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CLI II HI NG ROTS. I 1 1 1 1 ...0..y0...- The Evol of ATI.CONVIIV pres.entrd a Petition from erttnin tater Closouwy to..eetwo., brow tollataltatit vnthiu lie tit of Loudon anti Westminster, lump's, !hat the hill how brfnre their Lus &hip*, for the renislaii.o...l Climbing Boys, may nal plits into a 14w —Laid un the rabic. The hlarnois of Lahsitown mowed, 11141 a MrSlati , ' be will to lite House of COUIIII Ms. SIN that 11w Howe wuul.: rove have to Al. siamkr Berme, EMI. And John Smith. Membeis of that House, to attend their Lonh.litio.' Committee, appmaird lu inquire hale tilt alhira of the Bank. Sce.—Sitsastrr woe TLe Home ;btu atijottrutti. HOESC OF COMMONS, MoswaY, MAR( it I. r. Waut lite. •s Chail 111111 of the %eh , . t Cui..otittee on Ihr l'etithie against tlie il,cline fur tlu• City 1.1 . ri portal, that re Mr. Gi-oige E lir, r Nlembei ul Ih. C - matte, hail been pitveitittl from atitioliog that tooreeme by the Committee hail ailjoiireed till ten o'rlw•l the weal tworkiiie. Dr Maims Wavier then It• et' railed in, end retrained .1 Ih.• Use by de Setaie ported, that the i.uitrof Mr. health wee such Mb IS iiitYrut hu ellestilaure fir • few data. %I;. ELM% Mai Own cxrikkl fot hip eitni...ttets.lnner, and (as r¢ u.kkrbiwkl) fk,us fastbirr attesidante. PETITIONS. £ Prlitina was presented from the Misters awl Coal. Mii.ters of the Town of :Chased, itevyiidg the House to v s. jeer vier) prupdistion larr 1.3 1. 1: a 13% soi Salami Cue /testi and lain ion she !Able. Several other P. Uuwn Sc lite some !impose, front Jiff t eat please to tstall'ordshire, wire pea seuted.—Resa, aid laid cis she 1.411 Fotvisvoisa presented a Petitina from the Mee. chants and Illaoufaentrrrs of NrIV SWM, agatael the se tlw Insolvent Debtors Art. . . . --•- - Vac Priiiiira tram read, matt tite qurttiatt hariti; been t.ut . that it 11.• "it the table, The ATTURNIV GIMICRAL gunk that vapport-andy Ili dat ing, that he luta Ideal its a Aunt time 10 owed fin Ilse sp. pusassuient as Committee to examine into the luau.... AC 1 , 1 I . Ur Ilse Relief of Inwalverst th•btors, and to repots win flair soy, anal what ANWlldlll(liiii might be made lberriu. lie pointed out different alines is bur the einadderatiurs of she Cusansiliee, amt euturced upon the Hann.v the necessity of euutissusug (alter it drauld &Miles p. she ft. ilfilifed) a law uss the pe:ni.ople aif which tin Legialsaure had lwets accustomed in et t lur n eery I.lllq p,. Mai ul tiosei—. If he Penton' was ilsa al laid Ws Ihr Ode. Alderman WailliMAN said hr vlwasild reserve ally whisein elation. be might have Its make till the limn of appointing the C tar ; boo as it was desirable that every itifUtilla a,,m uu the subject should be gained heroic the Committee Ise %Ave solace, that he should on 'Thursday nest move, [lna flit se be laid un the table so account of Rae number and I a hatiaes of agent+ eundsieliug business at the Insolvent IN id.. s' Court, distisiguidaing those, if any, who are tegulAr aitoruirs, and waling the fees usually paid: An MCCoti , .l of the bomber of p. nand. eons:billed to the different massif: n. Star kimplutn fur aids, tom the year 1797 to the year 1817, the final 111.11116 i r da.el aged each year, and file prulsaW.o et that unwise, under the Act for the Relief of DelWisr• • A fids an account of the number of auction Ilea n.• vistaed 4111. the year fill lu the year 181$, and the idoooo s o f O at dntsv received IlaraW4l. Mr. LITTLETON pfs..oll. el a Pl'lllloll from the Inhabitants ut 1l o lverhainipsaai, anyin : . the House (list nu illelltilreS login la taken tier She 'lnroad of the lusulveut Debtors' Ara —.Reed, and laid ou the table. Mr. SIMI% prtaestied a Pclitiuts lava certain luhaluitanla of Dublin agsiest At.4--Kead, and i. i.l nu 41w table. Prtiti 000 was weapond from the Iliwmith of Monmouth Reamsl any alteration in Duties um Cu.d.—Read and laid 011 the table. Alderman Woott presented a Petit' flom the Wool cumbers of Ow (wanly of ID vun. 11,4) c that Sly 114ghs• linos misht be invested wills 4 purr of ..ettling Ilwir rat* O f cages. PS Wm* the case f o the year !ling to 1813.