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London, England, 1822-06-08 00:00:00

GRAND JURY PRESIINTMRNTS.

REPORT of the &lett Consmiliet oppointed to consider what
peovisiosa it may he expedient to estahlieh for regulation
of the Greed Jury Preeinintesis of Ireland, ila order to j
rendre the levies made wader that authority more egoist,'
sad fir so impartial sad correct distribution of the sass.
lien thus imposed over the lands to be assessed, twosome's
properties's' to their value; sad to report their opinion
and observations thereupon from time to time so the
House; sad to whom several Reports, Petitions sod Papery,
presented to the House is the years 1816 and 1816, soil
is the propest &mhs of Pastier/best, were referred—and
who were empowered to ezmusise two the slate of theta..
regulating Graved Jury Preseoeusents, and to swinges( each
allerstioss therein as may tend to lessen the expense with-
out diminlohing the 'llene, of such provisions—have made
• rovers le the Masten to them referred, sad agreed epos
the following Report
Yew Comisitter desire lit inform the House, that the
taxstio• sf Issdr in Ireland by Presentment of Grand Juries,
aright** conlised to the eunstructios and maintenance of
eels sod `ridges, and provision for some other minor objects,
ha. is Ow 'apse of time by intruess Natatory niacin...is, bees
extruded is the support of a great variety of establishment's,
expessise in their nature, but cuasected with the due admires-
trotion *risotto., mid with the relief of the sick and indigent,
Resell as to she payment of • seentier of officers, augmewing
Niosiderably the charge us the laiellrulders of she counties,
End more especially in later period., so as withiu twisty
years to have wetly di/nobler' the 'mutest of these levies by a
mamparisus a she lass yeas's levy, wish the ge of three
years Returns preiroted to die Hume of Cosomoos is 1803,
such average heiaig 407,1811., 8.41 the meniuut of the last
year's levy being upward. or 740,0001., of which latter sum
by far the greater proportioo ass attested to the great ob-
jects of later parliamentary eisactuseuts.
The Melee Committees which sat is 1816 mad 1816, and
exassioed a eutssolerside number of prisons as to dee mode
of levying these ossetternews, reported so she Horse their
"trillion, that the various mod.. *dullard io shffeirmi
nwnties
of lselaad, from the iwquality of their pressure, mist's' out
of the very dimwit petiud r f time, sad the issiwel.d state of
the country when those arraisgemeots were devised, imiaired ,
immediate mid complete alteration.
Your Committee have carefully insperied the evidence ma
which that Report was (wooded, and hose examined s I
Menawni of the House, sod other witnesors respeettsig It;
soil have Men corfirmsed by the result of the ulrerhtr via_
auliostimi, is the opioiou therein expressed as to the sioeqom
lay of the peeset.e, sod the urgent orremity of applyiug to
it • complete Rod adc510451 remedy without further delay :
whilst the Falb isf key was small IN amount, Om torquality
hot the bierease of "lemaud boa
was patiently ilibinitew to,
very each iacressed the severity of prewar,, angnicoled
greatly le the I lec.ealed value of agricolsoral produce.
Your tcononittee cousid.r it most emoted to this very
loiroram; *tikes, that the .stem hereafter to be adopted,

ROMAN CATHOLIC PEERS.
The Archbishop of YORK presented a Petitine frost
the Archdescoory of York, prayiNg that t►e Bill fur allowing
Catholic Peers to sit ia shear Lordships Hoarse might itet
pass into a law.—Read, and laid us the table.
The Deka of NEWCASTLE permuted ■ similar Peilieu
frees she iwltabilaass of the tows of alsorleld, is the etiology
of Nottiegliara, sorted by 1,4611 permits. The Nobk Duke
observed it would have been mimed ►y a greater •umber
only that the Petitioners thouKht that the Petition might be
too late, as when it was got op so early day ►ad bees fixed
by their Lordships for passing the Bill thro•gi • stage. It
was evident that the eyes of the people were ores, and that
they viewed the proposed measlier wish terror and alarm. He
had recei►rd a letter from one of the Petillosers to that crect,
sod that they relied on Dieu. Lordships to reject it and re-
serve the Constitution. In ►is owe camel he knew the
alarm wee very great, and t►at it was increasiee, as he was
csavniced, the more the question was considered the more
odious it must became It was a •dasgrroas and
Bill, there had not bees one more a settee the reign of
Charles 11. 7he discussion of the Bill had beets post.
posed 1 a period which be costeidered too hale, sled he
woe afraid he would out be able to attend it, but if it wall
passable he would, uot so mach from a matte► 01.101 as law
•hatelius. The Noble Duke them moved Itat the Petitiva
aboold be read and laid errs the told,.

