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PARLIAMENT, HOUSE OF LORDS, JULY 13. MISCELLANEOUS. Pellew's Divorce Bill was reported, and agreed to, together with the Amendments. Mr. Cooper, from the Treasury, presented at the Bar certain Papers in relation to the Indian and Baltic Trade. . • • 'MESSAGES FRONI 'll - 1E COMMONS. Sir JOHN OWEN and others brought up a files- sage, staling, that the Welsh . Fines Bill had been brought up into this House by mitake, and re- . queSting the return of the same. - The Earl of gtLAFTESIEtURY roao,af ier the Com , mons had withdrawn, and moved that the IV - elsh Fines' Bill. should be returned to the other House ; which motion was agreed to. - - On the Commons being called .in,"-the -Lo nD CHANGELLOR informed the Peptlta tion; that their ,Lordships. had directed the desired _Bill forth ._ with to be restored ; whereupon ;the Bill was delivered to them, Mr. Gowper,.r:t. the Bar. Loral Fll4luy S;nuerstA,•• • Mr: fir,",itden - ,: - Mr. Biair, Mr. Wret•e- W. Curti., and whets, the BAni. • , N-tys thc the N.tval Alom'y Ill.], the Iris I , 7,dier:es liili, the D:n::,g - ttalee and Portp4li ids Getters Divnaalindival• - Miitia Bilis the 818, the Irish. Militia the It, al Family P. 7- ovistnu Bill, the hada t'ltana.:,;y• Otlic•s' Contpen.ation Bill, the, Lumina. Militia BM, he. Late Tha ja.xty!s Servant.' Annuities 818, the Extra Post Bill, and veral Private Balls, which were afterwards trail se%crally the first time. 03NK NOTE. The - Earl of L tu DERD.t LE presented a Petition from Mr. Alexander similar to that pre sented in the House of Commons on Friday,from the same person. It complained, Ahat the . plan • which the Petitioner had formerly devised for re moving the faCility of counterfeiting Bank of England notes, was the same in principle as that which was accepted by the Bank as the discovery of \lr. A pplegarth,and prayed either for an equal remuneration, or such a modification of the Bill, as would not deprive tke Petitioner of the advan dtag,es of his invention. - On the motion of Lord LAUDERDALE, it was ordered to be referred to the. COnunittee. The Marquess of DOWNSIIIR,E, in moving tha ' t the Donaghadee and Portpateick Harbours Bill should be read the- second time; considered it be • coming in himself to notice the important com munication which the present Bill effected as be tween the two kingdoms; and the manner in. which its provisions • had been agreed to. The measure had experienced the kind concurrence, :of his Majesty's Government-on—both sides of the water, and he now peg g ed. to take this op portunity for returning his sincere thanks for that support which had been Oven, to it. • - Lord ELLENWROO6iI and the - Earl BLItSSING TON bore testimony to the great benefit which the present Bill promised to produce. The Earl of DAR LEY presented - a Petition from Mr. Pitt, the Surveyor, against the New Street Acts Bill, the objects of which were stated to require an expenditure of '200,0001. - Lord SIDMOUTLI presented a Petition from the Lord Mayor, Alderinen, and Common cOnn ' cil of the City of Dublin, praying the rejection of that clause contained in the Irish- Chancery• Court Bill,, which provides the 'exclusion of Masters Chancery from sitting as Members-of the -House of Commons.—Received.' The Smuggling Prevention the .Slaves' Removal Bill, and others, were- read a third time, passed, and messages to that effect sent to the other House. Two Petitions were presented from Glasgow, by the• Duke of .H4MILTON and Lord_BrmiAvEs against the Statute Labour -Bill. Upon the motion of the Marquen- of •lANs- DOWNE, the three •NeW - PenaT - LaWs Bill went fro ni forct through Committees of the - liimse - and' were agreed to be' - reported on - Monday next, it being-tiowunderstood • that opposition - was post , ro )ed to the third ieading. - • • • The Earl of LAUDERDALE presented a Petition from the Calic6 Printers of Manchester, praying for relief ; referred to the Select Committee on Voreign Trade. IRISH CHANCERY DILL. The Earl of CAR . NARVON asked whetherit was the intention of any 'Member of his Majesty's Government to move the second reading of the Court of,Chancery (Ireland) Bill: Lori Viscount SinmouTu said he was not aware of any such intention. Lord