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lioUst OF COsl3lo:is, TurfsMr, Just It

'nu. Ilona, was annimonril to the Holm. of Press. On
the SIMAIL I. returts he *vacs!' the lives, had heels in (be
!louse of ^. us, and heard the li.dyal knew given by Com-
missiou to sowsl public and prurste Bills—(for which see

COMIT OF ft WU ESTFt.
Mr. Lush, from the Court of It. que•to, Tower listoleis,
preseuteil of all soots of money paid ihercto by
soiters ru hits the last **stilly ytars.—L3td tot the table, and

Lords.)

ordered to be printed. -
INSOLVENT DEBTORS.
On the motion of Load ALTIIORT, the Order of Ilse Day
W 3. read for the third reading. of Ilse Insolvent DeWor■' 11111.
The Bull was thou reed the third now, eerlsio chinsel pro-
posed by Imed ALTWORT Agreed In, and added to the COI by
via) of riders,, and the 11111 'cooed.

PA PT.IZS
Accounts of the Som• of :Stoney rid into the Coons of
R intiest. al Hecool.ion, soil certain ocher places in the vici-
nity of Lomb)°, were ordered to be laid cm the table.
FISH
Out the motion of Mr. LIMIIIXOTON, the House went
into ■ C miller on the Acts relative to the Southern
Whale sod the Pilchard Fisheries—Certain Resolutions were
app.:cd to, and the Report ordered In he received to.murrow.
PARISH vEsTiti S.
Mr. S. Bounty► hiccuped up the Report of the Parish Ves-
tries Bill. which was agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be
read ►he third time to morrow.

PROTECTION OF WITNESSES.
Mr. WYNN obtained leave to bring in a Ball to indemnify
yeredns tit [lung. evidence of bailor!, eormaption. nr ilk-
gel acts At EleC11“1.11, litfoie either House of Parliament.

PEMBROKE MARKET.
Oa the molten of Mr. Cnowat, the Rims* repoterd
itrrlf
..iin a Committee iin the Pembroke Dock Markt t Bell
'Eke Bill aas considered, and the Report urdered to be m-
et wed tu•w+urrow.

wr.icarr OF BREAD.
The Weight of lirra.t Bill wa+ lead a second 11113 C, and
Ordtftd to be cum mOted to-ssoriow.
ASSESSEIS TAXES.

