The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-01-24 00:00:00

~'~ 71 . I k•4lx.p.' ... • t • • .I:7\ ;‘ ....,. tl r• , • ,• o_, . . .‘„, .. , ~, • . ~,4,1-:.44 • 41ra. nd Vl' t , %‘ 1 0111( 1 11 . • - . . t :... - 1 •.\. r . .• . t It' 14 LONDOA, r RSDAY, JANUARY 24 i 1812, No. IF4l`. PRICE 6(1; Til EATRE ROYAL. COVENT-OAR PRESENT EVENING, Jan. 24, will i he ariod Shakspeare's COMEDY of ERRORS ; sod HARLEQUIN nod PA DMANABA. To-teno row, The Twelfth Night—Os Mominv, Tke Revenge Tu".1:1% will be produced a New Grand Oper..tic Drama, r.ti!ed The Virgin of the Sun. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, HOUSE OF LORDS, JAN. 23. ROXBURGH CAUSE, &c. The further consideration of this important Appeal being re amed, Mr. Leach was heard at great length, as second Counsel, in behalf of the claims of John Bellender Kerr, Esq. against Sir James Norcliffe Inns, Bart. on the feu branches of the case.—The further hearing was adjourned until two o'clock on Monday. Lord WALSINGH AM moved,-that the Order for the sitting of the Appeal Committee, to-morrow, he discharged, and that the said Committee do sit on Monday.—Ordered. The Earl of HARROW BY said a few words, but from the tone and direction of his Lordship's voice, they were almost to tally inaudible below the bar. Me Menzies presented at the bar, a voluminous amemblage of paper. documents from the Courts of Chalieqy ap ulordsh reknit i rehurei to certain Apc". bib" presented Mr: Parlthuntt presented the Seventh Report of the Commis-- missioners appointed to investigate the arrangement made be tween the East India Company and the private creditors of the Nabob of the Carnatic, which was ordered to lie on the table.— Adjourned till Monday. The New Grand Melo Dramatic Horse Spectacle, with the surprising and inimitahte Performances of the stupendous Ilephant, !mine been honoured with crowded Ilitoes, and secetved with uoprecedented Applause, will he contomed escry Evenin; iiitt el furore Notice. YEW PAVILION THEATRE. (ASTLEY.N). Nesvcastle-streei, 511.11,11. Established by Asthority of the Lind Chamherinin, PIUS EVENING, Friday, Jan. '2l, Sitarday, lA, and Moaday.27, at half-pastsix precisely, (sth time) an entirely new E9settritut and Pedestrian Legendary Slelii.tlranto c,. 14p, . 13 ,4,5, in two afro, tt ith estettsive Scenery, Molithsers, Ilanneit, Decorations, &r. C(11104 IBAGH VAN-00v et, the Tutor Taomerd. otteistplishell Alnico& the means of lurrinz one foot lry men nod one font by land. Tininur, Mr. Collett Baithvan.llo, King of Torturys Mr. Attley, ism howl, Mn'. Astlev. Th.• Piece will terminate with a Gone rtl Attack Go the U•arpei's Castle. Man to Mani Horse to HAM' —Mr. • W ILSOH's winiderfel Performances on the TIGHT ROPE. To conclude with the ononlar Panto whim of HARLEQUIN PIN DA ft. of WAKEFIELD. Mors open at half-past Eire, and begin at lull-pain sin.— Second price half-past eight. Mares taken for the Boars frost 1011112 o'clock. MUSE OF COMMONS, An Hon. Member, a hose name we could not learn, moved for aaAccount of the amount of the Hereditary Revnue arising out oithe Civil Establishment of Scotland, in the years 1801, 5,6, 7, 8,9, 10, and 11, ending the sth of October; and also, of all pay ments made therefrom, distinguishing Pensions from other hills. Ilesaid, it appeared on an investigation three years ago, that the Fund to which his motion reterred, amounted formerly to 40,1001. and that the pensions on it were 6,0001. It afterwards loomed to 85,1001. a year, and the Pensions in a still greater prorirtion, advanced to 38,0001. A Resolution was entered lino by the House, about two years ago, providing that it should not exceed 15,0001. a year, and that the excess should be carded to the Civil List. Ile thought it desirable that the House should be possessed of information on this subject pre vious to the alteration which they were about to vote in the Civil List. COVENT-OARUEN THEATRE TONTINE. TE SUBSCRIBERS to the TONTINE on this