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PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, TVIISDAY, Suva 13. The Oaths were administered to Lord Viscount DUNCAN. _ _ Leave wal given to the Earl of Sheffield {hi& Lordship consent - int.; tliereto) to Attend the Pe tersfield Wectioli Committee, if his Lordship should titiA. fit. On the motion of the Marquess of LANSDOWN, a Message • was ordered to be sent to the [loose .of Commons, dtsirinl; leave for the auenthoice of Alexander Robertson, I - 17e , q. a Member of .that 'House, to Live evidence betore the Lords' Com stittee on Trade. On the motion of the Rail of Sti EMIL!), some Popers were ordeted respecting the importation of Grain, .Btc. _ _ A Petition was presented by the Marquess of LANSDOWN from the Mercl►4►►'s of Leith, re specting the Timber Duties.--Ordered to be re ferred to the Commithte no Trude.. The Exchequer Bills Funding Bill we‘ reed second time, and committed for Friday. The Customs Regulation Bill and the Transfer of Grants Bill passed through Committees, and were reported. SCOTS PEERS. The Earl of Rosenhaav moved the second reading of the Bill for regulating the right of voting at the Election of Scots Peers.' His Lord ship stated the object of the Bill to be, to remedy . defect in the law, under which, as it stood at present, the Returning Officer, at the Election of Scots Peet had no power to reject the vote of tiny pt.r!•nn who claimed to be a Peer of Scotland end a,sumed the title, although such person had no ri, , ht wha!ever to the Peerage. The object of the bill„.theretore, WaS to give the Returning Officer the rig' in twine of rejecting the votes of Persons claiming to be Peers (except those who ba,', tlre;•tdy exercised and except the sons or grai! , :sons o± Peers, snceeedin to the Peerage,) ule6S Sued persons had made good their claim to OR! Peerage H 1 that Honsc, as in the case ot the reerS or Irckitn., where even the son succeeding to his hither must still- make good his claim in that House before he count vote as a Peer, The Earl CATHCART !longlit that the purpose .sought by the Noble Ear! might be answered by ine ,, !s or a Resolution of th, House, without re sorting to any Act or Parliament. Lot, Viscount MatvaLe wat of opinion, as advised upon the subject, that a Resolution of the House would not be sufficient, and lie thought the Noble Earl (Roseberry) entitled to thanks. for hriniong forward the present measure, which, tinder the circumstances of the case, taw; necessary. He thought, however, tha• the tiro, tiler of a Peer might he al'owed to succeed With out being under the necessity of proving his claim in that House• --- - The Earl of LAUDERDALE agreed in the expe diency of the Bill, as at present he might, if he pl easv d, ger fitteen or sixteen persons to assume Scots titles, and thus to vote at the election of Peers, by which the return might be altogether altered from what ought to be the true one. tie concurred, however, with the Noble Viscount, that the brothers of Peers might be 'allowed to sneered without proving their claims •in that hioose The LohD CUANC:•LLOR Was in favour of the Bill, but thought it better :I,at every prtrson int( to succeed to a Scots Peerage, should, like the Irish Peers, make 'good his claim in that Ilouse, withotit exemption of brothers, or even sous or grandsons. Ile said this from a know ledge of the- heavy responsibility which attached to the &older of the Great Seal, in ascertaining the correctness of the descent of Peers of England before he granted them their writ summons. The Bill was read a second time, and commit ted for Friday.