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.• - • Ake& ! enttlY works at art; inittialif attack with 14 04 ' bie grie•td. hl the ay.% of the hoydens. for i.istana l ir, t?r then state of things, theta Vr4l 11.. kip, whale. ever, tor a min 6soe fur s?ich artjelet, put** :rum) s the Continent, wnive many of the petal", or pi Lures used to be dispesra of at the great fanfeit Al thing! Wel stood. they night as well etpc IS sell sd many esiewelit. As Ottpe* re Meth) —lt was, therefore, necessary to have recoil* to the expedient of * • Lottery. to enable the *OW Proprietors to dispose of the valuable articles abided to. Wah rasped to the case of Bowyer's History of, Ligland, the principle was the same. The History :if such 4 century as England must be valuable ; and to have that History illustrated in the splendid manner of the History alluded tn. highly desirable. Tie a *crude extent, this principle certainly applied to buil:Hags, in cases whore great insproveisents, or ifttemeotal decorations, were included. In the present case, both these estimable objeits were spe:alstioa r• r • h ........ telt tops* and [Apart Duty 141 vravrepenol, and M be:TIM • third time to- IbIVIOW. OITA. Latinate jaysented three Petitions, Aim the Mir !film Me rhh• from raea, -sod fro lb. Traders sad other of Sri/Ma% fa &vow of die brighten deny $4ll.- 11. :1•11111 the T 44.. i .* a Petition awn the Illotobtera and % ,eity fifteen ladles of Llsoloo against tit* Flay le be referred to the Crossings oa the r ii ti r . a k Reg t e ir susholsdifilan Sanwa wad anersond time, • ' ilat ilbeillam Oil 111 1 0111. WNW. a Cihiannelee--Re ---a . as. „, et *we al Wes -' said, Armee ....wwwei (Bastard) to have miss object, and as for ch. clothing to the Volunteers, sceording to the order orate 66 of June, which directed that they shade! he entitled to it in three years after their • excepting, of service. If he wished for that m iens, there would be no objection to it. 1 - 111odeTBAS FARO sale, 'Alt Me ehjefh wee to / fibre all the corps placed upon the same foo6nr. 'Re then moved for copies of the letters ftpits Mr. •, trick to Mr. Moore, dared Whitehall, isApth a miry, and let of Irebruary, 1806 ; mil are ef • is letter from the Hoene. ry at War, to **Stinker **Wm, dated the 26th of March. At presents lee *said, the Volonteers were in a state of chao, . antifeesfution. and he had some difficulty to ilk corps tat which he was concerned, t - ON the stew regulatiocs should be made known. . Mr. WYNNE expressed his surprise that any nncertailaty should prevail amongst the corps, the - majority of whom were entitkd to the August al lowance. The only alteration madc in them, that he knew bf, was thole! reducing the pay of the drill set jetints from Is, 6d. toad. per day. Though the returns of the corps were often irregular, yet he never heard an instance of any corps that was re- ' miss in drawing for its pay. Mr. LONG wished to knew whether the carp entitled to the August pay, which had not Yet ode- . pleted. their numbers, were to be allowed it for the ISTW recruits? Mr. WYNNE replied, reetaialy they were. • Mr. LONG a , ked, whether may elimination of t:re allowance was intended ? Mi. WYNNE replied, that he thought not, bat did not wish to pledge himself wpm the sallied. The motion was then agreed to. 11ANICRUPT LAWS. 'Mc 3C`LICITC , R -0 r:NERAL said, he rose, ; H. - ~#-;., %O . . . . . Idtheiant to nastier; td Mote ar lean! . rn bring m a i Bill to arted and, amend thin beret II Laval relating ' lo BanftrApit *o thotigisi hetselfeved, he shodld et press himself adore ci*ly, ft he had odds relating Ito Bankruptcies. It *as gen:dant known acid ad mined. that there were numerous defeas in the whole system of the PAllkrUpt LAWS ; but the ohj-1 he had in view, at p!CSCIIL was confined to one re gulation only. la•very case of/ Bankrupt, the Law related always hack to the time when the Ad of Bankruptcy was knows to have been committed. A man, for instance. may live for many veers in great repute. and possessed of a deal of credit, which would enable hi-n to contra& a considerable nomber of debts; and yet, as the ad had only re• ference to the period of the aft of bankruptcy being committed, alt former debts were rendered null and void by the commission. He