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SMALL DEBTS.

Nr. DICKINSON won r.lyd several l'etutions from 10 ire%
Sotnercelsitirri, praying that MAlr,i+trale. web, turrrd
the Orrisom of Sault of deht under 151.—Kraal ru l 1.1.1 uo
the table.

ACTS IN DESUETUDE
(hi the motion of Mr. flossect.t., the Mouse went info N
Comaiitiee on the Scotch Acts in Desuetude Bill—the Bill
was considered.—Report to morrow
POISONOUS DRUGS.
The Poisonous Dines Sale Rill was (riouzlit read a
first time, s,td fixed for •he second ee.ohilz too M I,) held.
GLASGOW A::D CAR 1.1s1.1.: ROAD
The Givigow and Carlisle Road Bill wdß lend A third Bute
and passed

LosnoN (:.1S LIGHT.w
Mr. P. sto,. moved the third of flee a'aitte
Bill.
General Gh.SCOVNE mused as nn anumelmen I, that the
Bill be read a 1111111 time this dry nix months.
Mr. Cut.cLot.Go said, Ili it theetieli he lia.l
the measure, liecau.r. the !WWI I'S ptilerColinZ thee-dr Inc tree elet
convey deleterious matter to the liver, which would rewire
the water itowleolemnie, and iuj.nr lice li•ltettra; yet, as
another Company was already csist.iig, and as Ito. Bell
tended to produce a spirit of competelimi, lie gllll.l 1.1 sup-
port it
Mr, P. Moone raid, the BM lest most respertr'ele
Scribe's bef re it was the 4..4 that
the opposition to it iiiigiultc.t in a lustre- of 'near dote.—
There were eight thotismid !lee hundred streets lee tote,
of which wily twee hundred and thiefy were light, I.y gas..
The question 111,111111 T was, WIII tiger there was teat I ewe, for
line • •e Companies of the store deseription ?
S:r JOSFPIII YORRE said, the consequence of est-ehlishleez
two Gas Coneuanies weenie! be the deme action ref hoe h.
.1,. H. Sustw auppoctill the Pill, heel thuagla it ex•
peditut to have it recommitted, in order Illat Crll-1111 lintl•ts
of it might undergo Amendment.
Alderman %Vows said. the layinz down of the peres
would be surrinteneleal by thee Commissioners of Se v.'s,
who would take care that Ihr Compilers atuelelil ii'.l
eat b other, or the streets. tie was of opinion that Ili, Bid
aught tee be re-committed.
Mr. BENNETT ee eleusrl thE
After smut• observations from a Member, whose wino. Cle
could not learn, Mr. P. Ninone explained
11 The House then divided, when the numbers wee.
For the third reading
Against it
1.:4

!tfajoeity agaiu,t
On our re-entering the tlles'v, General FER4t.•utN "'s•
eapreasing a Vll,ll that the troops employed in
the tlr•(
Indira should nut lie left in that unhealthy g
as they usually acre, and that the time of reiviee these
might he reduced In some delimit• p ri. d, for
preen years.—A certain order, of ahat nature we c.enid not
learn, was then ilii.thasged.
STATE OF TOE YATION.
Sir JouN SECItIGIIT wis'oo! to :A the It glut
Hun. Gientlemaii iiiii ter kin (11r. 'Mirror'.) whetlor
lie did tiot think it more vonr.-nient, slot whether
he had ally tilij colon to postpone kis inotom I r
Committee on the State of tl•e Nation, that stood
for to-morrow night, till after the roost l r,rion of
the Report of the Secret Committee on die re-
sumption of ca•k payments by the Bank ?
Ti ERN EY said, lie never nie suit to mike his
tootiou an oppoititnity for fol r•t rlltng the drfrtte
on the Report of the Seiiret Committee. It he
thought it would in any manner have that elf c+,
lie should postpone it. Hot a pnatponetitroit uf it
till after all the steps to he tAkeit on the Itrport,
would carry it so late into the Session t;•at he ooght
as well abandon it a1t0...4.hr.. Ile had every
position to oblige hi. limt. Frieini, but winitiArr
that disposition was, his Motion was of such
cou•r-
(lueuce to the nation tut tar; r, that his ditty to it
compelled him to bring it on to-morrow night. Ile
saw that a motion of uu Hon. Griitlemint opposite
for the repeal of the duties imposed nit coals,
borne or carried coastwise, stood 1.1)r 10.1111irt/.w
night before his, he hoped the Hun. Gentlemini
(Mr. H. Sumner) would consent to postpone it till
Thursday.
Mr. H. SUMNER said if tie Noble Lord opposite
(Lord A Idiom) would allow it precedence of his
notice of a Bill fur the Relief of Insolvent titian's,
which, was fixed for Thursday, lie should not id,-

jeer to postioomig it till that iiiglit.
LORI A I.TMORP intimated I,is assent, nwl ive
understood Alr. 11. Sumner's i.otice to lie fixed tur

