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PARLI A M E NT, HOUSE OF LORDS, JUNE 22. The Earl of WILTbN, second son to the Earl of Grosvenor, took the Oathi and his sent in right of his maternal Grandfather. His Lord ship's supporters were the Earls of Bridgewater and Grosvenor. - Mr. DIGHTON presented an Account of the Rates and Tolls of•the Royal Military Canal for tine year - 1820. Laid on the table. _The. Vagrant Laws Amendment Bill went through a Committee, and the Report was re tell-ed.—Adjourned till to-morrow. tirnatiOn we had in. the last font. years only 're duced our-Debt 4,000,0001., so that whilst we had be e n talking of a Sinking Fund of 14 or l 5,000,0001. we had, in fact, only a Sinking Fund - of 1,000,0001. a year. If such was our state, let it be boldly avowed, and let its know that our Sinking Fund-was only- 1,000,0001. HumE said, he, When the Chancellor of the Exchequer imposed 3,000,000/. new taxes, and talked of a Sinking Fund of 5,000,000/., stated there was not a balance of more than 500,0001. in favour of the Sinking Fund, and it appeared 'he. was right. The CHANCELLOR. of the EXeREQ . I.IErt contended he bad stated correctly What the operation of the Sinking Fund was. Mr. MABEaLEY again contended, that the Sink ing Fund had been diverted froth what was in tended, by Mr. Pitt. If that Right -Hon. Gen tleman's plan had been adhered to, we 'thould,' by its „operation, have now been relieved of 17,000 ; 0001. of taxation, instead of 20,000,0001. being added to our burdens. The Resolutions were then agreed to, and the Report was ordered to be 'received to-morrow. A Message from the Lords informed the House, that their Lordships had agreed to the Cheltenham Paving Bill and the Irish Insolvent Debtors' Bill, vith ' out amendments. • On the Order of the Day for the House going into a Committee on the Clover-seed Bill, Mr. RicArtno opposed the Bill, and was desirous it should be. withdrawn.—Mr. T. WILSON also wished the Bill to be withdrawn for the present. —Col. DAVIES had no wish to press this Bill against the opinion of the House, and therefore withdrew it.—The Bill was then ordered to. be committed this day three months. . Mr. MABERLEY moved for an account of the amount of Exchequer Bills outstanding on the 31st Of May. last.—Ordered. COURTS OF JUSTICE IN IRELAND. On the motion of Mr. SPRING lbcE,thellouse went into a Committee on the 9th Report of the Committee on Courts of Law. The lion. Mein ber then proceeded to call the attention - of the House to the. subject of Fees taken in the Court of Exchequer in Ireland ; and he trusted the smallness of fees, if improperly taken, would not operate on. the mind of the House to disregard the charge he was about to bring forward. He was aware of the risk to which he exposed himself in standing forward as a public accuser in any case, but more especially when he declared he. stood forward as the accuser of a Judge of the highest rank. His charge would be against the Chief Baron of I reland. With the private character of the Chief Baron of Ireland he had nothing to do ; it might be, and he believed it was, most exemplary : but it was his public .character to which he now wished to call the attention of the House ; and public character was public pro perty. A Judge, above all others ought to be presumed pure ;. and he trusted, generally speak ing, the presumption was correct ; but we had, in our own history, seen melancholy instances of the contrary. He need scarcely advert to the case of that great man Lord Bacon. It was impos sible in these days that Judges could take bribes any more than Members of the House of -Com mons could take bribes in the lobby of the House. Exorbitant Fees might be taken ; 'which appeared to be the case in Ireland by the Report.. Con templating such a case, a Table of Fees was re. - The reports of the Corn Average Bill, and the hie of Man 1317, were received, and agreed to; the fills were ordered to - be read a third tiroe . to-morrow. - THE' WAYS AND MEANS. • . The house went into a Committee of Ways and Means. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER proposed a series of Resolutions for appropriating certain sums, upwards of 10 millions of Sinking Fund, as a Loan towards the service of the year ; and also a Resolution for providing for the expences of the same. Mr. -ELLIGE complained of the confusion and intricacy of the accounts respectinr, this transac tion, and said, if th e Ch ance ll or of . the Exche quer did not, he would himself, next Session, move for a Committee to investigate these ac .counts. The Hon. Member also-complained of the intention expressed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer of letting the deficiency occasioned by the repeal of the Agricultural Horse Tax fall on the Consolidated Fund. He hoped this in stance would not be drawn into a precedent. The CHANCELLOR of. the EXCHEQUER said, it was his intention to move for a Committee, in .the early part of next Session, to investigate these accounts. turned