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P A It L I A AI E N T. , POUSE OF LORDS, 11 :EONFSDAY, MAY 31. The House proceeded in Appeals.—The Oaths Nye! e at:mini-tem! to the Earl of Minto.—Peti• Lions complaiiiir,g of agricoltut al distress, front Land Own s ers, &c. of Berwickshire and Kildare, were plesented by Lord Napier and the Marquess of Downshire.---Oudered to lie upon the Table. The Civil List Bill WWI returned from Ili, [louse of Commons, 'by Mr. Brogden and other Mem bers, with the Amendment agreed to. The Glou cester Gas-light Bill, the Uletk of the Peace (licland) Bill, some Loci} and Plicate Hills, were brought up by Mr. Cooper, Mr. lan e , M r. Catt wright, Mr. Wortley, and other Members, and read a first time.—Adjoutned till to•morro (this day). HOUSE OF COMMONS. DROGIIEDA ELECTSON. On the motion of Sir 3. NeywroßT, the Order for the consideration ut the Drogheda Election Petition was dischArged, and the Petition was or• tiered to be take❑ into consideration on Tuesday, June 13. NI. WILDMAN gace notice, that on Friday, the 9th of &lie, lie wonid more the second reading of tfit: Colchester Ses,ions hill. The second reading was ordered for that day uceordiogly, ' Sir h. iiiNATCHBULL brought up a bill to prevent Frauds in the Sale of Coals uu the River Thames. ituad a first Lord C. ftIANNERS presented a Petition from the Oczti piers of 70,u00 Acres of Land, in the Isle of Ely, complain ing of agricultural distress.—The Petition was ordered to lie on the table. Dt:TIES IN THE FRENCH PORTS. Sir W. DE CRESPIGNY presented a Petition from certain parties in Southampton, praying the House to tale into con sideration the heavy Duties laid upon their vessels in the r uin of iranee.•—Laid on the table. PRISONERS FOR CONTEMPT. Lord ALTHORN.: presented a Petition trout Prisoners in continetreiit for contempis of the Court of Chancery. His Lordship observed, that. there were many very hard eases of this hind, which appeared to demand revision. fle men tioned one of a female of the age of St, who had been impri. soned for thirty years, and several others who had been con fined fur shorter periods, ,ind of some who had died in prison. These furnished an argument for extending the saute rrlief to persons in this situation as to Insolvent Debtors. Mr. BURNE thought a List of Committals fur contempt of Court, once or twice a year was desirable, in order to show he clause bow the matter stood. He 'ail lsnown individuals who were willing to do every thing in their power - to satisfy the law, and yet were in this predicament till the day of their death. Mr. LOCKHART observed, that many contempts were act; by which other parties were excluded from justice. it therefore was necessary to look dispassionately . at the case of those who committed them. The Petition was laid on the Table, and ordered to be printed. BREACH OF PRIVILEGE. Mr. W. AVYNN said, it would be in the recollection of the nonse t hat he had a few days ago moved that certain indivi dUals should attend at the Bar of the /louse for a Breach of Privilege, in having directed a suit to be entered against the Warden of the Fleet for discharging J. C. Murton, E , q. on an Order of the House; those individuals had discontinued the action and expressed their regret for what they had done.— The Order of the House was for their attendance on Monday tight, but as they lived at a considerable distance from town, he would, to afford them more time, move that the Order be discharged and renewed for Monday week. This was accord ingly thole. , Sir W. CURTIS gave notice of a motion on Wednesday, for the better regulation of (as was understood) the Militia of "London. On the motion of Mr. GORDON, the Papers presented to the House relative to the New Post Office were ordered to be printed. The House uittit through a C omm itt ee on t h e G reenland Fishery Act .—B eport to-morrow. FUNDING OF EXCHEQUER BILLS. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHkQUER said, be wish e d to take the earliest opportunity, of stating to Parliament the contract whicla had been en teted into that day witli certain holders of Exche quer Bills, and of which three days' notice had been given to the public. He should therefore inotre the Order of the Day, for the House to re- Solve itself into a Committee of Ways and Means. The House resolved itself into a Committee accordingly. The CHADICBLLOR of the EXCHEQUER then ad dressed the Committee. He could not state the transaction in question sooner than this day ; nor could he even have foreseen that it would have been in his power to do it so soon, as he did not expect it would have been so soon completed.— The contract, however, having been made, he should, according to the usual practice, give an account of it to the Committee ; and he was sa tisfied they would most readily ratify what the Treasury had done.. The general terms . of the bargain were these :—A notice had been given on Friday last, that a subscription would be opened for the purpose of funding 7 millions of the Ex chequer Bills that were now outstanding, and which amounted to more than 35 millions ; and this sum, added to the unfunded debt of Ireland, made the whole outstanding debt of the United Kingdom amount to thirty-nine millions. The amount was now less by nine millions than the amount of those that were outstanding at the corresponding period of last year.— Of the 35 millions of Exchequer Bills issaed for the service of Great Britain, 14 millions were it the possession of the Bank of England, and so there remained about 21 millions in the bands of the public. As it was intended that a loan to a certain amount should be made, it was considered that the best mode would be, first to call in seven millions of the outstanding Exchequer Bills, and convert the same into stock. On a future city he sho►tld state the aeuotnit of the sum that was in tended to he raised by loan. It only now remain ed for him to lay before the Committee the parti culars of the bargain which had been made that day ; it was, that for every 991. in Exchequer Bills, the person paying the same was to ,receive 1001..5 per cent. stock. According to this arrange ment, considering the price of the 5 per cent, at he present day, and the fluctuations they were likely to experience, the profit accruing to the subscribers would be about 21. per cent. A very eager competition took place that day among nu nter►►us persons who came forward to make this bargain; and the whole was completed in half an hour, instead of two or three days, the time usually taken np in arranging a business of that kind. He now had a Resolution to propose, 'he object of which would be to confirm what had been done. He then mated his Resolution, de claring it as the opinion of the Committee, that those who subscribed the seven millions' of Ex chequer Bills, should have 1001. in the 5 per cen's. capital stock for every 991. in Exclieqner Bills, r.GRFNrtiLI. said, he understood tie eagerness of the competiiion was 80 great, dist Ike parties wishing to silbscribe rushed froward that morn ing at personal risk of their lives. His object IA now rising Was, to know from the Right Hon. Gentleman, whether what he had beiard was true, that, although seven millions were now funded, the same number of ootstanding Exchequer Bills were sr ll to be kept np. `The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE4ItUER regretted very much, that the competition at the Bank had that clay caused so much danger, which lie %vas in hopes the precautions ta ken at the Bank would have prevented. In answer to the question put by the Hon. Gentl?man, he had only to repeat what he already stated, that the present amount of the unfunded debt was 39 millions ; and is, this sum there was to be a reduction of ten millions aml a half. Mr. MACERLEY said, in Januaty last .the Un funded Debt amounted to 45 millions, and how the Right Hon. Gentleman could now talk of 39 millions he was at a loss to conceive. Perhaps he did not take into consideration the arrears due to the Consolidated Fund, amounting to upwards of nine millions ; and unless the revenue improved very flinch between June and October, it would then he 10 millions. If this deficiency was not to he provided for, then, indeed, the