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U • Api r 4 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORIN, TUILIDAY, MAY 4. torit ERMINE m u Lord WAt,raftlariVe look the oaths and their IN ai INSOLVENT DEBTORS. The Earl of SIIAFTVIIMURV inc.riited a Petition from the pane h of Si 110010 Without Aldt ale, again‘t thelmitilvcut Dchtura* Act. ACCOUNTS. The Animal Arelinnt• of the !ll:irgate Pier and Harbour ti el e preaeutcd at the Par, and laid on the table. COTTON SPINNERS. The Earl of DI ltuY presented • Petition front se•►ral Proprietors or Cott is Fscsoriesio Matiehester and it* •ier niiv scams, the Rill now pending fur the Regulation of 'Allmon. within throe Factories, awl praying to he beard by Counsel neainlit the —Tine Petition was order ed is. hr referees' to the Committee on that 'subject. The Earl of I at , DEIIDALE %Ma, that it was certainly right to 1s ur the Petit,,,,, to the Consesitler, hid he conceived the Petitioners hail ass undoubted rigid to he heard by their 1111 l *el agaiast the ustes•re on the second ceding of the Bill. _ _ —•••• ROMAN CATHOLICS. The ?ail I)EaBY ',resented ■ Petition from the Roman Catholic Inhabitants of 13irmnnghrm and Salford. praying for a repeal of the disqualifi estrous with which they are oppressed. N. hle Earl prevented similar Petitions from the a omuan Catholics of London, Wratminster, and Southwark, %hick were read, and laid on the table. — The Earl of Donouutinons: postponed (as- we understood) until to-morrow, his intention of pre twisting sev.ral Petitonia from various parts of I fr.• land, in favour of the Catholic Claims- The Noble Eltl spoke in a tone of voice so extremely low, that it was impossible below the bar to collect the motives that induced him to postpone the pre senting of these Petitions. The Bishop of SsusnuttY presented a Petition frost the Clergy of Bristol, against the Claims of the Pomona 'Catholics. The Pet;trolt bring rand, Earl of C A lINARVON rose and said, that us'. doislitedly the doors of Paeliarnent ought at all time. to be Menisci open as wide as possible to admit of Petitions front every clans of his Majesty's sub jects, hut he viola not avoid expressing his opinion, that the Clergy of the Church of England were tx:rentely ill-advised in presentin g Petitions to the Legislature against the extrusion of political pri- Nllrgt6 to soy class of their fellow-subjects. Such a proceeding ill became that high character of in mgrity c u d generosity for which he would ever wish to see them dissioguiabed. With the - queoirtOn of the admissibility of Catholics to places of bust and power, he conceived the Clergy of the Chat+ of England had uo slid not affect their interests, however it might warm their feelings. it was, on the untimely, 3 which was peculiarly remote trieu their province, and they might well have withheld their indecent prayer for the oppres sion of every flock which was subject to other pastors. Ile remembered the time when the Clergy of the Church of England conceived themselves so excluded from the consideration of every political question, that on a subject affecting their own interests OM alstaly in the State, they felt and expressed an un willingness to idler themselves by Petition to the attention of the Legislature; hot that ince sense of delicacy stemed no longer to exist, and they now appeared before Parliament and the country, in the odious character of the champions of persecution. Ile had witnessed their conduct on the present oc casion Willksll4l astonishment, as it went to confirm the optimist too generally received, that thiuugliout the hisitny of the world, the Clergy lead at all times *hewn themselves the advocates of political stimitspoly and teligions into!ennier. On ais occasion like the Prescott, when • large portion of their conittryinen sought to obtain a restitution f thew civil rights, it would loom brat bee the Clergy of the Chinch of England to have main tamed a decwous and respectful silence.