to - Parliament in 1715, and revised and corrected in 1732 ; and on that Table the pre sent Report was founded. The Commissioner who made this Report was appointed in 1814, and appointed at the instance of his Right Hon. Friend, the Member for Waterford, against the wish of Ministers, and by a majority of only one. This was a triumphant, though an unostentatious one, which entitled his Right Hon. Friend to the gratitude of his country, though it had raised up in every Court inveterate enemies against him. The Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to state the number of Fees taken in the Exchequer. The number was 96 in all ; of these 19 remained as they were in 1734 ; 38 had increased, 2 had been diminished, 24 had ceased, and 19 were without precedent. Of 'the increased Fees, he would mention that taken on the swearing in of Sheriffs. On this there was an increase of 5/. and a fraction, above that set down in the table of A 734, which limited the fee to be taken on this occasion to 15s. 10d. There was also a Re solution in this Report, stating, that certain fees had been taken by the Chief Baron, as for put ting his signature to certain writs, to which it appeared he had not put his signature; and which if lie had signed the table of 1734, would give him no fee. He had thus received a fee for not doing that, which if he had done, he would have been entitled to nothing for doing. Another abuse to which the Report adverted, was, that it was the practice in this Court to take the fees at the commencement of a cause ; and thus secured Mr. Er.Licc repeated his objections to letting any further deficiency fall on the Consolidated Fund, instead of applying the Sinking Fund to .this purpose. PvIr.MABERLEY condemned the whole system of the Sinking Fund as it at present existed; it was a system of fallacy only : the pretended Sinking . Fund with which the Commissioners made their purchases was, in fact, a fund either borrowed of .the. Bank or on Exchequer. Bills. He would not now enter further into this subject, because the Aight Hon. Gentleman had stated Jiis intention of raerring the whole of this subject to a Corn .mittee next Session : but he hoped an end would be. put to this fallacy of borrowing with one hand to pay with the other. -If we were - to have a Sinking Fund in future, he, hoped it. would be a Sinking Fund in reality, however small it might be. • • Mr. GRENFELL repeated his .former arguments .against the Sinking Fund as at present-construct -ed.—The fund Was at present represented as .amounting to 17,000,0001. whilst in fact, as ap peared by the 'locus Poetic; trick of to-day,lt .was in J.( a-lity only four millions. -HQ -wished to see the Right . lion. Gentleman get rid of the machinery of the 13,000,000/. altogether. • The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was un derstood to say„that he expected-.the o p erat i on , of the Sinki ng and for the present year would justify his previous calculatitm. . Mr. CALCItArr said that the operations of the imaginary Sinking Fund were-founded in the .grossest fallacy and •delusion. .-The Right lion. Gentleman was running in debt under the head ; of the Consolidated Fund, while he pretended to ,pay off the debt under the headtof.Sinking Fund. The country had been burthened with three mil -Pons of new taxes, , under the pretence of making _an effective Sinking .Fund of 5,000,000/., and what was the actu a l amoun t o f th e Si n ki ng F und ? .Whey, after deducting the debt to the East India .Pompany, which the Right •lionourable ,Gentle man had been compelled to acknowledge, and which amounted -to upwards of, 1,000,000/. the ,e?cpences of Greenwich-Hospital, amounting toy 300,0004, and the Husbandry Horse ; Tax at 00,0001 the. presentamouut of the Sinking-Fund was not more than 1,300,0001. , the fees in all the respective stages of the pro ceeding, whether the cause went on to an end or not. Another case was, that the Chief Baron now took his fees in British instead of Irish mo •. Mr. lOCA AD o was a friend to the Sinking Fund. He thought it would be the only means of getting -rid of the National Debt, but .a grat effort ought to be made for that purpose., The present system *Quid never effect it. On the most accurate es ney, thus increasing his fPes eight and one third percent. The defence of the Chief Baron was most extraordinary ; it was that the Officers of the Court took the fees in British money, and therefore would have the benefit if he did not.