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Or_ glfrie,ii;4s X r ow, 13ir &rad Alr. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1819. [PRxci SE vnxpiarmE an. Sr *4 1,0 WC( ATTRACTIONS for 9th DECEMBER, Next Day of Drawing. E 5,000 Tickets now on Sale, will be all lw drawn, and their fate finally decided 9 th DEC. p 9 PRIZES of 20,0001. will be gained by the First Two L ' 12( 3 on the .. 9th DEC. PARLI A MEN T. Nov. 3 41 in, Se6'• and ”ccastle• HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, Nov. 29. LIBELLOUS PUBLICATIONS. er, IC°' Lord SOMERS presented a Petition from the In. habitants ol t , aint Pancras, Middlesex, praying that rneasutes n►ay be adopted for pleventing the circulation of libellous and seditious Publications. Read and laid on the table. At'orDell , Dec. 4 0 %Ir. Sur .PUBLICATIONS. The NIT'S MAGAZINE, with Forty Engravings. This Day was puhlished, r%printed, and . embellished with Two Engravings, en : - : ut t'd, No. I. price 6d. (to be continued weekly, and fully t 441 pt,ted in Twenty Numbers, and embellished with Forty Tgrari ugs) , of tiE WIT'S MAGAZINE; or, Attic Miscri. t r i v laity: being ar4 excellent Collection of the best English, t,,0 and Scutrli Witticisms, and other Articles of Intellec- Confctionary. 4.rntlon Printed by Thomas Tegg, No. It 1, Clieapside; k4utherland, Edinburgh; and all ether Booksellers in Town Country. R. SYNTAX'S WARS OF WELLINGTON. ki, 1 1 This Day were published, :oral Quarto;susbellislied with Three Elegant Eneravings, h tat 'gried and engraved by Heath. aquatinted by Stadler, od coloured' after the original Drawings, Part I. price its. ° l be COW pleted in Twelve Parts, of II E WARS 01 WELLINGTON ; a Nam,- t ive P*m, in Fifteen Cantos, embellished with Thirty Vavinp. _ thi twi By DR. SYNTAX. 4 4d : Printed by C. Whittiughani, for the Author ; •.,:ta by all Boo k se llers in Town and Country. ritIDE TO THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. This Day was published, price ss. k fk COM I'ENDIOU ACCOUNT or the CAPE , 1 , 3 ,„ , :bf GOOD HOPE, with its Productions, and R.-sources; ts t 4 4 4l g, also, a variety of important Information for the z o Persons about to Emigrate to that Colony. It kt orbart: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Pater. tr.rov 4r . 44: This account of the Cape of Good Hope is extracted Afri c a aluable work just published, entitled lutes . on 1, 10 ; , ; 4 . by G. A. Robertsoo, Esq. of Liverpool ; an, bg linen from the most authentic sources, it is p r esu med ttt 4l3 :!' will be found to all persons desirous of themselves iu th at country. Just published, DELPHIN AND VARIORUM CLASSICS. S. I. at.ti X. of the DELVII I N anti VA tk4,4 t tIORUM CLASSICS; containing Virgil, and part of ? li r, with an E ng r a ving, by C oo p er . Ittluhtl i rtce to Subscribers is its. each Part. Large Paper 4 4, e i ; The Prices will be hereafter raised. 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OF STEPHENS' GREEK TFIESACTRUS. r e i s. ,c ' 4 Plis belongin g to d ecease d S u b scr ib er s ma y h e h a d %),:. small and 2). 12s. 6d. large paper. The Price %till raised to 11.75. small, and 21.155. large. Subsci ibers 4-6 t 4 a rjernain at the price at which they originally rifer. 4, ‘ st ? +ll >seribers, large and small; 1085. The copies printed bil„.l.ll._Ctiy limited to the number of Subscribers. I t " INPORMATION.—From calculation cl; e 'lke College of Physicians, no less than 40,000 sa i l at'ttttally in Great Britain of Consumption, I\ 4 least 10,000 i n L on d o n. Th e l ate Willi am Isi,-,11"11, E sq. - a v e ry i ngen i ous S urgeon , ascer - I'l l -t ti that every 20th person was ruptured.— complaints arc truly al a r m i ng t o ever y in list ' 14 41 who uses the least exertion. It is also bi st Nible t h e num b er that suffer from a certain 1 1 h l ie, by h e i og i m p ro p er l y treate d. I t was Nit ci rcumstances induced Dr. CO O P E R to s e l ect Ye o lle nt Physicians sind Surgeons, of at least 30 N et s : experience, to f orm a M e di ca l B oar d ; an d tit tit - t he establishment upwards of 30,000 Pa. ktes,, i l have been cured without confinement— ,41 -7 them after hospitals bad failed. c : 1 " 11 . Coorsa a nd C o . are consu l te d at 11) 1 ‘ s l ., "( ;!, ( tlek-street, O x f or d - street ; an d at Ch ar . ‘tv - ;,'"se, Great Charlotte -street, opposite the "it t i:`°‘fland daily, from eight till eight. tit h i t i 'ics zshave advice gr a tis e ve s) , evening, from b 't o :_eight and on Sunday mornings until 12 t ilr e s `, l RUPTURES of 30 ye ars s t an di ng ra di ca lly NO ii. with oof con fi nement. There are private doorsat each house, and ,t roo ms for Females• t. 