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He lamented that the. regulation Which placed all the money bills it the disposal of the other house, prevented their Lordships trorn originating any measure dri the subject ; but he had reason t o ent er t a i n the hope, that itt the course of the present,Session the state Of the Game Laws would .be brought before the llouse-; It was therefore for the purpose, of preparing their Lordships' minds for the consideration which the subject demanded, and to afford ample in; tormation'on the question; that he. should now - moire for—Returns of all the Infovmations and ConviCtion4ad in Courts - of Justice under the came Laws, as returned by Clerks of the Peace from 181 to ) 821 ) and of all sumeniiry Lions and cOnvictiOns: . before Matik.ratv:s the same Period.--Agi•eed tó.---AdjOtirned. • ••- Feb. 6, 1621, S ti CE—P-ersons as rnay be willing to Contract ,for Supplying this Hospital with SHOES, for the Pen `toners fur Two Years, may deliver in their Proposals to the Pirecto.rs of the said Hospi:4l, at this Place, on SATURDAY, the 17 t11 instant, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon; anditi t h e ntean time he furnished with Forms of Proposals, and cquainted with further particulars, by 'inquiring at the Steward's Office here. No Proposal will he received 4ftrr the hour afor'e -said, 'lot will any be attended to that asv not agreeable to the said Porms; nor unless the Pat ties personally appear. [F11,035r VAR : IOUS SclUriCES.] • (No. VT.) .. WgLSII LITERATURE.-The llfernbers of Jesus College, .Oxford, have offered - the under men, tioned Prizes for Compositions on the following. subjects i For the .best Essay in the Vi'elshLan guage on " the adVantageS likely to accrueto the Principality from a National Biography"—qQt. For the best Translation into' the Welsh:Lan guage of the first of the S6-mons on the Sacra ment, by the Rev: John Jones,'n A . .' Of ‘Jesus College,..Archdeacon df Merioneth, Barnpton Lecturer for the present year-10/. For - the . best Six EnglYnion on the 'Words of Taliesin 'Cymru fu Cymru fydd--;21. To the'best Welsh reader in Jest.i the second best Welsh reader-41. • CONTRACT FOR GREY KERSEY AND BLANKETS. Commissariat Department, Treasury • ;tti Fatbruary, 1831. RT.JCH Persons - as are detirous of Contracting with the Agent for Co mm i ssar i a t S u p p li es , t o su p p ly GREY KERSEY and BLANKETS, ur ry receive particulars Z Ad V. - C...-I,4ets at this Oriiee betvrict.ti the Hours of Elevep the P . c . .and deliver their Tenders sealed up and directed to 4444 “ g ent tor Coinroissariat Supplies, marking thereon insitae,n,der. for Kersey, on . .or.i;te fore:-Saturday the 7th '• ; hot none wili "he received alter-Twelve o'Clock on that Day; r,or will arty7P A fOtiOS natii:ed unless made on il[leard to a printed Parlictdir, and the Pric.esinscited VWord s at length ; nor unless a Letter be subjoined to such ip"`Prksal, signed by two Persons of known-property, eirgag= t- Pbeconie bound with the 'Party tendering, in the Sum e ,)'; ) tessed i n th e Particulars for the due perfortuance of the corttraet. TOFFICE OF ORAN' VCE, July 31, HE PUBLIC are hereby informed that Thirty-seven PLATES of the ORDNANCE SURVEY C , EAT BRITAIN, carried on'under the Superintendence of late Major-General WILLIAM MUDGE, LL.D. F.ll. ti‘" A-S., are now complete, and that IMPRESSIONS from l ''„era are on Sale at the ORDNANCE MAP Of FICE, ice the G‘ u e ,, W Elt of LONDON, .and also at WILLIAM FADEN'S, grapber to his Majesty.., and Agent to the Board of Ord -41,,, at CHARING-CROS'S. PLATES contain the Counties of Kent, Essex, tiVvx, Hants, Dorset, Devon, and Cornwall,, and propor-' (o rlo n ' nt S umer set, S urrey, Pembroke, Cardigan, Carmarthen, t4,..% r• )r gan, Wilts, B e rk s , Middlesex, Suffolk, Hertford, and rido e• 4 T , 4 4t t IX. containin g ' near l y th e whole of Pembrokeshire, lst rttons of the a dj acent Corintry, was published on the t uz ,Z l)o Atigust. 