— This was neither more nor less than taking ad vantage of the tortuous conduct of his own Offi cers. The next head to which he adverted was an increase taken by the Chief Baron on affida vits. If the fee was by his own act, he had no authority for it; and on that point the Chief Ba ron and the Commissioners were at variance, and the Commissioners would have to decide. The fee was received by the Chief Baron, by an ar rangement betwixt him and his brother, who was Chief Crier in the Court. To all intents, the payment was made to the Chief Baron, however it might be applied. He had selected the more prominent parts of the case to enable the Com mittee to pass an opinion. lie should prefer ar guing the case on the statement of the Chief Baron, rather than on that of the Commissioners. He (the Chief Baron) said, his profits were much diminished by the 43d of the late King, while those of the other Judges had been much in creased; but that was so far from the case, that the Chief Baron received 10001, a year more than the Chief Justice o f th e King's Bench, and Mr. Anntitnomny wholly C9ncurreci in what 14001. more than the Chief Justice of the Corn- had fallen froM the Noble Lord. The present mon Pleas. The 'Statement of the CommisSionets was a most important case, „ms it might establish was clear, and conCise.,. while that of the Chief an important precedent. Baron was confused and prolix. All the reports of Mr. C. W. WYNN said, that the House Must the Cononissioners had been sent to the Courts I Come to a decisi on one Azov or other ; but, in the to which they ref erre d, an d i n t h at case t h e re-1 present state of the House, he should deprecate spective Judges had made their observations coming to any decision without fuller evidence. upon them. That had not been done in the case of The Marquis of Les - DONDE:IIIY should propose the Court of Exchequer, fer the three °Omer Barons that the Committee le revived on Tuesday, as had been mute, and the Chief Baron alone, and the. most convenient day for regulating further not the Court, had commented on it. An or- proceedings. der had been served on an Officer of the Court, I Mr._ ELLICE COrlld have wished that the case calling for the Ord er o f th e C ourt , to pay t h e h a d b een dec i de d as quickly as possible, and that Fees in English money, and the answer Was, such- charges thould not be kept suspended for that there was no Order of Court, but that the months over tie distinguished individual. At alteration had taken place in 1808, by the direc- the same time, he should not oppose the course tion of the Chief Baron, who had told the officer proposed. that he was not bound to report any verbal order. Mr. BATHURST was incompetent to come to a A compensation of 1,500/. a year was to be- decision without more information. paid to the Chief Baron in lieu of Fees, Mr. Elmcn explained. which it appeared now continued to be exacted. Mr. NOLAN said, it was impossible at such an A new inquiry was about to commence in Ire- advanced stage of the Session, to come to a con land, by individuals fully qualified for the task ;. clusiam ; and the question was not whether the but it should be recollected, that the Report of a' inquiry should be deferred, but to what time it former Commission lay on the table inoperative should he deferred. and unavailing. What could the public aug - ur The Chairman reported progress, and obtained from the new Commission, if the Report'of the leave to sit again on Tuesday. former Commission should he a dead letter on the DUKE OF CLARENCE. table of the House ? The lion. Gentleman here The Marquis of LONDONDERRY rose to move adverted to the case of the Insolvent Debtors' the first reading of the Ettlke of Clarena's An- Court, on whicdi a Committee had reported that a nuity Bill..; and at the same time expressed, on great increase of Fees had taken place, and: been the part of the Duke, his acknowledgment to the appropriated by the Judge to himself. : The House. The Bill was read a first time, and removal of the JudgeiMmediately followed. Ih ordered to be read a second time on Monday. the Irish Court of Exchecfuer the Chief Baron Mr. C, GRANT moved the Order of the Day had removed an individual of the name of Pot- for the House going into the Committee of Supply. lock, for having taken illegal Fees, though he • AUSTRIAN LOAN. had pleaded the practice of his predecessors from Mr. R. SMITU wished . to obtain all_ time papers 11' - 99. That case appeared to him to bear a relative to the Loan. It had been said that the strong analogy to that of the Chief Baron him- money had not been ' a Loan but a subsidy. self; and he called on the House•to measure out But Mr. Pitt had stat e d` the reverse; and that the same justic e . T o p o i n t ou t th e u l t i mate pro- the Loan had been borrowed on termshigbly ad ceedings 'required more experience than he` Fos- vantageous to the country.--:-The original Loan sessed ; but had a case of delinquency been made had been 6,200,000/. and with the, interest, now out, it was obvious 'that the matter could not amounted to near 22 millions. He contended stand still. The Hon. Member concluded by that the two Treaties with respect to time Aus moving a series of Resolutions, embodying the trian Loan had been violated in every instance leading facts of his speech. by- the Government of- that country. When we Captain O'GRADY hoped for the indulgence of offered to take ship-timber from Austria in part the House under the peculiar circumstances of discharge of this Loan, sheAenied that she owed the case ; as he was in a new element, in which any such money to this country. Without the he had never been before. He could assure the I payment of the debts justly due to us it would Hop. Member he did not impute to him any im- be impossible for us to pay Poor Rates or taxes. proper motives. He could accept of no compli- Thin proved the necessity on the part of the Go ments for the Chief Bar on , it p a id a t th e expence vern i nen t t o s h ow t h e people why so large a of his integrity.