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" L • t , r ifi O°W = trt‘dV4'l% = p 4 ' • := l / 4 -= • ~ ~ .. r - X.,' • • r, .t _ • ~; rte, n to be stigation „ , . . . . . . . t. i f - • • • • v .ANI i i d e. , ~.• . . , . , 1z 5 , .. , ,,, , ' , or , . ---Al • :43) ---- 't..e - ___ 1 7 , z „, -..- .s . • -4 , -- 0 4---: . ..;- . L./ . ,-- ~_ .... ..,..,.... t , _ ~...., .., ____............_...........,................_. Of 3 ' Ititiova .? 4 ' • , . ';', ,J Y . • ' iii ii , ....d...... rir KING V. t on this fir• :he Su p. gka and SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1823. PRICE SEVEN PEN CE. NtTmBER 9576 CONTR,IC7' kOR CLEANSING AND REPAIRING LAW LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. AGEI\TERAL MEETING of the PRO PRITORS will be held at NEW FURNIVAL'S debts not exceeding that sum; and the question was, would the house refuse an inquiry into this. Mr. LITTLETON spoke in favour of the second reading of the BilL The House then divided, when there appeared, For the second reading - • - 114 For tha Amendment . 2 Majority —ll2 Mr. BING presented a petition from several Inhabitants of Islington against the Sewers' Rate.—Referred to the Com mittee on Sewers. Tipperary, all of whom he believed were obliged to keep a horse, and were allowed no more than forty guineas amongst them. Sir JOHN NEWPORT ohserved t that It:Was impossible the duty could be discharged at the rate of four guineas each Coroner. It was important to observe the effect of this • for not unfrequently it happened that inquests were not held Which ought to be held. Mr. R. MARTIN thought it right to say that the Bill which he introduced into the House last year did not alter the condi don of the Coroners, who, he thought, deserved better remu neration. That Bill prevented them front being public rob bers, but it did not touch their salaries. The reason that he brought in the Bill was, that he knew a Coroner in his county who levied rates upon the public by means of executions, which he either acted upon, or sold for what he could get, to the ex tent of 6,0001., with which sum lie walked off to America. one could now say. Ile wished that the house should not deviate from the strict line of inquiry, which was most import. ant, attd which he wished rather to see in this House than elsewhere. BEDDING. Nary-Office. May I, 1 323 Illy. PEEL wished the House to suspend its judgment with respect to 311. Keunnis, whom he had never seen in the course of his life. The fact which had been stated by his Right Lion. Friend was, undoubtedly, very important ; but still he thought it was - possible that it might have been forgotten ; and he beg ged leave to mention, that 31r. Townsend, who had concurred with his Right lion. Friend, had also been in office in 1811, and yet he did not remember it. The present Lord Chief Jus_ tice of Ireland was at the same period the Solicitor-General, and yet, when the cause was tried before him, and the objection urged by the defendant's counsel, that this was a case without Precedent, his own memory ditilmt furnish him with this fact, With which it was almost certain that he must have been ac quainted. INN HALL, HOLBORN, on THURSDAY the lath day. of MAY instant, at Ten for Eleven o'Clock in the Morning, to elect by Ballot '24 Directors, 7 Trustees, and 4 Auditors for the Year ensuing ; the Ballot will commence at 12 o'clock at noon precisely, and close at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The Names and Residences of persons intended to be proposed as CANDIDATES must be sent in writing to Mr. Anderton, Quality Court, Chancery-lane, Secretary (pro temp.) to the Committee, seven days at least before the Election. By Order, Sir G. HILL presented a petition from the County Trea surers of Ireland, praying, as we understood, for increased re muneration for their services. Sir J. NEWPORT spoke shortly against the prayer of the petitioners.--The Petition was ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. IRISH UNION DUTIES. Mr. BECHER supportedtht;Cetition. Mr. C. H. HUTCHINSON observed, that the petition par. ticularly directed itself against the Coroners' Act, which had JAMES A NDERTON. Sir G. HILL presented a petition front certain persons con nected with the Cotton Trade of Belfast, against the repeal of the Union Duties. Mr. CURWEN thought the repeal of those • Duties would be advantageous to both countries. ' Mr. S. RICE said, he should prop* a clause in the Corn niiitee, empowering the Treasury to assist those who had stock in hand. Sir HI NRI' PARNELL spoke iu favour of a repeal of the duties. _ . r idea of EXTRAORDINARY ADVANTAGE FOR CASH. deprived them of rights they had possessed, as attached to the office, for 250 years. Sir N. COLTHURST suggested that-a provision should be made for the better payment of Coroners in a Bill going through the House, regulakiag disbursements by the Grand J ury. After a few words from. Mr. BL LI s t he . petition. was brought up, laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Lord FOLKSTONB presented a petition from Marlow, against the Bill authorising the sale of game. THE,: PRINCIPAL OFFICERS and Co 11- iassioNEßs