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, r , , , , , li , ; , .1f) .t: , ~ 1 ) I • « kern from she Hon. Gentleman opposite (rlie Starter, t o the T y) whether Ministers bad any intention of pre 'Wing a legislative remedy. Mr. 1.1.3111X07071 said, that tihs DIN beeped ig b e r me with that view, had been objected to by Members, 5,,,0 with drawn. If the worthy Alderman eautil devise one better adapted to the object, be should love no objecti o , a sa p. fort It. INSOLVENT DEBTORS.. WORTLLY presented a Petition froW a the i n k a bi„ tants of Leees,apiast the renewal of the lascri„„t D e bt or s' Art. The MINN Member presented 3 similar redwo o d Dam the Mar ofactarers of Barasley —Reed, and laid „ a / h a t a w So F. BIRD MT presented a Petition from t h e pg efe ha a s„ nod Traders of the parish of St. AMU'. West m i n o r' , of tht ' line i m po r t—Read, and refry red to the Co , ,nmittee on th e Insolvent Debtor. ' Acts, and ordered to be , i w i n i e d. Petitions were presented from the tonal, o f Bi rm i ng ham and Exeter, for the niodifleatioa of the li neo p ren t Debtors' Att.—Read, and laid u:o the table. CRIMINAL LAW. Mr. A BIiIICROVISV presented a Petition from Spalding, to LlllCOltibbbr for the revision of l'„ e c r i m i na l Lew. SCOTCH BU liGns, I)" the °° lr tel OO ° of *A. 'lletwonsts, the motion of Lord A. Iltwidal4 (P oe reform of the Scotch Barb System, wan :to the let of April. 1 7 .1CREQUER WRITS. A l ireiinau, W•ITZMAN rigid he had a Petition to ',resent from a person of the name of William AVherlev. The Petitioner was an individual, but he complained of a pultlic grievance, and a politic grievance of AS much 'lordship at any ever brought before that Moist.. The Petit' stated, that the Petitioner, who had been a little shopkeeper, hap penerito sell three casks of Spanish juice (in in gredient sometimes used in brewing) to a most mimed Ward. The sole WWI on credit. at tor) months. On the expiration of the time tit.- P,ai tioner tlennititled his motley. \Void told him lie wet owed a considerable suns of intmey by a Mr. ;rat, a gentleman who kept a large brewery, soul that if he went to his counting-house he sl tel he paid. Hr writ, but w a not paid. l'welve smooths after a writ woo issued ag.iinst hum from the Exchequer. Ward, who turned out to be a common informer, having lodged ao inforinotion hint its that Court, for dealing in articles prohibited by law, penalties 111111 Iteyn imposed nn him to the Hlllolllll of 44.450/. eillitely without hi. k nnwletigo. The only evidence Idirtt was that of Word, the informer, and the only (Melte,- Coat of !loving sold the titre:. casks of 5 1 14.. jmer ; so that before letting the miller tto to tl ie Attorney-General thought ',roper to eminent to a compromise, on the 11111111 . 4 11111. q.; 'nr poor ituot was notable to pay tateit that sum —all lit , wol+ were seized and sold, and the were considerably short of it, being only sO/. Ile hail a wife and seven ; and deprived of every thing, his lasittlord, t Woos It mere compassion, repurchased steep cf his t aints at the auction for ti's use. 'Guise svtir seized tilinft again—hut still there via , a de bt it lacy. Tlw Petitioner tittered to pay 401. aa a onoproolni.e. It was refused, at t.! 601. were teqiiir e.l. II- could not pay it. and was In consequence reht to prison in pi , centher hest, where he lay at I.ta.s-iit. tie thrr, lore, the Ilnn. Grid truss pro thou.:lit proper to send hi, case io blel,l. OA pray such relief as it in its wisdom might deem fitting ; and lie hoped tfe House wottial take his c lition Coo consideratiosi. He was sorry the other night. wilco a question of the t+4:111- a ,-,•etivtion hod beets hebuv the linu.e, that the tllesoc ellor of the Exchequer did iitit conselit to it g ette-al into the consequelices of Exelie got r Is and as antis general infinity kid nut lieen advisable, lie shisold, niter the piestiit Petitian was disposed of, take the opportunity of nudnog or giving notice of a motion for I .4) isig be fore the 1 - louse alt tievoUnt aril expenses incurred, sontl peitaltitio intim-ell iu the rarer - Winn or Wil liam Wheeler, by the Court of the retript of Ea ele quer. The Petition was then read, laid on the table, and ordered to he printed. Alderistaii W 4111151 AM (Ilea g..ve notice of Isis RiOtton tar Toubday next. 110t'SEIIOLD Hit L. Lora C AST LEREAGH moved, that the Report on this dill be few', Toe Report was sccorilingly read, anti several ' IMIMH;McnIi agreed to. Lord FOLK-TON E rose to object altogetlwr to the e t e eese a ll o wing 10,000 L * year to his Royal High ness the Duke id York. It was, he said, argued, that 10.00t.1. 