REDESDALE approved of the general ob ject of the Bill—that of reducing the . feeS of the Officers of the Court ; but it required alterations, and there would still remain a grievance of much greater magnitude, to which reform ought to be applied if possible, namely, the enormous charges of the Solicitors, which so greatly increased the expences of the suitors. His Lordship, on the suggestion of Lord CARNAavox, .agreed to move" the second reading. of the 'Bill to-morrow ; but stated that he .disapproved of one clause in the Bill, that which prohibited the Masters in Chan- cery from sitting in the House of C ommons , so far as it had a retrospective effect. - MARRIAGE ACT AMENMIENT BILL. Lord ELLE.NBoRoUGH rose to move the second reading of this Bill. He felt it is duty, he said, to come forward on this important occasion, though he was aware of his incompetency to do 'justice to the subject. A similar measure had 'been three times before their Lordships,, which . sheaved the .strong sense'entertained by the other house of Parliament upon the, subject. It was evidently .a question that• deeply involved the morals of the country. The measure did not proceed upon fanciful or speculative grounds ; the enormity of those -t.vils which it went to counteract was'equally extensive and appa rent. Since the month of April last year, he had selected four cases from those that had -occurred, of striking enormity. One was that of a marriage, .uhich, after a cohabitation of twenty-four years and a progeny of seven children,. was annulled at the instance of the husband, on account of the omission of some of those comparatively trilling formalities which were required by the existing law. The s.-coed was a case of little less enormity. In the.third, the marria ge t oo k p l ace w ith th e consen t of the mother of one of the parties, who believed heraelt to be a widow ; but in Some years after the hus band returned home - , and from the wank of-his consent (the married persons being under age) the, marriage was set aside., after twenty years co habitation between the couple. The fourth case was one in which„...after,Ahirty-eight years' cohabitation, the marriage was annulled on grounds nearly similar, the . Married parties not being of age at the time. Was such a state of things, so affecting the marriage state,, to_ be suffered to -continue ? With a due regard to the morals o f th e country,. the peace and tranquillity-of individuals, .or veneration for religion, could such a state of things he permitted. - Was a WoMan who had fullY_ discharged all the duties ef a I;.'ife to have children bastardized, and herself thrown out of all respectable soiet v, not through any fault of her own, but' through the deEberafe perjury of the man on whom she had •rested all her hopes of happiness, comfort, and respect. • After having long lied in perfect hap piness, surrounded by her yonttg and s innocent offspring, who she hoped - woald attain: to respect able stations in lire, should these be per mitted through the omission of a signature or some other - slight formality to have the cup of hope and enjoyment dashed at once from their _lips ; to be driven from society, and, with their unoffendiug mother, left unprotected and exposed to insult and derision. Looking at the original Act from the period of its cortnnence menl, in 1751, to the present, the instances of the .kind were numerous, and not even. the -very highest and most Noble Fathilies in the country were exempt from its baleful operation, and the oflspring .destituted ,of their. rightful honours, titles, and estates. Th e Marriage institution it self was admirable and good, and as far as connected with the dicta and commands of Scripture, nothing could he said against it. The principle of' the Marriage Law was un,. doubtedly good ; but thos e of it s Provisions which. the Bill went to'amend, were found to be pro ductive of the most deplorable consequences. The. Noble Lord then adverted .to other provi sions of the Marriage Laws, which he thought also called for - emendatiOn—such as thOse which ren dered the contract voidable under-some circum ,stances, while in others, incestuous unions were Suffered - to continue without molestation or dis turbance. In fine, he thought the present