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;;• - WV 4i I -..- V, • lirt 'esti . ,- 1 "/ AVC/ / :/2 - ee.) 6 1 r . • 4.,,....... . i.... i v , ~..,.. ‘,.. ..,. y . 4 . ~?. f, r• - . rt ozinuoirr 4'l it v itt b ipi rt Lltivl 0 + .. -, • r ) • i S • . q N ITIIR TR 5313. 911F THEATIMR0 YAL, DRU -LANR. EVENING, FRIDA Decrinber 17, Ilk Majesty's !Servants will perf the Tragedy of BERTRAM Or. Tilt CASTLE OF ST. ALDOBRAND. Bern 3m. Mr. Kean • St. Alileibrand, Mr. Barnard; Prior of St. Auirrlm, Mr. Holland; Father Hilary, Mr. Powell. imuginr, Mrs. M'Gibbun (her first appearance on Ibis stage, who ~11 I reform only three nights this sews); Clotilda, 31 m R u binson. After itbirli tbe Mesita! Farce of LOCK AND KEY. Prummszem, Mr. Menden ; Cheerley, Mr. T. Cooke; opt. Vs" Mr. Russell ; Ralph, Mr. Harley. Laura, Miss Ceibutt; Fanny. Mies Kelly. 'fu-morrow, The Castle of Andalusia, with The Jew and Doctor. ADELPIRI THEATRE, STRAND, LATE THE SANS PAREIL. THIS EVENING. FRIDAY, Dec. 17, and Trumann., Saturday, will he prevented, an entire Nevi Burkina, in two Acts, entitled LOVE AND THE CHASE. Squire Reyoird, Mr. W. S. Chanariry ; Bob Racket, Mr. .1 Were; Horny Blossom, Mr. Wilkinson; Peter Pepper ) r, , nt, Mr. Lase; Wader, Mr. Smith. Floretla, Mee. A:nwp ; Landlady, Mrs. Kirby. After which, the New Ballet. entitled EDGAR and EFFIE; err, THE HIGHLAND ROBBER. Edgar, Mr. St. Albin; Jamie, Mr. W. Kirby. Elbe, :Mi.. y lett Jenny, Miss Walton. la .11 , 0, will be introduced a Scotch Dance by the Misses Dennett. A uew Imitative llitirletts, in one Act, entitled, APOLLO DAGGERWOOD rv,llo Dacgtrirood, Mr. John Reeve. 'Ft, conclude with the Roulette of THE GREEN DRAGON. An entire new and grand Christmas Pantomime has been 'lre,z in preparation, iu which higewr Paulo will make his that appearance at this Theatre, as Clown. Columbine, Miss E. Menet% her lest appearance in that character. A Cennie Butletta, in three acts, is iu active prep.. vin. PArikes 44.; Seceed Price, 2c—Pi1,29.; Second Price, ls. —.Garet!, h.; SeCUIIII l'rice, ROT A L COBURG TR RATR E, Under she Palomar, of Ai, Royal Rielmoo Prow? LEOPOLD of BARB COBURG.. T!4 Di EVENING. FRIDAY, December 17. will be peeemeed. MORE WAYS THAN ONE. After relticl;„tit;rri time si t►is Theatre, the new Melo drama, ealkd THE NOTICE OF ST. MARCO. Also will be presented, for the fifth time st this Theatre, IMITATIONS by Mr. Andetton, from the Theatre Keyed, Leers pout To rotteluile with, THE LOVER'S STRATAGEM. *To.teo t epo, Saturday, The Novice of St. Marco ; Imita tia~n; stud -ri. Hite! 'Ti. Tim FROVI DENT LIFE OFFI PEtK‘ll The gust Noble the Mnl TICr-vit Marquis of Salisbury, K.G. E •d of llonlvdtke Vlnt out Boltticy, TRU! ?ICE, REGENT-STRUT. IDYNT, I qui. of BUCKINGHAM. E.IDINTs. Ve‘count Chet wynd, Vowoosit Doocauours, Lord BrAybroukt. STETS, 1 %Al%limn Freed, Egg. I;corge Duckctl, Esq. ?MR The llarq.vig of Entkinzham, 1.0.4 fl 3Nbriooke, Sit S. B Ilurland, Bart. M.P. Sixteen bireetors. MANAGING DIXECTOR. I T. BARBEE BEAUMONT, Esq. F.A.S. PERSONS limped for Life in this Office three the Profits SVPTINNIALLT with the original lesiebreri, according to their respective Contributions : Thus, by the specific stems insured, and contingent profit', limy lime She fullest value for their payments, in a manner nearly similar to that umil lalciy adopted in the Eqatitakle eqtcr, but with this presumed insprocensant, viz. that as the original Members have raked a permanent Fund, deem rd amply snflicient for the /impose of indemnity, it is pro vided, that no personal responsibility shall attache to the Policy holders. Fleece theme who seek protection are secured from uncertainty and risk of Wits as iw a Proprietary Office, having a large inheritable Capital, and are entitled to a par ticipation in the Profits, as ifs a Uniim Society. The at Septemsicl investigation was in 1813, whew 13/.95. Per vest. was divithisl. The second Septennial Division will tale Pl*Re reform', is which Prisons opening Policies at this lin as wit: raticipate. IN ern!, hew insured at this Office are not charged with any s iniiiioMai premium unless called into aclant service. N''swAsibeionfars are required, nor is auy charge made fa.' palkftio, except lite atom" defy. • COL NTY FULL OFFICE, REGENT-STREET. KtniCE is hereby given to all Persona who 1.11 4vaie bar lesketed Is this Office Seven Years and winos terries asphed in 1814, ISIS, IMO, 