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PARLIA .t ENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH The Lord Chief Justice ABBOTT sat for the Lord Chancellor as Speaker. 'Di e [inns, proceeded in Appeals. The Oaths iv ere atitninistereil to Lqrti Viscount Yaynard, the BishOp of Worcester, and Lard De Petitions were presented from Lorr! Viscount Glanville from the Gentry, Clergy, &c. of the County of Brecon, against any alteration in the Co •I Duty and by the E4rl of Lat;,:i,,e.iale from tour Pni ishes and Townships in the Norb Riding of You kshire, praying that ,Lead Nl;ites 'night be rated to the Pours' ltare. His Loidshlit stated, that it: consequence of the decision of the Court of King's Bench, that lead mines were not liable to the Poore Hate, that rate had been greatly iocrease,l, partictilarly by the practice ot toe (J. 5111.13 Of trines to employ pet sons hum dit tricot qoarters, who no; being paid enough wages to sithsiat upon, were thrown upon the parish to make good the detieency, and that than a most oppressive hurt:ten was itliposed upon the pa - risliionerS —All the petitions were ordered to lir 111103 t ! e :able —llls L r iship stated that lie had two other petitions from parishes ill the baine,piar hit, bill by did not think they ought to be reeeiettl, tn consequence ot the allusions they made to pio crettiop in the House of Conion,lis, and t bere. tote lie declined presenting them. T e Cutlery Bill pass, d thron,gh a Committee, and el a. rr porte,l amendment to be lead a third time cut Nionday. ; • The Steam Vessels' Tolitiage Rill, and the iletvards' BM A were read aliil passi.d.—Adjuat till tu-mur.• 11 utv ([11i) dely.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. Committees were blilmed for to try the "leading *PA it cheater Petit ions. RE:AniNt; ELEc'nos, 'kir. Ley hrotigh t lip the i etith eti lint of the Readif.g - Electioo Committee, which, as tar• as colt:dbr coli ect co!, from the ntatZitec iu Willa) it was re4d, was a follov.s Joseph Phiilitnore, }lon. Edward Cost, I 1& my Cave, P. rir«mso, Lord It rMhaven, (ivorge CoussrbaLer, William Parnell, Evans, Hon. Douglass, Sir J. Cott, tell, J. 11. Logii, Viscount ilzhartis, W. U. Fellowes, - rant., Cliarlcs Dunda,. I'E;TITIONS. Petitions against au Alteration in the Coal Duties were present-ell from Bind - ,burn, by Sir It. Peel 3. front Wigan, by Sir R. 11. Leigh and Irons l'reston, by Mr. Blackburn. Air. DAVSNFORT, Aleniber for the County of Chester, preseiord a Pt tition tro.ui the Mann- Jacturers of Salt in the Counties or Cheshire and I-anedsl)ire, against the EitOlizat ion of the Coat Duly, ,Lurd - G. CAVEND2SI4, a PC66011 ftOIYI the Agri— eul'urists of Derby, praying for a Ducy on Agri cultural Produce imported. ;Mr Alderman Wont) presented a Petition from a parish in Devonshire, complaining of the weight' of the Duty on Coals. The petitioners, he oh ro:•rved, did not pr;iy 3pecitically for an ecitniliza t[oll of ti; t : duty, but recommended the subject to the consideration of the House. Mr. C. CAT.VERT F•etnh►l,e+l, that the petition front the Borough of Southwark, the first, he believed, presented to the House, did not pray for an etrialization of the Tax, as the inhabitants of the coal districts serrated to apprehend, but for lepeal of the Tax altogether. Lord RANCLIFFE presented a Petition from Not tingham against the rtnewal of the Insolvent Deb«ti,s' Act, Sir J. NEWPORT, a Petition from Tanners, in against the Leather 'fax. Mr. CLivrtmoved for Accounts ot British Iron exporied, and of Foreign Iron imported and ex ed, and of the Duties received and Drawbacks paid thereon.—Ordered. ROCHESTER ELECTION. The reduced List of the Rochester Committee was brought up, which, as far as could be col lected, c►►ntained the tollotviug names Lord Compton, Sir W. Wary, Viscount Normanhy, Earl of ltoclisavars,r, Honourable W. Eliot, Lo d F. Montagu, \V. Chute, A. Campbell, Baoartl, Honourable I'. Cust, W. S. liior Ttrainas S. Gooch, It. Bernal, W. Sturges Bourne. GENERAL GOURGAUD. Mr. LANIBTOI , I said, he deemed himself bound courtesy to inform Honourable Gentlmam Ivhom he saw in his place (Mr. H. Clive), that be bad a Petition from General Gottrgaml, which contained a contradiction of the assertions made I.y the i-lonnurHble Gentleman