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irl t w\ ) , T - 4 I } , i llf)Jr(r . ~, Fr _ 77 -g I LA =e, /21v vi a/fry /0‘4,4,„ N VIWIBER 9603. JOURNAL of MARK BRAMBLE, ESQ. OF BRECKNOCKSHIRE, DURING A SHORT VISIT TO LONDON IN THE SPRING or 1823. Monday, 28th April. Walked from Park-lane to Somerset House, did not ob serve a public clock the whole of the way, excepting that of St. James's Palace; I am told that it has hours and hands, but they are not visible. The steeple Sin London are extreme ly bashful, they avoid the public gaze, and retire into the bye lanes. A hundred public clocks at least are wanted in this city. What a shame that. Charing Cross should be left without that necessary monitor. It is supposed that the hackney coachmen are at the bottom of the business, as public clocks would serve to detect their extortions. THEATRE OF ANATOMY, Blenheim-street, Great Marlborough-street. HE SUMMER COURS E of LECTURES 1 on ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, and SURGERY, will betomm e nced on MONDAY, the 9th of June, at Seven o'Clock in the Morning, by JOSI-WA. BROOKES, F.R.S. F.L.S. Soc. Cues. Nat. Cur. Mosq. Soc. &c. &c. The inconvenience usually ding Anatom gations are countetac red hy an atten Antiseptic Processical- Investi. RDASI AND LONDON STEAM PACKET. THE ItOT Public are respectfully informed the KING OF THE NETHERLANDS, Captain N. B. BULL, has resumed her Station for the conveyance of Pas vngers, Carriages, and Luf.tgage, and will proceed from off the • Citstom-bottse for ROTTERDAM, on SATURDAY MORNING NEXT, at Eight o'Clock, and on each 'succeeding Saturday from the same place, returning from Rotterdam every Wednesday morning. This beautiful vessel is elegantly fitted up for the convenience and comfort of Passengers, and has private Cabins for Families and Parties. - For further particulars and to secure places, application to be made at the General Packet °dice, 357, Strand t No. 12.Rtgent-street, Pall-Mall, or to N. W. Symonds, 37, Crotched Friars• JOSEPH NOLLERENS, Esel..ll.A. DECEASED ALL P e rsons having any Claim or Demands on the Estate and Effects of, the Deceased, or having any Deeds. Writings, or Papers, whatever, in their Posses lion, relating to his Property, are requested to give informa tion of the same, sealed up, and directed to the ExecutMrs, at his late Dwelling•house, No. 9, Mortimer. street, Caven dish-square, London j with as little delay as possible. Dated this 3d day of June, 1623. GARDEN AND PORTABLE GREEN-HOUSE ENGINES. RBAKER nncl SON respectfully acquaint . the Public, they hare manufactured a large assort ment of Engines, on ililferent Principles, and of various sizes and shapes, to water Gardens and Gteen houses, or to extinguish Fire ; likewise Garden Rollers, Syringes, Insect Destroyers, and Gardeners' Tools, together with Agricultural and Domestic Machines of every description. To he seen at their l'alsent Mangle Manufactory, 65, Fore street, Cripplegate, and 309, Oxford-street, three doors front Bond-street. Old Garden Engines repaired or exchanged. SELECT ARTICLES, Prepared and Sold by Messrs. BUTLER. Chemists, No. 4, Cheapside, St. Paul's, 220, Regent - street ( n ear the Ar gy le Rooms), Lon. don ; IVaterloo- place, Edinburgh ; and Sackville- street, Dub. lin : FLUID EXTRACT of SARSAPARILLA. (Simple and Compound). for mabing the ecoctions, and rticulatly suggested to the Faculty for i t s portable conve p ni a ence and econmoy. APERIENT SODAIC POWDERS, forming an agreeable Draught, and at the same time acting #s a mild and pleasant Laxative, relieving -. Heartburn, Bile, Indigestion, Nausea, Acidity in the Stomach, and for col recting excesses of the Table, &c. CITRATED KALI, for making Saline Draughts, recom. mended by the Profession for its convenience, as more certain in its operation than those prepared with Lemon. CARDIAC TINCTURE of TURKEY RHUBARB, a warm and jeasant Laxative,•adapted to Gusty Constitutions. STOMACHIC BITTER TINCTURE; a very agreeable Tonic, recommended in Indigestion, Debility of the Sto. mach, &c. COMPOUND TINCTURE of POMEGRANATE, as an Astringent much used in Affections of the Bowels, indicat. Ang Relaxation, Diarrhcea,Zz.c. EFFLORESCENT EPSOM SALTS; 'the disagreeable fla vour which accompanies Epsom salts is greatly obviated in• this preparation, besides which, only half the quantity is re quired for the dose. In bottles, at Is tid. and ss. 6d. This preparation, if brought into general use, will prevent the possibility of accidents by Oxalic Acid, which have been so frequent and fatal. * * *The above Preparations. when Genuine, .will have Messrs. BUTLER'S Name and Address attached to them. LONDON REPOSITORY for the CABINET MAKERS' SOCIETY, for every Description of CABINET FURNI TURE, FEATHER Co rne r MATTRESS MANU FACTORY, No. 71, of LEADENHALL STREET,. London, opposite Aldgate Pump.-Read- Money Only.. rirtlE Society of Cabinet. Makers respectfully 1 inform the Public that they still continue the above Establishment, for the Benefit of Industrious Mechanics who have large Familea, by offering them Manufactured Articles in the Cabinet Line, of the best Workmanship, and Cheaper than any House can do in London by twenty-five per cent., there being no other profit required on the Goods but the bare house expences ; at the same time will he sufficiently satisfied with having constant Employment for themselves and families. This Society was Established in June, 1821, consisting of 20 Mechanics, adding the number of their Wives and Fami lies, amounted to 66; in June, 1819, five more were added to the Society ; in June, 1820, 10 ; and in June 1821, 8. The total Number now receiving Support through the Means of this Establishment is 191. • The Society and their Families beg leave to return their sinoere thanks to those Ladies and Gentlemen who have hitherto honoured them with their Orders and Recommenda tions, and shall always feel happy in their endeavours to give future satisfaction ; at the same time solicit a Continuanee of their Benevolence, whereby they may be enabled to increase , the Number of the Society. The following Articles are inserted as a Specimen of the Very Low Prices, all warranted.