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expressions of loyalty and zeal, the Noble Lord op. pomite (Lord Liverpool) had turned round on them, and said, n you are under a mistake, it is not in tended that this grant of 100,000/. should he de voted solely in the interest and to 'support the dig nity of the King, a considerable portion of it iv meant for the support of the Queen's dignity ?" Yet such, it was now asserted, was the nature of the Establishment formed in 1812. That this, however, was not the object of the Legislature, he sheered by Itferring . to the preamble mid the enacting disuses of the Bill, and :Mewed that the grant of 100,000/. Fear was to be pied for the use of the King only, 'slid- a further ruin of 10,0001. was granted to her Majesty. He was ashamed to argue this point at sue length, but if there were any proof wanted to shew that the grant to the King was quite exclusive of any consideration of the Queen's situation, it would be found in the present Bill, which effected the reduction of one huff of the Establishment, by taking away officers connected exclusively with his Majesty'', permit ; such as the Vice-Chamberlain, four Gentlemen of the Bedchamber, four Grooms of the Bedchamber, the Master of the Robes, unit seversl menial servant* and attendants, whose united salaries amounted to 5,000/. Were allele necessary for the support of the Queen's situation, or were they net rather exclusively attached to the Hilig'a 'permit, ? If the Queen's situation therefore were omitted from the coeisiderution of the question, it was evident that these reductions might hirer been made ut any time. Tin.. Late excia4e was not re spectful to the memory of her late Majesty— Hearf—and was melt le 1.110-a tip as a tell to 'coyer the errors of the blittisters. At last, how - 'ever, the propriety of these reduction., whieli had bent so often stigmatised, when proposed by lam a& or any of his Noble Friends, was ecknoss ledger! by the Noble Lords opposite, and he was happy that so mach might now be saved to the country without *objecting those who approved of the mea sure to the imputation of disloyalty.—(/-/ear./-- When he first found that a sum of 50,0u0/. was set apart for the support of the Windeor Establish ment, he thought it too large ; but when lie subse. queasily discovered that heady one-third of this sum was necessary for maintaining Windsor Castle as a royal residence, lie did not think what re mained tun extrevagont au allowance. Ile hoped it would, however, be expleined, why the repairs of Windsor Castle should be charged upon this fund. He understood that Windsor Casette, like Hamp ton-Court, or St. James's or Kensington Palace, wee charged ;00011X the other places of royal petit.. desire ma the Civil List. If Witidsortartle, there fore, were to be maintained out of any other fund, it would lie a relief to the same extent mended to the Civil List. The Noble Lord then adverted to the proymed grant of 10,000/. a year to the Duke I/1 1 ork, which he represented as wholly 119. necesaney. I', his view of the question, the pro pond to charge this sum on any other fund did not remove his objections , to it; hot still, if charged on any, be argued it id.ould be charged on the Privy Purse. What. he malted, were the expenses required by the Duke of Yotk ? He incurred none in %Vim! )))) , for there s tumble was provided for him. mod the notion of travelling expenses, considering the distance betweeu Windsor and °lolanda or Landon, was absurd. particularly when they ft. membered that the Royal Duke held a sitaationoot -ritual in this country during a period of peace, in which hornet and travelling expenses were provided. He then coneidertd the grant (nigh:ally made to the Queen, and said he bad thought it unnecessary, although on the occasion of its being granted it posted the House without opposition ; rod remark ing nu the severe duties perforated by other itati viekaals, particularly the three Commissioners ap pointed to take charge of his 1114jesty's private property, without fee or salary, he lamented that a Prince of the Blood was thought incapable of eictlertaknig any duty, even that of attending on his father iti his adverstty, without a large and im provident salary. The Noble Lord concluded by stating, that when the House came in the clause for granting this salary to the Duke of Yoe k, he should object to it. The Ertl of LIVERPOOL retWo'ke ti, that the on gins! Eetalilishinent