The Sun. — London, England, 1833-02-19 00:00:00

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' -4 "' - 2 ,- , , ---., ~, ~ . Mr. FENTON mak;ng no reply, the petiti m wsr read. It prayed the House to pa , s a liw to •broga•e - .' . 4 -, j .... 01 /, k t >tri 7 tic, .7*-. f c A , 111.&-!:, S 1 / 7 ,4 , . , ,/, , itj tN . 6{:;.• - • , ' & " 7 rlie Protestant hierarchy in Ireland.—(Liughter arid eh , el s.) A -_,, 11, i,. . ' ------:.. ' , i, , 11 - 0 _st s-''-c T , ,1.,',a , 1' * <- 8 S >''' .----- 7 3 11 v_____'' '.--• ' 1 / 1 1,1 ,A i'VIPI '-' 4 " ,ft rh .. It, _ ~.,.. 4., !' t~ iuyre On the [MiniSterlqt t COOld SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, . 14. a nt ° I wa rr (I the he atiiihoi' ;her bel° ll ' ' wa , , 36 u bod : , t rh the s bear dei eO .O- to i.isoe. Mr. COBBETT was of opinion that if the petitioners 'iad the opportunity of revising their judgment, even after the magnificent speech of the Noble Earl, they would send just such another petition to th House. Sir THOMAS FREMANTLE moved for a return of the number of prison. , rs indicted and tried in each county in England and Wales, during the last sessions for offences, which would, prior to the Act of the 2d and 3d Willia m IN'. have been considered capital felonies. I *id ASHLEY presented a petition from the Cl,a -,ATI?1,11, i ß ie E , N ,O S ul g d a ni ve ov n e ot fo i crea , s tl , i . a je t ct o c n p of Idyll, i n the county of York, in f,vour of the Bill to rest r i ct t h e hours of labour in factories. Col. quire into the com merc i a l policy of the country. n rr a t r t 6 C ; e a Y t o in. quire Mr. GHAT FAN gave notice, that on the 29th of March he would make a motion relative to the distressed condition of Ireland. Mr. HALL gave notice, that next Thursday lie should move for a return of all sums of money pAid by King Leo pold into the Exchequer sine the 18th of July last. SUPPLY. 11,619.) LONDON, TUESDAY_EVENING, FEBRUARY 19, 1833. (PRICE 71D.) alarm by the disgraceful state of a country with which we are so elo•ely connected. The application of capital to Ireland will re-act on the population of England, and af ford additional employment here for both Englishmen aro , Irishmen. The additiorrd employment at:fulled to our manufacturers will enable our towns to absorb the hand. throw n loose by a better style of cultivation. The landlords, while they will obtain facilities for disposing of superfluous hands in this isl,ml, will not be allowed to turn human beings on the wide world without food and shelter. They will be compelled to acct with humanity of well as foresight. As the Government is responsible f or much of the evil, the national resources ought to be ap plied in aid of the attempt to introduce what may at first be a disproportionably heavy burden on the land. Th. worst of an Aristocratical Government like ours is, tha! the principal object—the care of the peasantry—is the least attended to. What is the Protestant Church in point of importance compared with poor. rates ?—Morning Chronicle. IREL >ND. burg, most be propagated among the future teachers of the people.—FranAfort Papers, Feb. 11. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. THE VOLUNTEERS. the Freeman's Journal) BERLIN, Fee. 7.--It is worthy of remark, that the Censor of the Press here has refused his imprimatur to article lately published in the Handelsblad of Amsterdam, in which it is shown that the Hanoverian Government levies a, high a duty on the Elbe tat Stade), as the Dutch Government proposes to levy on the Scheldt.—Nurenzburg Correspondent. VIENNA, Fee. 7.—There have been several changes, ap. ',ointments, and promotions, in the Austrian army. The ire began to break up yesterday ; no accident has yet happened, and it is hoped the precautions that have been taken will be found fully sufficient. A letter from Constantinople of the 14th January, in the Allegmeine Zeitung, contains an erroneous statement, which must be corrected. It says that Baron Varennes, the French Charge d'Affaires, was gone to Ibrahim's camp to hear his pro posals for peace. This is a mistake; for the Baron, as French Charge d'Affaires, cannot leave his post at this moment without special orders fro n his Government. His post is in Constan tinople. The sending of a courier by Baron de Varennes to the Egvntian camp probably gave rise to the false statement. The Charge d'Affaires has not for a moment lett the capital, where he is in daily expectation of the arrival of the new Ambassa dor, Admiral Roussin, and of M. de Berrier, who is to take his place as Secretary of Legation. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FERRUJItr I 8 The Volunteers met by adjournment yesterday, John Doyle, Esq., in the chair. Amongst others, the following letter was read from Mr. O'Connell : The SFEAKER. entered the House shortly before fuur o'clock. Shortly afterwards Mr. O'Connell entered, and rook his usual seat. Mr. ABERCROMBIE obtained leave to bring iu a Bill to improve the Edinburgh Cattle Alarket. The Clarence Railway Bill was read a second time, an.' ordered to be committed. ELECTION PETITIONS. ~~ B. 16' " 14, Albemarle-street, Feb. 9, ig33. "My dear friend,-1 am just come in from a committee of privileges which sat on the Quaker's case, and having been out of bed till four this morning, I was unable to write to you before I went out to attend the Committee. "Do not be alarmed about my health. The atrocious at tempt to extinguish public liberty with which Ireland is me naced has made me young again. I feel the vigour of youth in the elastic spring of my hate of ministerial tyranny and base English ingratitude. Petitions were presented against the returns for Knares borough, Launceston, and Stafford, all of which were or tiered to be token into consideration on the 14th of March. S'i , riilar petitions were also presented from the city of Norwich, and Roxburgh, which were ordered to be con sidered o❑ tb. 19th of March. Mr. EWART presented a petition from Liverpool, in favour of the present system of education in Ireland. Mr. FINN presente l a petition from George Walker and others in the city of Kilkenny, praying for a correc lion of corporation abuses.—Referred to the Committee on Corporations. Mr. HILL presented a petition from Robert Hugh Franks, of Red Cross -street, in the city of London, raying for an inquiry into the proceedings of the" Merchant Tailors' Company, and other trading companies of the city of London. By the charter, the freemen of the Merchant Tailors' Company, now amounting to upwards of 1,000, should have the power of controlling the funds of the Company, but their rights hail been usurped by the Court of Assistance, who exer c sed supreme control over the funds, amounting to 20,000/. a-year, and they also arrogated to themselves the election of all the officers of the Company. It was also alleged that in respect to that Company, the Court of As sistance had increased the fee of a dismissed freeman within the last 20 years, from 30s. to 80/. The petition was read, and ordered to be referred to the Committee on Corporations. Mr. JOHNSTONE presented petitions from Dundee. St. Andrews, and Perth, for a better observance of the Lord's Day. An Hort. MEMBER presented a petition from Kidder minster, for the repeal of the assessed taxes. Mr. MORGAN O'CONNELL presented a petition from a parish in the county of Meath, for a repeal of the Legislative Union.