-ss Read, an, laid on the LOA, Mr. 11'. Pot r pre.enteil m Petition from several Trades the city of blitilmrgh, rumtyl.oniut of the extiasirditotry punii. pitsses-eil by the MagiAt ail and Council to the ilif d firelit fiord Borth. of Seuthool ; and praying the to lithe 'tech measures to. would .rime In them a mire Sib.. ral tool e.iristitutionnt system of borough goveriinisait. A Ileitilwr, whose amine we ',mid not learn, said, list the Perttom iu question was minimills deitervitie the crop intleration of the House. It tame from the first city 111 S(4l i land. The grievances it cusuplained of were universally fch in that country, and the well. ss If them was a point noon which all parties were agreed. The subject was of the more importance, Inasmuch as the first Li* Authority in St..tl Ind hod, last Nes•ion, gtten notice of am in teutiou to introduce • Bill Cro Removing the Abuses in the :system of Borough Guverninent, which., however, be had mot dire; and If he even had, his measure would have heels fuuud M ach-goat, in meet the evil. he Petitiust was then read and laid oil the table. • .......... Coll9oel WOOD pressitted a Petition feint, the inhabitants of the county of llleeoO, praying the House to make nil alteration to the existing dottier sin coals. The Hon. Mem ber said, he was aware that that was nut II time roc discus sing the merits of the question. Ile should, therefore, only observe, that the Kilts had been very boxy nn the eub . jrr t, as it was termed, of the equalization of the duties uu coals ; limit if he understood the matter, the dollies were already equal on all coals sen.burne. Ile should therefore take army uppurtsmity of opposing the proposed alteration. Lord RANCLIFVE said, that the imposing an additional duty 0a inland coals would militate extremely against the niantifacturers of the country, mud throw a new inipedi. MIDI against their sending their wares to the foreign market, wberea great competitioa already existed. Alderman WOOD said, that those who petitioned for an equalization were exclaimed against, as if they wished to throw a burden upon others. wherear they only deviled to remove a partial burdan oil themselves. The subscribers to Petit like the pita:cot, im the contrary, prayed that that auegaal imposition Might be kept up. If the Hutt. Gentle- Esau wontil look at the Act., he would find that the duties were originally laid on wafer-borne coals, which, he belie,- sal, would include refry drscriptiou of the article. The Petition was then read and laid on the table, Mr. (7. CALVERT presented • Petition from the parish of St. George the Marty., Sonflurtrk, for ail alteration in the duties 1.11 sea-horse Coals. He said that the Petitioners stated they felt very severely the pressure of the partial tax impusrd MI themselves; they dill not, however, presume to point out ally particular swallows for their relief, but merely pv.iyril the House to adopt such measures on the case as to their wisdom might seem meet. The Pi isnot' was then read and laid on the table. Mr. CAtiNISG said he had a Petition to present from the MUM! parish against the renewal of the Insolvent Debtors' Act. The Pentium"' stated that the coeditors of insolvents seldom boob a dividend of any kind, and that insolvents ex pei ituct.il very little inconvenience in undergoing the short impri.onsurtit to which the Act subjected thew. They lb. tif pi:,,rol that the Act, on its expiration, might nut be ro wired, ii.tilioul adding further provisions fur the justice tout ut s6r cr,filor. Ilk ad will 14141 wi 11.0 1...‘V POST-OFFICE. An account Wit presented and laid on the table of the progri tbe New Post.tlifire, t o gether with all the raneutwa ilium-red iu purthasiug round and *hist-miss. a i ••. • * 11 •01,,, . ..111•S t • t• S. • • 346 r ~' e I Agra. U the friend of the Poor', Rite, then he would beer said what was sery material for his porpose— (LaNgister (aulapplfseise)—fur tile l'our'• Rite had h e y* • good friend to bins ou this uccon ••••• by what he (Sir Fraucta) thought, the w i constitti. tonal exclosioos to which the uorwipyineut or it had led among the lodepeodent Ulectio.. These exclusions, which had derrivrd them of a ion. j.irity on the pull, could not, he was rm.