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partial and unequal measure. The landholders in the vicinity of lead mines had the benefit of the improvements which they made among them ; they had also in the cheapness of labour a benefit far above the comparative amount of any poor's-rates for which they could be assessed. Ilia objections to the Bill were so conclusive to his own mind, that he felt it his duty to move, as an amendment, that the Bill be read a second time this day toe mouths. Lord MILTON said, the Bill should have his sup. port ; the mines in Cornwall, and other places, were rated for the poor, and he saw no reason why any exception should lie allowed in other place'. The necessary consequence of not passing this Bill would he, that afrangements would be made where the mines were taxed, collusively to abstract property, so as to evade the law as it stood, and elude the as sessment, so as to throw it on the other haul in the vicinity. It had been said, that if this Bill were passed, iron mines must pelt lie assessed—and why ant? For his own part, on his own property lie could see no objection to such an assessment. In the case of the lead mines, they actually, from the imbue of their business, treated the labouring po pulation, which they afterwards threw for support on the adjacent properly. Mr. WANK POWLETT supported the Amendment. If the 1301 were suffered to pass, many of the lead mines would cease to work ; mid then in what state the kW-luring pooulat• he left ? Lord GRA NVII.I.s SofiILUSET expressed his opi nion agniend the 11111. 11r. CuItWEN was in favour of it. It was In vein, Ile .ottil. Its tike that the lead mines were I.llllaria. dm live. If they really were so, the Bill could MI no loam, it would he unproductive. Ole to fount r occasion In. I Colleague (Slr J. Graham) hail hold n clitferi4it opinion on this subject. Ile be lieved that the lead mines, so far from being un productive. made a rack real profit of . 10s. in the pound. Ile certainly would ',prone any exemption iii favour of iron. lie thought that, its well as tither product. ul mines, ought to he taxed like other pro pert) for the poor. if this Bill did not pass into a law the mine's, throughout the country would throw li.eir poor upon the adjacent parishes for support. sir J. Ga.ttisst and Mr. MORRITT explained. 1)11 a division t he numbers For the Amendment 77 Against it. .. Niajority wino the 34 Mr. PETER Ninoßt: rum , in present a P e tition mi , ;iiti.t the Lead Mole roll, from Mr. Eilo4rel nes Trustee of the Duchy Rights of iti e T in WWII iu COrliWilit, He war istwitre of the irregitliotty of offering to present • Petition after a Hie:mule was postponed, be as this Petition con. united, in a very tleai and intelligent summer, a &lull of objections to the Bill, and also oliservii. lions upon a variety of other matter, he thought the ,1111 m orters of the Bill Might wish to see it, for the Darrow of knowing the arguments they should have to get rjJ o f if ever the question were again i taught forward. The SPILARSII, ou looking over the Petition, suggested that it would he irregular to receive it I dler the 1311 to which it referred was hot. Mr. PV.Talt 11110011 E eusiNetited to withdraw the Petition. Mr. Lustitswrom postponed the Committee of Ways and until Monday next. RUIIGIIS IN SCOTLAND. Sir GEOUGV. CLERK postponed until Monday nest the second reading of the Gods in Scotch Burghs Bell. IRISH EXCISE APPOINTMENTS. Mr.WM. PASPIOLL Upon nit understanding with Mr. LUSHISGTOII, withdrew his motion for pawl., relative to the appointment of officers of the Excise in Ireland. lON DON CLERGY BILL. Mr. J. MARTIN iireseitteil it Petition from the lolmsbitstioi of the Pirish of Allhallows against the Loudon Clergy Kill.—Referred to the Committee. ROYAL BURGHS IN SCOTLAND. Mr. Music presented a Petition trinn the lithe -1,110111, o f the Royal Burgh of St. Andreas, in Scotland, praying tor a rrfoi in in the government of that Burgh. It had been said that many of the Pt-ilium* to the same effect Isom Scotland were signed by obscure individuals; this he did not he heve—but moist certainly the present Petition was signed by the most respectable inhabitants of the burgh from which it came. They c. mplained iu strung terms ~ f the hardships, oppression, aii.l lid. hili v to make good defalcatinio., to which they were exposed by the present uncontrolled and irre spoloalile of electing Magistrates. They de precated the Pita that in calling foe a refrains of this music of election they meant to mix up their (loco