on a former occa sion. It was his intf_:Htion to take an early op portunity of calling the attention of the noose to th a t p e tit ion,wlien a Noble Lord (Lord Cade reagh) was able to attend in his place. I%IR. WYNDHAM QITIN. The Ortter of the sly for taking into, eonsi tietioion the mat ter of complaiot against the lion. Wyndham Q tin having been rent)- 11. Wit.sov, 3.11 d, that as it had fallen to his lot to present the Petition on which the House 'sa' now abort to institute an inquiry, it became his duty to ?nit itch introductory questions to the tvitnesses ho might he called to the Bar, as would serve to bring forward the facts, as far as he had been made acquainted with them, and to connect the chain of evidence which it was in the power of the Petitioners to offer. His object was to obtain truth, and that in the most explicit and expeditious manner; but he begged to say, titat it he trespassed on the rules of the II wise, or violated the laws of evidence, he hoped it would be ascribed, not to wilful error,, but to his utter inexperience in such proceedings. Ile was con vinced that no Gentleman had come to the House to act the part of a judge, without endeavouring to divest himself of previous impressions, and eciAting to guide himself entirely by the evidence but he could not conceal front himself, that an unfair impression had been made on the minds of the House by ontoward circumstances. They had Huth_ to do, generdly speaking, with the ab stract motives of Petitioners, unless when they scented likely to influence the truth of their state ments. He did no , conceive dint any u hick had been proved against thu retitiontr or his father should inanee the House to reiihipisb the inquiry Iwo an alleged public offence of the fir s t magnitude. The time Was now come for him to say, that neither the Petitioner nor his fattier had any part in the fabrication of the tuatte'r of the charge ; but that it rested entirely on the evidence of a Gentleman, whose character stood as high as that of any Gentleman in the House. It would I .)e now for the House to say whether he had forfeited that high character. He should now move, that Mr. Carew Smith he called in. Mr. Carew Smith WAS accordingly called to , the Bar, and underwent a long examination. In the course of the evening, Mr. STUART WoarLav gave notice, that if any part of the proceedings were published before their complelion., he would bring the individual offending before the House for a breach of privilege. - 'Tice examination of fir. Carew Smith conti nued I.intil 11 o'clock, when Mr. Goolcl Was called to the Bar. This Gentleman's testimony had not closed until halt after 12, when, on the motion of tii• Robert Wt , the tot titer examination of evidt.nce was i.obtponed until this day. There are 6:•e Witnesses vet to he examined upon this sub ject, and it is understood that their examination is not likely to letniitiate until hl-outlay A St-itrt Committee has been appointed to Select such tters atidtteutt by Mr. Carew smith as are immediately relevant to the case before the loose. A!ter the adjournment of this question, the At torney-Genet-4's motion, with respect to tire In solvent Debtors' Act, tv,,s postponed until Toes-. day next. Mr. GRIENFFLL moved for certain Papers with respect to the Exchequer B dances in the hands of the Bank of Er:ll,lAnd, IA hit h were ordered. The Poor Laws Amendment Bill was read a thil if ►inie'and pa,sed. The,Al,trine Allitiny Bill was lead a second time, mid Committed for tu-niorrocv. Tire Army Mutiny Bill was committed, and, on the motion of Lord Pelliners7on, a clause was inserted, authorizing the extension of the sitting of . Courts Martial flour three utt , il four o'clock each day.—Flonse resumed, and Report to be received this day. NIRT.LISII presented a petition against the insolvent Debtors' Act, from the polishes of St. George's, Bloomsbury, and St. Andrew's, Hot born.