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IARLIAMENTAR.Y VA,PER. RE PORT—LABOU'itERS W4GES. The Select ,Committee appointed to inquire into the practice which prevails in come parts of the Country of paying the Wages-of Labour out of the Poor Rates, and to consider whether any, and what measures can he carried into•execution, for the purpose of altering that practice, and to report their Observations thereupon to the Ilouse, haveppursuant to the Order of the House, ex amined into the matter to them referred, and have agreed upon the following Report : From the evidence, and other information collectedly your Committee, it appears, that, in some districts of the country, able-bodied labourers are sent round to the farmers, and receive a part, and in some instances the whole, of their subsistence from the parish, while working upon the land of individuals. This practice was, doubtless, introduced at first as a means of em ploying the surplus labourers of a parish ; but by an abuse which is almost inevitable, it hag been converted into a means of obliging the parish to pay for labour, which ought to have been lured and paid for by private persons. This abuse frequently follows immediately the practice of sending the unemployed labourers upon the farms in the parish. The ' farmer, finding himself charged for a greater quantity of la `hour man he requires, .naturally endeavours to economize, by discharging those labourers of whom he has the least need, and relying upon the supply furnished by the parish for Work, hitherto performed entirely at his own cost. An instance has been quoted of a farmer's team standing still, because the 'farmer bad not received the number of roundsmen he expect ed. Thus the evil of this practice segments itself ; and the steak Joni-working l a b ourer , em pl o y e d by agreement with his master, is converted into the degraded and inefficient pen. sinner of the parish. • Inutile; parts of th e coun t r y thi s practice has been carried SO a very great extent, for the sake of diminishing the income of the clergyman of the parish, and paying for the expences of one class.or men out of the revenue of another. In the parish llttnitmoticeux, in Sussex, it appears that the wages of la bour were reduced in this manner to sixpence a day ; and a clergyman of a neighbouring parish has been threatened with the adoption of a shnilar practice. This practice is the natural result of another, which is far more common, namely, that of paying an allowance to la bourers for the maintenance of their children. In some coun ties, as in Ikelfordshire, this payment usually begins when the labourer has a single child, wages being kept so low that it is .utterly impossible for him to support a wife and child without parish assistance. The evils which follow from the system above described, 'may be thus enumerated :- Ist. The employer does not obtain efficient labour from the labourer whom he hires. In parts of Norfolk, for instance, a labourer is quite certain of obtaining an allowance from the parish, sufficient to support his family ; it consequently be comes a matter of indifference to him whether he earns a small stun or a large one. It is obvious, indeed, that a disin amnion to work must be the consequence of so vicious a sys tem. He whose subsistence is secure without work, and who cannot obtain more than a niece sufficiency by the hardest work, will naturally be an Idle and careless labourer. Fre quently the work done by four or five such labourers, clot:knot amount to what might easily be performed by a single labourer working at task work. Instances of this fact are- to be found in the evidence, and In the statements of all persons conversant with the subject. • 2dly. Persons who have no need of farm-labour are obliged to contribute to the payment ,01-w or k done for others.. This must be the case wherever the labourers necessarily employed .by the farmers receive from the parish any part of the wages which, if not so paid, would be paid by the farmers them selves. Illy. A surplus population is encouraged ; men who re. ceive but a small pittance know that they have only to marry, and that pittance will be augmented in proportion to the num ber of their children. Hence the supply of labour is by no ...means regulated by the demand, and parishes are burdened • ,with thirty, forty, and fifty labourer*, for whom they can find .no employment, and who serve to depress the situation or their fellow-labourers in the same parish. An , gent witness, who is much in the habit of employing la hearers., states, that when complaining of their allowance, they frequently . say whim, " We will marry, and you must main tain us." far the worst consequence of the system 'is the de griulatton of the character of the labouring class. There are but two motives by which men are induced to work; the one, time hope of improving the condition of them selves and.their families; the other, the fear of. punishment. The one is the