would state one case, amongst mazy, in which the law bore with a peculiar degree of hardship. It may happen, that a man may sell an estate with. a good title, which was pertedly sufficient to satisfy the creditor, who might consider him as a solvent men, and yet an ad of bankruptcy is afterwards committed, and if the commission be taken out within five years after the sale, the estate. thus bona fik purchased, becomes that of the assignees. Another case was that of a man, lending money to anodic', without any suspi cion Whatever of his being in unpleasant circum 'Mum, and yet if the debtor has antecedently com mitted an aa of bankruptcy, the money thus bor rowed is . divided anmogst the other creditors with ont the lender being entitled even to his dividend. The statutes of James Ist and George Ist were somewhat at variance upon this subjea, but as the law operated. debts of that kizcl belonged to the assisfiees. As to committing an aa et bankruptcy, • In at man being denied to a creditor, it was often a thing impossible to be known to any one but to the Man himself, and sometimes to his servants. In the present state of the law, it was as unjust to the bankrupt himself as to his creditors. i ne original • istionino.of the law was, that w:ien a man fairly and honestly gave up all he was worth, he should be pri tested amnia any farther demands ; whereas noose, however limiest I y he might have d...ilr, he was .not prettied . by his commission er certificate against any Mt he might have contrasted, from •odlae roatimr that he first committed an act of bank rupts,, and that perhaps witheut knowing that he had so committed it ; and a hat mad' it still more severe was. that those debts were liable to come against him, at a time that he had given up hsa all, and could not possess :say property, without being guilty of a felony. Wnat he had already stated, he believed would be thought sufficient to justify what he proposed; but these was still sa greater hardship than any to which he had before adverted. It a debt was found to have been con tended after the time that the petitioning creditor instituted a proceeding. all that had been done before upon the commission, was thereby invali dated, and the assignees became, in their own persons, accountable for every thing they had sold—every aa they had committed. It had fre quently, in consequence . o$ this law, occurred, within his own experience, dint a first corn mission was superseded, on account of a prior ail of bankruptcy; a second cotawthision was taken oat, and superseded on the LIMO ground; and a third shared the same fate as be predecessors. : All this was done by the same individual, and was prac ticable by any man who conttivod to keep back, till a convenient time, those prior alts of bankruptcy. In addition to these, when the Meuse considered the enormous expence of these proceedings, the endless litigations, and numerous actions to which they gave rise, and by which the property of the bank rupt was so often dissipated and squandered, it must be matter of astonishment to think that such a law had been suffered to exist so lon. In considering the remedies for this evil, there were only three which suggested themselves to his mind ; the first and most obvious one was, to abolish altogether the principle of retrospect, and make the bankruptcy commence at the suing out of the corn-nission ; but he could not propose that, as it would be produaive of a multitude of frauds. The second remedy was, to declare that no commis sion should be allowed, except for an ad of bank ruptcy committed within a limited time, such, for instance, as six months. But experience had ;hewn. that a great many honest commissions were taken out much later than six months after the ad of bankruptcy was known to have been committed. This often happened from motives honourable to the parties. The creditors often were willing to try if the affairs of the debtor might not be reme died. and thought themselves secured by deeds of trust, of snitch longer than six months duration ; and after that, it would be great injustice to allow a Amur fide debt to be proved, even though contra& ed within the six montht af te r t he ad ol - bankrupt. cy took place. The third remedy, and that which he