olio with any other relating to more general plans of reform their object bring solely to have that system altered of which they had themselves so much frown to complain. The Petition was laid or. tire table, and ordered to be printed. CATHOLIC QC r.sTIoN. Sir lIENEE PAKNLI.I. presented a Petition from the Inhabitants of the Parish of St, Audeon. in in favour of the Catholic Claims. The iiihaboahts preferred the plan of petitioning by districts to that of concurring in one general Peti tion. as being that most likely to prevent all mis ciinceptton as to the general ke'lltig of the country on this important subject. Ile concurred in the pinpriety and expediency of petitioning by districts, and trusted that the [louse would at length ere the necessity of doing justice to the feelings of his Ma- J erty',Catholic subjects, cud restoring them to that participation in the pritileges which all their other fellow-subjects enjoyed. The Petition was laid on the table. SIAD-HOUSF.S. Mr. C. W. WYNY postponed, from Monday next to Wednesday the Sch" of May, the Report on the Mail-Rouse Rill. PARISH CLERKS RILL. Mr. MELLISH presented a Petition from the Pa. rich of St. Giles's against the Parish Clerks Bill.— Laid on the table. Re also presented Petitions from the Inhabitants of Paddington, St. Giles's, and St. Gorge, Blooms. bury, against the Poor Settlement Bill, and a Peti tion against the Gas Bill.—Laid on the table. Mr. LusulNGTovi presented papers, %hewing ilia surcharges of the Assessed Taxes. Accounts were ordered of the wei kly istives rd Batik of England notes in circtslation, tip to the 'otest period the same could be made out. Adjouriod till Monday next. !LI FOREIGN INTriLIGENCF. PARIS PAPERS. PARIS, Al'llll, 10. The King trati;acted lut‘iness before Mass with Isis Etreflew y the Minister of the Interior, and softer divine service wills the Minister fur Foreign Affiirs. It appears that the works which are to be exe cuted at the Castle of Saint Cloud will not be ter minated before the Roth ofitine.i In consequence, it is not probable that his Majesty will leave the Thuilleries before that period. The Persian Ambassador left Paris this morning for London. The Italian Papers have remarked, that during 'his residence at Florence, the Emperor of Austria 'occupies' the chamber in which lie was born fifty-ma• years since, on the 12th of February, 176 n. NVlisit 'changes have taken place within this half century ! W 11.45, Aram 11. ( FAtract from a private Letter./ The journals and letters from Rome speak of nothing but the magnificent reception of his je,ty the Emperor of Austria in the capital of the Chri , Min world. I am enabled to add to these accounts some particular circuitottunces,which you might be pleased to learn. The Pope did not permit the Emperor to 'kiss Isis hand, but enthrared him the moment 11114 Monarch was preparing to %hew hits this wink of respect. Ile then conducted his Majesty to the apartmet.ts prepared for him, and remained wills this Prince half an hour. Throe is no political object disguised under this tour of lit. Majesty. It is natural that, being born in Tuscany, lie should wish to see the place of his noisily. The religious homage which the Emperor and Empre►s are resolved to chew to the Head of the Church, will prove to Italy the respect entertained by this great Sovereign for the See of Rome. The Members of the Bonaparte family now in Rome have nut been presented to the Emperor. 'FLANDERS MAIL. FRANKFORT, Arm. 14. The Grand Duke of IVei'oar has signified to all the Courts of Germany the resolution he has taken, that from Easter this year no foreigner shall be allowed to study at the University of Jens,. unless he produces a formal recommendation front his Goveroment. It is in consequence of this that the King of Prussia has recalled all his subjects study ing at Jena. The Dec',ration relative to the Universities, which his Royal nightie:is the Grand Duke of Weimar caused to be presented to the Diet in its 13th sitting, by M. Hendricl:, Minister for the Grand Dural nod Ducal Courts of Saxony, is the only one which has hitherto beeti presented to that assembly on this subject. We learn from certain authority, that what has becn published in several Journals, and is nisei ted in No. 99, of the ..11l1;eprieirie Zirtiirtz of Augsburg, upon the tenons i•f a pit-tended proposition stated to have been made by the ..Nltnister of Ilaio,ver to the Dirt respectiog the Universities, is absolutely false and fictitious, since up to this thiy that Alinis ter has not yet ptesented to the Diet any declara tion Or t oy proposition whatever, either in the Or dinary Sittin s of that Assembly, or to the Confi dential Meetings.