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• _ . • •104# . . 0 - .431 • 7,1 ; , s,tip 41%-;1"- y ; , - rofr Afl , o# I,Pt 111114).ln TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1823. NUMBER 9506. PR/CE SEVENE'ENCr. PARLIAMENT, bought the late contest in which we were engaged to,stnh an happy and glorious conclusion.--(A laugh.) —He wouli main.. t sin that a Sinking Fund was calculated to produce most bene ficial effects to the country. The United States of America (.413', authority to which no doubt the Hon. Gentleman wculd bow), France, Russia, Prussia, and other States pursued, and sue cessfuly, that system. Should this attack upon the Sinking Fund take place and that a reduction of taxation sho n ld also proposed, he trusted however desirable the latta qbject might be, that it would be carried into effect vrithout any breach of faith with the public creditor. Mr. LUSHllsifaToN explained. Mc had been asked, was it the intention of his Majesty's Government to bring in a Bill for simplifying the present system, and be had nwrely answered in the affirmative, fie thought therefore that the observatirris made upon that admissbn were quite uncalled for. After a few words from Mr. MaaEttLE V, who agreed with his Hon. Friend (Mr. Hume) in characterizing the Sinking Fund as a most tricking system, the Papers were ante-foci to le printed. Mr. WILMOT, in consequence of important business being likely to come on to-morrow, requested of the Hon. Member for Aberdeen to postpone his motion relating to the Minutes of the Colonial Expenditure which stood for the same da.Y. Mr. HUME assented, and put off his motion to Tuesday the 25th inst. CUTTING TICKETS for the FIRST LOTTERY fur the Year 1822. LOTTS ILVOFFI CE, SO M ERSET- PLACE, February 9, 1823.' THE MANAGERS and DIRECTORS .of the LOTTERIES do hereby give Notice, That Num bers of Tickets and Shares thereof in all preceding Lotteries may be examined at this Office every day (Sundays excepted), with twit Registers of Benefits and Blanks. , And the saidiManagers and Directors do hereby give further goticetrthat tbey will cut off the Tickets of the First of those Lotteries for the year 1822 into their respective Boxes A and B, ow-Tuesday, the loth day of this instant February, at Eleven o'Clock in the Morning, at this Office, beginning first with the Benefit and Blank Tickets, which are to be eue'into Box B. and continuing until all the said Tickets for each of the said Boxes are completely cut therein. HOUSE OF I LORDS, MONDAY, FED. IG. The House met at ten. o'clock in the morning, and proceeded in Appeals.—Lord GIiANTLEY took the oaths and his seat. The earl cf COVENTRY presented a Petition from the Merchants, Banker; Traders, &c. of the City of Worcester, against the Insolvent Debtors' Act.—Oniered to lie upon the Table. The Duke of SOMERSET mentioned that he understood he had inadvertently committed an irregularity in signing the Protest against the decision, of the House on Tuesday, respect. ing the Ardendment moved to the Address, he not having been present at the division, though he had been in his place during the debate. If, however, there was no objection on the part of their Lordships, he should wish his name to be allowed to re main to the Protest. On the motion of the Earl of SHAFTESBURY, it was ordered that the name.of the Duke .of Some r set (his Grace having been present during the' debate, though not in his place at the time the question was put) shoal:: be alloweil to remain to the Protest. - THE NEW MARRIAGE ACT. _ _ kni the said Managers and Directors do hereby give fur ther Notice, that they will attend and oversee the Drawing o f the Tickets of the said First Lottery (or the Year 1828, on Tuesday, the 25th instant, at Coopers' Hall, in Basinghall street, within the City of London, LAW LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. WANTED to purchase near the Inns of v Court, and in a public situation, a LARGE and COMMODIOUS HOUSE, for the purposes of this Society. A Freehold Estate will be preferred, and early possession re. Suired. Persons having the disposal of such a property, are requested to send the lowest price and_particulars to Mr. Brun. Brett,' Solicitor Inner Temple, or Mr. Anderton, Solicitor, 1 9:1%14y-court, 'Chancery -lane, Secretary (pro temp), to the' =Mute. The followingAvertisement is inserted by particular raquest:— - - GREAT ADVANTAGE to FAMILIES. THE EAST INDIA COMPAN Y's TARES, &c. are allowed on all TEAS bought at the NORFOLK and - SUFFOLK TEA WAREHOUSE, No. 23, LITTLE BELL ALLEY, up Tokcnhouse.yard, at the back of the Bank of England s where all TEAS are warrranted genuine, anti equal inquality to the prices offered by any Tea Company in London, with an additional ounce allowed in every pound ; and; . in every six pounds, half a pound is added. Atthe above Establishment superior fine flavoured Coffee is sold on the same terms, one ounce allowed extra in each pound, and half a pound in every six pounds; which is an advantage not to be-equalled at any other House in London..