Thursdieve
Mr. WYNN conceived Ilse Report of the Srri,t
Committee was of au( I; extreme importance to all
interests in the country, that it was treilinstoble to
come to satistai tiny opiiiinii on the state of the
nation till it should have been previously con-
sidered.
Mr. TiritNrY said, that if lie succeeded in per-
suading the 1-1111I+r tigire to his motion for :41ritig
into a Committee, perhaps he should consent to 1,:ot
oft' the Committee till Friday, alter the Revolu-
tions me the Report should have heel' submitted to
the (louse.
Mr. G. CALLAGHAN thought it expedient that
the House should he let into the nature of the
soliitions inteitiled tie be 11f0110.0-.1 some little in.-
•ious 10 tee Ilight they should be Cattle(' 111100 iu
give an miiiiireal on them.
Mr. PEEL replied, filet !irritates it would answer
the Hon. Gentleman's views to' say, that the Result.-
, times to be mat *tied to the [louse were en coo-
-1 fortuity with the opinions of the C,,ininittee, and
founded on thee rectointuraidarions of the Report.
Mr. CALLAGHAN said, M,11.111-fa ought to he
fully slot distinctly in possession of the matter of the
I Resolutions, before they were introduced fur dis-

CU/00081.
Lord FOILICSTONE said. it was iittostrtmeit the
Ilomive %hookd nt the tiorrim know p. ripely whit
they were coiled upon to vote MI Florist, night.
The Minutes of Evidence isken before the Cum-

muter. which were very voluminous. load been pot
into the hands of Membees only th it morieloy.t. Ile
the leerale Repolotions should br !aul too the
table some ought before Frio!Ay.

Nlr. Pr•.et. had no wisp► whatever to press a pre-
insture discussion of the question. He was only
anxious that time nhoutd ler afforded for the fullest
investiotion and consideration. He limit not the
slightest desire to introduce the suiloject before
Isy, if the sense of the sliollSe wan 11101114 it.
ilr believed the Lords' Report had nit yet 2 'ten
r.rminisnicated to the House. Hr 14W no Obire•
lion* to IHVillg the Itetoluti iii 5 on the table to-o►or-
rnw or Wednesday, ••ithnut binding himself to
Monday for their discussion.
Mr. J. P. GRANT made some observations not
wobble to um.
Mr. CALLAGHAN repeated the wish be haul be-
r rg(prestwil.
After some furtlurr observations by Mr. PEEL,
1.0,11 CAIitLEREAGH, Mr. H BANREs. soul Mr.
CA /A,ltAirr, the order fur the consideration of the
Report.; of tbe Secret Committee dn► the re• 1111411.•
tion of ra•h Payments, which stood for Fndrn•,
W4ll discharged, and the same fixed for Monday
ova.
PETITION OF CAPTAIN lIANCIIITT.

Mr. licsNET'f said, he hail a Petition In ',resent
from J•ihis Martin Flanclutt, a Captain in the
[loyal Navy. He stated thnt he hail been in the
*ea service from the year 1797, and after havisl4
received repeated proofs of the ~,,, I opinion of the
elfivers under whom he served, had some years stove
been appointed to the command of the water-guard,
for the protection of the revenue—that his conduct
'in this situation had invariably received the ist,rind-
laird approbation of those whose duty it was to sit-
prrhritemil it. Isle complainill that, not withstand-
tog, lie was deprived of his coninnaod by S. R.
1.11-hingt ttttt Esq. Secretary of tlw Trenowey,
without any cause whatever, isn't:. that a Mr. Dom-
blane, a young and incompetent person, Willi up.
pointed to succeed him, with Me view olfsirward.
11 r. Lushington's electioneering porpowes at
Canterbury, which place he represented, Mr.
I)timblane's family possessing votes and influ-
ence in that city. He further accused the same
Honourable Gentleman of promoting !another per-
sons, Lieutenant Nerve, and Captain Knight, resi-
drifts at Canterbury, through the same motives,
and of a inal-appiopriation of the public nuniey,
in putting down the expense of a journey to Ro-
chester to 'wet some voters, to the public servive.
Ili prayed the Utilise to recommend to limp !loyal
flightless the Prince Regent to reinstate him its
the situation from which he hail beets removed, or
to grant such oilier recompense tor long and use-
services as naught krt'lll meet.