—l I fear.) Lord KLNYOM said, that any one hearing the speech or the Noble Earl would have supposed that their Lordships were etigageol iu discussing some question regiwilieig religious toirrition. and that the Clergy of the Church of England had arrayed themselves soloist it. Such, however, was not the fact ; and so far, in his view of the subject, were the Clergy censissalek for having expressed their opi seiollll on the Claims of the Roman Catholics to Par liament, that he thought them somewhat remiss in not having prepared more numerous Petitions. — But why should the Clergy of the Church of Eng land be conitrunited fur adopt's% a hoc of conduct which, in other persons, is at bast free bout ern- Pure ? Uid ai.y one find fault with the Hierarchy mid Clt shy of the Church of Rome for preselititig Petinosis on this subject No improper motives Nvere inpituted to them for engaging in the conside ratio', of • political questiost. Why then should the Clergy of the Chinch of England, who felt that the safety of the Constitutioti and of their Church depended on the circumstances of their brio;; a Protestant Legislature to frame laws fur the mover ttttt rut of each, be censored for expressing their tears lest the security of the Church and State May lie endangered by any injudicious conceasions? (lad the Clergy been silent on such on occasion Ise should have considered them as remiss en their duty. -e-/ hear.l The Petition was then laid on the table. The Doke of Llnerotto 'emended a Petition from the Ftreholdris and Isikaleitants of the 80. riaigis of Tavnitock, praying for the removal of the efiststniities mittens% Roman Catholics.—(aril on VA. table. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented a Petition front the Town of Colchester against the Catholic Clasins.—Laid no the table. QUARTER SESSIONS. The MArquis of LANsDoWR unwed the thitd reading of the Bill fur enabling hlagi•trates trs divide tier Quarter Sessions. Ile was trot aware that site objection aoulst he shade to this Bell. It was therefore stellictesit for him to state that the llill too! init with the approbation of every Ode!. ligesit Magisitate lee hull convenwri with on the 'whirr!, We! feeling that it would be of great ad vantage if they were eisaltied to divide theinwlstit ions two bodies, fee the uthninistration of justice. The Ball was tlseu read the third time, and patoord. 'flw Life Anosities Bill was Tad a second time. Ailjuurued. r - 1 , 1 HOUSE OF COMMONS, TIMIDAT, MAT 4: one, and cannot he upheld by fair or popular meson. A Bill annually paved the Home, vesting iH a few persons, in fret in one, powers of the most O liccinstittitimust kind, arid he wits but too lully imptes-ed with the fact, that wets of petty tyrenicy and oppression follow ; the system makes ail this necessary, ■nd such a system should 1w *there,'; the wretched profits to be.derived I it, could not redeem it. He would reed to the House the words of an author, justly high—he enema the work of Mr. Davison.—[Here the Hon. Gentlemsn read a parisege 1• he work of Mr. Davison, in support of Ins 'argument.] —The system. he said, was vicious in itself, end was attended w ith falsehood amt tliceptiou. Lottery contractors, 1w said, take every means of publishing that the greater propor tion of tickets is drawn on the first and retinal days. Now this to a superficial observer would 1w taken fur granted; hut it was false. In the lottery draw,. in 1818, there were 8,000 tickets, three fourths of which were said to he drawn in the first awl second days, though in fact Hot two thirds of that 'lumber was drawn. Now this was a fraud— lie could call it nothing else, lw did not care by whom perpetrated. They might he Ilimourehle flirts—nay, they might be Right II 1111 l curable. The consequence of this fraud was the sat of Lot tery tickets at •n advanced price. Tickets are generally sold m sixterritliv, sad the price ad mice, after the propagation of this falsehood, r 191. lot. to 401. 141. This was a cheat—mid dill it, he asked, 'become the British Legislature, for a► paltry revenue of 240,000!. ii-year, to cheat the public—to sanction as; abominable fraud end gross misrepresentation? There was another fraud whicl• 1w would take the liberty of statisig-s-the fact was raectioned by Earl Spencer, void by an Hun. Member of that House. The Governor* of Christ's Hospital prohibited the employment of their boys iii the drawing of Lottery tickets. He (Mr. L.) went to Coopers'-hall, where that rascally transaction takes place.—(4 laugh.)