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TUE CO MAWR° ATERS f or' VICTUAL ' AL: I.;ING 314.1ESTY 'S NAVY do hereby give No tice, Th4te On Friday, the 31st of August ne.et, they will be readylo receive Teiulers in Writing- (sealer[ tilt), and treat ,for Mc Supply of all such quantities of SEA PROVISIONS '"":,/ be required for the use of His Majesty's Ships and Pessets at Jamaica and New Providence, during the space of Twelve Calendar Months certain, from, the Ist of Novena 6er next, and further until six months warning shall he given for the termination of the Contract, the Conditions of which may be seen at the Secretary's Office, No reward will be had to any Tender in which .the Price V'oll-not be inserted in words at length, Ortfin tShall not be de -I,iivered to th e Board before One•P'Cloch\on Me .said t 4 131st of dagust next, nor unless the Per Son who 24 " k 9licli , l'entler or some Person on his behalf, a tte n d s , t o called far; nor will any Tender that &minims extrpe.,,ant prices upon some articles, and prices much izje rAipr th c re al va l ue upon others, b e considered as proper to -•••c ad,,cued. • .E.ackTender. innst also he accompanied hr/ er Letter signed r'f/ two responsible Persons, engaging to heroine .hound with the Party tendering, in 14c Penal Sant of 13,0001. for the (.110 performance of the Contract. I - ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, JUNE 22, 1821. N order to prev en t i nconven i ence to indivi tlual Officers, as well as to his Majesty's Service, the t4W IMS COMMISSIONERS of the ADMIRALTY think it Nne,ce.s,Lary,to rem i n d t h e OFFI CERS of His MAJESTY'S 1 - and ROYAL MARINE FORCES, that they cannot • receive their Half-pay for any period during which - , they may De Absent from this Kingdom without - their Lordships' Leave; t i d . , that Officers who may wish to remain abroad beyond • originalleave, slionlif take care to apply for a Reneal Eheirof iii.due time, so that such Application may be received ffi (at this Oce prior to the expiration of the former leave, as unless very-special circumstances can be stated in any part i- C ' l44 (- roe) no Half p ay can b e -p a id , f or any per i o d of Ali 'r"ce , thread which shall not be covered by their Lordships' c. • 2 ‘il Applications, either - for Origin a l Leave, or for lte ntn thereof, whether made through Agents. or "otherwise, written by the Officer , himself, and addtessed to the 'irtt.ory of the Admiralty. Officers who may not - employ an ;li,K:ut4 may have the public' fees on their Letter s o f L eave uetcd from their Half-pay, on- specifying their desire, to . Y ., ,etfe c t in the Letter asking, fOr the:Leave. • Regulation will take effect from this date, with regard. „}:l o Ottiteri hereafter applying for Lease; and from the Ist c4,..4ilrit.wy. next, with regard to Officers now Ahroad• on •the . 4 tt i' ll l4.ent or Europe or North, America, and after the Ist ot }) • 182 2, with regard -to. Of fi cers in other Parts of the- J. W. tAtOKER. ADN'IDIALTY-OFFICE, JUNE 23, 1 . 821. • 4EI LORDS COMMISSIONERS of the ADMIRALTY being desirouS of increasing. the ,Nurn, kivuxf- C HRONOMETERS for the USE of hi s.MAJESTY'S liil 7' ;, % -and• of Encouraging, the linprot , ed Manufacture of . I. y f flportrint Article, do her e by gi ve N ot i ce , That a•DE f", the; RECEPTION of CHRONOMETERS is OPEN ‘q_ "t the-ROYAL OBSERVATORY of GREENWICH,. bi,t ( ,s, the Aldkers will he permitted to Deposit their Cimino "• , ni ord e r t o t h e i r b e i ng tr ied , and ultimately, if .they .oe found wort h y o f S e l ect i on, .purchased for .Use 1' • NPUrfliasers ;iry or of diSposed of by th e P roprietors to . el lh3 '' her further encouragement, their Lordships will par re: the end of each year, thr"Chronameter which shall L,, t erP the b es t ti me , at the price.of..3oo/., and the se c ond 1, 4 ;. A !t the p r i ce of - 2001. provided that there have been above th r : r onoineters in the competition, and that the said b e st 0 -fo lucters shall keep th e i r rates w i th i n certain limits to ai,7 4 .airec stated. The other Chronometers their Lordships h,v l " 4 ;ctiase as they mar think ptoper, at such sums as may tfits4,"'d upon will, the makers; and their Lordships have otelei:`' expect that their annual rate of purchase, for ff 4 " to • will be not less than ten Chronometers 4ch, y • CUlllty • 1, 4 r. 40 ir (); faeility will be afforded to the Mak e rs *lne'may place li'ls)ri.;'•)railftreters in the Depot for disposing .of any of them .to p ui :te Pu rc h asers, and every,informat i on w i ll be afforded ' b r whip ik "ers, as to the rates of 'g o i n g of the Chronometers, the 4, 1 a strict acc o unt w ill b e k ept un d er t h e di rect i on of t f u noiner Royal and Board o f Longitude. -further conditions and regulations, connected with this Ctii,l4'll,erit may be learned of the Astronomer Royal at or of the Hydiograirlier of this Office. J. W. CROKER. 