis Payola'. Eaqt tie*. R. Dawson, Esq. M.P. Thoseas Plummer. Esq. s Robert Hichens, Esq. George Oliver, Esq. G eorge K Es* Tho t mas Towle, Fog. urorge , Benjamin Wainer. Xiq. N'' q'elosk precisely. Ticket., • , ritAie treasurer, Stewards. C. olotaittee, Seeretnry;' _ ' 5 • of *4 SoperlattiiOnti itrn Hackney Road and ; wute at the Bev of the. Tag _ _ ROBERT CROSBY, Secretary. LONDON',- FRIDAY, FEBRUARY' 13 1824. EAST INDIA HOUSE, FBI). 11, ISQ4. %I RE COURT of DIRECTORS of the United Com pany of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies do hereby give notice, That by a Deed dated this day, a Fund bas been provided out of the Revenues of Tanjore for liquidation of the debts of bit late Highness Anseer Sing, formerly Rajah of Tanjore, upon certain terms therein provided; the claims of th Creditors are to be investigated and decided upon by Commis _ stoners appointed for that purpuse. The Claimants may ava themselves of the benefit of the arrangement propoied in thei favour, by becoming parties to the Deed, which lies ready fo thitir execution at the Office of Messrs. Smith and Lawford Drapers' Hall, Throgmorton Street, any Tuesday or Friday between the hours of One and and Ttree o'clock. JOSPH DART, Secretary. " The Cause for which HAMPDEN fell in the Field, and SYDNEY died on the Scofield !" IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. —...e...i... HOUSE OF COMMONS.—.THURSDAY. COAL DUTIES. Colonel GOSSET presented; petition from the Borough of Truro. against the Duty on Coals carried coastwise.— Laid on the table. Similar petitions were presented by Mr. Alderman SOUTH from the Inhahitants of Cordwainera Ward, in tits City of London, and by Mr. IVOBEHOUSE from certain parishes in the County of Norfolk.—Laid on the table. INNKEEPERS' LICENCES. Admiral SOTHERON presented a petition from certain Licensed Victuallers and Innkeepers, residents of the Bo rough of Newark, complaining of the heavy Duty on their Licences and praying for a reduction thereof. Mr. JONES gave notice, for Monday, of a motion on tit* sallect (as we understood)) of the Welch Judges. Sir bEIWARD KNATCHBULL moved for an Account of the Number of Persons on the Home Circuit liable to Wyss on Juries, as far as the same scald be made oat from _ _ Sheriffs' books.—Ordered. POSTAGE RATES. On the motion of Mr. HRRRI ES the Committee on the Postage Rates was postponed to Tuesday next. ESTIMATES. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER brought up the Army Extraordinary and Miscellaneous Estimates for the present year.—Ordered to be printed. Sir HENRY HA RDINGE brought up the Estimates of the Office of Ordnance for the present Year.—Ordered to be printed. RETENUZ ACCOUNTS. Mr. BERRIES moved for the particular account (ba lance shret) of the Revenue of Great Britain anti Ireland, stating the Receipts and Expenditure, &c. for the last Year, up to the sth of January, 1524.—Ordered. The Honourable Member then brought up the said ac counts which were laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. BURIAL •F CATHOLICS AND DISSENTERS. Sir J. NEWPORT postponed to the 22d of March his motion for the Repeal of the Statute 9th William the Third, e. 7., and for securing the right of burial of Rowan Ca tholics and Dissenters in Ireland. IMPREPSMENT OP SEAMEN, Mr, HUME said, that seeing there was another ques tion in the order book for the 19th of Februrary. he would postpone his motion for a Committee on the Laws relet• ing to the Impressment of Seamen, to Tuesday the 2nd of March. Mr. HL•SKISSON brought up papers relating to the Countervailing Duties on a certain description of ships.— Laid on tae table. TREAD MILL BEFORE TRIAL. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT presented a petition from Martin Stapylton. Esq.. one of the Justices of the Peace of the North Riding of Yorkshire, praying the house to take into consideration the illegality of compelling pri soners committed for trial to work at the tread-mill. The petitioner stated. that he bad often protested against the conduct of his brother Magistrates, in subjecting prisoners before trial, to that laborious and degrading employment, but still they continued the use of it. Sach conduct on tIN pi' tits Magistrates waslletifiltrUptiressive, hot illegal, and this gentleman deserved great credit for in teresting himself in sending this petition to the house. The Hon. Baronet expressed a hope that this petition would not be neglected on their table, but the law, if doubtful, would be amended, and a stop speedily put to this species of punishment of prisoners, who on their trial might prove innocent. Mr. Secretary PEEL said that he did not mean to dis cuss the law at that moment, but he believed the Magis trates conceived that they had a