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loon, 'in the room awe Aixht lion. nottert- reel, 'who had been reliant:4 for Oxiold. Nlr. PoNsonav said; he did not rise for the pur pose of objecting to the motion ; but as it was, itcreference to the return of the Right lion. Gentleman (Mr. Peel), connected with the state of Ireland, he wished to lose not a moment in callitig the attention of his Majesty's Ministers to the deplorable situation of that part of the king dom. This was so great as to admit of no farther delay. The scarcity of provisions was so extreme as to be painful for every body to hear, and greater than any body could imagine. He hoped, therefore, that any thing that could be done to afford the people relief would be effected imme diately ; as the distress was so great that the mit calamitous consequences were daily occurring. It appeared to him that there Wab no one article of provision which would just now be so advanta geous as rice ; and he hoped that Government would boy up all that could be got, and send it oot to it eland, that it may he quickly and cheaply 'distributed. Lord CASneitEAGH UMW assure the !light non Gentleman that nobody could be more in terested in the calamities to which he had called the attention of the Mime, than all the*Menthers of his Majesty's Government ; and he could also assure him, that hit Right Holt Friend, for whom tht Writ was now moving, had long since devoted laic mast serious • attention to this alarming (lit ! ! , tresii,„ , st,intOlegree a remedy had beett already epplied, as the ditty on rice had long keen taken eti.'—(Hear, hear !)-4lis Majesty's aOveruthent had also taken other measures for checking the , distress thai'might otherwise he expected to in crease in the course of the present year, as well as to diminish ft in the next. They had procured a Supply of iced Coro t for that country, which would %vet ate on the (Inutile principle of saving !nod for this year, Rilti seed corn for the next. He could Hustle him, that his Right Hon; Friend woold incessantly devote his attention to 1114 Subject but it was not ssithin possibility folly to relieve Ireland troni.what not only affected her, but this • and every other country •in Europe. if compa. raiive distress could be any consolation, wc might derive it fiesta :the certain knowledge that the tires sure we laboured under was nothing in com parison with the misery that afflicted all the other et-booties of Europe, particularly to the South ward, where the people were in a state approach ing to absolute famine, such as never bad been known to prevail so generally before. The Writ was then ordered. The Irish insurrection Act Committee, the Re port on the Irish Recognizances, and tharon the :tiherilfs of Ireland, were severally Postponed till Wednesday. The CHANCRGLOR of the F 4 XCIIECIURR MOVed, that the douse at its rising do adjourn till Mon day. Mr. BEN NETT brought up the Public [louse Regulation Bill, which was read a first, and or dered to be read a second.time on Friday hex!. Sir J. NEwrowr, moved for, Copies of all Let• ters that have passed between the Lord Lieute nant or his Chief Secretary, and the Loyd Chum eellor of Irelitod, relative to the appointment of Sheriff.—Agreed to, IiXTtNTS IN AID. • Mr. W. SMITH said he rose. ttt move for leave to present a t'itii ioii connected with a subject which was to have, bet,ll bilitight forward this day, hot which, he understood, had been again postponed. rt, stated one of the most estraordhotry sod op. pressive cases •that bad ever attracted the notice of the Noose. 