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Churchwatdens and Inhabitants of St. Michael's. Wood-stree, and an adiacent Palish, against Ow London Clergy .Bii.—Read, and ordeied to lie on tt,e tHbht. Mr. W. SNIM-1 presented a petition from the Corporaron of Norwich against the Poor set. dement and ordered to lie, on the table. pIuNTTNG PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Sir W. DR CRESFIGN Y. rose, AIA said he was very dohitous that the papers which, on his mu tions%ad been laid before the House relative to tile misconduct of the Officurs of the A.iessed Taxes in the Seveuoaks District, should be printed. But he understood some object io'n had beets made to their being printed, on account of the extiNice, which it had been said would amount to 1,0001. Having made some inquiry on this snhjvct, he had ascertained that he could procure a primer , tho would undertake to print them all for 2001., and &liver them to the House in 2 days. He had, however, suede a selection of such . of the papers - as he thought Ought to be printed. The subject t.vas one of the u:most importance, and these papers would develop a scene of ini quity, of which the House could have no concep tion. • He moved, - that the selection of "'tapers mentioned its a list, which he produced, should be printed. Mr. LUSHINGTON said, he hoped the Llon. Baronet would agree to postpone the morion tin _Monday, as he had no opportunity of examining. and might perhaps find it necessary, in fairness to an parties, to propose that some other of the papers should he printed besides those selected by the [fon. Baronet. Mr. TIERNest said, it was; to say the least of. it, rather a strange thing, that when in a matte!' of such importance as this was stated to he, the (Hikers of the Ts easui y lead undertaken to pro duce the papers moved for by his Hon. Friend, they should have presented such an immense mais of documents as to pat the printing of the whole of them out of the gocstion ; and when a seleb lion of the most important was 'made for printing, that they should desire the motion to be post poned. It was certainly suspicions. After a few words trom Mr. CALLAGHAN, the motion was postponed. THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH OF IRELAND. Sir 3. N weorer rose, pursuant to his notice, to submit'to the House a motion for instituting proceedings relative to the State of Religion in Ireland, similar to those which bad been resorted to its 1306. In 1807 a Report had been made of the itiquiriee instituted in consequence of the measures - adopted in the preceding year. That Report prineiPally referred to the state of the Ecclesiastical Establishment, so far as related to the Union of Parishes, and the circumstances under which sod' unions had been effected, whe ther by Episcopal authority, or that of Parliament. It -appeared that some of them had been affected in such a way that it was almost impossible for t h e i n h a bitants of many of the parishes to .go to their parish Churches and return in the same day. In the last eighteen years 34 unions had been ef fected, which was a very rapid increase. in 1817, it appeared that 17 parishes had been united . into one. In one ease three parishes had been united, the aggregate extent of which was 13 miles in length, and five in breadth. Under such circumstances he thought it necessary that an Address should be presented to the Throne, for the purpose of ascertaining what opportunities were given to ti , e Protestant inhabitants of Ire land for the exercise of Divine Worship. He was the more induced to-bring forward this subject in consequence of several communications which lie -bad -received since the oniice which he had given of this motion. The Hon. Mt utber then read an extract front a letter, written lately to him by a most respectable Gentleman in Ireland, stating the inconvenience which had been occasioned by the union of Parishes. The cause of the lotion, in almost every case, was the incompetency of single parishes to afford an adequate support to a elerevman. The letter stated that the writer had lost seven of his Protestant servants 'in conse quence of the impossibility of . their procuring adequate meats for attending Divine Worship.— (Hear, hear !)