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I • -......-, • 0... _._,..____ . - • -•••••• -....,+• - ....-.1.111 . - . .....,...... .-.-•••••.- .- - . - -..--- - [.)'...6 °''')Cfj° . • 7 Per Cent • ' j - P''IIIY—Nv -, sa• 0' 4,-. ' . *: C.k .'- U • i f , a9 _ . • _ ._, . . . . . . . - i . . . 051:zuwpa. I . . . et . t . .. . , ...._ ': lit itti (441 t . , 1 • Al , . • - : . .. ~ . . . . .. . ' ..:-. .. . . .. 0 ........... 10% r,;;. . NUMBER 5727. APRIL 13, 182 i ,~ Pftpcs 7d. LAST NIGHT. • TH EATR RO AL, COVENT-GARDEN VoJer the inunediate Direetion of Mr. Bishop, ant! the last Season of his Engagement THIS EVENING, FRIDAY, April It, m GIIIIIII Performance of MUSIC, from the moats of Popular and Clsasical Computer.; on which memos,' the .Noprietor has the pl to annetruce the itolhisting hnpreceslenteil assemblrge of talent :—Mr.. Salmon ; dame Albeit, Prima Donna of the Preach Serious Opera at Paris (her seemed public appearance in this country): Mom Stephens, Miss Greeks. (her third appearance at thme per formanees), Mrs. Iteltehainhcra, and Madame Camparese; Mr. Rraham, Mr. Prue, Mr. Trued, Mr. 'Finney, ‘l,cic: Smith. and Signor Angrisari. Added to the above, io the Vocal Department, Signora Corti. Miss R. Corri. Muss Posey, and Miss Carew ; Sigtorr Ambrogetti and Signor Elegies (their first appearance at these perforatances)„ and Mr K_ll- • -a • • . Lindley (Tmleractllo), will secernspway 111 r. s raGin Td a celebrated Cantata; Mr. Nicholson (Pole) will perform an Air , with eariaiiiim; and Mr. Kirsweller. First Virdin tn. Fir Mirjesty's Chapel Royal, Hanover, a New Pot proirri. Solos: llarp, Mr. Val; Clarionet, Mr.iVillman; mud French Horn, Mr. Purri. Full particulars are given in the printed Bill.. - Pim*. may be taken of Me. Brandon, at the BoLorfire, Hart-street, frum Ten till Font. UT PARTICULAR DESIRE. Tiff PA TIM-ROY:I L, Ci#l 7 ENT-GA IIDR v. To.mormow. svrtilt DAY, Aril 14, will be performed the Tragedy of VENICE PRESERVED. • Doke of Venire, Mr. Atkins; Prinli, Mr. Egerton; wear, Mr. Clmor; Jaffier, Mr. C. limeade ; Pie►re, tie. Ab. bolt ; Renault, Mr. Chapman. Belvidere, Miss. Dance. To which will be added (4th time), a new l'iece, in one act, called LONDON STARS; Or, "TITAS TIME TO COUNTERFEIT. Dr. Rorie, Mr. Rlanchard; Mr. Ilriceiler O'llrann, Mr. Connor: Trnsty, Mr. Atkins; Prregrine Plural, Mr. Yates (with new Imitations). Mrs. Thundertrunk, Mrs. Davenport; °Oche, Miss Beaumont. Doors to be opened at Half past Six o'Clock—the Play to begin at Semi. Boxes, 7e ; Second Price, 3s. 61.—Pit, R., 6.1 ; Seemed Price, ?so —Gallo-a, 2a. ; Second Price, Is.—Upper Gal lery, Is.; Second Price, 6.1. Places for the Boers to be taken of Mr. Brandon, at the Zoe-Mike, Hart-street, from Ten till Four. A Private Box may be hall fur the Season, or nightly, of Mr. Brandon, at the Box-(litter. On Easter Monday, the Tragedy of Virginius—after which, • new Grand Melo-dramatic Romance. LYCEUM THEATRE, STRAND. DURING LENT, 1821. ••• Iti cnnsequence of the brilliant success of the new Astronomical Exhibition, and the lair period at which it has been produced, the performances during Lent will be an lII G. IUESDAYS. WEDNESDAYS, and FRI DAYS, and an every Erraing derisic iVerk Maud Friday excepieJ), when an entirely new LECTURE an OURANOLPGIA, and ibe STRUCTURE sof the UNIVERSE, will be delivered by 31r. BARTLEY. NiGirr—pogrrivEts TOE LAST. KING'S THEATRE, OPERA coNcEnT-Room. EinoußAN lON. IVI H. WALK ER respect fully announces his l I.ECTURF. To.Nicur, FRIDAY, April 13, at &WM o ' clock, with all its late improvements. Bones :Ss.—Pit 3a.—New Gallery sa. Doors open at Half part Six, begin at &Jaen, nt Ten. Vince, and Tickets had at Mr. Own's, 27, Ohl Bond. street; and at the Box.ollice N —The East London Thraire will open on Tun Jay will, the NEW El DOURANION. NOVELTY ! ADELPHI THEATRE, STRAND. R. LOG N A in returning Ine beet thanks to the numerous Patrons; uf his Performances, begs leave to ainioasnce that several Novelties hive been added, as well as many improvements made in the diffeseni pieces, and that the whole now having acquired the greatest facility of active, and continuing to excite the most flattering ap plause, will be repeated THIS EVENING, FRIDAY, Amil 13, and every Evening in Passion Week (Good Friday excepted), to commence with an entirely new Pte lurial, Optical, and Mechanical Exhibition, called '1 HE PANORAMIC MIRROR; OR, NATURE'S REFLECTOR. Piece I.