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TOWN•LANI) FINES

!general (DRYLY presented a Petition from an
individual. named Jeremiah Long, complainiog 4.1
the seveiiiies pructieeol by the Excise its behind, by
which he had been a sufferer.
On the motion that the Petition should be re-
ceivrd—
Sir JoKm NEwpoiti wished to know, as the at-
teutioii of She noose was called to Ili question re-
tain% to excise, what was to be done with respect
to the Diminution Laws in 'Mood. It was, he
aid, most extraordinary, that Ministers, after having
declared that they would :Abide by the system of
basing town-lands. should suddessly give up that
deterministic's' and introduce a new system. the
object of which would have an effect directly the
reverse. It was degrading to the dignity of that
House to or his Majesty's Moisten, abandon the
system, which is considered by them of an efficietit
nature, in consequence of the threats of certain indi-
viduals, who, if their views were not acceded to,
would withdraw their suppoit from Administration.
He could only say, that so vacillating an Arlan-
nistratiou did not deserve the support and confi-
dence of the Douse or of the country, and he asked
a hat might be the consequence if another body of
soppostris started up and threatened to withdraw
their support if the present measure was abandoned.
That system had dwinotled illicit distillat to next
to nothing, and was the only security. The Ad-
lll i l 'Windom were, he said, bound not to coo•ult in-
dividuals, or to be influenced by Ilse threats of the
powerful to abandon a measure 1.10411 which much

.114#1 ady coawlwlrd
whether 14 11!Iff 4' of iiirl:viduitla hod not that
innrning dictated terstr4 to cit. Chancellor of the
tonli CASTLEREACII msi,l, lie hevet wit•tesved eci
oarrportlietary ou rsh,hition 1.1 temper 114 the rim'.
notnnet had i,pet oven. ll+ charged him with
having romp to the I .114 e to Vent rillUninies,
In eninprl them 11, wioste thvir time. Tlin.e
Inninir!. lie rtiniil.l with the %Almn indig-
110111$1. It might :011444'4:r the Iloss. Baronet wetl

'ennugh to nllJ.•ct In A ch.,tige of the •ysterti of
lining the lovt.n iiiiii etted M 1 hr %Viol with a
i•nntntereml town, iorniniblv indifferent to the
itiorresto or 311 oii,erk, 110 tliUt itienoiret ivus‘rd for

the advantage of lite phice he reoretteoltd.
aspored the llnn.", that they had inertly in Ilos
ot.t. Oii nptinn ip.t.vreti Iwo evil:. Nionrers were
open to no threat —they were influenced for the
',Oldie gond.
Mr. MALMICE FITZGERAtO .241, that If thp
Mil AM -osited tilaitidnii
Right Ilan. Gen I i 14 11ete,r
the i.yotetra in conte•piroce of having learned that it
W"` "Pie"' with intillorphtv, he should have stated
those grounds to the [intl..... The titietion
whether the town-14.1114 61 I.rltstid Mond!! hr

fret to fines or tone, owl the I were loot to be
diverted from it by any minor coolo.oler 'thong. The
was, whither the Hight lion. Gentleman
had res•goard the existing Pt-tren ? If sorb were
the rpe, he glee Item credit for et.—lllenr.i—
-lint lie begged leave to ask, whether, before this
mr4.oete was adopted, the Right Hun, Gentleman

•
ol consulted with the Reitresentstives of Os great
titles of Ireland, and lipid toscertaiitril Inns kr it

wool tor consistent with justice that th♦ great dis-
tillers, who had couttibuted so essentially to the
revenue, should now be derived of tint system of
under which they liad einployed their
impel ty ? "Iflw Itt. Hon. Gentleman. however, in
giving up the existing Pr.frol, had Meld Very 1111
hot lie hoped lie would wore himself to

he provided wish 00111 e rllir:ar•iuu+ plan to preserve
lie revenue, rod ',resent the extension of illicit dis-
tillation, which in itself WWI a great evil, and which
the It'. Ilan. Gentleman herd formerly predicted as

the necessary consequence of re iiiii vim; "this system.
Ile also trusted the Chancellor of the Exchequer
had provided a plan for preventiog the continuance
of the gross violence and tyranny exercised by the
Excise (officers of Ireland. Offences were committed

by that class of people which would never be endured
in this county}•.—fllrar. hear.)—He believed that
the legal distillers of Ireland have been hying in
stuck, and have therefore a large pecuniary inte-
rest involved in ilie determin Ilion of this quest .
Ile hoped, therefore, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer would proceed with due deliberation, lest
any injustice may b.: done to meritorious indivi-
duals, however injurious the system may be in
principle, which it was desired to remove, or how-
ever improper may lie the mode iu which it was
enforced.—/Near, hear.)
Mr. V. FITZGErtsi.o said, that however unwil-