right to employ prisoners as they did. He believed the subject was discussed on a late occasion in the Court of King's Bench, and that the Judges of that Court were inclined to the opinion that prisoners, even before trial, might be legally employed working at the tread-mill, in order to earn a subsistence for themselves, if no other employment could be found for them. It was unnecessary to go into the subject now, as the Hon. Member for Shrewsbury (Mr. O. Bennet) had a few nights ago given notice of a motion for leave to bring in a Bill to declare the employment of prisoners on hard labour, brfire trial, illegal. Nor his own part he had no hesitation in saying, that it was wrong to subject to the tread-mill such prisoners as were committed for trial. Sir F. BURDETT said he had no doubt of the illegality of employing prisoners at the tread-mill before trial. What the Judge in the King's Bench said was no judg ment on the point, but rather an excuse for the Magis trate—adding, that if the prisoners were not willing to work. they were not to he fed at the expense of the coon ty. A prisoner before trial ought to he allowed all the comfort and consolation that was possible and consistent with his situation, but certainly punishment should not be inflicted before trial, at which perhaps the prisoner would be acquitted of the charge against him. The employment of the tread-mill was more severe than any other, even after conviction. But the Magistrates thought that the prisoners should work in such a way as to justify them in giving support. After what had been said in that House already, he was surprised that the Magistrates could per severe in inflicting that species of punishment on prisoners before trial. Mr. Secretary PEEL sail lie bad no difficulty in saying that proper allowances of diet should be given to needy prisoner., without subjecting them to that species of employment. If any doubt could remain as to the ille gality of such emphyment of prisoners before trial, he would soon bring a hill to remove it, and to declare that prisoners before trial ought not to be subjected to the Mr. S. WORTLEY said that the magistrates were con vinced that by law they had a right to make the prisoners work in that manner. He was glad that the Right Hon. Gentleman was about bringing in a Bill to clear all doubts upon the point. Mr. J AMES said that the opinios of the Judges of the King's Bench went to the effect, that unless the prisoners worked as the Magistrates liked, they might starve- to death. &Xenia (11111,11LAND2 On the motion of Colonel DAVI S, returns were or- 1 OrFed of the amount of the Excise and Port Duties in Ire- Und, and of the Expenses of collectiog them for the Lai l year. Rcvszwit. On the motion of 51r. NUMBLY, dered of the tiros. sad Net Resume from the 9th of January, 1791, - Union wish Ireland, and frost of both Trmseries, in 1816; also sth of January, 18t4 ; with the with so Account of the Pubacr 'risk Abe chsrge of l i nterest op the mil umostittif the RopWatiosoepaxam t a i r latimurioN 07 airmakma AND p‘ Mr. IllUltipsisl,3list ow the - fully aware that the subject ta lug the attention of the house, kut be herd - that upon dleittqulry ft **aid be dinlekited.-: 11R. ji se yiota ootttorejotce at smog the poor pit en the LILLY, Accounts were or- PO , *WIN' h the rich in the eye of the hir—or at alt tenons of Great Britain, events, 0114 a system of enactments had been Moffett rt.* to the same period atrae the ititoto bOott which Were no credit to it, Bed which that to t h e iboaso li f i s ei oD seemed to 'tin only to be violated. Uptitt fire secOnd 10 f, t h at Fol d e d to th e . lorinalt Of the sobject,—nittreif, that respectini the' istpot- to Ch arge . of C,,oligetiOn tatioti of.miachinery, he I:relieved' peklic . ohltatint • arse mons htbt,funtled qd ootinstied e Zeti: opinitin 'Wet thil Ottetqatiob . Of be some, torthei with tiro :tint .fiaisio bet 4ther fdlintbs tOttithat feetralfit, ptf fob . year • 14 1._7?5p itt*AltltiqiirW into, rem' oat WOW W a to ,c,O***ATIOX 1.011. Patt! l ,A.Oktlts 0tr_,.41 natrowatbetWlK YR wrtlf ▪ ItJ'eart Amami b4i VW Irari.W.Orderie "IOW& htis Whisk; som. sktoS cab Swim era si n rung rimed. • quo 11 was one of great ditheuliy. *tenor epettf t 'upon othry &tire •"; EAST INDIA HOUSE. Fan. 11, 1524. WIFIHE Court of Director* of the United Compauy of Merchants of England, trading to the East Indies, do hereby give Notice, That a General Coort of the said Company will be held by adjournment, at their House.in Leadeohall-street, ea Wednes day, the 45th last. at II o'clock in the forenoon, for the pur pose of taking Into consideration the proposition contained In the fo.lowing letter, cis.:— "TO THE CHAIRMAN, DEPUTY CHAIRMAN, AND DIRECTORS OP THE EAST