1819 ) and as the Work is still in progress, ac.- G r , t 'g to the original D es i g n of g i v i ng a complete. Map of P int , Britain upon a Scale- of one inch to. a Mile. the ~e,fttiori of the f u tu re p ar t s w ill follow as fast as tne:na sueli a Wurli will admit, without 41oz - easing_ the an (=en, Pense. 1 emen wishing to procure a Mali of the Country stir liro;i2g their own habitations, may. by application to Mr. kit 1 at the Ordnance Mao °dice (where an Index Map tile; th 'wn) sele,:t any sheets they please, for that purpose. ket,,. e :'t l lers on this subject, addressed to Mr. Baker, under *di i ty Y. the Secretary of the Board of Ordnance, Pall Mall, trnmediately attended to. • Order of the Board, R. It CREW, See. T HE LATE MR. TIIFFEN7S LIBRARY. NI s o . r , TO BE SOLD. BY AUCTION, tferior.o4l.dli,peEßy, a t his Rouge,. Wainktoll-Street. ClRo w i n Strand, on MON ' DAY NEXT, and Eleven rt,„ . h—a ys (Sunday excepted), at Twelve, 1. 4 remaining very select,and va clegant2 Fs .y n : a b it - Lannny frf the - tate .7. F. - TUFYLN, o of t`hinese Drnawii Arang lie 1 .. 1 • I Yin bC found, a slendid Collection ) De rata Etiatscau p Vase &c. (4taloues to bek hd a ( ' price...s.)" at the place of ' Sale. b ODWELL'S 'VIEWS IN GREECE COMPLETE. This Day were published, v.. In Imperial folio, Price 181. 18s. half bounit, lENI'S in GRE ECE,'from Original Drawings. By E. DOD WELL, Esq. F.S.A. Printed for Rodwell and Martin, New Botastreet. • Of whom may I e h a d, ,104 ti D ODWELL' s T 01114; ist 'VieiVsll . r:e • LAW -111i0C-F,I4_:IiiNGS. OF KING'S nE:\;cl-1, THURSDAY,FEB: S. . • TIIE X I•NG Vei*Si/S Sin. F. pi] RDETT." . , A ' Vurtliir Particulars.] rn,, - e '''TTORNF.Y GENERAL rnoyed for the judg s.t.lit:a:;ant of the Court,,upon Sir Francis Burdett, who 1i I,.itiSt entered the Court, accompanied by Mr. i .11.°4'use INI.P M r . Fysche Palmer, M.P., 11/ r. i c k , .) f • i'stafr, Sir Robert Heron, and several other t 'lld s . : Th. ff . )1 e : auldavit of Sir F. Burdett was first put in. f gall.l)`ated himself to have been a Mem . ber o f nt , eta for twenty-four 4€ll '.' years, and during fi - ‘ llll 4Bt Year s of that time Representative for lyest ,,con e He was always a firm supporter of. the_ ..ahv s 4 titu l t s ion and Laws of his Country, and had . . 111 eilt" 8 13 " ec eell an advocate for 'a Reform in Parl'a alvatie Ruse he considered it requisite for the .Kiid a I 1 of the country. Baronet's t o vtt w ent The Hon... •••_ r, • on to deprecate the use of . m . mil i tary ) In ''S.4.llio, . Pitttiing down the right of Petition, .y 4 bled i ' l f 'luierc, when the people were as f'Wich 4' l ' that ' purpOse; awl that, as the letter_ or was fe\viir°,;e respeeting the affair of Man .d ches t 'consider i c:amed on th ese pritwiples, he (It not to or c o I " ef il l'Y way derogatory to the charac :hie ot n li d e u r ;r it ° a`man or a gentleman. we nt "davit was from Mr. Harmer, and 40t Merely to sh4itt , ihat the Hon. Baronet could. M -.- seen Lord - Sidmouth!s approbation of ~- P. alanch , agtstrate "ette r - . ester , ?I • IVIr s s Id - the time he wrote . , , ' cAltr.r.TT rose to address the Court. He c _ l et on th e excellence of the private and public t; .. kr acter of the Hon. Baronet, Sir Francis Bur- Jett ; he said Ile had shown the highest respect j'„r the laws on every occasion ; and his whole -tile proved that he •Ilwa , ' 1 )orted the Govern kent of the Law. i "-"I _ •Mr. DEN -NlA's followed on the same side, and ‘vent over the circumstances attending the Man ,t,ester meeting ; but there was nothing new in laargurnents of any of the Counsel. t. v. :tr. o f any Mr. BLA CKBURNE, and Mr. I n, S were also heard on the same side. . inp,-," .A.TTORNEV-GENf:LIAL diSelaillied any feel •,,go ' Dersonal hostility fowards the Hon. Bart. she , Bt ood i n Court. lie never cou ld i n d u l ge on b " " aa occasion feelings of personal hostility ; tha t had he been the least disposed