—Adjourned till to-morrow. (this day). HOUSE OF COMMONS. There being Ballots on the Election Petitions for Penryn rsnd Ipswich, the Gallety was not opened until five o'clock. A considerable discussion took place on the Ayr Navigation Bill. Mr. Bernal opposed the Clause, which went to exempt the .Canal from the burden of poor rates Admiral Sotheron, Mr. S. Wortley, and Sir J. Graham, supported the clause. The discussion was interrupted lay the-appearance of Mr. LEY at the Bar with the reduced List of the Committee on the Election Petition against the return (or the BOROUGH of P>`NRYN• The Dames were ••••• T. P. Wi lliams Sir J. Ikughey Right Honourable S. J. Stuart H. Metcalf W. ft. Bongliton D. Sykes C. Ellison N. W. H. Coburn' C. Harvey 'ICH. Sir N. Colihuist It. L. Lester G. Munday C. M. Cheere Honourable R. Neville IPS V The following names reduced List of the Jpsw S. Marjorihanks Sir W. Rowley J. Carter Lord Brudenell M. Russell T. W. Beaumont Sir T. Baring were brought up as the ich Election 1 Hon. W. S. Lascelles J. ti. Lanibton Hun. It. H. Clive .1. Brogden Admiral Sotheron Lord Althorp Bootle Wilbraham. After some further observations from Mr. Crompton, Admiral Sotheron, Mr. S. Wortley, and Mr. Sykes, upon the clause for exempting the Proprietors of the Ayr and Calder Canal from liahility to the Pours' Rate, the Haase proceeded to a division--- For the Amendment Against it . ...... 60 Majority for the Amendment -17 A Petition was presented from Occupiers of Land in the neighbourhood of Lichfield, complain ing of Agricultural Distress. Lord NUGENT begged to ask the Right Honour. able Gentleman opposite, whether it was the in tention of his Majesty's Ministers to , postpone the third reading of the Malin) , Bill. The CHANCELLOR of the ExCII6QIIIIR said, thit it was his intention to move the Order of the Day for that purpose . _ Mr. LITTLETON presented a Petition from the trailers and other NVorkers in Iron in the county of Stelfordphire, complaining of distress. Sirnihr Petitions were presented by Lord Arehi .salti liamiltop, from the Cooclamitkere of "ail burgh, and from Traders and Manufacturers in the Burgh of Pere h. Mr. RICARDO moved for an Account of the Number of Gallons. of Foreign \Vine, together with the Excise Duties paid thereon, from soh 180 s. to s:h July, 1819, diatingt►ishi+tg the French from lift other \Vines ;- also, an Account of the Number of Gallons of Foreign Spit its, with the Excise Duties paid therei), +he same periods, distinguishing the different Li quorS. Upon the motion► of the CHANCVLLOR of the Excnr,Qtrea, the Order of the Day for the third reading of the Nintiny Big was read, for the pur pose of discharging and postponing the third readi«►t; till to-morrow„ Lord NUGENT said, that 18 Notices and three Orders of the Day stood for to-morrow, and as precedence was given to the Notices to-morrotv, he soggetited‘that it would be convenient to post pone t!e, third reading, with an understanding that the ASittioy Bill should conic on first to morrow, 14 , o •s his intention in move a redoc 'ion in the 'lowlier of men, and it would he ex tremely convenient if this suggestion were ac ceded to. CHANCRLLOR Of tl►e EXCFTEQUER S4ld, that t h e t i um b et Nwiet's %%Ilia stood for succeeding days would render it inconvenient to make any alteration in the usual course - . • The further consideration of the Limerick Elec tion Petition was postponed from Monday the 19th to Tuesday - the 20th. SUPPLY. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the Ex- CREQUIHR, the Bill for raising the sum of Five Millions by way of Annuity was read a second time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow. The Report of the-Bakers' Regulation Bill was brought up ; the amendments read a second time, an (I the Bill ordered to be read a third time to 11101TO W. PUBLIC BALANCES. IMr. GesalFece, in I i lig. to move that certain papers p'eseutcd to the iloose relative to , he Be -1 laaccs in the hands of the Bank should be printed said, the warfare which lie, on public g round , ,, had so tong carried on against that Corporation, was now io a great measure at an end, in conse quence of the adoptiou by Patliatnent of certrsin principles - of whinh be had ever been the advocate. 