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MI IMPERIAL . PARLIAMEN r, 110VS2 OF LORDS, WZDIMDAT, Jtivz 22. The Royal etaaent was this slay given hy Commiseion In the Barn►tapte E.l"ction Witne.aes RI4I, the Court of Session the Grand Junction Canal Bill, null the Wager of Battle Abolition The Commissioners were, the LORD rfIVIC?1.1.011, the Nargitia of WI annalist - a, and the E.irl of Sti at° cranunv. The Carl of IllAnowicsts presented a Petition (tout the owners and oecupocs of land in the county of Cambridge, I•'iat *inn protection may be afforded to the agrit ul . ;to; of the Val ilsy Pdr.Spiller lo...seeded a Report fiom ih• Commissioners of Wools and Fnrrsts, in pretsitancr of no Act of P3rlinmeut. A person from tare Cowl of lischemser Chamber in lee. land, pr. smite.' certain l'a:rers w the Appeal Cause of lied. zingion and Wood. NORTH' All rroN. Earl Smlcen gave nosier. sisal be womb' to-morrow mote The serooA re adinr of the Norttismoton Small !tin. The Lunt) CuANcELLom rigprE.sed hi, wish sisit a men sure of is vneral nature slorold be enacted to supersede the etetessity nt Weil nvasures. mrssuw. FROM THE COMMONS. The Am. rieatt Cuoventi iiii bull, the Foretris rraistraent rill, the Silt Motor.. fillt, and the Itt,otrenl Debtors et ere l•rnitcht sql 1 . .. m the lioW•e of Coin mina, anti severally rend a first too -1 lie Earl of 1.../Unrlll/Al.ll gave notice, that he wont.' tri•moi row mule the,. cowl seeding of Dove ce Dill. COTTON WINNERS The Earl of Snatesrst:Calt mnetJ the third reading of Cet•on Brooms' (utast 0000 fail GuererE,FOß eXpeell64•ll (14/91111,1111 belief that the resent Pill would poi e deb enisa v mischievous in ins npW. l'3lll/11 1 . 1:16 measure would, if pissed, affix an indelible rogue apron the master manure° uri re of the could. y, s• if they were deficient of liumanii y, and even in common sense. This was the more to he deprecated at the present moment, when the manufacturers wire io general very much cum villaied in irousegniroce of their extreme diernies, and when te tetir , rl the C•41114/11r11•111 wire shoat to add to those 41:11 , 116111 I.y the imp mition of new lien 116 the miion, of 3,040,000/. At tools a time, It was Very 11+111/CIOW 10 d'sgu the pain. cipal manufacturers of the kingdom, by passing a Bill so muds to their t!;•cretlit, if nut to their ~.jury. Nulde Lord tin is smirked upon the several objcetiont which hail TWIG urged to the employment of ehlifirell ill cotton. spinning matiofietories. Ile it flied that the plate of the general temperature of those plac was of a nature to injure the bralth of those esti:az. J in them, and slit weal, by refer cute Ci the evidence taken before the C.ummlttee, that Where thildreo spin-arra with I.ndir il.etorted ar.l other per aortal s letects, Ito se aff..etions wet r, for the mail 11/1:1,1he IT6IIII or here ditary complaints, which would have burst into action is any other ciuploynatut in life. Inromaiiity was • charge which he Itch. ted wss name kr rpiently weed In every coon. try Asa merited, hat he was einivine.d that in ne country ought it iii be thrown out against nay (Mee of people leas than in flmat Britain; in no oiler counity was buinani - y to our fellow-creatures brit. r more prams. sod be entertained very lei ions •ppit hen.ionr, that by the invert., swessuer, the cause of humanity would be Mimed. The !ulster manelbeturers were out in ;tonal willing to employ children, tiny fnmid it x ilieldeantaxe to diem, rand be feared that may of them wool.' be slept ivid of the esesas of stibaistesige if this measure war enacted. Tlat Bill was read the third time mid passed. The Mike of Brairt•ranD moved the second reading of the isms-emit Knitters Bill. 'the Noble Duke said, that this ,ensure was one oldie almost importance. The frame. work. knitters arc extremely willing to support themselves and their familuse by thi it suavest basins, but they were now um. fort isoatrl y thrown into a state which rendered all their rare -1;1/116 fir Ibis papist utterly 1, uitless Not man) 'seri ago they wire able lu cavil front 201. to :ot. a week, wlitle now, nest withelatiolin: that they wrrkul rustic - en boors a day, they wet e unable to 11VVIlte 10Seiller above seven shillings a k. Thisrwufurluneanscaused altogether, or in •r. eit Ineasnre, Inv Ste tutrorluetioa into the trade of a spurious Article, Which was wrought fur the market with less' eurptinve and ishuur than were formerly veinier& If this were the only coniequctice of the intro'luctiou of the inenrione article ; it would nut justify an appliesticit to the Iseislstnre, but this 'purism. article was one of a vi ry in. ferior quality, widely injured the character of the manufac• lairs el the couutry. The