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its own consistency, or in carrying into effect that species of reform which many Members of it had expressed themselves anxious to see carried into effect, he did not see how the House could get over pursuing the grime course, in the Mat of Camel ford, -they had with respect to other boroughs, ',herein the same lorectices had been detected. Lord NoßMats3T rose to protest against the doctrine, that because other boroughs were equally corrupt, the House was not therefore to ioquire loin a 4r-rifle case of corruption, when it was, de veloped n particular borough. If that sort af trirsorring were admitted, there would be an coil to all inquiry ; and in fact, a perpetuity for all abuse. near, /.ear./—lbis op' was, that where a general and universal system or bribery was dere. loped in any borough, the right remedy was fur the Legislature to transfer the franchise to some other tilace.—/ iiertr. hear.) Mr. HVOioa GURN ET referred to the historical state of the boroughs tit F.nglattd. It was sail that at fro vennd did this country alone brighter !hair in the reign of Plizsbeth, and yet that Queers summoned twenty-eiy.ht boroughs (six of which were Cornish) to send Nlembers to Parliament, and rommaude•l their votes. The lion. Member was proceeding to state several other histniical facto respecting the practices that formerly prevailed in boroughs, when he was called to order by Lord CASTLEREAGH, who submitted In the !lon. Member whether he was not iii fact inducing that course of debate into the state of the boroughs ge nerally. which the House et this ((((( merit strewed an isichisetuto to avoid.—/ Hear, hear. I—Respect iirg the quest' really before the llotaw, he did nut thick they cool,' stop where they were.—/Hear, hear. —lir thought the iugmry iri Cairo-Kurd must he followed up. In the preiwiit rule of the ties. hoist it was clear they r•ooW trot follow op the in quiry ; the alteriattivr !Iwo was, whether they had ion better adjourn at until the sleet Srs ill the toterirn sloven(' the writ. This, he mi g ht sat•, was the only subject which the Moose had not been able ►ufficently to discus.; he should therefore urge the propriety of post' ' g sitoil next Sea. riots the iugoiry•—het the out be withheld until then—and, above all, let the question not be one discussed.— (4 laugh ) Mr. HUDSON GuitNET disclaimed airy wish to anticipate the discussioss. . . . - The sistientlineut was negatived, the original miteation carried, and the tent ordered tip he outs vended until ten flays after the inteting of the neat Sessinti of Perhanient. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' BILL. AlletteltONll3l , said, Ile et m coussetptence of whet passed last Hight, the Ilnu•e vomit n o t be surprised that he should call upon them to continue the operation of th e present Bill for the relief of Lisolvent Debtors wail three months after the next meeting of Parliament. He had to inform the !louse that that course was a. lie had just understood the new Bill 'put up t o the Lords hail been by then rejected. The House would recollect that the oil R.II lea+ otialoguito to she Bankrupt Laws; two others were subserviently framed. which went to revise and horinuenze the principle and machinery of the measure. lei the late Bill a variety of iiiMilfiegii(lllls were ItitTl/11Ured, which, ill his Opilii(111, would have hail a salutary tentlencv. The only remedy now left was to pass a short 11.11, and during, the reces.Gentlemeti might emvoiler the rubjtut full), so as that at the next meeting of Pao liameot they would have an °twin t.tioly of fratitiog a 11:11 approved of by all parties; it could then be made • twritiatiritt measure. and the Iwo( sen.onni of this important question might :it length be ter 11l ill ated. lie was aware that there were some pe.sons who were of opinioo, that it oirsuld Ise better. in the intrrien. to make no new law, and to seeder the prisoner. How in custody to remain in their platen of confinement for the en anti.g six tumults. To thin he cook' newer con sent, fur it would he leaving without hope a vast 'lumber of persona who hail incurred the iireliiriiseary expense. and it was considerable, of taking Pit IA to come into Court. If no tem porary law were adopted, all these expenses must fall to the ground, mid the parties. at a future period, he called u; to look fur relief after they had exhausted all their resources. He would not occupt more of the time of the House, than by moving that the Acts of the 5311, 54th, and 56th of the King. be entered as read, and that leave be given to bring in a Bill in pursuance of the same. From the imperative necessity of dispatch which existed, he trusted the House would suffer this Bill to go through all its "lieges forthwith.