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.'~ 1 %0 a , . i l#7l -ji •;;; - ..,.,, .fe rn '-, tOtal i : -.__ . t - . -±,\'• :-*". 4. ' r.i.: v .)., , , ; . ;:i „ • _ 1 ,... ;;; , -, .• .4"..tr 14 NumBER 10,2.29 ROYAL ACADEMY, SOMERSF, r PLACE. T HE EXHIBITION of the ROYAL ACA DEMY IS NOW OPEN. Admission (from Eight o'Clocli till Seven), Is. Catalogue, ls. HENRY HOWARD, R.A. Sec. NEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY do hereby gee No tice, that an . HALF YEARLY GENERAL COURT will be held, pursuant to the Act of Parliament, at the West India Dock House, No. B,lliter-square, on FRIDAY, te •Bth day of July next, at One o'Clock in the Afternoon, for th e purpose of CHOOSING and Appointing FIVE DI RECTORS of the said Company, to succeed those going out by rotation: also a Director, in the room of David Lyon, Esq. who has disqualified : at which Meeting a DIVIDEND will be declared for the Half year ending the 30th instant. By Order of the Court. H. LONGLANDS, Sec. West India Dock House, June 17, 1825. The Chair will be taken at Two o'Clock precisely. COLOMBIAN AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 16A.RTI ES desirous to treat with the Directors of the "COLOMBIAN ASSOCIATION for AGRI CULTURAL and other purposes" for Land in Colombia, may learn the particulars on which the Directors are now pre- Pared to dispose of a limited quantity, on application at the 0 1fice, No. 32, Bucklerabury. JOHN ORROK, Secretary. tißrrisß STEAM and PATENT NA VI GATION COMPANY.—Capital 5 00 , 0001 . in 5 , 000 .Qhares of 1001. each. Thi s company has been formed under the immediate sane , ' t l , ol l and patronage of some of the most distin g uished Naval , A . P.C.aracters of Great tiritain, viz.— V ice -Admiral Sir !,,ear- Sir RICHARD KING, Bart. , K.C.B. "Cc-Admiral the Right Hon. Lord Visct. TORRINGTON. &tAdmiral R. W . OT WA Y. rear-Admiral JOHN MA ITIAND. It eaar-Admiral JOSEPH BIJLLEN. r Admiral Sir HENRY HEAT HCOTE. DIRECTORS. Edward Bates, Esq. T. Barrett, Lennard, Esq. Captain Nathaniel Belchier, Sir John Scott Lille. R.N. Capt. C. 0. Mayne, 11.E.1.C. Captain Robert Bruce, R.N. John Stevens, Egg. Captain John Crispo, R.N. Thomas Tredgold, Esq. a at- ptain T. Dance, R.N. B. Thornton, Esq. Q• wit 1,1,,q- Captain R. W. Wales, R.N. S% n. Ingilby, Bart. M.P. Edward Walpole, Esq. ankers—Messrs.Drummonds, Charing-cross; and Messrs. Veres, 77, Lombard-st;et. Shipbuilders--31essrs. Brindley, of Rochester. Jale advantages resulting from the use of steam-vessels are tau firmly established to require comment ; it is, however, uni- Nrersally admitted that the vessels and machinery hitherto employed are not adapted to distant voyages or tempestuous W „Ather. To obviate the admitted defects in steam navigation, the drau g h ts and models of several patents of great merit in naval , -tc lutecture and machinery have been investigated by gentle. '''eli of science and nautic a l experience, to whom it has been pa t lattorily demonstrated, that by the combined aid of the theVl,ni selected and the employment of propelling engines on bininl,nciples, it is confidently anticipated that vessels com. to c a r: ll / Tke so superior will make the passage from London irds and ; by the Cape of Good Hope, (in despite of.contrary Vents) in 50 days. and to the ports of the West es an d A comp any An erica in a proportionate time ; and that the cculiderabjlll, with such important advantages, divide a very and losses e annual profit, the comparative risk being small, L on d on 7 guarded against by the property being ensured in ~ ,,A , P plications for Shares to be made to the Bankers by letters, Ir a paid, addressed t o th e Di rec t or s of the British Steam and te_nt Navigation Company. Prospectuses may be had of the • NOTICE of SALE of that desirable and FREEHOLD ESTATE, exonerated from Land Tax called FARMINGTON LODGE, situated at FARMING- O:si, in the County of GLOUCESTER, comprising an ex -411-ent Stone -built Mansion, fit for the reception of a family of the first distinction, together with all necessary and convenient s .inces, Stables, Coach-houses, Pleasure Grounds, Gardens, &c. Bx capital Freehold Farms, with all necessary Homestalls, Xa, and Buildi ngs , ( c hi e fl y i n t h e occupat i on o f T enants at 1), c onta i n i ng 18 02 Acres, 1 Rood, 17 Poles, (little more or t s), and e qua l to Tithe-free, being subject to a money pay the axed b Act f Parliaent. The New In, situated on Mdirect Che y ltenha o m Road, with stabling for n 60 horses. A anor, with all its appendages, except the Advowson, which Vender retains. A Quarry of excellent Free-stone, ad. O l i ,ning th e Turnpike Road leading from Northleach to Stowe c4lle:Wold. And Thirty-four Cottages, leased on lives, „prisin g near l y t h e w h o l e v i l l age of Farmington. hyy he Estate , abounding with every description of game, which ni been well preserved for many years, is divided into conve waat sized Inclosures, well supplied with beautiful springs of i )) `er, and has the direct London and Cheltenham Road pass 04g through it, within one . mile of the mansion, and bounded tailthe north by the Stow and Cirencester Road, is distant 79 ai l ) from London, 14 from Cheltenham, and 25 from Oxford ; N 19 ,1 will be SOLD BY AUCTION, i n O ne Lot, by Ch an RTINGA LE, at GA R RA WA Y'S COFFEE HOUSE, () ge Ahe o'Cloll k ey Coruhill, on WEDNESDAY, th e Gth July, at c th 4 P iaci of the Estate may be seen, and Particulars had, at ))Itl e office s of Messrs. Dy►neley and Gatty, Field -court, Gray's -11)4 and of Mr. Eeles Surveyor, 22, Pall-mall. Particulars If e ;Llso be obtained 21 days prior to the Sale at the King's s,4u, Northleach • White Hart, Chipping Norton ; Unicorn, irw Star; and Angel, Oxford ; Plough Hotel, Cheltenham ; 1.1: 4 ole, Worcester ; King's Head, Gloucester ; Royal Ho tel, 1..