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HOUSE OF COMMONS, TIMIDAT, MAT 4:

one, and cannot he upheld by fair or popular
meson. A Bill annually paved the Home, vesting
iH a few persons, in fret in one, powers of the most
Oliccinstittitimust kind, arid he wits but too lully
imptes-ed with the fact, that wets of petty tyrenicy
and oppression follow ; the system makes ail this
necessary, ■nd such a system should 1w *there,';
the wretched profits to be.derived I it, could not
redeem it. He would reed to the House the words
of an author, justly high—he enema the work of
Mr. Davison.—[Here the Hon. Gentlemsn read a
parisege 1• he work of Mr. Davison, in support
of Ins 'argument.] —The system. he said, was
vicious in itself, end was attended with falsehood
amt tliceptiou. Lottery contractors, 1w said, take
every means of publishing that the greater propor-
tion of tickets is drawn on the first and retinal
days. Now this to a superficial observer would 1w
taken fur granted; hut it was false. In the lottery
draw,. in 1818, there were 8,000 tickets, three-
fourths of which were said to he drawn in the first
awl second days, though in fact Hot two thirds of
that 'lumber was drawn. Now this was a fraud—
lie could call it nothing else, lw did not care by
whom perpetrated. They might he Ilimourehle
flirts—nay, they might be Right II 1111 l curable.
The consequence of this fraud was the sat of Lot-
tery tickets at •n advanced price. Tickets are
generally sold m sixterritliv, sad the price ad-
mice, after the propagation of this falsehood, r
191. lot. to 401. 141. This was a cheat—mid dill
it, he asked, 'become the British Legislature, for a►
paltry revenue of 240,000!. ii-year, to cheat the
public—to sanction as; abominable fraud end gross
misrepresentation? There was another fraud whicl•
1w would take the liberty of statisig-s-the fact was
raectioned by Earl Spencer, void by an Hun.
Member of that House. The Governor* of Christ's
Hospital prohibited the employment of their boys
iii the drawing of Lottery tickets. He (Mr. L.) went
to Coopers'-hall, where that rascally transaction
takes place.—(4 laugh.)-1-le there saw two boys
drawing tickets, dressed as if they belonged to the
Blue Coat School—he had a right to lissome that
they did not belong to that school, and that this
way a vile imposition. But the system upheld by
fraud was productive of superstition. In a late
IVorcester Paper he saw a long list of the places
where prizes were obtained, to which the Goddess
of Fortune was propitious; in some villages, where
success crowned the adventurer, it was soon found
that disappointment, distress, and ruin followed.
The town of Bideford, in Devonshire, was unfortu.
rudely visited with this golden shower of the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer.—(A Idwes.)—tilieffield
had a similar visitat , and both places soon in-
dulged in all the vices of gambling, and soon en-
doted the punishments of distress, of misery, and of
shame. Another part of the fraudulent system
was to misname the prizes; thus, when a man
receives half the money he lays out in a ticket,
it is raid he receives • prize in the Lottery.—(.4
laugh.)—He would deny the ingenuity of the most
acute professional men to prove what the contrac-
tors take for granted. and day after day put down
the thine's of the public, namely, diet by losing
half your money you gain u prize.—(4 luwgh.)—
But whoever would tell him that in a tratisavtion
where he gives away 201. and in return receives
hut 10/. he yet gains a prize, lies—(4 laugh)—
and no one could believe it but an arrant fool.—
He would *hew the extent of this imputation by
a statement of the scheme of • late Lottery.—
There were 2.865 prizes; there were 11,195 blanks;
hut of the 2,86.5 prizes, there were 2,810 prizes of
101. each, leaving only 55 prises upwards of
10/. and few of them of any considerable value,
which makes the ch:►lice against the purchaser of
253 to one. Was there ever a more villainous, a
more shameful system of gambling than this?—ln
all the acts of swindling on the one hand, or of fa-
tuity on the other, was any thing so enormous ever be-
fore heard of ? If it be a means of raising money, it
was almost unproductive ; even if it were produc-
tive, it ought not to be permitted. The Lottery pro-
duced to the State not so much as 300,0001.—a small
price for the morals of a people; the agents and
contractors, however, gained from 4 to 500,000/.
a price for collecting revenue which was beyond
all precedent, and which *hewed what a miser-
able system of fraud and mismanagement the
Lottery has been. Gross in itself, it is injurious
to the morals of the people, to the prosperity
of the country, and to the dignity of the State.
The Lottery was sought to be justified by the neces-
sities of the State ; but he held it au undeniable
principle, that the greater the necessity of a State,
the more morally should it act. He trusted the
public would at length take up the question, in-
volving their interests so deeply as it did. It was
taken for granted they were indifferent, because
they had not presented Petitions. For the latter
circumstance he did not know how to 11CCOUllt, hut
from the iiiflueoce exerted by Ministers, stud the
interest excited by the agitation of other questions.
Ll all events, he had done his duty in bunging the
matter before the House; his view of it was sanc-
tioned by the opinion of many persons of great
sense. lie trusted lw should be supported by the
House, ■nd that at no distant petite', probably on
the present night he should see a Resolution
adopted, expressive of the im policy and inexprdiericy
of the tax in question. The Hots. Member reca-
pitulated his objections, and concluded by moving
the following Resolutions!—
" Resolved, That by the establishment of Smite Lotteries,
• spirit of ganthling in encouraged and provoked : That
ih:■ spirit diminishes the sources or public prosperity, sad
it hostile lit the beat intervals of the eoniminnity : That,
therefore, this flourre will no longer countenance the coo-
boomer of sack • system wider any regulations whatever."
The question having been
The CHANcti.t.ott of the EXCHEQUER mill, that
any man who looked seriously at the question, con-
sidered the linaticial eitibeirasstnents limier which
the country laboured, soil diet the Lottery rro.
&iced a revenue of 300,000/. annually, must feel
himself celled on to oppobe the Resolutions pro.
reed. But iu addition to the suit he had
mated, there was to be added is yearly saving to the
tannin)? of 30,0001: interest, The State Lutteries.
it was said, kept •stive a great deal of this system of
private gambling, and many statements were made
support of this charge ; but it would appear
from an examinetiou of the papers on the table of
the House, that it by no means followed, that if
the Lotteries were ribautloned, this system of g•m-
hting would fall also.—(Hear.)—The prosecu-
tions under the State Lottery Act had created a
Meat decrease sarong the prutocutious which were

The House was this day engaged in appointing a Com.
'flitter. to try the Inuits of the Eltetiutio tier Tisiro, sod for
the Town of Galway. The gallery was not opened till half.
past flee o'clock
The folliraiirg are the names of the Committee appointed
to try the nierit• of the Truro Election
Mr. J. Gordon,
Si,
Mr. R. Price, Mr. W. J. Hobart',
Mr J. M. Lloyd, Mr. Hart Davis,
Mr. W. A. Montague, Sir E Boller,
Mr. Henry Bruen, Sir. W. H Whitbread,
Me George Grant, Sir. W. Burrell,
%%Charles Palmer, Mr. George Baiskes.
Me. E. Torsion,
Me. Willis withdrew his motion to defer the consideration
of the Fuwey Elec • Petition', from Thursday neat. to
Tuesday, the I Ith of May; and the Inverkeithing and Hos.
tint y Election Petitions to subsequent Jays.
SAINT MARY-LE.RONE WATRR WORKS BILL.
Mr. M. A TsYttlia moved the order of the day fur the
second tending of this Bill.
Mr P. MOOR', as eu aniendsnent, moved that the second
reading a the Bill be postponed to this day six
The Honourable Gentleman complained that the isdrodne-
lion of the Bill was, in furl, au attempt to levy no less than
VOO,OOO, off the parish of Mary-k-buue, ill order to enable
persons to liecuMe vendera of water. He put the question
fairly, would the House allow such an attempt to succeed--
would they subject the inhabitants of that parish to so heavy
and su unjust an iMpost ? He held himself a house in St.
Mary.le.bune, and he might, if this Bill should pass, he
soloject tee pay ten ur twelve thousand 'winds for water He
hoped the House would tint allow so brood a a hof
power to be exercised by a vestry, and that they would nut
eiiteriain the Bill
A converse • ensued, in which Mr. Ricardo, Mr.
Harvey, Mr. Hume, Mr. Weuttralty, and Mr. Holm,. Sum-
ner took a part—when, at the suggest of the last Mem-
ber, Mr. Moore withdrew his amendment, and the second
reading of the Bill was 11011p011V11 to this day fortnight, in
order to give the Middlesex Water Company an opportunity
to satiety the inhabitants of the parish of St. Mary-le-booe,

