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written en the same hand, and that it appeared the
decided intention of some persons to force an in-
witty ioto the Manchester proceedings in that
House.
Mr. GRAHAM made some observations in a low
tone of voice. He concluded by observing, that
the Petition-be 'peesented web lam a person de.
scribed as having suffered • ly by the ut.
tack of the yeomanry. and the prayer war a rea-
sonable ones—it *Was fOT an inquiry into the trans-
actions of that melentholy day.
The Petition was laid on the table, and ordered
to be printed. • • •
COURT OF EXCHEQUER BILL.
Mr. ABERCROMHY h.id. iliat lie had utOerstood
that no liiniiiiess lid. to lisve been brooght forward
tut .that which was the nninediate object of the
meeting of Parlisment. He was, therefore, surprised
that the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite (the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer) should have brought in
two Bills, which were of great public importance.
(bile of the Ilia. lie understood, was to be read a
%retold time that night, from which he collected,
that it min the intention of the Right Hnitooralde
Gehttellnan to have them passed with all eltpedi-
tit n:
The object of the Bills was for the better
?trinity ,of money paid into the Court of Ex-
. hequer, on account of suits. and by suitors.—
To Owl regelations n the Bills he had no ob.
jectido; he thoughti they were necessary and.
just; but he begged to say that two attempts
the Same kind had been made in that House,
and the,resson of their failure was, that an Hots.
Friend of Ws, who brought them in, refused to
'inert uprises:non, recognizing the right to competi.
infirm of the person who received emoluments fur
the use of tbe. public money. He wished to know
from the Right Hon. Gentleman whether he in-
tended-to introduce a provision to give a peosion to
the Deputy Remembrancer of the Court of Exche-
quer, and he hoped the Right Hon. Gentleman
*sonid not think of passing the Bills through the
ilouve.without first having them printed and of-
turilmg..time fur consideration, as they were of im-
portance to the country. The Hon. Gentleman
concluded by moving for an account of all monies
in the.hands of the Depirty Remembrancer of the
Excheqtret paid into that Court on account of suits
and suitors, distinguishing such part as war consi-
dered dead or unclaimed.
The CHANCELLOR of the *EXCHEQUER said he
had no opposition to make to the motion ; but had
the Hots. Gentleman applied to him before he made
any observations in that House, he would have
learnt that it was his intention to have nifurded
every reesonsble time for the consideration of the
IHI4. He could assure the Hon. and Learned
Member that his views were entirely disinterested
iv bringing forward the measure, that his only
object was to provide against a public Inconel.-
&rote, and for the better security of the public
money.
Ms. ABBRCROMBY and the CHANCELLOR of the
EU:HOWER mutually explained, and the motion
was agreed to.
On the cretins of the CIIANCTILLOS of the EICHEIAVER,
the Court of Exchequer Bill was read a ',toed time sold
en:omitted.

THE REVENUE.
Mr. GRENFELL said, that it had been reported
in the. newspapers, as an answer given by the High
Hen. Gentleman (the Chancellor of the Exchequer)
to o question put to him by an Hon. Geutleman,
'the Member for Wareham, that he (the Chancellor
'of the Exchequer) had stated that he had every
o to believe and to hope that the revenue of
country, for the present year, would go the extent
of the calculation laid down the last year, and that
the result would be. that there would be a clear
surplus of five millions applicable to the payment
of the debt. The statement was one of great im-
portance—it filled many with surprise—and it gave
ratters much satisfaction. He (Mr. Grenfell) was
one of those who heartily felt that satisfaction, and
'in order to prevent the possibility of any misunder-
standing on so important a point, he hoped that
11;e Right liou. Gentleman would repeat the state-
ment be had made.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHICQUEIL said, that
he had uo objection to repeat the statement he had
made—the statement, to the best of his recollec-
tion, was whet lie made in the course of rather an
irregular conversation, that from the present state
Of the revenue, and from the best judgment he could
form, he had no reason to think that any deviation
• from the financial plan laid down last year would
he necessary.
Mr. BILOUGHAII said, he felt satisfaction from
the statement of the Hon. Gentleman, and he would
congratulate the country upon it, but the satisfac-
tion woold be the more complete if the Right
honourable Gentleman would as not only that
lie saw no reason for not going on with his plan
of appropriating five millions to the payment of
the notions! debt, bat also whether he would have
those *se millions, or whether he would be obliged
. to find them, and by that maws create a deficieuey
of .6 re million elsewhere.
