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London, England, 1813-12-14 00:00:00

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IMPERIAL PARLI MUM'.

lICATSE OF LORDS, moNimy, Dgc. 13.

The House Met at ten o'clock in the morning. In the An •
pi. II r, Stuart v. Booth and others," Mr. Adam and Mr.
Adam, jun. were heard for the Respondents, And Mr.
Ilrongham in reply. Judgment on Wednesday. In a writ of
Error.froin the Court of King's Bench, a quo warrant. cause
r !fpeeting a corporate election at.Saltash, in Cornwall, "Haw-
kins v. Templer, Mr. Abbot and Mr. Buller were heard for
the Plaintiff in Error, and Mr..Serieant Pell and Mr. Adam,
4. the Defendant in Error. Further hearing on Wed-
u,May.
The Irish Spirits Illicit Distillation Rill, the Irish and
Spirts Intercourse Bill, the Irish Peace Preservation MIL
.wit the London Militia Enlistment Bill, were committed and
reported.
,On the motion of Lord ELLENBOROUGH, the amend-
ments- in the Temporary Insolvent Debtors Bill were agreed to.
The East India Shipping and East India Duties Bill wcre
rani a =round time, and conmitted for to-morrow.
The Police Bill, and Brandy Duty Bill, were read a third
time, and passed.
The .East India Circuitous Trade Bill, and Madder Duty
Act Amendment Bill, were brought up from the Commons
by sir, Courtenay and others: • •
The- East India Circuitous Trade Bill was, on the motiodio(
Lord BUCKINGIIAMSHIRE, read a- first time, and his
Lordship gave notice that he would moveihe second reading
•morrow..
MADDER DUTIES ACT.

Lord WATAINGHAM moved the suspension of
the standing oreer, that the Madder Duty Act
Amendment Bill might pass that night. He
rated, that in the Madder Duty Act, the words
c• on madder " were left out, so clot it appeared
as if the Act bad been a repeal of all duties on im-
p,,rtation. The object of the present Bill was to
declare that only the duties on the importation of
Madder were repealed ; and as this was merely a
Bill to correct a mistake, he hoped there would be
no objection to his motion.
The Lotto CHANCELLOR said, that the mere state-
ment that there had been a mistake, would hare
.been no good reaaon With him for suspending the
standing order: but this was a mistake of vast
consequence, and one of which the mi .sca.evous
consequences would be increasing during every
moment of delay`in its rectification. It was on
that ground that he agreed to the motion ; but he
hoped care would in future be taken to prevent
ttie occurrence of such mistakes, either-in this or
the other House.

The Bill was then forwarded through its several
,tages, and passed.—. Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Dec. 13.

A new Writ was ordered for the Borough of Carmarthen, in
th 4, room of Admiral George Campbell, who had accepted the
Chiltern Hundred's.

Mr. BENSON, in the absence of a Right Honourable Gen-
tlenian'(Mr. Cowling), which he lamented, the more on ac-
count of the cause of if, presented a petition, signed by 'eon
respectable merchants and traders of Liverpool, complaining
of the injury which the fair traders of that town suffered from
tuock,auctious and itinerant auctioneers. The petition was
eceived, and ordered to lie oq the table. .

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An account was ordered of all the loonies received, since the
',cur itlo3. by 'officers of the customs, in the way of deposit,
upon the landing and warehousing of prize-goods.

POOR LAWS.

Mr. HORNER hose to call the attention of the
House to the practice, 'Which had been too fre-
quent, of introllucing into local poor bills, clauses
which were quite inconsistent with. the general
law of the land, respecting the settlement and re..
ielation of the poor. There had been already a,
committee appointed to consider and revise the
clauses of this nature in acts now existing, and a
bill would he shortly submitted to the House on
that Subject. As to the first class of deviations
from the common law, whiCh related to the man-
ner of assessing the rates, he should at resent
give no opinion. Heconceived that it was very
possible that, from local
,circumstances, it might
be found in some instances to be expedient to alter
the former regulations In this respect i .hut when:
ever suet) local circumstances did exist, he thought
that Parliament-should require a more specific.no-
tice of the intention to introduce such clauses than
.was now given. There were, however, two classes
of deviations from the established law, which, be
thought, could never he justified from any local
circumstances, anti which ought never to be in-
t rodhced is clauses in any bill for local regulation
of the poor. Those classes were, first, that which
.altered entirely the eircunoances under which
the,poor were eotitled to-claim a settlement,.and,
'Secondly, that which gave the power of corporal
punishment to persons that were by no means fit
to he trusted with such a power. Bills, contain-
'Mg such 'clauses, had frequently been, through
• inadvertence, passed in that House. Theoll to
which he alluded would, as he understood, have
:a retrospective effect upon dove clauses : the
motion, however, to which he should now call
• the-attention of the House, was only for the`pur-•
pose of prevetoing such things being done in fit-
tore. 'He, therefore, moved, that it should be a
standing order of the House for the present See-
ion, that in no local bill for the regulation of the
poor, there should be Introduced any clauses
went tom, alter the: general principles of the
settlement of the poor, or to give the power of
corporal punishment over them to any person. It
was necessary that this should be settled by tt dis-
tinct resolution of the House, as those local bills
were geherally considered to much as. private busi-
• :'ness.) that the attention of the House was' in ge-
neral,but little culled to them; After bottle tar-
• ther observations, he concluded by moving his
Resolutions, that no clause should, for the pre-
svnt. Session, be introduced into any bill for the
local, regulation of the poor,:
The SPEAKeit informed time Learned Gentleman,.
that they could bnly be adopted as Resolotions for,
the present Session, but that the House might
afterwards make them standing orders, if it judg-
ed fit.
The CliAtier,l4Oß of the, EX.(3IEqUER rase to
• : express his entire concurrence is the sentiments
of the Hon, and Learned
,Gentlematt, and his sa.
tisfactioa at the tovotiter" which -he had intro,
duced his Resolutions. IVhatevermigi,t be his,
opinion'of the Bill that was to act ref Enspeetively,
, it: was ondoubtedly proper: to, prevent the .intro-
dnetion of clauses which Wof-11,1 cause so great a'
disparity in the condition of the poor in different
parts of the kingdom, anti 'place them tinder such
very different treatment,
Mr. Serjeant Osznow also concurred in the
sentiments of his Hon. and Learned Friend (Mr.
Horne!), and begged leave to Offer his thanks for

he care and attei;iion he had bestowed on this
subject. None of those. clauses would have been
:4: tho luiel hiPosi