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Mr. BROODEN an.l others, from the House of Commons, informed the Howe ilea the House of Commons had err...A so their Lordships' amendments to the Hill for the preveu uf Seditidits Meetinp. The Newspapers Duties Bill was also brought up from the House of Commons, was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday, for which day the Lords were ordered to he summoned. Adjourned. LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24 Ihl9. employed in tramplers of personal, hut it wis to RIE-ct those made of real property. He should fur ther si!ate, it was not meant to affect the drawing up of wills, or to have any retrospective He concluded by orioviug for leave to bring in a Bill to prohibit unskilful persons from actiii:t as conirriyancers. Mr. GRF.NFELL, from hie own experience, more particularly in the country, could bear testimony to the character of the useful and respectable class of regisla• attorne)s. It was of course known, to every batty that there were others of a different char icier. • But be thought the attorneys had at least as much power and influence over the mode of disposing of the property of the country, as they ought with propriety he permitted to tioasews, and if the Bill of his !lon. Friend as. n i i n t en d e d i n in c-ease their powers, lie should certaiLly, at a future period, call the attention of the House to it. I‘lr. LYTTELTUSI denied that the obj.ct of his Bill wee to augment the pow*/ and isiflumice of ettorneys; that they mit;Sit gaitrectir derive saw influence froni it, lie did notwiran to deny, ea the elite of the Bill would be to discourage improper perrima—to purge the profession, if possible, of them—and of course to leave the bovines' In the bands of skilful and reputable individuals. Leave was then given to bring In the Bill. It t•l4 • read • fir►t time, and ordered for a recent' reading on the 16th of February. HOUSE OF COMMONS, THURSDAY, Dacaporta 23. Tile House met at two o'clock this day, and were summoned shortly after, in the usual form, to the Howie of Lords, In hear the Royal Assent Riven by Commission to I Bills. —(For which see Lords' Report.) On the return of the Simkins, business was not massed until half•past four o'clock. BANK NOTES. Mr. Hutchinson, from the Bank, presented Amalie 'hewing the total weekly issue of Bank Notes and Post Bills, from the 25th of last November to the 23d of De cember. _ _ On the motion of Mr.GannsilLi., these accounts were ordered to he printed. Accounts, by order of the House, were also laid on the table, of different military returns. A.SSFSSED TAXES COMPOSITION BILL. SPIRITS COUNTERVAILING DUTIES BILL Mr, Luomencerox presented Resolutions of the Commit tees:pin the Assessed Taxes Composition, and S pir it s Countervailing Duties Bills, which were read and agreed to. Mesvengers from the Lords announced that their Lord. ships hail agreed to the Bill fur amending the Irish Election Pull Bill. The Court of Exchequer Bill went through a Committee; the Report was received, 111111 ordered to be taken into fur ther consideration oil the 20th February. QUALIFICATIONS FOR BOROUGH ELECTORS. .Jr. M. WILLIAMS gave notice, that on Tues day, the e2d of Fehruary, he would more for leave to bring to a Bill, to impose tut oath upon local quallicatiou to all electors cleituiug rotes for boroughs. BAKERS' REGULATION RILL. Mr. C. CALv &yr moved the Oder of the Day for the second reading of the Bakers' Regulat i on Bill. The object of this Bill was, he said, to re new for a short time that which was now about to expire. Div Hon. Fri-iid (%Ir. Frani:land Lewis, we believe) meant to call the attention of the Douse to the general subject early in the ensuing spring. From the pressing necessity of adopting the temporary Bill, Ire hoped the House would al low it to Ko through all its stages at present. The Bill was then read a second time, com mitted, read the third time, awl passed. AFFAIR AT MANCHESTER. Mr. Bactuawma. ',rearmed a Petitiuil from John Coshroy (we think), claiming redress from the Le gishitsre for injuries he had received at Manchesier on the find 16th August.