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E . I ,YO , S k "liritr4.4l.L 1. THY. ENGLISH CATHOLICS. The Marquis of .LANSDOWN presented a Bill for ren dering the Catholic subjects of ASreat; Britain eligible to cer tain offices. This measure, with the other .Bill he had laid on the Table before the holidays, .would together hive for their object•to place the Catholics of England precisely in the same situation as those of Ireland. The Noble Marquis, after mov ing that the Bill be now read a first time, moved that it and the other Bill he had presented before the holidays, should be read a second time on Monday se'nnight.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. M. DA WSON. presented a petition from the lodge of Freemasons No. 66, in Ireland, praying to be placed in the same situation as the Freemasons in .England. • . Colonel BAGWELL presented a petition from the Society of Friends, in Ireland, praying .for the abolition of.. Negro Slavery. Sir M. W. RIDLEY presented a petition from Newcastle upon.Tyne, against the salt duties. A .similar petition was presented by Mr. C u awEN, from the inhabitants of a parish in Cumberland. • Mr. STANLEY presented a petition , from the Licensed Victuallers of Blackburn, against the beer duties. Similar petitions were presented from the Licensed Victuallers of Dud. ley, in 'Worcestershire, and from those of Wolverhampton, in Staffordshire, by Col. LYGON and Sir J. WROTTESLEY. re spectively. Mr. OE NMAN presented a petition from several thousand artisans of Nottingham, praying for a total repeal of the Com bination Laws,. The lion.. Member said that he warmly sup. ported the prayer of the petition. • Mr. WA RAE presented a petition from Caine, praying for the repeal of the assessed taxes, which, after a few words from Mr. MABERLY and Qeneral GAscoirsE, was ordered to be printed. On thernotion of Mr. KEISIP, the Bill to authorize the este blishirient of a Metropolitan Register •. Office, for concentrating and preserving the registers of baptisms, marriages, and burials in England, was read a first time. Mr. P. MOORE presented a petition from the inmates of the King's Bench Prison, complaining of the extortion of Pawn. brokers,.and praying that the Equitable Loan Bank Bill might be passed into a law. Mr. S. RICE presented a petition from a class of Christians commonly distinguished by the name of " Separatists," pray ing the House to afford them relief by passing " a Bill by which their sOlenin affirmation or declaration should be admit ted in place of an oath, in all cases where Quakers have the same privilege ; and by which they, should be subjected to 'the same pains and penalties for false affirmations as are embodied in the legislative enactments in favour - of the Members of that society.' Sir JOHN NEWPORT wished to know from the Hon. Secretary for Ireland, whether a proclamation, purporting to come from the Government of Ireland, and consolidating several Diocesan Schools, was authentic or not ? If it were authentic, he could not but feel surprise at such a measure, being as it were an anticipation of the labours of the commis sion which had been recently appointed u p on his motion. 31r. GOULBURN was not aware what Proclaination the Right Hon. Bart, was alluding to. A Proclamation had been issued last year, consolidating several schools ; but he could not suppose that it was to that Proclamation the Right Hon. Bart. alluded, inasmuch as it had been issued long before the com mission was thought of. se S e r i e r t a J r y O w l l o N od N m E a Zl e r P s 0 0 m R e T i n g e u x i r p y r eisnsteod the a h s o u p b e j e t c h t a . t the Hon. Mr. GOULBURN promised that he would : at present he knew nothing of such a proclamation. The Sheriffs of the City of London appeared three several times at the bar, with petitions from the Lord Mayor, .Alder men, and Commons of the City of London, in Common Coun cil assembled. _ _ _ On the Motion of Mr. Alderman Wool), they were read. From the manner in which they were read by the Clerk, it was impossible to ascertain their purport; but we believe that One of theta related to the repairs of Blackfriars-bridge, and another to the erection of a new market instead of Fleet-market. Of the third petition we are entirely ignorant. Mr. D ENISON presented a petition from the Watermen of Rotherhitbe against the Bill for constructing a Tunnel un der the Thames at Rotherhithe ;..and praying that if.it pats into a law, some compensation may be made to them for the injury which it will inflict upon their interests. COBBETT AND THE KENSINGTON TOLL-GATE. Mr. HUME said that he had a petition to present from an individual of whom every body had heard, namely Mr. Wm. Cobbett, on a.subject which he thought the House would con sider to be important. The petition related to certain abuses which . had taken place at the toll-gate of Kensington, and which Mr. Cobbett had been greatly instrumental in remov ing ; and the object of it was to state certain circumstances to May 4- r the tiRLO lation I am inte - )f . his now igh it bar hems. vhici► VAS . 