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it ;') ~•t ) _( .~ _ : t:.a ii -6 " ( 4 „2:44•7:it - NUMBER 9831. t bI?TRACTS for SUPPLYING PROVISIONS, CLOTHING, LINEN, COALS, CANDLES, and other Articles, for CONVICTS on BOARD HULKS. London, 20th February, 1814. SUCH Persons are are desirous of Contracting • • with the. Superintendent of Convicts, to supply Bread, 11 ° 4 '4 Cheese, Barley,Oatmeal, Salt,Beer, Coals, Candles, Oil, S °ltp, Clothing, Necessaries, Blankets, Woollen Cloth, Duck, Striped Linen and Cotton, Wrapper Cloth, Shoes, and Leather, for the use of Convicts on hoard Hulks at Portsmouth, Wool wich,-Deptford, Sheerness, and Chatham, may receive Parti culars of the Contracts on applying 'to the Superintendaht of Cobvicts, No. 15, Lambeth Terrace, and on board the s everal Hulks, and deliver their Tenders at the Commissariat °M.v; treaiury Chambers, sealed up and directed to the Su- Pcriutenaant of Conyicts, marking thereon " Tender to ftrr 41111:Supplies for Convicts ;" op or before Tuesday, the March ; but none will he received after Twelve o'Clock co that Day; nor will any Proposal he noticed unless made on arruexed to "a printed Particular, and the Prices inserted Words at length ; nor unless a Letter be subjoined to such prop os al, signed by two Persons of known property, sugag ing to bicome bound with the Party tendering in the Sum expressed in the Particulars, for the due - performance of t he Contrast. 01%l'ERSET HOUSE GAZETTE, and " LI TERARY MUSEUM of LAST SATURDAY is NOW ItEPRINTED, and may be bad of W. WETTON, 21, Fleet street ; and of all Booksellers. SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL SOCIETY. T" THIRD ANNIVERSARY DIN- Lo , NER of this INSTITUTION will he held at t he DON TAVERN, on THURSDAY, the 26 th ins t. " Th e Right Hon. Lord Viscount MELVILLE , in the Chair. This InstitutiOn is estahlisbed on board the Grampus Hos tukt-Ship, lying off Deptford Creek, and has at this ti me One undreciand Thirty Patients under Cure; the nature of it is to afford immediate relief to Sick and Diseased .Seamen in the NIT of London, who have only to present themselves alongside, and they are received, if found deserving, without need of any Recommendatory Letter. Since the first esta bli'llztent, in IBS:, upwards of Two Tlrousand One Hun dred and Fifty Seamen of all Nations have been admitted and provided for. STEWARDS. The Right Hon. Lord Vis- Thomas Maude, Esq. Gaunt Torrington Captain Henry Brown Mason, plain Sir Christopher Cole, R.N. K.C.B M.P.John Petty Muspratt, F.sq. . . Capt. J. A. Ointnan n ey, R.N . Sir Robe r t T. Farquhar, Bart. Abel Smith. E r ic'. I" . • Henry Pownall, Eiq. Henry M. Bagster, Esq. James Randell, Esq. Esq. Captain Pok er , R.Y. Christ o pher Dowsoll , Anthony Haviside, Esq. Charles Tehbutt, Esq. Capt. Thos. Larkins, H.C.S. Thomas Urquhart, Esq. Archibald Little, Esq Capt. Geo. Weltden, H.O S. Captain John Locke, H.C.S. Dinner to be on table at Six o'Clock presisely. Tickets, Li cult, to he had at the Bar of the London Ta vern; and of Mr. Richard Harley, Secretary, at the Office, No. 19, Eishopsgate-street-within. . . • CLERGY ORPHAN CORPORATION, St. Johtes•Wood, Nlary-le-Oone. - • KING. • Freshlent—The Right Honourable and Right Reverend the Lord Bishop KENTON.. ViclePresident—The Right Hon, Jim ANNIVERSARY MEETING o f the SOCIETY for CLOTHING, MAINTAINING, and EDUCATING POOR ORPHAN CHILDREN of CLER .GYMEN. of the ESTABLISHED CHURCH of ENGLAND, of AGE to he put APPRENTICE, will be holden at I r REEMASONS' TAVERN, Great Queen -street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, on. THURSDAY, the 26th of February Instant., The Chair will be taken for the general business of the y, at Half-past Two o'Cluck precisely. 'Dinner on Table at Five o'Clock precisely. STEWARDS. i ttglit Rev. Bowyer Edward Rev. John Lamb, BD. Master Spade, D. D. Lord Bishop of Corpus Christi College, of Ely. and Vice-Chancellor of the V erY Rev. John Ireland, D.D. University of Cambridge. Dean of Westmipster. Rt. Hon. Edward, Earl Digby. Venerable Charles J. Blom- Hon. Mr. Baron Buttock. geld, D.D. Archdeacon of Rt. Hon. J. C. Villiers, M.P. Colchester. Hon. Philip Pusey, R "- E• Burrow; D.D. Do- John Mastertnan, Esq. meatic Chaplain to the Bi- William Sikes, Esq. shop of Winchester. George Jenner, Esq. - Dtnner •Tici t s ?ollection after Dinner. 15s. each, to be taken at the Bar. Donations and Subscriptions will in the mean time be thankfully received by the Treasurers, Rev. Ai chdeacon Cambridge.. need •loilina Watson, Esq at their Bankers. Messrs. Drumm on d , Charing-cross; . ; and Messrs. Sikes and Co., Mansion-house -street by the Secretary, No. 30, So merset-street, Portnian-square•, or by the Collector, at No. 6, Bartlett's-buildings, H o lb orn. - _ _ E. J. TURNOUR, Sec. !I - IHE LONDON PORTABLE GAS COM- A PANY having encreased their means of distribution, are now ready to SUPPLY OIL GAS in GORDON'S PATENT LAMPS, in St. Joh n ' s-street , S m ithfield, Gilt. spur-street, Skinner-street, Holborn, St. Giles's, the east end of Oxford-street, Wardour-street, Oxendon-street, Haymarket, Cockspur-street,.Strand, Fleet-street, Ludgate-hill, Old Bailey, Negate-street, St. Martin's-le-grand, Aldersgate-street, Gos well-street, Cheapside, Poultry, Cornhill, Leadenhall-street, Aldgate, Whitechapel, Fenchurch-street, Gracechurch-street, Fish-street-hill, High-street, Borough, the New Dover-road, Bishopsgate-street, Old-street and Road, and such other places in London and its vicinity wherein there may be an adequate demand, or as may be specially agreed upon. Until the Coropany shall be enabled to extend their line of distribution, the Gas will be supplied for any other part of the Town if the customer chooses to send for it to the works, 30, St. John -street, Clerkenwell, and if a large quantity is taken a discount Willthen be allowed. Portable Gas-Office, 7, Basinghall- street, Feb. 18, '1824. STRICTURES CURED. 