—The Petition was or dered to be printed. CONVEYANCERS' BILL. Mr. LYTTELToN moved for leave to bring in a Bill to prevent unskilful and improper persons from practising conveyancing. The Hon. Member said, that it was unnecessary for him to impress upon the House the importance that persons who took upon themselves the task of acting as con veyancers, should possess the requisite qualifica tion's for such a purpose. It was equally unneces sary for hem to allude to the serious lisses and in convenience* which resulted to individuals front mesiakes in the form of such legal instruments. The science itself required a complete knowledge of nearly all the intricate and nice points of law relat ing to the transfer of landed property. By the exercise of a profession which combined so much in formation, in ignorant and unskilful hands both the revenue and nideviduals were often considerable sufferers. It was also both just and right that the regular praciitioner. who paid so large a sum fur stamps to the Stair. should have the character of his business protected f the stigma obeli) throw,. upon it by irregular persons. In the provi►ion a of Ins Bill he by no weans intended that no persons should practi►e couveyaiocing who were not regular atturne}a Ur adicitorri—sior dud be mesh that similar qualiticrtion. should be required front them. He meant, however, to propose qualifications of a lesser kited. His Bill was iu no degree to *filet pursuum IRISH COURT OF EXCHEQUER RILL. 61 r. C. GRANT brought 111 the Rill tor the better regulation of justice its the Court of Exch. goer in WWI read a fir►t tone, sod ordered to be printed. COLLECTION OF THE REVENUE. Sir HENRY PARNELL roue to move fur paper. regarding the Collection of the Revenue, and the Civil Departments of the Naval and Military Ser vices. It moving for these papers, his first I.lj. et %MN to ascertain the total expel .e of the Collection of the Revenue; Next, the exnenue of Colt echng the Civil Departments r,f the Naval and Military Services • autl thirdly, the tapelike of the Ordnance. The lion. Baronet concluded hi. moving_ " That there be laid before the House an acConnt of th e amount of rate and per ceilinge at which the Kruse receipts of the Revenue were collected in Encland, Ireland, soil Scotland, for the last year—specifyiug the distinct amount paid in each district." l bee CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER intimated to the lion. Baronet that there could he ou desire to withhold information upon the auhject of Ilia motion, which, however, he toggested to the mover the propriety of withdrawing at them particular nun ineiit, for a reason which was inaudible iii time gal lery. Sir H. PARNELL immediately acceded, and the motion was withdrawn, CESSION OF PAIZGA. Lord COMPTON rase to put a question to his Noble Friend (Lord Castlereagh) reliving to the pittratimi of the unfortunate mantle of Mugs. who were now, by the eessloll of their country to Ali Padre. exposed to serious evil,. The particular point upon which lie now solicited information re lated to the ma n ner in which the properly of the unfortunate Parganiotes had been valued ; first. were their churches and public buildings considered in the calculation ; and, in the next place, was their public property valued ? He knew that a valuation of their private propert►• had been nude by the Commissioners. The Noble Lord was proceeding to advert to what had been said on Ih4 subject upon a former night, when he was reminded by the Speaker of the great incot.venieoce to which such • practice exposed the House. The Noble I. , trd, in resuming, begged pardon, and expresmed his aoxi ons hope that if aoy of the utiforturiate Parganiotes found their w■y into this couivry in the hope of urging their claims upon the con•ideratioo of Go eetorrient, it should be recollected by those to whom they might apply, that these poor people were now without a .home or • country, and therefore 'Well ligrly entitled to cominiveration mud indulgence. Lo►d CASTLEREAGH complained of the manner in wlrch question* were put to Members of the Govermneut without previous notice, with respect to matters not within their own particular depart ment of the public betsinea-. Under ►uch circum stances it was often impossible to communicate infoitnation with the accuracy which could he wished. With respect to the particular inquiry now made by his Noble Friend, be should reply, that lie thought When the question was regularly before the Iluuge, lie had fully explained that the public buildings at Parga were not included in the valuation. But lie had added, that the valuation fur the private interests of the inhabitants had been •o liberally provided, as almost to cover the value of the public property. A fiall and ample coma ',rogation had been secured for the property of the people, and it would have been quite impossible to have extended the valuation further. FRENCH FUNDS. Mr. Hints, in moving for an account of secu rities in the Fietich Fonds, placed at the diapiwal of