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That this Committee recommend the formation of tficat.

io fin Torino' cities, town., •nd neighbour-
hoods, throughout the Volled Kingdom, fur collecting Soh-
seriptsums, and reunifies Iles some to the? cif of Ibis
CantinaSlice.

Sulk.erifitioas will be received bt Mr. Rommel Brooks.
Treasurer, 110, Strand; Mr. Akiander Galloway, 69, H.,1-
torn ; Mr. J. C. Hitching, 9, Alilerinanbory Pustrrn ; Mr.
T. J. Vr.suler, Sovn-stivet, Risliopsoste-wirrct ; Mr. T. Ruud,
Crooked lose; Mr. J. Caboose, 63. Illsekinan-street,
nroob ; Mr. Ww. Rogers. 11111„ Oxford-street ; at the Dar of
the Gown pail Anchor T . &rind ; Mr. Peter Kier,
Carideo Town; Mr. Dolby, Wariloarotreet ; and by
THOMAS CLEARY, Secretary,
Alfred-place, Bcdfurd-square.

WEDNESDAY. 4th of MARCH.
THREE PRIZES OF L.30,04m -ONE HUNDRED CA-
PITALS.-NO STOCK PRIZES.-ALL STERLING
MONEY-TWELVE PIPES OF OLD PORT WINE,
BESIDES THE SCHEME.

nISH's Prises, in the last Lottery, have travel-
MP led the Country round, and shed their genial tolueace
on every Town they have visited. More than Thirty differ-
ent places. including overly every letter in the Alphabet,
have been benefited by this good fortune, which, to many,
sight appear surprising, but in BI6H, was only what every
one might have expected :-The Particulars of his Three
L. 10,600 Pri WI are as fellow :-
18th of £lO,OOO .... Aberdeen ... • £1.150
16th of 10,000 .... Bath
16th of 10,000 .... Berwick 1450
16th of 10,000 .... Bristol
16th of 10,000 .... Bruton
161 h of 10,000 .... Camberwell
16th of 20,000 .... Chesterfield
16th of 10,41110 .... Clapham
1816 of 10,000 .... Cork
Half of 10,000 .... Corahill lO,OOO
4th of 10,000 .... Derby 5,0011
16th of 10,000 .... Derby 1,150
16th of 110,1100 .... F.dinburgli 1,260
Iwo a sem*
.... Edinborsh. atirofher 1,250
16th of oloso .... Edinburgh, tusofher 1,250
16th of 20.660 .... Glasgow 1,150
16th of "WO .... Gloucester 1,26111
161 h of 29,901 .... Hereford
16th of 10,600 .... Lincoln's-Ina-fields 1,150
18th of 10,110 .... Lundon,nof regiaterod 1,450
10th of 110,000 .... Loudon (ditto)
18th of 1110.660 .... Newcastle (Miff) 1,250
164 a wan
.... Nrweassle-nu.Tyze 1,250
16th uit *kap
.... Neonate-street
4th of 'IWO . .. Norwich 5,000
1611, of BMW .... Norwich 1,250
1611, of 20,000 .. . llondie
16th of 10.000 .... Penzance
16th of 10,000 . .. Thetford ......
Nib of 10,000
.... whisrchapri man
too, of 20,000 .... Wiocantoo
18th of 10,000 .... Turk
Three Prises of L IMMO eseb-busking..L mono

, •
••• In the heat Loiter, that eonteale.l 3 Prises oir L. 30,000.
DISH sold them ALL ! ! I