measure, Itouo.ver, was nut to cousidriail as penman. nl, or our of precedmit, bet merely as mitrede to meet tlwexistiose evil. Never was a measure iermiglii before Parliament which mrrite d soi.re the atten tion of the House, he should. thin elms', content limn. If with moving the se I re:Winged the Bell The red of Launsttuat.e felt erg. giant pain in rising to oppose this measure, for he Was cone inerd the Noble Duke Edifierd that the present nvoisitre was well calculated to re medy the • k 'sting evil, which 'to one could deplore more Item he did It was a melancholy fart, that there were at tureneet in the country many thousand nialinfictnrer• who hail rut sa muds e niploy meta as flu y could wish; but if their Lordsh.po were to pl. a earl' a measnre as this, wills respect to ens-up trade whtell welt rob srtassment, 'hey Tools! contrive 110 scheme by which silty would sot &dually root them all. It app sated fr the iiidencr Satin hi fore tlts Ci mmittee of the House of Commons, that there were 11,000 %tacking manufacturers, of alomi 3.000 were wholly out of mph:lntent ; it appealed also, that there werel,ooo persons eir:sloaed in in inufactui ing this cheap article—and did their Lordship' cainceiveeit to be a good plan to tike tinny t mpluyinent from 3,000 persons, for the chatter of re retiring s mployment to 3,000 others ?—(f/ear, hear.}—He then the general objects of the Bull, which pre. sentril more than any other be had ever seen • ' , MIAMI , of alienist leery principle on which trade and commeice lad Isith,rto beta coo lied mt. H. was convinced the incasuie em meld prose highly injntious even to the interred, of those It alT•etel to score; he therefore fill it impossible not to take the sense of the Douse upon it. T he Emil of lltuston spoke a few words in favour of the Bill. Previous to the introduction of the spurious article, 0,0041 men, who were nun out of employment, had wink; awl he had no doubt, if this Bill were adopted, they would again find employment. Earl Graorkru OR rose to oppose the Bill. The nem-inter fere ore of free Ishunr was, he believed, it favourite pin. eiple of their Lni dships--not withstanding that they had just passed the Cotton al Regulation Bill, which seem ed to be a direct violation of that principle. That Bill, imam r, aas ',assert, on what he conceived to Ire a mis apprilonsioa of Its nature—eisildren not being thought to be for laleitirers, as their parents were a iid to be compelkJ to s mpluy their 011/4111 111 Mr c01t,.,, fact...ins. The ge neral principle, lunacy... of out interfering with fire labour, remains mot ouch. el, and on that feeliag he did not doubt the pees , ut Bill would be ri jected. Ils skidded out, unless 1.111611 ermine influence load been ekere iscd wit the tradee iieople in general, they %wild have petitioned agaiast this •the Eat! of WESTMOILLAND PIA, that measures if this saline hatl frrqiiently been adopted by the Pailiament of this country, mid ought nut so much to be consideitd as an inteifereuce with fire labour, a* a means of protecting the trade of the country from the opertition of such frauds ins must, if continued, degrade its chap atter anti affect -sea interest*. It was Idle to say, shot this Bill would throw ;4,000 presents out of employmei.t; on the contrary, it would give them more constant, more reputable, and snore Kohl. utile work. Lail of ROIOLVN rood not imagine on what genuuds this manufactory &small to he &ingested as fraudulent. thie willow., a Mocking manufacturer, *llll was examined hetes. the Committee, being asked, wheilor this cheap or ride could be readily distiegeieheil by a tortilla& from the either Lind? an*weied, a Yes, instantly." If such writ the 4 as , , the idea of fraud was out of the eluestion. The !louse then divided, when there appeared— A yea Pima Majority.. The lull wasiben tea:: a seeuud Oo the re-admission of mangers below ibe bee, we found Lard Itou.e nubbin seise remarks upon the iulenitou of deroloig the follow/leg eauraiag le Mt bearing of en- &net nu the Barastaplu Election Ttill, awl of postroniog to that the ii.aring of cases within the appellate jortadiellon of the llon , e. Ile thought the ramming sot a good time fir ree.siving the to/Wince on this subject. Tire LORD CSIANCELLIND said, that if the Noble !Ault had h hero eniverd, as he moistly rids, from six ,'cluck of one mnriaing until two o'clock 11w following mnrning, be would not think it very fair to be primers! to sit in the Bowie not ualy all day, bearing diffirent appeal ems of extreme im parlance, hot solisespicorly to be respoistol In Pit omit a very late hour in the os%ht, lies. tog evolsoce on the ldiessalatdo B i ll It was gtule impnss dd ufir him to proimtViCe jade_ meat in the