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Tern was only paid for his public services, whereas ;:),tneentists were paid for no public service what erer. fie moved that the petition be brought up. Mr. WiLtiettroecceould not but say a word as to what had fallen . froln 'the Noble Lord ((Poch farm) for the purpose of correcting as to facts re lating to the income or the Illestriotts Person now executing the highest ()Merin the kingdom, and Sitircurists. His (Mr. W.'s) sentiments as to sL. peonies were well It;nowta.—(Hear, hear !),--,He •tivoold retnitol that N o bl e Lo r d , t h at in fairness Hod honesty the reaSon andiinceasion of the sine question being given to the Marquis of 'Camden must be considered. 'l' h ere was some difference of opinion es , to the best mode of re- Wayding persous who retired ft om the public ser . vice, After having diseliorged their duty with ho nour ro themselves 'and toltiantage to the public. it,had been geoerfilly aereed that if sinecures, - whets created, could naly be occupied by persons Who deserved them for their public . services, that they Would he the best mode of rewarding these to Services., :kilith respect to the office of Lord High Chane,elloc, when it was considered bow great the eacrificeli in point of mere money Were, which must in made by those: persons in 'the highest prac tice at the Bar, whets they accepted this Office, they haying held that which precluded thent retoril, ing agaileto that som•ee of emolument whi c h th e y left tomccept this office ; when it was considered that • it WWI neeeStary that this office should be filltorby a man whose high reputation fill the Law set the stamp of the Public on his cheracter, and that therefore he must be a. man whose practice. produees the ii guest emoluments ; it wool(' be allowed, that of all men %rho held public offices, those oh o had bxotthily filled the 'office of Lord thieuctillor were most 'deserving of reward. If there ever was a man who bad tilled that office ivorthily,he might `say it was the late'Lord Clem eenor Cauiden. Of that ilistinguislitd Nobleman never could speak but to ith gratitude, for he Lei the honour to have heeo distinguished by him it hen a young moo; The late Lord Camdeu held the *office of Cloweellor -for only one 'Whe n L e tetired from it, the option was given of he sinecure tiow in. question for one life , and he chose it far the life of hie seta. But it was need less for film to say any thing all to the necessity of rewinding 'those who had held the office of I High Chaneellor, because , tlie ()pillion of the poldie was already taken, on ih;it p(rint.d Could it be cousidered eta sinecitie enjoyed without are service to the Politic, which was a tribute to the services of that illustrious , Nobleman ? It was not a sinecur e ga in e d. by any low Court intrigue, hut the reward of great public services. lie had never stood up in defettee of . ain6cures ; so tar from it, that when arOtiqoirrwas prOposed in . () this office, lie was one rut thOse who voted in Your of the. inquiry. With respect to the mode in winch the Noble klariptis had now, given up the etpolaments of the' office,. he eertainiir could easily understaod the keliags f salistaction uhich l ie haffsei ze d the opport o uuitii of doiug so with , VICh n way as might not seem like runoing a low lace for popularity --(Hear, bear, hear to the disukipointinent expressed 1)y his lion, and fawned J rieloi (Mr,,Broughani) a t what hail trom_his Noble Frit (f...ord,Castlereagh), lie uouht tree no good remsoo lot it, coeld tau see Nvity iloirtnight Hot expect that the example c if the Nolde Marquis in questioll would be hd innWed ; and ph Imugh only one star Mail hitherto risen about~' the horizon, why, they should not texpeet more would soon appear.—(Hear, bear, heat I from all parts Of the House.) Mr. Beouonot mold not resist saying, that his non. end much respected Ft lend, by what he had last said, had, with his - star, shot a ray throtigh the gloom %Odell had been cast over his naiad by The speeeft tar hie Nolde Lord ; and he was rime Inclined to hope, that,' perhaps, it was only be cause they bed not titoe for the example to ope late, that they lord not yet he a rd o f i ts b e i ng more genehdly followed.