—A View of a Village on the Banks uf the Rhine wilktbe Effects of Daybreak, the Rising of the Sun, &c. Mr. BOLOGNA, during the interval of the Perform ances, will exhibit a variety of new and amusing Decep lions, with Cards, Magical Figures, Balls, and coiriottaly ;constructed Pieces of Mechanism, including the Cabinet of Safety—the Wonderful Column—the Self-acting Wiwi the Prince of Conjurors! Piece 11 —A View of Yartuantla Roads, with Lord Nelson's Monument, the stirrounding Country, &c. CHINESE SHADOWS; or, OMBIIRES CHINO'S! in which the following very favourite Scenes will be intrn duced:—Tlie Magician's Cave—a Rope Dancer, with the 'lemmata of the Clown. Piece lll.—Sea Storm aid Shipwreck. The Scene will close with the Representation of a Shipwreck, and the Pre servation of she Crew, by Means of the life Boat, &v. The Evening's Performance to conclude with improved HO/sake Experiments, in which Mr. BOLOGNA, in addi tion to some of the must admired of his former Pieces, will introduce a variety of new ones; shewing the pleasing end Woodevfal Effects of the Union uf the two Elements of Fire • and Water!'! Boxes,M.—Fit, /v.—Gallery ls.—Doors open at Six, lrgits at Seven.—Second nice, Hall:peat Eight. *NOBLEMEN nail GENTLEMEN who arc 1.11 desirous of Itavisiz Port Wine of extraordinary age, ilsronr, sod full bodied, may hire Sample Batiks of Wet Wine of the Vintage of 180'2, 1 !inlets Years in bottle, at 7a, per hartile; ditto of 18C6, Eleven Years in bottle, ed. ed. l dills of 1808, Sena Years iu bottle, ti.. 6.1 by apptylog at 340, Oxford-street. Please to °haw e that no Person eau have more than Twn Sample Bottles of each or nog one sort, nor can any Order be executed, except for Sample., fill Three Days after the Order is given, as tie Stork of Wise is in a Gentleman's Cellar its the Country, mid will only be reinovid as wild. CAUTION. CALMON, ODY, and CO. most respectfully caution the Public against the many bungling nitil in- Prior imOrdive TRUSSES now offer, d for solo. The trio: PATENT SELF-ADJUSTING TMLISCES have " Sal mon's Patric" stamped ors the tteni rust of the owing. The ENTEIII bare the honour lo supply the Army nail Navy, the Naval earl y lloapitals, the Dud, Yard. ant Ordnance, the Marine Inlirmmy, the Rom East India Ccopany, the City of Loadt.a Truss SOril ty, the hlar7.le Lisp , iviorli l eatanbe, Bristol, and Denbigh lubuua ruts, the Middles- a Hospital, Ste. he. lie. ltlaussfactery, 2t)!, Strand, London t et a la Gml , rie du PRIM. Regale, 163, a ratio. s o• Persona residing re the country gentling the sir. colorist-nee of the hotly across the hips, stay depend upon he segarattlp LONDON, FRIDAY TO THE. PROPRIETORS OF EAST' INDIA STOCK. LADIFE •ND GENTLIMEN, WE Ism less- to Hier yon our grateful acknow ledgments fir the honour you have conferred on us by re.eleeting us into the Trotting that the Proprietors will ever find as deserving of the ennfi , leoce they byre reposed in us, We have the hooluir to be, with Brest respect, Lailies slid Gentlemen, Your most obedient and very humble Servants, JOHN IiEBR. JAMES DANIELL, WILLIAM F. ELPHINSTONE, JOHN INGLIS, JAM ES PATTISON. East India Hew, April 12, 1821. TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA sToca. Lutes MID GENTWIEN, I Beg Crave to utrer yon my most sinrere rich's*. hodgiernis fur the dintinguished honour of your Ruppert at yesterday'. Ballot, which lass placed me in the situation I so anxiously aspired to. I feel she highest grotifieation in the favouroble sentiments of the Prop !Nur) at large, as indicted by the (Alto of its suffrages in my favour, unit am particularly grateful fur the zeal so warmly evin ce d by my friends. It shall be my endeavour to merit three flattering slissice tioiia by the faithful discharge of the imp flout debts of Director, anti the moat assiduous attention to the interrsts of the East India Company. 1 have the honour to he, Ladies and Gentlem..n, Your tuost obedient humblii Servant, April 12, 1821. JOHN LOCO. SILKS, SUITABLE FOR LADIES OF FASHION. ALL Weuverg whq hove any Goodi that have either novelty or elegance to recnniosend•them, which they can sell cheap for ready money, toter now an opportu nity of having them SOLD. by applying at SHEARS and COMPANY, 11, Henrietta street ; where Ladies are certain of finding the largest snit decidedly the WWII eleraut variet I in this !Metropolis of fashionable Silks, Satins, G 1114•1., Ste. and at prices 110 extremely low, that no idea eau he Eirnicil without li/spec:km. Cowl Simnel*, at tbi. lot,. per yard, and new Florence Shiites, at 3s. Od. the Down. Bedford House, it, licnriettacit reel, Covent-garden. Elegant Scarves and Shawls of the newest patieruy, from ISs. 6d. to lb Guineas each. Lille', published, in