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Ilia Cabin ; Min Commando Ottizotte, Mho Poesy ; Sion* jog Fan, Mrs. Stand. To-morrow, Tire Duryea Carlos (Sr.( Hoer), Modorwe Vestris ; Clara (first time), Mies Fordo—with Almenwes sod Hemet. On flotorday, the Cooed, of Stored the Pforogls. On Monday, Illselord the Third: Dolts of Wester, 11111 Kran• .0a Tories% 7h. Siege of Bolos& the fierostier, Mr. Salim (his first eippostains erwolool. EAST INDIA HOUSE, APRIL 17, 1022. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENG. LAND, trading to the EAST INDIES, do hereby pies Itiettag. protecting duties !tad already been carried a great deal too far. The Petition *lli ordered to be„printed. ALEHtts:JSE LICENSES. Mr. Thanes. presented! a Pstittou from certain Landholders in the ;minty of Maidenhead. iti Beth complairtimr, of the depression of - the eneykets in their neighbourhood for hat ley, Irill . Fll VMS thechivf article of their produce. This trepredsion therattri, hated in a great de gr e e t o t h e ci rcum st ance ef all the public-houses in their district being its the hands of three or four brewers, who in consovseasse of being thus wholly free from competitiow, /sad it in their power to supply beer of such a quality they themselves thought ',roper. Indeed the pe titicnera deemed to have a strong suspicion that the 'Nee supplies' at present was nut brewed from malt at all—(laughter)--or at least from is very 'mall proportion. The Petition was, front the kuoesis mw spectability of the parties whim! signatures were galled to it, entitled to the grtifeit They 'scribed the evils which they.ememereted46 the present system of licensing; complain* ci( the licenses being limited net to the parties. bat to the houses for •hich they are grouted; and praying that the law in that respect may be altered, so that the licenses' may be given to the parties, whereby they may be enabled to choose their own brewers, or to brew titer own beer, which would have the effect of increasing the consumption of barley in malt, and of securing to the public • supply of • more invigorating beverage. Mr. C. W. WYNN said such a regulation as that which these petitioners prayed fur, of making the licenses merely personal. would be attended with greet int7tirestience. At present the Magistrates were required to exercise their discretion in the granting of licenses recording to the Dumber of houses in any particular neighbourhood, and the necessity of licensing a house for the convenience of the inhabitants. Bat if the license were made per. some, the party obtaining it might remove from the house in which it wits granted to him, and open another house in another neighbourhood, even next door to • public-house already established. Mr. GILIMFILL said, the object of the Petition ers was not to interfere with the discretionary power of the Magistrates as to the granting of such licenses, but they merely wished that instead of being made out in the name of the party, and attached to a particular house, they should be made out in the tame of the party only. leaving it to him to carry on his trade wherever he thought proper. Mr. C. W. WYNN repeated his former observe tient, and added, that it might perhaps be possible to guard against the inconvenience he had antics. pitted, by making the license personal, but availa ble only within a certain limit of space. • Mr. U. CILIUM said a few *olds inaudible is the males,. Sir N. WILSON suggested, that much of the evil of monopoly might be prevented, by enacting that no licenses should be given to houses in the occupation of brewers. • irtat whenever • Petition wax pre-smiled which did not esscily correspond with tie sentiments eater. tamed by Honourable Gentlemen on the other side of the Moose, a remarkable degree of .cuteness woe displayed, in finding out objections to its prsyer..- IFlesir, he•r.)