1811, sad 1818, Whet VI4IDIIND9 of 15 end 20 pf Crut. nu the whole of their Prewar's' Iwo reeeivoile here, and of the Agents in sit the prineipol Towns is (lest Britain. .1. I'. BARBELL BILADMOPiT, Managing Director AT a COURT of ASSISTANTS of the FELLOWSHIP of FAII3ILAI, London, held at kistdril.ll„ the Itftls day of December, 11419, Winked unanimously, That the 'I :sinks of this Court be ;stern to James Criffitlus, F.sq. one of the Common Council men of the IVard of Cam kbayaard, fur his meritorious see %Web its {riving rt aimed the paynirsit of the Tull 'Otitis bad Lees tor many years &mewled and taken at the eastern end ni Lower Thames.stret t, mud mixed the posts and chain Erected Mete fur levyist the said Tull to be effectually re 'coyest; %hereby the Public in enteral, and the Members of this f, I:tooship ise particular, are relieved from the future I sass.eot of such Tull, stud %Lich had fur many years beets essznp;Jsued of, as well by the fullabitauts of the Ward of Tons r. as by the Public, without effs ct. f;,•s„ hvsd unanimously, That the above Thanks be fairly trAnsurdssd, framed, and glazed, cud 'Fresfuted to the said a k1171.1 , (riffiths, Esq. by tb. Wardens of this Fellowship. WILLIAM APPLEBEE, ) JOSIAH KEEVES, Wardens. • RICHARD BAILEY, 3 .ILONDON. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17. 1819. been also allowed to loos the House of Commons, and, as he prophesied would he the case with Gromponnd, was thrown out .by the Hume of Lords. As to Sir M. Lvov, he Ipd been tra ffi cking in seats all his life. flow cool ! he know, or 'UK. pert. that he wits doing wron when he was can. Doom that the greater part of e Hume was COOP. posed of noes' like himself, of men returned by persona like himself ? He ad been grubbing all his life long to the mine o of corruption ; but whatever he found he always took to the Treeing. For this hr had been created a Baronet. He must of cotirsv feel it extremely hard now to see Lord Castlereagh retarded with a blue ribband while he was lodged in a prison. Such acts as he had been ennrideriui. would. however, do great )cood io Colt wincing the people of what they might expect from mock representation. Such a proceeding as that against Mr. Mobluiuse cotakrtat be tolerated even by a- Mink freely , am! fairly Clussrti. In one its which corruption was by its own Members acknow ledged to he " na notorious as the sun at nonn.day," such a proceeding was almost intolerable. It would, he hoped, revive that spirit 'moss o ; the people, which, however it bad been oppressed by an accumulation of arbitrary measures, was yet not wholly extinct. He trusted that the people would unite iu opposing such an assumption of unjust and unconstitutional power, and of threatened with penalties ever so heavy, even military execution, they would gill resist, and rather die than submit to so despotic a principle.— It was quite clear that the point at present at leant was, whether or not the people were so be prevented from uniting to demand a reform of the represen tation. such as, according to justice, reason, and common sense, was indispensable. He would speak one word as to the object of the present pro secution. Who was to be the next victim of this power it was impossible to say ; it was impossible to say when the dignity of Parliament was affected by what was said or done, and when not. But if the House of Commons should assume the right of hatigitig him up iu the lobby of the House, they would hare us much right to do it as to commit Mr. Hobi,ouse or any other men to Newgate for .such an °deuce as that charged. lie did not say that they had no right of comrnittiog at all ; they niii.t have such a right to protect them in the per formatice of their duties. But they could nat pos sibly determine on points of law; they could not possibly pronounce what was or what was not libel. a thing that v is always difficult to a Bench and a Jury. Mr. llohliouse had taken his measures in the best way he could desire for resisting this power ; he hail no idea, when he was writing. of the construction which would be put on his lan guage. Ile (Sir Francis) knew that it wus strong, and perhaps coarse (" Its true though"); but it Watt ' l idera, as the Gentleman said, sod us he idol ' self buil said iu the House, true. Mr. Hoblanuse had authorised him to say, that he had commitsioned uo one to say any thing mole to the