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PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, JUNE, 11. Ti.e Menai Bridge 1301 was brought tip from the Ilonse of Commons by Sir Henry Parnell, and otter Members, and read a first iime. Contagious Diseases (lneland) Bill, and the C ,, lonial Clergy Ordination Bill, were read a thid time Lind passed. Tilt! Marquess Camden's Fellowship Bill passed thtungh a Committee, and WPS reported without aiii,-tatiment.—Adjourned ill Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. A petition was presented from the Masters in Chancery of Ireland, praying for compensation, if a Bill before the House, for regulating the fees of the Court, pass into a law. A . similar petition was presented from the Six Clerks of Chancery in A petition was presented from the parish of Blackburn, against the Foreign Enlistment Bill. A petition was presented from Haddington, for an alteration in the Distillery Laws. Mr. Alderman WOOO presented a petition from the City of London, against the Duty on Slates. The Loan Bid was brought in and read a first time, to be read a second time to•morrow. Mr. S. Wow'.LEI- presented a petition from the Manufacturers of Huddersfield, against the pro posed duty on Wool. Mr. Sheriff ROBERTS presented the petition of -the Common Council of London, against the Net's' fixes. Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN said, that the peti tion had been agreed to, almost withont dissent, vt one of the fullest Common Council ever abe. emblt d. The petition was ordered to be printed. The Lottery Biil was brought in and rend a first trite to be read a second time on Monday. The Cut.torrs Consohdaticu Bill teas brought in and read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday. THE NAVY. l Alr. COOKER laid on the table certain accounts comiected with the state of the Navy. - Sir J. Yoaxe took this opportunity of urging noon the 1-lot;se the strong ciaims which Mr. Seppings had upon its consideration. His eminent services had been acknowledged in the third Re port of the Finance Committee : he had, indeed, been rewarded, but far short of his deserts ; had the forty ships which had been built or repaired under the auspices of Lord Mu'grave, at above four millions of expence, and Which were well known to the Gentkitten connected with the Adtitiral:y tinder the name of the forty thieres— (a these been placed under the care of Ale. !:eppiti . gs, they would have cost only a small portion of ,v hat had been expended on them, and ‘vould not be, as they now were for the most part, not seaworthy and rotten. Sit 1. COFFIN bore testiniony to the extraor dita„)ry merits of Mr Seaings, but thought be had already been greatly rewarded by promotion. Mr, Co'OKER dwelt very much! on the merits of Mr. Seppings ; his inventions were so full of ge nius, that if he had brought then) into the market and sold them, he might have realized a large for tune. E e had been promoted through various (Wilco, to he one of lite Surveyors of the Navy, which must certainly be considered as in some de gtee a retinmeration tor his services. His claims were now tinder the-consideration of the Govern went,- and if the Treasury should agree to grata I,*) any sum, he had 'no dodirt the i-louse would snake it gond. A'rer a few words from Mr. D. GILBERT and 'llr7N. CALVERT, in praise of Mr. Seppiugs, the conver,ation dropped. TO NACCO DUTY. Mr. G. LAMB wished to know whether the new Ditty on ToliAcco wls to be paid by the dealers on their sock in hand, as the idea that this was in contemplation had occasioned considerable alarm ? Mr. Lauf HI NGToN, in the absence of the 'Chan cellor of the Exchequer, said that he had no doubt that it ‘vonld. CLERKS OF THE PEACE IN IRELAND. Sir EL PAItNELL moved the third reading of the Bill for atisimilating the tennre of the office of Clerk of -the Peace in Ireland to that in Eng land. Lord CARTIAMPTON opposed the Bill at some length, on t he ground that the Cuptos Rotulorum would be deprived of a salutary power of checking illy .tl oraetices in tin.: office of Clerk of the Peace which he poseiessed 'at present, when the office was held at his ple.istire ; and concluded by moving an Amendment, That the Bill be read a third time on that day 5k months. Atter sunlit discussion, in which Mr. C, Grant, Mr. L. Foster, snd Mr. Croker pat ticipated, the „Amendment was negatived without a division, and the Bill was read ti third time, and alter the intro duction of several (Janus and verbal amendments by Mr. Croker, was