11Y a new Method the above troublesome I t Complaint is entirely eradicated, (without the use of '"'"lgie or Caustic), whether of long or short standing, ex "Pt Constitutional, as well as all weaknesses generally as "tupanying it, and in a short time the whole system is re- Istablished, being one of the greatest discoveries ever aside, -u Y_ J OHN LYNCH, 44, Duke-street, St. James's. us spectable r e f e r e nce s will be given, if required.—All Let ters post-paid. The price of the Medicine is Four Pounds a parcel. a t h e B perwefec CureßiliousAffe ctions t for 01,. I V Seer's) , will be observed. • FOR CORNS, BUNIONS, eee. MORRIS'S ROYAL BRUNSWICK CORN PLASTER, prepared from a Recipe belong to her late Majesty. It. is an excellent Remedy for eradi "tin,' Corns, and giving relief to those who have hard fleshy substances at the bottom of their feet, without the least pain °v inconvenience, and will prove a very useful Family Plaster fresh Wounds and Scalds, likewise for Bunions. Prepared by G. MORRIS, Chemist to the Royal Family, Kensington. Iv Sold in Boxes at Is. and es. 9d. by Butlers, Chemists, ti , ° . Cheapside, St. Paul's, and 220, Regent-street (near ... Ile Argyle Rooms), London; Waterloo-place, Edinburgh ? c kville-street, Dublin : and by the principal Medicine v enders throughout the United Kingdom. I, t4t N . sr l3 E . o — ., !lc careful to ask for " Mogtos's BRUNSWICK COIIN . . . . . . • ;.,:r..1- 0 _ • . • _,_ - --1 - . pe 0 , t -e -- -7.: . U •;, S :‘-------- - _ ....4zeizz___ E , • • o , s r.-- , • - . - .-. ,.., •,. • . :'.4 ...,7,„.. , . _ - --- i ' WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1824. that they had reason to believe the seats in that House are sold like a stall for cattle.—(Hear, hear, hear !) The Petition, after a few words from Mr. D. Baovvxt, was ordered to lie on the table and be printed. IRISH TITHES. _Mr. GOULBURN gate notice that, on the 4th of March he should move for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Irish Tithe Lavis. IRISH CHURCH. „. MT. HUME postponed to the 6th of May, his tended mo tion respecting the Chw.ch of Ireland. Mr. HE RATES moved the third reading of the Transfer of Aids' Bill.—Agreed to, and the Bill passed. The Exchequer Bills' Bill, and the Reciprocity of Duties' Bill, were each read a third time a nd passed. INSOLVENT ACT. •In answer to an inquiry from Mr. BRIGHT, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he proposed bringing in the Insolvent Debtors' Bill in a few days. It would be tha same he had submitted to the House last Session. WOOL DUTY. Lord MILTON presented a , petition from several persons engaged in the Manufacture of Wool at Saddleworth, in York. shire, against the duty on that article. The Noble Lord ex pressed his gratification at the statement presented to the House by, the Chancellor of the Exchequer last night, especially that part of it which referred to our Commercial Regulations. though he was. disappointed at noticing the very trifling reduc tion of taxation which he proposed. Mr. S. WORTLEY protested against the laulloviing the exportation of wool, and declared that he preferred retaining the tax to the removal of the restriction on exportation. The Petition was ordered to lie on the table. ' SILK DUTY. Mr. ELLICE presented a Petition from several Silk Mer chants of London against the proposed: regulations respecting their trade. The Petitioners declared that these regulations were contemplated without consulting them ; and that unless the duty were repealed gradually they would be sufferers, by the amount of the duty paid on theft-stock in hand. He con curred in opinion with _the Petitioners, and thought that the gradual disuse of bounties.oiould be advisable, as well as the gradual repeal of taxes..--The-Petition was ordered to lie on the tabla, after a few words from Mr. Wriu.Lac g and from Mr. Er.mcz in explanation- • _ _ THE COURT OF CHANCERY. Mr. JOHN WILLIAM - S,(Of Lincoln), in rising to being forward the Motion - of which-he had. given notice, respecting the Court of Chancery said;-that while he admitted that he was net about topropose any :specific remedy for the evils of which he complained, ..he - must be allowed to observe, that he would indeed be a bold man, whO would in the first instance, make such a proposal. His motion, and the observations he should feel it his duty to make in Support 'of it; would have exactly an 'opposite tendency, as -they would merely call for a grave and deliberate inquiry in - order. to - devise a remedy. Too much he feared had already been: -ventured on this important subject on too little inquiry. •Eleverilears ago a legislative measure was passed without distiriccinquiry ; vial now, in the other. House, a measure was, he could not say in contemplation, but in adoption ; that the Members of that House, merely ;as. ,turh Members,• altednexathe legal•presu presumption as the latter ought alone to be sufficient to call for the vigilance were compette:te-xtpoo:lee:indealOnitimatters of law. -Such a measure of the H - ouse.