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of annual Parliaments, and an extensiou of the eleetive franchise. There Petitions were ordered to be laid on the table. EXCHP.QUER BILLS BILL. Mr. BROODZII brought op the Hapset of the Exchequer Bitle Bill. Mr. Titular—" I wish to put a question to the Right Hon. Geotlensaw opposite, no the subject of his financial erningeraeutv. I understand that the Right Hon. Gentleman only wants Exchequer Bills to the ainnunt of sg,noo,ooob for the present year. and he has told us that he will only want someromouL of these before Easter. Now, what became of the 6.000.0001. Batik Loan, which be came due early in April—wits it to be paid out of the 30.01)0,000/., or in what tithe. mintier? The Right Hose, Gentleman has said. it will be paid early in Anvil, and I ask, is it under cover of the 3a.000.0001. ? • The Cita PciLtoa of the EXCHEQUEII.- 84 There is in, qoestion that the sum for which I have called will be sufficient to cover all demands in one entire stun ; hot I upprelwnd that the payments will not ha required in this compound mass, but will be gradually paid vi ire money, to the mutual cOti vensence of the parties." Mr. Tummy •••• 4 Will the Batik Loan be petit wp to, athlete the moment when the present bargain with the Hank 'zither ?" The CHAWCIIILLOII of the Excareguatt" No part of the Houk Loses of 6,00C,000% will be due until the Soh April, and then the payinents will • cootwarreare' • Mr. Ttenuor—de Will the payments be diode In one form tor smother on that day ?" • The Cusaon.Loa of the Excistoura—.“ P*. hips not in woe sum. The payment will then commence, and he madteceordisig to the mutual -convenience of the parties." Mr. TIEIVIET-•-'• What is meant by commenc ing this isayinent, and going on with it to the me lon, convenience of the parties ? Here there can be only covivenienco, and that is, that the pieties to whom the money is due should receive it. But this sort of &Aliening knocks in the held whet the Right Hon. Gentlentms previously told us. lie slid on a farmer rciglit that the 6,000,0001. oartgsiti with the Batik was to be paid oft in money. Nov he said this was not to he the case—that the paphesits •woeild only commence on the sth April. How Sliest was the Bank to resume its cash payments, .which the public had an absolute right to. expect from it, if this Loan were not paid off ?—(ther.)— Now the Act rotatively specified that it should be paid off on the 3th April, but the Right (Ism. Gent. has ath!eil what Ilse trainers of the Act never thought of, that the payments are to be made at inutile' con venience. It toted to he • matter of jealousy to tube care that the Supply and Ways and Means should tally in winount ; hut now quite u different course was athipird. If this 6,000,000 t. be a part of the J 0,000.000/. voted, why Imetpune the twyment of it ?—if it be not. why vote it now? How it has been voted, and is ion to be paid, I cannot coin. prebend ; indeed nobody can comprehend what the Right Ilan. Gent. has been driving ut.--(hear.)— It win. lottutie to have been opposed to the Lute Air I' tit, and to have differed with I in his tininicial statements, but yet lie condescended to • tell what they were—we could at least -see what lie turned at, but the case is quite different new, (flear.)—For. out a bonnet night, I then:gist. the Hight Gentleman had liven sufficiently ex plicit, and that any hotly with the simple goals& cation of linowilig the English language. tacit ,ve understood him to say, he meant to pay oil a particular limn of money. I will not wow refer to w h a t th e Hi g ht [ion. Gentleman said—he was ;titer' bewildered, or he bewildered his lieurers.— •,' and a laugh.J—lle was either very (taut tuilJte in his stateuteitt, or we in understanding it." 1.-111 w The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that he nod:wood the question put to I all a former slight was, aliether it was almost to ply mt . the Fink Loan in money ?—( Ikar,ji one .11r. Tierney) —to which lie had answered in the affirmative, but lie never rail the payment would be stride on ■ particular day. As to the actual re-payment, all he ineasit to convey was, that it would he made in due time, and most certainly so as not to interfere wiili the resumption of cash payments on the part of the Bank. Mr. TIERNILT—" The Rii,rlet Hon. Gentleman has stated the cpstutiow pot to him truly. I asked I • wheilier the Batik Loan of 6,000,000/. would be paid it, cash when due ? I held at tlw time the Act of Parliament in my hand, by which it was specifically made payable rob the Sth April. He answered, Yes, and hi money.' I was so stupid mid dull as to suppose that payment on such an oc. flexion foram to pay the sum due at the time speci lied. Fool as I was, such was my apprehension! tmt I now find I was quite wrong." —(!