passed. FOREIGN ENLISTNIENT Lin! CASTLSREAGH movcil the Oillerof the Day for c3ruyin up . th . elterirt of the Fort.:4o Enlist ment Rill. „ DIROGDEN brought up the Report. On thq clues;i«u that it he read, Sir• It. Wit,Rom rose, hilt . . Lord CASTLEREAGH said, that he did not wish,ro prevent discussion in the present stage of the And only interrupted the Gallant Officer to .say, that as some amendments had been made in th►e ComrrOtee, he meant • to move, that the Bill, as emended, be printed, to give opportunity for con sideration before a full discussion. Sir JAN:Es MACKINT(4II Said, that it would be certainly very convenient to have time to consi der the amendments. At the same time there was twilling to prevent any Lion. Illember, on this occasion, from discitssing the general subject of t:,e d cASTUIPCAGIt agreed that there was no thing to prevent such a discussion at present. Sir K WILsoN said his observations would ap ply merely to the details of the Bill. Mi. DENMAN said, he t hought th tit it would be found necessary to recommit the Bin. Mr. MAURYATT said ► that he nuty wished to re niifil House, that the Noble Lord (Cdstle reagli) on a former occasion had expressed his doubts as to a rxct whicis .(Mr. Martyatt) had cared to the Hoese. Yet be had now further ev id ence o f th ese facts, and he might say to the Noble Lord, in tii-e words of Hamlet- 0 ' There he more things in heaven and earth, HoratiO, than our books of . philo , ophy have dleamt had actieirtd nitre wisdom than to give. up the names of his inft•surn tors !O [lse Colonial Office.— Paull experience had taught him how dang.erous it was to ft:TOse titiCh A CiAnti&nCe hi GOVerffittellt, The persons so mentioried had been sacrificed to their general interest : but the tine would c o me when the channels. of Such intelligence might he safely roinmunicated without injuring the per• sons from whom it wits derived. But the tacts now aliened to were as notorious in that part of the world, as the Battle of Waterloo was to us at home. lit reference to the affAir at Trinidad, he had one of the pe!itions deemed extraordinary in his hands. He called upon ti,e Noble Lord (Castlereagh) to say uhettier or not Gover nor 'Woodrofil had Or had not acted accord irig to his instructions ? Did the instructions justify conduct ? In signing that petition, Govet nor kiToodford had in some respect S sanction ed _what was considered by several persons an act little less titan murder. If the Governor had exreeded his instructions, he called upon the ogle Lord to know why such a foul stain had not been removed from the character of the Go vernment I, lie had in his possession an original letter, with Lord Hobart's signature, writteu in the year 1797, which formed the basis of a Pro clamation front General Pict on, then Governor of Trinidad, directing a conduct towards the South America!) Patriots of a description widely diffe rent to that now adopted by the present Admini stration. He had also in his possession the cony of a Letter and Instrections frum the late Lord Melville to General Pict's!, stating, that the tyranny and oppression . of the Spanish Govern.. In cut justified the Patriots of South America in throwing off their allegiance !O the Modser Coun try, and that in such a case they might depend upon the protection of the British Goverment. These measures were projected during he Ad ministt ation of . Mr. Pitt, and yet thy successors of these very men, who preteisdrd to follow most religionsly the conduct and policy of Mr. Pitt, embraced at this time principles diametrically op. polite. He sincerely regretted that Ministers were in these days leaning more to the character and conduct 'of an arbitrary Government, titan what had been witnessed for a vast number of years. . . • Lord CASTLIMEAGII affirmed, that it iVOUId re giiire much more than time lion. Mernbct's inge nuity to prove that what he had now advanced had ally bearing to the particular question' be ore the [louse. As to the story of the old Lady, it was too absurd to dwell upon it. His Lordship, however, would not scruple to maintain, that it was equally true with what the lion. Gentleman had mentioned about Governor Woodford shutting the ports of Tinidad against those who had fled from South America-to seek protection and a re- Inge under the British Government. To refute these assertions, would be merely to repeat what he (Lord Castlereagh) hail stated some evenings ago in the Hon-e. So tar was the statement of the Hon. Member from the troth, that he could assure the House that