-1 - le there saw two boys drawing tickets, dressed as if they belonged to the Blue Coat School—he had a right to lissome that they did not belong to that school, and that this way a vile imposition. But the system upheld by fraud was productive of superstition. In a late IVorcester Paper he saw a long list of the places where prizes were obtained, to which the Goddess of Fortune was propitious; in some villages, where success crowned the adventurer, it was soon found that disappointment, distress, and ruin followed. The town of Bideford, in Devonshire, was unfortu. rudely visited with this golden shower of the Chan cellor of the Exchequer.—(A I d wes.)—tilieffield had a similar visitat , and both places soon in dulged in all the vices of gambling, and soon en doted the punishments of distress, of misery, and of shame. Another part of the fraudulent system was to misname the prizes; thus, when a man receives half the money he lays out in a ticket, it is raid he receives • prize in the Lottery.—(.4 laugh.)—He would deny the ingenuity of the most acute professional men to prove what the contrac tors take for granted. and day after day put down the thine's of the public, namely, diet by losing half your money you gain u prize. —(4 luwgh.)— But whoever would tell him that in a tratisavtion where he gives away 201. and in return receives hut 10/. he yet gains a prize, lies—(4 laugh)— and no one could believe it but an arrant fool.— He would *hew the extent of this imputation by a statement of the scheme of • late Lottery.— There were 2.865 prizes; there were 11,195 blanks; hut of the 2,86.5 prizes, there were 2,810 prizes of 101. each, leaving only 55 prises upwards of 10/. and few of them of any considerable value, which makes the ch:►lice against the purchaser of 253 to one. Was there ever a more villainous, a more shameful system of gambling than this?—ln all the acts of swindling on the one hand, or of fa tuity on the other, was any thing so enormous ever be fore heard of ? If it be a means of raising money, it was almost unproductive ; even if it were produc tive, it ought not to be permitted. The Lottery pro duced to the State not so much as 300,0001.—a small price for the morals of a people; the agents and contractors, however, gained from 4 to 500,000/. a price for collecting revenue which was beyond all precedent, and which *hewed what a miser able system of fraud and mismanagement the Lottery has been. Gross in itself, it is injurious to the morals of the people, to the prosperity of the country, and to the dignity of the State. The Lottery was sought to be justified by the neces sities of the State ; but he held it au undeniable principle, that the greater the necessity of a State, the more morally should it act. He trusted the public would at length take up the question, in volving their interests so deeply as it did. It was taken for granted they were indifferent, because they had not presented Petitions. For the latter circumstance he did not know how to 11CCOUllt, hut from the iiiflueoce exerted by Ministers, stud the interest excited by the agitation of other questions. Ll all events, he had done his duty in bunging the matter before the House; his view of it was sanc tioned by the opinion of many persons of great sense. lie trusted lw should be supported by the House, ■nd that at no distant petite', probably on the present night he should see a Resolution adopted, expressive of the im policy and inexprdiericy of the tax in question. The Hots. Member reca pitulated his objections, and concluded by moving the followi n g Resolutions!— " Resolved, That by the establishment of Smite Lotteries, • spirit of ganthling in encouraged and provoked : That ih:■ spirit diminishes the sources or public prosperity, sad it hostile lit the beat intervals of the eoniminnity : That, therefore, this flourre will no longer countenance the coo boomer of sack • system wider any regulations whatever." The question having been The CHANcti.t.ott of the EXCHEQUER mill, that any man who looked seriously at the question, con sidered the linaticial eitibeirasstnents limier which the country laboured, soil diet the Lottery rro. &iced a revenue of 300,000/. annually, must feel himself celled on to oppobe the Resolutions pro. reed. But iu addition to the suit he had mated, there was to be added is yearly saving to the tannin)? of 30,0001: interest, The State Lutteries. it was said, kept •stive a great deal of this system of private gambling, and many statements were made support of this charge ; but it would appear from an examinetiou of the papers on the table of the House, that it by no means followed, that if the Lotteries were ribautloned, this system of g•m hting would fall also.