-1 I ; Bush Bristol • on the Premises • and of Mr. e nr, , , alton-upon-Tharnes, Surrey. L e d "'as Cook will be daily in attendance at Farmington fire to sh he Estate. --- k'o r . QUININE LOZENGES, Nausea. 1, relieving Heartburn, Flatulence, Indigestion, , s Os ' s of Appetite, Waterbrash, &c. and giving I one to the .....• tYrnach. ‘JIP all the recent discoveries in Vegetable With Chemistry, none has been received by the Faculty 11;4elii!tiore satisfaction than that produced by the French 'spea st s , from Peruvian Bark. The inconvenience formerly less ne ed in the administration of Bark, from the bulk ne- Pitrti e r to form a dose, and the irritating effects of the fibrous , Pern at es it contained, rendered the Patient often unable .0 :!.'sP c '; Wit h it, even where no other remedy, in every other tio t n ;' seemed likely to - accomplish the Object of Chad.llll' e e l r iv t : t i ; C on T r b en e i D en e c c i o e c s t;ion, Infusion, and Tincture, . also ' l'h e , n strua, either from the quantity or quality of t '''lf e rT' l u Pbate of Quinine is found to possess all the tonic is'trd ~ lie properties of the Peruvian Bark, in a conceit ;ie e,':ate, deprived of the extractive and resinous matter. '"ari--'n contains all the essential properties of rather more one d r ,'", ti a chrn of the Bark in its natural state; . it isevi wh ler e f t 4 tee er ' °res that in debilitated Stomachs, arising from l i) th e r c ause, no Medicine can be more desirable. t! ' Stilor n sla from which these Lozenges are . prepared, the tabterefleteets%ni alayiiinine forms the chief ingredient ; but, mi ld e i ntend d • be . more adapted to the object for which 1„ , Ab seil) de d, it is combined in suchproportions with 11,,j'ide r th:ntst Anti-acids, and• agreeab p le Arot . natas s e r tone. eel applicable to every Stomach labouring under %,,. d in n _ ki r . ? at,,, Los at 2s. 9d. by Butler, Chemist, 4, apside ; Acid pal D ill • .46, New Bond-street, London; C at e d by the Th ru olat ed us ggists in the Kingdom; of whom h may be had f resi! tt, rel, z etlges of Cayenne, for recent and abitual Sore at Ys, g gll4'4"On of the Uvula, Hoarseness,&c. also a re- Iv Sd. l "lus in Fatigue, Field Sports, &c. in boxes, li ti. n . Lill et . r , s A eid4 r i eful to ask for Butler's Quinine Lozenges, or 'Med Lozenges of Cayenne. 1 -e. . . . r XIII .- 11/1 .o.s"-ik'-‘7.„._. ,1.,... 0 .t_ *- 444 SUN. FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 24, 1825. PARLIAMENT, HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY, JUNE 23. This morning their Lordships met at ten o'clock, in a Com mittee of Privileges, on the Gardner Peerage, when Mr. TINDALL, on behalf of Mr. Fenton Gardner, who is opposed to the claimant, was desirous of delaying the proceedings till next Session, but their Lordships would not grant further than Monday next. ANNANDALE PEERAGE. Mr. KEAY was called in and heard for the claimant, on the general import of the evidence which had been adduced, after which the further consideration was adjourned to next Session. Prayers were then read by the Bishop of CHESTER. The LORD CHANCELLOR now moved their Lordships for judgment in the Appeal of " Oddy v. Wood," from the Court of Chancery, which was remitted to settle the question of interest and costs. " Newburgh (Earl v. the Countess Dowager" was remitted to the aforesaid Court ; while the same v. the same in another case, was affirmed with costs. Adjourned at four o'clock during pleasure, and at five o'clock the House resumed. Mr. Tommxs, from the Treasury, presented an Account of the Value and Price of American and Baltic Timber imported to this country. The Quarantine Laws Repeal Bill, and the British Consuls Bill, were respectively read a third time, passed, and messaged to the other House. JUDGES' SALARIES AUGMENTATION. The Earl of LIVERPOOL rose for the purpose of moving the Order of the Day, upon which their Lordships had been summoned, for the House proceeding to the second reading of the Judges' Salaries Augmentation Bill. He should (the Noble Earl observed) move that portion which related to the Court of King's Bench in the first instance ; and if any conver sation was to be indulged on this Bill, he would rather take it upon this portion of the measure. He could only say that the principle of the Bill had been thorougly considered, and it was deemed important to the administration of justice to augment the salaries of the Judges. It was unseemly, to say the least, that the Chief Justice of the Court of King 's Bench should be supposed to live by the sale of offices held under him ; and it would be far better to abolish that practice, and also all indirect means of profit or salary. The present bill went to effect that object; and there was a complete understanding that not only sales of offices at present, but likewise that all prospective sine cures, should be abolished, with the exception of those only (and such offices did not come under the designation of sine. 1 cures) as were performed by the holders or their deputies. It was, therefore, one great object of this bill to do away with all sales of offices, and with sinecures, but to give salaries to those who held efficient offices. It was proposed to allow a salary of 10,0001. a-year to the Chief Justice of the King's Bench, and 5,5001. a-year to each of the Puisne Judges, for less was not thought proper. If, indeed, their Lordships would consider the general stage of human life when Learned persons were first raised to the Bench, the rank in society which it was necessary for them to maintain, and also the laborious duties they had to perform, the Puisne Judges could never be considered as at all overpaid at a salary of 5,500/. a-year. Their Lordships must look to people in a respectable practice at the Bar when provid ing for openings on the Bench, not too far advasiced in life to benefit by their services, and especially if with