1r bad, been proved by documents for which he had moved, and whica were now before the House, that doting a 'period of ten or twelve years the Bank had beetr in possession, he might say in undisturucd possecsioti, of s: - Ms . :belonging to the pablib, the average amount at which was be. twe.en 11 and 12,000,0001. Thy profit. on this • sum, at the Tate of interest paid for money during that period, amounted to not less than 575,0001. outunally. It. could not now be coot e orted that this had occasioned no loss to the public, and that the Bank had not made greater profits than .pri vote bankers would have expected for transact ing the same business. .The statement which he had made was borne out by the Report of the Committee which sat in 1807. He however now held papers io his hand, fronr which it appeared that the balances in the hands of - the *anis, which as be had stated amounted 'for' a tone per i o d w oo- less than 11 ,500.0001. had in 1819 been re duced to '4,500',0001. being a reduction of no less than 7,000,0001. On • looking into the accounts tor the present year, .he found that a further -diminution of the balances bad been effected, and Allah tile total sum now remaining in the hands of- the Bank as balances did .not. exceed 3.700,0001. .This greatly reduced the ex pence which had fallen on the•public oct account of the Bank, and, diminished the profits of the Bank in proportion. The change had been . brought about by the contraction of the accounts in consequence of our passing from a state of war to a state of peace, and by the attention which Government had bestowed on the subject for the last four or five years. It was partly caused by the arrangement made respecting tmclaimed divi (lends, which matte all sums remaining in the hands of the Bank over and above-100,0001, ap plicable to the public service, and by the Act for applying the growito, , , produce of the Consolidated Fund in a similar way. During the •period he. had mentioned, the lisnk had, with certain ex ceptions, held in their hands public balances "to die amount of 11,500,0001, on the average. These, reduced to four millions and a half in the last year, were now, as he had already stated, somewhat below four millions. It was now his object to invite the Chancellor of the Exchequer to consider whether in the present, he would not say alarming, but anxious and critical situation of our finances, some practical measure of retrench ment might not be adopted by which a further saving could be effected. His own opinion was, that without any injustice to the Bank, a further saving of no less than 100,0001. might be saved. 'He moved, that the paper showing the aggregate amount of the balances in the hands of the Bank should be printed. Mr. Pizeitss said, it was (rile that the balances in the hands of the Bank had amounted to 11, 500,0001., but the Bank had not profited, nor had the public sustained a loss to the extent assumed by the Hon. Gentleman. In consequence of the balances in the hands of the Bank, the public had been relieved from the expence of the management of the National Debt for a number of years. But when an arrangement had been made with the Bank by which their profits were diminished, the balances were gradually reduc ed to 7, 6,-5,000,0001., and had now been brought down to about three millions and a half. It might have occurred to the Hon. Gentleman that very great expenses had been borne by the Bank. He might have borne in mind, that a large sum was paid to the public on the re newal of their charter, and that the issuing of tokens for their accommodation bad cost them no lees than 700,0001. The Corporation had actually paid to the Mint 104,0001. for the coinage of the tokens. He (Mr. Grenfell) might also have re collected, that the Bank he'd advanced for the public service the sum of 3,000,0001., for which they received but three per cent. interest, while five per. cent. was paid on the' other loans raised for the public. In this instance the animal sum of 60,000 pounds, was saved to the country, and the Bank sustained a disadvantage to that amouat. The Bank too, it should • be remembered, bad A direct communication . has just been opened from Cambridge, Newmarket, Bury, and Ely, to Wisbech, and into Lincolnshire, by a .road from Welney across the Wash, to the hundred feet river, at which a ferry boat,is established to Con vty persons, carriages, and citule our.