Lord HOLLAND said, he always filt the strongest
dislike to take a earlious ellectiois to the wording of • Pelt.
lion, bat Ilse word "humble did cot appear is the owe pro-
peed to be laid am their Lordships' table. He would not
object to its beim, received tin that accowat, bat he did not
approve of Its seeliosents ; although their Lordships might
bo deprived of the Noble Duke 'a pewee' at the discussion
ois the Bill, they might be carbine of howler the pl of
his vote. His Grace had read ilsein so evract of a letter, its
which they were told that a eettairi comoty looked up le the
Noble Duke to frimirste the eisimided useemmre—e.
The Duke of NEWCASTLE--"Tbe Noble lord is alai
take's, it said that the Killdeerec touted to their Lordships
Is frustrate it "
Load HOLLAND saM, if he was mistake. it Wee use of
She.. mistakes he was always happy to hear recalled. The
Noble Disks bad used the BM weal to earlier. the Cowatitis-
lion, when iu feet it west to restore it, and to take • burden
off their Lordships' Houma, which bed oujosily beets put us
it by Parliament 150 year. bark. Mary wise nice bad
certainly demisted the propriety of ietrodweing inch • Bill at
this ported, but he heard a mese before hold the spa.
slim, that if it did pass it wueki sot rem.* the Comilla.-
tioei Ilia Petitioners ought to Wive described the Bill as it
was, and act as a measure of earriegewseat uu the Coolie-
The Duke of NEWCASTLE preoculed five similar Pe-
tite...: ore from the Rawsmah of Mews','; our from the
Teen of Noitierhent, sword by 1,2541 perausa; one from
E•st Reified; une lions Tosford; lied one from the Parish
of lotion in Ashley, to the roomy of Nuitiorham.—They
were severally mad •ad Midas the table.
Mr. L Woolley, Mr. Chaplin, sod other Members of ils•
House of Commons, brought up too Private Bills, which
were severally read • first lime.
MANSLAUGHTER.
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The Martinis of LANSUOWN pat notice, that he would,
on Monday next, move the second reading of the BM for
the better puutahmeot of the crime of maoslargbier.
CHURCH DISCIPLINF..(THE..RISHOP OF PETER-

The Bishop of PETERBOROUGH geld, he wield eta.
mitre the allegations of the Petisios, but previously he would
make one or two observations. The right of the Bishops to
itaienioe creates was soneleisiable; sod bad sot every ex.-
millet a right to use his ewe diet-reties as to the mode %f
exasnisesiors ? It was a most ■ofkir representation to cell
the questions *bleb he had pet, tests. The aoswere
were given be tried with the Liturgy end the Articles; It
was the Liturgy end the Articles therefore, that were the
Imes. If their Lordships iuterfered in the Ivey which the
Noble Lord intimated, it world be the list installer shire
the church had existed of say temporal authority ever in-
terfrriog wish the mode of examination, or the admission
or rejection of ecclesiastical persons; and if the House in-
terfered, according is the prayer of the Petition, as to Pe-
terborough, they would coos be called upon with respect to
every diocese in the kiogilmo. Each disappointed candidate
would thick hintorif at liberty to pollees their Lordships,
complaining of the examination, sod prayin: their Lord.
ships to revise It. This was the object of the prestos Pe.
Sentare. He would come POW to the case. He had net
required she Petitioner to come to Peteiborough, hot bad
sect him en examinatios paper, sod to those he had a right
to have plain asewers. If the Bishops were not entitled to
make such examination, the whole order had beater be
abolished at note, es was dose by • Vrestesissier assem►ly
is she lime of Cheeks the First. In the answer. to the
gormions which lie bad most wished for explicit aosoems
use Petitiorser was most obscure, end had sent some- h*n•
deed peers of piper, of large dimensions, closely wetter,"
Now if be (the &shop of Peterborough) had a right
to exemisot, the Petitioner ►ad so right to &feet the purr
pear of the examination by the mode of giving his answers.
Hs w,.uld hare acted more properly if he had refused M
soccer et all. After wadies through the mass of matter
contained in she answer*, he fused nothing bet equivseatiens
mid ambiguity. He had the, emit another art of goestiome,
to which the Peettoser ►ail said he could give no other
answer thee be had alrtudy given. If eller that he (the
Bishop of Peterborough) bad said he was steeled, be
sitooW. have put his name l• a falsehood. How could he
certify the doctrine of s man who refused him the meows of
keovriog it! He therefore 4tl no 'Dermatitis., as at Wisest
seas, but to refuse his sienatere to the Siemer. lahat was
the whole of theorise, and ►e thought their Lordships remold
cot thigh it one which celled upon them for redress. It we,
said that he paid no regard to testimonials from other
dioceses, but the tratisnuniel of she Bishop ►ee mot so
the orthodoxy of the candidate. The Right Reverend
Prelate thee examined the allegations of the Pets-
Ikea eerkafies, curl contended that there were *soy
mierepresentatio•e in them, sod ihst be hod sever
enamored in terms of erverity, or mode he oars opiates.
the ste•dird of truth, mud bed rejected soy eanslidete,
but where she anewers given were directly opposed to the
Looney and she 39 Articles. It we. not Inge, es alleged in
the Petelow, that • continently to the 39 Articles, as by law
established, was all that was required from a candidate his
holy orders. They were also obliged to cosfo►m to she
Liturgy. It was true that owe hunched and fifty yeses age,
reinformity se she Liturgy was understood to be a
readies of It at the desk ; but no clergymen of the
present age could take shiner under that explanation, at the
Art of Conformity required that the Clergyinso should, to
the fore of the congregation, declare his assent to the doc-
trines. The Liturgy sod the Articles, conjointly, were owe
Mondorda of truth ; the allegation, therefore, which congaed
it to she former was incorrect. His Lordship contended that
if the Bishops had a right to 'remise in the Articles,
the* he led • tight to use the eareinettoo queetione. By the
thirty.fssrlh noon the Bishop bed • rigat to exeetior
ill the Articles; the weeds were, " The eltregyeems
shall
yield a seemed of his faith," cod that could never
be complied pith by t►e bort met of petting boo name
to the Aniklee. The Articles themselves, without mom
ioterpretasioss, would produce the effects itsieeried The
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