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..,*\ Ifp ' 1 1 / 2 . io .-• M :-/Lobr su N . • , _ ~J~/1 `"L ~~,-~~~ Lge, per ti a !on, ti a qp Tun o .P )1 ‘,,f6,, PRICE SEVENP_Eis7tt. NUMBER 9836 TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1824. ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, December Btb, 182.3. NAVAL HALF-PAY, TO avoid the inconveniences and delay which has sometimes occurred in the Payments of Naval half -pay, by the irregular transmission of Affidavits, the C ommissioned and Warrant Officers of His Majesty's Navy, l'ciding within the United Kingdoms, and receiving their Half-Pay through Agents, are hereby desired to transmit *th eir Affidavits to such Agents, within a month from the ex. Plration of each Quarter, so as to enable the Agents to re ceive the amount due . an the days regularly appointed for t he Payment of the respective Ranks J. W. CROK ER. T ° THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, V onseqnence of the lamented Death of Sir THOMAS RE ID, Bart. 1 take the liberty of soliciting t he honour of your votes and support as a CANDIDATE Tor the VACANT SEAT in the . DIRECTION of your AFFAIRS. Pennit me to express my warmest acknowledgments for the kind enc our agement which I have received since the last elet tiun; also, most respectfully, to entreat the continued exertions of ray friends, it being my determination to proceed to the have the honour to be, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your most obliged faithful Servant, J. PETTY MUSPRATT. New Broad-street, March 1, 1824. To TilE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. lik-DIES AND GENTLEMEN, IHave the honour to inform you, that it is not trly inten t i o n to offer myself to fill the Seat in the Direc tion, which has become vacant by the Death of your late highly respected and able Director, Sir T. REID, Bart. I beg at the same time to state very respectfully, that I pro- Pose to come forward on the occasion of the next opening which tna Y occur, when I shall have the honour of submitting more f ly the grounds on which I presume to solicit your counte. trance and support. I have the honour to be, Ladies and Gentlemen, YOur faithful and obedient servant, HENRY ALEXANDER. 3 7, Upper Harley =street, March 1, 1824. ' To THE PROPRIETORS OF. EAST INDIA STOCK. L&Dirs AND GENTLEMEX, IN conse quence of the Death of your late highly estimable Director, SIR THOMAS REID, I have the honour to inform you, that I shall redeem the pledge which I gave you on the 27th of November last, by proceed ing to the Ballot on the occasion of the present Vacancy. In soliciting your attention to the subjoined Resolutions, Passed at &Meeting of my Friends, permit me to add, that of support which I have since re. ceitred, ,while they afford me every P.c.pect of success. call for. Illy warm acknowledgments; and I venture to assure you, that should I be placed by your favour in the high and responsible situation to which I aspire, my time and attention will be de voted to its arduous duties, and my best exertions will be used *to maintain and promote the various and important inte rests which are entrused to those who have the direction of Your affairs. I have.the honour to be, with great respect, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your faithful and obedient servant, H. ST. 0. TUCKER. 114 . 3, Upper Portland-place, Ist March, 1824. Air. Tucker's Committee will sit daily at the. City of London Fr B ver, ishopsgate.street, where any communications from lus riends will be thankfully received. At a numerous and highly respectable Meeting of Proprietors of East India Stock, held at the City of London Tavern, on the 27th of November, 18°3, Sir THOMAS BAILING, Bart. M.P. in th e Chair , the following Resolutions were passed unanimously Ist. Proposed by Sir Alexander Johnston, and seconded by George Cumming, Esq..M.P. "That as the a dministration of the affairs of the British pos sessions in India involves the exercise of every function apper taining to a great and powerful Empire, it is of essential im portance that among the Members of the Executive Body ap pointed to regulate and controul the conduct of the Local Au thorities, there should be found a due proportion of individual*, qualified by employment in the several departments of the public service in India, for the efficient discharge of that great and responsible duty." 2d. Proposed by John Martin, Esq. M.P. and seconded By William Remington, Esq. " That Henry