House then that he was anxious to preserve the publisher front suffer ing. and wished to take the whole consequences of the hook mi himself. As far as he could he resisted • the assumed power of the House to comtnithini for it. lie hail done so ill deleuce of the electors of West minster, having been led into a literary controversy with Lord Erskine, in support' of their conduct at the list election. Ile hail done so, as Sir Francis thong lit, ably ; at any rate, zealously, and was therefore entitled to their gratitude. There was no greater support fur any 1111111 who stood forward in defence of public right than the concuring setitianents of a free people—of a people whose hearts ut least were strongly impressed with a love of freedom ; which impression, he trusted, it would be out of the power of any iliiiisters to efface. He hoped the people throughout the country, even if the new lases should be passed, of which he of course had no doubt, would meet and petition the Legisleturr, by next Session at least, fur their repeal, accompa nying their petition w,th a request for reform, so mucii needed in the representation. 31r. THELWALL rose to 'impose the Resolutions. After the eloquent speech they.had beard from their upright and undaunted Representative, he would be very brief. It was unnecessary to go at large into the character of Mr. llobliouge's pamphlet, or into the merits of the cni,e us it then stood. The cha racter of the process by which his punishment had beet) inflicted WAS the whole question. Th e severity of the punishment made no part of it. It was the idea of punishment without trial which was so startling: the accused not heard; the accuser as suming the functions of judge and executioner, in an offruce said to be committed against themselves. If ever one likely to affront the House of Commons, or any of its Members, deserted to go to New•gatr, lie trusted there was not a men who heard him that did not incur the penalty. Sir F. Burdett had said that the right assumed was one which was denied to . Kings. lie could not help remarking in what a state that House bad left the Icing's prerogative, compared with their own privileges. If any one had the wickedness to say, "seize the Kil; by the ears, pull hint from his throne,' such an one must be tried before he could be itianithed. A great deal had been said about blasphemy of late : he who held the thunder in his hand did not sinks the • blasphemers—he left it to the laws of the country of the offenders. Parlisinetat then assumed a power not used by the Deity, not claimed by the King. 'Who then were the usurpers. tied who the Jacobins I After renuirkilig on the .difficulty of knowing when NH offence was committed against the privileges of Parliament, he roc , cried to read and propose four resolutions,. %pressing tile :thin:it fence of the Meeting at the punishment of Mr. Hoblambe,coodeling with him on the occasion, protesting against the a:Pointed potter by which he is imprisoned, and determining Oil au address to him. Mr. C LA UK!: seconded the Reaolutione. Mr. HUNT, on puttinv, the question, rose to say a few words. It WIIS out the business of sir. llobhouse alone; any man iti the kingdom was ',Ale to the seine opprekon. tie (tarred t the lion. Baronet in his et•stinatitm of the Bill for chsfranchitarig Cram pound ; if the charter shoted be given to inch a place aa Manchester, one or two men might get into the House, olio would do as should have been done in the progre.s of the new Bills ; the House ilioald have been divided nn every clause, and kept up a fortnight before the lirat reading was 'Huard, Ex cept the war could be carried on in the citadel of corruption. it woo of no use to be fighting outside. Much had been done. however, by the people. The Grampitund motion proved that there was more disposition to hear than before. Formerly the mountebank C-- :away. got up to ridicule Reform whenever it was mentioned ; he had eisid that if Reform would trainitollize the country, he would not grant it : his notions had improved very sud denly of late. The Resolutions were then carried. Mr. I'NELwALL moved the reading of the Ad. cheer.. Mr. CALLAGHAN read the Add)ese, God moved ititintopeieto. Mr. HUNT seconded it, but wished that 'it had contuiiied no ulliipion to the eff.iirs of the election. Mr. CALLAGHAN said, that Mr. Hobhouses present suffering arose out of those