Theatre, may receive a H A LF-Y FAR'S ANNUITY, One at Christmas last, by applying to the Treasurer. at his Meet, on the Smith side of the Portico, in Bow-street. Covent garden, on MONDAY NEXT. the 27sh inst. and on the Five following day., between the hoar. of Twelve and Three. Those Subscribers who have sotheribed for the Licesof Nominees, ate to appear with such Nominee, or certificates frets the Mini-err or Cloreliwnseleas of the parish where they reside, of their bring alive. It reqaested, that in vise of death, !votive may be g, vets as above, fos the further beanie mad regulation of each 4ItNOLD, Chronometer, Watch, and (Ana milker, acquaints hi. Fliend• and the Ptahlie in general he hI. n w rcd hum Carotin'', to No. 132, Strand, uppish, the Inc rum. TO BOOKSELLERS, WANTED, by a Wholesale House, ONE or TW a Atli E MEN, who well understand the Mi. den 1 P a rt of the Bu4itie.4l to math as hare ability and expel i r.:re a liberal Salary 1;111 he 1/ ivra. A lilre,s (post paid) to L. P. Hero Tama, Meters' Cum -31I•. ANTED immediately, witldu 10 or 15 mi nion walk of Fier, meet. in sie airy situ:llion, a tmdl romenient DWELLING-1101.79L. UNFURNISHED. Lr.ter. adilreded to A. K. Y 7, Fiert-t•ireet. SMOKY CHIMNEYS. AREMEDY almost in every case, being the best application now ni use, and the cheapest—such is the TIN CO W I.E. it being thrueti by the wind, thereby entirely pit*, wrung the sane from blow inx down. Price 8.. bul. 91. ealL Lt. tid. each, e( tame akin. Nut aftwering. mimes refuter' _ onion tine rriantit. upon bring sent back, and . alloseinc I. reiai.nine. Smoky Chiinire)s , of the worst and mot dorlicult wit, perfectly cured to a certaiuty fur 3 guineas. No cure no Ir•s. Deakin. Si, Se. John-iitreet. X O ACCIDENTS need ever occur in future from 11 Guth.- les, Gip, or any other tore-whorl When tile horse falls (tibia is uow rendered difficult, if not impossible); When the 11-4se rears; When one or both of the wheels break; onr or both of the wheels gis or; -ett the snarls. break ; W 1.1 the haw kirk. or riga away. A, I .ty tire Office. Pope's Ilead-alley Chambers, Carnhill, whew draw mod the most satisfactory answers will liestvenresiTece;og thew. •s' The owners of inluable horses may save hundreds of pas by the nse of this oweatioo ; which may also be applied IS all foar.wheel Cant ,ges. TO THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY. VEIV-INVENTED BREECHES and PAN TALt6ONS.—In cnesequence of the very great raw tome of the bad eels ing, of the seams has induced T. BUT TON. 314, nn the twilit side of the New Church, Strand, to try the e‘perlment of tanking them without side a* kg MUM* 11 hie h he h.is !Wand to :Honer his most ardent especial ms, aid to etteils the former mode fur elegance and ease, and are pe rußarty adapted for riding. T. S. has the pleasure to say he has given universal satisfne. tins to those Gentlemen who have honoured him with n trial of thew, and hegs leave to return his sintere thanks to his Friend, sad the Public in general for the favours they have already conferred upon him, since he has opened the &mite concern, and hones by his ase,iduit y to merit a cimtinunoce of the sauce. N. B. Naval and Mititnry Uniforms, Ladies' Habits, and tint oilier branch of the business executed wills the utmost portuality and dispatch. ntPauy ED SOLID LEAT/IF.R TRUNKS, WITHOUT PA Pliße SMATT returns his thanks to the Nobility, • and his Frientlt In Emeriti, f , r the encouragement he has tereived from them for hit NEW-INVENTED SOLID Lt.:ATRIA TRUNKS, and hopes to receive the cootinuance at their favours, being the real Inventor, and only Manufacturer a Lawton, of solid Leather Trunks, without paper. They are particularly adapted for fore* service, as they are complete It; s iter•proolf, and much lighter than what i t a l wa y s made o f this leather and milltioard. s. Kites Manufactories are at Nos. 40 and 119, Holborn hill, N. H. Trunks, of all descripliorn, for East and West Indies, ahlA•nerien Trail... Cuaorction w ills any other Shop in London. ONLY 8,000 TICKETS. NEW SMALL STATE LOT TERY , to be all Drawn so early as TU E,89 A Y, 18th of FEBRUARY. SCHEME. 