'lke Petition was from a person flamed T. Stelyn, ; firmer and cattle•deaier, of Waltham Ahhey ; and never was such a compli cation of injuries nespcd on, the bead of a single individual, chill ipso, 64 waaka ago, had had the whole of his property swept away from hint and sold, under at, Zxtent in Aid; he had also been thrown and had loin there ever Since; and becantie he was nominally detained at the suit of the Crown, be had no means of being . dis charged, either by Bankruptcy, the Insolvent Act, or any other mode. Thus, not only he could not be relieved, but be Was even deprived of claiming from his creditor the paltry pri son' allowance. The party at whose instance this writ was suet! out had been a Eaoker and Se ,cretary to a Fire. Office at Norsvicb. Such a person gives nominal security to the Crown for the payment of the monies received by him a s deaths insurances. Now he would contend, that it the Extent was issued against his, effects, it would attach those of the whole Society of the Fire (Mee; but he had made use of the most 'Seandalott and ittrstUMlS pretexts—of every thing &hart of perjury ; and an innocent man, 60 years .of age, had, in consequence, been ruined, and lain more than a year in Chelmsford Jail. The prayer of the Petition was, that the (louse, in its wisdom; w,,uld afford him relief ; that he had applied to the Court of Exchequer, who had returned for aiiSvrcr, that they could do nothing in his ease ; and that since his confinement he had been re. tatted to absolute want, and been afflicted with a paralytic stroke, Am.., The P.:!ititin being brought up and read, 51r. l'itoTitettele said, he must take this oppor. (unity of stating, that he had received a eariety cuses complaining of the oppressions under the eXisting laws. Ile thought it of great importance that the measure should not be delayed for ano. tier yeAr, in consequence of the distrented Biwa. l i no ut th e country, and because the agitation of the question had made people more acquainttd with the mode of issuing these writs. lie thought it should be a principle iii the proposed Bin, that .1 ;0 events in aid should be granted in cases of t intple contract debts, which would sweep away the whole string of petty nuisances. Si r Junta NtorrOaT Was happy this subject had been once more taken tip. What must be that I4tv which would not bear being promulgated siPto ,, gst the public, because it instructed them 1.) I► A' to oppress and injure their innocent neigh ? c , utld say that, till last year, no such measitreas au extent in aid had been applied in that ittrr of th , ,cotiotry to which he bOotiged: lac botleil liotige would not, stop till they had examoicti `-?.stem to the bottom, and rescued ti,e Cu oval -the djltract of such obnoxious • proreedilig..!. '1 lie Ci- , ,AscgLimk of the I;xerivearen sit;(l, it , A,ts t,ii intpiry !shout-A t, vi,tde CM that rothieet ill !I-11ton% *ttlo ra %lel of kttettti • witiii 4 the remediet. for protecting thejtift COTS of the Ctown and the people. .H e *peed that it would he very inexpedient to delay the proceeding now before the House, in the hope that any thing that might be produted hereafter wont(' be more. advantageons. But as the Bill was now framed, he had tint beard - a tingle objection to it. The second reading would take place on Monday. Mr.• BaIiCLAY ihntight the Bill by nirmeau- cal culated to ans‘ver the object it professed. The whole appeared to him to be so bad that it ought to be examined by a Select Committee. The petiti o n was then ordered to. Ile on the table and be printed. In answer to a question front time ticsticer,Lost of the ExcnEQUELL, who was tmtlerstood to ask it the Him. Member, could pledge ,h,Mself for the truth of the facts contained itt the Petition ? Mr. W. SMITH said, he bad inquh•ed of 1113ar dater who had been concerned in the prosecu lion,, and he had assured him that he had kno,,en the Petitioner ever siace he himself was a child, and that every thing that was . related in the petition was literally true. lie • (Mr.