—Ordered to lie on the table. The other Ordeis of the Day were disposed of; and the House adjourned about One o'Cjock. PARLIAMENTARY PEEKS. GA ME LAWS. Return to an Address of the lionse of Com mons to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, for 4 Return of the Nut-114er of Perioos in COS may, in England and Wales, lot Offences against the Game Laws : Directions, in pursnanee of the foregoing ltddres3, hare been given to the Keepers of the different Prisons in Eng land and Wales; and from the Returns which have been re ceived from them it appears, Flrat, on the 2Gth of January list, in ISC of the Prisons, there was no Person in custody for any Offence- against the (ame Laws; an d th a t, i n 75 Prisons, there were thee in custody for such Offences. 522 Of whom there had been- committed under the Act, I:. 99 57 Geo. 111. cap. 90 ........................... . Of the latter- number, the Sentence Of Transportation, for 7 Years, was passed upon Of ImPrisotrmeut, for e Years, itport 18 Months I Year, or 12 Months ...... Months 3 Months 2 Months And there remained for Trial 9.3 Whitehall, 26th Feb. 181 q.. H. I{OBHOIJSE. FOR THE SUN. TI I E PEERAGE. Mn. Er ITon,—l profess myself an enthusiastic, and believe myself it reasonable, Admirer of the British Constitution, but as there appear to me inroads making on divers of its Establishments, I wish to call the attention of those who'vahle and are able to nudge of it, to one subject in parti cular, which seems to me deserving their Attention. This subject is the enormous Increase of the Peerage. End its the yenr 176 G, the English Peers, including the Bishops, were The Scotch 221. In 179`3---The English Peers and Bishops .. The Scotch 262. In 1807—The English Peers and Bishops 116 The Scotch, The Iri,ll Peers and Bishops 36•1. In ISM—The Peers and Bishops 3-24 The Scorch „..„ IG The Irish Peers and Bishops 977.. I mean neither to say, nor to insinuate, any thing disrespectful either to those, who receive, or those who _confer these honours ; but it it ob vious, that thete must be a considerable effect, whether the increase of the Upper House, or (supposing the selection to be appropriate) the deduction of such persons (certainly in general very ophlent and distinguished) from eii-gibility into the Lower House, be considered. I am my self inclined to think this addition to the Lords will strengthen the power of the Crown ; at the same time it cannot be denied, that it is also a great addition to the applicants for favour and distinctions, the number of which is in a great proportion thereby relatively diminished. As I said before, 1 wish the opinion of saute of your Cor respondvnts, who, I hope, will neat it a a fair subject for disquisiticn, without party views on either side of the question. I beg only to sag gest one point for the consideration of any who shall favour the public-with their sentiments, and that is, the probable state of the Peerage at the end of the next equal term of years. viz. 1572. ARISTIDES. LITMIARY REVIb.W. DELPIIIN CLASSICS. gteater;service raft he rendered to the Cause of Literature, than by the reprinting of Works which stand the test of ages, anti retain their power to instruct and delight, amid all the fluctu ations of manners and opioious in which Time involves the course of human things. The authors known more particularly by the appellaion of the CLASSICS, are of this description ; education is be• gun with theta; no library is deemed complete without them ; and he whose mind is early im bued with their beauties, never fails to recal ‘vith delight, amid all the turmoil of succeeding life, the feelings which wete awakened in his breast by his first acquit:mance with the fascinating 'fables, the exquisite descriptions, and the heroic sentiments of the earlier poets and historians of Greece and Rome. Under theSe impressions, we should at any time have rejoiced in the appearance of is work of so toorh importance as a reprint of the DELPIIIII AND VARIORUM EDITION; of THE CLA‘ssrcs l butt whet, we see the maguificent scale on which it is brought out, when we convince ourselves of the critical labour and ilC!ltelleSS that have been expended on its text ; when ere consider the credit that such a production will, for ages, be to the country that has enabled it to app ear • with every advantage that the most liberal sup port could give to the spirited exertions of its Felitor, we rejoice patriotically as well as scho lastically, anti cannot refrain trom devoting a few lines to tine mote particular mentiout of a work in which there must be few indeed amon i g our Readers who will not, from one cause or o:her, feel themselves interested. The DELPHI` CLAsgrics have long hells, rank above every other in the estimatioo o 4 the learned world. it is of coorete unneces•dry tr . ) say that they have always been sought ,otter with so much eagerness, that for many yeasts it has [Jou) nearly impracticable to proctpre cOmplete sets of them, insomoch !hat at the sale of the Doke of ROX DURGLICS Library, an event whkh brought almost all the book collectors in the kingdom jot() one focus, a set was sold for more than five hundred pounds. The VARIORUM EDITION', at ROY price, has long been entirely unattainable in anuniform shape.