Mr. DAVIRS slid, the Report would be forth-
coming iii a few m tea.
The Report was shortly after presented; it mere-
ly stated, that Mr. Sheriff Alderson, in answer to
the request fur the attendance of the Sheriffs for
examination in the Coinutittee, begged leave to de-
cline a compliance with this requisition' conceiving
it derogatory to the official situation he filled.—
( Hear, hear.)
Mr. Sheriff ALDEIUMN here addressed the Court.
He said, that he rose under sensations of a most
painful description. The circumstances on which
he was shout to speak, was not only in itself a
one, hut one calculated to produce mod) irri-
tation. The reason why the Sheriffs had declined
to attend the Committee was, that they understood
• public charge had been brought against them in
the discharge of their official duty, and they de-
sired, on such an occasion, to be publicly heard in
their defence—au advantage which they could not
so sufficiently have before a private Committee—
they therefore preferred a public declaration, with
a view to satisfy their fellow-citizens at large.--
(Hear.)—For himself he could say, with reference
to the late execution, that he felt in common with
every man of character and worth, the painful duty
he had to discharge. He had attended, he could
assure the Court (as he always would ch.) to the wants
and necessities of the unfortunate culprits. lie had
given the wretched persons alluded to money to
procure what they wanted in their melancholy si-
tuation, and every other assistance which they or
their friends could desire to alleviate their unhappy
lot. The charge brought against him, lie understood,
' was, the delay which had taken place as to the
hour of execution. True, the unfortunate people
were not brought out until twenty-five m tea
past right o'clock, and the reason of this delay
would, he trusted, prove satisfactory.—The two
female sufferers were in hysterics at the exact hour,
and if hrought out to execution then, would of
course have unconsciously suffered the dreadful
punishment of the law. The Court would not,
surely. under such circumstances, have called on
him to have carried the sentence of the law into
effect.—(Hear, hear, bear.)—He hoped, therefore,
for the delay, he stood justified in common hit.
manity.—(Heer.)--A discretion must be vested
with the Sheriffs under such circumstances, and
they had no right to be criruivated for a fair exer.
cise of that discretion.—(Hear.)—As to the suf-
ferings. or supposed sufferings, of the unfortunate
culprits, all he had to say was, that he never saw the
women stir or struggle. from the moment the drop
fell. As to the knot of the rope having been im-
properly placed, or its having shifted ou one of the
unfortunate people, it might have arisen from the
sudden turn of one of the unhappy females to salute
FlAtchusaii' at the Institut the Ordinary had given
the signal for lauuching the sufferers into eternity.
This was the explanation he had to offer to the
Court ; he hoped it would be satisfactory.—(/)ear,
hear.)—lt was always his wish to do his duty with
fidelity and humanity, though lie could not but
reflect on what he conceived the impure and nu-
proper motive that led to this explanation.
Mr. Caooi warmly retorted on the Sheriff the
language he had used at the conclusion of his
speech. His (Mr. Crook's) motives in calling for
this explanatiou, were like every other act of his
life, as pun and as honourable as the Sheriff's, who
had so far outstripped the bounds of decency us
thus to have impugned them. In what lie had said
yesterday he made no charge against the littera'',
hut lie had heard that an improper delay took place
at the execution. The Sheriff's explanation now
*hewed that this was not the case, and it was quite
clear no improper delay had occurred. He was
not present at the execution. but persons who were
there had told him that the mode of 'tutting on
the rope was most grow, negligeut, and she
-
noble. He sow the bodies after the execution, sod

they certainly bore the smirks of excessive untpro-
tracted sufferissg. The Sheriff might have given
li.s explanation without the usiliandsoine and im-
proper imputation lie hail cast un the motives of
the person who called for it.
Mr. Deputy Blactt was extremely glad to have
heard the satisfactory explanation of the worthy
Siseriff. whose feelings were highly creditable to
I • . It woold storm certainly have been inhuman
to have hurried unhappy persons to the iscathild iu
a state of iusensibility—(lierto—and it was clear
they were taken its .0011 as they could with pro-
'piety, for Ilse poor women were obliged to be sup-
ported while the !secesarry preparation. were Kohn;
on. Certainly the worthy Member (Mr. Crook)
deserved no imputation for provoking this inquiry.
and if hecould follow it up by ',roving the ruins.
ble neglect attributed to the execuisoneri theca
would he just ground for a further inquiry. That
fact ought certaiuly to be ascertained.—(Near.).—