1,-.AsT INDIA HOUSE, JUNE . `27, 18 . 21. l ONS who are willing t o . Supply the i ill,, t r .f.4l BT INDIA' COMPANY, at their House in Lea- Uh p,, s , t r'et, or their Warehouses, as may be requir ed, . e HUNDRED AND TWENTY CHALDRONS of COALS of the following de scr ipti ons , v i z . r— ksUk, ' IG TON, HEATON, KILLING WORTH, andH.El3- !th,,''', AIN, Wh ar f M easure , may sen d i n their Proposals, k , U P, and addressed to the Committee of House, on or 4y:eh n'EONESDAY, the 4th of July next, and if on that 'Ec t .•, - qw . e Twelve &Clock at Noon, as no Terider will be ft, :" 41 aft er that 'rat Nut more than 40 Chaid rons will ii,(,4ltd dtill the end of August, thou g h if it b e th e w i s h o f "11.3 "°rs, 250 Chaldrons may be sent in immediately. Ire paid for as they arc delivered. T enders are to specify the price at which it is proposed 1. 4 4T . er each sort of Coal. The prices are also to include of the expense attending the delivery of the Coals. tti,,leMler will be received but from Coal Merchants pus 44aqg I'ViLirfs and Establishments of their own in or near steither will any Tender be taken into consideration an addr t s s o f the Party making it be mentioned there he o r au ?gent on his behalf be in attendance upon Cu mmittes.jat the day and hour above-mentioned. • JOSEPH DART, Secretary. _ . ' r''Fl-)INGS ON TH fi B I LI. OF PAINS AND FT ..,, I . 'ENALTIES, COMM , •T'. 4 k , i ' l l ''' . , MRD'S PARLIAMENTARY - • DE: : `'„-,, this wTEs.—The Third Volume of the NEW . SERIES . " , ‘Nt K,"1"4, which commences with the - Accession of his I 6vv ''' ti -"lj 'tY is re ady for delivery. In this and in the } -roc 1 - iili; - ' . I4,; * vrtin..,, Mc will be found . ir 'lty t it' s 13 0 the Bill of Pains and Penalties against her r ,j, c4 di 2; 'ken. No pains have been spared . to ~ sire those .. t.°;',' place n°: with f are test accuracy. 'I he Dehates.wbich I;ill4edatire'r.'lhee s t e i v e e - ra , l , a stages of the Bill will be found de tyvit4ppeart7L length.. Ilie .. eloquent Sperche . s . of . the c C ar o e n f r i i , s il e y l -ti,•`td 4 ,., d for and against the Bill hart. been , "fielp Sl►corrected, corrected and compr , red with the Notes pf the -'44`Nbort-liand ' W 'ter to tlie two Houses, ohligingly )44 ii;el4-tedb; the Agents on botbsidesfor that purpose. , -exarti. ! t tinatitisis in chief, the Cross-examinations, the ,Vili ti, I„,nations the Examinations of the Lords, together ,`cei ' question s questio'ns . r pro d p ., o , unded to the Learned Judges and Q een r ;! Is T's th Reports, Protests, Sze. &c. have all Ahe ii4,thfullv) transcribed front the Minutes and Juni nals of b °Pe Vse of ° Lords. 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It was true that Quakers and Jews werer allowed the privilege of solemnizing m arr ia ges accor di ng to the rites of their system of religious worship, but the Roman Catholics in this country had no such privilege, as a inarriage performed by one of their own clergymen was not valid; until the parties. were married again according to the rites of .mir Church.__ This was a great mischief to the poorer class of Roman Ca tholics in particular, and Many cases of crying hardship 'arose out of it. Mr. BENNET said, that the misAtittemcnt only proved that the Petitioners thought the laws to be more what they ought to be than what they are. They supposed that there.was amore'';, extended toleration in them, than, to the disgrace of the coun try, they could boast. „ • Mr. C. CALVERT presented p Petition. froin a:person named George White, who stated hims e lf t o h ave been for a long time a confidential Messengitr to the late Mr. Pitt, and to have been seventeen years Surveyot, of Taxes at Ux bridge, and three at Kensington, but, on aourit.of giving in- formation, with a view to prevent mal-practices in the.eullection Of the revenue, his doing so was consideraofficious, and he was discharged. He stated also, that since 1819 he had been en gaged in a constant struggle to obtain arrears due to him at the Tax-office, without success, in consequence of which he was confined in the King's Bench Prison, under circumstances of aggravated misery. He prayed the Douse for inquiry, into his case, and that it would be pl ease d t o a tt b r d him protection, and to correct the existing a b u s es i n th e collection ofthe revenue.