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- vat . , , , NUMBEIt ,Q 075 THEATRE ROYAL, COVLNT.GARDEN. 0-1011RON"r EVENING, Feb. 29, tBt r, will b revived Shakspei.tr.!'c Tragedy of - . JLIUUS CASA R. Julius Cmsar, Mr. EGERTON ; . Oday . tus Caesar, Mr. HAM E RTON - ; Xlarc Antony, Mr. C. KF.NIIst.,E ; Lepidus, Mr. MU R RAY ; Brutus, Mr. KEM B LE ; Cassius, Mr. -YO.UN:; ; . . Casca, Mr. FAWCETT ' • • Treh.onius, Mr. BA RRYMORE ;. Decius, Mr. BRUN' s l'ON ' - - Ca;puruiEa, Mrs. ' W ST 014; s l'orcia, Mrs. POWELL. Alter whicii will be performed, frtr the 3d time, a new Mu. sicdi Firce, in Two Acts, called FROST AND THAW. With new Music, Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations. The principal Characters by Mr. SINCLAIR, Mr. EMERY, Mr. LISTON, Mr. PARLEY, Mr. BLANCHARD, Mrs. 'BISHOP, Miss FERON. ' Loxes 73. Second-price - 3s. 6d. =Pit 3s 6d. Second-price U . — Gallery zs. Second-price. IS.-Ip,ier Gallery ts. 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The daily supply required will be from po - to 6so T.nt, nod the Steam Engiete mast c;minence v).;rking within Three Hcfis` iiom the .late of the Prlosal king accepted. Furaer Pallier'Lars may be known at the Stcyetary'4 Office, 14 afoi any dity between the bout's of len 4n4 Poi , r , o'C'ea-k, where the Pt °kiwis mus t Ge delivered, sealed 2( .1) and indorsed, " Proposals for River Ballast;" but no Pre t° , a/ can 6e admived afer the said ad day of March, rwelve o'Cl,ck at Noon of the same Day; neither will any 1" "d - be not ; ce d, un l esr th e Party making it, or an Agent in . 6 1balf, shall attend. Ay Order of the 'Hoard, R. H. CREW, Sec, EN LSIRJUHN MOORE's CORUNNA PATENT C.% B E DsT A,D, forming a regular 1 , ,, i , t41 ). 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P • This Day was published, tinted in a close - but distind Type, price 4s. bound, or - Thirteen to the Dozen, • THE POOR CHILD'S LIBRARY; being a Colledion of Motal, Didatic, Economical, and Reli. tous Pieces, in Prose and Verse; consisting partly of Se. !edions from the best and most• pious Authors, partly of f rads published in a detached Form for the sane purpose, and partly of Original Pieces. By the Rev. S. BARROW, V icat of Newton, Author of Questions on the New Testa. 'merit, and other Works. This Work is intended as a Present to Children on leaving the various Chaiity and SUnday Schools, or the Schools of Lr. 13e11, and Mr. Lancaster, and is intended to render I:du ' Cation effeetive and praCtical in regard to the moral and reli. gious• Habit's of young Persons after they have lett any of those Schools. Of'course the Author has avoided doc , trinal Points, br whatever might diminish the universal W . I. lily and Acceptability of his Book. Printed for Richard Phillips, 47, Ludgate.hill, and to be had of all Booksellers. • Of whom may be had, The Author's Five Hundred Questions on the New Tes tament, being the only practical Means ever invented for 'reaching the Elements of Christianity to young Persons, price IS. "f C; Hit 1 - 1001 3 IN COL/ ;ii. A'VSTIN'S LINIMENT, ‘vhii. h - i$ an external apPlicati-n, is tiie most sate, easy, and effeaual reme dy for tins distressing complaint ; and that frequently after All other medicines have failed. The following extratt of a letter from the Lady of R. 0. Stone, Lsq. of Mayfield, in Sussex, will be a proof of its singular efficacy t— - " In November last my little girl was attacked by the Ilooping Cough, and the malady increased so rapidly, that was extremely alarmed ; but in less than a week atter I ap plied the Liniment you recommended, the Cough abated and gradually died away. By the use of one pot only a perfect cure was etleded, and the child has remained ever sulee in good health. " A. M. STONE. " Mayfield, inn. 24, 1812," Sold only by F. Newbery and Sons, No. 45, St. Paul's Church - yard, in Pots, price zs. each, Stamp I,l‘lutted. F 77 1-4 t r. - Lti RIAL ALL 1/1111E,N1. HOUSE OF PEERS. THURSDAY, FEB. 27. In a Committee of Privileges, their Lordshipsmade fan her progress in the investigation of the Claims of Sir William Jerningham to the Barony of Slraf f4d. To proceed again on Tuesday next. Seveial Bills of a private or local nature were brought up from the Commons by