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4 , with their departure, Mich will take plate sooner than was , expected Une of our Carresponelents arrived from the department of Ole, states, that the Are.' continue in 11141 enttspep 1 'net, and 'hat by a must extraordinary fatality, tba#Kittr te•tera of those crimes have hitherto escaped detection.... It erionot he conceived what are the motive, of the inalaffie ifs, whoseeen to have no other iodate' vie* them to [gin fa entlies and spread consternatioa. - The inhabitants of Oise have tinned 4 astionat which has hitherto exerted itself widowed effect; ewes the women mount guard, sad the alarm is general. The Map • - aleara wbithilave tee/bile' stiffired (rim those atrocities, are ettensontel, Beaumont, La Chapelle. Amervale, it. Gene vieve Nurail, and Thury. Sneh a stolen( things is an.ittex • pitesitir phenol/stamina civilised world.w.(Consfifiefoorter ) 001E954. MARCH 20. We do rot comet here 'the decisive determiriat iota or the Covert of Peteroborgh in bog than IS days. We have ae eoititla from Goossaotiaopte.of the 2?E. The Austrian and EaglishMinisiera hail .made /rest efforts In cootitme their wtgoCiatiors, bid the Reis Etieudi bad refused all kind of conference with them. It is certain that the Porte bad al- Jeade,decideti Cot war, when it invited the people to assist tt , 4'l Divan .What citbee delermisatioo could be expected tom the Chir ft of the Jawisgairirg, obis Imps for the polags of Pee•? The Multi proposed at thisgreat Council t.. spare tete Jives of the pour Cbriat'asto, became they were destined Providence to do hard work for the Maissolmaus. RATIIIACT FROM A PRIVATE -LETTER. DATED AUGSBURG. APRIL 15. A Courier digoatchtd from Constantinople by M. de Lot- Tow, - -revived at Vienna on the loth in the morning nothing . ••taving been made public of the contents sit the dieltalchmt whit+ be Imo brought to Prince Metternich, it has loci:* Is.• ferreol that all homer of preserving peace are illusory, and she Austrtaa funds have accordingly experienced a new do. s tier. Count Golowkin aad M. de Tatischeff, it is affirmed, loam completed the negoctations with which they were charged.... i It seems that the Treaty of ISA, is renewed, by chicle Asa 4in and florin enraged to act Du concert 55511551 the Porto. This Treaty fixed also the member of auxiliary hoops chick the Aral of these Powers ass to Ming into the field. :la Turkey all is in mutton; Tartar. with dispoteltes de. , part successively from Consiastianple, to repot, to the dif. forget Pacbelicks of the Empire. The Parka of Belgrade, ha pwiterlar, has received important orders relative. to the serval of numerous corp. in Scrota, shore a comiderabla openly is to he formed as a check on the cordon of Angleton troops posted towards the extreme frostier of the 11,nuat of Timemar. EXTRACT *ROW A PRIVATE I.2TTIA. DAVID . . A IR-LA-CHAPALI.E. APRIL. IC ' ibreeral mercantile )(titres have Eisen rise M a report, sib ch has been n, circulation in same parts of tbe south ..f Germany, that an English Seel would be intmodititely sent so cruise in the Baltic. It was eves, said that Mils sew. had evened some seetsstion at Big*, whop there 1s a Russian squadron. It pa affirmed that the la* dispatches which the Cabinet of litteltaha. received from the Court of Virago relate to a Conventio• armed upon between Prince 'Metternich ttnil M. Ve TatutebeN, to. mgmlitte thefotnre fate of the Geek wad it, tertnine its political existence. A similar commoui. iation is said to have been made to the Court of the Toile. aim, and to the English Government. We shall soon know what to think of the part which Tho4sio will tile its the approaching eat tits. Every shitig 1. ids to lie pteromption that it cannot remain ni nit r in the toreseat state of poltistml sffigirs. This important question vill be decided as goon us it is officially knows that Austria 4•• firstly Andean alliance with Russia. FRAttILFORT, APRIL 15. We beeielltla moment received the news that the Porte Us placed-Ander embargo all Totkitta vessels in the Chap ati. Curl to the ports of the 'Block Sea, The object of this measure-is to see Are V saifficeent 11191111ber of alders to MIA the Oltenia& fleet devised forthe Black Sea. .Arguisoestingn evelhatest• of the 30111 of March say. that noni. Taus Turkish troops daily pass the Moshe at &lisle*. (haters have been given to the innkeepers, and to tic awaits 4 , 1 fugitive tomeda, to clear their houses to receive the troops that sue expected. The distress that reigns In the printed polities exeeidsull description.' The Boyar& who had mill remoined here, often weave on our remitters Iliaguiard as peasants, sod is the most *Melted coaditios, ratty say. that they daily expect at•Jassy to bear or the eummcnct went atf hosteheles between - the Itaidiaa !tad the Tusks, mud that Abe leth r show the greatcoats:olo4MM. -• IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, Weomistser, Aran. 24. . .. • Their I rdahipa met at fifteen athletes Wore four o'clock. • Mr. Etrugden, Mr. Chetwynd, General rimscusae, the Ifarautis of Chandos, Sir Edward Knatchlmil, Admiral Harvey, and other Members of the Howie of Commons, trwight tip the Cumnsercia. Credit (irel4mt) Sill. the Jus tices of the Peace Sonishiel Proceeding. Dill, and tea pi i. wide Hilla, • wleich were 'cowslip read a tiro time. ?be Earl of COURTOWN,preseated a Petition from the ititaliiimits of the tows of New Row, in the mauls , of Wes. praying fur a repeal gt the Whitlow Tax.