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." 1 ~...a . - „.. 9 3 / te4H) mon *di ai v kle fal WI ' q t ika tit% Ala * t444 tuAls .10.40.416111614 • 449411 " 411•11 lead gA tog* .hr i t • i t -1 Nortd:orm;;lvlr.4 ' ik . :3 e•- . Itt 1 To Sail early in April, h 0 R BATAVIA, SINGAPORE, and PENANG , the remarkably fast...railing new coppered Snow, SALMON RIVER, A I. burthen .1.:10 tons, JOHN ORA NSMORE, Cont. Dan der. Lying in the City Canal. for Freigdt or Passage apply to EDMUND READ, I, Riches -court, Lime-street. TOUR from the River in all the Month of March, and horn Portsmouth the 10th of April, FOR MADRAS and CALCUTTA, touching at MA DRIRA, the Teak Ship EXMOUTH, A 1. burthen 700 Tons, SAMUEL OWEN (IL C. S.), Commander (late of the Providence), lying in the City Canal. For Freight or Passage apply to the Commander, at the Jerusa lem coffee House ; to Messrs. Rickards ' Macki n tosh, and Co Bi s h or gate-street-Within ; or to EDMUND READ, I, Riches-court, Lime-street. This Ship is fitted expressly far conveying Passengers, for whom the accommodation will be most commodious and extensive. To sail from the River in March, and from Portsmouth the 10th of April, jOR BOMBAY Direct, the fast-sailing Teak Ship TRIUMPH, A 1. a Constant Trader; THOMAS GREEN, Commander (of the lion. Company's Service, and late of the Ship Barkworth); burthen 600 tons; lying in the City Canal. For Freight or Passage apply to Capt. Green, at the Jerusalem Coffee-house; to :Hesse... Palmer, Wilson. and Co. King's Amo rist% wile. Robert Taylor; or to EDMUND READ, • 1, Itilliii4eUrt • emesteay is the Atetilmoilthieer a r grrs, and carries an experienced Surgeon. t T a PRELIMINARY MEETING of NOBLE- It. MEN and GENTLE3IEN, held at the City of London. Tavern, on Thursday, the 12th of February, 1824 Resolved Unanimously, That this Meeting. taking into consideration the frequent loss of Flamm life by shipwreck, and believing, that by the preconcerted antipasti practical men, and t.l.e adoption of practical means, such etlansittes might often he averted, are of opinion that a NATIONAL INS'FITUTION should be formed (to be sup ported by voluntary donations and subscriptions), for the preserva tion of life in cases of SHIPWRECK on the coasts of the United Kingdom ; for afi'arding such immediate assistance to the persons rescued as their necessities may require ; for conferring rewards on those who preserve their fellow-creatures from destruction ; and for granting iclief to the destitute :as:lilies of any who may unfortu- Latsly perish in attempts to save t.te lives of others. Resolved l'oanimnusly, 'That the, following he a Provisional Committee in the interim, wib power to add to their number ; Henry Baring, Esq., M.P. John Clark Powell, Esq. Lord Aurelius Beauclerk Joseph Pulley, Esq. Heory Blanchard, Esq. John V. Punier, Esq. John William Buckle, Esq. Lord Suffield Captain Deans Dundas, R.N. Benjamin Shaw, Esq. Samuel Gurney, Esq. Christopher Tennant, Esq. George Ilibbert, Esq. Joshua Walker, Esq., M.P. Samuel Hoare, Esq. Joshua IVanion, Esq. George Lvall, Esq. Thomas Wilson, Esq., 31. P. Rev. 11. 11. Norris His MAJESTY having been most graciously pleased to signify bin benevolent intention to become the PATRON, .tad their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Voltz, CLAREItCL . and Sussex, VICE-PATRONS, The Earl of Liverpool having consented to become the PREIII. DENT, and The Archbishop of Canterbury Earl of Lonsdale Bishop of Chester I Earl Spencer Bishop of Durham Lord Amelius Beauclerk, Bake of St. Alban's and Earl of Craven Lord Suffield, VICE-PIESIDENTS ' A GENERAL MEETING will be held at the City of London Tavern on THURSDAY, the 4th of March, at Twelve for One peciselv. for the purpose of establishing such Institution ; at shieh Meeting his Grace the LORI) ARCHBISHOP of CAN TENBL'ItY has kindly intimated his willingness to take the Chair. THOMAS WILSON, Chairman. Subscriptions received by W. Sakes, Esq., Treasurer, Mansion. home.street ; and the several Bankers of the Metropolis. GENERAL ASSOCIATION OF T' SILK TRADE. .HE. 11HE Deputation appointed to confer with the Right Honourable the Chancellor of the Exchequer upon the pro. posed .11teration of the Silk Manufacture, desirous to allay the anxiety of the Trade throughout the country,. report that they, this day, had an interview, and stated the opinion of the trade, as follows ( `• We cannot, in the present circumstances of the Silk Trade, nor in any 'lteration that will follow immediately on the remission of duty, admit the possibility of introducing foreign wrought silks for home consumption. " We are firmly persuaded, that it will require the experience of years (in our opinion many years) of what may be the effect of the repeal of duty, and the removal of all restrictions from labour and capital, with the introduction of considerable improvement in the machinery employed in this manufacture, before any safe prac tical opinion can be given on this momentous question. We sub. mit, that under the factitious system on which this moot'.' facture has been conducted in this country, its various interests and establishments have become so complicated, and so dependent on prohibition and protection, that return to the principles of poll. tical economy of the present day (however just in the abstract), IN to this manufacture, matter of great practical difficulty, and ha. zardous in the experiment. " We implore the Government and the Legislature to consider, that under the existing system of prohibition, a very large capital has been embarked, on the molt yment of which a very numerous population has been taught to depend for subsistence; and that in this question the security of the former, and the subsistence of the huer, is i.tvolved. " We entreat his Majesty's Government to admit the question of retni;tiag the duty on sick, to stand entirely unconnected with any alteration in the rrohibition that the silk trade now enjoys ; as we do not hesitate to declare, that though this remission of duty, under judicious regulation, would be a boon to the trade, giving to all its departments increased activity and strength, vet, were the remission coupled with any determination to infringe on the pro. Libitory system, now, or at any time, which could be at present determined upon, it would be regarded by all duxes of the trade as a grievous calamity." Atter a patient hearing, his Majesty's Government declared that they will not separate duty from prohibition, and