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' \ -- 9 ' -',"'l,2_ -‘1. ; . ; • i ‘ ,„, : z. :). 1, :i , \kk , 41111* , 41 :71t • 0 ' ft ; 1 / 7 4140 J4;l.= c. 0-6 ;-Mkr. ) .3 SUN. ~; Nu.mitEß 10,232. ROYAL ACADEMY, SOMME C PLACE. T HE EXHIBITION of the ROYAL ACA_ DEMY IS NOW OPEN. Admission (from Eight o'Clock till Seven), Is. , Catalogue, ls. HENRY HOWARD, R.A. Sec. LONDON UNIVERSITY. ON FRIDAY NEXT, July 1, a MEET. ING of NOBLEMEN, BANKER S, MER CHANTS, and others, will be held at the CITY of LON bON TAVERN at ONE O'CLOCK, to adopt MEA SURES for the ESTABLISHMENT of a LONDON UNI VERSITY. The Right Hon. the LORD. MAYOR in the Chair. IL A. COX, Sec. pro temp. trurrisu STEAM and PATENT NAVI GATioN COMPANY. Capital 500,000/. in Shares of 100/: web. APPLICATIONS for the remaininkSHAßES must be Thaa e by letter, post paid, addressed to the Directors of the British Steam and Patent Navigation- Company, at Messrs. Drummond and Co.'s, Charing-cross ; or M essra. Verm, Ward, and Co.'s, Lombard -street, on or before TO-Alf) It ROW, the 29th of June instant, after which no Application can be re ceived. wEsT INDIA DOCK CONPANY. T • HE COURT of DIRECTORS of the, WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY hereby ore No— that an HALF YEARLY GENERAL COURT, or GENERAL MEETING, will he held; pursuant to the Act `' l Parliament, at the West India Dock House, No. 8, Rini.: e r-square, 1;11 FRIAY, he iih day of July next. at One '''Clock in the Afte D rnoon, t for the t purpeSe of CHOOSING : 144 Appointing FIVE DIREC"r ORS of the said Company, ii:Succevd tnose going out by rotation: also a Director, in e room of David Lyon. ras a _ who- has' disqualified : at '"ich Meeting a DIVIDEND will be declared for the Half- Ve • al• ending the' 30th instant. By Dicier of the COort, H. LONGLANDS, Sec. West India Dock House, June 17. 1925. • • _ The Chair will be taken at Two o'Clock precisely. • To the GENTLEMAN, CLERGY, and MEI:HOLDERS of the COUNTY of NOIrINGITAM. IN consequence of the ‘prevaillue reports, that Parliament is shortly to be 'dissolved, L consider it to be. Ill' duty to communicate, without further dely, the resolution h ave taken of retiring from your service whenever that event -ccu rs ,, It is quite needless for me to assure you of the very great pain With which I have thus determined to dissolve a connection of such long standing, which has been so frequently, and, on your P a rt, so generously renewed, which has done-me so much ho noutin public estimation, and which has been SD gratifying to zn Y Own feelings and to those of my Family. But this deter, n unation has not been made without the fullest and, Most anxious consideration of a concurrence of private and 'public r n cumstances. Of the first, I feel that no explanation will be , r e quired of me; respecting the second, I will h onest ly con f ess , hat it has often been matter of deep regret to my mind that r i repeated absences abroad, the necessity of which is but too ely to recur, have prevented me from discharging, in a man ,el' satisfactory myself, all those ditties which I owe to my '. ° nstituents, while the mtrrtffication io my own feelings, oeca- R Laned by those omissions, has been greatly aggravated by . the i,'lretrie indulgence which I have uniformly received at your I ,,, t ds. But t 1 have, at least, the satisfaction of feeling, that I serf never ceased to act upon those constitutional and indepen illZZi.nciples which I have always professed ; and it only re lea R ~.T a r me, to return ypu my most cordial thanks for your with treat goodness to me. My gratitude can only cease P e atew Y eal atence, and the greatest favour that fortune could Lis s i nce tr y. . 4s will be to afford me an opportunity of proving I ha ve th e honour to remain, Gentlemen, Your faithful and obliged humble Servant, Lo n d, 21 st June, 1825 h I. CAVENDISH BENTINCIi. Rot b y EXCHANGE SSURANC ReigE OFFICE, bl " ish Y ed A by loyal Charter, A in the n of King George • the First. - June, 1825. 1 1/ 111- °N S whose annual Premiums fall due , on the pth instant, are hereby informed, that Receipts t he now ready to be delivered at the Company's Offices, over , I ,e Royal Exchange and in Pall-Mall, as well as by their re ,l7.!etive Agents in the several Counties ; and the Parties aa 4_red are requested to apply for the Renewal of their Poh -1 " or before. the 9th of July next, as the usul Days allowed for Payment, beyond the date of ea ch Po q, will then expire. ' SAMUEL FENNING, Jun. Secretary. A l. , Attendance is g i ven , daily, at the said Offices, for the ii: t ance of Buildi ngs , Goods, Merchandises. and Ships, in l ) , r ,;( , ur, in Dock,. or whil e b u ildi ng, from Loss or damage 11% l ie;•and also fur the Assurance of, and granting An r!, ). Fire Policies will be issued free of Eipence to the As- W 4 ' 4l , where the Annual Premium amounts to Cs. or up- COUNTY FIRE OFFICE, AND PIIOVIDENT LIFE OFFICE, REGENT - STREET, LONDON. PRESIDENT AND T.R.L.TsTEES.. The DUKE of RU'I'LANI) The MARQUESS of NORTHAMPTON EARL GREY LORD KING, &c;. &c. &c. 'r DIRECTORS. rather Beaum on t, Esq. Hon. Th os . Parker '. Coust, Esq• William Pt :led, Esq. it.,I,"rICR Duck et t, B art. Sir Henry Penn \' l n R. E ustaee Int ,ll Lieut. 'Col. Saiwell iiarrington. Bart. W a lt er Strickla it nd, Esq. Richard King, Bt. Welby, Batt. . -724( qIaltd, Bart, ALP. Sir Robert Wilson, M.P. • CA,,,„& c. Sce.-Ste. L. A MILLION STERLING and e who now upwards. "(WITS are divided amongst thos insure P , the ori g i na l Members, in just proportion to their aroents. ) tht t'its FIR E - OFFICE, RETURNS, during the last Eleven - ‘ 14 % * o the amount o f 447 000 have been paid to all Pei•- 4 % mh o insured ' Years, upon Annual tvo i _ continued Seven 'it,r4" Septennial Policies, and whether they hare been tl "r otherwise. te,,t.L,IFE OFFICE, BONL'SES of .r.1:3 es. and £26 . 