Governor Woodford re ceived the refugees with every testimony of humanity; that they were soupported'at the pub lic expence; and that their numbers amounted to three thousand eight hundred. it was certainly very different to refuse an asylum to an objection able individual, even if true, to stunting up the ports against strangers in distress, and, who ap pealed to your humanity for relief. Such conduct was not characteristic of the British Government. But it was idle to take up the time of the House in the discussion of such subjects, totally foreign to the business now under consideration. Ttfe Hon; Member's letters—the story of the Old Lady—his tragical account of the persons who bad been excluded from the ports of Trinidad, by which cruel treatment they had become the victims of the waves, as their bodies had been seen float ing on time coast—and the prayers offered up in the churches by order of the Spanish Government, might be till deemed visionaries of the same happy invent ion ! The Clause, after a short conversation between Sir Matthew Ridley and Mr. Goulburn, was agreed Upon reading of another clause, and an amend. ment ['Awing been moved to it by the Solicitor .Gener4. Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN said, the Bill ap peared to him by these clauses to be quite a new and a different Bill from that first brought in, and, what was muse, it was even still more ob. j tetierft bk. _ _ _ Lep! MILTON agreed in this opinion. Lord CASTLEREA6)4 Wisl; the Dill to he print ed, when its intentions and objects would be likely, to he completely understood. GRANT thought the fill Nvas nothing else than a ilex translation •of a Spanish manuscript hitherto not well understood.. Sir M. iiinLEv said, if the' Bill Was printed it should be printed in Spanish, as its fit com mentator. Mr. 13r.onGnAm hoped time would be given to examine its contents, by ordering the Bill to be re-committed. Mr. IL BATIIURET said, the course now pur sued on bringing - up the Report was perfectly con sistent with fOrmer precedents in similar in-. staneeS. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL assured thft House the alterations had only originated in the correc tion of grammatical errors. There had not been a ny new clauses introduced. Mr. DENMAN said, he had during the progress of this Bill dropped several objections he had intend ed to make, because he could get no answer.— By a clause in the Billibe now found it was corn,- petent to the Lord Advocate of Scotland to insti tute proceedings in these cases in the Courts of Law in Dublin, as well as those in Westminster, because the words of the Bill rendered those offi cers liable to prosecution in any place competent to try criminal offences. Hence they might be tried at Edinburgh, as well as at l eithcr of the two 'formerly-mentioned i places. He now wished to know-it any Order in Council had hem issued for preventing the transportation into South America from this country of arms and ammunition ? Lord CASTLEREAGH admitted there .had been such an order issued. It extended to the Islands of Cuba, which, as it-was in the hands of Old Spain, shewed the disposition of the British Go vernment to maintain a perfeet. neutrality. Go vernn►ent was also very careful in granting licenses to ships going out to the West Indies, lest our Colonies should be made an eotreptit for arms for the service of the belligerents. Mr. BaotrGmANT admitted, that Government might so far think itself bound to issue this Pro clamation and act upon its restrictions; but he wished to know whether his Majesty's Govern ment had acted so far upon the principle of.per feet neutrality as toissue a similar Proclamation, preventing the export of arms to the territories of Spain. In one word, did the introduction ex tend to the / port of Cales ; for it was well [mown that at C►ties, and not at Cuba, the Spanish Mo narch was preparing an overwhelming force to crush the Independents ; it consisted in part of 34 Britiih vessels chartered to take out - Spanish troops, warlike stores, &c. to South America,—'' Whilst such a decided difference was observable in the conduct of - Government to Spain, and to wards her revolted Colonies, it was silly to talk of any observance in this country, of a perfect neutrality. Lord CASTLEREAGH Said, no such Order in Council had been issued, plainly for this reason, that it would be unavailable, except the com merce of this country in the article of arms with all outer ports of Europe were altogether inter- , dieted Vessels might, too, engage themselves, as the law !low stood, iu the character of transports for this purpose to the Government of Spain. Sir J. IMAcKINTosti co: ended, tl►at the answer of the Yoble Lord hr.. idly conveyed an intimation to the vroild, that our intended time of neutrality of conduct would amount to nothing more or less than this, that our GCnverntnent was determined to permit the introduction of every possible means of military at►noyaitce into the hands of one of the belligerent_parties, whilst it interdicted it in every possible way to the other. Alter a few words from Mr. MARZIYAT, Mr. Al derman WAITHMAN, Ei11(1,10 . 