—(Hear.) .• Sir eft M. CURTIS mitt, lie did not like to have traders exposed to the contrivances of fraudulent people, and lie hoped some means would be devised to tout an end to such practices, and to render Bills of this kind less objectiocable than he knew they now were. Mr. Alderman WAITIMAN denied that the ef fect of not bringing in a new Bill at the present moinetit would be, that the prisons of the country would remain full of debtors ; on the contrary, he thought, with the Warden of the prison who had been examined before the Committee, that if no new law were passed, a vast number of those debtors would discharge themselves. It was noto- Timm, that is great number of debtors made them. Selves inmates of prisons, through the medium of collusive arrests; and it was a right speculation fur carrying oti fraud, when the creditor knew it was not worth his while to 11► at the expense of opposing these people in a Court, where experience told him he could 'sever recover a penny in the pound. The %wilt). Alderman then referred to the C mitten which had successively sat since the year 1817 upon the state of the Instlvent Debtors' Laws. They had recommended most efficient measures, and yet Ses sion after Session passed away without their being attended to; the grossest abuses were Hatred to grow up rod continue. The measure of the last Committee, it now appeared, had failed elsewhere, and the Hon. and Learned Gentleman thought it necessary that the Act now in force—an Act so universally censured—should be still continued, for then& of the persons now in prison.—(Hear.) To give relief io these persons, surely the best plan would be, to franie is law entitling their cases to he gone through; this would be quite enovigh, with oat acknowledgiog the odious principle of the law now about to expire. His opinion was, that the wiser plan would be to give six mouths clear time for observation, without enacting any new gneissic. sod then the House would have an opportunity, from the clear state of the gaols, of peeing that the majority of those who were in them now, would roost relieve themselves. The prisoners could hardly be said to endure any very great additional hardship, for the Court often of itself left them in for nearly as long a period—it was now not much short of riz months since the Count had sat so as to clear off the prisoners confined lo different placer. It was impossible for any man, in convidering this question, not to 'look at the con strurai 0000 of the loonlvent Debtors' Court. and the c loci of the Commissioner and his Clerk —nor creating fees, and Olen dividing them with another, to an amount nut lees than several thousands of 'monde in the spare of two gars. There was not one instance, secorfling to the most intelli ge nt witnesses, where the property of debtor* was rendered avoidable for the benefit of creditors. This Art, in fact, provided no udeqmite means for getting at the property of those debtors who were determined not to 'beehive. No man could, fir in stance, be probed, its in the bankrupt Liss, by an inquiry touellifog the diminution of his property since the period when he could he proved to hare had effects adequate to pay ill his cre ditors twenty shilling. in the pound. These Acts had opened is door to every sort of hand, of feeling toot only the honest creditor, hut, he be lieved, also the honest debtor. fur creditors in ge neral, from the multiplicity of frauds they endured, became callous, where, perhaps, the individual was really entitled to their consideration and commi seration. How could the House then adopt curb a measure after it had approved of en inquiry into the state of their Criminal Law.? Here were frauds even• where by the law practised. He really thought that Aliiiisiers should themselves look seriously i n to this quertiou, for it is one of those which more par ticularly involve,' the character of the Government; they ought to look into these laws and into their effect upon the morals and industry of sueitty. Though he was as anxious es any man for the adop tion of a fair permnifent measure for the fella of holiest ifisoleriot debtors, yet he must oppose the present motion. 11'14 had it not been intrinlw•ed earlier, when it could hive been fully discussed ? (Mr. ABERCROMBY—" The measure has been only just now thrown out in the Lode.")