the British Government, said, that at the riot. ciusiun of the war the Treaty of Aix•la-Chapelle hail been tattered into; and Ly the articles of the Treaty, certain sums in the French Fonds were put to the uccouut of the British Government. He wished to know from the Right lion. Gentle. noon opposite, whether the one.fouttli of the live null winch was to have been paid in mule mouth., from the sth of January, 1819, hail been paid ; because, a so, a sum of wit mil.iuu would be in the hands of Government, available to the current espeases of the year. lie wished also to know, what had become of a further soot of six millions a x hundred and fifteen thousand francs to which the British Government had a claino— whaher the sums were in tke bands of the Coin anismoners appointed, or whether the stuck had been ►old ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said. that no French .tuck had been sold by the Bntiah Gu veroweut. That a sum of money had been, how ever, received uy the Government wit Of the funds in question, and applied towards the cspenses if the ftwtibeatiosta of the Netherlanrl3, to who'll the Gower 1111 l eta were bound by contract. He added, that were it 1114 for the receipt of lllo•e stung, the Govertoneor wonid have tweet obliged to rain donne the how Session a .orn of rote milltom, to mak e et,od their part of the rontrve•t ;with regard to these fort.tie•it ion*. Ile emielmitil recommend. tog the Hon. Member ►o withdraw Ilia motion; Me. • said he wiblted to ki.ow from the Chancellor of the E‘eheqnte, who titer the finances of this entintry were likely to be benefited from farther 1)4% mew , ' out of the French ferle? The Ctimitert.i.nß of the EXCIIrQUER said, that the finance% would receive mute libt.llllllllele from the surplus of further payments. The 'tinfoil Irv. then withdrawn. BLASPIIEMOVA LIBEL BILL. _ _ Lord CASfLERFACM .11.,vrd the Order of the 1)1 for into a Committee oil the Bliephe. loutish Lob.l Ou the riliersion being rut that the Straker do have tier chair— Mr. BERNAL said, he could not suffer the Wee. sure to. pass without his articled opposition. Of SA the tiletiPures that had bee n lately hurried through the Manse, he thought the present Bill the most objectimiable. lie feared the causes of alarm re presented to Gsnilemeo on the state of the times, were given with a kind of ultra exaggeration. As to what hw,t been said of the law of banishment, he would pay, th it for two hundred years before, be. uirbmrut was unknown to the law of E•igland. The law which first introduced any tendency to banish mein waswars statute of the 39t h of Elizabeth. That law WWI passed and applied to the bowl of paupers in the country, and who were found to he thieves and arras sins, and hr statute stated, that those who were found incapable Of reformation should he banished beyond the sr*. There was one soloisty instance in modern timer, where the punishment was entertained by the statute law, lie meant the 39th of the King, but that was not a r ermanent measure, like the present, sod the punishment was limited to a period of seven poles. The present measure was very ob jectionable. There were difficulties incident to the punishment of banishment for life, which , perhaps, VHS not contemplated by Members in that House. lie *mild wish to know from the Law Officers of the Crown, whether banishment for life did not a m o u n t to civil death? Ile asked, did not the man who lost hi. c.iiiiitry withdraw his allegiance from the Gosernme lit of that country, and would not the children of a man suffering that punishment cease to le considered natives of the soil, and for feit their rights? Another point on which lie would wish to he informed was, how a person sufferiog that runishment was to be supported? Did tho Government meant to provide for his support? Th e was so severe as to be likely to defeat iSa own object. A jury, on the second trial of an lay diyiduel for blasphemous libel, would not be likely to pronounce a verdict against him where banitAti merit would he the necessary consequence of a *ea cond conviction. He felt that these difficulties lay in the way, and lie hoped the law officers of the Crown would he able to meet and to remove them, Mr. Maws* said, Its great objection to go lele the measure was, that the necsasity of the Bill, so far from being proved by Minister., was entirely disproved. As his Hon. Friend did not answer the questions put by an Hon. Nlember—questions which he looked on as important respecting; this measure, he (Mr. D.) would not dwell upon them, but lie would ark a question which had