• In former times it would hare been so. in the ,reign of 'Jaynes the -.First, when we had - no such a Court of ,Chance,Chancery as the present, the House; on a mere suggestion that some men fr om Cornwall h a d been illegally brought up by in -formation, resolved. itself into a Committee of - Justice, in order to ascertain the farts, and afford nroteetion to the subject. Lord Bacon, when his judgment and his conduct were called in ques tion, said-that every man was.at perfect liberty to speak with freedom of his- Court and himself; and an inquiry, which was • all that he (air. Williams) asked, was accordingly instituted. It was not, .however, on such slender grounds that he should support his application to the House. There were ancient statutes to which he Would refer• the House, which justified the motion with which lie should conclude. By the statute of Edward the Third it was recited, that justice had been delayed from various causes, and it then appointed Com missioners to hear complaints of that delay and to provide re dress. The modern times too, the p r i nc i p l e o f i n t er f e rence in this respect, had been recognised, and the House had not al. lowed justice to b e delayed even in cases of comparatively trifling nature to those he should atiduce.—(The House was h er e disturbed by the barking of a d og, w hi c h we b e li e ve h a d f o und its way into the door, and which at first caused a ludi crous effect. Tile-Learned Gentleman, - hoWevereborie the in terruption with becoming dignity anti on its reenoval resumed.) But he was not driven to analog s date. It. )to 'tn . ' Kit his tactics, as he could refer to a_diatinct precedeht of ie - very recet had occurred to some eminent per s o n ctio t ter to whom) that , from the number of appeals w hi ch judgments of the Scottish Courts, it was fair to suppose there the must be something wrong in were presented against the aystem of those Courts.—Ac cordingly, a Northern Expedition was fitted out, and Commis sioners appointed to ascertain whether every thing was sound. He alfuded to the Act of 4 th G eo. IV. cap. 83. By this act full power was given to the Commissioners to make enquiry as to , the different forms of process;; to eansimplify—(Hear !)—to shorten --(Hear, hear, from the Oppositi on ) . to to ascertain whether the a q n u c Zt i i n on s s h o o f rt, f t a o ct p e r o o O m l o d te not jceui b ti e . separated from those of law; This he considered a, wise, as the House had pronounced it, a salutary measure; but he questioned whether it was equally wise to commit the working of it entirely to professional men (though lie of course spoke a t t e t r a i e n h s e o d f t d o e a s n e c r i v e e n d t respect), ct), because they were often o to f o ti n le i m ucl i t n them. In his opinion and too reluctant to aban don such an inquiry as that to which he had alluded, at least so far as regarded the subject he was bringing under their attention, ought to be entered into -bra Committee of the whole Hou se . r 4 rom the opposition how ever which had been made to his motion last year, as well a s that which he now expected, he must conclude it was ar gued that what was safe and wise in Scotland, was unsafe and unwise, or at least impolitic in England ; that here, where the danger was not remote, where the mischief was great, and the growing nuisance spreading over the country,—(Hear, hear! from the Opposition.)—the House was to shut out all inquiry ; and, in fact, to declare that what was good for one side of the Tweed was not so for the other. He was fully aware of the difficulty of the task he had undertaken, of his ignorance (of which, indeed, he had been pretty often reminded), re specting the practice of the Court; and lie - gave to those who should oppose his motion the full benefit which they could de rive from his admission, that experience. in that Court as an Advocate he never had, and as a suitor he never would, nave while he could find a friendly pistol at hand.—( Heir, hear I and a laugh.)--He knew that to those who knew the Court better than he did, patronage had •many charms ; and the vision of Hon. and Learned Gentlemen was often affected by Judge ships, 3lasterships, and Commissionerehips. He kneit that those who opposed inquiry contended that delay was now made for the first time; that there was no delay at all: but were Hon. Gentlemen to dismiss from their minds all the evidence of noto riety ? Was it not the fact that unhappy complainants jostled you in the streets; that their language was heard every where except in those walks ?--( Cheers from the Opposition.)—He had been accused, not, he belietred, of inventing, but almost of de liberately exaggerating facts ; yet he repaated his solemn asser tion as a Gentleman, in his place in thatliotise, that all he had urged on a former occasion he had found to be true. Every thing he had then urged he was called upon to Prime, because it was met by direct denial. To his proofs then he would now proceed ; and he would show ncit only that the suiters of the Court of Chancery were harassed by delay, but that that even victory and ruin too often came together. For some cir cumstances in a particular case he had applied to a very respectable Solicitor, informing him that he should not pub licly state all the circtimatances which might be told him, but should state merely the result. That Gentleman de clined giving the required informition.—(Hear, hear !)—ln another instance, soon after his motion last year, he met with another respectable Solicitor; and speaking with him about that motion, the Solicitor said, not only that he had not over-rated the cases he produced, but that he (the So licitor) could himself have furnished him with stronger cases. He then mentioned a suit tinder his management; but, on being applied to within the last few days for information, he has refused to give any at all.