---This fie thought was enough tit 'convince the House of the necessity of adopting, Some measure on this 'subject, considering that 500,0001. bad been voted within the last year for procuring to the people of the kingdom facilities for exercising the - public duties of their religion. With a church so richly beneficed as that of Ire laud, it was highly necess try that where the clergy were so Well- pail, their duties should . be adequately performed. ie concluded by moving that are humble Address be presented to the Prince Regent, praying that his Royal Highness would be graciously pleased to direct that an inquiry should be iestitetecl into the present state of the Church of Ireland, by communication to the Archbishops and Bishops, similar in nature and detail to those in 1806, made by his Majesty's command, of which inquiry his Majesty had been graciously pleased to order a Report to be pre sented to both Houses of 'Parliament ; in order that by compatison it might be found what steps Lad been taken to procore to the people of Ire land due means for the exercise of public worship, and especially the benefits and blessings of a resi dent clergy. Mr. C. GRANT said, he would only detain the gottee for a few moments, as-he had only to ex press his: entire and hearty concurrence in the -motion, awl. his sense of the obligations due to the Hon. Rironet for having brought it forward. Lie was sure no greater service could be done to Ireland than by following up this inquir y. With out at present entering further into the subject, or pledging him Self to bring forward any particu lar measure, he had only further to say, that he should be roost happy.to concur in any efficient measure which might be proposed for forwarding so desirahle an ohje'ct. Mr. LESLIE FosTria concurred in thinking the subject of great importance to Ireland, and was sore the Bis'hops would hare great pleasure in in stituting such. an inquiry as wasanentioned in the motion. He was happy that he had it in his power to communicate to the House some import aut information on this subject, and in sonic de gree to slate what would be ( r ye result of such an inquiry. lii 1807 it appeared, there were in all 1181 benefices in Ireland, of which 951 were Iprovided witb churches, an' 230 had. no churches at all. Immedieteiv after the report of 1807, a new system was established, and a very extended grant procured from the Office of First Frui!s, for the purpose of Supplying this lamentable defi • ciency Of Clint dies. In consequence of this, he was happy to inform the [louse, that 233 new churches had already been actually built, and 83 were now constructing. To the truth of these. frets he pledged. himself: it was not merely where no church had previously existed, that tile new ones were built, but also where the churches were so bad as to be little better than barns.— But the work was not yet by any meaos conduit- I ell. The care of the Board of First Fruits wes not limited to the building of Churches, but also extended to procuring the residence of the Clergy. Out of 835 benefiess in Ireland, 95 had been ac tually purchased, and the public woold be in pro gainers by the change. With respect to non-resident' incumbents, he greatly approved of the obseixations of the Hot% Baronet. Previous to the year 1808, many difficulties had arisen on that head, but, from the alteration of the law +hen, things had been considerably ameliorated, elthough still further changes were indispensably necessary. No dispensation Irtd been lately granted to bold more than three benefices in Ire land. He invited the Honourable Baronet to name the Prelate or Bishop under whose diocese the blame now insinuated had taken place. in the Hon. Baronet's review of the state of the Es tablished Church in Ireland, be was g lad that jus tice had been done to the Bishop of Castiti. The Hou. Member then went into a detail or history of the rise and progress of tithes in Ireland, trac ing !bent front the suppression of religious pons. s, in the reign of Henry VIII. Ile agreed with the Hon. Baronet, that there was now no longer any cause for the union or am-rtieantution of parishes, so as by this mode of ;;enteral contribution to in crease the, tithes ; and concludsd by giving his cordial to concerreece to