—Read and .1344 na'the CATHOLIC PEERS. The Duke of MONTROSE. presented a Petition from the ' Synod of glingow, praying that the proposed mca•ure for isthmian Catholic Peers to sit in their Lordahips' Howse 'Would nut be carried into a law,—Racal mad laid out the fish's*. 'Ent Innkeepers Rate. Bill was read a third time, passed, nod scut to the Hellas of Commomis—Ailimiroeil. been pursued; and this particular tax, besides pressing as a heavy burden on the people, created Abe peatemsigall cala ruities—disease and death. to poperaute Oleo the typhus fever, was creel/A by the operation erfelCe window tax, and tie repeal age world he se easalka hamar the ramose, end ss ehadalods thetas to the feelings *Cabe peoplg.9r Ireland, that isrhoped rite House smold pas the porticos u( repealing it ...41ear, bear) - • Mr, C. 4 LCRA FT still, that whether the tax were as Irish or an English tax, there could be but one opinion, that when it affected the health of the people it should be repealed, and he.shookl be erprathy ready to oppose it,' He was the more amitosis to slate that opinion, be he Nut only intended to 'rapport the motion of the Honourable Baronet (Sir R. Shaw), but if he brought forward 0 measure for repcstaa all the assessed taxes in Ireland, great as was their msouot, he should give It his cordial support, because be conceived it to be the duty of that House to nee every exertion to ren der the restilesce of gentlemen in &reload, Itoth as to health and comfort, ea agreeable as possible, and he could assure the Honourable Baronet, and the people al 'reload, that he should be always foetid as zealous in their muse, .0 if it pro ceeded from the very county to which be belonged. Mr. ELLIS deprecated Ase idea of. making any iusidioua distinctions. Mr.. C. HUTCHINSON presented a similar Petition horn the City of Cork, and two other Petitions from dif ferent Parishes in the same City, earnestly preying for the repeal of that obnoxious tax. He hue+ of no question whatever that more imperatively demanded the set nom at. teution of the House;, fur the eiatement of his Rigid Hoo. Friend (Sir .1. Newport) was uufultueately most correct, that the typhus fever bad been euzentteied by the wieder tax, and that considerable apprehensions were entertained of the increase of fever.' ktle bed had the honour to be Foie • man of the Grand Jury of that city, and they had the upt own of Dr. Murray, a most emotion physician, that the fewer had increased sad was increasing, and be bad that, in a great measure, it was the cransequeuce of that odious tax. There bad been in nee palish • reduction in the amount of Imam from 1,035 to bV, and the reminniag 511 were is a state of rum • He could assure the House that there was ibo Salt more generally fell, and none the re peal of whieh was more 'intent ly desired —(Hear, hear.) The Petitions ware thin ordered to he primed. Sir N. CO LTHURST presented two Petitions from the Parisliet 9f the Holy Trinity and St. Michael, in the City of Cork, on the awe subject. He giute Li• full coneurresiee to all that had bees said nyou the subject, fur he Wlr persuaded that no tax pressed so bravely en the population of Ireland, and nun* was so injurious to their health. . The Petitions were ordered to he printed. Sir R. SHAW (bevies examined the book whichcootaiss the notices of motions, end consulted with his fritods) postponed his motion to this day sesuight. AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. Sir WM. GUlB6lpresestied • Petition from Gloom,ltir. shire, complaining of thirteen oral distress. . Sir THOMAS MOSTYN yeesenred • similePPetitioe frisk Friatshiee —Ordered to be printed. Lord BINNING presented • Petition from coital° Dealers in Leather at Rochester and Chatham, complaining ►hat John Brookes, an officer is the dock yards. having • handsome 'elegy from Government, ►ad commenced deeltug to shoes, aqd they prayed redrew. After • few words from Mr. BERNAL and Wm B. MAR TIN, the,Petitioa was withdrawn. ~,t it 6' I CATHOLIC CLAIMS. Mr. HART DAVIS presented a .Pelitioa from the inhabi tants sail , Cherchwardetra of the Pariah of Iledmioittee, against oily farther emicesMoos to Um Cotbolics.—Ordered lie on lbe MALT DUTY. Mr. HUSKISSON presented a Petition from the vicialty of Reading against a monopoly in the malt trade.. lie wished to take that opportunity of alluding tif a subject th wit eh ha had toile.) the attention of the House upon la former gtcagioo—be meant lb, intaglios of the brewers Of London not to reduce their prices, omirithotaadiagSaha redoctioa in the tax, upon malt. • Uppa that *ceasing be gif rather a qualified answer 11111 t so explanation from pm.Hm noterable Gentleman (Mr. Calvert). He did not thaw NO any Gentleman present connected with that lisrllealar brooch of trade. If he did he should PflleW the toirbbilitas for,. if the brewers of the metropolis. dial not ewimuoiliefy prices al they did in the concur% it wan. hi, deteepoimmas, ' to propose a measure to the House, willies s if it did aol piree tett the public fines high prices, would, at !rail, prevent the boon which was intended for theta from going into the portal of the public brewer..