1010 i L'Z il i IS at my- )eil4 Pmn -5 - C NI-"Mli ER 9874 SOCIETY OF BRITISH AR'I'LS CS, SUFFOLK-STREET, PALL MALL EAST. 91 -1 11 E GALLERIES for the EXHIBITION -AL 'and SALE of the WORKS of BRUTISH ARTISTS are now. OPEN from Eight o'Cluak till Dusk. W. LINTON, Secretary. Admittance, Is.—Catalogue, Is. CHANGE OF SEASON. 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No. 9, New Bridge-street, London. lioNotraEli SIR, BEG.leave.to inform you, that ever since the a. year 1790, I -had been afflicted with the Lues Venereal, which, from its Obitinately rrsisting every course of medicine prescribed by the most eminent of the faculty here, and mu °ergo* severalserere Courses of salivation, and twice dis charged from the Hospital with little relief, would appear to be of the most inveterate nature. In tic spring of last year reisorder had got to such ahead, as nearly to put a period t 9 my existence—l had.a large ulcer on the crown of lay head, e an each arm, and my legs were broke out in a frightful Manner ; my right was dreadfully painful, and had been in :a state of ulceration for the last seven years ; my left had also two large nodes on it, was very much discoloured, and gave me such excruciating pain, particularly when warm in i.e41,. as n early to deprive me of rest ; is this lamentable state, 1 was rseconimentled by Mr. J. Thompson, (who receiivd, sn great a cure by them here), to take your Leake's Patent Pills, * hieh I began to do on the 2tith o. May ; in the course of a fortnight I began to receive benefit—in little more than a alanth the ulcers on my head and arms were soundly healtd— soon after, the sores tats my legs healed also ; leaving, how ?ter, considerable discoloration in the skin, and pain in the hula of the left, which, by the blessing of God, an..l a little 'an ger petsever ance in your invaluable Medicine, subsided ; the nodes dispersing, the skin reg" - -ing its oatural Me, and the nocturnal pains graduallygoing off.—l thus became, by YO lityoral advice and medicine, perfectly frec.from all• any dormer complaints—have recovered my former spirits a od and fat, in which state utY.ngth, and am become jolly ltarieg zeontiuued many months, to the astonishment of all who knew beg you, for. the good of other suffe rin g mortals, to make this my case as publicas possible, as I shall on every occa ljaa ; to.so doing you win greatly oblige, r , Sir, your grateful, obedient, very htinieservaut• ALES. MU lIKER Swan's Claie, High-street, Edinburgh. Witnesses to the above Cure: — " 1 ° 11 4) Th.oinsou No. 3, New Poultry Market, Edinburgh, John . /Pltitosli, Old Assembly Close, .Edinburgh. Vlepared and sold by the sole Proprietor, rflomAs TAY LOR,- Menther of the Royal Colleze of Surgeons, at his house, No. .New Bridge-street, Loudon; where, after a constant residence of more than 40 years, in a practice parti cularly directed to the cure of Venereal Complaints and those incidental to the Parts of Generation, with that inviolable s ecrecy•Whieb men of his profession should alWayskihserve in g4ch cases, he flatters himself the advice and assistance be ttratuitoeslv administers to persons taking this 'Medicine, will estecmed, by a discerning Public, as an advattage seldom attainable, and void of all ambiguity. Also sold, by his appoint usent,tor the convenience of those livin g at a •dist ;ince, at.the Tovsltop, No. 103. Oxford-street ; ~Ir• isboro!,;;lt's. N. is Fish-street-hill ; Mr. Baxter, ,° "h-bridge, Ealinhargh ; Mt. CAN/el.'s, Pu ; and of ,„ per inertty considerable town in Great. Britain and Nand, .b„ xes m t ly .gs..yd. each, stamped, and sealed up with full and plain directions, whereby persons, of either I el 4 15 Y cut e themselves with ease, speed, secrecy, and safety, Mr. BROODEN, and other Members of the House of Com mons brought up the Sugar Duties Bill, the County Courts Bill, the British Museum Bill, the Rum Importation Bill; the Militia Pay Bill, and several Private Bills, all of. which were severally read a first time. Mr. JourisroNE, from the Office of the Chief Secretary for Ireland, presented several Papers from that Office pursuant to an order of the House. SEPARATISTS. The Marquis of LANSDOWN presented a petition from a sect of people called Separatists, in Ireland, .setting forth that they believing themsel ves , by the injunctions of the New Tes tament, particularly those contained in the sth chapter of Matt. prohibited- from taking any oath whatever, suffered thereby, and in consequence of the state of the laws, very grievous hard ships. They were prevented from enjoying offices, from suing for debts, from acting as trustees, and many of them had suf fered severe losses from their conscientious adherence to-their own religious belief. They therefore prayed their Lordships to grant them such relief as they in their wisdom might deem fit ; particularly they prayed to be put on the same footing as the Quakers. The Noble Marquis said, he meant to give no opinion on this subject himself. The petition was respectfully worded, and numerously signed, and• though he knew nothing of the persons individually, .he understood they were all re spectable and of good character. He should move that *the petition be read and laid on the table.. Lord GOSFORD presented a petition from the same class of people inhabiting Armagh, Belfast, and other towns. It was not numerously, but it was respectably signed, and the people who signed it were of an excellent character.