3 year ought to he gtanted to the Duke, be cause ed sinitlar stint was given to her late Majesty. lii the debate, he recollected it we. stated that this sum was showed to her Majesty. for her expenses in the journies she was obliged to take, and for the expenses of a town establishment to hold her Coml. Such was the statement of Mr. Perceval— such to was the I.etiguage of the Bill. The clause in the present Bill steles. that thud sum of 10,000/. year son. oven to the Duke of York, to remunerate him f.r the a d ditional expense attending the office of costa. Ile thought it was impossihle to sutler this chose to remain in its present form, because it iiiiphitl a great falsehood. What, he would ask, were the expenses attendant on the office ? Nothing. Whot new establishments were to be formed ? None —he knew of no expense, unless, indeed, the ex pense or post-horses from London to IVindsor ; • consideration so very inferior, that he did not think hia Royal Highness would condescend to take any reniuneration for it. If he was to be told that this was a new office, and that it was impossible to create an office without attaching a Wary to it, he would say in reply,that such au argument would be most disgraceful to those who would use it. This was the first opportunity he had of address. lug the I louse on the subject, and he would declare it as his opinion, that the Duke of York was Dot the printer person to have the custody of the King. Old, infirm, and afflicted as his Majesty was, he should he under the immediate care of a person residing at Windsor. Whether that pers,:4B he a Royal Duke, was not so much • consideration. He recollected it was urged in the House that her Majesty residing at Windsor was a strong retro.. inetidation that she should be intrusted with the person of the King. Two of the Princesses Ly r a a t Windsor ; their property was within • stitne's throw of his Maje s ty' s Palace, and it would, its his opinion, be iss6eitely 'Netter to Litre the person of his Majesty intrusted to them. Ills Royal Highness might sit as deist of the Caused, there could not be selected • Men Pillar Mum ; bat whatever tbs House might • • 07 . 1' ": lie Impel on the ttlta r p oint ttlhiailtiiit°nbayibisivolutildieCagt'ree with him, that his Royal Hisksiest was not entitled to this sum of 10,0601. It year. Upon no ground of truth or of consist ency caw the clause stand in its present state, be cause it implies a palpable falsehood. On this ground, therefore, mid feeling for the character of the. House, and the dignity of the Sovereign, lie would move, That the clause. allowing 10,000/. • year to his Royal Highness the Duke of York, should be left out of the Bill. Mr. LyrrEt.Tom sail, he was not surprised at the reception the observations of his Honourable Faired met with. Whether these observations acre worthy of an answer the country would judge. Ile, too, would object to the clause—it was, in his oFinion, peculiarly scandalous; it granted away the public 'stomp under false pretences; and he would not du his duly to an anjoreal country if lie did Old take eta opportunity to, resist and to condemn it, ferling,, as he did, that it was now more Union ever the sacred mot the solemn duty l'r public men to husband the pnblic resources, and to I m pose every wanton and ittswortliy grant of the public money. What ever might be said on this subject, it could slot 1w denied dist this was a pet - cowl question, and it was therefore a painfull one—lint it did ilia fallow, that becauw a inember of the Royal Family was in I question, there should therefore be no r;•sistalice mode ; if arguments were target!, if disagreeable truths were proclaimed, the bolt rested at the door of that Miiiister whose duty it was to keep the Royal Family out of sight when grants were made of the public money. l'lte Royal Family newer should appear before the people or the Pat lament but iii a gracious light—but the Minister of the Pi ince Regent brought them forward on inaily occasions, and on all occasions to great disadvantage. In a recent and memorable in stance, lie pressed forward claims winch coin mon decency should not permit. The House indigo:lndy rejected his proposal—and never was there a vole snore in unison with the public feeling —never was there a vote more gratifying to their constituents. The Duke of York had heretofore escaped the contest—he was, he believed, the only one of the Royal Princes that was not brought wend in ally unfavourable view. How essential it was that his name should be kept out of view, it was not necessary to borers upot, the House — lie was, as it were, within a step of the Crown, and he might add, without flattery to his Royal nighties!, that his character stood in a fairer bold before the country than that of any other of the Royal Princes. Ile agreed entirely with his Noble Friend, that the Duke of York was br o ught b e fore the c o u n try in the most ungracious way. This claim was in fact a claim made under false pretences. It lied been said, indeed, that this sum was necessary for the dignity of the office. In his opinion the office was inure tarnished than dignified by the grant. It threw an ungracious suspicion, that it was not so much for the set vier, but for the salary, that the office Was created. If this was the case no w, how much inure strongly would the ol r jection apply in alter times, when bail precedents would recom mend bad practices, id tempting salaries would be given for the offi T of credos to a king.