1 i,s• loth, "ave be,.o divided during the last Fourteen Years ; A lt :Z r Y Peculiar Advantages are atrol:ded. s are appointed in all the Pr i nc i pal I owns. It Pult o AN IMPROVED ROAD-BOOK. n -- ' ll =d, With a Mapof England and Wales, Bs. bound, with 65 County_ Maps, price 12s. bound, f 'S NEW POCK Ei• ROAD-BOOK (Isiie°l,ll°LA ND, \VALES, and Part of SCOTLAND, eichard's Itineraries : -.=marltable containing an Account ery ct and Cross Roads ; together with a Description 4 ( api, te Pulati„ Place, its Curiosities, Manufactures, con : ). s and Principal Inns : the whole forr9ing a ' " v ,; ll ets. ( '"'Ae to every Object worthy the attention of "he , A ltho beruu,e"rittrnerous Road-Booles have from time to time 114', rant it is t " Public each professing to excel its prede, th'ole.,,pttet in subject of complaint, that there is not tt , t he e ' ell t Publ' o 14t rTh and . lucid in its arrangement ; that tyiN ie Y either ished are either too bulky or too confused ; t 1 ,4 V oi r requir c ontain much more or much less, than the ii ) 4 01, 4 4 .i a1e, e t 3 ;_ It has been the Editor s aim in p , re aring I wl I he ha P s ere -1)1111Iii:,``,011 th a *(e a middle course ; . e • 4 °t e 'esti e band, to avoid all prolix details reSreete -4t ° Nit n g object - otti tett t „ 8, he trusts that, on the other hand, h th- notice any Town, Village, or Nobleman's '1.4 3. 41 e,r-Slattention of the intelligent Traveller. 'll4'l I ' 6 o, 18, Strand : and sold by all Book. BRITISH. FIRE OFFICE, DIRECTC GEORGE HOLM E SUM IS Hon. D. KINNAIRD, Dr Sir Charles Sullivan, Bart. Sir Robert Wigraru, Bart. William Agnew, Esq. Charles James Auriol, Esq. John [lebh, Esq. James Colquitos's), Esq. James Henry Deacon, Esq. William Fitzhugh, Esq. Francis Freeliror,Esq.__ STRAND and COk&NHILL, DRS, &C. ;ER, ESQ. M.P. Chairman. iptity Chairman, Elijah B. Impey, Esq. Thomas Mande, Esq. George G. Mills, Esq. Nrill Malcolm. Esq. Richard C. Plowden, Esq. J o hn tioane, Joseph Warner, Esq. James West, Esq. Rickard Williams, Esq• • . . ESTABLISHED in 1799 for _lnsurance of Houses, - Iluildings, Manufactories, Goods, and Met , chandize, Ships„Yenels, and other Property, on the most equitable terms, 'and on a principle — which conveys perfect security without any responsibility whatever to those insured. Insurances may he made for a shorter period than a Year, and persons insuring for more Years than one, are allowed a liherstl Discannt, which for seven Years amounts to ,Cl 5. per cent. on the Pvennum,and—Duty. Policies will not he charged for sums of £3OO, or upwards. This Office has always paid for damage by Fire from Light ning. Receipts for the renevrkl of Policies expiring at Midsummer may be had at the principal Offices in the Strand and C•in hill, London, and of their Agents in the Country, who will receive Proposals for new Insurances. JOHN HELPS, secretary. LEASEHOLD AND FREEHOLD ESTATES,. AND GREAT TITHES, GREAT SAMPFORD ESSEX. TO BE SOLD BY' AUCTION, By BAKER and SON, on SATURDAY, the - 9th day of July, 1825, at the Rose, and Crown, Saffron Walden, at Three o'Clock, A LEASEHOLD ESTATE, called GREAT' SANPFORD PARSONAGE, - pleasantly situated at Great Sampford, in the county of Essex ; containing by, ad measurement 151 a. 25p. of excellent arable, pasture, and wood land, in convenient inclosures,snd in a high state of cultiva tion ; with a dwelling-house, detached brewhouse, large double barn, Single ditto, stables, granary, cart and cattle sheds, and other necessary out-buildings, now in the occupation of Mr. Thomas Harrison, a respectable tenant, who is under notice to quit at Michaelmas next. Also, the GREAT TITHES of the Parish of GREAT SAMPFORD, containing upwards of 1700 acres of fertile arable and pasture land. The above property is held under the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, for 21 years, renewable every 7 years, and was re• newed in 1824. A Small FREEHOLD ESTATE, called COCK-in-the- WOOD, containing by admeasurement 26a. 3r. 24p. of arable and pastureland, with a dwelling-house, barn, stable, and other out-buildings, situate in the parish of Great. Sampford afore said, in the occupation of Mr. Edmund Frankling, who is under notice to quit at Michaelmas next. (heat Sampford is pleasantly situated in the county of Essex, 45 miles from I.ondon, 8 from Saffron Walden, 12 from Brain tree, and 23 miles from Chelmsford. Particulars and conditions of sale may be had, 14 days pre viously to the time of sale, at the Rose and Crown, Saffron Walden ; Vine, Great Bardfield ; Saracen's Head, Dunmow ; Auction Mart, London; of Mr. Thomas Harrison, Great Sampford ; Messrs. Copland and Son, Solicitors, Chelmsford, or at their Office, at the Horn Inn, Braintree; and of the Auctioneers, Hatfield Peverel and B oreham. vEVONSIIIRK—DesirabIe FREEHOLD -11-1 PROPERTY to'be SOLD—EXETER.---The Pre miges are' situated - in the Pore-street, and consist of a substan tial Brick DWELLING-HOUSE, 28 feet in front, and 68 in length, admirably calculated for any business requiring room; with a spacious under-ground cellar, an excellent shop, lobby, parlour, and kitchen, courtlage, with two pumps of hard and soft water. On the first floor is a very large drawing-room, with four other rooms exceedingly well adapted for lodgings, over whichirre seven bed-rooms and two excellent garrets. It is a corner house, and has the convenience of folding gates opening into Friernhay-street. Behind these Premises are Four newly built Houses, bringing in the annual rent of .601. The whole will be Sold together, or in separate lots. Immediate posses sion may be had of the front House. Application to be made to Mr; . Scott, builder, North-street; all letters to be post-paid. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. ---A most desirable RESIDENCE and LAND, within one mile and a half of the BorOugh of Tewkesbury, to be LET, and may be entered upon immediately, all that Capital DWELLING. HOUSE, called Shuthodger House, with a large walled-in garden, two coach-houses, six-stalled stable, and other out offices, and about Ten Acres of excellent Land attached thereto, situate in the parish of Twyning, about one-third of a mile from the Church, and adjoining the turnpike-road leading from Liverpool, Manchester, and the North, to Cheltenham, Bath, Bristol, and the West of England. The House has been lately fitted up in a modern style, at a considerable expence ; the situ- . ation is on an eminence, surmounted by views of the most lux.; uriant description, and it is within half a mile of the Rivers Severn and Avon. Shuthodger House is distant from the cele brated watering places, Cheltenham and Malvern, 11 miles;—. and from Worcester and Gloucester 13 miles ; 20 coaches and several stage wa.egons pass daily. The House will be Let for a term, and the Furniture may be taken to or not by the tenant at a fair valuation. For a view, and further particulars, apply to . Mr. John Moore, Auctioneer, Tewkesbury.—Personal appli cations alone will be attended to. SWANWICK, COUNTY of DORSET.— NOTICE is hereby given, to any person disposed to invest Capital in building Houses for the accommodation of of Visitors at thiS place, that plans and elevations may be seen, and allotments of ground obtained on advantageous terms, by application to Mr. C. Wallis, at Dorchester, or Mr. Hopper ton, Ranelagh-street, Pimlico, London, surveyors; or to Mr. Penney, merchant, at Poole, either personally, or by „letters, post paid. Plans may also be seen . at the principal inns on the Western Road, &c. &c. The MANOR HOUSE, contain ing 24 best bed chambers • warm and cold Sea. , baths, and all other.convenienccs,as a Leidging and Boarding House, is to be ready for the receptiop of company by June next, by which time the access to this place will also be greatly improved. §wantVick is peculiarly adapted to tailing excursions, and af fords excellent bathing in all weathers, and at all times of the tide. It is protected from the south and south-viest winds, an important object for a winter residence.—lt is affected by 'no nuisances—its neighbourhood affbrds much romantic scenery, and its retirement and tranquillity may be a recommendation to many. GENUINE PATENT MEDICINES. SOLD by BUTLER, Chemist and Druggist, No. 4, Cheaptide, st. Paul's, London. Appointed Sole Agent for Dr. James's Fever Powder and Ana leptic Pills, on the place of Messrs. Ness berry and Stotts. Anderson's Scot's Pills Iluxharn's Tincture Bark American Soothing Syrup Hooper's Pills Bleaching Liquid and Mark- Henry's Magnesia Mg Ink -- --Aromatic Vinegar Braithwaite's Black Drops Juniper's Essence Peppermint Cephalic Snuff Lemon Acid for Punch Cheltenham Salts Maccaotar and Ruisia Oil Ching's Worm Lozenge• . Oxley's F.ssence Ginger Citrated Kali for Saline Ruspini's Dentrifice, Tine- Draughts tore, &c. Cntidell's Balsam Roney Solomon's Balm Gilead Dixon's Antibilions Pills Singleton's Eye Ointment Dalliv's Carminative Steer's Opodeldoc De Velno's Syrup Stongliton's Bitters Mitch Drops, as imported Seidlitz & Lemonade Powders Freeman's Bathing Spirits . Soda & Ginger Beer Powders Godbold's Bah am Salt Lemon & Scanting Drops Gowland's Lotion • Sandwell's Issue Plaister Godfrey's Cordial 'Forlington'e Balsam intent Medicine. Atid every other Merchants, Captains, and others, cannot be' too careful in the purchase of the above Articles for Exportation, as spu rious imitations are generally in circulation. Medicine Chests completely fitted up fur all climates, N.8.--Thompsnn's Genuine Cheltenham Salts, Mr. But ler is - appointed Agrut fur. TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 28, 1825. PARLIAMENT. jurious to the suitors and the public. lie (the Lord Chancellor; would pledge himself to be as active as any. Noble Lord in cor recting abuses, but be would perform his duty with a due regard - to the rights f others. The reason why, in the present Bill, there appeared no clause regulating offices in the Court of Chan cery was, 'theta commission was now sitting on the state of that Court. Much misrepresentation had gime abroad concerning his Conduct since he presided over tbat Court ; but whatever he might suffer from such calumny and mis-statement, he enjoyed the consolation that he had • been incorrupt in his office, and he could form no better wish for his country than that his succes sor_shoultl be penetrated with an equtil desire, to execute his duties with fidelity. The'lielings and fate of an individual were in ,themselves of small importance to the public, and he (the Lordt.niancellor) might be sacrificed to the insults which 11,e daily reotived ; but he begged Noble 141rds to reflect that he might not he the only sacrifice. If the object was, as it. ap peared to be, to pull down the reputation and throw discredit on the motivesamlconduct of men in high official situations—if every man who occupied an eminent station in the church or the state were to become the object of slander . and calumny_L then- their Lordships - might laY'lltrilaccotint with similar treatment, and might rest convinced that their privileges as Peers could not long be respected 'When such characters had been sacrificed.—(Hear, - hear !) - • - Earl GROSVENOR explained.