families. Ile would not trouble their Lordships further, but he wished to be understood as not countenancing patronage to offices that were not effectual. The Marquis of LANSDOWN did not rise for the purpose of opposing the Bill, the principle of which he approved. He should give an unqualified assent to the impropriety of selling offices as described in the Bill, and he would agree that the apportioning of a simple salary to each of the Judges was much better. He also felt it reasonable and proper to raise the sala ries of the Puisne Judges, so as to enable them to maintain the rank in society they were entitled to hold. Having stated this, he must notice the remark he had heard, that the retiring pen sions of the Puisne Judges were higher in proportion than those of the Chief Judges. Now, from the moment that any office was overpaid, from that moment it became an object of solicita tion to one side, and of influence on the other side • and this point was well illustrated by M. Cottu, in his remarks on Ju risprudence, when he stated that the french Government was inexorable in requiring a political identity from the French Judges. What he feared was, that any raising of salaries in such a quarter led, directly or indirectly, to the influence which M. Cottu so well pointed at, and the House ought vigilantly to guard against it. Another of the objects was to abolish all fees, and it should also be an object with their Lordships to abolish the exaction of any new fees hereafter. He considered this a natural opportunity of calling the attention of the Lord ships to the state of judicature in Vales, a subject which had formerly been taken up by a Noble Friendof his (Cawdor), but which still remained in the same state, unaltered and unim. proved, as if no notice had been taken of it. He wished to ele vate the character of a Welsh Judge, by keeping the Judges aloof from Parliament ; but it was notorious that their salaries were low while their number was great, which circumstances left men open to temptation, and, of course, not insensible to influence. He could not understand, when assimilations were every where 'going - on—in agriculture, in commerce, in cur rency, and even in. weights and measures—why assimilation was to be refusedin laws, and why, unreformed and unassimi lated, the judicattfre of the Principality was to be left alone. He never had heard any sort of reason for such an anomaly, ex cept it were the fear of offending that most jealous had irras cible of all Princes—the Prince of Wales ! He trusted that this subject would occupy the attention of the House, though he had no doubt that - persons of great respectability might sus tain the office of a Welsh Judge. With respect to the Bill in troduced last year,iie could assert that it had been attended with very great inconveniences, as it left the business of the county of Carmarthen to stand over. Lord ELLEN BOROUGH said, that if the object of the Bill were chiefly to give a salary of 10,0001. a year to the Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, and a salary of 8,000/. a-year to the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and embraced no subordinate points, he would not object to it, but he appre hended that it never would go properly to abolish the sale of offices. With respect to offices, there were absolutely no traces of an augmentation of fees since the year 1605. As to the ru moured sales of certain offices, he hardly could believe they ever took place as reported; such offices in general were given to relations ; but if after all there was no objection to sell the advowson to a living, he could discover no sound objection to sell an office, one purely ministerial, which belonged to a Court of Law. But why not follow, in this instance, the remedial act respecting the Court of Exchequer in Ireland ? He saw no reason for lowering the proportion as between the remuneration of the Puisne Judges and others. Let the question be put in another way. Suppose the Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench to become a Peer of Parliament (such instances in point had occurred, and might occur), he would ask the Noble and Learned Lord upon the Woolsack, whether such a man, having a family, with only 10,000/. a-year, would like to sit in that House' And if net, whether their Lordships might not here after be deprived of that assistance they once received from the luminaries of our jurisprudence ? He must contend, that the pension which the Bill assigned to the Lord Chief Justice bore no proportion to that provided for the Puisne Judges. Not to dwell upon the anomalies in relation to the King's Bench, in referring to the Common Pleas, as their Lordships might do, it appeared that the Bill directed the payment of money to the executors of a man during his natural life. There were other anomalies, which he hoped to see removed by the Noble Earl opposite. With regard to the measure, to speak generally, he was of opinion that the public would derive no benefit from it all, at any rate, was remote ; and it would have been better if on this occasion the principle of the Irish Court of Exchequer Bill had been adopted. The Earl of LIVERPOOL drew a distinction between those holding offices, and those who were to succeed to them. He knew that there existed a right to buy out the possession, as had been done in the case of Ireland ; but when there was no mode of settling the value of such offices, it was judged better to let them expire. With respect to of f ices held during plea sure, this applied to the case of sinecures; and he agreed that some supplementary measure might be necessary to explain the present Bill. As to the mode proposed for paying the Judges, he could only say that the feeling of the times in which we lived had principally been consulted, as to whether it was not better that it should be done directly