INDIA COMPANY." " London, Jan. 16, J 824. " GENTLEMRN—We. the undersigned Proprietors of East " India Stock, request y.O will summon a Court of Proprietors " for the purpose of submitting to them the following Resolu tion, namely, . . • : " That, application be made to Parliament in the ensuing " Session, for the repeal of the Mil% clause of the Act of the 63 " of Oro. 111. cap. 153, by which the Court of Directors is " prohibited from sending to India in the capacity of a writer, °‘ any Person who shall not have resided during four terms at "the Haileybury College, and for introducing into the said " Act a clause, appointing a public examination at such times, " and under such regulations as the Court of Directors with " the approbation of the Board of Control may direct, to which "examination all Persons shall snhmit their acquirements. and " qua lificalions for approval. previous to their being permitted " to proceed in the capacity of Writers to either of the eresi• " denies of Fort William, Fort St. George. or Bombay. " Douglas Kinnaird, " Joseph Ilume, " Rt. F. Beauchamp, " Jno. Morgan, " Wm. Morgan, " Rich. Williams, " Chas. Wright, " John Addinell, " Randle Jackson, `• Saud. Dixon." JOSEPH DART, Secretary. 'MAGNIFICENT MASQUERADE, ARGYLL -11 ROOMS, MONDAY NEXT, Feb. 16.-111 e Publie are respectfully Informed, that a Al ASQUERA DE on an unusual splrmlid scale, will take place at the AIttIYLL , ItOOMS, on MONDAY, reb. 1621.—F0r partieu• tars of Boxes. Charseters, &e.. apply to the Committee, at Mr. CHARGES wruuwr, Opera Colonnade, Ilaymai ket, who will supply the Wine nn the above occasion. litmus cl placeus uror.—Hva. Thy house. and (in the cup of life, That honey-drop) thy pleasing wife. SOCRATF:S, by his Discourse on Marriage, so en raptured his auditors with the enhject, that the married men flew to their wires, and the bachelors hastened to be wedded; and "The Spe , dator" has affirmed, that the word " wife"is the most agreeable anddelightful name in nature. The sacred institution, then, of marriage, compasses the desideratum of our enjoyment; teeming not only with hap piness on earth, bat disposing the soul itself to harmonize with bliss hereafter. Previous, however, to entering into this hallowed obli gation, it becomes an imperative duty, not only to regulate the passions, bat to cleanse the grosser nature from those impurities which the freedom of unrestricted pleasure may have entailed upon it. To the neglect of such attention are attributable, many of those hapless instances, which, while they excite the commiseration of the beholder, should also impress him with the fear of self-reproach. Luxurious habits will effeminize the body—a resi3ence in the tropics will relax the elastic fibre—but more especially does the premature infatuation of youth too frequently com promise the natural dignity into a state of inanition, from whence the agonized sufferer more than doubts the chance of relief. To all such, then, we address ourselves, offering hope—energy—muscular strength—felicity : nor will our advances appear questionable, sanctioned as they are by the multiplied proofs of twenty years successful experience. The easy cares of married life are sometimes disturbed by the suspension of those blessings which concentrate the nuptial wreath—for the female habit is often constitutionally weak—yet it can be strengthened, and deficient energy im proved into functional power. In every case of syphilitic intrusion, as well as in every relaxation of the generative economy, we pledge our ability to cure speedily, and with effect. Earnestly solicitous to expel the unfeeling empiric from the position so presumptu ously taken up, we deviate from general principles with less hesitation; and confident in our own honourable inte grity as Members of the College of Surgeons, we refer the suffering community of either Sex (especially those enter ing into matrimonial life) at once to our houses, where daily attendance is given fur personal consultation ; and letters from the country are immediately answered; these must contain a remittance for Uvice and Medicine, which can be forwarded to any part of the world, however distant. DOSS and CO. M.R.C. Surgeons, No. I I, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street, London. Just Published (Sixteenth Edition), I. Tits /Eats or Lira, Commenutary on the shove Di s . 2d. DYGICIANA, addressed exclusively to the Female Sex.--May be had at 20, Paternoster-row ; 59. Pall Mall ; 18, Princes street, I•loho ; 174, Fleet-street. London : Porter, 7g, Grafton street, Dublin; Jones, 117, Trongate, Glasgow; and of all Booksellers, price ha. K. EADY respectfully calls the attention of those afflicted, to his peculiar and effectual method of cure, and although he will not presume to pledge infallibility in every description o; case, yet es far as human aid, assist ed by medical and surgical experience can be app:ied, he promises a speedy and permanent restoration.