--(Hear, hear !)—He gave the sum as 21 millions should be Avithlield, and Commissioners full credit for the motives of their the claim resisted by Austria. Every one conduct; and if any inaccuracy had occurred it was aware that Austria had paid off her old' and was to be ascribed to time multiplicity of their much of her new debt ; that her revenue from avocations. He must, at the same time, deny her Italian provinces was eight millions a-year ; that they had laid a ground for any legal prose- and that she had volunteered pecuniary assist cution ; and - the Court of Exchequer had told ance tap the King.of Sardinia. The people, there the Irish Attorney General that such a Report fore, had a right to know why Prince Metter could be no legal document. That too had been nick and, Count Stadion denied this to be a debt the opinion of all the Irish Judges, in the case on the part of Austria, while the Noble Lord of Sir James Galbraith, though at the same time opposite always declared it to be a debt, though they professed a willingness to admit other evi.: he never enforced the payment of it. Time Trea dence, which was accordingly produced, and Sir ties shelved the engagements entered into for the James Galbraith was acquitted. He could see repayment of these Loans to Austria ; ,and - he no good from the inquiry, as all the fees had now therefore called upon our Government to rescue been settled. He was surprised that the Hon. the head of the Holy Alliance from charges which Member -had confined himself to the Court of would involve a man in common life in a charge Exchequer, and paid no attention to the Reports of swindling. lie then moved for a copy of a relative to the other Courts. Such a remark lie Dispatch from the Hon. ft. Gordon, containing should not have made had not similar observa- the reasons of Prince Metternich and Count Sta tions been made by the Commissioners as dion why no Loans had been granted by this to the other Courts. He perfectly agreed with country to Austria by the Conventions of 1795 the Honourable Gentleman that there could be no and 1797. middle course; or if there were, he, on the part of the Chief Baron, declined adopting it. On the subject of the Fees for swearing the Sheriffs, if there had been any error, it was one of 40 years standing ; and the Chief Baron had only done Oat had been done by his predecessors for a long period of years. The Hon. Member pro ceeded to comment on the different charges against the Chief Baron ; and contended that they were not borne out by facts. In the Secon dary's Office the - Chief Baron received no Fee where a similar Fee was not also received by the. Chancellor of the Exchequer. What had been imputed as a crime in the Court of Exchequer, was no crime in the Court of Chancery, as the same practice there had been passed over with out any comment. Had not the• Chief Baron made the transfer of Fees, he would have lost on one class of cases 248 Fees, and on another 176. The Chief Baron had been accused of exacting the Fees in English money. Now'the order was not that of the Chief Baron, but of the Court ; and in the Office of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer,- the Fees had always been received in English money. He was willing to be judged by the Statute of 1734, where it had been laid down that all the Fees should continue where the du ties should continue. In the Fifth Report, the Commissioners had -professed themselves incom petent to decide on the commutation or increase of Fees, by the authority of the Court. But in the Ninth Report they had pronounced against the Chief Baron, though at the same time they admitted that for 100 years the Judges had ex ercised their own discretion. He must complain of the want of candour on the part of the lion. Member, in reprobating practices in the Court of Exchequer, and passing over similar practices in the other Courts. The Hon. Member concluded by thanking the Committee for the indulgence with which they had heard him, and sat down amidst loud and reiterated cheers. The MarqUis of LONDONDERRY said, that the Hon. Meinber who made the charge had . made a distinct statement; and the Hon. Member who had spoken last had done so in a manner that re "fleeted the highest credit on his feelings. But he did not think that.all the facts were before the House, and he himself felt he was unable to come to a definitive conclusion. lie could not vote affirmatively or negatively. The best way might be .to keep the Committee alive ; and he dreaded to take