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r T t; ~. . at./at - ii titilt4l ' c ' -\-- 1/2 N UMB ER 9305.] ir . ROYAL ACADEMY, SOMERSET-PLACE. VIE EXHIBITION of the ROYAL ACA -4d • • DEMY IS NOW OPEN ' . Im sslon (from Eight o'Clock till Seven) One Shilling. Catalogue One Shilling. R. HOWARD, R.A. Sec. THE "v 0 MARY'S VISITING THE SEPULCHRE OF . CHRIST. AlPt. HALLS' LARGE PICTURE on this !\IA L , sußJEcr is NOW OPEN, at No. 54, PALL , A A • . - --Aomlsston ls. VICTU,ILLING-OFFICE, June 18, 1822. HE COMMISSIONERS for VICTUAL.. ZING His MAJESTTS NAVY do he reb y g ive No ht- , e 1 T hat on Friday, the 28th Instant, they will be ready ti, : re ceive Te n d ers i n w riting (sealed up); and treat for the I „, h / of such qu a n tities of the under-mentioned Arti cles 9 be required for the Service of this Departme nt, f or the , (1 -Pa ce - of Twelve Calendar Months, viz.:— Lump Sug a r c ''t ' c Barl y ey 1 The whole of these Articles are to he ten earl Brd arle dered for together, so that the y ma y be Ilust a Na g , ' included in one Contract. Lin • -tfi tIICI7 el i t Ditto. Ditto. ght c aps , StockinlPSaap ( ; ° _, e rmacetiOil Ditto. Ditto. ~:n ! l : mon Oil I , "Qmples of mast of the Articles, together with the Condi -7 V the C on t rac t s , ma y lie seen at thisolfice. f) r egard will be had to any, Tender in w hich the Price shalt not Le- inserted in words at length, or that shall 4 ,7 4 deliver e d t o the Board before One o'Clo ck on the ;71 48th Instant ; nor unless the Person w ho makes' the el4le . r, or some Person, on his behalf; attends to answer -"en called tor. k: . • ach Tender must Be accompanied by a Letter signed 6, 1 tu ; h - ° responsible Persons,•engaging to become bound with • I :7 e Party tendering, in the Penal Suns of 3001. f or the d ue T o "otance . of each of the first mentioned Contracts, and in . - .- Of that for Soap and Oil. METROPOLITAN LAW SOCIETY, P o ; Promoting Fair and Honourable Practice' and prevent ing Abuses in the Profession of the Law. RE ANNIVERSARY' DINNER of the MEMBERS of this SOCIETY wilt he held at the 'EMASONS' TAVERN, on MONDAY NEXT, 24th of 114 W IT 1822 ‘ 14 411 . YOUNG KNIGHT, Esq. Principal, in the Chair. STEWARDS. Jonathan Brundrett, I Charles Ellis, William a' Beckett, I Luke Freeman, Georg e Capron, W. R. James, Tim. Dixon, Roger Potts, John Dickißson , W. R. Sidney, L. Deshorough, Joseph Smith. Dinner on Table at Half-past Fire precisely. .' c "ets, One Guinea each, to he had of the Stewards, or the Secretary, Qqality-court, Chancery-lane, JAMES ANDERTON, Secretary. CAPITALS AT SMALL RISK. SWIFT. and Co. respectfully state the prin. to eiPal Attractions of the present Lottery Scheme. It °thnt4;„ %.' ll Two Prizes of £30,000, Two of £20,000, besides v ‘ r , n .vapitals, and 4,318 smaller Prizes, Consols and Mo -4,--'lot Two Blanks to a Prize. Purchasers before the First tai; 64th JULY), after taking the Chance of the Ten Capi tururlieh must be drawn that day, have the opti o n o f re nig their Tickets and Shares, on or before the 26 th of 11 1 0. 0 n terms whi c h subject them to a very small Loss, viz. tla ....costs £2l 18 0.. may receive back £2O 0 0 q ua '• • • 6 ..costs..ll 17 o..may receive back.. lo 12. 0 irter costs.. 519 0.. may receive back.. 5 0 3ith• • ..costs.. 3 0 6.. may receive back.. 2 13 0 Iq th: e nth—costs.. 1 10 6.. may receiye back.. 1 6 6 Ito a ` n " , all Lottery drawn on the 4th of the present Month, voth ' , ." (34 , a Prize of 20,000, 4,982, a Prize of 1,000, were tu uat uld in Shares by SWIFT and Co. at their old and for- Ald:, Offices, 11 Poultry; 12, Charing-Cross; and 31, ItIAZAII,D and Co. who sold the Two First kg," 20 ,0001. Prizes in the Last Lottery Contract, respect- Ilki ) t.ruilid the Public, that the GRAND SUMMER LOT containing TWO of £30,000 ! TWO of £20,000! &c. &c. Consols and Money, Tt N: BEGINS 16th JULY. he Kai CAPITALS Sure to be Drawn First Day ! and may Ly the small Risk ofjl. 18s. a Whole Ticket, and P u es r i iu Proportion, down to ‘a Sixteenth Four Shillings ! • • , s ue aii cua sers, after taking the Chance of the First Day, will 414„Owed to return their Tickets or Shales, whether drawn smallthe fol' Prizes, or Undrawn, and may receive for them T'cketwing Sums, viz. 44 •• • • cost s £2l 18 o..may receive back £2O 0 0 14, ...... coos.. 17 0.. may receive back.. 10 0 Ei z a h r i t ," • .costs.. 5 19 0.. may receive back.. 5 6 0 Siit t ,"'• • • .costs.. 3 0 6.. may receive back.. 2 13 0 Ali -en th•.costs.. 1 10 6.. may receive back.. 1 6 6 ip Da t , " who W i s h to avail themselves of this offer, must bring no te v r ill Tickets or ; Shares on or before the 26th of July, as ,„ be taken back after that y. est,tets and Shares are Selling at HAZARD and Co.'s Old -44, tj b e 4 Offices, Roal Exchang a e Gte ; 26; Cornbill ; and Co y rner of Swallow-street. A Y STRICTURES CURED. a new Method the above troublesome C ° , nPlaint is entirely eradicated (without the use of 01 s o ',, Or Caustic), if not constitutional,whether of long, vi 'vrip l ` standing, as well as all weaknesses generally ae i%'lahii",lng it, and in a short time the whole system is re- Ju;Ted, being one of the greatest discoreries ever made. N LYNCH, 44, Duke-street, St. James's. ter, t(peketable. references will be given, if required. — All Let - A ' 0 Post-paid. th e ii-Poewrfeeiest Cure for Bilious Affections and Obstructions in The price of the Medicine is Four Pounds. A Pa, .lust published, price ss. M. 8v0., , 44 4 I N ,""CTICAL TREATISE on NERVOUs, BILIOUS, thod RLAMMATORY AFFECTIONS, with a ,new Me child4l.ist!)f Curing strictures without the use of Bou&ie or t;hild r ie : With an Appendix on the Diseases of Women and ren . By John Lynch, 44, Duke-street, St. James's. Sold by Win. Crawford, 124, Chcapside. pit g ,,... 