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P A it 1, E N T. HOUSE OF LORDS, DEC. 30. THE ROYAL ASSENT Was declared by Commission to the New Stamp Unties Bia, th e Ith is ph t mons and Seditious Libels Prevention, the-Bakers' Regulation, and to two Pt ivate -The Lords Commissioners were—th e LO RD CIIANCPI.LOR, the Earl Ot LIVERPOOL, and Vi&- count MBLytt.Lig- TI IF. A DJOITIINNI ENT. - The Earl Ot LivEnPooL moved, that the House Hdiourn unlit Thisrsday the 17th of February — which was ordered accordingly. HOUSE OF COMMONS. A 'Message from the Lords am - mufti:et! that their Lordships bad 4greeti'• to the Ameudinfilts made by this House to the 8140-nlivinolis Libels and Newspaper Stamp Duties! Bill, and iISO that they had passrd the !Bakers' Regulation hill. IRISH LABOURING POOft. Mr. W. Wieeratus presented a Petition, signed by certain persons, who described themselves to be of the Irish Labouring Poor of the Parish of - St. Giles. They represented themselves to be anxious to earn an honest livelihood ,by " the stveat of their brow," but were at present without employ ment, and without a prospec6of obtaining any, from the preference given to Scorch and English Labourers. Of this, however, they did trot com plain, as they felt that " chsrity began at home.') But they suggested that they might be advan tageously employed in draining the bog-lands of Ireland. The Hon. Member had felt it to be his duty to present this Petition, as the subject ap ptared to him to be one of the highest import since, not only to Ireland, but to the British Em pire at large. The expediency of ti n ts providing employment for the poor had been brought he . fore the House, in the lieport made by one of its Coti.mittees in the course of the last Session. The rtliort to‘ wl;icli he alluded pointed out the cheap rite at which hog-land in Ireland might be drained. It was stoe,r n that this e,r h i he done for 21. per acre, and that there wool] lie a most ample re tort, for the capital emplo) et! in such an under taking after the iris( three years. Ile hoped this would meet with serious attention, as,„in his opi nion, no abject could he better entitled to t h e cousidt:ration of drat (~ru s e. For himself, he had nnifortnly maintained that 01;3 country pot , :seSsed withio itself the tner. , to of einidoyiog ail its pco• ple, and the dr.,inJge of the Irish bog-lands seem ed to oder One imvortant source of occupation for our laboutink; Poor. With this impression on his mind, lie could riot but hope that lhe prayer of the presrn! Petitii;n would be taken into the most serious consideration. The Petition was then read, in which the Peti tioners having described their distress front ;Jaw of employment, and stated theu+-seives to be very ready to work, if work could be found for theta to do, proceeded to set forth, that there were 4,000,000 of acres of hug-land in Ireland that they might be employed to drain and cultivate. They t.t4ttretore prayed the (louse to favour this project which, it adopted, they were of opinion would find work ,for all the poor of Ireland, and for a great portion of the labouring poor of Eng land also. They had beard in their neighbour hood, at public houses, and other places, much talk of paper and gold. It was their opinion, that the plan they had suggested, if adopted, would bring the gold back avin, which many lamented as lost, anti send all the paper which was so Much complained of out of the country. They had - also beard much bother on the subject of !tidied Re form, but they felt assured that if more employ ment were provided fewer Radicals would lie found, and they were convinced that the (raider !bey were worked the better it would be for them and the worse for those who wished to create this. content in the country. Toe Petit;on (svnich excited much risibility) was read, and ordered to lie on the table. . MOTION FOR ADJOURNMENT. Lord CAsTLEREAQH moved, that the House, at its rising, should adjourn till the 15th day of February. Mr. GRENFELL, before the motion was put, felt it necessary to say a few words on the subject of an incorrect representation which had gone forth of what he had Stated on a former night, no the occasion of a petition being presented to that House. He had been understood to throw some improper reflections . on a very respectable body of men, who had approved of that petition. No• thing certainly was further from his intention than to do this, and in point of fact he had not done it. At that time he had had no opportu nity of knowing who the parties were that signed that petition, nor had he seen the petition itself, but he had since learned that it was:signed by in• dividnals of the highest character, some of whoni were conneeted with three or four of the most respectable houses in London. He might in. stance those of Baring and Brothers—Smith, In glis, and Co., and Puget, Bainbridge, and Co. It was utterly impossible that he could mean to charge