as to the Bill.
TOWN OF GALWAY ELECTION.
Mr. Ley presented a seduced fist of Orr Committee
appointed to try the merits of G■lway Election :
Mr. G. H. Drummond Mr. F. M. Ommanacy
Mr. Charles Siiieletou I Hon. C. Cavendish
Mr. John Maxwell Mr. C. Robinson
Mr. M. Barite Mr. M. Page
Mr. A Itidwris Mr. Gurney
Mr. W. timer Ri:ht Hon. John Barry
Mr. Win. W. Recker Mr. Richard Martin.

ASSESSED TAXES.
Sir Marrucw WHITE IttOLVe said, • motion of his,
respecting the Assessed Taxes, stood for to-inurrow. He
rose now to withdraw that motion, at the request of the
Right Hon. Gerntknr•n. He signified his 'Mention of bring-
ing in a Bill on the principle which his (Sir Matthew's) mu.
teem would embrace. This wa■ the trottonl on which he was
Wanted to *tatrum that mwiuu but mile as the plan was
materially altered, he would nut give it his sanction.
POOR SETTLEMENT BILL.
The third reading of this Bill was postpuucd to the nth
instant.
IRISH CORONERS RILL.
ON the motion of Mr PARS mt., the second reading of
this Bill was, postponed to M lay next.
THE SINKING FUND.

Mr. GRFTIftI.I. pu•tpourd his motion, IS to the applica-
tion of the Sinking Fund to any I.orn to be lunged 111 the
resent year for the public service, to this day fortnight.
LOTT ER I ES.

Mr. I.4vrreseuse said, ne could truly aSSdre the
House, that lie would trespass on their time but as
little as pOssible. The subject he was about to
bring before them hail been frequently discussed,
but it appeared to him that the arguments that had
beers ui gee' by the oilier side were not conclusive
or ratisfactury. The public mind was decidedly
against the Lottery system. He bad therefore no
doubt but that hv perseverance, by pressing ott the
attention of Parliament those arguments which lay
against that system, it must ultimately fall. In
this country the public voiee must be heard—in
this country the progress of public opinion is some-
times Glow, but it war always sure, andit war al-
ways triumph:sot, where it went to put down vice
and to promote public murals. He would not
make any appeal on the present ocersion to the
Kisht Hon. Gentleman opposite (the Chancellor of
the Exchequer), be had fur him a great personal
respect—lie would not wish to riddreas any thing to
him which might Le unpleasant to his feelings ;
besides, the orgumentunt ad horsemen was good for
nothing if the Storm did not atteud to what was
said.— (A laugli.)—The Lottery system was inde-
fensible on any ground —it was objectionable on
every ground, moral. cotistitutional, and even
financial. The moral objections to the system were
strosig. It was a system which encouraged the
most odious and the most pernicious vice, he meant
that of rambling. There was, he said, afloat on
society—not a great quantity of Exchequer bills—.
but a quantity of rank vice ; and what says the
Right Hon. Gentleman ? lie says, " I will turn
that vice to my own account ; I cannot prevent its
progress ; I am dwiefore determined to derive a
profit frvon it— l will derive a profit front those
public vices—l will make the most scandalous of
public vices subservient to public revenne."—
Sir (said the Hoss. (lesillemars), private vices should
sot he considered as public benefits. I would ask
any man whether or nut Use Lottery system be not a
species of unprincipled gambling ? —if it br, should
the Grovermuesst of the country uphold it ? The
Right Holt. Gentleman, he said, like other Meru-
Imm, might attempt to shift off the blame from his
own shoulders; lie hut about him people to du the
dirty work, but the shame and scalicial of these im-
moral trouser:toms lie at the door of the Govern..
insist --not merely at their door, but this shameful
proceeding. awl all the roguery and cheating HI,
tendant on it, moss be at the door of that House.
Finencially speaking, the system was a had one—
what was morally wrong, could not be financially or
politically right. Governments', he said, have from
time to tune hail recourse to arbitrary and tyrant&
cal measures; they hive extorted money against
the consent of the people—sthey have violated at
once the liberty and the property of the subject.
But it has beets uniformly proved that the Govern-
ment whose revenues are created by islunder, is
not the richest ; iii Ilia contrary, it has hero
proved, that the if.nclsequers winch are eupplirel
by else voluntary coutributions of a free people,
have been always found to be the most proviseruisa
mid secure. In the former case the confidence of
the people oar shaken, mid consequently the
bowers of revenue were diminished. Such are the
nielaischoly diets proilorrsi by plunder. Are not the
erects oh gambling equally toisitious ?—the morals
of the people are destroyed—their itseinstry is weak-
eked, and of course them resources are impish. el ;
• state of society thins winds there could be nothing
more injurious to the lissome, of a country. Bill
11.1 a constiturioiial point of view, the system was
still more to be deprecated. The Tawas is a bad

