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Woolaston, Mr. Davies Gilbert, Sir Wiiliam Con greve, Mr. Harmer, and Mr. Courtenay. No persons were more "likely to discharge the im portant duty confided to them with ability and honesty. They carefully examined about 170 different plans, and concluded in favour of that to be executed under the sanction of the present Among the 169 persons whose plans were rejected, it was natural to suppose many indivi duals were favourable to their own plans, and cOnsequntly prone to complain. But he wou d -ask-, if they were to be retarded in their well considered courSe by_ such obstacles as these Pe titioners interpose, how could they (the House) expect to come to a conclusion ?. To say the Com mission was not right in its decision, would be so far an attempt to defeat the measure. Could any possible good arise *from their further deferring the progress of the 13111 ? The Petitioners were left at liberty to work to any of the Country Banks, and all except the Bahk of England. The Courts of Law were open to them, and in 'another point of view, the other House of Parliadent. No adequate reason was assigned why their Lord ' ships should suspend their progress with this vin ' portant measure. They should give it a fair trial, and not think of rejecting it because a few persons thought proper to .impugn it. The E k trl of L vUDEnD ALE contended, the - Noble Minister had stated no reason against Bear= ing the Petitioners by Coqusel. In his mind, the present was a case in which it was - peculiarly proper they should he heard. They severally "stated, that their own plane, in effect, had been " reap adopted, and that whatever security the Bank Notes may obtain, it was from their in VEII.. tlO7l. Lord RETIED.:LE conceived, that none of the allegations in the Petitions were sufficient to in - duce the House to stop the progress of the measure. The Earl of LAUDERDALE, in explanation, con 7 tended that the effect of the' Bill:Would be to take from the Petitioners the benefit of their, own in ventions. Ile concluded by moving, that the Pe titioners be heard by their Counsel. This, on the question being put, was negatived by the House, and their Lordships immediately resolved into a Committee on the. Bill, which they agrecd to without any amendment, and the Report was forthwith received. RESUMED CONSIDERATION OF THE LONDON .PETITIDN. This document, on the motion of Lord -ER lias again read ; it appeared to be to the effect before stated. The LORD CHANCELLOR repeated his opinion that a Petition containing such allegations could not be received by their Lordships. They. were told that their proceedings were against law, and he• thought they should be very cautious how they entertained such a document. The Earl of LAUDERDALE, lest his silence might be understood as an acquiesceuco on his part in, the allegations, wished to observe, that he thought yen- differently. First, the Bill did not originate in the Secret - Committee, nor_dic.l he the Bill eenta ea till he read it afterwards; but It it-ouhl appear that the people' of London had a better know , ledge of their Lordships' . proceedings than they had themselves ! If the House decided that the Petition should not he received, he would follow. it up with a motion that the Petition be rejected. The Duke of HAMILTON thought the House should proceed with great deliberation on the question of not receiving Petitions : when they were properly worded,. and of a nature which could be regularly entertained, he thought the house should receive them. In the present case, should the question for receiving the Petition of the City of London be put, it should .have his support. The Loan CHANCELLOR disclaimed, in •any thing he said on this occasion, the least intention of any disrespect to the City of London; but no man or body of men had a right to interfere with the proceedings of that house, which he thought could not consistently give way on this occasion. The House should proceed on its own principles of judicial proceeding, as they had existed for. ages, to, uphold which, he believed, would be to support the interests of every man in the com munity. The Duke of -HAMILTON - spoke in explanation. Lord REDEsDALE deprecated the idea of their Lordships not proceeding with a Bill upon a most imnortant subject, except in such a manner as the City of London should think proper. Lord HOLLAND seemed to doubt the propriety of their receiving a Petition which contained such allegations. With respect to what they said- of the Secret Committee, and what took place there in, he could not take upon him to