— To reptiblish, therefore, and incorporate these most valuable Works, was a thought ‘vorthy of scholar, .auttl- sere of encouragement from the learned ; but to republish them with every embel lishment of the typographic art, required in the Editor that individual ability and public spirit which he has already evinced on occasions of the _same nature, and which bid lair to he rewarded Kith the countenance and support of every dis , tinguished name in the kingdom. 'fire lion list already presents the gratifying sight of nearly eight hundred admirer's of learning and pa trons of meth ; and it will probably receive consi derable additions, now that a specimen of the work has appeared, and so fully gratified every expectation of excellence which had been pre ciously excited in the public mind, by the wcil known- ability and enterprize of Mr. VALE'S', the conductor r,t it, Only a few copies, we under. , stand, will he printed veer the stabscription, and the price, of course, wilt then be raised hene ficiai measure, that must ensure a proper distinc tion and advantage to the subscribers, to whose assurance of support, we presume, it is Owing that the present splendid publiration has enabled the Editor to- present it to the Blitista People. LONDON JOURNSLS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF - TINS DAY. [Morning Post.] The Persian Ambassador, who is coming to the Court of London, arrived on .9uoday last in Park, and alightrd ‘vith all his wire, dt the Hotel Botithon, Roe de la Paix. The residence of this personage at Vienna came(' a lively sensation.— :iinee the time of Rodolnh If. a period of near 200 years, a Persian Envoy had no-t been seen in that capital, Although the court of Austria al w►`s sought to cultivate an alliance wilh Persia, wt►ose trierrJship might form a kind of counter= poise to the Ottoman Porte. Eillornin g Herald.] The whole of the late Queen's servants hare received notice, that the full amount of their re spective saldlies will be continued to them, by way of Pea&ion, for life T and at the same time they have been informed, that they will be ex pected to quit the apartments which they oc cupy in the different Royal nstablishments on the Zth of next month.. [The In consequence or the g reat fall In the niarket for raw cotton, expresses have been sent trom Liverpool, overland, to Calcutta, in order to coun termand, as speedily as possible, any further ship ments of that article. Au absolute engagement is said to htuve been entered into by the persons bearing the expresses, to deliver them, allowing for accidents to life orlimh, in three mouths front the date of 'leaving England. The mercantile world suffered a severe sho k yesterday morning, in the failure of the vet y emi nent house of J Haranden and Co. The outst.md ingdebts and acceptances fall little short, it is said, of 200,0001. This calamity has been priu cipally brought on by the declining state of the markets, the house holding large quatoitie , : . of clover-seed, cotton, and 'tallow, the whole of which articles have undergone a very great de preciation. Among their acceptances were lit% to H large amount, drawn in belylt of the Prus sian Government ; but these latter have all been ttalcvti up by Mr. Rothschild.