— Wills respect to the suppo-ed rxuenses of the office, the arguments of its Noble Friend On this head were so pointed, so clear, and so conclusive, that it was siot necessary for liiin to say one word titan, it. Indeed it was clear that this was a grant made under fake pretences; the truth bad not been told. The question was, whether his Royal High tiers ass in embnilaswil circitinstatices ? The fact was notorious ; mid the fact, in his opinion, only aggravated the conduct of Ministers. Towards his Royal Highness much respect was due; and had he cilme down to the House and said lie wanted a 10,0001. a year, that his circimisiaiwes re paired it, such conduct would he attended with this advantage to his Royal flightless that•it would mark the frank and candid nature of his character ; and to die country it would be attended. with ad vantage also, because such a grant would not have been made unless a system of retrenchment was established, and a better system in the affairs of his Royal Highness pursued in (mitre; but, at present, if Parliament grant this 10,0001. a year, they had no security that one shilling of retrenchment would have been made. — From the state of his Royal Highness's affairs, it was certain he would, sootier or later, be obliged to come down to the House for aid ; he put it to those who were called his frietids, whether such an application would not be mole graciously made, and would not be better received, if the pre sent sum had not been applied for in the instiller Ministers pursued. It was important to the inte rests of his Royal Hig h nes s—those solid interests which are founded upon honour, probity, mid fame— to consider under what circumstances this mum was asked—to consider the feelings of the country upon it. He should take thew things to heart—lsis advise,. should consider not merely his temporary interests, but his lasting honour, or rather, he 'Mould say, what was due to his houour—he should adopt a system of economy, and reflect upon olio, that the longer that was delayed, the greater would he the difficulty of facing his embarnissments. The grants already giveu—the great emoluments of his offices —these things were not lost sight of by a people over whom he would shortly reign, for aught he knew. Before he sat down, he would touch on an other topic. There was a great accumulation of the Privy Purse, but the House were not called on to appropriate part of this sum to meet the in tended grant ; that was opposed—and by whom was it opposed ?—by the persons who asked the grant. The savings of the Privy Purse would go to the Prince Regent, and next to the Duke of York ; yet it was said that this grout of 10,0001. a year to be allowed to his Royal Highness .for the core of his father's person, should not be grouted out of this fund, but should be taken out of the pockets of the people. These proceedings were unwise—it was proceeding under false pretences—it robbed the Crow(' of its popularity, and the people of their money—it was disreputable to the Crawl.. Mi nisters exposed the Crown to the suspicion of ins• fair dealing—a suspicion which was as injurious to Royalty as it was distressing to the feelings of the people. A Right Hou. Gentleman on this other side of the House (Mr. Peel) had dilated on • former night, with singular eloquence on the preamble or a former Act of Parliamant—such sub. Jetts might suit the vie* of young and ambitions mu. 'they might do this and inure...tbey might in an enlightened age appear the champions of antiqnated bigotry, and still resist the tinasici potion of four or five millions of men—lrish men—mere Irishmen, it was true—hut mess whose virtues deserve a better fate than that of slavery. It might suit the Right Honourable Gentle man to tilkt Weil views—hut it would ill become those wills whom he (Mr. Lyn..lton) acted to sanc tion them. It was, he said, still in their power to retrace their steps—it was still in their power to redeem their character. He hoped the House would reconsider what was done, and regulate this grant to the Mike of York, for if it were granted at all, it was clear that it ought not be granted in the manner proposed. After • few observations from Mr. PitOTUEROK, Which were indistinctly heard in the gallery, the gsllery was cleared, and