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~~~ -,"M?ie \`4f C C ~~' fl .: 4.--0 34:51i • -:. _, 2 J‘l/11,,1t 6/16.] THF:ATRE ROYAL, DRITRY-LANE. },1,1 PR.ESENT- EVENING, May 3, Their "44.1esties' St•rvants will perform the Tragedy Qf he KING RICHARD-. THE. THIRD - . . ? cr+f Gloucester, Mr. Kean ; , Lady Annei Miss Royce. To which will Ue added, the Farce of 1'0:„, THE APPRENTICE. ,oti nign's qrrow, Lionel and Clarissa; with Intrigue, end The Ilm. - • ...„__ , ri.,‘ , KEArRE ,RQYAL; COVENT-GARDEN. j, lIIS PRESENT EVENING, May 3, will h" 14310 r:red-th e Comic Opera of '- L.l, AND . , 1 , ti° " l , Mr IONF . Sinclair; Clarissa, Miss •CLAiCISSA Stephens._ , ~ Which "ill be ad.kd, the Grand Asiatic - Spectacle of ~., 1 0.,,, tAND ti.). LAS RADE. 1-otipi,-:`:; rr ' l, ', Debtor and Creditor.—Ou Thursday, a fa- , ' ''Ptra, ...._ 1.101 1 ,.'-'-• _ and F. IT 'PAVERN and COFFEE-HOUSE, Strand, • l i , ali t l ' \ll Li HOTEL, at the bottoni,of Cecil-street, corn . 1g 4 liae Ti 6 ,: Of the River Thames 'and- SuNrey'l - lills. 11 . I - 1 . I.' V I LEA Am.s iii3t .respegtflilly.b.ep leave 11.c,t,,titi: ktyl;:int i . .... v#!iisis and the Public; whose gene ,,iit`i;),r,t• be:has for - SO many years experienced, that he 1 ,.'1: 4 11. - ( ` ? "ET) UP- the above HOUSES its the most gen t'i '1%; 1- "'" 10, iicit , - manner where, he trusts, no exertion '"os,'l4 l rt Will b e . •:van " ting - to ' insure him, a continuance of ,"'").nrs hitherto so liberally .bestowed. • . . NAVAL and MI LIT,-1 tLY BIBLE SOCIETY. Pm. • , . Instituted in ,the Year 1790. . _, F Vic e _ b ?" - -Ilis Royal Highness . the Duke of , l GRK. `resi 4 .4 Oron—His the Duke of 01.. .. FR ' BURY ?. ent— , His Grace the Archbishop of CAN TER ", s , ice-Presidents. 1 . ,ii 1 i,",,"' 41111 Itiht Rev Lord Right • Hon. Admiral Lord. sr;l cif Loridcri ' .• Ger,, VIIIr i i ft' llt Itm-111. Bishop - Right s lion Nich. Vansittart, ticiYl("Arl'' - Hon. Philip Posey, ~ it, van ofeanterbury, Sir William Pepperell, Bart. IL,Wi ti ",i t , 2 4 d Very Rev. Dean of _ Si; Thomas Bernard, Bart. e h t li . r ' Vice-Adm. Si? Ja's.Sautirez, Istlt,"%Earl S.. veneer, Bart. K. B. i'lthi.i_i 4 • E ariaDartmouth, Lieutenant -General Robert - t• If ' 5 ,1 1 . Earl of Radnor, ' Mann-era, 14 4 1 , ''.'"rcl Willoughby de Rob. Thornton.. Esq ; M. P. it, ' Wm. Wilberforce, Esq. M.P. I: A. 13 b - Treasurers. 4ott e ) re Marti n , Ch ar - Mr.. J. Stephenson, William. -tr os eet, Bloomsbury ; I street, Cliatliain-place. - t • ab t. , SeCretaries, (Gratis). r rA IAN, Royal Navy, .114, )4 4.t0r .- 4 ernlyn-sheet, .. }Naval Department. E, Royal Artillery,. Si,', i ll, Jerru3ii-itreet, }Military Department. d ll ' l '‘`NNIJAL GENERAL MEETING of this . SOCIETY :,•'"' I li i : i It .'"N i e -ti at the ew' onflon Tavern, Chearide, on Toes - V tk. , May. ' The doors wilt he opened at twelve .. ' ' and the Chair taken exactly at one. tt, Byorder-of the Committee, -, N „ (Signed) ' J. M. CLOSE, Secretary. ` te e - Room, 114, Jerniyn-street, 2.8 4 April, Isl 4. • • . / I & T ES FROM THN CAPE OF GOOD 1,), ,- • • HOPE. Lb. Jape Madeiras .. SGsi per Dozen. , 4 1 ve d° - . 'll4. D o qt , e, Olperior Quality, .thich ha. t , per Dozers. oyage to the I:raze's . - 4ts T -°. do. ',LIT-NIA-1N OF WINES FROM SPAIN, PORTUGAL, MADEIRA, &c. . l' o tt 4 ., Per Pipe. ba, 11 ") favourite Vintage of 1812, good Quality L.104 b 0: a do. . 1812, first Quality .... 112 I , Zi e high-flavoured old Vintage, 1806 or 1808 —.120 4 rri• f Per Butt. . i ,„ 1 )(i. fro m Cactiz • tk , milt old do. warranted 6 Years-in the. Butt ...: 118 i` i .