/ear, and husghier.) Mr. Stuart—" Is it intended to pay this Loan hefore the resumption of cash payments by the Bank ?" The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHF.QUER—" It will he tei : md mu su.lt sums as shall be required by the Bank:" Mr. Gutarsta.—' o I thought the payment of this Loan was to t:ske place in cash on the sth of April. Now the Right Hon. Gentleman says it is to take place whets requi►ed. By the Act of 1816, in the Loans with the Bank, it was optional with the Government to delay the payment for Ilitre m a in object in rising w a r, I,awever, to r Xprelli a hope, that in raising smolt, by Eschequrr Bills, Government would, as .nurlt a• p s.itnlr , adhere to the systems or 21.1. per die* bills, at 3 per cent.—these bore a premium of 11 per cent, Ls thlt the advantage to the public in this simile of raising money would he fur the snot wanted e• l ual to 2 or 300,0006, or on the ulterio► ammont sor 600,000/. Besides, this would have a tendency to keep clown the rate of interest, which w „, i 1,1 l ie highly ativitstagrous to the country. A t o w state of ►nterest would be a powerful stimulus to ogricultstral mod mercantile industry, and pro doctive of the most heneticial results. Gentlemen of the landed interest would then have a fair oppor icnity of improving their estates (end in this inb 'UM ellirlit 01e politic always (aarticipated), instead ul' bring !sliced in the diffivultirs they were in this respect at the dove of the war. Those who trusted to the foreign fonds had certainly a higher rule of interest—the French funds were 8, and ours 31. There was one point entitled topwat coasidei - atitio, mean the preterit rate of attestant taken by the Bank. I do ►►it'cor a moment wish to interfere in the exclusive alibi of the flank to direct its own internal regulations, bet t merely mall to throw out, and 1 do so as a flank Proprietor, that if the discount were reduced from Sto 4 per ern.. much flume hinnies% would he done, nod, n► the main, a greater profit would arise." The CIIATICIILLOR of the ExcumouEa—•• The repayment will he optional with the Bank in the course of the year--that is what I memo to say." Mr. Tient+ •• 44 Will it be made in the pre- sent Session ?" The CitANCEI.T.OR of the Examunt said, that according to the plan, money was to be obtained for the public service at a cheaper rate thou at any former period. The Bill war then ordered to be read the third time on Monday taw. GREEN BAG CONIIHTFEE. M. BROUGHAM wished so know when the Re port of the Committee was likely to he brought on? Lard CAertaattecti renhe.l. the Committee was still sitting, and that the Report would he made as room as powsible—bot he could not name a specilic day. • • • HIGH BAILIFFS AND'CONSTABLIVI. Mr. CALI:RAPT presented a Petition from the High Bailiff and Constables of Westmeutter. for • remuneration fur their atteudauce on the Home. The Cdawcatt.om. of the BIMINI/VER. had 110 'objection to a coniideration of this motion. It was ordered to be referred to a Committee on Monday next ROYAL SCOTCH BURGHS. Lord A. HAMILTON rose to make Isis promised •Mation respecting the regulation or Scotch Burgh.. 'He felt it incumbent on him to premise, that. iii submitting this motion to the House. he had not the slightest idea of connecting it Messy way, either now or at any future period, with the general question of Parliamentary Reform. The discus ion he proposed to eider into, might, iis his mind, without prejudice be mated u a separate question from that of Par hainemary Reform, as it was generally denomie elated. Ilia application to that !louse was prompted by the most sincere desire to be of serv ice, more isarticularly to that part of the (Jolted Kingdom to which. Fr lns earliest years, he had beau Wire tionateltattached. The question was not whether the people of that country (Scotland) felt dissatis fied w'th things as they were, or *hitt MU the pre. pfirtion of • oppression they were subjected to in convequetift of the existence of the evil complained of. Ile was satisfied the case he should have the