Mr. Sheriff DICIANGES asked, whether it would
have been proper to have hurried the utifortunet-
people from seeing their friends; for the last tin-
upon earth, at such a moment ? This was the ow,.
delay that occurred.
A Member said, the other Sheriff had explaine,t
the delay to have arisen from the &malts being iii
hysterics.
Mr. DEIANOES laid—s" Then, if half en
makes such a difference, you shall, in the name '
goodness, have them hanged half an hour earh
the next time."—(Cries of 414 Shame PV
Mr. Mates animadverted strongly on the lerif,
of the Sheriff's expression, and said, that when Ow
Sheriff, in allusion to the form of the application
made to him by the Committee, said he thought it
calculated to degrade his station, be should have
remembered whist he owed to that office himself.—
If he took up serious matters with this levity, lie
might, perhaps, degrade his Office not a little be-
fore the close of his Shrievalty.—(Hcar.)—The
thanks of the Meeting should be moved to Mr.
Sheriff Alderson for his proper explanation, and,
indeed, to shew a contrast between his conduct and
that of his colleague.
The declaratory motion was agreed to, but the
motion of Thanks to Mr. Sheriff Alderson was
withdrawn after some conversation, in which the
Lord Mayor and other Members spoke of their
long knowledge of the humanity of Mr. Sheriff
Desangest
SUSPENSION OF THE HABEAS CORPUS ACT.
Mr. WAITMMAN rose to submit the motion he
had to make, pursuant to the Requisition by which
the Court was convened. In discussing the con-
duct of Ministers during the late suspension of the
Habeas Corpus Act, he was aware he could offer
no new observation, or say any thing but what had
been already better said in other discuelione. It
had been truly observed, that the Habeas Corpus
Act conferred no new right on the subject. whose
personal liberty was in this eoantry an inherent pri-
vilege, for without the prottetion of his liberty, his
life could not be said to be secure. If any man
could have his liberty taken from him witl the
opportunity of a fair trial, and being confronted
with his accuser, that man could not be said t',
exist in a free country. or under crow! laws.
In England, Magna Chart* asserted this privilege,
the Bill of Rights did the same, and what was
called the Habeas Corpus Act was passed in the
reign of Charles' IL as declaratory of this sacred
subsisting right, in consequence of the minty fla-
grant violations of personal liberty that had been
then committed. When iii so tyrannical a rrigii
their ancestors felt it necessary to re-assert them
right', was it to be, Inirirr that in a time of profound
peace, and with a complete subsiding artily for the
pirlo tee
vc:ri ovi ri the
rtullinrooiuter,, should
soil on da
übiausa will,
nd cn
trailictory statements, have the power of suspeorl-
ing the liberty of the subject P-( Heir/JO—For ll t•
maintenance of dins sacred right the best blood
patriots hail been shed—for it Hampden, and Rus-
sell, and Sydney had fallout and would Log=
lislimers tamely surreudet it fur the ha:ched
plots *lnch tainisterird spiel stud informers could
conjure up for their employes?—(Near, hear.
hear.)—lii former tidies, When Parliamesit Hirt
they first inquired if there were any public griev-
ances to be reds-voted. before thry rioted Money to
the Crown, There sort of l'orli4lplota were not.
however, convenient Cie Goreruinesits ilyposed
be despotic, and tbry were ervi thacoutionrili dial
the Crown thought proper to dirconttlitte eat/m-
-utants altogether, having WO means Id, get
mosey without them. Ii was in4lus lapse at the
Meeting of Parliament that the people petitione.l to
have their Representative* convened, and it 10.4

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singular enough, that owing to the imprisonment.
at the suggestion of the then Recorder. of an ho-
nest linen-draper, • Liveryman of Loudon-okt
testi/aril of bossiness between this patriot and Mr.
trintherale drew forth repeated cheers i—for • hold,
Isourst, English sprtch nso the hustings et Cuddled',
Were the people of England indebted fur the
.Habeas.-CrownsAn . . • -6far.J--le •/....•41 ere--
niarkarle. still keeping one's eye •t the reign of
Charles IS. fist, notivithnonding the turbulence
and coralaut.aimplaints of dissaffection, this de..,
chimney Act Auld., have been made. and no it-
.tempt Issuing/end t dreamt of.--(Hertr.)-sNoW.'
s-dory• it seemed it was only onessaty for a Minister
.10nm* dower with a green or yellow bog. tn. no..
minor. tea own Committee of Plantain and • De-
ponsdoste, select his own case, awl reject envy con..
inithetion to his facts and his reosouingert was
only trecesoary to do thesauri then to call for placing
et
irk tower the liberty of every Hoehn Freeman.
—(Hear, Anse.)—lt was thought a bold tarp te.
have Recourse to. even while...rebellion raged in
the coontry. while a Pretender claimer) the Crown,:
nod even while Meabers of .P-arliainest were is
insanely, for High Treason t and yet son it was to
le dime just as it united a Minister to. bolster up-
• Plat--( Hear. beer)—it was rine to stone the
public voice, ins' roused with indignation in coml.!
plain of public grievence....(Hear).sit was den.
to protect abuses against inquiry.-and the edfactnel
wor fur the Minister to succeed was. es lied been
well described in. Parliament. to send on his dreg-;
tort acmes the country.—(Heor.)-*The moment.
of palthe &strews was taken 1, orestrao+the 'offerors;
into deelnations which only aron.fron thew sap.:
premed situation. It was strange to this& on the
way in whirls the people of .England were tented;
they were loyal. enthusiastically loyal, when they'
wire to t the ermined d.fead their .tlre.eides, es
the 11".orthy A likes's° expressed it (Sir. It'll limn
Curt s) —the next moment, when the -Minister
h std • 'onion to carry, they were represented as
loving il:eaff-cted.-(iieer,hear.)—They were said
to be in a state of prosperity at .8 manna when
benevolent subscription beyond all example were
vet silent ; when the +mawkish against gaols and
workrltnisses were that they were ton email to hold
their victims. The loyalty of the people was sot
to he thus maligned. •On a late Ananias,. the me-
tonclinly death af the Princess Charlotte, see the
feeling which pervaded all ranks in the country from
• eml to soother, ',feeling affectionate re-
gret, exclusive of the peculiar sitentou of the
illustrious object of as much eyetwathy. one which
irmee.from • the Recent and well-founded opinion
that et,e tared the Constitution of her country, and
• manse was hostile to every thing at variance with
its genuine principles...-(Lead cries of Bear.
leas./ —The ebeitacter of the people was therefore
fixed for bang loyal and attached to the Coustito.
tion. The laboimilig thaws were maleginol ,so
long as their services in the field sided what was
railed the deliverance ef.Eirreme (from such deli.
vexenee nay good Lord deliver us !)—(Haw, intr.)
—hilt the titoestept their essployisteat coaresl. then
their whale character was changed. Their cow.
viands by Petition to Parliament were not to be
listened in, bemuse they were . disloyal. This re.
insider, him of what be had once heard at the
0141 Bailey. where a complaint was made against a
lemele prosecutor of her haring been herself tried
for Nome offence, and be secousurended the attest.
tiou.rof others to the. itheenatiou then made by the
Learned J sedge" The,womao has then. been tried;
she hot either beep .antoitterl,,er, if ceserieted. suf.-
fever* the penalty. eC the kith end is, therefore, en.
titled. lathe. protection of • the Court. unless her
story he cauttedickeiroSomere the people otEng.
land esuitkil. toting peateetian.. sakes . their story
AT ere couttedicted; lost MO opperbasity tras.given of
.verifyiog it, their Petition were rejimetsmi.—/ kat,
bear. hear.)—lle deprecated ss mach .as asy man
pyiuriple, of, eioleut liefortwhe had to their fates
inoclaimad such mess as hejog surd, or else in the
Vey of (ioveriansent. They had den• the most of-
fecguat injury to the teal cases of Reforin.,-(noe.)
—lt was their acts which, it woo,said.• had • ten.
.Ideney to-run dews the cbasacter of Parliament :
thi-, hie •belitred, was set diocese; foe if •Parlia.
meat had suffered ,in public .estimation, it 1
TM is down itself."-i Heir. leer. kess.)-OGII
.4Dsts .bad been elude .in Parliament .to Tab,'
tin a hearing for the people, but these eilfirk
were unavailing—not. so thole of, their opponents,
for they hod been heard. •That• man sf fustian (foe
be could call him by .no • other nat). the Lord
Advocate of Sestlaid, had. nude a great impres.
soon in the Hesse, be his speech relative to the
treason in- Glenne. bet when -he came to try the
traitor, to make oft his assertion •by proof, thee)
came A• the lame and impotent -conclusion," and
no evidence could be effectively brought to verify
the prerions statement. Then came -Mr. flone's
trial. The poor etas was dragged from his poor
shop, and his poor family. and persecuted by three
trials for • Parodies. that the lateAttorney4ieneral
(a man to be sure of delicate netwes)...(A kegh)—
could set istempt to -reed in the Haase *rum-
stews. • When the trial nine on. every body saw that
Old Begs. ,Derrydown Triangle. and the Doctor,
were meant as a little political squib. and not as as
intestional parody on the forms or doctrine of
• Scripture....flieee.)—They were intended to to
*oppressed. and the made of doing so was mien.
laird to give effective circolation to what nobody
ehr would. perhaps, hove ever reed. If written
for Ginernment, these•Paredies would hove ensured
a pension for their 41111 w—bat, wrings at the ether
stile, they only expend him to a pvuathti.s. He
concluded by stating, • that the but • •of the
Constitution were those who rallied round the
Throne to protect it against abases, and its worst
fnes those who struggled for abuses iu opposition
to principles.
He then made his motion (for which see Acker-
tisane*, .
Mr. FaTitat. seconded the motion' sod ably en•
forced the constitutional topics alluded to by the
worthy Mover. The Hone of Commons of ARV
refused a Bill of Indemnity to the Meister* of the"
slay. and he hoped the Commons of 1818 wool4l
alive the same patriotism and independence on the
pressed oreession.—(Hear./
The motion was then put and carried on a their '
of bawls, there being only five or ex against it.
• Petitions forthwith were ordered to both- lions:.
of Parliament.
On a Motion by Mr. Gammas, the Cerautittee far
Letting the city and Bridgehome &mites were divided, amt

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t' e amt orderell to be &merit tato two sepototo Colo4l.
Ices et I=lo riot wheat.
The ~peewlehrl a Co ur of • Bill Is feeli4.l
mew, to f' Or preopot. lows, toeweroks.the
Eirrikeit 401 one Parbeiontotel foe fort
logiftiog ges., oalrrig.l ,0,10
Collysitt -Loafs So ~Mir sod eqopite-A4-:
jammed.