--Dr. E. is consulted daily at No. 38, Dean-street, Soho, and 1, Hatfield street, Stamford -street, Blackfriars and Waterloo-roads, by patients of both sexes. Country letters, (post paid) en closing a fee, meet respectable attention by return of second post.—Upper Ground street,Snrrey side of Blackfriars Bridge, sada directly to I, Hatfield street BY his Majesty's Royal Letters Pareat.—LEAKE'S Pi'elm Salutaria. One small Pill is a Dose; and the taking of one box, la a recent cue, will soon convince the patient or the certainty of his speedy recovery. No thing can be better contrived, more wife, or more convenient than this remedy , for such as are obli ged to go joevnies er to sea, as it needs DO unasument or testrebet of Viet: and 00 years experience (In an extensive practice) has proved' that it will effect a Care, when all other methods avail no-, thing. For the Scurvy and other chronicar disorders, this Medicine has not its parallel. Upwacds of /MOO persons, of both svrtfa. base been radically cured within the last eight years. Prepared and sold by the sole Proprietors, T. TAT- Lon and Sox, Surgeons,* at their house, No. ft, Now Bridge meow, is boxes of only 2s. 9d. each, duty Jududed. They are also said by their appointment, with copious directions at Mr. Ilepbere's Tor Shop, 144, Oxford-senset; Mr. Die borough's, 7. Blab-st,reet-hlll, nearly opposite the Monu ment ; at Mr. Baxter's, Edinburgh; Mr. Newberry's, Deb tin ; eed by eseiresson to ever* unsiderabletTevou be Great Britain and Ireland. Advice gratis to persona takimg the above, or other of the Proprietor's medicineL • See the published list, by the Royal College of London. PRICE 7d. The subject was no less than the propriety of appointing a Select Committee to take into consideration those of d Laws relating' to the Exportation of Machinery and the Emigration of Artisans; laws in which a great portion of the population of this country were deeply coacerned. it was now two years ago since, as the house might recol lect, he presented a petition on this subject, signed by no fewer than fifteen thousand of the inhabitants of the city of London alone.—(Hear.) He could at the same time have presented other petitions to the same effect ; but be had then contented himself with giving notice, that it was his intention to.hring forward the question for the repeal of those laws. Part of that question was since taken up snceessfully by a Right Honourable Gentleman on the ether side. in the course of the last Session, he (Mr. Hume) gave The house notice, thy he would, early in this Session, take op the question for repealing the remainder of those laws; and he did so, under the expectation aid with the promise of the assistance of an Hon. Member, now no more. The house was aware that be meant his late friend- the Member for Portarlington; a man peen lijarly feed for the investigation of laws of this nature, (Hear hear), from his profound knowledge of all ques tions relating to political economy. When be recollected bow clearly and convincingly that lamented Member de livered his opinions on all subjezts, he wet sure that there nis not one Hon. Gent. opposite to him—(hear, beat), or around him—(hear, hear) —that did not consider that the aid of such talents would be most useful on the present occasion. —(Hear, hear.)—'float Honourable Member, through good report and through bad report, went on to establish, on a firm foundation, the institutions of his country. Many of the prejudices that were excited against him (Mr. Ricardo), and against his doctrines, were now worn away, because the soun Iness of them was proved by experience, and because many of his predictions also were realized. In consequence of such a loss, he (Mr. Home), was more earnest in claiming the indulgence of the house, on introducing the subject of which he had given notice, reai•lly depending on the support of his lamented friend, He h .d no doubt but be would be favoured by the support of mai) , Honourable Members in seeking the repeal of those antiquated laws which were no longer useful or ex. pedient. This was a question which belonged to no party, nor did he claim the assistance of any Honourable Member from party motives. The house had last year a specimen of those laws, the repeal of which lie was to propose to the house. Much as Ise felt the importance of that measure (we believe the Honourable Member meant the 13111 to re peal the Spitaltields' Acts), which the Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Wallace) succeeded in carrying through that house, although