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SIXTY-EIGHT PRIZES OF 5001. 4001. 3001. &c. &c. tog,ther, in Nloney and Consols, SEVENTY-EIGHT CAPITALS Yid' UNDRAWN. Two PRIZES OF 10,0001. MUST BE DRAWN IN THE FIRST FIVE MINUTES NEXT DAY. lath MAY. Warranted Undrawn TICKETS and SHARES are on Sale at the 01d-established and Fortunate Offices of HAZARD and Co. the Contractors, Royal Exchange Gate ; 26, Corn -101; and 324, Oxford-street, Corner of Swallow•strcet, Lon don; who Shared and Sold, in the Last Lottery Contract, 2,3:0 and 6,656, 20,0001. each : and, in a recent Lottery, ALL THE VRIZES of 30,0001.! ! ! !HAZARD and Co Shared and Sold FOUR of the Capital Prizes drawn last Thursday, 27th'April. HAZARD and Co. have A4ents in all the principal Towns throughout the Country. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, • By Mr. SOT H EBY, At his House. Wellington-Street, Waterloo-Bridge, Strand, On Titesday, May Id, 1820, and following Day, at Twelve o'Clock, APORTION of the LIBRARY of WILLIAM BRAY, Esq. 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Whereas, we have resolved, by the favour and blessing of Almighty God, to celebrate the solemnity of our Royal Co ronation, upon Tuesday the first day of August next, at our Palace at Westminster; and forasmuch as by ancient customs and usages, as also in regard of divers tenures of sundry rumors, lands , ,anel other bereditatnents, many of our loving subjects do claim and are bound to dniend-perform divers se veral services on the said day, and at the time of the Coro- Illation, as, in times precedent their ancestors, and those from whom they claim, have done and performed at the Co.ronation of our famous Progenitors and Predecessors; we, therefore, oat of our princely care for the preservation of the lawful rights and inheritances of our loving subjects whom It may concern, have thought fit to give notice of and publish *ttr resolutions therein; and we du hereby give notice of and Publish the same dceordingly; And we do hereby further s ignify, that by our Commission uncles` our Great Seal of treat Britain, we have appointed and authorised oar most ear brothers and faithful Councillors—(Here follow the .__ ll.4 "tes of th e diff erent ma l e b ranc h es o f the Royal Family, VOther with those of the Privy Councillors, as usual in tt Acts)—or any fire or more of them, to receive, hear, deteitoine the petitions and claims which shall be to them -Zhittited by any of our loving subjects in this behalf; and ,t illicit appoint our said Commissioners for that purpose to a n in the Painted Chamber of our Palace at Westminster, twe lve of y l ku) Tursda the eighteenth day of this istant. Ma y, at t W eire of the clock at noun of the same day, n and from time l .itue to a dj ourn as t o them shall seem meet, for the execu tit:u.of our said Commission, which we do thus publish to ear threat that all such persons whom it may any ways con th_, may know when and where to give their attendance for It""!tchibiting their peitions and claims concerning the at Tees before-menjioned to be done and performed unto us 4ne ur said C orona ti on ; an d we do hereby signify unto all 44 1 every our subjects whom it may concern, that our will m Pleasure is, end we do fun eb.y strictly charge all persons, lett*hat rank or quality soerer they be, who, either upon our x __ , e e rs to theta directed, or by reason of their offices or te .."Thl s ter otherwise, are to do any service at the said day or ;e of „ m . Coronation, that they do duly give their attensi- Z" e accordin g ly, i n a ll respects furnishedand appointed as 30 great a solemnity appertaincth, and auswerable to the 14 ,... ies and places which every one of them respectively 111 %ti and enjoyeth, and of this they or any of them are unl i t , fail, as they will answer the contrary at. their perils, " ,,I s t s Upon special reasons by ourself, tinder our hand to be I tii, ` l ,:dr we shall dispense with any of their services or at ,rieilies. ,at our Court at Carlton-Howe, this Gth day of May, 1820, and in the first year of our reign. Gov SAVE THE KING. au t. Paines BANKRUPTS. 'eicter, tailor, t o surren d er M a y 22, 24, an d "10 , Les , at eleven, at the Three Crowns Inn, Leicester. QO, a iCambridze, d ea l er, M ay 16, o f ten, 17, and June tuelv e , at the Pickerell Inn, Cambridge. and J. Danvers,..juir. Cooper's-row, wer v"Uts, May 16, June 6, and 20, at twelve, at Guildhall. 2f3R- Holmes and T. F. Crane,_Northauipton, grocers, May j "" 8, and 20, at twlve,_tit '"11,/t4. Bartholom M ew, Basild on) , Berks , farmer, ay 20, 22, :Inie 20, at el even, at the Bear Inn, Reading. *, . 1 % W. 11., aim J. H. Hardy,Birmingham, merchants, 43 ' 1, and June 20, at twelve, at the Royal Hotel, Bir. 'l. dt a ,. <-4.. Rodborough, Gloucester, ciril engineer, May 22, mud Juba's, 614 at r14:1),.at the (kelp; Struud., fling and :nt), pect. 16th libel con,, fican, seveft It la xcept id ad- Court wvull (I, but ust b% l u t %ec l di► the of this cfrt the It, de- tk 1)4 (1!e de hit i3ddlitS y wcr rid be wollid before r fi e ct- midst). 