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DUBLIN HARBOUR. General GASCOYNE presented s Petition from the Corporation of Dublin, praying nn improve. meta in the harbour of that city.—Read, laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. WOO L, etc. Mr. CHARLES HARVEY presented a Petition, from the Merchants, Traders, and Manufacturers. of Norwich, for a repeal of the Duty on Wool.— Read, and laid on the table. At the request of the Speaker, several Members advanced to the table and took the oaths. MARRIAGE ACT. Dr. PHILLIMORI give notice that he should move on Wednesday next fur leave to bring is a Bill to amend the Marriage Act. TIN. A return was ordered of the quantities of tin ex ported from and imported into Great Britain during the last year. JOURNALS OF THE HOUSE. On the trinoinii of the CHANCIILLOR of the Excueuuts the Journals of the House, from the ...lad of the lag Parliament to the end of the pre f•.nt Session, were ordered to he printed, with an Index to the 75th volume, under the direction of the Deputy Clerk ; and by such person as should be licensed by Mr. Speaker, and no other ; and that 1,730 copies thereof should be furnished to the I loose, ELECTION PETITIONS. Mr. SPIZAKER having suggested that this would he a suitable lime for bringing up election peti tions, if there were any in the h ;ids of Members, Three Petitions were delivered in at the table, which having been rimmed, were reed, but in a low tone. - The first was from Mr. Valentine Blake, com plaining of an undue election in the town of Galway. It was ordesad to be taken into consi deration on Tuesday. May 30, at three o'clock in the afternoon. The two others were from persons (hut we could not hear whom) complaining of the election at the borough of Callings's% ifs Cornwall, and were ordered to be taken into consideration ou the same day, at half-past three o'clock. COLONIAL FUNDS. Mr. BROUGHAM rose to more for the return of certain papers necessary for the better elucidation of the subject of the Bill of which he had given notice (to place at the disposal of Parliament droits and other funds, now vested in the Crown), and of which the consideration he thought should precede the di,. erosion en the Civil List, which had been on a for mer night axed for Thursday. but now he under stood was to be postponed till Friday, for the accom modation of the Noble Lord (Castlereagh). Ile then moved— " That an humble Address be presented to the King, pray ing that his Majesty would be graciously pleased to order Ms be laid before the House • copy of the Act of the Island of Barbados*, of 1663, touching the duties of 4} per cent. on goods exported."—Carried. • ' • ' The Hon. and Learned Gentleman said, that he had • similar motion to make respecting the Lee ward Islands, which Hon. Gentlemen opposite knew came within the object of his motion, though the other West Indio Islands did not, as was deter. mined in a famous case in the Court of King's Bench, but he was rather at a loss about framing his motion, inasmuch as he was not aware of the dates of the other Acts. After a little considera tion he moved au Address for separate copies of all other Acts fur levying 4 per cent. duties on pro duce exported from the West India Islands.— A greed to. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. Mr. IL Swsua said, that in consequence of the provisions of • Bill of the late Mr. Whitbread, by which all counties were called upon to provide them selves with standard weights and measures, the county of Surrey had made an application to the Ex chequer for that purpo►e, but a great deficiency iii measures was found to exist there. The City of London conceived itself authorised to supply the deficiency, and had procured those standard measures which were wanting. The county already mentioned adopted • similar expedient... Lind the greatest exactness had been studied, and he believed attained, io giving both weights and measures their clue quantities •ttd di mensions according to Ina. PrObrCilllolls had been instituted. and comictiiiiis obtained, of dealers, whose measures of sole were cbscorered to vary from these. Hut appeals were made, some of the convictions quashed, on the ground that the stand ards were not taken from the Exchequer, so that an opportunity was thus afforded to traders using minor weights to defraud the public. From a feel ing of the inconveneencies to which thrp üblic were in this way exposed. he (Mr. Sumner) had nearly two years ago proposed introducing some general measure on the subject, but had postpourd ►t in compliance with the wishes of his Majesty's Minis. term, who were desirous that the Commission ap pointed on the ♦ubject should previously wake a report. His object in rising at present was, to ask whether the labours of that Commission were yet concluded, or whether it w•s the intention of his Majesty's Ministers to bring forward any general measure to remedy the inconvenience in the course of the Session ? ..