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heretofore in exiormee against the common species Member who spoke last, that this oyelent neither
of gambling. In In Ili, there were boy-live pro- I added to the rev. ue nor to the normals of the cam .
germane', for insuring iii the State Lottery, of try. Ile begged leave to call to the recollection of
which thirty were convictions. li. the leitile-g.'s the Right Hots Geothermal op Proite (the ellserel-
iu the same period, there were twenty-six pro- tor of the Exeloopier) the admirable saying ar
secatiOng, coil twenty convictions. In 11117 Queen Elizabeth, who expensed the pleasure
there were twelve Slate Lottery prosecutions, f She felt at finding the imeary of her sob.
and eleven coovictimis ; thirty-four Littleoger's, Sects ode in their pocket,. it was now sod
and twenty-trine convictions. Si, that it was eel. j that the State Lottery alti sieressary to put dowel
dyed the decrease its podding W 44 nor In be of- the Little-gm's.-•(A laugh.;—'This mollified ion
filled by the relinquishment of the State Loo til. OW Old plan 111 " make a hurl' to catch le thirds
lento It was said 'list last year al hooted induce- Bet he thought if the pew W4l ever a Knoll ()Ow.
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inetsio were held out in the shape of Imp-% in wine ; cloth! trot *pply to the Lottery race. The Rig"
for this the Government were riot emoserthle, fie I I km. Geadelo4ll.*llll"eorlii-losess morn revenue w.,.4
the. Contractors hail held out this additioloil induce- eingultir ; he was at one raernerit the solvosor of
moot In purchasers, and so far from its being a I gratilllig a large sum to the erection of clutches,
fraud, it was ma attotal bonus intended beyond the but all at once be got se sort of mural toollssehe
rsolvirary moonlit of the regular prizes. Ile would when the system of Lotteries was held lip to his
yield to ion men in a wish to promote the hest Ode. view. Like the heroism in Fielding's Amelia, e,
rests or the p„1,1,,, end the best morals of all (lasses wooed her, but did not discover fur some lime this,
of the people, and he hailed the approach which she had lost her Huse. The Right Hose Gersilemse
education conferred upon the Mane of society, was perhaps arlitralittral with a Methodist Preso,„
But until the improvement became more gooier:Illy mooned Newton—(4 /civil—who was .O it, 4
operative, 60 HS 10 pre-soot the evils of :;ambling) sthistorn ml briaid a slave ship--tilt 10rr...14 1...
11111011 different soeculetions among the lower e1i4444.4. Clarell that he era% some time on board Fivrme 1,0,
lie could ore no reason, standing in the olliciAl i reit he war dioug wrong in reins uuluig iii such 4
situation which he held, to abandon so lucrative at situation ; he i tttttt edistely withdrew on freliies the
branch of the revenue widiontls4%ing woe equiva. i place tie held. —He (.'Jr. Pitmen) would igr,maly
lent held out by which the public would derive an recommend to the Right Hum Geolleroon fni•llow
equal benefit. Alr. Newton's example, arid alter a system wile ti
An limo Member. we underetooll Mr. AG to he could hot putout. without discredit to Istintelt as t
ELLIS (it was Icsill by sonic, Mr. I'F.HCEVAL), ail. demoraliestion to do. enimiroo...er t
, scoot ...M.. *di
milted the ill effect of the 'system of Lotteries, hut a question which ought %weer to be decided rieor I
yet contended that au Scpsovlsirtit revenue should I point of pecuniary produce. As well might Isolise4
be given. He was decidedly hostile to the contr. of ill fame be Itemised by law, Itemise of their
cortices of the system, though he ceuld too are amount of revenue, as the Lottery system he coo.
how they were to be altered in the rammer proposed. tamed for the coin it realised to the Excliespreo_.
Nlr. BUXTON was at a lose to irrideronnil the (Ilear.)—Tlse Hose Airframe regretted extremely
object of the Right Honourable Gentleman °pow. the character which religion was likely to receive
site. Ile admitted that the system was very li.hi, Irons the example set by the countenance of thew
but not quite so bad as the Him. Mover had repro. gambling projects ; and he would ask the __ G WWI,.
rented. He did not itchy that it produced idleness t meat. who seemed damnified oil supporting ml.:
and vice. He talked of it as a financial scheise, Lottery system, whether any of them had ever been
which he could not abandon without all equivalent, adventiraers themselves in the spectilatiori which
and his silence upon the errors of the system ought I they were so ready to palm upon the public S—
to be construed into a confession of its guilt. They t (Ilear, hear.)
were all agreed on the facts, and they truly differed Mr. Alderman WOOO combated the notion that
as to their conclusion!. It produces, it eetmed, au the Lottery had removed the Small-go system ;
important branch of revenue. What was the f the contrary was, to his certain knowledge, the
amount of this revenue. and how was it produced ? fact; and whenever the State Lottery was drawn,
—The amount was 300,000/. annually, and it was i the surrounding streets were the soot of the Little.
drained from the pockets of the people at the ex• go's, deprodairt noon the larger scheme, which
'tense of their morals. No tax ought to be picked the pockets of the credulous. Ti.„ 5i.,,,,
upheld at such an expense. The system of Lot. I Lottery was aim absolute encouregement of the too
teries operated as a discouragement upon honest Ile-go's, and iluathers of pour women al ws) is parole,'
industry ; it held out magisiosinioua expectations, during the drawing to sell these chances. Ihe kisew
and defeated the enticipation of the creduluue, in one case where 100 guineas in gold, 75/. in silver,
without weaning them from their propensities. If sod u quantity of copper coin, were foiled iii 4 Boos.
the House thought thin tax to be *dishonest one, which was the seat of the Little-gods. \ Lois i
a tax which went to tear up the moral habits of ; family had to trace its olio to this 0,117 r,.. !! .
the lower classes of the country, they would give ' knew an instance within his owl loam lois-.
that triumph to the Mover of the present Resolus iii which a servals' of his own, who could es,
lions which he deserved, and that defeat to the 1 two guineas a-week, lull heroine a victim or
Chancellor of the Exchequer which his system me. 1, gninlOing iii the Lottsry—lie cold., iievur pas'
rited. He knew a variety of instances in which the r his household expenses, mind his family herlinie
Lottery system operated with terrible efliot upon the 1 ruined by his avidity to purchase Lottery tick,!..
people—he knew an instance in which the inhabitants 1 The Right lime Gentleman might talk of ht„ Ind-
of a small village had established a club for the i lions for the building of churches, but Iris claim,
relief of the aged awl indigent; this club went on 1 to the cultivation of at good moral feeling would not
well, thriving and prospering see it ought, until the 1 be improved by his cuntiliumice of the Lottery
establishment of a lottery club in an adjoining die. 1 system.—(l/ear.)
trict, when all at once the meretricious mid artful ' Mr. Witesotroace wen glad to find that to
inducements to gain, held out by the lottery club, person but the Right Hon. Geod.-mai. (Tees's!
I
immediately destroyed the benefit club, and with it was found to defend the system of Lotterito. It
subverted the gond mud salutary principle which led ( was lk system which no nom could look at *delimit
to the establishment of such societies in the village. 1 being struck with its comineoceinent in fraud, and
This occurrence took place within his own know. 1 immolation in misery. The delusion was so die.
(edge; and it happened that some years intervened 1 gusting, that 1w should give his cordial vote to its
before lie watt again in that part of the country, he , total repeal. When he saw his Hon. Friend (Mr.
then inquired the practical fate of the two cloths— ) Buxton) Olson his legs, he really thought (not hay-
he found that upon the humane plan of mutual 1 ing been in time House at the opening of the discus-
, support had easily and irrevocably sunk under the : biter) that the question related to the state of gaolo
glare of the false lights of the other : so that the : hut when he listened a little to his Hon. Friend, lie
honest zeal of industry mid charity was not only found that the subject was one which only related
paralyzed but obliterated by the introduction of - to the manner in which the avenues to those gads
this system of gambling and deltisiets.—(Hear, ' were filled. He concurred with his Hon. Friend in
Acar, hear.)--It wait said that there was it latent the drawback that ought to be made from the no-
principle of gambling inherent in the human con- millet amount of revenue, which the Lottery was
stitution. If there were such, it ought to be the said to produce. The system itself was a great
policy of an enlightened State to avoid calling evil—it was at variance with the principles rit the
into action the propensities of such a princi. best system of public economy—it writ to pareltse
ple.—(/dears hear.)—Where there were bad qua. i the vigour of industry—it went to attack the sor cal
lities existing in a latent and lurking form, it was i independence which a Statesman ought to cherish
surely desirable to ovend fanning them into a flame. in a free state. The plan of his Right Hors Friend
So far front the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite was in this respect like that of the malt who was in
feeling that fluid was desirable, he seemed rather the habit of giving away a large thin 01 inuisey,
anxious to promote the bantered effects of what was 1111. t who, uu accidentally seeing, a large sum piled
known to be demoralising. He was t!.e patron of up in a room, took it into his head never Nom to
that system, which, on caravans throughout the unlock his coffers. So with his Right limo. Friend
country, enticed the poor villagers by the gaudy —be was dazzled with the apparent amount of tho
artifice and delusion of the paiirted letters and de- tax—he forgot the tisk at which he must mot: is
vices, to fall into the snare of his Lotteries, mid quit obtain thus treasure, sort he ought to give in. r e
the industrious habits of their ordinary occupation, Wee of deriving what he conceived to be ga 1., 6 t
to grasp at the riches which their neiolibours I though in reality it was subtracting so mucli Mee
pointed out as accruing from Lottery speculation-. the gemral fund of society.—(Hear, lair )
He held in his hand * curious document, describ. .11r. CANNING diffeted widely loan his Hunt.
ing the unbouoded wealth which the Lottery was Friend who spoke last, in the view lie tank ..f this
likely to confer ;it was publietwol by the Editor subject. The House should consider that this tat
of • Country Paper; it set forth the wealth that did not origniote with the poorest Chancellor rif tire
was diffused (all probably true eliongh) from the i Exchequer ;it was of very old swirling-1w kid
drawing of a Lottery prize. A mingle ticket, it adopted it Hs hr found it, and he was nut theiefote
I seemed. had diffused wealth moms IS persons; exposed to the blame of instituting a measure %Inch
had raised them from pining eat poverty. A poor had given rise to so much ohloqus. His Hon.
Spitalliclds weaver, a poor young women tu sere Friend (Mr. Wilberforce) had skean upon this, as
vice, a female servant out of place., and a man he had done upon so massy occasions, los great mind
servant. and one or two journeymen, participated tramicentlant powers in debate. But this was mete
in this spell of good luck. Thrs ',hewed the delii- a subject of detail than of drovers's:to Hod ills
site% that was practised. not by any individual. but House should see how the revenue of the creative
by the system. It was invariably held out to stood. Notices of motion', were given fur the re-
the poor. that the benefits they were to derive limn ;meal of the Salt Tax—that pressed upon the ago-
the sy-ten were great : tradesmen of every kind culture, the interests, mid the morals of the people.
fell into the snare. An Hon. Frig isil of his, who Then came the Leather Tex—that operated up-:.
was near him (Mr. Il'ilitlimail), could my, what to I the health, the interests of the people. Tiis
his knowledge had been the edict of the Lotteries Iroli Window Tax was also a grievairce. mud Ills
upon the 'realms interest. Another Hou. Metnber I Irish Spot Tax, it seemed, deeply affected the.
(Mr. Wrottesley), acquainted with the Bankrupt morals of the people.—(/:'ear.) —He sac oiie of
Laws, could also speak of the edicts of this system. three who anxiously looked forward to the thee
He condemned in forcible and eloquent terms when the taxers affecting the greet body of the 'tee-
the operation of the Lottery system, mod the de- I pie could be reduced, mid residered at confrioneble
lusion which its puff* crested among the lower as possible to their habits mid coevenieisce. Ili'
classes, whose imaginations were deceived in this until this time urrised it was imposaible I"
mainier by the colour nod plausibility of Lot- look at this proceeding by detail, to repeal the
ttry placards. Ile tiolicoiled the idea that a re- taxes, which constituted the source of the Fe-
venue of 300,000/. vow glititet! from the Lotteries— chequer, he the Administration what it moo
from this he thought should be substracied the ex. without ferhog the imperative necessity of 1"'"
prose of the plais, end the remote effects. Ile siting bollie pishatitute for tie revenues of the
c !termed. ih strong terms. the policy of raising a country to carry on its tegular business.—
revemue upon the morale ut the people.—(Hair.) Not one word had beet% said spinet this tax, wile h
111 r. IV. I.).l4ttELl. concurred with the Ilosi. could lint with equal force he alleged aghast the

,t or Leather Tax. His Hon. Friend merely re.
..lccted ffegarth's celebrated pictures of Beer.
„, I.iii-affey, which were painted for the
:0„ord 4
olliret of discouraging the use of beer roil
.1,01,, But. if they were to legislate oil suet, a
shirt course must they 'mose ? The
orniy nine was, to abolish the use of.shone articles
,care penal lams—and how then were the ex.
reoes of the country to be encountered ? This
•to jud ,xi.teil for more than a century—and the
whirl) Government proceeded, of late
„ ,stilt 111
IA been to remove, as far as possible, any
that had crept n, without absolutely repeal-
tile Lox. Supposing those excrescences, and
ontets.irry helot.ginge, were taken away, be con-
-1,,gal that this tax appeared to lain to portent, in
soil high degree, that quality which was 1111 l st
t 7 {,'admired in taxation—it was a voluntary offer-
ing,....(l/ever.)e--The evils which hail been adverted
iO, trace either from insurance, or from the small
of the tickets. Now, in former time,,, he
recollevid tickets being divided into 32 parts—and
ht believed they had even been subdivided into 64
penes% The number of bliateS had sieen
etiairsetel to 16, and the temp
t:mini which nce bhail
boo held nut to the lower orders to purchase was
tato consolerably narrowed. If the Ilan. (
silo, made this motion thought it would tune-
, the system to widalraw trill's, he believed
e
h.lt:glit lion. Friend would nut he unwildlito re-
ng to
adopt the suggestion., But, if they swishe
laiir• ter source of a fax that existed. in all countries,
ainl which had been tolerated here for one hundred
1v,,., Geistlesuen must make use of stronger aro-
ewe than those they hail adduced. Througl 1111 l t
re artistes personal apiece% heel been made to his
Right Hon. I'riel.4l--and. becaose R
sensighf moral
t
bite ni we, known to possess a strong eil
du i% Oictile was attempted to be cost On
fur a tax which he had not created, but
whlcim he found long formed tend estohlished when
lw came into feelings of the
now were assailed. in order to make Inns morbidly
,eet,,blr of the difficulties which intervened in the
perfortuatiee of his duty as a Minister.—(flear.)—
Tmrr alto knew him not might ridicule hiss for
that winch was, in truth, the ornament of his cha-
ra ter—for that which gave an
ti assurance to the
tenuity of his honour and iatrgri—for that which
might stood in the stead of luelitite, that he mightt
not be supposed by sortie to 110100141tll so eminen
degree.--(ilear, hear.)—He hoped. however, that
no taunts addressed to him, as an individual, would
lead him to forget that he had great public duties
to perform, nue of which wail to provide for the
rail/ender of the State--and that he would feel that
cooduct was not open to blame because he
adopted the inherited t xpedieuts of the greatest
oleo in this country, who had filled the situations
before hear.,
Mr. WII,II2IIIIOICE explained.
Mr. WOOIitIOUSS said. he was not one of thoet
what joined in the clantuurilig aglinst the Silt Tax,
against the Coal Tax, and against various odic,'
toxes--noy, unpopular as his largoage might be,
he confessed that he would agree to ti
o-
dified Property r
eadilyTax--(Hear.—but be uld
never support a tax, which, like the lottery, ereattd
become, by encouragiug every species of wicked-
ness and crime.
Mr. PLUNIIITT said. it was impossilde for hint
to reconcile it to his feelings, as an honest man, to
remain after the doctrine avowed by the
Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Canning), and the
mound in which the present motion was resisted by
the Govetwood. Fur Ins won part, he had no
lositatiror in declaring, that the lottery was cal-
dilated to produce criate--aud, by the operation
of that crime, revenue was created. The Right
Hosioureble Gentlemen (Mr. Cauning)--whose
talents he admired—otiose feelings. lie believed,
were aWtorreut from every thing bad—had treated
this question iu an extraordinary way. He had
overlooked the distinctions between virtue and
vice. lie placed, in one scale, the IleCeS.
eiy of the State, and, in the other, the crimes
wthich Itilluwerel front the tax—ered then he
excleientd, " We must put up with the crime,
14. r we waist the money."—(llear, hear, hear.)
—Bat, lie asked, wee there any moral feeling iii
the Mouse?—(l/ear, hear.)-11 there were, the
criminality of the tax bring admitted, would they
eititfer the Government to persist in its adoption ?
(llear. hear.)--The Right thou. Getstletuaii had
lint de felitirli the lax oil the ground of its moral
lisupoltt —hie only adverted to its Ogee It was,
he said, as old as the Revolution. If it were as
old a. the foundation of the world, it ought to
he tooted up.—(Hour, hear, hear.)—The taxes
with which the Right Holmes able Gentleman
compared the measure now under eliscus.ion bore
uo alialuvy 14• it. lie talked of the Leather Tax,
sit the Salt Tax, of the Tax on Windows. He
begged io ask, whether any of the materials out of
w Mai those taxes grew were criminal and vicious ?
Ile admitted that all taxes which induced poverty.
encouraged crime, in a certain degree. But this
tax carted a vice within itself. It appeared to
lout lint to he a question of revessue, but of morals
—and the Minister' of the country, amidst their
dilleirent duties, would find noise 1111 l re important,
or 1111 l re worthy of their responsible situation, than
that of vtoitiniig over the morale of the people.—
(near, hear.)
Loud Casit.EIITAGII denied that his Right Hon.
17ricii.1 had admitted that the tax was CTltnlnal 111
11.01.. Ile merely raid, that crime and abuse might
out of it, mid so it might, in the same way,
show Into a variety of taxes. Spirits, to, iastanes,
of taken in moderation, were useful, it was their
ext.:estate cosauroptioat only that was donverotts.
In
the country to which lie and the Learned Getithuniii
ti id the honour to belong, when the fever was vete
iit veleta, one or the lowa v11.1.1010(16 preventative*
was spoils, used iu a MOderute manner. But if the
not of arinh, encour.igetl by illicit dirlillrluaN, was
icairted to excess, time collo wiener* were deplorable.
ben prudently partakeu of, splritr. furnished a
alioleeotne beverage, maid IttrolliOd uiuch 10110Ittli
it Crelllloll (A luath)— but if iiidulged in be)ond
critonn ritteot, they destroyed the physi cal as well as
time moral powers of the people. His Right Hon.
Friend had paid, that the lottery sae a species or
reSollKe which all civllistil Genvernments had batty.
Wined—that it welt a mode of saiefig a crown por-
tion of revenue, which the highest Domes, the moist
moral Uwe', had not . bjectrd in. lie alloisrd.
that
they wrgt t, es touch us lawailsk, to attend to the
im-
prwrwrut of wurals—but these was a spurious, a

false morality, at ;present in action, which went far
beyond what wise end piurlesit Into would aim at.
If they employed themselves 1U tracing the amount
of evil which might he produced by retry tax—if
they punned the dictates of this retitled sod sub-
limated morality—they would perhaps lose much
of the strength told firmness of real virtue.
Mr. F. Duista Las said, the House, lie hoped,
would recollect, that it was conceded by Ministers
that they had no other wiry of raising the sum Of
1.50.0001. 1111/11 by adopting a measure, which tended
111 solivett the ls of the country. A Right
Hunouroble Geotleinan (I.lr. Canning) challenged
those who opposed this tax to find a substitute
for it. They hail found substitute.; for it—
they had done so, four years ago, when they
proposed a diminution of the army—they bad flour
so or' every occasion. when they called on Ministers
to adopt some measure of retrenchment. it' their
advice hail been taken. Ministers would trot now
have been compelled tot efend this tneasure on such
weak arid futile gr ttls.—(fleer.)—The Right
Hon. Gentleman had complimented the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer on his virtues, lord
lotill complained. that an attempt had been
made to cast ridicule upon hint. He (Mr. houghs.)
did not meat; to ridicule those vetoes for %shirt) the
private character of the Chancellor of the Exelie-
quer was said to he remarkable ; but he begged
leave to observe, that, if such an 14ttriapt had been
made, it was not peculiar to that Mole of the I louse
from svhicli he spoke—for be believed the Right
Hon. Gentleman who made the remark, hail often
indulged in the saute propensity, at a time, indeed,
when he visa not the colleague of the present
nisters.--(flear, ireor.)--The Chancellor of the
Exchequer, iii arguing this question. threw him-
self on the commiseretton of the House. Ile ad-
mitted all the evils to which the tax gave birth,
hut he pleaded the neceesny of the State. The
Bight Honourable Gentlemen rind the Noble Lord
defended the measure. on the ground of its anti-
quity and its generality. But the Slave Trade was
as old and as extensively patronised, before Eng-
land took the first step towards its abolition. mod
declared that she would not be bound by precedent,
where morality and justice were concerned. The
Noble Lord said, that the drinking of spirits might
produce all the evils which tense derived from this
measure. Thu was very true. 'flie evil, in that
case, however. flossed from the abuse—but the
Lottery was dearly iiii evil in itself. When gam-
bling;-houses were licensed thinned, the tax was laid
on the keepers of them; but here the Chancellor
of the Exchequer was himself the keeper of the
gambling-house, end received the profits for the
use of the State.—(llear.)
Mr. Wita.tasta condemned Lotteries, as en-
couraging the worst species of gambling—gambling
amongst the lower orders of society.
air. CANNltiti explained.
An Hori. Member. whose name we could not
collect, said, that although a residence of '25 years
on the Coutineut might, in some degree. have af-
fected his fluency, his sentiments on the subject of
Lotteries wits perfectly unaltered. He recollected
bring asked by certain foreigners, in the year
for Shel 7
5,
what price the public, in this country, paid
Lottery. and what benefit they were entitled to reap
from it ? On calculating, lie found, that the Lot-
tery in England cost the public about one-third.
Ile then looked to the Genoese Lottery, which was
introdneed into France, and oil which Mr. Professor
Bertram. at 61111CV/1. had written a very curious trea-
tise. 'Phut Lottery cousisted of 90 numbers, of which
five were drawn every month. and thus tive
rinum-
bers, as combined or taken separately, were pzes.
This cost the public but one fit Ile next exa-
mined the Lottery of the liaose Towns, of Ger-
of Ssitzi distal. and he found the ex-
pense only one-tenth. Courperiiig this with the
English Lottery, which coat one-third. Ministers
could not maintain it un a financial principle. In
Italy, the whole sum received was expended in
prizes--and the ;tow p rizen claiming a , paid one-
tenth on receiving it at the office. The subject had
been already so fully discussed, in a moral point of
view, that he would not trouble the House with his
sentiments on that head.
Mr. RICARDO censured the Lottery system, as
it had a pernicious titled on the lower orders of
society, who were not able to resist a temptatiou,
which evrii the law satichoned.
Mr. TIERNEY said, lie would vote fur this motion,
not because it wet brought
forward by his Hon.
Friend, or by any persoron who was in the habit of
thinking as he did on ;political iubjects--but deli-
lwratdy, front the hest conaideration lie could
give the subject. comet-nog the morals of the
country with its financial urrangements. Ile con-
ceived so trifling a 1411111 as 250,000/. was badly, nut
to say disgracefully purchased, by a measure which
had so pernicious ma effect on the morals, cora-
fort, and peace of society. No $llllll was less wil-
ling to take from the resources of the country than
lie was, knowing the greatness of the expenditure,
81111 oohing but the immoral effect of this tux
could induce him to cull fur its abolition. The
sum was trifling—and, if the ordinery loan fur
the year were to lie 20,000,0001. there could be
nu great difficulty in adding 450;000/. to it. The
Right lint. Gentleman said, those who opposed
the tax ought to find a substitute for it. That was
not the case; but, if there were an addition of this
kind hustle to the how, they certainly were bound
not to oppose it. The President of the Board of
Control surd, the light Hon. Geutleinvis war not
to be charged with any evils that flowed from the
Lottery system. He denied the positiou, fur Lot-
teries now were very different from whet they had
berth The mine Hight lion. Gent. said, the Cllllll.
tenor of the Exchequer would have no objection
to withdraw Will shares. But he was sure the
Right Hon. 61.61441 nm would not agree to any
b111:11 thing. Wheat lie greatly objected to was,
that the Right Hon. Gentleman left the *flange
anent of the Lotteries solely to the contractors, who
were ut liberty to drat out the prizes jug as they
thought fit. It way a railgplar thing. that 11111 was
the uiely nivieure that had beets brought forward on
winch his Majesty's Nlinisteis meted together. The
question was, the morality of the country in one
wale, and the money iti another. Oti this point
Ministers were eel agreed. " Take the money,"
sold they, " owl let uuirahity provide for itself's.'
But the
ize—lcellor of the Exchequer had gained a
great prChair
e hail drewil a prize snore pleasing to
hoe than the .:41,1)01)i.—Ile hid excited the admire-
two of the President uf the Board uf Control.—

(Laughter.)--Ife ivivised him, however, not to lie I
too much eloieil—for he rather thought 64 it the
Righi Gentleman embarked in that Little-go
he wonlil hve to repent it.—(lleur. end lanyliter.)
Mr. 11USKISSON defended the system on which
the Lottery w4lll uuw conducted. Formerly the
drawing occupied forty days, and gave a great op-
portunity for v.irrying on illegal pee•
sent the period did nut exceed twelve der, mid
thus the evil we in as great mealtime remedied.
Mr. TIERNEY explained.
Mr. I,YTTV.LTON replied.
' The House then divided, when there uttueured--
for the motion
Against it

Majority
ALIENS.
Mr. C. HUTCHINSON moved for s return of ull
per.ons at pretie tot employed in and under the Alien
Office, in Great Britain end Ireland, with their sit-
; 111160 a return of the number of persons vent
out of the ktisgdout under the Alien Act, from
January 1815, to .leowary 1819.—Orderrd.

IRISH WINDOW TAX.
Sir G. Iltt.t. pr•seilted a Peion kkk from the In-
habitants of the City of Londondeory, praying for
the repeal of the shove tax. Much as he respected
the Petit* 0000 era, Ire could riot coincide with them
in the prayer of Hie Petition. The revelitie of
Ireland had been considerably deficient in the lost
year, and the sun& realised by the Window Tax
could not, hr conceived, be remitted.
Ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. SIIAW (of Dublin) raid, that, as the mo-
tion he motor to propose to the Home, for the
repeal of Inc Window Tax. was one which deeply
affreted the interests of Ireland, lie conceived it
would br improper to brim; it forward at No late Hsi
hour of the night. lie would, therefore., piwtpone
it till to-morr.ov.--t Cries of "Gu on !" frost the I
Ministerial Benches.)
Lord CASTLEREAGH pressed the nom !Member
to Urnterd with hie motion. He lied known much
more difficult subject* to be brought forward at a
later hour.
Sir J. NEWPORT hoped that se question which
erwootially ii.volved the, mtere*ts of Ireland, would
not hr brought forward, when Gentlemen were ex-
boosted.
The motion was then postponer . till to-morrow
(this cloy).
HUMANE) WEAVERS.
Mr. P. MOORE 110,11)4tileti hip ',mice relative to
3 Bill for tha relief of the rarbatid weavers, till
Thursday.

SALE OF POISON.
Mr. W. HOWARD obtained leave to hring ►n a
Bill to prevent the sale of rinisoisous substances.
unless under certain restriction•.
HOLYHEAD ROAD, he.
The Holyhead Road Bill was read a third time and

passed.
The Committee on the Land Tax Co
was postponed till Monday ova.
The third reading of the Duelling (Scotland) Bill was
postponed till Thursday next.
Mr. H. (ave brought up certain papers relative to the
state of Privoners, shirk were laid on the table.
Sir H P •L, after some prefatory remarks on the
state of. the iaws in Ireland, evincing the necessity of the
motion, gave notice that it was his intention to move on this
day seisnight fur leave to bring in a Bill to remove cer-
tain qualifications which still remained for the acqui-
sition of property iu that country by the Romeo Catholics ;
to extend to Roman Catholics assembled in places of reli-
gions worship, the same protection as Dissenters enjoyed, and
SIR Owe them upon the same footing with Dtmenters, with
mimic* to the Le. ping of schools.
TELLERSHIP OF THE EXCHEQUER.
The CH•scct.tott of the Elton:gum said, that the
tss $e and disinterested sacrifice of the emoluments of the
above office by the Margot% of Camden, would cause a net
saving to the country of 9,000 f. annually ; but the sanction
of Parliament was necivaary, however, to render the pro-
steeds available to the public service ; and he, therefuer, ga re
notice, that he would move for leave to bring in • Bill fur
that purpose on Thursday next.
PAPERS.
Accounts were ordered to he laid before the House of all
Spirit and Wine Licenies granted to Great Britain within the
three last years respectively
Also, of the Duties paid on Sweet Wines within the same

Ossioners

time.
Mr. Clarkson, from the Insolvent Debtors Court, pre.
seated au account of all orrsuus who had petitioned to be
discharged under the Art vu entitled since the year Isls.
Mr. Warrussaa said, he well unwilliug to move for the
printing of these paper, till it should be asceriaMed whether
it were necessary, sad with that view moved to refer them to
the Cumuli' tee rut t►e I wielvent Debtors Art.—Agreed tu.
The House then adjuurued at twenty minutes pavt Tea.
- -

INV ESTIGATIONr
OF THE ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE
THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

PAR'
COURT OF ASSIZE', PARIS, IV THE DEPARTMENT
OF THE SEIN R.

Accusation against Mare-Alan, !'onfilloa, • jeweller,
born at Paris, and residing at No 16, Rue de Dauphine ;
also, against JoscpAStoxisicis Morbid, aged 49, without any ;
occupation, Wen at Hortagor, department of Abi, atilt et-
siding at No. 313, Rue St. Honore.
About oar o'clock on the mornisg of the 11th of February,
18118,the Duke of Wellington vras retooling incarriawasge ;
to his hotel in the Rue Champs Elyiwn. The carriage
driven by his coachman, Daniel Gower, and Louis Dew-
tiros, his footman, was behind.
At the moment when the carriage approachsd the hotel,
the exposion of fie-arms was lward, and the l
Tight was seen
by the Duke, hisr coachman, mid footman. he seutinels
were at the door of the hotel when the report Wlt% heard.
The Duke at first thought that the firing moceeded acci-
dentally from the muskets of the sentinels; but when, out
rating out of his carriage, the footman asked him, with
great anxiety, if he was wounded, be could SO longer doubt d
but that the tiring of the pistol proreeded front malice, an
was aimed at his carriage.
The Commissary of Police being informed of what passed,
proceeded next day, at eleven o'clock, to the hotel of the
Doke of Wellington, where he collected the following

facts:—
The coachman, Guiver, declared, that having turned from
the Hue St. Honore 1010 that of Champs Elystes, sad while
in hoot of the inn which faces the hotel ot Alicante+, be
perceived a wan following the carriage, wimetimes going I
quicker mid SlOMPiilnfe mid that as Geier', was about
to eater the hotel, he saw the same mau
;mistime a pistol at
the carriage, beard die explosios, sod saw the Are. He
added, that the man was only three or fuer paces from the
carriage, but that the horses being frigliteeed he was obliged
i to direct all his attention to diem, and was by that mewls
prevented from erring which way the Mae fled; but that be
could pereeive, so far is the darkness of the night wouldk-
permit, t bit the person was dressed likes citizen, witb dar
coloured clothes, aid • rmind hat; bat that be would out
reroilect Ina bright or his figure, or wbetlier be bad mos.

carriage. whirl, immedirdi ly went off, end that by the hold
of the fire he was able Ito olotervg the Issas., who amwartil to
LE almost five feet six Oldies high, 11114•111 30 or :is to ar•
age, that be was thin and brown, 'mil tai Bois' awl ore
round hat. The rapid iiiii vement irf the cerriege, enwd a
Rost placed belrind it, prevented this witness ifUnl
iliately going in pursed of the mot, who MI away inwards
the Hite St. Honore; bilehe cried tint to the guards, "Slop
stun!" hut they were prevented front pursuing the mast in
C.ll,ll'alaraiCe of the carriage ',avow just video-ail the gateway
of the hotel.
Twos I/Calfnnif, named Thrimas Carter William Monti.,
heloneiiio to the Duke's how...bold. tiere :it an Inn lir flan
air I:a %Vista' air, 111.111,1 the .1101.7, lei nint,its
they lets the inn in'order to go to ilie:cot a lide pro.
reialloo along the rue des Chant,. saia 'be itifi hand
side, they oar the firth, and heard the report ilire-atm.;
awl is ttttt ct.intely after saw a MAO •f ately
aluno the rise Madeleine. •I'leimas Carter said to his rom-
p:4,6ton. o I'll lay a wager that that Main Bard et the Duke's
cars tare ;" but as they heard nobody call out, and 'wing be-
strangers, and fearing lest they slesuld do wily doing
contrary to the usages of the c try, they did not It the
moment attempt. to stop the man ; but mooting with than
soldiers, who were pursuing the assassin, William Motto,
joined them, and the assatsiti, whn was whominid pacea in
IttirkliCr, was .ion tint of night. Morris supposed the man
to be about five fit t three inches high, with a dark coat tool
metal bottoms, and a stick in Inf. hand.
Next day the Jude,- of Ingo art attended so the hotel
of the Duke. to take his depositi tttt
the inside of the carriage was examined. but 1111 trace of a
hall (mild he discovered ; and it was sumwetial the hall bail
passed through the two windows of the cairiage, the gInP•111
of which were horn, and truck galust the wall of the
Hotel de elitism. t,
whidi was opposaite lit tlikt of the Hakes
but no distinct mark of • hall could be discovered there.
ClitteUtltiTitlMEB WHICH PRECEDED THIS *Tit:MOT.
It appeared, from Ilse examinatiod liken after die 11th
of
fehristry, that a report was spread at Cambery of the Duke
sit Wellitsgton havine been assassinated, and it was certain
thet the attempt was the result of a plot which ►
had been
formed a long tone before.
Colonel Burgh, Aide-dr.Comp to the Doke. stated, that
being at Cambray the the nth of January, 1818, he received
a litho with the post-mark of Paris um it, and having 110
other signature than the letters F. (.; that in this letter it
Was announced ihat attempts were snaking against the life
of the Duke of Wellingtou, and that a proposal hail been
made to the writer to enter into the plot, which refused
to comply with. Colonel Burgh immediately sent dos letter
to the Duke, who was then at the chateau de St. Martio, treat
('ambray. The Doke disregarded this cuminuuicatiou, and
the letter Wes burnt ur lust
Ott the 11th of February following, in the evening, an
Colonel named Ghirarsli, who had formerly been servant to
Itnigh, and was then in the service of D. Lus
brother to the Spanish Ambassador, came to Colonel
Burch. who was thee in Paris, •ail told hint lie Was the
writer of the letter signed F. G. which hod been pent to him
to Conibray. Ghirardi was iininelliately suitinnitied before
the Judge of lostriection. He declared that atom! the end
of September, 1817, or beginning of January, 1818, whose
coining out of his master's house in the reciting to purchase
something, he was met by a person whom Ise 114/1 never seen
before, and who said, " Is that yuu, trhirstait?" On being
answered in the affirmative, this unknown person Ise
had somethine to say to him, atid desinil he wouldraid follow
Iron. Ghirardi refused. The stranger then entered into
converse, with ism; asked if lie was satisfied with his
place; and then declared he could furnish hint with ;lir
means of livisig without ally place. After some farther
remarks, he said, " It was in contemplation to rid ;France
of its most cruel enemy, the Doke of Wellington ; and (con-
tinued he) if you will be of the party, I well give you money,
and pat yon lii a condition to quit service altueether "
Saying this, he polled nut a Vern purse, which accrued to
contain money. On Gbirardi refuting luenter Mtn Iles plot,
or terrieres his money, the stranger observed, " You need out
be afraid ; the measures are so well taken, that Or re a no
doubt of their succeas If you wish to give me your address
I will inform you by letter of the day, the place end the
hour, when you must be in reatliuese ; until that tuoutrut
you shall not nee me."
An Inquiry was made as to what mild he the cause of this
enknowis person making such a 111111pe.111. It appeared that
Ghirardi, who had been in the service of several French
Officers, particularly that of General Excchinsin, before he
lived with Colonel Burgh or D. Loa Itios, was often is the
habit of holding conversations on political subjects with the
other Onmesties in the last place, and that he exp turd a
great dislike at seeing the Duke of Wellington and the Army
rif Occupation in France. tie k
aconwiedged having said
oast, slay. that it would be a gond thing to get nil of the
Duke of Wellington and all the Allies; miming thirehy to
say dial he wished fur their departure; and it was five or six
days after this conversation that the proposal in volition
was made to him.
It wee after having heard of the attempt made to tissassi-
note the Duke on the morning of (be 11th of February, that
Ghirardi determined on finding Colonel Rotes, to tell him
be was the author of die letter signed F. G. Every cfhot
was made, but without success, to enable Gbirardi hint
out the person who had made the proposal to him. l'he re-
searches of the police multiplied in all direetions, and they
discovered that *limit the Mb of Jauuary the affair had
berm confidentially disclosed to Lord Kninaird, a Peer of
Scutlaud. who was then at Brussels and who communicated
it to Sir George Murray, Chief of the Duke of Wellington's
Staff, in • letter sent to him is Paris. In this letter he
stated, that a French refugee, whom he had slightly known,
had told him that three of his friends atistonsly desired to
relent to Frallrea and asked if o was possible to get the
Duke of Wellington to intercede in llwir behalf. Lord
ICiatiaird said be thought the Duke could not sb so. The
Frenchman then asked if Lord litunaird thought the Duke
would apply to M. De Cases in their behalf, in case a plot,
formed againet his life, should he disclosed to boo. Lord
Kinnaird replied, that it would he very dilficult to bring the
Duke at pay any anent' to throats of any attack personal's'
directed against himself ; and that, witlntot producing good
proofs, the plot would have the nppearenee of haviug been
invented fur the futherenee of sonic object. The man said
be did not himself want to retain to notice, and that he
was induced to make this disclosure os aceouut of the %ter-
ror he felt at the idea of aseassiostiost. He said the plot
had been communicated to him by at,. officer ou half-pay,
who refused to he coeceraed in it ; hat that another hail ac-
cepted ate offer made to him This Fretichmau expressed a
strong wish to Lord Kinuaird to be allowed to go to France,
and disclose the affair to the Minister of Police, mid point
out the guilty person. Lord Kinnaird gave credit to the in-
formation of this person, and coneriverl it to bt his duty to
comet musicale the same to Col
onil Burgh.
After au sower given by Sir G. Murray, which was dated
February 8, and received by Lord Kinsiairil oil the 1311 s,
the latter wrote another letter to Sir G. Murray, ettottig that
he eoeld not give up the name of the person who had made
the disclosure to lo 111; but represented that he should be
allowed to go to Paris, and there point out the guilty pei*OU.
Lord Kinaatrd, without outfit)); fur a par/tort fur this moo,
whose name was Louts Joseph Montalto Marine', took hius
along with him from Brussels to Paris, were be arrived on
the 20tb of Februat y.
Marinet, on his brat examination before the Judge of &n-
-ohow:Mon, was eaveloped to mystery and cow...lntent ; and
it wait suspected that he was no stranger to the attempt of
assassioaling the Duke. It ofterwaide to out that these
ouspiciusia were well founded, and that he had himself fram-
ed the whole plot. It was also discovered by the police,
that a man named Caotilltes, formerly a military man, bait,
on the 13th of February, art out from Paris witbont a pass-
port, sod relented thither on the td of March, sifter making
s fruitless attempt to eater Belgium, to which place be bod,
twfore that time, made several pruritic*, and frequeally saw
prarked. Me was tweeted ou the libb of Mareh. Two
ocesses IWO thentottered on; one at Browse's, where the
plot was formed; sod the other at Pouts, wheys it was at-
tempted to he put its evrecutiou. The King's Procorator
divided bit ineiretigatioa of this business into three errant
EPOCH.
This relates to what pared at
8e...,!,, badto the time of
the attempt Id assaasioase. Merle" riseo Wog ow 016
rotate of Lyons sad Dijon, was prosecuted for liaviog
sir
slated in the rotors of Napoleou or France, and was
tried pot
obliged
it go lute szils. iissl3ol of Dessisahrt .