—lf the Noble Lord was not overpaid, by the emoluments of his office, it ought to be recol lected that it had extensive patronage. . Lord - RE DESDALE defended the conductor the Lord Chan cellor. HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, JUNE 27. ''The Loop CHANCEL LOR, the Marquis of WINCHESTER, and the Earl of SHAF TES/JURY, sat as C-onmeissioners, and notified.the Royal assent to the Buckingham-house, the Excise Licences Bill, the Quarantine • Regulation Bill, the Colonial Intercourse Bill, the Mauritius Trade Bill, the Canadian Company Bill, the Distillery Bill, the Lunatic Trustees Bill, and several private Bills. Mr. BROGDEN, and others from the Commons, brought up several Bills, which were read a first time. UNIVERSITIES' BILL. The Earl of SII.-IFTEIItURY moved the third reading of this. Bill, which, being carried, he moved that the Bill do pass. The Earl, of LAUDERDALE thought this was a Bill which ought not to pass. It contained evidence against itself, for the clause to, which he should object contained* regulation whielt:ripplierkonly to on e Univer s ity (Oxford); wftierts,.. if io were necessary, it. would be just as much wanted as the other. The clause peoposed to enact, that any common prostitute. who Might be found wandering about should be•deemed a disorderly person, and should be liable to be punished as a vagrant. But who was to determine the question of a woman being a com mon, prostitute . ? tinder that pretext, any woman who hap pened to be 'walking' in the public walks might be taken up. If apprehended by a common constable, a woman might think such a stain cast on her character, that she might not be able to give an account of herself. His own, wife might go stroll. ing about from curiosity, and if taken up, not like to say who she was. He had b e en a t O x fo r d hi mse lf a short time.; and did not see any want of that regularity which would call for such a measure as this. But if there was any use for this 00. traordinary power, why was it not required for Cambridge also ? He intended to move that the clause be omitted. • The LORD CHANCELLOR defended the clause, which he considered quite necessary. The reason why it was not ex tended to Cambridge was, that that trniversity possessed suffi cient powers by its charter. • After a few words exchanged between Lords LA UDE lIDA LE and LIVERPOOL, the former moved that the word " wander ing" be left out, and the words " acting in a disorderly man ner" be substituted in its stead. This motion was negatived in a division 13 to 8. COURTS OF LAW BILL. • . The Earl of LIVERPOOL, moved the Order of the Day for proceeding with the Bill for regulating Courts of Law. Earl GROSVENOR took that opportunity of making'some observations on sinecure offices—a subject to which lie had often bethre called the attention of their Lordships. The office of of Lord Justice General of Scotland, he conceived, was one of that description; anti though it had been understood that that office was to he abolished, it appeared that it was still main tained. The Noble Earl next adverted to the office of the Clerk of the Peels, which was one of those intended to be re. formed, but the public was not sufficiently benefited by any alteration made with respect to it. With respect to the sale of offices in Courts of Law, he was glad that practice: was to •be put areend to ; lie wished to see all unnecessary offices abolish. ed at ono. • He alsO objected toi the unnecessary increase iof salaries. The Nobie.and Le.arpoti Lord who approved ~ o f- the Bills on the table Must surety. torah that they had. been intro- ' duced ten years ago. He understood, however, that it was not intended to extend the inquiry. with regard to salaries to the Court of Chanc er y. H e th oug h t , h owever , that die Noble anti Learned Lord, both as Head of that Court, and as Speaker of their Lordship's House, should be included in the inquiry. • . . • The Earl of LIVERPOOL rose to say a words, though all that had fallen from the Noble. Earl appeared to him to haveno HOUSE OF COMMONS. reference to the Bills now before the House. The Clerkship of The SPEAKER took the Chair at four o'clock. The the Peels h a d been regulat e d in conformity with the Act of Usher of the Black Rod having summoned - the House to -.at- Parliament ; it. was no sinecure; there was no public ..office in tend to witness the Royal Assent given to various public and which the duty w a 4 mo re const a nt than that of the Clerk of the private Bills, die Speaker, followed by the Members, attended Peels; but as the duty had always been done by" Deputy, it thellouse of Peers accordingly. On their return, was thought by P ar li ament t h at mitt system sho u ld no l onger 1 The SPEAKER announced the Bills to which the Royal continue, and that the person who held it should he an efficient Assent had been given by Cotnmission.—(See Lords.) officer. No system,could bemore perfect than thatof the Excise. I Mr. C. CALVERT presented a petition from Walter !Tony quer for preventin g d e f au lt s . Thi s was proved by the fact that wood 'Vete, Esq., complaining of the usurpation and abuses for centari , s th ere b a d b een no example of anyelefault occurring in respect to the elective franchise of the City and Borough of In the Exchequer. • The wise cheeks which their ancestors had Hereford, (effected by the Corporation.' introduced into that department had rendered defaults almost l • Mr. HOBHOUSE presented a tietition from the Pawn impossible. But the Noble Lord must not suppos e th a t this sys. brokers of Westminster, against the Looitable Loan Bill. 'tens could be mai n t a i ne d un l ess th e o ffi cers o f t h at department • COURT OF CHANCERY. had efficient duties to perform.. • With regard to the offic es t o Mr. BERNAI, presented a petition from Frances Helligar, be .regulated, the Noble Lord. wart.