110 waS l could cittion ; ni, ibe 11 thf.se endants HI €r- dressed le owttli , f I bem the per- e w,is no )r irrelia. ses iota Dd of t h e , pnentiM I)aiSi' i that it -e. The Robert ; I►itehorn 1 1 weeks; .1 Jose of sex, aryl of Oct enty-five Luc to bc e Couttil )gniz ance ►en called 3 fati►er. yestec' nday since venerable age of all y Ho r o'cibob er i o g from' party Yes° rty d i ", se , Wbite y (0 (linnet 3ANE a nd a (I ' 9 l y , et tligl wa's divicicd counto'o/ La gplC ( 11 did Cos ••••••••""*" - t. N o . 49/ re' he'd W., "so:1 I.l4 n 6 v jec i f oentit WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1620 I'ARLI A MENT, HOUSE OF LoRDS, MAY 9. MISCELLANEOUS. In a Committee of Privileges, their Lordships received evidence in verification of the titles of the present Noble Possessors to the Peerages of Northland and Garvagh, to asithorize their Lord ships to vote at the election of Irish Peers, &c. which being satisfactory, the same was ordered to he entered opan the Journals. On the resuming of the House, Prayers were read, and the Oaths were administered to the following Peers, who took their seats accordingly:— The Earls of Chatham, Romney, Manvers, Harewood, and Roden, and to Lord Suffield. The Oaths of Abjuration and Fidelity being duly adminis tered to Madame Marie Jeanne Massinglicde, the Bill for Naturalization was read the second time, and ordered to the consideration of an Outdoors Committee. vv Mr. BRADLEY, from the Mint Office, presented an account of the present market prices of Silver, pursuant to a recent order of their Lordships; and upon the motion of Lord KING, it. wag oidered to be printed. The Marquis of LANSDOWN gave notice of his intention to inure on Friday next, for an account of the allowances made to Foreign Ministers for the last ten years. Adjourned till ten to-morrow, when it is proposed to hear Appeals only, from that hour till oiie o'clock. HOUSE OF CONINIONS. AGRICULTURAL pti:TrrioNs Mr. GOOCH presented a Petitio❑ signed by 5100 Land Owners and Cultivators in Suffolk, complaining. of the dis tressed state of apiculture, and of the es occasioned by the importation of foreign corn. They proved that the House would take the same into consideration. _ The Petition was read, and ordered to lie on the table. A iimilar Petition was presented, signed by the Grand Juty of the saute Comity. Sir kc . LEMON presented a like Petition from the county of Cornwall. Mr. HOLM'', STSNINER, in presenting a Petition of the same nattier, from the Cou.•ty of Surrey. took occasion to in troduce it with a few remarks. He said, the depressed state of agriculture, and the ruin to which those occupied wnh it were tending, was too obvious to require being insisted tin. No subject could he imagined more imperatively demanding the attention which the Petitioners prayed might be given to it. There were in the hands of Members an infinite num ber of Petitions to be offered to the House, to the same effect with those presented this evening; and, in consideration of this fact, he would abstain from going into any detail upon the question, and he hoped other GetitirioCll would also re frain froM partially discussing it, till all those documents were before them. That they might then have an opportonity of doing Si,i he gave notice that he would, on the :30th of May, move that the matter should be referred to a Select Com mittee. _ Gentral GASCOIGNE took this early opportunity of de precating any such discussion as that purposed by the Hon. Gentlesuan. He trusted the House would pause before it was persuaded again to agitate the Corn Bill, and excite that strong sensation which such a proceeding was calculated to produce. He, for One, would oppose the appointment of such a Committee, whose sole object was the repeal of the Corn Bill. All the Petitions were laid on the table, and the last order ed to be printed. Several Members took the oaths and their seats. Mr. 1). W. HARVEY moved for a return of the amount of Coin seized by the Revenue Officers in September, 1811, and belonging to a Mr. Thompson, together with an account of its appropriation.—Agreed to. Mr. MABERLF.Y gave notice of a motion for Thursday, respecting the issue of Fxchequer Bills. Sir JOHN NEWPOR.f moveJ, that an account of certain articles imported from Enl.land into Ireland for the last seven years should be laid before il;e House, which was agreed to. on the regard to, the life of mau which it was not only very natural to entertain, but very proper to be cultivated by all Legislators and Rulers. This was what every one wished to preserve, and be tides being the most popular, might, perhaps, without any departure from sound reasoning, be considered to be the strongest ground on which the question could be placed. But still there were objections made, which left it in a state of vague ness and uncertainty. There were persons in all times of particular habits, and perhaps of stern