The Report of the Assessed Taxes Composition Bill was
iurtLtr euno.lered, unbend to he engrossed, and read a
third time to morrow, if engrossed.
R EVENIi F. FRAUDS.
Sir IV. sae Cotsrimins* said. that in consequence of certain
papers laud before hire by a Mr. Wilkes, relative to Ilw rot-
hi lion of the assessed taxes i❑ Westerham, Seyeaciske, and
the remainder of that district, he observed sorb • system of
ft mid and peculation carried on by the contrives, that he
tit tilted IS his duty, as a Member of l'arimorot, tU 351511-
113 ft investigation. lie had therefore rally in the Sefairimi
mewed for entail, ace, ; lout these, when wit on the
table, Its ing fonoll too sclumtnuus,aftrr undergoing a double
et *thou, were mimed to a Committee, and lay on its table
likes scorpion, or rettle-snake. A report was now at length
made front it and printed. The iloo. Baronet Ikea read extracts
from the printed papere,etatiog tint charges had berm made by
collectors unfounded anti UViasil koris..l by the Commissions rs.
Ile had already calk,: the attention of the Heine to the con-
dna of two collectors, and he contended it appeared, Goin
ale Know, in his band, tint Austin should not have breu
rewarded in the way he had. Mr. Malcolm too, who had
been • participator in the fm Rods at Severionks, was lately
scut, very improperly in hie opinion, to an employment in
the four northern counties. Ile wished to know whether any
re assessment on the poor people plundered was to take place.
Aler commenting with seventy on the conduct of oilier
persous concerned in the Irensactions complained of, and a
sioniber of other olwereatione, the lion. Baronet said, it was
lit intention, in the course of the strut Session, to make a
suture g • I mottoes than that he no* intended to subunit,
lit 1, t the House more folly Mtn the knowledge of time mode
to which assessments acre conducted. Ile then moved—
" That there he laid before time House the Report of the
Receiver-Gm moral of Taxes fur Bromiey, Blackheath, nod
Hal Hurd, stating what sum or sums had been paid into the
Leek quer, as the net !remitter uf the Amused mid Properly
Taxes Mr the years 1814, I it lb, and 1818.
•r Aim an account of what sum or sums hail been paid to
Me. Rogers, the Impeder'', niel time Clerk* of the Commis-
/1011M of Assessed Taxes in the said districts. for the raid
three yeses, together with their poundage and centage, sale.
vies anti allowances; together with an accuunt of slot nunt•
her of officers employed by the Commissioners in the same
disks( la, with their respective salaries and allowaucert."
The qmicsison having hero pot—
Mr. Lissuistveon said, that ei gh the motions were ex.
teems ly wide of the notice given by the HIM. (brunet, amid
though he thought the papers obesity printed afforded must
abundant itifurniation, )et lie did nut mean to offer the
opposition.els been lle wims willing to allow that the Hull.
Batons es zeal in the affair sorammg r time best u mem ions
sod that the ounce tnken of it might went petsilliS sat nonuse
►teal' to avoid Wilma intemsucherroie. The Hutt. Baronet
migi.t lie assured that on the discovery of this fraud, time
Board of Taxes had adopted every possible precaution to
guard against aet petition of s' •tar Mtors. With respect
to she re•employ mem of Mr. Amino, the reason which had ta.
doted the Commissioners to ■ct set iodnigently towards
tom was, the deep settee of his error he had marielealed, and
his sincere desire to repair the consequences of it, by every
means in Lis power. Berndt' (a circumsistice which cer-
tainly ought to's eigh on such au occasion), the Cummiw
japlio y, had found that he Lure • must excellent
character in private life.
Sir IV, we Citr‘rinny said, belied heard nothing to con.
%since him that the people of the places he had ineutioned
had nut suffered must seemly from the positive guilt or cul-
pable negligence uf the Collecito, Surveyor, luspeelor, mold
Clerk of the Peace, the hest employing • deputy, and lie
•gals a subeleputy, to transact the businein to which it
was his duly to attend iii proton.
Aim Dun. Member, whose name we could not Imo. said,
be hoped the flow Hlllol‘ll would must convider it imperti-
nent or hint to state, that the epportemity of colon
the hawd had aramen from the (leak of the Peace, or cashier
the Cumeniesioners, ueglecting 10 transmit the true thipli.
cake of the suuts collected to the Recetver•General.
lONIAN ISLANDS.
Sr C. hloxca inquired (as we understood) of the Noble
Lord (Castlereagh) *lieu the acceibiou of the Ottoman Porte

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to the Treat!, Letiseen this country and the Soren lan&
would be laid before the Howse!
Lord Coe KKK ' •eawer wee ,wt 111111lible to us.
WITNESSES INDEMN rrY. •
Mr IVYnsi brought In the Witnrr4es Indemnity Rill,
whirls was read a first lime. On the question rut the second
rradine being ott-
-31.. It MAIII IN was snrrised to see the How Gentleman
bringing each a measure forward, alter he had himself
broadly stated, that such persons were already hole 00000 ofir.l
by law. Ile must either retract his former •toderrati ~,, s, er
allow the measure was altogether uttneerssary.
Mr Wynn was or Wished in are the Hon. Gentleman
pursuing • C.11.1111C entirely unprecedented. The sir. sure
pqa tint at sill inconsistent with the practice of the noose
or the privileges of l'ailisment.
The 11111 was then ordered to be read a second time kV'
morrow.

GRAM l'Or ND.
The Committee on the Bribery bitlierinests
Bill tr as pubtputied till Monday to at.

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MESSAGE.
A message from ilie Lord. announced that their Lord•
ahipe 1.0 agreed to ;he Children w Cettoll rectories and
other Bills.