1311 . JAMES'S ANALEPTIC PILLS, their tendency to promote the natural 14,, secreti ons, are the best Remedy for Colds, Rheuma hot:2 Slight Fevers, and all those Disorders which arise tlitpa,o_bstructed perspiration, so common in a changeable ladi. t e, They are strongly recommended for andHead-acbs the heat s and for Gouty, Bilious, or other Complaints oLivia . ° mach a n d B owels, too often the consequence of Free i aqd ,g• As a gen era l F amily Medicine they have no eqtr ; tuikre P ar ticularly co nven i ent f or p erso ns travelling, being U, their operation, and not requiring any confinement. N. Analeptie Pills continue to be prepared by Messrs. - Wver root the only Recipe existing under Dr. James's t or. , and are sold by.them at the Original Warehouse for e_roes's Powder N 0.45, in St. Paul's Church Yard, and qu, n soer ' -50 2 kixford-street. As Chinterfeits are fre- Uoi n _ Y offered for sale, Purchasers must observe, the Ge 7 tta t : h are the n ame 4 . F iNevikerr ensraved in the Black °n eacli BqA.•• 4", _ 0 ' • er . , (A , • trnt 9 s , 4i*,31,370 I\\\ FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1822. nished from 350 to 230. He therefore thought that foreign sugar might, with proper securities, be introduced under bond for refining. Earl BATHURST, on the petitions being read, observed that the demand made on their Lordships amounted to this— that they should no longer extend a particular protection to the West India Colonies, but place the East India sugar on an equal footing with that of the West ; but the bills before the House formed no ground for such a demand. The whole ex ports and imports ,of the Colonies were confined to British shipping, and no reason could be assigned for withdrawing the protection of the country from the West India trade. It was true the bills allowed the sugar of the'West Indies to be carried to different parts of Europe, but this was no new indulgence. It had been given to the Colonies by a former act ; but in con sequence of the provisions with wields it was clogged, they had been unable to take advantage of it. The petitioners had as serted that the West India Colonies could not produce an ade quate supply. If they could make out this assertion, he was ready to admit that their claim would be entitled to considera tion ; but it was well known that nothing could be more un founded. The truth was, that the supply was infinitely greater than the demand. His Lordship then repeated several of the arguments he had used in support of the bills on the second reading. He did not, however, mean to say that under no cir cumstances the trade ought to be opened to the public, but as yet no case had been made out for withdrawing the protection of the country from the Colonies. He concluded by moving that the Colonial Trade Bill do pass: The Marquis of BUTE did not object to the principle of the Bill, but contended that, as a boon granted to the .West In dies, a clause ought to be introduced compelling the registra tion of slaves in the Colonies. He concluded by moving a clause to that effect. Earl BATHURST saw no reason whatever for admitting the clause proposed by the Noble Marquis, as it had no connexion whatevet with the present Bill. Lord HOLLAND also objected to the introduction of the clause ; as to make registration a condition of the present Bill would be to manifest an improper jealotey of the Colonial Le gislatures. What would be the condition of the slaves if in con sequence of the introduction of this clause the advantage offered should not be accepted by the Colonies ? Intercourse between America and the West Indies was indispensable to the main tenance of the black population in the latter. In consequence of that intercourse leaving ceased during the war, no less than 15,000 of those unfortunate beings had perished. When their Lordships consented to abolish the inhuman trade by which the natives of Africa were transported to the Colonies, it was always considered as a consequence that the slaves would receive better treatment from their owners. This was evidently the interest of the proprietors, and their Lordships had better trust to the operation of that principle of interest. While speaking on this subject, he could not help expressing his re gret that the persons at the head of the Government of this counts} , did not avail themselves of the opportunity afforded at the late peace for the complete abolition of the slave trade. That opportunity was unfortunately lost, and he was afraid that the trade was now carried on by foreign countries to a greater extent than ever. The Marquis of BUTE urged the propriety of introducing the clause he had' moved, but, after some observations by the Marquis of LANSOOWN, Lord HOLLAND, and Earl BA THURST, consented to withdraw it. An additional clause of an explanatory nature was, on the motion of Earl BATHuns'r, added to the Bill, which then passed: The West India and American Intercourse Bill was also passed. • MARRIAGE ACT AMENDMENT BILL. On the motion of Lord ELLENBOROUGR, the House re• solved itself into a Committee on the Marriage Act Amend ment Bill. Lord REDESDALE proposed certain clauses, founded on the principle that marriages once determined were indissoluble. By one of these clauses it ,was provided, that it' ,persons had been married by false names, and it was proved that they were the persons who had been married, the Marriage . should be valid. By another, that persons guilty of fraud or perjury should for feit all the pecuniary advantages for which the fraud or per jury had been committed, and which would be placed at the disposal of his Majesty for the benefit of those whom it had been intended to injure. 