—To prevent impositions, the public will particularly observe, that this Establishment does not employ any small Agents to sell their Teas; they are only to be had at the NORFOLK and SUF.. FOLK TEA WAREHOUSE, No. 23, LITTLE BELL ALLEY, where no common ordinary Teas are kept. Pine 'strong Souchong Tea, fls. to Os. 3d, ; superior fine Brakfast Souchong, 75. ; best ditto, .Bs. to 10s.; remarkably fine Green Tea, llyson kind, Bs. to 9s. ; real Hyson, very fine, 10s:'; best Hyson, 12s. ; Gunpowder Tea, 13 s . ; fine Coffee, 33 .' very fine 3s. 4a.; best Turkey Coffee, 48. Finch and Co.'s Superfine Durham Mustard, preferred by most of the Nobility and Gentry, at only 20d. per pound, in Leadfor the Country. FOR MONEY ONLY. giefOrders *MU all parts of the World, by letter, post paid, or by Coachmen, with remittances, will be strictly attended to. Raw and Loaf Sugar kept for the public accommodation. Ail Teas &c. from this Establishment are warranted Ge mine,end wrapped in China Tea Paper, with the Proprietor's Address—.A. WARMOLL, 23, Little Bell-alley, up Token . oust-yard, pt the back of the Bank of England. OBSERVE, No. 23. STRICTURES CURED. BY a new Method the above troublesome Complaint is entirely eradicated (without the use of Boogie or Caustic), if not constitutional, whether of long or shot standing, as well as all weaknesses generally ac companying it, and in a short time the whole system is re estahlished., hying one of the greatest discoveries ever mods. By JOHN LYNCH, 44, Duke-street, St. James's. Respectable references will be given, if required.—All Let ters to be post-paid. A perfect Cure fur Bilious Affections and Obstructions in the Bowels., The price of the Medicine is Four Pounds. Just published, price as• ad. Bro., the Second Edition of A PRACTICAL 'TREATISE on. NERVOUS, BILIOUS, and INFLAMMATORY AFFECTIONS, , with a new . . Me— thod„,of ('urine strictures without the use of Doligir or Canstic, With an Appendix or► the Diseases of Women and Children. By Jat►n Lynch, 44, Duke-street, St. James's. SOld by Wm. Crawford, 124, Cheapside.. , • COUNTY OF SURREY MEETING. A'Meeting took place yesterday at Epsom, for the purpose of taking into consideration. the great and increas ing distressei of the country, and the necessity of petitioning tile Ifouse of Commons for relief from the great and insupport able burden of Taxation, by which the nation was oppressed; and also for a speedy and effectual Iteforrel of the Commons liouse of Parliament. The Mon Sornirr addressed the Meeting in a neat speech regarding the necessary forms to be observed. Lord KING then came forward, and expatiated at consider able length on the usual hacknicd topics of reform, taxation, &c., but without advancing any thing new_ upon either of these subjects. He argued generally in favour of reduction of ex. penditure in every department of the church and State; Enid,' alluding to the strange idea of reducing the interest on funded property, his Lordship observed, that before they touched the property of the public creditor, they were bound to reduce all offices, to abolish all useless places ; in a word, to inquire into and economize in every department of the public service, with. out sparing a penny to any man upon any pretence. His Lordship concluded by moving the adoption of the following Petition " HONOURABLE TETE HOUSE OF COMMONS. " The humble. Petition of the suffering Freeholders, Land. owners, and Occupiers of Land in the County of' Surrey, " SitxtvErti—Titat your Petitioners, after enduring all the nggravaied distress which from day to day have premed upon them with increasing weight since they last exposed the state of their affairs before your Honourable House, in the month of - Irebruary last, now again, with all humility, approach your Honourable House, anti pray for that relief which your Ho rionrable House is alone able to afford. " Your Petitioners most humbly venture to remind your rforiciiirible Howie, that experience has unfortunately con firmed all the opinions contained in their former Petition ; that allefirrriers 'are at this time still less able to afford the labour neQessary to due cultiyation ; that the labourers In far greater numbers are compelled to become paupers; that the further fall in the price of produce, which your Petitioners anticipated,; . has actually taken place ; and that the whole; or nearly the w hnia:of the groak produce is absorbed in taxes, tithes, wages, tittell v WM - enentes ' Attending the cultivation of the land. " That the r e li e f which your lionourable lfouse was pleased last'year, is most inadequate to the pressing netessi nes of your hunible Petitioners, who are again compelled, moss humbly, to implore yOur honourable House to make a further and much greater reduction of the burthen of Tax,ation, and particularly to repeal the . House and Window Tax, and the duties on Malt and other articles of the first necessity. " Your Petitioners entertain the most decided opinion that their present distress would never have been known, if the re presentation of the people had been consonant to the long set tled laws and Constitution of their country, they understand that a majority of the Members of your Honourable. House is returned by a small number of individuals, who have appropri ated to themselves, and to their own private benefit, those rights which belong to the people at large. This unwarrantable Conver sion of a