—He was sorry the iinsioureble and Learned Member (Mr. A bercromby) had not hero a constant attend deist in the Committee, lie would then hive seen the sort of a measure which lie now wished to prolong. Lord CASTLEREAGH did not think this the petind when the real question of the fitness of the existing low could be properly discussed—if it were, he should perhaps agree with the worthy Alderman iu many tf the übs,rvutions he had made. Ile might agree perhaps t h at it would he better to return to the old law, than to retain the present ass permanent etiactureist. But this was riot what they were discussing—he thought the ge. neral feeling was, that neither course would lie pro per for the country to adhere to, and the only diffi culty was, what the House were to do in its pee. sent situation, and he really approved of the prevent motion as a choice of difficulties—it merely prolonged for a temporary period. If this were thine, he sincerely hoped that an opportunity would be afforded of discussing the whole question in the Gahm manner, and at length determining upon such a measure as would be permanently ad vaittogeous to the community. He hoped that under the cirroinstistices in which the House was placed, the worthy Alderman would not obstruct the motion of his HMI. Friend, by opposing to it the forms of the. House in the stages through which it had to pass.—( Hear.) Mr. CALCRAFT said, that he felt there was but a choice of evils, and that perhaps the only fair course was to agree to the motion—he was not, however, quite satisfied with the rearming given by his Hon. and Learned Friend, for the promptitude which must attend the adoption of his proposition. It appeared that the Bill lately sent up to the Hous e r eached the Lords too late to receive the necessary discussion. and that, therefore, it must be thrown tint. He rather thought, on tie con trary, that the better course would be to enable the other House to sit for a longer period, and give due attention to Bills of great importance. It was no renson to say that Parliament must he up by the 14th or 15th of July. Why tint sit till the Ist of August nailer, and Ito the public liminess of the country in an effective manlier ? One great reason he had for acceding to this motion was, that strider this Act there are certain sums invested in the halide of the Receiver of the Court and the assig nees, which ought to he guarded for the benefit of the creditors eutitled to them. There would be no guard for this property, if the Art were suffered to expire without the adoption of some temporary measure. If there were no other reason thou this he should certainly support the present motion. Mr. G. LAMB had the strongest reasons for ob jecting to the old law, and the abuses it engen dered. Was this motion the answer the House meant to give to the numerous Petitions which were presented to it against this law from various parts of the country? He did not think that any great evil would arise if the funds in the hands of the Receiver and assignees were left unguarded, as had been alluded to, during the space between the Sessions; he did not think • that property was likely at tiny time to be very productive for cre ditors. It would be time enough when Parliament met again to consider of throe food.. lie would ask if the House were even prepared to continue the existing Insolvent Debtors' Act, were they also prepared to continue the present administra tion of that Court ? If they were not prepared to do this, lie would ask what Barrister of eminence would undertake. upon a tenure of six mouths, to preside in such • Court ? Previous to this Act there had, lie knew, been temporary mea sures enacted ; since the, however, Acts of a more permanent nature had been resorted so, which he thought it was high time should now cease. There ought to be an rod to these lemporiritig measures ; ihey should be all swept :may. and the c ttttt airy suffered to return to the old law. As • preparatory measure to recurring to such a step. he thought the best way would be to do nothing dur ing the recess, and leave the matter clear fur future proceedings. Mr. Serjeant ONSLow could riot see why this House should not sit as bongos the House of Lords, and thereby he enabled to get through a messore of this kind, so as to put it into a more palatable shape. It could be read a Ant or even • second Coif tooliglit, and then discussed on future days io a full manlier. If this were a Revenue Bill, the (louse would be kept sitting for it. At all events, he should vote against the contintifince of an Act, so fatal, us lie thought it, to the best interests of the community. Mr. B. lIATHURST said, that by trying to con tinue the Act in the form of the Bill lately rent to the tipper House, they had • moral certainty of its rejection by the Lords; whereas, by proposing • conotionloice of the existing law, they had every !mob obiliiy of preserving the measure for