• Nothing could he more just that, the eloquent enetimium of his Hon. Friend that great patriot and statesman Lord Camden. ..liot If Lord (lamden, on whom at sinecure was bestoaed, as the just, nrttl , perhaps, scanty remit- Iteration for his public. Service, sorely his giving it up is an act who'd) must sink deep into the minds of those who hold: their sinecures by no eueli The petition. was .tbetv brought up, read, and .0111er to lie no tht table. Mr. Arm!NoTow presented a copy of 'toles owl 'Rego, concehling the King's `lien c h .1' ,. i.0rt.•-I),l . (iertill to lie on the table, and to be Mr. BENNETT 'Wished to know whether the - rot`t he State of the'King's Bench 'Prison w ss vet realty, and when it Would he laid haute the iliithe ? Mr. 11. ADDINGTON said, the ItOport hind not vet received at the Office to which he be jungt.d. . , 13ENtirTT begged' to observe that the very 44nm' Awswer. had last .ye'l, k r been. given, to this qiiegtimt - AnniNc Tot; said, that the Office to he belonged had nothing to do with the tnaking out of the Report. A :itiessaim front the Lords requested the ',louse „ communicate to their I., , rwrlslops a Copy of the iteport ot'the Committee appninted by the nomle 'to inquire into the .lettnlatiotts of Foreign States with rolipeet to Human Cutlittlies. t.)11 the . motion Of the CHAN:C[I4OR of the Ex sumer WAIS returned by their Lord -Nit t' Ale”engeil, vating„ th.c. the House would rontuntnicktte to their I,,,ortlillips a Copy of the Report desired. (hi the oiOdoo of I ;t`,I3t.NNE • TT there wits or epretl fo be hill before the Mike' en account of 8111(111ns issued by the l ' aytouster•Generd nf ' the Alloy or 'l' resotorer of the Nivy during tilt!. two rodi ngt)eccoOp. , t 3 fli 1 ) 1816, for the purpose et . rs tor the paid th ort n,411,rs itriig 1111 o 11)0d, With the tomes by of the eiti fill to whom Fo:.eh loVe been issued. Can PriorElaii TAx. . the tnnom, :kir; 13i,,NNBTT there inns or. (IVITII it) he fah home t flimsi t, net tl in 'Of the Nt,,ohor Altr..ill, made itgoii)St the As,esstnents -of.the Cotliwiloot•rs for the eroperiy T ux i n t h e Cif y Lund() t. ; kip Retnrn the Establish- Office of tlie sa:d Cotitnissioners, and of any Reduction in the same made Mice/the ex piling of the Property Tax. •- .111 r. CUMEN took the opportunity of- askink what reduction had been made in the establish ment of bispectori of Property Tax, a class of officers whom he conceiveet to be quite unneces sary: The CHANCELLott of the EXCHEQUER Enid, that the Hon: Gent man seemed to b e inisinfornied as to the duties of these officers. 11.1r,,Cuitwert.----In Cumberland, the only county at,ta which he had any , accorste knowledge, the Inspector, whom he nminioned, was,ouly in the comity a few days in every' year. ' The CHANCELEoR of the EXCHEQUER sniff, that in consequence of what the lion, Ogntienmn said, he ivotill certainly have .moved for au A ccount relative't o the Offirets in question,' which won ld have shew o the natur e of'thefr ditties and the ex ,pence of their establishinenti were it not that in a few days he should hove occasion to lay such an. Account before the House. 011 the Motion Of Lord KROHIBAID 11“IILTON, there was ordered to be laid before. the House an Acconnt of all the Sums received by the, Printers of the Universities in. Scotland within' the last seven - years, for ti drawback On Per. Mr. PoNsostr rasp fo r the p urpose of giving notice of a minion which . be intended Soon to; gfil)tnit to the House. Most Gentlemen . , that on a demise of the Cr4wit„till commissions - of Officers in the Army and Navy, must be re newed at a great expense to thatwintlivithially.