ling he was to obtrude himself uu the attention of
the Hons.., lie could not sit silent when lie heard
laws arraigned by Hon. Gentlemen on one side of
the House, and abandoned for certain unaccount-
able reasons by his Hight Hon. Friends on the
other, lint which had received the sanction of sow-
restive Parliaments. Had the measure now pro-
posed hero passed witl t harsh expressions. he
should not have been the first to originate oh.
jretions to tt. either in the House or elsewhere.
His Noble Friend (Lord Castlereagh) would forgive
him fur saying that lie had not expected from
him the application of harsh epithets to those
laws which lie had once supported, and which
were admitted to have had the most powerful
effects in supporting the revenue of the country,
—/Here he was interrupted by Lord Castle-
reagh, who remarked that his /tight Honourable
friend must have misunderstood him./—Hie' Noble
Friend, be said, wJuld du Mtn the justice of be-
lieving that there was no man in the House who
would be more unwilling to misrepresent any thing
that fell front him. therefore lie should desist from
the course lie was shout to pursue. lie had no he-
sitation in saying, that however aware he was of the
evils that unfortunately accompanied the existing
system, he should, if in office, still urge the pro-
priety of continuing it. He contended generally
for the excellence of that system in maintaining
the revenue, aud hoped that the Chancellor of the
Exchequer would be successful in Isis proposed ar.
raorment to mitigate the severity of the law, and
yet not sacriliee the finances.
Sir J. Ml.:water said, that whaterer his opinions
may be on the law relating to Still Fines, he
should not be influenced by the opinion of any
Chancellor of the Exchequer. for he never knew
two of them agree.—(!lvor, hear, and a laugh.)—
It was the constant misfortune of Ireland, that it
never had • Chancellor of the Exchequer who
seemed either willing or able to entertain sentiments
of general policy calculated to serve the common
interests of the realm, and yet not conflict with
local concerns. There were sin fixed principles.
but the country was oppressed by an imperiuns in
imperio, by which the general advantage was sacri-
ficed to local and partial interests. Retook shame to
Memel f that this law originated in aso Irish Parliament,
and the history of it was this : The Chancellor of the
Exchequer induced the country gentlemen of Ireland
to vote for this savage sod barb.irous enactment, by
promising them, if they supported him, that all the
spirits of the country should piy a certain duty. lit
the course of another Session. however, this en-
gagement was forgotten, and the system was main-
tained without the advantages that were promised.
Mr. V. FITZOILDALD explained.
Mr. WILDMAN said, he had felt disposed to vote
in favour of the motion for a Committee on a for.
slier night; but his desire to support his Majesty's
Ministers, in whose train he generally followed.—
/Hear. hear, from the Opposition Benches, and
much laughing./—His meaning was misunderstood.
lot saying that he followed in the train of his Ma-
jesty's Ministers, he only meant to express his ge-
neral concurrence in their political condoct. He
was, in his principles, as independent a Member
as any in that House.—(Hear. hear, from the
Treasury Beaches./—With respect, however, to
the usotion for the Committee, he most say.
that no vote he ever gave so much hurt his feel-
ings. as his vote on that night. It had been his
wash to support the motion. because he felt the
system that was pursued in Ireland was detestable.
--(Hear, hear, from the Upposition.)—lt was a