—Notice of ■ m-tion of a pari'cular p•ture had been publicly given, anti if those boners conceived that it was the object of t.ucto a Outal to bring about that which tiwy wit!, alarm; and that it was endeavoured in elf, , ct .nt it object by indirect euraisa, they bud a right to ex press that opinion as long ■s - they did so, as in tine tuitance, iu teutperate and respectful language.— (Hear, hear.) Mr. Hulse desired that there war tiny foundation in the practice of Gentlemen on his side of the House for the observations of the Right Ron. Gen. denials. It hardly ei,et occurred that any opposi tion was abide Mt that lade to petitions, eve., in the farm or observatioo ; bat they were frequently fr. •Il.Mtber by mutious Non the othet side. He hmild not help thinking that it was exceeding bad Smote, sad bordering on bigotry and intoler ance, for persons enjoying the full benefit of tolera. Lion, and the free exercise of the privilege's of the con•titetion themselves, to object to the extension of the some benefits to others. That they will pnt up to Sale, at their House in Leaden ball street, on TUESDAY, the ?lit May sex,. at Tea o'Clock is the Forename precisely, prompt the Vl4l November nest. TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-TWO PIPES OF THE COMPANY'S MADEIRA WINE, Ike whole of obit+ was same years in the East Indies; and that the MOP way be tuned previously to the Sale, and eatatetses had epos applieeti.m to Mfr. Wm. Evans, at his Offiert la the Compsay'y Warehouses, New-street. Bishops. e between the hone Jane and three daily (Sea y= ra excepted). ) JOSEPH DART, Secretary. MBA TR AO rA L. COI 11117.01184 T HIS EVENING, THURSDAY. will be Med tbe Opera of ROB ROY MACGREGOR. Mr Primal Verson, Mr. 1110 , 000: Ku calk g o ne, Mr. *nand; Fowls Oakialdlatemar, Mr. Damage; threw, Mr. Blanchard; Capt. Tbortmoo, Mr. Comer; ago Re) Macgregor Campbell, Mr. ; Drogol, Mr. Emmy; Raabe Nicol Jerrie, Mr. Liston. Diana Temoo, sorpheas; Hein Macgregor, Mrs. Fawn. To which will be added, Mb lime. a Dew Growl Asiatic Melo-draniatie Romance, caUrd CHERRY AND FAIR STAR; Or, THE CHILDREN OP CYPRUS. Sir T. B. LITRIBIUDON said he was glad that this petition had been presented against the measure which a Right Hon. Gentleman had given notice of his intention to propose. He was astonished to find, after the public avowal which had been made of the intention of that Right Hon. Gentleman, that there were not more petitions against it. He was sure th■t if the proposed measure were carried in that House, and in the other House of Parks.. meet, that it would turn out to be a aide-wind by which the whole question of Catholic Emancipa tion would be carried, and he, for one, was of opi. union that the frame of our constitution would there. by be in logo changed. Cherry. Mrs. Visias; Sassusinett, Mr Farley; Topaek,, Mr. Grimaldi; lisesaisbad, Mr. Blaarbard ; Geier, Mr. Chapman; Nuurrddia, Mr. Harrah'''. Fair Saar, Miss Foote; Aviary's', Min Diarasout ; Rpllb, Mw E. Dos. ant. Cherry sad Fair Star will be repeated 'vary mans. Toaseraw, t►e Comedy of The Schaal for illeaadal. Oa &hinny, the Musical Desna of Nowt Hann. Oa Mostlay, Sbilispeare's Tragedy of Julies Caw. to Tuesday, Sitakapeares Comedy of Errors. Mr. H. O. Bamitrr requested gentlemen GAM to run away with an idea that this was a subject which could he very easily disposed of. If they came to consider it fully, they would find it a mai -1 ter of extreme difficulty and of the greatest ins. portance. and one in which property to the amount of a million sterling was engaged. The Hon. Meta ' brr then adverted to a Bill which he had formerly 'brought in on the subject of the regulation of li censes, and which had passed through that Howse, but had been lost in another place, and intimated bia intention of again bringing it forward, if a cosier . nient opportunity offered. Mr. BROUGHAM could not help rejoicing exceed ingly