The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-03-03 00:00:00

, . _ • . . . . . - , '• -... -:}„.. ~...-, ,•;.,•::, " C'• .".,- ..• •-•,, . "- '' • - -'. lA' . . 7' • .. .. • • • ._•.. ..,.. C I - - . ~ , . . , 'a 11 ,... - 1t. 04 : . - . . ...irr .-;.;.`t . I. :, 4ira eft I gei d : . 6 I • - =ar. •• • . . .. .„ . _. ts • . "b. , . ,• ' / • 1 )V . ' \._ ). . , I • ; ' I • liL A ! : •, . . - . # . • • .... . --- • , _ ... ~ . _____ . . .. . . • . ii. :p tumift , --- " f A No. 3766. VONDON, TUESDAY, 314TICH 3, 1818. . , . .144:11Th 14M44, " rho Omer "ihr oft* itairpm P . filitl, bad Ihnntsr diod EMI' .. +C• A- . VOTI CE.-11se COM 6111"rEE for Eh. RELIEF .1N of DESTITUTE SEAMEN do hereby give Notice, , That in consequrece of wswerous impositions attempted ie.be practived upon their Funds, by Paupers diseharged from pariah Writhbontes, to poseKsina of legal settlements, they have Re. i volved, that no future .applientien will be attended to under whatever eireasastames they may be prevented. Poultry. 94 March, 1818. J. E. GORDON, Hon. See. Suirsorrpoiens received since the law Publication : At Mewrs. Curtis and C•.'s At Chaseesis nod Co.'s ev. Walter Birch Al 0 Mr. James Langford 41 1 Lieuteuast•Col. Paley, At Grote, PrEscott. nad R. E. 2 2 Co.'s Nisi Dee, anwometreet 2 .1 John and An Williams 1 0 T. C. Hindi, lisq.• 3 3 N. J.. nod J. ?Minus 10 10 At Prised% and Co.'s At fieletilte and Sharpe's. Capt. R. Hue, R. N. 1 1 The End of asidefiwd • Capt. Will. Gilbert Ro- and Warriegtou 21 0 hens It. N. 1 1 CApt, R. D. Oliver, by At 11;16oll and•Stirlinets. R. Briny, Evq. 10 0 Captain W. Ogilvy. R.N. 5 S Coolant A. Dreestwoml. beat. J. Richard Dee- ditto 1 1 yer, R. N. 1 . 1 AI S mith , Payne, sad Co.'s P. a: r .1 0 Jolisiliqpie. Esq. 10 10 jolly Mare` V 444 I 0 E. Tenser. Esq. 10 10 At Sir C. Price and Co.'s Rev. James Venni* 2 2 Reed audit • 10 10 At Flammerileys'aed Co.'s A I -Lined', t . eam. A. H. B. 2 1 Thousma Preston ~ bSE. Y. ' 1 .9 1 At Pl•nologbain. 'tjet blears. Received at 27, in the Poultry. ' 'Moores Makby, mad Co. Lim. Percher, 44 the ldestre,Maltby , sod Bo- Dasher, four weeks biome 5 0 Ssibscript• 1 1 J. and I. Wright and Captain Bradbury, R.N. 1 1 Co. 5 0 The lion. ned Rev. T. Mr. Henry Yoals A : 1 Darnley 2 2 T. Webb Edge V 2 Officers and Mee of the John Mills '1 1 Dunira, 24 Subscrip- Thomas Hind 1 1 teen 2 2 Was.llurnside 1 1 Cap Lain T. Richbell, John Wilgus 1 1 R. N. 2 2 Dr. SHIM' 1 1 Mrs. Harvey Aston 3 3 Mr. Saeund Bead 1 .0 John Million 1 1 At Bath, per Messrs. Tufaell, Mo.. Beale 1 1 and Co. Mesa Evans • 1 1 Lieetenisset-Coluael F.P. At Barclay and Co.'s Thorne 5 0 Lieutenant A. Roberuuo, Mrs. Adosl, Phillip 2 0 R.N. ' 1 1 Mrs. MolsNworth 10,,.6d. TIIRP.E-PIIIZES OF 5C90,000. SWIFT and Co. respectfully remind Om Public that TO.MORKOW It Ind for Ilse DRAWING °Mr. STATE LOTTERY.—The Schnee contains Me following eussual LW 44 CA PI PAL PRIZES, 04.- 3 Prizes of 411,000 Sterling Money 5t90,0110 Sof UM Sterling Money 15,000 10 of l,yot) Sterling Money 10.000 Hof MU Sterling Money 6,000 14 of 4OO Sterling M..ney 5,600 18 of 9OO .Sterling Maury 5,400 40 .if Besides others of £lOO, £5O. £25, iie. tire. 1/11 addition to which, TWELVE PIPES of the best OLD PORT WINE new be obtained by the Porehosers of Tickets .r Shares at tby_4:MA a f Fertemte Offices of SWIFT and Co. 11, Pooltry t 11, gangrenes ; and 31, Aldeate High-Areet. tYTON, Stock-broker, 2, Cornhlll, retains his grateful thanks fur the favours of his Friends, receives' for more than Twenty lents pact, and mist respectfully_ pre teen's thesis with the 'heads lif the Scheme of the New If MeV iLettery, which he flatlets binitelf need only be feels to he ge- Teeratty approved :—There Pre Three Grand Prizes of ,C 30.000 