St. George Tucker, Esq. having, in the course of active service in India, comprehending a period of twenty-three years, discharged the functions of several of the bighest Civil Offices in India, especially those of the Financial, Revenge, and Judicial Departments, with a degree of ability and success that repeatedly obtained for him the recorded ap probation of the Authorities both at home and abroad (as fully set forth in the official docum e nt s c i rcu l ate d w i t h M r . Tucker's A ddress to the Proprietors of the 4th May 1821, to which this M c eeting particularly requests the attention of the Proprietors East India Stock), that Gentleman possesses, in the opinion onthis Meeting, fair preten s i ons t o as pi re t o th e h onoura bl e " -It " important situation of a Member of the Executive Body „f the East India Company." Propos e d by Thomas Weeding, Esq. and seconded by Thomson Hankey, Esq. , t ," That th e access i on o f k now l e d ge and experience which " 11. • Tucker w ou ld bring to the Court of Directors, in addition t ° general talents and acquirements, must be deemed peculiarly minable in the financial and jndicial branches of the Adminis tration, in which he held successively the high and responsible situations of Accountant-General, Judicial and Revenue Se ctetarY, and Secretary in the Financial and Colonial Depart -4th. Meas. Proposed by Lewis Lloyd, Esq., and seconded by Robert " Sheddon, Esq. That, in a ddi t i on to the qualifications above noticed, Mr. Tucker has had an opportunity of acquiring an extensive know ledge of the principles of commerce, and of their practical ap plication to the reciprocal interests of India and of the Mother Country, in consequence of his having held the office of Public or Commercial Secretary to the Supreme Government, and of his having been placed in other situations involving the prac tical details of commerce upon a very extensive scale. ' lith. Proposed by Richard Campbell Bazett, Esq., and seconded by Edward Fl etcher, Esq. " That on the ground of these high qualifications, the Pro prietors present at this Meeting, actuated by the desire of up holding the weight and efficacy of the Executive Body, earnestly re commend to the Proprietors of East India Stock the election Henry St. George Tucker, Esq. to a Seat in the Direction the first vacancy which may occur, and pledge themselves 1 , employ their strenuous exertions for the accomplishment of that objeco THOMAS BARING, Chairman. It wag Sir Thomas Barin having quitted the Chair— moved by Si g r Alex. Johnston, seconded by Thomson liankey, Esq. and resolved unanimously, That the Thanks of this Meeting be given to Sir Thomas ari ng) Bart. for his very able conduct in the Chair.''. s~t ,~ EAST INDIA HOUSE, Feb. IS, 1844. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITED COMPANY of MEW: HANTS of ENG LAND TRADING to the EAST INDIES, do hereby give. Notice, That a GENERAL COURT of the said- Company will be held at their House in Leadenhall-street on WEDNES DAY, the.3d March next, at Eleven &Clock in - the forenoon, at the desire of Niue Proprietors, agretahly- to the following Letter, viz : " To the Honourable the Court of Directors, of the East India Company. " Lundun, Feb. 18, 1814. '• Gentlemen,—We, the undersigned Proprietors, duly qualified, request you will call a Court of Proprietors of East India Stock, at the earliest convenient day, for taking into their consideration the Services of the late.Governor-Grueral /he Marquis of Hastings. Your obedient servants, "'James Shaw " Douglas Kinnaird C. Flower Joseph Hume J. C. Villiers Randle Jackson Edw. Codringt on Thomas Murdoch Alex..lohnstou. JOSEPH DART, Secretary. EAST INDIA HOUSE, Feb. 47, 1824. THE COURT of. DIRECTORS of the UNITED. COMPANY of MERCHANTS of: ENG - ! LAND TRADING to the EAST INDIES,. do hereby give Notipr, That a GENERAL COURT of the said Company will be at their House in Leadenhall-street,. held, by adjournmen t, on FRIDAY, the sth March next, at Eleven o'Clock. in the Forenoon, for the purpose of continuing the consideration of the following Proposition, viz. : " That application lie made to Parliament in the present Session for the Repeal of the 46th Clause of the Act.of the 53d Geo. 111. cap. 155, by which the Court of Directors is pro hibited from sending to India, in the capacity of Writer, any person who shall not hare resided (luring Four Terms at.t he Haileybury College." JOSEPH DART, Secretary. PROTESTANT ASCENDANCY, and NO POPERY ! 