of HIS 411AJESTrSWAVY do hereby give Notice, That on Thursday, the ?2d instant, at One o'Clock, they will be ready to treat with such Per sons as ?nay be eciili,,ti to Contract for CLE,LVSING and REPAIRING FLOCK BEDS and BOLSTERS, and 13L.4121'KETS, and for Cleansing HAMMOCKS and COTS, the Articles to be taken by the Contractor from His Majesty's Yard at Deptford, and to be returned by him into,Slore at the said Yard, when Ckansed and repaired. d Form•flf the Tender, may be seen at this Office. No fender will he receiced after One o'Clock, on the Day of Treaty, nor Ony noticed , unless the Party, or an Agent for • him, attends. Every Tender Inuit be accompanied by a Letter' ad dressed to the Navy Board, rind signed by two responsible Persons, engaging to become bound with the Person ten dering, in the Sun& of .1:600 fur the due performance of the Contract. LAW LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. A.GENERAL MEETING of PROPRIE TORS Will he held at NEW FURNIVAL'S INN RAIL, HOLBORN, on THURSDAY, the Bth day of Id ay Instant, at Eleven for Twelve at Noon, for the Purpose of final!), appioving and settling the , Rules and Regulations of the Society, and transacting such other Business as may then be necebsary. By Order JAM ES ANDERTON, Secretary (pro temp.) to the Committee. DRAWINGS BY THE LATE BENJAMIN WESt', ESQ. r iE NEW GALLERY, No. 14, NEW MAN STREET, ti Now OPEN, with the addition et a Room appropriated to DRAWINGS by the late Presi deot of the Royal Academy. Open from Ten till Fire. Admission, lg.—Catalogue, Is. N. R. The CIIOICE COLLECTION of PICTURES by the () I'D MASTERS select e d kr the late wEsT, is t" he D INPOSED OF by PRIVATE CONTRACT. either 6rra lately or collectively. LONDON ORPHAN ASYLUM, institut€d in 1813, for the Reception of DESTITUTE OR PLIANS, particularly those descending from respectable Pa *tuts, un d er the immediate Patronage of . n,mos m.uEST. The FIRSTI>•('I)NEInf Slit BUILD in' Y ded for this ING CHARITY will b e LAID on the E s tate, at LOWER CLAP en • , TON, on MONDAY, the sth of MAY, a t Three o'CloCk precisely, by His Royal Highness the DUKE of YORK. His 11" vi Highness Pri "ee LEOPOLD, the Right Honour able the LORD MAYOR and SUITE, with many of the No bility, hare kindly promised to give their sanction to the A ntreinents of the D a y , After t he Ceremony, the Friends' of tilt • Institittion will DINE with His Royal (highness at the CITY ot I.ONIION TAVERN, Bishopsgate-street. STEW N.iniue! Amory, Esq. ti. Aceling, Esq. If. litandratn, .lim 6 .l3tiggs, E,q. .Bones Capri, Esq. J. F. Chapman, Esq. T. W, Coker, Esq. 'lames Collins, Esq. Harty Cook, Esq. W illiam curling, Esq. Tionna% D.tvis, Esq. John Gowen, Esq. Thotua l Esq. I Henry Heath, Esq." Edward Isaac, Esq. Tickets for the. Dinner, 15 1 lice, the Tavern and of the S tuns. Maximilian tiymer, Esq. H. It. Lewis, Esq. Thomas Marriott, Esq. John F. Manbert, F.sq. J. E. Netterville, Esq. John Norhory Esq. Abraham Peell, Esq. Thomas F. Rance, Esq. V. F. Rivas. Esq. George Fl. Robins, Esq. John Shewill, Esq. John Spathe, Esq. Skinner Turner, Esq. Stephen Williams, Esq. John Woolley, Esq. k, each, may be had at the Of t ewards. J. C. ABDY, Secretaries. AND. REED, 1823. 1 0, St. Mary Axe, April 26, • FINISH OF THE LOTTERY, NEXT THURSDAY. li[AZARD and Co. who sold the First Drawn Ticket, _ entitled to ,0,000, the Last Day of D "w l nß, inform the Public, that All the Capital Prizes now in th e W heel (as under ) , m u et be drawn NEXT THURS b4Y, Nay 8, that, bei ng the Last and Only Day ; • it ....of ....1;2,000 I 4 of• •• • £5OO 2.. . ........ -1,000 16 2OO HAZARD, &c. &c. anti CO. Sold the First Drawn Ticket tit( Last P a y of Drdwing, N 0.6,407, entitled to .E 5,000 ; also i" the __Act pLottery, 4,467, a Prize of £20,000, and in the Last _and Fortunate Offices, 93, Y.ar 4 Lotteries, '1 flee other Prizes of £3 0,000, at their Old Royal Exchange; 26, Cornbill : Cod 324, Oxford•street, End of Regent-street; and by their Agents in all the Principal Country Towns. ................._ I ' lll4 IhY was published, in 3 vols. 12mo. 21a. boards, RI NG A.N CILHAIZE,. or THE COVE -33, the Author NANTERS of " Annals of the Parish," " Sir Andrew cc . Wylie," Their constancy in torture and in death, — These on Tradition" The Entail," &c. On History's honest p ebe picturedbright 's tongue still live these shall To latest times."—Gaame's Sabbath. V Printed for Oliver and Boy d, , Edinburgh ; and G. and N !I. 'Whittaker, London. CURTIS ON DEAFNESS. The Third va; This Day was p u bli s h e d, —t 'Oils considerably enlarged and improved, ATREATISE'ee 76. 6d. hoards, them DISEASES of the BAIL; en the PHYSIOLOGY au& with New Modes of Treat. , .