wseh,whkh,with he N Met !per vat ot her Capitals.will be all paid )st Sterling sitoae L4 the Drawl% billet eso Tp.multßqw. Pint Mw Stook, oa rata flat, Ibe retitled tit the imaperslea at Twelve Pipes of Old Port Witre hi esehimge, tier 1,000 years, or longer if aelleired • full 'articular@ of which may be had, gratis, *tit, Cornhill. where every description of business In the Public Funds is faithfully transacted. The dif ferret variations is all the Government Securities, may be oan a; above every hour. THIS EVENING (by Act of Parliament), the Lottery °Mem will be kept ripest until Twelve °TIN* at Night. as she DRAWING BEGINS on TO-MORROW MORNING. The First Prise drawn lOU have .45.0.10 more. Ten Capitols will he drawn in the first ten Minutes. The First-drawn Stank Mill'bute Four'Popes it Port. About Forty Capitals will be drown. About 5,000 Tickets will be trinta TO-MORROW. £l9 ld U Allay itain £1 7 0 may gain X1.875 BISH, the Coorrnetne. who void, In the very lo.t Lottery, TIIR PRIZES OF `).01.0 PI)UN 1)S, Aod various other Capitols, ALL 1 N SHARES, in Thin(' different Towns in the Country. In the last Lottery tient contained There Prizes of £30,000 BISII SOLD TILF,M ALL !! ! V?Ito has now a selection of Numbers in every Thnoiani for l'areknsers to cheese Al.i. THREE 1 3 111ZF.S of £30.1100. la fbb Lottery, at 111Strs, 4, Cornbill. or 9, Charilig-cro.,. _ - _ 1111/ICHARDSON, GOODLUCK, and Co. bating Ks' submited the Scheme of the present LOTTERY in full , Deg ;saw to reistiod their Friends of the principal Points, acid the very near approach of the Drawing—and likewise to state the peculiar Adsamages attending all Purchases made before. TO-MORROW. on which day, All the THREE PRIZ}.IS of THIRTY THOUSAND POUNI)S may be dr:.wo. On that day the First-drawn Prize o ill have ,C 5. 1 301 more, And the first Blank 'ill receive the proportion of TWELVE pi PCS 14 OLP PORT. There tire no Stock Prize=.—No Chums. Nearly . 5.1 00 Tii loots wilt he drawn .4th of Marett. The r e is o a ted n od well-n0..w0 gost f.rtime 'weeding the Friend.; not ca.i.noiers of itIt'OAIIDSON, GOODI.I.'CK. nod Co. tend..r.. it only secestoiry to state, that the business rs conducted no the same honourable oral !Holt,' principles shies I hove disti k oksbed for more thnn Forty Yyars their favourite Offices, in Bank Ilordings, Coruhill; and lacirg the Gate of 'I he King's- mews, Charing - err s-. THE APOLLONICONT. a Grand Musical In. strunierit. invented and minufsietirred by Yews. Flight fund Robust. Orcan Readers, under the immediate pa tronftge of his Royal Highness the Prioce &gest. is ex by its superior mechanical power, at their !turns. I No. 101, St. Martin's-lane, daily, trom twelve o'cl.selt till 5, exeeptirg nn every Wednesday and ii..torday. tso which days Air. PUItK IS, a Processor of Music, performsl on the boorument from the hour' of two to four, Selections from the Works of the dillbtent eralrtent Composers; and on every Timrsdat eveoiog. dories-the Beason, the full ma'am' punnets of the Inurement nee exhibited by, and under the do scene° of. Mr. THOMAS ADAMS, Professor of Me.tc, who (assisted by Ste other Performers, occasionally at the sante time) will ;lay Selection; from the finest Works of the must eminent :indent nod modern Codiposers. A List of the Performances may be had. a day or two pre vious, no apflitation ut the Rontos.—Aduaittnoce daily ls. On Thursdny Evenings the Room: are opened at half-past seat* o'rlork, and the Performance commences at eight.—Ad mblorwe tIL. fsd. blew. Flight and Robson also respertfully beg to acrosaiot the Neoliility and Geniis. that thity hrice an elegant 41 tmetit of Orman destriptioos, completed and ready for sale at their Wareromas. "1 1 0 COUNTI:RAGE the many attempts that IL are daily mode to loopinu on the unwary it apariuss comer,-ition ift.tead of the CCNUIN I'. BLACKING. pre pared by I)AI and MARTIN. the, tint,e adopted a ma Lobel. in Which their arldreer... 