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London, England, 1819-05-24 00:00:00

THURSDAY. M.VY 20.

COUNT OF CIIAKCERT.-Mr. M. A. TAVT,OR brought for-
ward his motion re,pisning the sepan.tion of Bankrupt liminc:s
from the Great Seal. He was prepared to prove that ruin was
the result of the Court's delay ; Bondi s had been undone by it;
and he was ready to whew these facts in a Committee. The ap-
pointment of a Vice Chancellor had exit ufibrdcd the desired
relief, as the revulsion of appeals had defeated the expected
advantage. He should conclude with cloying, that the Ilotoe
resolve itself into a Committee on the 13th of Elisabeth, ch. 7,
which placed bankrupt questiora under the jurisdiction of the
Guilt Seal.

3.lr.t.SlNct.sta iieconded the motion, as the desired separation
wouldaftbril the Lord Chancellor more opportunity to attend to
appeal cases from Scotland, &c.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL observed, that the Vice Chancel-
lor had essentially relieved the Lord Chancellor. 'The Bankrupt
Petitions had been disposed of so rapidly, that all die causes now
to be heard had been set down since the beginning of last Term.
'Wherefore, then, was the cause tin a new Court ? Wades the
appeals in the l.ords had been more attended to, for his Lordship
was now enabled to attend to appeals three days in the wet k.
this were not the fact, a Judge would not have sufficient to do in
attending to Bankrupt petitions a10ne...; to make such an appoint-
ment would not be doing enough. Ile also contended, that the
Scotch Jury Court would relieve the Lords from appeals. In
conelmion, lie maintained, that a case for a Committee was not
nude out.

51r. 51. A. TAYLOR replied, and the gallery was cleated
a division. Tlw numbers were, 49 Arcs, 77 Noes; Majority
against the motion, 2s.
COAL DuT IT. SUMNER then rose to bring forward
his motion regarding the Duties, contending that such du-
ties were of an unequal stature, and of nualern date. He went
into detail of some of the Acts of Henry die Eighth, Charles the
Second, /sc. imposing duties on coals, which then became a
source of Crown Revenue. Besides these slut;es there was an
export duty of Is. 6d. and for London there was a duty of 4d.
metage, and further of 3d. for the Orphans' Fund. The whole
amount was 12S. HAL per chaldron. What went to the Orphans
Fund he should not chink of disturbing now, because the pee-
duce of this pun than of the duty was pledged for years to come;
he only desired the repeal of what etnutitatol the public revenue;
and he thought the application regarding as article of such ne-
cessity was correct. Ile concluded with moving forleave to bring
in a Rill to take otf the London Port Coal Duties, nr d to equalize
the remaining duties in the various parts of the killgdOM. SO that
the Revenue might not suffir. After tat extended discussion, in
the CORSAe of which it was strongly contended, that however fair
it might be to remove the oppressive duties from Middlesex and
the ociAlibouring Counties, It was unjust to accomplish that by
increasing the burdens of others.
The I louse divided, Aycs 49, Noes 151: the motion was con-
somently lost.
l.ord Ato non r obtained leave and brought in his fl for the
Relief of Insolvent Debtors in England. It was read a first time,
and ordered to by read a second time to-morrow sennight.
After some futther conversation hews was given. The 'loose
resumed, and the other orders of the day basing been slispthwel
of, adjounted at one o'clock.

rmio.tv. V4Y 21.

CA TIIOI.PC C1.11M,.. A Nleintier,;hore. mime we rinfil
not le.irnAgave wilier, that sin IVerthesday next he slliaila
ill.l.+lt a nuit,on regarding the Petitio agauat the Unman
Cathnile

PUBLICA NiM LICCAI,ING Hi GASCOYNE pre-
sented u Petition him the Hite=riocs of Liverpool ag.,irst
the Liceloing, Bill —Oidtred to lie on the table.
Cenrral I ; AMA/UNE remarked, r.ecing the Member for
Shiroshory Nlr. Pcsineti), that he did not object to the
Inauriple of the hill ; hut, ns it aas tonal in such caws to
introdut e eel lain protecting ;Wiwi, he rave rotice, that to
the event of the Bill going to it Committee, be should there
Haute ID iulrodlKC rurh elausca•

CIIARITAMLR IN IITUTIOtE. Lnrd CARTLERE Gu
brought forward his Mot' for lea%r tu bring in a liill 1.1
amend and ~,tagte Inc powers of the Conimissioucrs for en.
quiroig inlu the Public Charities. to emend enquiries to other
Instil ulions ihan ilsoNetauchinq
Mt. BROUGHAM eirenlided the minion, the object being to
eggend the pangs, of the Commiainner► stud the objects of
their eoquiries.-14 otitto speed to.