-Ready Money only. Full size Mahogany four-post Bedstead, lath bottom 31. 15s. -Full size tent Bedstead 11.65.--Bordered hair Mattress to fit 11. Is.-Mahogany Drawer, solid ends 31. 35.-Feather Bed 21. 10s.-Ditto, free from dust and smell, full size 31. 10s.- Six japanned Chairs of any description in oil 11. 65.-Best do. Wash-hand.stand 165.-Ditto, Dressing Table 165.-Hearth Ruipm 145.-3 ft. 6 inches Chest of Drawers 41. 45.-'Three-foot mahogany Pembroke Table 11. 18s.-Three-ibot ditto on lays and claws 31. 165.-Alahogany Dressing Table 11.-Dltto Bidett, best 11..45.-Ditto Bedsteps 11. Bs.-Ditto ditto 11. 12s. -Ditto ditto 21. 2s -Ditto Box Glass, 2 drawers, best British Plate 155.-Ditto ditto Is. N.-Ditto ditto 11. IN.-Ditto Swing Glass, large size, commode 35.-Ditto ditto 5 5.-Ditto ditto IN.-Ditto ditto 125.-Sea Bed and Pillow ss. 6d.-Ditto ditto 65.-Ditto ditto 75.-Tray Stand 75.-Long Mahogany Tray 145.-Japanned Book Shelf 75.-Tea Caddy 10s.-Porta. ble Desk 21a.-Desk covers in number 148.-Music Chairs any pattern Bs. 6d.--Eight Mahogany Chairs, covered with horse hair, brass nailed 81. 65.-8 ditto ditto 61. 155.-8 ditto ditto 71. 75.-t1 Trafalgar ditto 91.95.--Mahogany Sofa to match 71. 10s.-Ditto Couch 71. 10s.-Ditto ditto 81.103-Ditto, w ith Bedstead 71 10s.-Set of Mahogany Card and Sofa Tables, on turned legs, banded in rose-wood 81. 155.-Set of Mahogany Tables, two Card and Sofa, on pillars and claws 121. 125.- Ditto, the best that can be made-to order or pattern 161. 10s. -Handsome 7 foot 6 ,pedestal, Sideboard, with carved back 171.-Ditto 7 foot 161-Ditto 6 foot six 151.-Set of :Dining Tables, of the last pattern, 4 foot by 10 foot 61 11.-. Ditto, 4 foot 2 by . 11 toot 6, 151.-Ditto, .4 foot 6 by 12 foot 6, 161.165.-If Spanish,, an advance of 31. ills.-Straw Palliasse 11. Is.-Tent Bedstead and furniture 31. 15.-Bamboo Bed. stead and French elyptic top, with drapery and fringe, 111. 10s. -Five,foot mahogany four-post Bedstead and furniture, with French draperies, lined all through, „complete, 151. 10s.- Five-foot ditto ditto 16s. 10s.-Ditto with cornice, of a superior make, 181 . 10 s. - Ditto ditto , wit h gold cornice, ele gant drapery, 201.-Drawing-room Curtains, of the best Mo. rise and Chintz, fitted for window, 61. 61-Ditto ditto 71. 7s. e-Ditto, of , a superior and elegant style of work, 101. 108.- Drawing-room rose.wood-Drawing.room Trafalgar Chairs Ditto, inlaid with buhl. 201.-Table, 2 Covers, and Sofa, JUL IN.-Ditto 11. ls.-Drawing-roorn Sofa 61. 65.-Ditto, 71. 7s. -Ditto 81. Bs.-Honse-hair Cushions, each ss. 6d.-Covered ditto 41. W. TITURNELL, Agent. COUNTRY DEALERS SUPPLIED. Goods packed free of expence, except the materials, and sent to all parts of Great Britain, and to the East and West In dies.-Captains fitted out, and merchants supplied with Ca. binet Goods for Exportation. *,,,* Apartments Furnished at a few hours' notice, and Houses two or four days. Tuesday 29• Called at a shop in Piccadilly to buy 501. worth of lace for my niece, who is going to be married; but left the shop.without making any purchase, when I found that a chair was not allowed for the customers to sit down upon. This is my lead ing grievance in London: I have trained my neighbours at Abergaveny pretty well on this point ; but London is too large a school for my discipline to work upon. I have made a rule, however, never to deal at any shop where this revolting piece of impudence is practised. Mem.—This trick found out since I was last in town. lam told it is settled amongst shopkeepers to set their faces against leaving chairs for the gentlefolks to sit down upon and loiter in the shops. Mern.—To leave any . shop immediately which has notchairs, and to avoid dealing with all persons who use the phrase " set my face against, or made up my mind against, any thing." This language is used to cover a worthless character by a show of decision. , • llrednaday, 30. Received a letter to-day from my neighbour Fidget, desiring me to send him down half a dozen of beau traps to set in his pleasure grounds. He says he can't keep Captain O'Toole and Lieutenant MbOillicuddy out of his premises—was laughed at by my farm ing implement maker in Oxford -street, who said I might have a dozen of them for nothing after the first heavy shower. Don't like to be laughed at ; so I have made no further inquiries on the subject. Thursday, May 1. A fine sunny day, was tempted to walk to Kensington Gardens. Alem.