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•1~ ~ eto Imperial ariiantent• 110ITSE oF LORDS. /110k1) AV. JUNE 244. The Poor Settlement Rill w as read a third time and parsed. Er:se:Toro BILL—Lord 1191.1. AND presented a retition from a nuniher of respectable Merchants and Ship tosoers in Liverpool. praying the !louse net to pima auto a law the Foreign Enlisting Bill. The Petition was read and laid on the table. RATUrnST then rose, pursuant to notice, to move the Foreign Enlisting Rill he committed, tool to give sonic explana tion to the House upon the existing necessity tier the measure. is the Act niche 9th Geo. ii, it is enacted, that if any IStitiali Sith:” et shall enter the service of any forei•zn Power. or if any person shall engage any British subject to elate two the se retie 0: a finCiall Peer. such person shall, on convictioi . be e e ns i• dered guilty of felony without the benefit of Clergy. lithe !Ards consider this measure was pausal to prevent persons from enlisting into the army of the Pretender. he could say the law in that respect hail been executed in the reign of George 11. wit: uot refirenee to the Pretender. in the instance of a number of British subjoins entering into the Prussia.' service. Soon alter the coot lionocincnt of puce it wa. understood that several British officers tot half pay had left this country to serve the Insurgents in South America a a regulation was etiuscsmently' made ir, half pay, and it was ordered that any person enlisting into the service of a foreign rower should not he etuitled to half pay. Notwithstand ing this miler, it was found that the disposition to enlist into the service tithe I usurgenas increased It ass thiamlit at one time that the Spanish Colonies might have accepted the mediation of Eng land. and therefore the present measure was allowed to stand over; but the hope of such mediation failed last year, and the Rill was brought in. The subjects of one country ought not to fight agailift that country with which their own fiovernm-nt is st peace. It. that wait not the policy and the law, the mou wit • thievous censequences must ensue. Mischief an that iespeet had tiecorred. We should take care in giving British silltleits licence TO tight for foreign Suites, we did not d.i the greatest injury to ourselves. The Noble Earl moved the Bill be committed. Luta HOLLAKU, looking to the former arguments in favour of the Bill. which stated a desire to correct an anomaly in the law, we' surprised in this instance to hear from the Noble Lord, that the principle a neutrality and the existing law rendered the Bill necessar:•• lie was convinced it was not founded upon neutrality. lot projected fur the purpose of giving the Royal party an silvan laje Over toe other. 'I he Noble Lord opposed the Bill, contending that it would injure the trade and the best interest of the country. at a moment when the ottoman:hi world was looking for the ad vantages to be derived from a friendly intercourse with the itometise population of the Spanish Colonies. A very long debate ensued, dtaing which the same arguments were adduced for and against the Mill as were made use of in the house of Commons• after which the Bill went through Is Call/ • mittee, and was orde red to be lead a third time to-morrow. 'Fite House then adjourned at half paid e'clock. TTUCena Y, JUNE The several Bills on iiteT,bl; ;;Ittthrotuth the stages. iNSOLVI'NT DEPTORi . AUCLI.AND then TOW %o muse the second reading of the Insolvent Debtors' Bill ; sad alter Acting the principle of it, cuncludial by muting it be read a secand time. 'Lite /Carl of Li atEIIICK opposed it. The Lott D I:HANCI:LLO it intimated that he should not be able. from the pressure of his official duties, to afford any assist %nee aith respect to making the Bill wore peffect, during the resent Scion of l'arliarnent. After a few ols,etrations front Lord Auckland in reply, the Bill was read a second tune. Counsel and witmsses then were heanl at the Bar to prove the bribery at the Barnstaple Election ; aft, r which the !louse 4d:purned. WT DWESDAY. JUNE 30. CIS %SE'S Brt t.—Lord TemaixoToat rose to move the third leading debt., e's Helier BM. Fourin ENLISTIN.: Bill Was mconanitted. The Farlolltoselyn, Earl Bathurst, Lord Holland, the Mar (lei.. if Lansdowne, and otter Noble Lord.' entered into discus sions Upon the provisions oldie 11tH, and after sonic amendments, it p ..t1 through the Cominitos.. THE ATTAINDER ['morn BY TtlF. laiSit 1' int lA3II.NT AGAJNAT Ertze.ERAI.D.--The Earl to LITEICOODr. Moe with peculiar pleasure to present to the :e4 on the Fut (.1 the Crown, an act of grace to restore two tettertunate individuals to their full rights as British subjects.-.