—(Hear.)—The prosecu tions under the State Lottery Act had created a Meat decrease sarong the prutocutious which were The House was this day engaged in appointing a Com. 'flitter. to try the Inuits of the Eltetiutio tier Tisiro, sod for the Town of Galway. The gallery was not opened till half. past flee o'clock The folliraiirg are the names of the Committee appointed to try the nierit• of the Truro Election Mr. J. Gordon, Si, Mr. R. Price, Mr. W. J. Hobart', Mr J. M. Lloyd, Mr. Hart Davis, Mr. W. A. Montague, Sir E Boller, Mr. Henry Bruen, Sir. W. H Whitbread, Me George Grant, Sir. W. Burrell, %%Charles Palmer, Mr. George Baiskes. Me. E. Torsion, Me. Willis withdrew his motion to defer the consideration of the Fuwey Elec • Petition', from Thursday neat. to Tuesday, the I Ith of May; and the Inverkeithing and Hos. tint y Election Petitions to subsequent Jays. SAINT MARY-LE.RONE WATRR WORKS BILL. Mr. M. A TsYttlia moved the order of the day fur the second tending of this Bill. Mr P. MOOR', as eu aniendsnent, moved that the second reading a the Bill be postponed to this day six The Honourable Gentleman co mplained that the isdrodne lion of the Bill was, in furl, au attempt to levy no less than VOO,OOO, off the parish of Mary-k-buue, ill order to enable persons to liecuMe vendera of water. He put the question fairly, would the House allow such an attempt to succeed-- would they subject the inhabitants of that parish to so heavy and su unjust an iMpost ? He held himself a house in St. Mary.le.bune, and he might, if this Bill should pass, he soloject tee pay ten ur twelve thousand 'winds for water He hoped the House would tint allow so brood a a hof power to be exercised by a vestry, and that they would nut eiiteriain the Bill A converse • ensued , in which Mr. Ricardo, Mr. Harvey, Mr. Hume, Mr. Weuttralty, and Mr. Holm,. Sum ner took a part—when, at the suggest of the last Mem ber, Mr. Moore withdrew his amendment, and the second reading of the Bill was 11011p011V11 to this day fortnight, in order to give the Middlesex Water Company an opportunity to satiety the inhabitants of the parish of St. Mary-le-booe, as to the Bill. TOWN OF GALWAY ELECTION. Mr. Ley presented a seduced fist of Orr Committee appointed to try the merits of G■lway Election : Mr. G. H. Drummond Mr. F. M. Ommanacy Mr. Charles Siiieletou I Hon. C. Cavendish Mr. John Maxwell Mr. C. Robinson Mr. M. Barite Mr. M. Page Mr. A Itidwris Mr. Gurney Mr. W. timer Ri:ht Hon. John Barry Mr. Win. W. Recker Mr. Richard Martin. ASSESSED TAXES. Sir Marrucw WHITE IttOLVe said, • motion of his, respecting the Assessed Taxes, stood for to-inurrow. He rose now to withdraw that motion, at the request of the Right Hon. Gerntknr•n. He signified his 'Mention of bring ing in a Bill on the principle which his (Sir Matthew's) mu. teem would embrace. This wa■ the trottonl on which he was Wanted to *tatrum that mwiuu but mile as the plan was materially altered, he would nut give it his sanction. POOR SETTLEMENT BILL. The third reading of this Bill was postpuucd to the nth instant. IRISH CORONERS RILL. ON the motion of Mr PARS mt., the second reading of this Bill was, postponed to M lay next. THE SINKING FUND. Mr. GRFTIftI.I. pu•tpourd his motion, IS to the applica tion of the Sinking Fund to any I.orn to be lunged 111 the resent year for the public service, to this day fortnight. LOTT ER I ES. Mr. I. 4 vrreseuse said, ne could truly aSSdre the House, that lie would trespass on their time but as little as pOssible. The subject he was about to bring before them hail been frequently discussed, but it appeared to him that the arguments that had beers ui gee' by the oilier side were not conclusive or ratisfactury. The public mind was decidedly against the Lottery system. He bad therefore no doubt but that h v perseverance, by pressing ott the attention of Parliament those arguments which lay against that system, it must ultimately fall. In this country the public voiee must be heard—in this country the progress of public opinion is some times Glow, but it war always sure, an d it war al ways triumph:sot, where it went to put down vice and to promote public murals. He would not make any appeal on the present ocersion to the Kisht Hon. Gentleman opposite (the Chancellor of the Exchequer), be had fur him a great personal respect—lie would not wish to riddreas any thing to him which might Le unpleasant to his feelings ; besides, the orgumentunt ad horsemen was good for nothing if the Storm did not atteud to what was said.