oftitrs. Mr. CLARIL6ON noised for the omission of some reproachful imputations of the Wings contained in the Address. Mr. HUNT seconded the motion. Sir F. BURDETT explained the amendment. and' in doing so, made a minute's reply to some allusions which had been made to him. Nome but a Mem ber of that House would conceive the difficulty of so conducting their behaviour a• to insure a bare hearing. Temper and forbearance, vigilance to watch opportunity, and prudence in adapting it, were more necessary there thou in any other place. That House seemed to be so strange a place. that which was true every where else, seemed to be false there; it was like a magic circle; all known and established data were there denied ; no principle was admitted—he did nut menu moral principle only—there were no principles of science but were scouted, well knowing as they did that to admit priaciple of any kind would be to rust the risk of haying their system blown to atoms. It was the cave of deluvionis described by the Poet, where M Youth seems age, and age mrtns youth, All is delusion, nought is truth." The Amendment and Address being carried. and followed by a vote of Thanks to the Chair, which wus duly acknowledgtd, the Meeting dispersed. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY, Decinntra 16. The Earl of BIICKINORAIMIIIS took the oath' and his CONTRACT TO DELIVER COALS AT GIBRALAR, ColollllsAltlaT DitraterWENT, TILEAaUIItU CHAMBER., Decatingo 18;1819. ' SUCII Protons as are desirous or Contracting will, the Agent foe Commimari•t &applies to deliver COALS at GIBRALTAR, may receive Particulars of the Contract at this Office between the Ileum of Eleven and Free, mod deliver their Tenders, sealed up, and directed to the Ageut for Commissariat Supplies, marking thereon, a Tender to deliver Coale at Gibraltar," on or before Tues day the 41h of January; but none will be received after "IvielveoTlotk on that day; nor will any Proposal be no ticed unless made on or annexed to • protest Particular, and the Priers Married in Words at Length ; our unless • Letter he subjoined to ►uch Proposal signed by Two Per sons of known Property engaging to become bound with the Party tendering in the Sum expressed in the Particulars for the due Performance of the Coutract. OLDHAM INQUEST. In a fee. days will be published, in One forte Volume Sen. with an aerurale engraved Plan of St. Peter's Poen), Price 10a. ed. WHOLE PrAcentorwas or COBONEB a S INQUEST on the BODY of JOHN LEES; including the Leg.,l Arguments, and the various Decisions of the Coroner. To which will ha subjoined, the Proceedings in the Court of King's Browll,un an Application for a Mandamus to the Coroner, the Affidavits therein, and the Petition of the Father of the Deceased to Parliament. Together with • copious Analytical Index, and references to the Cases on the subject. Taken in Short-hand and Edited By JOSEPH AUGUSTUS DOWLING, Esq. In this Publication will be drtail•d the Evidence adduced on both sidearms, it will sffurd to Parliament and the Na tion at large the only authentic infinanation on the late Transactions at Manchester. Printed for William Hone, Ludgate hill . ir and J. SIVEWRIGHT respectfully an *l • flounce that thry have eowtracted with Government for the New Year's Lottery, to be drawn in Two Days, 12th of JANUARY, and 29th of JANUARY, 1820. FOUR of .e 10,000 ! And no - Prize less than g 18. SCH ESI E. 2 ..of £20,000 0 0 Money .. ire .. £lO,OOO 0 2 2 4 4 10 34 1,950 4.000 Tickets each Day. £114,670 19 TWO ...... First-drawn Prizes....... f MOM TENTH-Drawn Prise above 10 Os. t 10,000 IN EACH CLAM. Tickets and Shares are Selling at J. and J.SIV CWRlGtirs 37, CORIRD.I.; I 11, HOLIBORR ; 38, HATMARKFT; 141, OXFORD /TRIMS ; Who Slat-oil nod Sold in the Lottery just rude t, No. 1,81'4,2 Prise Of VOW' also SIX other CAPITALS, and Nu 3,710, a Prize of lid,ollo/. in the preceding Lottery. ADDRASS 7') MR. HOBIMUSE. CROWN AND ANCHOR TAVERN. Yesterday a meeting was held, Sir FRANCIS Butwerr in the Chair, fur the ;purpose of convey ing an Address to Mr. Hobhouse, in condolencl fur his present confinement, and fur exprespopp?. the avers felt by the people of Welawinster to that power, and its exerciie, on the absumplion of which lie is sa rotitiord. Sir F. BUIDSTT apologised for bring late in his attendance; it had been caused by his having to wait on Mr. Hobbouse, at Newgstr, to make some arrangements