- —( Jour. de Frankfurt, April LAUSANNE, APRIL 9. IVe learn from Florence that the Emperor of Austria will visit, on his return, a lout of Switzer land, particularly the Canton of the Chums, where his Majesty will view the new commercial road over the Splugeir. Hence his Majesty will go to lon spruck and Munich. BRUSSEIJI. APRIL I. SECOND CHAMBER OF THE. STATES GENERAL. SITTINGS OF APRIL 15, 16, AND 17. In these S►ttings the subject of discussion wns the important law on the duties of Customs and Excise, which gave rise to one of the most ani mated debates that have yet taken place iii that Assembly, which after an obstinate contest of three days, was closed by the passing of the law, by a majority of 55 votes to 41. ♦IENNA. APRIL 7. Ilis Imperial flightless the Archduke i‘lAximiliati has minuted f his visit to England and behind. The Emperor has resolved to erect an Arch bishopric and four Bishoprics in Dalmatia ; namely, at Zara, Spalntro, Lesins, and Cattaro. It is not yet known whit hof thrse cities will be the Peat of the Archbishopric. Ills Ma jesty has already provided for the endowment of the five Prelates ; that of the Archbishop aid be 12,000 forms. BRUS 4 EI.4, APRIL 19. The Allgemeine Zietung, of April 1.2, cootains an article dated April 8, frOm the Maine, giving au account of • vingular circumstance stated to have taken place at Berlin on the 2d or 3d. The /tame paper, however, in its number of the 13th April, contradicts this report by the followiag paragraph, which it gives under the head of '• Russia." A Jourtral of Stutgard, dated April 12, 0 ; 1— " The news which has been spread at Frankfort on the Maine, rrhitiye to expressionv or discontent staled to have hewn themselves in a city of the North of Germany is not confirmed by late accounts o Frankfurt."--(Nut only the List Hews from but private letters from th;it city to the F.diirirs of fliE BRIT". S ti PRES S. I. )N DON, SATURDAY. APRIL Z 4, ISM THE PRINCE REGENT. The recovery of his Rayilinees the Pauses: REGENT, We are limply) , to say, p►oceeds very fast. The f i llowing favourable Bulletin was issued yes terday l)S Sir 11ATTIIEV/ TIERNEY " The Pliny,- Relent has been enure tree from pain awing the bet 24 ".;.tr.. tit! KIIyRI Highllesa hnd EttrlMlling I. in the night, and his put seems to subside n,ua thviiiir.i!ily. " NI. J. TI ERN IN. rA.iii )))) , otveli I icluck, a. /a. 461 23?' We have received Paris Papers of Toesday last. I They make no further mention of the alleged insult offered to the King of Poussi lio capital by the tumultuous petitioners than to ie- I mark, that the different journals and their private I letters from various parts of Germany site silent on this subject. lit the French Clianitwr of Deputies . on Monday, the discinision - was resumed on the re- maiiiiiig article* of the law relative to the Liberty of the Some amendments of little iturorialice were proposed nod rejected, and the further dircur. s'iusi *us adjourned until the following day. L The Fire per Cents. were 66 F. 63 c. Bann Stock 1,332 f f. A Flm , (lrrs Mail her arrived, with rapers to the .20th. 'Elie Alli;entrine lathing contradict* the 'recount which it lately gave, of ass insult offered to the King of l'ayssi.t, at lkrlisi. The propruitur Allgoneme Zsetun , g, which corn' down to Ilse title April, do not .pe.nk of this occurrence.' (Journal de la Belgique. April i 0 MANIIFISI, Arm!. 9. The public mid the magistrates air still rogaged with the consequences that will probably 'coat from the death of Kotzebue. Sandi has hero better for a few days peat, but his wound 'satin considered as mortal ; many persons, however, think that he may be sufficiently recovered fir • time to appear before our Criminal Court : the inquiry carrying on ut this moment is kept secret, and nobody can learn the !cot particular of it ; a most active cor respondence is said to he going on between our Court and that of Saxe-Weimar, respecting Smolt, and that they communicate to each °dirr all the information which they can obtain. Important rli.- coveries relative to this ofl'air are said to have been made by the Government of S a xe-NVeimar. HAMM:Rif:II, APRIL 7. A general subject of couvri-anon in this city is a fact which merits the attention of the Magistrates, and is very important under tier present circum stances. The proprietor of the " German (Mserrcr," %%Inch is published here twice a week, has just re . covert un anoisi mons letter, threatening him with the fate of Kotzebue, if he dares to publish any thing offensive to the students in general. What reflections are excited by this particular fact, if it is tree ! Let us helm that the youth of our Univer sities will endeavour to do away by their cond.ict such distressing impressions.