9....0f.. 520,003 ...are.. ilO,OOO 2 4 6 ••... 4OO . 2,400 And 1,588 Prizes Of 1001. Ote. &c. &c. T. Rim (CrOstrocior); sincerely thanks the Politic far their d istinguished fuvorsrsat hist' uly fortunate Offices, No. 4, CORN RILL, ond Nn. 9. CHARING-CROSS He invites their at Nunia to the Scheme of Inc present very SMALL LOTTER Y q°I 4 .TI in state, that alth o ugh it c en tr i sts o f on l y T wo -Thi r d s he Number of Tickets contaioed iii the last Lottery, yet there ere au equal Number of Cupital Prizes of 20,0001. in it i this presto Adventurers a much greater Chance to obtain oTtienty ,j l husaad Pound Prize, then in any L o tt e ry hith er t o known.-- the very limited number of Tickets to meet the demand, " iMmediate purthar at the above Offices is respectfully ad 7illis where In Cie Lottery Ilea finished, and in the two hat, • 11 16 H said and shared ihe following Capitals : L 49 7.• • .Claos A..X20,000 1 1,853 Class 8.. £2,030 7. 1 6 S ........ A.... 16,000 4,UYS 3.353 ........ A ... . 5,000 J . 82 6 1 8....1,0./0 71 ... : .... A.... 3,000 9.717 liBi3 ...... li .... 2.000 2 • 71 7 46. 6K. &c. . R ELIEF OF THE BRITISH PRISONERS IN FRANCE. Amount advertised . •E'72,773 3 0 SUBSCRIPTIONS lIINCI6 RICEIV6D: Captain Joseph Moore, R. N. per Nugent. Kirkland • and Co. • 20 0 0 At Haselhurs Plocknelt, Somerset, per Rev. J. Allen 7 9 3 Thomas Cockburn, Esq. 10 10 0 • Midsower Nortn, per Rev. W. Wright 7 15 9 Pareltoo, per Ditto • 2 18 0 • • Farrington, per Ditto . 2 8 3 . Stanton Harcourt Parish 5 0 0 . • south Leig_h • 0 10 6 • Parishes of Crust Bow d, nand Little Bowden, per H. Shot tteworth 8 15 1 • Kit kburton Parish, near Huddersfield, Yorkshire, per Rev. E. M. Wilbur i 7 14. 0 TI C. • 1 0 0 The Receipt of is Ball nt Lincoln, by Mrs. (UMW.- ion and the Right Worshi;Al the • irt,,,..1 of Li e . coin City, received of l i impleilmk per siklimass. b4otres, ibleaser*Wwk' biker l7 s: - 83 0 6 Parish of Bedidone, County of Salop, per Rev. Jobs Rogers, Rector . 3 5 0 Granby Lodge% Durham • 10 0 0 Calvinist Chapel, Yorkshire • 5 0 0 Llaithister Parish, per Messrs. Pugh and Co. ' 3 3 0 Ceoriz« , Montague, Esq. 5 5 0 • R.thert Bird . . 1 1 0 Gellarwooll . . 1 1 0 rncisfrof Cl itford 611 0 W.W. B. Garrett . . 1 1 0 George Barnes, 1 1 0 Pari-h of Porlynnus Gower,. per Pockington and Co. 2 6 9 C larks Haddock, Esq. 1 1 0 • Park!, of Effington, per Johnson and Eaton, Bankers, Stamford 11 9 8 . . Warden and Fellows of Winchester College 20 it 0 Rev. G. ileathcote . 2 0 0 Rch ird Lit !left:ilea, Esq. 2 0 0 At Houghton, per Rev. G. Thorold . 5 3 0 P.sri.h of Armitage, County of Stafford 6 0 6 At cattle Sowerhy Church, firer Rev. S. Hudson 0 12 6 FlOlll the Members Of the Established Church and Dis.enters. at Fairford, Gloucestershire, per Rev. Thomas Richards 13 9 0 . . fls the Troop of Yeomanry, under the Command of Thomas Reid Kemp. Esq. M. P. transmitted by messi l y. Whitfield and Co. of Lewes 40 0 0 Parish of I.l.lnatly-ther, near Lampeter, Cardigan, per Rev. J. Davies 3 0 0 . • Parish of ilawenog, per Ditto . 3 0 0 • Askham, Westmorland, per Rev. John Langton Leech, A. M. Vicar of Askhatn 8 9 6 Paris% of Ruishion, per Rev. Richard Wiesloe 2 9 0 Tow orbits of Warlow, Eikstone, and Onocote, per Rev. Mr. Itende 2 15 0 . . Trammitted per Messrs. Oakes and Sun, Bankers, Bury, Suf folk : Doniogton Parish, per Rev. Henry Roper 1 11 6 Hepworth Parish, per Rev. Mr. Uppteby 2 0 0 Chevington Parish, per Rev. John White b 0 0 • Wichambrook Parish It 0 6 • Dinhain, Ditto, per Rev. J. Cooper . 2 . 3 6 Transmitted per Sir William Forbes and Co. of Edinburgh Some Individuals in Newton-upon-Ayr 4 17 4 . Parish of Fundergarih, per liev. Dr. Bingen 6 0 0 Rev. W. Paul and his Congregatiou. at Castle Cary. Somerset 0. 