than indirectly, by sales of offices, and whether the proposed course was not more re spectable than the former. Here, then, the question occurred to what a person holding the high office of Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench ought tuhave ; and, even with the patronage left, it was considered that not less than 10,000/. a-year ought to be allowed. With respect to the Puisne Judges, it way considered that 5,500/. a-year was not too much. He would allow, at the same time, that the retiring allowance of the Puisne Judges, when compared with the Chief Justices, was rather high ; but the calculation was made upon the supposition that the former, and especially if they had families, could not have saved much ' • and that they ought to be enabled to retire in time, and not linger in office when unfit for the discharge of their duties, and to enable them to advance to the close of life with honour. There was not any thing done in the present Bill either materially too much, or materially too little. Lord ELLEN BOROUGH explained. Lord CA W DOlt here complained of what had not been done, rather than of what had been done, in relation to the Judicature of Wales. He would ask the Noble Earl opposite how long it was meant to leave the Welsh Judges in the situa tion they were in at present ? 4 The LORD CHANCELLOR now understood that the sale of offices, though much diminished, was left only to the Chief Justices of the King's Bench and Common Pleas ; and the sooner it was done with the better. Be did not titink that the Judges of either of those Courts would wilfully . do wrong, but the public would not be satisfied till the practice was done away with ; and as suspicions might be entertained, their Lordships should remember that they could not keep the fountains of jus tice too pure. There was another good reason for doing away with such sales, which was, -that the persons who purchased the offices could never be satisfied with alterations in them.— With respect to the Chief Justices, he thought they were ill treated ; they had received no augmentation of salary for ninety years, according to the bargain made by Parliament for the public, while the present Bill proposed to take the sale of offices away from them. Under these circumstances it was due to those Judges to say, that they had acted as well as if their salary had been ten times more than it was ; for the great security we had for the due administration of justice was, that the eyes of the country were upon the Judges. With respect to the Puisne Judges, it was better to have per sons for those situations who had enjoyed much practice at the bar, and he could assure their Lordships, that it was very difficult to procure fit persons, as the law formerly stood.— With respect to the abolition of sinecures, their Lordships should take care, before they abolish such offices, that they really were sinecures; for when the duty of the principal was done by the deputy, with the liability of the principal, who employed his deputy, it was no sinecure in the contemplation of the law. With respect to the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, he took it, generally, that the person in that situation had taken it at a loss of three times as much as he would have acquired at the bar. As to the office of Lord Chancellor, he could safely say that the remuneration was not equivalent to what he once received as a Counsel at the Bar. The income of Chancellor was not greater than it stood at one hundred years since. With respect to favours in the way of patronage or places, if it could be proved that he had exercised this privi lege to an extent at all equal to any of his predecessors, he would willingly stand before the public as convicted and con demned. With respect to the Welsh Judges, whose situation had been referred to by two Noble Lords (Lansdown and Caw dor), he must admit that they were ill paid ; but, notwithstand ing this circumstance, their conduct was exemplary, and for one writ of error sent to that House from the l'rincipality, their Lordships had one hundred writs from the other English Courts. Lord CAWDOR explained. Lord SUFFIELD said he took this occasion to remind their Lordships of a petition which he presented last year from the Magistrates of the County of Norfolk, who prayed that the Assizes might be removed from Thetford to Norwich. He be lieved that nine-tenths of the population of the County still wished for this alteration, and complained of the limitation of duty so incurred. On the:occasion he alluded to the Noble and Learned Lord upon the NVoolsack said that he would lay the matter before the Judges, and he (Lord Suffield) since under stood that their answer had been given in: The LORD CHANCELLOR said that be thought it due to that respect which was owing to the Magistrates of Norfolk to have the reasons for the decision of the Judges, relative to the removal of the Assizes from Thetford, assigned to them.— He should, however make it his buiiness to refer to the Ma gistrates of Norfolk, to whom a communication had been made, and would in form the Noble Lord of the result. _ _ _ -.