—fßrasrels Papers, April .20. CERMAN PAPC•.a. VIFNNA. AP1111..11). On the C I of this month, about a quarter before nine in the evening, a fire hrnke nut in the town of lietskentel, in Ilunga►y, which lasted the whole night. The wind Mooing a storm, lioo houses, the Catholic parish church, the church of the Franci , cans, and the barracks occupied by the cuirassier regiment of Lorraine, were a prey to the flames, which spread with incredible rapidity. SuaLIN, APRIL 6. Respecting the pestilential disorder said to have broken out at Reichenburg, and the great ravages carved by it, we find from subsequent inquiries, instituted by the Magistrates in Silesia, that these first accounts were tot merely exaggerated, but wholly unfounded. It shoti!,l seem indeed that there is a disease at Reieheiihurg which was sup posed to be epidemical, but there were no symptoms or traces whatever of tl•e plug or?, and the story of the importation of the Smyrna cotton is a mere fiction. BADEN, APRIL R. Since saute eiretsuistances have been discovered which induce a belief thst Kotzebue's murderer did not act quite as an insulated criminal, but that he really was a member of a secret society, a Special Committee has been appointed to examine this affair, which proceeds with all possible care. Satoh has been conveyed to the Douse of Correction, his health declines, and it seeinshe will probably die of consumption : he ha• tint yet given any information. A few days ago his brother came to 51aisheim. An unfounded report says that an attempt was mule at Dresden to assassinate M. Stourdri, hut that the Student, when lie saw that he could tint execute his horrid purpose, killed himself. MIJWICII, APRIL 8. 'roe Chamber of Depnties has voted on the motion of M. Reliii—it bus decided unanimosisly that the laws respecting duelling should be revised, and that a law to prevent this abuse should be pre- seuttil to the Ast , embly. It rejecttql by a mojortty the propo.:11 of ertablirhing Courts of Ilooottr. (Allgeureirte Zietung to April 14.) - • - YB ` I I \ ) 4 German ()beers:et. lea' received a letter, Ithe any . rrmanent interest in lands, the :view. 4 e;litorg him with the fate keenest:co I tursl wealth of Ireland rapidly increased—a spring was given to the energies of her people. The preleible stregestions of the Bank Corn- l The law took away the worst chains of the pea miller% with regard to the time for resuming cash r rent, and 'deiced the plough-share in his hand, giv psystieuts on the part of the Ralik of England, still low him, wt the lime time, an assurance that the Heim! food for c o n j e ct ure s. Every shy presents reward. of his industry should no longer lie mei z -,1 some new and contradictory fancies on this subject ; ou by an informer, but should descend and he pen and yet, although this circumstance should teach the tressed by his children. The consequences exceedol public that those who give currency to t h ew various the hest hopes of the Patriot ; under many pose • suppositions must be utterly ignorant of every thing . Ilona—under heavy tithes—under many resinalieli o . 1 that pa , ses in either Committee, strange to say. disqualifications, the people set their hearts on oo person. will he found to give full credit to each of dustry, and they turued the wilderness of helmet them as it enters on the little course of its Wit- I into a garden. metal rxistetice. It would be tennis task to wider- I A long war tended greatly to encourage th. ve t o teke the examination of the rumour, of any single I cultural interests of Ireland : the farmer 1011114 t 4 day, Iseeame they are sure of being driven from (pick sale and a high price for the produce of the the stage on the following morning by some land, sod all the energies of the people were ere. newer favourites. It is also generally believed that played in its cultivation. Of course, living. he. the Report of the Committee appointed by the came valuable as agriculture increased. It would Muse of Couture'ss will be presented nit lleoday not, perhaps, he an extravagant supposition to as. slime, that the tithes of a parish at the prsent day or l'uesday, corisripiently all surmise must soon he terminated, and we would prefer to argue a prin. i bring ten