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London, England, 1819-07-08 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS, WZDNISDAT, Juiy 7.

A few minutes after.three o'clock, the Howie was sent_
mooed to the House of Peers, to hear the Royal Assent
given by commission to certain Bills.
On his return, Mr. SFrAttest stated, the !loose had been
in the House of Peers, aid had -beard the Royal Assent tie•
dared to some Bills of • public and of a private uature—
(for which see Lorlr.)
A certain Petition, presented on a former night, for
Burgh Reform, was referred to the Committee on the Scolds
Royal Burghs.
PAt PER LUNATICS.

In moving the Order withal Day foe the third reading of
the Pauper Lunatics Bill,
Mr. fitter/lan' complained of important Bilk sent up
duriug the two; preceding &wit's, to the oilier House; suf-
fered to lie on the table there • and then got rid of, some
way or other, without a single word, and all the •buses
against which they were directed kept in existence. It
seemed, that this Session, measures of tbeir's bad not been
treated precisely in the same contemptuous way. They had
been noticed, but noticed merely to be thrown out. Ile
email assure the House be was doing a painful duty, but he
felt himself called on to state what was the law at tbe pre-
sent moment with regard to Lunatic Asylums :—ln the 14th
of the King, an Act had been passed for the regulation of
certain of such places, but it did not extend to public asy.
Innis; and with the exception of the neighbourlioud of Lon.
don, it had continued merely a dead letter. A clause bad
been introduced iu that House to obviate so great a griev-
ance; but in the Bill sent down from the Lords, there was
not a single provision to he found for the regulation of these
houses, and if that measure were agreed to, all the old abuses
must remain. This clause had been introduced in rouse-
quence of the examinatiou of public, asylums by the Cum.
miller. The first they had looked to was one at York.
There, it was stated by witnesses, the funds were on...ap.
plied, slid false books kept, and I system of cruelty pur-
sued that lasted through the whole existence of the Indio.--
innate reruns confined in. it; and it was his full and Prm
conviction, and he believed that of the Committee, that the
hospital there had been set on fire on purpose to destroy the
accounts deposited in it, lest the mat-practices of the ma.
stagers slant', be bronchi to light. It was known that f..ior
person. had perished iu tbsit fire, and five snore were mis-
sing; so that to the relaxed and scandalous discipline of
such asylums, might be traced the certaiu death of four,
and the probable death of five indict iduals. As that House
Whinnied front the people, and therefore expressed the Wal/ I s
and wishes of the people, a feeling of shame :shine should
have operated in souther plate, it. give them that legal pro.
vision which the waists of the public so ininesiously re.
oinked. He understood objections had been made to
clause in the Bill, providing for the visitation of such
houses, stud a registry of the liersuns confined Iherdit. It
was said, delicacy inwards individuals and fanoilies
prevent such steps. He said, not p Is. NUJe they were the
only means to tossed against pimple being stint up in them,
who were toot all in a deranad stare of mind. In cute
se-
at after, sud a Noble Lord had been the hislruineute
or resetting from one of lb. se houses a woman no more mad
then tietwe who wished to put her there. Ile said, there was
a necessity fbr a measure of that 114101 T, NIA therefore' he
hoped the douse would • bandon the clause. Tito
Hon. Gentleman then, &ricr swim observations eit the i—
fective state of the returns relative to mad-houses, asked,
was it fit that that House shohlol pass measures for the
reetiott of abuse., year after year, and that they shoo i
suirereol to d.c a natural death in another place in silence,
be rejected with very little discos.. ion?
The Bill was then read the third time, and passed.

SCOTCH BURGIN.
Lord A. HAMIII.ToN said, that nodes, tor understood a vote-
lion for the porpoise was to be wade on woollier gorier, be
'Mould 011 Vonol.oy noght snore for an Address to the Citruses
to Auer, resnisurr•stion to be mote to those promos silloo had
procured onfornsattou for sloe Committee on tie SCOI,
Korn) 8111.01.1.
Thy ORA Ncrt.Ldit .4 she Exausgtoolt sists!, that no Mow-
dal night nent.tie staJulJ tour* the ueual Senniknaki indrcnies

The CitaucEl.7.oa of the EittilEQUen moved.
that there be laid before the Hoase irhstract of
the net produce of the revenue for t:,,t (late years
ending the .sth of July, 1817-Bth of July, 1818-sw
and sth of July. 181,9. lle had already stated to
the House the earliest day on which the accounts
wire made up, and the excess of the last quarter's
revenue above that of the currelpiiiiditi% quarter of
last year. lie was lure it Would be very graiify►ug
to the House to learn that there had been a wore**
rive advance in the revenue during the last three
years.—//fear.)—lit the quarter ending Iha Silt of
July, 1817. the total sinoilut of the revenue or
Great Britain, exclusive or arrears of properly tax
and unappropriated war duties, was 11,060,0001.
in the gtiarter, ending the 8:11 of July, 1818.
12,181,000/. being an increase in the hitter of above
1.100,1d0/—in the quarter ending the 8,1, of Jolt'.
1819, the amount of ilie revenue was !►!.604,0001.
making, in consequence, all incrtasn of above
400,6001. over the revenue of the correst ling
quarter in the year 1818, and nearly 1.600,000 i.
over the corresponding one of the year I bl 7.
the year ending the .5,11 of Jody, 1817. the ".tat
amount of the revenue, exclukive of arrear of plop-ray
tort anal unappropriated war duties, was 43.760,un0is
—For the year ending the 9th of July. 1818.
46,806,0001. being an iiicreatir, as in the lad
year above the preceding, of s•,n►ething more
than 3,000,0001.—F0r the year nice, had just
expired, the revenue was 40,071,0001. making
a surplus of 2,4133,000/. beyond the revenue of
the preceding year, and of above Live millions
three hundred thousand !rounds beyond that end-
ing the stl► July, 1617.-11/ear. hear.)—And
it was to be recollected. that in theft three years uu
new taxes hurl been imirogrd.—.(Hear.)
Sir 11. PattNELL said (4s we understood), that as
there had been a considerable failing off in the
revenue in the year 1817, the revenue of that year
could nut be correctly taken as a standard, to sliew
the increase in other years.
The CHANCELLOR of the EICHFQUEIN observed,
that there had been a con.iderable depression in the
revenue in the year 181 a, but that it had revicrd.
before the end of the quarter it, que►t►on, in the
year 1817.
The motion was then agreed to, And the account
shortly after brought up by Mr. GouLtiultx.—
Laid un the table, and ordered to be painted..
Sir J. MacktaTostt ;unrolled two Petitions.
one from the Royal Iturgh of Inverotrt, the other
from the Burgesses of the Regality Burgh of
31usselburgh, praying each for r reform in their
municipal goieritment.—Read and laid on the
table, and ordered to lie printed.