--(Thiel.) The Clerk of the Chlpel cif El , e, at MeHier, in Yorkshire, to recover a lost horse, posted tip a public notice, of which the following is a copy : —." Stolen, Jr otherwise carried away front Hal lam, a horse ten hands high ; tour feet, one a black one ;• God save the Ring ; with a pack saddle an his hack." 1:0It TaL SUN. Mk. EDITOR,-1 have for a long time 1 3 st much pleased with the observations in your 1 36 Per about the Attorni e s a n.l the Insolvent Laws. i t is good for the Public to have a Journal as a ttew' bee n' Live as THE SUN to every thing that concerns oat welfare. Those 'Who have suffered by dishonest or by ignorant Attornies, in particular, will h art cause to rejoice in the account you published last night of the Professional Meeting at Sea La 's Coffee-house. But, to be sure, Sir, a great deal , of the reproach which w e have been in the ha bitog throwing on the Peofesaion in general must hav e ' been excited by the knavery and unFkilfulness of persons who intruded themselves into it with ntil a stabcient qualification. At all events, the world will have a fair or portnnity of seeing, if this new Law Society 1 049 on, where the reproach (ight to ha:e beet' cost; If the Lawyers Call keep improper persons out .71 the Profession, and do keep them out , they ' .. " 1 become the more responsible thtnaselvts ar ui their . Society becomes so established as Rx a sufficient check over its own Members) w/111 ; Sir, belonging to such a Society will be a s ' nl h o c a test anti pledge to the Public that titer wi ll ;- safe in its Members' hands, I hav e little E l ° e will) Law, Mr. Ltlitor, and must own that I 118 %, no desire for any mote ; but, wh a t e ver hoi lle ' s have, shall always think safest in the hand s ° t4 a S, , licitor w•ho belongs to t h e m g . i . Ro troLi rA Law ,:..'octunr. I ani, Sir, YQlll* very humble servant , March 11, Mg. AAvssNrA;•l,. TREAT IL 1 C:1 L, It EGIST 11- l'erfornied Last Night. vr , r EATR7. ROYAL. DUO RY- LAN E.—Ki;ig• frenry thes,4o.-Ito (Vir,t Part) : Mr. Kean ; tr ; it Ju b a Riktitri s , Mr. ttit! The CaSt IV Of ‘V , ISI , ICrS• Ya d t te TIIEATIZe. CovEsr-CiA h Av. Prim:iv:if Characters by Mr. Yating and: M S (i'Scl",' tel ‘,Licoh, Paul and Vire;iiiia, To wbich v. - as add" licaf Fur M. on the IssoLv ENT D.iirolts' ACT, see C 1-3°t I' ike. 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The subject is/highly int eres' l " . ' involves the purity of Parliamentary IteP ic ' el )01 ( lion. lire did not deeM it propet to ( „E own sentiments on the matter, because 'y e (ii" in :I doubt that it would he fully investig^ tea f " 1 House of Commons, , and we are preci" licti -: saying any thing at present by the O tice riv4 vo by Mr. STuART WoRTLRY that Ire w ° ` " f Ot te the House against the Conductor of al}' nal that • i published any part of the eN k " °) s s C eti Lion before the whole was concluded.- -- W e that we feel much satisfaction that the s"bie-.lo# procteding, us we conCeived, from a geueP 4 v . l , of the case, that it demanded a foll'er clocidil"°o , ViTednesdly . night 04e Duke and Parsl nE 0 ;,.. - ( Lorcii.svEtt rt . ( orned to too . n t .)0 1 o'l ) th ° eir 'Y ' esterda on y, so tinter one C,tilsc Wwilids::ll Highnesses left Gloucester ht sl, Wow:ester House contintEes thro;leged for `,l3Llik'je Ir inquirers after the !zenith of the Duchess. Csr P Si: . HEN'SAI`,IIN I.3LnOISIWI ELD is eXP eCte(" 31 ft k ° ton house to porrow, or on ° artangenientn for the art jval o f the 13[111.4°8 GENT, preparataty to the L ov e 00 Liiiirst next. The Loan (2.ItANCSLI.OR, Ate hapPY t° r'"Siderably better, Ilk Lortlsliip will ri f`' 4 is ey >am)? testone his sittin4s on. Satu rda y or Inet44',, ► " ext • His Lordshin ‘recelverl th e Scotch his b""se i.15-',liettforrl-sqoarc, on Wctlncs(l4lY; for the porpose of qunlityine, then) to vote at ""ilitig election of a liver to the room of the late 01' E RROL . „ r tt His Glace the Doke of VVELLINaTo-fi 1.101)(j:"."ie M . r.MATHEWSn `` .SlHorte• with a visit 16S1 'rue cat i:igc of the Nolte Duke was recofVl4te,c, previous to its ritawin4 up, at the entrance 01. Tie"fte , and tretOre he could alight ' 111" ; 11 1; set - of pet sons 1).4t1 collected, who hailed %%I ritects As he nasced M on . : : the av er There are now fitting out, at Holl:co les s 1 ": - 8 ,65 ships for the Cricet:l..iftl andP ' 11414. ‘Vhale Fisheries. Nev v . ; crew Cit o3 tasti iI aVIII P o i ni N s, Clp, ;l 111i tn ; tld NI 41 ert, tfrirtti ttrshti 4 biste ~iei,~ Iti l - lt 38) , 4i4 //c) i In ulrj 1 t d d ti k. , pros PA SWat tel a, Sc Put h th e 1 Ti t Al% trio;.!l Tti otz wai st tlid. Dru ce 1„ 4 , 2,„.es Zt ePtit 4e, r► 1,, I, 1",,1 t th e the F IY 1, Pro ( 4t tc, ; , l-() vi `x (~~