1r, DENMAN, who ex pressed a hope that snaieient tittle should be given for a further considerat ion of the measure, Lord CASTLEREAGII said, he had no objection, it it was the wish of the House to postpone the further consideration of .the Report from Tues day, the time first proposed,. to I.Veduesday next. The Report was•then ordered to be taken into further consideration on Wednesday, and printed i n the mean time with th-e amendments. POOR. RATES' MISAPPLICATION BILL. . Mr. S. Boy NE moved-the third reading of the Poor Rates' Misapplicatonll.—Ou the queslion,, that this Hi!! be read a third time, Mr. PRIMROSE begged to call the attention of the 1-louse to the nature of the proposed measure. He objected to the principle.of the Bill, as it went to do away with ,the 43d Eliz. which provided, that old and infirm persons only should be charge able on the Poors' Rates, The present Bill would have ,the effect of placing the, very lowest and worst part of society in a better situation than the honest and industrious classes. The Bill would enable the idle and ill-disposed labourer 'to have his children provided for by the Parish, while those persons, whos.: parental affection induced them to keep their children at home, Were to be deprived of parochial assistance, and left to struggle as they could to support their families. After several other observations, the Hon. Member concluded by moving as an amend ment,- hat this Bill be read a third time on this day six months. Mr. P. Mooaa seconded the motion. He could not consent to deprive the labourer of a share of the Poor Rates while he knew, that in Coventry, and several other parts of the country, the poor were working 16, hours a day without being able to earn enough to support existence. Mr. S. BOURNE defended the Bill. As the law now stood, the money paid by the parish to pa rents .for the support of-tlreir children, was al most univerally misapplied, while the poor chil dren were to be found hungry and in rags at home. lie, from having resided a considersble time in the country, had been enabled to judge of the effects of the present system of Poor .Laws on the lower classes. It was distressing to see the state in which the children of the lower orders were brought up. They were, in many instances, eneouraged to commit depredations- on their neighbours' property, by those parents who re ceived money from the parish to support them (1-Dear !)—He had not a parent's fondness for this Bill, but he thought it was Talcolated to produce Cie - most beneficial effects 06 the lower orders of society. Lord MILTON objected to fhe Bill, as tending to legalize the. evil of which the House and the country complained. Until the rate of laboorers' tcages had increased, he 'did not think .that any measures like the present could Produce any good. He therefore should support the Amendment. Sir JOHN SEBRIGEIT eOnsidered the poor laws as the great cause of the lowness of - wageS. He had often spoken on the subject co farmers, and the answer he received was, that if the wages were increased, and no aid given from the. parish, the unmarried men would have the advantage, and the money would he spent in the ale-house. He supported the Bill, because it was calculated, to remove the children from the profligacy they now witnessed, and would afford them at least a mural education. Mr. PHILLIPS acquiesced in every thing that had been said of the evils of the Poor LaWs, but he thought the present Bill would unmeasurably extend them. Besides, what restraint would exist against improvident marriage, if this facility was given to careless and unnatural parents. Sir ROBERT WILSON considered the 'interference with the children a Most obnoxious principle. Mr. BRAND deprecated the,idea that some Mem bers entertained, viz. That these children would be sent to those vile receptacles, .the Work houses. No such measure was in contemplation, as every precaution was taken