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S UCH Persons as are desirous of Contracting' with the Agent for Commissariat Supplies, to deliver !OATS in' the WEST INDIES, may receive Particulars of the 'Contract at this Office between the honrs of Eleven and Five, and deliver their Tenders, sealed up and directed to the Agent for Commissariat Supplies, marking thereon " Tender 10 deliver Oats in the West Indirs;" on or before Wednesdfiy, the tgth Inst., but none will be received after Twelve ~'Clock on that Day; nor will any Proposal he noticed, unless made on or annexed to a printed Particular, and Prices insert ed in words at lengt ; nor unless a Letter be subjoined to such Proposal, signed by Two Persons of known Pro perty, engaging to become bound with the Patty ten !ering, in the Suth expressed in the. Particulars, for the due per tin-mance of the Contract. ST. 11101AYS lIO`qIITAL. R. ASI LEV COON , At and Mr. HENRY' CLINE will ht- 4 iit tlirir COUlltiE of ANATONLICAL 'Anil SUilf;IC:11, LECTEIIt ES oil- tilljitSOAV, the of - 441NUAlt at Two o'c:LocK. LYTON, Sock-Broker, 2, CORNHILL. • roturn3 his graieful Thanks to the Public for past savours. ::n:.! begs to inform them, the N,w Lottery, to he T,vo I),tys, begins 12th of JAN (. 7 WY, with.FOUit of , 2n,00t:1 - . &e. The Lowest Prizes Itil. tor! TWO First•drawn Prizes will reLeive Consals each, Ivhiell he courolontly trusts he shall he so fortunate 03 to dis- Irihute auto it; his Ftiends. 6 .* Alt business in the Public Funds transacted With fide lity and dispatch. NEX I' WEDNESDAY. FOUR PRIZES OF TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS, rur the SMAL:, LOTTERY, 10 Begin the NEW YEAR. NEXT WEDNESDA.Y, JANuAny 12.—TWO PRIZES Of TWENTY THOUS.kNO POUNDS trust '6e decided in First Fivt; Minutes of the Drawing, and the Tenth-drawn Prize .chore 201. 0 6d. will have 20,0001. Ittnre. J. and .1. SIVF,WRICiFIT,.SaIe Contractors, had the plea "re to citie the Ohl Year by distributing, under their New Nystein, a great excess of Prizes of 20,0001. to fortunate Ad- Tentitrers in London. and its vicinity; and nearly Thirty other Cities acid Towns in Em:land and Scotland; and they hope at the beginning of the New Year to divide Four mote Prip 6 of I°, C OOl, at their fortunate Oilices, 37, CORN 1111.1.; 11, I - 101.13ORN; 311, HAM I 11.-\Y.\ 141, OXFORD-STREET. where TICKETS ant SHARES are vu Sale in the greatest variety. No. 89, PALL MALL, LATE DYDE AND SCRIBE. VrESSRS. 11-“IDING and CO. in retnrn ,. ing sinetro Thanks t o their numerous Friends fur r arum, conferred on thcm,and respectfully soliciting a con. *mance thereof, he;; to state, that the BUSINESS of their k CONTINUED in all its various De tintlits A USUAL. 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OF TFIE,j I ExcilEcluEit, ON SIP, WILLIAM DE CRESPIGNY'S MOTION IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, IGni DECENIBEII, 1819. S t e—The Speech which you delivered in the House of Commons, in reply to Sir ‘VILLIAM CREiPIGNY:S,: Motion ;or the appointment of a Committee to investigate a Plan which I had to propose for the Relief of the distressed Working Classes may probably lead to con-equences of the deepest interest to the well-being or mankivid. o‘ir ultimate object is, I believe, the same; that is, to amelinrate the condi , inn of Society, on a sound and ra•ional systern--on priticiples that wi!l hear the test of the most severe ,icrotiny, althoughcipposed by all the prejudices of localities. Bat, that 1 may be the better understood on thisiMpatant subject, I will endeavour briefly to explain what I Mean by the word localitie., as it will so frequently occur in this Letter. Under this term. I include the opinions and partly trite and partly false, which every individual inthibes, accorclitig to the country, climate, government, and religion—class, sect, and patty, under Or in which he was educated, at that period when the youthful mind is utterly incapable of rationally exercising the power of volition, or to whose influences he may have become in riper years, fro , n various accidental, yet perhaps uncontronlable causes, more or less subjected. Thus the localities of the inhabitant of China would force upon his rennet mind, at the period of childhood and youth, opi nions favourable to the p ternal or despotic form of Government, to the religion and philosophy of Fo and Confucius, whilst some minor sect or party would probably be found to share his more parti cular attachment and confidence ; whilst the in habitant of New York would, from his peculiar localities, as devotedly maintain those doctrines in Government which oppose individual ascend ancy. With him, the Majesty of the People