to entertain - . th at feeling, a temptation had been held out in ,' addresses their Lordshipi 'hail heard from t "Ittetnen who snpported the Hon. Baronet. ' • lie brst question before their Lordships was, whe- -tiler the motives. of .the 'honourable' Defendant were.4tned or bad... The . tendency and effect of his writings he must answer.. It was no ex cuse _to say — lie-liad . hotieStnotives, If it were, every iibeller might escape punishment. It was no excuse to say he loved the Constitution, when his. language had -a tendency to do that which the, Jury- had declared,' He was happy, on a.former. day y: when-his Learned Friend dis claimed - imputing to .the Government the acts at Manchesthr ; but the Jury had found, and no man could doubt,. on,reading the letter, that it was a libel,, which imputed to the GoVernment the transactiOns at Manchester. What then be came-.-ef:the affidaVits when the fact was proved ? It was said that. the Hon. Baronet was desirous of representing .an.outrage on the constitutional rights:of the people. If that was his intention, were not the Courfs of Law open for the in vestigation of the matter, and redfess' of 'those who suffered ? What 'occasion was there to advert. ,to ~,the case of -th e s e v en Bi s hop s ? No man could" say the • subject 'was Atat - caltulated to produce the most dangerous consequences. It proved a, deliberate inten-, tion on the part of the defendant to excite the feeling of his constituents, •:and :the peo ple at large, against the Government, which had no participation in the Manchester occur rences. lie considered the libel one of the most dangerous tendency. 'The Jury considered it such, and following up his duty, he was obliged to call on the Court, not for vindictive judgment, but such as they thought commensurate. ,The , Court would calmly and dispassionately consider the whole case, and while their sentence Was free from vindictive feeling, they would also take care the public should be protected. The SOLICITORGENERAL- declined adding. any observations to those made by the Attorney- General. The Judges deliberated near half an hour. ',Mr. Justice 13AYLEY then ,pronounced judg ment. His Lordship, addressing Sir. F. Burdett, said it was his painful and unpleasant duty in the situation which he held, to pass, on him the sentence,• which after a careful consideatiori •of all the circumstances, the Court felt them selves called- upon to pass. It happened that in the course of the proceedings some variance of opinion had occurred. It 'was, however, a' difference of a techniCal description, namely, whether there was 'a proof of the, publication in the county of Leicester. There could, how ever, have. been no doubt,if the. Court had-granted: a new trial, other evidence Might have been found to spew it was circulated in the county, and that would in jaw have been a.:publicatiokt. • I n the letter to Lord Sidmouth the Defendatv, ad mitted himself to be the author, and that being the case, it was for the Court to say what was a proper punishment for a libel of this nature and character. It was impossible to say what was the exact state of the public mind at the time the letter.was written, both with relation to the facts on which the libel-was founded. It was, however, founded on facts of which the writer .was ignorant, but writt6n tuyler.great—egc,ite , l meet: , Comingtffoin . a• Member of . .Parliament,, a man of rank. and chara4er the letter must have increased , that excitement. , True it was,. that the letter was written, (as indeed from. its style is apparent) in great has i te,. and under-the influence of highly excited feelings. The Hon. Defendant had just himself.