of tt'ittilsor had passed both Houses of Parliament without oppessition, lie had therefore a right to couclude that it had met with general approbation. He had since that period heard of nu specific proposition for a diminution of that Establishment, and hut for a few passing remarks made on it in the course of the last Ses sion, nothing hid as yet occurred to hieirk the si lence with which it had been viewt d. The eireum stosices, however, of the Queen's health, which was then thought to totter on the verge of dissolution, pievented the possibility of taking the subject into the consideratiott of Parliament ; for who, of the slightest feedlot; of delicacy, could, under such Cif CllM.tillet a, investigate the subject ?—(Hear.)- I'lle arrangeitietit of 1812, was founded on the statement ut the Physicians, that the recovery of the King was not impossible, Had although if Lrought to the bar now and examined they would certainly make tile bailie statement, yet the lapse of eight }cars must tordoubtedly diminish the pro bability an event. The Noble Lord then contended, a hist entertaining a due regard to economy and to the rank of the Queen, as Queen Consort, living under the King's roof, it wits impossible to reduce the lestabh , lintent to the mere point of offind teg his Nlsiesty food, raiment, and attendance, and had Pat li.iritent so acted, they could not have refused the Qiis en a 101111 equivalent to her dower. 4DO her Mejest)'s demise it was left open to them to consider wheat reductions might be effected in the Establislimerit, which it would have been im possible fur them to look at daring her life. Ile defended the grant for the support of Windsor Castle, on ii.t. ground that it would have been un fair to throw nn the Prince Regent the expense au palace not m his own occupancy. Ile then re ferred to the grant 10 the Duke of York, and argued that this cioild not have been charged on the Privy Purse, which was the King's private property, and which was charged by Parliament only with medi cal attendance and pensions, such as the King him self, while t•i the exercise of his understanding, had I oil that fund. Toe grant to the Queen of 10.00 e/. wits too .1 saving of so much to her Ma jesty. The os Loodships well knew the attempts that had heel) fuse ly and maliciously made out of doors, to mislead the public upon this point; but the veil had since been removed, and it appeared that h e r Alsjesty at her death was fur from beitig rich. He had reason to know what law sums or money her Majesty lied given in charity, and that there were numerous individuals who, haring shared her bounty while she lived, would have to mourn her loss.—/ Hear, hear, hear.)—He then remarked, the grant to the Duke of York stood on the same footing as it did with regard to the Quiceii, and observed, that no individual could he placed in an eminent public situation without inrurritig the claim. of individuals on his atteetion and gratitude. If the present Bill were not passed, the Establish ment would be thrown back to its former state of 100,000/. a-year, and the establishmeist of the hie Queen, 'mourning to 58,0001. u-year, would lapse to the Civil List, whereby a saving would not be effected to the country, us was now prnpriseil, of 90,000/. a year. He stated, that the duty of Castor Persoaor would be gladly performed by the Duke of York without salary or compensation-mill/ear) —lint the House ought tint to throw on his Royal Highness a duty without providing fur the expenses necessarily incident to it.—/ Hear.) The Marquis of RtIcKINGHAN remarked, that by the law as it tit present stood, there was no re sponsible servant about his Majesty's person ; so that if the House should, by holy chance, learn that his Majesty had suffered any personal ill treatment, their Lordships would fund a diffi culty in ascertrining what person they ought, as the responsible officer, to sunimoii to their The Noble Lord said the question VinS this, whe ther the Elfice of Costos high was or was tint a responsibly public sit tuition ? If it was, tied lio one disputed that it was, it was clear to his mold tidal a salary should be attached to t h e office. ;or why should the Duke of Yolk, because he was the son of the King, be derriyed of a public compensation for a public service? No one on the least acquaint. ell with the liberal feelings of his Royal Highness the Duke of York would impute to him tiny mean, selfish, or sordid