great public trust into a private property, has produced an endless train of abuses in every department of the Govern ment, both at home and abroad, every where apparent in the vicious system of boundless profusion, maintained for the sake of the increase of patronage ; for this object, the public service and the public servants arc paid at the dearest, and not at the cheapest rate, for which those services could be performed and fairly remunerated, and the interest of those individuals who have usurped the property of returning Members to sit in your 'Honourable House, or of those who exeretse.the trade of pro curing*the return of Members, is preferred above every other consideration. " In the Army a host of General's and Field Officers / utterly disproportioned to the effective establishment, and unknown in any other country, and a numerous expensive Staff, are paid out of the produce of the taxes levied upon your humble and suffering Petitioners, for the benefit of the Members of your Honourable House, and of the other Rouse of Parliament, or of their near connexions. " In the Colonies a legion of Governors and Officers, enjoy ing splendid appointments, and a general studied system of ex travagance is maintained, and defrayed in great part from the produce of the taxes levied upon your humble and suffering Petitioners, for the sake of patronage, and for the benefit of the Members of your Honourable House, and of the other House of Parliament, and of their near connections. In the Civil List, under the class of Foreign Ministers, a most extravagant and unnecessary expence in the ordinary and extraordinary charges in the appointments of Ambassadors and Ministers with very largely increased salaries and outfits, is in curred and defrayed from the produce of the taxes levied upoa your humble and suffering Petitioners, for the sake of the in crease of patronage, for the benefit of the Members of your Honourable house, and of the other House of Parliament, and of their near connections. " In the revenue a large addition is made to the public bur dens pressing so severely upon your humble and suffering Pe titioners, in consequence of the expensive mode of collection and management employed in that department, which alone absorbs the sum of four millions ; a misapplication of the na. , tional resources retained for the sake of patronage for the bene fit of the near connections and supporters of the Members of your Honourable House. " Your Petitioners humbly represent to your Honourable House, that the pressing difficulties of the country urgently require that all these numerous abuses in the administration of pttblic affairs, so injurious to your humble Petitioners, but so ' advantageous to the Members of your Honourable House, be speedily. and thoroughly reformed, and the expences of the State reduced to the scale of former and happier times. " In a Parliament fully and fairly representing the people, your humble Petitioners place their only hopes of salvation from impending ruin ; they believe that an Assembly composed of the real Representatives of the nation will alone be able to carry Into effect a general system of severe economy, and an unsparing retrenchment of the Civil and Military Eetablisk. ments, and of all Offices, Places, Sinecures, and Pensions, not merited hy public services. " Your Petitioners are confident that a reformed House of Commons will have the virtue and ability to. apply the. wl.ole of the nationel resources to the relief Of ehe public necessities, and rather than consumate the ruin of the 'Landed Interest, to derive resources from the Sale of the Crown Lands, and from h • • the excesses of that large mass of public property at present employed in supporting the enormous Church Establishment in England and Ireland, which may be reduced to a more mo derate scale, without detriment to true Religion or Morality. " Your humble Petitioners suffering under the intolerable weight of Taxation imposed upon them by the Acts of an un reformed Parliament, trust that a reformed House of Com mons will be able to apply the best remedy for the past, and at the same time to afford the only security for the future, they therefore most humbly pray your Honourable House to establish an effectual Reform " And your Petitioners will ever pray." - - Mr. LEECH seconded the motion. Mr. COBBETT now came forward, and was received with loud applause. lie argued in favour of Reform and the re duction of the Public Debt, and concluded by moving the following as an addition to the Petition : " Without which your: Petitioners can atve no hope of that equitable adjustment with regard to the Public Debt, and with regard to all contracts between man and man, which is abso lutely necessary to the defence of the „country againstioreign foes', and to the restoration of its internal tranquillity. M r. litx NETT seconded the . amendment. Lord ELLENDOROU GU did not altogether approve of the Petition, and decidedly protested against the amend ment, which he hoped, on the ground of public, faith and aim mon honesty, would be rejected. Mr. BENNETT supported both the Petition and the Amendment. Sir THOMAS Ti RTOW, in the midst of clamour, made some observations against the