— Ordered to lie on the Table. The Prisoners' Rescue Bill was read a third time and passed. • Mr. S. RICE moved for Copies of all Letters addressed by the Judges in the Courts of Law and Equity, •to the Commis sioners of Inquiry into the Courts of Justice in Ireland, and other Documents connected with the object of the Inquiry.—' Ordered. • The Stock Cancelling Bill was committed— Report to morrow. The East India Private Trade Bill was committed. After a conversation of some length, in which Mr. flume, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 111r.13ennet, Mr. Baring, Mr. Bernal, Mr. Bright, Sii J. Mackintosh, Mr. T. Wilson, Lord Binning,,Mr. Canning, and Mr. W. Smith, took a part, the blanks were filled up, and the House having resumed, the Re port was ordered to be received to=morrow. AGRICULTURAL REPORT. A Message froin the Lords requested the communication of a Copy of the 'Report of the Committee of the House of Com mons on the various Petitions complaining of Agricultural Distress. . . On the motion .of Mr. ROBINSON, .the Messengers were informed by the Speaker that the House would communicate to their Lordships a Copy of the said Report. Lord A. HAM ILTON gave notice that he would'to-morrow move for the repeal of an obnoxious clause contained in an Act, (he did not know how t o d escr ib e i t) , passe d on the ltith of last April. EDINBURGH STAMP OFFICE. Mr. liumE rose in pursuance of notice, to bring this. question under the attention of the House. From some papers which had been lately laid upon the table, Gentlemen would be better enabled to understand the transaction. This was a case which would shew the disposi tion of Ministers, in small as well as great matters, - to extend their influence, rather than attend to the substantial advantages of the public. He held in his - hand a paper containing forty folio .pages, being a correspondence between the Trea.: sury and other Departments of .the Government, on a transaction in which the Treasury had little or nothing to do. It appeared that, for the better accommodation of the Stamp Office, it became necessary that they should look out for a large building, and accordingly directions were given to that effect by the Treasury, to Mr. Ledwych, Chairman of the Board. He presented a letter upon the 25th. April) stating that he could pro -cure a proper building (Dumbreck's Hotel) in St. Andrew's-square, for the sum of 7,4001. and with the advantage of immediate occupation. However, the Treasury permitted private influ ence to interfere, and they gave their' sanction to the building of a new Stamp-office, at a place called Regent's Bridge. This appeared to him to be one of the grossest jobs that ever was prac tised, and afforded a striking proof that there was no public measure whatsoever in which pri vate influence did not interfere. According to the usual custom, Mr. Reed, the public archi tect, should have been employed in the building, but instead of that, the Linn. Baronet (Sir J. Marjoribanks) had got his own architect, Mr. Lorrimore, appointed. He held in his hand a very able letter from Mr. Reed, pointing out the defects of the building. The rooms were quite dark, a large space was left behind, against which a house might have been built, and the windows shut up, which had since been pur chased at a considerable' expeuce. It was also built in a most inconvenient situation, just the same as if a Post-office for the convenience of the inhabitants of London were built at Whi►te chapel. The Honourable Gentleman next ad- verted, as another instance of private influence; to the mode of transmitting the revenue from Scotland. His Honourable Friend, the Member for Abingdon (Mr. Mabel.ley) had of- :erect to transmit in twenty days what before took forty, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, being a good-natured kind of man, as he always was, consented to divide the difference with the man who held the situation, and engaged he should . transmit it in .30 days ; and the conse quence was, that the loss to the public of Oe . in terest of the money, occasioned by this delay,was no less a sum than i 8,0001. a year.