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A' perfect Curt for Bilious Affections and 'Obstructions in sae Bowels. _ _ _ * * *Seats) , will be observed. LITERARY NOTICE. The HISTORY and ANTIQUITIES of the PARISH and PALACE of LAMBETH. No. I. (See Advertisement.) Topography has never been more favourably received than during the reign of his. present Most Gracious Majesty, the avowed patron of Literature and the Arts. It has long been a subject, of regret, that an authentic History of , the Parish of St. Mary, Lambeth, has never yet appeared : its claims upon the attention of the Historian and Antiquary are many ; its great extent aed opulence, its numerous and increasing population, its conti guity to the Metropolis, the Archiepiscopal, its ancient and venerable church and monuments, with many other objects of antiquarian research and local description. Parts of its history have already been given to the world by those eminent Antiquaries, Du cAner., NrcnoLs, and DENNL j but their works are of such extreme rarity, as only to be found in the libraries of collectors. In Mr. BnAY's History of Surrey a very interesting description is given ; but, in a work of that nature, it must necessarily be brief ; so that wu doubt not that this History of Lambeth will prove highly accept able, not only to the inhabitants of the parish, but to the public in general. It contains much general and amusing information, and abounds in anecdote and illustration. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, FRB. 28.—Thursday, Feb. 26, in Con Vocation, the Rev. Robert Stephen Stevens, 111:A. Senior Fellow of Wadhani College, was elected and presented to . the Vicarage of South- Petherwyn and Itewen, in the County of Cornwall, in the room of Dr. Shaw, deceased, and in the patronage of this University. On Thursday last the Rev. Charles Saunders Skelton Dupuis was elected a Fellow of Pembroke College, Ecclesiastical PrefiTtnents.—=-The Reverend A. Grayson, M.A. Principal of St. Edmund hall, has been instituted .by the Lord Bishop of Winchester, to the Vicarage of Bramley, in Hants, on the presentation of. the Provost . and Fellows of Queen's College.—The Rev..). Brocklebank, 13 . D., Chaplain to the Bishop of Ely, and Rector of Tavers ham, presented by his Lordship to the Rectory of Willingham vacant by the death of the Rev. Sir Ilenry Bate Dudley. Bart. —TheGeorge Ipteeew, Archdeaconv ii in,, Wrangha and the Ilan. and Rev. , to be Prebends in York Cathedral. F olt •ritE su N. NAVAL DRY ROT. To Sir T. B. MARTIN, Comptroller of the Navy, &c, Sin,—l have always respected the freedom of Debate in the Senate, as a Constitutional Privi- . lege, granted by His MAJESTY, of inestimable value. However, on reading the Iteparts of yonr Speech last night, k the newspapers this. morn- I lament the gross accusation or attack you made against me, where I have no power to offer any answer. _ _ The language you have used', in such most un qualified manner, never came in contact with Me before, and I cannot let the matter pass silently, for very serious reasons, in justice to this nation,, and as a duty I owe to myself. _ I therefore resort to thil only channel that is always open (pro bon° publico) to state that the NATAL DRT ROT is a subject that. has most irk somely engaged my attention and endeavours for several years, at considerable expence, to seek practical and safe remedies against that existing tiational.calamity, withoUt damages to tanners, land-owners and consumers. Permit me, Sir, ott ,these grounds,. to put a, few plaitt.questions, viz ht. Whether former Navy Boards did, or did not, allow 71 per cent. extra, for winter hewn oak prior t 0•1792 2d. Whether the Montague. of '74 guns, was,, or was not, built between 1775 and 1779, with oak hewn in winter, when the usual allowance was made for the bark (which is then use less to tanners) and not broken up till 1818, after a period of 39 years service or duration ? Whether the frau* was built at Deptford in 1793, with timber cut in spring (on one side) at bark harvest, and the other side with oak that had been barked three years before it was felled in :tinter, from the same estate as that which was. hewn in spring, and whether both sides did not appear ecittally rotten when broken up in 1803, or only ten years afterwards ? 