honour to disclose to the 110 use. would discover in it such a system of fraud soil iniquity as would call imperatively upon the IlUtrde to redress the grievance. The one of the Scotch (loyal Burghs we!. (ruin these circumstances. eminently entitled to their comoderctiou. (wiliest Burghs the resident iiiliabitants had 110 cuourtitutional control over the Magistrates mid Officers of the Bisrith. who, for the greater part. elected themselves iu perste tuity. instead of being elected by the Burgesses, u they should be, if any regard were to be had to the ordinary (lichees of IrViiloll or justi ce. Y e t al though the Bin grilses were thus deprived of all constituti I Collirtill over their office's, they were nevertheless considered by the constitution of the Burgh liable to their per.unat effects and property to the debts incurred air the part of the Corporatism' of the Burgh. What was more extraordinary in the system of election, if such it .might be called, in these Burghs. was. that the Nliagistrates after be coming self-elected, and that nut mitrequently its perpetuity, nitro proceeded to elect such persons tufo die Corporation as were likely to be subservient to their wishes and Irolitits. It was even a matter of indifference whether these Magistrate's were resident or not,-and its-no:indorser were these public officers of the Burgh liable to be called to account for the sums of tummy deposited or expended. her the pub lic me of the Burgh •by tile Burgesses. Cases of this peculiar nature hail been brought before the Courts in Scot land, snot some hid lwris removed into Appeal Courts in this country. flue in 1707 had hero (nought before the of the Exchequer, and Lord Kitties expressed I self extremely von reused the Court was not competrot to afford the Burgh any redress alder the circumstances; as si milar application to the Courts of this country had .net with. like fate in MO, and the parties were in formed the Court had nu authority In interfere in the adjustment of their accounts. The case of the Burgh of Montrose was that w w h ich be wished particularly to draw the attention of the House. This Burgh had been hi the last year, owing to a siosi-election of' its officers at the register period. in point of fact dissolved, an application was there mines made to his filajesty's Government to revive it by a poll-election. Goer 1111 l rent in that case proceeded to revive the Burgh, but iu doing so, effected • complete alteration to else settlement, or, sa it is called. the constitution of the Burgh. He would not enter into the propriety of the origin*, constitution of these Burghs, but he cooteisiled that whet bad been done in this case, and the case of Stirling, which was similar, hold trot been &vie justly, because the Crown had, in the case of Mon trose, taken upon itself to alter the constitution of the Burgh, so as to affect materially the state of the representatiou of that place iu Parliammit. However, this alteration (which lie could not deny crested an extension of the franchise) might have been unattended with dangerous results to the public interest iu the late case, its very exteinion might Ire productive of the worst consequetices. hod filinistry loads a snare constitutimial use of _ the facility nine!, it might have afforded them. lie should call the attention of the House to ail.: (pro tium on a more extended scale after Easter; but for the present he should, in reference to the existing case, endeavour to supply that information to the House. which it was expedient they should have, by moving, That a copy of the act and warrant of his Majesty's Council. dated Septentl.er, I 817, authorising the Guild of Brethren and Burgesses of Montrose to elect a set of Magistrates and Town Officers, and rho fist prrmittwg them to alter the set of the Constituf of that Burgh in all time to come. should Ise laid before the House. The motion bring pot and seconded— Lord Cacer.EßLAUii contended, 'lna if the ques tion of Reform, as to a number of Scott Burghs, were mow entertained, and the papers required graut. . . ed. uldiougls it might toot be the Noble Lord's wish The Lome Anvocace made • few remarks is to introduce the rpleation of Parliamentary Reform, reply. yet it would thus he incidentally eistertained upon Sir JAME. Nltcattcrosu runt, the present wise inadequate and fallacious grounds. That there neither a question of Reform nor of I.lw—for the were too grouuds for the imusediete interference of former he would consider the time unseasonable, the House, onig t lo i f iti lz e i l i v o es fer , reil from the satisfaction for the latter the House of Commons an unfit place. the Burgesses of Montrose and other It was unfair to allege that the principle of elec. pieces, felt at the change, and the genetul peace- lion in Boroughs in England tied Scotland was able and tranquil disposition of the inhabitants siotoilor ; the fr 1111 l er contained a variety of rights of all the Royal Scots Burghs. Alt that could was popular—the latter an tiosiformity, and was he said on the subject uow was, that he, in oligarchical. 