- The Earl of LIVERPOOL was against the removal of the Assizes in any case, when they oontinued to be held in a small town, to a large and populous place. Whether this was the decision of the Judges he knew not, but it was certainly his opinion. He thought matters best as they were. The LORD CHANCELLOR coincided with the Noble Earl. Some conversation then ensued between the Marquis of Lansdown, the Earl of Liverpool, and the Lord Chancellor, with regard to the Salaries of the Master of the Rolls, and the Vice-Chancellor, in which the Noble and Learned Lord passed a very high eulogium on the legal character of Sir W. Grant; and it was understood that the salary of the Vice-Chancellor would eventually be raised. EQUITABLE LOAN COMPANY. On the motion of Lord DacuE, the Report of the Equitable Loan Bill was received. The LORD CHA NCELLOR here intimated his determi nation to oppose the Bill upon the third reading, anti moved thcir Lordships to he summoned for to-morrow, when he had no doubt but there would be a full attendance in the House. Upon the motion of the Noble and Learned Lord, the Uni versities' Police Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed for o.morrow. ASSIMILATION OF THE CURRENCY. On the motion for the second reading of the Bill for the Assi milation of the Irish with the English Currency, Viscount CLIFDE N observed, that he did not rise for the purpose of op posing the bill. He thought what had been done, and now was attempting by Government, had done them great credit. Its principal good effect had been to put an end to all the jugglery and tricks of the Exchange Brokers. Whilst 1001. English Currency was worth but 1081. 6s. Bd. Irish, the people of Ire land were generally obliged to pay much more for 1001. Eng lish, and the balance was put by the Exchange Brokers into their own pockets. The Noble Viscount then entered into a detailed view of the conduct of Mr. Pitt. in respect of the sus pension of cash payments, which he declared to be the grand cause of all the evils which had originated since his time into the currency. The Bank of England by that Act were allowed a premium on forcing their paper into circulation. So had the Bank of Ireland. The result of which was, that the Bank of England had in consequence received not less than twenty millions of money more than it was entitled to receive: and the Bank of Ireland had forced into circulation more than 3,000,000/ of their paper than they were entitled to. In this respect the Bank of Ireland had, lie contended, acted mostscan dalously, though nothing like so scandalously as the Bank of England. He did not rise to oppose the bill, nor was he much concerned at finding he had but a scanty auditory ; for his ob ject in rising was to let the public out of doors know what were his sentiments respecting the great money transactions of this great commercial country, and their bearing for the last 27 years. The Bill was read a second time. The Spirit Distillery Bill went through a Committee, and was reported. Sir George Clarke, and other Members of the House of Com mons, appeared at the Bar and presented the following Bills which had received the assent of the King, and passed the Nouse of Commons. namely, The Plate Transferrable Bill, the Naval Dock-yards Bill, the Scobli Partnerships Society Bill, the A bo lition of Writs o r E rror Bill, the Indian .Judges salaries Bill, Aloore's Divor se Bill and severa l Bills originating in their Lordships' H ouse , and some private Bills , amounting in num ber to about twenty. 11.1 'SINTER Plt ETA TION. Earl GROSVENOR said he rose to correct a misrepresenta tion which had gone forth to the public relative to a petition he had presented from Congleton, on the subject of the Catholic Claims Bill. A Right Rev. Prelate had been represented as having stated that petition to have been improperly signed and got up for the purpose of supporting that particular measure: as this had obtained publicity through the medium of the press, he was anxious it should b e corre cted through the s a m e medium, an h d wished,irhdstliipesrtc;ipart the petition lie presented f ro m re p r esentation should be correcte d. He assured e on their ly l) Congleton had been hi g hly res p ec tably signed by persons,of full age , and he apprehded the petiti" must have been con founded with that fr en om the town of Preston in Lancashir e . He knew the Mayor of Congleton and others who had signed the Petition he presented were anxious that this explanation should.take place, for the sake of their own character; and he should have failed, tie thought, in his duty to their interests if he had not alluded to it, so as to leave its correction in the hands best calculated to place the matter in its proper light before the public. The House then adjourned at HALF-PAS't SEVEN. HOUSE OF COMMONS. A Person from the Treasury presented an Account of the Gross Receipt of the Revenue of Excise. The Edinburgh Commercial Bank Bill was read a third time and passed. Sir LI. HARDINGE presented papers from the Ordnance Office, pursuant to the Order of the House. lie regretted the absence of the Hon. Member for Aberdeen, on whose motion these voluminous docwnents, which had cost the department three months' labour , and the printing of which he was told would cost 4001., had been produced. As, perhaps, under these circumstances, the Hon. Member would look over the papers, and make such a selection as would be sufficient for his pur pose, he (Sir 11. Hardinge) would postpone moving for their being printed. The Newspapers Bill was read a third time, and passed. COMBINATION LAWS BILL, Mr. CALCRAFT was very anxious that the second read in; of this Bill should be postponed, as time had not been af forded for duly reading the Report of the Committee, and as the evidence on which that Report was founded had not been printed. It was a subject of the greatest importance, having considerably agitated the public mind • and he hoped the Right Honourable Gentlemen opposite would not proceed to legislate upon it, before the fullest information had been afforded to the li ()use. Mr. WALLACE had no disposition to press the Bill before time had been given for the fullest consideration. He felt that the Hon. Member's appeal was irresistible. He could not think of pressing on the discussion under such circumstances. His only object for wishing not unnecessarily to lose time, was the late period of the Session. Perhaps the best plan would be to allow the Bill to be now read a second time, and to take the discussion on a future stage. Mr. CALCRAFT acquiesced, and after a few words