4th. Whether usual allowances haYa been made for the bark since 1792, or whether any winter hewn oak has.been receiyed since that era from Royal Forests, dc.c. If these three. first questions. be actually. an swerable in the Ittlionalive, and' the last in the negative, sorely there cases decidedly prove, from 6 4 the fruits of .experiencc,” that winter hewn oak (with the bark - on) is exempt from dry rot, and that summer hewn oak is subject to it, in spite of all experiments, and consequently that it is luau rallY impossible for the'navy, built i•ince 1814, to endure . :longer than the. Hawk, which was built before the French Revolution, because they have-ull,niost unfortunAtely,been built . with simi- lar oaks- &lied at. the wrong' season. I therefore refer to my Petition, which was pi'esented to .the notise'Af:commonslest . Session, fer inwartial Inquiry into the origin and remedies dij-Vkif;..fOi'll:oniide<that it is every, Briton's day, t 4 use 1 13 , 1,141 - 4 for the protection of the -Biltish;Navi, ll 9 (ll- ern quite satisfied •to Parliamentary an d . tilf• then-1 . ; (init that the public will thaly you -have. done, for one o ac t t r;i lno - e g y r ,v4e e s ne y c r o o t, u t s a l i,.3, Ei!) qfida'eit.: I conceive this most- vital liminess to Great longer exist. under fatal Britain cannot possibly ing you will soon he : u n de ceive d , if. you iniagine ` 414.1i°115 °T-e'll'erinlvilt-f1414.A: conclude by liop that :coal tar, salt water, or building under cover, has. cured . , or ever will 61 1 e „ ,, the . : dry rot;.fOr its. ravages are stiii„imost notorious.. and alarming, as• witnessi the Genoa, Queen Charlotte,Phaeton, kc. Perhaps you.will condescend' to explain how it happens - - that the Queen Charlotte,. after un dergoing e xpensive rep a i rs a b out O ct . 18'2'2, is• already found unfit,even for harbour service ? Why, Sir,: is the safety and durability of the British navy now systematically dependant- on experiments, mere whiCh our ancestors held too sacred .and precious.to be committed to chances for for success or ruin, who eagerly gathered''" the fruits of experience," 'which are now totally neglected ? I am too well aware that the present'system was introduced, at. anew era,. when sAios and leather wero demanded for warlike purposes on great emergencies, but this affords no. •xa cuse or reason for continuing a mostdangerous, expensive, and ruinous sy tern, during a profound . peace, .in which it will be found, I fear, that land possessed many more sail of the line in 1793 than in 189.0 although the tonnage is consi derably greater now. The Navy. appears rapidly decreasing. by the dry-rot, which never disappears • till - the ships do also. It is very easy for any Gentleman to make bold or untrue assertions, but recollect, Sir, facts are •too stubborn to bend to any apse dixit. • Again, I crave public inquiry by a survey of the whole Navy, for I. consider that the roots or prosperity of British ships, seamen, colonies, and commerce, are eminently endangered, and may be ruined, if the Legislatiire do not forthwith reform our dock-yards by rebuilding with winter oaks, according toold customs, when our navy was trulil celebrated under the proverbial title - of " Old England's Wooden• Walls." I am, Sir, Your most obedient. Servant, JOHN BURRIDGE. Nelion.squale, Feb. 21. A curious circumstance, we have beeti told, happened at Gravesend last week. Captain- KIRNAIRD Saii•ru. of the ship . 11111iam was.taken.by the Custom house officers, and brought tothe Custom-house, on suspicion of smuggling ; where the contents of his pockets were examined. —But it turned. out that instead of contraband goods, they contained—a tongue, and . a couple of boiled fowls ! Ex pecting;the.company .of - some ladies, he had ordered dinner to be prepared on board, but wishing perhaps to regale some one else on land, he took the above articles from the pot, and - thrust them in his pockets ; the immense size of Which hadawakened the suspicion ot• the. officers. We recommend the passengers on board to look sharp after. their dinner, for should - this mania seize lint often, they will have a long Lent to keep during the voyage.—( Indian Otservcr. PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, NtAritii 1. QUEENSBERRY CASE. The LORD CHANCELLOR affirmed in part in this case, the interlocutories complained of, and said that he should ex plain his affirmation in the written Judgment which he should deliver in a few days to the House. Judgment was moved in the Scots Appeals, " Ailken or Mudie v. Ailken or Moir :" and in " Greenhill and Rattray v. Ailken or Moir." Interlocutors of the Court of Session to be affirmed. Viscount GenT took the oaths and his, seat: Mr. S,wArti4, from the Commissioners of the Royal _Military Canal, presented an account of all Rates and Tolls- received on the Royal Military Canal, to the 31st of Dec. 11323.