say what that was, but certainly these Petitioners could not be informed of it. They could know nothing of what passed-respecting_ that House, except from notoriety on the votes of their Lordships. He should therefore support the intended motion of his Noble Friend. After a few words from Lord ERSKINE, it was decided that the Petition should not be received, and it was subsequently, according to the motion of the Earl of Lauderdale, ordered to be re jected. THE MARRIAGE ACT. Lord ELLENBOROUGH now moved Cfiiiir Lord ships to go into a Committee on- '_Bill for Amending the 26th of Geo. IL' - i . O . elation to Marriages, for the purpose of re-committing the Bill. • Lord lIEDFWALE said, that on considering the Bill as changed to its present state, he felt it his duty to oppose the further progress of the mea sure. It was very unlike that originally pro posed, which, he was sorry to say, had been much altered for the worse. The Bill, in its amended state, proceeded on a principle which he held to be quite erroneous. The Noble and Learned Lord concluded his arguments in support of these propositions by strongly recommending that the furtlter consideration of the subject be postponed till the next Session. The LORD CHANCELLOR entreated of their Lordships to take some fuither time before they GUARDIAN Socivry.--Yesterday a Meeting of this Society for the preservation of Public Mo rals took place at the Egyptian-Hall, Mansion- House, for the purpose of receiving the Report, and contributing to the. Fundi of the Insti tution.7-The MAyou, in the Chair.— The Report stated, that two years had elapsed since the „last General Meeting of the Society, and that during that period 141 females had been admitted into the Guardian Asylum on their own application, 42 being then in the house, making together 183 ; of whom 35 had been re stored to their friends, 32 provided for in ser vice,l sent to their respective parishes, 2 died, 61 diSmissed or withdrawn, 46 are now in the house, making the total number of females re ceived into the Asylum since the formation of the Institution, 572 ; of whom 158 had been, placed in services, 183 restored to their friends, 32 sent to their respective parishes, 195 discharged Or withdrawn, ?'have died, and 46 are now in the house. Many of those who have gone from under the care of the Institution have become valuable members of society. The funds by which the necessary expenses were sustained, the Report stated as follows :—The donations, annual sub scriptions, and collections, during the past year, amounted to 1,1611. 13s. sfd., the produce of the work done .by the females in the Asylum was 2021. 17s. 61d., - making the total receipts 1,3641. 11s. sd. The disbursements during the year amounted to 1,4071. ls. Old., being an ex cess of expenditure above the receipts in the sum of 421. es., 9d. ; but the Society is now in debt to the Treasurer, and others, to the amount of not leis than 350!. Having on a former occasion inadvertently copied a paragraph from a Plymouth Paper, which was liable to misconstruction as affecting the property of Mr. Alderman WOOD, we with pleasure insert the following, which appears to be a correct representation of the affair :—" The decision of the Lord Chancellor, reversing that of the Vice Chancellor, in the case of _Rowe versus Wood, has been confirmed by the house of Lords. The Lord Chancellor, Lord ltedes dale, and two other Peers composed the House, when the decision was given. This judgment does not give the plaintiff possession of Crinnis Mines, as has been erroneously supposed, but merely sets aside an agreement entered into be tween'the parties for putting an end to further litigation, and requires the defendant to put in his answer to the plaintiff's 13.111."—( Roo/Corn wall Gazette, July 15.). A serious affray.toOk place on Saturday even. ing last, at Chatham, between some Turks and soldiers quartered there, in consequence of a dis pute respecting a woman, wh one of the Turks with a knife mortally wounded a man belongit.g to the Marine Artillery. Another man of the same corps was also dangerously hurt. legislated on a subject of this kind ; for there no ver was a Bill on such a subject which so much be trayed an utter ignorance of common law, on the part of . those who, framed it. The amendments which had been introduced Made such a total alteration in it frOni what the Bill originally' was, that it reminded him of what had been said of a silk stocking, which was -so oftikt mended _ with worsted, that at loci)* a'tet a". bit of the silk remained. And were their Lordships to send back this Bill to the House of