mar riage law called loudly for the alterations and amendments proposed by the:.Bill before their Lordshipg; and under which fOrcible conviction, he should move, that the Bill be now read the second time. , The LORD CHA NC E LL O R s a id, h e f e lt nmmself bOtind on this important question to express his strong 'difference of opinion frim-that of his Noble. Friend, if -he would alloW hiM so to ekpress'hiMself, so strongly, that he •could not even - think . ofiOting .for the Bill going to a Bill were bona fide framed, 'so as to - nieet those evils upon which so much stress was laid"; lie' shOuld deem such a Bill entitled to their LordAips' best attention. former Bills alluded to Were" brought up to that house at such a very advanced' period of the Session, that it was' morally impOs'sirde they could give the sub ject - that delibeiiite - consideration which it evi dently required. - Neither could he understand Why this Bill'was - not - broUght up fhree'n'io . uths ago. With respect to the numerous Acts relating tb.this important subject, he understood his N6'. bib Friend- to speak faVourably of the principle of some of the Irish Aeti thereon. On the prin ciple of .some of thOse there was in faCt one Mar riage Law, for 'serious pOsseasing prOperty to the amount of 1001. a year, and another law f or per sons who did not possess Property to that as count. 'Marriage was a civil as as a sa died,-COutract; and some part of what the Noble; Lord referred to as inconsistent was, he - .said, a virtual. aberratiiin from time general laW of Marriage; and should not go one iota in the -ivay of strict argument. What was the principle .of the Marriage : Act ? Suppose there were some eight, or ten, or twenty inst ances wherein he confessed it was difficult to restrain the feelincrs, they certainly were not sufficient to warrant a Bill with a _retrospective operation as far back as the year 1754, upon which Act the Law solely. stood ; and that a Bill which would go to shake all those ,rights derived under the established law, as would or may be done by the application of the first clause irr the Bill, though a provision towards the end of the Bill, he knew, may be said to have a saving effect ; yet, pro perty to an incredible amount, with titles, pen sions, and - other valuable possessions held under the established law, may. , lie seriously affected by it. Having dwelt on these points in the way Of illustration, the Noble and very Learned Lord obserVed, the present was not a season of the year when they - could beneficially go into a edit sideration of a Bill of such extensive importance. There was a clause also in it which went to lega lize all marriages, though founded upon the most fraudulent perjury, and the distinctions were so drawn that it would be better to say at once that all were good, than to legislate in the very ex ceptionable way proposed by this Bill. No man could be more desirous to uphold the dictates.of morality, or td adhere to the dictates of religion, than himself; but he was' yet to be convinced how these desired ends could be attained by such a Bill as the 'present. It, therefore, being. so framed, and coming before them at a period in which full and deliberate discussion could not be expected, he could not consistently afford the measure his support. The Earl of WESTMORLAND differed in many points from his Noble and Learned Friend. lle thought the Bill at least should receive a. second reading, and be .suffered to go to a Committee, where the objectionable parts could regularly be digcussed and amended, and it could be ,seen how 'as the Bill was susceptible of amendment: if this was - found impracticable, why' then reject it. The Bill was to amend the Act of the 26th of Geo. 11., intituled " An Act to prevent Clandes- THE SUN. ,SOLE `4 OUTS DICERE. FALSLTM AUDEAT LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1820. We received this morning the Paris Papers of Tuesday last. The Chamber of Peers met oh Monday, and heard a discussion on a proposition respecting the Law of Arrest as applied to Peers . , which was adjourned till Tuesday. °lithe latter day the report was to be made on the Budget of Sapply.