•kitnith) had not the least doubt upon ..the subject. The Hon. Gentleman then went a conSiderable leitgth into a detail of the injuries to which hum. cent met) would still be subjeated.by the measure before the Uotoie : he alieded to the many efforts he had wide ever since the.beginniug of last'Ses shm.,.Oo'procure from Miti)sters - alirtiper remedy for the evils of the existing systetrii-antl concluded with declaring, that unless a Select Committee were appointed, he should oppose theitill before the lipase in every stage. }le hail lint his hand to the plough ; the soil was a. rank one, :out h e would 'not stop till he had rooted up the weeds. On the motion of Mr. Ptut.i.tes, the Order for calling over the House was postponed frOm the 9th to the lath instant. Mr. WAVNE moved for Returns of the number of persons holding situations in the dices of the Auditors of the Exchequer, of the Teller of the Exchequer, the Clerk of the Pens, the ‘Varden of the Coyle Ports, the Governor of the Isle of Wight; Bte.--The motion teas agreed to. Siruilsr motions, respecting situations held in Irelend end Scotland under offices now to he abolished, were moved for by the Wile Hon. Gentleman ; and after a few words from Lord Castlereagh, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir J. Nan-port, and Mr. Huskisson, agreed to. Mr. GOLILBURN brought up copies of Colonial Acts, pursuant to an °inlet - of the House. These copies bad been Called for four years since. The causes of the delny be briefly explained; and then gave notice that, before the t ertnioat ion of the Ses slim, he should move that these papers he return ed to the office from . Which they were nirw brought. He was tout aware that any objection could be made to this, as it would be more easy to refer to them there, when they should be printed and arranged, than it they were kept in their present for m. Mr. W. SMITII had no objection to what had been .proposed by the Hon. Gentkman, provided they could .be deposited by the commeneetneot Of die next Sessou ot Parliamtot in the place re. ,c il •ve(l for them, in onv of:their Committee rooms. Ile thimgbt it would have. been well it theortler of the ifouxe hail been conflated with soriner. Mr. G Otutbt sho,jed that Ito blame attached to hint fur their not being produced at an earlier period. Sir S. Row:ILLY thought it proper that these 6110,,1tl be returned to the Office of the Se cretary of State, ot which but one copy had reached this country ; but be thought the House ought to he put in possession of st copy ot the Co lonial Laws. Some farther conversation took place, in which Mr. Goolhurn and Mr. rreston participated ; alter which the papers were mitered to be laid on the table. The Irish Election Laws Bill was read a second dine, And ordered to he commi t t e d on Monday. Mr. GOULBURN presented a copy of an Act re lating to the Slaves in the island of Barb:Woes. A new conversation arose on the subject of the Colonial Laws, in which Sir S. Hominy, 11 •. Guniburn, Mr. ereston, anti Mr. W. Smith took part ; after which the paper was ordered to he printed. COMPENSATION DILL. The Order of the Day having been reed for the Moose uesoleing itself into a Committee on the Civil Service Recompense Bill, on the (petition that the Speaker should leave the Chair, Mr. CALettm thottg,ht by the present Bill a good bargain was made for the public, as the Crown pee up 80 or 90.0001. in offices, and re. calved at most but 42,000/. to be bestowed in pen. sinus. H e , however, intended, in a toture stage nt' the Bill, to propose two amendments - -; the first would go to provide Iva no new pension should be granted under this Act, till sonic sinecureequi valeta to it in value should fall 'in j the other wou ld en4ct, that thole receiving, pens:fiis,' who were 'Members of Parlianient, thtnild"Oehtt their seats. Mr, BOSWELL opposed the Tiilf, ti be consi dered sineenre offices to give the Crokits less in. flueuce over the holders of them '66'414y - other rewards that could be bestowed on those tvho had Sena the public. He could not admit, because there had been a misapplication of them in some instances, that the (offices 111 yiestion ought to be totally , abolished. lie would, rather the Civil List should be reduced, or that the entoktpeoti of these offices should be diminished, than that they sho u ld he done away altogether. Sir S. NMPohl' thought