'srs 41- A ffl icted would do well to re a d ~ t i i • • OOPER and Co.'s Lectur e s o n two pre- Is li ~ g bisedi ses , published at one shilling, by tyYe 22, Blackfi iars-road. They will also us eful to young Practitioners. ind Jan• torneyi. !Ocular Foster . e,P a r t rkshires Kee" lc, Os' corn' er-aler. Igo e`, A: 01 louse' eO 7O fiat ;s• l ighli vet' :ecu" ciouli Lain . a ir oaf Lain oaf 'air )o. (Jr. yd. Us. ! 1 / 6 . fir. utief ectit r CCti Ct CCtifd r 004 gor ........*". , D reel . , obe ri Recb- Si 10 Eice :, l'l' OP r' C°II. :. h,!l ."'"% ;fe at 11. jet, Yt,!vla :Minutes -angetnent, 40,0001. must be decided in the First .le,* on the PRIZES of 90,0001. are yet in the Wheel, besides other • Istie and all may be drawn 9Ol DEC. f 5 ,000 Tickets on Sale before First Day were not enough ~ ,( 4r the demand—The same may occur again if you do not ou c h. T ic (Ise before I q:TS and SHARES, warranted Undrawn, are selling by T. BISH, Stock-Broker, CORNHILL, and 9, CHARING-CROSS, and by his Agents in the Country. t o e BISH has already Sold Five Capitals in the Present 10" Y. His Agent at Liverpool sold part of one of the 11 4 7 1 . Prizes drawn the First Day, and his Agent at Edin ,....111 sold part of the other Prize of 20,0001. the same Day. PETITION OF SAMUEL BAMFORD. Earl (;Rc►svehott presented a P,tition from Samuel Banitord, of Middleton, in Lancashire, praying the [louse that he might be examined at the bar, and stating that lie could, not by his own evidence alone, butt by that of many other per sons, disprove all the statements contained in the papers laid recently upon the table relating to the internal state of the country. The petition al• leged that the Meetiogs which► took place for the purpose of instructing the people in marching, &c. were in no respect connected with any cri initial enterprise, butt were held solely for the purpose of preserving good order anal regularity in the meeting which was to take place at Man, chester on tl►e 16th August. The bands of music which preceded t,c bodies of men as they marched, were used as a means of exciting hilarity and good temper, and were usually employed in that part of the country on public occiisions.—The pe tition being read, was laid on the table. BANK OF ENGLAND. The Marquis of LANSDOWN begged leave to in quire of the Noble Earl opposite, whether the recommendation given in the last Session of Par iia►nent, by the Committees of both Elouses, re sl►ecting, the payinemt of a certain sum► of money to the Bank of England, had beef' complie►l wi l►? The Earl of LiveaPoot. replied, that some payments ban been made, and that arrange• items were in course of preparation, by which the recommendation of the Committees would be INQUIRY INTO THE STATE OF THE NATION. Lord !ALFORD requested to be informed by the Noble Marquis, whether his motion, which be purposed to bring on to-morrow, would embrace the general State of the Nation, or refer only to the Papers Idid on the table ? The Marquis of LAN DOWN replied, that it was his ohjeci to move for the appirititment of a Select Committee to inquire generally into the State of the N,trion. TRAVERSING INDICTMENTS. The LORD CHANCELLOR, in pursuance of what he had stated on a former occasion respect-. ing this subject, introduced a Bill for the better prevention of delays in the administration of jus tice, awl per:icularly with respect to a point which, on more mi4tore Consideration, he conceiv ed to be of extreme importance. His Lordship proceeded to explain technically the grounds on which the Bill proceeded, and the rielos which in certain cases, but noire particularly of misde meanor, deft 'uterus possessed of postponing their pleas until so distant a period, as not 'infrequent ly had the effect ot defeating the ends of justice. Viewing the subject as lie did, he conceived his duty to the House and to the public, called upon him to submit some proposition for their Lord ships' adoption, which would feud to counteract that which certainly had an injurious effect. He would now propose its first reading, and when their Lordships tilt - eight proper to read it second time, he should more fully explain the ground tied principle upon which the Bill proceeded. Lord HoeeeteD observed, he did not now wish to enter into wily discussion of the r.nOjeet, though he certainly felt it to he one of no ,mall impe:r tance : as he understood the Noble and Learned Lord's measure, it would go o aff , ct all cases of wisdemeaeour ; but the difference should be con sidered between these cases where the delay