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. FRYER presented a petition from the inha bit Int householders and other electors of Wolverhampton, praying for the repeal of the assessed taxes. The Hon. Member said he entirely concurred in the prayer of the petition, and expressed his regret that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had not been able to give any decided opi nion as to whether any reduction of taxation would imme diately take place. He (Mr. F.) considered that a material reduction was loudly called for, not only in the general taxation, but also upon malt, hops, soap, land, mortgages, on property in the funds, and especially in that most iniquitous, abominable, and wicked tax on bread. He " I will write to you again to-morrow. My present hurried advice to you is, to call the Volunteers together at once —to banish every thought but that of making a good fight to prevent the evils that menace us. To be a good fight it must be strictly peaceable, legal, and constitutional. Get every parish in Ire land, if you can, to meet to petition Parliament against the me naced Algerine acts. Let the meetings not be simultaneous— that is, let every parish meet quite independent of any other; and advise that none but parishioners should take part in each parish, except, indeed, when a few persons not of the particular parish, but familiar with the practice of petitioning, may attend. Let the petitions be in the strongest terms consistent with de_ corum. In fact, we should, in the abstract, prefer death to slavery; but nothing could possibly injure us more than any threat of using violence. Calmness, patience, and determina tion should be our only weapons. But in calmness we must express our deep indignation at the threatened wrong, combined with our determination not to violate the law. L ist night the " coercive measure " being properly the subject for discussion in the House of Loris was not dis cussed in the Housi. of Lords. Being not properly the subject for discussion in the Hiiuse of Commons, it was discussed in the House of Commons at con siderable length, and with no ordinary ferocity. There are salute provisions in the "coercive measure " which we dislike. The Bill is most clumsily framed. It VIENNA, FEB. B.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 90A ; Four per Cent., 86%; Bank Shares, 1203.—Al Igenzeine Zeitung, Feb. 13. contains some enactments of more than necessary severity, others of more than justifiable originality ; some which will not affect their object so easily as it might be affected, others which will not aff ct their object at all. But, however weak of force or wide of aim the blow may be, it is at least a blow aimed by the King's Ministers against the King's enemies. Thus considered, the Bill, if it de• served our support far less, should have our hearty sup port. Has it deficiencies ? we would endeavour to supply them. Has it errors ? we would endeavour to correct them. W, anticipate nothing but ruin from the conciliatoryrneasure, because it has madeO'Connell grateful. We will hope all good from the coercive measure, because it has made O'Connell mad. The debate into which the House of Commons was forced last night was one of the dullest debates that ever a theme so exciting produced. Shen was pointedly dull, O'Connell was rabidly dull, Lord Althorp was simply dull ; all, in their several fashions, displayed a most exemplary dullness. Neverthe less it was a debate very fit to teach if our Ministers had been ready to learn. They might perceive, from the tone adopted by the Agitator, that there is no longer any ex cuse for the extension to him of the common forms of Parliamentary courtesy for the exchange with him of the recognised civilities of social life. The man against whom Mr. Stanley has so pathetically disclaimed all animosity---the man whose approbation Mr. Stan ley has avowed himself so happy to receive, is in deed in heart and soul our enemy, intus et in cute a rebel; guilty of the moral guilt of extensive trea son, black with the moral blackness of a hundred murders. When such a Senator pollutes a beneficial policy with his foul sanction an honest Statesman submits with disgust to the unavoidable obloquy of a bad man's praise. But Mr. Stanley has deceived us. He is always forward with his smiles and bows, his compliments and olive-branches, forgiving all things, forgetting all things, as it the insults done to his own self-esteem were all—as if his country's laws had suffeted no indignity, had prescribed no resent ment ! We have praised him and we have warned him ; in what spirit we have done this let him decide, not from any vague professions, but from the language in which we have recorded our hopes ; in which we are hereafter to record our disappointment. He has neither the pride nor the prudence for which we gave him credit. He has proved how miserably his opponents have overrated his virtues, and vindicated fully the opprobrious predictions of his intimate friends. We have been led to make these re marks, severe perhaps, but yet less severe than sad, not of course by the tew sentences wr.ich Mr. Stanley addressed to the House last night, but by the recollection of the un seemly friendliness with which be courted the worst foe he has, in his speech upon Lord Althorp's motion last week. We shall take an early opportunity of commenting upon the Bill which called forth between the Secretary and his censor so singular an expression of good will. We have refrained from condemnation of it until mature con sideration forces us to condemn. It is a Bill which, if there be any virtue left in the House of Peers, the House of Peers must reject.—Morning Post. COURT CIRCULAR. Prince Lieven, the Russian Ambassador, Prince Talley ram!, and Baron d'Ompteda, the Hanoverian Minister, had interviews with Viscount Palmerston yesterday, at the Foreign office. Earl Grey also visited his Lordship yesterday. _ _ " I trust the people of Ireland must perceive that we, their representatives, have fought this battle unflinchingly. You will see in the papers the list of those who fought for Ireland. You will, I am sure, be glad to see the Member for Dundalk in the number. . . The Duke of Cumberland arrived in. town yesterday after. noon, from Hastings. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria walked and drove in Hyde-park yesterday, for some time. " Young Talbot, of Athlone, voted in both majorities Learn at once what the honest men of Athlone think of this desertion of his country. A deputation, including Mr. Robert E. Harvey, Mr. Wm. Rathbone, and Mr. Wyburgh, had a conference with Viscount Althorp yesterday, at the Treasury. The deputation after wards visited Lord John Russell, at his office, in Whitehall. The Earl of Belmore had an interview with Viscount Gode rich yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Mr. Burge, the Agent for Jamaica, transacted business yesterday, at the Colonial office. " The two Members for the county of Limerick voted also in the majorities against Ireland. Is there no honest spirit re maining in that county to call upon the gallant Colonels to re trace their steps ? " Let their be an immediate demand made on every popular Irish representative who still lingers in Ireland to attend at his post here without further delay. " I never was less disposed to despair of the fortunes of Ire land. Liberty is not as yet, nor shall it, with the blessing of God, be extinguished. Be but as peaceaule as you are deter mined, and use all constitutional means of resistance, and use no other, and we shall yet triumph. Not one of the English Catholic Members, not even one, voted for Ireland—another specimen of English ingratitude! The Lord Chancellor and Earl Grey visited Viscount Althorp yesterday, at the Treasury. Lady Graham passed a good night on Sunday night, and was considered a little better yesterday. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. 0 0. leetig be übt t in"' V sed ( 0 3' " I respectfully suggest to the Volunteers to adjourn, after completing the business of Tuesday, until the ensuing day, when they shall receive another communication from Inc. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 16.—The Vernon, with the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir George Cockburn, sailed from Torbay on Sa turday, for the West Indies, but was obliged to put back again on Monday. r all the e r petition " Believe me to be, your very faithful " DANIEL O'CONNELL." COMBINED SQUADRON.— DOWNS, THURSDAY.-- The Larne sailed on Friday on a cruise, and the Heroine and Resolue, French frigates, arrived on the same day from Cher burg. The Satellite from a cruise, and the Confiance steamer from the westward, anchored on Sunday. The Industry, naval transport, passed through the Downs on Tuesday from Lisbon, and proceeded to the river. The Asia, convict ship, with 230 male convicts from New South Wales, still remains wind bound. At anchor at present are, the Donegal, Talavera, Malabar, Conway, Satellite, Emerald (English), and La Syrene, Hero ine, and Resolue (French). His Majesty's schooner Viper, arrived at Plymouth on Wed nesday, in ten days, from Lisbon ; she was prevented commu nicating with Oporto from the boisterous state of the weather, but put the mail on board a cruiser on the coast—she brings a small quantity of specie, but no news of importance. The Plover packet, Lieutenant Downey, arrived at Fal mouth on Tuesday, from Carthagena, having left that place on the 2d January, Jamaica the 9th, and Crooked Island the 19th. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Messager des Chambres of Sunday.) MADRID, Fen. 7.—The King has just appointed Major- General Don Juan Atonet to be Captain-General of the Balearic Islands. General Freyre will remain Captain-General of New Castille (Madrid). The Minister of Finance, Don Encinie Piedra, has just ap appointed the Intendants of the following provinces : For Aragon—Jacques Ascacibar y Aturube. was sorry to be obliged to express his opinions on such a subject at so early a period of the session, but the silence of Ministers on these all-important subjects, authorized, he thought, the expression of his opinions. Colonel HAY presented petitions from Elgin and Banff, praying for the more solemn and decent observance of the Sabbath. no, wag ad eighi;s on ploYe er : •ehouo n' h e l had ti t he L t L ilt for t that g rt i hou' wide Ile he P' te r is uhar' , 001 but rec r tried 11 ` litiary s e o r J opeP i o ,i`ce o, berdave;, pr i s oo 0 ( Son je J. id P 3 r atit fenc e , no Grenada—Emmanuel Marie Guerrero. -- Leon—Emmanuel Vela. Mr. STRICKLAND presented a petition from a parish in Yorkshire, praying for the abolition of Colonial Slavery. The petitioners stated their anxiety to remove from their country a system so dishonourable and inju rious, and their hope that immediate measures would b taken to extinguish slavery in every part of the British dominions. Jaen—Joseph Atarie Sanchez Chaves. Segovia—Euscbio de la Barcena. Austurias—Emmanuel Ortez de Taranco. Carthagena—Joan Garcia Barzanallana. Zamora—Francois Lanuza. Guadalajara—Francois Sarvedra. It is needless to add that the persons appointed are in the room of others less known for their attachment to the system of the Queen. The Galatea, 42, was undocked on Monday, and the Bellero phon, 74, was taken into dock. The President, 54, was taken into the basin on Tuesday, and the Hyacinth was taken out. The latter will be commissioned during the week, by Com mander F. P. Blackwood, for the East Indies. The Royal William, of P2O guns, will be launched from Pem broke Yard the first spring in April Her head is a full-length figure of his present Majesty; the figure stands fourteen feet high, and represents his Majesty in his robes of state, with the crown on his head, and having the collars and jewels of three Orders round his neck, viz., those of St. Andrew, St. Patrick, and St. George. The Rodney, a ship of a new construction, carrying 98 guns on two decks, will shortly afterwards follow the Royal William ; it is supposed about the latter end of May. The Trinculo, 10, Commander Booth, which ship sailed from Plymouth, with General Nicholay (the Governor of the Mauritius) on board, arrived at Bahia on the 18th December, having made the passage in twenty-three days. She proceeded to her destination on the 23d of December. Sir JOHN KEY presented a petition from the inha bitant householders and electors of the city of London, for the repeal of the assessed taxes, as relate to the duty on inhabited houses and windows. The odpressive nature, and the unfair and unequal distribution of that tax called kudly :or the ronsideration of the House ; that tax was very unpopular, and it pressed very unequally on the great body of the people. As the subject, however, was very important, and as it would soon come before the House in the nature of a motion, he would not do more at present than express his hearty concurrence in the prayer of the petition. Ihe Hon. Baronet then stated, that on the 22d of March he would move for leave to bring in a Bid to repeal so much of the tax as related to inhabited houses. It is thought that the conferences of Sir S. Canning with our Ministers will soon lead to a favourable result. (From the Journal du Commerce of Sunday.) PARIS, FEB. 16.—Yesterday evening, at eight o'clock, all extraordinary courier from St. Petersburgh arrived at the hotel of the Due de Broglie. Nothing has yet transpired of the con tents of the despatches of which he was the bearer, but it seems that they were of very great importance since they caused a meeting of the Council of Ministers at the Tuileries. The King was present at the Council. Ar ea r' rteen The diplomatic conferences continue. To-day Lord Gran. vine, Count Appony, and the Due de Broglie have, it is said, been discussing a declaration relative to the affairs of the East, to be made in common by England, Austria, and France. It is announced that bctween three and four hundred Polish refugees are preparing to leave the depot of Bruges with the permission of the Government. They will go to reside in towns chosen by themselves, and receive their monthly allow ance. Several of them have obtained permission to go to Paris, Dijon, &c., to attend the schools of law, or medicine, as they may choose. The Challenger, 28, Captain Freemantle, sailed from Madras on the ' l / 4 1 August; Swan River, 11th September; Hobart Town, for Sydney, October 3 ; after which she will proceed to New Zealand, Otaheite, Pitcairn's Island, Valparaiso, round the Horn, to Rio and England. When the Challenger left Madras, the Curacoa, `2S, Captain Dunn, was under sailing orders for Manilla and China. The garrisons which we have in Africa were to be changed every two years : thus they were to return to France just as they began to be seasoned to the climate. The Minister of War has just decided that our regiments shall henceforth remain four years in those colonies. In consequence of this new decision, the regiments which were to go to Africa have received coun. ter.orders. The Firefly steamer, Lieutenant Baldock, for the Mediter. ranean, sailed from Falmouth on Saturday. The Goldfinch, Lieutenant Collier, for Halifax, sailed the same day. The Comus, 18, Commander