`bad stated), read- in some NewSpapers a statement ,which re presented - that men,' women, and children, peace ably-assembled, had been cut down by an,armed force, iu cold blood: God fOrbid, .that-.in this country any man . Should read such a statement as this without horror and indignation,,.. But the Honourable Defendant should havo.recol lected,- that he had no right to assume the facts to have been so from a statement in a News paper. He should also have ,known, •th a t the crime which had excited his indignation was the highest known to thelaws, and the proof of which would reach to the life of the party or parties committing it. The Hon,:Baronet should there -fore have borne in mind, on so *portant and so lepn an - occasion, that the law secured for every man, whatever were his crime, a cool and *partial. trial; and that to excite „the. pub lic-mind while yet the party , was ~v,ep to the tribunals- - of the law, was to disserhinge a prejudice from which it was the especial ob ject of the law to protect every ,individual. — The Bon. Baronet had also asswileo,.wit,l,l9:ut the smallest proof,; that the 'Government was a pre meditated party to the outrage ,on which he had made so strong a comment. The Court taking into, consideration all the circumstances of the .cafe, did order . and adjudge' That. you; Sir Francis BUrdett, for this offehce,•do paya fine of 2,0001., and that you be imprisoned in the cus tody of the Marshal of the Marshalsea, for the. term of three calendar months, and re ma i n impri soned until the" fine is paid." The sentence was received (no doubt from its comparative mildness) with loud demonstrations of applause, which called forth the reprehension of Court. The Honourable Baronet was congratulated by his friends who were in Court, among whom, in addition to the names we have before mentioned, were Mr. Lambton, Sir Robert Wilson, Mr. Ben nett, and other Members of Parliament. The sentence was received without the walls of the!.Court by acclamations from an immense concourse of the people, whom we left waiting in expectation of the appearance of Sir FRANCIi. Soon after the sentence the cloth Baronet drove off.with the tipstaff and Mr. o o USh, in a hack ney coach, over Westminster-bridge, to the King's Bench. . _ GREEK TRANSLATION OF ZADtd AND ANTE.NOR. tSkenteri, a Qreek merchant; settled in Constantinople, has pubiiShed iii Grieek an ele gant translation of Zadig, the romante':'Of Voltaire. He has also translated the Voyage of Atitenor, and is now printing it. ,The' author is indefati gable in,his exertions, for the diffusion of knoW ledge,.and the civilization of Greece in general. FIRST BOOK PRINTED IN VAN DIEMAk'S LAND. —ln 1818 a printing-press was set up in Hobart's Town, Van Dieman's Land, New Hollanct. The first book from this press is the History 'of a Fu gitive Exile, named. Michael Howe, who at the head of twenty-eight other runaways, disturbed the tranquillity of the Colony for six yiars. The work derives importance from the singularity Of the circumstances, and from the story. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LiNNiEus.—There has lately been discovered accidentally among the papers . of a shopkeeper, a biographicil• account of Linnwns, written by hiinself, and since con tinued to his death. The autograph M.S., which is in the Swedish langUage; has been sent to Up sal, and will speedily be printed. It will form a book of 500 pages in am, embellished with six engravings, exhibiting two portraits of the great naturalist, a fac simile of his hand-writing ' his monument in -the Cathedral Ch urc h, an d the arms of his family. Coin of Titus.—A siver coin of Titus was found in the rubbi.th of an old house, which was lately pulled down in Ea§tgate-street, in the city of Chester. In digging the foundation for' the new building, a pavement was discovered at about eight feet below the present level of the street. This gives strength to the prevalent opinion, that the level of the city was originally that of the floor of the Cathedral, to which persOns have now to descend by several steps. GEOCENTRIC AND HELIOCENTRIC TABLES.