appeal Caapea, Unless ha were permitted sot& rirul lime In runsnh r of the lifiult.es of juilimrata in his duvet. Seifert' linporl.tat Low cases had been heard this Term—rote of nwi h, the Qaressah.rry case, was Hue most difficult •15 , 1 important that peolospa ever came before the llonsr. He should be airy onwilling that the present Session should pass away without pronouns - Mg judgment in this case nod some others The Noble Lord lamented that in 111, lleuritlg of these c uses he 11 , 11, out allure of their Lord ships' assist-owe, but nob,a time wren gi v.. 0 t o him t o coil. rider in prieile of the slot it p of his other it would be imps... sthlr I,r him Is. est cute them. It 11' , 1./ a greafnic.ensucept inn 'Bust the sppoiulaleot of the Vier-Chancellor had been of any relief to him Ills taboo.' had been in nu degree tightened by that appoint meal. The 31aignis of LaNsPowst and the Earl of LAUDIMPAT.It severally spoke on the expeslicory of giving the Barnstaple Election 11.11 referral( e to all ta..er matters, and after some conversation it w , 11111,11,,111.4 that the would sit to morrow moraing, at ten o'clock, to bear c•id.nue un this Bill. The Siring Battles s.f Scut' and Bill was committed, and ordered to be reported. The other o r d e r, of the ass were then disposed of, and the house adjourued. lioUst OF COsl3lo:is, TurfsMr, Just It 'nu. Ilona, was annimonril to the Holm. of Press. On the SIMAIL I. returts he *vacs!' the lives , had heels in (be !louse of ^. us, and heard the li.dyal knew given by Com missiou to sowsl public and prurste Bills—(for which see COMIT OF ft WU ESTFt. Mr. Lush, from the Court of It. que•to, Tower listoleis, preseuteil of all soots of money paid ihercto by soiters ru hits the last **stilly ytars.—L3td tot the table, and Lords.) ordered to be printed. - INSOLVENT DEBTORS. On the motion of Load ALTIIORT, the Order of Ilse Day W 3. read for the third reading. of Ilse Insolvent DeWor■' 11111. The Bull was thou reed the third now, eerlsio chinsel pro posed by Imed ALTWORT Agreed In, and added to the COI by via) of riders , , and the 11111 'cooed. PA PT.IZS Accounts of the Som• of :Stoney rid into the Coons of R intiest. al Hecool.ion, soil certain ocher places in the vici nity of Lomb)°, were ordered to be laid cm the table. FISH Out the motion of Mr. LIMIIIXOTON, the House went into ■ C miller on the Acts relative to the Southern Whale sod the Pilchard Fisheries—Certain Resolutions were app.:cd to, and the Report ordered In he received to.murrow. PARISH vEsTiti S. Mr. S. Bounty► hiccuped up the Report of the Parish Ves tries Bill. which was agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be read ►he third time to morrow. PROTECTION OF WITNESSES. Mr. WYNN obtained leave to bring in a Ball to indemnify yeredns tit [lung. evidence of bailor!, eormaption. nr ilk gel acts At EleC11“1.11, litfoie either House of Parliament. PEMBROKE MARKET. Oa the molten of Mr. Cnowat, the Rims* repoterd itrrlf ..iin a Committee iin the Pembroke Dock Markt t Bell 'Eke Bill aas considered, and the Report urdered to be m et wed tu•w+urrow. wr.icarr OF BREAD. The Weight of lirra.t Bill wa+ lead a second 11113 C, and Ordtftd to be cum mOted to-ssoriow. ASSESSEIS TAXES. The Report of the Assessed Taxes Composition Bill was iurtLtr euno.lered, unbend to he engrossed, and read a third time to morrow, if engrossed. R EVENIi F. FRAUDS. Sir IV. sae Cotsrimins* said. that in consequence of certain papers laud before hire by a Mr. Wilkes, relative to Ilw rot hi lion of the assessed taxes i❑ Westerham, Seyeaciske, and the remainder of that district, he observed sorb • system of ft mid and peculation carried on by the contrives, that he tit tilted IS his duty, as a Member of l'arimorot, tU 351511- 113 ft investigation. lie had therefore rally in the Sefairimi mewed for entail, ace , ; lout these, when wit on the table, Its ing fonoll too sclumtnuus,aftrr undergoing a double et *thou, were mimed to a Committee, and lay on its table likes scorpion, or rettle-snake. A report was now at length made front it and printed. The iloo. Baronet Ikea read extracts from the printed papere,etatiog tint charges had berm made by collectors unfounded anti UViasil koris..l by the Commissions rs. Ile had already calk,: the attention of the Heine to the con dna of two collectors, and he contended it appeared, Goin ale Know, in his band, tint Austin should not have breu rewarded in the way he had. Mr. Malcolm too, who had been • participator in the fm Rods at Severionks, was lately scut, very improperly in hie opinion, to an employment in the four northern counties. Ile wished to know whether any re assessment on the poor people plundered was to take place. Aler commenting