disgracefeil priiteiple of action to cotifoulid the in
I
I sinned with the gefilty. 1111 011 P COlOlllOll 1 1111 l Mit.
'.main.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.")—line
the einergency of the case, as made out by Vie
: Chaurellor of the Exchequer Kiel his friends, ii-
. deiced him to merge his private feelings in' the pe -
I sweaty and expediency of the measure. He nee.
I
lth ought he bed some right to complain of the roe •
duct of the Right Hon. Gentleman. lie, hov- -
t
ever, understood now that the Chancellor of the
Exchequer intended to propose a pint that would
oftviate every difficulty; •iief it wile rmnoured that
1 this change on the Right floe. Gentlenian'e spen
' fitments had been efected by a Committee of Irish
f Members. who threatened hint that they iyota hi
desert his interests if lie <l,,i tint support them. I'
he thought that lite Majesty's (;overnmeur molt
Ire influenced by such a mode of proceeding he
•limild not fur moodier moment sit et their side of the
I louse. —Meer, hear.)
Mr. Uswsote, ...nutting to what had fallen on a
former night from Sir John Newport, denied, in the
strongest term., that the country Gentlemen in the
North of Ireland enceiiira4ed, in the remotest de •
gree, the practice of illicit distillation. He sop-
weird that the Right Hon. Baronet was indeleeel
by his regard fee the great distilleries of Wetrautd,
the city which lie represented, to prefer the severer
measures to those of a more lenient character for
potting down that laimefol practice.—(" A° !"
from .)ir John Neteport.)—lie also denied that the
flash Members had directed any threatening lapi.
gunge to his Majesty's Government. 'rime fart
wits, that a certain number of Irish Gentlemen had
that morning waited on the Chancellor of the.
Exchequer and the Noble Secretary of S:ate for
Foreign Affairs, mid had argued the question
fairly with them. He expressed his warm gratitude
to his Majesty's Government for their attention tee
the subject ; and if the Irish Members were fortunate.
',weigh to prevail with them, it should he attributed
to the justice of the cease. and not the absurd and
unfounded notion, that the Irish Members could
forget themselves so far as to address themselves in
threats to the Government.--(Hear, hear.)
Nlr. PEET. suggested the propriety or 111111114 g 1111
end to this discussion. It ere's.. out of the Petition
of Jeremiah bong, which it was doubtful whetheer
it could be received according to the rules of the
House. He lamented that the Chlllice-110r of the
Exchequer had determined to abandon the system
of Still Finn', which had been found so effective.
Mr. CRAWFORD spoke, hut being under the
Gellert% and the House tieing somewhat 'soil et
the time, we could not distinctly catch his eh-
I aererstionv.
The Cita trcet.bort of the EXcuroura complains
ed of the uujust severity with which he had been
personally assailed during this discussimi. %Volt
respect to the measure of Town-land Fines, he heel
an doubts that it was effective. but lie no here ao.
knowledge-11 the severity with which it eve -
rated in some care. lie hail objected to the
Committee, bemuse he thought some ineaeure
might be devised ni private to (obviate the evils that
nceempamed the system. and further consideration
had ceetfirmed !rim in that opinion. lii it few day*
lie meant to suggest some plan to mitigate the sr-
verity of the law, miff yet preserve its advasitsgesi.
Until then he hoped the House would suspend its
judi•ment of his consistency.—(Hear. hear.)
Sir Geo. Hut. said. he considered the meanie.:
necessary. The Isle Chancellor of the Exchequer
adopted it, and had the support of nine-tenths of
the Irish Members. it was ant, he "aid. fair or
just of the Right Hon. Baronet to make the Oterot
which lie had made on the Irish Member.; such
chore, was altogether unsupported. He cautioned
the Minister against the abandonment of tlw present
system, because what he abandons now, he may be
obliged to resort to hereafter.
Mr. MARTIN said, he rose to defend his own
honour. The cliar4e mote this night by the Item.
Baronet, went to wound the honour of every Gen-
tleman concerned. Nothing could be snore wimisd-
ing to them than the charge that they would have
deserted their principles—that they would woiliiil
the empire in the most vital part, by supoortilig
the measures of the Right Honourable B erenet.
—(A laugh. j—lotnnuluti 111 l had lain tulkeil iit.
Ile for one did toot mean to iiitimidate the N old,
Lord (Castlereagh) or the Chancellor of the Ea-
chequer. He did not think the Noble Lord cioril
he intimidated ; brit if any snail thought eltherwi...
then he would recommitted him to make the earn-
ment himself.—(Much laughter )--As for th.•
Right Ron. Baronet, lie had a high opinion of him
—he was certainly useful in accounts and minor
matters—(A burgh)—he was a most useful check
to the measures of Ministers. mid he (11r. Mar-
tin) would assure him that lie would do every
thing ill hie power to keep him in Ins present of-
fice.—( Laughter.)
Mr. C. H. HUTCHINSON said he did not rise to
defend his Right Hon. Friend—he thought his con-
duct was not only out of the reach of censure. but
above all praise. He did not know any public man
who laboured so hard, who meted so zealously, or sir
much to his own honour, for the heinfit of lie land
and the general good of the empire. a. the Right
Hon. Baronet. Tlw Noble Lord had, without tne..ll-
- it, acted unkindly towards his Right Hon. Fe le net
--he charged him with directing los attention to
local and particular iiitererts. lie did ditect his
attention to local interests, but it wee °toy where lie
was called uimii to do so as a 1/111/11C 111411. The
Member for Londonderry had charged his Right
Hon. Friend with attending to the distillery of
Waterford—the charge was without foulidatioli.
and even without colour; there was no distillery Hi
the city of Waterford, and even if there were. his
Right Honourable Friend was too high and too
indepeudent to forward their interests if op-
posed to the general interests of his country.--•
As to the system of dinillatiou, he would not enter
into that subject fur the present; he would merely
state, what indeed was universally known, that a
great portion of the revenue of Ireland arose from
the distilleries. He would also state, that the great
distillers of Ireland had suffered most .severely
from the vacillating system which the Gotten,-
ment bed adopted, respecting their trade. A
report had gone abroad, and it seemed to rest
on authority, the substance of which they had heard
—and he conaidered it a natural feeling. and in-
deed the duty of tile ltignt Hoe. Friend, to relieve
the Irish distillers, who are subject to enormous
duty, and who hare nook great capitals iii their
trade, front any apprehension by the declare-