Right lion. Gentleman Might reduce his Uotatodeu Debt. Mr. J. SMITH did not recollect that the Chan cellor of the Exchequer had given any answer re lative to the new issue ot 7.000,000 d. He under stood, and so he believed did tile Poidic, that their place was to be stipplied by . q,000,000 of last year's hills ; for the Hight 'Hon. Gentleman certainly said. last year he shOuld Waal nothing this, except the five ninon, for the Bank. He had no desire to presi any question improperly, but if t he Public coal(' ha ve 1100111146011 vu dais subject, it would be mo•t saristaciory. The flan. Member adverted to the ropidity with which the subscription filled, and observed, he trusted there had not been ally unfair preference given to any set of inch ideals over aoother. • The CHANCELLOR ot the EXCHEQUER said, be had taken every precaution to prevent any such preference being stews,. Ile gave notice of the cum to he funded, and the terms, as long ago as Friday last. With respect to she 7 ,OUU .0001. be ing added, he believed there had been some mis construction ; the 7 000,0001. taken from last yea', bad nothing to do with the present year. It was intended to reduce the ontundedl4xchequer Bills this year to 28.000,0001. The Hots. Mem ber (Mr. Mahetley) could not have looked to the/ accounts at present an the table, or he would soon have been convinced his calculation was ' incorrect. Mr. MAUFELFY wished the Chancellor of the Exchtq,er would state what amount of Exche quer Bills, voted for the service of 1819, remained unsold on the sth of January last. He contend ed his statement was correct. The Hon. Mem ber again wen: through tlie items, and contended that on the 5111 of January last, the unfunded debt was 45.879,2581. besides 2,700,0001. to the Bank, and repos t further says, that the 5,000,0001. which the 11 , ilk were to have been raid last year, had not been paid yet. Mr. MARTIN and Mr. PEARCE said a few words. Mr J. SMITH stated, that some years ago sits pietotri of linproper cuodnet in the mode ot fund ing Exchequer Bills, having been entertained, a Committee had been moved to inquire into the subject. He I►u! i► to the House whether resl►ec table persons could engage in such ►uanoeuvres. Mr. GRENFELL thought it a great blot on the Co►.niry in the eyes of all &trope, that there should appear in each succeeding quarter a great deficiency in the revenue. He observed, 11 ) ,,t the accounts upon the table were to bun wholly un intelligible. Mr. ELLICE begged the House to attend to the financial state of the country. List year, a most impolitic set of taxes had been placed upon the people, for the purpose of raising a reveone of three milli ins and a halt, from which the greatest benefits were expected. Instead, how ever, of reaping any advantages Iron) the fnea sure, rile Chancellor of the Exchequer was add. ing still to the debt of the Coi,solidgited F on d. Before he sat down, he wished 10 know front the Right Hon. Gentien►en in what I►Nrticnlar wav Excheqtter Bills, which had been issued, he be-- lieved at par, found their way into the maiket. The CHANCELLOR Of the EXCIIIIQUER did not know to what particular Bills the Hon. Member alluded, but he believed there were some Exche. quer B►lls Carried into the market which could nui be paid, and which were issued at the time it pursuance of a contract tor the purchase of silver. Mr. ELLIca was not dispOsed to disapprove of any arrangement made with a view to benefit the public service. He only wished iliac such ar rangenients should be made known to the House. MABERLEY again asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the amount of the Bills voted for tfie service of 1819, that remained un sold in January 1820. The CHANCRLLOR of the EXCHEQUER could not give a dtlinitive answer to the question. lie could only state, that all the Bills that had been issued, were issued for the purpose of replacing others left outstanding and unprovided for. Mr. MABERLEY wanted an explicit answer to a plain question. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER repeated his former answer. THE NEW NOTES. Mr. BARING viiialled to know at what period it was likely the new notes of the Batik ,of Eng land, so long pi ised, would come out. Mr. CouttrtiLy could give no positive answer to this question, lie knew that tine sort of note' had been fixed on, and that those engaged were using every expedition in perfecting the machi nery, &c. lot their execution. PEARCS said, the machinery was, be be lieved, nearly completed; that done, two days ‘vould be sufficient to strike oil notes to a very great amount. The Resolution was then put arKs.agr•eed to, as was a Resolu:ion fixing the days fra the several instalments to be paid, agreeing in evety respect tv;tb the terms already published. The House re:sumed, and the Report was ordered to be re ceived to-morrow. - COURTS OF JUSTICE IN SCOTLAND. Lord A. HAMILTON desired now to know there was any objection to produce certain papers connected with the Commission appointed to in quire into the state of Courts of Justice in Scot land, which papers tended to sbew how hastily and prematurely that Commission was di3solved. Lord CASTLEREAGH considered the motion as. unnecessary. The demise of the King terminated the Commission immediately. Sir J. NawronT said, the Commission for _ _ • Coitus of Justice in Ireland had not been dis solved, but had acted, notivitbstandiog the demise of the Crown. Lord CASTLEREAGH said, then they had acte illegally. GRAMPOUND DISFRANCHISEMENT BILL. Lord J. itussELL moved Olio the Order of tl►e Day for taking into consideration the Grampoond Disfranchisement Bill, on Friday, the gdi m ice, be discharged, and postponed to Monday, 12th, with an understanding that it should take piece deuce on that day. " ALLOWANCES TO THE ROYAL FAMILY. Mr. TIRRNEY' .wished to cull the a tent ion of the Noble Lord opposite to a subject of some de licacy, as it af f ected the Royal Family, whose al lowances, it was well known, ceased upon the demise of his late Majesty. These allowances had nor been renewed, and he was at a loss to under stand why this slight bad been passed upon the Members of the Royal Family. He begged to ask the Noble Lord, whether it was the intention of his Majesty's Ministers to move for the renew al of these allowances? In putting this question he by no means intended to raise any discussion upon:the question of the allowance to be made to tier Majesty. 144. rd CASTLEREAGH made observations across the table in a low tune of voice. We onderstood him to say, that there was no ground far any complaint of delay, since the Civil List Bill had not yet received the Royal sinction, and his Me. jesty could not yet be supposed to be furnish e d %vith the grounds upon which be might send a message to the House upon the subject of the al lowances to the Royal Family. Mr. TIERNEY said, that the allowances to the Royal Family were now chargeable upon the'Con solulated Fund; the Civil List Bill, therefore, had nothing to do with the question. Lord CASTLEREAGH ObSClved, that his. Majesty could yet have no constitutional knowledge upon the subject. - GEORGE DENVHURST. Mr. XVIIITBREAD presented a petition from George Dewhurst, now a prisoner in the Castle of Lancaster, complaining that he bad been con fined for two months upon a charge of high trea son, and during that time cnnffned to bard labour. The charge of high treason was afterwards aban doned, and he was subsequently tried and con victed of a misdemeanor. The petitioner further complained, that be had not been permitted to give bail upon the charge of misdemeanor, and alleged that he had been innocently led into at tending a meeting on the 15th of November, 1819, which was the charge upon which he was convicted. , Lord STANLEY vindicated the character of the Gaoler of Lancaster Castle, and defended the order of the Magistrates by which persons committed upon charges of felony were subjected to bard labour. Mr. FL BENNET denied the legality of compel - - ing a man to work who was only committed for trial, and not yet convicted of any offence. Dr. LUSH I NGTON contended, that the order of the Magistrates was made in defiance of law and in direct violation of every statute which gave authority to