—ln the Chamber of Deputies ,the dis cussion on the. Budget of Ways and Means was resumed. M. FRANCAIS de NANTE finished his speech, and withlt the whole of the discussion was finished. The votes were taken on the. Budjet, and it was carried by a majority of 129 to 6.- The following are extracts:— " PARIS, JULY 11.--The King yesterday transacted business with the Count Simeon and Duke de Richelieu. His Majesty received Ladies in 'the evening. . • . " The Duke Decazes, who tpok leave of the King on Sunday evening, set out for Calais at three o'clack _yesterda. afternoon.. Ills . , lency will stop for a day, or two at the estate of the Duchess Decazes in .Picardy. ‘c Several ,duels took plPce on SundlayeVening without the barriere of Mont-Parnasse., 'A Swiss soldier was killed on .the spot by a,stroke of a sabre. • - " The P ers i an Ambassador arrived, on the sth instant, in the evening, at Strasburg. M. It ieffer accompanied him from Paris to die frontier as interpreter ; the 6th the .AMbassador passed the Rhine, on his return to, his own Country, by the way of Germany 'and Turkey. . . " The Duke de Cambaceres was to return the 7th instant to Brussels, froth Aix-la-Chapelle, and he is expected immediately at Paris. • 6 ‘ A letter from Calais- of the ,Bth inst. states, that the passage of English Couriers to and froM Italy continued, very frequent. " Letters from Barcelona, which reached Tou louse the 4th instant, state that the plague con tinued its ravages in the-Island of Majorca, 4114 that the number of victims 4ldily increased'. 66 M. Hyde de N - euvillej, French Minister Ple A at nipotentiaty to the Volttl Btates, is dirlve' Paris on leave. FIVE PER CENTS: Monday DEFERRED STOCK. Of the .22ti March, I seo q 3 f. 25 c ' v p‘.ols " CORFU, MAY is said that Ali lied is under , , great apprehensions of being sub , t by the Porte, and that, in case of, a revers e, means to take refuge here." 79 f. 3 5 C. r As the Opposition Jtiurnals are so anxici' v g have the 'names- and, condition of the NVi til- p 5 0 ( F : who are .to be brought forward on the 'Trial ot TIIE QUEEN- sttbmitted to , her -previous to • trial, and consequently to the world at large) e it not equally consistent with justice that names of those witnesses who are to be suninrlle in her .favour should be equally known t° thd who ate to conduct the prosecution ? It will til be known whether her MAJE S T Y 'S witnesses t more respectable, and are in general" Pet e dressed than thine who Were 'nearly sacri -e by a btrutal rabble,' because they were sui'l )° ,: fe to be brought as evidence against her. say better dressed in general, because theY be attired for the occasion, and th e i r present g / P ; pearance may not be superior to those were in •clanger of falling victims to the tlg, ll a ferocious- mob. It is well known that cer°. enemies to Ministers, who are supposed to ; above the rank of the poor perse . cuteil FOre'rg! 3 f tt in question, supplied.. the CATO.:STREET C°S' ItATORS with., money to purchase arms, though it is impossible to imagine that they I f . ignorant of the manner in 11. - liich fie were likely to, be -employed. The same g e rous patriotism which supplied money to . Martgrs to Rgforin, the TurSTLEWO6DS, & C. . . may lie.equally liberal in.providing a deoel4 ' lll' pearance for the witnesses who are to be s ij moved' in favour of- her MA JESTY . We St ltte this circumstance yesterday, and expressed f surprise that none , of the Opposition Priiits . 11 % thought proper to "notice it-But we may als ° r perMitted to express still g r eat er s ur p r ise, as the circumstance wa. in the House of Commons by one of his Ministers, none of those consistent Patriots, t' LAMBTONS,-BENNETS,-CREEVIES, &c. did not' Withindignation,..an . d de - mand a full disefostir e all that Government kneW the subject, th a t the guilty Patrons of those Conspirators In i rg i ' be held up to the detestation of the C °Lifil try, if they' could not be subjected to tl 1 e punishment of th e L aw . Th oug h , how s ever, ( do not exp e ct that th e Op pos i t i on Write -4 may' deem prudent, for weighty rea° 4 f on their own part, to inquire into a fac t so flagitious a nat ure , y e t we may sure l y hope t find tha:t . Opposition Senators are more aft° t° the cause of . justice, and that they will ve l ` e ; nlcntly call uponUinisters for