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The Collection consists of Sacred, Historical, and Poetical Stll,*ts, with some Portraits, which will be submitted to k,tirral inspection previous to her departure for Italy, at Mr. i'ANLEY'S ROOMS, Bond-street.—Due notice will Z'vtri to the Public of the time of Exhibition. EAS C INDIA HOUSE, Feb. G, IF,?.i PRIZE AGENTS, TRUSTEES of PRIZE MONEY. and other persons engaged in the RECEIPT and DIST/11BU- TfON of PRIZE MONEY and theirREPRESENTATIVES. r r HE COURT OF DIRECTORS of the a- UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANT' ..F.NG. LA:\try va,u - nm.; to the EAsT INDIES, having on tha I !I' , July, !T:?.1, and on the 2d January 1822, issued Public Adver , isements, requiring all Prize A:gents, Trustees of Prize Money, and other persons concerned'in the Receipt arid 1 1, itrilottion of Prize Money, and their Representatives. to tamply the Provisions of the Act 1 and 9 George IV. Cap. til, in respect to the payment into the Company's Trea sury of ell-Unclaimed Shares of Prize Money belonging to Utftcers, Soldiers, and Seamen, being, or having been, in the , Servicv of the East India Company. And the Court of Di rector; bring in possession of information, that several Prize Azents,and other I'ersons,still retain Unclaimed Prize Money, by the provisions of the said Act. of Ist and 4:1 George oogirt to have been paid into the Company's Treasury on or before the 93(1 December last : The Court of Directors do to-rehy give notice to Prize Agents, Trustees for Prize N.lO - other persons, being, or having been, concerned in the receipt and distribution of Prize Money as aforesaid, aryl their Representatives,that in default of their delivering to the Secretary, at this House, the LISTS of such UN CLAIMED PRIZE MONEY. veriSrd on oath, and paying the aruonnt thereof into the Company's Treasury, the Court proceed to exercise the powers with which they are in v,7ted by the said Act, without further notice. JOSEPH DART. Secretary. THE very great Satisfaction the Plan adopt ee to fainter LOTTERIES gave to persons residing in the Country has induced T. BrSII to repeat it in Ilk , present, especially as he had been so fortunate in selecting, for advertised numbers, so many Capital PrizeL The under mentioned Tickets are reserved for such Persons as may or der them: and as many of the Numbers formerly advertised were approved by various individuals in London, it has been thought advisable, for the c.rovenierce of the Purlie, to have part at the east and part a* the ~,r3t ,nd of the Town. The following may he had in Whole Halves, cio,arters, Eighths, or Sixteenths, at BISH's 01.liet-s,s, Cornliill; or 9, Charing Cross 3,216 5,750 No. 712 2,708 1,459 3,317 5,749 No. 711 3,130 3,2.33 ' l ,4Pi 3,227 4„to 5,743 4.474 i ,4h5 N0..i39 u. 713 1 5,74'7 2,7011 f ,463 2,,709 3435 t ,4e, 1,590 1 5,7-16 Nu 687 ,483 +,4 7 A 4,473 !jP3 i. 487 4,47 Gst: 4 The present Lottery coma/cm:us t he 45. h of THIS MONTH, and contains `•loner Pr;:! , 4 £itl,ooo—Se verity other Money Cain , als—Not Two BI inks to a F:ize—No Stock Pr'zes—No Classes—Every Ticket drawn Aingii, each deciding its own Fate and no other. PRESENT PRICE. Tickfq -•.E O J !tl U Half .. Quarter .5 9 o i soctei-nth In last Lottery LUSH sold l 5 tapitals—tlie whole Lotter} on ly had 3 . .-1'.:.! •* • Letters, post paid, duly answered. WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY. riPHE COURT of DIRECTORS of theWEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY, du hereby give Nuticl.. that EXTRAORDINARY COURT, or GENERAL MEETING cif this Company, will be held at this Hone, m FRIDAY, th e Vd instant, at Eleven o'Cloch in the Forenoon, to deter. TrilllC concerning the Expediency of Petitionint ParliA went I , ,r an Act to continue the Company's Privile,es, and on other Affairs. . . _ By Order of the Conrt, HENRY LONGLANDS, Sec. West InfUa Dock-House, 12th - Feb. 1829. The Chair will be taken at 14 o'Clock precisely. CUSTOM-HOUSE, LONDON. Frbruary 13,.1822. . . . _ FOR SALE, (by Order of the Hon. the Com missioners of his Majesty's Costoms,) on TUESDAY, th426th, WEDNESDAY, 47th, THURSDAY, 28th Instant, and FRIDAY, the Ist March, 1922, at One &Clock in the ,ifternoon precisely, at the Commercial Sale P.ovins, Mine nS-lane, the FOLLOWING GOODS : FOR EXPORTATION, East India and other Prohibited Goods, Saccade;, Books, Pilots, Pictures, &c. FOR HOME CONSUMPTION, Cambric qnd other Linen Drapery, Lace. Thrown Sills, Rough Arnethysts,Jewel!erv, Books,Pictures,PrintsAirocery, Tonqttin Brans , Cross Bows, Morels, Bugles, Wax Candles ; Whiskey and other Spirits ; Wine, China, 'Stone ; 1)411, NlxtDigany, Fost le, and other Wood ; Boats ; a vessel calk(' the " Parfaite Union ;" and Sundry other Clouds, as rlentioncd in the Catalogue. CLEAR OF ALL