'On the sinestsins for bringing op the Petition
brine ro—
The CHANCELLOR a the EXCHEQUER said, that
she removal of the-Petitioner was t.ot the us t of Inv
Hon. Friend. A discovery had been wade of ft
corropt contract proposed by the Prtiftcoer, fur
up his situation to his success:sr, ih eoto.i.lera-
hots of an snowily of 300/. a-year, or 6,001/. down,
on which he (the Chancellor of the Exclugftri)
Lad thriftiest it his linty to hare Inns rtivisceri.
Ili. Iran. Friend beside Inns (Slr. Lodsioglots) hail
taken misstep in the business uillsout lur aslvice and
direction. He wished (as we could collect) that
the Petition should be withdraws:.

Mr. BESISILTT said, that if lie had before enter-
tained any thought •f withdrawing the Pe _ s _ i _____
Ake coarse taken by the (tight Flom Gentleman
tittering such severe imputaf
azaiiiiit the character of a gallant ■nd muslin ious
outee►, would skirt mine him against it.
Alt. LUPIIPIGTOII was quite certain. that if the
'Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Bennett) had looked
closely and deliberately into the transaction, hr
would have found that the most cruel tart which
could be committed against the Petitiosier was the
preseutiog this Petition. It appeared. from the
leiter of Petitioner himself to Mr. Diiiiiblane, that
ire was CosisCio4l* the contract lie had been video-
routing to effect was illegal awl corrupt, to lie
shereiw hop►!d dist 4' the t•usiness bliould be dour
under the rose, and, above all. -that-it should MA
flair to his (Mr. L.'s) ears.'-' It was indisputably
pissed, he had been stipulating to resign lair fat
slime on the trims before mentioned; and what, he
a►ked. could be inure corrupt than the selling of a
pnl►lie office fur the purpose sif itishvidusil 'sushi ?
The law °Seers laid beets applied to, to Lome whether
the Petitioner could be prosecuted nailer Mr. Perci—
val's Act ; but they were of ov.inion he could too, as
the Act omitted to include within the penalties restg-
motions fur pecuoinary considerations by the putty
himself. As to the charge of mil-appropiation of
Int public money against himself, lie could assure
the I ',nor a 1 eipal object of his tit trail ion, for the
last two years the Petitioner was in bib unpins nut
was to watch and restrain lass waste and ',xi rat .sg.si.ce.
As to hie ,hedged alum of patronage fur psivate
purposes. Ise should Ise ashamed to rive in lies pike
in that Hager, if he had been guilty of such con-
dors ; Sod as to the promotion of unlit person*, lie
stud no &acuity in statiog, that those ment►oned as
loch in the Petition had been first represented ;Is
worthy objects of favour b)• Mr. !llu►thut bruu►cll
—1 fifer, hear.)
Sir F. litSoOtiTT slant, an 11111116011111 rr.lson for
bringing. tip the was, the 111,1*.11111 MN 01111
o%hu•11 14 irrlli•aciwn 110 111 sista iminoial, nor !roll-
if. PIIIV potpie lief-chart, lad brew it:11110A
with
ii,.- 1,11i1.-% ill Illegality and
Pennon N.H. 111..11 brought tip and wad ;
Noon it, Iru•guhs the reading nectivo d a cuu.ul. lable
1.01,1011 of Misr. Oil the tuution that at he on the
LIIIII.,
Mr. I.i:4HINGToN said. that in the Petition not
nor word was nirelllthielt of the SOO/. II \ CM. or
(1.04.4451. in hand, the con•itlrrsttou inoinorti tiff Ille
P. manner', sesignsitioti of la; office, which consti-
t Med she head and front of the °deuce for which he
tool hoer removed. Ile read various extracts from
the natinte. of the TlethUly to contradict the ztatte-
-41W11i% of the Petitioner, delegated the character. of
Dutublane, Nerve. Knight, sod Golden,
folvnitily rletord the charges against himself, and
►aid the couise now taken with respect to the Pe-
town, ii, a matter of '►effect imlitletriate In luta.
Bkh si:FT • I'd, lie bad ittictly questioned
the party, m id that lie was molliralserl by him to
hit flu 611 hntu•ur II" a Ci*-1111C1111111. SW all Of:.
1 4 tl, that the is lisle e• 1 the charge against hilu of
...nginsiting t•ie ruistroict was (slit ! Ile positively
• I! ia.d, that the first proposition Caine front