—Not a bench or seat of any kind the whole of that way. I suppose they have " set their faces against it." Entered into conversation with a French gentleman ; he told me " if they had such a Park near Paris, there would be chairs and benches in all directions, particularly under the trees, and tables laid with ices, lemona de, and refreshments of all kinds ; was provoked to think that foreigners, particularly Frenchmen, should understand public accommodation so much better than we do in England. Obliged to allow that nothing can be more tasteless or worse laid out than the whole Park, taken together. If I was the King, I would not sleep a night in the blue smoke of Carlton Palace, when I could breathe the fine clear air of Kensington. Besides, at that distance from town, he would be relieved from giving audience to so many important blockheads. Took an evening walk from Ctunberland Gate to Hyde Park-corner. Saw a great crowd in Rotten-row : asked if any thing had happened ? It looked like the meeting of two fune rals. Was told that was the usual airing before dinner.— Looked at niy watch and found it was half-past six. • Mem.—To send an excuse to Lord N. in Grosvenor.square, where I am engaged to dinner for to-morrow. • Friday, .211 - my Bought a dozen pairof stockings, marked only Is. &l a pair —thought I bad made a great bargain, but found they did not stand the first washing. Sorry to find that thousands of people are bred up in England to the making and vending of these fraudulent articles in all branches. I intend to set up my steward's son in the Burlington Arcade, in the fancy line; shall insist on his offering his goods at the highest prices for ready money.—This is the way never to sell a bad article. At present we pass with foreigners not only as la -nation boutiquiere, but as la nation viviiisante. In truth, our law priced articles are all so Many frauds, and the English character abroad has suffered in consequence. Found out to-day a trick of the butchers, to put in a piece of vile carrion along with a fair joint; " the two, they say, i4o to dether." —I have left five butchers on account of this impu ent attempt. A fine woman is a pleasing object ; but if she must be ac companied by a typhous fever, some doubt might arise on the whole transaction as a desirable one. I saw some very bad fish to-day at a conceited shop in Bond , street, and expressed my surprise—was answered, " Sir, we have fish at all prices ;" the truth is, they won't sell unless they are entered ;—:was delighted to see four turbots on hands, very like the complexion of some of the old ladies from Rotten row. _ . I asked, " What's a slice of 'cod to-day ?" 2s. Rd., Sir; the price of the whole fish at the place where it is taken, as I am a sinner. _ _ In order to make a set-o&against the smell, of t h e . turbots, walked for some minutes about Mr. Deluvin's shop, at the cor ner of Stafford-stmt.—My perfumery is not a heavy expence, as this Is the only treat I ever take in that way. Met Lord M. in St. James's-street, after 1 had sent my 'ex cuse for dinner. Recollected he was a great admirer of Horace, and made a quotation' from that author, which got me out of the scrape tolerably Quam due seguta• dus ariutore timenti ye niam.' Saturday, May 3. Called at a bookseller's shop, and asked for Horace Del phini.—Horace, Horace ! we have Horace Walpole, but no other author of that name. I acknowledged he was a very entertaining writer, but said I wanted a work somewhat more old-fashioned. As to that, Sir we have some, but of the newest fashion. My friend, I replied, you ought to be bred a man-milliner. Have you Cicero de Republica, which I assure you is quite a new work, and a very curious one? Was answered with a look of re proof—Sir, I never admit into my collection any republican or radical work whatever. Have you any books of natural history ? Not that I know of, Sir. What, not Cuvier's Theory of the Earth, that has made so much noise here and in France ? Why, Sir, to tell you the truth, we set our face against them their theories, and have made up our mind against them. At these unlucky ex pressions I ignited immediately, and exploded through the shop door with the utmo s t r a pid i ty. E x t en d e d m y wa lk through the Park on the Hannersnuth.road. , Could wish that the author of the elegant letters to Julia had for a moment dipt his pen in gall, to punish the contempt of public feeling exhibited in the Park. It is no answer, " That you can sit down 'in Kensington gardens." Many elderly persons, females, and children, have three miles to walk before they can reach a scat in those gar dens. But the poor pedestrians are not merely left unprovided with any accommodation ; there is, at the very entrance of the Park, an evident design to get them into a scrape, which has unfortunately too often succeeded. The rail is continued to the iron gate, instead of having an open through which there might be an escape into the foot way. This is a purposed and truly odious contrivance. A little way on is a rill of the purest water, crossing from the fotintain on the Brompton-road, and r u n n ing along the foot way. Sat down on the grass, and tasted the wat e r, which was delicious. My companion was amused with my discovery of a very unexpected vessel for drinking it out of ; most opportunely the bottom of a glass bottle hove in sight. This hollow cone was from the collection of some Perpistus Caupo, who had bottled his wine 16 to the dozen. I have heard this proportion boasted of in my younger days at the Christopher Inn, in Eton, as a very honest one. Pursued my walk on the Hammersmith road, and, in default of seats, rested for a few minutes at the Black Swan and the Red Lion, and would have stopped at the Blue Bear if there had been such a signal of hospitality on my way. Universal complaints on. the suppression of the Fairs lately en finced. by the Magistrates. Brook-green Fair, on May-day and two days following, was an'annual festivity to that whole quarter. 