that the represen tations of the Deputation shall have immediate attention. JOHN PHIPPS, Secretary. Weevers' Hall, London, March 1, 1824. KING'S THEATRE. QIGNOR BENELLI respectfully begs leave to inform 17 the Nobility and Gentry, Subscribers to the O and the Public, th a t th e FIRST CONCERT of ANCI ENT pera and MODERN SACRED MUSIC, similar to the Concert, Spiri rah at Paris, will take place on FRIDAY next, the sth inst. PRINCIPAL. VOCAL PERFORMERS, 3ladame Catalani, Signora Ronzi de Begnis, Madame Yantis, and Mias Tree, Signora Caradori, Signora Biagioli. Signor Garcia, ?!.ignor do Begnia, Signor I'lacci, Signor Curioni, Signor ?ono, signor Benet:. Leader of the Band—Mr. Spagnoletti. FOR THE SOLOS, Illmrs. Lindley, Pozzi, Centroni, .lonzani, and Kiesewetter. Nl.r. Harris will preside at the Organ ; Signor Coccia at the P; AO-Forte. fhe Orchestra and Chorusses will he selected from the first Per. fitment. sod consist of upwards of 120 persons. The whole to he under the direction of Signor ROSS NI. The remaining Concerts w be on the succeeding Fridays during LOT- Weber. PART I. Orerture from the " Freychutz" • " The *yen but %Words of the Redeemer on he emits." The toad parts by 3lesdanies l'estris, aradori, Bia &h. 31eurs. tiaras, Curioni, Porto, Placci, •kaetti, and Fifty Chorus Singers - Haydn. (By particular desire), Ruk Britannia," by Madame catalani, as sung by her pith utabounded applause. in Dublin. Edinburgh, and the principal Cities in the United Kingdom. _ _ _ PART 11. Grard Symphony. by Murio Clementini, who will him "t f preside at the Piano-Forte - - Cletnentini. atin% Agimus," by Madame Catelani, with Club. neon Obligato, by Mr. Wllnian nueltch " Adelasis e Aleramo," by Itlmirs. Garcia and Curiovii - - - Mayer. - - A Solo on the Hautboy, composed and executed by Signor Centroni. Angels Ever Bright and Fair," by Madame Catalani Handel. '' Terietto." from " Elizabetta," by Meadames Vestriai Content, and Signor thocia . Rosaini. " Grea t G o d , " by Madame (' . atalani - Handel. Quinton, from " Mose in Egitto," by Signora Cara tlori. and itlersts. Garcia, Curioni, Porto. and Henetti Rossini. A Prayer, from " !lime in Egitto," by 'Madame Dia- Cali. and Messrs. ('unoni and Benetti, with the horus and a Military I.l.ind - . Rossini. Symphony. Applications respecting Boxes to be made to Mr. SEGUIN, Opera Office, 105. Qua , "rant, Repent-street. Price of Bores, for the iia Concerts—To Subscribers, 15 guineas ; to Non-su , s.cribers. 18 guineas; Nightly. 4 guineas. Atitni%: ot , to th e Pit. 7, ; Gallery, 3s. 6d. The Lui:ccrta will begin at Half-past Seven o'clock. Tibt I, .. 0 .... A .• (......„. . ~ ~,e6Ol lIVI .1".. • . 0 • it'. 1:4: .14 4 .1, 1..141 : ' ••1, ;,,,,..: NC/. 696! I i~ r$ 14 ..0 r i ~~ ~ 4 LONDON, TUESDAY: MARCH 2, 1824. EAST INDIA HOUSE, FEB. 18. 1 824. T HE COURT of DIRECTORS o f t h e UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENGLAND, trading to the EAST INDIES, do hereby give Notice, That a GENERAL COURT of the said COMPANY will be held at their House in Deadenhall-street, on WEDNESDAY, the 3d Nlarch next, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon, at the desire of nine Proprietors, agreeably to the following kttev, To the Honourable the Court of Directors of the East India Company. " London, Feb. 18, 1814. " GENTLEMEN—We, the undersigned Proprietors, duly qua_ lifted, request yo u w ill ca ll a C ourt of Proprietors of East India Stock at the earliest convenient day, for taking into their considera tion the services of the late Governor-General the Marquis of Hastings. " Your obedient 'tenants, " JAS. SHAW I " HOUC:I AS KINNAIRD " C. FLowEtt " Josurst HUME " J. C.NILLIERS " RAN.H.E JACKSON " ED. CODRINGTON " Tuos. MURDOCH " ALEX. JOHNSTON." JOSEPH DART, Secretary. TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IHAVE the honour to inform you that it is not my in tention to offer myself to fill the heat in the Direction, which has become vacant by the death of your late highly-respected and able Director, Si? T. Reid, Bart. I beg at the same time to state very respectfully, that I propose to come forward on the occasion of the next opening which may occur, when I shall have the honour of submitting more fully the --a- tisk arlsicati Y►esume to solicit y our countenance and sup. •'.- Your faithfulanTobedient Servant, HENRY ALEXANDER. 37, Upper Harley -street, Ist March, 1824. TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. !AMES AND GENTLEMEN, N consequence of the lamented death of Sir Thomas Rcid, Bart., I take the liberty of soliciting the honour of Tour votes and support as a CANDIDATE for the VACANT SEAT in the DIRECTION of your AFFAIRS. Pern.it ri`e to express my warmest acknowledgments for the kind encouragement which I have received since the last election : also most respectfully to entreat the continued exertions of my friends, it being my determination to proceed to the ballot. I have the honour to be, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your most obliged faithful Servant, J. PETTY DICSPRATT. New Broad-street, March I, 1824. TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. LADIES AND GENTLEXEN, IN consequence of the lamented D eat h o f y our l ate highly respectable and esteemed Director, Sir Thomas Reid, I beg leave again to introduce myself to your notice as a CAN. DIDATE for supplying the Vaaocy occasioned by that regretted event. In my Circular of the lath Nov. 18M, I took the liberty of sub miuir.g to you the public grounds upon which my hopes of obtain ing your support and suffrages are founded ; and I now lveg to renew the expression of my resolution to proceed to the b.stot at the ensuing Election. As I understand that some doubts have been entertained respect ing my eligibility of being chosen a Director, and that an ob jection has been started to nil being chosen, founded on the sup position of my being a Pensioner of the Crown, I think it right to declare that I am not a Pensioner of the Crown, and that I am in possession of the opinion of the hi g h est L aw thorities in this country, that I am not within the disqualifying clause of the 13th Geo. 111. cap. 63, sec. 2. Allow me to return my most sincere acknowledgments for the kird reception I have alrtady experienced from you, and to add that I shall use my best exertions to pay my respects to all the Proprietors; should any omission take place, 1 trust you will have the goodness to ascribe it to accident, and the shortness or the