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London, England, 1822-04-08 00:00:00

be nu discussion till some day was named; be proposed to
call the :went 00000 of the House to the subject on the 22d inst.
to discuss the repots in a committee of the whole house.
Report ordered to he taken into consider lion in is cum.
millet. M the w hole house, on Monday, Ihe ee the
m•lian of Lord Londonderry.
Mr. ROBINSON afterward', when the home was in w
committee on the colonial nets, Itrou'lit forward resolutions
for ()pelting the West Indin trade, staid fur regulating that
trade wills A uses len.

Mr. Willi, 'force. Mr. W. Smith. &c. expressed their aim
prottation of the pion, rthntit:ti g that it would be rah whited
10 relieve the cot '•s t and hoped thug rare would he taken
to guard ugaiost the illegal importation of slaves.
Resolutions agreed to, and bills oiderrd to be brought in
uccotdincly.
The !louse then went into a committee of supply, in which
Mr. Arita' imut brought forward the miscellaneous estionates,
the several items of which were agreed to without (nip°.
sit i
Da the resolution for granting 40,0001. fur secret service
Money,
Mr. HUME wished to know from the noble Nautili.; 01
%Mit purpose. this scerct service y was . polio d f—( A
lat_h.)—G••otlenneu 'night laugh. but, in Ills °widen, it coil .1
he npi•lied to no Rood purpose. for, if well applied, theta
could be 110 of .... ft. concealment.
Lord LOIN 1)ON DERRY said, the hon, member's prows.
Shinn ohs certainly an Irish one; considering that tins was
money appropriated to secret services. The Imo. gent,
should also recollect that this bend of service was cum-mere'
as necessary by Mr. Burke; and that the m .. ey wasreceived
and expended under the Sanction of on oath. He had 1,0
ohjtC(11111 to state, harsevec, that 46.0011. of this sum was
Applied to rietuctott.strisioK out of the war.
Mr. Ilsonte mud Mr. llobhun.e still objected to th, vote.
Mr. ARBUTII N I' defended the Kraut us necessary for
supportnig the it'll:1011re of the country.
Mr. 11013110 USE said we were then fighting the range
of tliis country tit foreign coot IS with silver sp.•.nrc—he con-
sidered the g . lus enormous, tot injurious to the hest inter-
ests of the country. As to Mr. Borke's opinion, there was
tud n doctrine which mould he named for which the authority
of that individual might not be cited in some part or other
of Inc WOlks. . . .

The question was then pat, and the gallery cleared for a
divllion, but nu division tuck place, and the resolution' nits
agreed to.
On the resolution fur granting 15,0001. for government
messed-et,.
Mr. RENN ET moved to reduce the vote to ev,nool.
The House divided—Fur the original resole( 000000 67—Fos
the nmendnn hot 11.— Majority against the amendment 4S.
Several other items were disposed of, and the House re-
sumed, and the report was ordered to be received to-merrow.
Lord LONDONDERRY then gave notice, that he would
on Wednesday move that the House, at it. rising on that 0.
ahoald itajouto to that day for ;,;get.
The (All!r orders tver.e disposed of, and the House ad.
:pureed at one o'clock.
TUESDAY, APRIL 2.
Sir H. PARN ELL presented the report of the Holy.
head roads' conimitiee.—Ordered to be printed.
Sir F. 13111113 E rr presented three petitions, praying
the house to procure for Mr. Hnitt a remission of the re-
maining portion of his setnence. He would avail • self
of this opportunity to state, that Mr. H. had mot been
relieved from those petty and vexations interferences that
had been reported
3lr. li. slated thus mulch. 'flit want of ventilation had
been spoken of particularly by the commissioners, and it
was extraordinary !het notwithstanding all that had been
said by the 'ssioners, as will J 4 by 11.11. Menthe's in
that house, nothing had been done on the most important
point. He was glad that he had not brought forward this
subject so promptly as he had at first felt disposed to do,
ter the inure that hail come to light, the greater reason
theme was to fief strongly bow 'eyrie was the treatineet
of Mr. Hunt. lie had thought that ministers would inter-
fere; lie still hail strong hopes on that subject; but should
not 'Moister% feel it their ditty to advise the Crown to
remit Mr. Hunt'', sentence, lie email bring forward a
motion on the `24th inst. for an address to the Crown to
adopt stick made oh' proceeding. (Hear, (rear.)
Petitions read, and ordered to be printed. 'They were
front Warwick, Bath, and some place in Wiltshise.
Sir R. WILSON ',gestated a petition front Horton, in
Lancashire. also wide such prayer, as well as enforcinz
the necessity of retorni.
Mr. P. MOORE presented a similar petition from Co-
ventry.—Ordered to be printed.
Mr. HOBHOUSE moved fur returns connected with
the Insolvent Debtore Cuurt, to stirw the *motion of the
Commissioners' salaries, the lees of the court, the insol-
vent debtors discharged, ike.—Ordervil.
Alderman WOOD presented the City of London peti-
tion, agreed to at a Common ilalh,eonl7ulainimg 01 distress,
and praying fur reform. Ile lamented that the worthy
baronet had hoot lei taken to present the petition, as it
would come with effect when pi emoted from the Termites y
beuch. (Sir W. Curtis was sitting there.) That worthy
member knew a onething of the distresses that were expe-
rienced in the trade cart led out in the city, particularly in
the who'reale trade with different parts of the cutiniry ;
but he might have complained of some parts of it, for it
called fur reform, and the lion. member was no great re-
former. (Hear, and a laugh.) The petitioners dill not
often approach that limn., but, Convinced of its twee*.
sity. they never lost sight of the questiou of reform.
The petition was then read at length.
Sir W. CURTIS observed, that whatever might be his
respect for the his cry, he could not concur in the settee.
rents of the petition. The house, however, would nut
consider Mat a petition agreed to by S or eat prisons,
spoke the sentiments of 11,000 good and honourable no
u.
The meeting was legally called lie admitted, and if ihe
thmisinids did not attend, ke was aware ii was their own
fault ; but the fact moot nevertheless be stated, that the
petition was agreed to by SO (eV/ of the livery.
Mr. T. WILSON could not consider this as the petition
of the 14,000 livery—of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and
Livery—it was the petition of Sor CD prison*. He was
sent there free and unshackled; he was sure that it was
meant that he should not be tra 11111 l riled 1 and there fine,
n tom be was desired to suppoi t economy, retrepeliment,
and reform, lie tell dAottetil that lie was expected to
t them wily as far AS he (teemed them expedietit and
sale.
Alderman lIRIDGES also said that lie dill not consider
the petition as that el* the lively; at gas only the petition
at the 3 or 400 persons pi C6QIII.
Alderman I.lloNlObi observed, that as the aldermen
and Weer, were not present at the meeting, whru they