Sir. J. Graham and other Mernb,rsi which were severally read a first time. The Exchequer Bills Funding Bill was read a se cond time, and committed lot to-morrow. NOTTINGHAM FRAME BREAKING PREVEN- TION BILL. The Earl of LIVERPOOL moved the Order o . f the Day upon which their Lordships were summoned, which being lead ; The Noble Secretary of State obierved, that al though the circumstances which gave rise to the present measure were wyll known, yet as it contained some enaelinents. of . a , novel nature, it. was necessary he should state to the House some of those grounds upon which. he thought that it ought to pass into a law. The transactions which took place, and were still going on 10 the county of Nottingham, were pretty well known to. most of their Lordships, and he rose to state, that tio exer- . lions were wanting on the part of Government to remedy the evil, and insure the return of trimpii lily and order under the existing laws, and this he believed was the convialion of those most couvers ant on the subject, and who had opportunities of local information. It bad at length become neces sary to recur to, and express the determination of Parliament on the subject. [he Bill in question was divided into two different parts, which most un doubtedly in some respects, proceeded on different grounds. The second part - was 'introduced with a view to the detection of the offenders, which" was the principal objet?. It. went to compel individuals in whose houses frames should ne broken to give information thereof to the Magistrates, and the pro visions of- this part of the Bill were calculated as much as possible to insure dete6tion ; and it was deemed necessary to render the offences proVided against by the Bill capital. He was „aware there ex isted more difference of opinion on this than on any other point; he knew it would be urged in its dis cussion, that such en enaelment would only tend to render detetitiori more difficult, and the chance of conviaion more uncertain. To this, however, lie thought. it could be rationally objected, that the ter ror of the law would in rreany cases operate, where the apprehension of les er punishments would be found int.ifeetual. He, ter his own part, could see nu well founded objection .to try the effeets of the inea.aure which was propose-l. The chief difficulty in the present case, lie repeated, woe tilt; CitfiCility of detection under the system of the existing apelicei ble law ; and he believed at the same time, that the operating dread•ot the severer punishment would, in the present case, be attended with beneficial el feds. In addition to this, he obierved, that the ACI was proposed but as 'a temporary . ' one, and there fore the Legislature would have a future regular op portunity of revising it, on a consideration of its et feels. If it should prove inef4Ctual, they would have an opportunity of considerifithow far it would be wise or expedient to continue e. But consider ing all the circumstances of the case, the - extent, the nature, and the details of the e‘il; lie was himly of opinion the measures proposed in the Bill were the most proper for the adoption of the Legislature; and that the other House of ParliaMent were well grouuded in sending it up for the concurience of their Lordships. He would therefore move, that this Bill be now read a second time. Lord BYRON (in a first speech) decidedly opposed the measure. He was connected in . that part of the country where the scene of the disturbances lay, and had,been there lately. He was there during •the time of the alarming and delirious extent of the outrages which the Bill was proposed to suppress. But he had to observe; it was in his mind evident, that theperseverauce alone of the unhappy iudivi shewed they were driven to the commission of such offences by absolute want. One of the greatest objects of their violence was a particular species of wide frame, which enabled one man to perform the work of several*: These unhappy per sons conceived that the use . of these frames, was the cause of throwing numbers out: of enlployutent. The real causes of their distresses, however, were of a very different natuie. The singttlar species of warfare which was thought proper to be adopted for eighteen