Amendment. Mr. T/lELWALL supported the Petition, but opposed. the Amendment. Mr. DENNISON spoke generally in favour of Reform. Mr. H. Su stNEit was persuaded that Reform in Parliament would afford no remedy for,the distresses now complained of, whilst it would be themeans of producing incalculable miechief. After a great deal of irregular and desultory remarks ; The HIGH SHERIFF put the question on thoPetitiou, which was carried ahnost unanunously, tt,,Aat being but four hands held up against It. He then put the question on the additional words proposed by Mr. Cobbett, which were adopted by the Meeting, thereltaving been but the sante number of hands held up against it. Mr. Rgx.litve then moved that five individuals should sign the Petition on behalf of the Meeting, wit,iCh,was agreed to. Lord ELLYIN-110,ROTIO11 said, that at a Meeting ,heid about two years ago, the freeholders went to one aide and thinte who were not freeltolde4l to the other. lie stiggeited that the Slime course should be now pursued. A number of persons said that the Meeting was a Meeting of inhabitants as well as freehold•vs. - Mr. Col:terve said, that the mode proposed by the Noble Lord was not applicable ; the present was not a Meeting of the Freeholders merely—it was a Aleeting of the Freeholders,. the inhabitants, and the Occupiers of Land. BENNA'r T moved that the Petition should be pre. tented to the 'louse of Commons by Mr. Denison,;which was agreed to. " • - The -customary thanks were then voted, after which the Meeting dispersed. The Earl of SIiAr'r&SIMAY, at the request of Lord El lenborough, who was unable 9 attend, presented a Bill for amending the Act of last Sesinon respecting Marriages, (his Lordship said he mentioned this that it might not be consi dered as his own 13111), which was read a first time, and ordered to be printed. In answer to a few words said by Lord Holland across the Table, the Earl of Shaftesbury intimated that ample time would be allowed for the discussion of the Bill--Adjourned till to-morrow (this day). lIOLTSE OF COMMONS. Mr. HUTCHIX9OII, from the Bank of England, presented certain Papers relating to the Correspondence and Transactions between the Bank and the Treasury - I —Ordered to he on the table. A new Writ was ordered for Winchester in the root of Mr. Leigh, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. Mr. LITTLETON presented a Petition from the Stafford shire Potteries for the establishment of a Small Debt Court in that district. NEW_PARRIAGE ACT. Admiral SOTHERON - presented two Petitions - from the Vicar-General and Officials of the peculiar jurisdiction of the Church of the Blessed Mary, of Southwell, and from the Chap. ter of that Church, against the'lato Marriage Act, which took away the privilege of granting marriage licenses from 'Jurisdic tions of that description. Mr. CURTEIS - presented a similar Petition from the per sons interested: in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Church of Battle, in Sussex.. He wished to know from the Learned Au thor of the Marriage Act, whether the clause objetted to was to be repealed? Dr. PHILLINfORE said, that the cinese in question. like .many others, had been introduced without any participation of his. It had been added by the Lords, on account of some al leged itninopriety in the exercise of tbe privileges of those pe culiar jurisdictions. Of course, he could not say whether it would be permitted to continue part of the law ; and his own opinion, whether it was the proper remedy for the evils corn plained of, he should beg leave to defer for the present. INSOLVENT' DEBTORS' ACT. ' Mr. R. SMITH presented a P e ti t i on from the :Merchants, Traders, , and others, of Lincoln, against the. insolvent Act. After speaking to the respectability of the Petitioners, and some of the well known recta as to the operation. of the Act, the'llon. Illember expressed hi. conviction of the' propriety of some change in the law, which, whild'it did not leave the debtor altogether at the mercy of the creditor,, should take aw from him the Absolute independence on his credi. tor's gooa will which he now enjoyed. Mt.'III.7RST supported the existing kW, as teriding to re= strata the practice of ranting credit rashly. Mr. J. WILMA AIS supported the prayer of the Petition', and observed. that Insolvent Act, as it now stood, was a favourite with all the knaves of the country. fie suggested a medium between the severity of the ancient and the entire in elliciuncy of the present law. mi, LaTLk.,ToN suggested the power of awarding iM prisonment proportioned to the amount of debts above the assets °fin insolvent. Mr. T. WILSON and Mr. Alderman WOOD Spoke briefly and gestrally in favour of s om e modification of the existing law. The petition *as 'ordered to be printed. , • Mr. LITTLETON presented two Petitions 'against the Clause of the Marriage Act which confined the power of granting licences to the Bishops and Archbishops • from the Heath and Chapter of Lichfield, and from Si r J. NVrottesiev proprietor of a CliapFiry, with p ecu li ar j urisdict i on, In Suit': tbrdshire. Peculiar Nristiictionm were now .in this situation, that 'as Archbishops and Ilishops were' restrained from inter fering from them by law . , and