97, High Holborn, is so eon *ikflotif4Y plarell lit the tenure, that they trust ita attention to thi., and she tlitr;reeee of the fife, which is unlike all lotter y/es.. will Purehasreo of once to detect the imposition. 'f lie Bra J (*FAA BLACKING, matte and sold Wholesale by. DA y awl mit,p,Tis,Si, High !Laura. ar.d retailed by the princiyal Gt4ctrs, Droggi.is, Hamksellere, Irosamoreere Perfume,, Boot-Inalterr,Ae, in the United Kingdom, ill 00e alal L. till. r. 40. .16. +~~-- ._ 6 DIPIEVAL PARDIAMSNT. I - HOUSE OF LORDS. Mate. 4. At len o'clock. when their Lord hips met for ladielti. - eroding... Mr. Rose, Ike -Creek of Parlismitsts,oppesitstlis... Haase, and was sworn into nesee. He was necommied ilit the Clerk of the Crown, who administered the natb, bast katellog during the ceremony. We &mirrors:Ml Mr. Rote at the same time appointed Mr. Coo per to•sigo she,eceiu,,y Perm clairingloir abem ice; sad that Mr. Carry was alai appoiated as additional Clerk. Olathe Motion of• WWI LAUDERDALE, Ss *moist or .she Renknoe or Great. Britain and Lielosid, from the years' 1811 to lOC disliagolsbing 'be onsohnt for Great Britain mbil for !relabels etsch i tor, was ordered to be laid oo the table. Earl, EiW ROE OR presented a Pentioo from Richard 430.• theme Butt. inspristmad far libel in the King's Bomb Ittitowf complaining that he loot been refuted a urn of HaaepeCotpar. 1 to come op I. the Cain ea plead his moo Oise its actions in which•he was a party. He hod applied. diming the Saspeosiow of she Habeas Corpus Aet, to Lard Sidoo..sth sad the Avow,- General, bat had been refuzed. He had atm slate wea4e appli cation to t h e Goon of:Comisori Pleas where he had vipers wed a similar refold. la oratorios, he- prayed that he might he restored to ibis rights, and to the keaect, Odle Act of Habeas Corpus. • 'CLIMBING BOYS' BILL. Petition. were presented in favour of the Bill foil prohibiting the employment of Climbieg Boys, b the Earl of LAUDERDALE, from certain Master Chitnnersweepers in London and Westminster, antr from the inhabitants of Hackney, Homerton, &c. ; by Lord PRuDIIOR, from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Klogslandi e • Alston, &c. ' • by Lord HOLLAND, from Cletimmeell; and by Earl GROSVENOR, from Ches. ter.—The first Petition from the Master Chimney sweepers stated, that they had introduced theses of machines in their business, and found that they le porseded the necessity of employing boys; that such flues as were most difficult for using machines were precisely those inter which it was most dangerous for Climbing Boys tit enter ; that the practice of swoop ing with machines would never be carried into elect, unless a Bill of the nature of that before their Lord hips' House were passed. Earl GROSVENOR, in presenting the Petition from Chester, made some *Nervations on use' evi- , demo, which, .a we understood, be cousWered per fectly sufficient to warrant the passing of doe; Hill. 1 The Earl of LAUDERDALE said, that he troll ' ed the evidence would be so full end satisfactory, as to tears nothiug to be desired on that point. The more clear and manifest it was made, the more com pletoly would the Public go along with their Lord• ships in passing the Bill. The Bishop of CHESTER had great satisfaction in stating, that he approved its Petition which the Noble Earl had presented from the City with which he was connected. The practice el eeirployiegClimb iog Boys wasfraeght with so much inithtsooky, that he hoped the BIN fotabolishing it would soon be poised into a law. ARRESTS UNDER TEE