the disrepute int o which sinecure offices had fallen with the people furnished a reason for doing them away, li e wished to adt, in the event of those Bills being lost in anothe'r place, on %vhich the present Bill was founded, if it were the intention of his Ma jesty's Government to advise the Plince Regent to withhold the Royal Assent from the tlitThlie now tinder eolisidef4tion Lord CRSTLetIEAGit was sure the Right Hon, Baronet must feel all the delicacy of thu worki ng of this question, At present he cool-aunty say, that if that were to take plac e which had b een suppose,l, Minkters. would - d o what they fel t to be most consistent with the d u ty which they owed t o the mutt?ry,. - - Itke theu ;,vc!tt into tlic Couimittee, itl e , sevetal tlauses ar tte trl underwent etmbidr:Kblr diectission. The Re,olutions were then agreed to, and the Report ordered to he received on Tuesday next, after some conversation, in the course of 4414.11 Mr. CALCRAVT stated in the lionse, that his Honourable Learned Priem)•(Mr Brougham). ay..ount of his state of heals h, would not, he believed, brig forward the motion of which he had given notice on Tuesday nest. TITHES LEASING. The Elonse went into a Committee on the Tithe Leasing Mr. COUBM;NAY objected to part of n clause which gave the power of Leasing to secular per sons having limited interests, and tuoved that it be kft ont, 51r. l'itesTort defended the clause as it stood. . _ _.....__ Sir SAMUBL itomita.Y wi•hed that a shorter li mitation should be put to the right of action, which now extended as far back as Richard the First,•and was the cause of litigations fatal to the morals of the community. After a few observations from Mr. Jones, Sir John Newport, Mr. N. Calvert, and Mr. New man, the,Amendment was negatived on the clause for granting the power of leasing for ten year... Colonel Woos proposed that fourteen should be insetted instead of ten years. A short conversation ensued between Mr. Smythe and Sir J. Newport, the latter Of whom proposed, that after f 0 ten years in England atul Wales," the words -" and twenty-one years' in Ireland" should be inserted. After a few words from General 'Walpole, Lord Palmerston, Mr. Preston, and \lr. Ponsonby, Lord (:AsTLIMEAGUI recommended to the lion. Baronet to postpone his proposition relative to the period in Ireland to another stage of the bill, in order to give time for inquiry. Sir Wm. SCOTT sp o ke i n tavottr of the original clause. With respect to Ireland, a separate 13111 might peritapi must effectually meet the necessi ties of the case. Calmlei BAP RY maintained that no period under 2) years would be of any utility in Ireland. Sir .1. New Pour objected to postponing his motion to a later stage of the Bill, ns it was only in the Committee that it could meet with ample tliscossion. The perio►l of ten years for Engl*n t l and Miles was tl►en agreed to, and fourteen for IrelAnd. The other clauses were then agreed to after the adoption of a number of ve►bal amendments, and the Report ordered to be received. • 'rite other Ot dets of the DAy were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Half-past Twelve o'Clock. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENtal, FarnAv, JUNt 6. This being the first day of Trinity Term, the Lout) CIIANCELLOR and Judges CHUM to the Mil in the usuel form, LIBELr-WOOLLEft'S CAW Mr. Justice A IHMT, at the sitting of the Court, addressed the rest of the Bench as follows : I wish to take the earliest opportunity of re porting some circumstances width omitted yes. terday at in the . cont'se'of a trfitl ieltkli took place before me. The 4 ease - to whj eb I al lode was an info rmat i on b y t h e Attorney -General against a, person of the name of Thomas' Jonathan Woolicr, for a libel. After the case had been gone through, the Jury retired to consider of their verdict, and while they were absent another case was called on, the trial of it was proceeded in, and jest before the reply in the second case was