the motion. Wseeetteonce approved highly of the Hot.. Baronet's motion. The Church.of Ireland and the Church of England ought to have an union of interest and an union of faith on the oc casion. Without those who were placed in the higher orders of the• Church discharged their duties with zeal and activity, the morals of the community at large would he endangered It was with extreme pleasure be had heard 1119 t the recommeedation of the Honourable Baronet had been so well atteoded to. It was the duty of the Gentlemen who were Members of the House, to let those in high situations of the Church know, that they ought to discharge their functions with scrupulous zeal and indefatieable diligence ; and to let them also knots, that if they remained indifferent to what utight be deem ed their religious duties, the House and the Public had a right to call upon them to learn the cause of their deficiency or neglect. Sir J. NewroaT wished, from motives of deli cacy, to avoid the necessity of bringing forward to public view any particular names. But feeling that a numerous and respectable body of men ought trot to suffer by any implication, sidewind, or iottendo, he found it proper to state, that his ietorination had come front Colonel Bagwell, Who himself had it in contemplation'to submit to the House a statement of the affair ; and that Gentleman had mentioned to hint, that the ag gression' now complained of bad taken place in the diocese of the Bishop of Kildare. The Hon. Baronet named the particular parislas alluded to, but he spoke then in too low a tone of voice to be distinctly heard in the Gallery. He had thus put . the house in possession of all that he knew of the subject ; and he was glad that his motion was not likely to meet with any opposi tion. Ile condemned what he termed a mon soon's vote of the Irish Petliament on a discus sion respecting tithes and non-residence. In con sentience of this union orsiutiction of parishes for the benefit of the incumbent, many of the inha bitants of Ireland must go the distance of seven or eight miles to hear Divine service performed in an Established Church. This inconvenience operated trot only fatally on the morals, but on the religious principles of the people of Ire land. It was thus evident that not only ought churches to be ..,increased in number, but that the incumbents ought to be obliged to remain on their benefices to discharge their• pastoral du ties. Notwithstanding there were many rich be nefices in Ireland, liose who held the livings were often allowed to pass their time idly in this coun try, leaving the care of their flocks to the curates. This was a grievance which deserved an imine thate remedy. The Hon. Baronet was ashamed to affirm that there were several highly beneficed end richly beneficed clergymen, who not only lived our of their parish or diocese, but indeed out I of the kingdornaltogether. 'rhe motion WNS then,put and carried ; and such Members as were of his Royal Highness's Privy Council were desired to wait upon the Prince 1 Regent with the Address. DISCHARGE FROM CUSTODY. • Sir Godfrey ‘trensier, Mr. Maberiey, and Mr. Tomline, were on filmier' ordered to be dis charged from the •castody, of the Serjeant-at- Arms, on paying their fees.' CHIMNEY SWEEPERS. The Chimney Sweepers' Regulation Bill was reported from the Coinmittee.Ordered to be engrossed, and read a third time on Monday next. CHARGE AGAINST AN IRISH JUDGE. Mr. M WaT N (of Gal Way) said, that he was now perfectly prepared to bring forward the mo tion of which he had given notice before the 're cess ; and it Gentlemen desired, he would then -proceed ; but as several Members, who wished to take a part in the discussion, had expressed a wish that he would consent to postpone •it for a few days, he now, for their convenience,woold agree 'that it should be postponed till Monday next. No argument would induce him to abandon his ob ject by entirely dropping the subj,et. He be lieved the Judge alluded to had been criminally guilty ; and the Hon. Member thought it ineurn bent'opon him, as a Member of Parliament, to submit to the House a statement of -the case. COUNTRY BAKERS. Mr. H. SUMNER brought in his Bill for better regulating the Trade of the Country Bakers.