-{Hear, hear.) Tbs Petiteoa was 'ode* to he laid tea the table. Mr. MONCK said, that the Is. as it now 'flood was in. jorious to the interests of all parties--the grower, thereto. sumer, there eeeee the brewer, moil the publicea, ;teen. vexed a right of monopoly to the brewers, which gave • ye ; viral Seek to the consumption; it tended to raise the price of mall liquor beyond the proper entwine and the Poor man who had 20d. • week to spire Bs ley out in beer el id.' put, might, but for that system, here five pots at ed. instead of the four whirls be received mom. The effect wee. that by.. large a profit being demanded,tthe Goverment obtained e evoker proportioe of revalue. pod the snaltsters took off lest barley. He believed abet, these.wee great error Is thieves. mon interpretation of the Art 26th George 11. By semi,. 3 of that Act, bemuse before granted by Magistrates wipe not to be good mewl for the particular 1)311,11C and plaen mentioned in them.. The section was evidently medal to. apply le the particular. case., to prevent the removal of the !meows by that successors of those who receimd them—licenses having before that lime bent granted to particular persons and nut to particular house', mid the holder could remove the li to whatever place he.liked. best ; but by this clause that privilege was limited, though it was certainly Rome intended to hied the discretion or. the Magistrates Pt granting ticemes. HO knew of mono Mai 'borates who were 'fraud to grant Beene/odor km ofSotro. daring drunkeeness suit idleness into the village or ueigh-. bourhood. He thought it a very needier, fear, and he thought that it was the duty of Magi eeeee es to promote sell encourage the use of that secieut, good, wholesome, and sub- ; stautial bt Treace, beer, is tredve to drive out of cousumptiun that meagre. washy, enhosliby drink, lea. Mr.'GRENFELL did not ,bellevellmt the beer suffered in quality, or that the revenue teas injured by the monopoly.; He knew of one place where. out of 71 public-hours. them were 3i free, and the rest in the halide of the brewers; hews, at lemt, the mischief did not proceed from monopoly. Mr. LOCKHART expo rued his objections to apy altera tion tif the law which would tend to Mercer& the number. of 'public-houses, having sees, from the. extminations bare' , the Committee of hest year, himself Chairmen, Met where thete were more public homes than were aetoelly wautea, they became haunts of obscenity, ribaldry, iutoziestio,,ead mee of rimy kind. r lIIMI6O Mr. G. BENNETT thought that the million o) poI y ought to be done stymy with altogether, and the tee., throws. opts. There could be no dant:ally, after requires' proper securities, to prevent druoltewiese and Mee from lombooring in public-houses, to open the trade, and tell the people of the country that they were as free to sell leer as breed. That, to be sore, would he very reprofitable to the brewers; they bad boomed large gums of money in public-houses, about one million was eo invested within and abort the me tropolis, 111111 if the trade wire to be suddenly theoiro open thry would he deprived of the valise of immeuse property. He knew of no other objection to a n open trade i , beer,, the quality and consumption of which would be greatly incressed by it. • ' Mr. HUSK MONT a •iil. that he certainly would be very slow•and Wickwire.' himself to propane any v e r y s e ri ou s s ite. rail.. of the law. While he was up, he would just express his hopes that the Hon. Member for Weymouth would 40011 be featly to gratify the Heuse Uy iiitormiog them when the reduction in the price id bete was likely to -take &feel, nail . to whim a mime I. Mr. F. BUXTON slid, that he hoped very Doris le make the 11101 , 110 . 01 ei.hr.l for by the Right Bon. Centimes. :He was flirt justified in doing it jest tiles, , hi-Cati.f the love's's, of others wire coeirrruird in the delay. The reduction would, however, so,rn tske pisre, and he hart no doubt but Wit tl would he one quote satisfactory to the flow sod, the C 0130117. A. 4 to Opflkilig the crade, the great brewers must wish for it..ess this, amid but &lir so well. tieder any other system. .Rs* there weeegtest•taiMhers "of who had tsket biomes it a yer/ ihrielkersible ispeNse. e utag, wield he de. ply injorred by a 'Mita *alterstfor of ARAF j, •• • • 7 ' ' '1111,!". 7•18 7 )f :01'4 .4. • Mama 3,19% • ••••• MOUSE OF COMMONS, WtraNGDAT, Aran: 24. There was a rail of the House axed for this ereiiing, but m e aaneratood that before our aihnimion to. ilw Gallery, it '"Mag'ilttuteisou upon the motion of Sir Job. Newpnrt. • *r - GMILI. presented a Petiiiollfruns certsio Merchants aid Oralera in the City of Londouile,ry, prating fur adrfi ' ttasil tliiiitipon foreign cheese and butter.—Ordered to lie ma ibis sable. 'WINDOW LIGHT TAX. 