— The Chevalier Theodore Carezzini, a Piedmon tese, has invented two kinds of round tables, which he calls geocentric and heliocentric tables, and by their aid a person, without any knowledge of mathematics, can, in a very short time, tho roughly observe the course of the stars, and ex plain the celestial phenomena. Ladies and youths ?. whom the inventor has instructed'in his method,. have s without rrniclrprevioui Athowledgg Of astronomy, satisfactorily solved. - vcitirlons problems respecting the sun, the-moon, the 'OlanetS, fixed' stars, eclipses,. &e. By means of"theso instru-. ments, you may in. the . open air olidin a. meridian line in a few minutes, and in a journey by land. never•miss the direction to- the,n(Ktir,- You may alio learn the hour. during :the night without a . watch. It is remarkable - that country, the. geocentric table may, appear in the flrATte of an astronoiniCal garden of ii%hatever size you please. ELECTRICAL Ltowr.---Professor •Meynecke, -cif Halle, has invented.a- method of producing a beautiful' illumination, by' means of electrical light, with the help of artificial air enclosed,with in pipes of glass. As electrical sparks may be generated ad infinitum, a possibility exists, that by means of an electrical machine, and such an apparatus as M. Meynecke has invented, a whole city may be thus illuminated, and with very little cost.. Geography.---A Berlin Artist, Mr. Charles P. Klmtnmer, has recently published a globe %Ith the mountains boldly executed in relief. This method impresses the subject more forcibly upon the mind than the mode hitherto adopted, and is consequently admirably cOlateil, fop rgeogrtu phical instruction. SPORTING INTEETICENCE. A Sweepstikes of Fifteen (-IruipeaApuch l ,Eight StibscifirksliTs" for 11tintero:of the Farley Hunt; was. run Overll4trem Down, Hants, onWednesday.—Heats tiro mileS t hOrseS rode by their owner . ; ! : .. Capt. - Sniirli t S.ch: h.' Pedigree ~A • 1 5 1 Mr. Wilenot's - Stan Sadd Mr. Pc rrigal's gr. in. Woeful • .2 5 4dr .rilr..Jones's Arid Mr. Sturt's Mermaid Sir C. H. Meridith's Cannon-ball 6 1 2 dr Mr. Owen's Jupiter . • di4. Mr. Croft paid h. ft. Jupiter ran on the wrong side of the Post. Before starting, 2 to 1 on the field.—After the heat, even on Sadd i and .after the second heat, 6 to 4 on Pedigree.. ~. - STATE OF THE ODDS:—BETTING ROOM, FEB.' 8. DERBY. 14 to 1 . agst Gustavus . 16 to 'lagst Jock 20 to 1 agst any other. R to 1 agst Reginald 13 to 1 agst Charm 14 to 1 agst Morel OAKS, . 9 to 1 agst f. out of Guildford ''NUn 9 to I agst Emily. RIDDLESNVORTII. •:. :: . , ' sto 2 agst Prudence . I 4 to I agst ;Morel. 3 to I agst Selinia. I 9 to 2 agst My Lady 7 to 1 agst Sister to Steel trap G. W. F. HATTON, Esq. of Kerby Hall, in Northamptonshire, met with a serious accident on Monday as he •was leaping a spirited hunter over a hedge, when the reins broke,' and Mr. n o ,s.T e T failing on his head ; dislocated his c o ll ar b . HOUSE OF LORDS; 'FEB. g; • ALLIED POWERS. Earl Gtity, alluding to the Paper Which had latelY beeri laid before the House, in reply to the circtilar issued by the Allied Powers; regret ted that its contents did not appear to .1 - tim so sa tisfactdry aS he had expected. It was necessary .that further inforrnatidn should be produced, to enable the public to have a clear and perfect un derstanding of the lin e of policy. pursued by.his Majesty's, Ministers; lie therefore gave notice, that on MOnday next, he should move for such Documents, or parts of them, as he trusted there would be no objection to submit to the House; and:, as would teed to satisfjf the public respect jng the conduct of Government: One A . those papers would be the Circular itself, if it had not already been ref Used on the ground of its not having been oiliciallv communicated to this coun try. It would; however, become unnecessary, as he understood that the copy which had ap peared in the Papers, thotigh not verbally, was to be considered substantially correct, and might be used as such in the House. He should wish to be informed of the time and date - of the cOrn