— (A laugli.)—The Lottery system was inde fensible on any ground —it was objectionable on every ground, moral. cotistitutional, and even financial. The moral objections to the system were strosig. It was a system which encouraged the most odious and the most pernicious vice, he meant that of rambling. There was, he said, afloat on society—not a great quantity of Exchequer bills—. but a quantity of rank vice ; and what says the Right Hon. Gentleman ? lie says, " I will turn that vice to my own account ; I cannot prevent its progress ; I am dwiefore determined to derive a profit frvon it— l will derive a profit front those public vices—l will make the most scandalous of public vices subservient to public revenne."— Sir (said the Hoss. (lesillemars), private vices should sot he considered as public benefits. I would ask any man whether or nut Use Lottery system be not a species of unprincipled gambling ? —if it br, should the Grovermuesst of the country uphold it ? The Right Holt. Gentleman, he said, like other Meru- Imm, might attempt to shift off the blame from his own shoulders; lie hut about him people to du the dirty work, but the shame and scalicial of these im moral trouser:toms lie at the door of the Govern.. insist --not merely at their door, but this shameful proceeding. awl all the roguery and cheating HI , tendant on it, moss be at the door of that House. Finencially speaking, the system was a had one— what was morally wrong, could not be financially or politically right. Governments', he said, have from time to tune hail recourse to arbitrary and tyrant& cal measures; they hive extorted money against the consent of the people—sthey have violated at once the liberty and the property of the subject. But it has beets uniformly proved that the Govern ment whose revenues are created by islunder, is not the richest ; iii Ilia contrary, it has hero proved, that the if.nclsequers winch are eupplirel by else voluntary coutributions of a free people, have been always found to be the most proviseruisa mid secure. In the former case the confidence of the people oar shaken, mid consequently the bowers of revenue were diminished. Such are the nielaischoly diets proilorrsi by plunder. Are not the erects oh gambling equally toisitious ?—the morals of the people are destroyed—their itseinstry is weak eked, and of course them resources are impish. el ; • state of society thins winds there could be nothing more i n jurious to the lissome, of a country. Bill 11.1 a constiturioiial point of view, the system was still more to be deprecated. The Tawas is a bad 't* 1, heretofore in exiormee against the common species Member who spoke last, that this oyelent neither of gambling. In In Ili, there were boy-live pro- I added to the rev. ue nor to the normals of the cam . germane', for insuring iii the State Lottery, of try. Ile begged leave to call to the recollection of which thirty were convictions. li. the leitile-g.'s the Right Hots Geothermal op Proite (the ellserel iu the same period, there were twenty-six pro- tor of the Exeloopier) the admirable saying ar secatiOng, coil twenty convictions. In 11117 Queen Elizabeth, who expensed the pleasur e there were twelve Slate Lottery prosecutions, f She felt at finding the imeary of her sob. and eleven coovictimis ; thirty-four Littleoger's, Sects ode in their pocket,. it was now sod and twenty-trine convictions. Si, that it was eel. j that the State Lottery alti sieressary to put dowe l dyed the decrease its podding W 44 nor In be of- the Little-gm's.