9. Gem GENERAL HISTORY SPAIN ANI 1 101. ' This Day Price it. 6d. Part IV. fine pi Volume (with a Prefat A HISTORY of the Cl. TISII FORCES in SPA IN & PORTUGAl.,undertaken to relieve those Countries from the French Usurpation compre hending Memoirs of the Operations of this interesting War, Ciowacteristic Reports of the Spanish and Portuguese Troops, and illustrative Anecdotes of di.tingui.hed military conduct in Individuals, whatever their rank in the Army. The present Volume contains the Polley of the W ar, Military View of the Peniosula, and Prelimidaries to the Operatitini of the British Army. The Fifth Pori, to be published en the lst of February, will continence the Operations of the Brit i-ls Campaigns, begittnii4; with the demonstrations of the small Circe under General Spen err, and continuing to the Operations of the Armies under Lurd Wellington, &e. London: Printed for T. Goddard. Military Library. No. 1, Pall-Mall, where private communications will be thankfully received. This Day was published, In One Volume See. price Ms. boards. the Second Edition, much enlarged, of THE PRINCIPLES of MIDWIFERY; in t-Adding the Diseases of Women and Children. By JOHN BURN', Letiorer of Midwifery, and Member of the Faculty of Physi cian. and Surgeons. Glasgow. Printed for LONGMAN. MIJILST, REES, ORME, and BROWN. Paternoster-row, London. Of whoa, sway he had, by the same Author, 1. POPULAR DIRECTIONS for t h e TREATMENT of the DISRASES of WOMEN and CHILDREN, in Svo. price k boards. 2. OBSERVATIONS on ABORTION. Second Edition, price ss. boards. This Day w aspliblished, In 9 vols. post Bvo. price 11. 111. 6d. boards, The Second Edition of SPECIMENS of EARLY ENGLISH METRI CAL ROMANCES, chiefly written during the early part of the Fourteenth Century. To which is prefixed, nn Histori cal Introduction, intended to illustrate she Rise and Progress of Romantic Comprwition in France and England. By GEORGE ELLIS. Es 4, Printed for LONGMAN, HURST, RE 'S, ORME, and BROWN, Paternoster-row; and at the British Gullet . ), Li, New Bond-street. Of whom may be had, also just published, by the same Author, The Fourth Erlitini? of SPECIMENS of the EARLY ENGLISH POETS, in three vols. post Ifiro. rite 11. 16s, hoirdo. TO RE 801.1) BY PRIVATE CON I ItAc•r, A.LEASE of Fourteen Years of a very excellent Manor Farm, called NAPSBURY, near St. Albans, Hens; comprising a good dwelling-hiuse, offices, gar!eii, orchards, and 108 acres of meadow, pasture, and arable land, very muck adapted to the turnip husbandry. i mme di a te pus session way be had. For further Particulars apply (if by letter, post paid) to Adam Murray, Surveyor and Laud Agent, 3, Picket-street, Temple-bar. TO BE SOLD BY PRIVATE CONTRACT ONE Thousand Two Hundred and Forty-five OAK TREES, of different dimensions, standing in Kings. hill Wood, Parish of Plumstead, Kent; also 45 Elm, 29 Ash, of very large dimensions, at East Wickham. A cousidesable quantity of Underwood in Klneshill Wood. William Davidson, at the Guy Earl of Warwick Inn, Wel- Hug, will show the Timber and Underwood ; and Particular.; may lie known by application to Adam Murray, Surveyor wad Einid Acrid. 9, Picket-street, Temple -bar. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought, that as the Rouse was already in possossiod•of some accounts on this subject, it would be sufficient to take it up from the passing of the last accounts, which would be sufficient to spew Is hat ba lanes remained in hand. Affier a few words from Mr. TIERNEY, and the Mover of the Notion, th; Motion was limited to the years 1808, 9, 10, isad 11. Agreed to. ISIr.'I'IERN LY wished to know what the intention of the Right Hon. Gentleman was, with respect to the second reading of th e Bill for regulating his Majesty's Household I The pa;iers relating to the Lord Chamberlain's Department were not pit gi%,•a in, on which account he thought it would be more eon venknt to the House to have the second reading postponed front Friday to Monday. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that the Papers alluded to would be in readiness immediately; at the same time, if the interval was not considered sufficient for a perfect understanding of them, he thought that the debate on the principle of the Bill, instead of taking place, as was cus tomary on the second reading, should take place on the question, that the Speaker should leave the Chair, fur the purpose of go ing into Lommittee. intention to give it, he felt no lw ight Honourable peite)ol,4ll4 day appouueil 4 intention to le country, to the conduct of an Illustrious Individual, who had acted in a manner becoming the best times ; he al luded to the Duke of Cambridge, who had resigned the command of the Home District, under circum stances peculiarly honourable to his character and patriotism. He (Lord Cochrat;e) did not wish to provoke any observations from those who were anxious the example should remain unknown and un- imitated; but he was determined that it should be known, and he was confident that it' must be Led toted by all those who wished well to the country.-- If every individual pursued the same course of re signing unnecessary and sinecure offices, the best ef fects would follow, and a great saving would be made to the public. Ile understood that the place resigned by his Royal Highness amounted to 4,0001. a year, besides provision for 20 horses. There were, he was told, other advantages attached to it; hut as he was not perfectly acquainted with their nature, he should say nothing about them. As (from what cause he should not pretend to state) no mention of this resignation was made in the Gazelle, or commu nicated in any other way to the public, he wished it to be understood, that it was his intention to submit a motion for the purpose of recording the fact upon the Journals of the House, and transmitting his Roy al Highness's name to posterity, as a benefactor of his country. He concluded with moving for the let ter of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge resigning the command of the Home District, and also for the reply to the same ordered by his Royal Highness the Commander in Chief. Lord PALM ER'iTON submitted to the House, whether the Noble Lord had made out any ground for his motion. He had no hesitation in stating, that if the letters alluded to were produced, they would he found to contain nothing but a simple re signation on the part of the Duke of Cambridge, and a formal acceptance on the part of the Commander in Chief. Conceiving, as he did, that no ground was made out, he should certainly resist the motion. Lord COCHRANE said he did not move for the Papers from an idea that they contained any thing of importance, but merely for the purpose of groaud big a motion on them. The motion was then rejected without a divison. JURISDICTION OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS. Lord FOLKESTONE desired the Petition of Mary Anne Dixon to be read by the Clerk of the House, which was read accordingly ; and he then proceeded to state the reasons which impelled him to bring the subject of the jurisdictiou of the Ecclesiasti cal Court before the House. He was desirous that TO TIMBER MERCHANTS AND BUILDERS. every Member should have heard that Petition read, TO BE SOLD BY PRIVATE 'CONTRACT, not because he intended to frame his motion on tht' AN extensive Forest of FIR TIMBER, in Pee- particular grievance of the Petitioner but because it hles•shire, Scotland, situate on the Banks of the River ; • might be concluded fromt h at • • Tweed, and only 26 miles from the Port of Leith, where there is e very facility for chipping it to the London Market. This Fore s t abuses existed in the Ecclesiastical Court. For his contains Trees of large dimensions, being considerably more part, he had been quite ignorant of the power? , ex than one hundred years' growth and tit for buildings of every de- 1 this Court d ercise scription. There is a most excellent Saw Mill, drove by wa t er . 