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ILADIES AND GENTLEMEN, N consequence of the lamented Death of Sir THOMAS REID, Bart. I take the liberty of soliciting f ile hono ur o f you r Votes and Support as a CANDIDATE 'or the VACANT SEAT in the DIRECTION of your AFFAIRS. Permit me to express my warmest acknowledgments for the t '9 l id encouragement which I have received since the last ace ; also, most respectfully, to entreat the continued exertions friends, it being my determination to proceed . to the b "u°t•---4 have the honour to be, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your most obliged faithful Servant, J. PETTY MUSPRATT. New Broad -street, March 1, 1824. Mr. Muspratt's Committee will sit daily at the City of lion- Tavern, where all Communications affecting his interest al be thankfully received. AIR. RIES' FAREWELL CONCERT.- Mr. RIES most respectfully acquaints his Friends and the Public, that peculiar cireumstancrs hare induced , 0 ? 4 to fi x hi s CONCERT on 'rHIJIISDAY.,. April 8, instead ` the dat e f orme rly advertised. Particulars will ' s ll "nnced.—Tickets, Ms. 6d. each, to be had at ttr. Ries', 13 7 1 ," 1 1 , Per Norton,street, Poetland-place , and a t .all the _ i ntipal Music Shops. RICHARDSON, GOODLUCK, and CO. bi respectfully acquaint the Public that the SECOND 17 ' 11 ' of DRAWING the STATE LOTTERY w i l l h e the 4 . 20 "I of THIS M ONTH. . There arc FIVE PRIZE S o f .000 in the Wheel, and the Two First.drawn Prizes will sa ch rece ive k 20, 000 in addition. Tl-. i ri C14.1.S and SHARES, warranted VIA-awl', are Selling nt , 4 variet yof Numbers, at their O ffi ce , N 0 .104, BANK ...„..._,JILIDINGS,C()RNHILL. 1 111 Hip HAMILTONIAN SYSTEM advances in Public interest and estimation faster than "" °4 in Arts, Sciences, or Literature, which has ever preceded th Six Months ago it was unknown in this Metropolis, where fal e :% are now 401 f witnesses to its efficiency. The Monastic Perri fraud and folly adopted by unthinking candour, and Sch oo ev i er ,: d ill from custom only, totters to its foundation.— vrn to ll, instead of ordering to learn, will, ere long, be Aui °Yed each, and Schools become blessings instead of -anc es• This is as it ought to be : but it may be wondered System at they au without a defender, and that the Hamiltonian Mena has hitherto met no enemy, that its triumphs are incon eated and incontestible Mr. Hamilton's Key . to the Historia Sacra of L'Homond is bow ready for his Pupils and the Public, at ss. Those who willing to teach on the Hamiltonian System , fo r which full ections ar e given in the Preface, may, by me ans of this ley, It teach, as much Latin in 1 Month as is usua ll y ac q uired in the nest Schools in 2 Years. A perfect Grammatical knowledge of th is Book is guaranteed to all Mr. Hamilton's Pupils in two sections of 10 JAessons each, each section, payable in advance, 21. lo s. A. private Latin Class will assem ble in Cecil-street' this Even fag, the 3d of March, at 8 o'clock , a nd will continue o p en a w d ays. A private French Class will meet this evening, the 3d of March, at 8 o'clock precisely. A perfect knowledge of 10,000 words is guaranteed to every pupil in 10 lessons. Mr. Hamil ton's Keys to the whole of the Gospel of St. John, in French and in Greek, will be ready for the delivery to his pupils and to th e public in a few days. Those Keys, used on the Hamil tonian System, for which full directions are given in the pre face, afford such a certainty to pupil and teacher, that the day and hour at which the former will attain any given proficiency may he accurately predicted. New Classes in Greek, German, and Italian, are now forming. Different classes in all these languages, as well as in the French and Latin, are now in pro gress, at 25, Cecil-street, Strand : those who are partly ac quainted with them be placed according to their degree of knowledge. Classes of six persons, or more, in any p_art of the Metropolis taught on the same terms as at Mr. Hamilton's house, 25. Cecil-street, Strand. COINS AND MEDALS, BRONZES. MINIATURES, &c. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION. Av nr. SOTHEBY, at his House, WELLINGTON-STREET, WATERLOO BRIDGE, STRAND, on MONDAY, March 8, and Four following Days, at Twelve o'Clock, THE CHOICE and VALUABLE COLLEC. TION of COINS and MEDALS, in GOLD, SILVER, and COPPER, the P ro p er ty of the late Sir MARK M A.s. 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Earl SPENCER presented a Petition from Wellingborough, in Northamptonshire, praying for the amelioration of the con dition of the Slaves in the West Indies. The subject to which the petition related, his Lordship observed, was one of the greatest importance, and he hoped that it would meet with the serious consideration of that and the other House of Parlia ment. He moved that the petition be laid on the table,and printed. —Oze APrEAlS. 