—Laid on the table. • _ _ _ fo: \t , ale: • 44 1P ' • Y./6a,r4-14--a-i" I VP. SUN. . and individually, t h an in those.of Surrey. The surgeon. eVt . mined the prisoners twice a week; and lie hadthe discretionary power, if the health 'of a . prisoner'were declining, to exempt him from work 'altogether. lie was likewise authorised to or der such rovisiO ns as - t h e state of a'prisoner's health might re quire. - lie (Mr. D en i son) Was confident, that *hen 'the ject was inquired into, it would be found that no'reasonable argument could be urged• against this punishment; - aiul that no gaols were better regulated than those in- which it was used. On one point, however, hia'Opinion differed froth that of other 3lagistrates. He did not think that women should be em ployed at the wheel. • The Petition was then brought up, anti read, as follows : tc T o the Honourable the Corm - none of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled. Th e humble Petition of Sir John Cox ilippisley, Baronet, an Acting Magistrate in and for the County Of Somerset, and of other Counties; in which the subject of Prison Dis cipline has undergone much inquiry and practical in vestigation by the resident local Magistracy; also of John I. Briscoe, lsq., an Acting Magistrate of the County of, Surrey. " Showeth, That a considerable degree of expectation has been 'excited in the public mind, and which the petitioners, in. their official characters, cannot but regard with the deepest in terest, in reference to the progress of a Bill now in your honourable House, having for its object an amendment of the General Gaol Act of the 4th of his present Majesty, chap. 64- ' " That the petitioners, in common with many other indivi duals with whom they have had c ommunication, entertain a serious apprehension that the introduction, for .the first time by name, of a novel method and machine of punishment into our Statute Book, may be construed into an implied recd(, 7 intim of tread-wheel 'labour, as a legalized employment for all prisoners who are not the legal subjects of particular exemption. 'And this apprehension is still more strongly awakened by a practical adoption of the tread-wheel in many of the gaols and prisons of the kingdom, as appears in the official communica tions siddresied to the Home department of his Majesty's Go vernment. " That the petitioners humbly entreat the attention and con sideration of your Honourable House to the extraordinary and important. circumstance, that the Punishment of the tread wheel is altogether unknown to 'the common law of the land, and is neither named nor in any way designated in the Statute Book—the only authorities throughput the realm that can justify the use of any specific punishment or penal infliction ; and that hence it never has, and, till some change take place in the law, never can form a specific part of any sentence passed by the judges at any assize upon a criminal ; yet that this se v,ere, and as they are ready to substantiate, painful and danger 7 Oils penalty, has been for several years past very generally in flicted on almoit every class and description of 'offenders by local Justices of the Peace, who, in numerous instances have sat in debate on the propriety and impropriety of employing this new punishment, in some instances have decided in favour of it, and in others against it, this assuming to themselves -a power equally unprecedented and alarming, and one which places Magistrates on a supposed leVel with Parliament, in which alone is vested the Constitutional right of deciding and establiihing the law of the realm, and elevates .them above the Judges of the land, whose inferiors'in office, agreeably to the principles and proviiions of the constitution, they have always been esteemed. " That the petitioners, as magistrates and members of so ciety, regard it further to be their bounden duty, in the pre sent crisis, to lay before your Honourable House some of the practical and weighty grounds of objection which existed against this novel punishment, introduced by, many of his Majesty's justices of the 'to arid which, in the opinion of the peti tioners, seerfi call for an immediate interference of the Legis lature. In the first place, they cannot but submit to your I low. llousethat the tread-wheel, as a mechanical engine, is an un- ;' - safe, and even on this account an unconstitutional ,mode of punishment; from the complication of -its construction,. the 'frequent irregularity of its revolutions, the extent and forma- , tion of - its shafts, eipecially as appliedin the most considerable_ prisons in the kingdom, and the enormous weight . which it often has to sustain, in consequence of which it has actually • broken, and that repeatedly in short periods of time, in various houses of correction --in some instances (where precaution.ht as-, signed to have been expressly taken) without accident, as stated by a visiting .Magistrate of Shepton Mallet in the last official returns to.the office of the - Home Department ; in others, occa siOningievere sprains and bruises to those,prisoners who had been thereby throWn offthe *heels, and precipitated to a depth: of some feet, as at Coldbath-tlelds, which fact, ,though not appearing upon the face of the returns, the petitioners are .pre pared to verify: - In one instance .the machinery has been the cause of a fraictiired limb, and in others, of immediate loss of lite, to such of the workers as have not been aware of its dan gers, or not sufficiently - on their guard against them. The former instance Occurred at Northallerton, in the case of an on tried prisoner, whose aril . ' was shattered so as to 'render am-. piitation necessary: anti the latter cases at Leicester, - where two men were killed while engaged at the .'