'Sir G. HILL eseesestesk ibst the Member for Dublin (Sir P. Shia) wessisfposipsse bill saosion fur she repeal of the Wiiilow Tan, in consequence (stis sae sosslerssood) of the ab sence of Lord Londotisierv.. • .84. It. SHAW said, thus it was a question in which his esisstiisselii• were . ffsonsl deeply isterestra, awl he ronl.l not cosiest to pistpone it wiles. souse slay west• fitted upon w hirls he c o ati) positively soismis II VA the Culasiarrationi or ths Noose. He had given • ersy itinsissisice, bet he should 0 ,4 certainly tiote she Noble Aistarsiss stutelii be in the Mies., as from whit had pawed b WIPP leduced to elslerla in atihir this he Aosta have biaialailart• • _ .. - M . ,. CA LCRAFT seagested. that it would be better to wsl until the Cheiseeltur wf the km:halves ur some Minister rannittuwe to 1W Houseaut it was anal desirable that some pirnikeilay alsould be SseJ l S.r•R7ItHAW said be certainly could not postpone his tontine lentil some duly wps peremptuttly Sued. Or. F.I.LIS lad spate Pelititsys so preornt wit the subject a the Window Tax. iq usv. of which he prayed-the 11111114i0111 of the Muse. He washed it hell pulse la his kende. at as eselier period, in order t hus it &Ai/oMay' WS* pointed aid cifeetat.4l ento;:gst the M. mbete.. Tor Pelham entered en treoliely tale sloe 9seition, and pointed out the pievanees iresuhiing Plias ilia. slit. and finthcr eonspliisesi that they *id lei t share in an equal reditthh.o of tnnes"With England sleet the terevestioe of the iii. He hoped the HOY./ atewldelse it Chair fel) 'coesidtratinn. The Hedonists', cud Learned Masher then ypesenlicf Nor Petitinsts from the pa , ..shes of St. Maly; St. Gewee, 81 4 % Petri, St. Wee. Vireh, all in the nit yof Habib'. S.. J. NEWPORT, Said, it would fee wortb the attention of the Hulasu 4u tzawoult the &intik covained in that rotation, Hefota 'bey yule on the subjs.; ; for Hp.* tails alitelitt puase.ws ii .er e correct, he cou ld see nu grounds of sipplOsson to the nnntun for tie repeal of the tax. He bad when elated that the whole pigment of assessed taus spas Irelastd was the isnot injudicious policy that etould base A P 41 ' a► . . lasi = •,•- • • ••, • • • • indeed, es the ease ties stooa it world be one of the harsh . est meseeemenhich Parlianiept timid adept. The Petition woi laid on the table. o .. 4.. Petition less presioted Wee the High Sheriff end Giend jurors of Carom...vs, complaining of the egehrulto s ol distress, turd preyhig that fur the relief thereof the salt tali might be repealed —Laid on the table. • Lord EBRINGTON presented two Petitions from Wither. toile and another Rewired in Devonshire; also Petitions from Axmiester,Clisielleigh, and Morton Erasion, Devon, complaining of !Mt lettlintal distrtas.....Lividois thelairlos Mr. DENISON permeated a Petition from the Leather dealers mid Tanners of the metropolis praying for relief from the elaies on leather. They stated, that since the im position of the last duties, notwithstanding the increase of the population, .she rouspormioo bad diminished; that from the nature of the.Eeri-e regulations or levying the duties, the (beige to the consumer (the duties being 100,000/) was double that amount; that the coeliac leather paid a duty or the weight exactly the same as the leather of Ave nines the value—so that no labourer could have n pair of shoes without firit contributing from es. to ifs. lid to the State. He hoped, from three facts, and the obvious waste of poor hides which must tale place on the application of the present dailies, would rllllllc the country to Ise relicvd from a tat the most oppressive nod injorions of any no Site Mato, hook, and the worst kind of poll tax on the poor, while it ,could nut be felt by property. • • The CHANCELILAHL of the EXCHEQUER had no oh. intim' to receiving the Petition, thouels be could not admit that the leather tax was et all oppressive. Mr. CA LCRAPT said, that they must he at a loss to kr.nw what tax the Right lion. Geotlemso would consider uppers. rive. Those who hail to pay held a different opinroit on the subject. He wished to pat I question to the Right Hon. Gentleman, suggested to bins by some of his coisatituents, who were bankers. It we. understood that in two years from May next all the' 11. notary hank notes would be pro. Whited from circulations by law. He wished to know if it were in the intention of Government to submit any regula tion to the House on that subject, so as to prolong or render perpetual the circulation of country U. notes? The CHANCELLOR of tpe EXCHEQUER said, that it was his Intention to propose a regulation to the House un the subject, probably in the course of next week. The Petition was ordered to be printed. Mr. R. G. BENNETT presented a Petition from Salis bury, praying for the release pt 31r. Hunt, on ammsa of his fi admirable conduct donne his eoufinetnent —(l..aughter.) Also another froin Glasgow, signed by 8,000, to tho same effeet.-lAid on the toble. ... Mr. H. G. BENNETT gave notice that he would move to morrow, for papers relative to Mr. Theodore Hoek, chess he • hoped that the Plight Huts. Gentleman would be in his plat*, as be had mime questions which he fuuud it necessary to pet N him on the rulsicet. • Eit.J. NEW gave notice of a motitordne the Sih May, relative to Grand Jury sod Parochial Aeltoesersonts in Ireland.. .. • . .. • EXTENTS IN AID. Mr. LIT 'I pemented s P-Mitiou from the Mer chants and Battlers of Stafford, Warwick, sod .WereeMer, complaining of Extents in Aid He knew not by what fa tality it bapposed, but a rester number had been issued fur that neighhoorbood than any other, and there were few mercsetile persona of any comatose, there b.t *bell more ur bleaonffer i edfrons thno...He detailed to the Home the grievous nature and effect