—(Hear, hear !)—The House must see that, with such difficulties, he was working up hill. In another case which came tO his knowledge, that of a single woMan whose entire property had been for years locked up in the Court, he applied to the Solicitor for informa tion. That Gentlerrian said, the cause alluded to was indeed a bad one; but it was nothing at all to another he hail, of Which he then mentioned the particulars, and Offered to lend him the papers. No papera coming, he (Mr, Williams) wrote to the Gertaernan, requesting him to perform his promise; and at last received an answer, stating, in substance, that MONEY 'OR BLANKS. rrBISH respectfully reminds those Lottery Adventurers who have had their Tickets or Shares drawn Blanks the Fist Day of the present Lottery, that they have till the 10th of March (Next Month) allowed them to convert them into Prizes, by receiving at the rate of 101. per Ticket for them-; after which day the claim for the 101. entirely ceases, and then the Holders must take their future chance. T. BISH feels it necessary to observe, that those Blanks are of equal-value with those Numbers which were not drawn, as every Blank will be again put into the Wheel, consequently they have already become again undrawn ; and it is more than probable some of those Numbers, already drawn Blanks, will, in their next. draw ing, be some of the Five Prizes of 20,000/.,,and Twenty-nine other Capitalti, which still remain to be drawn; and Two of which 20,0001. Prizes must be drawn irrthe First Five Minutes on the next Day, which will be the 17th Next Month (St. Patrick's Day.) Those persona who do not take the Money for their Blanks, arc informed their Tickets and Shares need not be ex changed or marked, nor need they give any notice of their in tention to keep - their Ticket or Share and take their second chance, as the same identical Numbers will be drawn again; just as if they never had been drawn previously, notwithstand ing they haVe already had one chance for the Capitals and other Prizes already drawn. 4, Cornhill, and 9, Charing-Cross, Feb. 24, 1824. . FIYTON, STOCK—BROKER, 2, PORN. HILL, begs leave to remind his Friends the Pnblie, that on the First Day of Drawing. there wer• only Two 420,000. Prizes drawn, consequently there are FIVE £20,000, btsides numerous other Grand Prizes now to draw. TWG Xia,96O.PRIZEti wilt be decided in the First Five Minutes un St. Patrick's Day, 17th March. Shares for the above Grand Prizes are. on Sale at EYTON'S Old Lottery Office, 2, Comb'''. where all Businees in the British and Foreign Fundi is transacted with. fidelity and dispatch. MINERALOGY .AND GEOLOGY. TNSTRUCTIVE COLLECTIONS, with A. Descriptive Catalogues, front 'l'veo Guineas .to Twenty and upwards.. FAMILIAR- LESSONS on MINERALOGY and GEO- LOGY, Pith Edition, with coloured Plates, .price RI MAW.E; t 49. Strand. CHEMICAL TESTS, BLOW-PIPES, 6.r.c. for the examin ation of Minerals. • . . TREATISE on DIAMONDS' and PRECIOUS STONES, describing where found, and- the best methods of Polishing them. Second Edition. 151. • . TRAVELS in BRAZIL , : _containing a particular account of the Gold and Diamond Mints. Second Edition, with co. loured Plates, 19s. - • - • - _ These Books will be of much service to Gentlemen going to South America, or where Minerals are an object ut . * * *Portable Lapidaries Apparatus for gutting and polish ing Pebbles Shells,-&c. PAR LIA.ME NT-, HOUSE OF LOIRDS, I= 88. 24. Mr. MALTBY, from the Trinity House, presented an Ac count of the Receipts and Expenditure of the Surplus Rates of Pilotage, for the year 1823.—Laid on the table. On the motion of the Larl of ...,HAFTESBURY, the Report of the Committee on the Appellants' Jurisdiction was ordered to be re-printed. MARRIAGE ACT. The Bishop of EXETER brought- in a Bill to amend_ itie Marriage Act, by allowing marriages to be solemnized where ever banns were published.—Read a first time.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Several Accounts and other Papers were presented from dif. ferent Public Offices, and ordered to lie on the table. Sir W. LEMON presented a petition from Cornwall against Negro Slavery.—Ordered to lie on table. - Mr. R. MARTIN presented a Petition from Manchester, numerously and respectably signed., against the cruel and brutal sports so often practised on Animals.—Ordered to be printed. Colonel PALMER presented a Petition from Bath against the Duties on Houses, Windoivs, and Male Servants ; and complaining of several alleged aggravating circumstances re specting the assessment of those taxes.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. CURWEN presented a Petition from Cumberland against the Duty on Shepherds' Dogs.--Ordered to lie on the table. - Sir G. NUGENT presented a Petition from Buckingham against Negro Slavery.—Ordered to lie on the table. Lord EASTNOR presented a similar Petition from Here ford, which was similarly disposed of. COAL DUTY.. Captain BASTARD presented a Petition from Devonshire against the Coal Duty. Mr. DOWDESWELL presented a similar Petition from Helstone. Captain MABERLY presented a Petition fiom Northamp ton against the Tax on Leather. Mr. H. DAVIS presented a Petition from Bristol against the Duty on Tobacco. Mr. BRIGHT spoke in support of the Petition, contending . that a repeal of the duty would be beneficial to the Revenue. The above Petitions were ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Mr. CHETWYND moved for several returns respecting the accounts of-the Treasurers of the different Counties in England. —Ordered. DUTY ON LEATHER. Sir J. NEWPORT presented a petition from the Tanners of Wexford against the duty on Leather.