Hamilton, weighed anchor on Thursday sc'nnight in Plymouth Sound, and was proceeding to sea when she struck on the Tinker, and twisted her fore-foot so seriously as to make it necessary for her to return and come into Hamoaze, to be docked She wa% taken into dock on Saturday. publi c nph,j the n tensit y of ern ion seems pretty well decided as to ins r e. n'ent fnr tl P nying some new and more powerful . t u :11r, 0 ,, le putting down of wholesale anarchy in Ireland m ade annell, tie House of Commons last night, mad e mioivehement and eloquent attack upon the Bill framed Learet,,,'(,rs for the above purpose but through the hivedaentlemants whole speech one mast , r error en be intend s "he deprecated the new law as if ;t were to sl read 'Wed into a country where law and freedom th, e lls', as if it were destined to coerce .. and punish of P e °lde of that !at country generally. This is a begging era and, '"na with a vengeance. The ground, the sole (.4,r on which the measure rests is the eon existence of t iOttq t a i :,, n r ! liberty as a protection to tt e unoffending tor nt , "tsh people. To them it is designed as a relie C,l),,itstiatreguard.—a terror to the criminal alone. If the tvete not were I vere in force,—if the constituted authorities Sad law! st ripped, b y a combination of deep-laid fraud stt r ib ute tesa vi o l ence, of their most precious and sacred f "... nam ely, that of sav i ng th e i nnocent an d ( if th!, r°,ll o ppression, —w e should never have heard Prow, of e i 'cing defen s i ve A ct of Parliament. If the ieetia„ Ir eland had entertained, as a really national of he r ; I't t O r as one approved by any considerable body t o r eP ' tit elligent and respectable inhabitants, the wish l'lsseecal the Union, such 'Je(' a measure as that now pro. ul not hav e b een thoualit of by the Govern itelegel'o'er..called f ur by the exigency . of the (else, since dy e char acter, and conscious power would ni•t b alite: s : ll, d to t h e unhallowed expedient of systematic Tal e , ft, Or en couraged the perpetration of inhuman Lee 4 s pur to t h e fl agg i ng f ury of their partis ins. hal ed the better feelings of Englishmen are ap- Ni sion 't and their love of liberty invited to make ttisian-thceause with Irish desperadoes and murderers, l ay be establishment of despotic potter by law, it hat 10 0 as well to remind them that there exists, and fa), as e xisted i n Ireland, a despotism which sets all ab 'tla t n e constitutional liberty at di fiance ; that an eett i e„ P `' w er, created by the Legislature, limited to ith aa - , s Priti and to a brief period, and watched over ts'ikted,lf."" jealousy by the power with which it 0ri ,,,444 of Abetter than a despotism set on foot in defi la,,, e-arliarnent—a despotism, outrageous, capri reaPot:sanaruit'arYt of undefined duration, and utterly 'lot • ;of which the daily course is an evasion, W eak 4tl " , of every law made' for the security of the tee, ofttigai the fierce, ' the vindictive, or the despe ;.l4,4l.ld Which the nal purpose is avowed to be the : s i, f • a „ n of that supreme authority from which all the year British em ire have emanated for more than is not the introduction of absolute govern etsh °a fr untry, we repeat, which Ministers can di, e fairl y v vo, 4hi charged with but expel one species of ° "e Pb Y another—a hostile and destructive tyranny ttie hich the motive is the love of freedom and t in` t a d ta P : a k e . e t and its manifest anti, indeed, necessary oh na(l ir ah 'ned as it is with other means—the conservation f r a 'ti th r a r t u . vc ritent of society. We have said more than hi c!t . ttl whi t? the details of the Bill some pi ovisions may be ,rte not en are of a doubtful or injurious nature. We t let them Present, time to touch upon them, but shall T he Pass long unnoticed.-- Times. IZeat'lld,,alous manner in which the rich landholders, tt i litt lel aeB f a r ' the making of our laws, have exempted f i , '.t. e to stamp duties, was ably shown last night ia:a!tathe'rb,hett. Exposures of this kind (which have th e i te fr equent of late) must have the effect . of sham 'ass'o °t°cratiy out of their discreditable practices. In fe : r tas witfht,h,e rating to . the assessed taxes, they share the t h ar tt to b`ne contemptible instruments who, either . from t ain favour, allow them to escape their fair te at th at in the case of the stamp duties it is the pieti st, as It i s iniquitous. That principle is to take as tw4liteef,Ps"ible from the poor, and to take as little as t h i!,,, ta,, t4 thtn the. rich. Were it to be seen only in one or trikuth th roe might attribute it to accident ;. but it runs a ,:stei t c w hole of them, and we are not at liberty to at ,4l;tl,eitetot°aticident. When we thus see rich men carefully Pt e t ag t! c ally exempting themselves, or all but ex otfse with lernselves, from burdens which are made to th_ d °l,,,, Peculiar severity on the middle anti lower legiotato!_te bound to . say that . the difference between it, e Ye ali. f . 44 11 the pickpocket is, merely, that the one s e , IV, °mg the law, and the other robs by breaking la ad tl Phy w • r et e much amused with the sort of justification ord Althorp for exempting . the succession to , tines paid by succession to personal property. pr o (bard h• di landed th,,r‘tty 'a Lordship) the legacy duty on e tf ) ,',l4o l ;' the country was considerable, the whole of all " i ktd, 4 l in little more than a century would get into a, t ile b . ! °l the Government." He might as well think al!aiiildßtrj'onal property of the coudtry in a century tourbeast 'tit ' the hands of the Government. Hie Lord- Pte °f th r „ if, the duty were considerable, in the 11, 4 4 : , 1t ea r ce ntury the amount paid would equal the Ik, la t o tie of all the landed property of the country. hol dh t ea e !ff ati t i n there can be no reason for distinguishing ett:44,e e rent d,scriptioni of property. If the land ,.°Y t an etinkteh from his income t o pay hi s f a i r s h are l iiii,7elia t ; u e retai ns hi s property ; i t h e d o not, his it „Ne s 4 5 05 hands, just as the farmer who does nut pay cit th e b e° hie Cattle or his furniture change hands. It be than uht nesa of a G overnment to cons id er w h ether A e l h la l 4.t d partic u l ar p ro p er t y , w h et h er rea l or per - N e it's %41) old Nee that all persons pay their share of burdens ittapttiotte; according to their measure. A Legislature sihi ceuevise measures to take property from one class fr ee Pt r .4v ollr the accumulation of another class, but to f.loOtiti e ,', e° Pe to all to acquire and to consume, and to /it4,"ettqu':ie bUrdel3 to the strength of the shoulders. Mr. As t i"tl Y bur appropriately observed,that the famous to Nt str a .°f 1 815 ought to have bad this preamble— ePlis expedient that the nnmher of persons tr preamble— di interested in the welfare of the kingdom should t 'de it- e----that the lade proprietors should b- ruined, Ni,i; detest the huge ones, be it therefore enacted," iitllateara4,_cia Burdett would probably have answered t I ~4,°1e111.-rnber for Oldham. by observing, that laell'at:::"°111ers had not exempted themselves from their CoaNd taxation, we Might now have been without 14 t 1 , q 4: 4 . 