1 1 17,.s very angry to find the amusements of the people for. „k 4 filif '''' - ' • 'v I 4, _,-.7,4‘,.•14„,,,,, 1 , ' . A.: ; .:1 - .._ s,a. v-,, , , ..../. _ -,,.. `4ll-19,eig1:--., WEDNESDAY; JUNE 4, 1823. bidden in this ill-natured niann er.—Make it a point to encourage the Fairs near Abergaveny as much as possible. There is something more than pleasure meant in these Fairs, —the little shops and public-houses look to them for — the profits of business to pay their rents ; and I must say, as a Magistrate, that if Government put these, people under various charges for excise licences, assessed taxes, &c. they ought on the other hand to leave ttteni an opportunity of mak. ing head against there outgoings, by the usual profits of their business. But the people of England are too much devoted to gaiety ; they tare volatile and frolicksome, and require to be brought to a serious way of thinking. Agabist this position there is at least prima ,brie evidence; as far as phisiognomy can be trusted, my countrymen must be set down for a very drab coloured creation. _ There is probably less pleasure in London, proportion of extent regarded, than any city in Europe; and the reason is, that cheerfulness and sincerity are not in the nature of the peo ple. Their minds are enamelled against all such sensations. The matter is not mended when those good folks run down in breathless haste to Bath, Cheltenham, Leamington, Brighton, Ramsgate, Margate. Its prominent leur ennui, as the rench say—the smoke and fog and cares of London seem to have sat on the dickey the whole of the -journey, and to claim their em pire on the minds of travellers. The fact is, that amusements have not x , l t.) stand upon at those celebrated watering and water-drinking places—such things are viewed with suspicion, as trenching on the dignity of man, and speedk give way to moral retisctions and thumb twisting. The bench of Magistrates, it is said, having been rather unsuccessful lately in making discoveries, set to work in earnest, and found out all at once "that all the fairs within ten miles of the capital were illegal." Adieu the annual long expected humours of West End, Brook Green, Parsons Green, and many other Greens, where this pleasure-loving people u ere wont to sacrifice to gaiety and dissipation, where the beaux of the hamlet had meditated for their sweethearts the sentimental treats of blite ruin, ;brown stout, merry-go-rounds, and gingerbread in all shapes. I recollect reading in the Letters of Voiture of some persons in his time, 1 believe they were Magistrates, who, as he said, would have taken the Spring out of the year, and youth out of human life, if they had their will. Some of these persons came over to this country on the revocation of the edict of Nantes, and their descendants have in some instances had talents suffi cient to raise them to the Bench of Justices in Middlesex and Surrey. It is to be regretted that persons who thus devote themselves to the public welfare, should experience such a mortification as appears to be prepared for these worthy Benchers.—Turtle, it seems, cannot be obtained in future at the Taverns at a less price than five shillings a pound. Clem.--To support the gas light petition for Aberg.aveny and Brecknock, the lighting of the Hammersmith and Turnbani. green Road is magnificent. The public pumps are also a noble institution. It strikes me that rather too high a compliment is paid to the dust in devoting the whole supply of water to that service.— Human uses might claim some share of that common gift of nature, but the pumps are all chained up ; the Gentlemen of the Hammersmith Trust no doubt must be right, and Cicero in his Officia is wrong, when.he mentions " aquam exputeo" as one of the indisputable natural rights. MARK BRAMBLE e > 1 . 14 1 r ~..., j N 4 . 0 SCOTCH II EPRESENTAT 10 N. LISTS OF THE MAJORITY AND MINORITY ON LORD ARCHIBALD HAMILTON'S MOTION, For Reforming the Representation of Scotland. MAJORITY. Acland, Sir T. D. Don, Sir A. Oxmantown, Lord AlexAnder, J. Dowdeswell, J. E. Palmerston Lord Ancram, Earl of Ellis, C. H. Porchcr, Ashurst, W.II . East; Sir H. Palk, Sir L. Arbuthnot,Rt Hon. Ellis, T. Plummer, John C.. • Effrton, W. Peel, S`'. V. AttwoOd s . B.f. FeHowls, .W. H. Peel,, Bt. Hon.. R. Astley,' Sir J. W. Fremanth . , W. riillimore, J. 13erestord, Lord G. Forbes, C. Powell, E. W. Brogdeu, J. Gilbert, D. G. Price, R. Bruce, Robert Gladstone, Y. Penruddock, J. 11. Bastard, J. Gifford, Si r H. • Pennant, G. H. D. Bond, S. Grant, 0. Al. Plunkett, Rt. Hon. Brecknock, Earl of Grant, A. C. W. Hendrick, Lord F. Graves, L or d Rogers, Ed. Blaekburne, J. Gordon, non. R. Itobinson,Rtlln.l'. Blair, J. Goulburn,R dint!. Ross, C. Binning, Lord Hartop, ci. Robertson, A. Browne,Rt.llon.D. Huls e, Sir C. Bose, Sir 0. Baker, T. II ernes, J. C. Rowley, Sir Josias Buchanan, John Huskisson,Rt.llou. Somerset , Lord G. Browne, J. W. Sbaw, Sir H. Bathurst, Hon. 0. Horton, It. W. Salyut, W. Burgh, Sir U. Holdsworth, T. Sumner, G. H. Barry,Rt.Hn.J.M. Hope, Si,. w, J. Shelley, Sir John Brydges, Sir J. Handley H enr y Bankes, Henry Heber, ft, Stewart, Sir John Bankes, W. J. Harding ; sir H. Smith, C. It Cartwright, W. R. Holmes ' W. Seymour, H. Tremayne, J. N. Chaplin, C. Jolliffe,o. H. Thompson, Ald. Cumming, Geo. Kruitchbull, Sir E. Twiss , Horace Cust, Hon. P. king, H o n. 11, Townshend, Hn. II . Cholmeley, Sir M. - King, Sir ,j, D. Thompson, W. L. Cranborne, Visa. Knox, Hon. T. • `.Codway, J. P. Calvert, J. heck, (4. A. L. Valietort, Vise. Cooper, R. B Lowther, J. . Vivian, Sir H. Cotterell, Sir J. Lamb, Hon. W. Upton, Hon. A. P. Cust, Hon. E. Long,ltt.lln.SirC. Wortley , J. S. Chetwynd, 0. Lowther, Hn. H.C. Wodehouse, Ed. Courtenay, W. Lowther, Vi se . Wyndham, W. w. Crosbie, „I. Lovaine, Lord Wodehouse, Hn. 414 Campbell, A. Lushington, 11. Wood, CoI. Canning, Rt. Hn.