'With respect to licenses, the Noble Lord did riot wish to impose upon the parties granting them any duty which it was nbt conscientiously their bounden duty to perform as the law now stood. As to the proclaiming of banns, he wished that it should only be done on an affidavit Made before a Justice of the Peace. Such an affidavit, as the law now was, would cost one shilling. He thought no charge ought to be made, but could propose no clause to that effect in that House. He trusted, however, that if his clauses were adopted, it would be done in another place. The course. which he thought it would now be best to pursue, would be tJ deliver in his clauses, and to let the Bill be reprinted with 'hem, and 011 Monday . their Lordships would sec whether or not they were fit to be adoPted. Lord ELLENBOROUGH considered the suggestions of the Noble and Learned Lord most valuable, and expretssed his sTa - titude for the attention which' he had showed to the subject. Indeed his whole life was most usefully dedicated to the service of the public.—(Hear, hear !) After a few words from Lord HOLLAND anal the Duke of SOMERSET, the former of whom complimented Lord Redes. dale on the ability displayed by.him on this occasion, The LORD CHANCELLOR was under stood to express his intention of again taking the sense of the House on the re trospective clause, to which he could never C onsent unless other qualifications were adopted to protect the ; ,nterests of all per sons, especially in cases in which purchases had been made. He, also returned his thanks to his Noble and Learned Friend, for whose services to the public no one could be more grateful than he was, as he had had the best tspportunities of appre ciating them. Lord ELLENBOROUGH said, emit he and all the framers of the Bill were most anxious to serare the rights of property, and should be highly obliged to t'ne Noble and Learned Lord for any suggestions calculated to prevent injustice. The House having resumed, the Bill was reported and or dered to be printed, with the Clauses, and to be re-committed on Monday, fur which day their Lordships were ordered to be summoned. _ _ ...... The Bishop of CHESTER gave notice, that early next Ses sion he should bring in a Bill to amend the Marriage Act, or 26th of Geo. 11. He did not do so at present, because his amendment would be merely ecclesiastical, and had no con nection whatever with the alterations now making. Its object would be to enable marriages to take place in the large popu loua Chapels of his own Diocese and others, because the ac cumulation of marriages in Churches was such, that it was impossible for Clergymen to ascertain their legality.—Ad journed. COUNTY FIRE OFFICE, AND PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE, REGENT - STREET, LONDON. PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES. The DUKE of NORFOLK, The DUKE of RUTLAND, The MARQUESS of NORTHAMPTON, EARL GREY, LORD BRAYBROOKE, LORD KING, &c. &c. &c. DIRECTORS. Lord North wick. Sir Henry Pynn, Francis Coast, Esq. James Sedgwick, Esq. Sir John Doyle, K.B. Hon. Washington Shirley, Robert Downie, Esq. M.P. Walter Strickland, Esq. SirS.B. Mailand,Bart. M.P. I Sir W. E. Welby, Bart.. William Praed, Esq. I Sir Robert Wilson, M.P. &c. &e. &e. ~ Managing Director, J. T. Barber Beaumont, Esq. F.A S. PERMANENT CAPITALS amounting to 650,0001. hare been formed in addition to the fluctuat ing Capitals arising from the Premiums; which together con siderably exceed a Million Sterling. Claims hive been paid to Thirteen. Hundred And - Fifty Suf. ferers from fire, without a single Litigation:: The Profits are divided amongst those who now insure; as well as the Ori ginal Members, in just proportion to their respective Pay ments. In the Fire-Office, Returns of 20 and 25 per Cent. have been invariably paid to all Persons who have continued in sured Seven Years, upon Annual as well as upon Septennial Policies, and whether they have been claimants for losses or otherwise ' which Returns during the last Eight Years amount to 36,0001. In the Life Office, Bonuses of 131.85. and 261. 12s. have been divided during the last fourteen years ; and other very peculiar Advantages are afforded. ROYAL-EXCHANGE ASSUItANCE OFFICE, June 5, '1822. 91111 E COURT of DIRECTORS of the IL ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE do hereby give Notice, that a GENERAL COURT of the said COMPANY will he holden at . their Office, on the Royal Exchange, on . . 'HiIIItSDAY, the 4th of July next, from Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon, till Two o'Clock in the Afternoon, for the ELECTION of a GOVERNOR, SUB-GOVERNOR, and DEPUTY-GOVERNOR, and that the said Court will be continued by Adjournment, and holden at the same Place and during the same Hours, on FRIDAY, the sth of July next, for the Election of 44 Directors. Which Elections will he severally declared, at such Times as the Court shall appoint to receive the respective Reports from the Scrutineers. SAMUEL FENNING, Jun. Secretary. N.B. Printed Lists of the Proprietors qualified to Vote will he ready to be delivered at the Office, on Wednesday, the 19th instant. *. * *The Chair will be taken atTwelve o'Clock precisely. To be in the Downs, 7th July. FOR CALCUTTA DIRECT, THE Fine SHIP .WOODFORD. ird s : ii,. Al, Burthen 600 Tons, lying in the East , 1 1 W. India Export Dock, ALFRED CHAPMAN, " Commander. _,— • ---- ~,_ _ Fur Freight or Passage, apply to the Corn , mandet, at the Jerusalem Coffee-house, or to JOHN CHAP. MAN and Co., 2, Leadenhall-street. In a few Days will he published, In Two thick Volumes, Bro., APOLEON IN EXILE.