__._ . The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER repliedi that when he had last inquired the Cotnmiasionere had not matte op their report. He was *ware of the inconvenience felt in consequence of the want of one, and if measures of a general nature were suit proposed before the end of the Session, at least some preliminary one should. Mr. BEN NETT gave a notice or a motion; but, from the low toile its which the Hose. Gentleman ex pressed hirosek, we were totally unable to gather the itnport of it. EXPIRING LAWS. Mr. BROGDEK brought up the Report or the Committee on Expiring Laws, which was laid un the table. COURTS OF JUSTICE (SCOTLAND). Mr. H. CLIV brought up • Report from the Commission •ppoiuted to inquire into the Fees and Emoluments received in Courts of Justice in Scot land, which was laid on the table. Lord A. HAMILTON took that opportuoity of asking a qu►stion connected with That Report. A former Report had stated, that it would be •d -visable that the office of one of the Barons of the Exchequer should be abolished. Now he under stood, that a resignation by one of the Barons either had or was about to take place: and lie was inform ed. that so far from any wish being manifested to carry into effect the recommendation of the Re port. the vacancy was to be filled, and a fourth Ba ron spin appointed. The Lose Aim/crag observed, that the ap pointment had already taken place. Lord A. HAMILTON asked, who was the person •ppoi:ded, and was informed by the Lord Advo cate, but the name escaped us. The Noble Lord said, that such a step was highly censurable in those whose duty it was to en force the advice of the Report. Howl expressed its determination to bring the subject before the House. The LORD ADVOCATE answeced, that if a nee. tion were made on the subject, he hoped a satisfoc. tory answer should be given to any objections. Sir J. NRWPOWE hoped exceedingly that his No ble Friend would persevere in following up his de clsration, and bring the matter fully before the House. There was most just reason of coin plaint, that no one step had been taken to realise the many suggestions contained in the Reports of the Com missioners. He trusted that his Noble Friend would go on is causing n full inquiry to be made into the whole siibj.-ct, th it the public might see how much of u.at compensation they had a sight to expect. from the appointment of the Commission, had really been obtained. WEYMOUTH. Nit 10th October, 1819, op to the present period.— Laid on the table. A petition was presented for repairing the har bour or Weymouth, which war Rad slid referred to a Committee. A great number of potitions fur private Bills were•presented. LONDON BRIDGE. Mr. M. A. TAYLOR presented • peti►ion from the Society of Lightermen of London Bridge, pray t,g that such improvements might be made m the structure of the same as might prevent ilre present frequency of fainhiecidents in passing tender it. %lr. H. Stumnea presented • similar Petition r the Lightermete of Waterloo Bridge on the south side; and a second, of the same import, from the Wharfingers on both sides of the Thames. At a later hour of the evening, Sir FRANCIS Bus- DErr presented a Petition from the Waternien ply. tug oh the Thames to the same purport. All the Petitions were read, laid on the table, and ordered to be pri n ted. Mr. H. SUMNRR observed, that among the last annual accounts presented to the House from the City of London, there were noire relative to the state of London Bridge. JURY COURT. Mr. BROUGHAM also had a question to put rela tive to the appointments of certain officers in the new Court in Scotland. By the Act of Parliament these officers should have been appointed some time since, but a Noble Lord had come to an arrange merit with • Noble Friend of his, that no appoint ment should take place in the Jury Court till after the meeting of Parliament. He now was desirous of being informed whethe► these offices had •r had not been already filled up? tf they had, it was one of the most gross, egregious. and unaecew►y job's that had ever taken p;ace, even in that part of the kingdom.—(A /arch.) The LORD ADVOCATE replied, that in couse quence of a Report wade try the Judges of the Court, that its bu.ioevs could not go on without these officers, they had been appointed. Mr. BROUGHAM believed that the Judges were parties to the appointment and the job.