„ . do. East' India , 'CO Per Pipe. ~e t i g . - . • . . I. DI -. "' l, ir V' r St Call:4;it ' 2' ; 't '' • 13:: 'ile Quality., West India - 11G l),. do. E as t I n di a . . • I‘N - Broati, v er y fine t ,tiy • ,co ., mm EitclAL II Al.I. --WIN ii COMPANY rie , pei. t -04111'44A their numerous.oostotners and the Puhlie'. in 1 4 ,' at ,I, t har they Lase-tlik'Day fixed tlmir Priet's per I 'Ve , IN st-ht i;fr',.. I:or Win-cs of Sterling Qualities, -which may he t: .1 1t1, ',, l l ) PlYing at theirCilneerns,•No. to, Skinner-street, '44 , n.furd-strert, -or of any' of their Agents •in tht,ii •kt t : B. Ir. ,• N 1 '4 Sii '''. t n " of every Description per Dozen,- and Spirits' 4 4 D r ? e• of. the first Qualities, 'at the Company's uatial 4 44 c "' ~,,,: (3, I SI2. . ' t~Tias 11,ENOVATED HEALTH.. u eell trio frequently thc subject of just and t' ll ' t e , re *obaci i that , nen destitute of the cienieLts r " li hli c ; le 'lkal l art f ()."' sTeri4 thein,selves as candidatrs fur 71,3tr0n • r e ' -hysic.• For the pimp ,:t. olh g ,axesn t proh.ssior. . 3 i h i / ttv. 'M ee to result.of our studies an t , 4 1.! tMl.,,i 4 ;,.tis from being classed inorh; those emptrics wii society, been ' lay Pretenslons have, tintertuiWely for e,:ilrably received, we beg leave to submit to the fibLral ;ltliter-VAfened a flit smement of our pursuits and * 4l —en ts• A he ' : received a regular medical educa. 4 0tii s "le pu•)iis Mc•ssrs. G rindell and Illizard, whose *l-I rge Q ‘ .- u nci praletito carefully attended, as' ptotessur mid itkr,!ins of the Li - urionhiospital; we entered ourselves as tilt It t i n that justly ' celebrated school for medical acquire noyarColf-ge of dinbu rgh , and were instructed tfaefrg.treretit hrancli;Sof anatomy,. surgery , the theory and r l Th us I : Physie, Chemistry, midwifery, botany, &c.c. &c. eq unent professKs, DN. M o or°, Gregory, lilac _e(li.„'::ll,,l)uncan and I< itthertind. We trust we shall not .1 1ti . ,'"'. d. 1 ) restitripfu titi s in saying that our proficiency ao Are not inconsiderable. Flaying for a long series ti) ~ . .'age 'Venere Mal Coplaints, and the various disease! .1il t l b1 _:,) , the pittictilar objectof our studies and p_raCtic u e i hope, be allowed that we have acquired superi t ase s ,„;'ge of Alteit treatment soil cure. In alight and recert si;i:..te,6tiwl a perfect , re-establishment is coin pleted in t 'te c ' t of twat days ; and in those the . e a t most Pto.,er,, when:other practitioners have failed of success, a I,,it!,,l,P:erseerance talanot treatment. ensures to the d Sate and radical cure• • Eir Aids ttst ‘re melancholy variety of disorders which are the rt ju ,'lt .kilhu t long and moat unhappily . puraued by the outl: sex es, there are none- more alarming ur i m nti 1 41k, r , rre Vtnc than those deficiencies and debilities which Ire. torso Y 3 Preveitt or embitter the matrimonial state To such t " l ust be a consolation to know that they may now, Rre,, tes ' t v and infallible mode ot treatiment, be restored to that %se". (.) . 1 all hunanblet:sings, a strong, manly, and viten'. ebr :4,..stttution. In all castes or debility, from whateves 11, 4 , r y t tag, as well as in every species . of venereal intection, by,patients oteitiicr s,!x with the great. 'lt o rr l c Y and tionont. )(ours° consult.;-.ion at home !ruin , , hied twin 6in the evening till 1 0 a* nighf • aats-,tients i n the eirrrrim, die requeste d to state t h e part i ci] st llse ir case !- I 'e ~ age, andgenera habit of living, &c, &c. in- s •re mittance tor a d vice and w hut the sari-, . .Iven, or sent to arty parrot the kinil.dom. To co g'' 'tarts 'v.) be so essentiai to O ur uniterta ki ne , the , tostage , added In the aCC(ltillt for m edicines. " e. and Co. Surgeons, liatton-gartien 'Do ve re%srs. C :w e and Co. nave ....ertifirates rr , .tn the 'th e e l l, t4l'ectmie 'rote.ssoi s of Lomita , . end Edinburgh, tot .ind humanity, with which they tie!. o„,' .