The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-05-29 00:00:00

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AV 1N 0 stated, at full length, the Mice sod Par ticulars of the new popular State Lottery, I now wish to call your attention to its principal features : Tickets and Shares are cheaper than last 60 years. There are more Prizes than Blanks. There are Three .t 94,000 Money Prizes. • There ere Two *lO,OOO Money Prizes. All the other Capitals are Money Prizes. In feet, all the Prizes are Money Prizes. The first-drawn Prize is a £lO,OOO Money Prize. •Every Ticket decides its own fate and no other. There are no Stock Prises nor Classes. Though the Tickets are very cheep, they have already had a trifling rise, hut as the demand micro:tees, a very consider able advance must be expected; therefore, a speedy pur chase by those who intend to adventere is advisable. In the last Lottery 1 sold Twenty-five Capitals, bet to state further would be superfluous. as yon are well aware of the continued success of my he offices for malty yens to be. put. I have for malty 4, Cornhill, Your devoted Servant, an 9, Charing-Cross. T. DISH, Sroca-Baeamt. PRESENT PRICE. Ticerr •••••.el4 7 0 HALF. 7 16 01 EIGHTH. 1 19 6 QUA112111......318 61 SIXTMINTII.• .. 1 0 0 FOR FAMILIEIL—Just published, Pr:ma 4e. PR etre-At TXRATISI on the Sitperfor Effi cacy and Safety of STIZOLOBIUM, or UOW 11All E, (the Dolienos prurient of Lioness), internally ad ministered in Diseases occasioned by WORMS. wherein are exhibited, a eoselse Statement of the Symptoms of the Disease, and the Uncertainty of most other VermifUges, now in use. To which are added, Observations on some other Indigenous Anthelmintis of the West Indies; illustrated by a variety of Cases, never published in any of the former e !Won,. By WILLIAM CRAMBERLAINE, lembee of taw Royal Collage of Surgeons, London-, Fellow of the London MedicaLSociety ; Member of the Medical Council of the Royal Jennenin Society, &c. &e. The Tenth Edition, considerably enlarged and Improved. London : Printed for the Author. Sold by Illehley. 174, Fleet-street; Sherwood. Jones, and Co. 20; Paternoster- Tow ; and Callow and Wilson, 10, Princes-street, Soho. In Chapter V. of this Work, are given Extracts of Letters., and Testimonials from several most respectable Medical Characters, in favour of the ase of the t owhage, and In ap prObation of the Author's Practice ' • among whom are, Dr. Bancroft, Dr. 9e Valanein, Dr. Lentos'', Dr. Sims, Dr. squire, Dr. Thornton, Dr. Underwood, Dr. Woodville, a". ac. CHARACTER or TNT) WORE. MONTHLY MIRI1011.—" When It Is considered, that this valuable work, upon one of the most impatient subjects that ran engage the investigation and pen of the medical prac titioner, has undergone a ninth edition, it will be admitted, that the public has not been inattentive to Its merits. The object of this able little treatise is, to recommend the use of 'Cowboy, or Cowitch, (the Dollckos pruritus of Linnaeus,) u a powerful and Rafe vermifoge. The ingenious writer has compressed a great deal of highly valuable matter Into a small compass ; and we should not be doing our duty, were we not strongly to recommend it to the further notice of the pubic."—January, ISO, page 41. Ectscrte Itsviaw.—" Whoever contributes to the dimi- 1 nation of human misery, is deservedly reckoned among the benefactors of mankind: The promulgation made by the author, of the efficacy of the Dolichos Wariest., in reasoileg one of the common, and often most dangerous. diseases; *specialty of infancy and poverty, appears to be a well es tablished fact. Medicine mutt have the best of experience. The very respectable attestations of this simple, from medi cal men of the first eminence, stamps confidence on the Cow bage. or Cowitch, in vermicular complaints. A ale* edi tion of the pamphlet shows that it has engaged very gene rsl attention, as ledeed it' deserves, if this plant be found alike efficacious in destroying all the vinous kinds of worms which breed in the human body. We very earnestly re commend the use of this medicine, so innocent, so easily taken, and apparently so efficacious, and we cordially thank Mr. Chamberlains for making it thus universally known, and not concealing it as a nostrum."—May, 1803, page WO. UNIVZHBAL MAGAZ/N16.•--" This is a small tract. but of sallei.nt importance in society to deserve notice. The health of an interesting portion of every generation is con- 1 fawned in the well understanding and judicious treatment of this disease, so common to children. We have, bustles. lately heard of the fatal effects of a Worm Medicine, too rteperally and too indriscrinatelr given. ••• • • Calomel and ether preparations of Mercury. are beneral bad recourse to; and such powerful medicines more frequently do harm than good.