Justices of Peace. Magistrates had no power to inflict the punishment of hard labour upon persons who were not proved to be guilty of any offence, and who were presumed by law to be guiltless until they were convicted by a Jury of their country. Such an order of Magistrates ap. plied equally to every species of offence, to those of a political nature amongst others, and might easily be converted into an instrument of political vengeance. It the legality of the order were ad mitted, no Member of that House was safe, for there was no Member who was not liable to be committed upon an unjust accusation—(Hear The quantity and nature of the labour were not fixed at the Quarter Sessions, or by the Visiting Magistrates, but imposed at the discretion of the gaoler. While be objected to this illegal imposi tion of labour he begged to be understood that he was far from opposing the voluntary employment of prisoners. The greatest benefit had resulted from the employment of prisoners, conducted upon judicious principles. , After some ob,ervations from Sir E. Knatch bull, Lord Milton, Mr. W. Bootle, and Mr. B. Bathorat, the Petition was ordered to lie upon the table. Upon the question that this Petition be printed, Mr. SCARLaTT said, be felt it due to the cha racter of the Gaoler of Lancaster Castle to state that his humanity and exemplary conduct in the discharge of his duties were universally acknow ledged. The Petitioner had been tried at Lan caster for attending an armed meeting, and had been convicted, to the entire satisfaction of the Judge, and he believed, of all present. A num ber of persons at the meeting were armed with pikes fixed on staves, which they unscrewed when the soldiers appeared. Mr. BLACKBIJRNE begged to add his testimony to the exemplary character of the Gaoler. Lord FOLKESTONE Said, it was a principle of law that general character could not prevail against particular evidence. It appeared upon the lace of the petition, that the petitioner had been kept in gaol two months and treated as a felon ; and that when the charge of high treason was subsviinenily abandoned be hid not been allowed o gibe bail, 1 hough lie lead offered it to one Magi• str,+►e to the amount of 1,0001. The Magistrates of Lancaster had upon this, as upon many other occasions, set the law at defiance: for the law gave 110 power to a Justice of Peace to commit 401' high treason. The ATTonNHY -GENFRAL was astonished to hear,it asserted by the Noble Lord, who general- ly treated übje , ;(s very °Lucia like a lawyer, tliar Magistrates bad DO power to commit for b'g h treason. He might have learned the contrar y tram the obser vat i on o f t h e J u d ge w h o flied the cause in question, an d who saidthat be en ier, er rained serious doubts upon the evidence, whe t " the prisoner was not guilty of high treason. g Lord FOLK ESTONE did not mean 40 conic: with the Learned Gentleman upon a point of but he still believed that a Justice of Peace b d o nn power to com m i t f ur any ' cl i me h i g h e r tb s he felony. The Petition was then °Meted t° printed. [For the Remainder of the Proceedings of the House a c°Pr mous, see the Fourth Page.] THEATIUCAL REGISTER. Po :braced Last Night. • THEATRZ ROYAL, I)Roßl,LA NE. —Fashionable Levities S ir s Buzzard Savage, Mr. Munden ; Clara, Mrs. Mardyn• ter which, The Cubler of Preston. To which was added, Past Ten o'Clock and a Rainy Night. 111EATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN —Virginias Virgi l t id s % Mr. Macready ; Icilitis, Mr. C. K ein bl e • Virginia, Foote; Servia, Mr s , Fa.ucit. After whi c h, The Battle Bothwell Brigg. lime. TO CORR ESPONDEN fi. The Lettes to the Earl of LIVEKPOOL, signed BarrANNlc if* front the Banks of the Tyne , and that of a Bit urtsu SEASAI I and SHIP OWNER, to the Marquess of LANSDOWN, front verpool, both tin the Commerce of this Country, to-aturrso' Other Articles ase unavoidably postponed. PILICE. I , IF S , l WOGS THIS DA.T AT ONC 0 e1.. , 11:1‘. Dank Stock .. 2245 2223 2244 Irish 5 per Cent....... O f f, 3 per Cent. Red... 69 681 691 India Stock . 229 2 19 ' S per Cent. C0n5.......69 lit India Bonds .... - t6s. t is. P is ; 34 per Cent .. . —774 Old An willies ....