--(If ear.) — It appeared that the building of the new Stamp Office, including the various expences, would . , amount to 12,0001.; whereas they could have bad one ready built, with much greater advan tages, for the sum of 7,1001. lie knew that it was an invidious task to bring forward charges against an individual, but if the facts of the case which he stated were true, his case was made out, and he rested upon that, careless of what might be said, and . .,he called upon' the House boldly to express'a condemnatory opinion of the whole transaction and the persons. concerned in The - Hon. Gentleman concluded by, moving [e following Resolution : " That it appeals to this House, from certain papers relative to th 6 building of 'a new Stamp - Office in Edutburgh, that much irregularity had taken place in ,the transaction, particularly in the selection of the situation, and the appmtment of the Sur veyor, and in proccediug with the building without a con t rac t, and also in releasing Sir J. Illarjorthanks front his engagement BRITISH INSTITU !JON, PALL MALL. THE GALLERY is NOW OPEN, with a COLLECTION of the - ANCIENT MASTERS, front Ten in the Morning until Six in the Evening.—Mr. WEST'S PICTURE of "CHRIST' HEALING the SICK," is :tic() placed in the Gallery, with a Proof to -spew the advanced state of the Plate, and which Mr. HEATH has assured the Directors shall be completed before the Ist of July next. Admittance Is.—Catalogue Is. By Order, • JOHN YOUNG, Keeper. BRITISH FIRE OFFICE, STRAND and cORNHILL. IV . STA. 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Cuts and rare English Portraits; Early Voyages, particu- Fitly to the 'Holy Land ; old. Italian and French Poetry, Novels, Romanees, Faceti, Chronicles; Emblems,'FalcOnry, Hunting,.and Chess. Also some very rare Articles connected with the English History and other Classes of Literature..., The whole are in the choicest condition, and many in . their original highly ornamented Morocco Bindings. To he viewed, - . and Catalogues (price Is.) had at the place of Sale. PARLIAMENT, HOUSE - 9,F LORDS, JUNE 27. Earl-TALBOT (Lo - rd Lieutenant of Ireland ,o6k the oaths . and his seat. Sir G. CLARK and others brought up from the Commons, the Navy Property Bill, the Sheerness Lands Bill, the Jersey. and Guernsey Trade Bill, the Prisoner Reseue Bill, and the Irish Revenue Inquiry Bill.—Read a•first time. Sir. W. LEMON informed the House, that the Commons had agreed to the Amendments made by their Lordships in the Dartmoor Iron Railway Bill; The Charitable Funds Exchange Bill was re= perked, and the Amendments agreed to. The Woollen Cloth Stamping Bill was read a second time, after a few observations from the Earl of HAREWOOD,. who complained that it had not hitherto received sufficient consideration, and that the state of the laws on that subject was injurious to the Woollen Trade and the Agricul tural interest. The Scottish Malt Duties and Drawbacks Bills, the Irish Transfer of StOck and the Customs Du ties went through Committees, and were reported. The Marquess of L ustsnowN presented a Peti tion from James Gurney, of King's County, Ire land, praying their Lordships to take into consi deration his plan for the more effectual employ ment of the Poor.---Laid on the table. The London Wharfs Bill went through a Com mittee, and was reported. • Mr. OsuoRNE, from the Commissioners or 'Mar gate Harbour, presented Accounts of the Mar gate Pier and Harbour for the present year.— Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Warehousing of Goods Bill was reported, and ordered to be read a third time to-morrow (this day.) The Coasting Trade Bill was read a third time and passed. • The Collectors "of Customs (Ireland) Bill was conimitted— Repoit to-morrow. The Sheerness Lands Bill was read a third time and passed. The Acetous Acid and Draining Tiles Bill were committed —Report to-morrow. The Mohair Bounties Bill was Reported, and ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. Lord MILTON gave notice, that on the third reading of the Husbandry Horses Duties Repeal Bill, he intended to move a clause to exempt horses occasionally rode by farmers, and hired out also to draw coal, slate, &c. from surcharge, like horses re gularly employed in the labours of husbandry. The Duty on Spirits Bill was. Reported, and ordered tob e read a third time to-morrow. ' The Isle of Man Trade Bill was committed—Report to morrow. The Navy Property Bill was read a third time and passed. The Hops Exportation Drawback Bill was committed.