-111 describing the symptoms of worms. Mr. C. d to be well attended to. In fact, there is not a sym;:tom ' indicative of worms, which may not be expe rienced by other disorders; and this the writer. with proper candour, acknowledges himself. Under this certainty, then, what can we do better, than prescribe that vermifuge me dicine which, if oar conjectures are right, will remove the disease? and. if we are not mistaken, will neither aggravate the ill, nor expose the sufferer to new maladies and dangers. Under this view of the case, we can safely refer the afilicted, or their Wends, to the perusal of the work before us, and skeanthelinintie course it points out."—May, 1805, p. 467. MONTHLY RIMEIV.—" The present edition of this use ful pablitation contains a more simple description of bites. final worms, with their symptoms and their causes, than was given in the former impressions. The author's high opinion of Be efficacy of the Stizolobiem in the removal of worms, is coaarmed by the tea imonials of various respectable prec- Armors, and by I cases which came under his observe tiles, or that of his correspondents. and which are inserted toldStossok. Ile appears to be candid and judicious ; and it la ilair for him to add, that he prefers selection from the very antmentes cases which have been communicated to him. dis- Vsfing the great effects derived from Cowhage within the bat twenty years. to any thing like indiscriminate pubitca 4101."—Sune, 1803. p. 220. l i b The Prep or ati on s *of :COWITAGE may he procured rt No. 0, Wellington-street, Strand, near Waterloo Bridge. EADY revectfulle calls the attention of those 21 afflicted, to his peculiar and effectual method of Ware, sad although he will not presume to pledge Infallibility istesery description of case, yet as far as human aid, 1153111- *;: i g isu ebedical and surgical experience can be appied. be a speedy and permanent restoration.—Dr. E. is emmaltati daily at No. 38, Dean-street, Solo. by patients of both sexes. 'Country letters meet respectable attention by return of second post. NO QTECIFIC was aver brought into use by the 1.7 Profehsors of Medicine. to equal PEEDE'S Celebrated wad Incomparable Faesca P►lls, for the speedy, safe, and CURE ifatertais disorder, in all its insinuating torus, and the =sat aid destructive Ravages it daily Noakes on the Prams ; but, happily, these Pills Core in so short a • re, and to so sate and easy a foamier, as to Warrant him RA fill confidence of success, that SPlthef Meese shall be left in the system. These Pills eeldin Be=es, at 2s. 9d., at 43, Llquorpond-street, Loo ts*: bet should it be preferred, the Doctor engages to Care INlNswase fee a stipulated sate: or rattan the Honer; so that If tbete be No Cure, there Will be No PAY. *I. ?be Iseb Cored wilbeet stesbiog of seolndry, by looliegeoly, pries 2s. 9d. TO THE FASHIONABLE WORLD. lr ATKINSON, PERFUMER, 41, Garrard-street, a Soho-square, respectfully informs the Fashionable World, that be continues to SELL, wholesale and retail, the following articles. They are elan to be procured at must Perfumers and Hair Dressers in Town and Country; but as they have been very generally counterfeited, the ge nuine Muhl. signature and address on the label. ATKINSON'S DOUBLE REFINED WINDSOR SOAP, divested of all caustic properties, is peculiarly cal culated for Lsdies and Gentlemen whose skin is tender, and for the nursery. It is kept till very old, and, consequently, economical in use. It is very highly perfumed, and where the skin hai got hard, rough, or even, it gradually corrects such imperfections, mid makes It soft, whit., and even. plies, Reif-pounds" Is. 2d.; Pounds, *s.; by 3pkies Dozes Pounds, is. 9d.: also the old Brown, higher per lamed, price 2s. 3d. a Pound. ATKINSON'S CURLING FLUID, or, VEGETATIVE HAIR OIL, is allowed to be the most elegant article ever In vented for giving the Hair a beautiful gloss in drank,, sod for keeping it In curl in exercise or in damp weather, and for regenerating the growth where it has fallen of from Ill ness, perspiration, change of climate, or any cause occasion ing premature decay. Price Ss. 6d. ATKINSON'S VEGETABLE DYE changes grey or red hair on the head or whiskers to a permanent brown or black. Price ss. - - Agent for Hudson's Botanic Tooth Powder, and Tincture, which have been so generally adopted. They do not merely cleanse and beautify the teeth, but• preserve them from decay to the latest period of life ; they eradicate the scurvy and tartar from the gums, fasten each teeth as are loose, and sweeten the breath ; and so undeviating are their effects, that there never was as instance of any one who regularly used them ever having the tooth ache, or a tooth decayed. Price 2s. 9d. each. ECONOMY IN' DRESS.—CHARLES and CO. TA! LOR.S and BREECHES MAKERS, No. 181, FLEET-STREET, two doors west of Fetter-lane, respect fully inform Noblemen and Gentlemen, they can have a Fashionable Cut and well-made Coat, of the best impedes Cloth, made to measure, from 21. Ws. Bd. to 31. 3e. Bes or Black Ditto. 21. kss. to 3/. 