as none but Archbishops "and ilishOpseould now grant licences, no marriage could be celc. brated in - them by licence at all. Laid on the Table. roriEroN TRADE.:' llr. WALLACE (rave notiee th-t he would on'Wednesditl move to revive the Cotnnittee on rorcip Trade. On the motion of Mr. Aldcrmar. ordered. Of the numbt:r of acres under culthlttion of bops' in •1522. .... IRISH TITHES. Sir IL PARNELL rose to present a petition, tlom the No bility, Geotry, and Freeholders or . the Queen's County, in Ireland, praying for a Com Mutation of Tithes, and ,xereste;el a hope that the expeetationS excited •by the ellusions in the o Speech of his Majesty, to measur es , o f internal reknittti ri far the improvement of Trelund, would not h.; disappoint . He was gratified to hear th a t (t . measure on the Subject of titv es was now under the consideration 61' the Nil leine:i who was at the bead of aflitirs in Ireland, arid if it succeteded as a remedy - the the evils of the tithe-system, he would be entitled to tank among the greatest benefactors of that country. With respect to that Nobleman (the Marquis "Wellesley), he should say that the police Act, and other- measures winch he had introduced, were attended with very goixl effects, and lik e ly a to load to rapid change in Ireland. The Clergy were the party above all others interested in a treasure for the conputution of tithes, and he hoped they, the Itishops in particular, would lend nil. their aid to its accomplishment. Meantime, if the report was true that the Irish, Government was about to bring forward any measure, he hoped his Hop. Friend, the Alember for Montrese (Mr. • Hume) would postpJhe the motion of wbitill• he had given notice, till he saw what this new measure wait. Colond TRENCH said the sentiments of the Petition were judicious and temperate, and came from a set of Gentlemen en. titled to the utmost attention. He was happy to hear that a Measure was at lust to be brought forward front a quarter which, would give a chance of success in remedying the evils of rt. system which was as injurious to the Protestant Establishment, as it wes oppressive to the Catholic. M. V. FITZGERALD W:t4 instrncted by tlit:, Grand .Jury. of the County of Clare to support the Petition. Fie thought the general declaration of the utter inanity of the measure pro. due.ed in the last Session.had produced the bappiest effect in ex citing-the great majority of the Nobility and Gentry of Ireland to come forward on this question. He wished to know from his Right Honourable Friend (Mr. iioulburn) whether. the Irish Government had any effectual measure in contemplation on this subject ? ____,_ tIOULBL'ItN did not agree in the terms which had been applied to the Measure passed last Session. lid had no hesitation, however, iu saying, as the evils arising from die col lection of Tittles bad engaged the attention of the Irish Govern ment from the first hour of their Administration, &measure on the.sukieet was at the present moment in a very forward state, and he should speedily give notice of its prodoction. t Mr. S. RICE said, that as to the measure of the l ast Ser.; sion, a nioreinefficient Anne, for the pu su tp f.i r ci i r t nt w pr as o ii , l f te o n f i e... w 11 1 04 1i: answer, never was broughtforwartl, a would be, that not single kale of' tithes would be tbund to be granted under it from one end of :Ireland to another...--( flea?, hear it was not intended to proPot'e something very L diffe rent from it, or if they had nothing to depend on but the vety vague declaration of the Might Hon. SeerTrar, Y (Mr. Ouulburn) he should be sorry to tind his flan . Friehn (Ait...klume) induced to postpone his motion. . lie wished to hear something like a descriptidn of the neasurc intended. - Mr. PEEL said, that 'was a subject on Which temper and discretion were especially necessary. lif . ePPealed to the House whether it was usual; at such a stage of the btisiness,. to give a more explicit decl oration. than his-Itlgh t Bon,Exjcpti had given, and whether partial tbrutils were riot 4e3Y to Fre,ptdicefair cussion. His Right Hon. Friend had stated that a measure on the subject would be submitted to the House, and .he (Mr. P.) would add, that it would be submitted in time to allow the Hon. Member for Montrose an opportunity susbsequently to mince any measure hemighe think fit. Mr. HUME recollected, that in postponing a notice he had formerly given, he had done it with the understanding.that the Government would introduce a special measure;, and was now surprised that the Secretary of State for the Home Department should object to the warmth of his (Mr. Hume's) Honourable Friend iMr. Rice). Was there not reason for warmth its the dilatory conduct of Government ?