1)1 ! to trace their descent from the Norman er,!, ; : e ltal4 l , 41 " in that case we should be unable to find t eu Of l eading our armies. Lord Althorp, how tral 'neat a man to be the apologist of such a l' o e to 'lfk ' l , e i rot P e a b r o tia litY, and only asked for time. Several , Ntth les recd oneurred in the principle of Mr. Cobbett s er,smtnended that they should be withdrawn Ptoqt:44croetltt and the question was not proposed. In t e as, u 'be Statement will work. The worst effect 'tat e rnents of th e a ptit u d e o f th e no bl e an d itl,°ritra °tier ing thei r ne i g hb ours i s, that more humble ik i 9 to consid er th emse l ves as h ar dl y d ea l t J f 'ent to the Hulks or to Botany Bay. —Horn t4t 14, Rae `• „, Zer(l,,l r , ia nrea in contemplation . meet . the d_isturbed . 'soa k ' i Meet with no opposition in the House of , th t , ai ready opposed by anticipation in the Com ',Coonell last night spoke at great length on t li tte; t ltis ' itt.. l , l e observed, That Ministers, in wishing i re tt „ of Parliament, have an after-thought. . It 'h at e 1,„ " against those who are Repealers, for nothing e 'at t ealeulated to prevent repeal. I'll tell you grater ' i r eeted against—and I only tell you what lin 'elieve—its direction, its real intention, is to pari ah this collection and payment of tithes.—(Hear.) h Yt aty Pe sist A tb ee of Parliatn-nt shall have passed, let any at as `h e Payment of tithes, and let in that parish o tish;_ek, li:(liearest accident—be burned a corn-s . tack o . r it t Chle, ~t h en will it be seen to what the accident is of i ler„_ l l d at .."oe to such a parish, and woe to the man «itliai„„ a. `!titl a t‘ 7,ii refuse tithes !" Mr. O'Connell, we see, tblettal'eora,t"lerably well how the Bill will work. One tarl'' °I 1 tti hies (t t e . ndat ims, as we observed, is, there will ' c oe! , L " ) Plaint of want of witnesses. " Why, .3. I P" ja,at t et t (-) ' (2 .), demand coercive powers? You „iy or b ' `, Ore 'l w Y and to convict. Ah ! but your excuse c't 4 4 cit ild be witnesses required. You want none !tor': witn esses---nO Jurs. Yes you do ; you 0 10. pte,: °I duties who tvill convict without testi ilictNViwk)" It is a rule with the Turks to have al. etc ut Pry` dre c ki N , t t il h"," l, l : 4_ for every crime, but it is immaterial, J" means wo a d eh ! c'm e xecution, who is executed ; and we of tt'r 1'1 ;1" v o j f (1 4 , 1 „ t r: 1 0 1 11 1.10% ,reproach which a courtmartial would 1 14 t til No want of diligence in not obtainin . g the Cl i ,t P ti 4 ! „sf!, c eat at , a o kv, rt n for every crime. The measure is one s t • w l oo"",:aly ut 4 1 °0 „ f do e b t t !' , ; but as we have already said, it will, : fw° . I° ' th_efial,,atitra„_4e s uccessful so for that there will be a lefr. s%; :k s o ., v, terth,ll6,eii while a district is under martial law. et , l e th e 11; 1 ,N t ' e tio r , tv e Measures be not instantly resorted to l a r nia volo af: rtls,'o"l-4 LaAed b e y f tithe Irish peasantry, nothing will I I•k'tt Ireland "e sullen tranquillity obtained . by , swa yost ! aoel or )1 01 teh4 has for sole object the protection th 'it tlis t li e the Peasantry. There must be a poor listereilli,p A r , e "ern cl ato teach the nee, , recte r , r , as, al on sees together; ;wit"' l, t a 4t t e does not constitute the nation ; but ♦vio!r til ds enitd oe titil t t ! rb: Part of the nation as well as himself. igiigp ti ' l 444 . 4 teu tt i tUt e "IY means of producing tranquillity. jets ~,! !• -ea O.!! provided for, no property can be osteltee °et a i :les 4 v jese ht 4 ° ,! an will expend money on improve s' o f• I,?e extensive market of our popu (rase, eis . tr j ets, is open to Ireland ; and 31 ty n, f eseo'iteieePo°t't!tion to embark capital on agri es, a e , A liei lt 4 !! nte r i za l t n , that country ; but no man would ell :tea; artPl tart will the risk in Ole present state of Ire ' o i c '.'t;ttri ttb .t° br a 'eusupported by the English nation ti l h, ::14(lre.illize Ireland by means of poor must be att em pt e d ; f or th e r•. Mi nt not b e constantly kept In , Ate j ) ", l e e . Ol Pr o p erty fi eo le Pr i " io' v ho rers c ore Thdce , limi►cull off 7;;,i . for °:„ Cow l f :er, tdirlarY so rt d 12' ve ,e' ' e (i t o 't vife ! the f ile id t" , b- ,,th e ice" I , ° ,' 009 P de t ile A it My yori,ctig me 81° : ( 1'' )apPe gi ." h all /Ili 0 1 ' 1 wh ich c° t'a; ~~ ~IOIP6 tl▪ i e Ifol lll . e o A u t er wr. e have I sl 4 ` . 0 to day ,, ,illy. be 111 to 0 0 1 : the Car tt ip the the ) ,iJe )icoll rval ,)/ wiet,' ELECTION OF AN ALDERMAN FOR FAR RING DON WlTHOUT.—Yesterday a Wardmote was held in the Church of St. Sepulchre, Snowhill, to elect an Alderman for the Ward of Farringdon Without, in the place of the late R. WAITIIMAN, Esq. The Loan MAYOR, who took the Chair, said that he was Sheriff when the late Mr. WAITHMAN was Lord Mayor, and never did two men act more in unison. The worthy Al derman was bold and unflinching in asserting his public principle, and in private life as gentle as a lamb —Mr. FIGGINS, after a brief review of the late Alderman's life, nominated JAMES HARMER, Esq., as a fit and proper person to succeed him.—Mr. LEITCHWICH seconded the nomination. Mr. HA uMER sari, i❑ answer to Mr. FEAROII, that he should support a proposition for fixing some time at which Aldermen should be called on to meet their constituents. He should also endeavour io throw open the Court of Aldermen, to prevent their exercising any exclusive control over the Corporate Funds, to ob tain a declaration that every citizen was eligible to any corporate office, to get annulled the proceedings of the Court of Aldermen in respect to Portsoken Ward, to equalize the representation of the Wards in the Common Council, to render every ail to Government in his power in their projected Corporation Reform ; and finally, he should resign his gown in the event of any adverse change of fortune, or of being incapacitated for the dis. charge of his official duties by age or infirmity.—No other candidate presenting himself, Mr. HARMER. was unani mously elected. LANGPORT.-IMPROPRIETY OF ENTRUST ING YouTH WITH Guivs.—A most distressing event oc curred a few days since, at Othery, near Lingpm t. Master CHARD, aged twelve, only son of the late Mr. WILLIAM CHARD, was out shooting, and fired at a part ridge, which he wounded, but did not kill. He after wards fired again, and unfortunately nearly the whole of the charge was received by a poor little shepherd boy, named CLARKE, who was behind a hedge, unobserved at the time by this young gentleman. It is melancholy to relate that the poor boy's legs were dreadfully shattered and that locked-jaw was the consequence.—Dr. KING - LA KE, and two surgeons attended him, but we understand he died on Monday morning.—Dorset County Chronicle. ELOPEMENT.