one thick volume 12rnei. embellish. d with two elegant Eugraviurs, price 6s. Oil. boards, 7r. bound, IES J ECIN ES FEMMES. Ptr J. N. BOUILLY, Mcmbre de plusieurs SNIIIIIIeI Auteur des Coutes Z mu Fllll., &e. " Ne drdailnez point met Cwiteilt : le boosbeur wont attend." A Loathes: Chez G. et W. B. Whittaker, Ave-Maris-lase. A NEW VOLUME OF RISfiOP O'BEIRNE'S S ER MONS. This day is published, in tivis. price 10s. 6.1. in boards, Volume the Third, of kgERMONS nn imPottrANT SUBJECTS. By T. 1.. O'BEIRNE, Lard Rialsop of Mesta. Printed fur F. C. and J. Riringsms, 62, St. Paul's Church yard, and 3, Waterlim place, Pall-mall. Of .home may be had, The Cirst Volume of S Eft IRONS, preached on several oc casions, tiro. Se. The Synod Vonme of SERMONS on Important Sub jects, Oro. 10.. 6d. This day was published, handsomely printed upon a Awl of drawing paper, and embellished with the Coronets of the a. areal ord.'s* of Nubility, tastefully coloured, price li.; 011 . 111111101., iu a neat ease for thr pocket, Ba.; on enema. . , and rollers, 10,1 PEERAGE CHART for 1841--This a Chart contains iltv complete Peerages of Ilse Visited Kingdom, alphebelically aeranged (ineloditig the Scotch and Irish Petra who were omitted last year), wish the following particulars of earls Menthe? :—The Title, Title of the eldest Sun, Surname, Date-reef the first and last Creation, Price. &ace, Age, whether Married, Bachelor, or Widower, number of Children, Male and Female; Knights if the Garter, &c.; Lord-Lieutenants, Pricy Counsellors, Roman Catholics, and Peers' eldest Suns who are Alettiliets of the present Parliament. It also skews by m hat aerates the Peer age was obtained, shall is to say, whether by Naval, Military, Legal, ur other Services; and states site Ceutory to which each Peer can trace his Paternal Ancestry: thus exhibiting, at one view, much interesting infoemittion, and forming, upon the whole, a complete Peerage in Ministeure. Printed for G. and W. B. Whittaker, Ave-Maria-lane; and .1. Warren, 19, ()id Bond•street. Of whom may be hid, jnit published, The BAHONETAGE CHAkf for 1821, printed with Om above, awl cusitaiaiug the Baruuct• fur the Outted Kingdom. REFUGE FOR THE DESTITUTE- HACKNEY-ROAD, AND FIOXTON. ON SUNDAY siext. April 15, 11121, the ANNIVERSARY SERMON will he preached in ClitZ to-orret Cis-wet, fly the Right Rev. Father in God, GEORGE lIEN RV, Lord Bishop of ('he-ter. After which a Collection will be mask in aid of the Foods of the Insti tution.. Maine Service will begin at a Quarter past Eleven o'Clork. The Object of this tostuntsuie is to provide it place of nefisie •ull Reformation' for persona who have En en dis charged from Pli4ol/ ur the Milks ; for Unfortunate• nod Deserted Females. and others, who, though willing' to utak, a r e tu e s3 ble, from lays of character, to earn an bound main tcoasier. this Asylum they are withdrawn from the paths of templet h)II and vice; they are taught to re-armoire their former habits of life ; to pursue industrious e,seploy mods ; to form resolutions o f pen it e e tre ai m and to retoru to sourly pith reuc•rd hearts and amended lives. During the twelve years in which the Bertlee hag been o p rt , 1 0 such deplorable objects, the Committee have the satisfaction of atiousiwcing to She Public, that meats, of returning fr the ways of vice and misery to those of virtue and r u:ofort, have been afforded to nearly I:moires. Modred ter emus, who would otherwise, probably, have been left 1., perish is. the depths of crime, waist, mid despair. tog the year 189, ue.nrly Th,t•e Dumbed persons have be• n partakers of the r•xteasive bilis:file provided by the Item: , for ilw Dest i tute. Kob.c•tutinos are received by lie Trersurrr, Edward r, li•y.6, Si. ll•lese's-plave ; by lid the Struthers of the Comtism. e the Sl:finality. 36, Iluxioss.squal•; the Colter tors, Mr. Isiah:no Tatted, 5, Carlisle-place. I.'unbr•lb; Mr. Joseph Huskies', at the Refuge, lisrkiery-toad; Mr. Peter 111 11,, at the Male Estahlialsnwrei, Mttos); rod by mu-t of the P sokers iw losolou awl in flue country. it 1-3110151114.1, etinlailliffe a short account of the Refuge for the. Destitute, way Ike Irnl, gratis, at Lloyd's C o il'. 0 . boost:, and City of Iw,ud.n T:s cern ; and of 31r. A-p• rise, Ituukseller. Coreilisl!; Mr. listr hard, Bookseller, Picea dilly Mr. Phillip., Errolsellrr, Geores -yard, 1. 