(l. Martin, ft. . Wilson, Ic h W. C. Courtenay, T. P. Montgomery, J. Wilson,aWomas Douglas, W. R. K. Manners Lord C. Wilson, Sir Henry Douglas, J. Monteith', H. Wynn, Rt. lion. C. Deerhurst, Visct. Musgrave, Sir P. Wallace, Rt.Hn. T. Daly, J. 31acnaughten,E.A. Warren, C. Drake, T. T. Manning, W. Wemyss, J. Davenport, D. Martin, Sir T. B. Walker, Josh. Downie, R. - Manners, Lord It. Wellesley, R. Drummond, 11. Nolan, 111. Wilbraham, E. 13. Duntlas,Rt.lln.W. Nort_licy, W. TELLERS. baiiiniPle, Naftali, Sir G. Ihinlop, J. Osborne, Sir J. Clerk, Sir G. Dom ville, Sir C. Om nianey, Sir F. Rae, Rt. Hn. SirW, MINORITY Abercrotnby,Hn.J. Grattan, J. Powlett, Hon. J. F. Althorp, Visct. Orenfell, P. Poynta, W. S. Anson, Sir G. Guise, Sir W. Itainsden, J. C. Baring, H. Gurney, Hudson Rice, 'l'. S. Barnard, Viscount Ileathcote, Sir G. Ricardo, D. Be'grave, Vise. Heron, Sir ft. Ridley, Sir 31. W. Bennet, Hon. H. G. Hobhouse, J. C. R o t airt ,, , A. W. Bentinck, Lord W. , Hume, J. Robarts, 0. J. Benyun, Benj. I furst, R. Ittirobtild, C. E. Bernal, Ralph James, W. Ritssell, Lord J. Birch, J. , J ervo i a e, G. P. Russell, It. G. Boughton, Sir R. Xing, Sir J. D. Itobinson,Sir G. Browne, Dom. hemp, T.'ll. Scarlett, J. Buxton, T. F. Langston, J. H. Scott, J. Calcraft, J. Lawley, F. Sefton, Earl of Calcraft, J. H. Lennarti, T. B. south, J. Calvert, N. Lushington, S. Smith, lion. Rt. Carter, John Leader, W. Smith., W. Cavendish, lal. G. Maberly, J. Smith, R. Cavendish, H. ' 31aberly, W. L. Stanley, Lord Corbett, Penton 31‘Intosh, Sir .1. Stewart, - W. (Ty.) Chaluner, Robert Marjoribanks, S. Syk es D . Clifton, Viscoune. 31aryst, Jos. T a lb o t, E. W. Colborne, N. It. Martin"). T ay l or, 111. A. Creevey, Thos. Maxwell, J. Tennyson, G. Crompton, Sam. Milbank, M. 'Tierney, Rt. Iln.G. Cradock, S. 31ilton,Viscount Titcb field, Marg. Davies, S. ' Aloore„ . Peter Townshentl, lA. C. Denison, W. J. Mostyn, Sir Thos. Tulk, C. A. Denman, Thos. Neville, lion. R. Webbe, E. `Duncsmion, Visct. Newman, R. W. Whitbread, S. C. Ebrington, Visct. Newport,' Sir J. White, Luke Ellice, Ed. Nonnanby, Visct. ' White, Colonel Ellis, lion. G. A. Nugent, Lord Whitmore, W. w Evans, William O'Callaghan, J. Williams, ,1. Forgusson,Sirß.C. Ord, Wm. Williams, W. Folkestone, Viact. Palmer, C. Wood, Alderman Frankland, It. Paltrier C. F. TELLER& Glenotchy, Visct: Pares, T. Hamilton, Lord A. Grant, J. P. Pelham, J. C. Kennedy, T. F. PA RLIAM ENT, HOUSE OF LORDS , JUNE 3. Lord. CALTHORPE prevented It petition from certain indi viduals against the Ely Braina,, , re Bill. His Lordship thought the Bill ought to be recommitted, hi:cans:. it did appear to him that it made a very important alteration in the system of assess ments to the Poor Rates. HAHDWICKE defended the Bill, and opposed the recommitment as unnecessary. The question of recommitment was then put, and negatived without a division. The Bill was afterwards read a third time and passed. A Messagc-from the House of Commons requested their Lordships would communicate the retarn of the number of ap peals decided in that House in each Session since May, 1813. PLACES IN REVERSION. Earl GROSVENOR stated, that it had been his intention to have submitted some measure to their Lordships on the subject of certain offices in Scotland, which, a lthou g h sinecures, were connected with others which were not sinecures: he more par ticularly alluded to the situation of Clerk of the Parliament, re- specting which he thought some regulation was necessary ; but having communicated with the Noble Earl (Liverpool), he had conceived that the whole subject had better be submitted to- a Committee: he (Earl Grosvenor) trusted that the Noble:l:ad would take aq, early opportunity of moving the appointment of the Committee. The Earl of LIVERPOOL concurred in opinion with the Noble Earl, thaethe situation of Clerk of the Parliament was a proper one to be submitted to the consideration of a Commit tee, as to its future regulation after the existing interests should have expired. That was the extent of what Ise had stated to the Noble Earl, who appeared to have somewhat misappre hended him if he applied what he (Lord Liverpool) bad said to other offices. FOREIGN WOOL. The Earl of HARE WOOD said he had some Petitions to present, which he conceived to be of some importance et the present time. The Petitioners were merchants and trianufac curers of wool In Leeds and Huddersfield, in Yorkshire, who prayed for the repeal of the duties now payable on the itn portation of Foreign Wool into this country in its raw state. At a period when a Bill had passed through Parliament, which offered such advantages to the foreign woollen manufac. turers, it certainly did not appear too much upon the part of thoie of England to claim an exemption from the payment of duties on the raw material. Foreigners, in consequence of this advantage, were enabled to expose goods, manufactured here, in foreign markets, at leas cost than ourselves, and therefore with what detriment to ourselves their Lordships might easily judge. Foreign cloth was preferred in even our own market. We were prevented from working up our native wool with the lower description of foreign wool • and though we had found out new markets for our g o o ds in 'afferent and distant parts of the world, we no longer could occupy the markets we formerly did. He understood that there remained no objection on the part of Government to - remit the tax upon the importation of wool, if our manufacturers would consent to a free trade; but lie hoped that their Lordships would not be hasty in adopting the proposal. The Earl of LIVERPOOL said, that some years ago a duty was laid on foreign wool, and it was then predicted that it would not be productive • but the contrary was the fact—the duties had risen from 250,0001. to 400,0001. per annum. 