principle of free labour, the other the principle of slave labour. The one produces industry, frugality, sobrie ty, familyaffection, and puts the labouring class in a friendly relation with the rest of theconanunity ; the other causes, as .certainly, idleness, imprudence, vice, dissension, and places • int master and the labourer in a perpetual state of jealousy and mistrust. Unfortunately, it is the tendency of the system - of Which we speak, to supersede the former of these principles, And introduce The latter. Subsistence is secured to mill ; tO the idle as wall as the industrious; to the profligate as well as the whet.; and,. as fur as human interests are concerned, all in ducenient .to.obtain a good character is taken away. Time •etrects have corresponded with the cause. Able-bodied men ,are found slovenly at their work, and dissolute in their hours of relaxation ; a tether is negligent of hie children ; the chil dren do not think it necessary to contribute to the support of ,their parents; the employers and time employed are engaged, in perpetual quarrels, and the pauper, always relieved, is •al ways discontented; crime •advances with increasing bold- WO, and the parts of the country where the system prevails Are, in spite of our gaols and our laws, tilled with p . :achers and thieves. - The evil of this state of things has often induced individuals desire further means of punishing labourare who refuse or neglect to work,, and the Legislature has sometimes listened with favour to such proposals; but we are persuaded that any attempt to make the penalties of this kind more efficacious, .would either he so repugnant to the national character as to be ...totally inoperative, or, Vaned upon, would tend still further to degrade the labouring classes of the kingdom. The effects of this system very ckarly show the mistake of inunagining that indiscritninate relief is the best method of pro viding for the blitipineas of the labouring classes. Employers, burdened with the support of a surplus population, endeavour to reduce the wages of labour to the lowest possible price.--- Hence, where the system to which we allude haw gained ground, the labourers arc found to live chiefly on !tread, or even .pota toes, scarcely ever tasting meat or beer, or being able even to buy milk; while in other parts of the country, where high wages ate still prevalent, the road and whole manner of living of the labourer are on a greatly better scale. This difference is, doubtless, to he attributed to the ex cess o f p o p u l at ion i n parti cuiarparts of the country; hut that excess is du great part to be Attributed to the mal-administration of the poor laws during . the latter years of the late war. d:Vititout assigning any precise period when the system of paying part of the •• wages of labour out of the poor-rate, com "resentettare are - of opinion, that although. perhaps-it••begen 'earlier in some ,districts, it has generally been introduced ;,ittring the great fhtetuations of tic price of provisions which have occurred in the last thirty yiars. In the year MS eve• sully, a year of Scarcity, parishes, finding that employers ',could not afford to pay their, labourers a sufficient sum M support their families, even on the most stinted scale, added a contribution out of the poor-rats to healthy labourers In full emPloyment. We are happy to be able to say, that the evil of which we cothydain is partial, and that many counties in England are nearly, if not totally, exempt from the grievance. In Nor thumberlantl, wages are twelve shillings a week ; and labourers having families do not usually receive assistance from the poor rate: In Cumbeiland, wages vary from twelve shilling,/ to fiften shillings, a week, and the report is equally satisfactory. In Lincolnshire, the wages are generally twelve shillings per week and the labourers live in - comfort and independence.— At Wigan, in Lancashire, wages are seven or eight shillings a week, adrelief is afforded to a man with three children ; in ' the derision of Oldham, in the satne county, a great manufae- ' • luring. district, wages arefrom twelve shillings to eighteen shil lings a week, and no such practice is known. In Yorkshire, wages are generally twelve shillings a week; but in some parts of that extensive county, the practice of giving married labourers easistance front the parish. appears very prevalent. In Stalibrdshive, wawa are ebeet fps. ; anti labourers leaving fit only occasionally reteivirilieffrom the poor -rate. In the divisions of Oswaldalow, in the county.of Worcester, the prar 4 ilea of paying part of the wages of labour out of the poor.vote, has Leen entirely put a atop to bythe vigilance of the Magi"- t r mas. .jf melon to the micilend, southern, anti western parts of the country, we Sind a great variety in the rate of wages. In the Winghatn division, in Kent, stoop, it appears, that the lowtet arsgea.paid were, in one parish, xiapenc,, in four, eight- pence ; in eleven, one 'billing and abcpence, i n f our , two Oimings; and, in the greater, number, sow apani ng . a . 