any step that he could not recall. —He should move that the Chairman report pro gress, in order to afford time for deliberation, and to come to a safe conclusion. Mr. RICE had no_ wish to,precipitate the dis cussion, and would accede to the suggestion of the Noble Lord. The Marquis of LONDO - NDERRY said, that the House would feel that nothing had been shewn which should warrant him in going into the me rits of the Debt. Certainly those were at first Loans ; but, in the late _long struggle, circum stances had arisen which had liquidated 'great part of this Debt.. Still she would stand ill in her own eyes, and in those of the world, if she did not take measures for coming to an arrange ment as to this Debt. He said, that when a coun try had not the means of doing a thing, it was the best reason why she should not do it ; and, therefore, if left .to his own discretion, he would advise that Austria should not now be troubled on this.subject. ' Mr. WARRE understood that it was admitted that this was a Loan and not a Subsidy.; but it should be remembered that she was not troubled with a request for repayment during the struggle, in which both of us were engaged ; and, there fore, she ought to be called upon now, especially when she could find money to carry on her ag gressions on Foreign Powers. He thought even a compromise seemed almost hopeless, when her great German Diplomatists had refused ship timber in part payment of this Loan, which amounted now to 91,000,000/. It seemed to him that we were very large creditors for a sum of which there seerned.to be no chance of repayment. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said, there was no negociation going on at present. 'Mr. WAND could not agree to the production of this paper, because such a step might embar rass any negociation which might be entered into by the two Governments for the payment of this debt: Still he did not think but that Austria was in a state gradually to liquidate that debt. He had no dependance on the faith of Austria. He had degraded his (laughter and grandson and exiled his son-in-law. He extorted from the provinces of Lombardy, the Tyrol, and all but what were perhaps ironically, called his paternal States. He was sure that Austria would not abandon the alliance of England even to sup port a successful fraud. AuStria was hated by Russia and Prussia, Poland; Italy, the Tyrol, and among her neighbours in Germany. If then she persevered in this piece of barefaced injus tice towards this country, it must 'be that she expected impunity. For this reason, as he ex pected that Government would interfere, he should oppose the motion. Mr. JAMES said, the Noble Marquis could not have the power of relinquishing this debt without the consent of the People ; then, indeed, would the People be reduced to 'a complete state of slavery. If 'the Noble Marquis did'not take some mode of obtaining this money he should call the attention Of Pat-Hai:tient to it. Mr. CrAvE said the present Police was as ac tive as its potAers allowed. There were con stantly four officers patrolling the street in each. division. Tie_ defended the Establishment of Queen-square Office as highly necessary. The district was small in extent ; but it should b., recollected that it extended over St. Mar garet's,. Westminster, the Waterside, and whole neighbourhood of Tothill-fields. It was not proposed t o erec t ' a new Establis h ment for Mary-le-Bonne, but to remove the °Age now at Shadweil, to Iligh-street, iklary-le-Bottne, Mr.. BENNET thought that Queen-square and. Shadwell Offices might both he dispensed with and Marlborough-street Office, with an additional number of Officers, would be able to do all the business of Mary-le-Bonne.. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY confirmed tho statement, that no new establishment was con= templated ; it was only the romoval of Shadwelt Office to Mary-le-Bonne. Mr. DENMAN would rather this alteration should be made by the, authority of Government than by Act of Parliament. After some observations from Mr. WILLIAMS, the ATTORNEY GENERAL, and others, the clause was agreed to. On the Clause for preventing the blowing of Horns on Sundays, Good Friday, and Christmas , day, the Committee divided—The numbers were—For the clause, 43—against it eight-- Majority against the horns; -3:;. The several remaining Clauses were then (Bs-, posed of, and the Report was ordered to be re ceived on a future day. The other-Orders were disposed. of, and the liouse adjourned at Iti,vt, o'Clock. Suictou.