'Phis was the state of the question as it regarded revenue ; but had any injury been sustained by the woollen manufacturers ? Their Lordships would find from the returns on the table that the ex portation had increased. He admitted that with respect to some parts of Europe that was not the case, but it was very doubtful whether that could be imputed to the operation of this tax, or whether it did not, in fact, arise from those causes which had affected the agriculture of the rest of Europe as well as our own. The question then stood thus—with respect to re venue, the tax was productive: as it regarded inanufthures, it was 'not injurious. As to the justice of the tax, he would only say, that lie would be willing to give up all the advantage of the 400,0001. a year to the revenue, proviued the manufacturers agreed to the free exportation of wool ; but so long as they ob jected to that, he should not feel justified in giving up the other. He thoUght this no more than fair as it regarded the in terests of agriculture. On the question whether the wool trade should be thrown open and the tax repealed, or that it should remain as it stood, he would not now enter. The manufac turers had been fully acquainted with the views of Govern ment, and under the present circumstances he did not feel jus tified in supporting the prayer of their petition.—The petitions were read, and ordered tope on the table. _ Earl PoWIS presented a petition from Ludlow, against the Insolvent Debtors' Act. —Ordered to lie on the table: - THE MARRIAGE LAW. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY here named the order of the day, upon which their Lordships had been summoned, for this House going into a Committee on the Marriage Law Amendment Bill. The Earl of WESTMORLAND said i upon the question being put from the Woolsack, that his object in rising so early was really to save their Lordships' time. The principal clause likely to create the most opposition, was that respecting the voi. dance of marriages once solemnized; and therefore he wished to move, that it should be an instruction to the Committee to omit the voidability clause inserted in the Bill. He did ma object to that clause upon the ground of an undue extension of parental right, hut because he believed it would prove nugatory. He ob. jected to many of the provisions as altering the law of the land; and hecould not help repeating the answer that was given by the English Barons on an occasion not much unlike the present.-- They exclaimed, with united voices--Nolitinur leges 'beim mittari in former times, and their Lordships ought to hold ex• actly the same language in the present day. On what ground was it attempted to defend the Bill ? When Lord Hardwick° brought in his memorable Bill, there were great grievances to be complained of. They were about to alter the Act passed last Session, which, while providing for the improper grant. ing of licences, had enacted that marriages, when once solomnized, should stand fixed by law. It was urged that fresh guarantees were wanted for the due celebration of the marriage rites ; but if only the 102 d and 103 d Canons of the Church wore attended to, respecting licences anti maul. solemnizations, there could be no difficulty at all ; and until this was done, it was useless to make such a law as that proposed to be made. He objected to the Bill upon strict moral grounds, upon religious grounds, and upon legal grounds t and lie objected to it, lastly, as nugatory to any one beneficial end. Surely some Noble Lords .must recently have char nod their opinions. Be recollected that on a former occa sion he had for his ally in opinion no less a person than the very first Ecclesiastic in the land ; then, also, he had for another ally the Noble Earl at the head of his Majesty's Government; he had also an Ecclesiastical Judge ; and all agreed in this— that no man should put atitinder those whom God had joined by his revealed law. Were those allies then sincere in the cause he espoused with them, or was it intended to beguile the public mind into a persuasion so improper ? Again, lie had presumed that the general opinion of the House went with him, as far as the doctrine that when marriages were solemnized they never could be dissolved or voided. He had now stated so fully the opinions of those Noble Lords whom he formerly had courted as his allies, that there remained tiut little for himself to add. Was it either wise or fitting, or tending to the decorum of civilized life, to bring forward lawn opposed to the injunc tions of God ? He, therefore, put it distinctly to their Lordships bow far marriage was to be set at nought, "een as it respected the office of the Clergy, for when the second rite had been performed and the solemn benediction bud been pronounced by the officiating Priest, were the parties to lead a religious life together, or