—Ordered to lie on the table. BEER DUTY. Mr. WODEHOUS gave notice of a motion for leave to bring in a Bill to equalize the duties on Beer. PATENT OFFICES. Sir R. HERON gave notice, that on the 2d of March he should move for leave to bring in a Bill to render unnecessary the renewing of Patents for Offices held under the Crown. Mr. HUME moved for several returns relative to the duty on Probates and Administrations—Ordered. ASSESSED TAXES. Mr. MABERLEY gave notice that, at an early day he should move for the total repeal of the Assessed Taxes. Those Gentlemen who might be apprehensive that such a motion would affect public credit, need not be under any apprehen sion on that account, as he was confident the Fund for Re demption of the Land Tax, which was still untouched, would be quite sufficient to guard against such a difficulty, which no one could be more anxious to avoid than himself. After speak ing in general terms of approbation of the statement brought forward by the Chancellor of the Exchequer last night, the Hon. Gentleman withdrew the notice he had given of a motion for equalizing the Beer Duty. He did this in consequence of the motion just given by the lion. Member for Norfolk. Sir J. NEWPORT moved fpr an account of the value of personal property passing in Ireland by Probate and Admini stration for the last five years.—Ordered. TURNPIKE ACTS: Mr. CRIPPS gave notice of a motion on the sth of March, for consolidating the Turnpike Acts. Lord MILTON presented a Petition from Sheffield against the Combination Laws.—Ordered to be referred to the Com mittee on those Laws. REPRESENTATION. Lord MILTON presented a Petition from Athlone ; corn.: planing of the state of the Repreientation in that . Borough, *bich the Petitioners alleged was such ; that they linew the name of their Member only through the London Gazette; and N. . . • he had deliberated on the matter, and must decline giving "the information which he had before volunteered.-- , (Hear !) Another Solicitor, to whom he had applied for information, said that he was neither unable nor unwilling, but he was 'afraid to give it ; and that if he were to give it, he would be-, come a marked man, not in the Court, hut in. the surround ing offices; and that lie would suffer accordingly.—(Cheers from the Opposition:)—These circumstances he thought it necessary to state, not so much to. vindiCate himself from the charge of misrepresentation or exaggeration, (albeit he was not indifferent to the opinion of the House or of the public) but to support his argument that the 'case called for inquiry, and that information which was now refused,- but which in a Committee could be demanded. This reminded him of an allusion once made 'by the late Mr. Burke, who observed that there were some men like cats, that would not elicit any light until their backs were well rubbed.—(A laugh.)—These cir _cumstances clearly ,hewed the necessity of a Committee, for information at present, by some means or other, was stifled. He was charged, and . truly charged with ignoiance on the sub ject ; but if such a case apperaed, even on the shewing of an ignorant . person, was it not fair to conclude that a much stronger case would be produced by one more experienced ? (Hear, hear, hear !)—With these preliminary observations he should proceed to call their attention to the facts shewn by the documents on the table of the House, which showed the number of causes decided by the Lord Chancellor on rehear ings and appeals from the year 1813, when the Vice-Chancel lor was first appointed,. to the year 1823. .A list of .168 0r.9 was given in, of which 84 or 5 had been struck out or withdrawn by the parties, leaving the number decided. by the Chancellor at about eight and a traction every year. How much his arith metic served him, he (Mr. IV.) would leave the House to de-. cide, bearing in mind how much he was charged with misre presentation, and that it was broadly. asserted that 47 or 48 in a year was the average number of decided causes. He had said, and he repeated, that the, business of. this Court wavin admired disorder, because it was uncertain when business would really be performed. In the list before the House there were three cases which had been seven years old from the petition to the order, three which had been six years old, and three, two months only. Thus were cases disposed of by fits and starts, and without regard to the least order or regu larity. Looking at the circumstances altogether, he thought he was justified in declaring his opinion that as to the cases.with drawn the parties had withdrawn them in despair.—(Hear, from die Opposition.)—The first case he would allude to was the case of the Attorney. General v, Rooke. In that, the merits were disposed of; but the question. of coats was reserved. For a dis posal of that question, continued applications were made for two years ; and the parties, in despair, compromised it. As 'he ap pealed to facts alone, he would refer the House to the last two terms, so far as regarded Appeals, original Causes, and Re hearings. In one there had been no judgment; in another the case had been reheard, and no judgment; in another, an opi nion had been given, but no judgment; and consequently no order could be drawn up ; in another, case heard, but no judg-. ment ; in another, part heard, but no judgment ; iu another, as to the collegiate church of Manchester, there was a judgment— the only one. This was a case in which the judgment and the argument together did not take up half an hour. Ile now came to see how often these causes had stood for judgment in the Lord Chancellor's paper. This was no unimportant enquiry, as the Solicitor charged 13s. 4d., and the Clerk in Court 6e. 3d. for attendance every day on which the cause was in the paper—one was 15 days ;. another 24 days, 'and not touched ; another . fifteen days, and not touched ; another twenty days, heard, but not decided. This -was not vague assertion,, although it would be met by the usual assertion of "No delay." It happened however that there, was nothing, howe ver p aradoxic a l, which could be asserted in that House, which wo u l d n ot be believ e d, if it were 'asserted by a person standing in a proper position.