The National Register.
London, England, 1819-05-03 00:00:00

Sniptrial Parlianunt.

itousE OF LORDS.
440:4:DAY, A MIL 26.
The Duke of Queensberry, Lords DA Charlernont, Bel-
haven, and the nig, of Downe. took the oaths and their seam
Karl FiTr: tr.t.relf resented a Petition frloi the City of
Tdirk. raying file attention of the (louse rn iy be directed to the '
rresent sate of the country, with a view to relieve the Petitioners
from heavy tax-aim.
DISSENTFIV4' MARRIAGES.—The Marquis of Lansilown
said, he held a Petition from the Dissenters (the Unitarians) of
Liverpool, among whom were many respectable Merchants, pray-
ing the Lords to adopt some measure which may exempt them
Com the obligation to marry according to the form of the church
of England. Pney *implanted that certain terms in the cere-
mony were repugnant to their consciences. By an Act passed
same time ago, the Quakers were relieve I from the aforesaid ob-
ligation ; and the Petitioners fur.lier prayed. that the same ex•
eruption and privilege may be extended to them.
The Petition was read and laid on the table.
The Noble M then presented a Petition from the Ro-
-111311 Catholics of Limerick. praying Parliament to take into con-
sideration the disabilities affecting the ROMA Catholics is that
dart of the United Kingdom.—Ordered to lie on the table.
The Howe adjourned.

TUESDAY, APRIL 47.
LORD 11twvow presented a Petition front the Magistrates of
Manchester. Bolton. and Chester. praying that the Bill recently
introduced. for limiting the louts of labour for children employed
In the cotton facunies may pass into a law.
The Archbishop of 'You It. presented a Petition from the Arch.
deacoary of York. against the removal of disabilities which pre-
vent the Roman Catholic.; from holding offices in the Sate.—He
profess& himself friendly to religious toleration, but could not
consent to abandon the Laws adopted by our ancestors for the
safety of the Constitution.
The Haase and East India Goods Bill were read a second time.

Adjourned.
WZDWESDAY. Aram Q.
Lord ICCNTOW presentei a Petition from Baldock in favour of
the Catholic Claims. Laid on the table.
Lord BEAUCHAMP presented a Petition from Portsta in favour
of the Catholic Claims. Laid out the table.
Bari FITZWILLIAM presented a petition from York. com-
ylaining generally of hardship, and praying for relief under the
mitt weight of taxation.
The Noble Earl also presented a Petition from Leeds for re.
vlsicnof the Criminal Code.
Lori HOLLAND presented a similar Petition from Basingstoke.
Laid on the table.
Rostoir CATHOLIC CLAIMS.—The Earl of DONOTIGHNOZZ
gave notice, that he should bring on his motion, respecting the
ROAM Catholic Claims. on Friday se'nnight, and on Tuesday
next be should present neveral Petition, from various parts of
Ireland, urging those claims which the Catholics had so often
preferred. Lord Donoughtnore concluded his obervations by
Howe
the House be summoned for Friday se'nnight. The
House was a:cordingly summoned. Adjourned.
THURSDAY. APRIL 49.
The East India Goods, Bill, and the Excise Licences Bill were
read a third time. The Chimney Sweepers' Re,rulation Bill was
read a second time.—The Glasgow AssAy Office Bill, and several
private Bills were read a -second time and committed for to tour.
rim—Adjourned.