-heel, and at Shaffham, where another priSoner was instantaneously crush ed to death. ' And the petitioners beg also to observe, that from the evidenced engincersof the highestreputation, there ap pearii to be no possible midi of obtaining an adequate security against many of these casualties, from the insuperable frangi bility or the iron, whether 'cast or malleable, that enters so largely into the construction of the tread-wheels, whence such calamities must be regarded as inherent in the discipline, and consequently as likely to recur as long as it continues to be en j forced. _ _ _ The petitioners submit next, that this instrument of Runish ment is - further objectionable froM its injurious effects on the health of those who are sentenced to it. They are able' to . prove on oath before your Honourable House, from a large mass of evidence from medical practitioners of name and re putation, from prison attendants, and very extensively from those who have suffered as prisoners, from its infliction;' but who are now at liberty, that it can rarely be employed at the usual rate of exertion for more than ten minutes or a quarter of an hour without causing some or all of the attendant symp toms of a prejudicial excitement and . dangerous exhaustion of the animal . powers, and particularly so violent and morbid an acceleration of the pulse as to quicken its beat to nearly double its natural range, raising it from the ,ordi nary rate of froin sixty to seventy strokes in a minute, to an average of one hundred and twenty-threeln the male, and one hundred and forty-four in the female prisoners, 'as has been proved by . different medical practitioners of high respectabi lity, and as confirmed by a minute entered on the prison jour nal at Brixton, by those represented to be magistrates favour able to this species of labour, and who therein refer to. an ex periment made on their own persons; that, together wjth,so baneful an excitement, it causespains and aches in different parts and, organs of the body, according to the peculiarity of different constitutions, or the circumstances under which the labour is inflicted ; that women who, from the coMparative weakness of their sex, suffer with additional severity, have in many in stances dropped off the wheel in a swoon, have had their na tural indispositions profusely and painfully aggravated, some times forced prematurely, and at others suddenly and totally obstructed; and when in a state of pregnancy, which, in ,its earliest and most dangerous Stages, is not unfrequently undo , tected, they are in imminent danger of abortion, of which an instance occurs,in 'the official report frorri the prison in Cold bath-fields ; and that as nurses, they cannot, without,manifest ' injury and suffering to their : infants, as' well as themselves, perform the office of suckling on descending from the tread- Wheel, though they are generally called upon to do so by the cries of their children exposed in the wheel-galleries to the cold, and confided, while their, mothers are performing, their turn upon it, to the care of` strangers ; on *all which accounts female prisoners have in Many houses of correction been hu manely allowed a general exemption from the tread-wheel: " The petitioners beg leave also to submit, that a familiarity with thiii labour, instead of rendering it lighter and less mis chievous, augments its injurious consequences to the health 'and s t re ngth in almost every instance, as well in men as in women; such effects increasing with the increasingdebility.of, the frame. That the petitioners are aware that 'a different account of this penal infliction has been given in most of the nflicial,cornmu nications addressed, by order to the Home Department of his Majesty's Government; 'but they hainbly beg leave to repro. sent that they are unable, to , place the confidence they could 'wish in these communications, not only from the wide discre pancy oitheir own experience, but from the partial ,and irre gular nature of the reports themselves, which contain no account of the average proportion of labour—of the intervali of its tes, sation—of the rate of revolution of the wheels—of their dune ' sons .or space between the treadles or steps, though all there 'circumstances materially influence the nature and effect of the task-work, and which are likewhie returridd from Seie ral a p s lae nc . i, as Pembroke and Haverfordwest, with the sig nature _ of. Magistrate, without any statement on the part of ti su ' i e ough ch or notice of consultation wjth him on the subj ec t s..gieoxi flii;.