object. Ile was called npon by the Legislagore to till a public situation in the State, sold he was entitled to receive pit le..st a vim adequate to the dignity of the office, and the ex penses necessarily attached to it. The Earl of LAUDERDALE said, that on the present itibjgct he could not deity that he entertained etroiig feelitigs towards the illustrious individual whose name ras connected with the grant; he lelt mole than a stiorg personal attachment. It was iu the nature of Ins Royal flightless, that those most intl. mately acquainted with him, who knew his many distinguished public and private qualities best, were nowt firmly attached to his person, nod most interested for his feelings and his fame. But meet ing this question on the fair and open ground, he could not see why his Royal Highness should not receive that compensation for public service which the nature of that service required—which the dig. nity of the station, and the expenses incident to it, demanded. Of these expenses, he would not enter into a mitiutit particular of their nature rr amount, but sure lie was that hie Royal Highness, whose generous nature wee ever open to every humane appeal, would be anxious to attend to the applications of these who were in the habit of appealing to the bounty of his Royal Father. As to abet had been said with respect to the pro.. (triers. of taking this sum of 10,000/. out of the Privy Purse, be (Lord Lauderdale) must publicly protest alpinist it—lie protested against it as an attempt upon private property—as a violation of public faith, tiot to be eisdured in a country where the rules of equity were so well understood—where the fet liogs of attachment to their Sovereign were so ardent ; though aged and afflicted as he was, the remembrance of his virtues were still preserved in the grateful hearts of his subjects. The Privy Purse was the private property of the King—it was settled by Act of Parliament, and could not be at. tacked upon any principal of law Or of right. 15u. der an Act of Pat liament his Majesty had the power of devisitig the profits of the Privy Purse- ; or, to put another case—let them auppro.e th a t jesty became indebted, was any Noble Lord who beard him prepared to soy, that if Ins Majesty be. came indebted, that yet the House would be jus tifiable in appropriating the savings of the Privy Purse to the payment of the salary of lie officer, in exclusion of Ilse lawful and ho nest creditors of the King ? Again, let it be supposed that his Majesty made a will, that, looking on this fund, as Acts of Pal hament taught him to look on it, as his privet- property, that in pursuance of the language of the Act, lie devised the savings of the Privy Purse, would it be fair, would it be just, would it not be at once monstrously fraudulent and palpably illegal, to soy to those devisees," You cannot receive what the last will of your Sovereign devised to you—the funds out of which you were to be paid have been appro priated to pay a high officer of State." But it might he said that his Majesty had no creditors to pay, and that he made no will—that may be so, but it proved nothing—there were claims us sacred those of creditors or of devisees.-three acre per sons whose rights were not to be assailed -they held those rights by the law of the land, the highest title, the common security and protection of all. The law provided, that in case his Maje-te dwd without disposing of the savings of the PI ivy Perste the produce of that fund was to go to his lawful heirs, as, by the common law, the property of any individual would in such case go to hi• What then was the nature of the proposithei, or how would it operate ? It wt.uld operate to the destruction of private rigles—it would take front the Sovereign the tights which the law had given The law authorised him to devise that pro• perry; yet, if he exercised that right, the proposed interference would defeat his will, and defraud the intended objects of his bounty. Io the event of not disposing of it, the law gave it to Isis heirs ; but the proposition would go to defraud those heirs of those rights which were as sacred, as legal, and should beas unquestioned us the rights ufaiiy of their Lordships. As to the reductions made iu the Windsor Establishment, he hatred that what he was about to say on that subject would ant re ceive the sanction of his Noble Friend-, and still lees of the Noble Lords opposite ; for huts men part, 1 he had no hesitation in saying, that the Parliament had acted with • degree of 111CillItIVSM toss aid. the Royal Family, which was unworthy of them. Why, lie asked, were the old and faithful screams alas Mejtsty, who hail served him so lung--our of them for forty-five pairs, another fair thit ty. nine years—all of them long, all of them Lail. fully—why v here they diems-std viitheut owlet I . • t and without reward ? Would any of the Noble Lords who had heard him have treated old re rvalits in tl►at way ?