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COLLECTION OF REVENUE.

Colonel DAVIES said, that during the last Session of Parlia-
ment he had mentioned the made in which the revenue was col-
lected. He then understood it was the int-ntion of Government
to take updic subject. Ile was convinced Coat a saving of several
hundred thousand pounds might be made to the country in the
mode of collecting the excise and export duties. It was front •
conviction of the great saving that would be made to the country
that he was induced to move for certain papers relative to the
charge of collecting the revenue, unless Government pledged itself
to take the subject op.
Mr. H E KR lES said that he could not say any thing definitively
further upon the subject, than that it was one %hich was under
the consideration of the Lords of the Treasury. The arrange-
meets had not been, as yet, ultimately determined upon ; but they
were in a satisfactory train, and would, he was confident, ere long
be completed.
BANK NOTES.

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Mr. MANNINO was not is Ids place yeateeday when En Hon.
Member (Mr. Drenfell) mold for a return of the bank notes
sad bank bills in circulation from January, 1823, to the latest
period, specifying the number and value of each. His absence yes-
terday, when the Hon. Member moved fur such documents, was
oressioned by his attendances' a meeting of West India merchants,
wherein he would have been in his place to resist the application
of the Hoo. Member. Anterior to the restriction in 1797, it was
incumbent on the Bank to furnish accounts of their issues of the
uumber ar d amount of the bank notes and post bills which they
circulated ; but since the sesumptioa of cash payments that re.
antigen was removed hum them, and they were no longer bound
by that obligation. Any perton might now send a note or post bill
of any amount to the Bank, and he would receive cash for it ; and
further, the Bank was not responsible to the individual. He had no
objection, as a matter of private explanation, or for the Information
of any eentleman who may require it, to communicate to him any
knowledge he might possess. and with propriety intimate on the sub-
ject of the arida of the Bank t but he protested against the prin-
ciple of telling for papers sad documents relative to the concerns
at the Beak, after the period bad mepired when such documents
might with propriety be demanded. It eau not that he was unwil-
Imp that the papas in this instance should be produced, but he was
unwilling that the present motion should be established into a pre-
cedent for similar proceedian in future.
Mr. OR ENFELL was of opinion that it was of the utmost im.
portanes to the public, that the country should be made acquainted
with die issues of the Bank. It should be recollected, that the
incsay placed greater confidence in this than in any private bank
—that a large capital was entrusted to its management, and that it
wee thseefixe important foe the coup to be made acquainted with
the cosalact of near in whom they such almost unlimited
7ared
cotdidenee. The HOD Gent. had re erred to an Act, under which
he claimed exemption for the Dank from an examination into
their acesents. Foe his part he was of opinion that their accounts
should be subject to anneal inepection, and on Tuesday he would
take the mass of the House whether or not the Bank should pro-
duce their 61110:11111111 annually and make them liable to the exami-
nation and investigation of ilie House.
QUALIFICATION OF JURORS.
Mr. WESTERN resumed his motion relative to the qualifies.
tin of psuena serving on juries. The principle of his present bill
was similar to that of last Session, to extend the eligibility of jurors
to panne possessed of a certais personal property. At resent,
the ti of serving oa juries was limited to those who enjoyed a
snide, and in some instances to those who were possessed
tit a copybold property. In London, a hundred pounds was the
queilideation sum; in boroughs, forty pounds; and in other places
the qualification was less. Instance* were to be found where a
juror, p.osiossieg • freehold of ten guineas, was eligible so serve
ono • jury. Thus frequently persons, not the most eligible or
