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London, England, 1820-05-16 00:00:00

WESTERN UNION CANAL

Mr. CHARLIts DOIDAS moved the order of the day for the
leteild readisee of the Western Union Canal Bill.
Mr. BRIGHT serimuled the motion.
Mr. SMITH oared, as ate GotrlKlairOl, that at Bill be read
a 'mood time this day six months.
Bir Wm. DE CRUMMY said he 'Wald vote for Ike
asamadisteat.

Mr. Alderman Woop•said, Hint the Sberiffi of London
were in attendance la the lobby, welting to present a Pali.
lion frost the Corporation of Loodon against tie Bill. .
Mr. Bannto iltungtst the Western Union Canal would
prove earful, and be elitield Bayport the undertaking.
Lard Flamm's Osnowita was *Pied the OIL
It erne *unnerved by Low, Tags I, Mr. littilltpo. Mr.
Alderman Hryinte. Mr. Capps, nod Mr. Hart Devitt ; and
opposed by Mr. Abraham Mlief• Mr. Bennett, Sfr Militate
de Croapiesy, and two other Wooonrabla Mombora, wawa
samosa as could not learn.
Mr. VARCOUlrteepporeeti to antis*.
M r.Do n Das replied.

A di►ision took ',Lice, and the numbers were—Ayes 169,
Nuea 136.
When we returned to the Gallery, the !louse were refer.
ring the Bill to a Committee, which was immediately named.
Sheriff ROTHWELL appeared at the Irtr with a Petition
Irons the City of Landow, praying to be near' by Commis
spina the Bill, which, with the oilier petitions, were, upon

the moles of Altknoes Mod, referred to the Comomittes
.
above maim

Accounts were brovight op from the Conivnisainavis of the
Tioiriii. Navigation, obit* were laid ow lbe tab 4, and or-
dered to be primed.
IlAr. Dickman; 1.. t-seined ■ relitioe hem &Serer,.
preying fur a tepee' of Ilse Woolf:ex.

Mr.- ‘Vortet.re resealed a retitica from Ike !tweet ef
Wilts, praying a repeal of Ike Wool Tax ; soother from the
town of Woodford, an (uvular of the Wallitfa Calmly mid •
similar Pei it ion from T,owbmian

Lord MlLTutt presented stver4 Petitions Gum Tacks Mire,
the "Neel of ohieb we roold out 1e..r0.
Mr. MONET moved foe accounts of the difference bele fell
the gross and Nett preidot euf she sates of the DIM* )!last
'wheaten and their cal cues captured off Cape St. 11111CtUe 111
the year 1790.—Ortirrta.
Sir R. Hums' prevented a Petition from Wittier A ugust
Johnson, respectiog the return fur ffusatury, is the retail., of
Coruwall •

The Sweats& ordered Mr. Clarkson, the Petitioner's
Agent, to be caned in ; afore' kw great sow, time wee et •
lowed till Wedeesday ae'nuight fur Mr. Julosaus to tuid,lere
hu recognisarices.
IL satirova moved, *That the Speaker alsonid
instructed to bane his warrant directing die fliers el
Member to serve fur the Borough of Orford. be (11/ r. H. bey.
moor) having made bia elteinua fur Lisburne.

Mr. TrtattigT moved to the same meet for Or
borough of Appleby, he baring made his rhythm fur Kliall,
borough.
Fir F. DVILDITT presented a Petition from a caiarn of
Westminster, praying protection for hiraulf and the patty(
from the extortion of Water Corapanies.-oi-dered to lee
printed.
Lord Joan Russw postponed a motion of his whit
stood fur the 19th, till the 49th init.
Lord MILTON had a motion 011 the paper for tomorrow,
which lie wished to podpose, after an arrangement won
Ministers on the subject, till Thursday in seat wee*.
. _

Lord Ca'emetic/ow lamented that tbe Chancellor of tl,e
Exchequer could not be in his plz.ce to enter into that agree-
ment with the Noble Lord. ladeed,io consequeure of his
voidable absence, the further consicleratios of the Civil Li.t
would be postponed till Wednesday. It was afternsids s.I.
(led that the Noble bird's (Milton) mellow should he Isola.
poued, as lie sad the Chancellor of the Exchequer might be
able to agree upon it to-morrow.
Sir F. Bugoery gave notice of a motion (on wha► dal ve..
enfold not learn) for an inquiry into recent outrages wl,t, h
had takes place in sod shout Manchester.
APPOINTMENT OF A FIFTH EXCHEQUER
BARON IN SCOTLAND.