the woman to be consigned to immorality, and their offspring to degradation and beggary ? When he came to the legal part of the Bill, enacting that minors should not marry at all without the amnia of parents or of guardians, though lie agreed to the principle, yet, again, let their Lord. ships see how the present Bill was likely to work. The ob ject of the Bill implied five questions to be asked and an swered as—who was the father of a minor, what also wits the state of the mother then if the minor's own mother (say the minor a girl) were secretly married, and whether her lover's mother, tieing a widow, were married in secrecy too. Such guestimates these, which even a Judge might be unable ode. code, were, however, to be put roundly to- a young Lady "ALB of the thoughts of a husband ;" and yet her replies might in validate her own nuptials, and destroy her peace. As to con sent in marriage, with regard to parents or guardians, those who had attended to the Ecclesiastical Courts could liardiy find what the meaning of convent was. Next came the question as to age ; and here if the lady were two days older than she supposed herself to be, while her suitor was only two days younger than it had been repreEnted to him, the marriages was to become void. Again, was the tbmient of parents and guardians to be implied or written ? There was no Ito vision for the alter. ' PRICE SEIPENPENCE. native in this case. He wanted to know, also, in what state the husband was to be fixed during this temp .rary oc cu p ancy of the person of the wife. Could he buy or sell land, or could he alienate it, or make say kind of a rangern nt as to property that would afterwards be valid.by law The LORD CHANCELIA/R rose to suggest whether it was competent to the Noble Earl to move any instruction to the Committee to leave . out 'a clause. He did not recollect any instance of it. , It was of constant occurrence to move instruc tions to Committees to insert clauses ; but if it were competent to the Noble Lord to move to leave out a clause, other Noble Lords had the same right, sad might exert it, so that the House would never get into the Committee. 1 he Earl of WESTMORLAND said, if he were out of or , der, he would put himself right by opposing going into a Com mittee on the Bill. After a few words from Lord EL LENBOROU on, the Earl of • LIVERPOOL, and the LORD CHANCELLOR, The Earl of WESTMORLAND proceeded. He wished to know, if the Bank Directors allowed stock to be sold out, or if it trustee allowed an estate to be disposed of, under the autlui rity of the husband, de facto, were they to be responsible ? This was a very serious part of the question ; and if money were to be lent upon the security of such property, he believed there was no person, however learned in the law, who could state what would be the event of it.. That the clause woOld be nugatory for all good purposes, would be obvious when-their Lordshi , is recollected that there were steam-boats to Scotland and to Prance, and that a secret marriage by bans night easily be effected. If the husband desired to be legally married, he. had nothing to do but to be married over agem. as he had the possession of the person of his wife, and might take htr where he pleased. This clause In its operation had been compared to offences against the State; but in high teason the mercy ,of the Sovereign could interpose and mitigate the sentence of the law, and restore the forfeited estates; but the penalties by this clause were irrevocable. For these reasons he should oppose the House going into a Committee, Lord ELI.ENBOROUGH hoped the Noble Lord would not divide the House upon the question of going into the Corn mittee. The Earl of WESTM 0 RLA ND acquiesced. After a few worth from Lord POWERSCPURT, the question was put, and the House resolved itself into a Committee. On the clause for allowing the - Bishop, with the consent of the patron and incumbent, to authorize the publication of bans in any public chapel, The Bishop of CHESTER objected that the necessity of the content of the patron and incumbent being obtained, would, he apprehended, render the clause Inoperative. He, therefore, proposed they should be left out. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY defended the clause; as necessary for preserving the rights of the patron and inctum. bent. After a few words from Lord Hartnowny, Lord REDES. DALE, and Lord ELL}:Nsottouoit, the clause was agreed to without amendment. The clauses next In succession were then read, and, with some trifling amendments agreed to, until that relating to the " voidability of marriages fur want of consent of the fa ther by suit to be commenced within twelve months," was proposed. The Archbishop of YORK said, that after the fullest consi deration, he had seen no ground for altering the opinien which he had expressed last year, that bona fide marriages once so lemnized should not be voidable in consequence of involuntary informalitiea.. In the first part of the Marriage service parties were called upon to state whether they knew of any cause or just impediment why they should not b e joined together. This question once answered conscientiously, and the ceremony com pleted, they came within the ~scope of the declaration of our Saviour, " 'What God bath joined, let not man put asunder." lie objected to the clause, however, not solely upon religious grounds, but because he conceived its operation would be in jurious to society. It would encourage the seduction of inno. cent females, and would act besides with unrelenting severity towards them and their parents ; for be could not conceive a case in which, after marriage had been completed, the parent of a female could wish it to be annulled. And what would be the situation of parties in boa/vide marriages ? They wo u ld be compelled to remain a whole year in uncertainly, net knowing whether their marriage might not be broken. Ile was aware also, that the other course was attended with inconvenience, and he would have supported any proposition tending to in crease the difficulties of secret Marriages; but painful as it was to object to a Bill which had met with the support of a most Reverend Prelate, be felt that he should not do his duty if he did not oppose that particular clause.