characters, who, contetnplatiog the evil to society which resulted from crime, were glad to avail them selves of the ut&iSt rigour, under the idea that they might thereby prevent their commission. This argument was of some weight, but in this coun try, where in proportion to their number punish ments were so uutrequeotly inflicted, it lost a good deal of its general twee. The letter of our laws detiounc'd death for a number of offences, but practically visited few with that expiation. And he might remark, that this had arisen on a train of accidents, and not on the refined principles of legisletion which had in modern times been brought - forward as its vindication. It had arisen from the humanity of the nation counteracting that disposition which had been evinced during the 1811► century to legislate on every subject. It generally happened in other investigations, that these who wished to alter or innovate were charged with the love of paradox; but it so hap pened sometimes, as in the present instance; that paradox was on the side of those who contended for the cowinuance of ancient institutions. A most able, learned, and excellent writer of the present—he feared he must say of the last—age, Dr. Paley, bad defended our practice by ergo.. mews of this Idiot, rather than by employing the usual soundness of his judgment and powers of discrimination. Such things happened by a cu rious operation of the human mind ; instead of defending new opinions, in order to gratify the love of singularity, men were sometimes led to distinguish themselves by advocating antiquated abuses, and taking up those opinions which all other enlightened men had abandoned. This course, he would allow, belonged generally'to se condary talents. -But by it. might be explained one of theNtrange anomalies of a very distin guished Member of that House (Mr. Windham), who seemed to seek a chivalrous distinction by defending what all the rest of the world had given up, To return to Dr. Paley ; his writing had certainly produced one good effect, for it had been the great cause of exciting a Gentleman,' whose loss was so touch felt, and whose name no eulogy of his could exalt, nor no censure (if at tempted) depress; whose great powers were eciipsed by his greater virtues--it had been the cause of stimulating Sir S. Ilomilly to enter on the sot:jeer, and bring it, with 'all the bearings which his comprehensive mind took of it, before the Le gislature and the Country. That distinguished man had not introduced absolutely new principles, (it would he difEcni , to do so in these days, on any subject of political economy ;) bit: he had brought from the closets of philosophers those principles which were calculated to receive their application front Courts and Senates. 01 Sir S. Ronolly it alight he said, that he always retained stusitive and shrinking humanity, which was implanted in his nature ; sift on this occasion lie had left his feelings out of view, and examined 'be matter as it affected the general interests.— He had rested his arguments not on the common imprestions of mankind, but on a calculation of was best adapted to diminish the number of crimes, He seemed to have demonstrated that the effect of ni u lue severity was not to prevent crone, but to destroy the effect of the terror of eetosionent. He (Sir J. M ) had been often s luck by a saying of the late Mr.. Fox (which by a nreach of their privilege he had heard in that Honk) : that eminent individual, in speaking on toe carrying of an appeal to a higher Tribunal, observed, that it was founded on a great philoso phic principle, on the inadequacy of human wis dom, arid ou the sense of human infirmity. The Committee on the Criminal Laws had put this easouiug to the test. It had called before it all those connected with the administration of jus tice fron t whom it could derive information 5 it had examined Judges, prosecutors, and witnesses; and the result of the whole was that their ex perience justified, as it would always do where the theory was well founded, the theory on which the inquiry proceeded: As practical men they bad confirmed the general principles of human nature, and shown the truth of the supposition, that seve rity of sentence did not operate to deter guilt from executiog its purpose. This was the result (tithe Committee. They had cousequently, recommended several measures last Session, which the short meet ing that afterwards took place afforded no leisure to follow up, and therefore the prosecwion of them was deterred to the present. The first pro• position would, as he hail intimated, be for the re•appointment (if we might call it) of the Com mittee; with all the 'various objects in view which the preceding Committee had ; and for the pur pose of plocuring an experimental answer to the only valid objection which remained uncoutra• dieted. It bad been urged that their evidence was confined to the capital, and was not appli cable to the country. lint this, in his opinion, only proved the case more completely ; since there Crete in the Capital a greater number of executions and of prosecutions; since the Capital was the great source where the principle of the system acted in full force, it was there that its character could be best ascertained, anti a just judgment tormed on its merits. Lilt though lie thought this genet al reasoning a sufficient reply to the argument, the Couitnittee were anxious to be enabled to procure an answer in another way. They were situ desirous ut proposing some alter- [Pittcl SEVENPtNCFs Sitio') in the mode of •pronotinCiog sentence, and other points of lei§ importance. For these pur poses he should propose their resappointment.