was occasioned by the defendant's postponing his parlance, and those wltre it proceeded from the natural course of law. He %visited to know whe ther it was meant the Bill should go to oust the impedance generally, and .whether the whole of the Mistlrmcanour Law %vas to be affected by it . ; anti at the same time whether the principle was .to he extended to those cases where ex officio in formations were filed by the Attorney-General. With respect to the object of rendering trials more speedy, it was one which should be consi dered with reference to the nature of the accusa tion. Upon the whole, the Noble Lord seemed to think the subject of the Bill one of conside rable impot lance, and one that called for a parti cular and deliberate consideration, The LORD CHANCELLOR Spoke briefly in expla nation, What was meant was, to call upon the defendant to plead, and it should be in the sound discretion of the Court to decide whether the case was of that nature that was• fit to be post puned or not, from what was submitted on the point to its consideration. No alteration W:+6 made by the Bill in the powers of the Attorney- General. The Bill was then read the first time, or dered to be printed, and the Lords to be sum moned for Thursday, on a motion for its second reading. INTERNAL STATE OF THE COUNTRY. Viscount SIDMOUTH, purstlallt 10 notice, ad dressed their Lordships at some length on this subject, and stated the nature of those measures which were deemed necessary to be proposed, with reference to it. In the Speech of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, at the opening of . the Session, he was pleased to declared that he felt it his duty to press on the speedy attentio❑ of Parliament, the consideration of such measures as were most likely to counter act and do away a system which, if persisted in, would inevitably bring eoefusion and ruin on the country. His Royal Highness's confidential Ser vants felt it incumbent on them speedily to bring forward those measures for the consideration of Parliament, which they deemed most likely to arrest the progress of the evils adverted to in the Speech from the Throne. He now rose to coin rounicate the natnre of those measures to their Lordships. They were so framed, be thought, as not to go beyond the necessity of the case, and at the same rime not to circumscribe tlse rights or privileges of the subject, farther than what was deemed to be connected with, or due to the paramount - consideration of the safe ty of the State. It was unnecessary now, he felt, to enter into any detailed description of those various dangers, the existence of which was uni versally known and admitted—(Hear,' hear !) . A conspiracy, it was apparent, existed against all the civil and religious establishments and institu tions of the country ; in fact, to subvert the whole fabric of the Constitution in Church and State— (Hear, hear, hear !)—ln considering the causes Willett led to such a state of things, he believ ed there were few who did not feel, that from (lie operations of the press much of the evil complained of proceeded, and the country brought into the melancholy state in which it now was-- a state which, at best, was one of great difficul y and danger. From that press issued those de testable attempts to rob mankind of all the hopes and spiritual consolation (bey derived from the precepts of religion ; and it was no less notorious that its machinations were equally directed against the Laws and Constitution of the country. The great characteristic of a tree press was, that no interference should take place with respect to publications that were not injurious to the mo rals, the peace, or the religion of society. In the Bill relating to this part at the subject which it was intended to submit to Parliament, those great principles were nut invaded. The principle of interference after publication took place, was that on which the framers of the Bill proceeded. It was proposed not to visit in the first instance with increased punishments the publishers of blasphemous or libellous matter ; but in the event of a repetition of a conviction for such off races, that they should be visited with an accretion of punishment, which was proposed to be that of pro longed imprisonment, banishment, or transporta tion., according to the judgment of the Court. It was further proposed, that in case of a second convic t ion, a seiiure ot the copies should be authorized of such matter,as was adjudged to be seditious or blas phemous, with some provisions for subsequent restoration with reference to the event of an ar rest of jodgmeut. respeet