-1 0,-1 1 - 1 0. 1 Hi MICE StvtivrENCE. consultation is expressly 'directed in . the official letter addressed by the Secretary of State to the visiting .Magistrates of the se veral gaols and hcatses - of correction; while only twenty-one returns are printed, as laid before your Honourable House : though it is Capable of - prod, that at /east in fifty-three prisons there are tread-wheels erected, et actually in operation, at the period Of ofVcial inquiry. " that the inability of the petitioners to confide in theabove reports is not a little augmented by the utter and irreconcilable conflict which eiisti between their several statements, some of them admitting the labour obeof so severe . a nature - that the infliction f or women has either never been allowed, or is ac titany been abandoned or reduced, both in Owe and degree, to so shOrt a period, as to leave the greatest part of the day .unem rloyed ; while it is elsewhere described, even when maintained at its highest scale, as of so harmless and pleasant a nature, that untriedvisoners have expressed a desire to go upon the work—have_ volUnteered to do so, or would be glad to be se employed if allowed. In addition. to which, it is contended, that there is nothing in the employment repugnant to common delicacy. All which assertions, your petitioners beg leave to obserVe, are incompatible with that necessity of a greatly in creased diet of it:eat:zinc' beer, which, though accompanied with an enormous augmentatibn of etpenee, is now found indispens able in every. establishment, where the tread-wheel is in use, in consequence of:the exhausting nature of the labour as before stated. " The petitioners beg further to submit, that the only medi cal committee (as they understand) which has hitherto been consulted by the Home Department of his ,'Majesty's Govern ment, has been limited in its inquiry to the effects of working &Male prisoners on the wheel ; and that the report of such committee, in the Opinien of the petitioners, recommends what is equivalent to a virtual renunciation of the punishment, by restricting its application, even for the young and robust, to two hours and a half of actual labour daily, and allowing inter vals of entire rest to all for a whole week, once in every month, (exemptions unknown to, and unnecessary for healthy females in any of the usual species of hard labour performed by their sex, and which indisputably decide in the affirmative the flues= tion proposed by :lir. Secretary Peel to this committee—namely, whether the effects on the female constitution are greeter than result from the ordinary occupations of women in the lower chisses of society); while the same committee still further re commends a total . prohibition of the wheel to the very great numbers who are in any respect infirm or diseased. " The petitioners humbly represent, that the indiscriminate employment of an ignominious and corporal punishment, de grading to thd mind and hurtful to the body of the prisoners, which destroys all due classification, and implies the same kind and measure of infliction to every degree of. crime and differ ence'of age, sex, and habit of life, appears to them equally hostile to justice, humanity, and sound policy ; and that, to . subject to the Tread-wheel Correction, as is done at present, the felon, the misdemeanant, and the vagrant—the robust and the weak—men ifilicted with ruptures, and ws in It with infants at their breast, is c, ntrary to every principle of discriminate sub division and moral improvement, which the general provisions of the statute now before your Hon. House for the purpose of amendment are, principally desigcd to promote. That soldiers who have hazarded their lives in defence of their country, and whose feelingsof honour and sense of shame it seems peculiar ly important to cherish, form another description of prisoners frequently consigned to the tread-wheel, in pursuance of the orders of Courts.martial ; and that in the House of Correction, some of this class of individuals have been actually fastened to the wheel by chains attached to the anti, . and suspended from the face-board above the wheel, being from such an extraordi nary exercise of severity exposed to the casualties restating from a false step or a sudden paroxysm of disease, or exhaus tion, by which their limbs and even their lives are put in immi nent peril, while they are deprived of every possibility of extri eating themselves. ".'That . . the petitloners, after ext e n s i ve an d caut i ous inves tigation, have reason to fear that the great and important hope at .first indulged, that the discipline of the. tread-wheel would Materially, diminish the aggregate. sif -offenders, has com pletely. failed; ,and that while it is full-. ascertained that it promotes no habit of industry or means 'of earning a liveli hood when discharged. from gaol, they believe it both har dens the heart and demoralizes the mind, at the same time that it injures and enfeebles the body ; and thus, by lesSen ing the means and opportunities of amendment, by preparing the prisoner for crimes of greater magnitude, and rendering him indifferent as to the future, has a natural