• • - • the tame they am `.4 th e t ern . (luring ar,.; rattles- 411 T U ESDAY, CHELSEA HOSPITAL, SiatizApril, 1114. T . ut COMMISSIONERS : fqr the AFFAIRS •- of this HOSPITAL do. hereby give Notice, That they intend to treat with such Persons as may he willing to con tract to Supply the Hospital with Coals ,for the ear, viz.— Kil:ingworth, Heblnirn Main, Heaton Main, Bell's Walls-end, Russell's Walls-end, Beswicles Walls-end, and Temple's Walls-end about 460 or 470 Chaldrou, more Or less. • Such Persons who May be willing to futnish.the said Coals, to be delivered atthe Hospital and . the Officers: Apartments, at per chaldron, including all expences, are desired tasend in tliyir Proposals in Writing' (sealed up) to the Secretary's Office, in the said Hospital, where particular-•inforniatiwn May he bad, on or before Saturday • the 7th vf• May next) marl{ing•ou the Cover, " Tender for .Coals,'-and to attend the Board, which will be held at -the,4ospital on Tue:sday.the loth followir,g. The Con4rOctor «•ill be required to snd_Securi4' for the due perforzpaoce of his Contract. EAST-;NDIA HOUSE, April 14, 1314. III; COURT of DI RECTORS of th UN ED COMPANY Of MER,CITAiNTS of ENGLAND TRADING to' the EAST INDIES, do hereby. give Notice, .That a GENERAL COURT of the said Company will be HELD at their House in teudenhall-street, on WEDNES-. DAY, tire` 4th May next, at Eleven o'Clock in AO . noon, to take into consideration the PROCEEDINGS of the COURT of DIRECTORS on the subject of the EXPIRED, PENSIONS. - • The Court of •Directors do farther give Notice, That at the said General Court., a Resolution 'of the Court of Directors of the _sth of Januaey I:4st, for encreasiog the Salary of Mr. William M'Culloch, Assistant'Secretary, under, the superinteudance, of the Examiner of 'lndian Correspond ence, fr0ra...6001. to 12001. per also a Resolution of. the Court of Directors of tin 14th January last, fur allowing a Pension of 80C1.. per alumni to Mr. Richard Owen, late Chief Clerk in the Secretary's Office, will he laid before' t;,ie said General Court for their applobation, agreeably to the 13th and 19th Sectio62 of the fith Cap. of the Company's JAMES COBB. Sect etaiy. GENOINE IJLM;X LEAD PENCILS. 1T mtDDLETc)NPS ImpßovED B K LAC •- LEAD PENC:Li, of different degrees oe hardness; 'rite many. gross impositions practised on the Public by mi. !. principled persons; who rend a vile composition in appear ance like Black Lead, but whidli has none. of its prnpertie?, renders, it necessary for N. Middleton, Black Lead Pencil Maker to the King and Prince Ittgent, to inform the Trade, Artists, and those Gentlemen who are in the habit of using his Pencils, the reputatiOn of which has iieen established near sixty years, and Which were formerly kolown by the, mark of Middletim only, hare now the following st Imo on cool' Pen cil :—" N. Middleton., .032, "Strand, London," and fur the Prepared Lead. " Prepared Lead, N. Middleton, Marin factorer,' y 4. Strsnd, I:atutoth" with distinedishing marks to denote. the quality of the Lead, as H. hard, H. H. .harder, &c. The greatest variety in London of Letter Copying Ma chines, IVriting andpressing Desks arid Boxes," and a large assortment of Pocket Books, Almanacks, Repositories, Sta tionery, &c. This Day was published, In Three Volumes, moo. price ISs. in boards, Author veI ;f tBd ni AtARGARET CULLEN, Printed for J. Mawman, 39, Ludgate-street, London ; and for Wilson. and Son's, York. Just published, Price 10s._ 6,1. in hoards, with Thirteen Views' from Nature, illustrative of French Scenery, the Third Edition of JOURNAL , of a PAlt['Y of PLEASURE toPARIS, in the Month of August,. 