toe most competent to discharge the important duties of jury.
men, were selected ; whilst others of greater competency and fitness
for the situation were excluded, or rather excused from the trust
(which they were so well adapted to execute. This was the evil
that toadied from the exemption of persons of large personal pro-
perty ; but who may not happen to possess any freehold property,
from anemia= as jurors. Persons of extreme poverty were found
se the panel, whilst others of affluence and education were ex-
cluded on this account. As a proof of the statement he had made,
lie would suer to the county of Essex, where, in several parishes;
tte thinner of jurors was very disproportionate to the wealth of
the respective parishes. The Learned Gentleman proceeded to
enumerate the instances of several parishes, in which this dispro-
portion principally prevailed. In one, where the Rector received
4411111 L per annum, there was only one qualified juryman; in
solother, which yielded an income of 91,0001., there were but 117.
After detailing other lusterless, in winch the representative+ of
property were ineligible as jurors, he referred to the bill which he
had previously introduced, as one adjusting the portion of property
which should quality a person to be a juryman. To a portion of
Fennel property, be would make it also necessary that he should
bs a bousehulder, and pay the assessed taxes. In his anxiety to
leonine die present bill, he wassolely actuated by a sense of duty,
sad by a desire of increasing the *lifeguard& sad protections of the
laws and liberties of the country. The *agitate which principally
related to the formation of juries, were the 4th and sth of William
and Mary, and 4th of Gat rge lit. In the consolidation of these
Acts, with the additions he had suggested, a satisfactory. form
Could, he felt satisfied, be made out for the eligibility of jurors.
It might undergo funha improvements in its progress through the
House. Afar a slight allusion to the bill, which the Right Hoot
ravenry (Mr. Peel) had in preparation on the seine subject, he
moral For leave to bring in a bill " to atilx the Qualifications of
JurOra."
Mr. LEYCESTE It seconded the motion. That to those who pos.
raid freehold prepertyshotad be solely assigned the duties of
ones, and that others should he exeladcd from those ditties, wall
attributable to the antiquated prejudirts of the old feudal policy.
For his part, he thought that the justice of the country would be
best administered by placing each member of the community under
an equal *hare of hohility i of course he spoke of those who were
competent to hill the important dunes of jurors. From the enlarge.
meet of the qualifications of jurors, lie anticipated many advan-
tages ; but the particular gond which be contemplated was, from
the increased attendance of jurors at the third Issue of the year.
The obstacle which was hitherto made to the third assize of the
year would be thereby in • great degree renioved, tied fresh faci-
lities Weeded for the administration of justice. It was the duty of
this legislature to make an economical arrangement of the judicial
men* of the country, and an efficientdistribut ion of ins fine. He saw
no ma nn why one class of men, not titan competent than another,
should beet rusted .ith the eiclusivedischarge of ail ii.,purtantduty.
31 ail of their law arrangements were susceptible of improvement.
It appeared then that there was no peculiar chant, in the number
lour; and if it wax not fur the sake of the ancient custom, which
Kaye a kind of title to that number, there cuuld be no reasonable
objection to its limitation. Bat was that number sanctioned by an-
t-Win LANge ? Certainly net. 'Within legal memory it had been
reduced froni six or sea a to four ; and a further ralustion, he was
' prise beneficial to the atiministtation of justice:
----s this measure from the inevitahls tendency it
ird Aaizes, the utility of which, if any Gen-
hilt, look to Hertford. Did they nut know
',Voir:, the institution of which had been so'
vrocious murderer had been convicted, and
n he so well merited, without living on until'
stigniatieiog the country by his existence !
success to his lion. Friend's proposition, not