a division took place— For the A mroilment for leaving out the Clause 97 Against it a ." terms, a lan pasend the Section before Let, which he deacribed as n night law, and, wiihowt Trolling to cast any reflections on Parliament, he considered a disgreereful law. Mr. (;nee.. (of Norfolk) condemned Game Laws as whew.. oppressive. and tyrannical, opposed Mike to the dictates of British justice and of British feeling. He recollected thirty-veer', years ago a motto!' made in that House to give power to take up persona found in plantations; that motion was withdraavo, because three dirtinguished lawyers (two of them were Mr. Dunning and Mr. Leigh) lend given their opinion against the principle of It. He never could he persuaded that a man lead not as much right to game as to any other part of his property. Ile said that these laws were ',reig nited with mischief-float they nurtured the most ferocious pensions mid the most odious prejudices. Ile *aid that in the lest year a wretched woman ---- was shot in the leg, in a cruel manner, in the county of Norfolk : she was shot its a plantation, and Majority for Ministers bf when the gamekeeper came up viol Aimed leer dea lt was then moved that the Bill be engrossed . mutely wounded, lie coolly observed, that she when I had no reason to complain. the was only shut in M E , WYNN said, the language of the Bill was the leg, but had she gone n little farther into the at variance wills the fact. The Bill grumbled the o stern of In omit for expenses, but the expesmes o ft , plantation, she would leave , beets killed. Thi s un sure woman had thwr children, of *limn she was the of fi ce could not amount to any sum ne ar what their ratite spumoni, and the mow.ivotte, who was was granted, if indeed they amounted to any at all. The Hon. Geitillenum thee, referred to the quid that these things could not be •Illonitied to- Act made on the appointment of her late Majesty every bummer end tionouralde ferlim , called on them to the office, and marked the difference beta eels to act. II was Li itlisig with the question to talk of her case and the present. private indulgeisce, and ilw ettiownsenta of country. Lord CASTLEREAGH considered the grant as per. . entlemeo. lie was , 9 110 t iti•ensildr to the pleamres Gaily unexceptionable-with two individuals au of the country, lent he never %%mphd pest them in diffetent as the ()aerie and the Duke of York, competition with the. murals and bappinera of the winds were (laced. to meet the paoticular pinto of peende ; before these every Onto sieoulil he 'aril the caw-bat the, fact still remains. Iler Alai-sty tired-before these; periali early selfish and landed received the uelditional groat in consequence of the gnoiti " tion. office, so would the Duke of Yolk. 111r.1 - 1 1 ANK ES spoke at considerable length against The Bill was then ordered t o be en g rossed, mid the 611. to be read the third time on Monday next. Nit.. Logo AVEI.II.FSI.CY explained. BOROUGH OF TAVISTOCK. Colonel Wooer said, the Ilme. Gentleman (14r. Lord Jolla RUSSELL atoned a new writ for the (tttilikes) mistindst.intAl the nceilidet which Itsppetied Borough of Tuvistock, iii the room of 11-0" 1 Wifi• to a woman in some eover its Nor folk•- ( 4 Inligh..) Russell, who hue accepted the offii- of Steward to -lb colisidered that those thing, were occasioned the Chiltern flondrecla.-Orden it I by the odious fetiiiiiga which ihr•e o di ous l a w s NorrINGHAM ELECTION cherished, Mils respect to the sale of game, At thesteggestiole of M r . W ool s, pouchera, he said, had always their market secured Mr. Strieetit CopEEy po,tiomrd Me motion fir I before they went nut to kill the game; but he was laying •Ipelore the dlisme ill- Nlitiestes take ':i b-lure convinced that if et legal Old:Let were open, no the Nottingham Elect .ia) C om iaittee, 1 respectable poulterer would deal with them. lie be- GAME WAS hewed that body of inen were much iniarepreseeited. Ou the Order of the Day ii , :n read for the Olt thi• stiblect lie had communications with them. second reading of the Game Law . r l•r a Member , and lie believed them to be a respectable body oh' whose name we could not learn, n, ,il, a variety of i men. They %erre reedy to undertake, that, if a oloet vanities iu favour of the Bill. Ile , said, no I legal itiarket were opened, they wo u l I slot deal species of property was *o touch est:torte to depre- I with those who obtained game by froolulent and (tattoos ns iv orens ; it was remarkatile, that people I in ett il means . It had been stated that the Bill in the neighbourhood of warrens were most remark- I would reduce the number of resident country Gen able for vtee soil itutnurdbrY• 'Flue yo un g w e re t ti,toeo : ilthe objection terse true, he acknowledged Seduced by the old-the whole si stein of society i t