00 0,a,‘, sheet; Messrs. Riviogioes, liouksc Item St. Paurs-Cmiecla yard; m e . mot kshe;e. Pall mall; and at the Kefuge, Hsekney• toad, mud H11X14,11. By ends r of the Committee, ROBERT CROSBY, See. • IMPERIAL Prig 1.19 M E NT. HOUSE OF LORDS, THUIVIDAY, Arm IL Their Lordships met at four o'el - ick, and stljnurnel diriug pleasure. At Arc o'clni lc the I,onn CIIANCtLLOS resumed Ms seat on the Woolsack. CATHOLICS. The Doke of ITELLINGTON presented a Petition from the Lord Mayor aid Corporation of the City of Dahlia, ags'oqi the Claims of She ROOM. C 41110110.. The Mahon of ELI' presented a similar Petition from the Clergy of the Arrhdesetantref Eiy. Emil DE' DCWSTANVILLE a similar Petition from the Royal Burgh of Danfermlior, tir.dlaud The Earl of LIVERPOOL a similar Petition from Myer, hi the county of Kest; which mre wend', read aid laid on the table. Mr. H. Sumner, sad ribetMroilsiis of the Flume of COlllllllOl.lll, Molch' up lite Rinbeth retelionare _mid several Read Bills, which were rein a (list time. CRIMINAL LAWS The Marquis of . LANSDOWN presetited a Petitio• from She Borough of C3lste, to the ("untidy of Wilts, pimitig for a revision of the Criminal Laws.—li.ead aid laid ou the table. GRAM POUND DISFRANCHISEMENT BILL. ON the motiou of the Earl of LIVERPOOL, Counsel wete called in fur and aesinsi the BM. Mr. Alderson apre.sreal as Conned for the Bill, and Mr. Adam as Counsel against it. --- Mr. %Tin. feloore was then examined by Mr. Alderson in support of the Mil. 'I he next witioss was Mr Celery, limit. Their evidence went chit fly to prove that they supplied Ilse so coossities of the elecims of Geumpound nith lbe money of Str M. M. I oyes. The tether witnesses exesnierred worn, Thomas Coot?, John Teed, Esq. forms sly Melillo.. fur the hurough, John Edwards, attioney of Triers,, in the c tttttt ry of Curreasell, and Waller Pomeroy, a Disseirtitiz Minesier. Mr. Alderson then stateel, he hail cone through the evi dence in support of the prrnoilile of ilie 11111. except the re. curds of the Indictments, cutler( tones, and jutlgineerst• of the voters of Grampound for corruption. Office copies of the Jerrold* hate heen laid tor their Lortl.hipa' table, hut he use. derslood that that was not cousielered sufficient evidence of them. Mr. Adam, Counsel against the Bill, said be was ready to admit that Inv convictions hail takch pher. The LORD CHANCELLOR 01.1. tiled, that the House could nut receive the adnii.sion of Corto.r I in such a cue. It mielit answer every iturpn.r if 11w record of the convic tion, die. of Sir M. M. Lopes, and one or two othess, were produced, after which their Lordships might lac the ad inissiuo of Counsel that the ushers were similar. The re cords, if properly applied row, might be produced Su-morrow, mid if is wet their Lordships' approbation, Counsel might be called in at four o'clock. Their Lordships threat adjourned at half-past eight o'clock. until to-nsurrow. ----- HOUSE OF COMMONS, THURSDAY, APRIL 1?. The SPEAKER took the Chair a quarter before.fonr o'clock. Mr. P. MOORE presented a Petition from the Vicar, awelawartient and Vestry, of the Pa r ish o f the H o ly Tri nity, lo the City of Coltreasels. eispreesisig their ahem end apprehension at the adminion of the Roman Catholics to political power. Mr. .1. SMITH presented • Petition from a Religious Sect in the City of London, commonly called Separatists, repre sentiag the itaeonveniencies they labour under in coisiequentis of their conscientinu•olijectious to the tilting of oaths ; and prayiag that they may be relieved by some eueetnietti• an. &egoss to those which hive been made in favour or the Moravian , and Quakers. Mr. SHAW presented a similar Petition from Dublin, and Mr. DAWSON one of the same description from Belfast. They were severally ordered to be printed. Lori LOWTHER presented a Petition from the Wool len hlatawfacturers of Keinlal, praying f..r a repeal of the Tax un Foreign iTool.—Onlend to lie ou the table. BOROUGH PATRONAGE. Mr. LA MBTON rose to preseulakietiiwr; connected with the State ut the Represt outwit in that House. It was from the Resident Nost-represeultd Freeholders of the Town of Lyme Regis. it. Durschhire, and stated that the said town was an ancient borusigh by prescription, the franchise hay. lag been exercised by the resident freeholders n nut the 23d of Edward I. clout. to 1777. That about the lastmentinned period the interests of the freeholders were greatly misma naged, and at length a question raised of the right of vot ing was referred to a Committee of the !louse in 1780, and in consequence of the Report of that Committee, the Horse decided that the right of voting lay solely in the Mayor and Burgesses: that the borough. hiss fallen under the sole di rection of a Peer, who, since that period, has constantly directed the 'Oulu of the 31crribers, third, Owls among his own relations, the whole number of the Burgesses nut ex cording thirty, of whom iwu.thirds are -resident, the greater pall of them holding situations tinder Govern. mem, and uul btilig possessed of any property in the bu sough. The slumber of resMent freeholders was shoat one hondred, and they prayed that they might be re,tined to the full enjoyment and e•ereise of the elective franchise which they formes ly possessed. The Petit having been read— Mr. LA NI wt.