contetstere, and cot:ikons/a lo death. . Afar 'coact as
Switzeriasol and Italy, hr returned SO Br•••• I, Iles.. Ise
formed an acquaisit.osee with au Ea•Colutatt, named Brier.
who haul hien cusideume.l to death by the Royal Court of
Nancy, as well as with several other Yreniels refugeis,ionosisc
wl were Derprea, an F.%-Lieutenant-CM .... of of 1'.•1„...,
Petit, (miserly a gwarter-Master of infst.t.y, Niro r sir CI.,
tesenborerx, Ilie "sworn Arnaud and Krill3l4 it 41.- St. Jr in
irAutely, he It was id the house which they Sri treol. il
that This met became amplatetesl with Luril Kisosais.l, wits- .e.
the depositions taken at 11. usiel• repiesested as 4 rel... a Lo
held opinions contrary •0 the present system ul haus r, am
the Curial of She Duke of weibectoe, as rm to: r sei...l ... ii i.
olels-s, and iseekitaz Icy hid lutists.... to repair A 01.1.1... Z• .i
r 1,111110% The 1•011.1e111 opissi..llll of M., tot I, hi. Italica 1..-
VIIIII6 Ihe Kllig and 111.411111 %V. were the PI:oli, I.:
014.4. llllliilglifillo lie Nohle Lod 4•1111 a limo hi- I-intro ...51
talons:tie connexion, lo Norensher, 1017, :11... ;oil ..: is
1 Mesita 4.5 a euffev.hossee us horst out mut the two. . xis... ..I.
VIIII VICIO•14111,1111 .tans.) 1.01110 XVIII. and 0.1 Ili...but
i%Vetting:ton. Cautsiltsu Ism' hero a l.l arils Its Ile,", a1..0
was a Colonel to Bonaparte 's Chassewra un 111% ft IWO fc.is
Elba; lout he atterwarits locator the *cri am of Ma. does.
• wills whom he was (evidently sets walking 4801 courer.luz
in the mint 1111111:1101. 1114•11•1'. A presto, tiosicil 11.410:, "I''
Fahre, stated to the course a the caarnivation, that !s peal
ultimate y existed between ttlarisirt awl Lori! kilos i
sr.l
1.4111.4,
Lamy hiss ileriseil heroes the .1 lige ands
I tut r m, t i 4.0 at
thst tow•ola the toil of Deretntwr, 1817, he Was...-li Me 111,11.4
for tieing 11,0 intimate with 1.01.1 Kea pa i. i: ; to wish ts h.- re.
i plotl, .. Be nut alas used, i.e will out etrusprustuse us•-. Ise hid
, ! mask use 1111148311111:61 Viiiil a lolled wills whit* he le., ;sent
i ! a Ion: lime fut.:0f...1, null of *Melt you will ores.o to al 10111
1 I speak.' Marius. t &sties this l lolly. r..iwit, hut Lamy, coo.
fronted with him, riersi•ts iii it.
SLCON It EPOCH

(Then the accirout of this midair sal known at B. wowl.,
wan r subject of gesieral conversa , pa. among
the Freuc6 refugees alio were Hi. Se at Iler
1).-14111 a b 1.101( w the company of MailloCi :It 115 e 1 ule
d'Oe said to h 111 l o I 4.5411.9 e waj, cs, ls,sr.•
pm heard the news? the Irlow lois been work atr.oiat
1111 b la
lingtun, and I know whetter it cause.' He so-ke % ill
jest Drape.: ass illrsurd lit tillY,lll/41 hiss., lust :1115oonee
stopped his di, I.y saying, " l have slot tune ; 1 .it 1,111
tannteilistel) for Anvers "
Before the Jinlre of Instruct' at Brussels. LAn'y • .sa,
rasher deposed, that un the say, or the wit 01,* 11•1.'.r tit.
Ilse arrival of the news at G.ussels, walkiog with Marl ..t 5.5
the Hite Royal, and is the act of vesting b. lore a Fs. sit ti-
mers of small stature, and whom Nlartuet had
y
said be could recognize if be wet hits. he *44141 pr
la hini,
" There was a proposition made tip that otEesr. which Is re-
fused." Lamy added, that from lit. 51. , and Ilu cats...stun
of hi. (Itet's Ile guessed the iodide of Ilse proposal, sit./
no lunges' rlssulrlsch whau lw heard lour foi thee tlss y
had rosstrit a inure holid sant ; ago' that of Weliiiigrou
the brat blow, the occur's! would 1.5. t fail."
The smile day that Martini mod, tine ole.ervation, 1.45.4
met him again Ise the Park, %hen thee were Is two
persona, called Petit Delauoy and Huntioa a. M4tllll Wilk
She former by the arm, and said, " lbee jou h. arrl thll46at
Land Wellington eseape.l being killed r awu Veld ,
awereil, " that he had heard arisnellrlttr Rho", :45tritart
said, " There was aimed at hien a rh.o.lly fvom a pistol,
a• he was enter sog his hotel ;" and hr fot *her widen. lost
" Ise knew who did it, hot it was uvir, lila they slsould out
be taken."
has another conversation whet% Marini I bad will*
and which was uverbrord by Lamy. he was limiest to 11515
said, "The blow canoe trans the street St. ; y
shad never I* taken." Toese last wools were explamed lay
Petit hinny, as refeirtog to tire permit who Sari pis.
W
tut, as obey acre analogous to the words he tool twiou hsast
use its his presence.
(The act of accusation Irene gives an amount of the j
pry which Manuel made is. 'Sneer* osi the 171 h of Frio nary,
whence he was biought the smut. day by Lord hiss-
Amongst other thins IN ins hat/mg ;tressed 1,100
franca from Isis family, but he stilioviently drthmrrd tint
he had this sum of Land K 1111 l to shoot he gave a b4ll
of exchange. This latter circumstance 11.1 s loccu Isvltisssw-
lOgesl to be incorrect.)
After receiving this sum from Lord Kinnaird, Marinet
hired a coach, trial joined Lord Kimoslsd, who ailed for
him. Having &patted froitt Brussels tot the Mill 5.1 bi
they leached Paris on the sec 1111 l day r. MAI
..0 sr,ss. I,
berate he entered the env, alighted trots the isublc 11.*
cabrailet, which was dimes* inimeslists ly is' the hotel of lbw
Bake of Wellington idler this they met a!ain at the Lhatops
Elyares, which the y ball appointed ms r rush 111,4/lit
[Here follows a relati 111 l of what or turret at tlbuwwls after
the departure of Lord Kr 111 l aird and Ilatitiet.l
The Siewr ;)ruttier swore sit P.. 1 s that the somas. Guyer,
whose veracity was uuNup.aihiA, told kin 11.41
ought to fall upon Continuo, as tile ass omit who hied the
pistol. This toiaretion was founded swots the ells d0...1an ce
of her having utieu heard Nlartuct say, that be sass a pet Isoll
extremely fit for his purposes.
When Marina set out for Paris, Droitrt omit Peetiatr
went to seek Brice at the place of his retreat. Aces., Limit' to
Dfauicr. Brice is reported to have said, " that Ca
Mils a person capable of Extricatitig bowel( from tlw
situation 11110 could place his,
hits OA he
had now got tutu one out of %Lich hi would hod it darner'',
to escape."
(To be tcatluded to morrow.)