1,, Suffolk Sussex, Bedtbrdshire; Backingliamshire ' , °roux ire, and Wiltshire, the plan of paying wages out of the poor -rate has beset earned to Inc greatest extent. Norfolk, Huntingdon. Aide, and Devonshire. are likewise afflicted by it- la souse of these counties wages are eight shillings or nine shillings; in others, five shillings; and irssome pans they have been and are so low as three shillings a; week for a single man ; and four shillings and sixpence for a man and his wife. A great number of Retuths on this subject have been collected, of which an Abstract, 'when made, will be presented to your , Honourable House. With respect to the remedy for the evils ilointed out, it is obvious to remark,That a great, if not the greater part, 'arises from the mel athritnistretion of the laws. - Vet when this re mark is made, it does not appear how, under the present sys tern, the laws which regard the poor should be otherwise than ill administered. Where no select vestry or assistant overseer has been appointed, the poor are consigned to the care of a per son named only for one year, and in general anxious chiefly to get rid of his office with as little trouble to himself as possible; or if he endeavours, in spite of clamour and vexation, to im prove the practice, his designs are liable to he overset by the orders of Magistrates, who, with excellent intentions, are often not conversant with the details of the management of the parish in whose concerns they interfere. The great object to be aimed at, is, if possible, to separate the maintenance of the unemployed from the wages of the em ployed labourer; to divide two classes, which have been con founded ; to leave the employed labourer in possession of wages Sufficient to maintain his family, and to oblige the rest to work for the parish in the way most likely to prevent idleness. In ordtr to effect this purpose of separating the wages of em ployed labourers from the poor-rate. it appears to its, that much might be done by aflbrding to appellants against the yearly ac counts, the easiest remedy of which the law admits. The Act of 50tg Geo. 111., c. 49., directs, that the early accounts, to be made out according to prevrous,Acts of Parliament, tilittll be submitted to two or more Justicesat a special sessions: and the Act empowers the justice " if they shall so think fit," to exa mine into the matter of every such account, and to " disallow and strike out of every such account, all such charges and pay- Ments as they shall deent to be unfounded, and to reduce such as they shall deem exorbitant ; and they are to specify the cause for which any charge is disallowed or reduced." Notwithstanding this provision, it appears, that at present, even Whin a. complaint is made, that the sums levied on the parish have not been applied according to the intention of the law, a practice has in some places prevailed of directing the complainant to appeal to the quarter sessions. This proceed ing entails the employment of counsel, and an expence both of money and time, which is both unnecessary and oppressive-- There is some ambiguity certainly in the word " unfounded" contained in the Act just quoted ; but there cannot well exist a doubt that It is intended to apply to charges or payments which do not come within the scope and intention of the poor laws. On this, and on almost every, part of the subject, -we may observe, that if' the payers of the rates do not complain, and thereby enable the neighbouring Justices to execute the law at present existing, It is needless to attempt, by any new Act, to prevent abuses permitted or connived at by those who h a ve th e i clearest interest n repressing them. Above all, the farmers themselves ought to , perceive, that any practice which tends to degrade the character of the labourer, tends, in the same de gree, to diminish the value of his Isbour, and to render agri cultural property less secure, and less desirable. - By the Act of the 43d of, lairabetli, it is ordered, that the " Churchwardens and tlverseerar .51)14 take order, from time to time, with the consent .of two or more Justices, for setting to work the children of all moth who shall not,be thought able to keep and maintain their children. .This provision., while it clearly shows that the framers of that Act never had it in con. templation to raise a fund for the support of all the children of all labourers, uftbrds the means of remedying, in some degree, the existing evil of adding to the wages of labour from the poor -rate. Wherever, from disinclination to work, parents earn less than they might do, in order to draw from the parish fund, it might be found highly useful that the parish officers, With the consent of the Magistrates should, instead of giving money to the parents, set to work their children, who would, at the same time, be removed from the example of idle or dis solute