at the intention of his Hon. Friend the Meinw ber for Shrewsbury to bring forward that measure again, which had been lost on a former occasion in another place. He fully agreed with him in think ing that the law of licensing public-houses in this country required revision. He knew that the Ma gistrates themselves were of that opinion, and that they were anxious it should be revised. It could nut be denied that in many instances the power of licensing had been shooed PAr patty purposes and other considerations; Lot he thought there was more reason to complain of the many mistakes of judgment that were made by Magistrates in this mistier. He believed that from a natural wish to preserve order and sobriety in their districts, Magis trates were too prone to confine the number of ale bowies too much, and that the na►rowing of the number of licensed houses had facilitated the ope ration of throwing them into the hands of a fey persons, who, by being enabled to compel the pub. beaus to purchase beer from them, lost all check upon the quality of the article which they supplied. In this manner the beer sold in these houses be came g,enersilly bad in quality, and a worse species of drulikenness was thus produced than that which the Magistrates. by confining the number of licenses, sought to repress, from the encouragement to the use of spirituous liquors. The petition was ordered to be printed. CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION. _ _ Mr. Plat. presented a Petition from the Synod of Glasgow and Ayr, in full meeting, ►tating that they had heard with alarm of the notice which had been giveu to the House of a motion, having for its object to enable Catholic Peers to sit sod vote 111 the Howe, of Lords, and praying that no 801 l might be allowed to pass into is law whereby Ro wan Catholics would be introduced into the Lev. latore of this 'military. The Right Hon. Gentle man said hr wools! take that opportunity of giviug notice, that the sense of the House would certainly be taken oil the first proposition !elating to that measure, whether for a Committee, or fur leave to bring in a Bill.--(Hear.) The Petition having been rod— Mr. Tunisia said he thought it was rather pertinent 111 these Petitioners to read lectures to that House on the course which it might be proper to pursue respecting a Bill which had not yet beets brought in. —(Hear.) Alf. Put. said, lie could not help remarking, Mit. MATHEWS AT HOME .t the THEATRE ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE, STRAND.—THIS EVENING, THURSDAY, *pail IS, and miry MONDAY, THURSDAY, sad SATURDAY daring the Month, THE YOUTHFUL DAYS OF MR MATHEWS. Part 111. STORIES: in tidal M. Ma Shows will take steps to introduce the fallowing Charemen I—Net, ser vant of all-work is a lettglag.imuse ; Metteieur Zephyr, French Ballet Mester (Ant floor); Large Augustus Fipley—" A lime of beaety"—in kw.; Ab Llywelya ab I.letd„ £sq. net thin enough; Sir Shining' Screwaerve, Guardia, to Awietrees (seemed Soot); Mr. Mark Negation, sou mope lodger, seat doer; Ni.. Anteleesa, in love with Fipley. Doors open at Seven o'Cloek; Performaace begins at Eight. Rows, Places, awl Private Bowes, to be bad of Mr. file 'IMAM, at the lialrame, frees Teo till Five; mad at Avidiesis's Library, Bead-attest. ADILPHt ?Naar's, Entaxp. //THIS EVENING, THURSDAY, April Is, Monate, ALEXANDRE, the ea Wonted Dramatic Ventriloquist, will deliver an entirely sew counie, charac teristic, seethe, mimedie, multifonamal, manliommus, uhL quitarital Entertainment, is Tarte Pans (is English) am atrucied expressly for this mamma. tea unsoiled The ADVENTURES OF A VENTRILOQUIST; Or, THE ROGUERIES OF NICHOLAS. Is which he will display the various astonishing vocal slows for which he has bees so justly celebrated and distin guished on the Continent, and w►ich bare been represented with tech signal approbation before must of the Crowned Heads and Princes of Europe. Persons of the Entertainment : vbia. Persons--Aldrrman Pillbury ; Capisis Furlough; Nicholas (servant to the Alderman) ; Mrs. Pillbury (wife of the Alderman) ; Miss Flirtilla Pillbury (dass►ter of the Alderman). /weitible Persom--Andrew Slump (Surgeon Deatiat and Trepanner) ; Jsenb (his mats); natality Minion* (aa infaut in seats). Assumed Persons-7481re Tivy, and Nick Twigs. Synopsis of the Entertainment : Puri I. Food and Physie.