FRIDAY. APRIL 30.
UNIVERSITY OP CAMBRIDGE PETITION: His Royal
ighness the Duke of G ou c ESTER presented a Petition from thc
C.,ancellor. Master, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.
rraying the Nouse not to grant any further concessions to the
:trait Catholics. His Royal Highness intimated, that he did
r ot express any opiniow on the subject of the Petition which he
yr-_,Atted•
It was read and laid on the table.
Ti;e Earl or SHAFTESBURY. by command of the Prince Re-
gent. laid on the table Returns respecting the State oldie Prisons
England at.d IVales.—Adjourned to Monde/.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
MONDAY. APRIL 2d.
USURY LAWS.—Mr. Serjeant ()MIMS postponed the further
consideration of the Usury Laws Repeal Bill till this day fort
it being essential to wait till the Report of the Bank Coin.
im:tee was laid before the House.
Mr. CALCRAFT was sorry at the postponement, he being
against the Bill.
Mr. WAITUMAX trusted that the Bill would be postponed at
least for the present Session.
After some remarks from Mr. Davenport and Mr. Mellish,
postponement agreed to.
The Poor Settlement Bill was postponed till this day week.
Dr. PUILLISIORE moved the further consideration of the
Marriage Act Amendment Bill.
Sir C. Robinson opposed the measure as unnecessary and im-
rolitic.
It was moved as an amendment that the Bill be read a second
thine this day six months. After an extended discussion the
limise divided. The numbers were—For the motion 97.—Fos
the amendment 33.—Majority for the Bill 64.
The Report being afterwards brought up,. it was agreed to,
And the Bill wasorderel to be lead a third ume on Monday.
TUESDAY APRIL 47.
LOAX.—NIf. P. GRENFELL gave notice. that to-morrow he
should move tor sundry papers to show how far it was adviseable to
apply die Sinking Fund of the year to the services of the present
year. The object was to ascertain whether there was any real
occasion for Loan ; and he should bling it forward in the absence
of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. having been informed that
there would be no objection to its being urged under such cir-
cumstances.
The Halfonl Divorce Bill went through a Committee
The British Claims on France Commissioners' Bill went into a
Committee of the whole !louse, in which extended explanations

took place.
Lord Castlereagh, Dr. Phillimore, Sir C. Robinson, &c. took
part in the discumon.—Report tosinorrow.—Adjourned.
WEDNESDAY. APRIL 28.
SINKING FUND.—MT. P. GRENTPLL brought forward hie
motion for Papers to ascertain how far the Sinking Fund of the
present year ought to be 'spoiled to any loan that it might be in-
tend:4 to raise. He should not promote discussion now. Ile
beard various sums mentioned as likely to be the probsbleamount
of the loan—l 5.00n,1u01.-18.000.0001. and the high, at amount
vas 25.000m001. According to the first Finance Report, the
Sinking Fund of last year produced 15,(c0mo0l. as I supposing
the Sinking Fund of the present year would produce a similar
.RISIOunt, he submitted the question would be, whether such
amount ought not to be applied to the public service, which
would require the Chancellor of lii Exchequer to go to the
money market for 3.000,0061. only? He concluded with moving
for accounts to show the produce of the Sidling Fund since
1.816. Papers ordered.