tunes a larger sum than the tithes of a ciple connected with the currency of the country parish lootight immediately after the Act of Agist. with reference to the actual suggestions of the Com- t eem ; yet, notwithstanding the great increase of mitten, than to the 100011.0 l suppositions of any psi- agriculture, amid she coneerinent increase of chord. vets iiiitiveltial, however respectable. With revert, revenue, it will he !...real that the onions of perishes however, to a statement made by a Morniug Palter have increased in latter times far beyond any torie. r of testerday, homely, that the Committee bad re- period. Thus (we speak from the statement of ',silver] to recommend "That the. Rink should open Sir JOHN NEWPORT). from the year 1718 I. the for 1153 went, in specie on the Ist of January next, at year 1780, a period of 02 years, they amounted to the rate of 811. per ounce for standard gold, and 37; for the 20 years following they amounted to :25. that this rate should gradually he lowered in the and within the last IA years there has been an in next two years to the Mint price of 775." we can- I crease of :14 unions—some of these Ullloll* Colitilll. lint avoid expressing our firm conviction, that no i ing 10 and 12 parishes, covering whole districts of Minister of England, or Committee of either the coo tory for a space of 20 Irish miles in length Rouse of Parliament, could be so very 'nowise, not i and 12 iii beadtle to use a harsher expression, oi to advise a procedure 1 The effect' of this system are obvious. It is so maurfestly unjust. It would be difficult to 1 clear that no Clergyman can attend to the spiritual imagine what advantage could be expected to result I wants of his parishioners, covering as they (LI so front the resumption of payments in specie, in the great a spare of cotiiitry—it is 'ever that it is not manner [leeks described. which did not previously for the purposes of religion, but for tb. 'imposes exist iii a paper currency. We at present complain tof avarice, of pride, and of luxury, that those that the circulating medium is deteriorated in the;l 'stenos have taken place. Odious must that sp.- exact proportion of the difference between the Mint i tern appear in the sight of God, and shameful in and the market prices of gold ; that is, between the sight of man, which deprives the people of re. 4/. 14. an ounce, at which gold is now quoted, and I ligious instruction, of the example of a moral re -31. 17.. 101 d. aim nonce, at which rate it has been , eidetic Clergy, merely to contribute to the avarice issued from the Mint. Now, by putting gold at t of some rich, proud, and luxurious priest ; whilst 4!. I'. in the pace of the paper, which hears i the humble. the teemed, the modest and pious precisely the same value, we obtain no other l Clergyman—the true Minister of Christ—die true possible result than that of keepiiig the cur- i guardian of religion, oppressed with a heavy ri rency of the cou n try depreciated. with the diorite I mily, but ignorant of the arts of servility and of vantage of substituting an expensive, i n the place i falsehood, which too often recommend the wi rd a cheap medium for transferring property.: worthy to power, pines in want in a country allele Piper toast he admitted to be a fir better circulet- ; the revenues of his church are beyond belief, and iimg medium than gold, provided it is convertible !. almost beyond computation. into gold at the trill of the holder ; but this proviso 1 We submit to those who affect to feel so much is not added for the purpose of gratifying the eyes i alarm at (ee trust) the opproaching liberties of the of the holder of paper with the occasional sight of ! Catholics, that the church is much more likely to onel, us if that were in itself a good, but beceroe be endangered by the system of urricirs, and by this convertibility affords the readiest assurance to 1 the nos-residence of the clergy, than by the zu;- the country that the channel of the general cure I mission a the Catholics to the honours, the hie, relic) , is not varied at the cap rice of individuals, *legs, arid the bberties of the Constitution of their and coneequeritly that the standard of salts will I cootttre• 1 To the perusal of such men we recommend remain free filen sudden fluctuations. the statement of Sir _JOHN NEWPORT-we ft. commend them to consider the letter of Colonel BAGWELL. OR that extraordinary document we have not room to observe; but indeed observation is unnecessary—it explains itself, and carries with it a melancholy interest. We