'file true quest" was toot, whether common with the Nobl e Lord, regretted there the Crown might revive a Burgh, but whether it was that defect in the constitution of the Scots . could make a change in its cnoodle-doe. As to Burghs, which rendered it difficult fur the Bur- I the case of Stirling, it had never yet received e i games to inslieet and control its accounts siod ex- decision iii any Court, so that nothing could be in- penditure. But surely an applicat. to l'arlia- l i ferret' from it. meat, no of this nature, was t the way to obtain ode- Mr. J. I'. GUANT said be wished to be under quote redress. The papers sought for could not 1 I stood as not giving any opinion on the point of law, w afford adequate information to be of any eeded whether the Crown had a constitutional claim to the utility. and the Lord Advocate had that evening 1 power it exercised over Stirling and Montrose. given notice of his intention to bring in a Bill to Even were this claim well founded, the power it meet the grievance complained of, and grant to a confers deserved to be well looked into. because in competent Court a right to inquire into and exa- case of informality at an electi, . the Court of mine such accounts. He could not help thinking Sessile' might set aside the election ; u suspeiosiou that • Court might even now be applied to which of the elective franchises would follow, and a power would quasi. any illegal and extravagant assessment in the Crown to remodel them at discretion. ll'hat by such Magistrates. But the fact was, the Noble ; he Intl described *night Implore in every Royal Lord did not appear to thick the Burgesses I Burgh. in Scotland, and he entreated the House hail not an adequate ilefeuce whereby to defend to cooisider hole far the conquencts of it luight themselves from illegal nstosinents, so much as extend. The Burghs were not by any means so their inability to superintend awl in their well satisfied with their conditi o n us the Leot!ioril officers in any attempt to misapply their funds. He Lord had asserted. At this moment there acme thought the question might be determined in the Petitions from many of them agoiiiost.the lied elec- Courts of Law, particularly if the Learned Lord dons, kith a view to have their rights suspended, Adiocate should pass hie Bill. indeed the question mud their conslitutiou altered. No question bud might incidentally be brought before" Committee more agitated the people of Scotland than the goes of the House under the Grenville Act; and he could lion of a reform iii the Burgh representation. not help thinking the House itself the least adapt- 1 It was not advisable to place in the Alinisters of time ed to discuss and determine open an intricate and I Crown • power to alter the sets of Burghs. Ile c placated question of Scotch law.—(4 jaelh. I hoped the paper* would be laid or, the table. —Voider these circumstance', he felt dial to The Loan ADVocATE explained. resist the production of the pipers, as inadequate to Sir Box a 5.0 FiiimussoN said, that there was OD their professed purpose. anxious desire of change in Scotland, and much Mr. Aseecnosinc-.-It appeared to him that the attentions to the subject. Ile read extracts Irma representation in the Scots Burghs required re- au address, and other papers. to prove that even formation more than any other, it appearing t h at personal connected with G,verionient were actuated the defect of which the Noble Lord complained by these ft-thugs—anti hoped fur the attention of aas inherent in the s ery constitution of these Ministers to the subject. Burghs. As the Burgesses of Montrose appeared Lord A. Ilatat hive stated, that the late Junto Isatisfied with the present fruits of the innovation had involved the Burgle of Alicitleen in a debt of i which had been made on their constitutiots, it I 237,000/ ; and time present borrowed 57,0001. to behoved the Noble ,Lord to draw the attention I pay interest. They had loorrowed of charitable 1 of the House to that which otherwise that Howe "institutions, and of i very one that would lend ; they Iwould pot be likely to hear of. its existence lead iecurreil debts from 25,000/. down to /. The us a grievance. But the Noble Lord (Castle- Burghs could not cusatiuue another Sessioto as they reagh) should have eliewn that this was not.