a full developev ie - li t of the mystery, and an open exposure oft" : f who could have been so base as to afford all ' t kind of aid, comfort, and assi s t ance i t o those "- uo i ' rid criminals,' who have justly su ff ere d for °d atrocious intention to commit ,wholesale mu(Lie'' , , and to involve the Co un t r y i n co ns t ern ation Li) eventual ruin. - her - With . respect. to the question or giving t° MAJes*-Vs Co - tinsel the names of the Ivit" e- , 5 4 who are to be brought t o support the Ch arP e against 4er; we rely on the wisdom of the il °ll' of Lords in the first instance. They Will , are persuaded, not rigidly adhere to I° - dents, , if they can be safely suspended. as. we before said, p re C e d en t s , wou ld not liar° been ,established except upon solid perni'L lle to grounds, and a temporary Cause ought 0° - a vacate the operation of right principles le° • AI; . • - upon sound - p ractical experience. , We th -11 necessary again to point out the danger ° - i'l or fishing- the names of those-who w ould cer“ l- be exposed to assassination on their arriva l / - ' proof of which was the inhuman outrage c e some of them sufferedat Dover. Th,c Old Times an die° published a Letter, threatening the assassi n of Mr. CANNING, and one of his Majesty's o Tt tens formally and forcibly stated in the nu Llse ito Commons. that the names of persons were 0 110 t , who had supplied the CATO-STREET CONSI Ct r '' TORS with money to carry on their desLr i th e machinations. Can it be doubted then ti l3t j author of the infaMous letter alluded t° , the the Patrons of the Conspirators, whoever ,5 f co , •• may be, and it is probable they must be P e "' # ol eo° of property, would not willingly use any to obstruct the course of Justice, by the d.st t in to tion of the Foreigners who may be broug -1 an d this Country, for the developemerit of Tr uth ' the support of Justice ? tr i/ : TIMBER DEITIES.--We are obliged t o °s • dot' the continuation of the Parliamentary 0;1 s ett it on this impo r tant subjec,st, but we shall in'cLords to-morrow, if the Debate in the House e this , ,clay is not of too great length. tine INTarriAges." The Fill , appearNi to founded on the spirit and principle of that Act. a principle which was long acknowledged to be salutary and good. Lord REDESDALE seemed generally' to Stpport the objections of his Noble Friend on the Wool 'sack. rikuch•good he'-thOught }could be,attained, and a greNkal of what Was"tornplaiited of in k \ present iti.:ase by iheNdoinglway the present N mode of ilicense‘for ma s fria,vdss'Mr - which no rea, son seemed to obtain, but the partiality of indi viduals of rank to that mode. The practice of marriage by bating was greatly preferable. Lord CALTIIORPE Bhortly spoke in favour 'of the Bill, and 'seemed to think the pregent, un der the circumstances, an appropriate time for some amendment to be made in that part of the law. • The Earl of LIMERICK argued in favour -of their Lordships' entertaining the Bill, which, he thought, it would be better to read the second time; - and, if .deemed preferable,- its detailed con-ideration in a Committee might be put off to another season. The Loan CHANcELLott and the Noble Carl spoke respectively in explanation. Lord ELLENBOROUGH also spoke in explana tion—Considering the law generally, and admit ting the objections of the Noble and Learned Lord, yet he thought that between the moral evils which really existed, and those said to be apprehended from the Amending Bill, there was no.fair com parison. At the least, ate !louse should attempt its amelioration in a Committee, and not appear to discountenance the principle of such a Bill. The question was then called for, when there appeared--- • Contents Not Contents .. 2ti Majority for the second reading. of the -6 It was understood that the Bill was then read a second time,. and ordered to be committed on T 4esday..-_—Adjourned. .Fcn the Proceedings in the. House of Qnnunons, •ce the FOIIrt b Paged TUEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed Lirst Night. EAT RE Roy. L, COVENT-GARDEN.—The Slave. Which, The Forty Thie yes. THEATRE IIAYAIARKET.—'Tie Romp ; with :Blue Devil.. After which,The Travellers Benighted. 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