—.of those Ministers who had been in possessibn of the government for 25 years? The Right Hon. Secretary spoke of moderation, but did he propose' any measure to remedy the evils of Ireland ? The state of Tithes and of the Church of Ireland was one cause of all the evils of that unfortunate country, and of the burdens of taxation impos ed on this country. Was not this state of things, for which the Government had never thought of finding a remedy, a proof of neglect ? And was it not extraordinary that the Hon. Secretary' should ask or expect a motion on these subjects to he.postpon. ed ? Dom he intend to commute tithes for an =table assess. meet—to take a‘sixtli from the produce of the land to buy up the tither? "Ile, for one, would never consent; and the House should never consent, to levy a tax of one shilling to add to the wealth of the Church. When a man had straight forward intentions, and knew what lie was about, it was easy for . hilt to express what he meant to do. He would state what he meant to submit to the House. He would propose then, first, a Resolution to express that the Church property of Ireland, which was in the possession of Bishops, Deans and Chapters. was much too large ; and he should then subMit, in the second place, that instead of absentee clergymen, with 2,0901. or 3;000/. per year, and starving curates, th at every clergyman should have a sufficient income to support him respectably. He (Mr. H.) would undertake to shew, that if the Church property of Ireland were properly let, it would pro duce three or four millions a year, and that this might, abo. lishing tithes altogether, go to a general fund, which would pay all the clergymen, so as to allow them to live like Gentle. tlemen, and make them useful. He would call on the House to declare whether church property is not property set aside by the State for the support of religion, and whether, under that point Of view, it is not the duty of the State to appropriate it in such a manner as will most . promote, this object ? The anti. quity of its present distribut ion was the reason urged for not meddling with it ; but this was no reason at all. The present Ministry, however, he considered as quite incapable of attend ing to the interests of the country. and they had shewn them selves in their whole conduct, with regard to Ireland, too im becile to allow any man to place confidence in them. Mr. Hume sat down in refusing to postpone his notice. Mr. PEEL added, that probably the present week would not elapse without a specific day being fixed for the introduction of the measure: Mr. SPRING RICE had heard the present discussion with some satisfaction, as it had elicited from the Honourable Secre tary opposite the explanation he wanted. Before the word com mutation had not been mentioned, but he now understood the Government to have given a distinct pledge to propose a com mutation. " ' Mr. GOULI3URN, in explanation, said, the scheme under contemplation ltad for its object both a composition arid corn. mutation of tithes. Mr. VESEY FITZGERALD expressed his satisfaction that a stronger measure was now to be brought forward than that introduced last Session. A new Writ was ordered for the C,onnty of Fermanagh. SCOTCH REPRESENTATION. _ . Lord A. HAMILTON rose to correct a mistake which had occurred respecting his Motion on this subject. His notice Was given for the 11th of March, and.not the Ilth ofFebruary, as has been stated in some of the newsp4pers. ADDRESS TO HIS MAJESTY. Mr. Secretary ,PEEL appeßied at the Bar, and brought up his Majesty's Answer to the Address of the House on his Ma jetitVl6 Speechat the opening of the Parliament. It expressed his Majesty's thanks for theloyal Address of his faithful Com mons ; and assured the House that no object was, or ever will be, so near to his heart as the prosperity and happineis of his people.—The Answer was ordered to he entered on the Journals. Mr. GRENFE LI, moved for an account of the number of Bank Notes and Bank Post Bills in circulation since July last. —Ordered. CORN LAWS. Mr. WHITMORE postponed his motion on this subject to the 26th of this month, CATHOLIC CLAI MS. Lord HOTHAM, alluding to this question, saidhe should to-morrow move for a c a ll,of the House ) , for the day upon which it would be discussed. IRISH STAFF.. Mr. OOULBURN said be should to-morrow more for a Reduction of Irish Stail: • . --- ASSESSED TAXES. Mr. SIABERLY, in rising to move for a series of Papers, requested Gentlemen the Mioieterial Benches to withhold every pledge to support the financiatscheines of the Ministry 'till they had heard what he had to bring forward on the subject. —lf he could shew that 7,00001. of taxes could be taken otf without impairing pnblic credit, he thought he should have a strong claim to their support. The taxes, it was true, had been reduced considerably—he believed he might say at the-rate of eight per cent. on the whole amount; but he was prepared to thew that the value of the whole property was reduced in a much greater proportion—he believed in the proportion .of 58 cent.. Of'..the 38,000,11001. of property estimated to belong to the ocCupierS of the land In 1813, there was absolutely none' left. Thephipertv of the proprietors of the soil had diminished, he believed,: one 7 belf, and the various profits of trade, menu factories, dee., also had been considerably diminished. It was not cnshitnitiV for Minidters tb give notice of what theyintend ed to do, and he believes!, therefore, that they had only men tiorted their intentian of repealing the , Assessed Taxes, in order to diveit . the 'public from claiming thoso larger' reduc tions which they ought to have. The Honourable: Aleinber concluded moving for a number a AccouTit, .rel4.ive