- ..L . l By B. E. O'MEARA, Esq. his late Surgeon. " prie mes parens et amis, de croire tout ce que le Doc leur O'Meara leur dira relatirement ii, la position je me trouve, et aux sentimens que je conserve.' NAPOLEON. Le 25 Juillet. 1818. Printed for W. Simpkimand R. Marshall, Stationers' Hall Court, Ludgate-street. PARLIAMENT, HO USE- OF LORDS, THURSDAY, JUNE 20. This day Lord VERNON took the oaths and his seat. Mr. BROGDEN, MIYC. CALVERT, and others, brought up from the Commons the Corn Importation Bill, the Bakers' Re gulation Bill, and others, which were read a first time. On the - first reading of the Corn Importation Bill, a conver sation- took place between the Earl of LIVERPOOL and Lord ELLENBOROUGII, in consequence of which the second read ing:of that Bill was fixed for Thursday next. The second read ing of the Military and Naval Pensions' Bill, which stood for Monday, was postponed to Tuesday; and it was agreed that the re-commitment of the Marriage Act Amendment Bill should take place on Monday. On the motion of the Earl of LAUDERDALE, the Bakers Regulation Bill was, in pursuance of a standing order of the House, relative to Bills on Trade and Manufactures, referred to a Select Committee, to be reported on previously to a second reading. Petitions against the Catholic Peers Bill were presented by Lord SIDIVIOUTII, from the parish of St. James's; by the Bishop of EXETER, from a hundred in the county of Cornwall ; and by the Earl of HAREWOOD, from Halifax. EAST INDIA AND WEST INDIA. TRADES. The Marquis of LANSDOWN presented two Petitions, one from Merchants of Liverpool, and the other from Ship-owners and others of the same place, interested in the private tratbe to the East Indies. As these petitions merited consideration, not only on account of the respectability of the individuals from which they came, but of the importance of the subject, he thought it necessary to call their Lordships' attention to them. They referred to the Bills before the House for grant'mg par ticular advantages to the Colonies and the West lniaia trade, and contended that an equivalent ought to be gran'zed to the East India Trade, by removing some of the restrictions and burdens Under which it is placed. The Petitioners were of opinion, that the vessels might be allowed to trade to India of a smaller tonnage than the law at present }remitted. The Americans traded to India and China in vessels considerably smaller than those which sailed from this co•antry, though the voyage from America was dangerous. Thu Americans, how ever, derived a great advantage from the amall size of the ves sels employed in this trade. To.this point the Petition of the Ship-owners was mare particularly confined. The other peti tion, which was from the Merchants of Liverpool, prayed that the duties on sugar and other East India produce might be reduced. It would be admitted by their Lordships that it was of great importance that a demand for our manufactures should be created in foreign countries; -hut such a demand could not exist unless foreign countries had the means of making returns. There was no limit to the extension of our manufac tures, if we could take in return the productions of other coon. tries. Their Lordships possessed in India a populz.tion of from 70 to 100,000,000. This might be a great market far British ma. nufacture, for the desire of the population to ccnsume would only be limited by their ability to pay. Among the articles of the produce of India, sugar was one of genera d consumption, and one the reduction of the duty on which would be highly beneficial. To admit it for consumption in this Country was indispensable to the prosperity of the India trade, which pros perity was essential to that of our rnanufacturr.:s. Instead of im posing duties which excluded articles from general consump tion, the truly wise policy would be to admi't to consumption as far as possible the produce of foreign countries ; for it was cer tain that if we took their produce, they would have our mann factures ,in return. To grant a monopoly to any body in a country, was generally considered injurious • and if this were admitted, their Lordships must conclude that when a mono. poly was granted to one part of the subje(;ts of a country against another part, the measure rested on still less justifiable grounds. He thought, therefore, that the claim of the peti. tioners was entitled to their Lordships' seriowi consideration.