parents. But this remedy must be used with caution, and might he inexpedient, if applied in cases where the best labourers, with their utmost exertions, cannot.earn sufficient to bring up their children without parish assistance. According to the system at.present pursued in manycounties, a scale of allowance is drawn up by the Magistrates, fixing, in money, the stints which a labourer is to receive, in proportion to the size of his family, and the current price of flour or meal. (hi this allowance, whether idle or industrious, the labourer relies as a right; and when he receives less, he makes an angry appeal to a Magistrate, not as a petitioner for charity, but as a claimant for justice. Without questioning the flume; of the scale upon which these tables have been fronted, we cannot but regret that the Magistrates should promulgate general regula. tions, the obvious tendency of which is to reduce the rate of wages, and create dissatisfaction between the labourer and his em ploy er. ltitas been thrown out, that the practice of giving relief to able-bodied labourers on account of their impotent children, ought to he positively forbidden by legislative enactment. Your Committee Are not' prepared to go this length ; but they venture to suggest, that where wages have been reduced, with a view to supply the deficiency from the parish rates, relief might be refused to any person actually in the employment of an individual. The consequence might certainly be to throw, at first, soma married labourers entirely upon the parish, but in a short time it is probable a more wholesome system of pay. ing the wages of labour would be permanently adopted. Aluch good has been effected in some parts of the country by . the adoption of what has been called the Crop e dy, or O un dl e Plan, or labour rate t and a bill has been introduced into the House, for giving to such a plan, adopted under certain resit. lations, the force of' law. It appears to usquite ; tr. ri i .1711—55..)..e to frame any Act on this subject, which shall meet every case , b u t a general aanction might be extremely beneficial ; and the fol. lowing form, which has been 'suggested, appears as 'Una'. ccptlonable as tiny. Indeed it is very similar to one contains cd in a bill brought into the House in an early part of the Session : _ _ " The parishioners in vestry shall, if they think fit, draw up roles and regulations for . the maintenance of the old anal impor tent and other poor unable to.work, as also far the employment of the able poor; and the same, signed or agreed to by a ma jority in vestry, shall be presented to the Justices, to be by them amended, approved or rejected, or sent back for el terations, and when adjusted to thesitisfaction of the Justice* and pa rishioners, to he parochial law for one year." With respect to the iteeand object, the Mode of fiodingem ployment for those who profess themselves unable to obtain it, it appears to your Committee that the parish should, if it be possible, provide them with . labour 'eta acceptable in its na. tpre than ordinary labour, and at lower wages than the average `rate of the neighbourhood. Your Committee can add, that this method has been fotind practically beneficial in all places where It has ben carried into effect. It must never be forgotten, in considering this,eubject, that the evils produced by the poor laws areelifferent in different places ; that all the good effects .hitherto produced hare been accomplished by improved management; and that, if those effects have not I, more general, it is because the manage meat of the poor has in th e 'grinner part of the country im. proved very little. For tli purpose of hastenin g an d ens uring such improvement, your Committee feel inclined to recommend to more general adoption the appointment of select vestries, and of assistant overseers receiving a salary. The greatest evils arise from in. trusting a business, so complicated, to: inexperienced and in. efficient officers; and much benefit ha's been produced by taking advantage of the provisions of the ati Geo. 3. c. 12. on this sub. ject. The greatest amendment may likewise be made by a judicious attention to that part of the Act, wherein a select 'Vestry it required to 4 ‘ inquire, into Aid . determine upon the proper objects of relief, and the nature and arnotint or the re. lief to be given ; and in each case shall take into con sideration the character anti conduct of the poor person to be relieved, and shall be at liberty to distingnikh, in the relief to be granted, between the deserving and the idle, extravagant of profligate poor." e. • In a Bill introduced into the Ilouse'in an early part of the Session, there is a clause, imposing on the Quarter &Won* the duty oieontroulling the parish azcoutits, which are ordered to be laid before theft, and enabling them to appoint an examiner, to look into the expendituretif each parish. Vi.'hether, in the shape in which it at present stands, this provision is fit to be