-wrong in supposing that complaining of the grievous and intolerable oppression and changes were made because there was no business to do in th em , delay of Chancery proceedings. The petitioner is a widow, The bill before the Henise provided for the abolition of certain • .reduced to pauperism, in the Greenwich workhouse, although offices when the existing interests should expire. The object her husband left 14001. and more to her in 1809, - of which of the regolations, as he bagostated, was,.:that wherever there 3001; have been claimed by his creditors, and 11001. wastedby was business„ the.duties should be perfornied by efficient offi. a common proceeding in Chancery for the distribution of the cers. • As to the office filled by his Noble and Learned Friend effects. He had hitherto abstained -from taking part in the dis the. salary he derived from it .was known. It was before the cussion upon Chancery abuses, but it was not because he was House and before 'the public s - and there was no man 'who ignorant of them: on the contrary,-he could speak with.cer. knew • the duties 'WhiCh attached to that otfiee would think tainty of the abuses of th e p rac ti ce i n th e M aster ' s Offi ce, w h ich the reward sufficient. The 'he a d s of the Courts of 'Law had were too expensive an d dil atory to b e countenance d by any been admitted to be insufficientlY remunera t e d' by their' sales persons, the Masters themselves not excepted. . ries, and therefore they had been allowed to. pro* by th e • Mr.- PEEL said, that he would take care that the sub sale of offices ; but the. situation o f th e L or d Chancellor was stance of the petition should be referred to the Cominissioners different from that of the chief's of the other courts, . for no of Equity Inquiry. He admitted that the evils complained of sale of offices was allowed' in Chancery. With respect to the were considerable. puisne judges, he would wish their Lordships to reflect for a , Mr. CALCRAFT said, that in , the eyes of the House moment whether it was not proper that they should have•an and the country, the constitution of the Commission was by increase of salary. In their situation, and at their time of no .means impartial. He hoped that if the Report should life, with a knowled g e eerie tabours they had to perform, prove not .satisfactory, that the Right Honourable Secretary could any one think theth .itio • highly remunerated by 5,000/.. would'consent to the appointment of a more independent anti .a year ? • Could it' be said that those Learned Persons wer e impartial Commission. to be composed of persons who were overpaid, when many of their Lordships, who had no laho. not by their stations so directly within the influence of the Su. 'rions dutieS like theirs to perform, possessed so much more iretne Judge •of that Court. Earl GROSVENOR explained. Mr. PEL denied that the commission was at all partially The LORD CHANCELLOR complained in the strongest constituted. He admitted that it had been appointed so long, !terms of the misrepresentations and calumnies which had gone that if no report were forthcoming by the early part of. next forth • respectieg the emoluments of his . office, although the Session, the House would have reason to complain of delay. amounts of its profits hail been already given in accounts be- Mr. T. W I LSON presented a petition from Thomas Devon, fore the House of Commons, and the means were apparent praying for compensation for some services rendered by him in for the correction Of such mistakes as had gone abroad. Per- the course of the late war. haps it was thought that otiie ..ode of .calumnious. nrisre- COUNTRY BANK NOTES. presentation was the way to. get him out of .office ; they Mr. HUME recalled the attention of the House to the peti were mistaken who thought sot he would not yield tes such tion of a Mr. Jones, which he presented on a former night, aspetsions, nor shrink froni;casserting what he owed to himself. complaining of the refusal of a Bristol bank to pay him the va- Had he been treated with common justice, he should not, per. lue of two of their notes, which he presented f or th e purpose, hapsohave remained Lord Chancellor this day, b u t be rep ea t- i n g o ld. H e rea lly th oug ht that our currency ought by no ed he would not be driven from his office by calumnious attack. means to be permitted to remain in its present state; for while Let him only be treated with common justice, and in five mi. it did, - it could not be contended either that it was in healthy nutes his office should be any body's disposal. From the ae_ condition, or that it was a gold currency, as it ought, and w a s counts which had been furnished to him of his emoluments as intended to be. The condition it was in had already led to a Lord Chancellor, by those who best knew the amount, apart considerable rise of prices. By the 37th of Geo. 111., c. 32, from his' income as Speaker of the House of Lords, he w a s commonly called the Cash Suspension Bill, it wa s provided hippy to saY, that the Lord Chiefisistice of the Coiirt of King's (sect. 3), " that if any person, being liable for the payment of Bench h a d r e c e ived a larger income from his office: lie, quoted any. such notes and draughts as might be issued in pursuance from the average accounts of the last three . YeaSS; and be would of that act, should object to pay the sum or sunse of mon e y further say, that in no one year, since he had - been-made Lord thereon becoming due, in specie, within the space of thr e e d a y s Chancellor, had he received the sante amount of profit which he after demand made thereon by the holder of such draughts or enjoyed while at the