with seventy on the conduct of oilier persous concerned in the Irensactions complained of, and a sioniber of other olwereatione, the lion. Baronet said, it was lit intention, in the course of the strut Session, to make a suture g • I mottoes than that he no* intended to subunit, lit 1, t the House more folly Mtn the knowledge of time mode to which assessments acre conducted. Ile then moved— " That there he laid before time House the Report of the Receiver-Gm moral of Taxes fur Bromiey, Blackheath, nod Hal Hurd, stating what sum or sums had been paid into the Leek quer, as the net !remitter uf the Amused mid Properly Taxes Mr the years 1814, I it lb, and 1818. •r Aim an account of what sum or sums hail been paid to Me. Rogers, the Impeder'', niel time Clerk* of the Commis /1011M of Assessed Taxes in the said districts. for the raid three yeses, together with their poundage and centage, sale. vies anti allowances; together with an accuunt of slot nunt• her of officers employed by the Commissioners in the same disks( la, with their respective salaries and allowaucert." The qmicsison having hero pot— Mr. Lissuistveon said, that ei gh the motions were ex. teems ly wide of the notice given by the HIM. (brunet, amid though he thought the papers obesity printed afforded must abundant itifurniation, )et lie did nut mean to offer the opposition.els been lle wims willing to allow that the Hull. Batons es zeal in the affair sorammg r time best u mem ions sod that the ounce tnken of it might went petsilliS sat nonuse ►teal' to avoid Wilma intemsucherroie. The Hutt. Baronet migi.t lie assured that on the discovery of this fraud, time Board of Taxes had adopted every possible precaution to guard against aet petition of s' •tar Mtors. With respect to she re•employ mem of Mr. Amino, the reason which had ta. doted the Commissioners to ■ct set iodnigently towards tom was, the deep settee of his error he had marielealed, and his sincere desire to repair the consequences of it, by every means in Lis power. Berndt' (a circumsistice which cer tainly ought to's eigh on such au occasion), the Cummiw japlio y, had found that he Lure • must excellent character in private life. Sir IV, we Citr‘rinny said, belied heard nothing to con. %since him that the people of the places he had ineutioned had nut suffered must seemly from the positive guilt or cul pable negligence uf the Collecito, Surveyor, luspeelor, mold Clerk of the Peace, the hest employing • deputy, and lie •gals a subeleputy, to transact the businein to which it was his duly to attend iii proton. Aim Dun. Member, whose name we could not Imo. said, be hoped the flow Hlllol‘ll would must convider it imperti nent or hint to state, that the epportemity of colon the hawd had aramen from the (leak of the Peace, or cashier the Cumeniesioners, ueglecting 10 transmit the true thipli. cake of the suuts collected to the Recetver•General. lONIAN ISLANDS. Sr C. hloxca inquired (as we understood) of the Noble Lord (Castlereagh) *lieu the acceibiou of the Ottoman Porte , . t''‘• • to the Treat! , Letiseen this country and the Soren lan& would be laid before the Howse! Lord Coe KKK ' •eawer wee ,wt 111111lible to us. WITNESSES INDEMN rrY. • Mr IVYnsi brought In the Witnrr4es Indemnity Rill, whirls was read a first lime. On the question rut the second rradine being ott -31.. It MAIII IN was snrrised to see the How Gentleman bringing each a measure forward, alter he had himself broadly stated, that such persons were already hole 00000 ofir.l by law. Ile must either retract his former •toderrati ~,, s, er allow the measure was altogether uttneerssary. Mr Wynn was or Wished in are the Hon. Gentleman pursuing • C.11.1111C entirely unprecedented. The sir. sure pqa tint at sill inconsistent with the practice of the noose or the privileges of l'ailisment. The 11111 was then ordered to be read a second time kV' morrow. GRAM l'Or ND. The Committee on the Bribery bitlierinests Bill tr as pubtputied till Monday to at. . MESSAGE. A message from ilie Lord. announced that their Lord• ahipe 1.0 agreed to ;he Children w Cettoll rectories and other Bills. EXI'IBE: IMOSECUTIONS. Mr. I). W. 1148VEY entitairil the attention of the (funs while lie was ' , tiling the facts of the Petition %/inch he had mint.) talit's to ley before it. The Petitioner was Captain S Itt.ttel Bryan, of the ship Margaret. Ile ennui liiiit d that be hail beris made the subject of a most ve xatious pro:ectitsuu by the Send of Excise, sisal sillioned that the result of it wag a proof thereof. The vessel %%bol he commanded traded room Surinam to London. It war will known to massy (ammo-read Gen tlemen present, that by the Act 26 It George 111. commonly called the ManVeat Aet the Captain