adopted, we will not decide ; but, in the opinion of many persons, it might be useful that the Quarter Sessions should appoint an in spector of parish accounts, whose duty it should he to report to the Magistrates the state of the poor, and to point out any flagrant instance of negligence or abuse. A more regular and distinct method of keeping the parish accounts might likewise prove highly advantngeoul. ' At the genre time we cannot too strongly express our opinion that, even as the law at present stands, much might be done by the vigilant and enlightened intention of the Magistrates'. If they would point out to the farmer' the mischievous consee quences of placing their labourers upon the public fund if they would disemmtenanep _the abuses which prevail, and give every support e to those Who' endeavour to reform the present' tipattll, th'ero 'Can' be 110 dotilit that a great good might he ,ef. fated. .The frirmeee themselves, have adopted it. unwillingly, and must be fiqix,atrere of its Mischicyoue effects. The ins . treiet which lies so hing restrained 'the application: of agricul tural capital is now happily disappearing, gin 4 lune never was a more favourable. moment for refoenting an which in very few places is as, yet of thirty years groin's, Ikt the Ma. `gistrates, and, genera sty, Itll Charged with the iulininistration of the poor laws, obsestve, that, if these lesre have been reta,ined, with the humane purpose of preserving honest indigence filmn starving, and remedying any sudden wind of ainplbyttretit, yet, ‘,l that if misapplied, they may become ,a greater evil to the cell try than any partial misfortune, er temporary calamity, could . loftier. FRENCH PAPERS. ( From tht Etoilc, dated Wednesday.) MADRID, 3 ur.v 6.—We learn from 11.1gesirna that a vessel of the United States, which carne from Guyaquil in 118 days, brings the confirma tion of the defeat of Bolivar. The Commandant the squadron off the Havanna') transmits the following news to the Minister of Marine, dated the 7th of May 4 6 Hostilities ceased on .the 29th March be tween Vera Cruz and the Castle of St. Juan d'Ulloa. Generals Goadalonve, Vittoria, and Santana, were at Xulapa, to form a separate Congress. from the other Provinces, and ,to re open communications with the Spaniards. " An American vessel, which arrived at Boston from the coast of Chill, lnings intelligence of the re-capture of Valdivia by a Royalist expedition, under the commhnd of General Quintanilla." VIENNA.. JULY 3.—The Austrian Observer, which for the last six weeks has been quite si lent on the affairs of Turkey, contains to ! :day the following article, dated Constantinople, June 10:--- " it is worthy of observation, that the son of the Viceroy of Egypt has been appointed Governor of the Marco. AU the re.' ports respecting the Viceroy himself are without foundation. Lie is occupied with preparing for his expedition. The ap pearance of the former Chief of the Mamelukes, and the in. union of the \Vechsbites, are pure inventions. " The diiision of the Ottoman fleet, which cast anchor in the Gulf of Lepanto, has set Kan fin. Alexandria." FLANDERS MAIL 'fzudGERMANTAPERS. Extract of a Letter from Augsburg, July a.) We have before us documents transmitted directly , from Pent, which give a just idea of time present state of the negociations set on foot at Constantinople. These details are not without interest, at the moment that Count Guilleminot, the French Ambassador, is on the point of taking part in the diplomatic operations of the Ambas sadors of England and Austria, in the. Turkish capital. It appears, then, that Lord Strangford nod Baron Ottenfels, pressed by dispatches lately received from Count Nesselrode, have addressed to the Reis Effendi several notes, drawn out in very orgent terms, to demand a ca tegorical explanatiou of the delay in the evacua tion of Moldavia and Wallachia, which is posi tively insisted upon by the Cabinet of St. Peters burgh. The Turkish Minister at first contented himself with sending to the British Ambassador a verbal answer, by the interpreter to the Porte, "That all the promises that had been made would he performed, hut that the evacuation of the Principalities required some time, on account of certain measures, respecting which the Ottoman Government could not yet explain itself." This verbal declaration so displeased Lord Strangford, that he immediately sent to the Reis Eifeudi another note, to which an evasive answer was given. The Members of the Diplomatic Body at Pera are convinced that the policfof the Porte is to endeavour to gain time, and that its troops will 'tot-evacuate the 'Principalities till the last evremily ; that is, until the Russian ar mies shall prepare in good earnest to pass. the Danube and the Pruth ; and, even in this case, they are persuaded that the Divan would only order a partial evacuation, to be able to say to the Ministers of Russia, Austria, England, and France, that they had done something. At the departure of the courier (June 11) Constantinople did not enjoy a shade of perfect tranquillity. The people manifest great dissatis faction nith the Capita!' Paella, whom they ac cuse of incapacity. The slowness of his opera tions excites,continual murm urs . The Portetaken good care, considering th e i rr it at i on o f t h e peopie's minds, not to publish any thio 4 of the martial la9dings made by the Adinit'at, in which his troops have been . continually beaten. — (o r acle if Brunets, July 14.) ( Private Carrespondenre,) AuosaunG.