— At the same time he must confess, that there was one statetnent in the petition, to the correctness 'of which hr 3 could not accede. It was said that our West India colonies were incapable of sup plying the demand of the country for sugar ; but when he con sidered the state of cultivation to which our: colonies had arriv ed, he could not go along with the petitioners in this opinion. The petitioners alluded to the decline of the trade of sugar refiners, and it was stated that in the course of a few years, the number of 13ersohs carrying on tha'; bvlsiLless had dimi. HOUSE OF COMMONS. On the motion of Mr. WALLACE,•the Lords' amendments to the Navigation Bill were agreed to, and the Bill was ordered to be returned to the House of Peers. THE CANADAS. Mr. WILMOT brought in a Bill to regulate the Govern ments of the two Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada. Mr. ELLICE, after stating that he considered the Bill a measure of great importance, suggested that it should be read a first and second time this evening, and that the discussion might be taken in the Committee upon some night when it was not probable that any other important business would occupy the attention of the House. _ _ Mr. WILMOT hoped that the House would adopt the sug gestion of the Hon. Member. If it did, he would fix the com mittal of the Bill for the Ist of July. SirJ.MACKINTOSH agreed with his Hon. Friend that the Bill was a most important measure, since its object was to con solidate the two provinces of Canada, by effecting a union be tween them, and incorporating their legislatures. He did not mean to object to the course of proceeding which his. Hon. Friend had suggeSted, nor did he wish to anticipate discussion upon the Bill; but, without bringing into question the compe tence of Parliament to pass such a Bill, or the convenience which might be expected to result from it, he felt it his duty to declare that he felt an insuperable objection to agree to the measure without affording ample time . to the people of the pro vinces, and the legislatures by which they were represented, to express their opinions with respect to it. He felt alarmed at passing a Bill affecting the most sacred rights of the peo ple of the . provinces at so, late a period of the Session.— It was the practice of the House, not to pass a private bill af fecting the rights of only two individuals before the parties had been sufficiently informed of its nature; surely, then, it would not sanction a measure for uniting two provinces, with out affording to the inhabitants the fullest time for expressing their opinions with regard to, and stating their objections, if N. they had any, to it._ He would oppose the'passing of the Bill during the Present Session. Mr. WILMOT regretted that the Hon. and Learned Gent. had pledged himself to oppose the Bill before he had learnt the peculiar circumstances which rendered it necessary. He did not think it was necessary to apply to the people of the pro vinces for their consent to the measure, since their present con stitution was derived from an act of the British Legislature, and was intended to be temporary. He trusted that when the Hon. and Learned Gentleman came to hear the statement which he (Mr. Wilmot) intended to submit to the House, he would relax some of his objections to the passing of the Bill. The Bill was read a first, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow. Mr. S. RICE moved for, and obtained, leave to bring in a Bill to regulate elections in cities and counties of Ireland. THE BANK OF ENGLAND. • Mr. RICARDO asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whe ther it was his intention to persevere in the determination which he had expressed some time back of extending the charter of the Bank of England for 10 years longer, and of giving power to country Banks, a distance of 65 miles from the metropolis, to increase the number of their partners. The. CHANCELLOR•of the EXCHEQUER replied, as was understood, that the carrying of his intention into effect must depend upon the decision to which the Bank might come upon the subject. • The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'firen moved for leave to bring in a Bill to regulate certain contracts affected by the conversion of 5 per cent. stock into 4 per cent. stock. Mr. GRENFELL took this opportunity of declaring himself dissatisfied with the answer which the Chancellor of the Exche- quer had made to the question of the Member for Portarling ton. The Right Honourable Gentleman had replied, that it depended upon the Bank whether the Charter would or would not be extended for 10 years longer. Now, the object of the question of his Hon. Friend was to discover what were the in tentions of the Government, and not of the Bank. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he could give no further information on:ont the subject. Mr. MABERLY observdt, that before the House resolv ed to continue to the Bank its present monopoly; it ought to ap point a Committee to inquire what was the amount of interest paid by Government to the I tank. Mr. ELLICE thought that the extension of the Bank Char ter was too important a qug stion to be moved at this late pe riod of the Session. He hoiped that the Chancellor of the Ex chequer would petition the. Bank, for they appeared to be his superiors, not to press the consideration of that important ques tion upon the House. The object of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, in proposing to e:ctend the charter of the Bank, was to increase the circulation of the country ; but an event had this day occurred, which would materially alter this view of the question, if it came to be discussed : he alluded to the determi nation of the Bank to discount at 4 per cent. CLOWN LANDS. _ Mr. HUSKISSON !moved for and obtained leave to bring in a Bill to improve the Crown estate in Westminster. HIGHGATE CHAPEL BILL. _ _ Mr. BYNG stated., that as many persons objected to the above Bill in its present form, he would not attempt to pro ceed farther with, it during the present Session : he therefore moved, that it be read a second time this day six months.