future c o nsideration in a l e ss objectionable manner. No o bje-t could he goined by latlllg as long as the Lords. for still the other [loose would require time to consider of the proposition submitted for their consideration. Ile earnestly hotted the House would adopt the prevent motion as the only alternative to which it Will proper for ihrin to resort. It dud not follow thst the administration of the Court would be continued in its present shape. Lord EaSlNtiTola complained of such a prop°. siiion of tins, oilier the numerous Petitions that had bren transmitted against the measure from all parts of the country ; after the labours of 4 most indus trious and eirective Committee, K Bill had beets formed, It was now, it seemed, thrown out by the (louse of Lords. As to the objection shout the fonds in the hands of the Court, he thought it would be much more expedient to bring in a speci fic motion to guard those fonds, than to continue a measure of this kind, which was in itself so univer sally objoctimiablr. Mr. COURTS/4AT entirely concurred with his Noble Frirearl; he was still in favour of upholding time general principle of the Bill. fur the purpose of amending its details. There was tin evidence to prove that of the thousands represented to be in the hands of assigner., Itnosdreds would ever be avail able toe creditors. But whatever those funds were, they conkd he impounded or guarded, without the no-verity of retires g so ohjrctiutiablt • measure as Sir JAMES MACILINTOM after mole prefatory oloogvattons, exhre•otve of toe respect he bore to the two last speakers, sa►d. that he had not intend ed the Committee, become he knew what they were shout, and highly approved of their proceed ings. Ile thought that on the preseut occasion, and with a view to •lteno► and perrosuent mea sures, the better course was to reconcile contend ing opinions, and each, by sacrificing • little, to come to some fir and cousi,lerate proposition.— He denied that to agree to this motion would be to oppose the petitions of the people. The people, he knew too well, required no slavish adherence to their opinions—all they required was, that their feelings should be consulted, and their opinions fairly canvassed. The better course in fact would be, with a view to meet the popular feeling, to vote the proposed motion, and still keep the question alive for mature and deliberate consideration iu an ensuing Session. It would be cruel to keep pri soners in custody during the recess, and that on an assumption that they were all fraudulent. There were, no doubt, many fraudulent debtors, but it was quite against the course of human nature to suppose that all were so; it war just as irrational as to imagine that all creditors were cruel. Under all the circumstances, he thought the better course was to support this motion. Sir Rouser WiLsors declared bis concurrence in the motion, and in the arguments urged by the Hon. and Learned Gent km in who had just sat down. He thought the present nal was consonant to the principles of justice, good faith, and hums. slily, and would therefore support it. Alderman WOOD complained that the Bill, in. trorhiced as it was, was taking the Wow by sur prise. He said that the present Bill was one which !ended much to fill the prisons. He consi dered the ' , regent Bill extremely objectionable, and was surprised to hear that the House was called on to legislate on thus subject, and let the 11111 pass through all its stages in one night, without afford jog .113' opportunity fur colosiitrratiusi, or allowing soy additional clauses or amendments to be intro duced. Mr. Auxocaostre replied. Sir JAMES GRAHAM opposed the Bill. Ile de fended the conduct of Member" who opposed this Bill, from cruelty end oppres•ioo • which he said lied bees, imputed by the supporters of 'lie Bill. Sir J. MACKINTOSH rose to order. He said he could Hot allow any Member of that House to im pute expre,sions which were never mink. He ap pealed to the House whether he and those who sup ported the Bill, impoited any improper motives to those who opposed it. The Gallery was then cleared, and the House divided, when there apppeared—. . . . For t►e motion.. Against it 26 Majority The Bill wn then b gbt its, owl read • first and second time. On the question being put that the Bill be committed— Alderman WAITBIssn complained of the great abuse, which the insolvent laws produced, and in stanced the case of an individual within the rules of the King'. Bench, who lived in a style of luxury, attended by a retinue of servants. He said, that if the law should he continued, he would in the next Sea.ion feel it his duty to make a motion to that Hoene calling on the Attorney-General