— He shotild also move for leave to bring in six Bills, pursuance Of the ttepnrt. The first three tvduld go to repeal Stich parts of the criminal lawt as they considered to be toe; severe upon slight offences. One of these BiHS was to repeal the Act of the 12(11 of Anne, chap. 7, Which made it a capital felony to steal prieately in a dwelling house to the anionut of forty shillings. The se eond was to repeal the l eth and 11th of Williani which matte it capital lb steal to the value of five shillings in a shop. The third would re peal the 24th of George 11., by which stealing to the amount of 40s. on a navigable river was de clared to be a capital offence. He Was aware that the principal objections of spine Gentlemen were entertained towards the last of these alterations, ,hot, lie conceived; without good fonntlation.--e When the Duke of liridgetvater, by his stupen dous works, had given a new feature to the in dustry and OM - lions of the country, it was not thought necessary, for the Preservation of the im mense property on these canals, thug tit call h lar ceny a capital offence. And yet, by this anomaly in the law, that which *as so mild, more d a o ge e eons in one part Was made capital in another. Two of the other Bills which he should move to introduce, would be for the repeal of laws which visited offences of no serious crirninality with the severest ponishment. The Committee wished that where no great moral guilt or injury to society existed, the capital sentence should he done away. For example, the. Ist and 2d of Philip and Mary, by which it was capital for an Egyptian to remain, in England one year. The 18(11 of Charles 11. against notorious thieves in Cumberland and Nor thumberland. The capital felonies created by the Black Act. The 9th of Ged. I. making it felony to be found disguised in the Mint. The l2tls Geo. 11. by which injuring Westminster Bridge, (an offence not likely to be committed in any heinous degree), was made. felonious. The se cond Bill would he directed to the repeal of laws, which made capital felonies of crimes certainly more serious thou those he had enumerated, bet which did not seem to merit the etmost punish-. merit decreed against them. Thus the alit of Elizabeth, against the forcible abduction of heir esses, .(which, by the way, left poor women un protected, while it extended so strong an arm over the rich,) might, without injury, be abrogated. The 'offence was one foreign to our national manners and feelings, and consequently very un.. likely to be committed, though he must confess, that, in one portion of the country, where an ex cess and exuberance of gallantry prevailed, it was sometimes beard ot. It was, however, quite un congenial with the phlegmatic disposition of Eng lishmen. It wmild also repeal the 21st of James 1,, on which only one person, the celebrated Jonathan Wild, had been convicted. The 9th of George 1., by which the wounding of cattle, and the destroying of trees, were made capital. The 6th of Geo. H. for cutting banks of rivers, locks, &c. ; the Marriage Act, which created five capital felonies ; the 27th of Geo. 111. for sending threat ening letters ; the Act against harbouring smug glees contrary to the Revenue Act, would also all be submitted for alteration. Instead of capital punishment, [satraps), Cation and impri sonment would be offered as substitutes.— The last Bill would be to consolidate and amend the Acts relating to forgery. Its object briefly would be to take away the capit a l pa rt s from the mere possession of forged noes, and for tittering, would place it at the option of are prosecutor to proceed capitally against the second offence. Having thus explained what his chief views were, he would shortly mention that he ex pected the greatest opposition to those proposi tions which went to take away the capital punish. meat from the offences of private stealing in a dwelling house, and from forgery. But in regard to these, he was, from deliberate investigation, not the less convinced that the alteration was most congenial to the principle avhich he sup ported. The severity of their punishments ope rated in a peculiar degree to secure impunity for a great many offenders. A humane master, who was robbed by a servant long known' to him; a hninane banker or merchant could hardly be brought to proceed against a