pe riod that may intervene before the Election. I have the honour to be, with the greatest respect, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your must obedient humble Servant, ROBERT T. FARQUHAR. Bruton -street, 3larch I, 11121. SIR It. T. FARQUIIAR'S (1):111‘11T1'EE will SIT DAILY at the LONDON T.II'ERN, Dishopilote-street, where all Ccmimutications relative to his Election will be thank fully received. Committee Room, London Tavern, Marth 1, 1824. TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. LADIES •ND GENT LEMES N consequence of the I Death of your late highly 1_ estimable Director, Sir Thomas Reid, I have the honour to inform you, that I shall redeem the pledge which I gave you on the 27th November last, by proceeding to the Ballot on the occasion of the present Vacancy. In soliciting your attention to the subjoined Resclutiors, passed at a Meeting of my Friends, permit me to add, that the numerous assurances of support which I have since received, while they allord me every prospect of success, call for my warm acknow ledgements ; and I venture to assure you, that should I be placed by your favour in the high and responsible simation to which I aspire, my time and attention will be devoted to its arduous duties, and my best exertions will be used to maintain and promote the various and important interests which are entrusted to those who have the direction of your affairs. I have the honour to be, with great respect, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your faithful and obedient Servant, H. ST. G. TUCKER. No. 3, Upper Port:and-place, Ist March, 11'24. Mr. Tucker's Committee will sit daily at the City of London Tavern, Bishopagate-stmt, where any communications from his friends will be thankfully received. A T a Numerous and highly Respectable MEETING 111 of PROPRIETORS of EAST INDIA STOCK, held at the City of London Tavern, on the 27th Nov. 1823, Sir THOMAS BARING, Bart. 31. P. in the Chair, The following Resolutions were passed unanimously :- Ist. Proposed by Sir Alexander Johnston, and seconded by George Cumming, Esq. M.P. " That as the administration of the affairs of the British posses sions in India involves the exercise of every function appertaining to a great and powerful Empire, it is of essential importance that among the Members of the Executive Body appointed to regulate and control the conduct of the Local Authorities, there should be found a due proportion of individuals. qualified by emp!oyment in the several departments of the public service in India, for the efficient discharge of that great and responsible duty. 2d. Proposed by John Martin, Esq. M.P. and seconded by Wm. Remington, Esq. " That Henry St. George Tucker, Esq., hating, in the course of active service in India, comprehending a period of twenty-three years, discharged the functions of several of the highest Civil Offices in India, especially those of the Financial, Revenue, and Judicial Departments, with a degree of ability and success that re peatedly obtained for him the recorded approbation of the Autho rities both at home and abroad (as fully set forth in the official documents circulated with Mr. Tucker's Address to the Proprietors of the Ith May, 11121, to which this Meeting particularly requests the attention of the Proprietors of East India Stock), that Gentle man possesses ' in the opinion of this Meeting, fair pretensions to aspire to the honourable and important situation of a Member of the Executive Rudy of the East India Company." 3d. Proposed by Thomas Weeding, Esq., and seconded by Thomson Mulkey, Esq. " That the accession of knowledge and experience which Mr. Tucker would bring to the Court of I)trectors, in addition to gene ral talents and acquirements, must be deemed peculiarly valuable in the financial and judicial branches of the Adniinistration, in which he held successively the high and responsible situations of Accountant-General, Judicial and Revenue Secretary, and Secre •ary in the Financial and Colonial Departments. dth. Proposed by Lcwis Loyd, Esq. and seconded by Robert Sheddon, Esq. " That, in addition to the qualiticatiors above noticed, Mr. Tucker has had an opportunity of acquiring so extensive know ledge of the principles of commerce, and of their practical applica tion to the reciprocal interests of India and the Mother Country, in consequence of his having held the office of Public or Commercial Secretary to the Supreme Government, and of his having been placed in other situations involvdtg the practical details of com merce upon a very extensive scale. " btli. Proposed by Richard Campbell Razett, Esq. and seconded by Edward Fletcher, Esq. " That on the ground of these high qualifications, the Proprie tors present at this Meeting, actuated by the desire of upholding the weight and efficacy of the Executive Body, earnestly recom mend to the Proptittors of East India stock the election of Henry St. George Tucker, Esq. to a Seat in the Direction on the first va cancy which may occur, and pledge themselves to employ their strenuous exertions fur the accomplishment of that object." THOMAS HARING, Chairman. Sir Thomas Baring having quitted the Chair— It was moved by Sir Alexander Johnston, seconded by Thomson Ilankey, Esq. and resolved unanimously, '• That the Thanks of this Meeting be given to Sir Thomas Baring, Bart. foe his very able conduct in the Chair." SALES BY reTION. ELTHAM FARM, KENT. FREEHOLD ESTATE, LAND-TAX REDEEMED. GENTEEL FARM-HOUSE, WITH OFFICES, GARDEN, AND NEARLY TWO HUNDRED ACRES OF LAND, AU lying compact, and most eligible for Occupation and Investment, By Mr. ROBINS, (Of Warwick Houma, Regent-street). At ()areaway's Coffee-house, 'Change-alley, Cornhiil, On THURSDAY, the oth of April. 1824, at Twelve o'clock, IN ONE LOT. A MOST VALUABLE FREEHOLD ESTATE, comprising ELTIIAM PARK FARM, with a pleasant substantial Dwelling-house and Offices enclosed Yatd, Stables for Six Horses, a Loft over Chaise-house, *mess-room , Wood-house, mid Out-buildings; a capital Bart, and Cow-house for Sixty uws ; Cart-sheds, &c. surrounded by nearly TWO HUNDRED ACRES of Capital Rich Produeti;ekietnriiiacrit;Oid; Land, divided in convenient Inclosures, with most bikutiful Sites for Building, aiu adjoining the high Road from Elthum to Woolwich; and cuumunicating with Eltham Park to Elthatn and Shooter's Hill, only Eight 31iles front London; plenty of fine Water; very eligible for Investment, and for the Residence or a Gentleman fomPdt Agricultural pursuits. A most capital Property for Gen tlemen In the Building Concern, as the grounds arc diversified, and well calculated for erecting Villas commanding extensive Views, etc. By Mr. STANLEY, At his Rooms, 21, Old Boot[-street THIS DAY. Genuine COLLECTION of P ICTURES, entirely CM. the Property of a Gentleman, an eminent Collector, removed front his country residence ; comprising Specimens of Berghem, P. Potter, Mieris, Van Tol, Du Jardin, I,ingelbach, Romeyn,Van llarp, R achel Ruysch, Janson,. Palamedes, Stoffe, F. 801, Mire veldt, De Koningh, Carlo Dolci , Lairesse, Tiepolo, and various other distimmishet3lastent, Italian and Flemirl. May be viewed two days preceding the Sale, and Catalogues had. PLATE, GOLD 'WATCHES, JEWELS, &c. By Messrs. 