which were necessary for his accom modation. Hr had taken the Chair at the request of several of the electors, that the meeting, how ever vainly, might make one more effort, and try what effect the declaration of popular opinion would have in stopping the torrent of despotism, winch, having swelled more sod more exactly ac cording to the progress of time, by one additional means threineued to destroy the liberties of the country altogether. Of all the stretches of arbi trary power yet known, there w as novae t o equa l that which, under the assumption of its privileges, the lionse of Commune had exercised in the case of Mr. Iloblionse. It was a subject so amply dis cussed, that there was now nit disinterested person in the country, Ito one he meant uticonitected with the borough proprietors, who did not agree with them in execrating that monstrous plait of judgment, wherein judge, accuser, jury, and executioner were alt one and the same party. Without any process of exatnination into the criminality of the case, there was a power assumed of inflicting the heaviest pus nishments of the laws, short of capital ones. It was needles* to say that this power was nut allowed to the King. It was absurd to suppose that the lowest branch of the Parliament, having no prerogatives nor unconditional privileges, should enjoy a power not to be found among the prerogatives of the Crown. That privileges were necessary to the House of Coy:nuns. to prevent intefruption to its bustuess. and pools!' contempt, so expressed as either directly or indirectly to istoiest its proceed. ings, he would readily allow ; it ought to he guard ed from insult or interruption in its most important inquisitorial transactions as well as the other Courts ; but the present was not a case of interrup tion of its authority, it was only an atfrout to its dignity, as the Members termed it. The Berson who directed that assembly had been de. tected in traflickite4 a lucrative place for a seat the offence was passed giver, end justified on the most absurd ground of ron. triety. Wilb it to be endured then, could any man hear it. that', under pretence of ass:sting its dig nity, that [louse should exercise air authority not known nor assumed l;y losoy other power in the State? lie denied the imotice of the sentence pro nounced in the cave of Sir M. Lopes, while the greater of of the Prime Minister wax puax.d over on the ground of notoriety. lfe hail root ob jected to the mot for transferring tine franc hire of Grompormd to Leeds, or some othe► populous place not now represented, heron:4., if it pooped, it would du great good to the country ; he had, bow. ever, iso hope on that tootri.et. Ile remembered the case of Barnstaple, which was rrlualiv tlagi. I mull. The Bill for transferring its charter had COTTON SPINNERS. _ ....... Sir Robert Peel, and others from the House of Com mons, brought up the Colton Spinners' Regulation Bill, to which they desired their Lordships' concurreuce.—The Bill was read a first time, cod ordered to be read a second time lo•uturrow. MALT DUTIES. The Malt and Peti;inuDuiiesßill was read the third time, asd passed. SEDITIOUS MEETINGS. . 0 - the motion of Lord SIDMOUTHI, the Bill for the fore effectual prevention and punishment of seditious meetings was read a second time, and ordered to be ruminated to morrow. The debate will then take place nl the princi ple of the Bill, and the Lords were, t■ consequence, ordered to be astmoune4l.—Ailjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, TRUILIDAY, DECEMBZI 18, ESSEX QUARTER SESSIONS. Colonel STRUrr bronchi in a WI to provide for the holding f adit.iional Quarter Sessions fur the County of Essex, at Colchester, which was resit a first lime. NEWSPAPER STAMP DUTIES BILL. Mr. Lusntsoroa moved the Order of the Day roe the House resolving itself lulu a Committee on the Newspaper Stamp Duty Bill. The Sraatc►R. having left the Chair, the Bill was com mitted proformia.