tendency to fill•rither than empty our . yrisons, and to render them schools of growing crime and desperation, rather than of reformation andmoral discipline. And in proof of this, the petitioners refer to the greater nuMber of recommitments that seem almost uniformly to take place where the tread-wheel is established, compared With those in houses of correction where it is not 'yet introduced, so as to give fearful and abundant evidence of the resistance opposed in the former to the. influence .of that moral and reli gious instruction which is so wisely. and wholesomely attempted to be introdured. into the economy of our prison-establisinnents. "The petitioners.beg leave to submit on the-other hand, that .111 i. Howard, whos e considerations and recommendations of the subject of prison -discipline were formerly matterof Parliament ary discussion and approbation, has enumerated no leasthan . sß modes of prison em pl o y men t, w hi c h are capa bl e o f b e i ng ren dered subserVient to the health and morals of a prison• popUla don, of engendering habits of industry,•and consequently of pro moting the means by which prisoners may be enabled to pro vide for themselves when liberated, and thus of carrying into effect the important and salutary remarks advanced by Mr. Jus 'tice. Bayley in his late impressive charge to the Grand Jury, at t . D a ti le rt u alA tly s tit siz e e n s t , o i f nw ri h s i o c u h e t osauygsh,t' to o e h h e ad as al f w ar ay as s p th o o st u i g h h ie t s thi ,r t. egOlated, . that they could afterwards' obtain a livelihood' by ' it.' Whilst at the same time it should be observed, that Most of the methods of employment. alluded to by - Mr. .iloward may be rendered contributory - to . the severest de gree of hard labour in the proper and: legitimate acceptation of the term, and will be found sufficiently to weary the workers without wasting their constitutional strength, has been amply established in various houses of correction which have had re course to them loot; prior to the use of •the tread-wheel, and Particularly (as stated in the reports of the Prison Discipline Society) in those of Preston, Knutsford, and Maidstone, while the Committee of this Society has, with 'great truth and tan= dour remarked, in their publication ' On the Government of Gaols,' that ' preference should be given to .thOse trades which repine hard labour, the knowledge of which may enable the prisoners to earn 4101: subsistence on their discharge from fri son'--an observation which is. followed by an enumeration of corresponding employments little short of that by Mr. Howard. " And here the petitioners hope they may be permitted - to re- Mind joUr Honourable House, that both the spirit and letter of the, laws of our country have, from its earliest times, pro vided that no infliction of punishment ought to endanger the health of the body, or, expose it to casualties, beyond the strict intent and bearing of a prisoner's sentence, insomuch that in eo petitioners-thus without p presume oef theirt es vviboo(wKrilide,. their the statute of the, 51st of Henry 111., entitled 1 Judienfil Pillorie ' it is expressly enact: d, that the penalty . should be fulfilled, ' 'without bodily 'peril of man or woman; while ano ther statute of a.date not long subsequent, provides that the pillory should he of convenient strength, so that execution may 7thteh huMble opinions and conscientious fears with reference to th e adoption. of•the novel discipline herein objected to, they can not is connected with ;t e ery able state Of kurope. Whatever, indceoent gmp ob :a ro s k e ida t- iiin ve ogtf.set without uios t, iil extendstsociety, er t deep yi lt.ov tui s introduction ilt g lrlry r sto e t dnr t neuobnetbc t rro l tetto i aruponingipo brie s sehoei t i p r nntet e r:thilo n otp;o l itde i raif,h o nent ; St oonihtsyoushould , nstlntlio effo rts liktevtd6ei which ilibe,tfsouconsider_dbeis, 1 ii - are eri (iii Ii: tined within the b o ,L, e y it has derived froM th .wheet: c i:v r ie v i e n i i tY y nder the a • dariea of a single nation ; but po most reasonable dm::: n it -th st i i s tited. — aeqlitnaltialepisc)riombaetiloanudabbyleva:iti oe ,t done :%vh u il po o intentionedmwi i iatittie tdallel bihte' the isle"l 7 ffi i;: s sisje t ito i snte iyf,rlittrinu'l permitted i s beef nve-rrt'- characters to ad ve r i t n t () the ft th e skmiel;dsooml. interesting,m • a h r t a e y. s . of every meof pursuit, :, engaged trions. foreigo . er yes in,France,•by M. Le Marquis d e - availing . tlicinbe sus inquiry afforded by of our own the institutions country. The petitioners, in be f3arb4 Alarbois, as the organ of a similar society-constituted bYan or dinance of the. King of France, 'of the 9th of April, 1819, and composed of 24 members, under the presidency of the illimister • proof fc!rterief, s u L a t y e of prisons of ,Interior, the majority of which are Peers of France, while Cite rest are appropriately distinguished by their official station in the Government. Speaking in-this report of the applicatiOw of the tread-wheel, after a minute examination of this machine. 