—Re port to-morrow.. . _ The Greenwich Hospital Bill .was committed; and after a 7ew words from Mr.Calcraft, Mr. Arbuthnot, and Mr. Hume, he Report was received, and the Bill ordered to be read a third ime to-morrow. The Report of the Select Committee on the Prison Laws Consolidation Bill, stating that the Committee had gone, through the_several clauses of the Bill and made several amendthents, was received and ordered to be printed, and taken into further consideration that day three months. . Mr: HUME presented a petition from several Market Gar deners id the vicinity of Fulham and Kensington, praying to extend to them the benefit of-the Husbandry Horses Duties Repeal Bill.—Ordered to lie on the table. PROTESTANT DISSENTERS. Mr. BENNET . presented a petition from the Protestant Dissenters of the Presbyterian Congregation in Northumber land, praying that the Holise might be pleased to Pass a•Bill to legalize the solemnization of Marriage by Protestant Dissent ing.Clergyinen in their respeetive places Of worship. The Pe-. titioners .stated that this privilege was allowed to . Quakers, e about the piece of ground behind the building, -thereby in.. eurrin,, ,, an expense, ,and sanctioning a principle highly injuri ous to the pUblic."" Sir J: MARJORIBANKS said hehoped the House -had entertained. a higher Opinion of him than to give credit to • all the charges brought against him. But, - perhaps the praise which the Hon. :Gentletnan-(Mr. Hume). had lately received for his attention to the public accounts, had induced him' to bring forward charges against private indi viduals. The .Hon. Baronet then'proceeded to explain the transaction. •He had the right of ap pointing an• individual, and having known the Gentleman alluded to, and considering him a very •proper person for the situation, and having a de sire to serve him; .he desired the builder to send in his estimate for building the Stamp Office, and he should forward it to the Board. He did.so accordingly, and . he. transmitted it to the Trea sury. He stated a number of local circumstances to justify the choice made for the situation of the new StaMp Office. It was .near the Play-house and the Register Office, two places of much re sort among the inhabitants of Edinburgh. He contended that the new building would cost less by 3001. than the.' expence which would have been incurred by purchasing Dumbreck's Hotel, which had been off'er'ed for the purpose. He would be less surprised if on . his way home he were to betaken into custody by a watchman than . at having this matter brought forward as a charge . against him. It happened to him once (though it was scarcely to be expected of a . man of his figure) to be pressed at. Dover. Perhaps they -thought Co have got money from him, but they should have known that Scotchmen did .not so easily part with their money. The accident was not more surprising to..him than the tharge against_ him on the present motion. He argued against the pertinacity. of the Edinburgh Stamp Commissioners in preferring Dumbreck's Hotel. He contended,. in reply to other observations of the Hon. Gentleman, that the Scottish Bankers derived no pecuniary profit from remitting the revenue of Scotland. He concluded by lament ing the frequency of attacks in . that. House of late on private character.. He instanced a la* mentable 'case in which a Gallant,ollicer,..who had been wounded In the service, was charged . with Making a false report, by which imputation his fortune, his fame, and his life, were put in jeopardy.