Commons with all their alterations ? The Bill was altogether wrong in its principle ; it set out with supposing, that some suit should be entered, with a view to annul a marriage. But he would tell the framers of. the Bill, that it would not be necessary to institute any suit for such a purpose. The Bill would be taking away from legitimacy all that was legitimate, and giving 'tt, the illegitimate advantages to N'S hich they could not be entitled : and he entreated their Lordships not to proteed to remedy an alleged grievance, which could not be done without introducing in finitely grr.nter evils than those proposed to be remedied. Therefore, he hoped, that no further progress would be taken on the Bill during the present Session. Lord ELLENROROUGH said, he felt himself quite incapable of replying to all the legal objec tions of the Noble and Learned Lord. But to ob viate the error which had been alluded to, he had a clause which he meant to propose to the House in the Committee. There were certain provisions in the Marriage Act, which were a most intolerable hardship, for a marriage might be annulled in consequence of some accidental expressions in point of form, or in the signing of names. He was therefore most anxious that their Lordships should go into the Committee, ,when such alterations might be made-as would remove .the objections urged against the Bill. The Earl of WESTMORELAND denied that the Bill went in any way to shake the foundations of property ; but on the contrary, he contended, that it went to prevent the ruin of many persons who might be unjustly bastardized according to the law, as it now stood. He wished to have the Marriage Law protected, because at present it was a trap for innocence, and rendered the pro perty of unsuspecting persons liable to be plun dered ; and this Bill he conceived would prevent such an evil. The Noble Earl concluded with supporting the Bill. After a. few observations from the EarLof Car . - narvon, Lord Erskine, Lord Calthorpe, the Earl of Liverpool; and Lor'. Holland,, the House di vided, and we understand there ,appeared--:- For postponing the further consideration of the 111,asour Against it Majority - .• ALIEN BILL. The House went into a Committee on the Alien Bill, when some conversation took place respect ing one of the clauses, which was entirely in audible below the Bar. Having gone through the Bill, the Report was immediately received. THE COURT OF CHANCERY BILL land, Redesdale, Shaftesbury, and "Limerick ; the second reading of this Bill was postponed till to rnorrow.—The House then Adjourned. LONDON JOURNALS. [DAILY EXTRACTS.) FROM TIDE MORNING PAPERS C? 'MIS DAY. • Pforniqg-Ta.< • QU Tire House of4LostPx Aast , night . , rojecteelre Petition of the CorriniOn Council against the pro.; ceedings in regard -to the Queen ; and in this their Lordships consulted not only their own dig nity, but decided with a correct view to the ends of impartial justice. It is really abominable to see such men as Alderman Wood, Mr. Favell, and Alderman Waithman, pretending to dispute the legal and constitutional character of the proceedings adopted by the House of Lords, sanctioned as they are by all the great Law Authorities of the Land. Lord Erskine; though he consented to present the silly, Petition, did not attempt to defend it ; and even Lord Holland could not help ridiculing the rude pre sumption of the Petitioners, who, as Lord Lau derdale (another Opposition Peer). facetiously but justly observed, were anxious to appear as having a better knowledge of their , Lordships' pro ceedings than they had• themselves! His Lord ship exposed the falsehood of the assertion of the Bill.having . originated in the Secret Com mittee, who merely gave their opinion upon the' allegations in the cidcuments referred to their consideration ; and• Lord Itedesdale and the Lord Chancellor treated the presumption of the weak or mischievous meddlers With just ridicule and indignation—the former depre cating.the idea of their Lordships not proceeding with a Bill upon a most important subject, except in such manner as a few citizens should think proper ; and the latter truly observing that the Petitioners had no right to interfere in the man ner they had done. The House, his Lordship added, should act upon its own principles of ju 7 . dicial proceeding, as they had existed for ages ; to uphold which,he believed,would be to support the best interests of the community. • [FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] — The Public have often complained of the expensive establishments for audit ing public accounts;, individuals, with more