—Cupid turned Chimney Sweep Vast 11. Moe and Ike Toadh.sch ; Of, the Biter Hit. Part ill. Curtain Lectures —Jack in t►e Box. The whole 'mho:lied, illustrated, sad deli►ered by Mea slier ALEXANDRE. Boxes, 4a.—Pit, 2, IL Dorn erg at into, mid container at &OW. WE/TM I NSTER 'HOSPITAL, or PUBLIC INFIRMARY, Jallllll-STAIIIT, MgAll BUCILINGII44 GAT., Wittrigtnasta. The KING, PaTito/r. His Grace the DukeufNklitl'He M FIER LAND, PRIMIDINT. VlPCll,llll3lnrwrs : The Right Haw. GEORGE JOHN Eerl SPENCER. The Right MOM. ROBERT Earl GROsVENOR. The Right Hun. Lord ARDEN. The Right Non. Sir **CHIBA I. D M A CDON A LD, Bart. The Richt kin.. Lord COLCH EATEN. The Right Hon. Lord trotaiwat SIDMOUTIL The Hue. PHILIP PUSEY. (N SUN DAY MORNING NEXT. the 414 i instant, a SERMON will be preached to lb. Mugs. iteo Church, fifeelatiorler, biter* the Trustees and Milli ter& rs, for the liesellt of this Institelitie, by t h e 1t,,. URANUS RA NOOLPII, D.D. Hemet of Si. Paul's. Co. sad Chaplain to his Royal Withrow the Duke °I York. Divine Service will begot at Eleven o'Cluek pre- Tlm ani oat woeful Charity is the parrot of all the Sol.. tierptioa itii•i.t.is its this kingdom, mod the Trustees mid Soh.crib eie not only maintain stud teed the sick soil needy from all papa of Great Bestaito, and cause tbe hest medical sad mogiesl advice, with medicine., to be odmialllered 1 . them. but by wane of the termed benefactions and legs. cies of many eliaritsble Ladies seed Gentlemea,rhey leer es. ablrd I.kevise to 'moven sad supply with ryeiy necessary ermifort Hare patients olio (after the use of all proper me. dirini• sod methods) me judged in be iacorable. The ANNIVERSARY DINNER will be had at the Thatched Hoare Teems, .J s W 5 .4.111 reel, us H DUDA Y. the 25th Moult. ITIWARDS : H ( "ige Brit. Esq. M.P. Mr. Dell. ear y %tare, R.ti Mr. Doggie. W.G. Mateo, M.D. Mr. Greets. W. M. Roves. M.D. Mr. Heti. Jovepit Oilier. Esq , I Mi. Radcliffe. Tick, ts 16.. each, to be had of the Stever& the Tres- Intrer,Georgr Aust. Esq. Itensingrue ; at the Hospital at the Tbstelted Howie ; and of the S ec retary, motel Tuesday the 23,1 tamest. Diplome., table at Five for Half-oast Five o'Clock pre '"lf• His Grace the Duke of ISURTHUMBERLAND oil take the Chair. bobarripitons sad &Defections; are tliankfully received by Simms. Hoare, Hawkers. Peet street ; the 'Yummier, Kea. I .gont ; al the Hospital; and by Chocks, Umommll, *mom ; trl 5551 Receiver, 4, Abiesdicu.strott, Wommisater. ATLAS ASSURANCE COMPANY of LONDON, ieetkusrd lON, end ertspowered by Art of Parliament of she be Geo. 111. The President; esid Dingier' hereby wive Notice to Per with tlye Cemintemp been lam by Fire, *Wee = l* here been is Sarre ter Ilinryeers andr.ie et Christ. nimebeekribet the reform at aserplam Prembrine tie she seetured (agreinsbly- se the system of ibis Ceinpany), is 24 per cent. spew the Pregames received in Ildintlue ; sad to per met. epetelleme received by the Country Aeilits in Greet Sri- Otis; sad that the same will, oe and after the ?tab limiest, be payable et the Office in Cheapside on the London Pull. eiekeed by she Agent. in she Cowley, on the Policies ef fected iu their respective Agencies. LIFE DEPARTMENT. Perseus mewed fur the whole term of life will have an addition made to their Policies every seventh year. ea the principle so heseficially pearlised till lately at the Equitable Amerasce Office ; or the amount thereof may be applied in 'mintiest!, of the falser psyrneats of Premium. Polities may also be effected fur the whole teem of life r on a plain peculiar to Ibis Office, whereby the Premium is payable fur a fixed member of years. HENRY DESBOROLIGH, Jen. Secretary. Cheapside, Lourdes, March 14, 1822. ONE DAY TO DRAW, NEXT TUESDAY. SWIFT and Cie7ereSrlitng the Tickets and Shares fur the 4341 of the prrarnt Month, being the Last Day of Drawing, when TWO Prises of t 0.0001., sal Twenty other Capital*, are sera to be Drawn, and Not Two Black. 