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London, England, 1819-05-06 00:00:00

SOLWAY FIRTH ROAD•

Sir Joule MAuoRIkANII• bought up the Report of the
•buve Bal.—The amendment• were rend, and agreed to.
POOR S ETTLEMENT

Lurd MILTON
presented a Petition against the Poor Set.
Ileums! Bill, from a turn in Yorkshire.—ltend, and laid on
the Wile.

A Petition •Raiud the game Bill was presented from Lea-
den, in :4tilfulk. by Mr. Germs', who .upported it with soma
obser►ations; and from Bainbi lace, i■ the comity uf Nur-
fulk.--lirad, and laid an the table.
SCOTCH -BURGHS.

Mr. Mattw►t.t. presented two Pennon+ from different
bridles of Inhabitants of the Ri.yal Burgh of Renfrew, pray-
:ng fir reform Its the constitution of the Royal Burghs of
firm land, whieh were read and laid on the table.

Mr. PRlMltati: said he held iti his hand six Petitions, all
intimately connected with the meastsre winch was to be
brought under the roomier, atom of the House to morrow
renting (the !gulch Smelt Bill.) However, they were of a
different di sei iptiuu 'two prayed for a reform in the con-
ttttt tilos of the burghs of Scotland. The first of these was
from thr Pioeust, Magistrates, and Corporation of the
burgh of Sill lisic Thep. Petitioners desired to csll the at-
trition, of :lie Hun-e its the roust iinti tttt of their own burgh,
which they said corresponded to their hopes so well, that
they did not desire oily altenuicn therein The second was
Gum the liirorporrtion of the Coildry of the same burgh, and
declared lust their constitution still admitted some 4'3-
p.m:tarots, but the object 4.f both was respectfully to press
upon tire nth-moos of the noose that the only mode of ex-
tinguishing, or checking the evils and *bums so generally
ft It and complained of in the other Royal Burghs, was by
'reforming then constitution and government, and particu-
larly by enacting an mutual election of fire majority of the
Connell. The hour others were against the Scotch Burgh
fltfl mirortired by the Lord Advocate: two from the persons
who hail signed she first two Petitions—one from another
body of inhabitauts—and the fourth from the town of Moto.
They all stated, that the Bill, so far from accomplishing the
end it prortritd, woald have au effect exactly opposite—and
the first three went not only against it generally, but re-
quested that if it passed into a lrw they might he particu-
larly exempted from its operation. The Hon. Member then
entered into a defruce of the character of the Petitioner,
generally for Burgh Reform. Nothing, he said, was more
ainfoutideti, that. the report that they consisted of the lowest
petit of the sommttnity. They were generally merchants
and burgesses, acil such were among the highest sod most
respectable of the 44.11shitalits of the county he bad the
brume to rep'. heed, and of all Scotland.

Th. P. tituwoint were read and laid nu the table, nod the
fled ordered to he printed.
Mr. Meaty saidte had a Petition to present from the In.
rurporated Trades of the {loyal Burgh 44 Montrose. The
Petitioners stated, that they enjoyed the greatest benefit
themselves from the new frame of municipal government
relented them by his Majesty's Ministers, and prayed the
114)..ar to take neesu.ures fur au extensi 0000 of these advantages
to the other Royal Burghs.—l'heretitiou was read and laid
on the table.