• .... . 61 1 m 4 per Cents 5 per Ct. Navy Ann... 104,131 Exch.Bills r 2d...2s. ts, 3s• r ' i Bank Lung Attn. 17 111-16tIvi I Cons. f o r Accourtt.... 70 41 MAILS. AmittvED-1 Drsl)lin, I Waterford, I Guernsey and Jersey' DUE=I Gottenburgla, I France,. 2 Hiunburgli. HIGH WATER AT 17;777" --- , BIDG E To.MoItROW., Morning, 4 mi nu t es a ft er g.—Erettilig, minutes after P' THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICERE FALSUM AUDEAT ? LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 1. 1820. We received last night the Paris Papers of So" day last ;. those of Monday, which were due thill morning, have hot arrived. The discussion , ia the Chamber of Deputies ou the first article of (h. Election Prnjet was captioned through the Site Ling of Saturday, and again adjourned till Maw day. The following are Extracts :. PAnts, MAY 28.—The King yesterday transacted busi' tress with the Duke de Richelieu, and gave audience to lb° Cardinal Archbishop of Paris. It is believed that his Majesl will in a few days attend the ( impel, and resume his summit promenades. Tiie journey of the Court to St. Cloud appeal . to be fixed for the 19th June. " A telegraphic dispatch from Strasborgh announces that the Duke n'Anguideine reviewed the troups of the garriso , on Friday, and received the Public Functiuiraries. "M. Cygnet de Montarlot, author of e ilaranseGris, of several other periodical publications, has, it is said, beets arrested in pursuance of superior order, at Tournus (Sawa. et Loire) and conveyed to the prison at Macon. " Louvel received on Friday copies- of the paper( relatict to the proceedings against him. FIVE PER CENTS. Saturday • DP.FRRRED ‘STo&K. Of the 44d. March, I S3O. " VIENNA, MAY 1 7.—The•Pleniputentiaries of the States OI the Germanic Confederation, held yesterday their thitty-fita Conference, at which the Definitive Act, containing the prig ). cipal result of their deliberations, was signed. by the Maio potentiaries of all the Governments• of this Confederatioue.' • The Sittings will be &sally closed in a week. " 'RUN, MAY 12.—The Spanish refugees rationing fear* France, known under the same of Josephiuos, have beta stopped in Biscay and Old Castile, till they receive and/grit" to proceed further. " There is considerable agitation in Gailicia, at Satagesor and in a part of Arragon.-" THE F\RIDS.—The funding of yesterday sal/ continues to occupy the attention of the Monica Men. Those who were disappointed in procuring any, express themselves much dissatisfied with the whole proceedings, and the loss sustained in the fall of Exchequer Bills has added considerably 1 0 their vexation ; however, this morning they have began to brighten a little, and several have bed& sold at 2s. to 3s. pr. The new Scrip is at ltZ Pr°' and Consols for the Account, 70ii. Very Hula business has been done this morning, as it is e% pected that notice for the Loan (should the Aati" nister require one) will be sent down to-morrow or Saturday. iThe 3 per Cent. Consols, and 5 pet Cents. shut to-morrow. In the present severe pressure of the times, ripa' 3 the middle and lower ranks of the People, the/ cannot but be disgusted with the frequent accounts which appear in the Public Journals relative t° THE QUEEN. Her MAJESTY'S return to thi s Country, or her continued absence, is of little itir portance in a national point of view, and the toPi c . is unworthy of the Public Press of a Great EmPi-r e d There are heavy rumours against her 111asEssY' which, as Mr. TIERNEY said in the last Liu' use Of Commons, ought to be thoroughly investigated , 16 order that it May be seen whether or not she 4i* a fit Person to be received by the E.ttipire as. th e Partner of the British 'l'hro►ie. This n atter re- laces el,ivfly to the honour of THE Tr3aooo but it relates to the P e opl e a l so , not 04 as it involves the character of thei , Co"n tr Y' but us it way entail increased burtbsua vi/on tliCt3 fey the ON Itil %lei t el l 1/P tv 1 cilt t i TI tit i *1, 4 Aloe, Pa te 'peel bi s LI o . I vy 1 4 Lei !h is, t ' . "'il N h. uti l \' k; N tit,