DUTIF,,:. Hops, Dried Herbs, Calamus Aromatiac, Spars. Deals, Ros,wood, Staves, Su% for Exportation duty fire, or f:r Home t:onsumption, on Payment of the Duties of Cus ,o7.ls and Exci:e. T, he viewed at the Tobacco Ground. Rotherhithe: and the King's Warehouse and Cellars, Custom-House ; on Tues.. dsy. the 19th, Wednesday the 20th, Thursday the 21st. and i riday the CAd Instant, from Ten &Clock in the morning to Three o'Clock it. the afternoon. N.B. Goods bought at this Sale must he paid for at the iteceiver of Fines and Forfeitures Office. Custom-House, on Monday, the 18th Mara, .899, or the Deposits lande thereon will abselutely become forfeited. Catalogues to be had at the King's Warehouse, Custom House, price tine Shilling each. ORANGE, LEMON, AND CITRON TREES, JESSAMINE PLANTS: AND TUBEROSE ROOTS. THE TREES are in the most healthy condi tion, some with the Fruit on them, from .ss. to 14s. , ach ; the Arabian Jessamines, 2s. Gd. to Ss. Gd. each ; the , -,o tlonlan Jessamines, 4s. the bundle of four plants; the luberose -Roots, Gs. per dozen, at C. BARRON'S Foreign Warehouse, 19, PALL MALL, late Partner with Mr. ILARTo VALLE. A supply of White and Green Tui key Ct/cornher Seeds, a superior sort and very prolific, in packets /s. each. Spiral Cypress, Is. each packet, early and late Ronan Brocoll, early and late Malta Cauliflowers, Spanish • , •1• lon end Egg Plant Seeds, in packets Is. Gd. each. TEN GUINEAS REWARD. TO PRINTERS, ENGRAVERS, &c.— : IL Whereas it has been discovered that certain Persons art- in the habit of Printing and Vending Labels, being copies fir :Th:tations of those affixed to the bottles contain;nit the “I',NUINE BLACKING prepared by PAY and MARTIN. Itertby enabling unprincipled dealers to impose on their cus tomers a bad and injurious article. We hereby offer a reward .01 Ten Guineas to any Person who shall give such informa tion as will lead to the conviction of any one guilty of these 4Htgal practices. DAY AND MARTIN, re]) 1922. 97. High Holborn. I , 3;CEszS to PREVENT MILDEW in every KIND of I :ANVAq, mule either Of 1-IF,MP, FLAX, or COTTON. VIESSRS. BROWELL and CO. 23. Alder. manfinry, haviri had their Invention honoured by a tf ongh examination of the Society of Ship Owners of Great i' , titain, and Mr. COCK, its Secretary, having un the I !lb Vctotier last acquainted them, " That the Committee (from " the evidence laid before them) are perfectly satisfied that " Invention possesses the valuable quality ascribed to it, 1 ' ant consequently that it is of great importance to Ship " Os n...vs in general ;" beg leave to acquaiut the Shipping It :ear9t: that Sail-Cloth of various hinds, which hare under their Process, may he had of :Messrs. Chalmers and ( ;utlitie, Idol-lane, Tower-street. Each Bolt is marked by a red 4tanip with a Crown suriounding the letter B.—The low P:t,,e of 5!.. per Bolt (or tad. per yard) occasions an expend t;,,t exceeding i n any ease 5 per cent., for every Ship of what qzo, upon the whole cost of the Sails. This Day was published, in Bv'. price WRAII - 1 of CAIN: a Boyle Lecture, delivered al the Church of St. Martin's in the Fields, Wednesday, February 7, ifi.2?. By the Rev. '411.1,1AN1 HARNESS, A.M. Date M,•rtlitil..! Preacher at rrinityCliapel. and Domestic Chaplain to the nowaver Countess !)e 1:1 Wari. Printed 'for F. c. and J. I:ivingten, (P,, Sdint Paul's " ,, "c l "Yard, and No. 3, %Val ettou Nave, Pall Nlail. This 1);ie was published, price ls., SHORT 'VINDICATION of the GENE RAL PENITEN riAnY at MILLBANK, from the ,nsure:: curtained iu ". A Letter addressed by C. C WES TERN. Esq. to the Lord Lieutenant and Magistrates of the county Essex:" to whi,;i are added, Few Remarks on Pt2:braient of Jus...ntle Offenders. Br G. 1 - 101. FORD, Esq. M.P. Published by Riringtons, St. Paul's Cburcb-yard, and Wa ...',:tio.-I,!ac, ; and liatcbard, Piccadilly. ROYAL ACADEMY, SOMERSM HOUSE. TVOTICE TO ARTiSTS.-AII WORKS in -11 tended for the ensuing EXHIBITION must be sent in on MONDAY the - ail), or TUESDAY the 9th cf .Aril next, after which day none ran possibly he admitted.—The Regu lations necessary to be observed can be obtained at the Aca demy. It HOWARD, R.A. Sec. EYTON, Stock-Brokt!r, Cornhill, and Lombard-street, respectfully solicits the Public to inspect the Scheme of the New Year's Lottery. and he is fully convinced that it wily he viewed with universal satisfaction; for EVERY PRIZE is STERLING MONEY, and every Ticket will he drawn singly, as there are NO CLASSES. This Scheme contains LESS than . Two Wants to a Prize, and double the nwob,r of Capitals that were in the Last Lottery, including 5 X20.000 i to .. 