-•(A laugh.;—'This mollified i on filled by the relinquishment of the State Loo til . OW Old plan 111 " make a hurl' to catch le thirds lento It was said 'list last year al hooted induce- Bet he thought if the pew W 4 l ever a Knoll ()Ow. .: inetsio were held out in the shape of Imp-% in wi n e ; cloth! trot *pply to the Lottery race. The R ig " for this the Government were riot emoserthle, fie I I km. Geadelo4ll.*llll"eorlii-losess morn revenue w.,.4 the. Contractors hail held out this additioloil induce- eingultir ; he was at one raernerit the solvoso r of moo t In purch a sers, and so far from its being a I gratilllig a large sum to the erection of clutches, fraud, it was ma attotal bonus intended beyond the but all at once be got se sort of mural toolls se h e rsolvirary moonlit of the regular prizes. Ile would when the system of Lotteries was held lip to his yield to ion men in a wish to promote the hest Ode. view. Like the heroism in Fielding's Ameli a , e, rests or the p „ 1 , 1 ,,, en d t h e b es t mora ls of all ( lasses wooed her, but did not discover fur some lim e t h is , of the people, and he hailed the approach which she had lost her Huse. The Right Hose Gersilemse education conferred upon the Mane of society, was perhaps arlitralittral with a Methodist P res o,„ But until the improvement became more gooier:Illy mooned Newton—(4 /civil —who was .O i t , 4 operative, 60 HS 10 pre-soot the evils of :;ambling ) sthistorn ml briaid a slave ship--tilt 10rr...14 1... 11111011 different soeculetions among the lower e1i4444.4. Clarell that he era% some ti m e on board F iv r me 1 ,0 , lie could ore no reason, standing in the olliciAl i reit he war dioug wrong in reins uuluig iii such 4 situation which he held, to abandon so lucrative at situation ; he i tttttt edistely withdrew on frelii e s t h e branch of the revenue widiontls4%ing woe equiva. i place tie held. —He (.'Jr. Pitmen) would igr,maly lent held out by which the public would derive an recommend to the Right Hum Geolleroon fni•llow equal benefit. Alr. Newton's example, arid alter a system wile ti An limo Member. we underetooll Mr. AG to he could hot putout. without discredit to Istintelt as t ELLIS (it was Icsill by sonic, Mr. I'F.HCEVAL), ail. d em o r al i e s t ion to d o . enim i r o o ... er t , scoot ...M.. *di milted the ill effect of the ' s ystem of Lotteries, hut a question which ought %weer to be decided ri eor I yet contended that au Scpsovlsirtit revenue should I point of pecuniary produce. As well might Isolise4 be given. He was decidedly hostile to the contr. of ill fame be Itemised by law, Itemise of their cortices of the system, though he ceuld too are amount of revenue, as the Lottery system he c o o . how they were to be altered in the rammer proposed. tamed for the c o in it realised to the Excliesp r e o _. Nlr. BUXTON was at a lose to irrideronnil the (Ilear.)—Tlse Hose Airframe regretted extremely object of the Right Honourable Gentleman °pow. the character which religion was likely to receive site. Ile admitted that the system was very li.hi, Irons the example set by the countenance of thew but not quite so bad as the Him. Mover had repro. gambling projects ; and he would ask the __ G WWI,. rented. He did not itchy that it produced idleness t meat. who seeme d da mn i fie d o il supporting ml.: and vice. He talked of it as a financial scheise, Lottery system, whether any of them had ever been which he could not abandon without all equivalent, adventiraers themselves in the spectilatiori which and his silence upon the errors of the system ought I they were so ready to palm upon the public S— to be construed into a confession of its guilt. They t (Ilear, hear.) were all agreed on the facts, and they truly differed Mr. Alderman WOOO combated the notion that as to their conclusion!. It produces, it eetmed, au the Lottery had removed the Small-go system ; important branch of revenue. What was the f the contrary was, to his certain knowledge, the amount of this revenue. and how was it produced ? fact; and whenever the State Lottery was drawn, —The amount was 300,000/. annually, and it was i the surrounding streets were the soot of t h e Little. drained from the pockets of the people at the ex• go's, deprodairt noon the larger scheme, which 'tense of their morals. No t a x o u g ht to b e picked the pockets of the credulous. Ti.