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'tons of C;entlemen connected with the nnerrsi-
nient. When he (llr. Hutchinson) vrllected
on the conote that it seems is now to be mime-
ed—whett lie reflected on the sudden nod
unit-countable manner in which it had been oil; pt-
ed_wlien lie saw Ministers aloud PUddri.ly to
Ithonthol a system whit li had succeeded, and to ailo;it
one :dike opposed to the increase of the revetm-
and the morals of the people—lie thought ;la-
thing was more just. nothing more reasonable,
than to call for • declaration to satisfy the veist
distillers of Ireland, who had laid out their cep.t
lie thought it was hut fair to ask, whether they
were to be tinned round again, and whether their
interest• were to be sacrificed to the expediency of
the dey Fur his loot, he could not but hear,
wish str:wise Nod indignation. of the defermioation
that had been come to. without Ministers ever cons
sidi.ng the of Ireland.
After a 1., word* from Colonel BARRY,
Sr Joust risWeOnT •aith, that what he had stilt-
ed lie had heard from good authority. The trans.
action was in some degree explained by the Noble
biol. hitt wit very clearly ; however, whether
the Noble Lord, or the Right Hon. Gentleman
Hear hilts had explained the measure lushly end
fairly, he would leave to the judgment of the House.
He emild slot but express his surprise to the sud-
den, usitlonkrul-for, and intaccoitiitioble aliatultm•
merit of the prevent system by the Ministers, mud
lie could only attribute that abandonment to one
eftwr. Ile would now ask the Right Honourable
Centlettion whets be intruded to: bring forward
prop,med measure. and whether. iu the menu
time. lie intended to insult the Irish distillers
who laid out large capitals, awl whose interests are
vitally emseerned in tins question ; whether, to a
word, the Right Hon. Gentleman did intend to
give the great distillers of Ireland an opportunity
of expressing their opinion.? if he did, the state.
swots they might be able to make might serve to
'guide the Right Hou. Gentleman.
The CIIANCELLOR of the EICHEQUER said. he
%would bring forward his plan as soon as it was aro.
ellgeSlOPti. Hood that might be in it few days.
Sir FRANCIS Bumorrr said, that feeling as he
did fur the morals and the prosperity of Ireland,
lie was really rejoiced et the step the King'. Ali•
roisters had taken to sholishro cruel. so unjust. and

►n oppressive a system. If Gentlemen would only
inquire into that subject—if they would consider
the cruel operation or the still trues—if they would
itiret ad the otter falsity of the charge made
against the character of the Gentlemen of the
North of Ireland, they could not hesitate to
put on -end to a system which is unjust and op.
prrs•ive. impolitic and absurd. The distillenea
in the North of Ireland haul been more peril-
cularly adverted to—sod heft. again be would
ontrr.it the attention of G-sstleinen to a COD.
tidrnitioti or she system, to the ristweise of its
tuschiteery, :o the employment of military posser,
to the a rrteheditess, to the desolation, as it kid
item said Isy all lion. Gentleman, which it sires.
binned. Wlwn GeePlemen would rt fleet on there
veils on the destruction of the morals and the
hapl•i-
uers of the people of 'rebind, Iln yosould not suffer,.
for the small revenue it could produce, at mice the
tanwry awl the demorsilirition of the people.
Petition was then ordered to lie on the table.

The m•veral Orders of the Day were then gone
througli,aud the House rdjouru•d at ON o'CLot.u.

IPREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FLANDERS AND DAMBERCH MAILS

!i•FLO, APRIL 30.

roritT OF ASM7F.S,Rif..r9.

M 'term, the Counsel of Neu, eaileavous Ito alley that
tlo iv a im'il slot have been even Ilw auto miller of is plot,
but for the intrigues of Laborde *nil Wawa Rail that his
4 lit ot w oc not a political mailman, but Ite•icged by agents,
alum he would ilisetover, lie enoteavoured to get rot of itti so.
'Flo. Compel of Rerih nail Dirricka folltoaril a lisle of dv_
ft lose i eat ly urntlar, alle2ing that thu re was in fact via.
111111: 11111 could be called a (violin Arc, loot that the a loole
Iris etathrivaitee of anti his ago sits, alio hail doped

11w tMn pegiasings.
11,01ratans, enamel for Poutilot for TA Croix) notiii.
iii,4l hi+ tlivnt had ant g thy I tio• yaet aimmilerf
lain of Matching ilw uthera,aud that if any out is gushy it
atin.i Iw 14114.1111 f.

NI. V.-. ha. gen, jun. Counsel for Rueltua, in a speech a
the.. e limos, said hr *maid leave it to his ch. of to excel-
pate lain elf from 11w 0111..U4 charges (use m' to this &flair;
a the Pros.catur and ttw Gmusrt of the other Prisoners
have brought against l.im. Whether Rollos be we be 110 l
agent of the Emir:, pistiec, ausi whether he has received
1111/1111- front the French Ambassador or tint, is of no come-
qu. wee to the present quesioni. An Amlaassadsw who lc-
pre-rot- his Sovereign, must end lie calumniated, his diplo-
matic charade? must place him 'hove atispieimi.
Counsel 'endeavoured to she*, hunt Ike facts forming
the the accusation cannot its any point of view con-
uir a crime. much less such a one as is pe•wideill against
Ivy %rt I. of the Decree of 20th April, ; that the EM.
laror .llexasikr was in our kingdom only an individual,
like other foreigners, to whom the 4th Article of Fenola-
'midi.' I.uw gives protecti tttt ; that therefore the phi; in
qina arms is only a plot agaiust au individual, who 11/111 no
att. Ow se or sovereignly an iiiii g us, and roma qnently was to
be classed with oroltuary mitres, it it had received au incep-
tive 11104'11111/N *kWh 'rusk' give it the character of au at-
Inapt 1 tontriler.
The overthraw of the French Government, he says, which
secomal to lee the object Mr the plot, would not here nem-
satily !writ followed by a revolution among us, or eve., by
say troubles or daunt. rs. It would 1w an insult to our
4.... "velment, cloth is ale. ady rousidialated, In 1111rptor that
r• political existence depended Ull 11w present GUIFITIIOII4It
af France; br,illll %hat may happen sit cutisequi are of Sti
Irvrell is not assimilated its the language of the laws to
alio mast nrcemartly human, sod crimes arc not prorcel by
1H1PM14111101,111141 11.111jr1r111,0s.
1.111. iwo principal conditions requlrtil by the Ist Artirle
sf the Dom r of Inls, are %smiting here; the phi. et of the
iaellerS certainly ass not to excite diuentions Arftreen Ike
ibioildlanlettf Ike kingdom, slur was thi se any act contrary
to good order equivalent to sedition, which the Derive re-
gions. lie slurried that Ilw plot hail no inceptive est cation;
11131 HUI-1114 iufam, d the pollee of 11w plot, and (Whored
i.e do. et sous pram him; that the .1. flotation of Pollillirt la
the other twosome, was the amity proof against litlehoit,
.ii that Lir declaration might to be rejected for several
reasons ; that the arms bought by Mich.:, and delivered to
Croix, Jo not prole bins 11/ 1111, au accomplice. Tie 1/oth
role requires that they shall have loan used to the com•
~,,,,,,- of the art hot in this case there was nu act emu-
und the arms bought by Barba, could out have been
used in it, since restrained in the chandler of LA Croix.
1 his wonting the Cowl opened al ten o'clock. M. this,
the prosecutor fur the 'Crown, replied to the defence, and
slimed that a plot had twin roomed, mid that it had received
an inceptive rat rut ; that so hurt ihte an atlcisipt as that
noolitated against the august retsina of the Emperor Alexan-
der was surely very likely 1.. tlistm Is this public tranquillity,
not merely in our contd. y. hitt its all Europe; amid that the
usu s throw .if the French Goviironent must necessarily have
had au logisepare 1111011 the kingdom of the Netherlands and
Whir cauutt tea. lie examined the charges against rad/ of

IMNDON,
SATURMY, MAT s, istl9.

The discuss on tlic (shims of the Roman
Catholic' to a participation in all the honotini and
advantages offered by the Constitution, was lest
night postponed in the !louse of Louis by Earl
GREY, in COlllit (Vence, we lament to state; of the
serious indisposition of the Earl of DoNntnnit.
mom& On the motion of Eat GILES', the Lords
were ordered to he bunsitionta fur Monday sc'u-
►nght, when, we hope, Lord Donut fatuous: will
be sufficiently recovered to perform the duty he bus
undertaken.

The Earl of Ilauitott sv brought in the Report
of the Secret Committee oppointed by the flame
of Lords to investigate the ulfaus of the Ilisiik of
: but, itel the suggestion of I.:Ati GREY,
it was Dot read by the Clerk at the table. The
Report and the evidence connected with it were
ordered to be printed. The Earl of IiAItROWDY
intimated that lie would, on Thursday Wimiglit,
submit to the House certain Resolutions, founded
on the opinions of the Bank Committee; but after
some discussion, in which lasts GitLY and LA V VCR..
DA LC forcibly pressed the necessity of Rising
suf-
lirient time to the House for the consideration of
this voluminous Report, it was determined that
the•Lorils should be summoned to discuss the Re-
vlutitss on Ftidity re'nuialot, on tile understood.

ing that a copy of the fissoliitiiins would be laid
on the table aft night• previous to the discus.
'ion.
It is fair to presume that the Lord.' lisport is
the same in substance 144 that presented to the
House of Commons nil Thursday night. On th
►upposition we conceive imiselves warranted in r
letting to the plan suggested by Mr. Ittotitnn,
that the Dank should pity 114 ##### ea for a certain
time in gold bars, at a rate beyond the Mint
price, the forcible expression last night lay
Lord LAUDERDALt, when lie !will, that among
the results of the Con .:ittee was (bile, " the most
novel that had ever been submitted to a Ilouse of
Parliament, or had ever entered the brain of the
wildest theorist."

Last night, in the House of Common., the CHAN.
CELLOR of the Excts (sou Elt gave notice, that in a
few (lays he would ;impose n pin: for mitigating;
the severity of the lags miw operatiti:z in Ireland
for the prevention of Ili it distill tin,, ht ittipo•ing
films on town-lauds. Thi. deleitnimitinti of the
Right hon. Gentleman, %%Inch tn.iy unlrenl he re-
garded as an uhandminient of hi. Intitter opinions,
was the result of a tonfrreorr held t rate May be-
tween him and Lord CASTI., HCAGH on the part
of the Government, and several Irish Mrmheta
of Parliament, who usually support Government,
on the ran of the suffering peasants). of Ireland.
The notion that these gentlemen had thrown out
any pulite hints that such an occurrence as their
sitting on the Opposition side of the house in
future', was within the range of possibility, unless
their wishes were complied with, was last night
spurned with indignation by Mr. I)AWSON, 50
that we must presume that the arguments of the
honourable Gentleman and his assistants, effected
that change in the minds of the Ministers in private,
which their eloquence was unable to achieve in
public.
_

A Flanders 1110i1 and too Damburgh. :Visits
hive arrived. The trial of the Brits... Is plot
has ter ;;; i ; isted. The parties Live been found
guilty, and sentenced to intprisoninent for different
periods.—The Duke of C A BEN L left Ilsnoser ott
the 96th. last (or Brunswick, taceompaiiird by the
Duchess of M N I oti his return to flout-
buig.

IVe have received the Paris T'Apurs of Tuesday
la.t. being flit fifth 1111ilivermiry of the
N room to his capital, the day was celebrated
iu Paris with the customary parade of congratula-
tions, and the reciprocal expressions of 1 we and gra-
titude beta ten the several dignitaries and authorities
within the State, and the Nliiarch. In the evening
the public buildings, Mal a consider:ls(e iminber of
private houses, were Monti:land.
In the Chamber of Deputies, the discussion was
resumed on the putjet de loi, relative to the
Journals and periodical publicatint:•. 51. PON-
SA iID spoke in favour of the amentlineids pro-
posed by the Coninntiee. Ile was followed by
M. (lUIZOT, who defended the original project.
M. H. CONSTANT argued at some length against
the piojvct, and partieulaily combatted what he
called the periodicity of publications, which ap-
peared so absurdly defined iu the first article. The
definitioti therein contained might, he conceived, he
easily eluded by the author of one woik, under the
name, suppose of the Propagatear, giving notice,
in the last page of it, that another work by the
same author would be published within a certain
perioi:, under the name suppose of the Ilistotien,
and so on, during any length of time the author
might think proper. This device, lie remarked,
would be somewhat similar to that of the Eliglirli
bigamist, who was acquitted because Inning mar-
ried three wires, he contended lie had not violated
the law which forbade a man to marry two. At
this sage observation there was a laugh, but whe-
ther at the supposed absurdity or the English Judge
alio could advance as, unfounded a distilictiou, or
at the gross ignorance of M. CONSTANT, who could
utter such a statement, it is not for us to deter-
mine. Vie shall merely remark, for the information
of M. k Depute, that as the marriage of three
wives (all living at the saute time) necessarily in-
cludes the marriage of two, an individual who
shook' so far transgress the ordinances of the law,
mod the principles of social morality, would undergo
the puilisliment denounced against bigamy by the
laws of England, The discussion on the law was
closed, mud that on the several articles seriatim
unlered to be commenced on the follownig day.

Yesterday a outuerosis sowroilitage of the Mem.
twit of the Honor. of Commons waited upon the
(*.Ham:lA.lmm of the EicnkeuEn, at his house in
Du. 1111,g-hirer,. The cinimiltititiii with the Mi.
Islblrt lasted r considerable time.

Mr. TIERNEY on Thursday night gave notice of a
motion on the State of the Nat►on for the 18th int►t.

J. atild W. AI A N csTv, Eminires, the sons of the
Tate SAMUEL. M A EST IC, Fl. British Itetatletit ut
Kowsori,h, and Ambassador to the Persian Court,
esteitluy paid a root to his Excellency the Persons
Ambassador.

The Ilaxim surveying vessel, at Deptford, is
fitting out for Channel service, anti Mr. L. Frrz-
•wtue is sppninted to command her.
. Arrived off Liverpool the Mary, OMEN, front
Jamaica, and 17 ships and 10 brigs, names un-
known.

The U►►iun, BARRY, from IllAvanneh, is ►►rrived
off Khoole, bound to L►verpuul, very leaky, and
must distharge.

PASHIONATILE VIRTILS.

s•ntinrk will give a vand rout this evening.,
it her house in Park-lane.

The E/11-1 of fireadalliane entertained F.arl Temple and a
'elect party, yesterday, at his holler lll Park-lane.
Cord Me!bonnie hull ts select party at dinner yesterday, at
his hoar, 11•hutehall.
The Dim/acre Countirsti 'of Clermont had a card party yes-
terday ereniiiir, at her Innis.. in Iterkeley-sspiare.
The Carl and C teat. I'•,wls entertain...! aar legit purl), at
thion-r yr.terdav, at their hnn.• in 1:-Ito
The Mike and Ihr!les. of Niiri !mint. law! entertained
arh•rt pasty at dustier, yeali at Omar I ttttt se w it.
J ini•-•-•sapiare.
Ltily Cariilsise Barham Rave a [rand rnal oci Thusrulay
rrr,uuc, Al her house in (bin it Amur niter', *luck VoilB
airy 1111111 P Is 11111 fx.lsiumility /11111111•11
Lady had a :rand minneal party yesterday eveniaz,
at Purr hnsae its NliseitaTii-sipiare.
Win. l'reetnauttr, Coq M cave a grand entertainment
tin Thursday to his Royal 11l .:lines* the Duke sir ( sire,
and a large party of ilistingiiislied per.uunges, at his buusr
111 Stannp••..taret, Mayfair,
Lady Compton hail a large fashionable party yestarrlay
ceellitiZ, at her house in Clips r lirook-strert.

laor,lGalseny rotes tained t !tarty of distend inn yesterday,
nt los Imo.- in York.idscr...
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The 31argnis awl Mar(!Mourns of Bath will entertain a
large party of rummages Ihu day, at their re-
11111,11CP in Gronventor.rogunie.
The Margin' and Ilareliiimeoni of Twee. Male gave an i
le-
ganl entertainment yesterday, to a limo party of
couched oiermosacee. at the chorewhin Hotel, nonil•street.
Sir iValier !Online, Bari. has issued curds of iiiwitat
for n crawl hall AN/I supper, on ihe Ist of June, at his reM
desire in l'all.nonlL

ilturs,bly poorilit.a the Ditch-ss of Volta a rived
at ‘Vindsar from Oathall... la a ',hurt time after
the Duke of KENT arrived there from lienotagtoto
Palace, and paid his rem.rets to the Poehet..., lor
the flr.t time siare has return If/ Eng181),I. The
Hoyt.' Doke, after vialtifig the PI Illetil%e4 AccUsTA
anal SoPIIIA, Iretai,ll.(l to Kensington Palace to
dinner.

Yrvterday the Duke and Duchess of Crot'eci-
TFR had a party at dinner.
OWI4 MUNSTER arrived in town on Thursday.
from Window Castle.

iMr•. CHAMPAGNE will give lwr first halt :Intl
stopper no Monday, the 10:b 111 my, at her house in
Marley-street. . .

Tit; Vicr-CHANcELLon has at tart been PreOrli.
modeted with a !Place to hold hos Court in at Wert.
rinnater. 1114 H will ail this day and the re-
mainder of the Term in the old House of Lorr!as
The entrance for suitors, &v. is from Palace-yard,
through the door the I'ItINCE REGENT eiders at
when he woe*. to Parliament.
A Velocipede, recently iintoorted front England,
was exhibited in the Assembly Rooms, Cork, oat
the 2Gth last, for the joilt benefit of the Nurtis
Infirmary and Fever Hospital.
.I•CESDAY NI.XT the S:ate Lottery bezins,
and there lirlfer writ. In and Lottery, ouch stroolz
imiurrairats to purchase immedialda, as Two 29,000!.
Priaia will he decided in tliefir./.fiee winner-A. and all Four.
20,000 t. Pates may be straws, that dab. Tickria awl Sliasia
are on side at WEBil'a oftieea, 9, Curnhill, and 17, 1.4.4-
gate-WPM, where No 7,930, a Prize of 2.000/. in Oh, list
Lottery, was sold and registered to a 4ratielosii at
puu I.
_ .

The Russian Bible Society distributed, iti the
course of the year 1818, 72,000 copies of the 110ly
Scriptures, and w►II phut this vrur 101,500 rowel;
in several languages, among which are those of the
Tschuwasclii. (Mocks, and Wogii!a. More than
10,000 families have sent from Brussels spplies.
Lions for certificates of the deaths of French, Dutch.
and Netherlaud soldiers, aloe died in the years
181%, 13, and 14.

FRIDAY, MAY 7.

[From the "Lowden New Price Current."]

COTTON —The Callan market remains with little earls_
lion as to price; there arc still extenwie !sayers of
on speculation and fur export, hut nil pateeli are on sale
ecru at the advance of 1,1. Iwr Its. %%hid. is lied, ufi•red;
She purchasers of Peasants since our last are chtifiy tor
shipment 7 the particulars are-
-750 Pernams
151) Stirritt
200 licitzds A.S. a 7il.

The accounts from Liverpool this morning are rather nu-
favourable; very (liiellSiVt arrivals had talan place, and np
to the Wednesday evening the sales had IKeu itlColl.4l4:eralitej
the general opinion in Ibat market was that a further reduc-
tion would take place in the priors, on account of the
great scarcity of money, and the consequent sec-emit!, of
impel tete to sell their Cotton§ at whatever prices could be
obtained.

St/OAR = there has been little alteration in the prices of
Muscovades; by private emits set this weidc, very r, w .ales
were effected; the expected reduct' of the import ditty
a'tracts much nitro ; this torenonss little or no busi-
ness was done in NI toscovades by private contract, the buyers
writing the event of the public salr ; it consisted of 356
Midis 10 barrels, the first huts went off ls. a2s lowre, the
demand afterwards increased, and the whole sold with brisk.
arse; good Sugars may be stated fully to have supported
the previous currency, the brown Angara were taken iii at
tales Is. a 44. lower; good strong from Tortola 84s. a
MOE 6d ; Trinidad flfis. a 68s. brown St. Lucius 80s. a 625.,
good 85s. a os..
There was a good demand fur Refined goods, partici*.
laxly Lamps, early in the week ; the request has since ►ub.
sided, slid the market may now be state) heavy at a small
decline.

There are few Foreign Sugars in this market, the prices
are in consequence nearly nominal.

Corr mr..—LTlocre haw; Men rely few sales of coffee this
week by private (instinct ; yesterday 281 ra►k. and 03 hags
British Mamma .... dracriptiona were brought forward by
public sale; the Coffee from Dem ud Berbice
with •0000 e briskness at prices Is. a 2.. higher. Jamaica de-
scriptions stint off heavily at a decline of 2s. a 3..; the de.
pre.aimi was very ir►egular, good ordinary 1001. fuse ordi-
nary lOU Oil. a 1040. middling Its.. Bd. a 117..; there is
swilling doing in St. Dinningu or in other foreign dem., ip.

SPICVS —There is li nle doing ill Spices, on account of the
appeoriehing side (Intl' inst.)
TOSACCO —lli conseipience of the heavy Hooke' 'Mimeo's
msy tie purchased sin lower terms; arc, however, few
porciraws this week to report. 'the deliveries fi the
warehouse during last mouth are considerable, 1,322 hauls.
for es poriation,os kWh. for home consumption , the stuck
is in consequence decreasing.
INDIGO.—Tbe extensive sale at the India House finished
no Wednesday, it consisted of 9,724 chests, nearly one third
was taken in fur the proprietors; fine qualities supported
the last sale prices, good 44.5 ed. lower, good middling sod
middling 64. a Is. lower, ordinary at the decline of la.
a Is. 3d. per Ih ; there were about 700 chests of Madras,
which sold, six. tine 6s. 9d. a 75., good ss. ed. s 6 3d.,
ordinary 3s. lid. a 4r. del.
Row, and HOLLAIDII.--The Rum market
continues in a very &premed state, purchases may be mails
considerably lower.—There is it small improvement both in
the demand and in the prices of Brandy, nn account of the
last letters from France mentioning there had liven souse
alight frosts which hail affected the vineyards.—Gesseva I.
without alteration.

TaLt.ow.—There it little doing in Foreign Tallow. The
Town market is tu-day quoted 725, which is 2s. lower th.za
last week.

LAW IN lt. LIGAM R.

counT OF CH INrl.ltV. Worry:snip.
nth tv, Nl%r 7.

Frig thinoiir hip VII c-CIIANcEI.I."3 uai ncrii.
nird m In-ifri 1;1, tune., of no liblefet rXB lit to
the partit• eJnerrned.

OLD 11.11LItY, Fut°Av. MAY 7.

--• JnLn I illin.na wa■ tre.!irt..l I,r .tell,rl 3 In.t 1:01, 11• e pm.
100 113 a t1•III. 1i14.4T.'t T 1... Prism!. r niprrlKll4•4
%011 the mn.ket in ht. pna.rr,i•nl. 111111 wlnht heiag
vryell to Neweate he mart.. hi. r3s-Rior, allhongh mitatek.d.
A n alarm MR* civros. Alio' the it:fiell111 What.. duly
it wa:
to hare stropped loin. havi”g but time Irg, rooti4 cot putt*,
liitnbufiirienily fart lu Rpplehrud him, mr,l hr era away,,
He wn,, how. t rr, !tries w:tr,la lake!' mho ;
411 inrra
were then uN•, heft Ihob tronik aof Ihtfin %vie illershipouh"
lit vial a,

The Pfi•nner, in lii• defence. kindly reciferat. el that le
was tint the man, and Ilia Ihe had Geld len.au tenni tV.Nolinnt
e.
y Ii,III Oil Id pal/re that lIY Waif 1111
the day hr wa• chin eed to Imse ciammlited the inhhei).
The It ',talent R iitl.l in call dint Gentleman.
The Prisoner n •aid 11.31 he had been in att.
udsare
for Maley days, Loh li-d been pelted to retidsi home on
Thursday evenititt —The Joey honnd him GtsiltN.
['post inquire by ilie Cense', II was hinted that the Primed
Lad Leen twice died b. h.re offences.