—On Tuesday afternoon, a brace of lovers arrived at the Wellington Bridge Inn, in this town, by the Champion coach, on an expedition not very pleasant to the feelings of the young lady's friends, who, as we are assured, are highly respectable, and live in the neighbourhood of Sleaford, Lincolnshire. The Adonis is a servant man in the establishment of the family, of peat uncouthness and vulgarity of manner, and in no degree possessing the slightest quality to reciprocal love on equal terms. Sbe, on the contrary, is young, handsome, and accomplished, and, when of age, will come into pos session of considerable property. She was, likewise, fashionably attired ; but he, on the contrary, appeared in the most clownish, johnny-raw style of dress, and is, moreover, double her years. After dining together at the inn, they set off in a one-horse carriage to Newton Moor, in this neighbourhood, where, it appears, he has some acquaintance, and where, we should suppose, they thought they could rusticate and remain in privacy until a marriage could be effected by bans; but scarcely had they set off for this delightful retreat of their pilgrimage, before the young lady's brother arrived in pursuit, who, instead of .topping, followed the Champion coach to Manchester. There he learnt from PaRKINsoN, the coachman, that he had left the fugitives here; consequently, he returned to this town, and, taking with him an officer, proceeded in search of them to Newton, where, it appears, he had the luck to interrupt them at a small house in that place, comfortably seated by the fireside, much to the mortifica tion and disappointment, no doubt, of the elderly gentle 04an and his fascinating companion, who, up to the time of the arrival of the brother, at every word " melted her Adonis as she spoke." After the separation had thus rudely taken place, our roving, loving hero became so fretful and disconsolate, that it is much to be feared his dismal thoughts will not be whistled off before the lady has at tained her majority, at which period he declares that all the powers on earth shall not separate them. The lady , eenied nothing loth to return home again, and they left hoe in a c4aise about ten o'clock for that purpose, intend ing to travel all night.--Slockport Advertiser. There were in our naval ports some men.of-war, manned only by what are called seamen of the classes. (Mathis des classes.) Orders have just been given to land them, and em ploy in their stead organized companies of the division of the crews of the line. In consequence of these regulations the sailors, now on shore, are for the most part the flower of our maritime population. It is thought that it is intended to em. ploy them very shortly. If, in addition to this, the furloughs should be removed (as it is reported will be done) and given to the seame❑ who have been sent to their homes, as having been on duty for more than three successive years. The num ber of our armed ships might be almost doubled. HAMBURG PAPERS. HAMBURG, FEB. 10.—Private letters from St. Peters_ burgh say, that the influenza was raging there; it was ac companied with pain in the head, neck, and limbs, and great debility. It is affirmed that above 100,000 persons were suf fering under it at the same time, and a still greater number in Moscow, where the theatres are closed. HANOVER, FEB. 10.—The Duke of Cambridge will set out to-morrow for Berlin, and, it is said, is to be absent for a fortnight. It is probable that the debates in the Assembly of the States will be terminated by the end of this month, as the members chosen to confer together have lately succeeded in bringing about a union of the two Chambers on several essen tial points. It is, however, expected that the budget for 1833-1834 will be laid before the Assembly previously to the adjournment. EXCHANGES ON LONDON. AMSTERDAM, FEB. 15.—One month, 11 90; two months, 85. HAMBURG, FRB. 12.—One month, 13 IN ; two months, 3 11. BERLIN, FEB. 9.—Three months, 6 :28%, PETERSBURGH, FEB. 1.-10 31-64. GERMAN PAPERS. PRESBURG, JAN. 31.—1 n the sitting of the Assembly of the Magnates, on the 24th and 25th, the proposal to vainest his Majesty to remove the Diet to Pesth was adopted, with some modifications. In the sitting of the 26th Count Radasty, Bishop of Wurtzen, informed the Representative Chamber that the Magnates had acceded to the proposal henceforth to make their communications to the Representatives in the national language. This announcement was received with enthusiasm. BERLIN, FEB. 9.—The main object of the new ordinance respecting the Jews, which is now under discussion, is to check the hawking and peddling which have so greatly increased, especially in the northern provinces, and to lead the Israelites more to agriculture. It is, therefore, proposed to take from Jewish hawkers, keepers of liquor shops, &c., the rights of citizenship, and to give them to those who follow agriculture and mechanical trades. Emancipation, therefore, is not thought of; this is only to be granted by the King in extraor dinary cases, for instance, io men eminent for their learning. The Israelites remain, r.s hitherto, excluded from civil service of the State, and in the army can attain no higher rank than that of Sergeant. We hear that the proposed law has been approved in all the Ministerial departments; and that it is now ready to be laid for confirmation before the Council of State, in which, however, a strong opposition is expected. COLOGNE, FEB. in.—The hopes of the preservation of peace, are more and more confirmed. Prussia, by its equally divided and conciliatory conduct, has certainly contributed most of all to this happy result. The companies of the in fantry in garrison here, which were before on the complete war establishment of 250 men, are to be reduced to fifty men, as a measure of economy. BADEN, FEB. 6.—The removal of the archiepiscopal See and of the Theological Seminary from Freiburg to Bruchsal, is now really to take place. When we consider what sums those establishments formerly cost at Freiburg, and what great addi tional expenses the transferring of them to Bruchsal will occa sion, it must be taken for granted, that there are highly important reasons for it. There is lint even a proper cathedral at Bruchsal. There are per sons who think that it is intended by this change to withdraw the young students of divinity from the dangerous influence of opinions which, by daily contact with the University at Frei. (From the Portsmouth Herald.) His Majesty's ship Spartiate, 76, Capt. Robert Tait, (bearing the flag of Rear. Admiral Sir M. Seymour, Bart. and K.C.8.) returned to St. Helen's on the 9th inst., and sailed early the fol. lowing day for her destination. She arrived at Torbay on Wedneiday. The Gossamer, tender to his Majesty's ship Victory, returned from the Eastward on Sunday, having conveyed supernumera ries to Sheerness. His Majesty's cutter Sparrow, Lieut. Rilly, which sailed last week for Swansea, returned on Monday, through the violence of the weather, and sailed for her destination, via Plymouth, yesterday. His Majesty's steam.vessel Lightning, Mr. John Alien, Mas ter, came in on Wednesday from the River, having on board the baggage, &c., ot the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, with which she proceeded to Dublin on the following day. His Majesty's ship Serpent, 16, Commander J. C. Symonds (attached to the Portsmouth station), anchored at St. Helen's on Tuesday, from a cruise to the Westward, and sailed again yesterday to resume her cruising Station. APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS.--Lieut. J. Gore is appointed to his Majesty's ship Hyacinth, as well as the fol. lowing :—Mr. T. Baseley, Master; Mr. C. Pattison, Surgeon ; Mr. A. Muirhead, Assistant-Surgeon; and Mr. H. G. Back_ house, Mate.—The Rev. T. Ferris, Chaplain, is appointed to the Portsmouth Ordinary.—L!euts. C. T. Rooke and A. Slade are appointed to his Majesty', ship Victory, as well as Mr. Wm. Wright, Assistant-Surgeoi.—The Rev. G. Fisher is re-appointed to the same ship, and Messrs. C. Rankine, G. Moore, T. Bre nan, and Dr. F. Maunsell, Supernumerary Assistant-Surgeons, for the Service of Haslar Hospital.—Mr. J. Bowler, Mate, is appointed to his Majesty's ship Buffalo.—Mr. J. Colwell, Pur ser, is appointed to his Majesty's ship Hyacinth. Tlie following Midshipmen passed their examination in na vigation this week, at the Royal Naval College, viz., Mr. Al bert Heseltine and Mr. Robert W. Otway, both of his Majesty's ship St. Vincent; Mr. F. A. Cudlip, of his Majesty's ship Southampton ; Mr. C. 0. Hayes, late of his Majesty's ship ' Dryad; Mr. E. Heathcote, of his Majesty's ship Briton; and Mr. Z. Andrews, of his Majesty's ship San Josef. ROYAL MARINES.