—would they, as it warn, I►ave turn. ed them out of doors, passing over their lung e'er vireo, unrewarded ? None of them would do so. Why, then, in the case of the Sovereign, were these persona treated so harshly. ■ud lie might mild, so unjustly—for it was notorious. that with very limited wages they had ren►uined in the Royal se!. vice, naturally in expectation of the accustomed bounty which had been in most eases bestowed on persons in their situation. The Noble Lord, after a few other observations, concluded by expressing his assent to the Hill. _ _ The Marquis of LANSDOWN said. that the able and convinctrig speech of his Noble Friend who opened the debate, left little for him to say. lie felt, however, on a personal ground, that he was called upon to state what he had said in that House in the course of the last Session, on the subject of the Windsor Establishment. It was not, as had been stated, when the illness of her late !Majesty had been announced as likely to terrnioart _e in a inaimer that they sit deplored, that he had alluded, for the first time, to the ‘Virolsor Estsblishooraot ; it was at un earlier Wirt of the Session, when a message hail been brought up on the subject of the Royal Marriages; lie had then state,l, though he did not make any snectlic propostlion s that, in opinicou, the time load %%ratted when economical irtltictiot.s might be made in that Establislinitait ; this proposition was the', received with di- strumaest marks of indigicotion, particularly by two Noble Loi ilsor hose silence on the present oc. casion Le construed into a change of the ‘t Holz opi- Mons they then entertained on this subject. 1/f their cotoloct lie by no memos meant to speak lightly; he WA!. satisfied that their generous loyalty, strong as it was ;to dent. was not the less sincere, because they might have siticessitsfied themselves that the reditc- Innis -Ann It he then recommended were such ea might to be made. Those reductions ware not ' meant to lessen the comforts of the King, to de tract from Isis dignity or lois personal enjoynsents (if any rojuuyinerots could visit his afflicted state). neither Here they intended to interfere with the provisions made fur her Majesty ; they went to another point. At the commencement of his Majesty's lainented illness, his afflicted 'objects indulged in the fond hopes of seeing hint speedily restored to his health, and ar rangements were made of a temporary moiler, in the expectation of his Majesty's f frOVrly.— Years of affliction, of sorrow, and of disappotiot went passed away, and at length all reasonable hopes of that recovery were given up by those who most fondly entertained them—and lie (Lind Laos. down) felt, that for a considerable time before he had hinted the matter in that House, the time had arrived to propose some more permanent and less expensive arrangement no the Windsor Es- • tsblishireeit. To that object lie coi.fitied him self on the occasion to %Leh lie had already alluded, seal he had now the satisfaction (if see ing that what he had then recoonueorled, was supported now by those who reprolaited it then, He had stow the satisfaction of feeling that arrange meta' might be proposed ;N*14.131,1,-41 to lighten the burdens of the people, by removing twist un necessary expenses, wit hoot those so proim.log them ruiniing the danger of being stiginat;seil u• the enemy to the throne, anxious to pres upon their Sovereign's afflictions. Towards that Sovtreign, endeared as lie was to his people by malty u tender and a grateful recollection, lie would yield to no man in sentiments of offruthm. 