111ACH I N and DEBENHAIII, At their Auction Rooms, ?ti, King-street Covent-garien, On THURSDAY, the dth inst. at II o'clock, LEGANI' Brilliant Rings, Brooches, Pins, loose _ Brilliants, of the finest water , Amethyst and Pearl Suits, richly chased Fine, Gold Chains, Seal., and Rem and other fash ionably Jewellery ; Gold, Silver, and Tur:oise-shell Musical and other Snuff Boxes; modern Plate, in Tea Sets, Cups, Tankards, Waiters, Coffee Pots, Spoons, Forks, &c.; superior Repeating, Duplex, Lever, Horizantal, and Plain Watces, in Gold and Silver Cases, and by the most esteemed makets ; Plated Goods and other Effects. The entire property of Mr. Norman, Princes-street, and Mr. Purse, London-wall. May be viewed, and catalogues had at the Rooms as above. This day is pu blished , price 3s. lid. EMANCIPATION; or, Practical Advice to British Slayeholders; with Suggestions for the (knead Improve ment of West India Affairs. By T. S. WYNN, Formerly resident in the West Indies. Sold by W. Phillips, George-yard, Lombard -street: J. and A. Arch, Cornhill ; T. and Underwood, 32, Fleet -street; and J. Ilatchard and Sun, Piccadilly. PARLIAMENT.IR/' INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS, 31oNDAY, 1 11.11 CH 1. Viscount Goal. took the oaths and his seat, as a Representative Peer of Ireland, in the room of the late Lord Powerscourt. 3111.1T.1RV CANA L. A person front the Office of the Royal Military Canal Com missioners, presented an account of the tolls and rates, and also of the disbursements of the Royal 31ilitary Canal, to the Slat of December, 1.623. TRE.ISURY PAPERS. A person from the Treasury presented several miscellaneous papers and returns, in pursuance of the order of th e House. II EXCEWER nrm.s BILL, lee. The House went into is Committee on the Transfer in Aids*Bill, the Exchequer Billy (15.000,000) Bill, the Irish Courts of Law Bill, and the Reciprocity of Ironies Bill, the several clauses of which passed without amendments. On the House resuming, their Lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, 310WDAY, Mmicu 1. The SPEAKER took the Chair at four o'clock. TAX ON FOREIGN WOOL. Sir J. ASTLEY presented • petition front the uoollen manu. facturess of ►►'iltshirc, against the repeal of the tax on foreign wool.—Laid on the table. Sir J. ASTLEY presented a petition from Mr. R. Gourley, praying the House to take into consideration the condition of the English peasantry. The petition being read , stated that that Honourable House had evinced a great disposition to legislate for the amelioration of the negro slaves, but dui petitioner represented that these slaves were in &situation far preferable to many of the lower classes in England, who were compelled to break stones on the mad, which, after all, did not procure them more than a bare sustenance ; whereas the negro slave had an estate of his own, on which a day was set apart for him to labour, and with the produce of that la bour he could support his family. The petitioner prayed the House to take these circumstances into its consideration, and to ex tend more of its sympathies to the sufferings of the English pea santry.—Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. SLAVE TRADE. Sir W. ROIVLE V prese n ted a petition from the town of Ains worth in Suffolk, against the Slave Trade—Laid on the table. Mr. LEGGE presented a petition from Banbury, against the Slave Trade.—Ordered to be printrd. Mr. TREIAYNE presented a petition from the inhabitants of the town of Lynn, against the Slave Trade.—Laid on the table. Sir T. LETIIIIIIIDGE presented a petition from the inha bitants of Wellington, in the County of soniersetshire, against the Slave Trade.—Ordered to lie on the table. COAL DUTY Sir WM. ROW LEY presented a petition from the parish of Bromley, against the duty on coals.—Laid on the table. !Sir. CR.kWLEY presented a petition from the town of Here ford, against the duty on coals.—Laid on the table. Mr. FLEAIING presented a petition from the parish of Ems worth, against the duties on coals.—Laid on the table. Mr. Alderman IVOOD presented a petition from the inha bitants of the Ward of Bishopsgate, praying for an equal taxation on coals. RECOVERY OF SMALL DEBTS. Sir WAL INOILBY presented a petition from the town of Lincoln, praying the House to adopt the Bill for t h e easy re revery of Small Debts.Laidon the table. LICENCE DUTY. - Sir W. INOILBY presented petitions from the innholdcrs of the towns of Lowth and Iloincitstle, igainat the licence duty.-- Laid on the table. Mr. FLE3IINO presented a petition from the licenced victual ler, ache town and county of Southampton, aguinst the Licence Duties.—Laid on the table. Mr. SY KES pmented a petition from Hull, against the Licence Duty. Mr. STUART WORTLEY presented petitions from the inhabitants of the city of York and town of Skipton, against the Licence Duties.