—He grieved for • Learned Friend of his in the Court. It was scandalous that such unprincipled p►oceedings should be per...reeled in at a time when the people were goaded with taxation beyond all endurance.— He pledged himself to prove that it was one Irf *be most corrupt and shameless jobs ever carried on, even in Scotland.—( Hear.) The LORD ADVOCATE hoped the House would not believe that any Judges would be parties to a transaction of the character represented by the Hon. and Learned Gentleman.—(Hen.) Lord A. HAMILTON their gave notice, that on Thursday, the 11th May, he should move •n Ad dress to the Throne, praying that the copy of the appointment of the new Baron of the Exchequer should be laid before the House. MALT DUTIES (SCOTLAND). Lord A. HAIIILTON bald. lie had in the course of last Session taken ()comities to state the great grievance sustained by the distillers and brewers of Scotland, in consequence of the imposition of the new duty on wait in that kingdom. He under stood that an application for the removal of the tax had been made to the Chancellor of the Ex chequer by that body of men, which lie sincerely hoped would attain the end designed. Should it, however, prove otherwise, he should feel himself called upon to take the below of the MUST on the bublect before the end of the Session. Tile CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER could not give a tissal answer nn the subject, because the inquiries instituted by the Board of the Treasury, were not yet completed: but so far as he bad seen. he was bound to state that the subject merited attention. SUPPLY. Ou the Mullen of the CHANCIILLOIt or the EXCHEQUER, the House resolved itself into a Committee of Supply. The usual Resolution. " that a supply be granted to his Majesty." was passed. The House resumed, and the Report was ordered to be brought up tomorrow. PRIVY PURSE. Mr. TIMIIIT said, that he had expressed his desire • few nights before to have an account laid before the House of a sum of 380,0001. paid over by Ministers from time to time, in a most extraordi nary manner, into the Privy Purse. He had been led to suppose, then, that the Chancellor of the Ex chequer had 110 objection to the production of lite account ; but lie was now given to understand, from a private communication, that out of a space of alio) , years, which the account comprehended, the Right Hou. Gentleman was willing to give hint the last four. If he were to understand that no means existed of coming at the account in the form he had mentioned, it would be uecesspry to shape u motion otherwise. The CHANCELLOR of the Ertc RIMIER said, that when the Right Hon. Gentleman had first men. noised his motion, it did not at once strike him to be objectionable, but u• more mature considera tion, hr s.iw that it was necessary to oppose a ma. lion of so eitended • nature. it appeared to him that one much more 'limited and defined, et/piping itself to four years for Mortice, would much better answer all the purposes intruded, and would be more satesfactory.—( A laugh.) Mr. TIZIMIT said, that such a motion might be more satisfactory to the Right I-lo►►. Gentleman himself, and those on the same benches with him, but would not be so to him. It was therefore Ins intention to submit a motion to obtain the accounts on Monday next, and he implored the attention of the Nouse to it, for its discussion would involve one of the greatest consmutional questions argued be. fore that House for a loot( period. MILITARY EXPENDITURE. Colonel Dalll6ll gave wince. that on Tuesday. the 16th May. he should move for the appointment of a Committee to take into consideration the whole of the military expenditure. Hia ulterior object was that a might be adopted. MIL LIST, kc. Mr. TIERNEY said (as we understood) that to. morrow, when the Resolutions regarding the Civil List should he kid on the table, he did not mean to Wier any observations, but to reserve himself for the general discussion of the question, winch lie had no objection should sum! for Friday instead of Thorsdiy, if it accommodated the Noble Lord. Mr. BROUGHAM postponed his motion (mention ed above) till Friday, on the undeistanding that it should have precedence of the former. INSOLVENT DEBTORS. Mr. B. BA TWO 1,111,4 t er some explanatory re marks which were not audible to a., moved fur and obtained leave to bring in a Bill to remove all doubts respecting the continuance, since the 1311 February last. of three Acts for the Relief of itisol. vent Debtors in England. Lord ALTUORP would not object to the motion. as it was merely a matter of necessity, and did nut go to the renewal of the Acts. - ESTABLISHED CHURCH IN IRELAND. Sir J. N IMPORT wished to be iufuruted whether any Report from the Archbishop• and Bishop• of Ireland, with re•prct to the state of the Establish ed Church iss that part of the empire, had been laid on the table? _ _ Mr. C. GRANT replied, that several Reports had been made, but he did not know whether they had been yet land before House. But he should in quire, and in case they had not, ins time should be lost in bringing them tip. REVENUE. Mr. LusutuaTonhiougl;tis . p Accounts of the Ordinary Revenue and Extraordinary Resources of the Country for the last quarter.