10 s Prier.—Two of the Capitals of the Libel Lettere we r e ilhareil sod Sold by Swill sad Co. at their Nn. 11, Pwi.y v; IS, CeAutto Cats ; wad 31, ALD GATE 111101CirfltEllir. BISH bag already Shared and Sold TWENTY-THREE Capitals in the present Lottery. All mast be Drawn Lad sad only Day, NEXT TUESDAY, the 23d of APRIL TBISI-L of the Old State Lottery Offices, • 4, Grabill, sod 9, Choring-erose. Undue, calls the mutation of hi. beat Friends. the Public, to the present Rids State of the Wheel, which remains TWO PRIZES of 2'20,990! and 90 ether Capitals of 1,000 i., 5001.. tac. ilce. all of which mast be Drawn on TUESDAY NEXT, the 23d ionizes, wise* the Lottery will entirely Antall. 'flebesa and Shares, warranted attar..., are on Sale at wars clams is 'Andel), and by hid Arcata in the Gootry. Nary Tklef —Neer, Share..-Rvery Corpital—sad awry other Prize laud be drawls NEXT TUESDAY. FOR CORNS, RUNNIONS, kr. MORRIS'. ROYAI. BRUNSWICK CORN PLASTER, prepared from • Recipe beloogisig to her late 1111sjemy. It is an excellent remedy for eradicating Cora. aad giving ►elief to dime who have hard Araby emb almers at the bottom of their feet, without the least psi. or imostemitosee and will prove • very mere' Family Plaster for fresh WooLels and Scalds, likewise for Boonton' Pre pared by G. MORRIS, Chemist to the Royal Family, Ken. siuglos, and mlsl is Boar• at Is. and 2s. 9d. by Butlers, Chemists, No. 4, Cheapaide, St. Nora, sod raft, Regent street (near the Argyle Rooms), modus; !O. Waterloo place, Edinburgh ; sad 34, Serkrille-street, Dahlia ; and by the primipal Illetheme Venders throughout the United Kingdom. N.B.—Pardoners are requested to ask for klutris's Bro•aoirk Con, Plaster, and to übaerie the name sad ad dress of " Boller, 4, Cbeapside," are engraved on the 'lamp attacked to each box, to distinguish Ike posies from biota slows soder similar titles. NORFOLK ESTATE. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By Mr. WAKEFIELD, At Oaretway's C..ffee Howie, 'Chance Alley, Corabill, on MONDAY, 6th May Next, THE V.loshh• MANORS, or rrputrd of LYNDFORD, EAST HALL, in Mitridford, and Emmerich, and sitjuistine Estate, of Four Thownind Three Hundred and Tirentyfive Acres of [Arid, nith the &min elliehed Mansion rolled LYNDFORD HALL, the Hese deem of the Right Hon. the Earl of Shannon, eighty Nor mile, from Luntluu, eve from Brasdun, sod sine from Soolleme. Particulars may be had of Mr. Wakelleld, Laud Surveyor, N 0.34, Pllll-11131i, London Mere►.. Batman sail Metcalfe, Sollicitoes, No. h, New-aqurre, Idarobei.l no ; of J. Warman, FA. Solicitor, Bury St. &hoard's ; of Mr. Edmond Good wt., Land Surveyor, Harlow ; of Mr. Wakefield, Brook. street, Ipswich; of Meson. Chalk awl Mena, Chelmsford; it the R■m lou, Newmarket; and at Garroway's. DOKSET4HIRE. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY 6111 WAKEFIELD, _ _ At Garrainy's Coffre.huno., 'Change alley, Cornhill, on MONDAY, May 6, 1812, T FIE MA NOlt of H A LSTOCK. six ;Irks Reaminster nod Teoeil , cstendiog over 1,193 armee of land; 1o2•Ib•r with sundry valtuntile FARMS, let to responsible consisting of t►ne Thousand One Ilirsofted and Twenty-Niue Acres, of the value of Use Thousand Pounds a year. Particulars shay be bad of Mr. WaheAeld, Land Sorveyo►, No. 34, Pall-m+11; of Mears. linotese and Ratan, No. 4. Mulhorn.eonri. Gray's•lns• ; of Messrs. Lemnos, Solicitors, Bristol; of