—Ordered to lie on the table. dren. An amicabie suit had been commenced in Chancery in the year 1014, and hail continued till the year 11119, before which pe riod, neither the creative,' nor the family sv'ere enabled to sill a freehold estate which Mr. Sleeman had possessed ; they Were at length enabled to sell, but they had not yet received one shilling flout it ; they had been given to understand that this delay was owing to the manner in which the business of the Court of Chan cery was conducted ; the petitioners therefore prayed for an inquiry into the practice of the Conn of Chancery. The petition was laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. BRITISH MUSEUM. Mr. BANKS brought up the annual returns of the British Museum. LORD CHANCELLOR AND MR. ADERCRO'MBY. ' Mr. A BERCROMIIT rose. and said that a sense of what was owing to himself, a sense of what was owing to the House, and a sense of what was owing to the profession of which he was a member, alike concurred in inducing him to bring before the }louse an attack that had been made on their privileges from the bench of justice, and that too, by the Lord high Chancellor of England. Ile would first state to the House the manner in which he had learnt that the observations had beer made by Lord Eldon, and he would then state what he had actually said in that House, and what the Lord Chancellor had chi • god him with saying, amid then the House would be in a condition to draw its owu conclusions. On Saturday morning last, he (Mr. A bercromby) was in the Court of Exchequer, when a gentleman, a member of his own profession, with whom he was not in habits of communication, addressed him, and stated that he had just heard a reply from the Lord Chancellor as to what he (Mr. A.) had said oa Mr. Williams's motion ; and on his • • . that was he was told that the Lord Chancellor h a d ni the sending forth an utter falsehood to the public. Gentleman's assuring him of the accuracy of what lie had e proceeded immediately to Lincoln's-inn, to ascertain the -• and the short-hand writer, who was in Court taking g; and he then put notes, which he had written :stay, ...to his hands, where the words "utter falsehood" were interlined. He asked the short-hand writer for a copy of his notes, which he declined giving, but allowed him to skew his original Dotes to another short-hand writer, who read the notes, and they were just the same as had been stated to him. He 01r. Aber cromby) subsequently saw another Gentleman of his own proles siun, and one on whose honour and integrity he placed the fullest reliance, who had been in Court, and to whom he had stated what had b-. 91 read to him. That Gentleman admitted having heard the whole of it, and his only doubt as to its accuracy was whether the Chancellor had said an " utter falsehood" or " another false hood ;" if indeed the latter was the phrase, it made it the more in tolerable. After an interval, when he had had time for reflection, he again saw the same Gentleman who at first mentioned the subject to btm in the Court of Exchequer, and he then asked him if he was sure the Lord Chancellor had iinputed to hint the publishing an utter falsehood. and whether it might not apply to sonic one else; and he was told that it could not, for the only two Members who had taken part in the debate against the Court of Chancery were his lion. Friends the Members for ‘Vinchelsea and Lincoln, and their line of argument had no reference to the subject of appeals and re hearings.as must be in the recollectim of the House andas it stands in evidence in the report on that debate. lie did not doubt that when Lord Eldon had made use of these remarks, he had impressed those who heard hint with the notion that he (Mr. A.) had been guilty of uttering gross falsehoods, and he should wish to know what entitled Lord Eldon to do such things with impunity. In the course of the morning, when he had satisfied himself, from all the quarters which he had mentioned, of the exact words which the Lord Chancellor had used, he went to a Gentleman, a Member of that House, and told him that he should take time to consider as to the course he should pursue; but that, if he did not alter his mind, be should bring the subject before the House. He had since communicated with the Gentleman to whom he had made this state ment, and he (Mr. ,Vbercrotubv) had no doubt that he had com municated with Lord Eldon. Ile had now stated the means he had used to discover what the Chancellor had said, he would read from a Newspaper the observations that had been made by Lord Eldon, and he must say, that what was stated in that Newspaper, as hav ing fallen from the Lord Chancellor, agreed in every respect with what he had heard. He should therefore assume that it was cor rect. The Hon. Member then read as follows : " Lord Chancellor—As it has been represented that the person who sits here does mischief by hearing certain motions without the signature of Counsel, that is to say, when motions have been made to discharge an order of the Vice-Chancellor, or the Master of the Rolls, that such motions have been brought on without the signa ture of Counsel, I have only to state, that having been in this Court since the year 1778, whenever a motion has been made before the Master of the Rolls, which he has refused to allow, or which he did allow, act: upon an application to the Chancellor, to vary what the Master of the Rolls had done, or to destroy it alto gether, and so again whenever a motion has been made before time nee -Chancellor, and Counsel have been of opinion that the. motion had been improperly granted or discharged, the parts , has always in all the s e c a s e s , been at liberty to move %rain, with a view to set the mattes right, and if the signature of Counsel be ne cessary to alter the practice of the Court, as it has obtained since the period I have mentioned, all I can say 1., that I have not a right to tax the King's subjects in that way. With respect to ap peals and rehearings, it is supposed that I have heard them on new evidence, and thereby brought discredit on some part of the Court. It is an utter falsehood ! On rehearing, it is always competent to read the evidence given in the cause, though it was not read in the Court below, either by the Counsel or the Judge • further than that the Court does not go. On a pp ea l s it on ly r eads what has been read in the Court below ; and that psactice I have never de parted from in any one instance; therefore, really, belote things are so represented, particularly by gentlemen with gowns on their backs, they should at least take care to be accurate, for it was their business to be so." „ Mr. Agur.—Upon motions it would be impossible for Counsel to certify. ” The Lord Chancellor.