—Second Lieut. Charles Fellowes Lamborne of the Chatham Division of Royal Marines, has been allowed to resign his commission.—Mr. Leopold George Fre derick Mont, has been appointed a Second Lieutenant at the Chatham Division, vice Lamborne, resigned.—Mr. J. Thadeus Courtney M`Carthy, has been appointed a Second Lieutenant, at the Portsmouth Division, vice Lamont, dismissed the service by sentence of a courtmartial. Admiral Sir Thomas Williams, G.C.8., our Commander-in- Chief, stru c k hi s flag on Thursday, on board his Majesty's ship Victory, and p rocee d e d on leave. Rear-Admiral Sir F. L. Maitland, K.C . B . (Admiral Superintendent of the Dockyard, whose flag is fl y i ng in the Portsmonth yacht) will execute the duties of Port Admiral during the absence of the former. No class of tradesmen are so burdened with oppressive taxation as the publicans. In addition to the assessed taxes, soldiers, &c., they have licenses to pay, varying from 51. to 1 51. This unequal system of taxation should, in common justice, be remedied. We are glad to hear that the publicans throughout the kingdom are pre [ming petitions to Parliament praying for a redress of their grievances. --.Reading Mercury. A BDucTioN.—Thursday evening as a young woman named ROSE Fox was returning from the market of Westport, accompanied by her sister, ELLEN SMITH, to her residence at Lognafreeogue, they were followed and overtaken within half a mile of Westport by a party of upwards of twenty, when a man named PATRICK O'AIALEY, of Slogger, one of the party, seized the young woman, and dragged her a considerable distance. She escaped into 3 house for protection, and fastened the door inside, but the party broke it open, and forced her away with them. In• formations have b een sworn, and warrants issued against the parties..—Mayo Constitution, Mr. F. O'CONNOR presented a petition from Armagh, in the county of Cork, praying for the abolition of tithes. In the opinion of the Hon. Member, nothing so much led to the disturbances which had lately taken place as the promise which was held out during the last session by his Majesty's Ministers. Mr. O'CONNELL presented a petition from a parish in the county of Meath, praying that his Majesty's Ministers would not carry into effect the coercive measures contemplated against Ireland.—(Hear, hear, hear.) The petitioners stated that hitherto they had been successful in pre►erving the peace of their neighbour hood, but despaired of doing so, if coercive measures were introduced. As he (Mr. O'Connell) intended to make some observations upon the Bill which had been intro duced into another place, fur reducing the people of Ireland to a state of blaveiy, be should only at present move that the petition be brought up. The Hon. Member then presented a petition from the National Political Tiades' Union of Dublin, against the vestry cess. The Hon. Member then moved for a return of the number of persons who had been committed for criminal offences to the different gaols in England and W les since the last return.—O r dered. Mr O'CONNELL moved fur a return of the number of benefices in Ireland possessing no church, or possessing a church in one parish of the union, the distance of the nearest buundary of the parishes having no church to the church of the union ; and alio the distance of the farthest biundary. Lord ALTHORP having said he had no objection to the return, it was ordered. Mr. LOCK gave notice, that on the 21st of March, he should move for leave to bring in a Bill to establish a general system of police in the burghs of Scotland. Sir HYDE PARKER, presented a petition from a hundred in Suffolk, against the Taxed Cart Act. Mr. HUME said, that he thought the case of the pe titioners worthy of attention. —( Hear.) The fears be had expressed of the operation of the Bill last session had been but too truly verified. A number of surcbarg. s had been made, and numerous complaints bud been com municated to him of which he had informed the Treasury. The effects of the Act hid been, to tax many individuals who had not been taxed before. Lord ALTHORP said the fact was this. The Bil ot last Session took the half of the old tax oti carts which were used by the owners for their fami lies, for the mixed purpose of conveyance for them selves and of goods to and from market. Formerly, if a cart were employed for anything but the carrying ot goods to and from market, the owner was liable to the high duty; but there were several parts of England where the tax had been customarily evaded. In those parts of England the Act of last session, instead of operating as a relief, had a directly contrary effect, for the officers of the revenue had, upon its passing, imme diately called upon the parties for the half duty, which they certainly felt as a hardship. In other parts of the country, however, where the law was strictly obeyed, the Act had certainly operated as a relief. Mr. ALEXANDER BARING hoped the petitioners would have some relief. Mr. S. RICE said that the Act bad operated at a greater relief than had been stated, for the employment of the cart, under the old law, for anything but the conveyance of goods, had o, casioned the horse duty to be levied on - - - ----- .... the horse, and the man-servant duty on the driver, mak ing a charge of 11/. instead of 11. 10s., now demanded. —Petition ordered to be laid on the table. Mr. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from the Corpo ration of Scarborough, denying the statement of a petition presented by an Hon. Member a few nights since. The Hon. Member also presented a petition fret some place in the county of York, praying for the better obser vance of the Sabbath Day. Mr. HASLAND presented a petition from the city ot Durham, for the abolition of slavery. Mr. J. FENTON presented a petition from Rochdale, for the abolition of slavery, and another from the same place for the abolition of the hierarchy in Ireland. Th. , Hon. Member, in presenting the latter petition, made a few observations which were not audible in the gallery. The SPEAKER said he understood from the Hon. Member that if he were satisfied from the measure. which his Majesty's Ministers had proposed, that tb. Noble Earl (Ormelie) had led them into an error be was sort his COnetitueuto would not have forwarded that petition. Lord ALTHORP moved the order of the day for re ceiving the report of the supply granted to his .Majesty. Mr. COBBETT rose to submit certain resolutions to the House respecting the grievances of the panplc tinder the pressure of taxation.—(Hear, hear ) He wou!' not attempt to entertain the House with an account of what their ancestors used to do with regard to redress• ,ing grievances previous to granting supplies, for it was now too antiquated a doctrine; but it was his dut:a not to suffer the House to go one step further with the sup: plies until he was permitted to state certain grievances' connected with the subject, and until he had shown to! the House that the nobility, the land, d gentry of England and Scotland, had been the most unjust body of men that ever lived. (L 'tighter.) Altaough they might laugh with the people's money in their pockets, lie hoped to be permitt e d to state very shortly a part only of the grievanc e s of the people, and he would leave gentlemen to laugh as long as they pleased after he had done. In order that he should not make mistakes, and that it rnklat be impressed on the minds of gentlemen, he had put the facts down on paper. The greater portion of the: time which he meant to occupy would be in stating the substances of two Acts of Parliament, namely, the Stamp Duties Act, and the Auction Duty Act, and if ever partiality, cruelty, or injustice was ex-reised towards the people greater than by those acts, he would be content to forfeit any pretensio ns which he mighf have to the possession of common sense.