- :t was to reverse the attainder of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, by st!tich the bloat of his two children, Edward Fox Fitzgerald and Louisa Maria Fitzgerald, had treconie corrupted. lie would nut tinter into a recapitulation of the reasons which had occasioned Cie pasting of the act of attainder: he would meekly allude to the I , :citinble of the present Bill, which e:intained three reasons why tile !triter Bill should be reversed. The first was, that the indr sidritil in question had never been brought to trial, owing to cir emit tastes to which lie should do nothing more than *Butte at s.resente,the iceond was that the act nfattainder had nod passed the ish Parliament till wane months after his decease ; and the third, which arose out of die two first, was. that as he had Rot Lad the benefit of a trial, the attainder could but have beet. issued agaMkt him upon a regular conviction. He thought that these were sufficient reasons for the Hume to accede to the Bill which he had just introduced to their notice; even if day were not, he itiploreil their Lordships to recollect that he stood :whore them as the advocate of uxoffentlng tend innocent indivitinds </Poe/. One of thcnt 1401 served Ins cannery in die field, and had dotin gi.islied himself by his gallant behaviour on several occasions; to tini, therefore. as well as to his si.ter, the boon now proposed would be peculiarly gratifying. 'flit Clown in proposing this act i 4 grate, (foe instances like the present. the Crown had the right to col rise a Bill), was performing an c.clion. which was highly de 14;110111 to the feeling. o f Royal Highness the Prince Regent; :Awl he had no doubt but that it would be quite as grateful to ;, e titlin^s of their Lort . ships to mitigate the severity of a Bill hick had been pess.st in unhappy anti unfortunate rimes Tto Duke of I.INOTOR observed, that :is one of the i! thy Oluals on whom this act of grace would confer so incsfenla. Ole a benefit, had served for seine tint, tinder his commar.d, he cancel not let the picsent opportunity pass by without bearing ten t.n ony to the brave and honourable ano excellent connuct of the , :ung man in question. durirg the titre that he had been ac yueisitcd with him. lewd flott.sxn. though he Inew that it was not usual for any person except the mover to intrude himself on the notice of the It ot e,e nn tae first rcadiar; of a Bill, confessed his inability to se.train the tielings by which I•e was then agitated. He ntro. therefore express his gratitude to his Royal Highness the Prima: Regent fur the act ot grace which he hod just caused to bt prm timed to the /lotrac ; be must express his acknowledgements to the Noble Earl opposite, for the onourable and manly manner in which he had ; and he must return hat must heart felt thanks to tit r e " r P ;.7l d .int Duke, for the flattering testimony whle:i lie had borne to the merits of one of tea individual; which setae to be benefited by it. !)using the whole of this speech, his Lordship appeared to he mos: :strongly alliwied, and iu souse in atances keen to weeping. The till ass then read a first time. and ordered SO be read a beemad ware tomorrow. Adjourned. ZIUMIDAY. JULY J. The Earl nf LiviArroot., upon the third reading of the Foreign k.nhoing rlllt4.t an amendment, which had the effect of compelling persons to give information on oath. Lord Rossi. ea expressed his sidistactron uu the above& mead pent being made. Tha D 4 sow, zuAl a tl4l THE NATIONAL REGISTER. FRIIIAV, 3IILY 2. The Earl of I Alin* SHALL presented a rclitiol3 from J. T. B. Beaumont, Esq. against the l'ublicans* Licenidng Hill. The l'entioner ennipla ined of injuries received in consequence of the arbitrary power exercised by Magistrates with respect to granting Licences. The Bill then b e fore the House did nut afford suffi cient remedy fur such abuses, and he therefore prayed it might not pass into a law. The Petition wasread, and laid on the table. The Fsul of LAUDEetnALE then observes!. that he highly dis• approved of the Bill. and gave notisa. he should move on Aloud:ly tiro it lie read a third time dist day three niontli:i. The Lour, CIIANt:LLLoIt said, lie idsohau strung objections to the llill.—Adjoutned. IiOrSE Or COM NIONS. HUN DA T. J!‘ NI: ',M. The House met at two &clot+, pursuant to notice. HttastrouNit.—On the motion of Lord John Russell, the House iesolved itself into a Committee on die Grampound Bris linty 11111. Mr. Teed wan examined. lie was a candidate at die late Flertu.n. He directed Mr. A. Lamb to object to some votes, &Amuse he Lslieved they had bum bribed. Many of the Electors admitted that they had received money. lie sbewed Sir M. Lopes a list of manes of voters. and sums of money opposite to diem. and Sir M. admitted it to be correct. Witness indicted several of the voters, as well AK Sir M. himxlf, tiCe. ; proceeded against v 6 of Ma voters, and convicted 2.5 of Mein. He desired that the bribery oath should be administered, but it was not, lie did nut mean to pray judguitait against die persons convicted, until the House should cct.