—Laid on the table, sod ordered to be printed. The Rouse then adjourned, ou the motion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. HAMBURGH AND FLANDERS MAILS. FROM THZ TAU, APRIL 15. It is said that the Assembly of the States of East Friesland will meet again on the 10th May. The report that has been circulated that the roads of Embden sad the harbour in the town are undergoing an examination, in order to form there a maritime port capable of receiving • part of the British naval force, seems to be unfounded. The survey of the roads and port now making, and liar. ticularly of the canal which leads from the harbour in the town to the river Ems, is relative to a plan fur draining the marshes behind the city, and other similar purposes. _ _ sTocKnotm, APRIL 14. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has been attacked since Monday by • violent intermitting fever. The Bulletin issued this morning is, on the whole, satisfactory. His Royal Highness has had a good night. Mr. Hughes, the American Minister here, Ins presented a note to our Government, remonstrating against certain provisions of the new Act of Navi gation, which begins to be in force to-dry, and which be considers to be contrary to the Treaty of Commerce lately concluded between Sweden and the United States. General Moreno, the Spanish Ambassador (who has now been here 30 years), had yesterday a private audience of the Kin g , to acquaint his Majesty, by command of his Court, of the political changes that have taken place in Spain. Every thing possible is done to promote the pros perity of our internal productions. But a few years ago we were obliged to import corn from foreign countries to the amount of many millions of dollars. We now learn from • report published by the Di. rectors of the &Internees, that the harvest of the last yr•ris sufficient fur the consumption of the country. It deserves to be mentioned, that his Majesty, at the desire of the Dirt, hes appointed the sum of 100,000 rite dollars annually for the purpose of rest (feting rivers navigable, and opening easy channels far the conveyance of the produce of the country. A Committee is appointed to superintend the ap plication of this fund. VIENNA. APRIL 15. The departure of their Majesties for Bohemia will be oa the Ist of next month ; on the 10th they will arrive at Prague, their Majesties intend ing to stop some days in Moravia. by the way. The marriage of the Archduke Rainer, Viceroy cf the kingdom of Lombardy, with the Princes. of Carignan, is said to be fixed for the 28th of emit month. A Spanish courier. who left Madrid on the 28th of this month, brought yesterday to Don Pedro Cevallos his new credentials. as Ambassador at this Court. with orders to take the oath to the Constitution of the Corte. and to have it taken also by all the Spaniards now here, which was done yesterday is. the Ambassador's hotel.—( Hansbargis Papers, April .5.i ♦IRKNA, APRIL 16. The Plenipotentiaries of the German Powers I had yesterday their 22J t'Ocifetetice. it is affirthed that the Committee charged with drawing Op the resolutions taken here to complete tl►e Federal Act, laid before the Assembly at this conference the result of its labours. Another conference (tl►e lest) will, it is said, be held very shortly, fur the purpose of taking s final resolution relative to the general ►esult of the conferences, after which it oill he sent to the different Courts for their will. cation. The principal subject debated in the con- G•teuves has been the military affairs of the Con. I,4leratiuth The Ministers of Austria and Prussia have expressed the wish of their Courts that the Congress should decide, before it broke up, a point which is of such great importance in the actual situstion of Europe. Instructions have been sent to Frankfort respect ing the re-opening of the Diet which was fixed for the 10th of April. The vacation will nut be pro longed except by offizial notice; however it will not resume its labours. in fact, till after the artier! of M. Buol Schawenstein, who will be at Frank fort at the end of April, and will communicate to the Diet the small numl►er of resolutions agreed upon in the conference' of the German' Nlinisters. 