mod Master of every vessel ...tiling front istiy port fir this coteitry, was bound tsi kite an accurate ittanifrttt of the contents of the cargo. It was that provision which led to the revere proceeilisie• set forth in the Petition. With sntli a maisifest tp lain Bryan sailed from Surinam. in the course of 1813, and arrived its the Post of Loudon iit August, 1814. The Act required Imo to trusistint his Ma. containing no exact account of ilw cargo, on his arnica!, to the Board of Customs, which regula tion lie immediately complied with. Among the other things on board were 145 bags of coffee. It was the duty, as well as the custom of the Board of Costonis, no soon as they received * manifest. to send to the Commissioners of E'teisr so account of any articles coming' under their cogniztrice—vehi7li coffee, bring an excisable nrticle, dud. On such a siotiliesitirm bring made to the CotontiosSoners of Excise. it was their province to send officers, called searchers, on hoard. to compare Ilie cargo with the manifest; s, d if there was a veriatisiti,it was their doty to put a fiat on the veseel, till sin explamo ism of that fact should be given. The searcheis discovered there but 140 !hip of coffee. Now, the Act hail d i rected that if any article specified in the manifest should lie wonting, the Captain or Master should hr subject to a penalty of 2001. provided (awl he was elesi ((((( s to enforce this ots the attention or the liouse) that it did tint appear to have proceeded from mistake, in which case the penalty was not to Ire imposed. The Petitioner was called tri to explain the varia tion. not bring himself ignore of the mistake, and igtioratit of the source from whence it sprung, Ise applied to his mate, and some of the most active of his crew ; and out ioquiry, it had turned mit Bost the mete, islet before sailing, and it; the hurry usual on such occusions, had crawled the contents of one Hundred and forty-five bags into one hundred mild forty. (laving in isle that discovery, he transmitted a report of it to the Cotioniesiosiers of Customs, calling on them to rectify the nit-take. who merle the communication to the Commissioners of Excise, and they released the vessel (soot the fit , . Captain Breen inferred, most itaturelly, that all claints for Ilse ,too/. penalty Lad ceased, never, f.siiii 1814 to 1816, doting two years, having heriril nay inti mation whatever that he had iiiesirred or was liable to it. Ault how had lie loess first Informed of it —instead of a previous commouiention taut pro ceedings' wet e iii rigitat sot (a coarse which he 111t.ip41.t Noy respectable sohcnnr its Loudon would have been ttt•hont eti to devlille from, though he un derstood the only defence for nut observing It its the presets!. case arts, that the managiog solicitor ;sever did so), the Petittoner was only apprized of it by U notice that legal process had commenced against him. On former occasions, when Petitissine Intl been presented similar 10 the prer.ent, it, had beets atteno.ted to evade the justice of their claims by saving the Petitioners were otewrothy of cre dit. Whatever troth there might have been in the statement before, it could out apply to the Pctittoner is the present ittstessee. He did not know him except by having beets introduced to prs ss rut his Petition ; but when he k new that his solicitors were Messrs. Sw•yrie and Stephens, olio, he was persuaded, would not interfere wits :soy thing that slid nut come from a respectu ble sourer, he trusted no attempt would be noodle to prejudice the Iloisse against the cloarcter of the peseta Pet 'tomer. Clovers of this nature claimed the most serious consideration of the (louse, when it was recollected that the smuttier of prosecutiosis conducted in the Court of Exchequer by the Auto ney-Generat, last year, was not less than 761, and that their aserage expense was 160/, rack, waking up a sum of about 150,0001. OUI being served with notice, Captain Berm rent a Petitiois to the Board of Excise, contr . ' (( i o a statement of the facts of his case, accompanied with the aflitltivito of himself tool some of lots crew, asid pray ing that lie might he allowed to ;splicer before them 1 1 140100 was rejected. before was told lie could not be listened to, because a mate who justified himself by the oath of himself mod Ins clew was nut to be believed on Isis oath. lint the result was lint to be wondered at, while they left the insisiagernent of such matters to their solicitors, the persons most interested in suffering no compromise to take effect. It war most clear, that the clause of the Stature would not brier out the protiecutiois, if the mistake were oat evidently intentional, and here the fact was otherwise. It