•nuine winiething with respect to die liornigh. The lira he received gave sums in isoL down to 3H. to many of tle voters; unit the aecurocy of the list was nut denied. ..... The Committee was Cien paetponed till to morrow, when Mr. Lamb and Mr. Lavie were ordered to attend. Mr. WAIT:I MAN niuvAl, that the Howe resolve itself into a Committee on the Mock .kuctions' Bill. Mr. CALCIAYT said, the spirit of legislation evinced in this Bill WAS most foolish and impolitic. It W. 44 :laying that weak persons should not be impowsl on. Could they prevent such im positions by this Bill ? Sum., of the pros isions of the Dill were abstud as well as unwise. First. it said that the proprietors of property should publish their names preciously to the side ; now the House could ewily imagine cases where there might be boar sales, but where gendeinen would not like to have their triunes known. Again, it was said that an auctioneer should smut sell his own property. Now, n was no uncommon thing fur gentle men to get money from auctionuers on their property ; to transter it by a bill of sale; such property became the Auctioneer's—was he not to be allowed town it ? lie concludod withatoving, as an amendment, that the Bill be committed this day three months. Mr. WAITIIMA !4 defended the Bill ; referred to measures formerly introduced to regulate auctions; and said this Bill did not originate with him—but it had been submitted to, and hail, he believed the approbation of Government. TM; Bill was of great importance. As to the proprietors names, the Bill only applied to manufactured and household goods ; it did nut apply to burning utensils amid lantled property. The object was ul pre vent the sale of goods tuanutacturixt on purpose, as well as of stolen goods ; and the lion. Alderman instanced many eases of gross deception, and of bad articles mixed with a legitimate sale. Vile cheating was carried on by such means. The trader, the public, and the manufacturer were injured by these muck auctions ; and such fact made the question one of national ins terest. He had attended sales where the auctioneers were res pectable individuals, but where the sales had been promoted by swindlers; and at the New York Cotree house, as w ell as at the West End of the Town, lie had personally attended, and had personally exposed the swindling character of some of the sales. He trusted that, as the hill was calculated to be most useful, it would he allowed to go to a Committee. Mr. Alderman WOOD feared that this Bill would not effect the purposes desired to the full extent. because many of the frauds ionmted in changing the articles, which had been pur chased ; but still he thought mule of the ref latior.s were likely to be extremely uieful. The House then divided on the amendment—For it 29 Against it 47.—Nhijority againit the amendment 18. The Bill was then committed. CONSOLIDATIONThe CHANCELT.OR of the EXCIIE , /I'F.R moved that the Customs' Consolitiation Bill be read a third time, Mr. W. SMITH said, that a meeting of manufacturers at Norwich had expressed themselves against the New Foreign Wool Duty. It would raise the prices of woollen cloths, and Government would eventually be obliged to grat.t a botiary oa tae exportation of such cloths. The Bill was then read a third time and passed. Basis iir PT LAW J. SMITII Dtuced that the Bank. rapt Regulation Rill be read a third time. Sir R. WILSON complained of a provision in the Bill which required the Bailin !opt to ;my cenitin fees previously to obtaining his certificate, and discharge out of prison, it in custody. As the bankrupt was supposed to give up all his property, such a regulation could only be an inducemtnt to the individual to se crete property. The Bill was then read a third time, after which some new chums were proposed. Wri.uta roac moved a compensation of 6,‘00. to General Boyd, which, after some conversation was agreed to. The CIIANCLI.LOI4 of the Ext. it essuEß. in a Committee of Ways and Means. brought forward furtber financial details ; spoke of the prosperous bUite of Cie Revenue; and moved that it was expedient to gr.int Exchequer Bills, ..nd 2,550,0001. Irish Treasury Rills, to meet the supply. Agreed to, after /011.0 remarks from Mr..l. Smith, he and the remaining onleza being disposed of, the house adjourned. TUrbIIAV, JUNE i.`9. The Sreaket took the ( :lair at a quarter past tato. Mr. If ume withrhew lug monon on the subject of the Copal. Lotion Acts till next Session. Sir W. Dr. Cut:3l.loN Y have notice, that on Friday next. he should submit some motion on the rubjeet or Mr. Owen's plans to atneliorate the cot di: of the poor. ANIFOUND BRIBERY ( - ON IC: T lONS.-Nlr. WINN moved that the A!torney and Solicitor I.etai..l he in,tructid to may the Court of King's Bench tor judgment on Sir At. M. Lopez and other persons convicted of brilittio, at tie late Gr4lll - ed. Mr. Dust,: presented a Petition from Wm. Ilallett, of St. Mary Axe, drug;ist, now in the custody of the Sergeant at Arms, setting forth hia abaeuee from the Camelford (Demon Committee was not the ruult of dc,ign to offend the l louse ; that he wa ill - and had gone into the country ; that he knew little of the elec tion trim iaainns; ilia? he was ready to give evitience of all he knew ; and he therefote prayed to be diachaigtd without pay ment of fees. Mr. II elm moved. that Mr. Hallett be placed at the Bar to monow. in order w hts being reprimanded atAl then disnitsscd. Agretd u. The Caton Factories Bill was read a third time and passed. IRISH STILT. FlNLa.—The CHANCELLOR of the EXCIIE RUI a 1110•411 that the 11o , tse resolve itself into a toa.roitt.e on the Irish Still Filleh &IL The lloti.e accordingly resolved itself into a Committee. Mr. C. 11. HUTCHIXIMN objected to the Dill altogether.— Why the Chiuwellor of the Exchu quer 1.r.l abandoned tins bu,i seas MI so late in du Seaton was best known to himself ; but he thought fuel' pp:. ceedings was rot the best course. He dial, rot exp..et the Hight lion. Gentleinau would agree to suei alteratiohi tut would make '/lie Dtll palateable to him (Mr. . s.. N JULY 4. Tha CHAXCELLOR Of the Exemettosn contended, that the discussion of last year bhew6l Cie neeei.bity of n•tnoring the Stilt Fine* ; and that he was not influenced in any way by the paniph. let, but by the ditcussions which had taken place in that Hons.:. Atter remarks from Lord Jocelyn, Mr. M. Fitzgerald, ike. the Home resumed.-41eport to-morrow. Th e R'eport of the C'oonniittee of Supply wa4 brought up an,l agreed to, after sOille financial obsettations from Mr. limm, Ewe. &c. _ _ The - ttp of the report of the Scotch Church Bill oe coioiterl snow discussion. To the propotition. that the lose's stipend should be mil. Mr. Nlattweltsubuuttoth„ that the highest should be 3:411. This anittalment was, however, postponed till the 3d reading s whic;i was fixed fur to-murrow. !!' INA' UN I) LOAN 111111.1.•—On th' motion of the Coax ce;i.Lon of the Excitteauart, the Nees: rtiwihed itito a, committee on the bill for appropriating a portion of the sinking fund to the service of the yeal. Mr. W. Smt7o. after what he had said wane tinte ago, felt himself called upea to make au observation or two on the pre tent octagon. lle had declared it as his opinion three year, ago, that the country could not go on paying t h e national creditor. and supporting the high rate of the sankmg find fur the redemption of the deLt. lie had in COilb1111C01:1: mentioned, that we sous either redoee the interest on teat debt, or. in other words, the virlends ache nattomil creditor, or appropriate the slaking fund. His opinirre was then rtweivcd with oisapprolatrion, and dered as calculated to create alanu. It multi not, tlitrefore, but be gratifying to him to find, that the alternative which he leap atnied had been adopted. and that the sinking•fund wits now to Ise apionpriated to tile public service. All inane. now smiled to concur in what was then very generally objected to; and lie was happy to find, that a part of the plan fur the ways and means of the )tar had been taken, without the slightest thdeience, front hi, tonnetly obnoxious proposal. Ta r CIIANCLLLOiI Or the ExcitErauEtt, in speaking cf this measure. could not but nwutioci that he looked upon the present lilli‘loll w ith pleasure in one point 01 view. as settling the course of our future tin:mei:ll inea.urt s m peace. anti winding the long sy,item of borrowing. %%hilt the present tranquillity prevailed, he was happy to dunk we should have no more need tie loans. The period of fluctuation hi the public hinds. and spe. culation tin the stock.exchange. would now be at an end, by the settlement of our currehey, and the sufficiency of our retources to answer all public puriskes, without resorting to borroahig. It might be suprosed that the present measuie would have an un favourable effect upon the funds, by thwinulaing die puhdiases of the commissioners. Mr. !twain)°, adverting to the subject of the sinking fund, regretted thut the right hon. gent. hail not snide a final ar— rangement with regard to it, and thus destroyed that systens of delusion which laid so lung prevailed. We had been perpe. tually told of its exi.tence, and yet we had nu real sinking fund for tile lust four years. The public creditor should be at laic told the truth. Yet the Chancellor of the Exchequer scented still determined to keep up the