of the proceedings under this pro. cres,.wiliels, iq the remedial swept away the while Wile, and left the claim of the creditors without any means of liqui dation.: Bet it so happened that the revenue bad not bene fited I. may one ease eel of all the extents which had illerleid• . Ranh n system, he contended, could not be nevem ~ eggy for the collection of the revenue, while it operated se a tropism of fraud in reseed to the commercial treutiactioos of the partial concerned, sal interrupted the confidence which ',night to exist in a osereentile population. Who would Live coedit to a mast-who woe foray degree • bond debtor of the Golieeerrimst ? On the other handy what a temptation was bre prepared for pmeoiso to move" the reesaine of their Miele' from those who had credited them, without kuowing that they were under soy such obligation? He was quite sure that the Right Hon. Gentleman would not contend that r arch a system was necessary for the collection of the re. veinier Gradate hoped that .he would sot consent to leave it w t pontirof isdivideels to imempit repine sad violin's - it is the name of the Crown, when the Crown bad nothisig.to do with lbe,matter in questiato, • ' M .. ~ , , ‘, •-.. _t Mr. J. SMITH said, that the ere width hod Men made of the extents issued, sheared that in no one inolance I had the Crown any *Wog In do with them. He believed that the in introduced by the Member fur Norwich for 'Mendip" the law, would have been m or e p re f ec t had it 'been delayed twelve months; but for that measure they would have seen subsequently extents in aid issued upon same of the greatest Mows of the metropolis ;. and bed it wisp. pened, the improvement of the law would have been so peat .greater. He was sot interested in the ,abject. Neither he unr any of his family had ever issued so comps, though they bad held the power , fur sixty or sevesty-yearo pest. , • -• , 3 • The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER would mat oppose the Petition, nor to say proper conotdrretion or dia. 'mission of the subject within or +dhoti An House. Alma l eer/root of the Crown, he meat always beopposed to may en. eroachinent un the ancient prerogatives which were giveo so It to secure the collection of the revenue. If there were any abuse of it to lie complained of, so also was there a power to remedy it. The Court of F.sehequer could net asid e so extent issued under unfounded putritsion• for isdoridual beoefit. .• Mr. W. SMITH begged to be allowed to say Art the Bill he brought in to correct the practicer complained of • woo not longer to be considered his Bull. It had bees cut down and impaired by the ter officers of lbe Crlikru, so us to . take away unehalf of the begat he expected hen" it.• He ;hid always. taken the subject up on the view of allowing 'the Crown the full use of the prerogative, so as to se ;Cure the doe collection of the revenue. Butt the 'oboe was incalculabie; extents had goer on increasing, till ,illi . see pear there had been 120 odd Mooed; they then sank down to almost nothing ; now they were Mennonite again ; last year there were 40 issued, awl he dried use who beard him to ray, that in any one ease the revenue had been bene fited by she profess. Unless a more efficient measure of remerty.wece introduced by time other Member, be would • cerminly take up the *object spin. • . Mr. MONCK thought that the affidavit should slate the bona Ate debt upon Which the extent was prayed, mid that would go far tie prevent a freodulent use of them. —The ATTORNEY-GENERAL had sot beard of any re mai kable of abuse *Cements is aid, sad If soy such alpisitil occur, there was mofficietst power in the Cuenca Ex chequer in set them aside on a proper representation. He • decilited the discussion of the.queetion, but he saw iso rea.on to alter the law, or abridge the prerogative, which was needful to the collection of the revenue. Me. HUM E conteaded that the antiquity of a prerogative was no coestimoional objection to the Anti ion of it if there was proof of systematic abuse. The effect of extents in old was to give the coueciors or public mosey colifideneve till bankruptcy overtook She debtors to :be Ciouu ; then they ' ramie to and swept away the whole properly. In &ottani' the Crown only divided .5 ith the other ereditors. Why stimuld not the same law emit here ? And if that could nut he so, why not "font some ostisore to 'invent the Issue of extents exerpt ty real okbesere ekilhe Crown ? Mr W. AMITkI explained. Mr. I'. MOOR Eibotoght that the system, if not tyrannical, 1,01 at Nast a fee, corrupt one. He explained the evil tendency of them, mpecially is respect of m.eurities, which wore oitherieerter called on," Cr else is some instances most unexpectedly, sod as the distance of twenty years. Ono of his constil meals, a man of au bet sac,. bought. a house of a col. lector fur 1,4001. Many years after the collector het-ante a defialttr, and the house was seized uuder an extent, though it had b. rat purchased years belore, al a tune when no one ' ilieoght any other than thee the colhaor was a now of ton. sideroblet. wealth.. He thought the system might to he alone away aiong h gh, v , , . Mr LITTLE:ON said, that if the Attorney-General we the Chontellor of thy Exchequer would read the evidence. taken -before she Committee of taut year, they would see ilmhoiretre nova distisiet admission that the system aims not Derritirldurlbef enliectiou to; the revenue.. As t• the mesas of redress, it esthete' he reepepagegod that the mischief cum , phoingli et eves el m a u m ** of the salsas iihice. by • - • (,10,.1 I , i . •4,.0r I , •f• - •,.''' , .1 forest .ort le • • • , . fullovriag on H.e..