—Such motions as I have referred to have been made for half a century, and never with the signature of Counsel; and yet the public are told that the signature of Conn. *el is necessary by Act of Parliament, and that I have dispensed with it." Now he (Mr. Abercrombv) must state, that there was nothing at that time before Lord Eldon that could have called for these ani madversions • he travelled out of his way to make them , and therefore such an attack must have been premeditated. There were two things which he had no doubt would have been observed by lion. Members who heard him; they were—that no men tion was made in those remarks of either the House of lominons or of himself; yet who could read them, and not know that they had reference to the debate which had taken place on the motion of his lion. Friend the Member for Lincoln ? Ile would beg of the House to recollect who it was that had made these observations— the Lord High Chancellor of England ; and to recollect also that he had made then. from the seat of justice. He could not sup pose that any person would rise anti say it was not a subject in which that !louse could interfere, and that there was no proot that the remarks applied to that House or any of its Members. He would assume that that House was meant, and that he was the person charged with having uttered falsehoods ; and he felt that if be submitted quietly to such an aspersion he could not too soon be obliged to quit, not only that House, but his profession also, aid even the society of gentlemen. If it should appear that these ob servations were made on a statement that had never been made, and that it was fabricated, for the purpose of contradicting it, he should like to know what would be the condition of Mem bers of the professio of the law who were Members of that House ? He would next, with the permission of the House, proceed to the statement which on a former night lie had made. As there was no Hoe. Member in that House who spoke with less premeditation than he did, so he would not undertake to vouch for the accuracy of the exact expression which he used in the debate of a former night; but he was confident that he could safely lay the truth and substance of everything he then said faiiy before the House. To that part of his statement on which the Lord Chancellor of Eng land had thought proper to comment so severely, he now meant to direct the attention of the House. It SW that in which he stated, that " one most important object of the Commissioners to inquire into, was that which regarded the effects of the interference of the Lord Chancellor with the practice of the Vice-Chancellor's Court." The three points which formed the subject of the discussion on the former, were as related to the practice of the Court—in appeals, in rehearings, in motions, and in olden of bankruptcy. The practice of the Court front 1813 to 1819, was the standard of re ference to which he mule allusion at that time. rp to that time, which was the time in which the N'ice.Chancellor's Court was established, the practice had been established on a ground for which there were strong reasons fur alteration in the present con dition of the Courts of Equity. One principal object expected to be derived from the institution of that Court, was to fulfil the pur pose of excluding and rut including appeals. The signature of Counsel in such instances was desirable; for it amounted to a se curity to the Court against speculative and vexatious appeals. But although this was the practice in cases of appeal, yet a different one prevailed with regard to motions. In cases of motions heambefore the Vice-Chancellor, and referred from him to the Lord Chan cellor, the suitors, after a discussion in the liwer court, saw the weakness of their case, which they supp lied by new affidavits and fresh evidence. Thus the Lord Chancellor and the Vice-tlhancellor came frequently to a different decision on the same motign, and collision of opinion between the two Judges was what he (Mr. Abercromhy) thought highly derogatory from the respect which W 14.1 due to the inferior Court This was a practice which certainly was a fitting one for the Commiseioners to investigate, and for this statement of his opinion Coat it was so, he was cen sured and reviled. N 1 ha: does the Lord Chancellor himself say I with regard to motions ? His own words were, " I have only to state, that having been in this Court since 1778, whenever a nio tion has been made before the Vice-Chancellor to vary what the Master of the Rolls had done, or to destroy it altogether ; and so again, whenever a motion has been made before the Vice-('han cellor, and Counsel have been of opinion that the motion had been improperly granted or discharged, the party has always in all those ' cases been at liberty , to move again, with a view to set the matter right ; and if the signature of Counsel be necessary, to alter ill , : practi.e of the Court as it has obtained since the period I have mentioned, all I can say is, that I have not a right to tax the King's subjects in this way." The Chancellor here says, that on the renewal of motions before hint, signatures of Counsel were s iewA, ac. e May be viewed, by applying on th e Premises, wbete Particulars inquiring what du may be had ;at the Ca s tle, Eltham ; Bull, Shooter's Hill; Royal imp uted to hint th e Mortar , Woolwich ; (erten Man, Blackheath; Red Lion. Lewis- stated, O he p rocee d the G entlem an . ham ; Crown and Scept re , an d Ship, Greenwich; of Messrs. Jen- full truth of it, arc kin; James, gad Abbot, So* ili t.g A]pot at Garraway's; and of 3lr. Robins, N 0.170, — where a Flin dir die pot o f th e Prucei t;state may be seen. sating him it he I him that morning GENUINE PICTURES.—ONE ENTIRE PROPERTY. out fairly, into hi, FASHIONABLE HATS. _ .____ ) 0 . BERT FliASliCi,corn ---- er 11:-eci:street, Barbican, It IN now Selling Kuper's'. SUPERFINE IIFAVER HATS, warrantril ‘Vaterpronl. of excellent quality and List colours, at the low Price of ONE OUINEA. Curntr of Red Crets-strect. HOUSE TAX. Sir WTI. GUISE presented a petition from the inhabitant householders of the town of Cheltenham, praying for a repeal of the tax on Houscs.—Ordered to be printed. IRISH SHIPPING. Mr. 14'31. IVILLIAAIS moved for a return of the number of ship., and the amount of their tonrage engaged in the Irish trade, between Jan. 5, 11117, and Jan. 5, IR:U.—Ordered. DUTY ON DOGS. Mr. CURIVEN presented a petition from the owners of sheep parks in Cumberland, against the duty on doh—Laid on the table. FIRST FRUITS. Sir J. NEW PORT moved that there be laid before the House, a return of the payments made by the Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland, for First Fruits within the last ten years. The lion. Bert. moved for the amine returns from the Archbishops and Itightops of England, observing that they were necessary preliminaries of the motion of which he had given notice.