'Lord KING wished to call . their Lordships' attention to a subject which appeared to him to be of great importance. He rbund that his attendance was required in that House for hearing Appeal Causes at the bar. Now lie wished to learn, from such of their Lordships as were better acquainted with the subject than he could pretend to he, whether he was, in consequence of this order, which required him to hear causes, also bound to vote on them ? If he must vote, he was also desirous of knowing whether, in the case of his happening to withdraw himpelf before the hearing of a cause should be concluded, he should still be obliged to give his vote upon it? If these inquiries should be answered in the affirmative, he would then be,glad to be informed how he should act on a cause which was about to come on, he believed on Monday next. The cause to which he alluded was entitled " Connolly and wife," and had been heard before. For his part, how ever, he knew nothing of it, and he must therefore beg for in struction from their Lordships how he was to vote. He had no idea whatever of the case, and was most anxious to do no injustice either to Connolly or his wife. But would none of their Lordships tell him _what he was to do ? Was he to take a hint front some one of the big wigs, which their Lordships occasionally saw rising a few inches above the bar? Or was he to be directed by that equilateral triangle hat which lay there? (looking towards the woolsack.)—Or might he vote, as was done in some cases, without hearing any thing on the sub ject, by proxy ? Their Lordships had, in their wisdom, de termined that each Peer was to hear only fractions of causes; but how was this to, be reconciled with the mode of voting by wholesale ? Now, if vote he must on the case of " Connolly and wife," he hoped that their Lordship's would put him. in possession of the means of voting rightly. Ile should doubtkss be furnished with the notes which he supposed the -Peers who had already sat on the case must have taken ; for they were the judges, and it was the practice of judges to take notes of the causes which were heard betbre them. Their Lordships well knew the value which was placed on notes of judges, and he would wish those taken in that House to be printed. If, how ever, it should unfortunately happen that the Peers who had heard thi s case o f " Connolly and wife" had taken no notes, and yet th at h e wou ld be required to vote on it, then he would most humbly beg of their Lordships w be pleased to amend their order, and direct that all Peers sitting on ap peals should keep notes of the cases they hear. Thus their Lordships would have before them the wisdom and informa-, tion of their predecessors, and the labours of the sitting part of the Peers wouldunable those who had to vote, to perform their judicial functions properly. This new mode of hearing Causes, he believed, had been invented for the purpose of ex pediting the business of the House ; but it appeared to him to have only the effect of keeping away the Noble and beamed Lord whom he considered the most efficient judge of appeal causes. -The Noble and Learned Lord was a very great friend of the church ; hut what would the Noble and Learned Lord say to a rector, who, wishing to . be relieved from the burden of his clerical duties, should get a curate to perform them for him, but instead of paying the curate out of his own emo luments*e singular ou wou l d doubtlesssarrangement.hod i appeara‘c Having the vi io gNboepbupl te a oi and db Learned e t the ed parish a a , e T v h i r i y e s should, with their Lordship's leave, su e ecclesiastical an case, would be thought of a bishop, or a clerg o n s a e n, 4 t o le sTi . ould de clare from his pulpit that a person had stated an utter false hood ? What would the 'Noble and Learned Lord think of the reverend person who should thus express himself respectin the character of another, in a place where what he said could not be answered ? He was quite sure that the Noble and Learned Lord would be the last man in the world to give his approbation to such conduct. IRELAND. The Earl of D'ARNLEY had to apologize . to Noble Lords for the change he had thought it necessary to make in his mo tion for summoning the House. They were aware that he had given notice of his intention to bring forward on this day a very important and extensive question relative to the state of Ire land ; but as he could not at the present time expect the assist ance of many Noble Lords intimately acquainted with Irish af- Nrs, and as he had reason to hope that those Noble Lords would be able to attend at a future ..penod, he had resolved - to post pone .his motion. Another reason had also induced him to post pone it, which was his wish to collect the most accurate and sample information before lie proceeded to call their Lordships' Attention to the subject. He had intended to move this day for a great variety of papers tending to illustrate the state of Ireland, but he would now confine himself to those documents to-theproduction of *hich he understood there would be no objection. Though he would not enter into any discussion on the affairs of Ireland, he hoped he might be permitted to make a few observations. It appeared from what had taken place elsewhere, that it was intended to take off the bounty at present granted on the exportation of Irish linen —to take it gradually from the fine, but immediately from the coarse. Considering the state of Ireland, this was a most important feature in the financial arrangement" of the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the year ; and he was surprised that it did not occur to his Majesty's Ministers, that taking off the bounty on Irish linens, and especially so suddenly off the coarse linen, must tend greatly to increase the evil under which that country laboured, which was the