is a doctrine not less sacred, titan wiih a Chinese it . would be treasonable, if not blasphemous. On the other hand, an inhabitant of the Com munity of flatmony, in Indiana, in the United States, being born and matured in a society stir rounded .with every inducement to virtootts eon dt,ert, and it; full possessio n of comfort atol ! dewy, can with difijeulty realise the thought, that man is capable of arming himself to slaughter his fellow u,an, Or t:3dl can be content to partake of luxu ries the nnist refined and 'dedicate, whilst he ;no esvell knows that %Nil' in a fend yards of him dwell hundreds :A' his brethren, pitting in want sod wretchedness. Yon, sir, are equally subjected to this great L,w of Nature, having been yourself equally surrounded by peculiar localtics from ,in fancy, which have iattpressed a conviction o n your mind, that men can be made better and happier than they have yet been, solely by the adoption of certain sentiments, •vhich you have been forced to believe are flue, by the loca lities in which you happen to boue been horn and instructed. Viewing, as you do, throu g h th e medium of these peculiar localities, the principles which I have promulgated, you pronounce them to be subversive of the Laws and Religion of this Country ; and, by so doing, you endea vour stir arouse all the prejudices of British lo calities against me, and indispose mens' minds to consider the good which I labour to obtain tot' them. • I blame you not for this conduct, for I am quite sure that your intentions are pure and excellent. Yet it appears to me to he a duty to. persevere, and to endeavour to over come these prejudices of localities, which ob struct the path to true and substantial happiness. By my remarks, I would not willingly offend you or any one; but, placed as I am, by your ob servations, before the eyes of the world, and at a period 100 when that world, by our present pro ceedings, must be rendered either more miserable or More happy than it has yet been, I hold a full declaration of truth, as it is impressed on my mind, to be at the present period a ditty para mount to every personal consideration. Tire principles which I advocate have become so public, and are making such rapid progress through So ciety, notwithstanding a vote and !emporary pre.. judice " in the House of Commons, that if they are erroneous, their error should be in starrly proved, and if my judgment has been m i s l e d with respect to these ptiociples, there caa he no individual snore .simsetely desirous of being set right than I am ; and I publish this Letter to bring the subject to a fair issue. y im have said, that the principles svhich I have ve bli e ly avw.s e d are snliversive of the.Governmeut and Religion of this Country. It never was, Sir, my ioterition to injure the Government and Re • I: g ion under which we live ; my object has been to withdraw front Joth twat which appeared tome to b e their detects and eirors, and 10 withdraw them; not by coercion and violence, but gradually and temper a t e ly, tinder the direCtion of the Go vetnment and the Church. It is now neatly seven years since I distinctly saw the necessity for this change, and I opvit ly and fairly communicated these sentiments, without reserve, to the heads of the 'Church—to our own Government—and to otheethivelnments. I then received encouragement from these partieS to proceed in the course which I had commenced, itid to this hour I have not devia , ed from it.— Vet, if I ant wrong,' 1 willingly take to myself whatever blame attaches to these proceedings, since they hav e arisen front a thorough conviction of the truth of the principles on which they are fonvided—that conviction is still mote eonfirinert the fm‘ourable decision of the most smite and pro found minds in this country and in Europe; and also from a convictiou of the mokulied benefits [PRICE SEVENPENr F. ,that will arise frum their a.:opion ii. prbictire, both to the goverows and gov,rnett. I will limy submit the cattiv , of dirrrenc be tweenv us, to our c-unt t y and to the •;ould Sir, an strong is my cwiviction of rh, ttuto of the principles on Isprl,:o I ;AO , • ! , ..jooi,:e11 a. I know you ore, by the t.lcali• les of cdtt- Ca.loll, and OffiCe ift the 5! 