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London, England, 1819-03-09 00:00:00

BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF ST. PATRICK.
THE ANNIVERSARY FES I'IVAI, the
ISENEVOLENT SOCIETY of sr. PATRICK, will
be celebrated on WEDNEDAY, the 17th of March, 1819
(being the Thirty-sixth Aunty e y), st the City of Londuu
*livens,

rats' DENT,
The Duke of LEINSTER.
Vlct-PairstDEMTs,
The Marquis of Lanadotrii, lhe Earl of Darnley,
The Eel of ClanwiWant, The Earl of Memnon,
Lord Vow. Castlereagh, K.G. Rued Huo. George Calming.
Invert ADS,
Lord William Fitzgerald,
Lora Actisier
S:r Tierney, Bert
Alderman Thorp, M.P.
Lesley Alexandre, Esq.
Joseph Jansen, Esq.
Johu O'Brieii, Foci.
Arthur Tegsrs, Esq.

The Emil or Bectire,
Lord Clifion,
Hight Hon. Sir Benjamin
Bloomfield, K C.B
Mark Swindon, Egg. N.P.
Josias Duple Alexander, Esq
Massey Dawson, Esq.
Thomas More, Esq.
Louis Hayes Petit, Esq.

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, MAacm 9.

The Duke of ATHOL took the oaths and his seat.
Ou the motion of Lord Ketryou, the evidence taken be.
fore the Committee relative to the State of the Children
ut
Cottoii.spi 111 l lig Factories, was ordertel to be lutd, from
time to tine, before the House, io older that it might be
printed.
Papers relating to itn Appeql Case, of Jefferies c. Lord
Clare, from the High Court of Chancery is Ireland, were
peon nted to the House.
PRISONERS IN PERTH.
The Earl of 1-Aucorsom.e reseeded si petition from se-
venal Persons renamed for Criminal Offences in his Majes.
Ws Gaul of Perth, complaining of undue severity, swami of
the menus of subsisteiwe, and an unnecessary delay in
bringing pri,oners to trial.—On the 'notion of the Noble
Earl, the Petition was referred to the Committee on the
State of the Gauls.
ROMAN CATHOLICS.
The Earl of Bts•ottouou presented a Petition from the
Protestant Inhabitants of the City of Waterford, praynig
the House to take into its favourable eousicleration the
Disabilities under which their Roman Catholic Fellow sub.
jects laboured.—Laid un the table.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS.
The Earl of suArressuoir presented a Petition from the
lido.lidera, of the Ward of Earringdon Without, against
the renewal of the Insolvent Debtors' Ad.—Laid on the
*Ale.

CLIMBING BOYS.
The FArlpf AYLESBURY presented a Petition from cer-
tain Inhabitants of Si. George, Hanover square, against the
Bill pending in the House, for abolishiug the nst of boys
iu the cleansing of chimisies.
Lord AUCKLAND presented a Petition from several Mas-
ter Chimuey Sweepers, of London and Wesinsiuster, in fa-
vour of the Bill.
The Earl of SHATTENSURY presented a Petition front the
Master Chimney Sweepers and others. inhahituuts of the
City of Bristol, against the Bill .--The Petitions severally
were laid tin the table.
Order of the Day being then read—
Lord AUCKLAND rose, in pursuance of his notice, to
move the second reading of the Bill fur the Protection of
Climbing Buys used its the cleansing of Chimilies, The
Bill, he said, besides other clauses, euutained one prevent.
ing the use of boys below a certain age, atter the Ist day of
May, 1820, and to this, as embracing the principle of the
an e, lie should chiefly direct their latedshiys' attention.
This question naturally divided itself into two tarts; one in.
yoking lite propriety of adopting such a censure, the other
referring to sto practicability. £t was impossible in meet.
lug with the poor little creatures who were the objecto of
this 8011, in the streets or higjiways, without feeling a senti-
ment of pity for Abeir condition, and being actuated by a
strong desire to terminate their sufferings—it was impossi-
ble for the mind to contemplate the misericl to which they
were exposed, the general cruelty of their treatment, nod
the evils to which of necessity the mature of their octet*.
thin subjected them, without feeling an anitlons desire to
adopt some method of reboil'. For the first year of their oc-
cupation it was painful ecru to think of their sufferings, fur,
dori tic it:at time, many parts of their bodies, particularly their
hands and feet, were in a constant state of violent irritation,
twine days genius worse, mad again, some getting better, 'Mil
.by habil oferjais cathplity want futviti tv.ektahk ttleis tv par.