---The Ministers of France, Austria, and Prussia, at Johannisberg, continue their conferences, but nothing transpires respect ing the subject of them. No English Plenipo tentiary having joined them, this circumstance gives rise to various conjectures. it is affirmed, hou ever, that Sir H. Wellesley, British Minister at Vienne, was invited, like othor Foreign Mi nisters, by Prince Metternich, to visit Johannis berg, but that be declined. The only result of the confer►•nces yet known is, that the Wurternberg Minister for Foreign Affairs has. succeeded in his mission to tain the establishment of tho diplomatic relations bet \I,. t•ett the Cabinets of Vienna nn►l Berlin, ,and ti►l, Court of Wurtetnberg._(Journal de . 1191- gique, July IL) VIENNA, JuLY 1.--Hu Excellency General'. Baron Pd.' mont, Cominander.in-Chief of the. Austrian army in .Lower ! Italy, arrived heke the day before yesterday ; the . Archduke Joseph Palatine, of the Kingdom of lliingary,.,with. Ms:ann: sort and family, arrived here an., the 2gth ult.. ftotp.is tr: • • and the Archduke Ferdin a nd, Crown Prince, on the Why, from Prague. . , left this city to-day for th e p urpose o f STUTOA!tI), %TWAT Majesty, OUT Sole:4e" wilt'STUTOA}in, going to Marseilles for the benefit of sea-bathi ng , ni expected to b e 'IAA again by the be of next m ont h. ' COULEXTZ, JULY 11.—Wo hoe MIT the IoteSSIITe of, hay. ing among us his flightless Prince Metternich,. who is a native of this city. It see ms as if hi s Hi g hness intended to give part of his distinguished visitors at Johannisberg an opportunity' of enjoying the picturesque banks of the Rhine in all the beauty of the season, for, besides Prince Victor Von Metternich, the Minister's son, we have now here Prince Reuss, Prince Paul Esterhazy, the Prince of Schanburg, the Russian Privy Coun. sellor'Von Tatischeff, the Margins of .Canunarp, and Count Woron stiff. BUCIIMIEST, JUNE 18.—Since the arrival of the Tartar who brought the letters of the 10th and 12th of June from Con. stantinople for Germany, the report of the speed/ evacuation of our principalities has been revived. We are quite impatient for the 'accomplishm e nt of this deliverance from, the Turks, which has been so repeatedly held out to us. The fear of the plague, which bus broken out at llimnijc, has induced many of our Boyars to withdraw. The family of Mr. lisgenauer, the Austrian Consul, has likewise retired. • Wmt7 .ll E l sti• JU.l,lr 2.-;.To the great regret of everybody, we have lost the Princess Einestinel.,ouisal 7 rederica Caroline of to wanitein 'Wertheitn, Frendenburg, who died' on the 20th of June, In the 40th year of her age, entirely exhausted by a ickness of la:months. AUSTRIAN Furths, JUNE 30.—Metalliques, 94 11.16; Bank Shares, 1112 740. JULY' 1.-4Letalliques, 04 940; Bank Shares, 1114 We have the pleasure' of stating, that Mr. LA1468117 1 the. Gentleman, aatd,tt, have been killed at the lie. view on Hounslow Heath, Is so far recovered, as to be pro. flounced by Mr. WILICIIMON, Surgeon, of Hounslow, out of danger. He is not yet able to routor:d to town. NATIO,NAL SCOTCH CJfIJRCH. We have received a Printed Letter on this subject from- Mr..- WALLACE, the Architect, addressed to Sthscribert. for the Sa cred Edifice - in question, accompanied by a Lithographic '_Engr;aving, representing the., front of his design for a Gothic. Church. This design, it appears, was adopted bz the COMMITTEE of the New National Scotch Church, but their sanction was afterward's withdrawn without any reason assigned. The Print, us far as we can be pre sumed to judge, represents a beautiful Gothic Structure, which, besides the solemn, important, and essential purpose in view, would by a striking- ornament to any place where it might be erected. We have not room for more than a summary of the facts comprised in the .corre spondence, and the conclusion, which we deem it proper to insert in justice to the Architect, and we shall be equally ready to admit whatever answer the Committee may conceive to he neces sary for the satisfaction of the Subscribers in general. SUMMARY. " The facts of the case may be brought within a small cum pass. It appears,, That this Committee induced Architects to enter into a coin petition, by a declaration cf its intention to employ time Archi tect whose plan should be approved of, in superintending the building of the Church. That the two Designs which I furnished with much labour and expense, on the faith of that