to prose cu t e Norse who in the administrati ))) of the insolvent law have conducted themselves improperly. Sir JAMES GUAVAS. mid, he hoped that the large majority by which the Bill was teowell would in some degree reconcile the public to a measure so very objectionable. Lord CMITT.FREAOIIII laid, that by passing thin Bill fur the prrivell, the Howie by no triratis ap proved of the I iple of the Insolvent Laws. After some observations from Setjeant Oxst.oW, Alderman Woos), Mr. A IIIiRCROM BY, and Air. BATHURST. the Bill was committed. The House then resolved itself into a Committee on the Bill, the blanks were filled up. the Report was brought up, awl the Bill ordered to he read the third titer. On ►he queminn bring put that the Bill be read the third inne— Mr. WILLIAMS complained of the precipitancy with which the inessiore was brought in and aniiKlit to be carried. lie did not think that ilw want of time was a sufficient akiothgy 'for this precipitancy; • • the measure was important, itsd deserved e'er/ consideration. Mr. pAs Al der m an some I ?: T g N t 4 a n and s S t stu The Bill was then read the third time. and spoke at I ih i e r jBA GitA i Paused . . • . THE SLAift TRADE. Mr. Wttnearoacit rose to bring forward a mo tion, similar to muttons , which had been formerly made in that House ; it was for an Address to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, on the subject of the Slave Trade, praying, that by the infineoce of the British Government with Foreißtut Power% that the Laws passed *genie the Slave Trade might be rendered more t ff , ettial. The I-loesse were aware that shortly after the abolition of the Slave Trade in England, applications were made from the British Government to the different Powers in Borope, im ploring them In join with England in that desirable subject. To the zeel and aincerity of his Noble Friend (Lord Castlereagh), to his anximis exertions in this cause. he (Mr. W.) was happy to bear testi mony—those exertions were Crowned with greet success. At the Corogrea. of Vienna. a forcible de nn was published by the different Powers of Europe, denouncing the African Slave Trade as a practical evil, opposed to the dictate' of justice and humanity. Thus country. he mid, had shear's sine cerity by the exertions it made, and the s iciifices it was willing to make, to ensure the complete abo lition of this inhuman traffic. He was happy to say. there was hot one single Power in Europe who had not declared 'that this traffic was cruel and inhuman—Portugal alone remained silent; but lie hoped that that power would not remain under the reproach of couidennescine a system which all the Powers of Europe had so title. quivoeally condemned. Thou,e,h laws have been passed against the Slave Trade, it was difficult to carry throe laws into complete and immediate exe cution—it was impossible to sweep away the dif ferent obstruct' that prevented the ezectitirm of the law. The Powers ouboluently minuted a sy"- tern of international policy. to lirrifent the Continu ance of this odious traffic, with the exception of two —he meant Fnsiice and America. He regreticl that France, a country of caveliu-rs. thou 4, as it were, feed upon the offal of E that she insultingly called a station of shop-keepers, ha : renounced this unjust source of wealth, as containing something degradiiig to her charac ter and contaminating to her morals. He trusted the: France would take a higher and a better sta• sion—that she would not embrace what England renounced as unjust and impure—she was spot • commercial nation, and he hoped she would not commence commercial speculations by a connec tion with a system which every sentiment of huma nity rebuked, which was mlions alike in the sight of God and man. This traffic had been carried on in some of the French colonies in a most shameful manner ; its progress had been marked by the calamities it oc casioned—by the ruins of wasted villages—by the melancholy effects of fire and sword over those countries which this alioniiiiable traffic bad re duced to the last state of wretchedness. He hoped, for the honour of a great country, for the interests of insiikind, that the acts of a few fraudulent and unprincipled men would not he allowed to lower the character, to corrupt the morals, and to sully the humanity of • great people. With regard to the United States of America, lie would be sorry indeed if that free country did not take effectual means of putting an end to the traffic. Next to the declaration of its own independence, the first act of America. when she was able to pass a law, was to I:brutish the Slave Trade. In most of the States a sincere and anxious disposition was ins