- voiced, stand the test of proper judicial to‘roi:44- Ile, therefore, hoped, shat notwitli-poidoug tl.e decotow* of the High Buil;IT, oh. run.ollril F.:ectors„ isho were in arre.sr for Poor's Hate, would still colat forward and tender their votes, which. in the tad, ha trusted, would be found good before* prover triboo.d. Mr. Bowae then came forward to atlilrew. the Electors, but the opposition was so great, that he Could ow, be heard. The Merin% then separated. Several individuals received personal injury in the cour.e of the day, by the pretonare of the crowd, and the Pileisinerance of individuals. Mier Mr. Bowie had quitted the hustings, he was usaltre ! oied by a her of persons who fol lowed him into King-street. where he was obliged to take .htlirr iu Mr. Il o hhnuse'sCommitter.room. Smite idle persons pointed oat this individual as a boy, to the crowd, and it was with difficulty that he was+ rescued from their hands by some Gentlemen in the interest of Mr. Flobhutise. There was • great array of constables, and every arrangement wade which could assist its preserving the peso e. DIPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, AlAacit I. he consequence of a OPleff alladt of the gnsil. the Loa n CtlAac►.LLOt was this slay nuishle in attessd iu hipla. r 011 ►W Nuuls.ark. The LORD Cater HAtot, ilurser4.rr, nt purau4m.rofllelAltera Putrid tomtit at Or rOlllOO . llll , 111.0 1 1:1 of the rears,* Sraston, sat this il.iy a. so FAKt n o f liar of Lue.la. The Disk. of HUILA , : P. the E 4.1 of Rat AllAl EI4S V, and Ihe FAH of Knivinvir„ !mil. limonites and tittle scat•. NS4ll,‘" ENT DEBT( MS. The Duke of RUTLAND prevented a Petuttott ae.:,in.l the renews! of the lusalreni Moisture Act, but sr could test Rash. r the name of the place. Lord titAiVlLLtt preseuted a similar Pctiti .... f. 11. reboots mid Traders of the Coy of uti tli- Oo she motion of Earl Wittrwotent, the pale to last en the lable Is) ursirr of t hi' PelOte Itrgent, islmive to the btstr of Ow !mous in t:ie United Kungdunt, orrr ul&scd to be pronto!. ESSAGE FROM THE COll SIONN Mr BIIIO4DEN win owl Ihr Hvir.r, that thr nonce. of Colin; iota givers prrinigskou lu laildsvu GUIII4I, lu Uilr/111 Commiuier. !Gnome private Bills wire advanced in their respective EAST INUITS. The End of Snarristititn laid on the table. by or.ler iif hu llo)al Highness the Nine, Resent, Copies of Treasis• or.cluileil with the Natter Powers of Dubin. The Marquis of LAXIIOO , OI4 observes', that in lhe papers Irid uss the table were not consaineil extracts of abspasehis (sum Sir Theresa Hishop, relative to she earention of she Killiilar of the Furt or Talneir. It was his intention to atone au A , I.lver• it, she Prince Regent fir she proilisction of 1 this, pap. 50 which. hr poirsasiseil, there could br no ob. i jri t . •Ithe huhle Marrpom then repealed Is. motion to this edict, wroth was acesiled to withoist opposition. DANK COMMITTEE. The Marquis of Lavetiown. by order of the Dank non whirr. mooned. thud their be kid mu the taldr *resin' se. count., arewine She wipe of gold an.: nilver bullion. nod or fiwitti4l4 Jollar4 fowl 3ccuritt of the Imlay of non." by the iitsk of Eoglionl fur the Lug year, Which Wire to di red. APPEAL IN CRIMINAL CASES. The Slirrifrs ref London appear►d at the bar, and presented • Prti , ion blows the C Cumecil against abolishing the or appeal in C/illllll3l es.es. lib mon Worm dr.rnhrd ihe contents of the Petition, and 00000 vrol that it hr nil ilii• table. Hr fl'. Smite nr.oJ.• a fi-w ob 4 . rvallonlS, whith .reaped wt. Alilessertsi IVAITIIMAN bossed that the player of the Peti tion noted virile the *Widows sof 'how. Geodesists in the House who were wed aesiusisits il with the subject, and the Dome %mold bestow molar* etsissideratiun on it before the DOI pesolisig hlautild pass, The Killion was then read. It stated that the mode of proceeding by Appeal its el - missal causes, was oue of the old est p.. is of the Comi ssssss LaW of the kiugslom, and bad been il by Ibe most s unguent lawyers to lie a most noble birib.right of Englishmen, mod a great pillar of the Consii toil 111 l ; that Ike sight of Amon! 111 cases of murder was of vital importance to the seem-sty of the people, as a check on ilte ;those of suslilm . y pout r•' that tier frremili of Loisdon soul of saleur.4l ..1116 . 