approved of, was to declare all conveyances and all pas sients made. and debts eoprraaftli and 41 debts pai4 ,by or to them, to be good and lard, peoviekd the other party had no notice at the time °tang ad-of bankruptcy committed, or of the in solvency of the party with whom he was dealing ; and further, that no commission should be supersedable on account of any prior ad of bankruptcy committed. He had only one point more to add : by the aft of the id of George the lor o viehts not due or payable at time of the ads *bankruptcy, were made valid, i nt h the dedudiun d of legal interest for the time ; a what t:te pro posed in addition was, that simple debts should stand in the same situation as those for which secu tides were given. He concluded with moving fur leave to bring in a bill to alter and amend the several laws selatiag to bankrupts; which was agreed to. The Report of the Assessed Tales Allowance BM, was deferred till to-morrow. Mr. ilobhouse brought up the Report of the Re solutions of the Committee on the Auditor,' Salaries, which was agreed to. and an iostruarins given to the Committee on the /3411, that they make woman accordingly. The Report of the Committee on the Prize Per Centage to the Hospital and Chest of Greenwich, was disposed of in the same manner. fitioN Most RF.LLEI , 1111.1.. fir JOHN NEWPORT brought in this Bill ; and in' moving a That it be read a first time," M r DA(; 1 6 . 1..1 J. tkankP4 illy 'tight lion. Be- 1 • tonet for hit perseveranie is tbis Bill, but appte %ended there was a Nut Or two its which Boy may !evi: tome differince of Opinion. As the law was already, Grand Juries bid the power to raise 4001. on counties, and 2061: on Cities the Consequente of which was, that in those counties which had cities, there were houses of industry, supported by the aggregate sum; but, ia those counties which had no cities, the contrary was the case; and he, there fore, hoped, that power would be given to the Grand Juries of the latter, to make up that de ficiency, as many of the counties so situ ited in Ire land, possessed more opulence than same of those which had cities. From the time that this assessment of 4001. upon counties was first granted for the poor, it had never been increased, although for other pur poses, rates had been made to the amount of 30,0001 though the people themselves were so anxious to have provision made for the poor, that houses were built by private subscriptions, rising in a gradation of from one to 100 guineas. It should be remem bered, that there were no poor laws in Ireland, and he hoped it would remain so, for the country was too poor to support the extravagance of them. Mr. FOSTER considered this as a law professing to assist that of 1772, for taking up idle persons, and obliging them to work. That Ati was only carried into execution in Dublin, where there was now the sum of 20,0001. paid annually for the support of vagabonds ; and Dublin being considered as the centre, all the other counties entirely tie , gleaed them. If the Bill was, as he supposed, in tended to compel Grand Juries to extend their powers in this respect, he should vote against it, and particularly, as he thought it by far too late in the session to press a measure which had before been so frequently agitated and rejeaed in the Irish Parliament. Mr. BAGWELL said, there were houses of in dusuy in other placer besides Dublin, but that they were supported by private subscription. Sir J. NEWPORT explained, that if the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Foster) at.ended to the Bill, he would find it expressly prov.ded, that one half of the houses should be appropriated to the correc tion of vagabonds and sturdy beggars, and the other halt to the relief of the needy poor. The Right Hon. Gentleman was also wrong in supposing that this was the first time of levies fur this purpose being made compulsory upon Grand Juries, of which he quoted two or three instances, and the only compulsion was on the counties which had houses of industry, to maintain them. As to the chargo of bringing it forward so late in the Session, he appealed to the recollection of Mem bers, whether he had not made the same proposi tion last year. In the early part of this Session, he was, for a time, kept out