The CUANCIILLOR of the EICHIQUER said,
that that wad not the proper time for the Hon.
Gentleman to put questions, but he had no objec.
t,„„. to answer thera.....find•it was•boa pinion. from
the progress of the rertitie. be would be able, at
leu-t.withia a moderate compass, to carry into ef-
• the pion as laid Amu in tba calculations made
she last year.( Hoar.) • •
BROUONIAIM satisfaction at the
dealatatioa of the Right Her. Geotlentasi Omagh
aceoespastiedoith e latch.
• TEE err avant •
• Mr. Betreern slid. he had to visual st Petition
Pita de iiadielolodl settee eliametor be ascertained'
to too reepewerAe, • aceirdiag te the oast
report. eireesaa not connested with soy political
' ' Vasty, it OA !may ot,klie impietied enislactions of
the day. The Petition stated matters worthy
*"1'• Uri aditheini- 'it dieted, diet, in
• lakt the ' Pei itteratscaiosd pre.
• tint Ileid-OtAttateet Float:bar, sear .tdaaebeeter,
' have
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illereattieeteed

moment he incurred the resentment of 11.
who offered hint the employssegit, The Pte.
net only declined to be • spy, but he past.
and proclaimed the name of the •author t• all
acquaintance. In some time after the Petitiont,
was committed to prison on a charge of some
sedition, practices. where he was trested i, it
most barbarous manner. It was given out that
he was the not°, lOUs General !Auld ; but after
some time being in prison he was discharged.--
lie was afterwards taken nut of his bed and
dragged to prison, where he was very ill-treated,
and was detained for many days, without knowing
the charge on which he had been taken up. At
length he was told that he was detained under the
charge of murder—for the minder of a person of
the name of Charles Chailwell, whom the Peti-
tioner states he had never known. This charge was
brought against the Petitioner ou the information
of a convict. then about to be transported to
Botany Bay. NVlten in possession of the charge, the
wife of the Petitioner procured a certificate from
the physician who *attended Mr. Chadwell, by
which it appeared that he was toot murdered, but
died of a fever. It having teen stated that the de.
ceased received a blow in a scuffle some time before
his death, a Coroner's Jury sat on the body,
and their verdict stated Holt lie died of it fever.
Colonel Fletcher, notwithstanding, committed the
Petitioner on the charge of murder, and on that
charge lie was kept in prison from June to August.
He was never brought to trial on that charge, and
lie (Mr. B.) believed that no bill of indictment
was ever presented, nor no person bound over to
prosecute. He was, however, tiled for a political
misdemeanor, and on the evidence of two persons
of bad character, exclusive of their being intim, he
was convicted ; and it [dandy - appeared 'Mans the
Judge's charge to the Jury, that .he did not believe
the evidence, and even at most'the word, imputed
to the Petitioner were a mere drunken speech. He
wes, however, convicted by the Jury.
.The Peti-
tioner prayed that his case might be taken into
consideration by the House, and also that the Par-
figment would not give additional and discretionary
powers to Magistrates who had already 'hewn a
disposition to abuse the powers intrusted to them.
The lion. Gentleman concluded by raying. that he
supposed there could be no objection to the re-
ceiving of the petition.
Mr. Flos[iSsow said, that without going into the
particulars, or into the character of the
the House could not think of entertainiug and re.
trying a case which had been already disposed of in
a Court of Justice. As to the other part of his
coMplaint, if the Magistrate in question had mis-
conducted himself, he could be severely punished
by the law; sod if the Petitioner had received inju-
ries, the law was open to hits and he might receive
redress.
Mr. B. Wtl.llaAhsts said, he had received in-
formation on the subject—the truth was, that the
Petitioner. in May, 1814, was appeelaseCled uuder
the warrant, not of Mr. Fletcher...lkt another
Magistrate, on a charge of a political ''nature;
whilst so in confinement, another Magistrate, well
known to individuals in that House, the late Mr.