0 ► the 4th of May the greatest solemnities in things'' , will take place; the Primate of that kingdom will he installed in his dignity of Arch bishop of Gratz. This office being the highest dignity in the kingdom, the installation could for merly be made only in the presence of the King. For these hundred years past it is one occasion in which what is called Personals presentia. Ilegiee el Status et Ordines loom tenent. The fourth officer in the ki-gdosn appear, in his moat brilliant func tions, i• :sing even a numerous guard of honour, and claiming. at this time. the precedence above the Palatine of the kingdom. The celebrated Speckbacher, commanding the sharpshooters of Tyrol, who acted so distinguished a part in the war in 1809, died lately at Hall, in . the Tyrol, and was interred with the greatest so lemnity.—( Beossek Papers. April 28./ THE BRITISH PRESS. LON DON, TUESDAY. MAr 2, 1820. THE QUEEN. Paris Papers of Friday hat have arrived at our Office. A letter from Rome atatep, that her Ma jesty the Queen of ENGLAND left Rome on the 9th of April, with her suite, in seven carriage,. Her MAJESTY proceeded to Pesaro, and thence to Milan, on her way to London, where her NIA sErrY then hoped to arrive on the Ist of M4y. We had. by a paragraph in the Carafe de Fraxee, that her MAJESTY has reached Lyons,and that it was her intention to pursue her route through Brussels. The accounts from Spain represent Madrid as continuing in a *tate of gloomy tranquillity. At Valladolid some quarrels have occurred among the The French Funds are, S per Cents. 73 f. 75 c.; Batik Actions 1,491 f. 50 c. We have received New York Papers from the Wilt to the !Yds of March. Cougress was not ex pected to rise before the Ist May. These Papers contain sio news from South America. The follow. ing are extracts :-- NEW YORK, MARCH 48. The death of Commodore Decatur ham thrown a gloom over due city. Commodore Bainbridge acted as friend to Commodore Decatur, and Capt. Elliot to Captain Barron. The duel was fought near Bladensburg. Capt. Barron is badly but not den. gerously wounded. Of all the particulars relating to this melancholy affair we have not been informed ; tb• distance is stated it 8 paces, and that both were wounded at the first fire. As to the certainty of the origin of this dispute we are not fully acquainted : it is said that Commodore Barron bad demanded to be restored to his rook and emoluments; it appeared however that some representation had been made to the Department relative to hia absence from this country during the war, or in other words that his absence was voluntary ; which representat . he supposed to have come through Commodore D. This, together with sonic remarks indulged in by thou gentleman, was the occasion of this mournful catastrophe. Fire at Porto Bico.—An extract or a letter from St. Thomas, of the 101 of March, is given in the Boston Palladium of Tuesday lost, whets men lions, that the whole of the city of Ponce, in Porto Rico, with the exception of a church, was destroy. ed by fire on the 47th of February. The same letter states, that at the latest advices front Margarine the long-projected expedition still remained in port. _ _ Front Mogadore.—The brig Active, Capt. Clark, arrived yesterday morning in 45 days from Moga lore. One of her passengers informs us. that the Emperor's Vizier was essassinated in December last. While reviewing a platoon of 23 men (of the Imperiol Guards), he struck the Captain for some supposed irregularity, on which one of the soldiers levelled his musket sod shot him. The Vizier had held his place for upwards of SO years, during which time he had practised all sorts of impositions upon the people, and particularly upon those engaged in commerce. Afire his tleiih4l . w . pettisle tlemoliOi ed his house, and found in it is vest querttitt• or gold and silver, the proceeds +if his rt+tortinn. Il e is represented as lasting been $ suit of s•ruug mini and inminuisting manner*. which is corrnho►rted WI/ hosing maintained his slan t ereins post Po mod Iris having originally been hi/tight am a COMORO! ' slave at the market, by order of the Ensiwror. is consequence of the confiner anti dealt' of 0,, Viaier, the ElRlOefOr ' ll gua.Js rrvnl•rol, Pool 10.. k Iron essinie of the roads leseelioig to Wirpiee.re. capital of the empire. Thr rei.ealt ad the rrc.dt . r mutiny is not koawn.—(Cora►aercio! 4drer[isc►.) Dispatches recently ►ecrirrdl from Sir Mixt POPHAM trvresest our fleet no floe J•nfaica station as having %offered severely hum tl r yell.