—The House being resumed, Mr. BROODEN brought sip the Report, with the Amend ments, which was received, and ordered to he taken into further consideration to.morrow, and the Bill, as amended, to be printed. POOR LAWS. Mr. STURGE• BOURNE S4id, that be bad last night been asked by a iluble Lord (Lord F. Osborne), whether lie intended to move fur the re vival of the Committee on the Poor Laws? He 'opposed it was m consegnence of the noise which p►evailed in the Muse at the time, that a meal,- prehension prevailed as to the answer which lie had returned. It was distinctly " No," that he had no such intention. It appeared, however, that that little monosyllable " no" had been lost, and he ac cordingly now again raid, that he had no such in• tention. rIRICE 74. wardens for refusing to admit the cot*, the' ' Hon. Gentleman, observed, that if the church.. yards of this metropolis were already so full that, the dead could not be committed to their lost_ mansion without old and mouldering objecla of mortality being tossed out of their graves to mac room for new tenants, he thought toe subject well calculated tri call for the intention of tie Legisla-• ; tam The Petitioner merely prayed, for such rodcos• . as to the House might went meet, ioristsinch a he bad not been able to obtain it in any of the arch. nary Courts of Justice. At present lie didenot mean to found any measure upon the Petition. because he hoped that tlini notice of the affair would to dace the churchwardens to 'wind their weeirlfiseii resolution ; but if some alteration did not take n s i t i , i . i t o lie s t u r ib e n o i t i i t tlu t c, o t th l oh the House Ho n u o s t certainly ed some pfeel wa a a tt . . *rimed) general•measure to remedy the - -- Dr. PEIILLIMORE s.id, that if lie understood the' Hon. Member, the Petitioner had- adopted the pre seat course on the ground that he had no remedy in • Court of Law ; now his opinion and belief . (though he spoke with great diffidence) was, that this question had originated in one of the Ecclesias. tical Courts, and had Wien to the ground by the death of one of the parties (the late Rector.) But there was no doubt thot a remedy still lay open to the complainant, in the same Court ; and if he had not obt/ined it. it was to be imputed to his own negligence. If the church-yard was not large enough, the proper course was to ripply to the Bishop of the diocese. The party had s remedy in a Court of I.lw, and therefore his grievance was not fit for the consideration of the House. Mr. LAU! said, he was not aware what remedy there was at common law, since the Court of King's Bench had refused to issue a mandamus. on the ground that the matter was not within their cogni zance. A suit had bo-eit commenced in the Eccle. siastical Courts, but it rertitioly had abated by the death of the Rector.—( Hear.) . . . . . . _ Dr. PHILLIMORE said, that the decision of the King's Bench did not shew that there was no re medy, but pointed oust how it was to be obtained. Though the suit had abated in the Ecclesiastical Courts, it might be renewed there. Mr. LAMB said, the difficulty war, that there was now no Rector. The Petition was then brought up and read. On the question that it lie on the table— Mr. HALFORD observed, that the real question was at; to the right of hurting in iron coffin,. Mr. BENNETT said, that this was a very serious subject fur the consideration of the House. He did not know whether the Howie was aware of the enor mous numbers of bodies winch were taken out of the g for dissection. He was perfectly at. quointed With the fact, minute details of it having been laid before him as Chairman of the Police Committee. lie thought, however, prudence re quired be should ;distant) from going into particu. lars, as the statement would be sure to produce terror and alarm in the country.—(lear.)--At the same time he was of opinion that some general remedy was quite necessary. Mr. WYNN thought that the statement of the transaction in a newspaper would have answered the same purpose as petitioning the House. Mr. LAMB said, if the l'etitinn had been intend. ed merely to excite notoriety, which lie had dis• tinctly stated not to be the eine, he should not have presented it. Mr. WYNN *Aid, it was Ittl.o!ittely necessary to draw some line of disittiellitti .15 to tier Petitiotes proper to he received by the !louse. If a grits.. •nce of the kind now comphiined of were lit for its , consideration, he saw nothing to prevent a common assault being brought before it. Dr. I'IIII.I.IMORE said, that there was no doubt that it was a cave winds might be brought before the Eccleaitistieul Courts. The Petition was then ordered to lie on tie- t.!ltte„ The House was about to divide on for quratinn for the printing, but it was afterwards agre•ed to without a division. DUTIES ON WINE. Sir C. MONCE observed. that it lisd been very strongly rumoured that it was the intention of tne Chancellor of the Exchequer to propoNe :in e qpisfi. z,ition of the duties on all foreign wine.. As it was great object to all persons connected with that trade to kilos whether he bad come in that deter mination, and at whit tone it was to he carried into effect. lie should feel greatly °longed to the Hight lion. Gentleman if he would favour him with some information on the subject. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that he was sure the House would admit that some time should he allowed for consideration before giving a deci,ive answer to this question.—( Herr, hear.)—He could not mak-. a reduction to the du ties without an equivalent from the ecnintries sup plying the commodities, and a negnciation for that purpose; he was not as yet prepared to state any thing positive on the subject. IRISH ELECTION PETITIONS. Mr. WYNN, after a few prefatory observa tions, obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Irish Election Petitiou Act (42d Geo. 111. c. 106.), as to re-assembling the Election Com. millers. GRAM POUND. Lord J. RUSSELL stud, as he thought it would be more convement to avoid any discussion at pre. sent, he meant merely to move for leave to bring in a Bill to exclude the borough of Grampound tram sending burgesses to Pat li.duent, and to enable the borough of Leeds to send Members io lieu thereof. It was his object to have the Bill read a ;lust time, and printed, hefi.re the recess. Lord CASTLERF.AGM presurnr..d, that when the Bill should be printed, the second reading would be postponed till • day sufficiently distant, to give time fur maturely examining its provisions. Lord 3. itossELL said, his inteution was to allow sufficient lime. and to let the second reading lie over till after the holidays. Mr. R. MAaTIN said he bad radical—(.4 laugh) RIGHT OF BURYING. Mr. LAND said, lie had a Petition to present to the House of rather an unusual nature, but he was sure that when the House was made acquainted with its contents, they would not deem it unworthy of their anent . It was from a husband who had beet. fur the space of eight months engaged in en deavouring to procure interment for the remains of a beloved wife, but had hitherto been unable to effect it. The Petitioner (Mr. Gilbert, of St. Andrew's 'mist), Holborn) thought it necessary in the first instance to state the first circumstance which had led to the delay and obstruction he complained of. His wile haul entertained a strong dread of her b dy be;eig taken up•for di•arctton by resurrec tion men, and, in order to prevent this, iu her dying 1111 l ents berouglit him to piece her body iii a coffin of more than ordinary sireugtli ; lie had done so, and placed the body in a patent iron coffin. In proceeding, however, to have this depositetl in the church-yard, be was unexpectedly resisted by the clitatchwtsruktis, %.ho to this hour obstiultely persisted in refusing the body Christian rites. [Mr. ;iitalt then articled army of the particulars of this csst, whirh hat ready hero so frequently before the pub:m—the application to the Bishop of Lon d•,n—►:,e suit in the Ecclesiastical Court—the death of the !hen Ittctur--aud the refuel or the Court of King's Bunch to grant a Neorsdonssis.] Al'eradvtitit% to ;he rtasonat , -igued by the church- --~r..~ i i TN EATR E. NOY AL. COI ENT-GA EDEN. i T iiis EVENING. FRIDAY, December 17, , will be acted Stspkapeares ln a fair its I • with an COMEDY OF ERRORS. , 1 Salinas, Dtak• of Komi% Ne. E g frioni.i.secie, Mr. i Pilo' 11l abseaasa ; tiveiplastio of Eptorsessalle. Demme i iblithasalfr , g of Ityraewe, Mr. Jones : Drumio of Ephestos, Me. W. Ewell i I gritor pramio of Syracuse. Mr. Liston; Ang e lo , Mr. C ; ; LEES; inc Dnet , r Punch. Mr. Blanchard. Abbess, Mrs. neat; Ad- , Dreooll 41 fllllll. Mias Stephens; Luciana, Miss M. Tree; Lesbis, ; Proceeding Nrs. C4Ol ri. 1 for a Shand To which will be added the Farce of I the Petitiot THE CRITIC ; Together a Or. A TRAGEDY REHEARSED. I the Cases Sir Fretful Plagiary, Mr. W. Farren ; Puff , Mr. Jones ; ! Edited Dante, Mr. Connor; Sneer, Mr. Egerton; D on F ero lo i In this P j Mhnlerstilloa, Mr. Liston. Mrs. Dangle, Mrs. Connor ; on both Bid .. Tiltornsetri, Mos. Ciblut. By ! 1 *ion at lor Ty-minn i g., Shalispeare's Comedy of Errors—Sylvester . . 1 DIMICI WOOl—.-11.11 The Wedding Day. 'l ransacttin P .