— • paid the sum of 90,000 pounds in stamp duties ; a heavy expense had been thrown on th em by their taking upon themselves to erect certain public buildings. The Chancery business trans acted by the Bank for the Country had not been charged for, and in fact the Bank had uniformly acted in the most generous and - liberal manner. Ibis he showed had been the opinion of Mr. Perceval ; and reminding the House of the charges which the Bank had to sustain to keep up their establishment ; to employ clerks, prosecute forgeries, and restore forged stock, he maintained that the services rendered to the Public by the Bank were more than equivalent to any advan tages which the Bank had received from the Public. Mr. GRENFELL had never said that the Bank had not rendered important services to the coun try. All that he had contended for was, that these services were too highly paid for. lie knew (for he bad benefited by it) that within the last 22 years, the proprietors bad shared thirty millions among them. He had therefore a right to s t a t e what he had advanced. Mr PstAasa explained. Mr. %VILSON said; if the Bank .had divided a large sum between the proprietors, which they had in hand, it did not follow that the advantages accruing to them from their connection with toe public was so great as ihe Hon. Gentleman had supposed. The Bank had had to bear great ex penses, to run 'great ri,ks,; and any b.inking house of celebrity would, be thought, be found in a given number nt yews to have realized pro fits quite as great as made by the Couipanv. .The profits of the (loyal Exchange Comp-any bath, be believed, been gret►ter. He believe , : she Bank to be as anxious tor the public weltare for tAeir own .;nt, eeAt. Mr. RICAUDO thought if the Bank bad been anxious abou the public interest, 0 , , y had ma naged some of their transactions h a ti L ,„ B ecanse the Bank, for permission to increa.: its capi , „l, had advanced the sum of 3,000 000 i. ;:it interest of three per cent., this was descrit,!d as h av i ng been a boon to the public. Fit c , ld not view it as such. That sum had been advanced for a specific purpose, and that axis the pt ice which ,he Bank were willing ;,) pay, •to ac complish a particular object, He confessed that he conk! . Dot understand their y,olicy in lend ing money at three per cent. !(, e public, that they might increase their capital, when others were disposed to pay fi' , e per cLAt• for it. But so it was ; they wished fo nuke such a bar gain, and the public bad received no boon. The public balances, however, were now so reduced, that he thought their present . amount hardly more than sufficient to compensate the Bank for the trouble thrown on them by that department of our financial system, with which they were connected. Mr. BROGpEN WaS,Of 0114 . 11011 that a discussion on a subject of such importance, and especially on a mrm:e ?notion for Papers, ought not to be prolonged in the absence of his Right Hon: Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The paper was ordered to be printed. MANAGEMENT OF THE PUBLIC DEBT. (4RENFIML, in, moving for the printing of the Accounts presented. yesterday, of the sums paid to the Bank for 'tke Management of the Debt, declared the continuance of his conviction, that the Bapk, were at present overpaid from a hundred to a hundred and fifty thousand pounds. The Bank of the United States of America ma naKed the National Debt of that country gratui tously, ,consid ering the advantages which they derived from the unclaimed dividends a sufficient remuneration. Nor did,the Bank of Ireland're eeive a sixpence for the management of the Irish Debt. It was true that the Debt of England of a much larger amount ; bat still he inair::;ined that the public paid too much for'its manitvment. After a few words from Mr. PEARSE, ' motion was agreed to. The Committee on the King's Lench Bill was postponed