been put bsfore, and never answered—why (lid the Crown Officers abstain from prosecuting the libels which every one brio willing to condemn ? If they were de terred by the acquittels of Mr. Hone, then he would say that the apprehension was as unbound as the third prosecution of Mr. Hone. The ques tion wise, whether the law was sufficient or not ? Ile would spore! to the convictions that had lately taken ! bluer, and the destructive punishmeine which followed, as a proof of the strength of the existing law. He was mewilliog to address the House at a time when they seemed to manifest such impatience, bat he felt it a duty. Had any persons, three years ago, toll loin that his Hon. and Learned Friends would have been the instruments of bringing in those Bulls, he would have treated She declaration or a calumny against his Hon. and Learned Friends. No one thought anti! the debates of this Session, that an attempt would be made on the liberty of the press; on the contrary, every man expected to rue that liberty held sacred. 'the No ble Lord said, that the banishment for life was to he left to the discretion of the Judge., but what kind of discretion was it ? Why should individuals of respectability be subject to a punishment so opt pressive, so ruinous ? Was the discretion of a Judge to be the may security ? He instanced the case of Mr. Johnson, a highly respectable bookseller, who was sent to gaol for Moe months for selling a work, of the content. of which, and even of its existence, he was igoorant. Mr. Guttyl was also punished, thong; he thought the work was a classical book, plod tint a libel written in the English lengthier. If those iiiihvidualt by any accident should fall into a similar inadvertency—an inadvertency itisrpar able from 'flew business—respectable as they were, they would be left open to the penalty of banish (neut. lie contended that no such power ought in lie given to airy Judge in Etiglaiiii. Another objection to the Bill was our of a very strong na tine. Ile alluded to the clanbe *loch authorised NI result liar libels iii privaie house/. He agreed with Honourable Geutlemen, that when libels were pronounced blariihtmous and *editions, they should cease to exist ; but it did not follow that eller ttttt us powers were to be given to csrry that u .ject into effect. Thst clause he con sidered grossly oppressive and unjus►. The Bill did out g to puui>h rrii.ting an•: publishing merely. but all thus, who 'should he guilty of composing would be liable to the right of search. A moo oncecmicicted of writivg a seditious libel would he exposed to Lye his husow. his desks, hie private recesses broken oFen. The liability of private huu•ca to be subjected to that regrets, woo a grest, a PRICY. id. • ' monstrous grievance—:t was an encaut.eement ungrateful servants, also would lush to rut.. N err wooers, or to profligate informer's, se lin inlaid wish to court favour with Government. Thosetwe entities had only to make it affidav t io the Li ol Itteri•ig seen the like! In the ilcnt•n• .1 the mitt. sidnal, Nod on dig affidavit the C tut, nut the str perior Courts alone, hut the Cour s ot Quarter Session might issue their order in r e tarr it th e 1 1 , 11 , 0 e. and this order was to brexeriuted br a Justice nt•th.e Trace. Now his would ask, had the patty Itemised vise right of suiswerinz that sffielavit belo-e -.perch .1 e he had not, to %hat • state did the. Homer restore him ; and if lie had the power of a-sorrirg th• affi davit before the execution of the this Fe bad notice, and migiit remove the hurl. Thu. ire law was either very *spore-love. or spry riuguttol. He considered the right of search as r...raint door to oppression. He knew of too Act of l'er. hutment which gave a greater opening to the tild passtmos of mankind. A former Act. bad Fusco re fs" rod to as • precedent. but ilseu• the turisigerieg circumstances of it ought to have hero isslopieo, and the words " maliciously and advisedly" have been introduced from it—and the operation). ilia/earl of being for an unlimited time us it was, should hate been limited to the term of three tears. Hie principal objection to the ms:lsloe, which ape plied to the first and fourth clauses, wee, that would operate es an ex post facto low—far, from the wording of these, it would follow dart who had been convicted of a blasphemous mod sta.* , tines libel previous to the passoig of the Ac,, reed of another subsequent to it, wool., be ttletrn re-. dered subject to the penalty of bmislime•st for I' le. But undoubtedly the greatest of alI, wohont waits jug any of these he had before valet', was flue taboo. lute absence of fill necessity arising from the im perfection of the law as it now eeieted.