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Lord EUSTON presenteel ?•'11;1.^ from limy St. Edmund's
against the Poor Settlement Bill.
1.0r41 EHRINGTON presented a Petition from certain parishes
in Devonshire. complaining of the agricultural horse tax. He
suited, that should not some relief be speedily aftiarded, he should
more for leave to bring in a Bill to auril such relief. Ordered
to lie on the table.
Lord MILTON presented a Petition from Leeds. praying for
a revision of the Criminal Code. Referred to the Committee.
Severally read, toad ordered to lie on the table.—Adjourned.
THU R,GAT. APRIL EU.
BANE COMMITTFC.—CATHOLIC Csatats.—Lord CASTLE
!MAGI! said, it would accommodate the Batik Committee much,
if the motion wlich stood for tomorrow were postponed till Mon-
day, as the Committee could then proceed uninterruptedly in their
enquiries, which they were about drawing to a close. The
Mum: would agree that it was of censidemble importance that
such investigations should be as speedily closed as possible, that
the Committee might make a report ; and therefore, in the name
of the Committee. lie made the request.
Mr. 'rimester said. if this request were acquiesced in, the
motion respecting the Catholien ought to have precedence.
Mr. GRATTAN then postponed his motion on the subject of the
Catholic Claiois till Monday.
lon tam ISLANDS.—Sir C. MONCI enquired of the Noble
Lord, whether there were any secret articles attached to the
Vienna Treaties regarding the cession of Parga to the Turks.
Lord CASTLEREAGH made some reply ; but owing to the
noise in the House, it art not heard in the gallery.
The Machine Paper Marking Bill was brought in and read a
first time.
A Petition was presented, praying that service of printed copies
of Thomas's Divorce Bill on the Law Advisers of Mrs. Thomas,
may be deemed good service on that lady. Prayer complied
with.
S.r. J. GRAHAM moved that the report of the Regency Canal
Bill be taken into consideration.
Mr. biANNING moved as an amendment, that the 8111 be re-
committed.
Mr. F. DOUGLAS thought Dome was made out to warrant the
amendment.
Amendment negatived, and the report taken into further
consideration.
CATHOLIC PETITIONIL--Sir P. BURDISTT presented two
Petitions, signed by between four and five thousand persons
in London and Westminster, preying that the Howe would
adopt measures to relieve the Roman Catholics from the civil die-
abilnes under which they at present laboured. There would be
another opportunity to go into ti.is quession, but be could not
help thinking that the time was come when the privileges of the
Constitution ought not to be any longer withheld from the Catho-
lic subjects.
Ordered to be printed.
Several Petitions were presented from Ireland on the subject of
the Catholic Claims& from Wicklow', Mayo, &c. for—and one
from Protestants of Dublin, signed by 5000 persons and is Peers
against those Claims.
' Smarm& Forin.—Mr.Gesaneem. gave notice, that after the
Bank Affairs report had been presented, he should submit a
motion to the House to make the produce of the Sinking Fund
applicable to the service, instead of resorting to a loan.
SALT DUTIEs.—Dr. PHILLIMORE moved a resolution to
pledge the House to promote the gradual repeal of the Salt
Duues—duties which he pronounced to be an Income Tax on
the poor.
This being disposed of, as well as the remainder of the orders,
' the House adjourned.

FRIDAY. APRIL 30.
CATHOLIC PETlTloNs.—Petitions were presented from the
Clergy. &c. of the Deanery of Durham. and the Deaconry of
Not thumberland, New Sarum, the Clergy of Portsea. Bridge-
water. the Clergy of York, and from Liverpool. which was signed
by upwards of 10,000 persons, against any further concessions to
the Roman Catholics.
Petitions read, and ordered to lie on the table.
General GascooNe. said, he knew the inhabitants of Liver-
pool well, believed three lourths of them to be against concession,
and declared as he ever opposed he ever should oppose further
concession to the Roman Catholics.
Mr. G. LANGTON declared, toga he could not resist the pray •
ers of between 3 and 4,000.000 of inhabitants in England and
Ireland, and that he should deem it his duty to support the ow
tion which would be brought forward on Monday next. (Hear.)
He was the friend of civil and religious liberty, and that he de-
termined to pursue such course.
MT. BAOWELL presented a Pettiion from the Catholics of
Tipperary. praying for Catholic Emancipation.
Petition ordered to he printed.
ParcE OP CORN.—The Marquis of Tsvrterons presented
a Petition from occupiers of land in Bedfordshire. complaining
of the distresses to which agriculture was exposed, and praying
that their complaints might be referred to a Committee. The
Noble Lord, although lie -.restntetl this Petition, did not wish it
to be understood that he approved of it; on the contrary, he
thought the Government had exercised a wise discretion on this
question. Petition ordered to be printed.
RAPE SEED.—Lord MILTON presented a Petition from
woollen manufacturers of Leeds, complaining of the heavy and
impolitic duty on Rape Seed. The Noble Lord spoke against
the Tax, and said he should take every oppertunity of opposing it.
LICENSED VICTITALLERS.—MI. G. LAMB presented a Pe.
tition from an individual. complaining of the oppressive and un-
just character of the present Licensing System. He had suffered
under it, having been reduced, from affluene • to poverty, by the
arbitrary refusal of his Licence. The Hon. Member said, he was
happy to have this opportunity to express his opinion of the
oppression and immorality that resulted from the Licensing Sys-
tem as it now existed; but he should content himself with ex-
pressing that opinion, as the question was to be brought forward
on an early day by the Hon. Member for Shrewsbury (Mr. Ben-
nett.)
Petition ordered to be printed.
Gen. HART brought forward his motion respecting Illicit
Distillation, moving for a Committee to enquire into the subject.
It being disposed of, after observations from Mr. Dawson,
strong opposition from Mr. L. Foster; and the remaining busi-
ness being gone through, the House adjourned.