assurance, were s?lected by the, Committee out .of forty-two, as the best ; by progressive ballots, and after nearly five weeks deliberation . That this selection was made after affirmed Estimates had been called for, and afforded. That the Committee officially notified to me, through its Secretary, its approbation of both my Designs, and intention of carrying one of them into immediate effect. That being introduced to the Committee as the successful Architect, it proceeded, after again referring to the Estimates both of accommodation and expence, and obtaining every elu cidation required, through personal interrogation, to select the Design for execution. That possessing thus the amplest means of information, the Committee adopted the Gothic Design. That every corroboration of the 1i stimate was subsequently afforded. That the Committee, at the end of three weeks, having stated no objection to the Plans, or made any requirement of me which I did not immediately comply with, declined to act upon . either of the Design* which it had adopted, after so much eau. tion and deliberation, upon the vague, general, and hollow plea, that " unforeseen circumstances" (which however were not disclosed) had occurred." CONCLUSION. " You have now before you, Ladies and Gentlemen, the whole history of the conduct of your Committee in its management of the important undertaking you have confided to them, so far as I have been concerned, and I imagine you must con clude from it, that the treatment which my profession, and my. self individually, have received at their hands, is altogether without precedent. One obvious inference to be drawn is, that the Deslgn which your funds are to be applied to execute is not the Design selected in fair and honourable competition ; that it is not even the second in that competition, the two first being passed over hi direct contravention of all fairness and integrity, and without even a shadow of excuse being 'offered. It is not merely the disappointment of Just expectation, or of the loss of my time and exertions of which I complain, but of the positive injury done by the Acts of this Committee to my profes sional reputation ; its abandonment of two of my Designs, so long after its deliberate and official adoption of them had be. come generally known, amounting to nothing short of an indi rect calumnpon my character. It remains for you to decide, whether you will sanction such proceedings, by declining to in. vestigate theM ; whether a public undertaking, dependent on your liberality, shall be prostituted to interested and party pur .poses ; whether, in short, the foundations of your " National" Temple of Religion, shall be laid in integrity and equity, or in private injury and injustice. With profound respect, I have the honour to be, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your obedient and devoted Servant, No. I, Flutlyer-street, ‘Vhitehall,. ROBERT WALLAcE. 18th June, 1824. _ _ In detailing the conduct of this Committee, I have found it impossible to draw lines of distinction in favour of many re. spectable individuals, who, not choosing longer to lend it the sanction of their names, have withdrawn during the progress of the proreedings.". The Late KING of the SANDWICH ISLES. PRBSEIWATION OF Tlll4 BODY. LYURTWEIL • Yesterday, , morning, - soon after six o'clock, Doctors•P.P.' , ll4 4 Gatcott, I..}:Y, and PtattantNr, ar ,i ve d,4l,(jio.Caledenian Hotel; - The body of M A I TAT y was then wrapped in a sheet, and hrought - doWts stairs from his bed-chamber into the parinur, where 'the operation of"preservinK the corpse. was perforated. The body was entirely stripped, and then it was . enveloped in waxed linen, resembling parchment ; it was next wrapped up in white silk, and afterwards in light blue armozine. The body having been thus secured from the action of the air, was wrapped in a winding sheet, and placed in a leaden coffin on supporters in the middle of the room. Doctors IVll'Gregor, Ley, and Peregrine then left the rest of the business to Poki,. the Governor, who was appOinted 1)7 his Iklajesty, just before his death, to superintend the disposal of his body. The attendants „then set about decorating the room after the custom of their country. The war cloaks were: hung round the coffin in the same 'manner as they were when her late Ma jesty lay in'state, ''O.n the coffin lid was placed his Majesty's.magniiicent sabre ; it is entirely of go ld, and beautifully ornamented about the hen- Ale. It was presented to the King by the Emperor of, the Brazils, when his lat e M a j esty h a d an .audi enc,f..olthe Emperor at his Palace in Rio Janeiro, he and his Queen were oiiitieir voyage to this country. At the head of the coffin stands the Royal spear; it is composed of wood, of ex= quisite workmanship. The floor of the room is, its • before - , strewed with rose leaves, and ,the whole has a very ,grand and imposing effect. The body will lie in state this day, Saturday, and Sunday, and on