*illustrated by a variety of interesting Cases, and ac ,,,f:nipatiied with a Plate of Improved Acoustic Instruments, r assistingliearing. By J. Et. CURTIS, Esq. printedwrist to the King. rd fur '(', and G. Underw oo d 32, Fleet•street. . A N Of whom may be 65. had, hy the same Author. Wig MNlou' re of the Ear, f ur the Use of Medical Students, 0, od. p....,..4VLORESCENT Olt IMPROVED EPSONI SALTS. THE Medicinalqualities of which are precisely preps the same as the Epsom Salts in ci ystals, but in this 14. ration (whi c h i s i n the form of powder) the disagreable tit, r i g greatly obviat e d, b es id es which 'only half the quan -4t . -l ui red fur the dose. In ounce papers ad, or in bottles a and is. Gd. li a j i 'pared and Sold by Butlers, Chemists, 4, Cheapside, St. do n ; Regent-street, (near the Argyle •Buoms), Lou. ; Wkterloo-placr, Edinburgh ; Sackvii le-street, Dublin; ,1, 1 1 1 , , , 1d by the principal Druggists in the Kingdom. th e n' by if brought into general use, will prevent so f Possibility of accidents by Oxalic Acid which have been "Viet ' t and , „ „‘ 'IIp R "reit*. -to ask for utlTl.Eits gULORPSCENT on wan Enos; SALTS." AWARMOLL and COMPA N Y, patronized • by the Nobility and Gentry, allow greater Advantages upon TEAS than any Establishment in the Metropolis:— The East India Company's Tares upon all Chests, One Ounce in the single Pound, And Half-a-pound allowed in every Six Pounds, And every order with a Temittance, or a draft payable in Lon don for 121bs. and upwards, is sent, free of expense, to any part of the kingdom. No unpaid• Letters received. At the NORFOLK and SUFFOLK TEA WAREHOUSE, No. 23, LITTLE DELL ALLEY • Up Tokenhouse-yard, at the Rack of the Bank of England, London. All Teas sold at this Establishment are of the choicest kinds, warranted Genuine, selected and tasted by the most eminent Tea Brokers. The same advantage allowed upon Turkey, Java, and West India Coffees. Sugars kept for the Public. No unpaid Letters received, unless containing an Order with a remittance for £2 and upwards. If any respectable Person wishes to Sell for this Establish ment, in Town or Country, a Written Order for any qUantity, specifying the price, with a remittance ; will be sent imme diately, well secured in Leaden Packages. By appointment, Finch and Co.'s Snporfine Durham Mus tard, preferred by the Nobility for, the til'obined superiority of its strength, flavour, and beautiful 'colour, at only 2s. per pound, made up in Lead for the Country, Congou, fis. ; fine strong Souchong Tea, 63.8 d.; superior fine Breakfast Souchong, 75.; best ditto, to 10s. ; remarkably fine Green Tea, Hyson kind, Bs. to 9s. ; real ilyson, very fine, 10s. ; best Ilyson, 12s. ; Gunpowder Tea, 13s. ' • fine Coffee, 35.; very fine 3s. 4d. ; best Turkey Coffee, 4s. 6tl. to ss, • e ', No common ordinary Teas or Coffees kopt.t` Ar,,' -- - i? -,.,•• ;- --' 7:.:- , --f__= - _i-it....V - $4 - ~,,; i , '-'• .. 0 " 4 , 4 "t ':" - ' , - v-.:,..„-t... .1 ,- L.; - ...---.,-- , -_-:-.. -.-- -.: , s _•.-_ • •-7- - , e.ir, 4 „,,,, .. t., ... • --_,,,,,,,,,,._...., , , ~.,. -74 ti ~ ,: 1 ' ct, .. '. •-•-•:: •'; ti' 7 - - - 14'• ' ..-- - -- - 3- - ---- t.. #:, - - -. --2 :••/: --'- - !'7' ...... . I._ -•-, , .?_:,' '..:. : 7''' ,4- .- - ': A , . I. 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In • this !a WM With the 00 °f i g ati Aden ° )114 erY ) i rien rpe • e 111 r oan .hose• the e °"1 0 5 1 ! as, t ° e,,, •erer"` litY °f bell the o PlO, fine d his ly or b r' .o orelle "' o sin.bur ticeri ; cases' :Ig a i Defilirlife 1 9 6 " . st , n Ole re ur:d ridon.-.4 that tip! , c' h io• ; ors , t 1041/ fIST' 3ste , I‘ll°l'Ci N.AI iberi on er o o f to le r onto !lite ji o t , 7,500` 'rt. I :4 lk t ' tY° t jl , °! _ or . ; ics COV hef' ?31, t1 i ti. bte f ) 1 1t: ib°l4 APl'' at, Seri : „ . " 0011 ,0 4 '" PARLIAMENT, DOUSE OF LORDS, MAY 2. ROYAL ASSENT. The Loan CHANCELLOR, the Earl of SHAV TESBURY, and Lord IIEDEsoALE, as his Majesty's CommiSfironers, brought down the Royal Assent to the Grants in Aids Rill, the Revenue Departments Consolidation Bill, the Innkeepers' Allowance Bill, the Military and Navy Pensions Bill, and to several Private Bills. The Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND presented a Peti tion frorri Newcastle-upon-Tyne, praying for a Repeal of the Duties on Coals carried coastways.—Laid on the table. The Bridport and' Scarborough Harbours Bills were read a third time' and passed- The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented a Petition from Blackburn, complaining of Agricultural Distress.—Lail on the table, Mr. MASON, from the East India Company, presented Monthly Accounts of the Salaries and Pensions granted by that Company.—Laid en the table. WOOLLEN TRADE. On the question that the Warehousing Bill be read a third time. The Earl of HAREWOOD said, that it was the intention of the Woollen Manufacturers, although they had not opposed the present fill, to request their Lordships and the other - House to attend to the situation in which they were placed, and to exa mine whether it was just and proper that, at the time every fa cility was afforded to foreign manufacturers to sell their ruer chandize in this country, British manufacturers should be burthened with a duty on the imported raw material, especially when it was considered that a new tax of sd. per pound had been laid in Spain on the exportation of the raw material. The Bill was then read a third time, and passed.—Adjourn. ed to Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The House was summoned to hear the Royal Assent given by Commission to several Bills, for the titles of which see the Lords' Report. Mr. DENISON presented two petitions from the Inhabi tants of St Mary, Newington, and those of Clapham, in favour of the Southwark Court of Requests Bill.