—The motion was agreed to. The Marquis of TITCHFIELD presented a petition from the Tradesmen of Mansfield, in Nottinghamshire, against the Hawkers' and Pedlars' Act. Sir T. ACLAND presented a petition from the inhabitants of Hampton, in Devonshire, praying for protecting duties upon the importation of foreign butter. The Irish Taxes Act %Tent through a Committee.—Report to-morrow. The third reading of the ,Irish Hearth and 'Window-tax Bill was postponed till Monday next. - s SCOTCH JURIES. Mr. KENNEDY rose to move the second reading of the Scotch Juries Regulation Bill. The measure he said, had been characterized yes uncalled for, unwarrantable, and ill advised, and he tru.sted therefore that the Learned Lord who opposed it would prove that the. Bill deserved to be thus de scribed. For his own part he thought it would be found de serving the grave consideration and the sanction of the House. The opposition to it would, be thought, be founded upon an attachment to an cient institutions, but he trusted nothing would be fouhd in the principle of the Bill which very materially in terfered with this laudable feeling. He ought to state to the House that the principal Criminal Court of Scotland was called the Court of J usticiary, which was divided into nine Cireuits, and they , were held twice a year. They tried all cases by Jury. But there were other Courts of subordinate jurisdiction, called the Sheriff? Courts. The Sheriffs in Scotland had a ju dicial as well as a Ministerial power. In the Supreme Court proceedings were instituted, cx officio ' by a Lord Advocate, without the intervention of a Grand Jury. The Petty Jury was composed of fifteen, and questions were decided by the majority, so that a man might be condemned by eight of his Jury, though seven of them considered him innocent. The 'Juries were taken from Edinburgh and the adjoining.counties, and were, he believed, selected most conscientiously by the pre sent officer. The Sheriff of each county sent a list of forty fiveJurors to the officer, and from these forty-five were selected, from whom the Judge nominated; the Jury. When this no mination took place in the Sheriff's Court he was•the Returning Officer, Solicitor, Nominator, and Judge. The prisoner had no right of challenge in either of the Courts, unless he shewed special cause to be decided upon by , . the Judge. There was no provision against the effect of prejudice, infamy of character, or political rancour. The measure, however, which he proposed, went only to deprive the Judge of the power of nomination, and to substitute a ballot ; and also to give the prisoner a li mited power of peremptory challenge. lie had abstained from pressing this measure on the consideration of Parliament, while Scotland was agitated; and be had hoped that his conduct on this occasion would have been considered free from blame. He had in the first instance, stated to the Learned Lord the heads of the Bill, and understood that there would be no objection to introduce them into a general measure. He did not mean to say, that the Learned Lord had not a right to oppose the Bill, even notwithstanding this circumstance ; but the Learned Lord had issued a manifesto to the Scotch counties, in contemplation of a Meeting of those counties, which took place every April.— (The Hon. Member here referred to the manifesto disapprov ing of the Bill, and submitting it for the consideration of the 'counties.)--This letter was addressed to each sheriff, who was himself a judicial officer, and a party to the question. The consequence was, that many petitions were presented to the House against the Bill. These petitions, in general, echoed the tone of the Learned Lord's manifesto. The burthen of each petition was, the excellence of the criminal law of Scot land. He respected that law ; but because he wished to correct a slight blemish in it, he did not think it was fair to ac cuse him of a desire to undermine it. The same sort of ar gument was offered against the Bill for extending the treason law to Scotland. It was contended that this Bill was in con travention of the Articles of Union ; but he would not waste the time of the House in opposing such an argument. The Hon. Member, after some other observations in support of the Bill, proceeded to state several instances of abuse under the pre sent system of allowing Judges to name the Jury. In parti cular, he referred to a conviction obtained against one of the Earls of Argyll, which was afterwards declared void by the 1 Scottish Parliament, and to another case which occurred about five or six years ago, wherein a Sheriff, newly entered into ' office, had named a Jury in exact compliance with the sugges tion of one of the officers of his court, in consequence of which the accused was convicted. The latter case he was ready to prove at the Bar of the House, if necessary, though at pre sent he would not mention the names of the individuals con nected with it. He now came to a case to which he alluded with considerable pain—he meant that of a late trial in Scot land--(Hear, hear, hear !)—conducted, he admitted, with great honour and impartiality. In the course of that trial, however, circumstances were elicited which he thought it necessary to state to the House. It appeared from a letter which was produced, that a Judge of the Court in which the trial took place had been consulted .on the subject leading to the un happy, affair which was the subject of the trial.—(Hear !)