it failed elsewhere; notwithstanding that Mr. Ricardo gave it his support, yet he knew many in both houses objected to it solely because they wished, before they would remove those restrictions, to see what the House of Commons would do with respect to the laws that restrained artisans from going out of this country. Under these circumstances, he undertook to submit tojhe house a motion more comprehensive than that of which he had given notice. His first intention was to consider the laws restraining the emigration of artisans and the *epode,. lion of machinery. That was the extent of his first notice; but at the request of other Honourable Members he now added the consideration of those laws, called the Combina tion Laws, which were much more ramified than sis ob servable on the first view. It was his purpose at present to elude those with the other laws of elisiebie lasodlifisees notice, because they were not to be separated. It was un necessary to say what advantage would redound to the community by this inquiry. He hoped on that inquiry he would be able to show the impropriety of introducing. some legislative measure to alter and modify those laws. He had no hesitation in saying that all laws limiting the exertions of scientific men, or mechanics (provided such ex ertions did not interfere with the prosperity of their otvn country) ought all to be removed.—(Hear, hear). He could nor, he thought, better express his object, than by quoting the words of Dr. Adam Smith, which were to the effect that his own labour was the original foundation of every man's property, and that such labour ought not to be limited or restrained to any place or country. As the law now stood, the artisan was restrained to his own eountry, but the nobleman or gentleman of property might go to France, or any other part of the continent. The law Could neither restrain, nor bring them back. But further, those persons might do more—they might carry with them their property from England, Ireland, or Scotland.— (Hear, hear.) The law to be just, ought to be general. The only stock in trade which the poor artisan bad, was the science which he had acquired. This knowledge was property as to him, and why should he not be permitted to carry it abroad, and turn it to the best account he could? As the law stood at present, no artisan could go abroad. If he went. he could be stopped; or even if a person went before a Magistrate sad stated upon oath that he believed such a person, being an artisan, purposed to withdraw himself from the country, the Magistrate could im prison him until be gave good security that he would not depart. But why should restrictions be imposed upon this species of property more than any other; or why should the artisan be placed in a worse situation than any other man who hail an opportunity of making the be t his industry? He hoped nobody would be found to dis sent from this principle—that in the eye of the law there ought to be no inequality.—(Hear.) Certainly, when the science of political economy was not so well uaderstood as at preseut, it was thought that the principle for whi..th he was now contend ing was prejudicial to the interests of the State, but the Inure enlightened Ideas of modern times showed that these restric tions were equally prejudicial to those who employed the arti sans and to the public. They wanted the merit of success to recommend them; for be would ask, notwithstanding the penalties awarded to artisans withdrawing themselves. al though they were starving at home, and could better them selves elsewhere, and the penalty of 3001. to be imposed upon those who shou ld entice artisans to withdraw themselves, whether the objests of the law were answered? It was im possible, after conceding the principle of the nec-:ssity.ot emi gratiou to the Cape, America, and other places, and vOthig large sums, as we h ad done, to promote it, that the Am, whieh was now asked, and which was but an extewsicji of that principle, should be refused. For upon what riniscienig wok that emigration granted, bet this—that there was no 7 employ. went at home, and therefore erasaris might seek it elsewhere ? Upon that principle then. be called upon the house seriously, not to withhold from poor artisans the means of turning their labour sad isdnstry to the best lbecouat. They might rest Ls need that the licesse.so given would not be abused, for h 4 areseldmodiselalie to say, there was no man who had the means wfsattjag kit bread as well at home as. abroad who Would not ?refer remaining la rse oonatry which gairellm bittb. He welt frepp!hat a great deal of prejittficdristilisid on this !object, --4 that upon des ktrquky . It Would k dirsiriated.— 4 ' t rePied ► funk thick itcdnd , : 4, • '. ‘l ‘ • A 1.,: