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,ItTLY 5. The remaining Ostlers having been disimed of, the House ad journed. TEIURIOA Y, 11' I The Marquis of T.tvistocK p n I'.•tition from Liverpool, signed by 1800, pruving the udoptiuu of iuei.wies uf Reform. Petition rend and ordered to be printed. Sir F. Bon DETT MSC to brio f o r ward the all-important question of Reform. lie did nit Loon to wham the Noble Lord had alluded, hot he L•id not &me aoy thing to separate the friend.: of Reform; on the citetrar) , lie wars tllllltOtt6 to keep them tiewthar, us t ovoid ditf • wires itmongst them.— Much hap., had arises' from th.• new Parham , et, but he had th arid had found the new to he like the old Pars Borneo. He had not brought it fort; hi , ' eat lier this Session, because had he done so, and hcfore the Par:iament wus know n, he doubted not that the failure of the question would hat e been laid at his door ; nay, some might have attributed to him the three millions of nets taxes imposed on the people. Ile did not now intimil to propu•c any specific plan—he de sired the House to pledge itself to consider this allsimpoi t eat que-iiou seriously catty in the next Seat' ; and he thought this a fluid secure the tranquillity of the Count's, and would, above all, supersede the necessity of again resit, hog to a suspension of the Constitution. He certainly should, early in the next Session, call the a legalism of the House to the necessity of is serious consideration of the quest' of Reform by proposing a plan. He was nut for any thing visionary ; a hat he had proposed in ISO, in particular, was not visionary, and he still 'thought that taxisti .... and obedience might to go hand in hand with representation. The necessity of a more complete re,ireseirtation, and the right to a more ample Commons House of Parliament, were strongly supported by facts am! the best and latest constitis- I authorities. Judge Blackstone was of that opinion. Ile keld that 'the spirit of the Constitution allowed every mac a trait-, except some special reasons &gabs. the excise of such right ; and set those who held such (loch-hoes were now termed ; why, he knew not, except it resulted from the elegem'. d spirit of the age. But was it too much for the people t r require to have voices in the election of those who were to dispose of the lives and properts of the Natio.) ? Tlwy. Mimeses, did not ask for one-tenth pat t otf what their ancestors enjoyed, and yet were they deemed visionary and ji.cobinical for the prayers which flies submitted to that House. The state of the people toil, was another argument for Reform; the merchants, the manufastuters, the agriculturists, :mil even the m 'ed p utile complained of distress. 'l•he Noble Eord opposite s who had spoken of the prosperity of the country early in She Sees ttttt , ►new nothing of the teal stale of the country; indeed, how could he? Elected, as that I louse was, there arts embody iu it aho was intere-rd in telling th.. truth; called togosher by titled nominees, and representing rotten Boroughs. lint he would tell those who called themselves higs, and who required retrerrehniesit and et-oniony. that wit bout Reform, a hie h was " the oil id the machine." tetrenclimeat and to oniony could not hi ohtained—( Hear, hear!) Enormous taxation and a standing army acre the results of this system, and that system a ould continue so long as the people were ruled by the present no revs-limitation. It was calls d acarrupt Howe, but ilia t was an e►roneous idea; the assembly was called the repre iewatives of the people. (Cries ' , J . order !) The SPEAK ER submitted whether such langnage•ought to be held. Sir F. BURDF.TT said, whatever the Speaker thought was incorrect language there, would guide Lis sentimerts. He con tinued, contending that it was wit a corrupt House, because they did the duty of those who sent diem, frequently exposing them. selves to odium that was unpleasant to the feelings. They represented the particular Boroughs and Nominees—they did not, howeter.ropresent the People folly and fairly. The calamity of this systetn was, that the King could not choose I:is own .Nlims tees ; the Borough Proprietors in fact named them. 1 lie Crown was thus deprived of its dignity and splendour: in the language of Junius, the Royal Bird being deprived of his plornaae was fixed to the earth. Another calamity resulted front it; while it laded, the expenditure could not be lessened. It was shown in the instance of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. who could not listen to the complaints about the window tax in' reland, which produced fevers, and the Lotteries, which produced vice and motiondity. All parties were interested in the question from the King to the Peasant...AU except the Borough Proprietors. Pitt had foretold, that without reform an honest man could not be a Minister; that without it the country would be involved in f. :all wars; and Mr. Pitt in his own ?story unfortunately radioed die truth of those predictions. He became Minister, and intoxicated the country with his eloquence; he had gone, the wars had ceased, but the sad realities remained behind. The state of the coantry showed that the system was literally grinding the people to pieces; there roust he Reform. It was mist that good men would give good measures; that was., fallacy; but the axiom of a legislator was, that good orders wen d gise good men. 11, r. ) Without the'anny, they imagined th,niselves unsafe; hut dangerous as had been a standing army to the liberties of Europe, he &anal less from them then from the gentlemen of the long tube and those clothed in black. A lott;;It.) It was said that they ought to be in a commanding attitude—but that wao unwise, as every boxer could sell them. for the man dust kept himself always in a state of defence was defeated as soon as the cimibat began. The army might be retied on, but it would be ;,lied on in vain. if Msmoral feelings of the country - vdre 'once aroused. it was said by theft. Him. Idenrberfor Lissetpool, who was an open ofioonent, that the-e were theoretic blots. but that the system "winked well." flow did it wink well? As the gravedigger in flondd said of die gallows—•• how does it do wells why it does well for those who do ill—etgo, it would do well for Thee." Inn Oner.) They wild it worked well who knew nothing of die real state of the country—who called the ruined manufactures flourishing, butt who reposed in a Pane disc created by themselves, for themselves. But Reform must come if the country were to be saved, and lie .taw wished the the Borough Proprietors, for their own sakes, to conic to some agreement with tie People. Ile coodutlett with moving, that the House pletlir i'sele to take into its serious consideration, early in the next Session, tie State of the Representation of the Mr. G. I.astu seconded the motion, iot.l congratulated the House, certainly the trienti. of Reform, on the question being brought before the House in this tionn. titrce the question hail been supported by the lion. baronet and his coadjutors, it had merely ..markedtime," or if any thing it had rotrograded; but he trusted that those who were against visionary schemes. but who were the nal filen& of the 1....0p1e and of Relimn, would still be successful. He was for extending the elective franchisc ; for removing the franchise front decayed Boroughs to more po • pulous places ; and fm shortening the nitration of Parlitunents. Ile did not complain of being " mud-isespattertAl ;" nor should he, it . lie could obtain any athantagt b tor the Constitution. There must N. Itkesi.e strung measures to prevent bribery and corrup tion ;—but he tlid nut think that Retorm aa., the gram] pal-arms somewhich represented it to be. Ile did t•.ot initigine that it would cure all evils, revent the dearness of proeiaiona, bad has slat, and the like; but he deemed Itefunu to be ciscntial. Air. 6ar 7% t'ta.t. declared that he WOlllll 11411 C. Olibt`lll t. the 'adoption of any tat p until he knew 4841m-11y what it nits •that the Refuratets auuted i amid he therefute mused us an THE NArIONAL REGISTER. amendment that the Home proceed In the whir orders of the day. atr.llunsosiGvasi as' thonglit it would be much better in every point of view, to adopt the plan tutgested by the ;:allont General (Sir It Wilson), of dosfr.dichisin: those lioro,glis altogether, and transfernitg the eteetive franchise to untie of those large nod populous towns which td preM:sil were unrepresented. If toe Bailie Collitl pass a lan to this effect, he was convinced it would tend to ei elite all the dis content and elamoor which had hero raised against the present system. Lord Jou% ltusseLL said, that the lion. Baronet who had opened the debate had complained that the ieforthers were represented to be wild and visionary theorists, and h a d called upon the House to state where these w lid and vision. :ay reformist were to bc found; if the HMI. Baronet did nut know o here to find them, lie would tell hint : he would refer him to those persons who had advised I • during the last Session of Parliament in bring fern aid his celebrated motion for annual Parliamentsjiiiversal Suffrage, &e. Aldermen %i iiithonan and %10,41, Sir a-on, Mr. li)nz., rte. Mhos ml ; utter lb hit it Sir F. lairdett tv plied. The House then divided= the noodle', bbere, on 11i amendment — , a)cs 153--noes sS—itiujusity against tue tout ion 95. I)tsst:vreds' MARRIAGE BILL—OiI the motion of Mr. W. SMITH that this Bill be committed, . . Lord C ISTLERIE Atilt wished the lion. Member would consider nheth , r it would not be better to postpone any further proceedings upon it tin un rally day in the neat Session. Mr. W. SMITII replied, that after the suggestion of the N ble Lord, he could not think of pressing it Bother, fen• it mild he idle :dt•ctatieu in him to Bonk of currying it notion the Noble Lord's consent. The question ;sus then pot, nod the Dill was ordered to he (intimated this day there weeks—(This of course puts oft the Bill to the nest set,ion.) The oth:rorders or the day were then proceeded with, and they having been disposcd of, the llou,e adjourned. Finney, JULY 2. Mr. Alderman %Veen presented the Iteport of the Committee on the I take of Kent's Lottery Petition. It was read. It set forth the petition ; the petitioner's embarrassments ; the cat es of them , loss of baggage, &e. the etthrts made to reduce the debts by irouring Lis life, residence abroad, Ste. ; and the reduc tion of the debt, to about 70,00.)1.—The petitioner had only the property at Castle-Bar. independent of the public supplies. Mr. Alderman Wool) then moved for leave to bring in a Bill in pur-uance of the Report, and in fulfilment of the prayer of the petition. It was said that the pmceeding was without precedent ; but what was the case with Adams's Lottery reenirdirtg the Adel. phi, the Pigott Dia:ror.d Lottery. the Skinner and Pickett streets Lottery, &e. The Duke's property sae said to be worth I 50,0e01. but however 50.0001. had been granted on n by way of mortgage ; and lie had understood that 1 et,oool. had been laid out on the property in gelation. He could assure the Boise. that such was the poprelarity, the deserved popularity of the Duke in the City of London, that the tickets were :dimly, in fact, sold : if the Act wee: granted, the tickets would immediately be dis posed of. Why was he so popular in the City ; beeitu.se lie had done so much good there, by supporting dormant charities, rais ing ethers, attending charity sermons. &c. Gentlemen opposite might smile; he would only tell them to .• go and do likewise." He was mai/tied with the value of the property , and he there fore moved thr leave to bring in a Bill to enable the Duke of Kent to dispose of his property at Cuatlebar, Baling, by way of Lottery. Mr. GRE NUE I. L ,aid, it this motion. woe acquiesced in, he should like to know how they could refuse the appheasion of himself, or any other person, to have this sort of opportunity of getting rid of property that was not exactly saleable. If c thought Ministers were bound to justice to themselves to take up the suu ject involved in the petition soil report. Mr. Hu ME said, age question would he a very different one, if this were the first time that such a measure had received the approbation of the Rave ; and he denim that there was the -least occasion for cvneulting the Ministers on the subject. A similar course had net been pursuol in other eases where Lotteries had been granted to private individuals ; and was the letike el Kent, because he was tile King's son, to be deprived of the advantages which had been granted to private . persons ? The Deke of Kent had lived on 7,0m1. a year, devoting i7,..0n01. to the payment of his debts, and now that his Royal tliglitiees applied to have that benefit which had been extended to other individuals, he lamented that the apphcati.iii had not received the approtenon e the dieter , . licelecnied it due to