0 .000 10 1,000 1 40 Draw;ng begins Vith THIS MONTH. SOO 200 THE LONDON JeUitNA.L. EXTRACT' FROM THE D 101,Y NIOIINISO PAPERS, FewziarN Ifi IS`22. [BRITISH Pit ESS.] The interest universally excited by the promise of Lord Lon donderry's exposition of the state of the Nation, drew great crowds of persons yesterday evening to the House of Commons. The number of the Members who had assembled on this occa sion was unusually great. The gallery appropriated to strangers was crowded to excess, but the accommodation within the House was insufficient for those whom 'an anxious desire to learn the fate of the country had drawn together, and who tilled the lobbies and avenues leading to the House. ,The country will see by our report of the Noble Secretary's exposition, that their anxiety was well repaid by the value and importance of his communication. [NEW TimEs.] The King's Ministers have now shewn to the country that they do not merely talk of retrenchment. They have efficted a reduction of little less than two millions ! They have reduced the Army, the Navy, and the Aliscellaneous services, certainly quite as much as sound policy can justify—perhaps something more. We speak now with reference to tti2 particular interest of the Agriculturists; for we have very strong doubts whether the diminution of the general amount of the taxes must not add to their distress. Certainly the Marquis of Londonderry com pletely disproved the doctrine of Mr. Brougham, • that taxation was the sole cause of the distreis. [MORNING Posi.] The Marquis of Londonderry made his promised statement last night, and its nature is too gratifying nut to equal, or even to surpass, the hopes of the country. The reductions already eilicted in the various branches of our Establishment amount to the immense sum of nearly two millions. The relief which the country will immediately derive from this saving will be the re peal of the Additional Malt Duty, which will deliver agriculture from an annual burthen of not less than one million rive hun dred thousand pounds. Taxes to a greater amount would have been remitted, had not the present state of Ireland occasion ed an extraordinary charge of £350,000 and the failure of the usual course of revenue during war, one of 320,0001. for the Greenwich Hospital. Both these charges, however, will terminate with the present year ; for with respect to the exist ence of thg disturbances in Ireland, the Noble Marquis was happy to say that it would be confined to a very limited period ; and as to the charge for Greenwich Hospital, arrangements will be made to comprise it in future within the Navy Estimates. Important as is the repeal of a tax which pres.led so heavily upon Agriculture, it is only the first step of a regular diminu tion of imposts, which, if no new war should arise, will continue till the country has regained her buoyancy, and hee expendi ture is brought down lower than her income. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] The curiosity which prevailed with respect to the plan of Mi nisters filled the Gallery of the House of Commons at an early hour yesterday; and me passages to it were eicwded during the afternoon and evening with persons anxious to learn the nature of Lord Londonderry's prop ositions.—Well, the public have now got possession of the mighty secret, and the ques tion is, will they be satisfied ? How has the loud call for re trenchment, heard from one extremity 61 the Kingdom to the other, been answered P Ministers have, from .the whole amount of the civil expenditure of the country, consented to renounce little more than 150,0001. !—that is, they have consented to the deduction of a small per centage from their incomes, which, in consequence of the improvement in our currency, will still, after this deduction, greatly exceed what they were receiving during the war All the overoown and unpro fitable establishments are kept up, - all the sinecures and pensions are religiously retained. " Necessity," quoth Lord London derry, " is the Tyrant's plea," by winch we are to understand, no doubt, that the old system of waste and profligate expendi ture is in no manner to be sacrificed to the necessities of the Agric•dlturists. THE TIMES.] The trick exploded cast night, but not exactly as we pre. dieted, nor at the place where. We said that a message would come from the King, announcing something which was to impose upon the Public as retrenchment; and that the mag nificence of the person announcing was to throw that kind of glare which is equivalent to darkness, upon the pro posed or pretended reductions, and make that which was really nothing pass for substance. The country Gentle men throughout the kingdom—we mean those who are paid in some way or other out of the taxes for the loss of their rents—might have dilated on the goodness and con descension of his :Majesty in thus announcing his sense of his people's sufferings by a Royal Message; and such an act of attention might well be taken for an earnest of his sincerity to do all he could in order to relieve the-dis tresses which he felt so sensihly. This would have been enough : real and effectual retrenchment would have been evad ed : those who wished to talk of an immense standing army in peace, extravagant civil list, useless places, would have been stunned with the incessant repetition of " Message from his Majesty"—" Communication from the Throne"." Gracious intentions of the Crown ;" and sensible opposition would for a while have been overpowered by these sonorous phraies. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1822. PARLI AMEN' HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIOA.Y, FEB. i 5. POPULATION. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY preserited a com parative Statement of the Population of 'the United Kingdom, from the year 1801 to 1821. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Lord ASHBURNHAM presented a Petition from certain Owners and Occupiers of Land of the Rape of Hastings, in the County of Sussex, pray ing for Agricultural Relief.—Read, and laid on the table.—Adjourned till Monday. Agricultural Distress. They called for a Reform in Parlia ment, and he thought they were very right.' Lord NUGENT said, he must divide, with the last speaker, the honour of differing from the Member for Suffolk. He thought the question of Parliamentary Reform was properly connected with that of Agricultural Distress. Mr. GOOCH, in answer to the observation of the Member for Shrewsbury (Mr. Bennet), said, that for any economy and retrenchment which was consistent with the safety and interest of the country, he was as strong an advocate as the Hon. Mem ber himself. Mr. BENNET said there never was any estimate, how ever expensive, proposed by Ministers, which was not support ed by the Honourable Member.—The Petition was ordered to lie on the table. Lord A. HAMILTON revived for Tuesday next the no tices of Motion 'which he had given, and which dropped yes terday. Mr. HONYWOOD. presented a Petition fr , ein Kent, which, he said, was the same in effect as those presented by the Noble Lord (Nugent). The distress, he said, was notorious, and could not be remedied but by a reduction of taxes. Similar petitions . were presented 1)y Mr. ROBERT SMITE from Thickingham, and by Mr. Coss, fzoni Norfelk.—They were ordered to lie on the table. WESTMINSTER PETITION. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT said he had the honour to pre sent a petition which had been agreed to at a most respectable meeting of the inhabitants of Westminster. En all the senti ments of the petitionerS, with one single exception, he entirely . concurred. The petitioners complained not merely of the ef fect of taxation, but also of those gross violations of law and of the constitution which had recently taken place. In so much of the sentiments of the petitioners he ecncurred; but they at tributed much of their present distress to the measure generally called Mr. Peel's Bill, and in this opinion he could net concur. He had examined all the papers from the year 1800 to the pre sent time, which could give any information on the subject, and he found that the price of bullion and of produce never at any one time bore a relation to each other.—(Hear, hear.) —And he found that when bullion had suffered a slight deprecia tion, produce was at the highest price.--(Hear, hear.)—He cer tainly could see no immediate connection between Mr. Peel's Bill and the present distress : for paper was nearly at par with gold, no less than three years before that Bill, and all that the Bill said was " You shall not return to a depreciated cur rency."—(Hear, hear.)--and with this trifling exception he concurred in every word of the Petition, which he should move be brought up. Mr. HOBHOUSE said, he had been desired by his Consti tuents to support the present Petition, a Petition which he be lieved contained more wholesome truths than any other ever presented to the House. It declared that the prayers of the people had been long disregarded, in pursuance of that syste matic and avowed contempt, which prevailed in that House, of what was called popular clamour. It complained of the defective state of popular representation, and attributed the evils which had befallen this country to the corruption of Par liaments. To the corruption of Parliaments, it ascribed the loss of America, and the destruction of independence abroad as well as of independence at home. To the same cause it refer red the standing army bill ; and that monstrous taxation which wrung from the people of this country a million of pounds in every six days, a fact as true as it was apparently incredible. The best definition that he had ever read of taxation was, that ivhich described it to be the taking of part of a man's property, and securing him in return the possession,. the enjoyment, and the comfortable expenditure of the remainder. And how did English taxation answer this test? Did it give security for the miserable remnant of the property it left ? Was it not well known that which was taken in taxes created a fund, in which the remainder of the property was afterwards swallowed up ? 