1* I . itis - t1 and towns of ilw kingdom, were emlisjitt by Ito or chatters I all obligation to trial by battle; and Cint fisr wager of bailie was pious ss by Appeal. It thee. fors prayed tlw House to take the prs isms s into consideration, and out to pass any Plea rmit for lakiiig tot ay the subject's ancient and undoubted 11¢111 of Appal—Laid oat the table. Petition was memoirs', signed by '220 of the most iespectalsle iiihAntarits of Plymouth, against a renewal of the !molt rut Debtur.' Art. DEFAULTERS. The Defaulters a the Ballot t.el Thursol” last were called over, and utikred, with the exeeptiun or a tea MClllberll, rue whuLN 01011111.1 wire nude, to attend un 'tharathy neat. CRIMINAL LAWS. Mr. W. Slurp .aid, h. held in his hand a IPetiliaa frets a smasher of osiltalostastla of she city of Norwi.h, prayiafc the llossne In risitteute she rigour of the Peual lams, particu larly the laws atnisest the cruise of forgery. He abuuld MR leave Its mate L. 11w House a fact cosine-cull is silt the pryer of tht. Petit ~,,, nud abet, tug jhb ICANtIIIIIII,II.IIII.S. Nut massy gems ago, Stir pressure of lcuiptuaiy dia. Irs-ros c lard MI act sof forgery, hut waa alisotog iits nieshately sii-cnress . 4l by amity; pesauss of the l reatcrt list_ mauity aril 1111411111 y, 16110 1.1.1114.511 e to incur all iii. 11.11111111 50 1 ~.luring the crstntual Iss tEu suipuusalted, outlier than 1w essattamensal is eversating 11w .evert how untried :,4;sisibt the otfivre, he 'n.111111441 111111 to escape. He wish In a tort hrs. euuntr!, and unit .11t 11w pressent time seaulisse there, laser snaking amends Go chat toectualy lied surged hinsto, sh•l ly rrroveretl Its character and tt potation The coo vuntaintoes a of Ibto. y attic him%a to many grist's-men to flic place I, had the honour to repretent, and fornird a arrilineut in favour of the Petition. The Petition irad and Lint on the table. RECOGN 11. A NCEs. Mr. WA !IN loutish' up the Report of the Committee op puinti d to take cousukrutniii the Petition.' presented t.i lirs)isic for 11111 esilarKeinctit of the time within %loch reitam l'elomuers, complatunig of uurlue elections mid fat.* lor I.rlwusi, nsight miter into their recugui zaae.. It 'led, that the Petitorties a against the election end retal is 1. as iitlielwity bait tout entered into their rte./MHZ:Mei . . wit.mi the time ilium d by law ; but ITCOIIII - that time shuubl be granted fur that purpose, and also kir sr. ring tia: moires. Mr. SWANN tutu iii..•• d, that the said Pctitiouers have 'me to complete tlit u seLusiiesatires till Thursday aeuutirlat. —Agreed tu. CITY OF LIMERICK ELECTION. Sir T. BARING 1,t,•11 4 :il up the Report or the Srleel Committee un the Petition of T. Sluing nice. E couivl-iiiong of the Election for the City of Limerick. It t.t..tetl, that the Sitting M e mb e r, th e Ilou . J.4hu l'n•iitter t tart Vereker, ap peared to have been (holy elected— but that the Pre limn' of Mr. Rice was i,ot frivoloua or vexatious. Mr. N. CALVERT thought it right, us s Member of the Committee, to draw the attention of the House to the circunistnoces under which the deci woo columned iii the Lt Tort hid liceu tome to. The agent of the l'etihui:cr pi oilucrd the poll book before the Cut 1111 l girt —tlity called fur u poll clerk, in older to reiily ccitatia sutra. He li.Ad uo . ~. ... 0 -. 3 • • $ orison to sllllpfille Iltnt 1;1 . 111 Pu'lijr,ti4V., 4 , ,..114.1 be made; but in consequence of it, applied tor leave to send over for the poll clerk, who was in Dublin. The Committee world not grant and so the l'etstoosses's csinse was lin.% Th e determination was ou his opoostosto, awl severe—in Cotoctliletiee of it, im I: eland WAS to luck for iliktier Ihruerfoiwsre:. with out bringing forward err ry ci,ik at the deo moo, the expense of which wsnalsl Ise a!l.•sred to be enormous., when. it was considered tll 4 poll clerks. nut being persons in is very high Plate of life. dispersed themselves iii different ways on the condoms' of au electiuu. It the precedent were to be followed. no one from Ireland would petition in future; end it would become the interest of every candidate to scenic the returning officer ur his favour, as the election would ultimately depend upon his discretion. lie 'should at present, how eve►, content himself with moving that the minutes be laid before the I 1005.... Sir T. BARING said, the votes had not been pro►ed by the best evidence the case would admit of. Neither the poll dells nor Sheriff' had been brought before the Committee. The only evidence the person who had the pull book could give was, that he had received it to ii sealed parcel from the Town Clerk of Limerick, but of the content* of which he knew nothing. lie would allow, however, that the case was a very hard aisle oil the Irish Mem bers, said he should willingly go a great length in allowing theut to authenticate votes in .11,1,111er :oafs tier. If the poll clerk of every barony was ob liged to attend. it might be necessary to bring over rig:Reef) or twenty of them. lie should wit