from Mr. ROBERTSON, the Bill was read a second time, and or dered to be committed on Monday next. PRIVATE BILLS. Mr. LITTLET6I;IIO:tPoneiI - to Monday his motion founded on the Report of the Committee appointed to consider the proceedings on Private Bills. The Report on the Surplus Grants Bill was brought up and agreed to ; and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. The Customs Bounty Bill, the Passage Vessels Regula tion Bill, the Warehousing Goods Bill, the Isle of Nan Trade Bill, and the Dublin Wide Streets Bill, were read a third time, and passed. COLONIES TRADE BILL. The House having resolved itself into a Committee on the Colonies Trade Bill, Mr. HUM E remonstrated against the provision in the. Bill by which food imported into the Colonies was subject,l to duty, and moved, as an amendment, to exempt beef (fresh and salt), pork, and bacon, from the operation of the Bill. Mr. HERRIES hoped that this amendment would not be pressed, no notice having been given of it. Mr. HUME said, he had told the Chancellor of the Exche quer that he would move such an Amendment in the Commit tee. In his opinion, food of all sorts ought to be admitted freely into the Colonies, as also indeed into England, and every where else. _ _ _ After a few words from Mr. ELLICE and Mr. CURTEIS, the Amendment was withdrawn and the original Clause agreed to. The other Clauses were proposed and carried, and the House having resumed, the Report was brought up, and or dered to be received to-morrow. A Message from the Lords announced that their Lordships had given their assent to several public and private Bills (for which see Lords' Report). Mr. HUME presented a petition from a Mr. Thomas Poyn ter, market gardener, of W r est End, Fulham, in the County of Middlesex, complaining that the Tollgates demanded as much toll for a donkey as for a horse. Ile prayed an Inquiry into the Turnpike Acts.—Mr. Hume gave notice that he should, in the courseof next Session, apply himself to remedy the griev ance thus complained of.—The petition was read, and laid on the Table. Mr. HUME presented a petition from a person named Alex ander Haighe, a hawker and pedlar, complaining that the Eng lish Hawkers' Licensing Act did not extend to Scotland, and vice versa, and that he had in consequence suffered serious da mage and injury.—Laid on the Table. LINEN TRADE BILL.. Sir G. HILL brought up the Report of the Irish Linen Trade Bill, it was read at length, and afterwards recommitted. Several clauses were agreed to, after which the House resumed, and the Repoit was received and agreed to, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow, if then ingrossed. CASE OF MR. SHREWSBURY, THE MISSIONARY. Mr. F. BUXTON rose to submit a motion on the papers re lating to Mr. Shrewsbury, the late Missionary at Barbadoes, of which he had given previous notice. In bringing forward this motion, he was desirous of avoiding all extraneous topics, and, indeed;, of waving all comment upon the case, anxious only to submit a plain narrative of facts to the consideration of the House. He would therefore lay a brief detail of Mr. Shrews bury's history before them. This gentleman had been for some time a Dissenting Minister in this country, and had conducted himself to the entire satisfaction of those who were connected with him here. In 1816, he was sent out as Missionary to the Island of Tortola. He continued to discharge the duties of a Missionary there for two years, and obtained the most satis factory testimonials as to the highly creditable manner in which he discharged the duties of his mission. From Tortola he re moved to Grenada. He there demeaned himself in an equally satisfactory manner, and as a proof of the high estimation in which he was hell, when Mr. Shrewsbury solicited sub scriptions for the building of a Wesleyan Chapel, he received 60 guineas from the Governor and 10 guineas from his Secre tary, as their respective mites to his undertaking. His conduct merited and obtained the same approbation in Grenada that it had received at Tortola. Mr. Ross, a proprietor of considerable property there, had borne the highest testimony to his charac ter. In a letter, speaking of his conduct, he said " that he was a man who would have done honour to any society or any Christian community." The letter further stated, that since his arrival in the Island, there were more frequent marriages, the conduct of those who composed his flock was greatly . improved, and altogether his mission was attended with the greatest benefits to the Colony. After the success ful exertions of Mr. Shrewsbury in Tortola and Grenada, he was selected to the mission of BarbadoeS, where, from the pecu- liar situation of that island, his exertions might have been ex pected to be most beneficial. By the papera laid before that House in 1803, it appeared that a most angry spirit of religious perse cution prevailed in that island, and he was sorry to say that he had too strong reasons for believing that a similar spirit pre vailed there up to the present day. It required the appoint. ment of a missionary to this Colony, who would combine a sense of duty to the negroes, and a spirit of conciliation to those who were their masters, and such an union of qualifications was found in Mr. Shrewsbury. Mr. Shrewsbury was himself, by connection and feeling, naturally anxious for the welfare and advancement of those colonies. He was married himself to a West Indian, and there was reason to suppose him any thing rather than a partisan of the abolitionists. He had been charged, however, with writing letters to him (Mr. Buxton), yet he (Mr Buxton) could assure the House that he had not received any communications from him until that he had read in the Papers that Mr. Shrewsbury was going to be hanged for corresponding with him.