— (A laugh.)—lt became, therefore, a question of locality,— (laughter)—and he happened to .be in the wrong place. He would go into detail, and the House must bear with him.— (Hear !)—The - first case was that of " Dudley v. Freeman," arising out of a will, by which Freeman took an interest. The bill was filed in 1784, to execute the trusts of the will. In 1787, there was a decree confirming the trusts. The defendant, 1 Freeman rec eived an allow ance f or seve ral ye a rs under this decree; bat a doubt having been suggested somewhere (no mat ter where) as to the limitations in the will under which Free man took his interest, the parties who were interested in the doubt presented a petition to review the decree. From 1812 to 1818, nothing was done on this, petition. In 1818 the petition was heard, but no judgment was given, it then being intimated, for the first time, that the proceeding by petition was irregular, In 1819 a bill of review was filed. In 1821 the case was argued, and from that time to 1823, the defendant was re peatedly applying for judgment. The case affected the title to 2,000 acres of land and an accumulated sum of 100 3 0001. — The defendant was in. bad health ; certificates of his dan gerous state of health were forwarded to London. The Ma gistrates of his neighbourhood interfered, and remonstrated on the delay. He (Mr. Williams) proposed applying to the Solicitor for information; but he was no longer in a situation to give it, for men die though suits survive.—(Cheers from the OppoSition.)—lt appeared, however, that he had charged for 40 attendances to call for judgment ; and that his successor to this worn-out suit had attended 16 specific appointments for judgment.—(Cheers from the Opposition.)—Anxiety in such a case might surely be forgiven. The unfortunate defendant had also . paid his Solicitor for many . special journies to ob tain the judgment. A large bill was incurred; but the soli citor waited and lingered in vain. The House would remem ber that the debate last year was adjourned, after one night's debate, until the next. It so happened that the morning after the first night's debate, notice was given by the Lord Chan cellor that he would pronounce judgment in two days ; and judgment was accordingly pronounced in one sentence.— (Hear!)—The next case was the case of Lord Moira against Wyatt and others. The bill was filed in 1814 ; the case heard in 1817 ; and remained untouched until the year 1819, many applications having been made for judgment.— It was then said that the papers had been lost by the officer whose business it was to take care of them ; fresh papers were then furnished; and then it was said that there must be a re. hearing,—(Loud cheers from the Opposition.)—Fresh Learned Gentlemen were then retained ; fresh discussion took place ; the Chancellor said he would take the papers home with him,' and give his "judgment to-morrow," but never —no, never, did that morrow come—(Cheers)--and the dispairing suiters were driven to a compromise. If this was not a denial, it surely was a failure of justice. The next case was that of a Gentle man *ell known to him; but as it related to family affairs, he would not mention his name ; though he had authority to give it to any Honourable Gentleman in the House, and to introduce him to that Gentleman. This Gentleman married a Lady, whose misfortune, not her fault, it was to have her property locked up in the Court of Chancery. He married her, as he (Mr. Williams) understood was usual (for he knew nothing about it himself—(A laugh)—for .better ' for worse. The Lady, he had no doubt, was, as she ought to be, the bet ter; the Chancery.suit, as was always the case—(Laughter)— ' was the worse. The case went on in the usual way. There was a reference to the Master—a report—exceptions to that report; the suitor was a Gentleman in the law, a man of as keen and discerning a mind as any he was then addressing, but from mere fear of the Court, and not from any doubt of his own case, he consented to give up half his property in a compromise, rather than allow himself and his poste rity, perhaps, to be sent into that loathsome dungeon. of a Court. The next case was also that of a Gentleman in the law. On being applied to, he also declined giving informa tion, until he found that he (Mr. W.) . already knew nine tenths of the case. The name of this Gentleman he should not give, unless the facts were disputed. In the year 1817, this gentleman brought an action at law, and gained a verdict; in the same term the defendant applied to the Court of Chan cery for an injunction to stay the proceedings, alleging that the transaction originated in usury. Answer was put in ; the cause was set down for hearing, and argued. After waiting three years for judgment, it was found that here, too, the papers were lost. The case being then fresh papered was decided in favour of this Gentleman, on the ground that the alledged usury af forded a good defence at law; and therefore precluded the Court of Chancery from exercising any jurisdiction. The judgment was now, however, .of no use ; as the defendant bad become a bankrupt; and the loss to this Gentleman, though, fortunately for his circumstances, it, was not ruin ous to this Gentleman, amounted to 10,0001. Here was a case in which the quick proceedings of a Court of Law were suipended by the linproper granting of an .why at Equity. If the injunction ought not to prevail, why was it granted at all ? The person was not actually ruined , but no thanks to the Court of Chancery.