Mr. Fut, Solicit -it., Rearninster; of the Editor of the Shrrhorne lou rn, I, Sherburne; and at Garraway's Coffee. house, 'Chan...Miry, Corn bill. TO RE SOLD SY AUCTION, By Messrs. COLLINS and PATTERSON. At their Auction Room, Uisinood.ect, Town of Portaca, on MONDAY NEXT, April 22, 1522, and following Day, at Six o'Clork, jkCOLLECTION OF UNREDEEMED rt.EucEs: compr;aing Golf, Saucy. and Metal Watches; useful Plate; Meted sod Women's Mating Ap. pared; Bed and Table Limn; Bed-Imagiags, and various *thee Article*, pledged in months prior t., and is. Ike month of April, 11121, with the following Pawnbrokers, Edina, Collrac•ateret ; Mier, Haysot.street ; Kemp, Marl borough-row; Stapleford, Frederick -street; Nathan, St. hileres4l set ; arl Moss, Ordisawee row—Tows of Port. MS: wife Stow, Paradme.row; and Gilbert, Charlotte. memm—loissid of Parton: with Price, Warblissgtoo.street and Solomon, Ni. Marfa wrest—Portsmouth: will. Taylor, /tooth street; King, Sesillt-street; Moms, Sowth.mreet; and iterwett, Numth.stre.l--Gmiport. Slay be neural, and Catalogues had as the gown, MEM __~ MARRIAGES OF Mr. ROBIRTS presented a Petition from the Unitarian Dissenters of Maidstone. praying for an alteration in the laws respecting Marriages. Mr. BROCIGHANI presented a Petition from the Unitarian Dissenters, of Kendal in Westmoretand. praying to be relieved from certain ports of the marrisge ce►emony which were at variance with their religious opinions, and to be placed on the s•►me footing in respect of marriages as the Jrr`s sod Quakers in England, and the Dissenters in Scotland and Ireland. Mr. BANILAS thought the same observatioa which had been made by the Right Hon. Gentlemen wear Imo (Mr. Tierney) on the former Petition, would also apply to the Petition just presented. Mr. Baouotien observed, that no lecture had been read by these Petitioners on the restore of partieelar notice; they only prayed that some mea sure should he iiitioduceil consonant to the notice given by his Hon. Frirtid (Ur. Wm. Smith). The Petition was ordered to be printed. Mr. Wet. SMITH said, before he opened the mo tion of which he had given notice, he wished to present a few Petitions to the House which related, to the subject. The Hon. Member then presented three Petitions, one froth Portsmouth, another from Shef f ield, and another from Stockton, in Durham, all praying sum amendment in the Act relating to the Marriages of Dissenters.—These Penitent were ordered to be printed. Mr. WILLIAM SMITH then said he should now submit a few observations to the Howie on the sub ject of the motion of which he bad given notice before the holidays. That notice originated front various Petitions which had been presented to the House, and he should now simply state the griev once, of which they complained. The Petitioners complained that by the 26th George 11. they were placed in a more difficult situation than if such an Act had never been passed. It was the opinion of the Petitioners, mid of himself us one them, and in deed it appeared to him an incontrovertible fact. that marriage was essentially • civil contract; it was con sidered as such by the common law of the land as well as by the canon law, and every marriage wry considered valid until the passing of the 26 Geo. 11. Amongst other provisions, that Act ordained th-t any marriage, its order to be valid, should be soleme nized in church, and according to the ritual of the church. He could see no reason why Dissenters should be compelled to adhere to these forms. They were not convicted—nay, they were we. arraigned for any crime against the laws, and they should stand reed in curia. By the law of reason they had as good a right to worship God in thei. own sway, as any member of the church of Eng lend had to follow his own prohssion. It was un.. necessary to say that marriage was the natural right of the specie.; but the Marriage Act rays to th- Dissenter, " You'must 'alter conform to the condi tions of this law, or forego your right." Now, that that was a piece of injiestice no man could deny. In the reign of Louis XIV. tire sate stern s resorted to in France evilest all Protest..., ; 1,,.