want of employment. He thought that the same political consideration which had last year prevented the removal of the duty on foreign linen, should have on the present occasion saved the infant manufac ture of the north of Ireland. If the bounty were taken off the coarse linen, the manufacture of which was but recently esta blished, a great addition would be made to the distress of the starving population. Here he could not help noticing an item of the public expenditure, as it had been arranged in another place in consequence of the receipt of part of the debt due to this country by Austria. He had formerly expressed an 'opi nion, that not a .farthing of that debt would be repaid. The sum received was called a " God-send," and he had no oh tectton to the term, but thought it would with great propriety be continued, if the money were employed in rescuing the dis tressed population of the south of Ireland from starvation. In this way it would be much better applied than to Royal palaces, or building churches, to which objects, however, as far as they were necessary, he had no objection to the application of public money. He believed that in the metropolis the power Of hear ing divine service - was confined almost exclusively to the rich, and in Ireland the greater part of the Protestant churches we re in a state of dilapidation. He must again express his surpriie that the Austrian God-send was not allowed to fall upon Ire land, instead of being applied in the way proposed by the Chan cellor of the Exchequer. He must, however, again say that lie had no ejection to building churches, if they were really want ed, and ke had always been an advocate for keeping Windsor Castle in repair, but wished that no sum beyond what was ne cessary should be so expended. With regard to the papers lie wished to obtain, he should now move for an account of all the sums granted by Parliament for public works, and for the em ployment of the poor in Ireland during the last seven years ; for sums advanced by way of loans of Exchequer bills or otherwise; the sums paid on the presentments of Grand Juries, the payments out of the consolidated fund; &c. But lie did not think he could do full justice to the task he had undertaken without stating the truth, and the whole truth, respecting the church establishment of Ireland. He therefore intended to move for an account of the number of parishes and parish churches in Ireland ; the extent of the parishes; the number of families residing in each ; the number of communicants in the established churches ; the number of Roman Catholic families ; and al - documents of this kind. In moving for these papers, he had no other wish than that of bringing under. the conside ration of their Lordships the real situation of Ireland. The Noble Earl concluded by moving for the rapers he had de scribed ; and also that their Lordships be summoned for Mon day the sth of April next. The Earl of LIVERPOOL intimated,. that he had noob jection to the motions now made by the Noble Earl ; but he wished to say a word or two on some of the facts which had been alluded to in the observations with which he preceded those motions. If their Lordships were not aware of the contrary, it might be suppoled from what had been stated by the Noble Earl, that no part of the public money was ever applied to the carrying on of public works in Ire land. With respect to the financial arrangement for the year, it was true that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had appro priated a specific sum in it to the building of churches, but did the Noble Earl soppose that any body would therefore conclude that nothing was done for Ireland ? On the contrary, very large sums had been voted for that country ; and it was a sintrular fact, that Scotland and Ireland were the only parts of the United Kingdom to which "rants of money for public works had recently been mad e . There was no instance'during the last 20 years of any such application of the ptiblic money in England. There had, it was true, been advances by way of loans of Exchequer Bills, but no Parliamentary grants for public works, except that for the building of churches. The aim granted for Scotland withirrthe pariod of the Noble Earl's motion, was 31)0,0001.: and for Ireland, not less than one mil lion. In short, no indisposition had ever been shown to vote money for public works in Ireland. On the subject of the Irish linen, 'he would say, that though scarcely any thing was more absurd than the granting of bounties on exportation, yet it was a dif ferent question, the getting rid of such bounties when they exist. The export of fine linen being established, pru dence required that the repeal of the bounty on it should be gradual ; but there never was any export trade in the coarse Irish linen, which was merely a domestic manufacture, and consequently the immediate repeal of the bounty on it could do no harm.. He thought it nec e ssary to say. this much by way of ekplanation ; as to the general question, he should reserve him self until the Noble Earl's motion brought it under the con sideration of the House. _ Lord KING was aware there was no want of grants of the public money. There were Irish jobs, Scotch jobs, and Church jobs in abundance, but the most enormouS job of all was the 100,0001. a year to the Irish churches. . _ The Earl of DARNLEY explained; after which the mo tions for papers were agreed to, and the Peers were ordered to be summoned for the sth April. The Marriage Act Amendment Bill was read a third time, and Passed ; and the other Bills on the table were forwarded in their respective stages. Mr. llumc and others from the Commons brought up a message, requesting a copy of the Report of their Lordship's Committee on the petition of the Chamber of Commerce of Glasgow in 1820, and on the Bill for the Regulation of Weights and Measures. The Report was delivered forthwith.