13s. Bd. Surtout Coat 21. Os. —Ditto, Silk Facings and Velvet Collar, 3/. 3s. to IL IN. —Kersernere or Cloth Trousers. 211. to 331. Suit of Li very, complete, 41. 4s. to 41. 10s. Box, Chaise, end Ft shionable Div ing Coats; Visiting and Travelling Cloak!, Shooting Jackets, Young Gentlemen's Suits and Children's Dresses, elegantly made. C. and Co. conducting their business on ready money principles, are enabled to offer these articles at the above low prices. Quality and workmanship not to be excelled by any house at the west end ; each article being made under their immediate inspection. Gentlemen waited upon at their own houses, by direct ing letters, post-paid. Observe the number is 101, Fleet-st. BY his Majesty's Royal Letters Patent.—L P. AI( E'S A/Piluise ISalateris. One small Pill is a Dose ; and the taking of one box, in a recent case, will soon convince the Patient of the certainty of his speedy recovery. No thing can be better contrived, more safe, or more convenient than this remedy, for such as ace obliged to go journies or to sea, as it needs no confinement or restraint of Diet: and 60 years experience (in an extensive practice) has proved that it will effect a Cure, when all other methods avail no 'thing. For the Scurvy and other cbronleal disorders, this Medicine has not its parallel. Upwards of 40,000 per sons, of both sexes, have been radically eared within the last eight years. Prepared and sold by the sole Proprietor., T. Tevxoe and SON, Surgeons,* at their house, No. 9. New Bridge-street, in boxes of only 2s. 9d. each, duty included. They are also sold by their appointment, with copious direc tions, at hir."Hephuru's Toy-shop, 103, Oxford-street; Mr. Dishorough's,7, Fish-street 11111, nearly opposite the Monu ment ; at Mr. Baxter's, Edinburgh ; Mr. Newberry's, Dublin : anti by one person in every considerable Town In Great Britain and Ireland. Advice gratis to persons taking the above, or other of the Proprietors medicines. • See the published list, by the Royal College of London. Demos et plat-ens itsor.-Hoa. Thy house, and (in the cup of life, That honey-drop) thy pleasing wife. SOCRATES, by his Discourse on hlarriece, so enrep. tared his auditors with the subject, that the married men Sew to their wives, and the bachelors hastened to be wedded ; and " The Spectator" has affirmed, that the word "wife" is the most agreeable and delightful name in nature. The sacred institution, then, of marriage, compasses the desideratum of our enjoyment ; teeming not only with hap piness on earth, but disposing the soul itself to harmonize with bliss hereafter. Previous; however, to entering into this hallowed obli gation, it becomes at Imperative duty, not only to regulate the passions, but 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 ere attributable, many of those hapless instances, which while they excite the commiseration of the beholder, should also impress him with the fear of self-reproteh. Luxurious habits will effeminize the body—a residence in the tropics will relax theelestic 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 Al such, thee, we address ourselves, offering hope--enero—museular 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 whica 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 ease 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 tie position so presumptu ously taken up. we deviate from general principleswith less hesitation; and confident in our own honourable integrity as Members of the College of Surgeons, we refer the suffer ing community of either lex (especially those entering into matrimonial life) at once to our house, where daily attend some is given for personal consultation; and letters from tne country are immediately answered; these most contain a remittance for Advice and Medicine, which can be forward. ed to wiped of the world, however distant; tiOSS and Co. M.R.C. Surgeons. No. 11, Bouverie-street, Fleet:street, London. •• Private Dom , roiled the Corner. just published (Sikteenth Edition), I, Tot /Bata or Wt, a familiar commentary on the a save Diseases.—sid. I- vast- ANA. 4.ldressed exclusively to the Female Sex.—May be had at 20, Paternnster-retv ; Mt, Pall Mall' IC Prinees-street, 'cob° ; 174. Fleet-street I Porta% ? 2 $ Grafton•streef, Dub lin; Jones. 