1602 ; by which any person intending to take - such a 'Tourney may form an ac curate idea of the expenee that would. attend it, and the amusement he - woUld prolnibly receive. ' Printed for T. Cadell and Strand. This Day was published, In One Volume Quarto; price 31. 3s. in boards, And in 'Three Volumes Octavo,• price 31. G,4-. in boards, AN INDEX - to . .tbe. STATUTES at Large, from Maria Charta to the ;Forty-Width Year of ILL inclusive,. • • • • • • By .1011 N RAITHIAI Esq. Of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister at Law. • L'o-ndon : Printed by 1111' Majesty's'Statute and Law Printers; . and sold by all bookselcers in town and count._ NEW MUSIC. Speedily will be published, by Subscription,. A MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of VOCAL MUSIC, cproposed.by BENJAMIN BLAKE, Musician in Ordinary to his Majesty; most respecttully de dicated ',l))* Permission) to theltight Hon. the Countess of Bridgewater; consisting of the following Pieces, all of which will have a separate Accompaniment for the Harp or Piano- Forte " The Indian Girl," A Song.; gc A Supplication," ForThree Voices ; " 'rite Afflicted Widow," A Song; " The late Sir.lolin Fielding's Prayer," For Three Voices; " Future;' - A.Soug.;. " The Beggar's Petition," ... .. For Three Voices. - Subscription, Half-a-Guinea, to be paid on the delivery of the Book, in which the,Names of the subscribers will be in serted.—Subscriptions will be received -at Messrs. Gletnenti , and Co. 26, Cheapside Mr. Preston, 97, Strand ; Mr. Birch all, 133, Messrs. Chappet and 'Co. 124, New Bond-street; and by the Author, 29, Brotupton-row, Knightsbridge. To EAST and"WEST-INDIA, AMERICAN, and RUSSIA MFZCHANTS. P. • HEATH, of' Nottingham, informs the 40 , • Merchants of England, and Traders in general, that for the convenience of Sale, he has placed his JUNIPER . ESSENCE of PEPPERMINT, and othr Medicines, in the • lands or E. EDWARDS, 66, St. Paul's Church-Yard. This Essence a safe,' effectual, and pleasant Remedy in Flatuleneics, Gouty and Clmlick,, , Pains in the Stomach and Dowels, Indigestion, Hysterics, Sea-sickness, Nausea attend ant on Pregnancy, Relaxation awl Lassitude arising from At mospheric Pleat, Want of Appetite, Injuries front Inclement Weather, the abuse of spirituous Liqeors and in• the spas— niodic affection of the Stomach and Bowels, so common to Infants, —adapting the dupe to the urgency of case. As a, Familygedioine, or for the Army or Navy, it will be found salUable acquisition. - Juniper .Essenoe of Peppermint is so weltknown'aNa vain able Family Medicine, that the principal object of this ad vertisement is to *nerd purchaser's against 'the numerous COnliterfeits which arc prepared by Drurigists, Stc, especially if the order is for Exportation. The onli Caution.J. P. Heath can give, is to see that J. P. Hrlitb, Nottingham, is c.,.;ravell In the Government stamp. Sold Wholesale and ReLail, by E. Edwards, N 0.66, St. Paul's Churcli-Yard, Bottles ,25.841. and Is. lid. VIRIO t = -* tEis‘. 0.1 - •so ,---A9 N• 7 0 4 1 , ' 147/nlig • * MAY 3, 1814. OFFICE OF ORDN.4,IVCE, afprii 13, 1814. 'PRINCIPA LOFFICERS- , ~F4sTY's ORDNANCE do hereby give Nediar, Mat Proposals will be received„ at - their Ojfice it Pall-Mall, on or befiffe Monday, the 9th .day of May next, from such Persons as may be-. willing to undertake the performance of the GI.AZIER's . WORK at the Tower, Pall-Mall, Wool wich, Greenwich, Lewisham, and Pnrfleet,fin- Service of this Department,Ar a Period of three Years, determinable after the -.Expiration , of the first Yaar, upon Notice of three Months, at the Option of either Party. rther Particulars, together with the Terms and Conditions of the Contract, ,nay be k oaken at the Secretary's Office, iu Pall-Mall aforesaid, any