op pose the motion, but sin the contrary, give it every pport. Mr. S. Bouartz asked, whether the pnll book had been produced by the person to whose custody it had been intrusted? Mr. WirsN was hostile to discussing in the House a point decided on by a Committee, lint, notwitlistatiding, he thought the correctness of their decision questionable, and quoted two precedents that seemed to impeach it. ABERCRJMBY agreed with the last speaker, that there was great ii.coliveilience in discussing the question in that w y ; but every Gentleman much versant in the practice of Courts of Justice, who heard him, would allow that there never wan a harder case—the der=sion was the more to be de precattl, because it would become a precedent, and had indeed been urged in that light on a Coin inittee in which he sat. From all he had heard it was kill utter perversion of the law, and entirely re pugiiiiit to reason and justice. After some remarks from Mr. N. CALVERT, which was not audible, the question was put and agreed to. GRANITE (PURCHASE OF). Alderman Wool), after some inelainry remarks, in the course of which lie slated, that hid the Navy Board einido}ed the convicts in hewing slime for di, construction of ducky, at 24. a cubic font, :15 they might, 1114tead of paying at the rate ut 4, t Id. for it, they would have saved the coun try 100,0001. moved— " That there be laid before the House an Areount of the Granite, and 01l other Stones purchased by the Navy Board, from the Ist of January, IWO", to the Int of Jauttary,lBl9, fipeeifying the tpiaistity, qualify, prier per ruble foot of each kiwi, and the total automat or the payrueot."—Ordered. Sir B. MARTIN suRI, that ►f the conduct of the Navy Board had been such vs the Honourable Gentleman represented ►t, he should have felt it his duty to u►uve for an inquiry into it. LORDS OF THE. ADMIRALTY. Sir G. WAIMENUKK moved, that a new writ he issued fur Edisibur,glisliirr, in the room of Sir G. Clerk, who had accepted the office of one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Sir M. W. RIDLEY was iii hopes that after what 114 d pissed before on the subject of these appoint neents—(l kur)—his Majesty's Minister,' would have seen the prudence of not keeping them all tap. Ile was resolved ma au early day to take the sense of the [louse on the appointment in question. In reply to a question from the opposite side of the !louse, Sir G. IVARRENDEIL said, he had no further itiforination to ct 111111 l unteate. Mr. CA LcRAEr was surprised at the mystery affected by Geotleturn opposite on a matter so well known. lie hoped the motion would be persevered in, ea he did nut ate the necessity of keeping up Six of such places. Sir M. W. RIDLEY, iti a subsetptent part of the night, gave notice that he would, on the .20111 51areh, wove for all Address to his No }:d Highness the Ponce Regent, praying hie Royal Iligliciess to reduce the number of the juutur Lords Cousin's aimiers of the Admiralty. The aawe Meruhrr then gave notice, that lie would, to-nurriow, move fur au uccoriut of the numher of Suri.l..irges oil Agricultural Horses, for period. A Nleiwaxe him the Lords requested the llotige to permit Mr. A. Hornig and Nlr. J. Smith, two of their :Members, to attend the Secret Committee of th e Liiids, um tlir affairs of the Hank. The mes sengers were informed the House would *raid an answer by their own messengers. INDIA. Mr. C•IINI NG postpunrd his ►tilotiou of Thanks to the Army au Indim. PENRYN ELECTION. The Order of the Day fur resuming the ad journed debate on issuing a New Writ fur the Borough of Penryn, having► beers read— The SPEAKER said, it might be cotiveident to the House, before they proceeded to the que►- tion, to know 111 what state of forwardness the printing of the minutes was. He believed they would nut be completed till late on Wearies day evening, and therefore could nut be laid before Aleurbers till Thursday morning. He had examined all the precedents since 1770, the year in which the Gresibille Act had 'mord, and lie believed lie could safely state, that the uniform course pursued by the Douse was to .It•lay issuing the writ till the minutes had been laid ors the table, save in an instance where the Atiortiey-General was ordered to prosecute the parties. He started this, he said, for the satisfaction of the House, as the result of the research.s lie had made. Sir C. BURRIML Said, lie wished that the Report of the Cuutunttee