() N mo oed that it do lie on the table, when ........ . , Mr. IiOIitIOUSF: once and said, with all deference to his Honourable Frictid (the Member for Durham), be did nut think that he hail adopted the right course in simply moving, that this Petition should lie upon the table. If the aitega• toots contained in the Petition could be substantiated, sure:y when they heard it stated that the !Hemline f..r use fluting's of Lyme !legit wire ietunsed, or their return direct ed by a Peer, the House would not, contrary to their oaths, c minify to the I •• and constitution of the laud, and cusiiraty br the sesolutiou which they passed at the commencement of every Session, remain satisfied with ordering tlit• Petition to lie 011 the table like any common Petition, not. ail of directing the case to be inquired nolo. He hoped his Honourable Friend would think better of 11, Sall move lb si it he referred to a Committee. Although he could imagine that reasuiiab!e duubis might he entertained by Gentlemen, as to the expediency or propriety of agreeing to any sweeping plan of Reform, yet he could not cusweire it possible that any dunht could cal-t of the propriety of is. quiring into ■ case wherein ■ charge was made of an inte►- fesence by a Pet r iu the election of Members of that House. It was universally tit kimaledged, at lea s t no attempt lied beeu made to deny it, although every nppro tunny bad studi ously Bern reused of priasitig the allegation, that a majority of tbe Meminu of that Iluiere were teterlied by 120 isidit iduals. This statement was tee' riled iii, the Journals in the Petitimi of he Friends of the Pruple pre.. sited iu 1703. There was ais • at entry all Petit in 1:87 frum Mr. Horne Tooke, in alt rh hi bound It amt.., 'bat the avesage prices of treats in Piirliauteot had beau soceitiiiiiesl by the proceedosgs in a suit in the Court of Clialicely, and that ►eats were as 'unanimity and openly sold as stall• for cattle in a market or a fair. In 1813 it was smiled, and an oiler was made to prove it by the proilnetioil of to.r cuuicil to the will, at tile bar of slur Hain?, limit two seats in Parliament had `eat devised by will by Sir John Johnson. Solely n was high boor that thus spypiwbrtteus should, 10 sonic deg. e at lr..t, be minus , . d flout the charartrr of Pat Winton. They had often In et told when any motion was MAJ.. of Ittforal in that House, not us come glossa and propose fir adoption, wild and weiwuity tlreurivia, but In point out mime pat ticular grievance, to bring furwaid some specific complaint; here lino win stub au nislunce as bad so often been called for. This Petition stated that an individual Peer had interfered iu the *lethal of Members to that House„ by directing the Warn from a particular boroogli for a cumber of years pad. flu should therefore move as an amendment, that instead of being ordered to heliport the table, the Petition be referred to • Ctormitter of Peivilegea. Sir JAMES GRAHAM rose from the Treasury Beach, which occesioned some laughter from the other side. We understood the Hon. flarotiet to sa), that this Petition called slam the Hume to alter the right of voting in the heresegit of Lyme Regis Since he had eat in the lionse the right of voting in that borough had been the subject of. more Mina • lltao goy borough in the kingdom. The right of eters how, however, had been clearly decidO on. With respect to the motto., to ref, r the Petition to a Onnioittee of Privi leges, they could not, be apprehended, proceed to invitee into a Petition which only made a vague charge, without specifying any name*, that Members were returned by Aloe infineuce of a Peer. It was a well.known fact--(e/enr,,kadr, hear,)—indeed he saw I Hun. Members opposite who were well known to be 'laced is the House Peers.— Haar, hear, ktotr.)—lt wig undeniably the ease w Members for close boroilgtes—( Loud cheers from Me Opp *Woe) ; bat this was not a close horough.