the Duke's coal-teeter to enter into sonic explanations. The Duke went to Canada at the age of 18; he was for five Years with only two pistolee a week for poeket money—the debts in consequence amounted to :'a,oool. Till 17ees he remained with only annypay, and daring dangerous Campaigns he lost equipments, 6C.; and the orly.r.llowaoce he ever received ( ikons excepted) was 2,ts s 11. granted IS years after wards. The Duke never abandoned his duty, but remained till obliged him to return house; and at the age of 52, for the first time he received an annual allowance—it was 12,11001. a year. The Duke's debts were not site result of anymunsettentnce, debauchery, and pnait ion, reuhl that be said tit others? Ilia Royal I I ighnees had not had justice done lihn ; he ought to litre hail hi • allowinere from the age of 24 ; and there was thereby a deficiency of %extol. Had he had his proper alentance, there would be no etexasain for this application ; but his allowance and grants of Ifroite of ea.olial and WOOL had been without com plete success, applied t o the diatharge of his debts.—The Duke was next appointed to the Governeretrip et Gibreltar, and the circumstance* of the recall, arising out of the mutiny there, required explanation. Mr t:elertil•t: rose to ander, lie submitted whether the inutitry.at lisbroltur. hid any just e ssssss triton with the apini. Cali hefule the /louse, or ar het live - it would be advise-able to recall the cis reinstate:es th event near, hear 4) Mr. lICMc rrstioned..—bled it It en known abut he all. about to say, he Ilatii4llrl he should out liner been intermpteill hut 'the rrruortwt imptdamu riostiliZ in the public mind fey uI ed 'to be re 00000 sed. (Utter A os, no'. ( The Dins. Meonlier lb••n went ins to say, tout the allowances of tau• senior had been regularly tenon ted to Loig land, hut had hero& ait loheld frooto the Dukes They load nut been carried to any ;oolitic account that hr keen of•; possibly they had been al lowed to he could on ly sup, let the Duke have allowances equal to a hut had been given In the utiles DllKell, and his grant as tioveritoor, his Itu!1,11 111glnass could' pay his debts; if they a ere refused, abut otatial auu.d there he for resistini this applical 00000 Land CASTLEN t;11 laturnied that this case had been hrouli.l forward, heal esperioiliy Ihat it had sllllllpm d oor it had been by the Don. Member v Ito spoke last —( Hear, heal ) I t ulsolvtd a reproneh on hi. AI •ty, I'.ll 111111 Douse. and oh the COunit); ;nisi as the Du iso sitcoms had twice come brittle the Ilouse particularly, a by had not these circomortatices been onenti 00000 then I--The Duke bad o ; 3.,0:0t. a sear—lns Menthe aus better th on that of has brothers 'file f I. assured that a was not acting a. the Duke's to iend, to brio% forward lut Cato lii but h a ( "'or, hear!) if this motion were 11C411Wterd 111. be kilt' IV toot hoc they could idiot such applient ions from color r _ Foanes dec tared that he would surpf 'it th•• tun, en: and that the Duke of Kern bad not btcu trrittril lib %% l I a. 211 hi. !Loyal Brothers. It was a high tompliment to the Dukt 't ebprarter in returnint to the Country its lie INA done. Sir C. IttJu R ELL observed, that Mr. IftllTlt'S Sl:Wulf nt of Ineotur W:IS 110 in agreement u itit the Pailiamesititry docu ments: Mr. 11. said, that 17,000'. un..et apßrt to pay hii dills, leuvitig 7,000/. to lite nu I the document, said, that, with allnuaoce., the amount u.al 31,G00/. odd. tt; r. HCwe replied, that this was correct ; ts,OCOI. a ~- c ur had been added on the ma r I lap% Lord LOWTHER thought th.s subject had been most ilidig• Iletely, most unaiit isedly brought forward ; and he trusted that the proprir i) would be seen of withdraw int this 11.11/111111. A iderlll.lll 1% oon replied. It did not result from thi Duke—the plan originated in the suggestions of the Duke'. friends, and bad been b! t hem pressed forts at d.— (Hear.) Lord C A eTLEREAGH ex pressed the sat isfactson with which he had heard this litter coinaluatcation ; be was glad that the Duke was thereby rescued float the feeling that had arisen in the House, iii consequence of a contrary opiteim bring enterlainell.—(//ear.' ; Mr. Gat%f ext. explained; after which the motion war nithiirsiwn. The How theu proceeded to dispose of the orders of the day. CAMP:I.'ORn E LECT 10•4.