appointed to try the merits of the Election in ISO 7, fur tht► borough, might be rat('. The clerk accordingly read the Report, which, • • •• • • 4 0 0. $ "11 ••• . ew),. • • like the rev ot Report, noticed arts of corruption. Sir C. HERKLI.I., after a few wool.. n. which inailerstoral him to oily that it woulil fw deatratile *fore a final decision, to have the minutes of ilo eviffvore h. fwe the lai•I before bie House, unwed, that the debate oil ihis soitit•ntt should he pdjootnrd in Monday, the nth of Nlaii h. Oil the notion being put trout the Grail. a M4'llllo9'. Nr believe Mr. GRANT, *aid, that whatever differences of opt. niou tber c 'ni g ht IN-, as to propriety Of •teprlVelig the linrinigh its t•ollt.i be mine its li:14, that the purity or Elretioo ought I • I, dr.. feuded lay every pi actical mean.. Ile coiwiriVr d that the I louse, on the present subject, had ddlieul. ties to susidount. If a writ were immediately is. plied, prism's who had !wen convicted of bribery and cur row too would still exercise the power Of Vatill4, Had this, hr 4•4aitelVed. was a pow e rfof tea son oily a wilt should nut he issued. Oi l th e oil ier hand, there was a strung argument in favour of tlw few Electors, who exercised fairly arid purely their cosistibitional right, that they, by the delay of is suing the writ, have no Representative, awl are de prived of their rights as freeholders. From the precrileuts hr examined, lie found no case where the wilt was delayed, but upon the Special Report of the Cu ((((( utter, and where the Chairman of that Committee moved to delay the issuing Of the wr i t. Ile saw so far great tilfliellity, talleed, lit the aay of delaying the issuing of /I new writ—but when lie looked into the Joitrinila of the House, and read the Report of the Committee of ISO 7, where, in 1 the case of thin licnough inshioces rif corruption had been disclosed, and wheii hr '44W its thr present instance that a greater number of veisolo4 had hero guilty of corruption than on the former occasion, lie felt every wish to agree to the motion oh the firm. Baronet. Mr. ATKINS WRIGHT said, that unisapprelien aim, prevailed as to what exactly appeared before the Committer. Before the Committee it ap peared that seven or eight persons bud received bribes. It hail been stated, that )00 persona had been found guilty of corruption; but there WAS lig such thing. As to the list of the voter., he knew not how the fact stood as to these, more than that the friends of the Petitioner gave notice to the voters, that the Gentleman petitioned against hid been guilty of bribery, and that Sly supporting him they would throw away their votes, as the elev.. bon would be set aside; anal that counter notices had been distributed by the oilier party. Sir JOHN NEWPORT said, that this borough, It appeared from the Report just read, had been .•.iund, in 1807, guilty of acts of corruption ; and it had been stated, that bribery was so well untler stood, that neither one party nor the other, at the late election, attempted to propose the bribery oath. It was, he said, on this distinct occasion, ne cessary that the manilas of the evidence should be produced, and tilt should appear that the borough hail been guilty of the foul, corrupt, and disgrace. ful practices imputed, lie haul no hesitation to say, that it would hr but a slight visitation that the franchises should be suspended of those who had so much abowil them. He hoped the House would look narrow') into the matter, for nothing,' in his 01,1111011. was more likely to depress its dignity and its influence, than the imputation that it would for one tooment attempt to screen practices of the oda. Out itattlfe COltplailled of. Mr. ATKINS %V MOUT Maid, that oohing had ap peared before the Committee es to whether the bri bery oat's had ur had nut beets tendered at the eke . " boo. Sir JOHN NEwpone said, that if no entry ape pray(' in the pull-1 ks of the bribery oath having been tendered, it was I.l'lltCliCe that no such oath had been tendered. Mr. HARVEY owid a few words, from which we could collect that he did not mean to oppose the motion. Mr. BANKLI said, that from the nature or the case lie thought throe should be as little delay as possible. Mr. DENISON Stull, that a system of the most shameful bribery had been prly . tistil iti this twist respectable and virtuous borough. Ile tindersiuorl throe were public breakfasts given, and that every voter sold his vote for 24/. it appeared front the 'triton that hial been read, that in the very last Session of Parliament this borough wits convicted of acts of bribery and corruption.