bar._ Strange, then, it was, that he should notes, it shouldhe lawful for Justices of the Peace, Magistrates be attacked as lie had been by rnisstatementsand misrepresenta- ' of the Session, &c., upon complaint to dint effect being made tions of every kind. Had he remained at the bar, 'and kept th e to them, and they were thereby required to summon every such situation he held there, he solemnly declared he should not be person against whom such complaint should have been prefer one shilling a poorer man than he was at this moment, riot w ith. red, and after examining parties and witnesses on oath, they standing Its office. His Noble Friend (Earl GrOsvenoryshould were empowered, if the complaint should be established to their not have blamed him for not bringing the subject before the satisfaction, to award die suns due;" and such suns With costs, house earlier. It had often h e e t i brought forward, and it was in detault of payment, might be levied by sale and distress on thought that the emoluments arising front' the sale of offices the goods, &e. of the party proceeding againmit. Ina subsequent should not be interfered with b e cause, had it been ab o li s h e d ; bill this valuable claus e h a d b ee n un f or t unate l y om i tte d_ he the Chief Jus t ices o f the Supreme Gauls must have received a meant in the Bill of the Rightlion. Gentleman (MroPeel, We compensati on i n sonic ot h er way. I t wa s t h ere f ore concluded believe), relative to the r e -est a blishm e nt o f th e currency . Suc h that Parliament made a good bargain for the public in allowin g being the case, he thought the house ought not to lose a mo tltem augmentedtremain.o from‘ l time he totime, n the Ssalar no augmentation h a d taken y of the puisne judg es h a d meat's time in r e - enac ting it, so th a t i t m i g h t b ecome s part of been time law of the land on this momentous subject. It was calcu. ' place in that of the chi e f s , hecau - se they were considered a s de. hated that 991. out of every 1001. issued in notes, was issued riving part of their emoluments from this source. It could not in notes of the c ountry Bankers ; and the consequence of for a moment be supposed that h a ving entered on the laboriceis this redundant issue of paper was, that in the country duties of their office und er th e c o nviction that its emolum e nts there was little or no gold to to be got. Ile was sorry that he were to be secured to them by law, they were to be turned did-not at that moment see the Right lion. Gentleman (Mr. adrift without any regard, t o their rights- The Parliam e nt had Peel) in his place, for he would only. upon this topi c b eg to said, by _the act abolishi ng s ine cures a nd regulating offices, th a t refer the Right lion. Secretary to his own definiti o n o f a cur no. sinecures shall exist after th e present invested interest s ho u ld rency in shut well known act, usually called Mr. Peel's Bill. expire; but the present possessors had just as good a title by It was quite clear to his (Mr. Hume's) mind, that the country law to their emoluments as their L or d s hips had to their estates. bankers' paper which was afloat had nothing of that character The Noble Earl entirely mis u nder.tood the question with re- which attached to " currency" in the sense that term was used gard to sinecure offices. Bill s h a d been repeatedly sent up in the act he spoke of. His reasons for again moving that this from the other House fo r a h o o s io n k diem, and they had been petition be brought up. were, that it rewarded a matter of ex. resisted, heentstse the persons who brought theism here did not treme importance to the country at large—that the petitioner understand the question. It w a s meant that because the had felt himself to be reflected on •by some observations that deputy did nil the drudg er y of t h e o ffi ce , therefore the grin- on a thriller night had fallen from the Hon. Baronet. c ip a l was of no use. The doctrin e was founded on a mistake ; s yMtri; rt t A he ß l LlM in V q l u S es o t bs ion err a l, n t o h t at as it re i s v p a e s c n ta o b t ie for a fihrirnm asto any in the country. He apprehended that ,the subject matter the presence of the principal might not always be required=--Lis superintendence might not be applied from day to day—but it was a ppli e d on proper occasions— a nd were - not his responsibility of the present case arose out of the circumstance of som e in. always interposed, the consequences might be extretisely temperate warmth having been displayed by the party cum- The Bill was then read a third time and passed. INTEREST OF MONEY IN INDIA. The 'Marquis of HASTINGS'moVed that the opinion of the Judges be heard on the construction'of the Act for regulating the interest of money in India. •, Lord Chief Justice BEST delivered the opinion of the Judges, in favour of the bill of the Noble Marquis. The act for re-. stricting the interest-of money to 12 per cent. was to be inter.: preted according to its letter, as it was a penal statute . ; and by its literal interpretation it was only to be enforced in the done_ nions of the Company. It could not be cons.rubd as extending to tbreign states in alliance with the British Power. It could not regulate the transactions of borrowers or lender's in the do minions of the native Princes where British jurisdiction did not extend. If borrowers there suffered from the oppressive acts of those with whom they had money dealings, they might apply for protection to their own Government, and not to that of the Company. The laws against usury had a reference to the value 'of money in different countries. Accordingly, there were three different limits to the amount of legal interest in the British do minions, one for Great Britain, another for Ireland, and another for India. Our rides in this respect could not consequently be binding on British subjects in foreign states. Besides, by the act,-the offence of usury was to be punished where it was com mitted—but what jurisdiction had we in the dominions of the native Princes ? • In Misconstruction of the law, he was sup ported by two decisions of the Supreme Court of Bengal. 