to the principle of another intended Bill, it was acknowledged ro be somewhat deficient in principle from that which lie had described—that for imposing a duty on such obnoxious publications, and this it was pro posed should attach upon a given number of sheets, to an amount equivalent to that now im posed npon newspapers. This was not, how ever, done in the spit it of a fiscal regulation, but with a view to counteract the baneful tendency of cheap publications, which disseminate poison throughout the country, and corruption in the minds of all who perused them. A measure of the kind was called for by the indispensable ne cessity of checking the progress of such publi cations. It was furber proposed, that all persons who should be engaged in printing pub lications of that description, should be called upon for the production of some securities, which may ansoer for the discharge of such penalties as may he imposed in consequence of the partit-s offend. ing against the law. With respect to another part Of the subject, legislative provisions were totroduced to guard against those attempts, in many cases but too successful, of bringing to gether vast numbers of persons in seditious as semblages in different parts of the kingdom. As the law now stood, any evil-disposed pet sons might call together assemblies of that descrip tion, by issuing placards, at any place and at any time they pleased. The injurious consequences which resulted ►were unhappily too Holm ions. The display of flags or other symbols, whether in it• self legal or not, he meant not then to discuss ; but these had latterly, it was well known, con tributed to induce consequences little short, it not fully amounting to rebellion ; and be thought, in any state of society, there ►Vould be but little chance of preserving the public tranquillity it such practices were tolerated. What was propos ed with respect to public meetings would not in . tetlere with the undoubted right of the subject to_ petition Parliament or the 'Formic, or of the dis cussion of grievances, while those grievances were truly stated. But the object for which those meetings were lately intended was well known, and the baneful practices of itinetant demagogue orators on such occasions. To guard against such evils, it was proposed that in all cases of public meetings notice should be given, signed by seven householders, to some Magistrates within the district s that it should be declared illegal for any person to attend, unless he ►was usually resi dent in the parish or township; and farther, to give Magistrates a power, under certain limita tions, of appointing the time and place of meet ing. Such were the leading provisions of the in tended measures. There was still another impor taut consideration : it was not only by means of seditious and blasphemous publications, or the in,idious practices of demagogues, that the objects of the obnoxious persons were at tempted to be canied into effect, but the state of the existing 11 , VS was such as to embolden them to advise the attempt of accomplishing their designs and purposes by force of arms. On this part of the subject no possible dooht could ex ist. With a view to such objects, a system of ustruction in Military exeteisvo, sod the use of fire-arms, was establisllo. Of what had been done in character and extent in these respects, there was iticontesrible evidence. No less that thirty of the d , potitions applied to those circuma stances. The mode in which these were taken was dictated either by the obvious expediency of the necessity of the case. The whole showed the extreme danger of the practice. Preparatory to the meetings in Atreus!, the practice of drilling; was extensive, and many of the bodies assembled for the purpose Were numerous; sonic exercised one hundred persons. tinder such circumstances, a check upon the inketings would not be eff,ctuali, if not followed top by another provision respect. ing (frilling and training in some pars of the country, and respecting the possession of arms, fit the manufacturing districts, where large pot. lions of the disaffected were in arms, regula tions of the kind were peculiarly necessary. It was therefore meant to empower the Magistrates, upon well•grounded suspicion that such were in tended for purposes injurious to the State, to take possession of such arms, and to place fluent in some place of safety, until further steps shoold be taken with respect to them at the Quarter Sessions. Such were the ou,lines of the intend• ell measures, and the principle upon which they proceeded. It was the anxious wish of the Prince Regent's