-.ltrels of a bankruptcy, anki in wins clan causing kb, iabecitike luu Isle afterwards to repalVblte (.11 .41011 e. • ;7 i t Mr. DENMAN thoncla that there wens, 11 " 1 •Y 'N e e' tines to thii;dt.l,wtnd ruck (revues. Alban (01 PK tooth enobSlc. be ~pin. ay • Alter opfer, sansriselrum Mr.*, SMITH du Patislaa vas ordered'to.he prints& Mr. HILL presented • similar Petition from the iron. masters of Shropelnre.—Ordered to p.intrd HOUGH EY inowedforttrynnottalyrof certain pupa* connected with the Tax 011ice..—Orderrd. MR. HUNT. The Marquis of TITCH FIELD psmented • Petition from his constituents on behalf of hir.tilint. The petitioners ex. pressed them bop. a that the House would interfere to pro. core his release from.confoement, as they had fotisserly done fee Sir M. Lope., esperiallyas •the illegstity of Mr. Hunt's conduct was solar doubt Ail, that the Legislature Awl thought At to pass an Act to determine the questina sulusequesttly. The pesilinaers sent on to see termr ohm* were perhaps mat MP propm as• they enght to be.. They expremeel their bufflts tisal Ibe Howe world not sifter Mr. Hunt to remits My Mager in prisms; to •se ffer there as a victim of ministe rial hatred—subject to the m•lme of the petty tyrants who held him is custody. Cowering es tie did in the prayer of the Petition, ha. goutd nut agree is the memos offered by tie petitionets. H. was bound to declare that Museum did as more Mow their dory in dirmiiag the prosecution of Mr. Hunt, and the smitenno could ally be roosidered as the regular applicxlion of punishment to the degree of his offence. But jealously es he felt Air the authority of justice, he was led by that feeling to regret that •tty oppression should fall oil, even by occident. It was not to be denied that Mr. Houtts puoishment had been coasiderably egg/armed, and that he had suffered more than it was ever intended he *mould suffers Perhaps Iwo rush) llchester giol would hematitic+ punisholeMos tem years•aiadta , halt in any other. He runt. teemed on the abase of power by the gaoler, and pointed IN the one of one Gardner, who had been pot to considerable aofhwieg by what the gaoler termed inadvermnry. Certainly if, is She osonsents of obiseisre, he could bare given orders for tietreatsamol complained of by the prisoner, he mum base bees blest with a disposition which rendered him peculindy Mil •for his 'sittsidloo. He did not beg fur any f svour fur Me.• Hunt, but only for justice. He was the last vermin in the House who would attempt to interfere with the exerts. lion of jostler. But these was something very ptraller is This may, which cabled' on the Home Departeneut Id inter fere in behalf of themrisotier. Mr. C. W: WYNN rose to dirpote the allegations of the Petitioner as to the ram of Sir M. Lopes; neither had the Hamm interfered,. nor any of Itts Majesty's bliaislers pied to do so, en helialf of the Barougt. • . i • • Mr. G. BENNET I' said, that the niotioa nn that occasion wartrithdrawn me tie enderstanding find Moister* would isterfereet.("No, neer from Ma. Wynn.).—He begged team to say, though, that he was a party to the transaction, and thaithweonsietios froatashat was offered by Ministers was, that the Crows would eertuieely look with an eye of mercy to the ease of that aged individual. Mr. PEEL, referring to the proceedings of that day, said, that hit memory most be very imperfect •if theoessertion of the Hon. Gentlemen' was- correct. As he recollected, it was distinctly declared that there could be no compromise—n• onderrtaeding as to extending the merry of the Crown, although it certainly was urged. that the Horse, basing • directed the promeatioo, were entitled is abates.' to implore the remierion of the punishment. M ACM NTOSH said, that every body must agree that there could have beennio express end direct orminuce given of extending the mercy of the Crows : that mould have been equally improper for the Howie to ask 'or for 31i sisters Naive. Bat he would venture to say, that the words used did, in sebstaste, convey to nU prevent at the.debatie • Wettest intention on thepart of Minister. to *drier with the Crone upon the subject of that pounsfinient. He did OM deny but that if the proposilon of Ole' Noble Member foe Huntingdon had been pressed, it mist have been reject: ed, because the Haase thought it better 10 leave the whplet to the rare of the Crown, in the general confidence that the pardon would he reacted. ' •Me C. W. WYNN raid. that the objection take,' to the motion was distinctly on the Remind of impropriety fir the theerforene• orate Hoose l sad it was as dlstmettly rsairtaised that sommapact would he made upon that subject. •, '•IIIIr.'EROUGIIAM burr fit. tedimony In the fact stated "bp•Ille Mosolaratile and Learned Friend. The great hard. skip of the sentence was urged not only on account or the great age of Ile M. Lopes, hot foe the commonness of the MEN' seder which he committed the offence. Them was no 'sprees