—Ordered to lie on the table. A Division took place on the Newport Pagnel Bill.—The question was upon an ii mendment proposed by Mr. CART wnzariT, for , exempting a particular village from the toll.— The numbers were— For the Amendment - - 15 Against it . - . - 43 Majority - -—2 B BOROUGH COURT OF REQUESTS. Mr. C;CALVERT presented a petition from several Pa rishes in Southwark, in favour of the Court of Requests Bill —O for that Borough.rdered to lie on the table, Mr. C. CALVERT then moved the second reading of the Bill. Sir JOSEPH YORKE opposed the Bill. -He dfd not think it was necessary, or likely to prove beneficial. As the law now stood, a debt of forty shillings might be recovered for three shillings and elevenpence. He moved that the Bill' he read a second time this day six months. • Mr. DEN ISON supported the Bill. He thought It neces sary in some measure, on account of the increase of population in the Borough. • Mr. C. CALVERT also spoke in favour of the Bill. The Commissioners of the Southwark Court, as it now stood, were paid as much for their labour as the Judges, considering the time they were employed. •- . Sir JAMES GRAHAM opposed the Bill, which proposed to take away the vested rights of persona against whom,' no complaint was made. Mr. LAMBTON supported the Bill.. The public had also a vested interest in the question: for they were entitled to have justice as cheaply as possible. The fees now enjoyed by these Officers were received under an Act of Parliament Which had been smuggled into the House without notice to the Inhabit ants of Southwark., Mr. BRIGHT took this opportunity of asking the Solicitor- General when he would bring in the amended Insolvent Act. The SOLICITOR-GENERA I, said that he should give no tice of a motion on the subject in a few days. Mr. H. SUMNER opposed the Bill, and denied that the Bill alluded to by the Member for. Durham had been smuggled through the House. Sir `V. DE CRESI'IGNY thoUght that the Bill should; at all events, be sent to a:Committee. Mr. GREY BENNET spoke in favour of the Bill.—The complaint was that fees amounting to 1,400/. were taken cm Sir JOHN NEWPORT concurred in opinion with his Hon. Friend, but he thought the repeal should he gradual. After a few words from Mr. C. HlTTcluNsos, Sir 0. HILL, aid Mr. 'WALLACE., the petition was ordered to lie on the table. FOREIGN TALLOW. Mr. CURWEN presented a petition from certain Butchers of IVhitechapel, complaining that they were seriously injured in . the tallow market by the competition of Foreign tallow.— They prayed for a protecting duty on the importation of lo reign tallow ; and added that without it the price of meat would be considerably raised. lie hoped the subject would force itself upon the attention of Government.—The petition was then read and ordered to be printed. LEATHER TAX. A conversation took place between Mr. CALCRAFT, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, and Mr. LUSHINGTON, relative to the latter Member having postponed Mr. Calcraft's motion for the Repeal of the Leather Tax, which stood for yes terday, to the 9th of May. .Mr. CALCRA } r contended, that as one of the Secretaries of the Treasury had appointed his motion on a day in which the Order of the Day took precedence, the Chancellor or the Ex chequer was hound in courtesy to let that motion precede the Order of the Day. The debate he was sure would not exceed two hours. Mr. GOULBURN observed, that if the Right Hon. Gen tleman was at all in a conceding disposition, he hoped he would give him the precedence, as he had a motion fixed for the day in question on the Irish Insurrection Act, which was one of greater importance than that of the lion. Member for IVare ham (Mr. Calcraft.) - Mr. LUSH INGTON explained that he had fixed the 9th of May, in the absence of the Hon. Member, as that appeared to be the first open day. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQI;EK said he had no hand in the postponement of which the Hon. Member com plained. He had• rather supposed, when he saw the day for which it was fixed, that the lion. Member had forgone the idea of his motion altogether ; hut as it was, he could not but decline the invitation held out to him. THE KING'S ANSWER. 'Mr. Secretary CANNING appeared at the Bar, and said that he had it in command from his slajesty to convey to the House his Majesty's Thanks for the loyal and dutiful Ad dress of his faithful Cosan►ons. His Majesty had received with gratitude the assurances of that Honourable House, that they will support him in any measures he may think fit to take in the maintenance of the honour and dignity of the Crown. _ • IRISH WITNESSES. Mr. ELLTS begged to call the attention of the Right Hon. and Learned Attorney-General for Ireland to a statement he had made on a former evening, relative to an affidavit which was in his possession, proving that steps had been taken by the Sheriff of Dublin for the purpose of obtaining a packed Jury.