—(Ckeering from the Opposition'. )_-An other case' was the case of Gough against Lord Somers. . It Was heard in 1818', and application was made for judgment 40 times while it Stood in the paper in the years 1815 and 1816. Thoie applicationshad been continued down to the present time; but PRICE SEVENRENCta no judgment had yet.been given. The case was pending, and might probably until the more serious day ofjudgitientiliould =lye.. The last caseto which he should refer was the case of Copis v. Middleton. • The bill was filed in the year 1793, for an account, and prayed that the defendant might be charged with a certain windmil in dispute.—(A laugh.)- 7 Gentlemen might , well laugh, for this Windihil case was 'known to many iu the/ House who were not professional. In the year 1796 - thefe was a decree referring the case to the Master ; and;the"•Case remained asleep in the Master's office for nineteen' (Hear, hear, - -and a laugh.)-:-He did tot blame the Maker:for the delay. :He supposed the case slePt, merely becauge it wait Chancery ; which was of itself' a very sufficient reason. •He repeated he did not blame the Master, though he - Could not but observe that the appointment of flapper's in a ;111aster''S Cake' would be very beneficial.—(Laughter.)—However ; hi the yea/ 1815 there was aleport, and exception to it; all upon matter not connected with the main question in dispute; -mere-interlo cutory matter, its-it-was called, mere fringe.—(Cheers aria laughter from the Opposition.)—ln 1818, time, which was known in the Court of Chancery Only byits loss, was at work out of doors, and affected the windmill, the main subject in dis pute, and which had been forgotten in the able argumenti on the Interlocutory matter, the fringe. The windmill was gone, was levelled with the ground, and. was not worth the paper on which the case for the learned combatants was written:-: (Laughter.)—Yet such. was . the erroneous opinion formed by the misguided wretches out of, doors, the people of Chi chester, where the scene lay, that they exhibited a caricature' of the Windmill, descriptive of its progress to decay, Niits . that of the =Chancery. suit towards strength ; an& not un aptly dedicated the picture to the Professors of the Law". In.. deed he understood that the caricature was produced 'in Court. Such was the Boeotian conduct of the people of Chiches ter, who had, however redeemed their character for diserinitna= tion in the choice of theirpresent Representative. The attend ances for judgment were numerous indeed. He spoke 'from a most authentic document, for it' was the Solicitor? Bill , taxed by the Master.' The judgment was postponed, and fiir=- ther postponed, term after term, and year after year. Theie• was then a re-hearing; and, at the end of five years, jUdgddrit, was given.—[The Hon. and Learned Gentleman hire referred . to the Solicitors' bill for the various attendances for judgment, the reading of which excited much laughter.l—The Fund; ire this case; had not - been taken out of. Court; but who was to blame ? Time—and Time alone. It was not marvelloui that Time should run on while the Court of Chancery. waited. 'The Fund ought to hare been divided among creditors.. Andlyete all delay was denicel ; and the whole was allowed to be 'wisdom; justice, and dispatch. But. let -confidence or strength:of nerve' deny it as it would ; these were 'facts which spoke fof selves.—( Hear, bear, hear 1)--Ile again repeated his krioiviedge' of his own ignorance ; but he had endeavoured- toCoirmenliate it by patience.—( Hear, hear !)—He would now shortly call the' attention of the House to the question of Stamps, whiCh liatf - been alluded to by the Ilon.- Member for Miclhiirst ('Mr;JOIM Smith) last night.. The Decrees of the Court of Chancdry_WCre on stamps; each sheet indeedhaving a stamp; and these lie: crees were of an enormous length, as they contained' all 'tlie pleadings in the cause -before they came 'to the manditOrY or. effective part, whieh•very ofen w6iit couipess. He . had seen one the oth e r d a y etintaining ninety-four aides, of which only six were required farcthe -Decree. This - Wag more vexatious, as all the 'pleadings were already on the files of the Court. • Those Decrees were three shillings a - side ;' and he was informed amounted sometimes to as much a's 401. or 501. There was the case of a poor widow named ' nery, brought to his notice, who was entitled to 451: Olit of. the Court under a suit already decided ; but who was dis suaded by her solicitor from_ applying for it, as the 'decie tal order alone would amount to more than the Money.— (Hear, hear !)—He would no* . Shortly:tillude to the expellee of Master's reports, which often contained unnecessary matter; particularly in cases of reference to ascertain 'the effecte mid' debts of deceased persons. In there case's the executor's ac- • count, containing every little hen - 11160i to a pair of slippers, was generally incorporated in the ,Maiteeirreport.