--Ad journed to Thursday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. GOOCH presented a petition from Suffolk; Mr. hiosr- WOOD a petition from Kent; Captain l'EttcY a petition from Lincolnshire, praying a repeal of the duty upon-Coals. Mr. 000 CH presented petitions from four parishes in Suffolk; Mr. Alderman W o oD p , et a it p io e n titi f o r n on f l rom na t d h n e o w ni a i r l d ire of ; ilr. Cripplegate; GßEy Mr. WimciNs, a BONNET two petitions from Northumberland; and Lord THonP, a petition from Northampton, praying amelioration in the condition of the Negroes in our West India colonies. EXCISE LICENCES. Mr. Alderman WooD, ilr. TiionAs.WlLsox, Mr. DEN MAN, and Mr. CIIALONE it, presented petitions, praying for a repeal of the duty on Excise Licenses. Mr, DEN MAN strongly objected to voting large sums for churches and public buildings, and leaving the country still ex posed to the pressure of heavy taxation. SMALL DEBTS. Mr. B. COOPER presented a petition . from Gloucester, in favour of the Bill for the recovery of Small Debts. INSOLVENT COURT. Mr. JONES presented a Petition from a person of the revise . the Laws with respect to In thheardships which had ac- Insolvent Court. Ile nacre of oufpoSzyll him out limit the In solvent Debtors, and to present powers of the provi- Sional assignees. , , Isc 3IINLS , IRELAND. prayed of the House to Sir H. PARNELL prsented a petition from a-Mining Com pany in Ireland, statin that a new Company, to be called " the Hibernian Alining Company,” o st f a t t h i ?la c l e r r s ta e i P as starting; anti would apply to Parliament for incorporation. w '['he p etitioners prayed that the House would consider the a pplication or , this new company, and petitioners') not grant any thing injurious to their (the in terests. Sir JOHN NEWPORT thought that, in the present condi tion of Ireland, every fair enc ouragement -41e did• not mean monopoly—should be most sedulously afforded to speculating capitalists. CRIM I N.A. LAW. Mr. G. L A3lB po§tponed his motion for allowing Counsel (to speak) for felons, to the 6th of Apzil next; this would be after the circuit. SALMON FISHERY. Mr. HUME presented a petition from the town of Arbroath, complaining of certain P robibi :ofy regulations which impeded the Scotch Salmon Fishery. i f , whichthe thought that the system now i ti n ut o petitioners understood Parliament) diminished the supply.of fish to the public, that a e r b a i t l i l on was and being t oc h on ro fi u r g m h t into and tended to confine the trade to a few hands. to bring f orward the motion upon this. POLICE OF THE M ETROPOLIS. Mr. HUME rose notice ost a previous evening. subject, of.which he had given He wished that a return should be laid before the House, of the number of persons committed in the years 1821, 1822, and 1823, to the prison of Newgate, anti the other prisons of Lon don, , numberand Su Sur re e t y ;givin g th e name o f eac h Magis trate, persons committed by him ; and stating the eventual disposal of suc h p ersona , w h e th er dis charged for want of bill found, discharged by proclamation, convicted upon trial, or formally acquitted. 111 with d d 1 e t s l e l e x Mr. HOLME SUMNER asked whether the Hon. Gentle. man's motion extended to the county magistrates of Middle sex and Surrey, or was confined to the police magistrdtes ? Mr. HUME said that his return would extend to the county magistrates. Mr. H. SUAINER, in that case, was prepared to oppose it. No gentlemen would act as a magistrate if he was liable to be called- before the House upon such motions. Lord ALTHORP said, that he was a magistrate for Nor- thamptonshire, and he should be ashamed if he felt any objec tion to having his name brought before the House on.any occa- Sion.—(Hear !)—A nd he was quite certain that the mass of Eng lish country gentlemen would be of the same way of thinking. (Hear!) Mr. MABERLEY also, a magistrate for Surrey, protest ed against the doctrine of the Hon. Member (Mr. H. Sum ner.) He thought that it amounted to a shy; upon the magis trates of Surrey.—(ll ear, hear !) Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL thought the Hon. Mem ber for Surrey justified in resisting the Hon. Member for Aber deen's motion, inasmuch as that no ground whatever had been laid before the House for it. Ile begged farther to remark, that much trouble and expence was occasioned by calling for papers which were not absolutely necessary. Mr. HUME had not troubled the House with the grounds of his motion, merely because he thought he bad sufficiently opened them on the occasion when he had given notice. The fact was, that he had found out of the commitments by the magistrates of London, a much greater number (in proportion) of convictions than followed those of the magis trates of Middlesex and Surrey. By the return now moved for, he meant to get at the cause of that difference. He would say further, that there was no check on the conduct of country magistrates, except public opinion. Their careless ness in sifting the evidence of cases was well known ; many an innocent man was sent to prison through it, and sacrificed for ever. The Hon, Gentleman might not be very willing to own it. but the fact was, that no less than 600 or 700 e being one half of the commit men ts in on e re t urn, were di sc h arge d , either by acquittal through defect of evidence, or because there was no bill. No Magistrate could object to the exposure of his name in the returns now moved for, but those who were conscious of having done wrong. If the Resolution produced any real inconvenience, he would be the last man in the House to put the officers and clerks of the county courts to the trouble. But he was convinced that there could he no rea sonable objection to it. Mr. ASIIIJRST could not see how any individual magistrate attacked in the House, could have adequate means and oppor tunity for defending himself. Jr. 3 PENMAN was astonished at the position assumed by the Hun. Gentlemen who opposed the returns. It was assumed that in proportion as the power of the magistrates increased, i n ouch proportion must they be left more and there irresponsibl e —they were, in short, to do whatever pleased them. There was no objection in the mind of the Hon. Member for Surrey to returning the names of the police magistrates: surely the objection was as great in the one case as the other. What right had the county magistrates to this distinction ? The po lice magistrates were responsible to the State and to the House ; the county magistrates were responsible to the House; and if not there, they were responsible no where. There was an ap pearance of soreness, in the dread of disclosure, which was dis creditable to the magistrates themselves. The Secretary of State had offered no objection to the return. He would ask the House only to consider the enormous powers committed to the county magistrates; for instance, the Trespass Act, and others which passed, one, two, or more, every Session, con veying to them the power of summary decision without the interference pf judge and jury, and then say whether they ought to be left Irresponsible to the House. If the business of tIZ Committee on Courts of Justice were reduced by the quan tity of cases which came before them from the Sessions Courts. half of the grievances complained of would be done away. H e complained of the continual increase of acts which enlarged the summary powers of Magistrates to fine and imprisonment-The oppression of the law in that respect was of extreme severity. It placed Magistrates in the most painful situations. It was only yesterday that he was compelled to fine a man 5/. under the act agains: obstructions on the pavement in the streets of London. The defendant had seen a m a n in Mourning entering the archway in Doctors'-commons, an d his offence w as, that he had asked the stranger if he wanted a Proctor, which, ac cording to the act, was an obstruction of the way. Had this mitigated fine not been paid, the punishment would have been three months imrisonment with hard labour. He wished to have the returns to every county in England. Mr. H. SUMNER said, that if there were a specific case of grievance laid against any Magistrate. it ought to be sent to the proper authority Which the law had placed in controul over the Magistrates—the Court of King's Bench. Sir R. HERON was a friend to any inquiry into his con duct as a magistrate. Upon the subject of the Trespass Act, it did astonish him that no notice had yet been given in this Session of a motion for the repeal of that Most despotic Act, which gave magistrates the power of arbitrarily committing a man for doing any thing, or nothing. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL suggested an alteration. The object of the Hon. Mover might be obtained without ad ding the names of magistrates. All they wanted in the first place were the facts, which, being produced, it would be soon discovertd whether there was any foundation for the inference of the Hon. Gentleman or not. Mr. PEEL approved of the suggestion of the Attorney-Ge neral. He thought the stipendary magistrates were necessari ly more open to inquiry than the county magistrates. Mr. DEN ISON had no objection to the motion. Alderman THOMPSON opposed it. Mr. GREY BENNBT and Mr. Alderman WOOD spoke in support of the motion.' Mr. PEEL begged the House to suspend their judgment on the conduct of the 'Westminster magistrates, who performed their duty in a most able and satisfactory manner. Mr. I-JU3IE said, he had the names of four or five magis trates against whom complaints had been made. lie wished to have the returns, that he might compare the two statements of facts. The motion as amended was then agreed to. . WOOL TAX. Mr. STUART WORTLEY presented eight petitions from Yorkshire, signed by 12,500 individuals, against the Chancellor ' of the Exchequer'sl proposition for permitting the exportation of British Wool, and praying to be heard before the House. Mr. F. PALMER presented a petition from the inbsbitants of Reading, against the window-tax and beer duties. 