houses like these with over-trading or spe culation. His observations were directed gene rally against the system of over-trading and speculation, which had been acted upon, and which he regarded as,connected with the system of our paper currency.. He now knew the peti tion to have been signed by from seventy to eighty most respectable individuals, than whom it was impossible to find in the city of London persons less likely to engage in over-trading or improvi dent speculation. Lord CASTLEREAGH, from the observations made by the Hon. Gentleman on a former night, had not underitood him to prefer any accusation against the individuals signing the Petition, but considered his statement to grow out of the speech of another Hon. Gentleman o❑ the subject of the Bullion question. He had seemed to express some doubt as to the intentions of Government with respect to the currency, and this had made him feel it necessary to assure him that no inter ference with the plan of last Session was intend ed. He agreed with the Hon. Member in what he had said of the respectability of the persons who had put their signatures to the Petition which bad been alluded to. Mr. CALCRAFT did not the to oppose the ad journment, but to protest against it, as be could not bring his mind to vote for the proposed ad. journMent under the present circumstances, ) without fi rs t i nst i tut i ng an i nqu i ry i nto t h e dis tress with which it appeared that various parts of the country were afflicted, and especially after that • Petition had been presented, which his Hon. , Friend and be believed the Noble Lord admitted to he signed by prisons of ruch respectability, that their allegations ought to have some weight with the House.- In such a case, where the in terference of Parliament was so necessasy, by thus adjourning, in his opinion, they risked that hold : on the affections of the people, which it was desirable. that they should have, which he believ ed they still possessed, and which they ought to cherish. They risked this hold .on the public mind by iorniog their backs on inquiry, and se parating without attempting to mitigate the ex;st . tog distress. But it was s4i(l., what could they do to relieve this distress ? ne,—though he did not believe that their power to relieve went to the ex•ent some supposed,.—was of opinion that much might be done, and :•.,?. believed that a great deal would be done, by consenting to an inquiry, and thus proving brat they sympathized with the sor vows of tlie people. Ile thought measures ought to be adopted to mitigate the (listless of the sot tcrets, anti was of opinion that great good would lie done by iti,king a grant in favour of route of the Working classes fur 'whom employment could tout be found. The suggestion contained in the Pe ti ion se:jell had been the subject of so much conversalou on the subject of endea vouting to open new sources of trade might 'to be att;:ndeel ,to, and vari o us O th er pl ans m i g h t be taken int o consideration. Doing this woula tend to conciliate the people, it it toiled to dissi pate their distress. lie was not dispo.ed to en large on these topics - ; hot he felt himself . called., upon to oppose this unseemly adjournment, before any attempt bail been made to relieve the distress . which was known to exist in many parts of the country, that, when they next met, he might not be repioached for collet:l.rin g in the Motion for an I attiotai.lllCot, at a tittle thvie was So 11111 c oceAsioo for the P4I Itameot • to cunt Mlle 116 Otiugs. The motion was then agiud to. Sri' G. IVABRENDIIR postponed, till Feb. 23, the halh,t for an Elect - jun Committee to try the return for liis!:op's The Dopnry Usher of the BLit:lC . llml summoned the lloose to the !louse of Peers.—On his re tom, the SPEAKRit stated the Royal Assent to have beet) given by Comtnission to several Bills— tor which see the Lords. Sir J. itlActxTosn pOstponed the motion of which he had given notice, fore revival of the Committee on the Criminal Code, from the 15th to the 22 , 1 February. FINANCE. Mr. MABERLY wished to ask the Chancellor of the Excliever a question. He had been under stood to state, that up to the lOtli December there had been a defelcation in the Revenue to the amount of 150,0001 He suppOsed the Right Hon. Gentleman had meant tio,r !hare had tnsen that :ailing off from the 10th Oetonor to the 19th December. • Stating this, he of course meant it to, be understood, that the dinitinvinn from the sth January to the sth October, was about 500,0001., (oot including Ireland ) Ile was sure that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had no wish that any it,cel [cc? rumour on this subject should go abroad, and he. therefore hoped he would state whether or not his meaning had been correctly un derstood. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER had wish. ed his statement to be so clear, that no doubt should arise on the subject, awl had no objection to re-state what he had advanced on a former evening. He had stated, that there was a falling off in the Revenue front the 10th of October to the day on which he was speaking (he could not say whether it was the 10th of December, but he believed it might be about that.time) to the amount of 150,0001. as compared with the corresponding .period of the corresponding quarter in the last year. The produce of the old and new duties were both taken in this calculiition. Since that period the Revenue had been more favourable, and the total deficiency on she whole year might now be estimated at 4:i0,0001. Mr. MABERLV—Reclusive of Ireland ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied in the atlirmative. He added.that lie had made no statement on the former evening, with re spect to th e p er i o d en di ng OC to b er 5. It had been understood that he expected that there would be, at the close of the present year, a clear surplus of five millions beyond the expenditure of the country, applicable to the 'Re demption of the National Debt. He cerminly had not meant so to express himself, because he could have no expectation of any such surplus. In the Report of the Finance Committee, it' had last year been assumed, that there would be a clear Surplus Revenue of 2,000,0001. at the close of the present year, applicable to the reduction of the Public Debt. To this was to be added the produce of the New Taxes. But of course he could not expect the whole amount of what these were expected to produce, would be realized in the course of the present year—in the year end ing January '5, 1820. Of course at present they , must fall tar short of their estimated amount, and could not be expected to add more than 1,000,0001. to the 2,000,0001, calculated upon by the Finance' Committee, as applicable to the Reduction of the National Debt. COLLECTION OF THE REVENUE. Sir H. PARNELL rose to move for certain papers relative to the expellee of the collection of the Revenue, and of the Civil Officers of the Govern ment. He was strongly of opinion that it the whole system were revised a great retrenchment night be effected. This idea be had not hastily taken up, and he believed that it was not peculiar to him, but that it prevailed generally throughout the country. It was therefore his intention shortly after the recess, to submit .a motion on this subject to the House. The expellee of collecting the Revenue for-the year 1818 had amounted to no less a sum than,4,300,0001. The expense of main taining the different offices for auditiog accounts 'and preparing papers came to 1,100,0001., and various establishments connected with the Civil Government of the country, created an additional charge .of 350,0001., making a total of nearly 6,000,0001. He thought Parliament after the recess ought• to give their attention to this im portant subject, and doing this he was of. opinion that great relief might be afforded. He then moved for an account of the rate per centum paid upon the collection of gross receipts for each branch of the ordinary revenue for the year 1819. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER did not rise to oppose the motion of the Hon. Baronet, which went to bring a subject of such great im portance before the House. When the Hon, Baronet made the motion of which be had give❑ notice, he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) be• lieved that he should be able to prove that much had already been done to diminish the expense of collecting the revenue, and there was every dispo sition on the part of Government to do more, it this could be effected consistently with the general interest of the country. He was not so sanguine in his expectations as the Hon. Baronet, but he wished every thing that could be accomplished in this way to be dune. The motion was agreed to ; and the Honoura• ble Baronet proceeded to move for a variety, of comparative Returns connected with the subjects touched upon in the course of his sp'eech, for the years 1792, 1813, and 1819. The motions were severally agreed to. fir W. DE CRESPIGNY gave notice, that after the recess he would move for the appointment of Committee to consider of the means of amelio rating the condition of the Poor. Sir H. PARNELL brought in a Bill for the better regulation of Elections in Irelantl.—Read a first, and ordered to be read a second time on the 25th February, and to be printed. Sir J. OsBORNE presented Accounts of the Re venue of Ceylon, the Mauritius, and other Colo nies. in the last yer, and also a Return of all Persons holding Offices in the Colonies.—Ordered to te on the table. :1;r. LUSHINGTON presented Accounts of the Expellees of the Barrack Department.—Ordered to lie on the table. Sir H. PARNELL brought in a Bill to promote the Trade and Manufactures of Ireland, by encou raging Partnerships in Ireland.—Read a firs, and ordered to be read a second time, Feb. 25th, at to be pointed. EMPLOYMENT OF TUE POOR. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHFQUER, before he moved that the Hot;se sho►tld adjourn, rose in thy absence of an Hon. Friend (the Chief:Justice of Chester), to give notice, that shortly after the Recess his Hon. Friend would move for leave to bring in a Bill for en►ploying part of the Pauper Poor of the Metropolis. He proceeded briefly to state the outline of the Bill, but in so low a tone that he could not be distinctly heard in the Gal lery. He was understood to say the Bill would go to repeal an Act which prohibits the employment of the poor out of their respeciive parishes. The plan it was intended should be unaccompanied by expence to the public. Certain Crown Lands on Dartmoor Forest are given up, as tse understand; by the Prince Regent, to be cultivated by the poor, who are expected to be enabled to do so from the funds of the parishes to which they mu y belong, or horn the aids of private benevolence in furtherance of the object. Art Hon.,Memßatt rose to offer some remarks on the not ice. The SPEAKER remarked, it would be very in convenient to take a debate on a notice. Mr. flume moved for accounts of the net pro duce of the four Ana a half per cent. duties paid at Barhsdoes and the Leeward Islands, in 113:19, specifying the application of the same. And also for accounts of all sums of money received for the sale of Officers' Commissions, in consequence 01 deaths or removals, horn the - 15th 1809, up to the present time, specifying by —born the same had been received.—Agreed to. General HART gave notice, that he wot&t bring forward a motion on the 17th February. on the subject of the Fines levitd on Crown Lands in Ireland. EMPLOYMENT OF THE POOR. On the question of Adjournment being moved, Sir W. DE CHRSPIGNY expressed an opinion, that the plan suggested for the employment of the Poor of the Metropolis, would give great sa tisfaction to the people. Mr. H. DAVIS could not refrain from express ing his satisfaction at what had just been stated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Royal Person at the head of the Government had, on this as on every other occasion, proved how deeply he felt for the distresses of his people, and bow ready he was to conic forward to relieve it, where this was practicable. It happened to come within his knowledge, that a large sum had been offered to his Royal Highness for Dartmoor Fo rest on lease. This offer had been refused, that the land might be given up, as had now been pro posed, for the employment of the Poor. It would from this be seen, that his Royal Highness, in, thus coming forward on the present occasion, had made, for the benefit of people, a great pecu niary sacrifice. The House then adjourned till Tuesday, the 15th February. A MollsTea.—lt was stated a few weeks since that a brute, habited as a gentleman, had stabbed a young Lady .walking with her sister on the foot path leading from the Edgware-road to Kilburn, because they refused to listen to his impertinent importunities. Another instance of this kind oc curred on Tuesday evening, and the perpetrator answers the deseription of the fellow who cut the young Lady. A female servant named Hobbs, in going on an ertand, near the Yorkshire Stingo, Mary-la-bone-road, was rudely laid hold of, and she struck the assassin with a basket, when he stabbed her in the arm and fled. Ecktraet of a letter from- the Agents to Lloyd's at Ramsgate. and Deal, dated Ramsgate, Dec. 28 We regret to acquaint you with the me lancholy fate of Hokum, one of the Branch Pi- lots of this place, who yesterday, off the North Foreland, was proceeding to a vessel in the ot fing in a Broadstairs boat, with a crew of six men, when the boat shipped a alia, kud the whole perished.", AFFLICTING CASE OF DISTRESS. CORONER'S INQUEST. -jetaerhy.an Inquisition was taken at the Coopers' Arms, Neot-street, Sr. James's, before Mr. HIGGS, on the,body of Ca— therine Lewis, who was found dead in her room on Wednesday morning. —It appea-ed that the deceased, who was about sixty years of age, - had lodged for the last four years at No. 23, Neot street, in a back room, on the second I. uor. She had no friends in London, but some ..lations in the country, in good circumstances. She had been formerly well off; but her husband and her son being onfort'unately some years' ago - Aro wned together, she lived upon what li!tle property they had left, and lately had disposed of her fur—, niture to support life.. Site lived as it were eluded from the world, and her spirit was so great, that she would not inform tier. relations of her distress, nor even those who occupied the next room to her. It being at last discovered th4t she wanted food, the landlady and the lodge's used to send her sometimes a plate of meat ; it was een , rally left in .the room, without being offered, not to hurt her feel- f ings. At last she was, prevailed on to apply for parochial- relief, and was to have been al mitted into the workhouse on Monday lase.