'l'•he Alarquis of HASTINGS observed, that lie would add nothing to what had bdeu said by the learned judge, but would only move that the bill be committed to-morrow. .J.brtl-MELVILLE moved the second reading of the bill for extending the provisions of the cutting and maiming act to Scotland.—Report to-mhrrow. The Earl of WESTMORLAND presented a petition from Richard Stafford Cooke relative to the Stafford peerage, which f was.referred to the Committee of Privileges. ! Several bills were then forward Id in their stages, and the. r flouseadjourned at Half:Trot Seven o'Clock. I_ PRI-CE-SIWIMPANCT. • pinning, in demanding: payment of his noleti,Wfireh.citeum . stance hail occasioned the display o f a little warm* of the game kind on the other sid e; an d ha d i n d uced the b a nkers so, say, " Well, Sir, as we h a v e t h e opt i on of paying y ou in bank_ notes or in gold, we will pay you in notes." tout he (Mr. Davis) understood that they had acceded, subsequently, to the application. This transaction complained of .happened oh the 23d of June; but afterwards a larger amount had been ten dered to him in gold; yet the petitioner • had sworn to a debt of 201. as due from these bankers. There could he no doubt that those gentlemen felt themselves to have acted in error ; fur it was understood generally that all country bankers were liable to pay their notes in cash, although an impression to the ' con— trary hat) found its u a y i n t o some quarters. Lord FOLKESTONE thought the . 114 m. Member for Eris tol had viewed this matter as if it had been a question Merely between the bankers and the petitioner ; but if he (Lord F y had rightly caught what had • fallen froth his Honourable Friend, the petition contained matters of very grave'considera don on mut:lv-more general principles. It stated a fact: that he could not help considering to be it grievance of very great mag.- nitude. When mr.. Peel's bill - was brought in, he unders!ood that the country was about to return - to - ti good and proper state of currency: that was, that every man might get, gold in ex,.. 'change for his bank-notes if he pleased. Either from some failure in that , act,- or some misapprehension'of its provisions on die part of the bankers, its effect had not been'Nch. Mete was a petitioner who held a certain quantity of notes issued.by a very respectable barker at Bristol.. lie desired to' .have them exchanged for gold, as he (Lord Folkestone) believetLifiLodt of every' 0(1 persons would Conceive themselves entitled to de mend in such a case ; though.it now appeared they would not be so entitled, An Hon. Gentleman, indeed, had suggested,. that in ease of refusal on the part of -the hanker, the applicant would have his remedy by law. Nbw he (Lord Folkestone) did not understand much about law and its quirks; but he had been told, that a party's action, should he ever choose to bring one, could not be tried for some eight or' nine months . and at the expiration of that period, again, the bankers might obtain a writ of error, and so put off the payment of his demand for a year and a halrlonger. 'The legal remedy of i%lr. Jones, there, fore, would appear to be this—that whereas, in the month of June, 1825, he wanted some gold for particular purposes, and - was refused when he applied to the bankers to give it hint in exchange for their own paper ; the law would enable him to obtain his remedy somewhere about the month,ofJune, 1827. He (Lord Folkestone) had been interrupted by another llpn. Friend, who told him that any body who chose could get gold in exchange for his Bank of England notes, on application at the Bank ofEngland. Why, so he could, no doubt ; but was every man desirous to get gold for some 61. or 71. in notes, for example, to travel vtp to London, Some hundreds of miles, perhaps, for that purpose ? The . Noble Lord thanked the Honourable Gentleman fin having introduced this petition ; and expressed his hope that Ministers would feel it incum bent upon them, even at this late period cf the ,session, to bring in ,som e - measure t h at s h ou l d g i ve operation •to ;hat' • clause in the Cash Payment' Suspension Act, which had been - -. unfortunately omitted in the later statute to which allusion had -• been made. Mr. HUDSON GURNEY addressed the House from under the gallery; and in so low a tone - of voice that vie could collect but little-of his speech. •We understood him to say that the conduct of the parties complained of seemed to have been ex, ceedingly absurd. They had done that which scarcely any other men in the sante capacity would be so foolish as to do—they had refused seven sovereigns for seven of their own notes; yet every country banker must be presumed to know, that on demand he must pay his own notes in gold. With regard to what had fallen from a Noble Lord, it was quite obvious that the gold necessary to pay these demands when made must be sent for to London; but the Noble Lord, in speculating on the possi bility that a party who should he refused geld by a country banker in exchange for their tendered notes, might have to wait nearly two years for his legal remedy on 'an actin w for debt, overlooked the evident fact, that at the utmost the delay might bbonly equal to that which would elapse between -the