Graham, received • letter dated from Portsmouth,
from the Deputy-Inspector of the hulks, enclosing
the affidavit of one John Harper. a convict, which
stated, that about three years before, as he was return.
ing home, he heard some disturbance, and hsvi'.g
gone up to the spot, he saw the late Mr. Chadwell,
of Beech-hall, near Bolton, much ill treated by
two men, one of whom was John Lever, the peti-
tioner--that those persons vehemently swore that they
would serve him the same way. and that thereupon
he fell on his knees, and promised never to disclose
what he saw ; he then ran home, and was so
alarmed he could not sleep, nor did he inform his
wife of what took place, and he afterwards received
a new snit of clothes from those persons. Harper
had been convicted of forgery, and was under sen-
tence of transportation, but other circumstances of
strong suspicion having existed against the peti-
tioner, he was apprehended. Mr. Fletcher, as
was his ditty, issued his warrant on the charge,
but at the Ateliers, the friends of the deceatied
refused to prosecute him, and the mans evidence
against him was that of the convict, who should
first receive the Royal pardon. It was by the
greatest good fortune that these papers had .not
been destroyed. The lion's mouth at Venice was
not wider than the month of the Right Honour-
able Gentleman for charges of this sort. %Ir.
Fletcher was a man of high respectability of cha-
racter. who had fur 2.2 years discharged the duties
of • Justice with great credit. and he put it to the
House whether it was probable that he should hate
acted in the way imputed to him. He had further
to state, on the authority of the Magistrates of
Manchester, that there was not one word of truth
in the assertiou so frequently made, that they had
acted on the 16th August on the instructions of
Government. They said that the responsibility of
their proceedings don themselves only
(Hear, hear)—and whether they had been right
or wrong, they would, he (Mr. Wilbraham) be-
lieved, be called upon to *hew at the ensuing
sista. Woes extraordinary that this petit* should
not have been presented to the House but. after a
lapse of seven yeti's.
Mr. Betairee said it was quite impossible the
Hon. Gentleman could have listened with atten-
tion to hint, or lie would not have indulges) iu the
observation, he bad. Ile had said distinctly Out
he knew nothing of the transaction, except the
-previous character of the tnait, - which he believed
to be creditable ant! good, except in this 'Ogletree
where persists, hid been employed to entrap lint
into as offence. He raid, and he could prove to
tbs. Wise. that evidence had been tendered to
• dint IllOgillettes that no murder had been commit-
-0114 the whole object was to get
,AllO too into pot. tie distinctly aid. knowing well
how these things were got up in tbe county of Lins-
easter, that the aoau had boo/mot to 'goal. the Ma-
gistrates being at the time well convinced of his Mao-
ceuce. iblut&hod tbe Petition loggia hispossession.
of

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neat he had made respecting the produce of to any great extent. It •
ew team ha so invested his capital of
Member, whose name we could not learn, of it by will, because-rat 4
damned of the unintelligible manner in which between his children or
tublic accounts were lend In fore Parliament. of any regard to testament.'
amended motion was thew .;;reed in. hen remarked, that too writer
'',. MARERLY, before proposina hie next motior. ' f the world, M. Cate, in
wed, that the coneolidated fermi had been • rioted, in America. had con.
1,000/. in arrears on the 19 11 •Joiruary last. hat the political greatness of
deficiency had been ascribed by the Wiest Melly attributable to two lave
useable Gentleman to the'ermeolidstion or the n France at the preeeilt day
with the English Encilepter ; brit he geniture. and the law conferrin
hisberl) ) imagined moo /ter rinse of ;t. tamentnry dispoeitiori of propert
it be theroirered. lie hail borrowed ti...ty Mr. Eames replied to the
oils in IS IS. few defrayieitz the toteres• og hancellor of the Excl..:ner.
•11 no provision hail 111911 mail, ti'l tot 9, eon ewn that lie wev 311%,..1is ,"
planted to burrow t arm y. tont million. MO-. r. 'menu by the ClictieelHt ~i
to provide for paying the tote; ret on tenth twin.,, he Back ; and he had wont
aid on new taxes to the amount of I.l9t.eoni. eferesice to any arrangements
defray this charge, u sum of•l37,otxt/. had, it he Bank and the Right Hon.