„ 5i.,,,, upheld at such an expense. The system of Lot. I Lottery was aim absolute encouregement of t he too teries operated as a discouragement upon honest Ile-go's, and iluathers of pour women al ws) is par o l e ,' industry ; it held out magisiosinioua expectations, during the drawing to sell these chances. Ihe kisew and defeated the enticipation of the creduluue, in one case where 100 guineas in gold, 75/. in silver, without weaning them from their propensities. If sod u quantity of copper coin, were foiled iii 4 Boos . the House thought thin tax to be *dishonest one, which was the seat of the Little-gods. \ Lois i a tax which went to tear up the moral habits of ; family had to trace its oli o to this 0,117 r,.. !! . the lower classes of the country, they would give ' knew an instance within his owl loam loi s -. that triumph to the Mover of the present Resolus iii which a servals' of his own, who could es , lions which he deserved, and that defeat to the 1 two guineas a-week, lull heroine a victim or Chancellor of the Exchequer w hi c h his system me. 1 , gninlOing iii the Lottsry—lie cold., iievur pas' rited. He knew a variety of instances in which the r his household expenses, mind his family herlinie Lottery system operated with terrible efliot upon the 1 ruined by his avidity to purchase Lottery tick,!.. people—he knew an instance in which the inhabitants 1 The Right lime Gentleman might talk of ht„ Ind of a small village had established a club for the i lions for the building of churches, but Iris c l aim , relief of the aged awl indigent; this club went on 1 to the cultivation of at good moral feeling would not well, thriving and prospering see it ought, until the 1 be improved by his cuntiliumice of the Lottery establishment of a lottery club in an adjoining die. 1 system.—(l/ear.) trict, when all at once the meretricious mid artful ' Mr. Witesotroace wen glad to find that to inducements to gain, held out by the lottery club, person but the Right Hon. Geod.-mai. (Tees's! I immediately destroyed th e benefit club, and with it was found to defend the system of Lotterito. It subverted the gond mud salutary principle which led ( was lk system which no nom could look at *delimit to the establishment of such societies in the village. 1 being struck with its comineoceinent in fraud, and This occurrence took place within his own know. 1 immolation in misery. The delusion was so die. (edge; and it happened that some years intervened 1 gusting, that 1w should give his cordial vote to its before lie watt again in that part of the country, he , total repeal. When he saw his Hon. Friend (Mr. then inquired the practical fate of the two cloths— ) Buxton) O l son his legs, he really thought (not hay he found that upon the humane plan of mutual 1 ing been in time House at the opening of the discus , support had easily and irrevocably sunk under the : biter) that the question related to the state of gaolo glare of the false lights of the other : so that the : hut when he listened a little to his Hon. Friend, lie honest zeal of industry mid charity was not only found that the subject was one which only related paralyzed but obliterated by the introduction of - to the manner in which the avenues to those gads this system of gambling and deltisiets.—(Hear, ' were filled. He concurred with his Hon. Friend in Acar, hear.)--It wait said that there was it latent the drawback that ought to be made from the no principle of gambling inherent in the human con- millet amount of revenue, which the Lottery was stitution. If there were such, it ought to be the said to produce. The system itself was a great policy of an enlightened State to avoid calling evil—it was at variance with the principles rit the into action the propensities of such a princi. best system of public economy—it writ to pareltse ple.—(/dear s hear.)