SUSPENSION O. THE lIA- I ; The Earl of CARNARVON had come to the House with the intention of moving for some Pa. pers, and io particular, for en Account of all Per. tons arrested during the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, and all whose houses were searched on charges of tomultuous or seditious proceedings, with Cooties of the Warrants of arrest and search. It would have beets most convenient for him to have made the motion to.night, in order. shat the account might be procured as speedily as possible ; and he Au! trusted that its prodedlort would not be op posed, as papers of a more extensive nature had al ready been granted. None of his Majesty's Mini cterF were, however, present ) and as he did not know whether the Noble Secretary of State was dis posed to grant this account in the state he wished it, he should postpone his motion until to-morrow. Lord •HOLLAND hoped that the Node and Learned Lord on the lionise& would, by that time, grant his \l•tit of if:theas Corpus to bring up the bo dies of his Majesty 'a Ministers.—(4 laugh.) Ac'jourued. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Accounts werepreototed reverting the East India Docks. A number of Petitions were received from Tamer., Cur. dere, mad Islonsencturem of Leather, in different pinee. Aye wits presenicd Is, Sir F. FLOOD. from the fanners of Foss Korth>. who, at the Lion. Bait. observed, stated their dib ifeffes ip angetving oastiocr. Lord AL OR P ressuted two, from Towcester nod an other place its Sart hapopion.hirc. FS Dlr. BEN NETT presented one from the Tanners of Elles mere. in Salop. Others weir ingsected tints the Tanners of Newcastle-nano- T4stte, Rridps.ri. Fdinbureb, the connotes of Sofillit anal Corn wall, Darlington, h..th shselds, nle- Moors, Ivneaster, tke., all praying for the orpeal of the additional Danes on Loather. They were all ordered to lie on the table. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. Mr. HART DAVIS presented a Petition from certain Inhabitants of Bristol, signed by /0 persons, preying for a Reform in the Representation of the People in the Commons Horse of Parliament. He had received a letter by which be was requested to present it. The postscript to the letter mentioned, that several hundred similar Petitions were in pre paration, and that it was expected them would be a theusanti of them, each signed by 20 persona. these thousand Petitions should arrive, he could only say that he did not think they would eapreu the sense of his tonstituents; those of whom he beat knew had confidence in the wisdom of Parliament, and were enemies to Radial Reform.—Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. PROTHEROE presented another Petition from Bristol, signed by 20 persons, praying that all males of age (ant being insaue or paupers) shoold have the right of voting for Members of Parliament. Ile could not nodert.rke to say bow many of the people of Bristol were of this opinion; but he thought the Petition was short, clear, arid peropi ,cnous sod expressed the Ideas of the Pelltioners.— lie bad Wilma always been • friend toe moderate Parliamentary Reform, but could not be the Oita• mated so great au alteration ea resprayed for.-- Yet be thought it right that the Petitioutts should . • i lute a fair opportunity of expressing their opinions Ito the Rosie.—Ordered to lie ou the table, sotto he printed. Gt4•LIGHTS. 'Mr. JOHN SMITH brosegPit •p the Report en. She Nottingham Gas=lights.—Ordered to lie ea 7ITHE LAWS' AMENDMENT. Mr. CURWEN proposed the second reading et the Bill en Mondey next. Mr. BROUGHAM observed that this Bill was of great itaportanoo• to the country. He hoped there would be no improper delay, end that the 14 reading would be understood dearly as axed fur Marsisf, if that day was appointed. Yet be would ask Ms .lisoti'. 