months—productive of bankrupxy, im puted fraud or conviEtion of felonies : these were the operative causes, and it was no wonder, when .such existed among better circles there. should be found these excesses among a distressed and despair ing populace. He had also to object that no pre vious inquiry should be instituted before the I,2gls lature was called upon to pass even a sentence of death. The Commission which was ordered to ye sent into theCouuty for the ptkrpose of quelling the disturbance, arrived in time to behold the wrecks which had been left, and to collect these optitha spo/ia! He felt assured, th:it if a proper investiga tion had been instituted in the earlier stages of the' disturbances, the present ineasuie would have been unnecessary, and a very different scene would have presented itsolf in that quarter, thau an idle inikary, and a starving and wretched poplace.. "They should not forger; that out of that class of .their fellow subjects, the British. navy was in,4tued, arid tkeir battles fought. These unhappy and starving manta . faCturew, he felt, had the strongest claims on the compassionate consideration of the country ; when the Portuguese sufferers were relieved by eery class al the community—by the rich man's largess and the widow's mite, so as to enable theta to to- till *lt j 0 FRIDAY; FEDRUARi 28, 1812. their gounds, and to re-build their habitations; but-the moment that thousands of their fellow sub je&s were suffering , 'under the extreme of want, he could not but' t•bink they were the preferable objeds of individull benevolence. What Government, ac cording to its own system, was to do with such mi serable and squalid wretches, under such circum stances, he, was at a loss to know. They could not commit a whole county to their own jails, neither could they fling up thousands in their fields ! .To pass sua a Bill as that now before the House, would be adding injustice to injury; it would even tend to increase the difficulties of conviction, and so judging and feeling of the measure, it should have his op position. - The question being piit ; Lord HOLLAND rose, and expressed his turpriSe, that after what had fallen from his Noble Friend, the gill should be suffered to go to a question, with out another word being offered in its defence. Af ter the speech of his Noble Friend, which was fraught with an eloquence not very usual in first speeches, he .felt at a loss to offer additional objec tions to the measure. He was 'placed, howevet; in a situation of some delicacy with respeet to the measure, `as he was the first who called the atten tion:ot .the House to the topic. - In a general view of the 6uhje&, he courd not help expressing his sur prise that Ministers'could recommen7l the adoption of such a measure as the present, as the House and the 'country were now placed in a very different si tuaCon from that in which they stood when he put the questions upon the subje&. The rejeaion of the Bill, he thought, would not be attended With such dangerous consequences 3s would arise from its adoption ; but even its rejection would not be oeattend.d with ill effeas. That the. present „Ministers should.recommend a foolish measure did not sUrpi ise bur t hat they should recommend the adeptton 'of such a measure as that now before the House, certainly excited that feeling—a - measure, the very apprehension of Which had produced some of those scenes which they had additionally to deplore. The principle of the . measure was one to which he was most aciveise but Noble Loids oppo site did not, seem sufficiently to consider the dif ference between acting from principle, and acing fron t theory and speculation ; and this want of cis • elimination actuated their language in debate; It would be found that the Bill, instead ofdimlnishing, would increase the difficulty of dete6tinn. In le gislating upon such subjects, he was decidedly of opinion they should consider the degree of injury done to the community at large. With the Noble Lords he was equally aware of the heinous and dan gerous nature of the offences in question, but it did not necessarily follow that from these premises he should draw the same 'conclusion. The fad Was, that the only difficulty in the preseht. state