—( Ile had heard with sorrow and shame many obsere vatiotat made of late by Hon. Members on the "re sent tendency and consequelices of the press. hot he thought that the liberty of the press ass to he looked upon nut merely as n fair weathersfriervt. but one adapted for all seasons. lie had thought, stud he apprehended he had eXpre.snd hirsist•t* wrongly on the present occasion, but lie mould t ti,t consent to lower the tour of the public ferl.og uts this important subject.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. K. Maoris said , that attempts had been made to prove that the present measure we. tweet in the law, hut they had felled; had they, ttowerer, been successful, it would not hear weighed rito him. The only question was. %briber the proale ties provided were disproportionate to the Ot t ()C.v. He thought not ; he thought it right to stun the sanction of banishment to the second conviction for a blasphemous or seditious libel, to murk in a pro. per manner the sense the House entertained of the enormity of the offence. He thought it became the House to legislate on that ground, without con sidering what Judges or Juries might do. It was his coovicaion that any impartial persist' lookie.; st ail the new inessurev, uninfluenced by party views or feelings, would come to the conclo sion that the liberty of the press would re main, after all these laws had beets enacted, as intact and inviolate as before. The security tend sureties were only designed to prevent people worts out capital getting into the printing trade. He believed it was generally acknowledged to by a very great misfortune to any country, that persons should enter into trade without souse sort of capi tal. It was particularly so in the printing trade, and the Bill did not prohibit say man from en. tering into that business who bad a small ca pital of his own, and was able to provide two or three sureties. :fir. Memo then tnetittoreed, as en instance of the improper uses to stitch the public press had been turned, the insertion of a paragraph in a newspaper (in Ireland, we under stood) tending to throw auspicious on the credit of a banking-house of great respectability soul perfect solvency, which caused a run that ultimately in volved the house in ruin. Suppose bend-1111N trete circulated, accussing Alderman Birch of haring made a vast quantity of patties of the bodies Or ltl•• rants dug out of the grave—l lasughlerf—though the flesh had been as white and as tender as that of a chicken, the story would be believed, the shop would be deserted, and the devil a patty would be sold.—( Lord laughter.)—He should vote for going into the Committee. Mr. Bonitos said, that he agreed w i th the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Martin), who had made so amus ing a speech, that the abuses of the press were very great, and called for very strong reveasive mea sures. With respect to the observations of tte Hou. and Learned Gentleman, he 11111 of opinion. that some of them did nos apply at all, and of ors of them not in the degree moil extent that lie had laid them down. He theii,after stating the provi sions of the Bill to restrain the freedom of the press. which had been renewed in the reigit of Wil liam 111. and dad not finally expire till the year 1662, in relation to the right of reach, he pro ceeded to observe, that the power in this respec t conferred by the measure under c”n.irleration, was much milder, the power being •pecitiatilly eontiiiteil to searching for such copies of works, and •tich only vs had been previously decided to be libelloua by th., proper authorities. The enactment w.ua mt.-I:fled merely to prevent the circulation of. the work, alit wax, in his opinion, suffictetitly tender. It hsd bet's urged by the opponents of the measure That the people were at variance with the new Rills, which he believed was a complete error. What reason was there to stippuee t h at the whole body of the people were tainted by • spirit of disaffection? affection had certainly existed, but the questeCot was, how far ? It was his firm opinion that the great majority of the people certainly continued onto. fected by dangerous principles, and therefore Wm was no foundation fur saying that the people were hostile to the measures. He now begged leave to enter into a little esplaastion regarding entnetliliig said by himself ou a former night, MI which veal atiaapprehension appeared to have provoiletl though he certainly bed been much more fahly