would. was rioters-atiil those evil*, lie thought, spimig to t h e be foal to the Bull-it woutd he fat a l also character of the gent.;', for what kind of from the pernic'ous nature of the G one Laws. gentry w ould they he w ho would leave 'heir cowl- Si r Jonn Suer tinsf *aid he hoped the Legislature tr y if deprived ut it monopoly in wild fowl ? And would act praetical we re the Game 11,3w5, rthicli have be en long the practical'.), out theoretically. Il e a l it poachers were the very p e st o f s ociety, and they i subject of public reprobation and regret. the only wear encouraged in their depredations ley the tiffs- link that bound the high-minded gentry o f Eieg culty of opprelielidino them. Tee detect them in land to the hills of their nticestry, their tenantry, the act was next to au impossibility. Ile cooclueled end their estates ? \Vas it not true, that in mans b y m oving that the second reading of th e Bill be ii psi t. of Etigland no game whatever was to be postponed to that day six Mandl,. found ? yet in these pinta there was a numerous After a few observations front Sir JOHN STEW- Wei popular re&detet geustry. lie thought, for hi s ART- own part, field sports were more coegemal tee the Mr. WitatEnroacs said, he was ece sportsman- national character of the c , :autry ; he thought IA laugh)-hit he felt an interest in the present , hunting much preferable, mid particularly fox-limn question. It appeared to him one if g re a t import- 4 ing-(A/regief-and he knew that the preserver of voce ; and from the beet consideration he could I game eves Aways suspected to be the poisoner of give the subject, lie felt himself homed to opibiic i ce -h o les- (4 laugh.) -lie could n o t ;avoid cotn. the peruicinua elation of the Game Lawn. With plaining of the !einem:able fulling off of shooting, mid all that had been said of the advantages of a r est - I lie imputed the decay of that pleasant moon mesa dent gentry, he fully and cordially agreed; as ma- i to the preservers of game. Formerly lee could go out with lets miglibuiets and tell dogs, and enjoy gietrates or landholders. they were t he p ride, the glory, the benefactors of their country. Heirless , the pleasures , of the country, but this has been al and deserted indeed must be the country deprived most exploded by the preservers of game-one of of the blessings of a res ident gr ,,, r y. H e ag reed to these worthy Gentlemen will have a party perhops nil this-hut he could not for a 1111 l mem be brought t once a rear- ( 4 laugh / -ten or twenty of the to believe that if the Game Laws were amend- Gentlemen with lotemlaists, armed with long ed, the resident gentry w ould be diminished ; Ipole., sully out into a lar g e wood, awl while* and in this opinion he was riipported by the i they are knocking down binds in all dilectious, they authority of mink others. The question pep- neatly fancy that tley ate si,ototitig.-( .1 laugh.)- prived to hint as a question of humanity-the ii r never was i ll France, but he heard a story of first duty of the L eg i s l a ture was to p reven t crime, Finch hunting, which these %vendee sportement aged he verily believed that iii the country the great I brought ho lets mind. A party rally forth to attack majority of these unhappy persons w ho tennio.eted wolves ;II panty meet ill hoot, and deliberately their career at the gallows, commenced it as nod to g ether fire as the wolves approach, and this poachers. It had been said that the Bill would I the Fieoclimen call hunting.-( Laughter and op afford protectime so persons selling game unlawfully i li k„, e .) obtained. Ile (Mr. Wilberfoire) could see on ob. I Mr. I'. LEWIS expressed himself favourable to jertion that licenses should he granted to Ifer9OeS 10 the principle on which the regent Bill was found sell game, and that no other pets ens should be ed. It might, indeed, be called " a Bill for the at liberty to expose game for sale-of coulter protection of game, and, at the seine time, for the those licenses would nut be grielited to improper due and roper punishineto of poachers." He ptomain and this he thought would go to remove I wialwel to see game protected, but not by the ab the objection. At the yresent motorist it Was, he surd and oppressive mode recoginaed by the old said, notenious that 'notions sold whole sacks of systm. Whets he approved of the principle of the game, slid it was distressing to reflect on taw vice Bill, however, he could met concur in the idea and misery of those who were concerned in this i which Koine individuals entertained, that all parties traffic. The life of a poacher was a life of danger. had u natural right to destroy gamer. God forbid of vice, and shame ; his Moistly habits exposed that that House should *income a principle which • to every temptation-made hint the ready