* fit were. question for partiaroentary correction. us well us A Member under the Gallery said, that the hove attempted to spew it might equally well have Corporation of Aberdeen had hitherto paid 4 per been mooted in a Court of Law. Ile was happy cent. ye their debt, and were now in a condition to hear the tone of the Noble Lord so auddenly to pay ii. changed, with respect to the internally tranquil Mr. Fortues moniker! that every rpirtinn hart state of • country with which lie was particularly two sides, and the Noble .Lord appeared to have connected, He could see no objLetion to grantieg reed only one of the present—thin a,,, , osioost the Cm the motion of his Noble Friend. I 'emotion. He added, that in a short time the state The ' LORD ADVocATIt of ScOTI.AND—No of thinos there would be Nei). materially improved. charge of disloyalty or disseffection had been ever I Mr. W. SMYTH avid lie had _ I wen u Burgess of brought by him or Via Noble Friend against the 1 Aln Metal furry year-, and hoped lie should toot people of Scotland generully, upon a late occasion, I suffer from the night NI picture of debts there that I but against the population of Glasgow and its' I hail been drawn. The funds were not in so bad a neighbourhood. If the Magistracy had power to condition as represented. contract debts for which the Burgesses were to be I Mr. Fonnes said a few words in explanation. considered liable, then these parties in fact levied I Mr. UtaunLAs 1.a141, that niter pitying Ilse inter taxes without the consent of their constituents, est of their Delo, the Corporatioe near enabled to and acted directly contrury to law, us would ap- I ferin a einkieg fetid of 300/. a year. pear from the general re:armo I :th ree contained The question was thee put um{ toerottived uith a in the famous Declaration of the Scottish •Par- I out a division. liament, similar to the Hill of Rights in Bag land. No such authority, therefore, rkisted its had been decided in a ease its the House of Lords, when I the Corporation endeavoured to recover a debt due to itself without ,siscrees. The collie derided by the Barone of the Exchequer hail hero mid represented. The Burma only decide rl they could not ento-ce a jurisdiction, which had been appointed with a view to auditing accounts. The state of Scotch Burghs iii losing the power 1 of electiug Corporation Officers, when they neglect to elect ou the day appointed by charter, is pre- I cisely the same as in England. Before the Noble Lord could produce tau alteration in this respect iu Scullion'', lw most say that the King_ hos uu gush power as that he protests against its England. According to the Constitution the power, is neces sary iu the King. In the Declaration of Griev ances, at the time of the Revolution, this power was expressly recognized. The grievonice imputed to Jaime 11. was the taking away of the charter", without surrender, judgment, or consent ; this quali. fication *hews dial it was only considered u grievance when attended by those circumstances. A power similar to the one under consideration had been ex ercised over the Burgh of Stirling, in the year 1782. That power had beets disputed three several times its tie Court of Session, mid examined into .by five or six Committees of that House.. Au objection never had been 'mule to the election on the ground el die warrant from the Crown being mill, 'Eke Noble Lord might acquire much informat" on the subject. by referring to the debates of the year , 1789 or 90. The very same question had then I been argued before the House, ois a modulo of I Mr. Sheridan, to inquire into the state of the Royal Burghs as Scotland. The case of Stirling, to which be hod alluded, was referred to by the Committee, and the King's right to alter the set of Ithe Burgh recognised. 