--(Luatekier)-- He thought it was not a case fur a Committee of Privi leges, and he should oppose the amendment. Mr. HURST supported the amendment. Lord LOWTHER contended, that if the Petition ems. plained of the mode in which the Members were returned it was an election Petition, and ought tat now to be re ceived, according to the rules of the Haim. Mr. LA NT BTON apprehended t h at this Walt no election Petition in any sense whatever; for it did not complans of the return, nor did it complain of the mode in reach the election had been carried on; bet merely stated, that whereas, the right of voting a the Borough had formerly been exercised by all the resident freeholders, of late years it had been restricted to the Burgeiier, who were sery few in number, and that the erases-pence bail been, that a Peer had constantly directed the triton., and it prayed foe a remedy. The Hai. Baronet on the Treasury Beni h had met this allegation by swore, that lie saw opposite to ant Members who were returned by Peen., soil t h at it was well known. Now, to say nothisig of the strange say of justifying one abuse by pointing to another, lie could not help expressing lite surprise that the Hon. Baronet should have been allowed to make use of each language without briar called to order. lie perfectly well remembered Hon Members having loam called to order fur similar state• matte, hut now it app.-seed they excited no sensation, they called forth no retake, but were passed by se facts, the notoriety of which was generally admit teil.—(Flear, hear.) —He certainly felt the weight - of his Hon. Friend's sugges tion; and, although he could not now regularly withdraw his own motion, yet, if that of his Hon. Friend were made at a future stage he should heartily concur in it. Mr. HOBHOUSF. timid, he stood stow corrected. It had escaped him that, ahei the Petition should have been or dered to be laid on the table, be might then make a dialart motion for referring it tie a Committee of Privileges. He wished now to adopt that culotte. The SPEAKER, as we understood, reminded the Hon. Mealier, that having moved an Amendment it must be dis posed ot, unless the House consented to its being withdrawn, Mr. HUSKISSON (who had been reading the Petition, and still held it in his band) rose and said be came into the House after the Petition had been wiesented by the Hun. Member for Durham, which lie understood the Hun. Gent. opposite had moved to leave Welled to a Comrnitte of Pri , riles,. Be had bent looking over the Petition. IMid it did not contain any allegation of any apretfle Morels of privilege.—( ~,,,, hear.)—but it complained of the &ci sme of the House as to the right of voting at elections, which he conceived to be a (portion which could only be brought forward oft an Election Petition, complaining of the remelt, in order to try the question of right. The allusion to the influence of a Peer was only a general complaint, and nut a charge of • specific nature; it was not a case which could be brought under the Grenville Act. He coaceived, therefore, that it was not a subject for a Cana mince, although the Petition might very properly be allow ed to lie on the table, when it would save as a matter of re• fereace on the discussion of the general question, in the same manlier as those Petitions entered on the Journals which had been mentioned by the Hots. Member for West minster. Lord A I.THORP said, the Right Hon. Gentleman had stated that a general ansertiou of the interfere nee of Peer.• in elections was Not a subject for a Committee of Privileges; this, however, was not a general statement of that sort, but it was an allegation of a particular instance of a certain in dividual Peer interfering in the election of Members for particular buroogli. This he conceived to be a direct viola tiara of .the privileges of the House, as mmerted in the Reso lution passed every Session, and he should therefore vote for its bring referred to a Committee of Privileges. Mr. HUSKISSON begged to ettplaiu that the Noble Lord assumed that which the words of the, Petition did not bear. out. It stated that a Peer, by his proprietorship, Mlle...e vi l the return. Now that he dill not conerire to come within the Retaliation of the Howse on the subject of the interfer ence of Peers in elections. The Petition did out charge that the Peer interfered with the election in the sense of the Re solution. (Mr. Lanibton—" It says he directs the return.") It meant by his influence. But he rCil not think the Reso. Intiou of the Ilona* meant to apply to the influence which a Peer might acquire over the voters for any particular place by the possession of properly in the neighbourhood, or by residence ; nor did he know bow such