'these were questions that were answered by . the distress which stared every man in the face ; and it was impossible to doubt that the weight of taxation had now grown intolerable. The affair of Manchester was alluded to by the petitioners, and he trusted that the day would yet arrive when the sufferers on that occasion would obtain redress.—(Coughing.)—He pre sumed the House would chew some respect to the Electors of Westminster, whose petition he was supporting.—(Hear, hear, hear !)—The massacre of Glencoe had not been inquired into until six years after it had taken place; and he therefore did not despair of living to see an inquiry into the transactions at Manchester. He was happy that he had not commented at the moment upon the language used by two Gallant Members the other evening ; for had he done so, he might have been led away by his feelings, as they no doubt had been by theirs.-- They had their feelings—he had his. He was the friend of the unarmed. The, petitioners, he would take leave to assure the Noble Marquis, so far from being his enemies, were his best friends, for they told him those wholesome truths which it was the interest of others to conceal from him. Lord OSSULSTON differed from his Hon. Friend the Member for Westminster, in his view of the question respect. ing the currency. The Noble Lord spoke very shortly to ex plain the reason of his differing in opinion from the Hon. Ba ronet, but the noise in the House was so great that he could not be distinctly heard. He was understood to say, that the inference of the Hon. Baronet was not warranted by his state. ment of the relative price of bullion and produce. Sir F. BURDETT explained ; after which the Petition (which hqs already been before the public) was read and ordered to lie on the table. Mr. PRICE presented a Petition Jim the Owners and Occupier's of Land in Herefordshire, complaining of distresi, and praying for a remedy by means of retrenchment in the public expenditure, a reduction of the interest of the national debt, and a reform in Parliament. He fully agreed with the Petitioners upon the subject of retrenchment, and thought this was no time for minor reductions; but he withheld his 'ssent from that part of the Petition which suggested the touching of the interest of the national debt. He deeply lamented the adoption of that Continental policy which had caused much of the debt to be incurred ; but he could not consent to the abandonment of our national honour. Upon the subject of re form, he partially agreed with the Petitioners. He was not one of thosei who wished for a sudden and extensive reform ; bat he thought a moderate and temperate reform of the abuses which time had brought about in the Elective Franchise, not only would be politic and wise, but was really due to a suffering, patient, and loyal people. The Petition was ordered to lie on the table. Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved for a Return of the Num ber of Newspapers, with the amour.: of Duty paid on each.— Ordered. STATE OF THE NATION. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY moved the Order of the Day for the House taking into consideration his Majesty's most gracious Speech. The Order of the Day having becn read by the Clerk at the table, The Marquess of LONDONDERRY rose. The House would believe him when he assured them that upon no occasion in the whole course of his public life did he address them with feelings of so much anxiety as those under which he then laboured. It had never before been his lot to call the attention of the House to u subject of such interest as the present; an interest, he be lieved,as great within those walls as it undoubtedly was without them. The interest of every per son in the community was more or less involved in the discussion of that night. (Hear, hear, hear !)—lle -felt depressed at the possibility of not adequately discharging his duty, and he therefore threw himself on the indulgence of the House. It was his wish to compress as much as possible all the information he had to lay be fore the House ; and yet he a ished tp omit no fact of any importance. If, therefore, in the course of his address, he should, in order to enonomise the time of the House, assume propositions rather than prove them ; if he stated figures, the con clusions upon which were not immediately clear, he begged the House, for the moment, to admit the assumption in one case'and the conclusion in the other; he pledging himself not to hazard any one statement in which he would not afterwards be completely bottle out. The House would be PRICE SIWENPENCE. aware that the statement he was about to Make, was one extremely liable to error. But he as-_ sured them that he would advance nothing but what he believed to be founded in truth, upon solid information; and that where, from ihadver a tency, he might be led into mistake, he should , consider himself as open to correction.