117,4rongate, Glasgow; and of all Booksel lers, Price 6s. HOUSE oft tOßDS—Rnennsikaw. SirJobn Newport brought up frosts tie Hoare of Com mons the Irish Comity Treasurer's , BBL wit► a saes• sage that the "loom bad concurred in Ilse amendment, which their Lordships bad made in the same. Also the Irish Grand Jury Presentments' Bill. The Glasgow Police Bill was read a third time and passed. On the motion for reading the Irish Grand Jury Pre sentments' Bill a first time, The Earl of DONOUGHMOBE objected to it on the ground that It proposed to give a very inadequate remu neration to the Clerk of the Peace, compared with that granted to the Clerk of the Crown in Ireland. To the latter officer the Bill proposed to give a salary double that which was proposed by the Bill of last year, and thus his emoluments would be much too great, although his duties were not so severe as those performed by the Clerk of the Peace. His Lordship therefore hoped that this Bill would not be allowed to piss without due inquiry, end be should now give notice of his intention to move that the Bill be r►ferred to a Committee. The Bill was then read a first time. The Ite of RUTLAND presented a petition from the of Leicester against the Duties on Poritfto imported into this conatry. Adjourned to Friday. HOUSE OF COMMONS—WIDXSIDAY. Lord GRENVILLE SOMERSET presented a peti- I don from some Magistrate; of Monmouthshire, com plaining of the practice of manufacturers paying their workmen in goods instead of money.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. HONY WOOD presented a petition from the Brewers of Camberwell, praying for permission to brew middle neer —l.aid on the table. Mr. LOW THER presented a petition from some parishes in the County of Cumberland against Negro SLtvery.— Ordered to be printed. Lord ALTHORPE moved for leave to bring in a Bill to regulatelhe County Courts.—Leave was granted. Lord EBRINOTON presented a petition from Milton Abbot, in Devonshire, praying fora repeal of the Duty on Coals carried Coastwise.—Laid on the table. On the motion of Mr. LIUME, papers relating to Cases tried in the Exchequer Courts of Scotland, under Excise Laws, during the last five years, were ordered. Mr. S. WORTLEY presented a petition from certain Bleachers in Yorkshire, praying that the Bill of last year relating to the duty on Sulphuric Acid be made perms nent.—Laid oe the table. Mr. HOBHOUSE presented a petition from the Table-Beer Brewers of London and Middlesex, praying the House to delay the passing of the Beer Bill.—Laid on the table. TRIAL BY SPECIAL JURIES. Mr. HUME said be held in his hand a petition from John Hunt, the Editor of the Rowtosiner newspaper, com plaining of the abuie to which the.present system of striking Special Ivies is subject. He expressed his re gret, both for the sake of the petitioner, and of the cause outof which the complaint had grown, that the petition had not fallen into abler bands. The point to which be particularly wished to call the attention of the House was this—namely, whether the Trial by Jury was to he any longer maintained in England ? Ile meant, whether they were any longer to enjoy the benefits of trial by impartial Juries, or whether the Master of the Crown Odic/ was to select whom he pleased to sit is judgment between the Crown and the Public, from a list so long in his pos session, that be could not lie ignorant of the political bias of the persons whose names formed that list. The. practice of late years was nut to have an impartial Jury In those cases • but the Master of the Crown Office se lectedforty-eigt names out of the thousands of names in his office, and the party was obliged to be content with a Jary out of those. The fact was, that whatever bias or influence the Master of the Crown Office was under,—no master on which side they were, the present system enabled him to give them full scope; and it was almost impossible but he must, in most cases, feel some bias The Hon. Member then read and forcibly commented o the statements in the petition, of which the following ip a copy : Toth, Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom o Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled :—f The bumble Petition of John Hunt, of Old-Pond-street, Publisher— SHOWETH, That your Petitioner was in IS2I proseated on an Ex officio Information by his Majesty's Attorney General, for a libel in the weekly newspaper called the '' Examiner," of which he is Proprietor, and that previously to the trial to be attended on summons, when the Master of the Crown-office nominated the 48 Jurors, out of which the panel to try the case was to be formed. That your petitioner has also re cently been the self-styled " Constitutional Association," for publishing an alleged libel on the late King, in a Poem entitled the " Vision of Judgment;" and that he attended a similar nomination at the Crown-office, c•ti the lath day of the present month. That on both these occasions the Mas ter had insisted on selecting out of a book containing the names of many thousand freeholders and leaseholders of the county of Middlesex, such names only as he chose, proceed ing on no understood plan, 11tit picking out or passing over the names entirely at his own will and pleasure. That the Master declared it was the constant practice of his office to nominate from among those persons alone to whole names the designation of " Esquire" was affixed in the Freeholders' Book by the petty constables who make the returns to the Sheriff. Your petitioner conceive this prac tice to be In the highest degree