crime of this kind, perpetrated generally by some one who enjoyed their confidence; or might be related to them. Their reluctance to prosecute, it would accord ingly be seen in the Report, amounted almost to an encouragement instead of a preventive of the crime. •He did not therefore on this score ap peal to the feelings of the House; be appealed to its policy and good sense, that by lessening the punishment the frequency of the offence would be diminished. The Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving his first resolution—That a Select Committee be appointed, to take into considera tion the Laws respecting Capital Punishments, and to report thereon from time to time to the House. Mr. CANNING observed, that by agreeing to this resolution, no man was pledged farther than simply that he would entertain the discussion. Fie could assure the Hon. Gentleman, for hintselt, and for those with whom he acted, that no oh ject ion to any of his propositions would be made tor the sake of objection, and where he was op posed, it would be only on solid anti subs:aortal grounds. The Resolution was, then put and agreed to, and the Commirtee appointed; five to be a quo turn, atld the Report of the last Committee re. felled to that newly appointed. Sir J. MACKINTOSH next proceeded to obfairk leave, aural bring in the six Bills described in his speech. The first for amending the capital lave against stealing to the mount of 40s. on a Davi.. CAI HCLIC QUES I lON. Sir H. PARNE!,I, <4ld, he' had received a letter from the Hun. Member fur Dubin (Mr. Grattan), which stated that hi s h e alth would, he trusted, enable him to attend to his Parliamentary duties within the mouth ; in consequence of this intimation, lie begged to postpon, the notice of a motion on the Catholic Claims to Ta,,,d„,,, the nth May. ELECTION PETITIONS. Two Petitions, complaining of an undue Election, and of the Returns being altu.ed, for the Rot ongli of St. lees, acre present , an t oidered to be tak en int o cons id era ti on on th e Bth of June. A Petition, complaining of the undue Election of Mr. Swan for the Boron4h of Penryn, was ur.lcp'd to he taken into con sideration at three o'clock on the 13th ofi.ine. A Petitiott, complaining of the undue electioq of Alexander was ordered to b e c ons id ere d at half- Crickett, for Ipswich, past three on the same day. A like Petition, complaining of an undue flee' ion at Ber wick on Tweed, was referred to the tsto of 3urar ; and Flue consideration of a Petition from 'I% Spring Rice, com plaining of an undue return for the City of Limerick, was ap pointed for the same day. coNIaIEItCIAL DI PRESS. Sir GEORGE CLERK presented si Petition from the Mer chants and Ship Owners of Leith, similar to the Petition from the Merchants of London, presented and so ahly dk cussed last night. It was laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Mr. COURTENEY and Mr. NEWMAN presented Peti tions against the Exeter Market Bill.—Laid on the table. Mr. BENNETT ❑roved, that an humble Address lie pre sented to his Majesty, praying that there should he laid be fore the House a Copy or any Act of Assembly at fiarbadoes since 1663, empowering the Crown or Parliament of England to apply any part of the 4 pet ceot. duties to abet purposes than the Colonial Set vice.—Agreed to. Mr. MANSFIELD presented a Petition from the Manufac turers and Dealers in Wool in Leicester, against the Tax on Foreign Wool. THE CRIMINAL CODE. Sir. 3. MACKINTOSH, pursuant to the notice which he had given, rose up to offer certain pro positions respecting the Criminal Laws of the Country. These propositions were founded on the Report of the Committee appointed fait year to examine into tt►e subject, and in coniequeoce of its view he would divide his Resolution into two parts• The first would be directed to the appointment of a Committee with the same powers and objects as that of last year; thtesecond would be to bring in six Bills to amend the Criminal Laws in conformity with the recommendations which would be found in the Report. As he did not anticipate any 'objection to what he had to offer, at least in the present stage of the pro ceedings, he would have been satisfied with this explanation of his intention; but as another Par liament had been assembled since the subject was last discussed, it was only respectful to the new Members, very shortly to restate something cf the nature of the former discussions. The maul object of the Committee which had been appoint ed was to ascertain whether capital punishmen s did not, by their severity, counteract the purpose they were meant to enforce, by deterting prsesect tors, witnesses, and others concerned.in pro , ec:►- tions, Irons bringing criminals under the melte of the law. In investigating this subject .►e would say the Committee had been most diligent during the whole of the Session. The most 1 0- pnlar argument against the existing system Vas touuded on the counnon fediogs of humanity, Ind übert üIiN the rious COW* with