eared, made its way into the Exclorpier no tr., ring told, however, that a pa
amber.—(Hear, hear.)—S 9 Imo the iiiree•-t aerie effected, he declined any
early sixty millions was chargeable on the co. s- - in the subject. Rumour., ho
ited fund for the whole of the year 11418. at..t to a method of paying the Bank
one quarter of lain. He understood that tin, to the Government. It ware
Iciency on the 10th October aronumed ta money due from abroad, a,
se right millions ;so that there wry' :or increa•e French funds, was to be at
arear from January till that time of live minim's. anent of the Bank. This mig •
e Bank had hoot Session made every effort to iv- it would be better for the Cl'
ce the House to direct the repayment to them .0' chequer to exploit' the whole c
40001. per month, hut lie had been istformeol was another point on which
t the country owed the Bank four millions m••r. statement of the Right Hon. t
October last than at the time when the lieusrf mentioned as a proof of the
I been legislating for the replyineut of their ad. venue, that not above 152,001
ices. He then moved for— had been received, which were
d
'An Account of the deficiency of the Coneolidatetl Faint returns. Now, what de uctio
the 10th Oct. 1519, together with au At count of ibe wean. this, but that the country, air
• in which the same was made good,' ed, had still to undergo the p
iich, after an amendment proposed by the CU A N..
lions of new taxes, with the a.
LLOR of the Excites:pm. and agreed to, was
He looked on that merely
fired. threatened more distress. ft w
The following return was also ordered, without the Right Hon. Gentleman .1w
y discussion— or too much. Being applied
'An Account of the amount payable out of the Curfte!i. the Right lion. Gentleman ha.
led Fund between the 5111 July, ISIS, and 10th Oct. IJIVY,
of recouraging stock-jobbing.
• inieeest on Loses raised in ISIS and ISIS, iliwittirsotr-
t each Unionism! separating the Charge created by cult effectually encourage it as 11
pail.” speed' of the Right lion. G
Mr. MAISERLY then mover' for— argument of people being de
"An Account stsewiug how the sum of Five Minions voted their money in French funds
r the purpose orpeyine ntf the Debt due to the Bioko( En!. their decease the property co
id on the Sth July, 1819, has befit applied, distingaishiaa, according to the law of Fran •
r dales of the different payments." to hare no effect.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that Mr. LCSHINGTON defended
considered this motion more set iously objection- Right lion. Friend. He wo
)le than any of the preceding, relalieg, as it dol. plc of his accuracy the item o
i the progress of the measures preparatory to tic: of which had increased, by ac•
•siimption of cash payments. 'rule House was last year, or with the last q
were that there was considerable falling off in the lie thought it unfair to ta
'tarter of the present year ending on the 10th Or- finance and contrast it with I
ober, compared with the correepoiretiorg quarter of right to expect a progressive
he preceding year. But the greatest deficient). taxes commencing immediate!
16,000/. had been in the article of Customs, anal posed ; many modifications
here were several circurattatoces which might at- time must be given for the acc•
aunt for that; but it did not appear that the con- writ before the first mine,
tinption of the country had been at all diminished Of the new malt tax, for est
, the same degree. Of this the Excise was .r thing bad been received ; and
such better criterion than the Costums. and of the new taxes not above 1
e had in his hand a short statement of the co,- ceased. But then this was all
eruption of *meal articles out an average fur the according to the arrangement
firer years ending the lOth October, ISIS, coin- wird to those taxes. No ac
aired with that or the east year. ' Fiat, the quantity 4 House. in the progress of a
1 tea consumed in each of the three former year. amounts of the old and new ta
ras shoat twenty-one millions of pounds, wi erras alone at the quarter's rinse. N
hat of the last year was above tweiry-two tuts- beforehand what amount o
ion., leaving an excess of about a million one boo- reatrunably expected in any
keel thousand pounds. The quantity of tulmicor enough to do it prospective!