-- , :Laid on the table. Mr. ADRIAN, from the Treasury, presented various Re turns, pursuant to the Orders of the House and Act of Par liamen t. Lord CHARLES SOMERSET and others brought up a Road Bill from the Commons, which was read a first time. COMMITTEES. The Transfer in Aids Bill, the 15,000,0001. Exchequer Bill, the Irish ha* Courts Amendment Bill, and the Recipro city of Duties Bill, went respectively through Committees, and were reported. Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took' the Chair at Four o'Clock, and in formed the House that he had, pursuant to the Order of the House, given notice in the Gazette of the Resolution to which the Committee on the Four per Cents. Act had come, for pay-. ing off the holders of such Stock in October next, unless they should consent to receive Three and a Half per Cent. Stock in lieu thereof, Within six. weeks from the present time. A Person from the Treasury presented Accounts of the Ba lances in the Exchequer. MISCELLANEOUS. Sir J. ASTLEY presented a. petition from the manufac turers of wool in the county of Wilts, praying that the house would relieve them from.the Tax on the Importation of Wool, —Laid on the Table. Sir J. ASTLEY presented a petition from Robert Gourley, complaining of the, condition of the English labourer, and stating.it to he worse than that of the Negro Slaves.—Laid on the Table. Mr. GROSSET presented a petition from Lynn,. praying for the amelioration of the condition of SlaVes.—Laid on.the Table. Sir W. ROWLEY presented a petition from Framlingham, against the Duty on Coals.—Ordered to he printed. Sir W. INGELBY presented a petition from Reef ham, in favour of a Court for the more effectual recovery of Small Debts.—Laid on the Table. Also petitions , fkom the Innholders of Louth and Horncastle, against the Duty on Licenses.—Laid on the. Table. Mr. CRAWLEY presented a Petition from Honiton against the Duty on Coals.—Laid on the table. Mr. LEGGE presented a Petition from Banbury against'the Slave Trade.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. FLEMING presented Petitions from the Licensed Vic tuallers-of Southampton and Gosport, praying for a Redaction of the Duty on Licences. Also a.Petition from Enisworth against the Duty on Coals.— Laid on the table. GUlSE.presentxe o n presented Petition Inhabited ; efro m Cheltenham,Houses.—Ordered odo r p e r d a ing Si a r ! r d . u ctio of the Ta ;be printed. • Air...W. WILLIAMS moved for a series of Returns rela tive to the Tonnage of British and. Foreign Chipping, anti the. 'value of Exports and Imports. entered in, and cleared Otit af t the Ports in this Country and Ireland for the last seven years.— . Ordered; • Mr. S. WORTLEYpresented a. Petition front Skepton and York against the Duty, on Licences,—Laid on the table. Mr..CURWEN presented a Petition from certain Proprie• tors of Sheep Farms in the County of Cumberland against the Duty on Do a.—Laid on the table. Mr. SYKES presented. a Petition from Hull against the Duty. on Licenses.—Laid on the table. Sir J. NEWPORT complained that certain. Returns. for. :which he moved. oil the 9th of last month were not yet made, and moved that they he returned forthwith.—Ordered. sir J. NEWPORT.moved for certain Returns relative to the First Fruits of Ireland, together with others reliqva to those of England. Ordered. Captain PERCY presented a Petition froth Stamford'against the Duty on Licences. Laid on the table. Mr. AVAREE presented a Petition from the Parish of Mary lebone, against the Practice of Bear Baiting. Laid on the table. Lord ALTHORPE.presented a Petition from certain Boot and Shoe Makers from a place which we could not hear, pray ing the Repeal of the Leather Tax. Also a similar Petition froth Perth. Mr. CALCRAFT postponed his notice. of. a motion for the total repeal of this tax until after Easter. The Petitions were laid.on the table. Lord AtTHORPE moved for an account of all Sums of Money advanced by the Commissioners for issuing Money out of the Consolidated Fund for the Public Wants in Ireland, and for the purpose of employing the Poor in.that country, by way of Loan, since the year 1816, together with the dates of the Grants, and the special application of each.—Ordered. Mr. BANKES presented a Petition from the Trustees. of the British -Museum, praying for the Annual Grant to that Institution.