did appear to him, that the power as sumed 'by the person,s who instituted those s uits Its the Court of Exchequer, very nearly re sembled that which was exercised by the Master of the Crown-Office, during the existence of the Court of Star-Cliamber—from the time o f Henry VII. moil the resign of Charles 1.; and which was effectually removed by the 4th mill Stli of William and Mary. When the trio) cane on, the absence of criminal iioetmon was pleaded—but a verdict wart given against the de fetolaut, its !woolly af 2001. The penalty was ~. ~ \ ~~ • atterwseds•t / emitteil by the I,ortis of the Trehsury, leaving the thefrodatit, however, to pay the casts of the suit. What benefit then did this individual re ceive-, who, it should hr observed, had previon.ly tendered • bill of exiseptionr, which he declared he was tillable to awe up, no to-room of hi* poverty ? Yet this poor in4ll, 6114 ee',l!Oceli to Koury, obliged to oily no less is silo, for twat', to the So. hcitur of Excise, thin IGO/. ; yea. to the Solictior of the Excise, tin irrr.pttttsl h le offierr, who hail it •iti his olowte to prosecute and to persecute eves y person he plen.ett ! In zolihUoti to thk, lie had to limy 891. 84, 5.1. to him twin Httortiey--quakitig• n total (d 2491. B+. fi.l. If thoi were an perhaps it would nut be ,io'worthy of isitiktiettyet. unit ; but when it appeared, 1 :r papers laid be. fore the House, that, in the course of ooe Year, ho les: t h an 760 infortriattoo+ were Weil, which oven 'mord no rxprii‘e of 140,#)(01. It bveitiov a soh jrvt of the mom orrion% the c.ise of the Prtilio.irr. the nolieitur's bill 111 rvtaa contained the fillow lug it urns ;—t he Attorney. (:etter:ll, to giitoro.; the Soltvitor-(iriirral, to guineas; Mr. I)iiiiivrv. s 11r. 1Vadt...),11, 4 guiiirioi; mod. 10 keep op the Ppleiiihur of the rouliti..hoient, 7/. 13.. 4.1. to t h e t:ryer of the Al it t.ll4lore Cto,ort.— )—The suh j eet was i•I the uritio•t if health were sp.r.il h ell , l ie wiiiitil, its the 'text S-s•ioo, solpoit a ilt•D• 11011 to the /limo.. lor a Committee, to inquire into the mode of conducting them! proseeotiowt. Ott tttt t lie hoped lie would Hot wily not hiss oppiliteel Is his Nitiii%ter., but tiitit would crevice the pt....villa support of the Chan cellor of the Exchequer.—/l/Par. hear.)—The lion. Member theta moved, 'DLit this Petition be hrought up," Alt lion. Nlemher, whose came we could not collect, said, the fin. Grath-nem who introduced the Petition, was nit exactly correct in some of the übservaiiims he had swede se it:t respect to the Salt. citor ohhe That iil.iivut...l was merely a ministerial officer, and aeleil tinder the totOledlate directieri of • higher power—O./ear, /tend —he never acted until lie received positive instruction* to llie login , . who filled Ilse situation was of irreproachelde character. and hail nut, he was sure, deinauded greater f.e. 'hats he was entitled to. Those fern .were. framed by the hvgliest legal audio rity, and, he believed; on a very m od e rate scale. Et.i.ice, without meaning to east way reflec tion ou thus who were immediately connected with the itistitittom of prosecutions of this kind in the Court of Exchequer, could Hot avoid expressing less aldturrettee of the general system which pre vatted, mid which called lousily fur alteration. Inc Sot.icurnit-GVIEOAL felt it necessary to make some observations on (twain-reit of the Huth Gentlemen who heed, in fact, made an attack on the iiriniiitist ration of jii.tice in the Court of Exchequer. —(No! No !)—Umloobtedly, the Hon. Gentle man had essitoilated the procreetiogs there to those formerly adopted by the Court of Stur-Chainher, and he had reinsured the conduct of the prestcliiig Judge.—//fear, bedr.)—lle was walling to accept of these cheers—lott, if Gentlemen conceived that the Judges of the Coon of Exchequer deserved censure, the fair and manly way would be, to bring their cooduct before the {louse by way of impeach ment.—(//cue, /tear./—The Act of the efith of the I I King, under tv;ttell this prosecution was iiestituted, was one of great ittip , :rtance to the revenue. It provided, that the Captaiti of every vessel, on his his arrival at the Custom-lonise, should produce a manifest, epecife imm all the ;II tit :es he had on board. The ( . .sinaie, i.t 11,14 instlnee, stated, that he had a certain quinitity of coffee um board— but. when en exaiiiiitatitio took piece, it corona derahle de-licieticy was ths•mwered. This wl5 I" e- - curly what the Act of Parliament was passed to guard agant‘t --and. therefore, the prosecution was ;impel-1y instituted. The delay complained of arose emt;rety from his own apprcations. With ZeSia.et to the tiltimate remittance of the penalty, the fact