-- With great propriety this Judge kept away from the trial, a circumstance which shewed that he considered he was disqua lified by his own conduct to sit as Judge on that occasion. -Yet had the trial taken place at one of the Circuits, it might have been before this very Judge who on that occasion would have had the nomination of the Jury to try the accused.—(Cheers from the Opposition.)—He alluded to this trial with consider able reluctance; bitt he stated this among other circumstances, in answer to the triumphant call which had been made upon him, to state any abuses under the present system. The mea sure which he proposed to remedy the law on this subject gave the prisoner an equal right to peremptory challenge with the prosecutor to the extent of two each. He must beg the atten- PRICE SEVENPENCE, tion of the House to the distinction betwixt the decision of the ScOtch Jury and the English Jury, the latter delivering an unanitnous verdict, and the former giving their decision by majority.—(Hear !)--L.By this regulation, that extent of sliscus., sion which was so salutary in the case of a jury consulting on their verdict was in all cases' abridged, by as much as the ma• jority fell short of the whole number. Besides which, the verdict frequently being determined by a casting vote, it was plain that the life of aman might be voted away by his known and avowed enemy.—(Heir.!)—lt was also too much matter of notoriety how and by whom every individual jury was to be constituted. He was satisfied. of the imperfect manner in which he had explained this matter ; but he hoped' he might look forward to this measure laying the foundation of a com.. plete revision of the Criminal Law of Scotland. The Hon. Member concluded by moving the second reading of the Scotch Juries Bill. The LORD ADVOCATE o,bserved, that it was a good maxim in jurisprudence to .make no alteration in established systems not pointed out by defects in practice. That House had acted upon the maxim on a.late motion to allow Counsel to prisoners tried for their lives ;- and he , hoped the Members of this country would allow the Scotch people to have the be nefit of the same practice. That the provisions of the Hon. Member's Bill were not called for by the people of Scotland, . . . he was convinced, and the House had seen nothing, to induce it to think otherwise. He certainly had requested the Hon. Member to wait till such time as the votes of the people could be collected, and for that purpose he had written the circular quoted by the Hon. Member. He was the more persuaded to take that course from complaints having been made that mea sures passed that House relative to Scotland, of which that country heard nothing till passed ; and in sending the Bill to them he certainly was bound to communicate his opinion, al though he had no desire of influencing them. The Gentlemen of Scotland were averse from this charge, both on its own ac count and from its connection with the Criminal Law of the country. He maintained that the system of Criminal Law in. Scotland was as faultless as that of any country. The spirit of it was to check the progress of crime, and deal mercifully with criminals under trial ; and the difference in the amount of crime, under that system, betwixt England and Scotland, wa& as 235 to 18 in favour of the latter. He had listened with great attention to the instances of abuse in the nomination of juries detailed by the Honourable Gentleman ; but he did not think any thing he had stated would warrant the alteration proposed by this measure. With respect to the case of misconduct al luded to by the Hon. Gentleman in a certain Sheriff, all that he could say was, that if he would inform him of the indivi dual; he should be dealt with by the law. With regard to the allusion of the Hon. Gentleman to the conduct of an individual Judge in a late trial, he must observe, that not being able to see what connection it could have with the question of nomi nating juries, he did not think it was in very good taste to in traduce the mention of it. That Hon. Individual was closely allied to the object of the trial, and . there was nothing extraor dinary in his having given the advice it appeared he had given, and there was no reason to suppose that he would have acted with less delicacy had the trial occurred in his own district. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman proceeded to take a review of the mode of selecting juries ,in Scotland. He did not see there was any necessity for giving the prisoner the rights of peremptory challenge, since there never was a case in which the suggestion of counsel relative to any juror was not attended to by the eudges. Ile did not think it necessary further to de tain the House in stating his objections to this measure. - He rested his opposition principally on the absence of any alleged evils in practice, and the wishes of the people otk Scotland being against any such change. Thus no evil could be shewn in favour of the measure, and general opinion was against it (Cheers.) • Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH said, that, it appeared that .the Learned Lord had three objections to the measure er,biti Honourable Friend. The first was, that the measure was theoretic ; the second, that no evils had been shewn to exit: to call for it ; and' the third, that the people of Scotland were not favourable to the change; at the same time that be went - on.to say, that they were actually averse from it. It was ratherex traordinary that these. very objections were urged in former times against the measure for abolishing heritable jurisdictions, a Bill of Lord Hardwicke's, and one of the wisest and most salutary measures ever passed. Lord Hardwicke, in his me morable speech on that occasion, said, that there had been no fault in the persons exercising the power ; but that men were mortal, and good men might be followed by bad, and that though men were mortal, the Government ought to. be frasoett to be immortal. These were the great conceptions, and the majestic and dignified language of that great man; and he begged the Learned Lord to observe, that he there specifi cally admitted a theoretic evil as sufficient to legislate upon. But' the very opposition made to that Bill by the Jacobites of 1747, was, that the people of Scotland did not want it.