rinrstril to render the abolition complete. He could not advert without feelings of sincere pleasure to an Act lately passed by the Congress. which showed the greatest sincerity on this interest ing subject. By that Art Congress determined so fit out a naval force for the purpose of more rfirctts Illy putting down the Slave Trade, and they have awarded large bo 0000 ties for the capture of slave ships. Ile hoped that this Act would be put in full execution—he hoped that America would not he satisfied with an abolition upon paper. hut would give force and effect to law. It was, he said, distressing to think that the object which the friends of the abolition had so long in view, had been so long ad:led—hut the time would arrive when the frivudi of justice and humanity would enjoy an hottest triumph over the ruins of a system which hod so long dishonoured one part of the liu tnaii race 31151 oppressed another. From the trial that the people of Africa have had, they have more thou justified the declarations of their friends—namely, that if the progress of moral improvement amongst them had not been blasted by this inhuman traffic, they would have giveu proofs of talent and of feeling that would do honour to any people in the world. That much-calumniated colony (Sierra Leone) cost Government no more than was barely 'tree's:my for the maintenance of the inhabitant., yet since the abolition of the detested traffic she was daily growing into importance. In addition to a system of social subordination established. 4.000 souls were placed under a state of instruction. and 9.000 free blacks were Isegianiug to enjoy the blessings and the comforts of civilised life.— The hest way that this country could take to con. viper other nations how much at heart it had the tool abolition of the Slave Trade was, by making every eel art in our power to repair the iiijuriea which, for ages past. the unhappy people of Africa, had suffered :it our hands. This we. the great duty which England had to perform, and he was sure that every individual in this couutry, as well as the Government itself, would be noxious to co-operate with the gnat Powers of the world to complete the great work of the African's emancipation ; though that ematicipatiou had tint tardily advanced. lie yet hipped that lie should not depart from this world until the morning sun should shine upon the plains of Africa, carrying to the heart. of the penole that joy which slavery had prevented thrill from feeling before.— Ife concluded by moving an Address to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent. expressive of the sense of gratitude the House felt for the exertions his MINI Highness had made with the great Powers of Europe, for the complete abolition the Ulmer Trade, and congraisilatiog him nu the success of these exertions. The Address, after entering at large on the bad effects produced by the Shave Trade, concluded by hoping that the efforts of his Hoye! Highness's Government would be still di. . • . rected to its total &betides is sway osootry tl6l Sir JAMBS MACK INTOPIII said. he would not tree. /Mlle at soy length upon the 'gentian of the Win,. The measure recommended itself—it w ante d no advocate. or, if it did. it could no finita Airs„, more powerful one than his Hon. Friend. Ai for Portugal, he felt siminiaa to pms aver list er'.l. l e4 is siletice—it was dificialt to speak of her with truth and with decirtain—slia was in :I n r solitude is the civilized world—sod *Mitt tin natioar proems ,cud a Ilenient, or 111Nitty (.1 the Mitre Triode. Portugal carried it on to :iii inrl,E„JtY. exteut. As to the United Slam of Awrita, had every result to hope that they were inve nt , i n their determination to effect • total abolition. It was a singular fact, that without any coma -alai - cation whatever between the countries, Engla n d end America abolished the Slave Trade in th e same year. He could not help thinking til a t tory would remark upon the striking and atf, t. ing circumstnnce, that two nation. ti n fa r is s ,,,,,,i, divided by the calamities of civil veer, had aithroat any concert performed in the same year that great act so worthy of their common blood and their common liberty. They were ,he brat among the hatintut to make a great eitonerneot to the outraged principles of humanity. The Independent Stales of South .4 1 1411e1101, though ,navy of the itiliatniati had been slave-holdrr., though they had the prejudices of ancient habits to subtitle, set the moment titer asserted their own inilessendeiii., they abolished this detestable traffic. He ~,x t adverted to the state of the people of ,si s Louis. That place WWI !litthotnT note a great factory f,, Ibe