was, that the Commissioners, on account of his poverty, were willing to lean as lightly on him as possible—they hail therefore remitted the petteltY but the duty they owed to the public would nut sullier them to go further: they left hint, of coinse, to pay those costs, edict, otherwise must be sup plied out of the pockets of the public. Wllil re spect to the attack made on the honourable person who 61641 the situation of Solicitor of the Excise, it was wholly iiefoutitled. That individual, as had ',heady heen *Wed, could out, and dud HO, origt nate prosecutions. He acted from the orders of °shear, after all the circumstances of a case had been inquired into. Here he felt it necessary to say a word in defence of his Right Honour able Friend (Sir Samuel Shepherd) w h o hall lately VdCited his seat ill that House. Nothitig could be inure mijuat than 'he insinuation that be had been missions, in his official situation, to institute prose- cutout's—not for the pithlic service, not for the be nefit of the revenue, but for the purpose of enabling particular individuals to receive large feee.—(flear, heur.)—Here he begged leave to correct the Hon. Member on a puha on which he had been set right formerly, although he appeared to have forgotten it. lie alluded to tlw compromise of actious la the Court of Exchequer. The Hon. Gentleman ought to have known, that a compromise never proceeded r the Crown, but always was solicited by the defendant. If a great number of informations were filed in the course of a year, that fact only proved the number of frauds that were daily perpe trated, and lie tired not 1 t out the necessity which existed fur the. king them. Al to the num ber of Cutinsel employed, it could n ot be avoid ed. It was necessary that the Crown should have a stroog bar of Counsel—since it would have the worst possible effect. if, in oue case, certain Coun sel, who were employed fur the Crown, should, in the next, appear as the advocates of the defend ant. 'flue larorneel Gentleman concluded by ex prelude% a hope, that he had abeam, from the nature of the transaction its question, that the Petitioner had too just g I of complaint. Mr. CA INERT dill nut meats to impugn the con duct of those who were at the head of the Eecise department—but he must observe, (hat the system acted wee by the Excise was by do means congenial with the general principles of British law. and was Carried 111 an exttmt, which, in some instances, was extremely obnoxious. The system was only tole rated because it was necessary to collect a revenue. As this was the case. he conceived that those who were concerned with the Exchequer, ought not to feel so sensitively on the subject, when complaints . f \ . were matte of the severe operat:mi ..f the :'e'+. .;11( Icarer, it appeared to bun, ought to be lull ) (.1 vasoetl. . - Mr. DENMAN objected to the tone and temp. a. which subjects of this kind were received by indi viduals who felt themselves in slime degree con nected with prosecutions of this nature. F u r bi t putt , hit conceived there was no pert of the mho.- nistration of justice that called more decidedly for the jealous, and, at the acme time, wholesome ic. vestigarion of that House. lie felt the ligliest aprct fur the individual who presided its the Coots of Exchequer, and for the Solicitoh of the Excise, wkiia hr had the I our of knoering. he entertained a si n " core estee m. lie, however, differed from those %hi brl.eved that the Solicitor of :the Excise had no (fibs crettion in the instituting prosecutions: the cons (nil , . lie beneved, wee the fact. tie was far froni insostrating that this discretion was abeased—but he I most so), that the Solicitor of the Excise, bottle ' performance of air arduous duty, wee surrounded by temptation.. In the case immediately before, he considered the ruling of the Learned 1 Judge to have been tocorrect—.and he was of op gum., that, had the Petitioner been able to ii.ve ! followed op his bill of exceptions, it must have %Viten he said that, he be g g e d t o express sincere conviction, that, if the Learned cmiceirstl that he was in error, lie "timid b e the tiro individual to rectify it. 14itli respect to what had been said out the abject of compromising cores, he wi-bed to observe, that lie om-r sat eta. 