Ind suuff was nearly equal for each period, bell g could never be precisely m
'bout eleven millions and a half. The consuminieir thought his Right lion. Frie
if British and Irish spirits during the three for- for the cheering prospect whi
nee years was five millions ninety-two thousand • Mr. ELLICE explained.
gallons, and in the last 5,'205,000, being an in- Ng,. GRENVELL had ~,i,
crease of above 100,000 gallons. Witres„ nasal Hon. Friend for fixing the ti
isilaldth different
aje
vancla
advanced from
fcroisses foreign p
average
ofro3dc,u46eLoogo. tgliejri., the Batik, and . ,
ef tileßightiflade
Hon.
bei on
Gentlei
lose to 3.807.000—0 n English beer there had loam as hr did then, that any line
an increase of duty of 126,000/.—em bricks aiiil , the House into the mode an
tiles 92.0001.--on leather about 10,000/.--and 01 would be imprudent, as the
salt about 12,0001.—(!fear )—Now. be thought fixed.
that the knowledge of the consuurptioii of the
.Mr. Rtcaano also thoug
country during the last year, keeping up ta that of House to interfere in the err
preceding years. was consolatory. Not only 111 J • Chancellor of the Eacheq
timoicial point of view, but also as shoring that dr- regard to the payments 0
distress was not to general as to affect -the gent r.. 1 time he saw no danger in gi
comforts of the people.—(/-tear, hear, /tear.)—
It likewise led to the conclusion, that whatever tear- atuestikm.
porary falling off there might have brew is the Cu•- im-iiobbAes te, to
i ts
ratherin c re
the
contrary effect. Stock-job.
tome, they, as well us the Excise, would 'yenta,. cresy and partial informati
their former flourishing state. 'rhe produce of now in case of the public
the Customs had been very materially impri eel would have the benefit of
since the end of the last quarter. and il lie were to could be no particular adva
lay before them a statement of their present weekly One word rot a mistaken a
produce, it would be found to equal any iii trot firm. Gentleman with, rest
most foreseeable year. The Right lion. Gentle- Be was wrong in taking t
man then argued that the motion should be urge- sfeteratining .the amount
tilted, because the measures relating to the traios,c- Suppose fifty thousand
}tow between the Bank and the country were at- out in this country, the
wally in progress, unless some charge were mink, . money paid and remitte.
or well-founded suspicion entettswed against his in such a case the exchaug
Majesty's Ministers, and iseemise the adoption this as so sweet' calms! tea
of it would open a very wide field for stock-jaii• culotte's could be made wit
biog. A large sum had been already paid to the * ports and Puporte, nor wo
Batik, and provisions had been made to secure mine. Not long ago, Err
the payment of the remainder before the sth Fe- called nu to 'thew the amen
brusry. It was far better that the business should country to the other ;wh
go Go in a quiet way.—(A /neigh.)—lle objected appeared from them, that ..
also to the two motions relative to•Exclirmorr Mils. the other; tux was of coon
because they were calculated to Of ,rd the Holier ito „won, of oocertotiot,,g were t
information whatever. and as to the resolution re- anti exports end imports I
paring an account of all sow. boo rowed (noir 1:1t port the motion.
Bank of England on the Issid and malt dutiei, t'
1111.
EINNAIRD thoug
was a sefficieut answer to say. that the !kook 1i5.1,, cessary, and would vote to•
made Do advances whateverlns these 'revere i... il r. MAIBERLY said, tit
He should now shortly advert to a subject *lad lions was made to redeem
had excited a great eiensation in the country-1i to the Bratsk, ill order
meant the supposed recent transfers of Bonk', ea smuts in specie ; but
tad to the Frew!' funds. lie nroluuhtedly le• Gentleman bad borrowed-
hewed that • the alarm excited about the pahlr- ' the Cosisotisloesiel Fund.
credit, nsijht have led ionic individuate to gnat, which Parliament enter'
e ,
ach inamaissessis ; but be by no means believe.' ihould be made? The
..eilisee Yost:the some were very coneirlenible, or tin. had denied any real deer
- theliporration was likely to be permanent. 'Float tti July quarter three was
' sunetwere twit very large, a -proof was derived boo Beteg cousiuced of the .
the sautes,/ the exchapges, which were rather nu ti.. refereed the House to the
rise, but if the insusters he hkett' extensive, th. at the tee—.there is 'mice
Iset 'said bun ,beesslimaiuerWthie ; .theteruee the The Right Boa. Geutle
~eisurs-'was egwAssiest •Wisis suspect to the lie tad reforest duty.. 1
whiwiscroPtlleipiiiiik.• he theogirsthat iise pie •1 date," ea tee equal •
flitlit. AO :.il2C:r. 'WWI, .16' 'reiel' gassier.. Spirits bud el
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WA
i ..... . WA* bgkit'vW malt ; there were 100,,,
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