4t leave the deciinn to your coin anal th:lincrite jod,:ment o and allow you to be ju , Le in your owl) can,,,. The principles anti practice which I ptopose Inc adoption, must, however, bo tried by those whose a, (runt (hill I roust be virevily your favniir ; and against such alwo!: prt indices, nothing hut truth de• of all no-or, can have the s!i : 4litest chine.. of . soccess ; and I anticipate socce- solely on this aroiond. Tice defects the'', Sir, of .ur Gavernotent, as heyappear to me, are those which mote inone• diatey or praCtol from a single etl one ons principie. it is trite it is an error of ancii•nt d a te, nhich has, according to existing records, era itself arunnd every GoverioneEit awl Religion hitherto known to ex',st ; and it was thelefure that I poblicly avovvel, " that I was not of any Religion hitherto taught in tile world ;" because they all contained much, yes, vet y much el For. Tell we honestly, Sir, tlo you believe me to be an enemy to any part of wanking!, because I ant enxions to bring 'leder !evicts , that which ap pears, to a conscientious mind, to be an error productive of no good fruit in practice, but oE incalculable evil and misery ? You, surely, will not condemn any one for so acting ? is not your oppositioa to hinr. who now addr , sses you, f oun d e d on th e very same principle ? The error, then, which 1 ton compelled, by a strict adhe rence to truth, to lament in our Government, is !hat part- of it which presumes that the Character of the individual is formed by himself. This error is, in the first place, in direct opposition to ail the facts of which we possess any accurate knoweledge—it is. also in direct opposition to some of the principles, and to the best part of the Religion, which is the Law of this Land—and it is the cause of the inconsistencies, visible to all, in the conduct of those who profess to be govern ed by that Religion ;—it is the sole cause why those invaluable principles of universal charity and benevolence, with which it abounds, have never been seen in practice. This Religion teaches us, and you, Sir, profess it, that we cannot do any tiling of or for our selves ; that the DEITY, directly or indirectly, forms us into what we are, and !bus govetns and controuls all our actions. !lad we rent knowledge on this silbject,, every hour of ode lives would enable Os to understaud this great truth, and its manifold practical benefits. Could your mind, Sir, be relieved from the almost over wheiming effects of the localities of your birth, and opened clearly to comprehend the real valne of this fundamental principle of your you would contend as at deutly for its singleness, and that it should not be debased with opposioc. and inconsistent doctrines, as I have dune, as I. now do,' and, whilst the conviction of its truth and c a k e remains upon my mind, as, I believe, I shalt continue to do to the clay of my death. The localities in which you are enveloped pre vent your perceiviog that the erroneous doctrine, that " man forms his own character," is the sole cause of all the anger, and of tile evil passions, which now agitate the world; that the conse quences arising- from this mistaken notion are odoctive of, perpetual inconsistency in the cha racter of all who pr o f e s s theinselves to be Chris tians ; and that it must inevitably lead to conduct destructive of genuine charity, benevolence, and kindness. These same localities, Sir, prevent your seeing the truth, and practical benefi's of the truth, " that the character of every human being is, in all its pats, formed for hint ;" that the want of this knowledge on the part of those who !tovern the world, alone retards the adoption of ti syatem of government founded on principles of science, which would unerringly prevent the ex istence of those crimes which hitherto it has been the chief business of the world to detect anti punish. _ _ •-• Did you clearly understand this invaluable truth, and were you hilly aware of the cettari con sequences which must ensue from a general belief of it, you would not attempt to raise any part of the Ret'ertues of these realuis in such a manner. as must, and does actually deteriorate the moral character, and, consequent ly,create notch pover ty, crime,, and misery. But it is to the conse quences of the great truth, " that man does not . forin his own character," tliat I would direct your close and profound attention, sin :e it is frolic a superficial examination of the conserances of this doctline, that so many well-nventioned minds have been at first repelled limn it ; whereas many of the most amiable and intelligent of my early opposers, now publicly acknowledge, that they pereive nothing but onmingled good to the consequepces of this mice appalling doctrine. May 1 be permitted then to add, that by your acts of commission, Or otuissiou, you, as'one of the Members of the •Goverument, may justly be said to be one of the innocent, yet certain occa sions o f the poverty, crime, anti soffering which now afflict . the pepulatioo of these kingdoms ; tor, on an experience whirl) no other individual b as b e en permitted to attain, I assert that you possess . the