till to-marrow. • The Report of the Insolvent Debtors''BillWat brought up and agreed to, and the Bill Ordered to be read a third time on Frb!ay. The Watch and Ward Bill went through a Com mittee, the Report wf which was ordered to be received to-morrow. Mr. BENNETT (of Wiltshire) gave notice, that be would on Monday move for leave to bring in a Bill to regulate the power of Magistrates with re spect to the appointment orspecial constables. On the motion of Sir H. PARNEILL, an Address was voted, praying for .Return, of all sums paid to the Sheriffs and Under-Sherilis in Ireland, and of all expenses incurred by them at the two last. General Elections. Mr. BROGDEN, in the absence of an lion. and Learned Friend, gave notice that on the sth July he would move for leave to bring in. a . Bill to re gulate Acceptances of Bills of Exchange, awl to regulate the Admission of Attorneys to practise in Courts of Law.—Adjourned. COURSE OF .EXCHANGE, JUNE 13. .. _ _ Amster data Ditto, at Sight l2 I • Rotterdam l2 5 Antwerp - • 12 7 Hatiiburgh 37 0 2i Us Altona Paris, 3 Day's sight ' 25 70 0 Us. Ditto Bourdeaux, ditto Frank forton the Main Madrid Cadiz - • B4 Effective Bilboa , 340 Effective Barcelona Seville - • Gibraltar - SO Leghorn Genoa 44 -Venice, Ital. Lir. 27 60 Malta 45 -Naples - - - Palermo • 116,1. per Ox. Lisbon " Oporto Rio Janeiro . Dublin 2 Cork 9 per Cent. . BULLION Portugal Gold, in Coin I.O 0 0 per Ox Foreign Gold, in Bars . 3 17 101 New Doul,loons New DOI tars .... .. ' • • 0 4 10f Silver In Bars, Standard 0 5 Of LAW INTELLIGENCE; COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Ju Ns I. CRIMINAL INFORMATIONS. THE KING v. COLLINS, ESQ. AND OTHERS: As . 'This, it will be recollected, was a I nOlion 0 18 in last Michaelmas Term for a Rule to shew can'd why a Criminal Infortna!ion should not he V I against Mr. Collins, Mr. Mills, Sir NAliv ini te e Conant, and Dr. Gaskill, Magistrates of tilt v of Middlesex, for corruptly rclasing , . °t was alleged, to license the Ce een Man pbbi le : house in St. John's-lane, Clerken well, the rg petty of a person named Le e k. The allrg , ground for retnsing the licence, impated (0 ""? defendants, was, that Mr. Leek had ceased °: ilea! Messrs. Meux and Co., and had trail;` ferred his custom to the house of Messrs. [lards and Co., whose beer he had found more siLleali' than that of the former house. Tile SOLICITOR-GRNEItAL were (with whom - Mr. STIRLING and Mr. CHITTY) now thew" canse against the rule on behalf of the three fit t l named Magistrates ; Mr. G. MARRIOT appea r for Dr. Gaskill. The sonstantial cause shewn against the ruts was, that the defendants, acting in their magis te° rial capacities, as Licensing Magistrates, had /5 fused the license in question in consequence Mr. Leek having arranged his premises so that one part should be devoted exclusively to the basiar o of a gin-shop, and the other to that of a tap 10 " for the sale of beer, letting the same last mentioll e part of his premises to one of his servants.; whom Ise allowed a commission upon the sale eve, y butt of beer sold in the tap-room. .The d e ; tendants expressly denied any malicious or c o: rot' motive in the refusal of the licence, sugzesti4 that they had merely refused it upon the ahoy ° mentioned ground, which they conceived to be * trawl upon the licence previously granted to 311 ; Leek, and also upon the Revenue,—The &Wa g ' completely travetsed all the material al! e gattor i* a?' Contained in the aendavits ip support of the lac tion. With respect to the case of Dr. Ga4i 11, 4 was ...xpressly stated that he was nor present the meeting of Magistratei when the licence 11Pr refused. Mr. SCARLaTT was shortly heard in suppor t the rule, and contended, that not kvithstawfi ft h the cause shewn against it, there were circe r stances of great suspicion in the case, parti e d° . lady those of a clerk of Messrs. Mel's' a nd Cr" being present at the time the license wat refu_. s e o and the , fact that the license in trevion had be' actually made out, but rescinded upon