—The motion was then put and carried. MR. GRADY. Mr. C. IFlcirctitssoN said, hr would detain the House but a little nine. Ile would nut enter into any of the topics that had been, on a former night, adverted to in the I louse. It attr the feeling of all sides that Nlr. Grady should, on complylog with the usual luaus, he released froth l on rundnr- Inent. It was, he said, his wish, as 'noel: a. nosii• ble, to conciliate all sides ; tool lie t‘orri.l lie sorry thst any thing should full from lion that sought irritate Gentlemen, or I n jure the case of the Petitioner. It was his simple duty to lay the case of the Petitioner before them. The Petition which lie held in his hand stated, that the Petitioner dal nut question the privileges of the House; that lie bad no intention to give the House idrei.ce; and ! snip that lie might be released from imprisonment. %%lien the Petitioner should be celled to the bar, be would there also declare thut he had no !listen. non to offend the House. Hr (Nlr. considered that he would have been delivered from los confinement, on the last night hits care canoe before the criltsirlesulioto of the House, if it load io.t happened that 1w did snit, through ignorance. comply with the Gains of Parliamentary proceed togs. . . - - On the Prtition tieing tinkled to lie on the 1:.1)1r, tilt B. WI L-iON, In a %rry liiw tone of v.uce, alluJed to the ill health and the intiiinities of the Petitioner. Mr. FicrcitiNwst then moved, that the Peti tioner hr brought u l , to the her of the (louse, and discharged. Mr. BOOTLE W'ILBRAI(AM maid, that on the former night he had given hue opinion against the Petimitier—and though the Petition How r e m' In the House differed little fount the tot utter, he would, however, merely libmerve to the lion. Member who pletented the Petition, that it via• the ume.i a of the 1 biome to bring utl Corer .11 tiiiv nature at co early humor in the day. This , pruciiie hest heen cetehliah rd, beetutee it war inconvenient to interrupt the House in the course of debate by hearing the apo logy VI die hum MI :lb lied itscurred Its disiled. ......j ►urr, soli 011 , ) uaa olvveys ►epittnowlrrl 1.1 the raker. ilr , il...etre! to the motion of the . becou-e Ile conceived it would ,be sri.,eti.t the nutge, as well ow the convenience 14 the ta 'wee the Prisoner brought up et it Imo kalif, tie , toned thrrefure soatera, that the debate thtll que.tiou be adjoururd till to-worms,. Mr. liluttlittioutt ;greed to the eueve•ii o. mower w. ywa.uun from Nir. . The SPEAItk grid, that an nrder to briny up the Prisoner to the bat itoplied that hr sat to ha reprimanded. After I few word% from Mr. WrNo, it mu. Pr ; dried, that 'Mumma hr be os.gi t g si p I n . „,„,_ row. to be frprimonded by the 'Pr A kt.i i charged. WINDSOR ESTABLISHMENT. Lord CASTLLREAGH brought stir frit the Watt regulation of Ins liiieray's e a rl the care of he. persoss.--liniti a fiat time, Ht,d oi dered to be read a areniid time on Tliiir.day next. The Strum Ve,,el4 Tonnage Bill w.. read ttie third time, and [word. The Smuggler,' apprehension Reward, Bill 9 •411 read the third time, and ineied. STATF. OF THE GAOLS. Lord CASTI,ERF.AI3II that in ri•ina to bring before the iloust this importient subject, it will sir. cessary tiv.tinetly to stAte the velure of the Inquiry to w'rocli hi% olutioti Would Ko. The Hone would recollet t. th.it tin flonoureille :tntl L-sem-II Geo- tletuan at the other i•ule (Sir James Mackintosh), had given notice of n (notion for to-inorrow, which was cliwely and iiiiiinattly connected with the motion he (Lord Castlereagh) was about to submit to their conbitlerstion—ro WI.. mately connected, that it would he impoentble to advert to the one w ithoot clashing wtiii%t the other, . . NMI had the Ilan. and Lesmed — 6;adttnaio under: stout, the prevent motion in the .rave that he (Lord GistlereJgh) understood it, he had doubled much it he would have given the notne which remains for considerdtion to-niorww. At au early stage of the Ses,,iost his Right I hmourable Fries;.l (Mr. Ca ttttt lig) ipave notice that he (I.oasal Ce.tte.. seagli) would more fur un inquiry into the »tate of the gaols, mud nlso into the state of crimes •nd punishment% He (Lord Castlereagh) thought that the Hon. Hod