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London, England, 1819-07-09 00:00:00

Ou TUESDAY. the tilt)) of JULY.

IThose ■t ie lO,d. per day and upwards. soil Ovine Pen-
' si 4444 era abo have been admitted an account .1 mind.",
i ■s also she Private Gentle-meg aim receive AlllltWilleS from
Ito tale Ist and 4.1 Troop sof Horse Guards.
It is altos ordered and dim all the Onl-Pclisioneis
llvelouging to the said Ilsopital do pay particular atlealiou
to their instrutliollll., which they are retrieval hi proilnee at
! the time of payment, by which thaw Pensi tttt era nraiiling
! beyond 11w Bills of Mortality are ordered to transmit 111 11..,
Paymaster-General of his Majesty's 1.1...1 Forces its lamd,,,i„
al' affidavits as therein paciic.ilwth MI or immediately
Otte every Qoarter.Dity; will t wlsieh their Names will
not he entered on the Pay. I.isls for the sribsennent tawnier,
' nail Ilive are aid afterwards to chance their place of abode,
as ripteifical its their affidavits, without unavoidable neces-
sity and duly notifying the same.
Anil tyhtber to take Notice, that in consequence of vie i•
olio nand.' hating beets committed by Pco.ioncra is, she
Receipt of Pension and Prize-Mosey, it is eritered that all
0000 ris 740 ufirndiog 1011511 IW 'track nil the• Navahos List,
I and loth it fur ever all benefit arising ‘llllll this Eatiblish•
meat ; it is therefore to be observed, 11, Ii in pursuance of
this rivoloti 0000 the 'Artie me,iiv.v,
the 17Ih and 45.1. ..f Matrit last, dmeted the following
! that-Pensioners to lie Shock ore the Iloapital Books:
I Ills Foot, JAMES 1F.4201, qt Is. 2.11. sw.r day.
cat Dragoon', sAMUEL MULLINS, fol. ditto.
The fuunrr having hers, eiiilty of faegiaz or catmint: to he
Hsu blames of Nasciaii ales Iti their Quarterly Affidavits,
and Or latter foe all,croix his Bate of Pension in his liodette-
-4 ion Papers, and thereby defrauding the rerreso appointed to
pay him hi■ Pension.
131014111.1) Nr,AFE, Serretary and Itegislear.

le this ease, the judgmetat of the Court of kiaes Beach
wasallismed with eusts.

ROWEL ET AL. N. TOW SANK OF ENGLAND.

Jodi/nem postponed nod to. row.
MEMIAGE FROM THE COMMONS.
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The „Irish lisholveut DrWogs' fill, for cooliouing i■ forte
fur POPS! time longer the existing Act, was brought up fru=
the Hutto. of Commons, and read a first lime.

The OlTendars Transimstatiun the Plate sad Coma
Glass Dill, the Soap sail Calico Rill, the W* IA Gana Rill,
and the Animal Excise Dutits BM, weal severally through
Cuininittee.

The Earl of lii.vstrerom again rove. and begged
pennies' to say • few wards on the subteot to
which the forfition re erred. The Gentlemen ass •
signed the Petition were well aware that this gots-
lion had been discussed in the other house of Par.
[lament, but they were naturally desirous Ilea t.eir
Lordships would take into their cmitailetufirla the
state of the northern connties of Ireland, which were
the loon severely oppressed by the existing I sty.
14 hid been stated. as he underrtood. i t obe ealtyr
flosige•of Puritanical. fist tliis law loud the stream
of reducing the number of illegal stills in -Ireland.
but this impression was formed ffhlii • contracted
view of one or two ctintitier, and was iu coisstqamce
founded in error. The diminution or oh., ,tstia
was butt tippareist, fur it was *di kismet' to tyre).
!semi' acquainted with the state i.f the north wf
Ireland, that illegal distillers, en bra, :2; driven (roc*
those cduisties where they had forriselly must
abounded, had fii!cen refuge in other counties tole
inotintainour, and where they enjoys-41 greater f..w•
litter fur carrying um their wink with teas Chang.
of being detected. It wen, Ise would Air..., the
anxious desire of the Irish Gentlemen, that the rev
venue should iiicrease, bat while this system con-
tinued. every chance Of improvement was hopeless.
The expenses in which it involved the Government
acre empinoue, while iu its operation it Isid the
country sane, reduced the ;testi& to 'simulate pan.
pertain, and dried ap the sources of fatsire revenue.
Such were the conkluences even to the present
state of the Treasury. that in the c..llectiun of a
large county of 'lreland. so great had been the ex-
penses atteisding a, the Government were obliged
to advance uo legs a tuns than 8,001)1. in addition
to it. for the purpose of 'toying the officers employ-
ed ish 'that duty. It was • staliect of great grievaliss
to the Geirtlemen of lieland who isay sheir taxer. thus;
the money 611,1y1J be thus destined to the isoysuent
of person% whose conduct has in man) Sam
been sintririourly improver. and has not upfrer
lineally been made the suniect of investigation 6C7
fuse the Juries of their country. There *dig one
instance of gross impropriety in an officer tuatiktyril
by the Government, which had come snider his oust
knowledge, but as the trial would shortly take
place, he should allude to the cost no farther. In-
deed, its souse instances ilie conduct of the revenue
officers was must outrageous; lie had known ail So-
armee in winch one of them had sabred a person,
and afterwards opposed force to the vied potter,
when au attempt bad been sande to arrest hies.
How, lie *sited, could this system ise of any use
unless all the inhabitants of a ttAttoided were to be-
come informer% a character held its prOtribiyi 41:.•
testation by the petiole of Ireland ? The 4glicill•
tune of the country hail been dertroyed; Ise ha I
himself been compelled in take into his owls hands
large tracts of mountain farms, which bad h.q.'s
thrown Ivy in despair; and, in *hoot, the feeling of
the country was be strongly expressed aganist this
system, that it could rust lis puiscy be auy brave
continued.

The Louis CSIANCEI.4.OII obveived, that iiie
Petition iireseutid by the Noble Lord could he
received but as the Petition of MAC i Wadi.
The forms of the House required that every Petition
vleould tidier continence with the worth. " The
humble IPetition,•• or contain in it tile words " /mo-
ldy theaelli." 'rise present Paulen ""
(her. A Pier, however., need not sive these emrtiv,
cud us the WIWI smote' by one Peer, it may
be received as his Petition. Let the Pettruwt.
therefore, lie ou the table as that of Lord Cas4e
Stewart.
The Petition was laid on Ole table.

The question fur the Meuse (evolving itself into a
Committee brio' put.
'I lie &el of Dotiouatiatoott mid, that the
ject of this Bill is to repeal that vp•letts
by *hick lines art imposed use any loannina Its Irv,
laud. in which en unlicensed still she'll be lumen.
introduced so long ago as the year 1783. soil usher
which the wartime, seising from 41. r allotiliAligsti of
spirits, has torocerded we lions very tonsil begins
mugs, till it has become by much the most pro-
ductive branch of the Excise, having agnomen...l 'let
the year ending toili January lust, in 1,175 mina/.
more than one-filth of the abate /nob I rt/Cliiir.
This Bell, therefore, as much as it subverts e
how-established system is/ the a:ollection of so ion.
portant a branch of the revenue, deserves from
your Lordships more than ordinary considcralion.
%%fleet was the slam of the Jrish distillery befoul
the enactment of this system of laws ?
In 1779 there were no less than i. 141 licenseas
stills, producoug an annual duty of 6J.518". all;
Taking into account so awls me mousiest ad awry