most ample means to give a new dia• ractt'r to the people, greatly superior to any yet seen, and to surround them, iu a short period, with plenty and enjoyment. I state these facts (such I know them to .be) " not to call tio,vo the spirit of persecution"--- (your words)—on the Governmeor, for my real desire has been, and . is , to see this improved sys. tem carried into practice in all Countries, by those FOR 1 II 17, SUN. INSOLVENT BILL. Ma. Entroa—The gentlemanly candour •of IGNoTUS merit% public approbation, and he is se quester!, through this medium, to accept my in dividual portion. ‘Vhen opinions are frankly suppos e d without prejudice or bias, a just con clusion may be an:icipatr d in the result. Al er devoting more than twelve years to the consideration of our Debtor and CseditOr Laws, both in principle and practice, the result of ex perience may become a ground of presunlntion !you which arguments may claim attention.— With this contemplative view of the subject, and of the evils proposed to he remedied by Legisla tive Enactments, I shall not offend by a positive avowal of the opinion before stated, that Impri sonment for Debt, unneceskatily protracted, is de structive to the victim, and prejudicial to those who enforce it, The necessity of imprisonment, as a means of coercion, 'till Account rendered, and Restitution made, is not to be denied. BA an exten , ion be yond that cannot be successfully contended for as a means of justice. In my deliberate view of our old legal system, applicable to Debt and pe cuniary Contract, it has heretofore occurred that a scale of proportion, and a gradkion, a distinc tive portion as to the term of Imprisonment, might be properly introduced. And it has frequently been suggested, that the same period of Imprison ment desirable for Debtors to a tarot amount, %you'd he highly disproportionate and unjust, if applied to the mallet Debtors. And indeed the provisions of former enactments seem to have contemplated such progressive gra,latio,,s or terms. Thus, under the Act commonly called " Lord's Act," prisoners cannot be relieved when debts exceed 3001. ; the Law contemplating that Debtors beyond such limit are properly amenable to the Bankrupt Laws; and that Creditors should be cautious not to confide beyond that sum in persons out of the pale of bankruptcy. To the extent of 3001., theretore, the Lord's 44ct is made operative, at the trill tit the Debtor, or by the compulsion of the Creditor. Subsequent to the provisions of that Act, and its dependent Statutes, the L-gislature, from the -narrow operation of those Enactments, and front the consequent crowded state of the Prisons, found it necessary to introduce temporary Insolvent Acts, to give relief in cases of Imprisonment, upon a surrender of the Debtor's property, although exceeding 3001., restraining, however, the operation of In se'.-ent Acts, wilt') Commissions of Bankruptcy were in force ; and, indeed, limiting such Insol vent Acts to specific sums, such as 10001., 1500/., and 20001., till at length it was found expedient, for the same reasons as wieinally occasioned such Acts to intervene, to extend Insolvent Acts to unlimited operation upon a principle similar in effect to the Bankrupt Laws, but less beneficial to the Debtor. (.li-to such a principle it is not reconcileable to :he Writer to admit the necessity of an exten sion of the Imprisonment beyond the object for which it ia resorted to, namely, the Restitu tion of the Debtor's means to discharge the Cre ditor's demands. And as concerns the mere matter of account between Debtor and Creditor, the shortest Imprisonx..mt is the most beneficial to b''ttt, and unquestionably to the Public. If, indeed, fraud or dishonesty is truly imput able, and can be established, the Debtor may be justly considered as a public offender, and should be treated as such. His conduct should be visit ed with due severity proportioned 1p that offence, but not with a reference to ar►y irritated feelings of the Creditor. In this contemplation, the frau dulent should be distinguished from the• honest and unfortunate. If the Debtor bas been guilty of fraud, dishonesty, extravagance, concealment, imposition, or gross mi%representation, he should be made liable to specific punishment for each or either offence, first 'being thereof lawfully convict ed by a Jury at his Country. Temple, 4th January, I g 20. W. M--N. The Gazette of last night contains Proclama tions, offering rewards for the apprehension of the persno ur persons who tired at a private of the 61t Dragoon, at Neweastle•opon 'Fyne, on the 29 h tilt. ; and Of the perion of persons who shot at Mr. JAMES REDDROP, of in the co , lnty of Salop, on the 27th