—(" Name,.name!" from the Opposi tion Benches.) - Lord A. HAMILTON was sorry that the. Hon. Baronet had mixed himself up with the subject at all. He denied the peculiar convenience of the site selected. for the new office.. He wished to know of the Chancellor of the. Exchequer why there had been no contract, no estimate, and no surveyor on the occasion? The job had gone on under the protecting influence of Sir J..Marjori banks, .Lord Melville, the Lord Advocate, and Sir George Clerk. •Considering the .opposition made to it by the Edinburgh Stamp Commis sioners, he thought that there was.cause of suspi cion that great neglect had taken place at the Treasury. He disowned any intention of per .sonal attack ; he objected to the interference of the Hon. Baronet,, hough he did not question his motives. Ile admitted the. integrity of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but the Right Hon. •Gentleman must have been deceived. He would support the motion. The CniNCELLOR of the Excnr.ouEtt said, that the Stamp - Office was not independent of the Treasury; indeed it would be. very wrong if it were. it Was highly proper that there should be a superintending Board, responsible to the Sovereign and•the Parliament. If in the present case the Treasury Board was open to atiy animad version, it was in. not giving orders•sufficiently peremptory to the Board of Stamps. The Right Hon. Gentleman then contended at• some length that the situation of the building was a proper one, both in point of local convenience, of inter nal arrangement, and of economy. Mr. MABERLEY said, that when he made the offer of remitting the Scotch revenue at half the usual par, lie intended to benefit himself as mnch as the pnblic. iic asked no favour, but only a fair competition. He offered to .remit it in twenty days, and the .Right Hon. Gentleman had con cluded an improved bargain on the old rate for remitting it in thirty-eight days ; making a loss of fifteen days' interest in the three millions. He attributed this to the weighing down of the strong Scotch influence. Had the offers been equal he would not have expected the preference. Had he succeeded in his tender, his plan would have been to have made the' S . cotth Bankers pay th e i r . _ .• own notes, which they resorted to every shift and trick to avoid. The Hon. Gentleman was pro ceeding to explain the loss incurred by the pub lic in the remittance of Scotch revenue, when The Marquis of LONDONDERRY spoke to order. He' apprehended that the remittance of Scotch revenue had nothing to do with the question. Mr. lIIABERLEY put it to the House if the allu sions made to him had not made his explanation necessary. He did not wish to detain the House, and would not add another word on the topic, though he considered himself hardly used. Mr. II um': replied. Ile thought that the lion. Baronet had completed his (Mr. Hume's) case, and confirmed all that he said on the subject. He was very far from wishing the Treasury to have no control over the expences of public buildings, but he denied that they had any right to meddle with the particular functions of other Board , 4. Sir J. MARJORIBANKS explained. Sir G. CLERK said a few words in justification of the arrangements for building the new Stamp office. Mr. HumE objected to the manner in which PRICE SEVENPENC.E. character was attempted to be broUght forward in reply to facts. The question was then put, and n6gatived without a division. • Mr. then moved for a copy of the co:raper:dente which hyd taken place between the Corm missioner:A of Stamps and the Treasury, respecting the suipension aadxe.,appointrnert of Mr. Bremner, the Solicitor of Stamps in Scotland which Was ordered accordingly. , MR. THEODORE HOOK. Mr. BENNtk, in rising to move for Papers con nected with the suspension of Mr. Theodore Hook, late Treasurer of Mauritius, and the AC count of Sums due by him to the Treasury, said, it Might be in the recollection of the House that, 17 or 18 months ago, .he had put a qu es ti on re specting this subject. That questiOn was.put'at the solicitation of a person in the House r and this year it was repeated. Ile (Mr. B.) had then no knctwledge of the transaction, but before he brought for Ward this motion he had, irreliurse, obtained. some information. The statement - which he should now make, was on authority which he was at liberty to name, and should name if it were necessary—it was the very best he could have. The facts were these :—On January 15, 1818, General Hall, the Governor of the Mauritius, received a letter from a Principal clerk in the Treasurer's Office, marked Cl most confidential and secret," in which it was stated that Mr. T. Hook had appropriated a part of the money due to the office by bearing a coachman as an office