concluded, the door on the left hand o ai opened, in order to admit the Gentlemen of the Jury, who had returned after considering of their verdict, and as soon as the reply was finished, in one or two sentences, the names were called over by the Of ficer in the usual way, and answers were given in the ordinary manner. The Foreman of the Jury then said, that the Jury found the defendant guilty, but three of them were desirous, or had desired him• on their part, to •add something. then interposed,. and obsdi veal that I thought I could not receive any thing coming front a part only of the Gentlemen of the Jury ; that the ver diet must be the verdict of ,al, and I then asked (speaking, us I thought, in a very distinct and audible voice), whether all the Jury agreed•in the verdict I was answered thrit they did, and at that time I heard no dissent expressed by any per son. The situation, however, was such, lte Jury not having all of thenrcome into my view, that it is not' altogether impossible that some mistake or misapprehension might have taken place; it is not impossible that soma might not hear distinct ly what hucl been said. • The Jury having then retired, and the door be. tug shut egain, I proceeded to sum up the cause in progress ; and when I had concluded (it not being decorous to interrupt me), and after the se -cond Jury had retired. to eonsiderof their verdict, a Gentleman at the Bar suggested, that some of the Gentlemen of the first Jury had not conettere4l,• nor intended to concur, in the.general verdict tie livered ; or had been desirous that the Verdict should be received with Some 'degree of qualifica tion. I have not the words very distinctly now in my mind, but the circemstanees I have stated. I farther understood, that sonic of- the Jury were preseet, in or near the Court. 1 then said, that the verdict of the Jury had been recorded, and that it seemed to me, that sitting in that place, could not do any thing in the matter. 1 - do .not know whether I made use of the sentiment ; but it certainly impressed my mind, that it Would be extremely dangerotta if, after the Jury bad retired from the bar, a Jadge then in Court could receive and act upon any communication from them. I therefore was of opinion that the verdict most stand as the verdict of the Jury. I wished to take the earliest opportunity of stating this occurrence to my Lord and my brothers. Lord Eta.e.Nattaouon (after consulting with the other Judges).—The Court cannot, accordipg the authorities and precedents of law, receive an affidavit front a Juryman upon the subject 411 Its verdict ; and the reason why he is ptecluded trout making filo affidavit is, because, from the circum stances, it moat have been intended that that vur diet WRS given With his assent. In m tier to this assent. it must untrestionnbly appear (ha he heard what • was propounded by the foretnao on • ',chaff cif Limed: his hellaws cull , that o ccu rs (1) itv mint is, windier case there is a sufficient evidence for 0 safely to act upon, that the Jury did ell hear was propounded for them, and on their in the Foreman. The Jurymen were thatll the view of the Jud e, g for it ieetni s the Jury were in the room beltiad. I sat, fore, that we have not in this .case the means existing ii others, for presuming 11 one of the Jury heart h svitat waS propi their furentan. if , indeed, they did la they were not furnished with, tiny mein'S. tratlictiou, or of signifying any dissent on. cation. This tact Supplivs a distinctir the tases that hive usually come before the A verdict generally given, the Jurors together in the presence of the Judge 3, have full opportunity of hearing 1 40 pounded by the Foreman, and of expi dissent, if they thought fit so to e . p be satisfactorily mad e nut, from he nearness of the Jury. or from the siting ] Judge, that all the Jury did heart ,Gp of them dissenied,, it virtnild Per to disturb the verdict, an d the COLO-00. ccive any affidavit against it. flat lII' evidence of their hearing, and