Day between the Hours of Ten and Four o'clock, where the Proposals must be delivered, sealed up, and indorsed, " Proposals for Glazier's Work ;" hut no Proposal can ,be ,m4nritted Lifter the said Dth May, at 7'welt4 o'clock ai Noon of the same day, neither will any 7'ender be noticed, unless the Party ma/dug it, or an Agent iff I+is behalf, shall Wend. II!, Order of the lincrd, It. H. CREff; Sec. OFFICE: OF ORDNANCEi• 13th April, 181 4. T FIE PRINCIPAL. OFFICERS :of .7 r ES7'V'S ORDNANCE do hereby give Notice, •that Preposaliwill be revel t;ed at thei? Offlee, ii: Pall-Mall, 071 or before Atimdaythe 16th day 'of May next; from such Persons as ritzy •to undertake'the• Supply of IN TRENCSING:WO LS,.fur Service of Department, fora Period 0' Tlfree Years., determinable after the Expiration of the first Year, upon Notice of Three Months, at the option of either Party. Patterns,ej the Articles way be viewed upon application at the Printhyal Storekeeper's ,Offlce in the Tower: and farther Particulars, together. with the .Terms and Conditions of the Contrart, moy hnolon at the Secretary's Pall -11-rill aforesaid, any day between the llours of Ten and Four o'Cloc4,•.where the Proposals must k delivered, sealed up, and endorsed,'" Proposals for latrencliing Tools;" but no Propo se)! can be admitted after the said 16th May. at Tn•elve o'Clock at Noon of the stmle Day, neither,willany Tender be noticed, usJess the Party ,rnaking;:t, or an dgeni in Ms behalf, shall attend. By Order of the Bard, R. II CREW, Secretary. ' OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, April 13, 1814. THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS 9f His MA JESTY'S ORDNANCE •do hereby brive Notice, That Proposals will be received at their Office s in Pall-.)101, on or before MOnday, the 9th day. of .May ne.rt, from such Persons as -natty te witting to - undertake the Supply of LEATHER P:VNTALOONS for the Corps of Royal Horse 1 , 00 yoarr; : Atafpriltitinhte alter Me e,.. 7 :»ration of One Year, upon Notice of Three Months, at the option of either Party. Patterns of thi Articles may be viewed upon application to the• respective Officers of the Ordnance in Ike Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. and:farther Particulars, together with the Terms and Conditions of the Contract, may . be known at . the Secreta ry's O f fice, in Pall-Mall aforesaid, any Day between the hours of Tth and F o'Clok, where the Proposals must be delivered, sealed op, and indorsed " Proposals for Leather Pantaloons ;" but ill PrOposal can "be admitted after the said 9th May, at Twelve o'Cluch at NOan of the same day, neither ,will any .7'enger noticed,, unless the Party making it, or an Agent in his behalf, shall attend. By Order of the Board, , •,„ R. H. GREIF, Secretary. '' • OFFICE •OF ORDA:INCE, - 25tli April, 1814, THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS of .His .1 STY'S ORDNANCE do hereby give Notice, That Proposals will be received at their Office, in Pal4Mall, on or before Monday the 9th Day of May, front such Persons as may be willing to undertake the performance of the following Trvrks for the Erection and Conzpletion of certain Magazines and :Buildings to be erected and built at IVOII/1 ilyde Com mon, nem:Southall, Middlesex, viz. ' Bekklayers' Work, Smiths' Work, Carpeuters7 Work, Plumbers' Work, Masons' Work,, Painters' Work, Slaters' Work, Glaziers' Work. , Plaisterers' Work, The:Plan, Elevation,, Specification, and Working Draw ings .of ailelings, may be viewed upon applica tion to M. Tall, Principal Clerk fifth(' Works at the Tower, Portne4 will be made within Three ,ifoths next after the Quarter ,itt which the Certificate of the performance of the Works shall be lodged in the