of the riots at Nottingham consisted in the difficulty of de t'e.dion, and it Wll3 all ulterior question whether the existing law was sufficient for adequate punishment. Paesproviiog of the.. - Bill Would, crease the difficulties of dete&iou, but instead of ex- tending the penal code with a view to remedy the evil, be thought that it would be preferable to insti tute a sort of civil process in a sounmaty way, before a Justice of the Pace, authorising the recovery of the value of the fradte, throwing the onus probandi on the person who - had been disturbecL He also thought that a judicious offer of reward to . those who should give inforMation, (but without drag ging them into,a Court of Justice against their com panions), would certainly be attended'with good ef feels. Above all, he ,was advetse to entertaining such a measure, without previous inquiry into. the real nature and causes of the disturbances; nor could its temporary duration reconcile him to the adoption of the measure. He would therefore move, as an amendment, that instead of "Now," " the Bill be read-a second time this day three months. The LORD CSIANCELLOR quitted the Woolsack, and argued briefly, but ably, in defence of the Bill. Ile pressed to the recolleolion of their - Lordships, that the Bill was brought forward with a View to prevention, to increase The punishmeiu of great and heinous offences, demonstrating themselves in a&s of violence arid outrage. With respeEt to the wis= dom and policy of the measure, a leading considera tion should be, that it was calculated for the private benefit even of those individuals-who were the ob jects of it. 'After noticing some previous interposi tions of the Legislature, on Occasions somewhat si• rnilar, he proceeded pointedly to observe, that the present was a peculiar species of offence, carried on for fifteen months without almost the possibility of detection, and on a species of plan and system al most bidding defiance to the law. Was not the preamble of the, Bill borne out by such a considera tion ? The object of the Bill was more one of pre vention than of the punishment of crimes, and which should be the first object of all relevant legis lation. With respect to the Noble Baton's idea of a civil process, he had, first, to observe, that it wa; the positive duty of the subject to give information to a Ma4istrate of any breach of the law ; with re s,4.-!Ct to oompensation in the wily of damages, it could have little or no application, as the frames were most frequently :he property of the wealthy manulaettuer, though in the immediate possession of a person of lower rank. Upon the whole he did not:consider it a very just or a very pra&icable mode of proceeding; The Bill being best calculated to meet its peculiar objects, he should earnestly recom mend its adoption to the House. Lord HOLLAND briefly explained. Th . ..t Earl of LAUDERDALE contended loudly agaiost the adoption of the measure, 'made a variety of observations its support of what fell from the Lotds at . his side of the House, and particularly argued the propriety of instituting previous in quiry. The E trl of . HAßaowaYargned in support of the Bill, and vindicated the condoct of Ministers an all the relevasat topics. He particularly deprecated the [PRICE SIXPENCE HALFPENNY. idea of not adopting a y Parliamentary measure oa the occasion; until such an inquiry as that urged by the .NO - r)le Lords opposite, should be instituted : a proceeding Which would tend to defer the interfer ence of Parliainent; ad Grcecas Calendas ! • Earl GROSiENOR, in expressing his hostility to the measure, winch he did at some length, 6tate4 his opinion, that sh o uld th e B i ll, unfortunately pass into a la* it would, instead of diminishing, extend the mischief to those parts of the 'country Where it was already beginning to appear: Speaking of the effects of the Orders in' Council, he advertt.d to what he characterised as the destructive system of licenses, Which he regarded as measures - of very in pilaus tendency. - Lord GRENVILLE veherhently opposed - the • Bill, which he censured, as inflicting the Severest punish, (tent, without defining the 'nature of the crime it professed to prevent ; and concluded by mov ing, that the discussion be adjourned for three Keeps. The Earl of LIVERPOOL explained. Lords Grenville, Grey, and Lauderdale, re urged their former objections to the Bill.; and the latter moved that the debate be adjutitned to Mon day next. A division took pike, when Lord Lauderdale's amendment was lost by a majority of 13; the num bers being, for it, 17 against it, 32. The Mil was then read a second time. Lord LAUDERDALR moved ) that tt:e Judges be desired - to attend the Committee on the 13111 ; but this motion wes negatived without ti division ; and the committal of the Bill was ordered for Monday next.