—(Hear --It was his wish to economise the time of the. House, and therefore he should proceed upa4i the clear principle of laying data upon which he should argue, apd in support of theta ha. should bring forward those calculations which he believed to be true. It was gratifying to, him to be able to state, that he should stast from the same point as the Hon. and Learned Gentleman opposite (Mr. Brougham), who had preceded him on the same subject the other . sight ; but although they advanced from tae= same point, in travelling over the wide ft* of- . discussion they would soon part company. has the. way. He had no objection to a,surne with that Learned Gentleman that such was the situation.. of the country, that there was no degree of eco nomy which Parliament could attain to—no mode. of relief consistent with the doctrines of Political Economy which could be devised for abating the pressure of taxation, that it was not the bounden duty of Parliament to apply.—(Hear, hear') — It was impossible after the struggle from which this country had passed, and with the important changes in the diversions of property which had been effected. by the return to that standard of currency which ought always to be the measure. of the country, that it should not be oppressed with difficulties which required their most labo rious and most vigilant exertions to counteract. With respect. to this view of the matter, therfa. fore, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman and him self started from the same point. They 'differed in the mode of administering relief, but in their impatience for economy entirely agreed. • *He would not, however, detain the House long in explaining the distinction between that lion. and Learned Gentleman's views and his own. Nor would he trouble them at all witty this branch of the question, could he feel persuaded that the House • had read as he (Lord London.: derry) had done, the picture which the lion. Member drew of the state of the country in 1816, and compared it with that which he drew the other night; for that contrast would establish all he wished to point out as the distinction be twixt their views. Fortunately for the country the House had not been hurried into that course, so contrary to the dictates of wisdom, which the florid pictures of distress which had been placed before their eyes, even so late as last Session, had been intended to operate. That distress, the House might be assured, was fast moving away before those great national causes, which a country like this never failed in evincing in the hour of need. The commercial and manufac turing interests had undergone such a change as exhibited them in a situation of more healthful prosperity than they had ever before been at any period of our history. He did not wish to be understood as asserting that these classes were now working for as high prices as ever they had been ; for then it would be the reverse of what he had stated, as they all knew how much idle ness accrued from extravagance. But instead of industry being goaded on by extravagant wages, it was sustained and encouraged by adequate re turns. The manufacturing classes were in a state of great comfort; and looking towards bete ter times even. It would not be too much to say of them that they now got twelve peace where before they only got eight pence, and that they could obtain for the latter what formerly would have cost them the former. So that they were enjoying an improvement of 100 per ceet.----- • (Hear, hear!)—He was able to go along with the • Hon. and Learned Gentle m a n (M r . liroughaeo)• in deeply deploring the condition of the agri cultural interests, under the temporary presume of evils to which they were subjected. fie hoped, however, that what tie said as matter of consolation, they would be satisfied proCeeded from a tone of mind which was the consequence of his entering with deep sensibility into their sufferings. His interest slabs 'o bound up with - the landed, that if he was to exercise any watch fulness upon himself, it would be directed against those dispositions into which the feelings of hu manity might burr) him. It was almost impos sible to separate interests in this country, bum unquestionably the landed interest was entitled to the greatest share of popular sympathy.