unjust and illegal ; because all the freeholders and leaseholders are by law equally eli gible to serve on Special Juries, yet by this arbitrary and absurd distinction the immense majority are excluded from the exerciseof a great constitutional right, and the discharge of an important civil duty. Your petitioner could enlarge-on the unauthorised, uncertain, and ignorant manner in which the title of " Esquire" is lavished by the district officer, and could state numerous instances; within his own immediate knowledge wherein the persons so styled have been retail tradesmen at tually carrying on business • but he forbears to fatigue your llonourahle House with a detail which he trusts is not required in order to convince your Honourable House that nothing can be more unjust and ridiculous, than :hat the designation of "Esquire," arbitr-rily tired by a subor dinate district officer to the names of a small minority of the freeholders, should be held to give them an exclusive privi lege to discharge the duty of Special Jurors, to the practical disfranchisement of the great majority of those whom the law Ms declared eligible. Your petitioner has further to complain, that the mode of nonimation practised by the Master is still more objection able thsh this unjust eficlusion. and in effect totally deprives the subject of all security for obtait Ing an impartial J ary.— A person bolding the situation of Master will naturally have a bias towards the Crown, and is obvioesly a proper pet• soli to have the absolute selection of the Jurors in any cause between the Croup and the subject. The law, has, however, intended; as it appears to your petitioner, that though the Master should be the Instrument of nomination, the Jurors should be taken Its such a manner as to get rid of the exercise of any discretion on the part of the Master, and con sequently to remove from him both the temptation and the power to be partial or corrupt. There are various ways by which this object could be secured, as by a ballot (a plan adopted by the wisdom of your Honoarable House in regar.l to your Election Comnsittres) or by some rule of chance tt , i the principle of the ballot.. Your petitioner stratmoncli urged the Master to adopt some plan of this deserip t tioa ; but though that Moser admitted that be had done so on former occasiobs, and that his present mode enabled !dm, wets he so disposed, to select unfairly, be persisted in this arbitrary way stated, of choosing 48 names. Your peti , dotter protested against the proceeding as calculated to aft fo►d scope to the greatest pertiality And corruption—as ma- 4•nifesti counteracting the Intention of the law—and as in evitably exciting the strongest suspicion in the mind of the subject. without producing a single counterfeiting ads*• - tags to the administration of justice. But your stetitioneCi protest having proved ineffectual with the-Master, and pipe petitioner having observed that the Gonna King's Ranch refused letely even to htar a complaint against this mode of selection, he has no resource but to appeal to your lion. Home: • Yourpetitioner also begs leave to assure your Honour ! able House, that he conscientiously believes, from the I.e • enlist-description of the persona nominated io four Crow class in which be was concerned as defendant, that he hi;.; suffered grievous wrong end injury by the abase of the power to select Juries, which this practice puts into the her.es of the Master. , Your petitioner therefore prays your Honourable House to institute an immediate inquiry into th.• a•:n ice he c)5.- plains of, and to adopt some remedy for an evil wh' whether considered as offering temptation and offdr.:- !Ng sc,pe for theirossest correption, or as excii•ng a vioient suspielon of the administration of justice in minds of his Majesty's subjects. is one of deep r...J pressing - importance both to the Government and the People. And your petitioner will ever pray, dc. May 26, 1623.. JOHN HUNT. The House would observe that the Master admitted that be had the power to act unfairly if he were so di•posed. It was of the power given to the Master the petitioner complained, and not of the Master himself, and as far as be (Mr. Hume) could learn, the Master was a ninst r . spectable individual. Such power as he possessed it was never iotendrd by that House nor by the Constitution t t be given to any individual without check or controul.