11'1111,10y wAuld he contribute to his comforts—willingly would he extend his hand to console, if he could console him, in his misfortunes; but he mutat alai ti duty net less uttered to his country, stool lie would not perform that duty if he dill not resist every ' attempt to add to the burritos of the people at a moment like the present. As to what had been said by the Noble Lord ll' ar him on the subject of the Privy Purse, he (Ole Martois of Lansdrown) differed altogether with his Nolo i i 0000 . He did nut see that this was oi food over which the Parliament had no morel. The Podia ment over this fund had exercised dominion ou many occasions ; they had done so by matey Acts ; they had done so even in the Hill noWunder dos ciossion, fur io that Bill the King's Physicians were directed to he paid cut of the Privy Purse, and the House was axone that the expenses of these Physicians were ' , rely consideroilde. Thus, in this instance, the I'm lianietit loud directly exer cised a power over this food. They exercised it in another instance by the present Bill. His Royal Highness the Doke of York was empowered to grant perosions out of the Privy Purer to those servants who might appear to him ilermiag of the Royal bounty : rat that really, if it be hue that this food it the private property of his Majesty. nut to be meddled with, the Parliament ou various sees. %ikons, and evens by the present Bill, have invaded his rights. As to the grant of 10,000/. a year to his Royal Highness, if that grant were to be made as nook of pubLe approbation for his service., he would lie glad, Olt ally occasion, to beer his introit. loon of the public services of his Royel Highness. Of his ;tribunal and truly illustrious qualities, it tea, unnecessary for loin to enlarge; but he could not but regret that the name of his Royal flightless was • connected with the piesent grant. lLs could not • help thinking that ins advisers had stied unwisely in putting him forward in any ungracious / and utts popular manner. As lie could nut see on what giouird the grant was intended to be given —as he could not see how the dignity of the office could lie increased by attaching a salary to it—as he did not understand what the expenses attendant on that Office were, viol as he believed them, it any, to he very trifling, lie should vote for the proposition of his Noble Friend. He would observe, that some of the first and the most responsible offices in the i State were held without salary—he thought to the. present oilier, filled by his Royal no salary should he attached. Ile hurl hoped that his Ititynt Highness would have come down to the Iloose Istill iticettil the offer—if he had thaw so, he would have coasiolti d his best interests, and hate added to u reputation dear no less to the coun try moon to himself'. Ai he hail Ma 11.11.1! en , 1,0 (Lord Losoisdown) would vote rogaile•t the gt :n.t, at the same time that lie was oiling to admit that inn one iii ht. Alajeoly 'I, 4! ttttt 'mien* Wll5 litter to be u.trusitd with the cure o f los !Mojest)'s pet scot. It wife au 1111110!1 , 1111. trust, 111111 would he pro 11/1111 , it I.y his !top! fliglourss bah fidelity— lie haul 1a,./ _ bp,' doubt, V.t a nll the atteetion, orlicitude, and care, due from a Pali to a parent and * sovereian. The Earl of DARN LET said, no one hail more re. specs for his Royal Highness than himself, but he could taut improve of the intended grant of tO,OOO/. a year in the ereseia sitilatinn of the country, in its embarrassed financial state lie could not recon cile it as ditty to vote for that grant. He was sorry that her Royal Highness hid been cruniecred with this ungracious measure ; lie would have rim. belted Vls high character and lira fell intervals by renouncing s ,rant •o very unpopular. he flowered this grant on groneds of public duty, lie could not he supposed to have entertained env own. timent towards his Roy al Higiiiiess but those of great public and private respect. The Limn CIIA a C ELLOR said, that he felt hint. self called upon to state, Brit iii his opium,' his Majesty had as good and us full, es clear and es lewd a title to the savings of Inc Privy Purse, as any of the Noble Lords in that House held their properties. 