51r. 1116NCK trusted that the Window Tax would. be re pealed entirely, and that the motion on that subject to be brought forward by the Honourable Member for Westminster would be attended with success. He begged to call the at tention •of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the state in which the retailers of beer at present stood. At Reading, 'Whilst an individual was able to sell beer at 4d. per pot, the publicans could not afford tnsell it for less than 5d.; and why was it ? Because the price charged by the brewers to them would mot admit of their selling at that price. Why, it might be asked, did not the publicans then brew their own beer ? but that was impossible in their present relative state to the brewers, who were, in f act , t h e i r masters . Th e b rewers at Reading had swallowed up the publicans, and they ap peared desirous now to proceed a step farther, and annibi. late the common brewers. At present, in Reading, the Com mon brewers had discontinued the sale of beer by retail, waiting the opinion of the Court of King's Bench • but the common brewers of the country at large still continued selling with the approbation or connivance of the Magistrates. He therefore would put it to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whe ther he would not bring in sonic Bill, either enacting or decla ratory, to set the question at rest.—Ordered to be printed. Lord JOHN ItUSSELIi presented a petiti on f rom t h e in habitants of Huntingdon against Slavery.—Ordered to lie on the table. A message from the Lords requested a copy of the report of the Committee of the House of Commons, which was appointed in 1810, tninquire into the usury laws. A copy of the report was ordered to be communicated to their Lordships. WINDOW TAX. Mr. HOBHOUSE presented a petition from the parish of ' St. Ann's, Westminster, praying for a repeal of the whole, or a portion of the Assessed Taxes. The Hon. Alember observed, that had there not been a strong opinion that it was the inten. tion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to repeal a portion of the Window Tax, petitions would have been prepared from the whole of Westminster, and at that moment meetings were in preparation to take into consideration the whole of the plan of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. This petition was signed by 900 of the inhabitants of the parish, and by persons of' all poli- tical opinions. The first paragraph soke of the " firm, wise, and enlightened policy of the House , " and with such a phrase he was sure the House would not attribute the petition to the Reformers of Westminster. The number of signatures had been obtained in the short space of five hours, and among them were the Churchwardens, the Select Vestry, and the Collectors of the King's taxes.—The petition was read, and ordered to be printed. The Hon. Member presented a similar petition from St. Mary's, Lambeth.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. HOBHOUSE then rose to bring forward the motion of which he had given notice. He was sensible, he said, that on this occasion he stood in need of that indulgence which the House had shewn him in so many former instances. These, he assured the House, were not mere words of course, they were the sentiments which he unfeignedly felt, and such as the House must know he could not fail to feel upon a subject of such vital importance as the window-tax, and, indeed, the whole plan of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He was aware that such a course might be deemed irregular, but he should be only fol. lowing the example which the Right Hon. Gentleman had set him in some parts of that speech wherein that Right Hon. Gentleman had no less convinced some of his enemies than he had delighted his friends, by those sound, wise, and liberal views which he hoped he would be found to follow up and re duce to practice, as the best foundation for that fame to which every individual that aspired to the Government of a free country must aspire to attain. Although the principles of the measures in question were good, however, these measures had not satisfied the just expectations of the country. The coun try had been led to expect a more considerable diminution of taxes. In order to understand the view which the people took of the question, they would be pleased to remember that we had now departed from that ruinous system which taught that the true riches of the country were best seen in the wealth of the Treasury, and not in the pockets of the people. But as the country was at peace, they were entitled to expect a g reater reduction, which would have enabled this country to t a ke her proper situation in the world. As the temple of Janus was shut, and ,hey were not to have the honour of pay ing for the liberties of the world, at least they ought not to be called on to pay heavy taxes. In the speech from the throne at the commencement of the Session, they had been told that every interest of the country was in a prosperous condition.