are glad too that Sir JOHN NEWPORT, with becoming candour, hes mentioned names. In legislative proceedings there should be as little diaguise as possible; every thing should be open, candid, and free ; and now the Lord Bishop of KILDARE has all opportunity of answering a charge, coming from no ordinary q ui, ua w rt e er b , e a li n e t e l e of , a n d o et o e r r d m in u a ie ry d e k n i e nd u; t i o l t Hl he L l o ibe rds rt h i i e l s ' of his Catholic countrymen. This certainly isnot very peculiar in a Bishop ; but we submit to him, that, besides the oppression of the Catholics, there may be other means found of guarding the Pro testant church : such, for instance, as not altowir.: a favourite three appointments its his diocese— i not perunttieg two entire parishes, after stilocribil e a large sum for a church, to be kept witlerut any place of religious worship for a number of years—ia not permitting clergymen to absent themselves alto. er power, the purity, and the secu rit y of the Pones agebtuhs: from wo u itdheti tend t a nt church of Ireland, es the oppression of the n p d ari a sheli sn . suc T h he to Pre t v h e e nti g on lo o ry f,ll.t.l7e millions of the people. We cannot conclude this article without noticing. in terms of warm and siucere applause, the comb' , t of Sir JOHN NewpoßT. To his indefatigable lio duatry—to his active zeal—to Ins knowledge, hi, abilities, and his integrity, Ireland is largely el. debterl : always present iii the debate--server ab sent on the division—always at the side of Oppos. lion, when they are righ t, y et never agoiiist t '" Minister, but when he is wrong—independent, on! • Out tUrblitellet., and zetilons, without ostenratioe--. advanced in life, yet still retainin g the ardour' ' youth, which is elways kindled where the inteorso of has country are concerned, he brings below to the best portrait of 1111111011.01, tifieleilt, and you' ' tutionel Member of Parliament. • of The Funds rather declined yesterday until one o'clock : but they then took a larnurable turn, and rose per cent. No specific cause waa as signed. The fluctuations in the mousy market seem to be the effect of some secret and mysterious management and combination. The proceedings in the House of Commons on Sir Jolts NLWPORT'S motion relative to the state of the. Established Church iii Ireland, will be read with a deep and anxious interest by every man who regards its preservation. From the statement made by the Right Hon. Roma. t, it appears that the union of parishes in that country has of late years considerably increased. One fact, indeed, which Sir N EsvociaT stated, pretty clearly shews :lie scanda lons extent to which this abuse has been carried. One of.these unions contained not less than ten exten sive parishes, hut the pious incumbent, feeling, no doubt, that he could cure the souls of another parish quite as well as lie did those of the ten he already possessed, modestly insisted that another parish should be added to the union, lie was, pei haps. a Mall Of 44 good interest in the church." But a difficulty presented itself . ; there was then no parish to be disposed of in Me county ; but the li.llllldaries of n county were 110 t to limit his pious 'idioms, and a parish situated in another county was added to the ten that was already blessed with the care of this Reverend Gentleman. The system of unions cannot be justified on any ground—it is a most shameful and scandalous prac tice—yet we fear that Sir JOHN NEWPORT, and Mr. GRANT, who seconded his motion, will be charged with the crime of innovation. The system is an ancient system !—it is so—it fol lowed as a necessary consequence the Act of Agist ment, which having relieved the demesnes of the rich from the payment of tithe, wisely and hu manely visited with the exclu►ive Lurrtett of that tax site tillage of the industrious poor. Tillage was then in o low state in Ireland—the tithe of a pati-h was found insufficient for the maintenance of the clergyman, and hence the cause mid the ne cessity of a union of parishes. But this cause no longer exists, and has not existed for a great num ber of years. Since the repeal of that part of the Code which pit:stilted Catholics from hav- The town of itoscrea WWI most brilliantly ithimi natrd on Tuesday evening last, to test 4 thepy ef its inhabitants on the return to Colville of ihe Honourable FRANCIS A I.DROROVGH PRlTTlkoitter being (contrary to all precedent in the county PI Tipperary) elected nfourils time to serve in the im perial Parliament. ~~ k / . It, . r• IL. I. i~ 'I