sending to London for gold, and the arrival of a remittance in that cur rency. The situation of our currency at this moment he, for one, considered to be less satisfactory than he had ever before known it to be. When the Right Hon. Gentleman (Air, Peel),. a few years since, brought in his bill, it had an operation upon prices, which was more than either the land or its produce could bear; and theretbre it was that a Right Hon. Gentleman, since called up to the other House (Lord Bexley), brought In another • Act to neutralize, in part, the effect of that That effeet was to increase prices generally throughout the country.; and by that very consequence to induce another:_namely, the in creased issue of notes by country bankers. For his own part, he (Mr. 11. Gurney) should have liked, at the time when the Right Hon, Secretary (Mr. Peel) brought in this bill, to have seen the eittrencY pelt On such a footing, that a gOld currency and that only should h ave c i rcu l ate d through the country ; and that if there were to be any 11. . notes permitted at. all, they should be restricted to the issue of the Bank of England. While individuals, being bankers in the country, were allowed to pia in . circulation their 11. notes to the great extent they were .at present sufferctd° to do, it was obyious, that the issue- of gold sovereigns must be, in a great measure, confined, and restricted to London. Mr. EDWARD ELLICE concurred with his Don. Friend in thinking that our currency was scarcely ever in a less aatis ' faCtory state than at present. If a war, or a very bad harvest, or an other visitation of that general and alarming nature, should substitute for our present condition of high credit and confi dence, one' of discredit, h e cons id ere d t h at t h e G overnment would find itself under the painful necessity either of allowing severe commercial pressure that must ensue to go on without any remedy ; or once more to cause the, Bank to suspend its cash-payments. Much of the evil that had been already ex perienced by our currency was occasioned, he thought, -by the permission again extended to the issue of 11. end '2l. country bank-notes. All contracts, after the introduction of. the Right lion. Gentleman's bill, being to be paid in a gold currency, and therefore a higher value currency than that, under which they were originally made, the law bore so hard upon the landed interest, that it became necessary for their relief to pass the corn laws, and some other measures of ,that kind. In Lanca shire, and Yorkshire, 1/. and 2/. notes constituted the:only cir culatin medium ;—(" no , no ," from Mr. J. Sinith.)—LHe g might be 'Wrong; but of this he was certain—that such was the case within. its own knowledge and experien"ce in Scotland, and in most' of the northern parts of. England that he had visited ; and whenever he wanted change for a 01. note,. he could only get notes all. Suppose in such case of public em ergenc y or difficulty as he h a d b een s p ea kin g of,. a great and general de mand for gold specie should be made by the country banka on the Bank of England ; ho* would the latter meet that demand ? The pUblic . knew the amount of their engagements, and of this dead weight; and that dead weight, for instance, • the Wink could not carry to market—they could not carry their mortei:ges for sale ; and he (Mr. E.) did not see' how, there fare, they could contend against such a stat e of things.. 11r. JOHN smirrir differed entirely from his Hon. Friend (Mr. Hume) and the Noble Lord:( Folkestone), who considered that 90/. out Of every 100/. in the tireulation of the country, consisted of 11. notes of country Banks. He (Mr. J. Smiths really hardly knew how sufficient!) , to express the surprise wish which he had lislened.to shat statement. In the first place, a very large proportion of the circul a tio n of the country was ;in 5/. and 5-guinea notes ; though l ess so, probably, in London and its vicinity then in other paits of the kings' m. He would venture to state—and circumstances had enabled him to form some opinion on the subject—Omar! )--thatsLand 5-guinea notes therefore, and not 1/.. notes, comprised a very large proportion of our circulation. The case set out in this petition originated, he believed, as had been stated by 'the : Honourable 'Member. for Bristol, in a quarrel between the petitioner and the banker, at. Briitol, who most unjustly, mo st i ll ega ll y, an d most impru, dently,he must say,refused to give gold to the party in .exchange for the notes of the firm. It seemed rather to be insinuated in the speech of a noble friend of his (Lord Volkestone) that such a practice might be commonly resorted to. among bankers ; hut he begged most explicitly to deny the imputation.. In respect to what had been said about the state of the currency in the north of England, by the Hop-Member for Coventry, he could assure the House that in nearly the largest county in the kingdom, and where the greatest amount of wages was paid .of any (Lancashire), the whole of. 'those wages was paid in specie. If the lion. Member for nythe (31r.5...1. , L0yd, we be lieve) had been in his place, he could have communicated some very important information to. the tlouse.on this subject hay ing, in the course of his life,,,transinittcd verjklarge,aurns of 'specie for that purpose to those districts. 'Another part of the Hon. Member for Coventry's speech he (Mr. J. Smith) had heard with astonishment. Ile himself was one of those who lel' no fears at all about the condition of the currency.—(Hear!.) —He wished to know how it should happen that the greatest ommercial country in the world —whose trade and commerce were desired by ail Europe—could be in want of a sufficient