'Oiled fur a defendant in the Court or who.. he did not counsel, whether innocent O:t 1 guilty, to make the best compromise he could—fee sure lie was, that it was by far the wriest anise.: The Crown had, in all Exchequer ca,, so t e iew cided an advantage over the subject, that, in his opiiiion, the Excise Laws which gave that otbao tage, ought to he strictly resi.ed. Sorry he was say, that ',Milts had been conceded under Exec, and C11.1.0111•Acts. that were never meatit to be r4,.1- hecteit with them, which rendered a revision mire neceteot)y. Sir C. 13caitit.r, said, certain causes had oretirw: in the last )ear, where wretches had prosecuted in nocent people foe breaches of the Ext Ise [AWN t.), ~riser their own base ends. Their perjury afterwards made eniiiiifebt 110f11 his own 'Know ledge, lie could aver, that the L:orumis-loners .slut every thing in thrir power to make up the losses of those who had suffered by such false accusations,...) (l/ear, hear.) 1 The Pctit!oil was then brought up and read. Oct the motion " That this Petition be Lid 01 the table"— The CHANCELLOR of the EXCIIiQUER sai:l, if the Hon. Member had not thought proper, in pie sentitig this Petition, to make an attack iii the Mead of Excise, and on the odinioistratiao justice in the Court of Exchequer, lie would in.t have made • single observation. But, as he 11:01 taken that course, it was necessary for hurl to say 4 few words with respect to the Board of Excr-e.— The other parts of the subject hail been so folly met by his Learned Friend (the Solicitor-General that it was unnecessary fur him to notice them. 11,e Board of Excise undoubtedly were intrusted witb very extensive powers—hut he believed ito ittstative could be adduced in which they had abused thr powers. They ordered no informations to be filed, except where the evidence appeared to justify such a step. The Hoot. Member complaisant, that, in one year, 761 informatious were filed. But this was oat to be wondered ur, when it was :•eridlecied, that 35,000,00 UL of revenue eerie to be colleCted iu the course of the year, from a greet vanity of individuals, by many of whom uudoubtedly frutole were committed. Mr. It. GotteloN said, no attack had been made, as warns asserted, on the Court of Eechtqiier, or on any other hotly—the existing system alone was corn pl lined of, and, in his opinion, moat justly. The Ittglit Hon. Gentleman said, his Learned Friend had unswered every allegation that had beet' mode lie the Hon. Nletuber who presented the Velition. lle. denied this entirely. The Learned Gentleman had not, in fact, answered any of them. The sys tem was one that called for revision, nod he hoped in the next Seysion that the subject would be fully inqd:red into. A case of peculiar hardship had come oithin his own knowledge. An individual was prosecuted in the Court of Exchequer. unit. while the trial was in progress, he %111 i solivited (itr• nocent or guilty, as his Learned Friend hat ex irressed it) to cooryomise the busines.. While the ch..flcring and harteriog on this point were going oil between the Counsel, the Judge waited. The defendant, however, refused to compromise the case—and lie brought forward evidetice which clearly proved his in:ince:ice. At that moment. the Attorney-General rose and withdrew the record —but the deferidant was saddled with heavy costs, although lie committed tin offence. This lie coo , ceived to be as oppressive an act as even the Court of Star-Chamber could be guilty of. Mr. 1). W. HARVEY, in reply, observed, that the general aspect of proceedings, ut Excise eases, or the Court of Exchequer, did, certainly, bear a C. 11 14 siderable resemblance to the course formerly adupt ed by the Court of Star-Chamber. After a few words front the CHANCELLOR of the Ext.:llEounit, the Petition was laud out the table, and marred to be printed. Mr. D. W. II ARVEY then moved— " That there be laid before this Mouse cimirs .f ail Petitions, Memorials, and oilier Diteuntritts, h ires, to the I..ords of the Treasury and the Commissioners of Elitist by Samuel Biyaii—and of all Pruceetlimet, Marro, and lb -1101114, of the Lords of the Treasury and Cimmtiattiermrs Excise, thereon —and of the coals mem sell in the I lf1114(U• lion of Batumi Bryan, and the result therent."—( liarred. BANISHMENT FROM 5C07 . 1..1N Mr. KENNEDY, otter a kw peeratta‘ ,a)•ereatiOull, in the course of which he complaiaell if the larste with which Mt 3Sures, connected with Semiarid, were hurried through) the House, unit e xpres-eil wish that soniething, its the nature of a staiiili , g order, should he entered on *heir Journals, provid ing that fourteen tbiys should elapse between lite first and second reedit% of Bills relating to Scot land—moved— " 'lnt there be laid before ibis House a return of all perilous against whom sentence of banisioncsit from Scutlaral has been pronounced, during each year, fruits Jemmy —specifying the offence is each case, fur *kith suds pile twist was decreed, and whether tt was prtmuuncetl by the High Court of Justiciary, or by any oilier C.lllll, what Judge."—Ordered. SUPERVISOR OF EXCISE ACCOUNTS. Mr. LUSSIINGTON obtained leave to bring in a 0 -,,