'rite Noble Lord went into • review of many Acts of Parliament, to slew that the Privy Parse wa• the private property of the Kink, —to he devised liv him. or by deed to be itivitoses of, and, to case of no disposition, to go to his NIA. jesty's heirs. Such was the law as it tonna— end for the oflrcteil Sovereign of their country he only claimed what was due to the meanest of Isis subjects, not to despair of his recovery whilst his life remained. If that Providence that had, in its wisdom, involved hint iii calamity. should, in its mercy, restore him to the enjoyment of - Ilia health, and the affections of his people. hoer would lie feel if he found hi. rights invaded ? As to his kayo! Highness the Duke of York, it was not neces•aiy foe him to stop to pay to his t herald's any tri!rute of praise.; but he felt himself lesund to soy, that liad his Royal Highness take', the office without a salary, it would ►n his (the Lo►d Chancellor's) opi• Mon, he a reason why he should not hold the office. Th e Constitution of the country had wisely decreed that the King of England, even in cases of personal inability, should still. even to the hour of his death, continue King. This wive and con. itittionel prin ciple should in no instance be forgotten. hut least of all in the case of ■ Sovereign who had filled the throne so long awl so well—who was endeared alike for his virtues and his iniatortinies. Feeling as he did, that the kingly authority ought to be upheld with splendour and with dignity, he, for one, did not approve of the reduction* in the Windsor Esteblishineut. It was his opinion, and he stated it. Lo►d Klee spoke against the grant, and severely attacked the conduct of Ministers for the manner in which they bad so often brought the members of the Royal Family before a.- public. The Marquis of BUTg said a few words in foveae of the grant. Earl GIIIET replier). His Lordship said he heard a vast deal on the subject, but yet one simo le question had not been suswered.—For what pur pose was the sum of 10.0001. a year propteied to he granted to his Royal Nighties' ?—a'l'as it for salary ?—No ; that was denied. But it was for expenses. Ile asked, what were these expenses ? of what nature were they ?—how wets they to be incurred what was likely to be their probable nmonni ? The only expenses that he could conceive likely to attend the office. were the mere expenses of mast-horses, so very miffing as to be unworthy the consideration of his Royal Highness. But a Noble Lord at his side of the House positively asserted that his Royal Highness would be put to great ex pense—hue was certain, of that; but theta he did not know what that expense could he. Another Noble Lord on the Ministerial Bench had said, that he could well imagine that his Royal Highness would incur great expense; but he could hot mute the nature of that expense. Such was the answer that had been given; but , he (Earl Grey), at • moment like the present, when the country was so much embarrassed, did not think that be would perform his duty, if he consented to the grant of public money, merely because one Noble Lord usseited what he did not know, awl another imagined what he could not describe. The clauses of the Bill were then put and agreed to without a division. and the House adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, TORSDAT. MARCH 30. The House was engaged ill balloting for a Select Com. niiitee on the lam-aster Election Pellnous till tit* minults litfore five o'clock. Mr A BARPIG, I.li C. RATHCRsT, and Sir F. BURDSTT, wire untried to alteail the ballot on Thursday next. Lord CASTLEREAGH moved, that Mr. Albany Saville be taken info the enstudy of the Setjeuni at Arum The motion was afterwards ss itliusaun, on the excuse being offered of severe ilishAposition. Lord CASTLEREAGH moved, " That the names of the limbers absent from this day's ballot should be ■et aside, and tepoited by Mr. :Speaker to the House to-moriow."— A.zreed to The 4:Allislv Canal Bill was read the third time and passed. _ DIVORCE BILLS. Mr. C. Tr.N•iVeo,l nibvtd the second reading of the Trelawney re Hill. Mi. M. A. T.ivrou said, that as the present was the first Hill of the kind which hail come down from the Lords this Session, he should remold the House, that fur a length of lime such a Hill had not passed Ittue without some provi sion Its, ii. been made for the divorced lady. He had him self, massy years ago, at a time whi a Mr. Pitt and Mr. Fox sat iu the Homo, persuaded it io adopt a rule, that it would 1111 t 1 1 1 1116111111 any such Hill 1111:1'69 a provision were made, directly or imlirecilv, for the rapport or the unfortu nate female who was one object of 14 so that she might have 11. e means of returning to that path of virtue she had once d.serted. As oilier Hills were in progress in the House of Lords, he took the present °prim iunity of stating, that lie should oppose any Hill which did not embrace the object he had Mentioned. 'the Dill wag rend n Fer nnd time. and ordered fur commit. tal on Wet sib) re uni~ht. PETITIONS. A Petition Ma% prelellted }IMO She Inhabitants of St. East, Rgitingt the L6siduss Clergy Bill.