Lord A. Hastivrots, iu rising to fulfil Ibis duty
with respect to this arotioo, felt that there could 1,1
DO need of a preface Co thew the House the
mice of it, as it respected Courts of Justice gelier.
ally. If such preface were necessary, the circum-
stances under which he addressed the Home—he
meant the circumstances of distress uuiler which the
country was labouring, and the general character
which prevailed as to Its reluctance to notice public
opsitiou—would he enough for his purpose. %Vim,
he first gave notice of this motion, he was not
aware of the variety of (item:Wiwi:es, and the
great number of per►ona wMch were to be is.:
troduced into the debate. But since the Learne•l
Lord opposite had introduced the paper which theta
lay oo the table, he found diet wit ouly the- wile.
immediately implicated, but almost all the parties
who had been called to give an col )))) i.ni oa
the subject, would require some notice front him.
Before he went into the question itself, he wished
to make a few preliminary remarks as to the order
of time in which the question had come before the
House. It was about six years since these Com-
missioners were moved for by OD Hon. Friend of
his, to inquire into the business and emoluments of
Courts of Justice in Scotland. The motion was
made in 1814, sod iu 1815 the Cocoinission was
appointed; and yet up to the time in a luch be was
speaking, no one step had beau taken on tire sug-
gestions of those Commissioners—no inewsure bad
been adopted, or erns suggested iu the Heinle.
though many had been suggested by the.Cuinino-
stoners. Most unfortunate it certainly was lir
them, that the first thing which they heard of re-
lating to their labours was the carrying a meson.-
into effect against which they had opposed their de-
liberate opinion the appointment of en office cots•
trary to their suggestions and the general sense of
the country. He had last.year moved fur the pot.-
duction of these Reports, and though the papers
were not then considered of importauce, from ►l.e
contents of those papers he hoped to make t;..t
House see the futility of all that bad been or real I
be set up by the Noble Lord opposite (the Lora
Advocate) iu defence of the appointment. It
no fault of the Commissioners that no one sugge•:.
tion of theirs, after live years labour, had beciori •
a measure of the House. There was nit Wattle 1.,
the Learned Lord Advocate, who had been nat...
short time in:office, and of course without sufficient
opportunity, and whom he wholly exculpated. But
there was great fault, if not culpability. in the pre-
decessor of that Learned Lord, and there was sti:l
greater in the Ministers, who bad so unprusleittls
tilled up the office in question. He found it es.
pressly stated in one of the Reports, that the Com-
missioners thought five Barons of the Excliequ.r
unnecessary, and that in their opinion tour would
be enough to do the business, as iu the English Ex-
chequer Court. • fie intended to conclude with a
motion, in form of a resolution, •• That the House
do agree with the suggestions of the Cons miasioners."
lf, when he laid the revolution before the House,
they still thought fit to approve the precipitate ap-
pottitment of inch an office, they ought at least to
remove from the binder:sof the public the expenses
of all such Commissious,lind let the offices to which
their labours referred be filled up under the di.ers-
thou which had before disposed of them, without
the expense of ►nquiry et OIL Hs felt his
situation, iii having to argue for a moment the
impropriety and tioeleesums or the appolutmeht
of a 'fifth Berea to be perfectly ludic-your..
lie knew of nothing more lediaous than such
as argument. except, iiitfeed, that perhaps .it
might he placed meat in ridicule to a fo►mer reset*.
time of a Right Hon. GfOlialion oplipaitto whip
cowed the House to melee that there was se de•
predation is the cermet* while *II the mosso-
tidos to the toiletry srerivioisg es ender• the ie..
plead ?eltnewltsbgtsest.4 that 4epseeistios. The
affalliftiONlK is gessies.was she liretreoelt otelott
Reports obit* had byes ado by the Commission-
ed; ,sect. if tlpt Roses shit mot dead by sallbeippos
the Commissioners is costlesisisi this rash er