Hon.Survellor General's Office, or, in. default , thereof, an Interest after the rate of 51.' per Cent.. per Amara will be allowed. - • Proposals must .be delivered at the Seeretary's Ogee; in Pall-Mall aforesaid, sealed up, ald endorsed,"Proposals for the Magazines at North Hyde Common ;" but no Proposal ran be admitted after the said 9th Day of May next,at 1 o' Clock at Noon of the same Day, neither will any Tender be noticed,unless the Party making it, or an Agent in his Le half,,shall attend. All Persons making Tenders must be prepared to give Se curity for the due priformance of the Ir.irk for 'which they pay ofAr to contract. By Order of the Board, R. H. CREW, Secretary. This.. Day was published, A new Edition, price Five Shi illUstrated with Cases, -ArttAcTic .1,14 TREATISE on the • PRE - VENTION and s CURE of the VENEREAL DISEASE and its consequences, as Strictures, Glects, &c. including Practical Observations on 'i'abes Dorsalis, Mucal Dis charges, &c. By T. M. CATON, Surgeon, 10, Stanhope-street, Newcastle-Street, Strand. • Late of the United fle•spitals of St. Thomas's and Guy's. Printed for Messrs. Sherwood and Co. 4U, Paternoster-row, and J. Martin, Holles-street, Cavendish-square, London ; where may he had Caton on ,Female Disease, Ss. Ydi Astittua and Winter Cough, Indigestion, &6.35. [rI3,ICE SIXPENCE -HALFPENNY. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. • ' HOUSE OF LORDS, Mon: mitt; MAY . 2. Being regular Cause Day, the fore-part of this was decried to judicial-bitsiness.—Counsel were fully heard - res ,w 2 ;;,,,,t the Causes of Appeal of Tregenwell v. Sydenharo, mmi Smith v. Robinson ; the judgments upon Which were p”stpoued. On the Cause of Sinitald v. Bcitrain and others, Counsel was partly heard.—To proceed again on i'Vedhesday. y Tlicir Lordships thin adjourned during pleasure, and at about .five o'clock the House resumed. CIVIL LIBERTY. The order for summuning.their Lordships . , he- Ing t read, Earl STANHOPE 'rose to bring forward the Pro positions, and to present -the Petitions, of which he had given notice, relative to this,subject. 'His Lordship prefaced them with a speech of very con siderable length. Before he presented the Peti tions, he said, that in order to enable their Lord.: ships the better to understand the allegation, be should glance' at the provisions of the Act passed last.year. That Act went to- provide for the re lief of poor persons confined for debt in the King's Bench, Fleet, and Marshalsea prisons. it enabled any. Justice of the Peace, or Alderman of the City of London, the latter to the prisoners in the Fleet, to order such relief as he may think proper to he given, provided that the same slO not exceed 6d. per diem. This scanty and inadequate allowance was to be awarded after certain : oaths were taken by the prisoners applying for relief ;; they were to declare their inability to subsist .without it; but notwithstanding this declaration upon oath, this allowance, scarcely enough to hold body and Soul together, ;.vas refused to be given, in one of these prisons. This was not.. only inhuman, - and not countenanced by law, but directly contrary to,un express Act of.Parliatnent, After alluding extreme misery and 'wretchedness to which many of the poorer prisoners for debt are exposed, his Lordship said he felt it his duty to bring'the sub-: ject before the Honse, more immediately in con sequence of a Petition that was put into his hands, and he, confessed its allegation went' to the state: ment .of grievance and oppression, than which greater .he never knew. The system, of which the case formed a part, May %yell - be called the English : : Slave Trade. The Petition went to the statement of four distinct acts of illegality, as