the of pearance of Sir N. Conant at the ,meeting of ea le kistr at us Tile COURT were of opinion, that as no rapt motive . had been made out, it - 1)1,610)1e to of the defendants, the Rule must be dischatlti as to all, but without 'costs as respected P o Collins, Mr. Mills, N and Sir N. Conant, for reasons suggested by Mr. Scarlctt, and with O s ' as to the case of Dr. Gaskill. THE KING V. DAVENPORT, lISCL. • This was a motion for a crim'nat informs ti l against the defendant, for an alleged libel, itni“ s o f hag to the Town Cleik and certain Magiitra4 o the Borough of Stafford certain alleged cord, influence at the last Election for that town. The COURT, after bearing Nir. J E Rvis io stte: 4o. ing cause against the rule, and it being urged (~ the supposed libel was the mere eff}sion of elcr io , tioneering controversy, refused' the rule, but Wi t ~ oi't costs. T7lll KIN'O V. RICHARD CARLILE. Mr. E.LLAND moved, for . 0 rule to stew why the Sheriffs of London should not be perin t 4 tad to retain in their hands two several stu°, 9 b / 31.. and 231. out of the sum of 301. lei theta upon the defendant's goods, in exec° l. o of the fine imposed . upon him by this C OO, O rn publishing certain blasphemous libelgo cctler that the said sums might he paid . Or 3') :Mr. Hopwood, the Sheriffs' officer, in it 4 ,charge of certain necessary expenses whict } , : e bad incurred in the diteliarge of his duty, f il o tice having been served. upon 'the Solicitor °f t fr o Crown otsuch intended application. The 1-1,0 ed Counsel stated that be avas further instruCte move for a writ of venclitioui exponas, in o rder t i o g enable 'the Sheriil'i to sell- no less than 1 4 0, le copies of Mr. Carlile's publications, but . tie stained from doing so, couSjdering that if all Puy tion were at all made for the disposition of $ ( 0 0 property, it ought to be for-a-iyvrit of ,igni esPa The COURT granted the first part of the Lea f Counsel's motion. TRH KING V. GLOSSOP?. bew Mr. F. PoLLocK moved for a rule to 6 of cause, why the conviction against Mr. gly s nt , at the last Reigwe Sessions , and retool" ' te e this Court by certiorari, for performing a n e l,irlb tainment of the Stage, called " Richard the or, the Battle of Bosworth Yield," should not affirmed. - . he COURT granted the rsile to shear catoes . . • BIRTH. On the Sth inst., at Hutton-lodge, near Mahon, the.; of Coionel John Maister, of a daughter. • MARRIED. • Yesterday evening, the 13th inst., by special licellse4tlo4-, house of Sainuel Fariotr, Esq., M or timer-street) Charles Potter, Esq., to Madame de Segond de Seilerol), daughter of his Excellency the Count tie Vaublane• e"3oocorf A singnlat marriage took place,. last week, at L'act ", lei rlsiqo Vilunival,34ArAlonniontli.; Mr. Phillip Edward s, 7"' age, led to the Hvroctieal aitar Mrs. Powell, age d 67 ;,.• - e , o , o''' ' united ages of t4sir persOns who atten d e d the c aniounteds to upward of 400 years. •• DIED. , 'f iS t6 • W;, , ,more-str.eet, Sophia, 'youngest daughter 0- 5511' 0 D r ° Sir Harry Parker, Bart: Mif . ford-lrall, Suffolk• On the 7111 inst. at -Exinolith,fGeorge Caliand, ~ o f merly of the 2d regime44:l..Life.Cuards, and latte r ': 0 . 1 Ist,West York Militia, — d, . 'On Sunday, the 4th iitstant, Francis Dr.urnmon,Not! Sloane-street, late Captain •iti the 91•11 reg iment °'`. t in the 724 year of his age. DO ° EeP.ATUM in the account of Mrs.'Butterworto 5 Yesterday's StyN-For " predote,,." read " presiou t • . efif t t i t Te ;;; LONDON: Printed by J. B. CARSTATRS,.. OI Ormoti'd-street, Ulteen-squar;:,; and publisheu SCRIPPS sf , i)f . No. 7, South Moltoteestreet, g t ,. 0; 1 '. NH. 112, Strand ; where Advcitisenterl'/ Letters, azc. (post-paid) omit he aJdress:cl. 7 1-1 Nltm PI" ( 44 0 ore rut t'ei Pe ?elide Ply, on set Priltiredfin a.l” rear 4 '4 F irth 4 .r.)Pn4 ' r frol 41 : 'gnat nea The edit, t 47,/, oth . o ' ll4 Alajew kka;:iereienOr ( t '7 6 t . t t ,fc 2il 4 ") Or 8 0 , 144 en called wogt r t 14 _ eat'', -4‘ Parb t I Per NOT R L shot tb Use -.EA D rt _ ttti I `rtS. 1)2