— He wished to ask him whether, in justice to the individual ac cused, he would furnish a copy of the affidavit, or with his name, in order that he might be made to appear at the bar of that House. 111 r. PLUNKETT has no hesitation in saying, in answer to the lion. Member's - question, that he wouldgive him no such information. At the same time lie must say he never heard of a more extraordinary request. A party earne to hini to give him private information by which- to shape his course as a public officer, and he was required to hand that person over to one at least suspected of not being very *fetidly to him.— When the lion. Baronet opposite (Sir F. Burdett) pursued his motion on this subject, he should give him such a list of names for witnesses, as he should think requisite to support his case. —( Hear, bear !) Mr. BROWNLOIV called to the recollection of the House, the statement of the Right Hon. and beamed Gentleman, on the 15th of April, that he had an affidavit in his pocket, este blishing that there was so close a connection betwixt the High Sheriff and the Traversers, that he would have been justified in challenging the whole array, had he known of the fact at the time. This information had made a great impression on the House; and when the lion. Baronet opposite made his motion he (Mr. Brownlow) stated, upon the authority of Mr. that the stat ement was a b so l u tely w itho ut foundation. hor c e t ' then turned o u t th at t h e a ffid av it w a s with 'oSthiterai j fr t T eat.-.4llear !)--Now he wished to know whether the affidavit now brought into question was one of the same nature.' Mr.BENNET observed that the Hon. Member migbt have known the precise nature - V the former affidavit from the papers on the table. Mr. PLUNKETT said, that on the occasion which had been alluded to, he had been cha rge d with having act e d lm properly in an affair in which his conduct depended on his own discretion. He had made for answer that he bad acted on pri vate information; and he wished to be in the judgment of the House, whether he oug i ht, under suc h circumstances, give up the author, contras y to bis wish, of a ny part of that nforma tion.—alear, hear !)-He knew not whether the llonourable Member for Armagh (Mr. Brownlow) made this demand for effect, or whether it was for the sake of obtaining an answer. Several Members rose, when Mr. °MILBURN suggested that it was out of order for the, House to lengthen this discussion without any motion, and which was in fact anticipating the examination at the Bar about to he entered upon. Mr. MUN DA Y presented a petition from Derby, praying for more effective measures for the prevention of Slavery.—Or dered to be printed. Sir ELIAB HARVEY presented a petition from the Inha. n 1 isston of taxes which bitants of Essex In County Meeting assembled, complaining Agri lo c r ult 3 n i ra i l i r T i o str N ess t , h ar o tp h r t ay ti i l n a g t. f t o h r e th r : had lately been Made had been selected for the Agricultural Interest.—The petition was laid on the table. COAL DUTY. Sir E. HARVEY presented another petition from a place in Essex, praying for the removal bf the Duty on Coals carried coastways —Laid on the table. Mr. CI 0I; LBUR N presented a petition front two Individuals in Ireland, praying for the Repeal of the Duty on Coals. He added his hopes to the prayer of the Petitioners, that it might be in the power of his Right Honourable Friend to consider of this subject. Col. BAGWELL assured the Chancellor of the Exchequer that the removal of this duty would give the greatest satisfac flop in Ireland., Mr. lILTME could not help pointing out that the Chancellor 14' the Exchequer had an opportunity of pleasing the people of England, Seotland and Ireland, by taking from his'Sinking Fund what would enable him to take off this oppressive tax.-- Ile thought he was half inclined to it already, a nd h e was par _ ticularly glad to see his own colleagues presenting petitions to the same effect. The petition was laid on the table and ordered to be printed. CORONERS IN IRELAND. GOI7I4ITJRN presented a Petition from the Coroners of the County of Cork, for a rise in their salaries. He begged merely to state, that the County of Cork was 120 miles in length, and there were only four Coroners to do t h e i r d uty these four Coroners being only entitled to receive by law forty guineas hetween them, which the Grand Jury were authorised to issue. Mr.l-lUME said, he could not think the office ill paid, as he never saw a vacancy which was not promptly filled up. Colonel BAGIVELL said, there were ten Coroners for SHERIFF OF DUBLIN. Mr. S. RICE Moved that Dillon Macnamara, and Terence O'Reilly, attorniea of Dublin, should be ordered to attend at the bar of the House on the 9th ink. to give evidence on this . subject. Mr. PL,UNKETT readily embraced the opportunity which this motion aflbrded him of stating ,a fact which had some con nexion with it. It had been charged that in filing an ex.4dficio information, after bills of indictment had been ignored by the Grand Jury, he had acted in his office of Attorney-General for Ireland without precedent, and had introduced into-the administration of the law a practice of