16.3

LICE!011!<(; SYSTEM BEN ETT moved the scisined
readim; of the Publicans Regulation
Sir. I;4 Wit IC lIT could not give his approbation to the
11:11, so lotig us it contained any clause requiring Maistiates
to iooigo I ettCuiis for refusal of Licences. It tou.tht subject
them IL actoine. and to many other inconveniences. He
moved ;IS an umendineut, Ih.et it be read a second time this
etly six moctlis.
Mr. Craw cm thought there ought to he some regulation
Oil this subject. as Licences kind frequently heels opposed and
refused by Magistrates on questionable grounds; and he
hoped, beenme all could not he got that might be debited,
that the goiu, into a Committee with the BM would nut be
refused.

Mr. S. HOUR N Opprosed the 11111 maid unwillingly, be-
cause there here minty caves where Liveners here refused
u lien the reasons could not well be assigned.
LAN a never expected the Bill In be c•-isted ou the
grounds that the ft sigi•trat es could not, or ought is•l In as-
sign reasons for refusing Licenses. Ali he could understand
by this Was, th si, like Sir J. F'alstatf, th • Magio
wits s huuld not give " reasows on c 1111 l pulsion ;"' but he
never, beless t hmsg ht the regul•d ion was very net etsary —that
Cie Magistrates oujht tube required to state in Quarter Sys-
sinus the reasons why Licences were refused or •ucprnreel.
Mr. S. WOK tiP.Y opposed the Bill, and said its iiincfri.
fiery was very imperfect.
Mr. I). Gluscur deemed this Bill to be of the most de.
structive tendency ; derendi d the discretionary pow cis ladged
in Magistrates ; nod maintained that it had been highly use-
ful, and but rarely, it• ever, abused.
Sir It. Wilson could not understand how any honourable
man, acting as a :Magistrate, could feel difficulty in assigning
reasons for his conduct hi refusing liCeal"; (h,T.r!) at all
events, he trusted, Mint so niurh of the Bill iwght he allotted
pa,. as would enable the experituNst tu he tied io the
1-triliPrlly-•-( War.)
b.l-1. Bat mouse thought the Jaw, as now constituted,
had wisely placed a discretionary power ia the Nlaiz:otratia
—that it would be didirldt to assign 1CH%011% an all occa-
sions ; and that the regulations of this Bill wt se not cle-
anable.

Mr. Alderman IVOM) said he should be snrry if this Bill
were Inst. Its provisions were practicable, and he telt
as.nrcd tli.tt tlu•v mere useful. In Coe City of London,
svlrete they had the Licensing of 80 houses, if a Licence
were stopped, the parties were examined before Magis-
trates, and the fCil3Oll6 for refusing such Licence, were
wl ttle kunst It,

Fir. Bess...lT denied 'fiat there was any degradation or
censure implied by the appeal proposed by the Hill. lie
teas sort she Bill would be 1044111 V iisetsit, aad a just pro-
tection of property would he Whorled by •it ; Ho lie had
ninny eases where men had been turned out of !lair homes
in the n.osi cruel and wanton manlier, in coliseum nee of
electioneeting matters. Where sunld be the diffieully of
assigning reasons Ho the refusal if they misted i But the
" LAW" of the subject was spoken of. These was a
1. practice" existed to refuse licenses, as they were now
resoled ; but lie denied that there was any law or statute
warrawing it ; it was art illegal assumption of power. This
was the epinion of a late Judge (Nlanstiil.l.) He said,
that rile Xlagistrate might refuse a licence, but lie was
bound to a eammy lie (lodated that Magistrates
could nut arbitrarily dispose of and destroy the properly
' of others. He also w i.hcd to put an end to 1 e monopolies
of Brewers in country towns. He hoped lie stiouhl be
allowed to go into a Committee, as there the Bill might be
reduced to a less ohjectiouable form.
Amendment withdrawn; Bill read a second time, and
ordered ►n be coaeenotted nn Friday nest.
Ailjourned to Monday.

1710.11 TUESDAY NIGDTS GAZETTE.
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BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
1.. B. FleChcr, Blackburn. Lancashire. manufacturer.

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