niachinery, fur he hail said that hem year a e should hare 1t;,000,0001. of a sinking fund, and should only require to borrow 11,00(40004 for the supplies of the year, leaving a surplus of 5,004004. for the eatincuon of the debt. Would it nut be better to destroy the machinery altogo. tiler, and to say that we had only 5,004,0001. of a sinking fund, thus confessing the truth in a public measure itself, which aas admitted in the explanation of it 1 The CHAN CEL 1.0 R of the EXCHEQUER said, with respect to the sinking fund, he did not mean to pass by lightly the olscr rations of the hon. gent.; but he would give it as his opinion, that we had not yet arrived at a state when it would be prudent to make any final arrangement regarding it. kle expected that we should next year have a clear surplus of 5,000,0001. tor the redeuiptitin of the public debt, and that this sum woukr in a short tune be increased to 8,0u0,0001. He was wieerssia wliat he might do next year; but, at any rate, when the sinking final had attained 8,060,iiti01., it would be time for hint, or his sticeesor„ to propose souse final arrangement. The bill the* pissed through the cototnittoe, and the report was orderul to be ready-al to.n.orrow. Adjuurnul at one o'clock. wEDNE ;DAY, .tear. 30. 11.. M. A. TAYLOR noticed the Bill which he had proposed to secure to the Metropolis a better supply of water, and libich had passed that House. It had since gone througb the Lords, and had been returned by their Lordships, but in so amended a. form that in its FeSetit form he anticipated that little or no gooi could result truss, it ; and he therefore proposed gist the amends nients to the Bill made by the Lords be taken into consideration this day three months. Agreed to, aid the Bill is therefore abandoned for the present Session. The Windsor Bridge Bill was read a .7d time and passed. The CHANCELLOR of the Eat:tit:iv:Lit brought in the 16,3i0,000/.. Exchequer Bills Bia.—lleatl a first time; ordered to be read a 2.1 time to morrow. Ile then brought in the two millions Irish Treasury Bills' MlL—Bead a first time. Tbe CHANG:ELM/i of the Exclicut , Eit obtained leave to bring in a Bill to permit the dibtillation iu Ireland by small stills. AIL ABERCROMBIE presented a l'etitivn from Crown Debtors. confined in !Animater Jail, one of whom had been confined teo years four months, for a deficiency of about t2OO/. However culpable bitch conduct might be. he submitted that the parties ought to be punished in some other and ordered to lie on the table. BANKRUPTCY BUKINESS.—Mr. WROTTESLi:Y moved an Address for 20,94.00/. towards raising convenient play a for itu thee facilitating the business rwatettig l'ormnissions of Bankrupt in, the City of London. Ile observed that Blackwell Hall was to be appropriated to these improvements. General WALPOLE said, that befoce the new Taxes were ob. twined they heard a good deed of talk about economy and, the like ; now all that ion of coniiderution •• The Devil wu sick, the Devil a monk would be ; •• The Devil ww well, the Devil a Altaik WilD he :'• The Address was ultimately agreed to, Wm. 11•LLETT was pla.ed at the Bar to be reprimanded and discharged oat of the custody of the Serjeant at Arms. He had been committed for contempt, in abseamiding to avoid being served with process to attend the Cameltind Eleetioi Committee. The SPEAK ER observed, on the enormity of the offtncr, which was at once insulting to the dignity of the 'louse, and calculated to impede the course of justice. The willingness now expressed. to Attend the House, ano to give the amplest eeidence, had been taken into consideration, and N m Hallett was therefore ordered to be discharged on payment of h:a fees. BANK FORGERIKS..—Mr. CALCR AFT asked whether another Report was likely soon to be 'LT.:tacd mom the Conlon: stouts on tills subject. . . Mr. 1%. COURTENAY replied, that the machinery was in it state of great forwardness; three or four of the machines acre completcd ; but as tight or nine were wanted, berme the Mink could re,ort to the change, lie apprehended that three or tour months would elapse liefore the exit:rime:it could be tried. 110 added, that the hank spared neither trouble nor expencc to promote the completion of the photo that had beim 4vicd. MARRIAGC ACT.—M,. W. SMITH moved the second rer.d• ins of the Dissenters' Marriage Bill. Loan CASTI.EAFAGII would net occupy the attention of the Ilothe now, but tntst,st that he might nudge and obsertations loch lie deemed it ri„,-ht to rin the future stages tit die Bill. Mr. W. t 4 MITZI had boohje:tion to th;scour,e—he would tale the discussion on the question that it be committcd to.inotrow. Hill read a second tune, and ordered to be committed tminers row. 'IN INN FuN:).—Tile Report of the Sicking Fund LOO% waspmeated., e- ,, \ ,