—Ordered to be printed. The Hon. MEMBER also moved for Returns of the Expen diture and Income of the Establishment last year, together with the other usual Accotints.—Ordered. Mr. Alderman WOOD presented a Petition from the Li censed Victuallers of the Ward of Bishopsgate, against the Duty on Licenses.—Laid on the table. Sir T. LETHBRIDGE presented a Petition from the town of Wellington, praying for an amelioration of the condition of;Negro Slaves.—Ordered to he printed. Lord J. RUSSELL.presented a Petition from certain inha bitants of the County of Devon, the creditors of William Sneedham, complaining of losses suffered by the delay to which a Chancery suit subjected the parties concerned. The suit was stated to have commenced in 1814 and it was not until 1819 .that they were able to sell a freehold property. The Petitioners begged to inform the House, that up to that mo ment they had not received one single farthing of the proceeds, which amounted to 20,0001. Upon applying to their solicitors, they were told that the delay was owing to the practice of the Court of Chancery. They therefore prayed the House would order an inquiry into the same.—The Petition was ordered to be printed. THE LORD HIGH. CHANCELLOR. BREACH OF PRIVILEGE. Mr. ABERCROMBY rose and said, that the duty which he owed to himself, the duty which he owed to that House and to the Profession to which he belonged, obliged him to com plain of ai most gross and unwarrantable attack made upon the freedom of debate in. that House by the Lord High Chancellor of England. When he had detailed the means by which he became informed of the statement made by the Lord Chancel lor,—when he had stated the evidence by which he meant to prove the words spoken,—when he had. stated what the Lord High Chancellor said, and what he himself said upon the occa sion which gave rise to it, it would then be for the House to con sider how far he was justified in the conclusion which he should draw from the whole. He should therefore proceed with those details, only entreating the attention of the House, because it was no less interesting to him in his personal character, than it was to them as an offence against their privileges. On Saturday morning he was in the Court of Exchequer, where he met a person of whose accuracy and character and honour he had no gtoupd for entertaining the slightest doubt, W- I dressed him and expressed himself to this effect:—" Abercromby, nave just heard the reply of the Lord Chan cellor to what you said upon Mr.. 'Williams' motion the other night." " I asked him," said the Honourable Mem ber, " what it was that the Lord Chancellor had said. He replied, ," the. Lord Chancellor imputed to you that you 'had sent forth an utter falSehood to the public. 1 asked him if he was sure he had made no mistake ? He answer :ed, " Certainly not, for the Lord Chancellor referred: to Gentlemen with gowns , on their backs." I accordingly pro • .ceeded forthwith to Lincoln's Inn Hall, with the object- of as certaining how far this information was correct. I there ad dressed the first Counsel I met, but from him I could gain little information.. But most accidentally, the short-hand writer, who teports-the proceedings of the " Court for the public, vo ..lumarily addressed me, and said, Have you• heard what the Lord Chancellor has said of you ?" But here I will atop, 170 ram not certain that he used the word you. I asked him if he would give•me- a Copy of his short-hand notes ? which he de: , dined, but he showed me the words " utter falsehood," andel.- lined in italics, and the allusion to Gentlemen with gowns oft their backs: I asked hint if he had any objection to show ano ther shortaband writer, whom 1 saw in the Co" the report he had made ?- Upon which they compared their notes, and only one word was objected to. This, Sir, is strong proof of accu racy, but I do not fest here. Subsequently I saw a Gentle man of thesame profession at myself, anti I del- nut know a Gen: tleman in whose accuracy, integrity, and honour, I would more readily repose my confidences I questioned him upon the subject,. and his reply was that he child' not answer far • particular•expressionss and that he was not certain whether the words used were " an utter falsehood," or" another falsehood." Which of the two were used, is of little difference, only that " another falsehood" is more offensive, becalm it implies that I have been in the habit-of telling them• before. A short time after I saw the same