Learned Grutiruneu drtl hot understand the terms of that writer, thou; t i ass hrietly explained in his preseuce on a bul)setiurtit day. The meaning of that notice, and his intro thou, was not slimily to inquire into the state of the gaols—it hail a much older object—it went to an inquiry into the piesent state (Attie criminal law. Th e [louse would see what the grounds of the inquiry were, when the subject was brought before their view. They would ere that it could not he the mete iiitention of his ►notion to cmfine inquiry to the sone of the prisms, or to a classification of the prisoners. If the object were so limited. he did nut think that the twit mode of proceed►ng would he to submit the matter to a Committee of the House. I u such east he would think that it would he a more certain uud satisfactory way to is.ue it eutoloiasiou to the difrreut gaolers, to report swot) these matters, netoely, as to the state of the prawns end the situation of the prmmers.— Hut the motion bed • much more comprehemeve obret . ; it was, he conceived, inspossible to consider the Wale of the gaols without also eimisidcring the isicreisbe of crime. The ineretioe of crime, lie Nati!, must necessarily have an influence oa the system of gaols. It was necessary, for the better ednlinlstra tiuu of gaols, to consider also the best means of di. iniiiishing crime ; for, it' crimes were not diminish ed, gaols should be multiplied, and i .;reist expense would be heaped upon the publie. ciownler both were objects be had in view, fur it was sible to look at the state of the prisons without looking also at the state of the critninal law. ln. deed, if the matter were fairly considered, it would be seen, that there was no difference between his motion and that of the Hon. and Learned Geotlew man. The object of both was to inquire into the causes and the extent of crime ; the only different e between them was, that the lion. and Learned Gen tleman would direct his i n quiry alpinist the law, whilst he (Lord Castlereagh) made the law as con comitant to au Inquiry into other questions. Hls (Lord Castlereagh's; OttjeCt was to make the law this basis of his argument ; hut the motion of the Hon. and Learned Gent. would prejudice the law and its adinionitration, and he would do so before ally iv gamy had been made into the low by the eye of l'isrlianteilt. In like manner the 1-hon. and Learn ed Gentleman, without into the policy of the lian sanguinary part of thol laws, would condemn them isro. Upon this part of the subject much previous inquiry was necessary, as to how for tratisperiatton uaight be laid aside for solitaiy imprisonment, and how far oilier modes ef puoislimesst might be applied, instead of those which are now inflicted. The mode inttiidol by the Illonourable and Learned Gentleman, I e vOticewed tray inexpedient ; no advantage c.mho result Itorn it, but on the contrary much income :lino:v. The result, in fact, of that 141011 e he to degrade the hose; it would he poliaps Loll out false expectations e 4 In the degree of Irony . to be extended in the reduction of the Pens! Code, which, oti imiry, the Parliament mold not safely extend. On the mans gloniol of motion, it was imposqhle to avoid the I.t inquiry which the mot . of the Illotiourvble and Learned Gentleman smolt also einloJce. The state of the prisons—the 'Jolley and erfectsof trams. imitation—the state of the hulks—ail MUM come under consideration. He wished to bring the pie — bon before the Howie so as not to withhold troy tiring ; lie did not wean to narrow it, hut to take the moat comprehensive view that it would he true and possible to take.—[Here his Lordship made sii allusiou to an Honourable Gentleman on the second bench, we beliete lie meant Mr. Buxton, to tome I.tbours on this important subject, its ust:44l they were splendid, he bore testimony.]—Au to the motion of the Honourable and Lerriod Gentleman, his (Lord Castlereagh's) 'inmost rat braced etery thing contemplated by the former, atid it would secomplitili every thong in a wore 4•011. trident tray; his mode appeared to him the inimt natural cour,.e of inquiry. Hr would cut..ii!cr the treatment of criminals to until ; the state of the prisons ; the state of the law ; and niderd Le could fee Ito paettcal difference Ilea:ern tin in, 'nit thut the Honourable and Learned Gentleman would go out of hi, way to tit:pogo the I..st• ll'ith respect to the division of labour to be tJ •