iufluence could at all be prevented. lu order to justify the refereuce to a Com mittee of Privileges, a distinct charge should be made of in terference directly, and not brissiluence. Mr. MONCK said, it had been stated that the Petition did not mention any particular Nobleman, nor allege any parti. titular act of intelf,rence ' • if it had it would have been treated as an election Petition. It, however, the case set forth in the Petition was not one which called for the no lice of the lions', he wits at a loos to conceive what sort of interference by Peers with elections could be deemed worthy of its attention. There wee no remedy for the grievance complained of, but to refer it to a Cummitten. If the House were to pass it over, it would not at all contribute to extend a good opinion of the House out of doors. Mr. C. H. turreniNsorr said, the Right Hon. Gentle. man himself admitted the importance of the cs.r, sod his only difficulty, if he understood' him, seemed to be as to the proper method of ilealiag with it. He aressed as if there were no charge of positive interference with the-elm lion contained iu the Petition ,• hut lie (Mr. C. H.) hell in his laud a memorandum, which he understood to cootalo the express words of the Petition, " shot from 1780, the bo rough had been under the control of 4 Peer, who directed the return." The importance of this ease had certainly Leen much increased by what had fallen from the Hon. Baronet opposite, as to the notoriety of Member; being placed iu I hal House lay Peers. That statement would naturally And its way to the pnblic,aud it (multi um but tend to give coun t to What had been so uft,.o rail out of slows, that the Members of that Hunter were nut the representatives of the people. 11r. J. H. thought the interference charged in the Petition was clearly of that nature to which the Resalu time of the House referred. lie. C. W. WYNN thought the case set forth in the Prti:ion Wilt not tow which the than a roul.l tithe notice of. Ile did out see bow it WII4 purtilAe for site House to (Jusid any I•rorerding un a Petition ninth set out with c. inpleivo log of its derision. There coati be use doubt that by U c lirwduttun passel ever) lemon, the {louse di clared every species of Intel Primer of a Peer to he au infringenteist of ita privileges; but be was at a loss to conceive what power the House had lo puni•lt each ioterf.r, er. Them wag a ease in which euraplaial was made against the Duke of Clow.to*, *bleb was referred to a Comotnittee, but they fouutl that they had no power to prevent or pettish It; sad s miter retak ing their inquiry as far as they could go, they at last ad. journed for f our mon th s . H o le 's the Pseirorse skd a Oft.' bet of the Prity Conseil, or held tta olh?ial situation, or useless the interference were by bribery, ar mums such wry, in which a foundation was laid fur a Wiriest proarcutiou, tires* ass ito power to prevent or to pswisb it. Sir J. NEWPORT said he had read the Pilitit a. and in his opinion it contained nastier cognisable lag the tt..n•e. It Mated that fur a great many yeses a Peer had ilireeted it st return rar the.Bureugh. If the Howse had ma p to. r prevent or to punish such interference, Petra might sto and by degrees acquire the•ptiarer of returning Members for ether places, and lay degrees of ailing by Altair •wis until . nation the greater pail of the seats in the Holm.. And was he to be 'did by his Halsortrable said Learned Friend that although it was tree they uttered a Resolution us their Journals errs y Session declaring it to be a high violation of the privileges of the Fissure, yet, noires the Peer a,. in terfeving was something store, unless kgi was Mips • Privy Collusellor, or held an (Aria 'dualism under the Crewe. tia Mum would do troth* its ft notes' the ease were owl whirls affireded greeted fee wireisitistalpronswrimas fie brawl ur corruption? If that were indeed the env, it was hitt, time the Resolution should he removed from thelourusls L bait lie entertained a very dafferent•opitsiwit s anal be thought this a ease e Inch called for the interferesetuf the House. Mr. C. W. WYNN explained. The House then divided on the (Inertial wind.' stood part of the matiuo. Ayes Noes • Majority aiming! the Amendment 49 The Petit was ordered to lie on the table_ The Martini..id TAVISTOCK pi-emotes' a Petition f.- 4 ,14 certain Landholders in Brawl:chore, complaining of r.r,!t.- coltaral distress.—Referred to the Agricultural Comininte. USURY LAWS. Mr. Sesjeant Osstosv rose to bring forward the ' motion of which he had green notice, 0 , 4 the sel!