— Lord Hardwicke passed this by in silent contempt, not deign ing it the compliment of an answer; but it was strange that the Lord Advocate of the Tory Government of 1822 should steal his argument from such a source. Now, he called upon the House to consider whether a Bill, the only objections to which went to stamp Lord Hardwicke as a visionary and a theorist, might not have something in it worthy of their attention and support. The first Law Officer Of the Crown in Scotland had raised the standard of revolt against this amendment of law. and the Scotch counties rallied round it. But the wishes of the people had been treated as undue prejudices in 1747 they were treated in the same way in 1819: but in 1822 the feelings and opinions of the people were to he regarded with paramount re verence, because, forsooth, a Lord Advocate had advertisethfor dissent, and Government opposed the amendment.—(Hear!.} — Could any thing be more important than the possession by a nation of a perfect theoretic system of jury trial ? The Learned Lord's opposition to peremptory challenges would never,- he hoped; be allowed to stand against the reasons of Blackstone in favour of it. It was neither visionary nor theoretic that a man whose ti lmparttality as a judge was impeached would become, though' not so before, the enemy of him who so impeached hint. , It was a maxim of common sense and experience ; and he ap pealed to the humanity, the conscience, and sense of justite.of his audience, not to permit the possibility pf a man being-sent into a jttey box, the mortal enemy of him he was going , to try.—(Hear, hear ! )—His Honourable Friend's measure demanded no more than four peremptory challenges,- to be divided betwixt • the prosecutor and the prisoner:-- A right of challenge for cause was known to be a right Of little or no value, whilst peremptory challenge was known to be an inevitable privilege.' What was the use of de tecting a false witness - --what was the use of producing testi mony to innocence, if it were addressed to the deaf ears of corrupt and inimical Jury ?--( Hear !)--Unanimity in a Jury was the most merciful principle of jurisprudence admitted into the Criminal Code of any country, and one which particularly protected. prisoners in England. Ile was surprised that the Learned Lord could not see the connection betwixt the, ease alluded to by his Honourable Friend, and the question before them relative to the - nomination of Juries. The letter had been detected in the case in question, but was it not plain that it might happen in many cases undetected ;_ and could they per mit the possibility of a connection such as this betwixt the brother of a person connected with a duel, and the individual to take his trial for the unfortunate result 'of it ? This Judge they would understand, had the trial taken place at a particu lar part of the country; would have had to summon the Jury. He could not pass without remark the fantastic phrase used by the Learned Lord in that allusion. He meant the exprese sion " good taste," which, however applicable and excellent _when used in reference 'to the lighter ornament cf the arts and literature, appeared to him to be out of place, and looked like treating such grave, subjects with a want of proper dignity anti respect,. which a judicial question, involving the lives and liber ties of their fellow -creatures, demanded. He considered those who composed Scotch Juries to boast, in many respects, the highest character of any set of men in Europe; but if he wanted them to try a question between a • Lord Advocate and an OppoeitiOn Member of Parliament, he must desire to have A right of peremptory challenge.—(A laugh.)—This great -in stitution formed ;a school of justice in which the people were taught a :veneration for the laws, at the same time that they acquired a spirit of freedom and independence. It was this which had exalted the character of the people of England above all the nations of the earth, and he saw no reason why it was not to become more extended among the brave, moral, and pious people of Scotland. - --(Cheers.) [A Message from the Lords was here announced—their Lordships were stated to have agreed to the Colonial Trade and other Bills.]], Lord BINNING felt that he was rising under considerable difficulties, as well from the view-which he took of the ques tion, as from his following the eloquent address to which the House had just listened. He thought the encomiums which the Honourable and Learned Gentleman had passed upon the Gentry of Scotland partook of such a sneering character, that he protested against it, and hc - wasluite sure that they would led )0 1 c ‘O. ain .ca wo hat 311 the ailt f o k i le , her; reri t i ls'l<. le of , r e chol6 0 , a 64 a 5 v i a ;..2s ~,, w 0- ~ [le° ll J• F" , !Pr titer °