merely fbe Its own lake,int items he regarded It as a safe peell.'
minify to that measure which be felt so emeotial to the pure admi.
nistration ofiustico—a thied Assizes. •••
Tbe SPEAKER rose to put the question.
Captain ABERLY. I understood that the Right Hon.
Stitavary (Mr. Peel) intimated his intention of bringing in a Bill
similar to that now proposed.
Mr. Secretary PEEL—No.
Captain MAIIERLY.—WeII, if not precisely similar, I at least
' understood that it was his intention is introduce a bill, the object
of which is to consolidate the laws on this subject. Then we shall
have two bills—the one, the measure of the Honourable Member
fix Esser, with its various provisions; and the second proceeding
from the Honourable Secretary—the object of whose bill will be to
comprise and consolidate all the laws on this question ; so that we
shall have a bill too much. .

r. WESTERN, in explanation, said he should guard against
the inconveniences suggested by the Honourable Gentleman, as
soon as he precisely understood it. At present he owned, that the
dilemma so gravely urged was not quite intelligible to his capacity.
Mr. LOCKHART could assure the Honourable Member for
Essex, that he was very far from wishing to oppose the bill, for
the introduction of which he was so 11011C1tOLLS ; at the same time it
was a measure obviously entitled to pest consideration, and in all
its stages, even in this its very commencement, the measure should
be treated with extreme caution, and temperately and fully consi-
dered. The composition of juries was the paramount object of the
bill. It had, indeed, been said by an Honourable Gentleman, that
" the prejudice of our feudal ancestors had cast upon the free-
holder the obligation of a juror." I (said Mr. Lockhart) think it
was not in prejudice, but in the spirit of a philosophy which did
honour to that age, that the office of juror was restricted to the
freeholder, tw cause the freeholder is at once qualified for that duty
and interested in its discharge. Upon him most properly devolved
the task of defending the rights and property of his fellow-subject ;
their rights from the oppression of the Crown—their property
against menaced injustice. It was too much the fashion to at- 11
tribute some of the most judicious resolutions of our &nem-
tors, as well as the wisest perseverance of our own times in •
good cause to prejudice; but it is to that prejudice, as it is most
improperly termed, that we owe our present enviable situation, and
the blessings of our free constitution. He certainly could not ap.
prove of any system that would have the effect of excluding our
old yeomanry front their participation in the assizes—from the share
which they had so long taken in their humble sphere in the ad-
ministration of justice. There was about that class of yeomanry •
via irsertkr--2 steady feeling, that would not suffer them to be led
away, either, on the one band, by fantastic schemes of imaginary
improvements, or, on the other, by the vain threats of boasting W-
hitton. I regard the Trial by Jury, not merely as the palladium
of English liberty, bat as the mews of differing among the peo-
ple—aniung the yeomanry of the country, more extensive hifonnat'
non. There is scarcely &single (trial at which they assist, that is
not proudly mentioned by them in all its details to their friends
and associates, and thus a spirit of inquirylarises, and a desire of
applying that spirit to other and more important objects. I am,
however, friendly to any measure which may, without injuring
the character of the law serve to consolidate and improve it.
Mr. Secretary PEE!. said—l concur, in point of fact, with
some parts of the statement of the lion. Member for Essex; at
least to this I give my full assent, that the subject well deserves
consideration, and to the suggestion of my Hon. Friend (the Mem-
ber for Oxford) I am convinced the House will feel themselves
called on to attend. I mean that they will use in this investigation
the utmost diligence, and the most extreme caution. But I can.'
not understand the reasoning of my Hon. Friend, which, while it
admits that essential benefits and extensive information are the its.
tural offspring of Trial by Jury, to limit this advantage
by cootinuing the exclusion (hear). lit very argument proves the
utility of extension, and the injustice of limitation (hear). The
great object of the Billed the Hon. Member for Essex, is to regu.
late the qualifications of jurors by personal property ; and these
qualifications he says prevail, and are acted under in many Bo-
rough'. Now I beg to advise the Honourable Member to consider
whether a qualification such as he suggests would not extend the
privilege to much too large a class. The amount of property too—
the ascertainment of I property, most be a subject of consi-
derabie difficulty. Upon the petty constable, an officer of not a
very responsible character, devolved the duty of making out the
returns, and it was rather an inconvenient inquisition to assign to
him the deteeminiug of who were possessed of one hundred a
year.
Mr. WESTERN—Four hundred is the sum that I proposed.
Mr. PEEL.—WeII, any sum you please ; but I am afraid
that the duty of the prityconstable will not be the leas Irksome.
Therefore I should submit whether it would not be better to ma-
nage the qualification, either by the payment of poor's rates, or
some other mode under Parliamentary regulation. Such payment,
the House is aware, would at once determine the eligibility or hi.
eligibility of persons to serve us Juries. The same arguments
apply with respect to challenge. I am very desirous not to enter
upon the details of this Bill at present. I wish to reserve them for
a MOM fining opportunity, when we have the advantage of the as-
sistance of the Attorney and Salience General. i certainly shall
not object to the Bill. With respect to the difficulty suggested by
the Hon. Member opposite (Capt. Alaberly), the more effectual
mode of meeting that objection, as it seems to me,.will`be to allow'
this Bill to go into a Committee, where we may discuss its details
and suggest our improvement.
Mr. WESTERN in reply said, that he should not detain the
House further than to say that he anticipated no difference between
himself and the Right Hon. Secretary, as to the essentiatpartsor
the proposed mama.. The present mode of seeertaihillrehe qua-
Markle of Jurors was not a lees inconvenient inquisition then that
peeseribed by his MIL
Leave was then given to bring in a bill foe affixing the qualifi.
cation of Jurors.