statement or assurance that Wonders would inter, fen, bet there was not a single Member who left the House with dreilttast vestige of doubt that Pm object of the mo tion had been effected. It early remained for Government to Eke , ' the same mummer or eliderstanding in these or any oiler words to the Honourable Member for Weannioster to seism him to take the course before taken by the Noble Member fur tiontiageloo, and withdraw his motion. The Marquis of TITCHFIELTI stietlliat the , authority of , the Right Has. President of .the Homed of , Control , was so grater than his own as to the words used by the Noble Mar quis on she case of Sir M. Loper., the Right Hon. Geode mars not having then found season to chance his position in - the Hoese—i-(Laughter)—.lf the Noble Marquis, whore in. disposition be regretted, were present, be' would corroborate the matensent which he (Lord Titelifield) had wide. Mr. C. W. WYNN was 'merited to hear the allusion made to the alteration of his sauation—(Laughter)--sa if that circumstance proved that his memory was not as trust— worthy on that aryouiet.—(A laugh.) The Marquis of TITCHFIELD bad never said or inti mated that the Right then. , Geetteman was out as liberty in express bin °pintos to the Holm; be only contended that the Right Hon. Gentleman was no better an authority than himself ma the occasion. Far be it from him to intimate • that the opinions of the Right Hon. Gentleman were not percieely as valuable now as when be sat is a different situation. Mr. C. W. WYNN did not know to what part of his enn 'duct the alluuren of the Noble Marquis was pointed. He was reedy to defend it, and only wished the charge to be mere Mr. DENMAN said, that there was a Noble witness at the bar-.(Laughtei)----nlid could inform the House of the exact terms which pawed.—Lord J. Russell immediately took hissed by Mr. Denman.] The Petition was ordered to be printed. Mr. Alderman WOOD pretested a similar Petition from 2,500 loshabiiants of Hatifez. Lord 1. ItUtiSELL was ant exactly aware of what had passed before he emered the Hour*. If understood the precise point in dispute, be ►ad withdraws the motion with the understanding that the object of the motion is regard to the release of Sir M. Limes would be granted. Mr. W. BNII CH pretested a similar Petition front several inhabitants of tbelCity of tiloswieb. - ..... Mr. BEAUMONT presented • similar Petition from • plats in Noriliumberland. Ordered to Le printed. MR. HUNT'S IMPRISONMENT. Sir F. BURDETT mill, after the numerous Peti tion, which ho beets ptesented on dm subject which formed the grounds of the motion he was about to make in lamer of Mr. Henry Hunt — Oster the able manner in which those Petitions had been supported, particularly by the Noble Lord near btu* (the Marquis of Trichtblll), he felt con. riderably entbermweil in rising to make the mo. ton of which he had given hence, hereto* that No ble Lord' had most strongly, though but shortly; enforced ibuse grounds winch the COMPe of billet). serrations lit support of Isis motion would natutalty lead him to occupy, in a manner which had prey duced• so great au impremseets on the Houseaust (Chrers)—that, glad•se he was to hind that the fume frtitime which had.beew awakened in his own trAild are this*object, were not only espreteed in the Pea honor of tire people from all parts of the cbualtry, but hod ralso,been ,echoed by the voices •I'manylll 6 that House; yet he could eft divest hnneelfuelflell - • • ' • t' •. 0 I as 11/ • t, • k feat It in lna v on ent s il iot a e g rfo t l o ly e n nl rge arg d e , " re s n ho w t h iril t tAteafi~ biro Ikaiblin3 vile ini fo p rw ru ar i d o i n n t g . , : l i e i h it m u li t o i s m ilt h d p o n u b t l e d e li b t : e al i g i r a l u rly .. l : pi t r i: . &Md. lip to a very tented strong hopes that his Alon,t er , leased have spared him the tunable of trtspar ne4 upon the time of the House, and the pain of dweil. so ormirming anobleri, by the perftion. anee of all act at once favourable a n d joist i n th e individual in . question, to the laws, and to them. genies, in remurrog'tfie rtmaitufei - of. the senoidc.., whiciteeuld - nut be,etiftiereti elfi/tit »flowin it t o predict Withe mikft of the people, frorai'tlfe con. victims of its exec/sive seventy, a ferlilix winch , I. t the sak4'esf theediainiinallin of jostle... h „ ( 1 the laws themselves. 'owght Moly. to be evnirlat- Of 'sympathy nth' tile petiole who nos the Of &telt pussishMent. ',He Mid hoped tint Id s Al. jesty's Ministers wo u ld have found it a.. voghl e recommend to the Ctewn to remit the rentaintu)) term of the sentence on Mr. Hint. Had it beet) for him to c•mmatticuie' with' that department of the Government to which it'pecuharly . belaiiged t o take eognitante of this matter, he had not the saltiest doubt of its merits% with the contest at. tention of the 4ight Hon. Gentleman mho fillsd office ofSecretaty for the Home Departniamit. Indeed he did not altogether despair of haviorgthe thaistahi•s of the Right lion. ,Gentleman in this m'atte's; th e o more so, be c ause n . Making known to finis soave peCcircumstance'suliarcircumstance's in some other ewer, - fie had at once promptly attended to the reprints)_ lotion, which were .made. and isiterfered to niacin the persons to whose cases his attention was on that ocessiotillirectea, 'fiord' a severity' of poniab reriit ( I) H eyo ea t r i , d offence'. hopedoto appe it a i r g e f Right rit.