— ; (Hear, hear !)—He must here correct the lion. and Learned Gentleman opposite, as to a state , ment he had made connected with this. branch of the subject relative to the decrease in.the con , sumptioh of malt. He was the inure desirous of doing this because he was aware of the double purpose that statement ails-hi:ended to effect, in pointing at the operation of taxation in oppress sing the agricultural more than ether interests. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman had stated as an extraordinary fact, that the country con- . sumed nearly one-third less malt now than it thirty years ago. if the Hon. Gentleman meant to state that the consumption of malt had not kept pace with the growth of population, he (Lord Londonderry) would not contend agaitrt • him, but if he meant to say that a diminution in the consumption of this article proved - a dimina lion of means in the nation, 'he stood decidedly opposed to him. All. that was proved by it, he meant to contend, was, -that it proved a change in the habits and tastes of the country.—(hear'.) For he would point out an increased consumption in other articles more expensive ; so that the ar gument of thelion.•Gelitternau, if good for any thing, meant that there was a general decay of prosperity, or that the tax ou that article-was HOUSE OF CONINONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at a quarter before four. Sir J. NecJtoLl. took the oaths and his seat, on his re.eec tion. Mr. HUTCIONSON, from the Bank, presented an account of the number of Bank-notes in circulation, which on the motion of Mr. Ricardo was ordered to be printed. The Edinburgh Police Bill was read a second time, and com mitted. AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. Petitions complaining of Agricultural Distress, and praying for relief, were presented from the following places by the fol lowing Honourable Members : Froth Lancaster, by Lord STANLEY ; from Huntingdon, by Mr. PFAHAm ; from War wickshire, by Mr. DUG DALE; from Buckinghamshire, by Mr. R. SMITH; from Oxford, by Mr. WETHERELL ; from Hun tingdon, by Lord J. RUSSELL ; and from Buckingham, by Mr. FREEMATLE. Mr. WYVILL presented a Petition, signed by several hun dred persons, Owners and Renters of Land in the North Rid ing of Yorkshire, complaining of distress (which the petitioners attributed to taxation), and praying for relief.—Ordered to lie on the Table and lac printed. Lord NUGENT presented a Petition, signed by 400 per sons resident in the Vale of Aylesbury, complaining of dis tress. The Noble Lord stated, that, among the resolutions upon which the Petition was framed, were two, attributing that distress to a lavish expenditure of the public money, and a defective state of the Representation of the people in Parlia ment. The Noble Lord, at some length, supported the state ments in the Petition, contending that the expences of the Court ought to be diminished ; and observing that the Peti tioners were assured that so sure a cause and effect were rele vant to each other. The proper state of the representation of the people in Parliament was essential to a just regard of the financial situation of the country. He thought much of the distress was occasioned by the altered state of the currency; but he was convinced, as well as the Petitioners, that a Reform in Parliament was the principal source to wh i ch they should look for a remedy. The Petitioners were no•wild theorists, nor did they ask for relief at the expence of th e i r fellow-subjects._ Neither did they ask relief at all from his Majesty's Ministers ; but they asked it from the House, which, in compliance with its form and its orders, he called the House of the Representa tives of the people. Sir ISAAC COFFIN said, that as so much stress had been laid on the necessity of a Reform in Parliament, he would give his opinion on the subject—" I think," said the Hon. and gal lant Member, " that the best qualification consists in the pos session of talents and property. Now the sooner the House is weeded of those who, like myself, have neither one nor the other, the better."—(.A laugh.) The petition was then read, and ordered to lie on the table. Lord NUGENT said he had another petition to present from the same part of the country, and on the same subject ; in pre senting which, he would avail himself of that opportunity of as suring his Gallant Friend that no Reform which he (Lord Nu gent) advocated, could possibly contemplate the loss of his Gal lant Friend as a Member of that House. This petition, and a third to the same effect, presented by the same Noble Lord, were ordered to lie on the table. Mr. SPRING RICE gave notice that on Tuesday next, he would move for the production of certain papers connected with the Administration of Justice in Ireland. Lord ALTHORP presented a petition from the Farmers of Perth, complaining of distress, and praying for the repeal of the Tax upon Leather. He thought the distress, not of this class in particular, but of all, was to be attributed to taxation. By taxation he did not mean this or that tax, but the pressure of taxes generally; and unless the plan of relief, which the Noble Marquis was that night to submit to the House, included a great reduction of taxes, and among others that upon leather, which he thought pressed more upon the consumer than any other he knew, he thought that plan would prove abortive.