muniCation to other Powers, and of the pericid at which his Majesty's Ministers were first ap prized Of-it. • • The , Earl of LIVERPOOL would rather reserve until Monday What he had to state upon the sub ject. What the Noble Earl had said respecting the circular was entirely correct, and he rejoiced at the notice which he had given, as it would af ford him (Lord L.) an opportunity of entering into a full explanation of the policy and conduct pursued by his Majesty's Government on the oc, casion alluded to, towards Foreign Powers. He was disposed to supply any information in his power,. and it might be a matter of convenience, if between this day and Monday next, the. Noble Lord would so - describe the Papers •for which he intended to move, as to enable him to ascertain whether they could be produced. - Earl GREY trusted, that the Noble Earl would have no objection to give the dates which he had mentioned, The Earl of LIVERPOOL was understood to say that he should have no objection. Earl GREY then stated - that he should move for copies of those instructions, or such parts of them as it was deemed tit to produce, which had been sent to our Ministers abroad, and- which had been referred to in the paper before the House as having been communicated to.thett. - The-Earl-of - LIVERPOOL had no hesitation in saying that he should certainly have a strong ob jection to communicate those instructions. His reasons for objecting to their production he should state on Monday. Lord HOLLAND inquired of ; the Noble Lord whether the secret Article contained in the Trea ty signed between Austria and, NB:piss-9u, 4111 , 4 t -, 12.tb of ;l ikugustc.l43,ls;ilid fieen 'eorntnuiika(etl iapt the titne.toJils , Majesty'S . VOiternineut.. The Eari:of.LtycarOdEittia„. tliat,biOtajes T. , ty's .Government had been part, either to: the Treaty in question or :to anY'OCi:ts, • arrauge ments. HoLLANo had not Inciuired wbether.his, Majesty's GovernMent 'had been . a -Treaty. :He knew very Well that Vas ~not-,, the. case, as Austria and NipleS had rtAt . nitted- that the•stipulation was one entirely bet%veeutheni- , ,: selves,. :IviBbed: to know such an article having been communicate to his Majesty's •G overumentat the time or not. Th e Earl of. vE'ariu or. could' not • take upon himself at, present to state whether the article in , question badsbeeu communicated to his Majesty's Government at thetime. it had certainly been subsequently. 'known • - • - EDINBORGUI•PEst., , • • : .The Earl.of ItossLyx . held 'tg a 'Petition signed. by the most. respectable iUhabitants of the city of Edinburgh: It svt subscribed by_lo,soonatnes,- and the descriptions of the, '` arsons were, affixed to. their natnes... Indeed, so MuCli care had, been taken that none - _butinhabitabts shotthlsign y that many had been refustillecause they were not con sideretl-0...: belong intlihri s fely enough fo.the City of Edinburgh.-: , Neither . hadyA. ( ky,perspp„tiaaer eighteett.years .of age been` tfilOireq.:to sithicri be his name. l c had never br'otigli c lip . a., Petition from persens more respect ab , ls'lSic,h .ex pressed ,more , faittkinrly the Sense of the inhabitants ot ! tr great city. It prayecl:titat her Majesty's namebe . replaced 'in the . Li i nsgy, and . that. she ba..restored: to all' her rights, - honours, and.digitikies.—(Th Petition'ha%'ing heen read, was laid ou Noble. Fo.rl „pre seated others of a similar nature from the.Corpo, 'ration of We,a.vers-of East and West Anstrutiter, in the Cotinty of Edinburgh, and froth the inha bitants of the Parish and Burgh* of Dalrye in the County of A on the table. GAME LAWS. • • Lord CAriritonrE had moved, in the month of July last year, for a return of the number of persons committed to his Majesty's' Jails, for offences against the Game Laws. This return had not-yetbeen made, and he should now move that it be made; forthwith. On inquiry, how ever, he-had found, that such a retura would communicate but an imperfect