was totally opposed to the present stile of society, instrument of every improper purpose-and the I and to the laws of 'property which that state of I actor iii every depredation, until a shameful death I society required ! That principle, if carried terminated a shameful life. The law vitiated the to its extent. would authorise a demand for habits of society-and the plain and honest peasant I the soil, as well as for the game living on it. was lust and degraded in the character of a nocturnal y I To the system of regulating, by licenses, a i depredator. He felt the question as one of tke 1 trade in game, he could see no objection. The greatest importance, and there was one considers- I mere regulation of a traffic was nut calculated to tion which he confessed struck him with peculiar • produce dishonest practices, store it did nut hold force--it was a consideration of delicacy, in which out the temptation of large profits. This, the the House would agree with him. They were now. hone-dealer was licensed -but no person ever as it were, legislating in their own cause-they were I thoughti on that account, of stealing horses, in called upon to decide evillest their own interests-- order to undersell him. Again, the tea-dealer but he trusted that they would decide according to was licenaed, but it was slot that regulation which the general interest, and to the mur a ls a nd happiness encouraged smuggling trireme: hems-it was the . of the people. They were called 01$ to vote in their duty •of OS per can't. which induced the illicit own cause, but they were called on to introduce a traffic. Now, where a penalty stab imposed on the better system ; they should endeavour to prevent a illegal vale of game, and those who were licensed great moral evil, and to diminish the vice and to vend it could du so, at a tuoderate price. there misery of the lower orders. was very little realm,' to believe that there would A Member (we believe Lord GARVA6II) said, it I be many smugglers of game. He Wald, with sin- was cumpiained of, rod justly. iu his opinion, cere sorrow, a vtatement relative to an unhappy that the laws, severs as they were described to be, I wornaii, who had lust leer life, he consequence of did taut prevent the depredatious of poachers, and an apparent abuse of the present system. If the it struck I • as extraordinary reasoning, that by re. measure now proposed were agreed to, such, or moving reatrections, you would eliontrislt the evil i similar occutreueelt, unlit be less numerous in theme restrictions were MGM to prevent. I future. ‘Yhtos there was an honest mode of pro. Mr. Lotto Wst.t.est.ty spoke in warm terms curing game, when it was carried to market, and against the Game Laws; he eundannvd, iu germ I publicly sold, people would no longer velour* their tires fur ti.e purpose of getting it, since they would no longer be templed by the high prices of. fered for it at present. Ile wanted to distingoul i bet%erti the limiest mode, of procuring game Anti the dishonest mode. He would separate that, which was not • crime, front the liability of pu nishment, which should only fall on those who had redly offended. He would retain the severe law fur throe whip stole game, but he would 'lot suffer it to be put in force against those role it not. If they made these legichitive Unctions, plain, wise, and strott. they wont.' . . bud the nteebute not only toeful but effic.d. citrus. The present Bill offered to the (louse e full opportunity for considering the wh u l e que tion. They ought maturely to discuss it, and it, after proper deliberation, they conceived that no change was necessary, a circumstance he ciuld hardly imagine, they might adhere to the ula ,v s . tem. The Bill, es it now stood, though he a l :. proved of much of it, was not altogether as lie wish ed it to be drawn. He conceived the system of cellars of quaqcolion, on a more extended ought to have formed a part of it. Let those oho wished to take game purchase a license of qualifica tion. This, he conceived, was a fair object of that regulation—and the .el ling of game ought to be r 0,.. bliditd and regulated by a license of a similar de scription. It also ought to he provided, that per .olm, barmy, game in their pulse:Aims, should he liable to au exaiiiiiviota, as to the mode in which they had proeu►ed ►t, a►:d, if that mode were im proper, a certain proudly eliottlil he inflicted nn them. He would go one step further, and render it highly, hay tre►nendously penal, to pu►rha.e game, knots ing it to he eiolen. If these sugg, twits *sere Uttroided to, l►e doublet! not but :•.1 efft•cio re-tem might he produced, instead of t!ie 1 1 t vett , but imi 3 Otenr I ewe which existed at pre%ent. CRIPPS Paid, lie had @surd übjectioits treetit ! to se%eral of the dowel., but there were none It ..