which no instance hail occurred since the Norman Conquest. He had upon that occasion suggested, that from the authority of the Court of King's Bench, in cases which he cited, a fair analogy was to , be traced, and sufficient to justify his proceeding. Ile had re marked that it was unfair, because he could not produce the precedents for the reasons he then stated to suppose they did not exist. lie had since received a letter from a Mr. Foley, an attorney of Ireland, a Gentleman whom he had not the honour of knowing,:in which that Gentleman stated, that seeing the reports of those debates in Parliament, in which this subject had been mentioned,-and the manner in which the argument had been used, he was induced, from a sense of justice, 'to in form hint that he believed a ease took place in Ireland 12 years ago, in which an ex.oelicip information hid been fifed by an Attorney-General, after 'fills of-indictment for the settle offence had been ignored by the Grand Jury. Ile (Mr. Plunkett) re plied to this letter, by thanking Mr. Foley, and requesting him to inquire into the subject ; he had done so, and the following were the particulars which he had transmitted :—ln October, 1811, bills of indictment were preferred against a person of the name of Leach, for writing a letter to Sir Edward Littlehales, soliciting the appointment of the place of Barrack-master.— The bills contained three counts : the first was for sending*a letter, proposing to give a bribe ; the second, for offering money by way of bribe; and the third, for offering securities for money by way of bribe. These bills were ignored by the Grand Jury ; the Court was surprised, and ordered fresh indictments to -be sent again to the same jury, who again ignored them: InNovember following, his predecessor, Mr. Saurin, tiled an ex-officio information—(Hear, hear, hear!)—contain ing the same counts, acting under the power which lie (Mr. Phinkett) had exercised; and the case was tried in the same Court. Ile held the papers in his hand, which he did not mean to lay on the table, because he would not seem to inculpate the Character of the Hon. Gentleman who had preceded him ; but lie owed it to hid own character to state, that twelve years ago, the same thing had been done for which he had been censured, and in which he was charged with having acted unprecedented ly. 'The couduct of the Attorney-General, at that period, had never been impeached, nor had any doubt been entertaim.d of its justice. He felt that this bore' most strongly upon his' own case, because that Hon. Gentleman had supposed he was only acting in the course of his duty. Mr. DENMAN asked if-tiny judgment had been passed in the ease mentioned by the Right lion. Gentleman. Mr. PLUNKETT replied, that judgment had been signed for want of a plea ' • and it appeared, in consequence 'of the con trition expressed by the defendant, and of his having lost a t'al. liable appointment, that no further punishment had been visited Upon him, and the afthir was dropped. Mr. ABERCROIIIIIY had heard this statement with the greatest astonishment. They had been told from the beginning to the end of this business, that the imputation upon the eharac. tee of the Attorney-General for Ireland was that of having acted without precedent. The Hon. Member for Armagh had con cluded his speech by saying that his conduct was unprecedent ed, enntmry to the practice of the court (which it appeared not now to' be), and uncongenial to the spirit of the British Consti-: tution. If the fact which had been just stated had then been known, it would have made the greatest possible difference in the case. It must be well known that the proceedings already taken had excited the attention of every person who thought, read, and reflected, in Ireland ; and above all, the attention of every Person connected with.the law. He wished, however, to 'ask one question, and, if it should be answered in the affirnia , tive, the House would see the effect it must have upon this question : Ile wished to know, whether the person who was now the Crown solicitor had held that office in 1811. There were two persons to whom, ex necessitate rei, all the particulars .of this case must have been known—the then Attorney-Generel, and the 'Crown Solicitor. He would ask the House to consider how the Attorney-General for Ireland was served in the die cherge of his &ay when no communic a tion of this fact bad been -made to him. 11111r..Saurin- Aid not think fit to inform the Right Hon. Gentleman, this was a matter of courtesy of which he (Mr. Abercromby) had no right to complain ; but that the Crown Solicitor should not have informed him of it, • seemed something more than accident. It was for the purpose of im. pressing upon the House 'the situation in which the Right Hon. Gentleman was placed, the inconveniencies of which he befiev . ed were also shared by the Lord-Lieutenant himself, that he called their attention to this singular conduct of the Crown , Solicitor. Mr. PLITNKETT was bound in justice to the Crown Soli citor to state, that two gentlemen of the tome name had held that office—they were father and son ; the father was dead, and the son must have been a very young man at the time to which he had alluded. Sir J. NEWPORT said, however young that person might be, he had, at the period mentioned, acted. for his father ; and if he was then competent to do so, he must be well acquaint ed with the facts. There were three or four persons still join ed in the patent, he believed ; he could not see any means by which this conduct in withholding information, which it was clearly his duty to impart (and be would not at this time advert to his conduct in any other respect), could be justified or - excused. Mr. J. GRATTAN said, that the gentleman alluded to had acted for his father during a series of years, and he thought it advisable, and even necessary, that he should attend at the hex of the House.