—Where there were bad qua. i the vigour of industry—it went to attack the sor cal lities existing in a latent and lurking form, it was i independence which a Statesman ought to cherish surely desirable to ovend fanning them into a flame. in a free state. The plan of his Right Hors Friend So far front the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite was in this respect like that of the ma lt who wa s in feeling that fluid was desirable, he seemed rather the habit of giving away a large thin 01 inuisey, anxious to promote the bantered effects of what was 1111. t who, uu accidentally seeing, a large sum piled known to be demoralising. He was t!.e patron of up in a room, took it into his head never Nom to that system, which, on caravans throughout the unlock his coffers. So with his Right limo. Friend country, enticed the poor villagers by the gaudy —be was dazzled with the apparent amount of tho artifice and delusion of the paiirted letters and de- tax—he forgot the tisk at which he must mot: is vices, to fall into the snare of his Lotteries, mid quit obtain thus treasure, sort he ought to give in. r e the industrious habits of their ordinary occupation, Wee of deriving what he conceived to be ga 1. , 6 t to grasp at the riches which their neiolibours I though in reality it was subtracting so mucli Mee pointed out as accruing from Lottery speculation-. the gemral fund of society.—(Hear, l a ir ) He held in his hand * curious document, describ. .11r. CANNING diffeted widely loan his Hunt. ing the unbouoded wealth which the Lottery was Friend who spoke last, in the view lie tank ..f this likely to confer ;it was publietwol by the Editor subject. The House should consider that this tat of • Country Paper; it set forth the wealth that did not origniote with the poorest Chancellor rif tire was diffused (all probably true eliongh) from the i Exchequer ;it was of very old swirling-1w kid drawing of a Lottery prize. A mingle ticket, it adopted it Hs hr found it, and he was nut theiefote I seemed. had diffused wealth moms IS persons; exposed to the blame of instituting a measure %Inch had raised them from pining eat poverty. A poor had given rise to so much ohloqus. His Hon. Spitalliclds weaver, a poor young women tu sere Friend (Mr. Wilberforce) had skean upon this, as vice, a female servant out of place., and a man he had done upon so massy occasions, los great mind servant. and one or two journeymen, participated tramicentlant powers in debate. But this was mete in this spell of good luck. Thrs ',hewed the delii- a subject of de ta il th a n o f dr ov e rs ' s : to Ho d ills site% that was practised. not by any individual. but House should see how the revenue of the creative by the system. It was invariably held out to stood. Notices of motion' , were given fur the re the poor. that the benefits they were to derive limn ;meal of the Salt Tax—that pressed upon the ago the sy-ten were great : tradesmen of every kind culture, the interests, mid the morals of the people. fell into the snare. An Hon. Fri g isil of his, who Then came the Leather Tex—that operated up-:. was near him (Mr. Il'ilitlimail), could my, what to I the health, the interests of the people. Tiis his knowledge had been the edict of the Lotteries Iroli Window Tax was also a grievairce. mud Ills upon the 'realms interest. Another Hou. Metnber I Irish Spot Tax, it seemed, deeply affected the . (Mr. Wrottesley), acquainted with the Bankrupt morals of the people.—(/:'ear.) —He sac oiie of Laws, could also speak of the edicts of this system. three who anxiously looked forward to the thee He condemned in forcible and eloquent terms when t h e taxers affecting the greet body of the 'tee the operation of the Lottery system, mod the de- I pie could be reduced, mid residered at confrioneble lusion which its puff* crested among the lower as possible to their habits mid coevenieisce. Ili' classes, whose imaginations were deceived in this until this time urrised it was imposaible I" mainier by the colour nod plausibility of Lot- look at this proceeding by detail, to repeal the ttry placards. Ile tiolicoiled the idea that a re- taxes, which constituted the source of the Fe venue of 300,000/. vow glititet! from the Lotteries— chequer, he the Administration what it moo from this he thought should be substracied the ex. without ferhog the imperative necessity of 1"'" prose of the plais, end the remote effects. Ile siting bollie pishatitute for tie revenues of the c !termed. ih strong terms. the policy of raising a country to carry on its tegular business.— revemue upon the morale ut the people.—(Hair.) Not one word had beet% said spinet t h is tax, wile h 111 r. IV. I. ) .l4ttELl. concurred with the Ilosi. could lint with equal force he alleged aghast the r