— There had formedy.beeo an inconvenience as . to Parliament in a similar event, but that %vas now obviated by a provision that the Parliament which should be then assembled, Should continue for SIX months atter that event, unless the Successorto the Crown chose to dissolve it sooner. His in tention, therefore, WAS to inove.for leave to bring in a Bill, to prevent the necessity. of renewing commissious in the Army and Navy, in case of a demise of the Crown, unless the Successor slinuld please it. He fixed next Monday fortpight for his Motion. GAME LAWS Sir S. Rosma.v rose, pursuant to his notice, oomtve for en Amendment of a n Act which was ,tossed a t the end of the last Session. The Act to which be, untitled wits passed, (among 10 or 50 other Orders of the bay),throtigh that House and through the other Ifonseof Padiament, witho ut any dis c u s si on ; and if such osn Act wits to be really passed, he should wish the House to know what its 'provisions were, for he believed that a great moir;rity of Members did not know that such a low existed. It was a law which put the de struction of game, by unquelified persons, nit the same footing with felmiy—nay, which made it a crime to be punished more severely than fe lony ; for there was no law by whi c h t h e mere attempt to com m i t ' felony was 'Punishable with trensportation, whereas this Act made the at. tempt to kill game punishable - with' seven years tratnsportation. It enacted, that if any person was found. /hiring the night in any open or cloSe held, with any gun or other instrument, such a 9 a net or snare, he should he liable tatransporotiou. But the most whimsical part of this 'Act was, that it gave a definition of night; Which 'wonid probably astonish the House, tor it defined, 'that from the Ist. October till the Ist of March, it slioeld be considersd night ti.i seven o'clock in the mOroing, or abOut three-quarters of en hour after strut-rise.---([leer, hear, hear !)-11Inel l had bei n said of the omnipotence of Parliament, but this was' cerrying it to a pitch that could hardly hove been guessed. The strangest .thing was, that by this Act, even qualified person s would be unques tionablT liable to the penalties which it imposed if they should go out with their gun before sereo o'clock in the morning. —N o man was snore sett. Bible than himself of the evils arising from the illegal destruction of game., nor' lamented more the acts of violence anti atrocity which hall been committed by the transgressors of the Game Laws. But the policy of this act was entirely to increase those acts of violence ; beeanse it :made the pe nalty the sante whether the offender Wes errned,or whether he wus found merely carrYing a net. If, therpfore, a man found t h at he - only Incurred the saute punishment by resistance which he would incur by destroying game wit hout/meatti of resist ince, they would always of etnirst carry on their depredations completely armed. Ile moved that the Act of last Session he repealed. If it Was wished to continue any of its provisions they might be re-enacted by a new Mr. F. Lewis, as one of the . Committee that had brought in the Act in question,' thought it necessary to say, that at the time when it tees in unarmed it was his opinion, that the severity of the Game Laws should be relaxed on the one hend while it was increased on the other, and that game, should be put on the same footing with other private propertY. Arid for the purpose of ' balder:tiig the invaders and destroyers of this species of property ,to tire" Bonne , ptinishment as those of any Other kind, be thought it necessary, ottoler . certain cit etimStancit, ter gists 'to magis trates the power, in certain cases, of sentencing oM:riders to transport ion, The ptinishments im posed by former Acts had beeo found quite in effectual ; and he had therefore, upon the whole, view of the case, thought the Act in queti r , trout-the best, under all the diffienliies with which the evil Which it Went to remedy Was surrounded. But he was .not insensible to its defects, and there tore slid not oppose the noition.. Colonel W oon sa i d be fetid 'been a Member of tins Committee from