-- Gen. demo') would not takc his haring failed to i nn ug un it ic o st i t assiiityh wanthim e ol n. re ths e i oee su t b ar ject s e. , niffriproceeenct in him, but would rather view it at it was attended, in the light of a greater rontpliatent paid to him in firm reliance on his' judguiete.—(Hear, he.r.)_ It' he could make out, in the first place, dist the setitence'upon Mr. Hunt was in itself sutcieutly severe for the offence with which he was charged_ mud it was not for his purpose to impugn that sen. triter—and if, in the second place, he conk' shew that the mode in which thee oenterlee had been Mr. tied into effect had augmented Iti severity fai be yond what the Court'Which deeried it had contem plated—lie thought that in so doing he shield tore established a sufficiesitccese• to tall upon the House ' to adopt the course which it was hat inteittiin to suggest. Their iras,'however, A third point, whi c h appeared to him to he not the least strong part of the case: he intent the claim of Mr. Hunt sport the Goveritment mud the • country fora favourable conederatiorrof hit mist; forilit — manirer iii Which he Ibid. peritied and .successtully candieted a hopipitait isiquiry(Heur, hear, hear.)-- rJo otdri to establish the first branch of his argu s mmilcit was necessary that be should cull the atten tion of the' Hislimetto what *as the nature of. the clMige'spinst'Mr. Front) and in so doing he could not' help remithing sipin the harshness of the legal prriceediag• is such a case. This person was trued an a great 'variety of comes, einhnicing ' every dr. g teei of affettem from it* Meet( to toe triarettl•n the Seale olvethnintility.' 'He was entirely acqiiitied On ill the' heUtY and Siggravated counts. and after five 'boors spent by the Jury in consultation, was heed' guilty-of nal,' • entail pert of one mint; wherenpoo the Jur, were reminded by one Of die Oniaechhing fanyers,lbitt 'there was one small c oact emilrecing the' t;nialleit Part of the charges, the minimums of guilt. to which he referred them, and upon that count they at length founded their ver. diet of , ' guilty." He could not help thinkiugit • great grievance that a person should he prosecnted by... many charges, so that he might it length '6e found guilty On I charge of so smelt& nature. that if that had formed the only count in the indiehoesits it would not have been thought worth the while to put him on his trial. If he had been found guilty on the whole of the counts, the sentence nf.tiest years and a half of imprisonment would have h'eal's sufficient punishment to satisfy all the entls'ofjustice. The offence with which he was thirged was a mis demeanor, which was a species of offence described as inter mistera cries/sta. and deserving only .f slight punishment ; that of *bleb he had been con victed might be truly described as inter Panora minimes, the smallest of misdemeanor*. Indeed he (Sir F. Burdett) 'could not imagine how he Could be said to have committed any offence at all, for it could not be doubted' that •et the time of the transaction with - which he was' charged, his mind wos'whelly.free from all idea of guilt. sad that if he ready committed tiny offence, it was entitelv without any knowledge or intention on his part. ft ate u matltn of the old law"cif the laud, (hit atlas non fit real, nisi wens sit rya, but here was a per son found guilty, though *sot at all intending, or even conscious of doing wrong. If there were any offence st all on 'that Ociession, the guilt rattier •lay with the Magistratia, who 'havnig the power. had taken no pose at all to prevent its commission. But whatever the offence usigHtli of a w a h l ich M thata r n . i H eit u p t: iso t w nw as ei c a o o n i vic to ted oy , e n a o rs pe a rso na n would wit MA a soffitient ponishment. If the olirersli. ttittoosi lawyers 'weft right in considering ter. 'smallest deprivation 'of liberty as a heavy nod a grievous punishment, be did say that Mr. Maui been most grievously punished. If the' term of imprisonment 'to ninth he 'hid been seotenced w e re nut too large a punishment for the degree of crime of which he had been fOUnd guilty, that of a portion only punishment, fistilleens7 be should allest wish to couotiathe inkndioirct: mot s what ulitimtvne the e wbv i l i ti tl .it i l c , i t e ie si if tinpnt lie ?_ isti ister if beets fo Realty ln_d 'File term of his life reuld not have bees Inflicinit —(Hrsr)—unleas indeed his dayi had been pro longed to the age of Mathussiem—(llear, haul — mud that even would not have stone unit,' the dais of Dr. Coniston had been in like manlier prolonged. that he might inspect the prison for 'the •Ithole of she period...w(tlear, heat.'beur.)— In proceding to the second. krisich of his subject, it was not his in tention to ontiepote the &acclaims on the 'question respecting ere' ni of llchester. It would, however. be necessary Mr :int totatith iPon some of the topics connected wi h that discussion, in doirigntich he ahoistd'cbofiae n. mot If ii Clowly as possible to the particulor question so which he was astahrwitig him loth When tie sestesce who patted; M. HOutliskt! —.wow.- .44.44mirmouililira44L M .