—Ordered. IHr. AVAIIIIE presented a petition front the inhabitants of Ma ry-la-bonne. against bear-baiting and other demoralizing sports. — Ordered to be laid on the table. LEATHER TAX.. Lord ALTIIORP preset- ted petitions from the inhabitants of the towns of Perth and Staffind, against the Leather Tax. 3lr. CALCRAFT remarked, that he thought this a tax which ought, of all others, to be repealed, and enforced its serious con sideration on the Chamber of the Exchequer. Ordered to lie on the table. DELAYS IN THE COURT OF CHANCERY. Lori! J. RUSSELL presented a petition from the inhabitants of the County of Devon, praying the House to inquire into the prat. tier of the Court of Chancery. The Noble Lord stated that the petitioners were creditors of a person of the name of Sleeman, a brewer, who VIM indebted to them to the amount of 2P,0P01. but who it was supposed was possessed of property sufficient to defray these debts, and to kart: a large surplus to his widow and five chi!- , rith rot affixed ; sole (31r. Abercromby) saW too; and he called be attention to the omission of signatures in the cares of renewed mo tion. as contrasted with the practice that prevailed with regard to appeals. Although such may have been the practice formerly, the institution of the Vice-Chancellor's Court was a ground fur altera tion in the practice. It should be borne in mind, that the Master of the Rolls did not hear special motions—if he were not correct is saying so, the Solicitor-General would corr hon. [The Soli citor-General intimated anent seems the tabl e. There was there fore no ground for likening the practice which Prevailed before the institution of the Vice-Chancellor's Court. to that which abould have prevelied after its establishment.. as the Vice-Chancellor en tertained special motions, and the Master of the Rolls did not. —ln stating this matter on d former night, he bad only said that it was a fide subject of Inquiry, and that the Commissioners ought to direct their attention towards it. This custom presented a new stave of feces, and on new Matter was the decision of the Lord Chancellor formed. It had Ken also attributed to him that he had referred to "an Act of Parliement which dhected that rid appeal should be heard on new evidence," and that he had ap plied it to motions first heard before the Vice-Chancellor, and after wards referred to the lend Chancellor. He (Mr. Abercromby), on the contrary, had even contrasted the propriety of the practice in WC'S of apace) and in cases net down for further directions, with the practice as regarded motions ; so that the Lord Chancellor not only attributed expressions to him which he did not utter, but even rvcrscd what he did say. (Hear.) Signatures of counsel were dis pmsed with when the blaster of the Rolls had but very few motions before him, and when there was no A'ice-Chancellor's Coup. Therefore with the chanire of system there ought to be an improve ment also ; and some regulation should be introduced which would prevent persona torn takings casein': of thehands oftheViee-Chan cellar, because his decision did not please the disappointed suitor, and bringing it before the higher Court. These were the opi nions which stated on a fornier night ;he entertained them ; the exp n of them was a duty that be owed the country, and for at his duty was he represented as a degraded cheesed; mid ass person who had Obliged hisesat in Parliturent. When and where did the Lord Chancellor speak thus of me ? Wu I present? lkiore *hoot did he say so? Before those who, if he had not a farthing but what he derived from professional pursuit", would effeet his ruin. To whom did he sneak thus ? To reporters who, before the ink was dry with which they had taken down the expression, sent forth to the public this charge and imputation on my character ? And who was it he toak an opportunity of thu s calumniating? An frdnible member of his own profession, to whom his observations were likely to be peculiarly prejudicial and injurious. If he (Mr. Abercromby) had been present, and heard the expression of the Lord Chancellor, he bored that he would have felt te; scnaitively to have remained alto ether silent ; yet if' he attempted to speak to explanation, or in vindication of his conduct it would have been before one who had the power of preecnting him from doing so. If he persisted, the Lord Chancellor might fir. thee exercise his power ' and commit him to the Fleet. Th us h e would have been left defenceless; and if this House would not afford redress and protection to hint, he was at a loss to know front what source he was to expect it. If there was a complaint that due caution had tint been observed, front whom, he would ask, wax most caution requisite? whether from him, in the statement he had made, and the cerrectnees of which he was prepared to substantiate, or in the Lord Chancellor, who had impeached its fidelity ? If he was wanting in caution in any statement he had made, he stood there in that !louse amongst his equals, where, if he had advanced say thing that was false a inaccurate, there were many about him, his superiors in ability, who would be ready to confute and bring hill to shame. Brit how different was the situation of the Lord Chancellor, who had sought, on the seat of justice, to calumniate sad destroy his fa m e before the profession of which he was a mem. bet, and that too in a place and at a time where the accused party had no right or opportunity of reply. And where could he final satisfaction for the injustice rendered hint, if denied it here? Was he to appeal to the Court of Chancery, and expose himself to the delays of weeks, and even perhaps years, which delays were attri buted to an :liable infirmity, and anxious sensitiveness in the mind of the Noble Lord who presided there. War he to wait for the filing of bills and supplemental bills, and patiently wait the termination of proceedings which would probably never have an end ? From whom did he learn that he (3lr. A.) made the state. meat which induced the Lord Chancellor to impute a falsehood to him ? There were legitimate persons to whom he might have ape pealed, and who he was sure would have accurately informed boa a what he said, and who would not have entertaiutd such a state ment as formed the subject of his censure. Had he applied to the Honourable Member for Tewkesbury or Exeter, he would not have ban supplied with information that conld have warranted such a charge. But supposing that he had made the statement, anti that even it was (as it was not), incorrect, what right or authority had any Judge to interfere with the privileges of debate in that House? If