niimblane and his father—that en far from swishing
to lisve the matter transacted moiler the rose, his
&lore wits, that I,ot a Mep should lie taken in it
without the knowledge of the lion. Gentleman op-
posite (Mr. Litsliingtoo).
On this motion a convents, took place between
Mr. ‘Vyitii, Sir M. W. Ridley, Mr. N. Calvert,
the Cliaccellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Bennett,
and Mr. Lusliiindon.
The Petition was ordered to lie on the table.
BARNSTAPLE ELECTION.
Mr. Ilitoi:Drs brolez.lit tip the ißeport of the
Barnstaple Election Bill. O, the mutton " •rhat
tins Report be tow irceived—
Sir RusEnt WILsoN said, it appeared to hint
that the dittos' of the elective franchise over this
borough svonh! not protect the public from the res.
petition of the ritietice of which Barnstaple had been
abuse of that freetdom which
was gratified to them as one of the dearest
privileges of Englishmen. It appeared to him
that Barnstaple would not be reformed by the
!101l before -them—the votes of the electors at
that borough were cousidered a marketable article.
Milli MO cold 114 he asked, restore the
tlectois Of Barnstaple to those franchises which they
forfeited by the most corrupt, the most odious, and
tl,r most shameful proceedings ? They urn- guilty
of the tams) of treason—treason itg.iiiist the Coosti-
twin') of their country. lie hoped he would have
le.ive to bring in a Bill to disfranchise the electors of
Barnstaple. and at the saint time give them knee to
Vole for Knights of the Shire. Front the time of
Edward I. to Charles 11. sixty boroughs had been
Created and atutihilated. iu our own time, its Ireland,
fifty boroughs had been disfiatichised, and 300 of
the lieptesentatives of that country were reduced
to our Imodied. lie would, however. say, that
upon the qitestion of the Union of Ireland with
'England, air public feeling of Ireland was not re-
spected—the !while ()tondo', was not satisfactorily
explained nor truly expressed. At the same time
'he nits tree to say, that lie was not iiiimical to that
measure. But why was he not inimical to it ?
'because lie hoped it would have been a Union
uot merely of the Legislatures, but of the in-
terests of both commies—he hoped to have
f I it a Union founded on It participation of
equal rights and of equal liberties— hr hoped to
have found it a Union that would have given
strength to the empire, and tranquillity to Ireland,
that ttould have had for its basis the principle of
civil rod religious freedom—that noble principle
%loch the bail dots of ignorance and intolenmee
had depreastd, but which the enlightened world
have now acknowledged and acted on, with the ex-
ception of England, from whose character lie hoped
to see 50 focal a loan) removed.--(Heor, iteur.)—
The gallant Officer next touched on the subject of
Reform; he said, that whilst his constituents looked
for a fair reborn, they did not entertain the prin-
ciple of annual Parliaments and universal suffrage.
He said that Leeds was an ancient Borough; it was
disfranchised in the time of Charles 11. without any
cause appearing on the Journals. He would move,
that the consideration of the Report be postponed
to this day six months; and should his motion be
agreed to, hr would then move for leave to bring
iu a 1;111 to disfrairchise the borough of Barnstaple,
usual to confer it mi at the /Arne time
the electors of Barnstaple the right of voting for
Knights of the Shire, and allowing the present
Member to sit for the present Parliament.
Mr. WYNN said, that it was presumed the whole
of the electors of the borough of Barnstaple were
corrupt ; but the fuel was not so. Ile said the
elective franchise should be preserved to the sound
part of the electors.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT supported the Bill. lie
was not, lie said, mite of those who looked for r state
of the greatest perfection ; lie looked to the attain-
ment of practical good wherever be could find it.
'lie would not for a visionary object lose sight of a benefit
sithin his pearls.

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Mr. MARTIN anggested, that the Bill should be recom-
mitted, and the evidence should be heard at the bar u to
particulars of individual corruption in the borough.
Mr. V INC BLAKE spoke in favour of the Bill.
Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN said, that the time had now
arrived when the public would me whether the House would
take soy step morsel% Reform. He contended that the diffi.
cultic' started by Hon. Gentlemen against the principle
►hould vanish into air; no one could deny that in Barn-
staple, as in ninny other places, a settle of the most profli-
gate ciaruption had taken place. If this were hue, and it
could nut be denied, be asked, why should those corrupt
it. rims lie allowed to possess these franchises, which they
had so grossly abused' It was nut for ■ visi .... ary scheme
b. contended—hut this was the precise moment that Parlia-
ment u as called tin to act—to lay their hands 1111 every thing
that au corrupt, and to l'Ull•ince the pi opt, that they weir
nut unmindful of the public cumplaiuts and of the public
grin valleys.
Mr. Alderman WOOD said, he could not hear without sur-
prise mod so it hoot ►egret, Gentlemen iii that House cry out
against Reform. y tin all ocessionia disclaimed the prin-
ciple of Retain, as if it were likely to injure Mu Constitution,
inch. ail of cultism's' lite vital principle of its redemption.
Mr. D. W. Ilsnirtv said, that corrupt as Barnstaple was,
he would rather base it .4.0 than give it into the hands of a
feu iu Jividoa s who would make it sabsert Omit to aristocra-
tical 111fl$11.11Ce, which, lac (outmoded, wits already tuu strung
in that House.