„....... • , them that might not, in his opinion, he got over, an.l, therefore, he rahould vote for the ;peewid trad ing of the Bill. It was due to the Hon. Gentle man who introduced it, and to the Committee who came to the resolution on which the Bill was found- ed, to stiffer it to proceed, and to see, whether, in its progress, they could not remove the objection able purls. With respect to the objections or the Hon. Gentleman on the floor (Mr. &mikes), they did not strike him in the same point of vi .•w they did the Hon. Gentleman. He sous not sorry to see those provisions retained to which the Hon. Gentle man urged his strongest objections. One of his oh.ervat►ons was, however, correct. He had steed, th tt the number of criminals imprisoned for of- fences against the Game Laws at presect were less than they used to be. This he believed—but the ciicunisratice 113$ owing to a Bill introduced into that (louse by a near relative of the Hon. Gentle man (Mr. G. Banker.) In one clause of that Bill there was a very great omission. Every person, purchasing game, was, by that clause, subject to a penalty of 51. to he levied on their goods and chat tels—hut, if they had no goods and chattels, no puni.liment followed. If this were a mere omission, it ought to be rectified—if it were intentional, it ceitainly defeated the object which the clause ap peared to have in view. Mr. BRAND said, lie could not recollect that a a single argument of any force had been adduced against the Bill. The market, it was observed, could be as easily supplied with stolen game as with stolen turnips. But the market was not sill:- plied with stolen turnips, ergo, it would not be sup plied with stolen game. It was also stated, as a proof that the present Bill must fail, that t+:l previous enactments had failed in preventing (len - daiirms on rabbit-warrens. He could have stated, si priori, to the Honourable Member who made the observation, that no law could 'possibly prevent ilitt species of offence, when prisons possessing property in the neighbourhood of such warren. were lutely interested in the destruction of those animal:. Of this he was well convinced, that no legis!,_ tite enactment, however severe, could prevent the supply of game to the metropolis. It %a., therefore, the duty of legislative wisdom, devise some means, by which a regular gop ply of gams might be afforded, without et roil raging vice, or immorality. He (Mr. Brutal) followed a resolution of the last Parlianie::•, which declared, that g.imeolight to he the propet.y of the owner of the soil. Helltontended, that t',! exclusion of small proprietors was contrary to principles of equity and of natural law, Ile i.e. much mistaken by lilt Hon. Gentleman, who In, stied that he had confounded the doctrine of ,ne law of nature, with that of the mitnr.il state of mail— sod he argued to prove the fallacy of elicit an as sociation. But, if the Hon. Gentleman rt a little, he would not have supposed that he could be guilty of so extravagant a blunder as that. 11. must be aware that there were natural lass, anterp.r to those of a conventional de-cription, anti that t:-. validity of the latter was supported by their cui , , cidence with the former. From this, he contei:,:- ed, that it was contrary to the law of nature mitt of equity to preclude a malt from the use of IL,: which was nurtured on his own soil—alwa)s coma dering game as the growth of the soil. Ile s 's astonished, when an I lon.Getit.( r.Batikes) devise. t that, in this Bill, lie described the former laws as unjust. This Will not the fact. The prentul; merely said, that those laws were found inade quate to their object—that they were imliuli a :a!:' ineonvenient--and, in many cases, oppressive unjust." He did sot say that they were generr::• , oppressive acrd unjust, but that tlwy were, in an instances, contrary to equity and natural law. TI!.. Hon. Gentlemau said, t. if individuals waist gator let them purchase land." But this would nut di, it would be necessary for them to purchase ion nor.. And, as the system now existed, an indi vidual, with a manor of lON. a-year, and a qm ,- lineation, might shoot on the land of any W ean he pleased. Indeed he believed that son. persons bad acquired qualifications,. merely to cot.) . on the business of poaching. There might ire many clauses in the Bill that required amendinen;. There were many interest,, a variety of wopertv. which it was impossible for him, in the first in stutter, to protect, or include in a measure of tit,. kind. But he wet+ convinced the more the House considered it, the - more would they ere the neees - of carrying it tuts effect. The greatest wee tical mischefs flowed from the present s y s t e m...re of the most prominent of which was, that the v*4o ( body of the hem orders were opposed to the 1.t4h..r