—Adjourned; HOVE OF COMMON& THURSIAY, FEB. 27. DRURY-LANE THEATRU. Mr: WHITUREAD brought up the Report of the Committee On the Drury-lane Theatre Bill. 'ri.e amendments were agreed to, and the Btll was on dered to be engrossed. The Court of Chancery Clerks' Bill -*as read a second time, and ordered to be 'committed. A person from .the West India Dock Company presented the usual accounts of Ow Company, which were ordered to be laid on the table. CLAIMS OF M.IMCHANTS TRADING TO AM E- 91 ,7 "r" , ? , -* RICA. On the Motion of Mr. LOCKHART, O a MessJo was sent to the House of Lords, requzsting tie at tendance of Lords Grenville and Auckland, on it:e Committee •ot ihe House of Commons sitting uu American Claims. IRISH FINANCE CONIMITTEE. On the tootinn of Mr. W. POLE, Mr. L-slie Foster was discharged trorri his attend ince on ibis Irish Finance COLlETliltee, rind Lord Desart sub- , stauled. The Sugar Drawback Bill -was read a t'ai'l and pabseti. ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE. Mr. WILARTON presented the Estimates of the Expences of the Royal Military College, and moved that they be printed, expressing his intention of 'bringing them forward in the Committee of buppl ) , on Monday. Mr. )34btEs was desirous that an interval of eight or ten days should be allowed, in order to gr.g a►fi opportunity of considering these Estimatts. Mr. W►HARTON replied, that a large sum of mo ney having been advanced by the bt:►lder, it became necessary for him to, propose ) at least that pa►t of the Estimates on Monday. The Eitimates were.theu ordered to be printed. _ _ 'On the Motion' of Sir T. TURTON, an Account wa,, ordered to be laid before the House, of the Amotint of the Expence of the Transport Service for the Army in Portugal and Spain, from June 181 to December 181 1 . ORDERS IN COUNCIL. Mr. STANIFO lITFI presented a Petition from above one hundred Merchants of Hull, against the system of trading by licenses; and took the oppsrturtity of asking an Hon. and Learned Gentleman, whetlitr he persevered in his intention of submitting to the House a motion respe6ting the Orders in Council on Tuesday next ? Mr. BROUGHAM answered, that it Was certai:dy his intention to bring for Ward ,that Motion on Tuesday._ Mr. WHARTON obtained leave to bring in the Annual Qualification Indemnity Bill. MR. BENJAMIN WALSH. Mr. BANKES moved that the Order of the Day be read for the attendance, in h:s place, of Mr. Benja min Walsh. Mr. ABtACROMBIII wished to ask the Hon. G(.-n -tleman whether it was his intention to proceed on the subje& that evening ? 'lf so, he begged to sub- wit to his consideration that the papers which con stituted the greater part of the case, were- but that moment delivethig to the Members, and that there was still another piece of evidence •to be produecd, viz. the letter from Mr. Walsh to his brother, chat ing himself with the guilt of the recent trans:Toto.i. There was another , circumstance which he hoped would induce the Hon. Gentleman not to press the consideration of the subject at that moment, and that was, that there were several Hon. Members who, to his knowledge were desirous of express ing their sentiments upon it, but who were rib- Sent from the House, under the idea that as Thurs day's motions preceded oickrg, the motion of art Hon. Baronet ould, in the first instance, have been gone into. Mr. BANKES replied, that he came fully prepared to bring under ►he consideration of the House Lie question of Mr. Walsh's condu6t and that uuless very grave and substantial reasons were adduced, he was persuaded this was oue of the matters which tile House could fiel no disposition to postpone, Al-