accounc * .oe, ,the number of those vifences. lie was not „sanguine enough to expect that any Parliamentary return could convey to Parliament a full account of the amount of the evil produced by the lawsas theynow stood. It was an evil rather favoured . tit'an-rep,ress ed, and in some measure sanctioned, by the habits of society. It arose from the state of wealth which it had attained, and-which offered to that'species of crime an encouragement almost irresistible. ITO USt OF' COMMONS Fi:n. 8: • . The House ineflat' about four ;, and was' occur pied' a Considerable time in receiving Petitions and ReportS,upoil Priiate Bills.; and in transact:. ing Other business of mere local interest. PETITIONS. Mr. CU.RIVEN preSented a - Petition from several Agricu/ turists of the County of Gloucester ; reprelienting the distress under which they laboured; and praying that the'llouge would afford them some Parliamentary relief. Mr.. cur Wen observed it coultknot be denied that the severest distress e4isted among the Agriculturists. The present price of grain *as six shilling'i a bushel, Which was two shillings below -a standard which had undergone such, discusSiOn. It would scarcel_y be believed, thotigh it was a fact, th a t th e a lte ra ti on o f one shilling a bushel in the price of grain mused a differerce of five Millions to the Agricultural interests. . 7 . . -.- The Petition was read, and ordered - to be printed: Mr. LEIGH 'KECK presented a Petition front the tants of Leicester, praying that her Majesty's nafrie. might bb restored to the Liturgy. Lord EBRINGTON presented k PetitiOn frdiu thp Inhabi tants of South Moulton, in Devonshire, chndeinning the pro.: ceedings against the Queen, and praying for an inquiry into the circumstances which led to the Milan Cenunission• Lord.; - ship stated, that 9000 signatures find been affixed to this Peti.: tion in a space of eight dais ; and that he cou ld be ar p er s ona l testimony to the respectability of many of those signatures. .On the other hand, his Lordship observed ? the Cox ration Ad-- dress of the s a m e T own ; w hi c h Address he conceived contained many . unnecessary protestations of loyalty, had received only 183 signatures,in a longer space of ti me , and five of these sig.! , natures were those of Excisemen.—(A laugh !).--13efore he sLt down, he should make one remark upon en observation f.the h Noble Lord opposite {Castlereagh.)—That Noble' Lord had obserVed, that the good sense of the country was - to be collected from Corporation Addresses. Now it was a fine:, that Seve,-.t - 1 of those who signed the L o y a l Add res s or South-11 - oulton i 'haA also affixed their names to . the Petition he had the- honour *to present. • 1 - On the question being put that the PetitiOn ShbUld be brought up ; Sir RONALD ,FERGUSSON rose ; and ieferring also to Lord Castlereagh's observations respecting Corporation Ad dresses, remarked that in a small town in Scotland, a Loyil Address was, as usual, got up in the most profound secres, and inserted in the Gazette as the Address of the Elders, Cler gy, 6_c. of the town. Yet it was a fact, that the Petition con tained but 30 signatures, and that although there were three. Elders and as many Clergymen in the town, only one Elder and one - Clergyman had affixed their signatures. The Peti tion, in truth, ought to have been called the Petition of one Elder, one Clergyman, and the undersigned Inhabitant!: of the town. 4 ~The petition:was then• -brought up't and'afte.r.4,eiitewation ; kfetWeen- lord . E13,1j . 1N GrflN, ' Aldernian ViCop and an . • flontinfaide Menitkr on the DPPosi , to . 'Rel; OA:4 lelil4dered to be printed:, - ' :.-..: !" " ' : :. . ..' '.'