the trantif ir t° seining or dissenting, to to bc and, therefore, I suggest for the any brothers, whether, in this . casti , certainty (tor any uncet taiinlitt jee 1111 especially in a ertininelprOc'eedirig)l he allowed to the defe n dant tis rage of a new trial, if he silueld tft,11!1) desire it. The ATI%) scN av -C EN ER woo' . me to gainsay any thing iliac has t o "tin i but 1 apprehend the utmost whico your Lot (Ishii) has, said the (We e° be indulged, would be that be migla be to ihow grounds fur a new trial. el", lieutt, with great deference, that granted in this tb" is case. The Joiy we t r ot called over, and they answered la . 11 Lord ELL ENBOR OUGH.......We essa‘ te ( 1"144 Th e ATTott,tiaY-GESICSAL. -101. hearing at the tarty. .r g Lord lit.t.aNnottO Off 0)0 tiP f p; The ATTARNEY-Gir5ii“,.......A00 01' 0 Vl' au pronounced in: inch a . tone - , Jury, n u u lk r s y l t r : h J a v u e s tbiteeenßk hayed Y t. by iii 11111 preset, :/I,ebli:sde'cl,fl 11 doobt in his owe, mitts) whettiet.• et ultimately pronounced by the_ fu L te .id was tliStinetly fie Std by ewe the Jurovq.- d see n Lord rt.t.ENBOR3I/011.wmir blt P t there would have been income` {ass tion that they must btle wke disabled: ' 11 ry....1 is The ATTPISNEY•GV ISSA-. nee. .t it rs to to-state, that the Court wouuo made out satisfactctrily „ bear. Cott tit i Lord ELlANaostrovo tr io NO - I precluded fro th the means ef Otto 00° 1' ledge through a ffi davits. Oslo, `oolbilitto' Court feels. ff it were tioro ar,tl;itiviler,lie did n ° t hc bts; i° be t iUIOW e no t sortie of te : I:1 a and jttea s rr t Yr i ; °: : “bla.s, ltle been made. sen" °art, bioos Mr. Just ice BAY LEY.--"Thef l'„ : e to ttjy , 04 tile difficulty, felt that 4 . 0 kr slton'':,h Abbott, and to the public. th, s ,' owls this communication. i 61011:cootie taroaeon Lord in the observatio n ibe far teed , I el ° case ;it is peculiarly circinuetst de .4 we" not within view of tbe'd t'oatt , , . o nd 1 0 , not see them, nor they !Wu icotoor carom would allow, th e cout pl . " was made. nl! 1 l os Tile ATTORNRY.GgHt2O,."'"gu, if t h ot 16 to add a single word. If the sit i°co4 under the circumstan ces, the Paret'ifor tilt new (viol, I a m sore, sten tliog t I shalt not resist it for a motel ' w i s e tb t Mr. Justice Howtotri..-thtr,„ 66/6ipi does not see how it can piOelliter th e ° i ` t sit 'Tice TTO R N ORAL . l ot he s ' the Court has exprestmit 1 °a nt ed. 40 0 pray that a new ttial may be 0, , Mr. ` Cl Lord 'ELLENnoaooOO.---1 0'417 iff,rtsr.,,, Geimnsi, v an do as becomes lo". n d i e port • ty.) Are you iTlStritetesi, n ato to the extent of authorizing yo. had trial ? tO 00004 (9. Mr. CIIITTY said, that I /d eal •sseratio g • ' hey peareti on behalf of the tl , Lots! ELLeNnottovol•--Theri 7 itt geared, and we will hear rt° t ric)re that matter. was.N l i r n . s C: r t it t t e rf t er:f oatftil d b ei v l it y a t i li H o .; :ii e : ty r eo l ue : d i l i l trf c : e irg'4 l Lord ELLEtiaonotion.-- trial t instructs t ° ° Mr. CHITTY : itistrde LaraistiipS tor an acrinittaL. LOrti ELLIVNI3OitOUOR. "e" 1 10 ol'at y o u your turn you will move tor iltil:riiienrtss,:ectirtnl3a.ly:ReonstAiDirD:i3.‘asNstillitLhOtt'ica'OtS3:4lrE.t:cfaSlain't 11,0_ *............. t rfl i el e is : l 0011 'tChoerincil from f &ding 8 (kid tl'itil 0 1. Lord E L .Lps in •10, ._ 11(0111/01 1101 0 i . fee iiiiC*ebTelinialcr9:ll)ele'refirilrleligClitilslirli:Cnt;alig:::.:,- ''' Valet!. 10 keep ' ep : lie peace. . —t ot/ Mr. • ‘ to enter into his °We, 0 CONNELL that the floor) ow 0 steilecessitY of that step alight to he Prd',. legal document before it was 1111/1. 0# ~ vili:.lariliscrialibiliicisiPorgPetsirgiticinent t a the order of I t oti itord Fit.t.hgatidsconitiLbeviena cskaelt(ci tifour:011: tt)eriogirtirootsill davit on w eel, bi • i css l 4o ' " Mr. Reader had it riot in his po - m ~,op, filch the recognitance Was 61411( The Court then confet red for 14 fr'W ''',-,ej, I. '. 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