—lt %va% read a first time, acid articled fur a second reading' on Tuesday next. kwas also ordered to be printed. STATE OF FEVER IN IRELAND. Mr. C.lirtat.iT (Chief Secretary for Ireland), after moving for and obtaining leave, presented a Copy of the Report of the Physicians to the Lord Lieutenant on the State of Fever in Ireland.— Ordered to lie on the table and to be printed. MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, Scc. Mr. LUSHINGTON presented several Accounts relative to the Revenue.—Ordered to lie on the table and to he.printed. A Petition Was presented by the same Gentle imin from Stroud, against the Parish Settlement Bill. fitrthercnnAideration of the Scot; -Saving Bank Bill was postponed till the 10th of May. A Petition was presented front Sir George Al derson, in the name and on behalf of others. greatly interested in lead, tin, copper mines, &C. praying for a certain relief.—lt was ordered to lie on the table• The total account of the amount of the issue of Exchequer Bills was on motion ordered. A new writ was moved for Westbury, in the room of Ralph Franco, Eq. who, since his elec tion, hiol accepted the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. _ _ Mr. Edwards, from the Navy Office, In obe dience to the orders ►if the House, ►resented an account of the amount of granite and other stones t,~►rchased for the use of the Naval Daparttuent.— Ordered to lie on the table.--Adjourned. LAW INTELLIGENCS. COURT OF CHANCERY, APRIL 22. BURLINGTON ARCADE. ODELL AND OTHERS V. LORD GEORGE CAVENDISH, HERON, AND OTHERS. This case was formerly te_dore the Court, when we fully repo; tvd all thefretticnlats, as stated by the SoLicit or-General, and it will be recollected that the case was ordered to stand over in c o me . vence•of the agreements not being stamped. The SoLICITI/R-GENERAL now stated, that -the papers having been stamped, he had to move that the Court should grant an injunction to restrain the defendants from making a passage from the Arcade to the Western Exchange,Old Bond-street, as Ibe stipulations contailied in the agreement were, that there should be only two doors, one north and one south. The 'defendants had, however, opened a door to the Western Exchange, or Bond street Bazaar; which was become a public way, and thus the contract was violated. At the same time, he had no objection to the proprietors of the Western Exchange who had shops in the Ar cade from having a private communicatibn from one to the other, but then that should not be public, else it would be necessary to have 20 watchtrucs instead of, two, as at present. It was said that that door would be shut up •befort six, but then there was no certainty why it might not be left open all night. The LoRD CHANCELLOR observed, that' sup posing by - accident h- was inclined to go to this Exchange;.and see nothing which pleased him, and it he Went into the Arcade and bought some thiog, was he to he forced back by the Western Exchange, or could be not gO down the' Arcade ? The SOLICITOR-GENERAL answered, that bona fide purchasers would not he refused access, hut woat be complained of was, that the crowd throogh this new passage was so great when it was opened, that c ,nstables were obliged to he called in. All this was. contrary to the regula tions adopted by the lesstss, and sanctioned by Lord George Cavendish. On a former occasion, allusion had been made by the Court to a cause which occurred in the House.of Lords. He had subsequently looked into that case, which was a case from Edinburgh, the Magistrates and the City Council of which had sheWn the plan of R new square, which led to some person's building there on, but the square not being completed, one of the builders ,raised an action against the city,. which came to the House of Lords by appeal, he complaining that he had been deluded, and there fore-he refused to pay his rent, but tbeir Lord ships held that the mere exhibit of a plan was not a sufficient warranty, and they dismissed the ap peal. That case did not, however, apply here, as the arcade was finished as the plan specified, and that WAS. well known to all the parties. The other side admitted in their affidavits, that the opening . of this door would be highly beneficial to all patties in the Western Exchange. He held that this was