of his seat, by what he must consider a very improper proceeding. Since then, his time had been fully occupied, as would be proved by the great mass of business be already brought forward; arid, late as it may be, he hoped he may now be permitted to go on with a measure, which he felt to be so essential to the welfare of his country. Mr: ALEX ANDER said, that however disagree ableit may be tooppese a measure. the object of which was professed to be humane and charitable, he must object to all uew and partial schemes, as hitherto the relief held out to one class of the poor in Ireland, fell heaviest on the other poor part of it. The greatest part of the taxer of the North or Ireland was paid by people inhabiting houses of about St. a year, and as no other property there but lands and houses contributed to the payment of the poor, he was desirous of having some more general measure. Mr. PARNELL said, it was impossible to travel over the high roads in Ireland, without being sen sible of the necessity of this measure ; and as to the objection of its falling heavy on the land owners; they were a description of persons in that country best able to afford it. The Bill was then read a first, and ordered to be read a second time tomorrow. Oa the motion of Mr. R. THORNTON, the House went through a Committee on the East India Shipping Bill, and ordered the report to be re ceived to-morrow. DEFENCE SILL. On the motion of Mr. WINDHAM, the House i resolved itself into a Committee of the whole House on the Defence Bill. On the clause relative to the quotas of the differ ent counties being read, Mr. YORKE. said, he was friendly to the Bill, so far as it WAS similar to that he had proposed in MS, because by proper modifications you might blend this and the Militia in such a manner, as in a very essential degree to serve strengthen the regular army, though be was not certain that at the present moment it would not be better to keep the enemy altogether ignorant of what your uhimate plan was intended to be. The principal obje'fion he had to the Bill was, that Scotland was not in cluded ; what reason there could be for omitting that part of the country he could not conceive. He would therefore propose, by way of emendreent, to leave out the word " England," and to substi tute ..Great Britain" in it. stead. Ile thought this absolutely necessary, on account of the very great burden this But must unjustly throws on this part of the kingdom. Mr. Secretary WINDHAM sail, it was thought by Ministers, that to a very great part of Scotland this Bill would not apply—the Highlands, particu• lady, which were very thinly peopled, but whose people were naturally of a very warlike and mili• tary turn, much more so than in this part of the kingdom. 'I hey thought also, that as the greatest part of the Vol:. Leers iu Scotland were ender the June, or larger allowances, that it would have a very considerable effect on that body ; and being only a Bill of experiment, they thought it best to !crass it within as narrow a scale as possible, and that WAS the reason which made him state, that it ems not intended to extend the Bill to Scotland this year. Sir J. PULTENEY said, he could see no reason why this Bill should not be exter.ded to Scotland ; it was true the Western Itgliiands were thinly peopled, butia the Lowlands, the several neighbour. hoods of Glasgow, l'aiseley, and Edinburgh, were, in proportion, as populous as close or the towns of England. He must therefore enter his protest again:: Scotland bei:.ls exempted. Mr. PERCIVAL sAid, if no arrangement had befeco:ore been ruadt int this sub/ •C. it rzikEti: per- - ,~ - . haps have been joked on as a snaiter of some de licacy, but an arrangement had been nude by L b, Bill of his Right Minot'Fable Friend on ebb eel head. As to the objedion of the Honour. able Secretary, relative to the thinness of tion in the Highlands, he thought it of no more.,: :;! whatever; for Westmorelaud.Cumberland, and pa:l c of Lancashire, Cheshire, and Yorkshire, W C ... . equally mountainous distriets, in England, :chi thv. e wee as much reason •to distinguish them from incre populous parts in England, .of course it sheve, ; that Scotland had no right to be exempted. Colonel WOOD th.iught, that from the objections which