'Eke alteration made in Stirlieg was precisely the same at that at Montrose. i The former measure petard its exatnisiation through ! Courts of Law and Committee' of this 110 use, with ' out any censure; and this was enough to *hew there 1 was no foundetion for the present motion. Oil the i ground of illegality. It *mold be inspossible to give the some constitution to all the Burgle'. and the same fields of electium without destroying the most of their churters; so that when a like case I would occur, such a remedy would Le applied as I its particular circuniatisorcelo would require. The I rights of these Burghs were recognised and pre' ' served entire at this time of the Usoirou—* right to alter Untie multi Wiwi was unquestionably vested in the Crown lodine the Genoa, it would follow that this right mutt still subsist. lie unshed for some I evidence to shew that the people of Scotland were I desirous of a deluge in the present Burgh system —he believed that if the sentimesita of the electors i throughout the Royal Burghs could be uscertailied, 1 they would be those of alarm at what the Noble I Lord contemplated. Mr. ABEILCIttIMIT explained. • Pntzr. or WAR. Sir JAmrs MACK I S TUNII did not conceive that any opposition could he offered to the 1111 l tion lie WIIR about to wake. He. therefore, ntovrd— " That an Account be laid haure the Rouse of all I'rizc of War, other than Druitv °like c,uwu a n d bruit,, of Ad -144114, received by 14,1 Majesty educe the lit of l'ulwisary 1793, vpreifying lbw dale, amount, nod •vource of the conic rtlXiVV.i, and also of the application of the rya tpli." The CILANCELLOR of the ExcitEtauEu. way not aware what difficulties might be encountered in preparing such au accoinst ; lie should, therefore, trug, ,, est the propriety of postponing the motion until Nionday. Sir,J AUKS MACKINTOSH acceded to the sugges tion. and the nut WAS withdrawn. Mr. W•tici presented the Ordnance Estimates, which mete ordered to be printed. SURGERY. Mr. llaoutiEst !nought in a Bill for regulating the practice of Surgery in Orrat Milan. and Ire land. which was ordered to be prime.(, and read a second time on Thursday next. The [louse then adjourned to Monday. [For Lair latellifpract, 4 r. see last pare] THE B S H PRESS. LONDON. , SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 109. T The l'arig Paper* of Tuesday arrived last niett. The ComMittee of the Chamber of Depnties on the Budget wet on Monday. The projt-t of the law for recruiting the army, adopted by the Cham ber of Deputies, Wll4 prerented to the Chamber of ['Errs, and was ordered to be referred to a Com mittee. The fulluoing ure extracts : PARIS, FEB. 10. The English packet Favourite, which suited from Dover on tlae 4th iustant, was wrecked at six o'clock ut night, three leagues and a' hall to the west of Calais, between N:psul and Sennegate. Fortunately the ilea was not so rough as to prevent the boat Irmo being put our, and the passeugers, I►rgir►ning with the ladies, were landed in safety. Among there was Madame the Countess of Boigeas, daughter of the Margolis of Osmond. The trial of Madaine Manson, and the other . persons charged with the murder of Funldes, it i. supposed will be further postponed Irma . the 11 tli ' of March to the third week in April. On Sunday, the Ist instant. nu EugHalt I.ntly. married to a Frettelt Co lintel, abjured the Protest- ant religion in tile church of ceremony was performed with ;peat soleinnitr. A letter from Berlin, dated the 27th January, states, that the loan iiegociated in England i 4 be come very popular in Prussia, in which attempts had been made, in the first instance, to throw it into discredit; the debts of the state•nrcumuhtted during the last seven years having rendered it W.. erissrary, and the terms having proved very whm. tagrous. The 5 per Cent. Cnii.ok were, on Mon(l*.!fa. 66 fr. 65 c.; Bank Actions, 1,542 f. A Dutch Mail has arrived, with Papers to the 10th instant. They announce, on the ittitheirity of alleged letters from the French frontiers, the inten tion of the French Government to permit -the re turn of the French exiles, and appeal to this in tention as evidence of the solidity of the ckist - - ins order of things. If we ►were really assured of this intention, the inference would be e►lroiaihle; but the reports nn this subject are contradictory ; end we find in .4 late Paper, that such of this on fortunate description of men us had settled at Frank fort, bai , e been ordered to remove to a greater dis tance from the Frerieli territory. The meet pro blt►h presumptio►► arising from► the statement* that the fact is assumed fur