sufficient to justify his Lordship in granting the injunction. The Learned Gentle man then at great length detailed all the facts which we formerly.,tietailed, and. concluded by moving for time injunction. PETYS 'followed in a very able manner on the same side. , The . LORD CHANGELLOrt wished to know who the persons were whom this injunction wins to operate againSt ? Sir ARTHUR PIGGOTT said, they complained of Universal Suffrage,--(A lautzis Mr. PEPYS said, the cuwplaint was against the defendants for not allowing this door to be con fined to the intention of the lessees in the original contracts. _ _ . The Loan CHANCELLOR—Yes, but the words in the license are " to open a communication with the shops in the Western Arcade." Mr. Punts admitted this, but said, that these words were intended to include the private con venience of the shopholders. The LORD CHANCELLOR---Allowing that, still you don't prevent bona'fide customers going from the one to the other. Supposing 1,500, or 100, or any number you, please, were to pass from this shop in the Atcade to the Western Exchange, would you call - this a public passage ) The SOLICITOR-GENERAL—The case does not rest on that, my Lord, altogether. Mr. Vas then referred to t wo easel in 2 Vesey, sen. , reports hesrd before Lord HardWieke, viz. Morris v. Lord Barclay, and another in the same volume, relative to buildings, in 'Gray's Inn, and contended that the decision of that Judge there was s precedent here. Sir ARTHUR PIGGOTT, as Counsel for Lord- George Cavendish,• observed, that his Lordship ' was the last person in the world who would have wished to violate the contract, bur there was ra) joint contract here, as each tenant bad a separate `lease. The express object was to facilitate the trade of both places, and this was known to the plaintiffs when they took the shops. The affidalit of Mr. Odell, the plaintiff, stated, he had A lett er sent to him that this passage would be opened , , and the rest had the same. The offer, as it was stated, was intended to allow them to carry on their business in both places, and the rive" passage to be made was only to accommodate the lessee and his customers, but not for the public in general. The parties thus who took the slops must have known that this was intended, 0 9 d how they could object wit now he was at a los e . to know. Some rumours having reached thes e gentlemen, that the lessor was to give a public passage that way, they went to Lord George Ca . vendish, who denied that he had such an intene lion, as all he meant was for the accummodati otl of the parties. The LORD CHANCELLOR said it was " see that such public concerns could not be kept out of Chancery. If this Western Exchange wee a Bazaar, a, • tie apprehended it was, then the great mischief was, how persons that went there. as loungers could be turned out of the Arale, bee cause it was nut likely the Arcadian sho would like to ask every one whether he or she meant to buy. Unless the plaintiffs shewed tha t the Noble 'Lord encouraged the defendants ill using this as a public way, there was no grouna of complaint against-him. Mr. WETHERELL, for the lessees, co ntenti ej e that the door never should be shut till the CO"; ordered it. It was said this was " a public wal e ' s pkeepers which certainly meant that it was open orrair l4 ; mortalibus, but such was not the case, as it never had, Dever would be used as such. The Leon e— , Gentlemen on the other side had made use of Ot; whintical arguments respecting the danger a 1..: doors being left open all night. This was just t ; say that the Western proprietors were to I° e , their property, leaeing it open to the depredalo"'" of everythief, and :le Arcade to b e the chief subject of 'robbery. It was ludicrous tti dwell on such au argament. The LORD CHANCELLOR—Is the Arcade e tniv posed of shops and houses, or shops only Mr. WETHERELL said of shoos only ; atto titer f was therefore a concurrence of necessity d ffil interest, to which he might add, even a e"" c ""' ' rence of motives iirboth places to see 171" t ties came there, and to keep wit i m proori , truders. It was well known that untoY / : ; ;; j e come there, not for . buying, but '` ut speci e oe ipsi," and therefore it was not natural tu, st 'Pr the Western