'Friend whether Friday might not suit as ADO? Mr..CURWEN heduo objection to Friday. H wished to meatiest that it was not his ieteution to press the fist part of the Bill. The second reading was then ordered for Friday west. WATER-WORKS. Mr. M. A. TAYLOR. said he most notice a mat ter fairy important to the Public. Unless a remedy was speedily put in prac,tice, he shoeld soon miike a question with respect to the Water-works' Companies, which bed pat themselves into a situation that called for consideratiao in Parliament. The nbjest of his motion would relate to a proper %apply of water in cases of fire. Ha only, at present meant to gi►e a roam! notice. Mr. PHILIPS said, be should make the motiog belied given notice of, eta more general nature. PLNITENTIARV. Accounts of Rules and Regulations of the Mill bank Penitentiary were presented. POLIOE-OPFICERS' REWARDS. Ike. The lion. Mr. BENNETT rose, porsusut to his notice, to bring before the House the subject of the Rewards given to Police:officers. He could have wished that ibis question had been taken up and in trodoced by some legal Gentleman, who by profes sioual knowledge and experience would have been better qualified than himself. However, he had at tended the Committee regularly and attentively, and be knew the general opinion, lie should, therefore, presume to trouble the House by moving for leave to introduce a Bill, by which he hoped theeaisting evils might in • degree be remedied. Reports WI this subject had been a sufficient time in the hands of Members. In moving for leave to bring its a Bill, it was not his intention to take up the time of the House. He should, however, notice a few particu lars. He considered that there could be no greater objection to en existing state of the laws than this-- that they tended to encourage the tealaiwg up of per• toes is the ovontaisaion of crimes by a send, till the offenden arrived at a certain point and degree of guilt. The practice ,prevailed of letting offenders (juvenile ones for instance) roam at large arid com mit iniquities, till their crimes gave a certain Tallesto the seizing of them; indeed till, as it was techtlicalty called, they weighed 401.—(Ileac!]-occurrent.eiff this sort were common. The evidence given to ire Committee was fall of interest and information on this . subject. The law was frequently strained in order to carry convictions. Ile adverted to the evidence of a most respectable Gentleman. M r. Shelton, the Clerk of Arraigns on this point. There wet a practice exer cised in toe Police to employ Counsel to bring the cases against the ,parties as close as possible. The practice at present tended to the discrediting of wit. nesses by Juries, and thereby, perhaps, criminals esca.ped. The idea of receiving what was called blood . ,mooey hung like a stone around the necks of such witnesses as received rewards. - A system of conspiracy which now existed was of no new date. It stimulated persons to the commission of offences. lie adverted to trials which took place in 1780, which would threw some light on the question. .1t had been stated, (hit at least 70 persons bad been tried through such means. There was a case in which a man had been robbed voluntarily ; but the Judge thought, to prove a robWy, force should be proved. Two men engaged in these practices were very speedy handled by the populace; one, he believed, was killed, arid the other diiql afterwards. There were cases ori this subject as tar hack as 1772. He then mentioned the case of Pelham, Bruck, and Power, &E., as proof of a pert of the system. Within a flew days the case of two pedal*, had occurred, which, from representations, had properly