—Read and lai.lues Ilse table. Mr. MILLISII presented • Petition from the parish of St. Many'A, %Vliii.ehaprl, for on alteration in the Coal Unties. Alma resit num the ante place, against the Parish A pprd mites Bill. 'trail and lald on the table. Mr. Wirrrits .aid, he held in his hand a Petition from the Fasters pint. of the Comity a Essex, tallith was most reopectshly gS.nii , prnying fur a Revision of the CriMillSi (Aide. ltie Hun. Member said, he had two other I'ol6 to the same I &et, one horn Malden, the other *rum smaller pl..re in the game comity. He wish ed to mik the Nolde Lord opposite, whether it was in his 4 witemplaionis to make it a punit ut neencore to the Select ('ummiti,e un the Mate of Gaols, whether means colt Id not e devised a t cantering Gaol 1).. liver". s more frequent The tune time or 111 , 11r1Wilnlent he which persons accused were ',objected, ws.. 1..1 hap: cite of the worst parts of our jurirs. • . ... ,~ - • pro ii.oce ; litii Le me. :adored to nrelition the mailer int o . cipjlly on arc•notl of the present crowded Stile of tier g To &on+ an extent way that tarried. that be litheve.l 4i , atiJitiolial delivery between the Jnly and Lent move a saving to all the prisms of the Country of 30 yew sn their existing expenditure. The Hon. Georthi.,,,, entered into a calculation reatiectior the nnelther of from the Comity G till of rimiest) at the last Spring A ACIZeI, awl inferred that half the number of persona charged by prorlamation and acquittal had been commit. toil berme January—the application of which to all the Rae, of the country would anew how great a sum could be / thin ,. ally !rived. In the county he had the honour to represent, it was the intention to cola' ge their gaol fioni the circnntsi he Lad stated, and he believed suds *Ai ti.e case to 1/141/* others. Lord CASTLERRAOR said, he had before entleavourrd tw explain the ' , mule he had priopolerl r.r the Commoitt,.-- Ne thou; ht there were yur.tha,s conneclrd with the ~a, ject whit h might not he ta!, iy re. fn ve.i t.. th. at, lestti,tz to them to decide how tar ar.y propost-t1 o.tit of jail:rove.- ..sent wax practicable. The Petitions were read and termed to the Coniaittri N the Slate of (:ai de. A Peiiii.)ll WIXF prestMerl from Cols:I:e t in Wai aritkabirr against any alteration iu thr t.V II Uulls•a, STILL FINES. General HART presented a is. lit ton from the lulush!. hate of theHarony of Culdaff, Gouty Dolma, r . m . !diming of the e r ev 3 n es resultiog from Ilse Tinstal46 Fiushir Law, and praying n I i Mr. PARN ELL ICtifi, that the IA:, ing a fine on town. land', war founded 111/ a priociple quite different trim that of any lie is EnKlastd, soul, as Ise b. 10-vid lloit it was universally admitted, the 1a . ..4 of She two r..uniii,i shoo 4 be the same, where local ircom-t.snrcv did mot node, a wariaset indirpenvibly nem.. ,ry, L. lo.cored leave to 1;:ve notice, that he ehnuld, on WiAltimlay she &It April, mit a motion fur repealing the low inspo.tsr• a Ism (Jul tow.. lauds for illicit distillatien.—The Petition •as read and Is J on the table. LANCASTER ELECTION Mr. Ley brought up the reduced List — nc the Nipentnr s chosen to try the merits of the Petitions rig/ mist the Lion for the Borough uf taocaste►.—The following inn. . Members: Lord Lucelles I Viamont Cranhorlie Fir W. Etwigreve Alex . Nir John Perrin; Lord Not twaiiliy non. C. Paget Sir E. liciatekbull Sir Jas. 3Loitizonsery Sir M. NI. Sykes Kirkman Finlay Thos. T. Drake, to which the names of R. Ellison and B. Wilbraham, deist.* by the above Members, were whits?. POOR LAWS. _ _ Mr. S. BOURNE brought in a Bill for amending Ik. P., 0! LAWS. so far as ri hates to the granting of mow v for lire support of poor cbildreo, which was read a hest ti,ua~ awl lied for a second reading on Monday next. CLAIMS ON FRANCE. The second wading of the CJsims on France rill, was postponed sill Monday next. HON. Iv. QUIN. Sir R. IVILIION moved, that the letters delivered in in the House, daring the investigation Of the matter of complaint against the lion. W. W. Quin, should hr returiwd to the parties from whom they had been received.