Which this had ema nated ; but that he - had 'always opposed it, be- Conde it seemed to begin at the wrong end of the evil, It was well known that Game was bought arid sold i n L ondon ' the same tuffs 'every thing else, and he regretted that' evidence , to this effect was not antlered to be produced `"before the Committee on the lost Act. After many - observations on the impoliey of the different Acts, lie be should wish to bring in a Bill to Jegalize the sale of game; as, at present, the game sold in Lotidon CORM front almost every noun's manor who had one. Ile descanted on the harikisip of the opera tion of Mr. .Toddrell's.Act, Lind st, tied the cure of the soldier who slept. so many months in the Hos pital withotit sustenance or motion. lie bad sett! this man after his recovery, arid had learned that his affliction arose from having been sentenced to transportation, for having hem /Mind asleep at ir;glit, (older hedge, with his. gun in his prtsses sion. lie had received a pardon since his Teco very, through the intercession of the Duke of York. The Colonerdepreeatell the, purchasing of game asTit now is in the Metropolis, and hoped the House would pass an Act to legalize the sale ,of it. Ile wished Lords of Manors 10 have the power of-granting .deputations to the occupiers - of land to kill game on their own orcopatinuk: fp, as long aspatters stood in their present stete, there could be no remedy. for the evil of poaching. • Sic E. KNATCDBULL never •thotight it was the intention oldie Legislature to act up to the seve • rity of the late Act, except in the case of petsons at night with arms in their hands.; and it could . .not' but be knoWn that their conduct was' most atrocioos, If another Act was intended to be brought in instead of thatpropoSed to be repealed,, he should only say that it.should have his cordial support, • A desultoey conversation continued on tine sub. jeer, for a considerable time, io the course of which, Mr. BANKEs wished the debate ao be adjourned, with a sieve to amend the present Act, instead of repealing it. fie therefore moved that the debate he adjourned till Friday oext. • Mr. Cunwaa was decidedly •against the whol e fellour of the Game Laws, as unjust and oppres sive. lie was therefore in favour of the Bill of the Hon. And Learned Gentleman,. as the only means of preventing paaelpieg. lie should op. :pose the, motion of the Holt. Gentlensau.(Mr. Bankes) with the hope of seeing the whole sys tem of the Game Laws revised, as at present they were, in his opinion, a disgrace to the Statute Book. Mr. G. BANKES . spoke briefly in favour, as we could collect, of some alterations being made in the existing Bill. Sir•M. W. 'RIDLEY contended, that the'•Bill,pro, .posed for legalisiog.the selling of game Would be the best mode of preventing poaching and the de fitrUCtioll of time game, He had heard it soggest; ed, that th e f arm i ng o f Game Lieenses,would have the effect of completely putting .a stop .10 pouching, by therstrictness with Which. those who farmed them would look to the preservlation Oahe game. Licenses might be granted forpersons to deal in game, similar to those granted to peblicas. He thought some of,the Magistrate's in the, coun try were more rigid than' was necessary, • es there was so sit ong a power vested in those Wit - wam e. attached to the preservation 'of game, that with out imputing any improper motive to theM, lie was of opinion that they too frelpientlyr Wei 4 to eXtremities. He shonld support the mutiny. • Mr. LOCKHART would wish to see the Act very materially amended, or to repeal it saltier e i -olaus g might be introduced inflicting a more severe pu nishment on those depredators who went about with ems, endangerhig the liVes of his Majesty's sit t jects. To make: game a property would only be to give.a benefit to persons who ball large'ke simples,,but wopld afford no inducement to pre serve game to those who had small properties. 