— , Mr. D. W. II A Win', founiSit:4 his proceedings no 11 11 it had heed done in the rases of Penryn, Barnstaple, &c. and presuming that the Camelford et idenue Kav knono to eery Mends'', twisted, that t,ie tanielford report be akeii ii:to further ee:nideratio•. a r m day th r ee mouth•. Ile should then move that the is uing of new Writs for Catuelford be delayed till the first day of next Session. Mr. C. WYNN moved, that the report be taken into consideraton on Monday next. Averd t The rentannniz Oudes ci Übe day being disposed of the Hull!! udjuurued. FROM TUESDAY NIGHT'S G AMITTS. CROWN OFF WE, .frst 29. ME MBER returned to a'!TVe in thi. pre,ent PA RIA A NtENT. Borough of Ileyiesbury.—The lion Win. Mary John Scott. BANKRUPTS. ..... . R. P..lackann, liverponl, merchant. J. Doheil, Cranbmok, Keut, brewer. T. Pickton, Hammersmith, grocer. W. Hardy, Nlanehebter, Mr/titer. A. Allen, Pall Mall, calico furniture manufacturer. ti. W. Voolrich. titatfom. druggist. H. and E. Eddhaton, Blackburn, Lascaahire, cotton shanufar, irers. H. Lanham. Dorking. grocer. C. Law, Minories, victualler. DIVIDENDS. July c.." 0, .1. Bullocke,7;tllerine.;;;;;et, Strand, button and trimming seller-.-24, T. Weaver, Ili;;' Holborn, floor cloth manufacturer-15, 3. Nowill and J Burch, Jewry Street, Aid gate, wholesale stationer,. t 4, W. Salvage, CJrporatioa How, Clerkenwell. watchmaker -..`24, M. and NI. C. (Barth. Broad Street, Ilatcliffe, latationet—‘24. 3 0. Mosley rand H.. 1. Keach, Sidmouth l'la.ce, Gray's Inn Lane, I.lanufacturers of ornamental toys-24, W. Aldha:n, Borough Hills Mill, Great Totham, I:vreat, aniller-20, H. Swan, Gainsborough. Lincoln. merchant —en, C. Carr, Bridge Street. Westminster, jeweller-IM, l'e,?, C. Harding, and W. Wilack, Fazeley, Staftbrd, coanufuturen and spinners of cotton. Letters from Cadiz state, that several of the British transports had been discharged, not from their being no longer wanted, but because the Captains would' not submit to new conditions the Spaniards wished to impose upon them. It appears that the experience acquired by the purchase of the rotten IZessian ships has made the Cadiz Committee extremely cautious, and they now insist on the British ships,'neing strip ped before they proceed to sea, though many of them were fresh coppered before they left this country. With this the Captains refused to comply. A series of Madras GazcHes, to the 6th of Fe bruary last, have arrived. We learn from them that the epidemic still con tinned at Bombay and the neighlaiurhood, but nut severely. Partial hostilities are still carrying on between *nine of the-native Powers and our troops. By letters from the Camp at Synkurah, in the neighbourhood of the Nerbud dab, duet, December ;22, it was stated that rein forcements were expected, when our troops were to be formed into three divisions, and it was antici pated that .hontilities would he commenced with the ex Rajah about the 15th of January. The whole forte of the eaemy was estimated to amount to 10,000 men. including Arabs and Goands. Other letters contain an account of the dispersion of a Isody of these hill summaries, who had recently firmed apart of the garrien of Borgagurh. They had pined a strung pass, in which they pos!ed themselves after a march et 28 miles, when Capt. Pedlar, with a squadron of the Bth Bengal cavalry, and a party of auxiliary horse, killed about 100 of Ahem, wounded a still greater number, and put the rest to flight. NI Mee From a Boston Azprr of 2d of —Credible -accounts from Vera Cruz to the 7th April mention, that with the exception of a wan. deriag party of Patriots, under father Torres, of a b o ut .1. 0 ;on, the whole of the Vice-itoyalty of Mexico was in a state of tranquil loyalty, and the communication between the mines of the interior and • Vera Cruz of course wholly uninterrupted. An English frigate had just sailed, with 1,000,000 of dollars on beard ; and a Mr. Parker, a British agent -there, had a license to ship 10,000,000 niore to England. (It is understood that a conventinsa exists between the English and Spanish Geyer'. milling, by which the former engages to transport its Europe the product -of the mines of the latter at:a stipulated commission ; and that the English meat of war, to ensure the safety Of the treasure a •shail be employed in the transitj