— The revenue was no doubt also in the same state, and if so, he asked whether this was a time to continue that system of taxa tion which applied only to a moment of particular pressure. He was not, however, of opinion that the great interests of the country were so prosperous. If a prosperous state of agriculture meant only a rise of prices, he for one could never think that a flourishing state of affairs. The country must always suffer from high prices : but it must suffer still more from fluctuating prices. One side or the other must always in that case pay too much. and then they would always have one side of the country petitioning against the other—a state of things which ought never to exist under a free Government. Wheat was now at 1745. and they would soon have in the bonded wheat, and then he would ask the agriculturists if they were satisfied. The Hon- Member who moiled the Address on the first day of dpi Session, told them that the prosperity of the,country was.. the; work of a Supreme Being, He could not, he presumed, mean the. Ministers, however superior theywere, but he meant to attribute a certain effect to the agency of causes more than natural; The Chancellor of the Exchequer had gone out of his way to intro duce two topics which were but little connected With the sub ject of his speech. He had gone out of his way to vindicate teed calumniated characters, the Emperor Francis suet ehe e llouse of Cornmons. The first of these he could well undereend had something to do with the prosPeritY of the country, fbr fie Con. tributed two millions and a half towards the Surplu; of the year. He then was probably one of the superior beings, and, as proof his superiority had contrived to pay them two millions and a half out of twenty-one millions ana ah;df; ivhich:ias the. amount of his debt. The second superior agent, the House of Commons, he could not agree in thinking had been instrumen tal in their prosperity. It was by that same House of COmtnoni that a Chancellor of the Exchequer had imposed upon the conk.. try great part of that system which it was now the chief creeks of another Chancellor of the Exchequer to remove and abrogate, Because in time of peace that House would not burden apatient and suffering nation to the same extent as in time of war they, were to be thanked by theieeople. If they would shew him one good to, be traced to the House of Commons, he would 's'heia them two which were due to the people, and more. This *lse. which was offered to Parliament, arose out of the system. upon which the Government had been carried on. The Government for so many years had had their hands in .the pockets of the people, that they really had forgotten to whom the property belonged, and they therefore • gave nay part of it back as a gift, not as a restoration of what. belonged to them. But by whom was Parliament accused ? lie had heard the late Mar quis of Londonderry and the late Chancellor. of the Exchea quer say that there could be no further reduction of taxes. They both said that. relief had been carried to its utmost ex tent. If then the country had. recovered from its evils under this system, it was owing to the native health and vigour. .of the people, and it was the most shameless presumption to. apply to those who caused the desease the epithet due to the patient. But the Chancellor of the Exchequer seemed to think the country in the state of a man who was pressed to the ground, and who, because he was lightened of a little of his load,. would, it was supposed, live .for ever. . He- said he was . not. legislating for this year, and it appeared to him clear as the sun at noon-day, that they would have no further reduction of taxes. 'When the Chancellor of the Exchequer talked of the cords which bound the country doWn to . the earth, he should like to ask him where those cords were twisted but in the House of Commons. He talked too in eloquent language of the gilded idol of prejudice, but where were its worshippers so plentiful, or where was it so richly endowed as within the walls of Pare liament ? With regard to the plan of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, he had spread it over so many years, and produced in: such a form, that it appeared to create more confusion than any thing else. He had told them that there was a surplus of 4,135,000 re but he did not at that time state that part of this was created by the Austrian Loam He had done that part of his speech in short artistement ; and in this part of the whole surplus for a s n e d bo silk dies dealers, many years to come, wa s c on s id era bly l ess th an th e aboveamount. Notwithstandin g th e application of part of this. mo ta vast wss numberne yto the f reliefpetiti petitions s t the ithose wooln theyhad complaining. This a curious way for the nation to take the relief offered to theme The general class of consumers—the nation at large, he admit ted, would be benefited ; but all small silk traders would be hurt, especially by the repeal not taking place before the 6th July. This he thought was the time for the House to make a stand, for the Chancellor of the Exchequer had made up his budget for several years, and if they assented now, they could not afterwards take exception. It was a remarkable thing that in the last thirty years the nation had paid two billions of millions of.money in loans and taxes. The Cban4 cellor of the Exchequer . having told them that lie had four millions of surplus, with great simplicity asked the House, what they were to do witlait. As for the vulgar old mode of reducing taxation with it, thaaseemed to b e out of the questions The people had paid so much, and so cheerfully, they were so grateful that they never looked to have any of it returned to them. Having mused upon it for some time, at length he told them that he had a project. This project was to build churches. 