to prOperly, of de,;criiAions, paying. Taxes, and exempt frompaYeng Taxes, betwteei April 5,1614, and April 5,181 O; and also varions.Aecoonts relative to the value of property at present, in' order, as was Understood, to shew that the reduction of taxation which had been made: since the peat* bore tto pro portion to the diminished value of the property of the country between the year Itil,l and the present tune. Mr. - GRt SPELL - wished to know if his Hon. Friend in tended to make any Motion subsequently having fur its object the renewal of the Income and Property Taxes Mr. MAIIERLY replied, that he had no intention what ever in moving lor these accounts to bring forward any motion fOrlaying on any sort of property-tax under any modification whatever e hut that he thought that he could shew'that the public service could be as well Carried on as pow, and public credit preserved, after the repeal of seven millions of taxes. Mr. LUSH INGTON expressed his acquiescence in the mo tions ma d e 1, 7 th e lion. Member, and said every f ac ili t y s h ou ld be. given to making up the accounts moved for. SINKING FUND. !fir. FIUME rose to move for the printing of several Papers which had been that day laid upon the table, and took the op. portunity to read and to call the attention of the House to one of them. It was an account of the sums of money expended by the Cenumissioners for Liquidation of the National Debt, for one year, ending the Ilth January ~ l est. That stun was 14,640,4601. bin • wits merely a transfer front one account to another, without altering one shilling of the amount. Sire were about to have a stew Chancellorof the Exchequer,: and he hoped, with the old (31ancellor,the farce called a Sinking Fund would also be removed. If a; Sinking Fund win to be main. tainfxl, it ought to be a real one. • Mr. 011ENFELL, although he fully agreed with the Hon. Gentleman in his character of the present system, which he (Air. tirerifell) considered to be extremely fallacioue, yet he felt that the Ilan. Otritlerinut had not done full justice to the -Right lion. Oentlernan, the late Chancetlor of the Exchequer. From &paragraph in one of the Papers, then on the table, he inferred that the whole system was about to be changed ; and he begged to know 'from - the Might Hon. Iltrattemart wag he right in that conjecture? .. LLISHINGTOIst said, the Ifonourable tlentklnan'a inferencivias perfectly correct : that it was the intention of his Majesty's , Ministers to propose, at the earliest day poled* ' plan for sitripFly Mg the jiresent system he to .1 therefteno objection to - thi: production' of any papers connected with the subject. • 'rhe LORD 31AVOIt heard witlvinfinite regret that it was then intended to depart from that system which had been san e _ tionedby the - approbation of the highest Att,thorities, and of the greatest men that had ever sat in that Bouse, and alhs4d putt (ulraly to Xr...Hheriden. Ile lied no hesitation don tut ear k that to the SiAbsi FUnd did we owe the Meanie brreleie we Mr. LUSHINGTON moved for an Abstract of the net Public Revenue of: the United Kingdom for one year, together with other usual Annual Accounts—Ordered. Mr. WHITMORE noVed for a Return of the Quantity, of Corn brought to market in OR City of Dublin ftu. the Jut ien years.—Ordered. DUTCH LOAN. Mr. HUME gave nonce thathe should to-morrow (this day) move for the production of certain Papers, amongst which was a Return of all Moneys paid . into his dajesty's Treasury on account of the Duteh Loan.—Ordered. THE ROYAL LIBRARY. Lord JOHN RUSSELL having heard, a report of themag nificent gift of the Royal Library, made by hiS Majesty to the British nation, desired to know from the Right Hon. (3 entlemen opposite had he (Lord J. R.) been .correctly informed upon that subject. lf so, he trusted that,that gift which was so admirably calculated to strengthen the attachment of the . Eri. tish people to their august Sovereign., would be rendered avail;. able to the interests of literature.--.(Hear, hear thought it important for those interests that some establishment should be formed in the metropolis for the reception of the Royal gift, by which a want often complained or would be obvfated.-- 7 , Should the circumstances of the country not warrant the expen diture of the sums necessary for that purpose at the present moment, he hoped that object would, however, be kept in mind, and that an establishment. would be •founded in til.:Ch situation as to meet the views of his Majesty. Mr. Scsretary PEEL said, it was perfectly true, that his Majesty had signified his most gracious wish that the Library alluded to should be transferred to the British nation—Wheel:4.) That the necessary arrangements were in cootemplation and he could assure the Noble Lord that the object on which he had• expressed his solicitude would be attended to.