—(llear.) They would find that the duties under the statute, ire exacted from the poor people of the country, aud, from the statement he would lay before the House. that the nobility, the clergy, and the landed gentlemen, had taken care entirely to be excused from the burden, and that it was made to press heavier and heavier in proportion, as it reached the poor man. People might laugh, but was that justice ? Was that the way to conciliate the people ? No doubt the Right H. n. Secretary had said that the Government should be 'eared before it was loved, but that Right Hon. Gentle. man's philosophy differed from his (11r. Colabett's) and from the experience of them all. Let him rest assured, the love always came before the fear. His Majesty's Government. however, were acting in opposition to that philosophy. They sought to be feared before they were loved, and the House would soon see how the fear their measures pro duced would excite love.—(Hear, hear, hear.) He vl• ig going, however, to lay a statement before the Iltrosvt which he was afraid would not much tend to praducti confidence and love towards those who called themselves : t ieu h r e triees n d o; tao i s l i:tyty:sannpcdsa,pga.e,nnits,ruy4:toi:fsgtiGhneetoch.oe .r:yet.gaantteTi to 7, 000 : A op c oa t os t oe e doo r t e ,l, - ., the 11th July 1815, for the purpose of imposing certain of which the nobility, clergy, and gentry, paid hardly any thing at all. The utmost care had been taken to exempt the nobility and land proprietors from bearing any but a very small part of the burden, and, in fact, the tax pressed heavier and heavier in proportion to the smallness of the property. If the Act of Parliament had been made for the express purpose of degrading the people of Eq , land, and for diminishing the number of small proprietors it could not have been more effectually framed for that purpose.—(A laugh.) It was very well to laugh when peoale hail got the money in their pockets. Various duties on legacies, and on property coming by intestate succession, were imposed, but from those freehold property was wholly exempt.—(Hear, hear.) Where was the justice of this ? Could the landowners of Englund Ink the rest of the people of England in the face with a law like this in the Statute Book ? But torch laws could be made and enforced upon the people, while they hail the power to do it, and while there was power left them to try them by courtmartial. But there was also a probate duty, and he wished specially to call the attention of the House to the scandalousness of that impost.—( Hear.) A certain Honourable Baronet, not then in his place, challenged him the other night to bring forward his plans, and had found fault with him for not introducing some magnificent measure for alleviating the miseries of the people. He (Mr. Cobbett) had no grand plans—he had no magnificent plans, except the magnificent one of mak ing certain people pay up their arrears, and do justice to the country. He asked justice for the people, and him self amongst the rest. Why, if justice had been done when that Right Hon. Baronet came to his estates, thirty years ago, 60,0001. would have ht en paid by him to the country for probate duty ; if he had been taxed, as he (Mr. Cobbett) knew pretty well his children would be, that sum would long since have been handed over. These exactions—these monstrous and cruel disproportions be tween the rich aud the poor —were intolerahlia and would he productive of very bad results. Tiny made the people vindictive, and must finally induce them to detest their wealthier brethren. He would proceed to conveyances. The duty upon a thing of five pounds value, and under 201., was 10s. ; and the duty on a thiug of 100,000/, or any sum above that, was 1,000/.—so that, in the latter case, it was less than 10s. per cent. on the value of the thing conveyed, and in the former case, if of 51. value, it was two hundred shillings per cent. on the value of the thing conveyed. Thus the poor man paid twenty times as much tax as the rich man on precisely the same sort of property ; and the weight of the duty went on increasing feom ten shillings per cent. to two hundred shillings per cent. exactly in the proportion that the value oecame smaller and smaller in amount. Thus the poor were taxed, while the rich went scot free. They might laugh —with their pockets full of money they could laugh. Who passed that Act of Parliament? They were the worthy Nobility and Gentry of this boasted tree country. And yet they found fault with the Jacobins, as they called ti.em, for not adoring the privileged orders. In leases, where the yearly rent was 5/., the statnp duty was 11. or 20 per cent. ; but where the yearly rent was 1,000/, the stamp duty was 11., or 10 p r cent.,—and thus this tax went on from 4001. a year rental to 5/. a year rental, get ting heavier and heavier, but increasing in the small reea tals in a most disproportionate degree. 'I here was mon strous injustice ! What would be said to that ? Oh, 'twas not known—it was done in a hurry—late, perhaps, at night. Then they ought not to work by night—(Cheers) —let them work by day, and do their business properly and carefully as it ought to be done.—(Cheers.) In the case of mortgages and bonds and securities of every description, it, for instance, the amount of the mortgage were 25/., the stamp would be 1/., or SO , . per cent. ; but if the amount of the mortgage were 20,000/., the stamp would he 20/, or 2s. per cent., the poor man thus paying forty times as much tax as the rich man. The stamp in this aase was no more if the amount of the mortgage were 100,0001. ; which compelled the poor man to pay 200 itritor as much as the rich one—the tax increasing in weight as the taxed person become poor. Why ! were they honest men that passed such a law as this ? Were they not persons professing themselves to be gentlemen — persona of high blood—men of magnificent spirits? There was magnificence—there was justice ! In respect to annu ities, if the annuity were for 101. or under, the stamp was 1/. ; and so, in due proportion, an annuity of 2,0001. ought to ray a stamp duty of 2001. ; but, instead of that, at paid only 251. ; and if the annuity were for 10,0001., ar any greater amount, it still paid 25/. only—the same shameful disproportion as before detailed being observable throughout. And yet this was passed in England —the land of charity—of justice—of benevolence ! Call this charity-- call this justice, indeed! Why, the clergy of Log and ought to have pr eac h e d aga i nst i t constant l y an d devou tly 4t . for the last two year s f rom t h e i r pu l p i ts . That was w h at they ought to hav e d one . Th en th e y ibeennot if som e use . Th en t h e goo d peop:e. t' for or Roc hda le would have on o pfetthe Protestant itioneti as they hierarchy. had ha t DI Nut h they, ale had not done. He must tell them about promissory acres and bills of exchange. I f not e xceeding two amanitas ,fter date, and for the s um of 40 s. or not exceeding five uineas, the stamp was Is. ; and in the one pilau, toin the stamp on S, OOO /. ought to be 28/. 1 Is. ; b u t it pa id only 151., whilst 1 9 r any hi g h er sum t h e stamp wits no tgde n d, to total i l - . t