Ali. CALVERT 4IC frilaYfi the landed infer's/ ; he said, that
in most agricidiuial counties the Representatives were
t hose's by Ihe trading interests.
Mr. (Nuns 1.405 s said he did not think this was a errs.
tints of Rtforiii, it was whether an existing law should be
ufwed. When Ike 4111.5114111 of liament cry Itcforrn
should rumor Is•t re the House (as lie hoped it shortly would)
hr would not he found backward to perform those promises
whir. hr held forth i.l another place. lie would vote fur
the hint 1011 of the Gallant l►Oiccr.

The Galturi was heu thertd, Rbil the {louse dividtth
'then there sweated--
For Ilse original mu/iors llO
Fu► the auletadmetal l2

Majority 9B
On our re.eatering thr (iallcry we ("unit the Moose dis-
risaaing au No1(4141111(.811, as to the qualification of Members,
which WA% withdcHwn.

51r. V. BLAKE moved, that all the inhahilatl• of Barn-
staple should have the right of ruling—which nits lust.
Ile also, moved, as an amendment, that fs4lllr but resident
freeholders shoold hate the right of vusiug, which Wall also
6111 Without a (lIVI VIII.

The lIJI WRI then engrossed, and ordered lo be reed the
third time to morrow.

tail also doubled on the labourers t they are, and they ntn-1
lo! iliorinitented. Is was, he said, inipiosib'e they could be
otherwi■e, when thi y looked Imo k so what Hwy were.
Mr. ritittiles spuke against the fill.
Me. BRAND took a review of the PIIIWA Law,. which he
contended were most injario.is and
nowise. He }Pill the
system of nuking, by polish aid, the dilli•rence of the Is.
broirer's was but an iiiiluei meld to 1.11,11,1111; beeanse,
if h.• be the father of a fanil4, tool earns '2401, he receives
Ws. from the parish; hut if he be indolent anti inactive,
and earns lost 10*. lie receives 20.. fr he parish.
Mr SIIIPIIT.Rin r.poke against the fill He said it wonld
make not only the parents but children paupers, alike in for-
tunes and in feeling. The rising populal of England
would be mean and deprcaaed, without any of the lei lines
of honest independence which formerly characterised the

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people of !hie country.
Mr. Rif:Aline disapproved of the Hill.
Lind Mittosi strongly opposed the Hill. He complained
the. the anti:num of Ilia poor was severe and unjust.
Mr. Coy iiiipportedihe Bill.
Mr. IVESTaIIa spoke agni list it.
Mr. T. CoURTENAT spoke at considerable length in fa-
vour of the Hill.
Mr WYNN severely censored the conduct of Ministers,
who thiiught fit to absent themselves on au occasion su im-
portant. Ile supported the Hill.
Mr. L. Wg1.1.441.F.Y thought the measure would increase
the Poor's Hater, and give additional powers to Overseers,
and for i hese, with other reasons, it the motion,
A Member, whose name we cool.' not learn. said the Bill
Irma objectionable, n■ recognizing the extraordinary [sowers
assumed liy Magistrates within the last 20 years.
A 'denims Woof) argued against that principle contained
in the Hill. of illisgging away children from their parents,
and ClllllpCiiil.2. Ihrin to p.ofesa a different religion.
Mr MaiNavart.es said, the poor wr.e most •nxious to
snppu.tlheir character and independence, but were unable
from the wawa of employment. 111! Ibrin%lit the pressure
wan owing in our great us( MOUS w the late war, that
palliatives were tried in train, and that lime and patience
would bring the only remedy.
Mi. S. Houten,: replied.
The flouse then divided. The numbers were
Fl.l. the aecusirl reading
Against it

Majority in favour of the
The Bill was read a second time, sod ordered to be com-
mitted on Wednesday.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and
the House adjourned at HAL/ PAST ONE O'CLOCK.

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