'The people of England were most religious, and had a large number orchurches built for them two years ago. He would. not go farther than to say, that some how or other the people had got an idea that the interests of the church were opposed to the interests of the nation ; and this he teas sure of, that the people would not support those Candidates for a return to that House who should have voted for this profligate expenditure of . public money. He was convinced the Chancellor of the Ex chequer would not persist in this part of his plan. He knew that in the parish of Marylebone the rates of the pews and. church matters of theold church had been raised three-fold. This then was the effect of building new Churches. The money coming' from the Austrian Loan belonged to the people, because it came' from them. The Chancellor of the Exchequer called it a deodand; and the Right Hon. Secretary for Foreign Affairs told•thette that the Emperor of Austria might have reasoned himself out of this debt. How that could be he knew not, unless it were by the ultimo ratio regent, viz. that he could not pay. He contended that it was their duty to remit as great a portion of public bur dens as they had money to dispose of. There was great reason to complain throughout the kingdom of the surcharges made in the collection of taxes. The Window Tax was, in his view, the most unconstitutional tax, for it made the Government more acquainted with their private concerns than they were in reason entitled to. It was most unequal in its operation, for the mire of 401. a year would befound to pay considerably more than the man of 4001. This particularly applied to the House Tax generally. Property in houses to the amount of 2081. paid taxes to the extent of 481. ; whilst 2001. in land hardly paid 3/. On the Window Tax they paid 1,205,000/. Het knew that the window duty was laid on to this amount'ira commutation for many others, but all of these had• since' been put on. The country was therefore entitled- to the' restoration of a great part of it. The surcharges upon this tar. made it actually greater than it was before the redoction'ite Many instances, owing, no doubt, to the collectors beihg allowed• a premium on all surcharges. This was the consequence og removing a tax, and leaving what he called the scaffolding. Of every 100/. laid out on building 201. went to the Government.' He thought, therefore, the total repeal of the Window Tax, which would lead to a greater number of buildings, would cause' an increase to the Revenue. He would like to move for the - repeal of the whole of the Assessed Taxes ; but he knew there' were certain individuals who had a respect for that fallacy, the Sinking Fund. But he thought the Chancellor of the Exchea quer might venture upon the repeal of the Window Tar, the' repeal of the Coal Tax, of the Duty on Rana-and on Silk. 'The whole reduction which he proposed in the taxation for the year was 1,205,000/. for the window duty, anti 712,000/, for the du ties • proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. To man this, he would recommend that the part of the Austrian Loan' should be devoted for next year. He would also take the Windsor Estimate of 150,000/. He had no objection to the King's embellishing Windsor Castle, but then let him sell some of his Palaces for that purpose. Why not sell Kew Palace, or Hampton Court ? The Commissioners were appointed to carry these into effect. He knew not what would be said if his side of the House were to propose the appointment of a Commission to prevent the King . playing the —, he would not say the wurd. But he considered this a pure matter of taste on the part of his Majesty; and these Commissioners do not get through . their work under five or six years. In so long a time he should fear the nation would not have the benefit of his Majesty's ser vices for the Government of the kingdom.—(M arks of disappro hation.)—He was no life insurance man, but he spoke from the way in which Kings generally lived, and. he thought what he said ; but he really had no thought or intention of sating any thing disrespectful. That he assured the House was not hia object. He objected to the outlay of 300,0001. in this and the next year on the repairing of Windsor Castle. Having 1,500,0001., received as re-payment of the Austrian loan, he• would add to that the estimate for repairs of Windsor Castle,. 150,000/., and 280,0001. which he calculated might be saved, by' transferring the tax now paid on beer to malt ; and thus , the whole sum would be nearly covered. He thought the advo cates for a Sinking Fund would have nothing to fear from this. He had brought forward a scheme which he thought perfectly practicable, anti he now called on the cotmery Gentlemen to support him on this occasion. They had called for the reduc tion of taxes when their own particular interests were concern ed, and they ought now to come forward for the community at' large. He called on Ministers also to favour it. The public were found grateful for real benefits conferred. .He did not think that they had cause to be grateful on this occasion. On the contrary, their hopes must have been severely disappointed. He hoped these claims would now be attended to, and conclu ded by moving a resolution, declaring, That the plan brought forward by the Chancellor f the Exchequer was not such as to