the sake of the u►fereocr. The conduct of the Combined Army is, we lielieve, i►nerieeptiouable ; but the strictest di►ciodir+e and most conciliatory demeanour cannot possibly recon cile the presence of a foreign force to t i lse spirit t►f HIS independent, much less of a vain-glorions nation, and it would be idle to expect the removal of that army, while a serious doubt remains of the solidity and security of the present Government. The day has not been a• yet ascertained On which the Secret Committee of either House of Parini silent will be enabled to ailroduce its tZepoit on the Internal State of the Country. Irusterdisf,, uhout one:o'clock, Lord Srwmotrrn very troespreetedly en tered the House of Lords during the hearing of an appeal cause, and laic! on the tedite some sealed ;cycle, as an appendix to his Green• Bag. w hir h, uu his motion, wtre referred to the Secret Committee. %I'e are of coarse to presume that these papers coil tsin sortie impoitant itsformation that 11;13 late!y b.:ett received by Ministers, which it must be ne cessary to have referred also to the Secret Com mitter of the House. of Commons, which, however, in this respect, differs front the Lords' Comm;five, that it can of its own power rend for any '• person>, papers, and records" it tilay think necessary fur the object of its inquiry. A Petition of rather a novel nature was last night presented by Sir FRANCIS BURDETT to the flouw of Cutworms, from the parish of St. George's, Ha nover-equate. The Petitioners prayed fur Parlia mentary Reform, and declared that utiless the state of the representation was -:mewled, they should for the future decline paying any taxes. Sir FRA NCli BURDETT defended the cotictitimi attar:lied by Petitioners to their alltgiailer, as not implying :my other than a legal resistarice to a system a u:•ie.. presentation; hut lbw House conceived their deter mination too clearly expressed to admit of being thus explained, and the Petition was rejected. Yesterday Mr. BECKETT, the Judge-Advocate, liad Hu audience of the PRINCE REGENT, at Ctiti.• liouse. and laid before his Royal IliglineNs the proceedings of some Courn—Ylarbal, and took Ilia Royal Highness's commands upon than. iVe ire informed that ■ requisiticto is now in c•ouirse of signature in Liverpool, culling upon the MAYOR of that Borough to convene a public Meet ing Of its iiihubitants, for the purpose of petition ing rarlisnient against the Bill of Indemnity, and fora Reform in the representation of the people iii the liouse of Commons. NEWCASTLE ELECTION.—This Borough was thrown into considerable bustle on Friday re'littight, by the arrival of ROBERT WILMOT, Esq. the un successful Candidate in 1815; and in the course of the day a short notice was issued by the friends rt . the sitting Members, requesting them to with hold their promises from on .1 , opposite interest.'` This was followed by an Address from Sir .1. Bout:HEY, in which he pledges himself to solicit the suffrages of the Burgesses at the I)mm - dont:lt of Parliament. Yesterday an Addreas from Sir JOHN CBETWODS, the other sitting Member, w‘ot circulated. It appearing, however, that Mr. Wit.- MOT had not actually canvassed the freemen, the ferment sussided. We merely state the Biers as they occurred, and pars over the surmises of a cu temporary, who could not speak from any thing like authority.—(Staffordshire Gazette, Feb. 12.) 1 t is said, that if Colonel MELLISIL had lived to the General Election, it was Ins intention to have (dieted himself as a Candidate for the Borough of Roston, in Lincolnshire, aid Mr. FAA's, of Cuithy Pink, now enures forward npou the saute interest. Mr. Fsz,txuat.frAr 11111 be the other Candidate in opposition to the present Members, Mr. Bu (taro. sod Mr. ManDucKs. OUTRAGE IN TILE COUNTS' WicicLow.—A ft w nights ago the out-offices of Mr. JAMES BARRY (ia tenant of TitomAs KIND, Ea.q. near Baltiogloss), who live. at Carrugeen, in the' county ‘Vicklow, al t eight miles from this town, were maliciously ret on tire, and thirteen fine witch cows burned to. death. In addition to this wanton outrage, we have been informed that there were notices posted up, witrhio4 the above mimed person to quit the cann ily (where lie has lately taken a farm), or 'that In should share the same fate with his cottle. The only reason which can be assigned for this outrage i., that Mr. UARRY is au excellent tenant, and Le pop in , lent regularly.—(Ccracto Itionsiug Poo .• .! 1