—(l4oud cries of " Mr. saurin also," were now heard.) Sir N. CO LTH URST thought it very possible that the crows solieitor might have.forgotten the matter, as the Right Hon. Gentlernan himself had done so. ' Colonel BARRY would move that the name of -Mr. W. Kernmis, the crown solicitor, be added to those of the witnesses already moved for. Mr. cm,cßArr moved, that Mr. Saurin's should also be added. The SPEAKER then read the original motion with the ad dition of the two latter names. GOULIIIJRN recalled to the attention of the House, that they had come to . the resolution of inquiring into the con duct of the High Sheriff of Dublin. It might happen, in the course of that inquiry; that giounds would appear for examin ing Mr. Ken - Omni, but none such existed at present. It would not only be highly inconvenient in many other respects, but it would interfere with anti divert the inquiry from its proper ob jeci, to examine Mr. Kemmis and a Gentleman who had been the Attorney-Mineral for Ireland,' as to how his memory hap pened t fail him with respect' to a circumstance of which he 'must have been cognizant at the time of its occurrence. That circumstance was entirely distinct from the filing the ex.officio information which was before the House. _ ••10•1‘............”.•• • V. • ••..•.• •• •••.-• ~•••• Mr. CA Llt eArf coincided with the reasons of the Right, )lon. Gentleman, UM' would withdraw his motion for the pre sent. Whether, in the course of the inquiry, the attendance of those persons might, be necessary or not, was more than any - Colonel BARRY said, his reason for calling upon the House to order the attendance of Air. Kemmis was, because in the course of the examination, matter might come out which it would - be necessary for him to explain. FrOm the number of witnesses summoned, it would appear that the examination was meant to be indefinite. One Would suppose that they were go. hug to, try a Jury, because they hoe-decided in a particular way, on'an cr.dicio information. Not only that, but it might re ally be imagined that the state of the Guild of Merchants, and indeed of the whole Corporation of Dublin, was to be inquired into. If Gentlemen should institute an injuiry into the feuds of unhappy Ireland from the time of Henry IL, he could have no objection to it ; but he would not therefore lose sight of the question then before them, which was, whether the conduct of the Sheriff did, or did not, deserve the censure of the House.— As Gentlemen appeared willing to confine their examination to that point, he would beg leave to withdraw his motion. ' The motion wits then withdrawn. The'SPEAKER said, he had received a letter from the Under Sheriff of Dublin, stating his reasons fOr nut being pre sent on this day, in conformity with the summons of the House. The Clerk read the letter, in which the under.sheriff stated, that an immediate compliance with the order of the House Would be attended with a great delay of public business in the sheriff's office ; that it would occasion a cessation of the issu ing of writs ; and that many trials would be prevented front going on. The under-sheriff further alleged, that Mr. Baron INl'Clelland and Mr. Justice Vandaleur had stated to him, that, if he were obliged to attend the House, they should be neces sitated to put an end to the commission. Sir J. NEWPORT observed, that all inconvenience might be avoided, by the appointment of a second sub-sheriff. There ought to be two sub-sheriffs, and the ends of justice should not be delayed because the sheriff's, for their own convenience, chose only to appoint one. Why, he asked, had they not united in 'the appointment of a second sub.sheriff. Mr. GOULBURN said, as he felt that the necessity which arose for the attendance of one of the Sheriffs, and of the Sub- Sheriff, would be likely to create inconvenience, be had written from that House to Dublin on the subject. He called on the remaining Sheriff to appoint a Deputy, who, in the absence of the Sub-sheriff, should discharge his duty. He bad received an answer, stating the reasons which prevented the accomplish. ment of ult object. In the first place, he understood that it had always been the practice in Doblin for the two Sheriff's to agree in the appointment of the Sub-sheriff: Now, one of the Sheriffs being in attendance on the House, and one being in Dublin, an obstacle was interposed to that proceeding. An. other