EXI'IBE: IMOSECUTIONS.
Mr. I). W. 1148VEY entitairil the attention of
the (funs while lie was ',tiling the facts of the
Petition %/inch he had mint.) talit's to ley before it.
The Petitioner was Captain S Itt.ttel Bryan, of the
ship Margaret. Ile ennui liiiitdthat be hail beris
made the subject of a most vexatious pro:ectitsuu
by the Send of Excise, sisal sillioned that the
result of it wag a proof thereof. The vessel %%bol
he commanded traded room Surinam to London.
It war will known to massy (ammo-read Gen-
tlemen present, that by the Act 26 It George 111.
commonly called the ManVeat Aet the Captain
mod Master of every vessel ...tiling front istiy port
fir this coteitry, was bound tsi kite an accurate
ittanifrttt of the contents of the cargo. It was that
provision which led to the revere proceeilisie• set
forth in the Petition. With sntli a maisifest tp-
lain Bryan sailed from Surinam. in the course of
1813, and arrived its the Post of Loudon iit August,
1814. The Act required Imo to trusistint his Ma.
containing no exact account of ilw cargo, on
his arnica!, to the Board of Customs, which regula-
tion lie immediately complied with. Among the
other things on board were 145 bags of coffee. It
was the duty, as well as the custom of the Board
of Costonis, no soon as they received * manifest. to
send to the Commissioners of E'teisr so account of
any articles coming' under their cogniztrice—vehi7li
coffee, bring an excisable nrticle, dud. On such
a siotiliesitirm bring made to the CotontiosSoners
of
Excise. it was their province to send officers, called
searchers, on hoard. to compare Ilie cargo with the
manifest; s, d if there was a veriatisiti,it was their doty
to put a fiat on the veseel, till sin explamo ism of that
fact should be given. The searcheis discovered there
but 140 !hip of coffee. Now, the Act hail directed
that if any article specified in the manifest should
lie wonting, the Captain or Master should hr subject
to a penalty of 2001. provided (awl he was elesi ((((( s
to enforce this ots the attention or the liouse) that
it did tint appear to have proceeded from mistake,
in which case the penalty was not to Ire imposed.
The Petitioner was called tri to explain the varia-
tion. not bring himself ignore of the mistake, and
igtioratit of the source from whence it sprung, Ise
applied to his mate, and some of the most active of
his crew ; and out ioquiry, it had turned mit Bost the
mete, islet before sailing, and it; the hurry usual on
such occusions, had crawled the contents of one
Hundred and forty-five bags into one hundred mild
forty. (laving in isle that discovery, he transmitted
a report of it to the Cotioniesiosiers of Customs,
calling on them to rectify the nit-take. who merle
the communication to the Commissioners of Excise,
and they released the vessel (soot the fit,. Captain
Breen inferred, most itaturelly, that all claints for
Ilse ,too/. penalty Lad ceased, never, f.siiii 1814 to
1816, doting two years, having heriril nay inti-
mation whatever that he had iiiesirred or was liable
to it. Ault how had lie loess first Informed of it
—instead of a previous commouiention taut pro-
ceedings' wet e iii rigitat sot (a coarse which he
111t.ip41.t Noy respectable sohcnnr its Loudon would
have been ttt•hont eti to devlille from, though he un-
derstood the only defence for nut observing It its
the presets!. case arts, that the managiog solicitor
;sever did so), the Petittoner was only apprized of
it by U notice that legal process had commenced
against him. On former occasions, when Petitissine
Intl been presented similar 10 the prer.ent, it, had
beets atteno.ted to evade the justice of their claims
by saving the Petitioners were otewrothy of cre-
dit. Whatever troth there might have been in
the statement before, it could out apply to the
Pctittoner is the present ittstessee. He did not
know him except by having beets introduced to
prs ss rut his Petition ; but when he k new that
his solicitors were Messrs. Sw•yrie and Stephens,
olio, he was persuaded, would not interfere
wits :soy thing that slid nut come from a respectu-
ble sourer, he trusted no attempt would be noodle
to prejudice the Iloisse against the cloarcter of the
peseta Pet 'tomer. Clovers of this nature claimed
the most serious consideration of the (louse, when
it was recollected that the smuttier of prosecutiosis
conducted in the Court of Exchequer by the Auto-
ney-Generat, last year, was not less than 761, and
that their aserage expense was 160/, rack, waking
up a sum of about 150,0001. OUI being served
with notice, Captain Berm rent a Petitiois to
the Board of Excise, contr.' (( i o a statement of
the facts of his case, accompanied with the
aflitltivito of himself tool some of lots crew, asid pray-
ing that lie might he allowed to ;splicer before them
11140100 was rejected. before
was
told lie could not be listened to, because a mate
who justified himself by the oath of himself mod
Ins clew was nut to be believed on Isis oath. lint
the result was lint to be wondered at, while
they left the insisiagernent of such matters to their
solicitors, the persons most interested in suffering
no compromise to take effect. It war most
clear, that the clause of the Stature would not
brier out the protiecutiois, if the mistake were
oat evidently intentional, and here the fact was
otherwise. It did appear to him, that the power as-
sumed 'by the person,s who instituted those suits
Its the Court of Exchequer, very nearly re-
sembled that which was exercised by the Master
of the Crown-Office, during the existence of
the Court of Star-Cliamber—from the time of
Henry VII. moil the resign of Charles 1.; and
which was effectually removed by the 4th mill
Stli of William and Mary. When the trio)
cane on, the absence of criminal iioetmon was
pleaded—but a verdict wart given against the de-
fetolaut, its !woolly af 2001. The penalty was