—Mi. 471;4ERN then moved," That an Address should-be
presented to his Majesty, humbly praying that he would be planed
to order that there be laid before the House a return of the number'
of persons tried on the Hoene Circuit in the third assizes of 1822
and litZ, specifying the ch.ares under which the prisoners wen
committal, and the numbers acquitted"
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS RILL.
Mr. R. MARTIN said —" I rise, Sir, to ask permission Nom
the House to amend a Bill which I had formerly the honour of in.
traducing, and of following out to a successful termination—" The
Cruelty to Animals' HilL" 31y object is to protect other animals,
from the barbarous cruelty too frequently inflicted upon them, and
to punish the wanton and brutal torturers. I can discover no rea-
son why dogs. for instance, should not be protected.
Mr. HUME—And rats.

Mr. BIARTIN—Oh, Eli leave the rats to you; you are better ac-
quainted with their " natural history." Sir, I sat that the most
shameful cruelty has been long wantonly inflicted upon dogs,
and I shall mention an instance which lately occurred, and of which
every one must have heard who takes an interest in these subjects.
An unfortunate dog, tempted perhaps by hunger, entered the shop
of a fishmonger, and the monster flung upon the miserable animal
a quantity of boiling water, so that the dog expired in a short time,
enduring the most excruciating torture. It is a well-authenticated
fact that in the cooks' shops It was formerly deemed nothing more
than prudence and precaution to preserve a quantity of vitriol ready
for the reception of a hungry dog. I have another object in the,
amendment of this BilL lam anxious to make the cruel treatment
of animals a misdemeanor. Thismeasure will give to the accused
so opportunity of trial before the Quarter Sessions, instead of the
summary jurisdiction which now is given under the Act, but which,
still, it is not my intention to destroy. The cruelly which has
been shamefully Inflicted upon horses, upon cattle of all descrip-
tions, cannot he adequately met by fine, but it requires a severer
and a more rigorous punishment. Such punishment can only be
inflicted by making the cruelty a misdemeanor. There was s case
which occurred the other day at Holloway, which, for its barbarous
atrocity and mean cruelty, has never, I think, been surpassed in
the annals of crime. A 'insertion residing in that village applied a
slow fire to the billy of a horse, and caused it to continue there
until the &Houten actually frU into the flames. Sir, it is to pun-
ish such diabolical acts as I have described that I desire to make
I cruelty to animals a misdemeanor, and I now move ycu that leave
be given to bring in a Bill to amend an Act for preventing cruelty
to animals.
Lord SANDHAM seconded the motion.

Leave was given to bring in the BilL
Mr. MARTIN—I have now, Sir, another Bill topropme, to
which I anticipate no opposition ; its object is to abolish bear-
baiting, and other brutal sports • I shall therefore move for leave
to bring in a Bill to abolish bear-baiting, &c.
The SPE:IKER-11'ho seconds the motion?
No Hon. Member ruse.
lifahlA RT IN—lf Mr. Alderman Bridges was here he'd second
4. He told me he approved of it. (A laugh.)
The motion harlot; been seconded,
Mr. Secretary PEEL rose, and said that he was as much dia.
pawed as isoy one to do justice to the motives of the lion. Member
I for Galway. Ido not (said Mr. Peel), object to his amendment of
the Cruelty to Animals Bill; but tha• a bill of this description
j should be introduced as a matter of course, unaccompanied by
explanation, without one argument to recommend it, and certainly
j well meriting ark,nimat and discussion.—this, I own, surprises we;
and I cannot acquiesce in a measure so important, and yet intro.,
ducal by so Mitt' an explanation. If my lion. Friend were to pro.
pose that all pains inflicted on animals, except such pain as was
absolutely necessary to geprive them of life fur the use of man—
that
all such unnecessary pain should be the subject of punish-
ment, then I can at least understand the equal character of my
HMV Friend's legislation. If he can point out to me a particular
instance where good police requires it, then am I ready to yield to
the validity of the argument of expediency, and to declare that
such a practice ought not to bt.• tolerated. How did the
!loose act when called upon to alter the Game laws?
The }louse refused, alleging for that refusal that much of
the amusement of the country would be destroyed, and the life
of a country gentleman rendered unbearable, when it was on all
hands admitted, that to the peasantry the greatest benefits arose
front the presence of country gentlemen on their own estates. ( Ileac.)
With what pretence, then, let me ask it, are we to vindicate the
practice of hunting or shooting from cruelty, while we enact laws
against the sports of :he lower classes? (Hear. ) Is hawking less
cruel than cock-fighting ? Is the wounded bird less a sufferer
than the baited bear? or is it mere spurt and legitimate amusement
for gentlemen, but cruelty and ferocity in the peasant?
Windham said that the bear had a pleasure in the baiting, beaus.
he was contending with his natural enemies. This was an extrava.
gam assertion ; but it had, perhaps, some truth in it, to admit of the
exaggeration. I know not, I confess, to what extent this system is
to be carried, if we yiekl to the motion of my Honourable Friend
the member for Oalway.
Mr. MARTIN, in explanation, said he was quite sure, if his
Right lion. Friend had attended any one of these sports—hear.
baiting or nionkey-fighting—be would find that they stood on a
very different foundation from hunting or shooting; anti however
it might be the pleasure of the House to dispose of his Bill, he
could assure them that the opinion of the country was in its favour.
The almost universal opinion of the wise and fkeling people of
England was, that these barbarous sports ought to be prohibited.