Slave -rich—all t h e 1 „1,,,_ bitants of the colony were under the atta l ar t n ii „f carrying it on ; nor were even those officeve wh e filled places of trust and authority attprard t,, make an exception. What ronntenottre these prat. tices received front the Goveramesa of the hurler Country it was not fur I to s.ay, but he iron e d OM the knowledge of llo).e riot. sin Fr41,c,., would tend to the suppression of a star s., disgraceful to the French name. Fir truss.it that this base and atrocious traffic would not be suffered to di-honour the fl ,g of France—mat that flag, now permitted *leer a lung Ore-we to 'thew itself on the coast of Africa, would out i se the harbinger of robbery and df murder—earryiq desolation and misery wherever it appeared, aiat collecting around it a banditti ready to relieve the scenes of guilt and misery with whit ii that wretched coast had been so long afflicted. It *l*, he said, delightful to reflect, that Frasier het mule great 'approaches to a legal and reason:Ant liberty—it was impoesible to speak woo too much praise of the great mid gesierel tranquillity which followed the withdrawisig of the al hirti from France—it was imposeible nut in admire the spirit and the order of their legidative departs , and the freedom and else decency with *hick the press of that country handled pubbc subjects. These gent blessings would, he trusted, overpay the ca lamity which Europe has suffered. He relied on the liee Goverionent as the best security to pre vent a recurrence of those convulsions which ought shake Europe to its ceisive; he trusted that the representatives of that free people would raise their voice against the Slave Trade—that they would nut cousitenance in France, or in the Cokunies, a de testable traffic, calealated to stain the rising liberty of their country. Lord Cermeacson said, that though he did not disapprove of the Address, he could assure the House that his Royal Highness the Prince Regent or his Ministers did not require soy 'Additional sti mulus to induce them to exert every eft:at to com plete the abolition of the Slave Trade. With re gsrd to Portugal, that Power had not formally re• fined to abolish the traffic; the period hid not }et suitor'. within which a final answer was to he given by that Power on this subject—that period, as fixed on at the Congress, was eight years. He would have been gratified, as well for the character of Portugal as for the accomplishmesst of the great object they had in view, if she had sooner sent a filial answer on this subject. As for France, the Government of that country felt extremely anxious to administer their own internal laws against the Slave Trade, and the French Government lately sent out vessels to pro tect the coasts. and to control the ghosts of their own flag. The Noble Lord concluded by aillallalg the House that nothing could exceed the anxiety of the Prince Regent to put doom, as fir as hi• influence and power could retrial, ei traffic which created so much of mural evil, and of public and private misery. The question was then put, and carried nest. roc Sir JAMES NIACIINTONI ',relented a l i rt.thlit from Captain R►chard Walker, • British officer, complaining of injuries he l►ed recetvd from the Portuguese Goveriament.—Ordered to be ' , marl!. A Message front the Lords al 0000000 need that their Lordships had •greed to several B►lls. Lord CASTLERBAGII moved that the House, ou its rising, should adjourn to ►M lay next. On the motion of Mr. HENRY Cues an Arldre” was ordered so be presented to his Royal Higlinti.a the Prince Regent, praying that lie would bit plest%tql to order a envy of the Report of the Gnu. missioners appointed to eaatoine into the fee...f Courts of Justice in England to he laid b r iar.. the [louse. so far as the mine related to the Court of Cumusou Pleas. _ IRISH INSOLVENT BILL On the motiUssOfiih:6ll/e G LHI‘I.. leave " given to hraug in a BIN for the retitle(' l ,a4,lvrnt DeWorm its Ireland. The Bill was then brought up, read a first and second time, and committed. The House then resolved itself into a Committee on the said 13111--the blanks were filled up—snil the Chairman reported progress, The Bill was then read the third time awl passed. The other Orders of the Di were thee thoprov,l of; and the Haute adjoernetl at Eight o'Clock to Monthly next. What the Earl of ... 1 -11111EITOL ,rated on the "Ob ject or tithes in Irehool, to the House of Lords, on Monday eight, we tontlerrtutill, was eXpre46.ly.•• ll.at he trusted that the perthons with whoop the suresoie originated would be deterred by the sense ..1 the people, expressed in the Petitions, f again h u ng. log forward say astaloro of a similar macre." ~;