—Ulear, hear l) THE ISLAND OF. TRINIDAD. Mr. WILMOT. moved ,for a variety of Returns connected with the state of this colony, together with certain portions .of the correspondence of Sir Ralph Woodford with Ilia' illajesty's Oovernnat, and copies of various proclamations issued by hitn. Ordered. cfm•tA AND INDIA TRADE. Mr. WILMOT moved for an 'account of all Merchandise exported .to China arid the East Indies for the last ten years, distinguishing Foreign from British produce ; also for a similar return for the West Ir:diea, together with an account of the 'va lue of such portions of the same as had been. re.exported; an account of the tonnage of all ships entered outwards to China and India for 20 years ; a return of tonnage entered inwards for the same period ; returns of the'amount of charges incurred by Great Britain on account of India and Chim..—of the ex penees of the naval force kept up on account of India—of the sums lost by defaulters—of the sums lent to the India Com pany, and not repaid ; an account of the amount of duties, re. ceived upon the following articles, from the year 17.17 up I to i the present period, viz. coffee, te a , sugar , i n di go , an d catton— These returns were severally ordered. EXPIRING LAWS. Mr. BROGDEN brought up the Report of the Committee upon the Expiring Laws.—Ordered to be laid upn the table, and to be printed. Mr. LUSHINGTON renewed for to morrow the dropped Order of the Day for the considention of the Lords Coonunis, sioners' Speech.—Ordered. The House adjourned at a quarter past tfair LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Ftg, IQ. JUDGMENTS. THE Xl3O v. ISI(A E LANGLET. This defendant h a vin g s u ff ere d j u d gme n t to go by default td tut information for assaulting an Excise Officer in the4xtcution of his duty, was now brought up on the Notion of the: Solicitor-, General, and sentenced to threo. months imprisonment in the' Illouse of Correction - at Cold Bath Fields, and at the end of that 'time to give security for his pad behaviour, fbr three years, 'himself in 401., and two sureties in 10/. each. TME.XII4O v. WILLIAM Pox, This defendant ht d suffered jtidgrnent to go. by defadif to an information for assaulting n Custom-house Officer, in the en; eution of his duty, on the coast of Devonshire., and, being now . brought up, on the motion of the Solicitor,(ioneral, was sen tenced to two months it prismunent in tht, Exeter House of Correction, and, at the end of that time,• to give security for hit good behaviour for three years, himself in 401,, and two sureties . in. lg. each. THE RING V. JOHN 'itvre. This defendant had Lean convicted of a libel upon 3 . 1 r. Geo. Ellis, an attorney, of Abingdon-street, Westminster, and, on the motion of Mx. Gurney, was now bfought up to receive the judgment of the Court, 'and, after healing affidavits -and °beer. yawns on both sides, . The COURT sentenced the aefenclant to three months im prisonment in the King's Bench prison, and, at the end of that time, to give security for his good behaviour, for five years, himself in LUUI, and two sureties in 2&O1. each. THE ElNti V. JOHN l'ltatlT, This case, which was a conviction against the scl:fendant fur a libel on Mr. Protheroe, an attorney, of NoturtJutb, was or. derail to stand over until to.inotrow. CIII3IINAL ISTOIMATION. • • Mr. CHITTY tiroved to file 4 criminal information against 3 person named. Pottenoer, for 3 libel on the honour and cha racter of Capt. Benjamin Bond. The application was made on the affidavits of Capttin Bond and others, by which it ap- Feared that the libel had. been publi s h e d i n 4 letter written by Votteoger. Capt. Bond was Trustee of property belonging to infants and his refusal to advan ce part o f t h e trust money oc casioned the ill will of the. person against whom ivlt. Claw now moved.—The libel was read .and the Court granted rub! to slew cause. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Fu l. WILLIAMSON SIR GEORGE DOLE. This case was partly heard an SaturCity, when .9..erjewat LuNI3 appeared in belie] r of the defendant. On this day Serjeent Cuess was beard oti the SUR* side. lfe said he was there upon a Role to oblige the pleintiff to declare how much bad been due, 4114 to ::Herr cause why the defendant should not be discharged from prison, Henry Michael Ould, brother of the defendant, horroWt.d of the plaintiff 4,0Q41. to be paid by way of annuity, charged upon the estates cf the said Henry /liichael tiold. Defendant became stirety, giving Plain tiff a warrant of attorney to enter up judgment for ?double the amount. of rho turn, in case the annuity ahoelti not be paid. A person of the name of -Cooke received the rents, but under Howard, who was trustee for the plaintiff The pletnuff did enter up judgment ; anti the defendant Ives in rust+ dy, Learned Sorieant contended, for a debt not of his own con tracting. he burthen of proof to spew bow touch had been due watt upon the plaintiff: The defendant wit!socu t o for Au undefinable amount, Ufa Learned ,priend, SeriCalit V auslAG, hail made the flail ring with the assertion that no part oldie annuity had been paid, fie had aflidsvite to pmye that NOL had been paid. The case of Best and Conant, which had been cited, was not applicable. The defendant had cited the pi e t a . tiff to *hew bow much was due. The phiritlif was tats toor ciona, saylog, you shall remain Prison wild you arm Opal 106151.141 shall propose. Upon the fade shotto. an thus at were not .alown,"be contended that the Rule ouglit to be` mods absolute, arid the defendant soniseptently dis owe sd„..,Jtoli tirade absolute.'