well as of inhumanity. The first described an illegal extortion of fees, which struck him,to bean unjustifiable and oppressive, that he communicates( the matter to a Noble Secretary of*Staie, who, directed inquiries ,to be made at the. p r i son , i n consequence of which the fees were repaid, which he regarded as a full acknowledgment of the feel, being illegally extorted. The second allegation was, that the requisite oath had been taken on tlk nth August, but that the commencement of the allowance was withheld till /sth. Seinem bar. There was no legal pretence after the p a rry had sworn lie could not subsist Without it ; awl what could be more cruel than to keep a fel low-being six weeks literally starving ? The third and fourth allegations, as described by his Lordship, related to certain unjustifiable"" prO ceedings, with respect to a refusal, on- the iCavt of those whose duty it was to- take, fora time, the affidavit - of the petitioner, , and a subse quent refusal to return the same to the party, in order that he might forward it, thus , acting like the dog in, the 'manger ; and further, to an illegal stoppage of the allowance . for several weeks, pre vious to hiS being discharged under the general Insolvent Act--piactices which, his Lordship ar gued, by a reference to the Act, were Contrary to the spirit of its provisions. Ile then presented the Petition referred to, which was from Wright, and being read by the Clerk, stated tliose points to which the Noble Earl generally adverted, and described the severe distress to which the pri soner was reduced in consequence of h.s iMprison ment, which was originally fora small sum. The concluding prayer of the Petition was for the , abo . - lition of the practice of Imprisonment for Mesne Process. 7 —The Petition being ordered to lie on the . , table, The Noble Earl proceeded to observe upon the hardships aid. grievances which resulted in many eases from the liraetice of hoprisonnitnt on iNlesiie Process. Their. Lordships would recollect the four petitions he had presented some time since on the same subject. -Of these,, three of the pe titioners alleged they never owed any thing to the persons who imprisoned them ; one Maney particular, set forth the circumstance ; and anti- ther, Mr. Baldwin, was detained after a de-cisiou of the Court, which declared, that he never ought to be imprisoned at all in the case ; this was, however, after he had beep destituted _of his berty Upwards of eleven months ; : aad after a sob segnemt tlecision, he was withheld a fortnight on another pretence. Surely that was. not .the. way in which the justice of the country (might to be administered; or, if such practices were counter nanced by any rules of Court, it was high time such a system should be done away; rtivl as such, he trusted their Lordships,, would take the Fr. mises into their serious consideration. His Lord ship then.presented'a second petition, which was from (as we-could collect> William Blair Penney, complaining .ot alleged, illegal, and oppressive proceedings in, the petitioner's case, under the same system ; and praying i tp the same. effect. TLe Petition being read, was also ordered fo lie on the table. The Noble Earl proceeded to animadvert upon practices of illegality and oppression which he observed to exist under the present, system of im prisonment for debt, particularly with respect to abuse and extortion in the articles of fees. Ile referred,to an Act which went particularly to the 'regulation of such matters, which, aniciog other provisions, required that a table should, be "exhi bited in some public and conspicuous part ot 7 the prisons, of the fees ,legally payabl e to , t h e officers of the same, in order that all prisoners