—The petition was ordered to lie on the table. Mr. CURTEIS, in thing to present a petition from the Owners and Occupiers of Land at Bramber, in Sussex, took that opportunity to refer to an observation which had been made on a former evening, respecting his views of affording relief to the Agriculturists. He stated that he thought permanent pro tecting duties upon foreign produce were necessary to work that relief; and he was told by the Hon. Member for Coventry that his (Mr. C.'s) constituents entertained, on that subject, opinions different from his. Now, as he was an admirer of the old-fashioned doctrine that it was the duty of Members of that House to follow the instructions, and if possible, express the opinions of his constituents, he had been at some pains to as certain those of his own. The result of that inquiry satisfied him that their opinions accorded with his ; in proof of which he had to state that the petition in his hand prayed for protecting duties, in order that the Agriculturist might be placed upon an equality with the manufacturer.. Indeed the petition spoke al most the language of the Agricultural Report. • This Petition was also ordered to lie on the table. Mr. DICKINSON presented a Petition from the Owners and Occupiers of Land in the Vale of Taunton, in Somerset shire, and two other Petitions from other parts of the same County, complaining of Distress, and praying for Relief. Mr. TYNTE, in supporting the Petitions, said, he was, un. fortunately, able to bear testimony to the truth of the state ment in these petitions. Whatever diversity of opinion might fairly exist as to the cause of the present distress, he was con vinced that it was excessive taxation ; and that the first stage towards relief would be the abolition of Sinecures and unme rited Pensions—of course he meant no allusion to those who devoted their time and health to the public service. As the present was no party question, he trusted all Honourable Members would join in supporting every measure which had retrenchment for its object. Sir THOMAS LETHBRIDGE presented a Petition from the Bath and West of England Society, for the encouragement of the Arts, Commerce, and Agriculture, complaining of the distress which prevailed in the latter of those branches of pub lic property. He stated that so strong was the reluctance of the Petitioners to apply to Parliament, that a considerable diversity of opinion had existed in the Society, before they could bring themselves to the measure. He mentioned the circumstance to shew how strong must have been the feelings of the Petiti oners on the subject, seeing that they had at last resolved to petition the House. Their Petition prayed, in general terms, that the House would take the case into its most serious consi deration ; and as great expectation had been raised with regard to the motion of the Noble Marquis on this important subject, he thouht it would ill become him at present to offer a ny o pi. nion of his own.—The Petition was ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Mr. LYTTLETON presented a Petition from the Dairy Farmers of Stafford, complaining of the tax upon Salt, and praying that it might be repealed.—Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. GOOCH presented a Petition from the Owners and Oc cupiers of Land in the county of Suffolk, complaining of Agri cultural Distress, and praying for relief. The Petitioners, the Hon. Member said, had, in his opinion, very properly forborne to mix up any political matter with their complaints; and he was sorry to find that when all sides of the House must be so desirous to give this important subject every attention, many petitions called for a reform in Parliament. Mr. BENNET said that the Petitions of which the Hon. Member complained were perfectly correct. Had economy been observed in the public expenditure, the disgrace would not have originated ; and it was for a reform of that Parlia ment which sanctioned the want of economy that the Peti tioners prayed. Mr. COKE said there might possibly be a difference of opi nion as to the propriety of introducing the question of Reform into these Petitions. 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