Gentleman whom I first met in the Court of Exchequer, and I said to him, " Are you sure that Lord Eldon imputed to me having spoken an utter falsehood.":— • He answered that he had not the slightest doubt of it. I then said "have you any doubt that Lord Eldou was addressing himself to the, humble individual who now Speaks to you." His an.: steer was quite cleat. " It could be to no one else." The fact is, that there were only two Gentlemen with gowns on their backs besides myself who spoke upon the question, my Hon. and Learned Friend the Member for Wiliehelsea, and my Hon. and. Learned Friend who brotight fin-Ward the motion; and they did -not follow the line of argument which called forth these remarks. I then asked this Gentleman, " Did you believe that to be the opinion and understanding of others who were present ?" He replied, " It must be the opinion of every one who was acquainted with the details of what had passed." The Hon. and Learned Member then proceeded to state, that although he did not consider Lord Eldon entitled to any courtesy at his hands, yet he had communicated his inten tion of bringing the subject before the House to an Hon. Mem. ber who was in the habit of communicating with his Lordship. He had now shewu the impression made upon the minds of in dividuals as to the statements made by the Lord High Chan cellor of England, and delivered from the seat of Justice ; and he should next state what course he should wish as an in dividual for the House to take. He would read to them the statement of the Lord Chancellor from the Newspaper, for, as he had before stated, the short-hand writer refused him . a copy of his own report. The one he was about to read cora responded with the other as far as lie could judge from having read it twice. He then read the following report : " The Low) CRAlicz [AMR took that opportunity of stating, that it had been said by some one out of doors, that the sigmas ture of Counsel should be required to motions made in this Court, and before the Master of the Rolls. He was desirous that it should be known what the uniform practice had been on this subject. Whenever motions had been made before him self, or the Master of the Rolls, if there had been any mistake committed, Counsel were at liberty to move again. He had now sat in this Court for a. great number of years, and that practice had obtained ever since he had presided; he felt, there fore, that he had no right to. tax the King's subje...s in this manner. His Lordship then proceeded:—` It has been sup posed that I have heard rehearingsand.appeals on new evidence. It is an utter falsehood. On re-hearings it has been always the practice to read the evidence on the case produced in the Court below, whether read or not by the Judge or Counsel. Upon appeals nothing is read but what was actually read in the Court below ; that practice has obtained ever since I knew this Court, and I never have departed front it in any one instance. Gentlemen with•gowns on their backs should take care at least that they are accdrate in their statements, and it is their business, if it is any one's, to be just.' " Mr. AGAR made some remarks in approVal of his Lords ship's observations respecting the signature of Counsel. " The Loeb CHANCELLOR-=And yet the public are in; termed that the signature of Counsel is absolutely necessary by Act of Parliament."' Ile should postpone his observations upon the details of the paper, until he had taken an opportunity of putting the House in posseesion of what he did say. It was true, that no mention had been made of that Honourable House, or of himself by name, but he knew that if Lord Eldon were present, he would not, because he could not say with truth, or with any regard for his character , that in the statement he had made, he did not allude to the debate in that House. Ile knew that no Member of.that House would take advantage of those facts, because what would be said by the public it' any One should resort to that mean and pettyfogeing way of defending the, language of the Lord.high Chancellor of England, delivered from the seat of justice. It was true, he had satisfied the }louse that it • was of the House that individual. was speaking, and that to him had been imputed an utter falsehood. If this imputation were true, the Speaker OW not too soon shirt the doors of. the House against.hirti i he could not be too won aft* of the gown which he wore, and degraded for ever by being excluded' from the society of Gentlemen. If, on the