led to a suspension of the operation of the criminal laws, atom 1. well-founded sospicion (though not quite so Vein as in the case of Brock, &c.) . But the case of Spicer and Kelly was nearly Winder in the circum stances. From all the information he had been able to collect, it was not too much for him to say, that the syste m had long been going on. and that it con. filmed from day to day, and that its object was to put money into the pockets of the Qffice,s. Ile wished to propose a Bill to repeal this system of re wards. with certain exceptions. He did. not. ftle4ll to abolish Tyburn Tickets, but be did not approve .of the sale of them. lie did not wish to take away the 401. given to the emersion; of persons. killed in the pursuit or apprehension of highwaymen, or other offenders. He mentioned certain Acts, parts ofl . which it was hieehjectte do away. Ile was desirous .ref a clause le authorize Courts of Jestice to assign payments of wooer for the ea peaces of witnesties t i . 4c. iw cases of felony, &c. He wished. to *heel .the Present practice % by giving the Courts a better .power of apportioeing money for eepeects. Be would not, in that sage, troeble the House further ; ,but be most say that this' question of blood-money was repugnant to the feelings of thweouotr7.- It' .was not possible for him. to say whether tit, House ,would agree with his opinions, Or not. if leave was iven to bring in the Bill, then coker opporut Mae.% Frould arise.for.discussiret its principles and troteits,... Therefore he sheik! *content himself with rioting for leati to intrados.. Bill to repeal. end. amend l .0; .•_ . • • • . • - :•.••• • • : `t• . - -trb Is • 1 .." - ; • • • , poets of certain kits 'Meth* Co kis+ itteb to Officer's, 'Oct.. tiers sees given to bill* le ilia rthye N siaß i g r ria .. iii P ty .. B : 44; td o:7o T ß ß7F il . 14 pre l let ti ted ' A a id gli p ti l oif ig fto . l% 001111. t m W en Y t N io N ned m s o b e rn e e d s t m lse ehd th et ir4 tu reed . 1 4% b e! theugl.t Might yet be minie to It. For irieffiniet, to 7ltte clause reipectiog 400"viitits,isi thro 4Fee itia willin'gtoodd, ! that liedeted ietimhiped, o i lhoegh e,et decided, *prevh,ete tw' i t e ttAi d er the iteaeOtli hob e'ef polling, should lie d ttaltajt as ;sett of the poll. Sr C. MOWS Obsorlid, that the • ifteserft 13111 tie Returning °Meer could appoirft hi inlay Constables as be thought neeissary. Ths.. Ctrs power that might be evict for a peiticatar ieffeince; and it seelned desirable that sisch power Obeid il6t be given so as to serve a political vie*. Mr. ALLAN objected to the provisions 'of the Bill, and moved that it be reed a third dine that day six months. Mr. MARRYAT said, the there the Bill *abet* sidered, the more it Would be foetid objectionable. All the amendments which it bad undergone would not satisfy his mind. The part of It Which related to the duration of the poll might do well enough fist County Elections, where there were itllioo voters ; but was unsuitable to Boroughs with a smell Mashie of inters. 11;513111 would have the effect of bring ! log all 11l non-resident voters np on the 'first day the Election. It was not usual to holfig op Hi* non-resident voters till it was knee n that Bute would be a contest. Ile objected to the tra ossferrenee of any part of the Election expences to their eontlti .tuenls. Upon this principle, why not transfer tile whole; cud then, as in America and nine,, vote neat, that they should be paid for their Beset He thought cockades contributed to the support of 'st useful manufactory. The distor'bsores it Elections were not paused by the cockade in the hat, but the liquor in the head,. He should vote for the Amend n ent. Mr. PROTIIEROE objected to the douse of the