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morning at five o'clock.

LONDON. THURSDAY, FEDIVARY 12, 1821.

A stormy and troubled scene took place yesterday at the
India House, the report of which will be found in our
columns. Lord Hastings, we think, has not been fairly
treated. The inquiries of Sir John Doyle should have
been answered fully at once, and all mystery and disguise
abandoned. The reply of the Chairman carried implica-
tion with it; it left a dark and mysterious shade round
the character of the Noble Marquis; and if the reports
in circulation respecting the claims on the Nizam, and
the embezzlement of near half a million of money, were,
as we are convinced, utterly groundless, the declaration
to that effect should have been made at once. Let the fail-
ings of Lord Hastings have been what they may, or his em-
barrassments however heavy, his character all through life
bas stood high and unimpeached ; the very breath of mer-
cenary suspicion never rested for an instant on him. He
has returned, it is said, from India, in very limited circum-
stances, and is now living with his family in Italy, on a
very confined income. He resigned his Government contra-
ry to the wishes of the Court of Directors, and his Indian
Administration appears in every statement to have been
prosperous, splendid, and successful. A dark tale of fraud
and wholesale peculation has been for some tune whispered
and in circulation from India, and early reached our cars.
We gave insertion to the rumour, and on high authority,
but never supposed Lord Hastings to have been connected
with it. The Chairman (Mr. Wigram), as the organ of the
Court of Directors, might have conceived himself justified
on other occasions in re fesing to answer any official ques-
tions put to him without their sanction; but in this striking
case the apprehension ought to have been at once dismissed
land the most explicit answers given. The territory and
resources of the Company in India were considerably in-
creased by Lord Hastings; he gave the Litt blow to the
Mahratta power, and extinguished the Pindareea: pro-
found peace prevailed throughout Ilindoostan at his quit-
ting its shores, and the influence of the Company was
everywhere undisputed and supreme. On what ground,'
whether of economy or dissatisfaction, the vote of 50001.
a-year for his services was rejected, we do not know ; but
justice at least should be rendered him though generosity was
silent, and the imputations on his name denied. We cannot
help remarking that the language of some of the speakers in
Leadenhall-street, yesterday, was mcst insulting to Lord
Hastings, though professedly used in his defence : it pro-
ceeded, we are convinced, from warm feelings, and was
poured out unpremeditatedly, but yet it ought 110 i to have
been used. " The question" (one Honourable Gentleman
said) " was simply whether Lord Hastings was a thief or
" a pickpocket ; was it fitting that after all the achieve-
" ments of the Noble Marquis for the benefit of the Com-
" pang, the Proprietors should leave the Court with a
" doubt whether he was a thief?" Such a vindication as
this carries insult with it in every sentence, and inflicts, as
it goes, a deep wound on the feelings of Lord Hastings.
He may truly say, " Heaven preserve me from my
friends." Sir John Doyle assumed, perhaps, the war
buckler too soon, and advanced too impetuously, even for a
veteran, to the charge. But he is an old and attached
friend of Lord Hastings, and a generous and warm-hearted
man ; his whole feelings were exerted on this *occasion,
and much may be pardoned to such zeal. It is perfectly
clear, that after the mysterious responses which came from
the India Chair yesterday, and the discussion that followed,
Lord Hastings and his friends cannot be contented. The
business of the Vi-ant, and the alalrming deficit, will
again be brought forward, and the present mystery must
be cleared up. On whose laden shoulders the burden
will ultimately rest, we cannot now venture to state. A
little time may, and probably will discover, who is the
Oriental plunderer.