—(A laugh.;—And here he was desi rous of taking an opportunity of assuring the House that he never kept up any correspondence with any of the missionaries, either of the Moravian, London, or any other Society. A letter, he believed, had been addressed by a Society—the Abo lition of Slavery Society (as we understood) with which he was connected, requesting the missionaries to inform the - Society of the state of the negro population on their respective missions. One of these letters was addressed to Mr. Shrewsbury, to which he replied, and in which he gage, certainly, a very melan choly, but he believed also a very true statement, of the state of the colony of Barbadoes. This letter was published.— It might be said, that this inquiry ought not to have been made ; or that if made, Mr. Shrewsbury . ought not to have. replied to it ; or that, if he replied to it, his reply ought - not to have been published. But, in adopting this course, the Society had only adopted the course which had been set by the example of the Government, on a similar occasion. In 1816, Lord Bathurst addressed letters to the Clergy of the o l , tic.uestingLetters to know what was the state of the Colonies as were written in reply to these o to nrieelsi religion, com munications, giving, certainly, a most melancholy picture of the Colonies on the points on which inquiry was made, and these letters were subsequently laid upon the table of that House ; so that it would appear, in making similar inquiries —in receiving them—and in afterwards publishing them, the Society had only fulloweel the example which Government had given it.—(Hear, PRICE SIWENPF,NCE. hear )—He would now proceed to the statement of .that which formed the subject matter of the complaint of Mr. Shrewsbury. He had been for three yearsand three quarters in the •Imland of Barbadoes. During the first three years of his residence.hedis charged the duties of his mission without any great annoyance; he passed over without any severe complaint or animadvenden the many insults which had been put upon him, such as personas corn; r g into his chapel and whistling a tune. Tha meekness with which he passed over and endured these taunts from the gentry of Barbadoes was truly exemplary. It was not, how. ever, until 1823 that these insults broke otit in the shape of open violence, when Mr. Shrewsbury was insulted as a villain in the open streets. This feeling of hostility as sumed a still more aggravated appearance on the .sth of October 1823. On that day, whilst the congregation of Mr. Shrewsbury was assembled together, an assault was tirade upon them by a mob of persons from without—a mob in which theta was reason to believe many of the gentry of Barbadoes were ene gaged. The assault was made by discharging upon them bot tles prepared for the occasion, containing oil and aquafortis.— These bottles actually were discharged upon the congregation ; a woman and several other persons were severely wounded by them, and it was hoped that means would be afforded by the confusion created of making an assault upon Mr. Shrewsbury. These bottles he believed were prepared by an inhabitant of the island who was a merchant and a Magistrate.—(Hear !)—Hitt two sons were conspicuous in the riot, and Mr. Newsom, a member of the respectable profession of the law, distinguished himself by assuming a formidable attitude on the rads of the communion table. Mr. Shrewsbury meekly retired to the vestry, waited there till the riot had subsided, and then returned to complete the service.—(Hear !)—A reward of 30/. had been ineffectually offered for the apprehension of those who were en gaged in the riot; and on tire next day, when Ala Shrewsbury was passing through the streets, he was publicly insulted as he was passing the shop of the merchant where the bottles had bees prepared. A number of persons there exclaimed in his hearing, " the villian had been served right ;" and that " he ought to have been torn from the pulpit."—(Hear !):- He even further heard that he ( Mr. S.) might prosecute the persons who had been engaged in the assault, but that " he would not find a jury to bring them in guilty."—(Hear !)--This occurred on tie! 6th of October. On the 7th Oct. a riot was made, but comparatively unimportant to other disturbances. lie would riot, therefore, dwell upon it. The Bth of October was a general fasting-day throughout the island, in commemoration of tire island . being preserved from a storm on that day of the month, in the year 1780. In the evening of that day, an assault was. ton de on the congregation, by 31) persons gallopping before the chapel, end who sought an opportunity of the confusion created by the firing of pistols which they discharged, of wreaking vengeance upon Mr. Shrewsbury. But they were finally put to flight by the officers who were on guard in the vicinity of the chapel, without effecting their purpose. One of Mr. S.'s congregation returned and said, that it was nothing but tire firing of a cracker, and the service was resumed, and proceeded without further interruption. And here he was desirous of stating, that this mob which made an assault upon the chapel was composed of persons who, as far as wealth could make them so, were gentlemen—they were merchants and traders ; but it was com posed neither of the negroes or the mulattoes of the island. He wished to be understood as to the persons who were engaged in this disgraceful business: —The population of the island was, divided into four classes, and the persons engaged in this shameful business, he was desirous of taking an opportunity of stating, were neither of the highest nor of the lowest class.