Exchange people would refuse 'e. whom the Arcadians rejected. The- plaintiff - 3, u nit sides, knew that this passage would he made! he was astonished they could object now. be Odell, Chairman of the Meeting, soiled knew so, and this was known to others, o out of four plaintiffs three knew it. hacf the. 1- le it was known to all in the Arcade, for lie affidavit of one shopkeeper there, wh o doe,- fused to agree tojoin this combivation eg'"" emo f Western Exchange. Besides, there ev a , s that the plaintiffs represented the keepers,. and their case was therefore the 1 " - e j individual case of A, B, C, and - D. — el" Gentleman was here about to proceed to soul' a gal observations - on the case, and t o quote tor ° - decisions, when he was interrupted 'by The LORD CHANCELLOR, who said he w aS nnor obliged to go elsewhere, but as no appeals wnie be heard in the House of Lords to-morrow , wouhi with pleasure hear further argum ent he came in the morning into Court. te r ` Mr. WETHERELL wished it pit off t... Sa day, as he was compelled to be in the Cock-Pit morrow. o bj e etion 6 t; The LORD CHANCELLOR—I have no Let it be fixed for Saturday. Before I leav6lo°l,',reo. let me request the parties in the case of la-, seeo of rdarlborough to be here to-morrow , es I Co e dispose of it in the morning, and also of ' be • • of Jackson, a bankrupt. BLENHEIM. t 0 14 The LORD CHANCELLOR, in reference cause, said, " Are the two persons w" possession of the estate at thenheios nar'' the suit !" • e• The SOLICITOR in the cause said they vv er i Tl . r LORD CHANCELLOR—" Well, the'- e gt give you my opinion on it to-morrow morn' marls. , I(ellablei • On the 21st inst. at Clapham-common, Mrs. -• of a son. o f dagger.. Same day, Mrs. Charles Neatc, of Foley-place , - On the 2 , 2 d inst. the Lady of U. J. Call, Esq. . _ _ MARRIED. of til° At Calcutta, in November last, James D ew ar, Egi• - Col' / Civil Service,t Emily,' o youngest daughter of th g o o. Samuel Dyer, many years Quartermaiter-Gencral in ale East India Company's Seps'ice. ,„ a s ( l' , Yesterday, at Sr. James's Church, Sandford Graua,"' jot - M.P. only son of Sir James "Graham, Bart. to Laj - „ 0 Langston, third daughter of the late John Lallgiioo, r-'s'. Narsden House, in the county of Oxford. At Paris, on Saturday last , iM i l if i t l e; a fete days! innesg' til u gi' Lady of the 11ev. 1. Vance. On at t e h r e::::s t t e . nt i i n al ß .y a t i r ce o rz t tr h e s et u , n ti it a:b st l : a l l i eraig ; :;l , eldest daughter of Richard Rush, Envoi' , E str3°rai a 2i n iPßOVlNClAL„.)on.squl3alrlet:lDlluSb,:iNul,Aoßilittlhe:GlF.7-tSb, - As r - _DE ATI 4SI 10 /1. BIRTHS. In M-square, Mrs. Hewitt, ot a so& I, ad)" ° 1 . Ori the lGth inst. in the College Precincts, the be dra - t Hon. and Rev. Mr. Rice, Piebendary of Worcester C3l of a sou. . ....----,,,,-----. ~ lat e nif t ftitlED Lately, Mr. T. H. Jones, surgeon, fifth son of t' h le t hird : Herheit Jones, Esq. of Llynon Anglesea to Elizahe,t'i'lirthis daughter of , the late Thomas George Ilairis, 'Nicholas,' Esq. of 'lre instant the to of Cornwall. i soe , Lately, at Kidderminster, Mr. A. Harris, seem -to- cal/ Esq. of Oatlands, DursleY, to 'Mal' daughter of John Best, Esq. of.t he former ple.ce. DIED. OBlYreb Lately, the Rev. A. F. T. Burton. the eldest and o ~..., ', ic i ng su u of the Rev. Dr. Burton, C an on of Christ H' , Oxford.. o r k' 0 k' ill big On the 14th inst. at his house , Lavitt's Qua), 94d year, Julius Besnard, Esq. •• rner 01, 008 Lately, in Limerick, JoMii M'Allister Tave) .1" ts of the Sheriffs of that City. , ;:., Alder rl ' i Lately, at his house, Baggot-street, Ditoto,, .. • 0 , o - ! Mathew Hone, Magistrate of Merrion-square r"tlhslof his Police. It is particularly painful to record the death Her s e*. amiable daughter, the wife of Counsello.rlo.l'.:::r6refiel 'i couchement had only taken place a few dlys befor 17 .c0 t, . flier's death, and when informed of the lamentable 6, i she almost immediately expired. ~...--• ! —.— --- LONDON: Printed by J. B. CARSTAIRS, of he N d o. "' w, A' Orminid-street, Queen-sqngre; pstreet, e rublis , 13%* _ s of SCRIPPS, of No. 7, South Molton-osoeo, ()dice, No. i 14, Strand ; where Adveitisernentse * Lwttvrs, &c. (post-Paid) must be aidressed. I 'II