Government to restore conciliation anti emilideuee, but they wet averse to holding out delusive expectations. In some cases, however, a lenient system of measures would he inituiou4. They would gladly attend to any suggestions cal• ciliated really and practically to alleviate the dis tresses of the suffering people. But he repeated, that finder the immediate circumstances, cooces. sinus would only tend to aggravate the danger, especial:y at a tune when the Constitution was more set iously endangered than at any I eriod since the succession of the [louse of Brunswick. Up on the whole, they were called upon by every tie to take every kistifiable means itr their power to preserve the real liberties, the prosperity, and the inestimable Constitution of tide country. The Bills presented by the Noble Secretary of state were that respecting the seizure of arms, and as we could collect, that which respected seditious and blasphemous publications, which, on his Lordship's motions were shortly read pro forma, ordered to be printed, anti on the suggestion of their second readings for Thursday next, Earl GREY rose, and in a speech of some length expressed his almost unryialifled disaporohation of the system of policy proposed by Ministers in the present critical circumstances of the country., He deptecated the hurrying on a discussion of such exttenie importance on so early s ;jay as Thursday, ull/Ch of which sitting would probably be occupied by the important alteration in ihe law proposed that evening by the Noble Lord on the Woolsack. it would be impossible duly to discuss the measures just proposed on that evening. No than Would mote willingly con- , cur in measures likely to avert the pending dan. ger, than himself, but for one be thought the proposed measures would go rather to irritate and increase than to diminish the evils. It was on the causes of the presvtir state of the country that he differed* chiefly, from the Noble Viscount.. In his conscience he believed, that no system of force, terror, or coercion,. would tend to restore the country to its once enviable state ; instead of alleviating the distresses, what was proposed would entail ruin and destroction upon the coun try. He as averse to the propOsed shackles up on the press-- , to it they stood chiefly indebted for the free Constitution of the country, and therefore for the best security of its Government. What was proposed would inflict an irrecoverable blow at all freedom of discussion ; and before lie should agree to what was proposed, he would in quire whether the existing laws had been duly administered. With respect to the press, much worse doctrines than had repently appeared were published long since—even assassination had been openly recommended, and yet no prosecution took place. After a cursory vie a' of some of the evidence before the House, the Noble Earl ob served, that much of what was complained of was in fact to be attriboed to the great distress which prevailed in particular parts of the country —a slate which no system of coercion would ever tend to alleviate ; the disaffected may be nume rous, but that they were countenanced by any persons of considerable influence in the country was what be could not believe ; and his real opi nion was, that instead of the system urged by Ministers, the country emphatically called upon them to adopt, on the contriny, a policy of con ciliat ion and concession. The Esrioi LIVEhrOOI, felt himself called upon by what lell front the last speaker to offer a sew ternarks, lest a false impression might be Ititvie respecting the impollitut subject in question. The Noble Lail had talsely treated the proposed men sores 3s a system of coercion. The character and description of ninny of the great meetings, where thousands and tens of thousands assembled, nu. merously armed and in miliiary array, linqiiestion ably must have impressed with feelings of alartn and terror all the peaceable and loyal inhabitants of the vicinity. So tar as the uuderstood privi leges of Englishmen were concerned, the pro. posed measures went to encourage the real tree. dont of discussion, by tending to put down tu multuous meetings, which only went to suppress it. The dangerous practices of itinerant dema gogues were too notorious to require exposition ; they were in efreet the worst enemies to real free. don) of discussion or to deliberate decision. The existing laws on these subjects were obviously inadequate, and no increased severity was pro posed short of a repeated conviction. Duties upon publications were hitherto imposed for pnr poses of revenue; here they were suggested