— (Hear, hear! )—The next day Mr. Shrewsbury was summoned before one of those Magistrates; riot, however, for the pur pose of instituting an inquiry into the injuries that bad been heaped upon him, but for the purpose of answering to a charga of not having enrolled his name in the militia. By the Tolera tion Act in this country a person in his situation was exempt from serving in the militia ; but an advantage, he presumed, was taken of this Act not being enacted to extend to the Colo nies. Surrounded by these circumstances of embarrassment, Mr. Shrewsbury betook himself to the house of a relation in an other part of the island ; and it was well that he had done so— his house was surrounded by the party that had before assaulted him and his congregation ; and finding that he was not at home, they exclaimed in triumph, that " the coward had run away." On the 16th of October Mr. Shrewsbury applied to the Cio.. vernor, and was by him referred to the Magistrates—the Ma gistrates, his most ferocious enemies. It must be admitted that the Governor was unpopular, and he (Mr. Buxton) would state the reason why he was so. A planter had occasioned a negro to be flogged to death, and he had escaped, and a reward was of fered for his apprehension : another negro also had been put to death, and a similar reward had been offered ler the apprehen sion of the person by whom he came by his death. It hap pened some time afterwards that an Englishman, a man of very profligate and drunken habits, had been found dead in a field; and there was no reason to apprehend that he lied come by his death by murder—no reward was offered for his supposed mur derer. This was the ground of the unpopularity of the Go vernor, and a very unjustifiable one he (Mr. Buxton) thought it was. Mr. Shrewsbury did not apply to the Magistrates ; and here he would reply to an argument about to be used by his Honourable Friend (Mr. Horton.)—(A laugh.)—He would re peat, that he was about to reply to an argument of his Honourable Friend ; for if he did not rely upon the argument of Mr. Shrewsbury not having done what he was desired to do by an application to the Magistrates, he would not have a leg to stand upon.—(Hear !) His lion. Friend would say ire ought to have applied to them. Now he (Mr. BuxtonVwould say, that he ought not, or that, if he ought, to whicloOthem ought he to apply ? Was it to Mr. Hall, at whose shop the mixtures to which he had alluded had been prepared ? Was it to Mr. Moore, who had summoned him to appear before e him, when to appear would he death ? Before which of these_ :.Magistrates, all of whom had manifested their hostility towards him, lie would be glad to know, was he to appear ? It was his (Mr. Buxton's) conviction, that he ought not, to have appeared before any of them. In this emergency he applied for advice to a clergyman, who gave him,he believed, -eery sincere end disinterested advice. The name of the clergyman he would suppress, lest he might meet the fate of Mr. Adstin of De merara. He advised him to apply to the Cothicil of the Island—an advice with which he complied. Meanwhile the assailants of Mr. Shrewsbury had not been remiss. And here he had to detail conduct which would comparatively cast into the shade all that he had hitherto stated. On the . 18th October a proclamation, professing to be from a secret committee, was issued, calling upon the inhabitants to meet together at 6 o'clock on the ensuing Sunday, to pull down the Methodisochapel.-• They accordiegly met, to the number, as was stated by one recorder of the events, of one thousand ; or," as was stated by the Governor, " there was a vast concourse of persons. 7 —No negro nor mulatto was to be found amongst them. They proceeded, armed with swords, &c., to the work of destruction, anti succeeded in demolishing the chapel, in tearing up the pews, destroying the Bibles, &e. They then proceeded to the house of Mr. Shrewsbury, destroyed the fur niture of his house, and having demolished the principal part of his property, made a flag of some of tire linen Alley found in his house, which they waved as a flag of triumph. The next evening they proceeded to the work of demolition, and comple ted in the way of destruction what they had left 'Undone. Its the account given of their success in the work they took in hand, the Editor of a colonial newspaper stated, that the Wesleyan chapel was destroyed like the Temple of Jerusalem, not uric stone being left to stand upon . another.—( Hear; hear I and a slight laugh.)—The next day they published a proclarnatiou over the island, boasting of the great and signal victory they had achieved over the Methodists, and congratulating the in habitants on the demolition of the chapel. This annunciation was to the following effect : " Bridgetown, Tuesday, Oct. 21, 1823. " The inhabitants of this island 'are respectfully informed, that in consequence of the unmerited and unprovoked attacks which have been repeatedly made upon the community by the Methodist Missionaries (otherwise known as agents to the vil lainous African Society), a party of respectable gentlemen formed the resolution of closing the Methodist, concern alto gether ; with this view they commenced their labours on Sun day evening, and they have the greatest satisfaction in announc ing that by twelve o'clock last night they effected the total de struction of the chapel. To this information they have to add, that the Missionary made his escape yesterday afternoon in a small vessel, for St. Vincent, thereby avoiding that expression, of the public feeling towards him, personally, which he had sO richly deserved. " It is to be hoped that as this information will be circulated throughout the different islands and colonies, all persona whO consider themselves true lovers of religion will follow the laud`. able ekumple of the Barbadians, in putting an end to Metho dism and Methodist Chapels throughout the Vest Indies." The' Governor the next day issued a proclamation, condem natoryof the conduct of these persons, and offered a reward of 1001. Rd. the apprehension of the rioters. To this a proclama tion wits put forth the next day, more in ridicule than reply ter