'Fite amusement of sporting bad 'the effect of at tachihg Gentlemen to their country residences, who would otherwise spend their time and money in large towns and cities. This in his opiniom, was no t r i v i a l c ir cumsta n c e s in U favtior of Gsow Laws. He ageeed that the present Jews were an- Omaloos, beektosa the whole tobj . ect Was anoma lons, but he denied that they Weft Mr. WILEEEPOECE differed from the Honour able Gentleman who spoke last, as he considered some of the regulations extremely , unjost. ‘Ve ought to exercise out' ingenuity for the tireserva thin of game for the use of persons Who live in the country. 'When we considered the eritnina. lity of the poachers, so much ,the more criminal must it be, the act of legalising the sale of what their rob4eries produced. If 'the taking of game was deemed fit to deserve sever e let the purch as i ng o f it also be punished.' • Mr. Lewis explained, that lie should propo';e that: Magistrates should license 'persons to sell game, the sante as they did publicans. Gentle men who opposed the rendering the sale of . glitne - legal, seemed to forget that its sale • was never rohibited t ill t h e 28tit Getirge He had .been assured last . y ear by some 'huge landholders,' that if pine . was allowed to be, sold, there would always b. an Itlntrulant sop'ply both. for to wlttit,nd country, and they would readily allow'their, te nantry' to take it in the way'suggested. Mr.llUsgtssoN had-been one of those who,,had been called aim to perform the'painllll4ty of car eying into effect the severe, enactmenti of - the last Jew, against those who were detected. in nocturn a l combinatioos, 'But the 'severity, be. .considered not to, be necessary . for the Orotectien of game, but for the protection of those peraons hioked after it, and of those whp owned the land,t hat even hc thought hoivier t penalty o ug ht .to.have bee it enacted against such armed associntions. It was highly desirable that the Act should be amended; but the Hottie would OW tin its dol t if it . did not take care to enact ii-ibeavy pemslinietit for jthose who put the lives of his M;jcsty's sub eets in danger. • After sonic further conversation, in the course of which Ceneral MrfCIIELL expatiated on the excesses committed by these nocturnal .depreda7 tors on - plantations, in stealing and. carrying off the wood,the motion of Mr. BANKES. w;as nega tived, and leave was give n . to, tiring in 6 Bin to repeal the Act. The other Orders of the Day were theud4Oled of, and the 'House Adjourned. DUTCH —............._ I3ntyssets, Fgß. 3.—Lettc ts from lig! Iron t iers inform us, that they have W ell°, cd. in Pi car dy, bands of robbers that iutscie; ler s and courierA, and plunder teem'ol , 1 these bands 'consists of aboue2o'inco; 0: armed with carbines, pistols, and pollial gi ', have already COrnutitted various cr imes svitl audacity; it is generally bauded soldiers are among them. Prq r • ... , • lld sures are lio‘‘ ever. taken to put an ell( .1 , . excesses. Several brigades of GellM merl' several some detachments of light troops foie berl iiii in motion in various points, and ore.s o lP ° `the National Guard. They 'have olreatlif': believed, dot nio!' ! ;,; 4 (11 l but the general ' safety will soOn' be '''' i suspicious persons, and there JO' . Prevotal Courts, which will try thein n ' r established. The guilty will be deib lfd", as possible. tat fu by tiou Wou ii, t 11, 0 to lard tiu n te lt i T( i t ei fre t NUREMBERG, JAN. 24.—We learn 1 4 1, 4 . 'lilt the Me e ti ng o f t h e St a tes of the g ieg Til ti nt Saxony is again deferred. It •i s so l )141., .sou . le change i n t h e represe ntation 01 as in contemplati on ; b u t that it is iett'dt i wa . it for the de c i s i ons w hi c h •rnsi te erie , °. t D on this subject. The case is 0 13 7, to , other German States, where the futtfind Of t 44r a ing the Provincial States is still deferred. i • lt BRUSSELS, F EB . 4.—By an Order di t be 4, tto January, this year, his . Excellency (11456‘;0 General of the* Convoys and Liceaccs, 11 °,i; tls permission for the importation of potatoe sYr o t u l oi c ro v m io:N E aN t r t Ay g: d en ur d y, t w o hi O ci s l t a e m nd o , ut :r ts iti t t u oi e l i t; F i c ,of IV of the value. to o 111. 