'by a deputation front the society • in France,. directly charged to observe its eff'ects in England, and to obtain all practical it-- formation from our own Prison Discipline Society, the- Noble cli nf. been our i er' hailed mostn et r with i i:an'lsd: THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1824. the House, which, if it deemed correct, ought to render it more cautious in their legislation on such matters in future. The petitioner understood that the Kensington Road Bill had al ready been read a second time, and was therefore anxious to put the House in possession of some information regarding it previously to its being read a third time. By a freneral Turn pike Act passed at an early part of the reign of is late Majes ty, it was enacted that the ac coun t s o f a ll turn pik e -roads s h ou ld h be made'up by the Commissioners in the October of each year —that they should' be deposited in the office of the Clerk of the peace, and that thefshould be exposed, upon payment of a small fee; to the examination of any person who wished to in spect them. ' Mr. Uobbett, knowing that the tolls of this gate amounted t0'14,0001. a year, and having doubts as to the cor rectness gement, and-finding that the trea surer of th o e f m th w e a t the ir a nin Justic e aa of the Peace, applied at the Office of the Clerk of the Peace in October last, for the accounts of the Kensington-road. The an swer which he received was, that there were no such accounts there. He applied again in No vember and December last, but his applications were in vain. indeed, it was not till thelast three days that the account which the Act of Parliament required was deposited in the Clerk of the Peace's Office. That account was in a most un-busi. ness-like shape—it was actually unbalanced; but it still appear ed that there was a balance in the hands of the treasurer sufficient to pay off all alit- bonded debt of the road. The Act requireAthat his debt sh o o 4 ho paid off as soon as the amount of the tolls would permit it ; 'but though inch was the case, the commissioners now came forward to demand an extension of that Act, after they had acted directly in the teeth of its pre amble. What was the fact ? At the bottom of the account, which was signed James Barker, Chairman, it appeared that the whole bonded debt, in January list, was 2,5001. ; and the justice of the peace, who filled the situation of treasurer, actu ally had more money in his hands at the time, than would have liquidated it. A small 'part of the debt, about 8.501., had been pa!d off; while by the account which had been produced, it appeared that the treasurer had in hand 4,5001. being double the ,amount of the debt. Under these circum stanced, he hoped the House would not allow this Bill to pass without investigating the manner in which this individual had violated the trust reposed in him. A rpenalty of 601. might be levied for pot having the account ready at the time prescribed by the Act ; and he believed an action was brought to recover that sum'from the negligent party. But what was the penalty ofsol. to an individual who was allowed to keep a balance of 4,0001. or 5,000/. in his hands ? The petitioner prayed, as two years were yet to expire under the present Act, that the House would reject the Bill which was now in progress. He would now bring up the,petition ; and at a future period he would move for a copy of the account, in order to see how far it agreed with the actual state of the case. Lord LOWTHER said, the Bill to which the Honourable Member alluded had already passed that House, and was now before the House .Of Lords. The subject of those turnpike trusts was well worthy the attention of the House. The trusts about the metropolis produced 150,000/. a-year, besides a large sum which was raised by statute duty ; and he believed it Would be found extremely difficult to discover how that money was expended The petition was then. read, and laid on the table. . Mr. HUME wished to know whether there was any precedent to direct them in a case like the present ? or whether that House could adopt any measure, on discovering that they had passed a bill containing a positive falsehood, while that bill was pending in the House of Lords ? The SPEAKER said, the bill was now entirely beyond the controul of that Douse. Mr. HUME said, some means ought to be taken to guard themselves a r cminst such an occurrence in future. TITHE-COMPOSITION BILL. Mr. HUME rose to present a petition from the parishioners - of Blackrath, in the dioceie,of Ossory, and county of. Kilkenny, against the Tithe .Compositioribill. The petition, he obierved, was of cOnsiderable length, but he would venture to say that a petition of greater importance had rarely been presented to that House. The petitioners complained of a great number of seri . ous grievances which they suffered from the present mede of collecting tithes. fie ,stated, that, for-the purpose of securing fair play, fire valuators ought ,nttt,to be appointed .entirely-by the clergyman. One should be appointed_by the person claim ing the tithe. the othe,r by the person. who was to pay it. There was, however, they''t4rved, nothing like fair play between the public and the thurch.,..The - valuators appointed were, in ge neral, men of indiffereo character, and