--r Saturday she went down stairs for something b it fell down in the passage, through weakness, and was assisted up stairs. On Wednesday - morning on going by her room door, and finding it open, her landlady took the liberty to look in, and saw her lying on the floor. She attempted to lift herd" up, when the diicovered that she was Owl. She had her clothes on, and was cut in the race, where, it was , upposed she fell upon: the floor. The landlord of the house saw her alive on th' pr e _ ceding night ; The was then reading-s ,, me o'. fi r e husband's letters, as was her usual practice ; he ma d e her goo to bed, because the reading of ihe letters generally affected her mind and produced a desvndency. Tle,e were some victuals iu the room, when she was found. dead. The July thought the want of the necessaries of life faci litated her death. Verdict--- , Naturat Death. .‘ SHOCKING ACCJDF NT.—On Chrisim‘s night Margaret Moffat, wile of one of the Burgh 015- , eers of Peebles, was burat to death before the eident was discovered. Wunt maktic the dictum— stance•more melancholy is, that her husband was in the room all the time, very much intoxicated, and there is no reason to doubt that she was also in the same state. Monday a Coroner's Inquest .was held at Frome Woodlands, on the body of Ann Moore, aged 66, who, on returning front consulting, with her ma ,in-law on the approaching funeral of her father, aged 91, was found dead in a field not, far from her cottage, supposed from an apoplectic seizure. On Monday last, an inquest was taken by LIAM LEMMON, Gent. Coroner for the Hundred Clackclose, on view of the body of Catharine, the wife of Mr. John Berrier Kettle - well, of Down ham Minket, iw.the County of Norfolk, officer of excise, who on , the morning of that day died slid•• denly, in the 35th year of her ace, while in the act of making bread, leaving a husbat.d and two infant children to lament their loss. Verdict— " Died by the visitation of God."—lt is a singu lar and impressive truth, that the day forrntglit previous• to her dissolution; viz. on Monday the 13th ult. Mr. K. became a member of that most: laudable Institution, the Fakenham Provident So ciety, thereby, in the event of his death, securing a comfortable provision to his widow and children. R BIRTH. On the 29th inst. at- Woodentt-house, Oxon, the Lady of Thomas Fraser, Esq. of a still-born daughter. i sr MARRIED. On Sunday the 14th inst. at the house of his Excelleticyr- i 4 • the Earl of Clancarty, his Britannic Majesty's Ambassador • the Hague, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir James /loupell Ciiil.4oo ° Bart. to Septima Sexta Colictou, daughter of Rear•Admiial Richard Graves, of Hembury Fort, Devon. DIED. • On the 24th inst. at Newport, Isle of Wight, Mrs. Gt;h - / ..; bins, aged 'n years. On the 25th inst. at Hertford, Mrs. Dimsciale, relict of the late John Dimsdale, Esq. in.t he 71st year of her age. Lately, at Liverpool, Captain Edwards, of the South Dercl , Local Militia , late of High-house, near Kingshridge.. LONDON: Printed by.l. B. CAIISTAIRS, of No. R 9, G le ' lt Ormond-street, Queen-squa re; an d p u bli i ii e d by W• , • SCRIPPS, of No. 7, South Aluiton-street, at THE Suo Office, No. 112, Strand ; where Advertisements Orders. 3, Lettot., sec, (post-paid) 'mist beathlteicrol, AGRICULTURE, &c. MONTHLY REPORT FOR DECEMBER. The Month bas been favourable to the , course of husbandry, at this season. The heel lands, which remained unsown from the hear/ rains in November, have worked kindly for the seed. The young Wheats in the principal Corti Districts being free from slug or wire-wormy never appeared to plant better. The frost bay.. set in timely for clearing the stubbles for earl!' • Beans and Peas, which the light land far mers have begun to dibble, in the Home Dis trict ; and the failows, in their last tilth, work kindly for Lent-corn sowing Irons the same seasonable cause. The decayed state of t 1,6 Turnips, particularly the forward Swedes, is ge nerally complained of, , -I has given a coml.. derable rise to Hay in the grazing countries.--- , There remains, however, much feed on the ground, upon which Stock will do well, un less locked up by a fall of snow. Clover-seed.. from the drought of last summer, yields .but a scanty produce ; great importations, bolsi ever, are expected from Holland and Fldn ders, where their crops were good. The , Wool-staplers have become pretty active in their researches after all kinds of fleeces, and conside rahle purchases have lately been made at an ad vance in price. The Meat markets have had large.. ;" • supplies of well-fed Beef and Mutton ; but the Smithfield Club did not afford the usual Christmas '. .;. exhibition of prime Oxen and Welder Sheep, *1 probably, owing to the subsiding rage for extreme fatness. Lean Stock, particularly in good aged beasts, is become scarce, and, of course, higher priced. I