—Agreed tu. LICENSING SYSTEM. Sir F. BURDETT said iseailsPetitTriiito preseut from a political', the owner of the Rising Son, Great Castle.street. Plymouth, complaining of the lisideldpa he had euffeed under the arbitrary system of licensing viettiallingdoms , r, and praying relief. The substance of his complaint Ira., that having taken the above house to carry on his husines., a Magistrate refused to grant 11101 a license, unless he paid a chin due to the revenue by the former occupant, wills which he had Ho concern whatever. That he had in corm. quenee submitted to the demand, and niaile many applit 1101/ 4 to have the money refunded from the time of payment in 1813, but without success. The Petitiuuer prayed the Henze to take his case into conaideratiou, and afford him such relief as might I .e thought advisable. The Hun. Mem r proceeded to say, that understanding the Member foe Shrewsbury had intimated an intention to bring the subject to which the Petition referred before the House, he should at present merely move, after the present Petition was brought op, that the minutes of evidence taken before the Select Committee on the Brewers of the Metropolis, of i let Session, should be printed. A conversation of some length then ensued better..o 'Zr. Wynn, Mr. Home, Sir F. Burdett, Mr. firoueliam, Lamb, and another Member, with whose ovine we wire au. acquainted, out the propriety of the House receiving a Peti tion, praying fir a relief whit h it was said might be ob tained in a Court of Justice, and llie further debate on Ilse Petition was ultimately adjourned till to.morrow. Sir F. Buttuvrr then moved, That the Committee nu the Brewers of the Metropolis of the last Session of the keg Parliament, should he revived pro formA, and that the minute of evidence should be laid before them, peepers tory to teeing prieated."—Agieed to Mr. FUME PALMER presented a Petition from Joha Crouch, a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy. The Million was read , it stated that the Petitioner had once, at the wool. neat ri k of his life, torn a man out of the jaws of • shark, and that hr had performed various 111111:if from the year 1794 to the present time, for alto h lie still unrewarded, and thereto' e lira) .1 the Illouie to &said him remuneration. The CHANCELLOR of the Eicrivrot:En a very few words, pointing out, as we unilertaniel, an int . ..instil, in the Petition. The SPEAR RR—" The Hour has belrel this Petition read. With respect to its (bject, it is quite clear that the Peti tioner prays that the statement which he has ma-te ploothl be taken into consrleration. It does not go beyold ihat. Two marginal notes. written in rill ink, appear on the race of the Petition—a circumstance quite out of the ocJioary COMAE. They form two distinct paragraphs, and the Peth. tioner does not point out where they ale to come in, uhe. ther they are meant as interimeations, or in addition to any particular part of the Petition, or how they apply—of the , ' points we know nothing " After a few words from Mr. W. the Petition was withdrawn. SUITORS IN CHANCERY, Mr. M. A. TAYLOR !a'a, the motion he was noir about to make was only a prehimilaty step to o thers which he meant to bring before t:ie lima. , iirhaps in the course of the present Session, with rtvect to the delay in the Court of Chancery, and the Lit , ' - nese with which the appellant jurisdiction wits ministered. The observations which he was u:,n..t to make might be considered as involving a brat of general notice on this important subject. He thought it mould be disrespectful to the House. and not in conformity with the ditty he I.- ved to the public, if lie did not state, in as few words as pus. sible, the object which he had in vies. The mo tion which lie was about to submit to the House simply went to this—" Tiest there be laid befoi t this House nil Account of the total amount of the effects of Suitor. in the High Court of Chancery, in the year 17.16, in every rubsequent tenth )eat since 1756, and in the year 1818." What he laud in view was, to shew to the House the real extent of business in the Court of Chancery, by a refereuce to the amount of money *hid* that Court had de. posited in the Bank of Englaud in the name of the Accountant-General—coniparing dna with the fut. trier state of the business of the Court—earl looking afterwards to the great estates, the adjudication respective which was referred to the Master" office. lle meant also to take notice of the g-iiersl system which pervaded the Couit of Chancery. and the nature of the business brought before it by t h e diffirent suitors. In the year 1811, he prevailed ea the House to grant a Connuit'ce to istjuire tat. the < < S.