--"Thilesg the House interfered he was convhieed' there would be'rio reineo at all ; for it would be as . absutd to exteety , that the 'Cotirt silks • reform itself, as it' was for the Knight eir Tillman - el :to. pect that his Squire would lash himself ro- - aesln In 1119 lizistees" absence.—(Laughter.)—The next subject to which he would'' allude was the issue of warrants from the MaSter's Offices. These were in the nature of summonses issued by the Judges at Common Law, but were often i-stiedin such numbers feii the ". same hour on the same day, than jostling and quarrelling took' . place among the Solicitous to obtain pre:audience. 'He woUld . take that opportunity of Observing, 'that he was convinced the respectable part of the professidn, called solicitors, were not to ' blame with regard to any one of those grietances. , They made large advances early in every cause for Counsel's fees and other heavy expences, and it was therefore 'their interest to haiten causes to judgment as much as they could ; they would other wise lose their labour and work for . nothing—Llret, and he. begged the House would always bear this in mind, he asked for nothing but inquiry, contending is he di& that these mat ters were fit for consideration. The dead - or Unclaimed fiind the Court was the neat subject to which he would call their at tention. It amounted to about 1,200,0001., and fofthis there were claimants enough ';- but they were deterted2from corning forward, in consequence of the difficulties Which were in the way of their substantiating their claims. These differed from the Unclabried Dividends at the Bank; an account of which was published, and for the fair claim • to which, every, fa-; cility was afforded. In - this, respect -he would beg to re commend a practice similar to that of the Bank, by pub lishing an annual account- of their unclainied sums.—(Hear, hear, hear !)—He should next touch on the practice in matters of bankruptcy. Many proposals had been made to sepa rate the jurisdiction of this important branch of our com mercial code from the Court of Chancery, to which, indeed, it did not originally belong. The first statute on this sub- Ect was passed, he believed, in the reign of Henry, the Eighth, and the next in that of Elizabeth. The powers given by these Acts were generally exercised by Commis sioners. Until Lord Nottingham's time there was ,no intet ference whatever by. the Court of Chancery' with bankrupt pro ceedings, and there were very few instances indeed of such terference before the time of Lord Hardwick,. It was in the reign of George 11. that ass Act was passed giving the exten sive powers now exercised, by the Lord Chancellor ; and he would confidently ask, whether (when it was admitted that the business of the Court was overloaded) the jurisdiction as to the important matters of bankruptcy :ought not to be entirely sever ed from it. The prophecies made as the tithe Of the passing of the ViceXhancellor's Bill had been realised. 'What had been heard by the Vice-Chancellor had been reAleard by the Lord Chan cellor, and the same arrears consequently existed. Thus,when the Vice-Chancellor was appointed, there were 141 causes to be heard, and 104 were the number of Appealk from his Court to the Lord Chancellor. All he demanded was, that ' in- V irY and deliberation should be instituted upon the case. he objects of that inquiry, in his opinion, ought to be, whether the - Appeals to the House of Lords should not be separated from the office of Lord Chancellor'; and also whe ther his judicial should not•be separated from his political cha racter. He was called upon to sit in judginent upon the affairs in.grosii of the whole nation. In consequence he was liable to ce, and often was, called away in 'the midst of an argument, to attend other duty. Here was a fertile source of delay ; for it was clear that the same argument must, on its revival be repeated nearly all over again. If the unmeasured paßegy; ries from time to time passed upon that part of the Constitu tion which made the Judges independent of the Crown were true—if this, as had been said, were the consummation of hu-, man wisdom, why should not the same rule be applied to the first Judge of the land ? With respect to the , manner in which' he had backed his motion, it had been objected last year that he produced his cases frOin but one office. On this 'occasion be had taken no case from that one, and no two cases from the same office. It had also been objected against his motion last year that it was an insidious attack upon the Lord Chan cellor; and the late 'Attorney-General now a Noble LOrd, ' said, that if a keener mortification could be conceived to' the . Lord Chancellor, it would be his (Mr. Williams's) complirr e its. Now on the present occasion he studiously avoided mention ing his name, nor would he mention' it. He was at a loss to discover the objection to. the inquiry.—(Hear!)—lf the machinery were found perfect, and the agency faulty, then they would have the satisfaction of knowing that it was easier .to change men than a' syStene. If the machinery were faulty then the question was; what was the cause? If they could make no approximation to the cause then every man in ,tha country would have the satisfaction of knowing that they were suffering under an evil which admitted of no remedy. But if, on the other hand, it were attempted to screen the Court of Chancery that House would gain nothing in the estimation of the country and the Court of Chancery would lose. If his o m p u p s o e n e r n r ta a t resorted c o t m o i d u e m l i e h r ate, t wouldeniat a ti s r k ed, th a e n ui d opneethcicut,estibote.