Monday it will be entombed with that of the Qn een , i n St. Martinli Church, till a `vessel can be got ready to convey them and the suite to their native land. Dispatches, communicating the news of the. King's death, were yesterday sent to Falmouth, to be convey by a vessel to his Majesty's Prime Minister at the Sandwich Islands. The vessel sails on Monday, and,it is supposed sho will be five months on her voyage. Madame Poki, the . GOvernoes wife, is some what better this morning ; as also is Mr. Reeves, the interpreter. The Admiral still remains in a very weak state. The remains of the late Earl of TYRONE were removed from the house` of the Marquis of WAPrznron.n, in Mansfield-street, at an early hour on Wednesday morning, to be interred in the family vault at Curraghmore. Lord GEORGE BERESVOILD and GEORGE' MSARA, Esq. attend the mournful procession to Ireland. "." • For LITERARY NOT :crs, see th FuurtAt DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. OM Annuities ....." New Ditto -- Ex. Bills 10001.2 d. 4l Ditto .1 id. --.. Ditto MM. 24. ...—.... as Ditto • lid. -- Ditto Small d. - Ditto Id. — Ditto Comm ewial Bank for Act. India for Acct. Cons. for Aug. 26 93j NDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Portuguese Bonds Scrip ' Prussian, 5 per et. Ditto New Spaniat 1821,5 per et. 1823, ditto Buenos Ayres Allhuice Shares l3 I-1 • Palladium Equitable hoax par lj 31anellester Ditto trench' R en tes Sarip PRICE OF STOCKS TIM Bank Stock 2361 2351 3 per Cent. Red. 93j 3 per Cent. Cons. 234 i ex dm. 3i per Cont. 1014 Dibsd. — 4 per Cent. {Assd. 1001 101 New 105 f exdi , r. 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I Evening, 46 minutes after 6• 111011 IVA TER AT LONJ)O Morning, 28 minutes after 5. THE SUN sot. cznx r.u.sum AUDE4T 2 LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1824. In a preceding column we have given extract. from the foreign Journals received since our lasts The Porte, it appears, persists, as we expected, in its system of procrastination ; and nothing- but Russian bayonets will probably ever drive its troops from the Principalities. At Constantinople the most profound silence is still oborved re- specting the military operations against the Greeks, from which we augur favourably for the cause of justice and humanity, notv‘,ltlistantling the alleged treachery of the Suliotes, of which intelligence is said to have been received yes terday. That partial disunions have existed amongst the Greeks themselves has been matter of notoriety from the very commencement of th4r. contest; but that the spirit of genuine patriotism has, nevertheless, overwhelmingly preponderated. in lime bosoms of the Grecian leaders and their followers, is most abundantly proved by the 100' rious successes they have obtained over the coot. mon enemy, both by sea and land. Even though there should be no exaggeration, there fore, in the alleged defection of a band of Suliots . , warriors, or in the story of their having formed it plot for delivering up the fort of Vasiladi, at the mouth of the harbour of Missotoughi, to the Greeks, yet we see nothing in this isolated in' stance of turbulence and insubordination (so fre quently occurring in all revolutionary wars) t° justify the inference that the present campaign' will not terminate in results as brilliant and vantageous for Greece as those that have pre" ceded it. The very statement of the intended: act of treachery, on the contrary, warrants us in adopting a very different conclusion from the dem favourable one which is endeavoured to be esta blished ; for it appears that the plot was entire', frustrated by the vigilance and activity of th° Authorities at Missolonghi, and by the loyalty and intrepidity of their troops. The conspire tors had . by an artifice gained possession of the fort of Vasiladi ; but immediately on the detec' tion of their project, they were dislodged by 11 body of troops sent against them ; and when tit. TUrkish ships appeared, in the hope of receivieg possession of the fort, they found that the secret. signal which had been agreed upon was not dig' played, and accordingly retired, disappointea Af their aim. On land, the frustration of the 0)"'. spiracy was still more complete and disastreo for the enemy ; for the Turkish detachment s, which advanced in order to occupy some Pest': that were to have been betrayed by the Sulioteit were met by the Greek Commander ANDast ZANGANA, by whom they were beaten and driven back with loss to Lepanto. Upon th e whole, although it is matter of regret that th e . Greeks are tint entirely and cordially united against their barbar ous enem i es , y e t we do n et see that any divisions amongst them, which tut" as yet occurred, whether as respects their ch aff racier, their extent, or their cousequauc th afford just grounds of despondency. . At an early hour yesterday morning his [tof a ! Highness the Duke of Yon"( arrived at his rest' dence in the Stable-yard, St. James's, from New" market.