obstacle was, that the Sub-sheriff gave security to the amount of 20,000/., and it was not easy, on a very short notice, to find a person who would undertake so great a re. sponsihility. - On the motion of Mr. PLUNKETT, the sub•sheriff was, pro tempore, discharged front his attendance. Su F. HUHU:TT moved the order of the day, for the Ilouse resolving into a Committee of the whole House to in quire into the conduct of the sheriff of Dublin. Before the SPUAKER left the Chair the lion. Baronet ex. pressed a wish that the particular days for pursuing the in quiry should now be named; and he proposed Monday, Wed nesday, and Friday. Mr. CA LCRAt"I` was apprehensive that such an arrnage. event would interfere with much important business. The CANCELLOR of the EXCLIEQUEIt expressed a si. eviler opinion. Sir F. BURDETT was willing that Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday should h© the days. Mr. TIERNEY said, the usual practice had been for the House at its rising, to declare when th e i nqu i ry s h ou ld b e renewed.—The House then resolved itself into u Committte ; Sir ROBERT iiE RON in the Chair. Sir F. BURDETT said that, having brought this business to the present point, having placed it in a course of investigation, .he would now leave it in .the bands of the Gentlemen of Ire. land, who were more immediately concerned in the conduct and issue of this proceeding. Mr. CA LC RA FT suggested whether it would be proper that the witnesses in the gallery should withdraw. After a few words from Colonel nanny, this suggestion was agreed to; and the Chairman directed the sergeant to cause all the witnesses to leave the gallery. Lord MILTON inquired whether the Sheriff, whose con duct was to be inquired into, but who would of course be exa mined, should be subjected to this exclusion ? Mr. W. WYNN was of opinion that the sherifFshould be sufferedto remain, for the purpose of learning how the evidence affected him. After a few words from Mr. F. Lewis, Mr. W. Wynn, N. Calvert, IVII. Larnbtort, and Colonel Barry, it was agreed , that the sheriff' should not be excluded. The Clerk then read the entry on the journals of the proceed ings in the flonse, of Commons on the 15th and 22d of April, relative to the proceedings of the Attorney-General for Ireland. By the CllAlRMAN.—Sergeant, inquire whether Benjamin Richy, Clerk of the Crown for Ireland, is in attendance? • The Sergeant signified that he was ; and was immediately de sired to call him in. The witness was then placed at the bar. By thee,' At AMA N.--What is your name ?--Benjamin Rich y. Are you Clerk of the Crown for Ireland ?—I hold that office. By Sir .1. NEWPOILT.—}Iow many years have you exe cuted the office of clerk of the Crown for Ireland ?—Nearly 30 years. Have you brought with you any documents by which you can ascertain the state of' the panels of the grand jury of Dub. lin for some years past ?—I have. Have you brought with you the return of the panel of the commission grand jury of Bablin, in the years 1818, 1820, 1821, and 1822 ?—f have, with the exception of the panel of February, 1820. • How comes that panel not to be forthcoming ?—(The witness was understood to answer, that the death of his clerk prevented him from producing it.) By Sir J. NEWPORT.—As the questions I am about to ask relate to the state of those panels, it is best that the witness should have them in his hand. Can the witness, by examining those panels, state the num. bar of collimators on each of them ?—I am, to the best of my judgment ; 1 have already compared the panels with the list of the corporation. The question which I have asked the witness is confined to the commission grand juries. Are there not other grand juries empannelled in Dublin. ?—There are. What are the duties of each P—The commission - grand juries dispose of indictments, the term grand juries attend to presentments.. Ca'n you state; of your own.knowledge and observation, what is the respective number of corporators empannrlled on the Commission and term grand juries ?—Many of the commission grand jury are members of the corporation of Dublin. „I do not attend the quarter session court, and therefore I know no thing of the term grand jury. Are the commission grand jury composed of the same mint ber of corporators, so far as you know, as the term grand jury —I apprehend not. Who are the persons connected with the Corporanon that are generally . empanelled on grand juries, besides common council men ?—They are aldermen and sheriff's peers. ,• What is the meaning ofa sheriff's peer ?—Sheriff"s peers are persons who have either served the office or sheriff, or who have fined for not having served it. Am 1 to understand that the members of common council are a different body from the sheriff's peers and aldermen P— Yes. How are the common council elected ?—By the members of the different guilds. How many ti the guild of merchants return ?—Thirty.two. The others return different numbers. Does any other guild return so many as the guild of mer chants ?—.No. The election is annual ?—lt is. Has the witness any statement made out from the panels by which he can ascertain the number of corporators on the