The Meeting in the City yesterday, to petition for the
repeal of the heavy duties on coals imported into London,
will be found reported at length in our columns. Sir
Charles Price was in the Chair, and opened the discussion
most sensibly. The thinness of the attendance was mark-
edly commented on by Mr. Hunt, who was present; but
accounted for, in some degree, by Alderman Wood, who
stated that Meetings had already taken place in the different
Wardinotes, and petitions for the repeal of this heavy and
distressing impost had been agreed to ; and this, and not any
public indifference to the tax, was probably the cause of
the absence of many parties interested from that Meet-
ing. Mr. Smith gave a short but striking detail of the
unequal assessment and its pressure on the inhabitants
of this city. He stated that the port of London alone
paid, in 1818, a duty of SOostoOL; that about four
Imillions of individuals are assessed for poor-rates the
monstrous sum of 2,561,000/., and pay, as coal duty,
1,049,0001.; while between four and five millions more
pay for poor-rates 1,701,000/., and no coal duty at
all. In 1710 the duty of three shillings a chaldron on
coals was imposed by Act of Parliament for building
fifty churches, eleven only of which, out of the enor-
mous produce of this tax, had since been built. The
appropriation, therefore, originally intended, cannot have
been fairly made. The coal duty is, as Sir Charles Price
stated, a tax on industry, and precludes the poorer classes
from the enjoyment of necessary comforts. 'We agree with
the Worthy Alderman perfectly in his, idea, that natural
wealth and comfort would be increased by taking off this
tax ; and the very revenue, in place of being diminished, be
increased. While so heavy a duty is paid in this city,
and 700 sail of shipping calculated to be employed in the
trade, a drawback on coals is given by Act of Parliament to
the people of Cornwall and Devon ; but the former county
returns forty members from its different boroughs to Par-
liament, and the pretext for making this concession is the
working of its mines. The manufacturers of London, how-
ever, meet no consideration of the sort, and have still to
pay this monstrous duty unrelieved. We sincerely hope
that in the reductions contemplated by the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, this distrming tax will be included; it
presses on every part of the community, but most af-
flictingly on the poorer classes. Several petitions against
its continuance have already been laid before the Lower
house; and Ministers, who now seem really disposed to
consult the feelings and interests of the country, will, we
hope, attend to the general call mule upon them ,for the
discontinuance of this 'fax, and take a distressing burthen
off the shoulders of the people of London, who are now so
heavily assessed for an article of the first necessity.

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Mr. Western last night resumed his motion relative to
Yesterday a Court a Directors was held at the East In- 1
Ilia House, when the following Commanders took leave of the qualification of persons serving ou juries. The prin-
the Court previous to departing for their respective destina- ciple of his Bill (the Honourable Gentleman stated) was
tions, viz.—Captain Head, Canning, for Bengal and China ; to extend the eligibility of jurors to persons possessed of
Captain John Barnet Sotheby., London, for St. Wiens,
' a certain personal property. As the law now stands, in
Bombay, and China ; Captain Montgomerie Hamilton,
Dunira, and Captain Thomas Larkins, Marquis Camden, civil cases, by the 4th and sth of IVilliam and Mary, all
fur Bombay and China. ijurors, other than strangers, upon trials per medietutem

1 convinced, would prove
Hitt he should aupport t
had to encourake a third
tierlll,l questioned, let
that at the vvry
much depre... ted, ana.
a.,ffetei she ~netlinv-nt
a !unite Ass:el. and ati
no ilighaal rum