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London, England, 1818-05-15 00:00:00

CHIMNEY.SWEEPERS.

Lord AUCKLAND prevented the Report of the
Committee use the Ch,iiiiiry-Sweepers Regulation
Bill, and as this was the last time that the subject
would he brought before the House, he requested
their Lordships' attention to the reasons that in-
duced hew to postpone the Rill for the present Ses-
sion, by moving the third reading this day six
months. He, however, could not avoid stating,
that his opinions respecting the necessity of an
interference on the part of the Legislature were
Dot in the least altered since be first expressed
big sentiments to the House. It could not be
denied that in the trade there were some hu-
mane and considerate men, who treated the chil-
dren subject to their authority, with indulgence
sad lenity ; but it was painful to see how few
these meow were, and how numerous the others
whose conduct was marked by the most wanton
cruelty. The sufferings of the unhappy little crea-
tures exposed to their caprice were so excessive as
to compel every humane and feeling mind to RC.
knowledge the propriety of interfering for their pro.
Section; and when the tender age of the little suf-
ferers was considered, that they did nut labour for
their twit advantage, but for that of others and
that in the course of this labour they endured such
treatment as to render them unfit for any active
exertions in future life, he trusted that no objec-
tion could be maintained to the interference of
Parliament on the ground of the sacredness of free
labour, and that et no distant period Parliament
would be induced to pass a Bill similar to the pre.
sent. This Bill, howeker, he now reluctantly should
postpone, because in the course of the inquiry
it had seemed it to the Committee to propose to
the Surveyor-General that he should try eer.

tails experiments with machinery upon chitn-
sties of a certain structure, for the purpose of as.
certaiiiing whether the employment of climbing
boys could be safely dispensed with. Those expe-
riments had already commenced must favourably,
and the machinery had been tried in sixty different
chimnies. of the must difficult structure, with the
most complete success. The Surveyor-General,
however. could not make his report to the Com-
mittee, before he had tried some further experi.
ments upon a kind of chimney which the master-
sweepers had represented as offering insuperable
difficulties to the use of machinery. These experi-
ments would he immediately commenced, the re-
sult would be submitted to a board of surveyors,
bricklayers. and architects. for their opinion ; but
as the process wuaW occupy too large a portion of
time to admit the posoibility of baring the all
poised this , Session. he hod consented not to
press the third reading. He. however, pledged
himself that he would, at an early penud of the
next Session, again bring the subject before their
Lordships, in the assurance that the matter would
nut suffer from the delay. and in the hope of in-
ducing their Lordships to adopt Ism moo.—
In passing such a measure, thwir Lordships. he
observed. would not only confer an incalculable
brist6; upon the very lowest classes Of ouviLty, but
would tocutiolly batch& the ei tire cuutaitiaityl

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The was lead on the table.
The N Lord then moved. " That the Chim.
my-Sweepers Regulation Bill be read the third
ties this dry six months." which was agreed to.

ROYAL NUPTIALS.
On the inotiou of the Earl of Ltwituroot.,•the
Order of the D was read for taking into consi-
deration Oro 141 Imago of the Prince Regent, rein.
live to the intended marriage of his Royal High-
uess the Duke of Kent.

The Order of the 'jay and the Message being
read,
The Earl of LIVERPOOL said, that after what
had already taken place in the House, and the
principle that bed been thereby sanctioned. he
should not, iu moving an Address to the Prince
Regent, detain the House by any rebserks upon the
nature of the proposition that should be *obtained
erTiellateteur-.- ehoutsi merely Mate.' that tr
psoriases would be proposed in soother place for his
Royal Highness the Dube of Kent similar to what
had been already granted to the Duke of Cam-
bridge. He them, moved That an bumble Ad-
dress be presented to his Royal Highness the Prince
Regent ;" which was, as usual, eu echo of the
Message.
The Marquis of LA NSDOWN did not rise for the
purpose of expressing any opposition to the motion
of the Noble Earl. Far from it. His object was
rather to direct their Lordships' 'attention to a cir-
cumstance which, in the consideration of this af-
fair, would produce any effect rather than that of
inducing the House to limit the income of the Il-
lustrious Duke. It was well known that his Royal
Highness the Duke of tieut lied not received from
Parliament the allowance which had been granted
to the other Illustrious Dukes forsereral years after
his Royal Brothers. The consequence of this delay
ou the part of Parliament wee, he feared, to plunge
his Royal Highness iu considerable embarrassments,
to arrange winch he had lately appropriated a very
considerable pert of his income. The Noble Lord
did not state this for the purpose of inducing Mi-
meters to alter their intention respecting the
amount proposed to he granted to the Illustrious
Duke, but hr thought it right that the real state of
the Duke of Kent's affairs should he known to the
House.—(lleur./—The Address was then put and
carried.