—Ye'sterday an Inquest was held at the Middlesex Hospital, before T. S•rrruAso, Esq. Coroner, on the body of Mr. David Logan, a baker. The deceased was found with his h e ad nearly severed from his body. A razor was lay:. ing by his side o►► the bed, which, together %:it 4 the apartment, was covered with blood. The Jury returned a verdict—" That the deceased committed the act himself, being' at the time in a state of mental derangement." HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. CrIETWYNDE withdrew his summary pro c'"Ainits Rill, for the purpose of early next Session introduc ing a more efficient ❑trasttre. Ott the motion •t Dr. PHILLIMORE, the Sa!vaze Act 4tnentlntent•Bill, and the Citigne Ports Salm) , Bill, were com mitted, and the reports ordered to be received to-morrow. va the motion of Mr. ARBUTHNOT, the' House went into a - Committee upon the Slave Trade Acts. The resolu tions were agreed to, and the report ordered to by received to morrow. The report on the Husbandry Horses' Duty Repeal Bill wai bruit up, and ordered to be taken into further considera tion on Tuesday next. On the motion of Mr. ELLICE, the House went into a Cont. mines: fet the purpose of indemnifeing certain Officers•of the customs in the port of London, who had incurred penalties under the Act for the'Abolition of Fees, and leave wa, siren to bring in a Bill to empower the Lords of the Treasury to grant a limited provision to the said Officers. Mr. BLACKBURNE;preseutcd a Petition from Manches ter, against the Extra IV ! - st Bill.—Referred to the Extra Post Committce. • clr. LESTER presented a Petition on the subject of the Crimittal Laws from the - inhabitants of Poole.--- , -Laid on the The Customs Duties Bill, and the East India Warehousing 1101, were committed.—The report to morrow. 'l'he CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER brought in the Creettwich Hospital Pensioners' Bill, Which was read- a •t tin and ordered tobe read a second time on Tuesday next. '1 he Hops Exportation Drawback Bill, and the Artacli Im portatott Bill, were committed,and the reports ordered-to be re:eived to-morrow. • The S-lk Manufacturers' Bill was also committed, and the report ordered to be receired to-morrow. • The reports of the Scotch Distillery Drawback Bill, and the Scotch Malt Bill, were brought up, and the Bills ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. F avers, showing the number of Extents in Aid, we re pre sawed, and on the motion of Mr. W. SMITH, ordered to be • ptiuted.. Mr. CREEVEY presented a Petition from Charles Maddox, now a prisoner in Warwick gaol, com - plaining that the Judges refuted him the privile-ge of showing cause, as he was prepared to do, against their judgment, in the Court of King's Bench, • • last term; and also that he bad received a severer scntence - lhan the other defendants who were. tried with him, and were allowed a greater latitude of defence by the Court.—l.aid the fable. Mr. W. SMITH presented another Petition from the T., facconists at Norwich, against the Tob•reco Duties' Laid we the Tattle. The White Heeling Fishery Bill was read a third time, and passed.. Mr. R. Sy'Tit consented - to withdraw his mo tion, which was agreed to, after some oppositioa from Mr. JAMES. IRISH MISCELLANtOUSIAIt.g.- The. House then went *to a, Committee of Supply on the remaining Irish Miscellaneous Es timates, in the course of wl►ich various sums were voted for law expellees, for. the apprehension of criminal offe►:ders, &c. in Ireland ; and for the support of the Protestant Disseirthig Ministers there, Civil Contingencies,. &c. . . _Mr. C. GRANT then proposed a grant .of 88;232/. for the Barrack Establishment in Ire land ; and he had great pleasure in saying, it would be united 'with the Commissariat Depart ment to those of England in , the Course of the year.--The motion was agreed - to ; as were 99,6001. for the Commissariat Department.—The- Resolutions were then agreed to.—Report morrow. AMERICAN LOYALISTS. On the Committee on the Grant to the Xme rican Loyalists, Mr. COURTENAY said , that he had the satisfaction of announcing that his Ma jesty had acceded to a Grant to these merito rious persons.—Mr. I LICE wished to know from what fund this was to come.—The CHANCELLOR. of the ExcztEotak said, that the Grant was t.) be 60,0001. out of the Droits of the Admiralty. METROPOLIS POLICE BILL. On the motion for going into the Committee on the Metropolis Police — Bill, Mr. G. BENstr hoped it would not be brought on at so late au. hour.—Mr. linstossoN said, the lion. Member might make his statement on any future stage of , the Bill.--Mr. DE,HrtAN hoped no additional✓ powers would be given to Mag.litratesunder Bill.—The Marquis of LOND.ONDERRY said, the Bill was a temporary measure, and only for one year.—The Bill was then com►nittetl. Mr. G. BENNET Ol)jected to the esablishment. of any new Police Office in the Parish. of Mary le-Bonne. There seemed to be no - reason why the Queen-square business should not be removed to Bow-street ; and the duty of the Mary-le- Bonne Police bejoined to that of Marlborough street. COURSE OF 'EXCHANGE, Juice ~......- Amstet dam Ditto, at Sight l2 15 Rotterdam l2 19 Antwerp - 12 . ti Hamburg') 33 in 91 Us Altona Paris, 3 Day's sight 25 55 0 US. Ditto llottrdeaux, ditto Franhforton the Main Madrid r-0.) Effective Cadiz' 254 Eiter.tirc Bilboa 9si Effective . liarceluna 35 .36 , ille Gibraltar Leghorn tie, i•ky , „ - ,14 -Venice, Ital. 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