* few.... This intelligence is the mere illOtttOtillg.l4, the time was the season of the year generilly co , ,soirrPol nom healthy and formarahle to floroneao The Iphigenia frigate has been a principal puticnr. The dretu'rul sentence of the law was rte: wad yesterday morning in front of Nrowgite si n I/crowd and roar of los wretched (*Ohs phhimh; ;h guilt. A more particular accousit of the slut cacum,tances connected *ills dam totot 'nil be Bann(' in another part of our Paper. The crime of high treason against the established goversimesit of • state, where the 1113.1.1 y of the rob. jest is not flagrantly violated, and where tire erlii v . meta of property is moored by eland taw% is so dnuhtrdly the most heinous offerer that eats he pet iortraterl or dr visr.l. arid therefore is it that the l aws o f Englairi denounce • severer portiiiloweire against high treason than against any other +peens of guilt. In treason it is intimssitile to calculst• the consequences of the cruise, or apportion la. sufferings, general and individual, whirls must flow from so foul a source. Who cats promise et Iro pleasure to stop the effusion of filooal, the demist.. lion of laud, the burning of habitations; or restore the cheerfulness of industry, the activity of rW. merce, and the blessings of repose ? Vel stories as these considerations insist be onore.s,l upon minds of all men in the state, we %ill venture t• affirm, that in the recent case of liii.llettood .114 bin associates, they sunk into ulimilttle cance when compared with the dark atrocity of ii.e most prominent feature in the conspiracy, ed distinct from theanne of treason. it eats to the project of 'nation that the politic mind was turned with universal loathing and abhorrence, Bled with a sensation of deep regret that sot many men could have been found in England to concur its a crime happily as little known to our 110114!11 as it is opposed to the free spirit of Mir imattutiims, and to the refinement of our tratioriod semiuserits. Independent indeed of this murderous deviee, which, taken separately. was 1101 Iftllll3l l , the 1/411;1 4 field 1411+11 was nut of a salute to excite very serious alarms for the safety of the State. We d• not mean to question the actual commission of the crime, nor the criminal inteution —both were clearly 'moved, mod justly did the colisicts suffer; but even in their conviction some circumstances •pp.ar which tansy be received by the country as mature for congratulation. It was clearly *hewn by the evidence of the accomplices, that fu► • oomiriss. able time the conspirators were sedulously emlea vowing to obtain associates; yet after all tl.rrr exertions and artifices employed among the poorest. most ignorant, and most suffering of the labouring classes of the metropolis. the gang eventually did not exceed some g 5 persons, half armed, with weapons ill calculated for action. and bat • few of them fully apprised until the last moment. whew immediate retreat was impossible, of the terrific guilt which was contemplated by the leaders. It is shocking lurked to reflect upon whet the conse quences of their first act of desperate vittlence might have been upon the lives of 143 many noble men and gentlemen, who are ar►rnng the tirt.t emi nent in the kingdom fur a istlosit, Iraraiuq. oral valour, yet considering the cusaiposidon of the gang. it is not probable that one half of them would hat.: had the courage and constio.cy to 1641v4113CC 10 tie door of Lord thattownv's 14444)11r. Rut were the conspirators twice MO 1631111r34 4 04 sr they are repre sented to have been. what success ct•nld have at tended their ultimate cute 4 prows ? The alarm of their first violence would r apidly fly thrnagli the city. and their destruction most he inevitable. Two men. we learn, were dispatched to capture six pieces of artillery in our place, and havittz effected this conquest utiresistr d, to proceed to Capture two pieces in number I•l+ce. What thee were to do with the six pieces tit cannon while r ',toyed iu taking the other two, or how they arr.- t. 4 drug even one CAIIIIOII after them. wr have nol informed. "Hie plot, in this 'spited/. arum• tr. ts itiletior it. cleverness to Preston's ingenious .'c• vice of taking the horses from the hackney -conchs-, pail converting the coachmen 'tiro artillery drivers. Preston, too, Lid resolved to display his pet tonal and mental activity r'•urtrrg Ins insturrectt , .s. snit had determined to procure blur brawny pc '• Inn to bear him about upon their shoulder• ; Thistlewood and his prig stained to trust rut thing. after the seizure of the Nlansion-house, to flit. magical efficacy of a few manuscript iiiitrnstioss affixed to burning buildings, that '• the Prorisio , l Government was sitting." Preston was determined to con►ert the Batik of England into a fortress, , 1,4' to defend it with glass bottles, having, we warrant , al Gil re • hi' 1111 . II tr PS