- ject of laws relating to usury. The lion. eii, o l Learned desitleinain proceeded to slate the W.V.. NI attempts he had made nil this subject, commei.c ing with the ye.r 1816 ; and entered at wen:. length into a stetemelit of the proceethogs or I Ii!! Committee appointed at that time to inquire into the state of the laws, enumerating a long of distinguished individuals alto hail given ev.tkilte e and who all agreed in lopiiiion that the nine), Nee simmered no purp. se whatever, for Mit they might be., and were, ►uccessfully evaded every day. by the practice of increasing the number of lives cis which annuities were secured, nod by the iniessijon of a variety of charges, under various naines'of come. mission, agency, &v. they operated to augment the sums actually paid on money raised by loan. The lion. Member read at length the Resolutions of the Committee, and then proceeded to argue from thew the necessity of the measure be was about to tempo , — lie insisted that the I rinciple of the usury lass was to be traced to the narrowness and ignorance or the feudal system. Up to the time of !leery Vlll. is was not lawful to take any interest whatever on motley lei►. In the tunes of the Tudors, the le gi.l6ololl was so absurd ou this subject, that there Was an Act passed to regulate the baluntxt of the exchanges. After treeing the enactments coo. ce►uiog usury down to the present, and having expatiated on their absurdity and inconvenience, 1;e concludel by moving for leave to bring in a Bill to repeal the Law for regulating the lutenist of Money and Prohibiting Usury. Mr. DAVENPORT said, that the measure of the Finn. Mover would here the worst possible effect oil the country, especially on the class of yennianry. It would drive those who entered into mortgages to the sale of their estates, and would prove altogether pernicious. Sir It. Haunts thought that the Bill would be highly mischievous, especially in eases of mort gages, with► respect to which transactions much confusion would ensue. Ns one would be williiig to lend lies motley out at mortgage at a loser, when he could obtain a higher rate of interest. It would also have a mischievous effect in bargains for annuities, which most, under the existing.regule t one, he publicly rei 4 i aertd ; whereas, if the pro posed Bill went into u law , that destructive moil ruinous system of burrowing and lending on ennui, ties would br left without any check or coal rol whatever. The Bill, if pissed, ought to be enti tled " An Act for the more speedily ruining and alienating the estates of the young Nubility and Gentry uf these realms." _ _ Lord ALTHORP dill not believe that arty evil would arise from the proposed Bell to the lauded or any other interest. He thought that the money market, like all others, should be left free. lie re. Jed the House that the rate of lawful interest had been at one time 8 per cent. No inconve nience arose then—no one borrowed on annuity % be cum the life of the borrower must have been in sured, *hick would have made the rate of interest to be paid amount altogether to II per . cent.; and. yet there was no want of accommodation to borrowers that he had ever understood. His Lord. ship added some remarks in favour of free Nine:- pies in the money, as well as every other market. Mr. PHILLIPS wished to knot why the trans ectioite of the money market should be leve , e.l with regulations any more than the (-atm.), or t; .e hardware, or any other mat ket ? Mr. GORDON I,TOlrAlrli against the prit.cip'e of the 'rhey had heard much of late in treour of first printiph a ; he thoug: t drat they ssould more cautious in adopting them. The cursory sit,st Buffeting to no light degree from the Ileums hierir.i: been induced to recur to fit st principles by altersog the circulating medium. Those priacipktit.we, curtect enough its dewy, but they could only h_ applicable where every nie of the national odes.* - w a equally graulud by then. It was quits hi; l• CIOOS suppose that in a stele Idle that of Ear,- Loal, which had become iu every part of its *Went conpletele erhfieial, first principles could be re sorted to with solely w one or two instruicre, wilde in tall the oth• is the most rigid Indultam writ will suffered to rrmain. Mr. J. I'. GRANT imagined that 11;s Honotuab'e Friend was entirely mistakeo i L his sinamsitteit Lie the reds of odopting too much theory irs one parti cular interest: The money market was ;objected to restrictions, the reseiublauce of which was un known to, and unfelt by any other interest,,.liread ~~~i 1111 Ti” , _=F! M-- , I MI ~Rr r. •