A very ignorant person being complimented on
his good sense, in presence of a clever lady, I don't
wonder,' said she, • at his possessing a large stock
of good sense, he never spends any.'
A few days since, come poison balls hosing been laid to
destroy rats, near a house in Saffron Vi' olden, part of them
were inadvertently picked np for sugar plums, and eaten
by a child named Penile, wsto died in consequence, after
undergoing the most eserstriating stifles togs. Several
other children had also eaten some of the poison, but it
was fortunately discovered its time to vase their fibril.
A few days ago direr families, consisting of 18 persons,
embas ked istrOtllYarntostls, in older to take a ship at HMI
Sur Quebec, on the,. way to You k in tJupr r Canada, near
to which town they intent settling. 'two or three Mir
families are to eparing to foliose, and will snake their de-
parture within two of t:::cc seeks.

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FROM WEIDA? :!'!GUT'S GdzErrE,
BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED.
S. Wood, Bolton, Lancashire. banker. from May 4 toMay 12.
BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.
J. Mott. Hadleigh, Suffolk. miller.
J. Simpson and T. Fleming. Mark-lane, merchants.
BANKRUPTS.
H. Daniell, Warremstreat. Fitzroy-square, coachmnker.
T. lierke and 11. Q. V. Post. St. Mary Hill. usercluints.
T. Ackland, senior, Grzenwielt, butcher.
IL and W. T. Dunderdale, London. merchants.
R. Peers, Warrington, Lancashire, grocer.
W. Edwards, Manchester. manufacturer.
1. Holroyde, Halifax. Yorkshire. fuctor.
R. M. Morton, Shepton Mallett. grocer.
li Pierce, Exeter. stone mason.
T. Wilson. John-street. Clerkeu well, carpenter.
R. Messiter. Bristol. cloth and wool dealer.
T. Smith, York. butter factor.
E. Williams. Birmingham, victualler.
W. Parker. Bridgewater. maltster.
J. Marks, Bath-place, New-road, chinaman.
J. Laren, Lower-row, Lambeth. grocer.
J. Tupmati, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury. watchmaker.
S. Richardson. Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street, merchant.
It. Lough, Upper Ground street, Blackfriars-ruad, brass
founder.
S. Thompson. Radeross-street, Crippkgate. calendars&
W. Levet, Shadwell, grocer.
J. Gray, Drury.lane, commission agent.
T. Deakin and T. Dyer, Birmingham, dealers.
W. and J. Wharton, Leominster, common carriers.
DIVIDENDS.
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May IS. T. It. HataTtl.f.i;e7PO;i:merchant—te. A. Coleg,
Portland-street. St. 51arylebone, coaclimaker—lS, C. Wrigtit.
Charles-street. Soho-square. upholsterer—tB, N. Densely, ti Art-
ley Whitney, Southampton, innkeeper-20, W. Kaye, Liverpool,
paper dealer-18,J. Fowler, Birchin-lane, broker I u, J. rums.
Liverpool. drape,.
CERTIFICATES to be 'minted May le.
J. Barnforth, junior. Wath upon Dears, Yorkshire, butcher—
s. and W. Homer, Brockbottom. Lancashire. dcalers—J. Glay-
sher, King-street, Hammersmith, ironmonger—W. Tore.,
Exmouth-street. Spaelds. builder—J. Gibson, Wardrobe-plea,
Doctors' Commons. dealer in lace—C. Jackson, Upper Titanic:
street, sugar factor--J. Budden, Bristol, liquor mrachont.