— The present master of the Crown Office bad also another appointment under the Crown. He had the office of Au ! ditor-General at the Colonial Board. Although the en. joyment of the Mastership of the Crown Office was dar ing lite, yet the office of Auditorship of the Colonial Board was to continue with him during pleasure. In the latter situation he had an income of MN. a year, and if be did any act in the Crown -Office displeasing to tit,' Oovernment he was liable to a deprivation of that sum. — He (Mr. Hume) would therefore conclude that the indi vidual, however respectable, could not be without some bias in favour of the Crown. Here the Hon. Member ad verted to an inquiry by the Common Council of Londor, which showed that in a case between the Crown and au individual tried for libel in the city, the Crown Solicitor insisted that the Master of the Crown Office should make a choice of individuals of a certain political bias. Mr. Justice Barley, even when the subject was before lhe Court of King's Bench, admitted that the officer had the power of parking a Jury. He was sure the House would agree with him that this was a most iuiportant subject.— Why ? It was the very subject on which they had ex pended so much time in the Irish inquiry, which was n.)- thing else than a charge of parking a Jury. It was al:- seed to say that the Master did not know the political feelings of those whom he pot on the panel. Ile must lave known the political bias of those persons, whose games were so lung before him. He would rather deli the trial by Jury altogether abolished than have an in,:i• 'ideal charged with a political offence committed to twelve men chosen in such a manner. He could not bring himself to believe that the House would tolerate, such a system, if they knew the abase to which it was 5- able; and in case nobody more competent took ep the ▪ abject, he feltbianself bound to give notice that he would . propose an inquiry into it. He begged leave to bring up toe petition Mr. PHILLIPS said he was glad that be was in, the Hoes, during the observations with which the Hon. Mem ber accompanied the presenting of the petition—obser vations conveying instnuations as inapplicable to Cae Master of the Crosn Office, at they were unworthy uf the Hon. Member himself. Instead of 1,500/. a-year ac auditor of the accounts of the Colonial Board, as the Hon. Member said, the Master of the Crown-office had only 1,0001. a-year. Besides, a gentleman who sacrificed a sum of five or 'ix thousand pounds, with a pension of 5001. a-year, could not be supposed capable of such prac tices as the petition implied. lie would venture to as sert, that the present Master of the Crown-office did never select one individual from motives of corruption, and if the House only considered the manner in which Special Juries were struck, they would see that such a thing was impossible. In the City of Lontkin, all that the Master knew of the circumstances of the persons. on his list was, that they had the word " Merchant" attached to their names ; for such only could be Special Jurymen in the city. In the county, the names of those to be se lected for Special Jurors, were distinguished by the word " Esquire." In the case of the petitioner, the Master of the Crown-office did not know one single person of those selected. He would be as glad as any Man that some ar rangement could he adopted, to place this officer beyond even suspicion. It was true that in striking the Special Jury in this case, the Master of the Crown-office refused one person because he bad " rag merchant" attached to his name, not because he had political bias, brit because hi did not think from the desigliation that he wa re spectable enough. There was mtieli less probability of improper motives on the part of the Master of the Crown-office, than that of the Sheriffs, as the latter lived more among the people, and were liable to be influence d A. TAYLOR thoioght that the present prac ticei by the w. ik. was very inconvenient. lie did riot consider that the Hon. Member for Aberdeen imputed corrupt conduct or motives to the officer in question. All that he stated was the possibility of corruption ; who could say that it slid not exist? Were they not many nighty engaged in in vestigating an alleged—he would out go the length of saying ari actual corruption ? On the appointment of a Jury another mode might be athyted, to attain which he would be happy to assist any Iluti.Metnber in another Session. Mr. CREEVEY said he would say a few words in support of the Honourable Member for Aberdeen. ..He was also well acquainted with Mr. Lushington, the Master of the Crown Office, and if to any person the term chivalrous could be applied it was to that Honour. able Gentleinan, so far as his private interesta were con• tented. The Honourable Member slid nut attetn e it t ► cast any reproach on that Gentleman, he only argued in farm of a public principle, In which be (Mr. C.) cordi ally joined. Mt. PHILLIPS explained that his observationcwore caused by the remark of an Hon. bianderloat Us • Master of t',e Crown Office would be more toast wan if be could retest influence in his situatios. Mr. GREY BENNE sail' the question was not on the character of the officer of the Crown, bnt on the pos sibility of car: ti o tion taking place. Hower , r hononr a able the Maser of the Crown Office might beat present, . -"eiros) ecof RA. titer, hoe* Jolla owsl tiosis WOO . ie. Of )0 414 kg. cir