reason, have complain) d of the delay in getting their accounts passed through these. Offices. The case of the lion. IlAstb Costa= t+ A N . h.: appears peculiarly worthy of attention. This Gentle man, in consequence of the backward state of the audit of his accounts in one of the Public Offices (its particularly taken notice of and commented upon by the Commissioners of Re: vision in their Tenth Report, dated Augnst the 11th, 18( 1 7). was, in the year 1806, obliged to assign over a contract, and to return to England, anxious to ge. - . his accounts brought to a close during his lite. Alter being harassed for 13 yeas in resisting large claims brought against him, and after defend ing air expensive snit in the Court of Exchequer, be has at last succeeded in the final adjustment of his accounts, and has actually received a balance upon then), and is thus ac knowledged to have been a public creditor, instead of a pub lic debtor.—(lbid.) We have extracted the foregoing article from the most re~luetahte and impartial of all the Morning Papers, to ,liew tjuit we are animated by the' same impartiality and regard to public justice. t'Ve know, however, that the othee .ttpilosed to lie alluded to is disting,nish . ed for attention as well asaccu racy, and it will readily tieadontted, that circumstances may have occasioned delay in a 'particular case, which might not to affect its general character for assiduity, correctness, and [Morning Clirunick.] The Ministerial Papers se,em determined to make the most of the mistake under 'which her Majesty was with regard to the property of the plate. We really do not see that this mistake either justifies their triumph, or the language held by Lord Castlereagh to Dr. Lushington. Her Majesty might well be excused for not know ing the distinction between property belonging to the Crown, and property purchased out of the Privy Purse. [New Times.] 'We are sorry to observe that a worthy member of the Common Council regards marriage as a Sacrament. This is well known to be a dis tinctive doctrine of the Church of Rome; and though we have no other reason to believe that Mr. Favell is a Papist, yet this state ment (if his speech be accurately reported) would necessarily make us believe that such are his religious principles. Two solutions however pre sent themselves —one, that the worthy Common Councilman did not exactly know what he was saying ; the other that he expressed himself so ob scurely as to mislead the Gentlemen by whom his speech was reported. Perhaps he took his ideas on this, as he seems to do on many other subjects, from the Leading Journal of Europe, which a few days ago dealt forth some pre cious nonsense on " the impiety of dissolving marriage without allowing of recrimination." — in the Roman Catholic Church, it is true, where marriage is held a Sacrament, there may be a reasonable ground for this plea of im piety ; but then it must be remembered, that marriage in that Church can neither be dissolved with nor without recrimination ; bu the law and Constitution of England proceed on different principles. They regard marriage as a civil con tract, though of a sacred character, and they leave its dissolution entirely to the Supreme Le gislative Power of the State. Scarcely a Session passes without the actual exercise of that power ; and it is exercised, in each distinct case, upon its own separate grounds. The Legislature is bound down by no rule whatever to admit a recrimi native plea ; it may do so for the sake of civil justice between private parties ; but where the question is of a public and criminal nature, it is manifest that recrimination cannot bear upon it in the slightest degree. The Legislature has to determine whether the conduct of the Queen has been such as to render her unlit for the discharge of, her high regal duties. She is a subject, and they may therefore entertain such a question re specting her ; but respecting the King, they can not legally or constitutionally institute any such inquiry. If they should decide that the Queen can no longer continue Queen Consort, they must, as a corollary to that determination, pro-' nounce her to be no longer Consort of the King. [The Times.] The Petition from the Court of Common. Coun cil against the proceedings instituted in the case of the Quccn was last night rejected by the of Peers. The motives which instigated Ncio, Lords to this course were different in ditfere lit nii g s dividuals ; but theesult, f considering th e ' ci :hat of the House, and the steps klredy talent' course which the Petition impugns, will ciat . s ihe no surprise. It was perhaps as much: );‘ e I •tg Court of Common Council ilitended to 1 ° loe' 'views of the skject Officially inown to the ltriloci House of Parliamect. A similar Petition 05 been before presented to the Cotnmonsi allt:fer with equal propriety received, as the 'btit House had made no advance in the businessv, per s had, in fact, declined that course which the ere' are pursuing. The Address of the Cour t, ,,l; e rs, fore, whicCdeprecated the activity of the wtot coincided with the restiveness (if we may us e : word) of the Commons. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed Last Night. ' Af tef THEXPRE ROYAL, HAYMA ILK ET.—Wine does Wonuer- „ • or , which, P R igeons and Crows. 'l'LlEaTttie ovAL, Es F. oLisn Orn.s HOUSE.—The pro ',jil t, / Note. After which, Free and Easy. To which was Don Giovanni. TO CORRESPONDENTS. ~ whi ,: , e We have received au impudent Article from the Pero:o 1 , ,' Letter we inserted yesterday, signed " A LOVE 3 Of Ts' 0' :fi and we can only infer that he is one of the C.4 .l° 51 lii dt CuNsrißA roils who escaped the hand of Justice, 's however, .we doubt not, will reach him in due tilu e. 'lnc Co I.oNIES, To morrow. o ct, *4. TIMBER .... n UTlrs.—For the Grititmation of the see the Fourth Page. PRICE 0 THIS DAY AT STOCKS ONE O'CLOCK. °I o India Stck .. • 11 ***** 0,215. hc3 India Bonds ... • New Annuities .•• • • • P; Exch. Bills, 2t1.... • 44 ',2'0,' . Ditto Conmerciat 3 . 6 oin nium ........ •• • Cons. for august • s ••''. Bank Stock • • 220 per Cent Red. tip /11ii 3 pet Cent. C0n5...68i (9 68?, 31 per Cent. ....77j 73 4 per Cents S 7 Vo4 1 per Ct. Nary Ann..... 103 q, 5 per Cent. Scrip. .... 2a pr. Bank Long Ann... 18 1-I6tn i NIA ActutvED-1 Dublin, 1 Watei t 'LS. li •,tte ( '' r " )rd, t Gottentnirgap I ' - ince. ro t ) o6 1 Gottenburgh, 1113 I Fr. DoE—I Dublin, I Waterford, • HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE 1 - 0- 1 I'" - dtv i Mor ! iitig, 44 filinutts alter _9.—Er.e_itittg:2222/1 THE SUN. 501.E.31 QUIS DICERS FALSUYI LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 10;, ...-- , There is a report in circulation this for v that a private Messenger has arrived frog'. ' II I h 0 1 ples, with an account of a Revolution • 00 ,1 taken place there, similar 'to that of SP aiil/ 1 without any blood having been shed• of t s We received this morning the Paris Monday last.. The following are e xtrac ts ',, e' _rLD___-__, - 11‘, N.: 17 _vo s t er d a v the K" 1 j) ff ceived the Princes, Dignitaries, Ministers' 1 0' steals, &c. amongst others, the Prince °f multi, and the Marquess de Benrnonville• des' " On the 13th instant, 32 English hor ses " ri ba r tined for the King of Bavaria, were &se' at Calais. oil " For some time past the English have b ` j;e up all the bones that could be collected two marches of Brandenburg, in Portler 3ni37 bir the adjacent Countries. M. Beeucher, (It owner at Gross-Merschleben, is cornalis siatie s enter at Hamburgli -1,000 quintals of W e o ' d British account. Other ship-owners are to take cargoes equally considerable . 11' 1 oi; places persons have disinterred the hon es ° I o' mals, and collected those that were still fre ,.. 1 0 1 01 clothed with flesh. Different conjectures 3 r e ` °1. ,,,,0 1 t a i s ty to or tl a le ni m m o a d l eofem matter;ploving so enorole°s Li : fo r some suppose tha t it jg a preparation of phosphorus ; others, th3tthirLi are to be used in the Refineries ; w hilst class allege that they are to be ea ne mixed up to fertilize the land, either i ll k;ns or in India. t `c °' tio cc It is decided that the Court w ill ° St. Cloud during the present year. iDE ii " MADP! J the , WA' CStCrday t° ec companied by a Chamberlain, proret cl Jli Hall destined for the Sittings of the C°Eteeate'l Majesty examined all the details, at' d 3P11 ,.c00 1 ' satisfied with the arrangements for the modation of the Deputies. f " At the third Preparatory Sitting ° Cortes, which tool; place this daY. p on deo° pigo, Archbishop of was chosen Pres' and General Quiroga Vice-President. o se cc, anr,v A Deputation of 0-2 M em bers, anti cc ottu ! cretaries, proceeded to the Palace, t tute t l , o to the King that the Cortes w ere cons° 00p His Majesty received them with great " refil l - l e and caused them to be seated in his Presaeotl The King replied to the speech of the re ot i the that he would assist at the Cortes instant, at 10 o'cicck in the evening." orLl New York Papers wero received this ra to the 22. d June : C:OLUMBIAN REPtira,tc. ADVICEi PROM A.NCOSTUIIA TO THE E ND OF . 11:74. 1 f ; The President, BoLlvsa, after attra ctio4 t attention of the Royal Forces, by rnoveil lelits °