- The Earl of ROSSLYN suggested that the discussion on that clause should be adjourned to Thursday next, in order that the subject might meet with all the attention which it deserved. The Earl of LIVERPOOL could not see the necessity of delay, especially after so long a notice had been given to their Lordships that the Bill would be committed that night. The Bishop of CIIEST.ER opposed the clause. Marriage 14 a civil and religious contract, which could only be an.. nulled by the crime of adultery. The law of the land decretei that marriage should be aolemmzed in Church, in order to give it notoriety and security; and all were hound to obey that law, when it was not opposed to the law of God. If it were, then the law of God was to be obeyed,.and net the law of man. The clause proposed appeared to him contrary to the spirit and tenour of the Christian faith. Our Divine Legiaater had said that a man should leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife: would it not be monstrous that after parties had gone to church—=had received the benediction, and been declared in the name of God to be but one, it should on the will or the caprice of a third person—a parent or a guardian, to put theni, asunder ? Let the avenues of the church be closely guarded.; let severe pains and penalties be inflicted, but let not the Legis lature go so far as to say to those who have been married in the House of God, that their marriage was dissolved. Much had been said of a father's feelings, or rather of the wounded feel.: ings of avarice and pride, but there were other feelings too— the feelings of a ruined female and of bastardized children : Which should weigh most in the balance ? He had therefore been astonished when it had been proposed to intrecluce such a clause into the bill. It was one that would do no honour to its Legislature, and ought not to be sanctioned by . a Christian. assembly. No one was less disposed than • himself to wound the feelings of others, but he should fail in his duty if he did not express his real opinion, and refuse to give his vote to put asunder those whom God had joined. The LORD CHANCELLOi contended, that if the argn meats of the Rev. Prelate could be supported by religion or law, all that had been clone since the pairing of Lord Ilardwicke's Act in 1756, had been contrary tp the laws of God, and there.* fore of no value. Bow could the Rev. Prelate suppose it pcis sible for society to exist under such a principle. 'With respect to the operation of the clause, the question was not that two should put asunder those whom God had joined, but that it should be ascertained whom it was that God hail joined. There was nothing in the Old or New Testament that said what should make marriage valid; and all nations were left to frame the regulations under whith it should be contracted. requested, he desired, the Rev. Prelate, for whom he enter tained the sincerest regard, to consider the infinite danger with which his doctrine was attended ; fur, consistently with it, no marriage contracted since 1756, could be valid. Every Noble Lord who had spoken, had done so with Can and tenderness towards the female party ; he wished that a little tenderness euould,also be shown towards the male. Let it be supposed that a widow of 32, the daughter of a brieklayer, with seven or eight children, should have sedneed a 'young titan of 17, or mily and fortune, into a marriage with her, was not that a eaee which would require consideration i• The Bishop of CHESTEI N t and the Loan CHACELLOR mutually explained. • The Earl of LIVERPOOL had given the fullest consi. deration to the subject, and remained of the same opinion which he entertained last year, that it was inexpedient to ren. der marriages which bad been once solemnized, voidable. His objection to the clause was not on the ground of religion bur of morality ; for though marriage was the institution of tied, yet it had been left to man in eve!) , particular country to pre scribe its forms. These, he conceived, should not be rendered toooice, he ti let three b low ro di et il ch diff i cu l t, e t issyp a t n , h tb en i iiitihi se c Fier. viewc. on i i i p t ea rl Tloenktoretocotirtn(ii,akt. to ey a , of annulling solemnized marrieges altogether. There were two ways in which it could be done, by nullity, or midi,- billty. Nullity was the clearer and the better mode. But he knew how the present clause had originated. The Noble Lords in the Committee had felt themselves pressed be tween- two difficulties, and had adopted a third principle of comprinnise, which, as it usually happened in such cases was the worst of the three. For would it not be most pre. pOsterous that parties should come to the altars of Hod, should take the marriage vow, and a month or two after should