respecttog cockades; be wished the Bill to ISO to committed, as he sppreved of some parts of it; be should otherwise vute the itimeodinrut. Sir W. BURROUGHS•thooght the clause which pet an sod to the poll at the conclusion of second day, if 400 voters had not polled, was objectionably. A candidate might object to hit Idverser i es votes, and thus pot en aid to the Mettsee eagle; ; tqr there was pot, on the sepposhioe that every eels was objected to, more than 83 seconds allowed le determine on each. The clause ton which altterh._ pesselty of 1001. to any one who gave away a cockade, would give rise to vexatious prosecutions. , Mr. 11AMMERSLEY thought this a selfish Bill on the part of the House of Commons, and he wall sorry to see so little disposition to object to it. The inconvenience that had been alleged as the reason for this Act was, that the Member for Devonshire hid been obliged to stand four days before Ms consti- Assents, by th e opposition of • person who had but few votes. Ile did not think this a hardship to be complained of by a Gentlemen who thereby became the Representative of a populous county for seven years. The longer the Ilonooreble Member stood before his constituents the better for himself, and for then.}--(A taugh.)—He thought this Hill tended by diminishing espouce to introdeceinto the House per sons of less sleight and respectsitility than would otherwise be elected. 11a should .vote for the Amend- Mr. WILBERFORCtio obsprifd, tpat lo bit opinion the clause respecting the prohibition , Oft cockades would not sower the initiation for which at was proposed. The interest of a candidate "se het a feather in the balance when compared with trio general interest; and was only entitled to con' sideration when ideatieed with that of the nation at large. Mr. DOUGLAS submitted that this was not the proper time fur such materiel altemiteiti of the Elec tion Laws. As we are now on the ewe of a General Election, ho thought it would be most advisable ro refer the consideration of the subject for a year or two. Sir JAMES GRAHAM, after a teic observations on different clauses of the Bill, concluded by giving it his support. Mr. LOCKHART said, that the restriction on the use of cockades was highly expedient and neces sary ; they led to acts the most profligate and dan gerous: unless sea:mimed, they would always prove a ready engine of bribery. o.or Election Laws were in • t eurse of amendment 'for 200 years, yet they weft still attended with a great decal of riot, confusion, and espence. lie was rather doubtful as to the general tendency of the Gill iu question. General THORNTON expressed a hope that the Bill would not proceed any further. -. ANi EMBER, hose name we coni.3 not learn, oh. riveted to the Bill. . Mr. PETER. MOORE observed, that the effect of some of the restrictions proposed .by this Bill would be to disfranchise one-third part of his consti tuents. The restriction on the use of cockades with to his opinion, highly inexpedient, as it tended to dis esserage an extensive branch of maucfactore. This slew of the subject had excited a smile in the House; .Mt it was e matter of serious importance to many thou ,eseds of industrious individuals who derived their .support from the manufacture in question. If the Bill were amended, so as to do sway eith these ob. jections..he,eitoold feel it his duty to support it. Mr. WYNN replie d. He thought it the duty of the /Loose to beep a vigilant eye CHI the.. lila, relating to Elections, especially to make.EliTtions io resift, free, amid In prevent candidates (foto ;ries( tesssit - the opposition of adversaries, who had not the least ; .4. * A• . "*.-4t ! I • • • :•) , s! • r 2'4. E wa + ':. t er, 4 1~~ 4 t 'i `,. v. ei . 1:,4 1. j I i~ 1 -gm