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at it hail been the practice of the House to gran
hint rrom tittle to time.

The Report being rend, 'yam laid on the table.
FEES ON PARDONS.

Mr. F. I)ouGr.as fumed for an account of the
fees, taxes, and durst poyable by offenders upon ie-
cei%ing pardons granted miderthe Cre,it Seal, wit
the names of the persoint Staving rtceived sue,
pardons within a certain period.—Ordered,
Lord MILTON moved fur St return tor the number
of faculties issued for the elielosive of pews in ti,
parish churches of England awl Wisles.—Ordaret,
Mr. PtAtt. brought nit the Report of the Cots:
miner opus, the Irish Royal Canal Pelition.—ltrat
I laid on the table—as was also the Report upoi
the Callers' Petition, presented by Lord MILTON
. .

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Mr. C 'MEN presented a Petition front th
caulkers and labouring manufacturers in the Dock.
yard at Chatham, praying that means might be
created, by stoppages of firl. per week out of their
salary, to increase the allowance granted to the(
when allowed to retire upon the superannuated list
De thought the Douse would feel disposed to acre
to a propositiott so remarkable fur its prudent fore-
sight mud self-denial.
The Petition was read, sad ordered to he ['rioted.
General (;astieturix pteseitted a Petition from
the leather dealers and trisistrs of the town of 1.1.
veritiesl and its vicinity, prayill for a repeal of tin
present high duties on leather, and stating do
since die late Act increasio4 the duty" had beets
passed, the num, ier of It-oilier dealers and tonne,•
in that place had decreased to le .s than two-tiou
of their former smuttier, °a tog to the prejudicia
effects of the tax.
After a few words from Mr. BENSON, coml.-WI
in; of its injurious e&ctst upon In% constituents i
Stafford, aril hoping the general voice of the troll,
expressed in noineroici Petitions, would be dui.
appreciated by the Douse. the Petition was read
and laid Ott the tab!e.
Mr. BEN NET V presented Petitions front tiehjaif
thin Whiteley, of Ilorbury, in Yorkshire, ao,'
Rich:nil Lee, of Dolotfrith, in the saute cowl'
who hail hero kith confined on suspiciois of I.i
treason, in porsisance of the power 14r:tided to :1;
:listen by the suspension of the If ,hens Corp
Act. That of the bitter stated a cote of unprece-
dented hardship, the Petitioner hating been vomit),
its heavy irons, Isla twenty weeks, its Yoik Cao
and coiniselled to sleep in the saute bell for steel
nights with a person charged with mauler, I
which he war afterwards executed. De was siih•
(pettily confined its a similarle close way willi
prisoner, whose consciousness of his atrocious crini
induced him to cat his own throat, whilst in cur
finement in the same cell together.
The Petitions were read, laid on the table, at
then ordered 111 lie printed.
Mr. BEN N ETT then postponed his motion for r
pealing so much of the Acts SS granted rewal
upon conviction of felony, eonsmonly known
the significant epithet of Blood-Money, until itex\
Monday.
Sir Jolts NEwtoaT presented Petitions front
the Inhabitants of the Cities of Waterind at
Linierick against the Tax on IVintlow Light.
stated, that the Petitioners complained grievous/
of havii'e, been deprived of the advantages
light and air by this "l'ax; and that to a want
the latter the alarming progress of the late rpm
inic diseases in that counts!, had beets principall
attributable; and that, finally, his I.ijesty's M
*sisters were now no longer entitled to make use
this; Tax as a source of revenue, it haring bcei
granted expressly as a War Tux alone.
The Petitions were read and laid on the table.

111 r. CooRTENAY presented a Petition from eel
twin Solicitors and Attorneys of London and IVes:
milliner, praying, that some enactments might
passed to provide against improper persons pile,
tising as Conveyancers in future, which was read
and laid on the table.
REPORT or TIIE, SECRET COMP
Mr. PHILLIPS—" l Iwg leave to ask of t.
Right lion. Gentleman opposite, whether the Re-
port of the Secret Committee will be presented di'
night in
Tile CHANCELLOR of the Excurcorrt—i' N
it will not. Lint it is inure than probable that
will be to-morrow."

MANCHESTER PETITION.
Mr. Piiii.t.tPs—" Ai Noble I I
11_or_ (2a.inet,..on
has give') notice that lie will bring forward •"
Ariny Estimates, on Friday, I wish to ististimne ,
notice, for referring the Manchester 'legion to
Committee, which stood for that day, until Thurs-
day se'insight."

CITY ACCT )VNTg,

Mr. fl. SUM NE,, ill ...jug to move for Itreoit
of the loconar and Expenditure of the Corpora,'
of the City of London, rib:wired, that the uccoun
he watt about to call fi►r were very d tiereot tam:
those connected with a private estate, although t
Corporation, it appeared, thought otherwise. T'
property which had come into their hands, eith
by bequest or otherwise, was intended for pubic
puipuses—and it was the duly of the Mouse to st
that the uses for which those grants were mail
were perfectly fulfilfed, befOre they permitted thei
to be appropriated to extraneous imposts. TI
nature of the application which had unlaced lei
to come forward was one of a very catruortintic
description. By the 53:1 of the King the City 01
tained leave to raise 96,000/. for the purpose
building a hew prison—and, when that Act u•,
culled for, the City did not plead poverty at 0
reason for having recourse to it. Undoubtedly,
erection of prisons was a matter of great intim;
ance—and, if the City had proceeded to btu
them, with their own funds, instead of lasisto
those feuds in acts of magnificence and mum
crime, no person could have quarelltyl aith the
But they had not ouly done this, they had
dently made away with the sum which had alread.
been grunted. The prison, when built, was foul
quite inadequate to its object—and Ciro the Corps•
ratio'', without ally parliamentary sauctiuo whites
on their own mere authority, added 34,000/.
debt to the sum of 96,000/. previously ealtrod:
If there were no other ground than this, tier N o:
he thought, would consider it to be quite, suflic,,
to induce them to refuse the grant which the C.
now called for, natal they had satisfactorily at cool
rd for the money they had already expended. 'l-1,
were charged by a very active Member of their
Court we believe Mr. Waithnuml with Ia:
threat: away 20,0001. in the purchase uf.5%5(44.1: a.