in the present Bill to provide for the care - ot the children. Sir J. MACKINTOSH contended that the mea sure would only serve to establish a foundling hospital in every parish. What would become of the children, after their education should -10 finished, if they were sent forth into the world without the means of supporting their existetted It the third reading of the Bill was carried, lie, ,hotild move a proviso, excepting the children a Protestant Dissenters from its operation, as 010 1 alarm had been excited among that body, left their children should be brought up in a religina of which they did not approve. Colonel Wool - ) explained, that the schools would be , schools of industry, where the children would be kept and instructed in the day, bait wpold be allowed to return to .their parents P; night. The objection of the Dissenters cvai therefore unfontided. Mr. T. COURTNEY also defended the Bill. After a few words from Mr. Alderman and Mr. Cuawat4, the House divided— For the Amendment Against it 46 C 9 111;ijority against the llniendme►zt.... —23 On Stranger bri►►g re-admitted, Sir 3.ll.lAcmg' TOSH was found proposing a clause to exclude the Children of Dissenters from the operation of• the 1311 i. Mr. S. BOURNE objected to the clause, and Ella question being put, it was negatived. Mr. Alderman WOOD proposed a clause, whicb went to exempt the children of Jewish parent* from the operation of the clause respecting relid gious worship.—The motion was tiegatived.--7 The Bill was 'cad a third tine and passed. A new Writ was ordered for the Borough.of, Dorchester, to elect a Burgess in the room of Sir: S, Shepherd, who, since his election, had accepted the office of Chief Baron of Scotland. Sir C. Mosctc moved for an Address to the Prince Regent, praying his Royal ilig!tness to give directions that a Treaty concluded betk‘eea Russia and Turkey, in March MO, respecting the Cisalpine Republic, be laid before the House. Lord CASTLEREAGH did not object to the ow' tioo, but doubted whether the intormatiou called for c''uld be given. '1 he !notion was then agreed to. GIL:IMPOUND ELECTION. The House then went into a Com►nittee on the Grampound Election Bribery Bill, in which Mt W. Moore, Alderman of Grampound, qua, Cld a. mined. • The House then resumed, and tLe Report.re' ceived, anu ordered to be printed. The Report of the Charitable Foundations' Bal was agreed to. The other Orders of the Day were then dig" posed of, and the house adj ourne d at One o'Cloc4 this morning. LAW INTELLIGENCE. CONSISTORIAL COURT, Jux.r,ll. TEMPLE V. PAWLET. This suit for a divorce came before SirWILL I / 4 te, SCOTT. it was sought f o r on t h e groun d .4g adultery between the wife of the plaintiff and the defendant. 'f he Learned Judge decided that the Plaintiff was entitled to a divorce, and sentence was pronounced accordingly. FRAZER V. FRAZER. This was ,an application to the Cotirt for dint" meta of alimony, stated to be necessary for the support of Mrs. Frazer, she having received ua allowance from her husband, who is in the-Baig It appeared that adultery had been proved against the Lady, who was still living with bet seducer, and the Court refused to grant the applif cation. PROCTOR V. PROCTOR. This was a r,nit to obtain a divorce, conamence 4 by George Proctor, Esq. against Elizabeth Mails his wife, by reason of adultery with a Mr. Stair' dish, bud secondly with a Mr. French. Dr. JRNICRR, on the part of - Mrs. Procter, put ia counter-allegations, charging Mr. Procter witb adultery. It appeared in the course of the pro' . ceedings, that an abstract of the material dei►osi'; lions was trot in the bandit of tile Learned D o4.* tors, consequently the cause will come before Court again. ~ 1 COUILSE OF EXCHANGE, FawAY, JUNE LI. , et.instet dant _. 11 14 CI. Ditto, at Sight ll'lo ...,-. . ROtteitlatti - Antwerp I I IgEKAinnet Hamburg') 35 4 4 tl6=• Altona Paris; 3 Day's sight , s 24 70 . 0 (18. Ditto Bourdeaux;•ditto Frank forton the Main . .... 1441 Er. MOO' . Madrid Cadiz " . ' 37f 'Effect i' .4 Bilboa • 3t EffectScl Seville ~ 464 Gibraltar .. 33t Barceliina Leghorn • .•• • - 50,i . , ' Genoa... ,„ ~ . 1:3/-I'eliice, Ital. Liv. pi . • Malta... .. 5u -Naples...,. Palevino Lisbon . • Oporto Rio Janeiro ' 01 Dubi i 6.... ..... I 5..... Cork-- 15 per Cent. Agio of the Bank on Holland.... 2 pet Cellt. BULLION. , _ Portugal Gold, in Coin L. 3 19 :!)100 1 :* Foreign Gold, in Bars New - Dollari 0 5 •bi Silver, In Bars COAL MARKET, JUNE 11. ' ° ` ) Ships at Marliet. 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