contrary, theseat of justice had been debased by false assertions against his character and fame, and they would not give redress, of what use was their privileges, and what would be the condition now, or here after, of these members of his profession who had the honour of seats in that House. He trusted it was not necessary, but yet he gave his assurance, and upon his honour, that in stating what he did say upon the former debate, he would not willingly pervert or alter a single word ; no, not if would obtain for him self the triumph, and give to Lord Eldon the satisfaction of cone signing him to infamy. He could notspcak to exact expressions, because no individual spoke with less premeditation than he did, as to the choice of words. He would, however, give the substance of what he said with as much truth and accuracy as were in his' power. Ile stated that his first object would be to inquire into the practice of the Court on hearing appeals from the ViCesChans cellor. He stated also that it- appeared to be the practice since the passing of the Vices Chancellor's Bill in 1813, to allow, of hearings without the signature of Counsel ; and that that practice had recently been altered. He said too, that one of the chief objections to the Vice-Chancellor's Court ' was, that it gave encouragement to appeals ; and he added that the best security against vexatious appeals, in his judgment, was the necessity of having Counsel's signature. But he then ob served most distinctly, that this did not apply to cases of mo-' tion, in which a disappointed suitor or advocate might go from one Court to the other, might adduce fresh argument and evidence ; and in eases a weak part of his case haul been dis covered on the Motion in one Court, might strengthen the case when presenting it to the other. And then in conclu sion he observed, that this practice led to the protivancing. of different judgments between the same parties in the two Courts. This wat the substance of what.. he had said in' that House ; and he now proceeded to notice what had been said by the Lord Chancellor. His Lordship said that ever since he had been in that Court, motions were brought before him without Counsel's signature. But here his Lordship alluded 'to a period anterior to the establishment of the Vice-Chancellor's Court. He (Mr. Abercromby) asked his lion. and Learned Friend, the Solicitor-General, whether the Vice-Chancellor did not hear a large portion of special motions ? (The Solicitors General assented.) It was a part of his (Mr. A's.) argument. And then ; as to the hearing of fresh evidence on motions, he begged also to ask his Hon. and Learned Friend, whether motions on one state of facts before the Vice-Chancellor, had not frequently been brought before the Lord Chancellor, on another state of facts ?—(The Solicitor-General assented.) — This, he (Mr. Abercromby) contended, produced a collision of opinion derogatory to the Vice-Chancellor's Court. It was said that he (Mr. A.) had declared Counsel's signature to have been rendered necessary by an Act of Parliament. He denied this. As to Appeals, his Lordship said that he (Mr. A.) had said new evidence was heard upon them. He denied this : for the fact was, that lie had expressly. contrasted the practice on appeals with that on motions. When, tbereferc, Lord Eldon stated these things of him, his Lordship put words into his mouth which he had not uttered, and in effect charged hint with disgracing his seat in Parliament, by making. it the means of putting forth a falsehood. And where had his Lordship said this? In his Court—before all the profession—before those with whom it was most important that lie (Mr. A.) should stand well, and upon whose support (if he depended on his profes sion) his very existence also depended. It was made in the presence of the Reporters of the Court, who were to take down every word, and carry it to the printing press, with a view to extended circulation, before the ink was dry. What would have been the issue of this, had he by accident been in. Court, anti heard this attack upon him ? He could not say de cidedly how he should have behaved on such an occasion ; but he hoped he should not have remained silent. What would have been the consequence ? Had he got. up and defended himself, the Lord Chancellor might have stopped him ; and had he persisted in. going on, might have committed him to the Fleet. —(Hkar, hear !)—And to what a state then would he have reduced the Court of 'which he was the head ! To have