were -not conversant with jo th n e er b s ti t einreefo business hlchthey were called on to perform. The hoped, that if any change were effected in the existing measure, they would be allowed the privilege of' noininating one valuator, leaving to the clergyman the right of • appointing the other. The petitioners also complained, that if they set out their, tithe, it w as almost sure to be damaged ; an d they wer e th e n called on to make that damage good, although any imprOp er c onduct of theirs. If t h ey i d t e ll y i l d on n e o t t L ar t i t s l e ey fro vr m eie i Tinetliately .cited in the Consistorial Court, and rather than litigate the business, they were obliged fforercleipterioitylyedtothpauttthuep House y/it acts of great extortion. They there would repeal the act of last session, and not subject diem to that increased rate of- tithe which, ac cording to. the average of the last seven years, and the fall in the price of Corn during that period, they were liable to at pre. sent. He (Mr. , really surprised at the patience of the Irish under this system, during so many years. He was sa tisfied that they had suff ered more from it than the Gree k s Itad suffered from the Turk s. _ The petition was read, and or dered presented a petition from the butchers of the city of York, similar n favour of th e. H ides an d Sk i ns Bill ;_ and a dt i o iu be 3 printed i n p t erdes. en 3 re ir. ileshers of Aberdeen.—Ref e r re d to the Comm it p te e e tit o i n on om th fr esai lie b in. .11EmE Orientti a petition; signed by many thousand artificers .of Wakefield, against the Combination Laws.—Re ferred to the Committee on artisans. TB E TB EA DAITH EEL. Sir T. LETHBRIDGE rose to present a petition from two very respectable Magistrates, Sir J.C. Ilippisley, who (Hs -charged the duties of a Justice of the Peace in the County had the honour to represent; and ugestice of the Peace for the County of Surrey ; against the punishment of the Tread-wheel. As the 11 w I h r i . c Briscoe,3 he ( Sir petition was of great length, and embraced every topic w T h . .ol was Lethbridg e ) ori Justice con nected with the subject, it would be quite impossible for him to put the House in possessio n of the whole of its contents. He hoped, therefore the House wou ld p erm i t i t to b e pr i nte d. I t would then be placed in the hands of Members, who, in corn nu n with the public at large, would duly appreciate the state ments and reasoning , ' which it contained. rho petition was against the labour of the Tread,wheel,a machine which, he believed, was in pretty general use throughout this country, as a punishment for crimes. That punishment had been, in some instances, resorted -to before the trial of prisoners; but he be lieved there was a clause in the bill now before the House, which would prevent it in future. He had taken some pains to read several pamplilets,which had.been written on this subject by an liOn. Bart. (Sir J. C.' HippiSley) who took great interest in the question. Ile had in his mode of handling it displayed kis usual ability ; and he (Sir T. Lethbridge) confessed that the facts and arguments adduced by that Hon. Bart. had, in some degree, staggered those opinions which he formerly entertained with respect to this mode of punishment. lie would press on the attention of the Committee on Priiim Discipline, who 'had not yet finished their labours, the Propriety of - taking into their most serious consideration.the various allegations on this sub ject. It was well worthy 'their notice, it was well deserving their attention, and lie had no doubt but a due investigation of this disputed question must have a very considerable effect with reference to the report which that Committee would make. The Hon. Bart. then proceeded to read certain passages in the petition (which is subjoined), and concluded by moving " that the petition be brought up." Mr. DEN ISON said, the labour of the tread-wheel had ben received with approbation in four or five-and-twenty different counties. If it were not unanimously approved of by the Ma gistrates, certain he was, that a great proportion of them were favourable to it ; and, so far, s it had gone, he believed it was the best mode of puniShment that could be adopted. It kept the prisoner to hard labour, as the law au th or i se d a n d di rec t e d, without breaki ng hi s s pi r it or injurin g his health. One of the Petitioners (-Mr. Briscoe) came before the Magistrates at the last Quarter Sessions for Surrey,. and certainly laid before them certain charges . „ which, in his opinion, and that of the bench, he could not substantiate. He made a Complaint respecting the treatment of two soldiers, who not only insulted, but actually attacked the gaolers. They were in consequence put in strict confinement for two days. At the end of that time, finding they gained nothing by being refractory, they returned to la bour. One of the Magistrates, at. the time this complaint was made, gave notice, that he would, -at the n.ext.Quarter Sessions, ,bring the whole subject before them, and doubtless it would then be fully discussed. There were no gaols in the kingdom where greater attention was paid to the prisoners, collectively