messenger, at 40 dollars a month, and a cook at 15s. Mr. Allen, (the name of the clerk) also stated that Mr. IL had impropriated a sum of 37,150 dollars, and he expressed his surprise that so large a default should have escaped the Audi tor. The Governor replied to Mr. Allen on the 25th Jan. 1818, that notwithstanding his desire that the communication should be confidential, it was impossible that so serious a charge should not be examined into, and he referred the mat ter to Mr. Cook, who had the. charge of the department. Mr: Allen wrote to the Governor to say that he had received the Governor's ans wer through the hands of Mr. Hook, who, at the same time, dismissed him (Mr. Allen) frozi hiS office, and told him he was " ruined for ever." On the 28th January, Mr. Allen wrote another letter to say that Mr. Hook's clerk had conte to him to tell him. that Mr. Hook had been with the Governor, and • that the result was, that he (Allen) was ordered to quit the colony, and that lie must quit the colony accordingly, but that Mr. Hook, in compassion for his family, would allow him 251. a year. The Governor told Mr. Allen that this was .riot true, and ordered him to stay in the colony. Mr. Allen wrote afterwards another letter to the Governor, Ivhich he (Mr. Bennet) had not seen, but which was described to him as bearing marks of insanity. Ilis„mitt I seemed to have been Shaken by the alarm into which he had been thrown. The Governor ap pointed a Committee to examine the affair, who assembled the 9fh of February, composed of the Secretary, Auditor, and Paymaster,Ge neral of the Island, who, after examining the witnesses on oath, reported that Mr. Hook was deficient _in the sum of 60,868 dollars, and . that there were various non-entries hi the Trea sury accounts. They learned the names of the persons to whom the money had been paid by lI r. Hook, and found correct the account of Alr. Allen, who did. not however survive to see. his truth and integrity thus established. It appear ed before the Committee, that Mr. Hook had put two sets of Treasurer's notes in circulation to cover his deficiency, and, after the departure of the Governor, it was found that more of these false notes than were then known were in circu lation. The Attorney General of the Island ad vised the Governor that there was no tribunal in the Island to try Mr. Hook, and that he should be sent home for t r i a l. H e was accordingly sent home in custody. As to the legality of this pro ceeding, or the possibility of proceeding ,crimi nally against Mr. Hook, he (Mr. B.) did not wish to give any opinion. He only wished to know what steps had been taken for obtaining the Money ? He should therefore, move for the Dispatch of Gen. Hall, or the extracts referring. to Mr. T. Hook. He wished als o t o ask, whe ther Mr. T. Hook had any securities, for. they of course would be the persons to be proceeded against? Mr. Bennet concluded by moving for the Dispatch .from General Hall, acting Governor of the Mauritius, dated 18th April, 1818, re specting the suspension of Mr. Theodore /look, anti for. an account of the Sums due by him to the Local Treasury. Mr. GOULBURN said, he had no personal op jection to the dispatch being before the /louse; but the case of the individual referred to was not confined. to that dispatch. A dispatch was sent home by General pall, containing in substance the facts which the lion. Member had stated. Shortly after Mr. Hook arrived, and a case was submitted to the Law Officers of the Crown, whether the Government was justified in detain ing the individual in custody, or in proceeding; criminally against him ? The Law Officers. re plied, that there was no warrant for the deten_ tion of Mr. Theodore Hook, and that there was then no evidence for a criminal proceeding against him. The Colonial Office had then nothing to do but to set Mr.llook at liberty, and to turn over the case, to the Colonial Audit Office. From the distance of the Colony, the inquiry had since gone on more slowly than could be wished. Mr. /look had been .examined and had given ex planations (whether satisfactory or not he ,fioulq a not say), and the case was again submitte4 by 4.1 V Audit - Office to the Officers of the Crow- ,t,he ther there was-not now ground for a ct,irrtnal pro ceeding ? The Law Officers bad noje,iet made their Report, and whil e it was poss.bs- that there