• there they could plead more consistency than her. ; for then the law of Frolic/ did Hot allow the tut,- position that there was any man is France 1111! Catholic. Therefore, although the practice have been unjust, it could not be considered incon sistent. At that nine the Unitarians were vet) , few in number, and lie believed lie might say thil had not one single place of worship, tool consequently happened that they celebrated their marriages in the Protestant churches without scruple. When the Act or George 11. was .boor to be payed, the Jeos and Quakers petinoo. ed to be exempted from the Bill, and they weir exempted. Now. with respect to the Quaker.,. they were notoriously 11 sect of English Dissenter., and yet to them the exceptions were extended a hid: are denied to the Unitarians. In the mode of relief he should propose, tie should adopt that course which would be considered least objectionable, fin the Unitarians bad no wish whatever to come in col lision with the Protestant church, or to give the slightest offence to say member of that Comma, num. The Quakers followed the same rule as tic w= DAY, APRIL 18, 1822 Theis day is published, 15001 I. price 7s. handsomely Pr THE INVERTEDSI--IgME of corrit- NICUS, with she pretitoded ESPerivarnt• %Orin, which hi. Followers hare foiluded their Hypothilus of MATTER and MOTION, asd the Doctrine of the Ilf'ormstion of WORLDS out of ATOMS by the Power nr.Goisily sad Affruclise. exposed as foolifih, soul COMPLETELY RE FUTED as Poise: and the Divioe System ne the Universe, acci.rding in the Bible, preyed by Asifusunikal Observe. floes sod T.bles to he nee. To 11111 , h is prefixed, a Latter to Sir Hoosphry Dairy, Let. Presideut of the Royal &Kieft% B. PRESCOTT, Req. Astronomer, Liverpool. Sold at Riebau'r Litersty, No. 5, Blaadfordsfrvet, Nan chaster-squire. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, W8011'61)11', Aran. 17. ••••••••• Oa tie aretioa of Dr.IIIII.LIIIMIX the meteor' revel. lag of she Roll for the Ariellgeillat alb alarrifte Rat eras Sari for Friday, oho !Sib Omaha. , Mr. W. DUN DAB presented a 'Petition from the Corpora. tioa of Coadle-asakert of the City of Cohnhoroh, *fount the duly ou eandtec—Ordered to he laid on oM labte. The @mond readies! edit Warrior, of Atioiney dill was puropearti to Muaday next. ROYAL SCOTTIIII4 Lard A. HA in ILTON permeated • Priding' HOE the Des. Cu. sad several other Members of the Cewfmrsaios of Perth, egoism the R.ll foe the Reform of the Real fleottith Burghs. Mr. KENNEDY persisted • similar !Maids from the Incorporated Bodies of Ayr. Ordered to lie us the talk. RECOVERY OF SMALL DEBTS. Mr. POW LETT permeated a Petitio• from Bernard Car. tie, its favour of the Silt fur Recovery of Small Debts. Lord BELORAVE presented a similar Prtitiita from the Ishabitasts of Cheater. A similar Petition was pretested frost theronnte. Three Petitions were ordered to lie on the table. WINDOW TAX IN IRELAND. -- --- -- -- Mr. WIGRA NI presented • Petition from the Inhabitants of New Rots, in the County of Wexford, praying fur the repeal of She Window Tax. Sir It. SHAW presented • Petitios from the Pariah of St. Asilrew, Dublin. praying that the repeal of t h e Whitlow Light Tat might be anh.tit•ted for the repeal of the s►illiag • brothel of the ditty re malt. The use the.. Member also permuted • similar Petition from the Parishes nf St. Nicholas Within and Without. Sir J. NEWPORT presented • Petition from the 'Dhabi.. tent Hooseboldera of the City of Waterford, preying fur the repeal of the Window Light Tax. So far from agreeing to the propriety of repealing the malt defy, Omitted of the els dew tax, if both these taxes were repealed, the amount of taxation hem which Ireland would he relieved world be at least 30 or 40,0001. lem thou shut had a right to expect.