1 by ;• and he never imagined that that the purchaser of the Timber may he accommodated with ' any case of oppression could occur under it, which for cutting any sized Plank they may think lit. had not a legal regular remedy in some one or other Paiticiaines may be know by applying to Mr. Turnbull, Pee bin; or Adam Murray, Surveyor and Land Agent, J, Pickett‘ of the Courts of Justice. It never appeared possible street, Temple-bar, Loudon. Letters post paid. to him that any case of hardship could ever happen; for which the person aggrieved had not, if he pleased, legal redress. He was, howeier, mistaken : for in. quiring into this business, lie found that such cases not only could, but did frequently occur; andthe one on which he had the honour of fixing the attention of the House, was not the least worthy of their commiseration. It was be cause he thus found that abuses existed in the Ecclebiatical Courts, which had elsewhere no remedy, that he was induced to extend his . mod tion beyond the particular ase of the petitioner and lest the House should think that hadid not sub. mit sufficient reasous for this extension if it, he beg getto state the origin and history of Ecelesiaottat 360taictionln this country, and its state at present. Ja tracing the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction to its origin, the Noble Lord did not think it necessary to go higher than the time immediately preceding the con quest. At that early period of our history, the Ec clesiastical and Temporal Power went hand in hand. The Bishops and Baront sat in the same hundreds and councils together. William the Cooqce.-er, how. ever, no sooner had the power, than he eeparatcd the spiritual and temporal jurisdictions from one another. Whether that Moenrch thus .acted front the love of adopting the fashions of his own coun try, as Mentioned in the old chronicles of Henry the ' First, or whether he wished to get rid of the trial by Jury, that valuable remnant of ancient Gothic jurisprudence, he would not attempt to de cide; but certain it was, that the first differ., ehce between the spiritual and temporal Su. risdiction was established by William the ,First.-- It was thereforeevident that this jurisdiction owes its origin to a desieu on tho part of a successful invader, Ito overthrow our antient establishments, and that it had been used as efficient means to fit the people of this country for easy subjection to a foreign yoke This was in itself a circumstance that did not serr to recommend such jurisdictions. The power est blished in the reign of William I. iccr.ased duri the reign of William 11. and contin'ed still ft ther to advance during the reign of Henry I. wilt the Archbishop of Canterbury commankated to th Monarch, that the right of appointing to Sees at Benefices lay no longer in him, but in the Pope 1 who had assumed it to himself. In the turbulent Hun of King Stephen they were busied in taking every portunity to exercise their power. In the year 11 1 after declaring the Empress Maude Sovereign, they' verse their own order, and establish Stephen on throne; and. essay oars was aware of the eficriir `growth of their power in the reign of so vigorousa b/ flare!' as Henry I I. who was, after so many strong,' unavailing struggles, obliged to yield to the then An bishop of Canterbury, Thomas a Becket. Amoi the articles passed in the Parliament of Clareteli were six, securing to the clergy privileges to an on, mous extent ; one of these was, that etyry per , chargeable with an offence against an ecclesiastic, 1 to be tried before a Bishop ; and another was, exempt all ecclesiastics from being answerable ' any other than Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions. A! i pursuing the progressive advancement of these juris. dictions through the successive reigns of Richard I. lehn, Henry 111. Edward I. Edward 11. and 111. Richard H. and henry IV. the Noble Lord passed q'er to the o ßeformation, when the clergy not being priests, were made subservient to the civil