.. ',' ` • 140 rd EI 3 RINC.TO . -` , t ben- presented 'another petition, of a 'nature, he'Said,vexy difieropp from , s4liiit. of the laSt, ...It wh s .frorcterfaii'AgriCnitural„Lahourers of;. , Dl:VOnsliira, -iibmplain ing pf / the;Zistrest" which 'they were sgir•ezing; .ancipraririg t `relief- It. allii prayed for an Reforni of the 110i150.,,-Itisik,arci ,qiipliid 'several olgOivations on preOthrtifig thispetitintl, bitt •in •sciioV P: t Vinbe that s nothing : could ioe•gillei-ted';beiond ' their stilistamm, Nhiell was , 'understood to 'lie ht:ji , ,r,aise o th'e Shp:- 'iiiii, yet mod i gidi.respoCtfta lidigii#ge of ,t4e. POsitkon.— WO, iitid.nraerei!tnbpjarinied... , '.\-: •f . ''-- - -'- . - - - , ..1%ft. IVIONCK -Oregeffed a:petition ,front the qohAbiaifts. of ,Ilungertor4,,niterkatikte, :prayingfor the rpstA.tipp. 'nf 11,1- Majesty's name to, the j i it i wy .;.' add - rinOtheilietitionfroni cer tain Operative Weaverssof Nearbury, in Berh'lnrte .ing 9f their aligit - iii:.%l4l)raying for relief.; . ; - ne:ll4,ni. 3ni le ber observed,it.was,sinmdfit thht the liteaerit . ,pet.:on.w, as from •a Town'*hieh fonperiy, ficrit Mentbers ' tio. Fitil4.nleiii,.atid • which . , on it-s dre.ay,pciitioned.ta be- . relieved'friiin a; privilege which was then , 'eonii - dered a' burtlien; frcnt the oircualitan'Oe of the MeinberS heirig•paid *ages by their tonitititents...,Thel'o were many liorou,giis. he .belie.ved at the present iiiiimert, the inhabitants cf .: whidi could ill. afford to pay their 3fem hers ; but the . ..latter were not Only content to waive,,thepay ment ; for they trafficked for their seats ; and although t th:s was a contraband trade, it gave no offence to the Gehitemen apposite ; ;end •Wa - s-a. very fiourishing, trade.--AA laugh.s"l:-.7The many petitions which we're then : before - the . house he: conTidcr td as so many proofs of public. opinion ; and much had, :been said as to the degree of attention which ought to be Oilidtfo that Opinion., lie,. for one, 'was' cbitainly; not . 4 isp o*. iiii-j diri in the cry, of," yox„..poptili,i. , ' , Vokr Dei !".- - -for he conceived the peOfe mighilie fingalc,oril? Yerylimporthnt subjects: In p a r-, nal ar, he disapproVed cit: t}lq, cry,., of - 4 ‘ . No Popery i'', ( ..vfhieft had been-. , encouraged 3 tyt(ltlitaisters s . anti.. toqiififili : ' r o.weo their present githittiOtit. ' ' Wheuthe epinion'of the iy , 4; T lvits Unreasonable anit .,, riiii r chieVoi4, fie. would" .have it;i'ipii taco,; but where it Nylis hiiiinit.ar4,_ . .eniarkable, lit'iti64 l o ;. - lit bX notto be ttegleaeil' c and ) tiil less treated with cpntchig - ," In the present' iriStiu;c . 4`tie ' ConSidered the prakei 6 .- rlie. ,mi. Con fbr the r:srcirietian of he,-, ..Alajesty's name" , td t 1 e ` " ': . t.ty harmless and retisOnaliic ; and he he ar tily joinidli ti 34 ;I serayr,g,r. from a desire to"tee'tite . present agitation - sithth•fgEf-k--! n-e p, - .34. ! tion was then read,'-and ordered in be printed.: ' • . „' - ~... , •' I'E`l7Tll/K•; presented .a Petition frorri: thei , Freeholders of the county of Surrey. The Member stated, .that this Petitiory.lias agreedt4). at a County Meeting; and that .only ten pesoni . : present dissented from it. It prayed for econo mical Reform; and.the abolition of office's which were not only useless to the public, but were the support of Ministerial , patronage. It lamented the late investigation ; and prayed ..the restora tion of her Majesty's name to the Liturgy, as ,tho only mei.ns of ,tranquil„lizing the public r. Dennison observed., that as his, opinion the subject:-mentidned'to the Petition was:al )-eady known, lie did. not feel it necessary to re- • peat that opinion; but he could say mitt), dence,-that a county more loyal, or more „at— tached to the Monarch and the Monarchy. than the county of:Surrey, could not be round Majesty's dominions; and .he. betieVed. that, el that . - Opinion the Petitioners were: joined by nine-tenths of the people. He could not -refriia from an observation upon an expression .of•th,. Noble Lord opposite (Castlereagh). whom he dj. not then observe in his place, When thal.Noh!„! Lord talked Of the house being dragonned::by petitions from the. people, he. (Mr. D. trustett,