— Ordered to he twirled. Mr. C. W. WYNN postponed the sealed reading of the Yorkshire Elie Him Polls Bill to Meads, the !Mk melons. Mr. HUME asked whether the Noble Lord (London. derry) would hove any objection to the details of the Cecil List of Ireland brie( laid before the Howse ? The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said, he was not at pretest Is • siistatiu• to give •• answer -to the weestthmt of the lies. Itleether. CRIMINAL LAW. Mr. H. G. BIMINI:TT. in moving, pursuant to notice, for leave to bring in • Bill to amend the law relating to accessories before the fact in dors of felony, made • few obi tionS in so low • tone of voice, that, amid the noise of the House at the time, we were unable to collect them. He wa■ under stood, however, after alluding to some particular cases, to say, that he proposed among other alters. lions, to give the Courts the power of sentencing accessories in certain cases to transportation, and to longer periods of imprisonment than the law at pre sent prescribed.—Leave given. The same Honourable Member then proceeded to move for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the laws for punishing the crime of Manslaughter. As the luw now stood the same punishment only which was awarded to cases of a lighter description isould he awarded in the most aggravated cases. Two ilistatices of recent occurrence would suffice to *hew the propriety of some alteration in this parti cular. One of those instances was, that of a man being thrown out of • window of a house of in terne and severely injured, in consequence of which he died ; the other was that of On apprentice to a ch . .1-sweeper, whose death had been the con sequence of the brutal ill-irratnient and persecu tion heaped upon him by his mister ; iu troth of which cusrs the parties were convicted of man slaughter, and sentenced only to twelve months' iniprimaninent, that being the utmost degree of punishment which the law affixed to that crime. Mr. C. W. 11'TDIN said, there was no part of our law an defective ■s that which related to the crime of manslaughter, which apportioned the same degree of punishment to the molt venial and the most aggravated cases.—Leave giveu. AGRICULTURAL REPORT. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said, when he fixed his notice of the coosideretion of the Report of the Agricultural Committee fur Monday sleet, he was not aware of its interfering with the motion of the Right Honourable Baronet (Sir J. Newport). which stood fur that day. and in contemplation of which an order was made tar a call of the House.— He, therefore, now moved to postpone the coosi• deratiou of the said Report to Friday the 26th iinaitt, for which dry he wished it to be perempto rily fixed.—Ordered. Sir T. B. Lerisaainox resented a Petition frotn North Curry, in the comity of Somerset, complain ing of agricultural distress, expressing their disap pointment at the Report of the Agricultural Coon rnittee. end praying fur on inquiry into the expense at which agricultural produce eon be imported into this country, and that at which it can be raised within it, which they think would lead the Huu.e to the conclusion that higher protecting duties than the present should he laid, not only on corn, hut on all other articles, the produce of land, imported. They also attributed a great µset or the distress to the change of the currency, a great want of cur rency having been apparent in their district since the measure had been adopted by which that change was effected. Mr. linst.tirs said he was convinced that when ever the vohj•ct should coolie under &women. the Hums would be of opiinun that the 'view of alho w► .."- ib - _~- -.~ ,- - •-• LON DON, Til t' J i . L r