power, though the Dean of Winchester had preached against it, and said in his'Sermon that all who had a band In that Act, were liable to ecclesiastical censure; a con• ference ensued between the clergy and laity, of which Ilmiry himself bore a part. The canons that were revised by the 32 Commissioners, at the head of which was. Archbishop Cromer, had been con i demned by that commission, and yet there were some lof them substantially in force at this moment. In i later periods of our history nothing had been done I to bring those Jurisdictions within proper bounds, I but the 26th of George 1. and the ‘27th of George 111. As to the existing grounds of complaint, he i thought one was, that in general the persons hold ing situations were not men of legal habits, nor of the necessary information. He knew, how ever, that to this, as a general censure, there were some eminent exceptions, and this was an objec. tion of greater force when the power of those courts -was considered: they could excommunicate, and excommunication not only impased imprisonment under the Act, but no person excommunicated could bring an action, be an advocate, witness, or a Ijuror; and if he died under the excommunication, he was denied Christian burial. He then proceeded • to 'state some modern cases of extreme hardship : the first was that of Mary Dixon, of Bristol, who, after having been in prison for two years and a half, had to pay a taxed cost of ill. 12s. The wait by virtue of which she had been arrested, had beat ad dressed to the Sheriff of Bristol, though the prisoner was taken to Gloucester Gael, owing to an erasure ' of the name of the prison.. If this &Herat .allowable, why not change the name of thel against whom the writ had been issued. Th( no knowing where an abuse of this kind mi He should now come to state other instate( Lordship proceeded to state a variety of cases be conceived to be of peculiar hardship'. A the name of Robins, charged with the ahst' tithes was proceeded against for a sum less and, after a certain tirn:‘, was pronounced ' been contumacious for not appearing. He consequence, excommueicated, was impriso, was ultimately liberated en payment of tl amounting to 351. There was a case which ship esteemed more than usually hard. 1 Lewis was excommunicated for conturc I cy / answering in writing. This was a pa up to w Gs. and being unable to pay the costs . e t e communicated, and sent to gaol, w A re upwards of three years, when, at le Agth, Y ~_- s ; ~. . I~W . . 20 0 Mr. TIERNEY said, that as it was not his it THOMAS FERGUSON, Secretary. any unnecessary delay to the progress of the Bil yard, Lombard-street. 'Ration in agreeing to the suggestion of the itil • Gentleaysn t his object was fully wwerectity.th HISTORY OF THE CAM P GNI; IN 141 hiffirdurbemi• 'IMO was the 'PAIN AND POit itment of the Bill. This Day was publi . DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE. rt IV. fine paper 55., which complete* the first LORD COCHRANE said it was his with a Preface and complete lodes) of .Y of the CAMPAIGNS of the BRI- call the notice of the House, and of the ke. Tye sta- ring ru r 4 hem, • that and 'Pep mes• op. 141, r . .re- the lona ,b ,btit rch- long lon, nor- ; - rsom was . to e to Ster I I . • I ' 1 on.. If this ,., alteration was k ii ire the name of the person td been issued. There was , use of this kind might stop. state other instances. His ate a variety of cases which culiar hardshi!.. A man of Irged with the abstraction of ainst for a sum less than 40s. , was pronounced to hale , 1 of appearing. He was, in I. icated, was imprisonee„ and Lord. I eimlY c lne e which h of h t i br is c :ord sts : e was aas . an usually hard. , Thomas ated for contutr J . :•y in not .li 'his was a paui , i• matter of pay the costE 1 ' he was ex- to it gaol, iw pre he lay Ise, when, at le Ag th, hi s * I N • • ..,, , , , t - k :... -: - ,-, • • . c .• - • I it.' . ~ •, • . .... . . .. .. . ' -, ' I • ~i . • .- • • • " • • .