MONUMENT TO ROBERT BURNE.—A meeting was
held on Saturday, at the Freemasonsfavent, the Duke
of Athol in the chair, for the purpose of entering into a
subscription for the erection of a monument to the me-
mory of Robert Burns, the celebrated Scotch poet.
The chairman having shortly stated his hearty concur-
rence in the me jest ante meeting, Forbes :Mitchell, Esq.
read a printed document, which stated that a subscry-
lino had been entered into some years ago by sonic
gentlemen 31Bambay, for the purpose above-mentioned;
and that a cot titi itt e had, on application to the Lord
Provost and Magistrates of Edinburgh, obtained the
Grant of a piece of ground for the purpose, eligibly situ-
ated on the side of the Calton-hill, and near toe splendid
new approach to that city. Mr. Mitchell then read over
a list of the original subscribers in India, as well as of
the inure recent ones in this cottony, front which it ap-
peared that a considerable stns has been alreadt collected.
Several resolutions were then put and catried, the sub-
' stance of which was, that committees were to be ap-
pointed in the different parts of the United Ktitadolit,
in the colonies and other dependencies of the realm, fits
the purpose of receiving subscriptions; that advertise-
ments were to be inserted in all the public papers for the
same purpose; that n meeting for the same purpose as
the present was to he held in London out the 15t11 of
June; and that Forbes Mitchell. Esq. was to be tre•tsuter.
Lord Keith, in moving one of the resolutions, observed,
that it would be impossible to fix out the plan of the
monument, until they knew how f:11' their subscription
would extend.
On lVednesday last Alderman Hevgate was elected a
Director of the Phoenix Etc-office, in the room of
Major Rohde, Esq. deceased.
The scheme to propel the vessel constructed accord-
ing to Lord Cochrane's directions, by the application of
steam to machinery, operating tinder water, has, we till.
derstand, totally failed. An experiment was last week
made to compress Inc seater by means of air tunnels
fixed in the paddle cases, but it ‘V/111 without effect.
This was the secoi.d failure iii the attempt to work
machinery under water, the first being with a packet
called the Engineer, and in the tw•o experiments, a
corisiderable sum of money, besides a year, 113VC been
expended.
SINGULAR DISCOYERT.—Last week, %%bile a la-
bourer was digging Peat to the moss of I,a Mancha,
parish of Newlands, once the seat of the Earl at Dllll.
donald, his spade struck against something hard, v%
h cit.
upon digging, was Mond to lie time body of a matt, and
was ideteified by some old people in the miahhourbond
to be that of a enactiman of the late E rl of Dundonald,
grandfather to the present Lord Cocnrane, who, about
74 years ago, committed suicide, be cutting Its throat,
and was 1/11111*(1 in this spot in a sack. The straw ropes
which had fastened the sack were found almost fresh,
although the sack was nearly all contorted. The
doilies on the body, stocking', and garters, were almost
entire, and the colonr of the rest (red velvet) little
decayed. The razor, also, with w Inch he had taken
away his life, was found at his side. The body itself
was in such a state of preservation, that it could be
lifted entire, and carried away for re-interment; bat
the neighbours stripped it of most part of the clothes,
each curious to secure a remembrance of this CX11201.11•
nary fact.
An effort is makinz by the French Government to
naturalize the breed of Cacheinire gcolc lit France. A
vessel has arrived at Marseilles with a flock of them, sent
hr• M. Jaitbert from the Crimea. It consisted originally
ul 564, of which 160 died ; nut ibis loss is said to he
flea' Iv compensated by the number ofyuung ones brinignt
forth during time passage.