such a right were tolerated or allowed, if such a controul over their opinions ras exercised by a Lord Chancellor or Lord Chief Justice, what Member of that Home, who was of his profession, could fearlessly discharge his duty to the ? What protection as there for a Barrister in that House, if a Judi-e were perm-teed to be at liberty to animadvert, according to his caprice, on the si n- I demon' which in the discharge of his duty, he had expressed „he I preceding night in that House ? If the injustice arising from such presumption were strong in his case, how much stronger would it be in the case of Barrister, who practised in the particular Court of the Judge who had indulged in such animadversions ? And still more strong again would it be, if the subject, as in the present instance, narrowly affected his own feelings.. A young man of aspiring hopes and unblemished character might be thus extinguished, and his prospects in life for ever blasted, if such tyranny and despotism were permitted to prevail. In what consisted the privileges of that House, if such annnadversion and such calumny of one of its blembers, for the discharge of his duty, were now permitted to pass unnoticed ? And what must be the effect of his motion, as regarded members of (he bar in that House, but to intimidate them in the discharge of their duty. and, as regarded the bar generally, to convert them from a useful body into a spirit less class of men, ready to surrender their rights and lay them prostrate at the feet of the Lord Chancellor of England ? if he made a thousand false statements, he would still contend that it would not warrant or justify the manner in which the Lord Chancellor had commented on his statement. He had invaded the privileges of debate, and the adoption or rejection of his mu tion would determine whether thi s H ouse was disposed to abandon or maintain those privileges lie had now detailed to the House the manner and the place in which this calumnious charge had been made against him ; he had re-stated what he had said on a for mer night, to shew that it did not justify the accusation ; and he had brought it before the House, in obedience to the duty which he felt he owed to his own character, to the privileges of that House of which he was a Member, and to the independence of the Ear. (Haar, hear.) He would at present confine himself to a preliminary motion which, if acceded to, must be followed up by ulterior pro. endings which would tend to prevent the recurrence of a similar breach of the privileges of that Home as that of which he had that night occasion to complain. He would, for the present, conclude, by moving that " Mr. Farquharson, of 133, Strand, be directed to attend at the Bar of this House to-morrow." Mr. CANNING mid, that he was ready to go as far as any of the friends who surrounded the Honourable Gentleman, in admit ting that the expression of which he complained must have natu rally excited his indignation. He was also ready to admit the ter. lent and moderation with which he satisfactorily vindicated him self from its applicability to him. As far as his recollection of the debate on a former evening served him, he thought it similar to the statement which he had made that evening to the Home. As he was an unlearned person, he was not able to follow the Hon. Gentleman through the several legal distinctions he had draw n, but what he stated this evening was what lie understood him to state on the night that the debate alluded to took place. The Hon.. Gentleman then did not, in his opinion, go out of his way in his address to the House ; but the tendency and effect of his obser vations appeared to him not to impute individual blame, but to censure a faulty system. (Ileat, hear.) Such was his general jos presaion, and if his testimony was referred to, in reference to the speech of the lion. Gentleman, it would go to sustain the accuracy of his statement, and to colucide hi the opinion that he did not indulge in any observations which went beyond the fair license of discussion. But whilst he went so far, and whilst this was his consciousness of what had fallen from the Honourable Gentleman, and whilst the confidence of the Honourable Gentle. man himself was so strong as to the accuracy of his statement, yet, notwithstanding that consciousness and that confidence, he must remind him that there was one important link in the chain of the transactions which he had dropped it was the manner in whiclt the communication of his observations was made to the Lord Chancellor ; for if the channel through which they were conveyed was an incorrect report, the observations of the lionourable Mem ber were made liable to a perverted meaning. Whilst he disclaim ed ability on his part to perceive the discriminative effect of the differences discussed, the merits of which those who were acquainted with the practice of the Court could better understand, he was sure that nothing had fallen from the llon.3leinber calculated to give offence. But in the report which was given to the Lord Chan cellor of his speech, a colour was given to it calculated to excite a similar feeling of indignation in the mind of that Noble Lord which the Honourable Gentleman had that night expressed, and for which he (31r. Ca ring) had node not an ungenerous allow. ante. '. hen an accusation was made against any individual whirls . he believed to be unjust, it was natural for that individual, be he s high or he he low, not to put tip with it in quiet, but to set himself right in the opinion of the world with regard to it. Itati error has occurred in the present instance through the report communicated to the Lord Chancellor, we wcreourselves to blame for it. It had io arisen from a faith, or rather a connivance, of our own. Did he wish to correct it' , No ! tor although inconvenience might become. times conserptent upon it, et- was convinced of the great benefit which the country derived from the practice which had been pro ductive of :he present misrepresentation. It should be borne in mind, however, that in debates in that House, which related :o character, the utmost accuracy was requisite; the slightest varlet ice of phrase, the smallest intentional error. might alter the whole • meaning and import of the speaker's sentiments, might harrow up •. the feelings of the most honest man in the country, and impute hthiaprinciples to him which in his heart he disdained :anztotire ( ect. 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