1 JAN. 26.—The persons wb° l t o' 111 111 make a part of the Etbliatsy to 13 r ezi4, * 441 4ccninpany . i t , b eg i n airerady'to teis'el4Pc:„ th l Letters Patent lave been day respecting th e est abli s hment of $ 641'4 fund for the liquidation of the public deb t " t ire, t. Ba . tuatv, JAN, 25.—The work. of th e C9 ::s t 'tl ft proceeds, and the result willow!) be ° ", jelo 141 1 , Zaitsulfully Confirmed that there wilt he 1 : 11 111 0 1 14 t1 Tax. established thiough the ivb°le . Monarchy. ' ' l (°' • It is affirmed, the noti fi cation °- f 1b e nig Pos en tiers betw een t h e Grand Duchy of P°-- ln " V Kingdom of P o l an d i s very f ar seven t h, new Instituti ons i ntro d uce d i nto the a ll ° d p (1 00 1 of Pos en , s i nce i t i s under the dominion o f ' o y : are every day more and more conolidllll,tier culture And industry improve. Th e ilig' :, ct 1 11 of public inst ruct i on i s very sensible -ill establishmentof the new schools. .od ill .• Peace seems to be re.. esta bllsbeo -- "n o ', and personali t i es i n the public pr int' 1 / 3 'l Prussian Lite ra ti. PamplileiS art now ve ' ot oi: ceased. T HEATRICAL. REGISV:it. .Performbi Last MO. DnuR Y - LANE.—Oroonoko : Oroonoko, Itir• K e3r" Aliss Somerville. After which, Patrick's Follies of a D a y, D 0 6 COVENT-Gaan EN .—:lt — ,l lg Richard the Third• -t o A crater, Mr. B oo th ; L ady Anne, Mi ss 5* Aurora, and The R avens . noon, MA I LS. t iOOPt i g ARRIVED---1 Holland, 2 Waterford. PIY, I r T4 ad) Lisbon. I Flanders, flatalturgli, I %Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS 0 , TIIIA DAY AT rwELNIK D'ee ,". I ' of I 3 per Cent. Red........ 6e,114 judia Runa'r • " .IP• ti lt 3 pti (gar tec.Culic. 65i 66 6614 Exch. 8i 11 !C e . : . 651 si • 4 per Cents,..... :. . 5.44 4 cims. for --' , iiper Cerit.Navy Anu.9B 97ii - - - • g 'WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE ro!„ 'O os tt ; , rig, 6 initiates after I. f E t 'eningo 31 THE SUN. MO! tlu►s u►cene tAt.str>t AU"- LONDON; TIIURDAY, FEBRUOY 1". sico , spt o i e o ra n ts s o rn , : l oa a n i t p. B t a t r i to t i b i vi l l y o e ck : e i e t r yhp l i t r: den : m a : y l ili c e ,ie n n rir t i. jo s w eisi l ;:l cu i:s eis t t i t i l y l : : g i s : s :ll , l l) ° : rt c re t . C . l : e at :r e e iti, l ,, fl lo: : ; who have rece i t e l g h t r ac °l flour, which he 'so profusely an't4' 11 $ 111° ( C ie o B fl e fe r : e :O i 11 of his great abilitY, an d 3tri ai c6l his spotless character ; and so long 351' fret y hued to the despicable scurrility ot Jbe 0311 1 ". fig no other notice but tharliurnba' gative—silent conte m pt l a towever, li nvittg 'l° 4 ; i embody one of the grossest insintottionB.B it otil' laving been sedulousl p v ub d i i i s c set a in n f: :;(l"l : i g ti t it ° llfit i t r i i 6 o m di a c i a l l , papers attached to the Tal ents ' 1.. 1( 4 ' 41P in his place last night, felt bil" se o lob it ' IP " to g i ve a fiat contradiction to e ver ? of , this unf oun d e d aspersion. fie `v"sollisF cheered by the !louse On Closing his tet i l Iti kt i 0111 1 4 1, th„ tit Pdt t , , 1 1 , l• II j„ • .1) s ` i r t , °1 etv itltt THE NEW COINACM, , 1 ; The following is K COI appointed for excintngin eonnnencgs this (lay• I. Fisher's - Auction Rooms, King-street, Cbrelit-g/trden 9.. Picliptt.street Swaltritv-street, near Con ' (fait-Street ' 4. Oxforii.street Druniark4treer,.titailees ifatton-gard e n 7. ;mid's, La het h 0. Abisei-street, Bertnontiley B. Sessions' House, Horse monger-lam To prevent confotion, stationed at all the above rrect List of the Stations ig the fielV Coinage,witicj) 16. 3:l;SaitAnornaes-street, Borough 11..21, Leman-street, Good man's-fields 12, 'l7, IV orship-street 13, 16C, W Hyping i ' ' c F, ,- 14. Near Shadwellrburchd 15. Sessions liquir, West minster W. MO iiematicai lostittedatOi crivin Police Officers arcio phices.