had been made to the Militia in Scotland, would be best to defer the extension of this Bill to Scotland for one year. Mr. CALCRAF t spoke in favour of the Ell as it now stands; the machinery of tl:e former Ad, h e said, was never put in motion, nor intended to this Bill was meant to be aided upon, and should therefore be confined to the smallest extent—Ecg. land. If found to be applicable to Scod.lnd, might be extended next year. Col. BAS FA RD said, he was as willing to leave the defence of England to the Volunteers of Eng. land, as Ministers seemed desirous to leave Scotland to be defended by the Volunteers of that country. He did not know whether this was to be a Money Bill, bet it looked very like it ; for be was sure every man who could get off by paying the fine, Would do so. and therefore Scotland ought to be a • party—for ifevery man who can pay, will pay, the idea of raising r.,yi,000 men by the Bill MSS highly •absurd and ridiculous. He thought the state of the Session an odd argument, for the Bill was m :s e a for oa the 4th of April, and surely the Session could not then be said to be advanced. From what ititd, been said by the Right Hon. Secretary against the. Parish Bill, he doubted much ..teethes. this could „encceed, which was so very lke it. Mr. WINDHAM vtid, the Bill Wits merely meant as a matter of experiment, and should not therefore be extended farther than could well be avoided. Viscount CASTLE ft EAGH said, if the Bill was such a mere ma,cer experiment, he chi not see why it should no: be mum: narrowed, and itt operation confined to the Right Hon. Seiostary's native county of Norfolk. Mr. WHITBREAD said, it was different Gres the Parish Bill, for by that they were obliged raise so many men ; by this they must person-shy come out to be trained, or pay a fine. Mr. BANKS said, this Bill ought to be consider. ed either as a benefit or a burd e n. He considered it as a benefit ; but it would peeve a burden if lutt:l on one part of the kingdom, and not extended toCia other. He rerpeded the Volunteers of Scotland ; but it was invidious to place teem in a superior light to those of England; he should therefuie Mort the amendment. Colonel EIRE was afraid the Bill would be pro duftive of very general dissatisfaCtion, and was therefore against it, but would not wish to fasten a burden oa another part of the kingdom, which per haps it could not bear. Mr. C. WYNNE said, that from the seanty po- pulation of Scotland, the Bill could not be applica ble to half that country , . Lord BINNING thought, that whatever burdens were inflidied for the defence of the country, ought to be equally participated. Col. MATTHEWS said, thus from the ogs trit... he entertained of the Bill, it would be so very shoit an experiment, that it was not worth while to ex tend it to Scotland. Mr. HUSKISSON and Mr. CALCR AFT thought, that the Bill could not, upon any psinciple of fairness, have a limited operation upon England Mr. WINDHAM said, it would be unfar now to extend the measure to Scotland, as the gentle men who represented that part of the country were absent. Mr. YORKE said, he should certainly take the sense of the House on the question. Not a wind had been advanced to shew why the country from Aberdeen to Glasgow and Edinburgh, comprisirg one of the most opulent parts of the kingdom, should be exempted. He had never understood that there would be insurmountable difficulties to the operation of such a Bill in Scotland, any more than there were in Wales, Westmoreland, Cumberland, the North Riding of Yorkshire, and whet dis tries: but it there really were, why could not the peace establishment ut the militia be retorted •to in the Highlands, or the men be associated under this Bill for' 4 Jays together, in some central • position ? Mr. NYDER said, that no possible ohjeAirn could lie advanced against the exteasion of GA: Nil to all the Lowlands of Scotland ; o f the High lands, Dunbarton, Perthshire, and some other pals were infinitely more populous than many Jistrifis of England. The House then divided on the Amendment pro• posed by Mr. Yotivt—Ayes, 38—Noes, 76--'Ms jarity, 38. TIN original Clause was then agreed to. In the clause regulating the returns under the AEI. Mr. YORKE proposed the introditaion of the words I. regard