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London, England, 1808-02-19 00:00:00

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_ - TlitniStiliY, FEB, I. . •
A t ornititteOwaii appointed, by ballot; to try the
merits of the Nottingham Petition. The following
Gentlemon ate on the Committeei—
I. H. C. Caveti4ish, Esq: Hon. I.•locelyn/
~,.4...X.rstmliiiicy—Etirfr--; •-- - Sif ,Wlll.. kllMOOratree.
I. lioircyd, Esq. - Oliver ‘vyripc, P..sq,
Sir Patrick Murray, Bart. T..Gttici.trilt- liiiqb .-
Edwaro Morris, -E59. , (. T-Tuut, Esq.
A all. IL iloldworth,- Esq. L homas Thompson, Esq.
i. 'E. %V. Maule, Esq.

NoxirsErs:
Thinirascrzcycy, Esq.- Sir john Atastruthers Bart.
The House was then ordered, to-be,called over on
Tuesday next, and the several orders respeEting De-
faulters renewed for that day. •
Sir JOHN LUBBOCK presented a Petition from the)
CoMpany of Merchants trading: to the Levant—.
Ordered to:lie on the table. •
Mr. Secretary Ctisititrw presented from the Bar
several Official Papers, pursuant to Order of the
House; which were ordered to lie on the table, Mr.
Secretary Canning intimating that the Papers were,
printing, and Would-very shortly be ready for de-
livery to the Members;

ARMY ESTIMATES.
The Saciteri*Auy at WAtt presented the Army
E4titnates fir the year IsoB which were ordered to
lie ost the table ; and, on the suggestion of Mr.
craft, to be printed. The Secretary at War then
gave'notice, that he. should move these Estimates
in the Conitnittee of Supply to-morrow, (this day)

• ... , OIiDNANcE ESTIMATES.
ll'iTcina •Thetice Estimates were presented by Mr.
ASMICY Coor.ett, who, atter moving that they 1U
on the.table and i.)e printed, gave notice, thii he
Would move them to-morrow (this day) se'onight.
A Person from the Commissioners for Regulating
the Offices about thy; House of Commons, present*
:ed certain certificates from Oern; which were order
edto lie on the table.

Mr. W. TAY Lott god notice of A motion this, day
se'nnight, rdative to the carryiug.of specie from the
:Sparikh Colonies to this Country.
Colonel Wool) gave notice of tt Motion for to-
morrow (this.day) relative to•the amount of Forcer
Naval an&Military, employed on the Expeditions tc
the Dardanelles'and to Alexandria.
GEOR.G Ft
,PoxsoNEYOve notice, thatiw
to-morrow (this;ilay) make
,a motion for Papers, to
shier what itiforrtation had been received by his,.
Majesty's: Ministers, of the 'increased rigour alluded
to io the Orders of Council with which the' Renc.lit
'Decrees had been 'latterly enforced. ,
. Ordered, on the motion .of Sir TrtontAs
that the. Order of the House of the 2 Ist of July;
ksol, respeling the Peligars, be renewed.
Also, ()tribe motion .of Mr. DUNI)A9, the:stirerai
Ordersfof the House, of tbe 7th of August, relative td
nctia affairs; were revived. •

Ordered, on the niutioti of Sir THOSlX9lreii)
hit there be laid before the House an Account
the atinar Amount of all
,Sums paid as tribute to thee.
East India/Company, by the Southern and Western.
Poligars,- bpeeifying the Sum paid by each lioligari
Ordered, On the motion Of Mr. NVltvrsnitAY, that
there be laid before the House, Lists of IA thes.
Dank!, Ships captured and detained, previous to this_
4th .of Nownber, t s •
Mr; ilitimissors brought up she Bill for issuing
the Sum of 10,1100,00 - in Exchequer Bills, for
the, S'erVieo of the Year 1898. ne.ut a first time...
and ordered to be.read a second time to-morrow.
The Bank Loan Bill, the Unclaimed. Dividends'
apd the. Bill for abolishing the Office of Petty
Customer -of the. Tort of London; -each paseci.
through a Committee, and,/the Reports were serea.'
rally ordered to be received to-morrow.

,17he American Treaty Bill was read a third, time,,:
and passed.
HS BULLER presented,certain,Papers front-
the 1-I.'ol,C:cam of Admiralty ; which, were ordered,
to lie oil, the table, and to he printed.

Co i.DaATuf 071.E1.Ds P luso N •
• 'Mr. SHERIDAN rode to pre sent a Petition, which
hq.held in his hand, upon a subject that he should
recommend to the serious attention of the House,
and'ofhis Majesty's Ministers: He wished partien.,
larly to address himself to. the Right Hon. the chem.,
cellos, of the Exchequer., as the circumstance of the'
Home S&:retary being a Member of another House,
rendered it impossible for him to address the head of
the dePartment more iinmediatelycouneaed with tho
subject to which the Petition referred.. The subject.
was not •new to that • House, for in' the year J 800 be'
had taken a considerable Shire with h worthy and
Hon. 13aronot,whom he did not then see in his place,
in th, inquiries- which' bad been made into the mci-
nagement of Coldbath-fields Prison, and v
brought the, abuses in the government of that Prisnq
thich,
under the onoideration of. Parliament. They bad,
on that Occasion, cStablished the C' Me so, clearly, that
the distinguished per Son, 'now no more (Mr. Pitt),
who was then at the head of hig Majesty's Govern-
ment, was obliged to givd *ay, nod consent to a fish
investigation of the whole trar7S34:t ion, Accordingly
a Commission was issued. under his, Majesty's sign
manual, appointin: Commissioner's, most of 1 twill
Members of 'the Woose, /o prosecute the irtOrY,
and aßeport was.made, which entered very rnuch,into-
thedetail of the subjea. Bitt unqeestionably the de-
tie or error of that iteport, was not, that it nogge'
rated the abuse complained of in the interior adrnir
nistration of the gm:1111E61u cif the-prisOm .13.0
found, however, that.the means recommended in the
Repol.r, for the redreis of the abaqai.complairted'off
had not been carried into effeel, nay, had been aban-
.doned; and, he Very much feared, that the abuse,.
had' increased in conseqnence., The allegatiotis
con-
tained in he Petitions he had not felt it' necessary: to
inquire into, previous to his pr::3,-:nting- it ',to the
• Houk., bees use *be had recei Ved t Petition; from
sncli a i-epect.able quarter; and upon such MO nu
thority, that he could not entertain any• just doubts
of , the cot reaness of the statements it COntained.--•
'fly: Petition was signed by Mr. Stephens, foretn"P'
and 1.43:r the of her Members of the Grand:Jury of the
County of iddiesex', as ‘!Vell as by Mr. Phillips, one'
of the !F.:he:tin, a Gentlemm, who, infinitely- to his
crtdit, applied hithself, with the most lauclatle zeal,
gen ,?tii.,n of a!! the duties of his 'orduoes•
could acsure the Right- Honourable Gotl-•
,!!t. that this 'muter was -not brought 111°Ier:
by v-ith any plitY
the reiiironerc any quell objett their'
contemplation. On the contrary, it had been
b;i nraditie,. on entry occasion Whtin he had a