tieing to the number of Vo lunteers actually enrolled and serving in the coma- ties." This produced a long converxition, in the ionise of which, Mr. WINDHAM said, that a wa, in tended to give to His Mpjesty the power ul ang 2tßooo men, in addition to the nuentnr Volunteers that might continue to be embi. tied, but that the authority would possibly nor. be ere braced to the extent of training that number. The returns of persons liable to the service wets to be made tint from those %rho were liable to 'serve uncr the IrfLiria Bill, which was then in progress through' the House. hlr. YO:IKL's amendment, was, at length, a.ionced. The clause relating to the lem-fth of time allowed for training, and for giving His M ijr,ty a p ht. , call out the trained men, in case of read, Viscount C ISTLE RE AGI-1 said, h WAS a matter that required much consideration, ant as it WO then a late hours he thought it much ". 'tter the Chairman should report prugres, and the clause be tit used to-morrow. This roposition was arei.d to, :Ind the Cliaitmau reported progress, and t. sit az 'IR tc-artairowe—Adj =lard at TIVC.Vd , •IP ••••••••• •••1w cam mum viirGili Rini united. The speadatica was entered into w;th ' r sack a share and mixture of publi c s pi t i t , as did the projraors great credit. Much of what the =• had to complain of, arose f ro m t h e sa dd en out of the war, by whi c h th e p r i ces o f a ll were greatly increased, and, those of la. Met is a still higher proportion ; sn that it was ie- rh. the parties could go on, without plunging =e a :Th. of bankruptcy. On th ee , grounds, to fiis Noble Friend , whether he would is ilitaprobotioa to tat. as not. to yield to ilivammiftratum, of unavoidable Citttlirlatances I = is tr ism had been sent up from the House of and had passed through every stage r- their Lordships, rave thi s ver y l ist . He Efeitski *lnuit vslhe ?titbit Duke, whether it tot ilio bettor to consider the observations he IWiliiir as a kind of caveat in fauns, against ap- . , . of the Itiod, from mistaken. or interested I The rain .11 the parties might ba the .. r dionselaiggeo of the tejeigniti of the bills nt men who Sid Mena rorweid with a dilate, rit public spirit,. . ill Elli*adatOsta ' , ado& to "Pl"e and tonn'if?".., gin laelarrtaat avelips of titkil ew li . winvolis t tag which etreatiektanie redoeis4 'to hennut.; rer hissparepot his advanced tints of li o f * sues •d ~in ed, uin order that see these . he might is haute of ...., owyeaild ice perfeillioo. Oa tha whole. his sat- Waft 4 the looksure were such. as hilly to justify, Vat in bight; ilk* Lordships to pass the Bill. I - ' Ilia tetanus Jam them pi!. ,rid the 8111- (estee r‘ve saViaVollea-corawit'l lead a third dam It * 7 o orvaiao l o ,lo a. and If *sup ordired to 11N zter . anit the Osamu therearith. disposing of c • ase routine basins% their lill iallen . ad partied tat to-morrow. , t . --.........- HOUSE OF cOWKONS. • _ _ _ pea ea enegrew. Oa the Motion et the I. o ltlrAl*ll6 l4 of SCOT- ' 11D, the Itooort of she C .inesittir en the Verdtien of a t elewie oft Cape Rock, en toe SoolootlOsist of Scot. 1 1 ogisolidetof le bt rehired to a Ceaddinee et the whole . 1 0 " Mertes , . Now me mewed hew ow. Load.' ..o Aensiesee 0.... lair die ale" l ol***oo,4lllfitie. end reddest,' i ittid nave bad by Canno,t, "4.w swiii media( et the • Kr. esteem ebatimil hese to in amu fen leaking V 1 Wort tie eke fdre.iredere of gie *Welt Ordnance erin e Zre bees ereilid is 1, them. &c. fiLlrAn Itteetiltt le a Ilial *a beater eenveyance of V a br sit peerriattedi SIMI of them, which e. deer. . Impeetim ea as *petted, and erddred to beamed a mae teassavew. Kr. r hi ressapil a Nahum Ilya the True/Des of the '.lkltim b. obianter elee MI Ild WI/anent le enable / *Se 111 ~Me the'rneetiall el ide Taunley, and For ' • gekne*bagzoatbalmegi s * he on the TAble. • SA Cratfuele Sawed twee, and lo sootellitibeitottotp. i Tbe coursimar es elm llama ',Mrs bib eu deferral lii/101111111ms. ?HL VOLVI4ELItt. • Mr. C. W. WYNKE-ptembeed • room to the 0 of der 6cb alliorecaber, relative to circular es to Volumeers, in • PM* C IPII III: c re Imre no more in the A. cedraelaii beet aisser laid Wore the • • • H. theft said, &se posed the Hon. tautardl to have mitts en his ntiite_ onA