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London, England, 1809-03-01 00:00:00

IMPERAL PARLIA.MENT.

11017 SE 'OF PEERS.
TUESDAY, FEB. 28.
Mr. Johnson, froM the London DOck Company,
presented a Report, and also an Account of the
Rcteeipts and Disbursements of tho.said CoinPatiY,
from November 39, 1807, to November 30, 1808.
'fhe proceedings relative to the Banbury Peerage
were resumed, and ordered to be continued on Fri•
day next.

Counsel was heard on behalf of Mr. Campbell,-
Wing for a Divorce. This cause bad been already
suspended, on account of a deficiency in the evi-
dence brought forward to prove Mt. Campbell's
marriage; and it now was postponed to Thursday
next, from a nearly similar motive. The marriage
was proved to be valid, according to the laws in three
in Jamaica, by the testimony of a Solicitor from that
Island ; but when the fad of adultery came to be
proved, the only witness on Whose testimony Mr.
Campbell's whole evidence seemed to depend, a
• woman of the name of Mary Brothertob, who 1
served Mrs. Campbell in the capacity of lady's
maid and housekeeper, expliined herself in such
a confused and almost (contradiaory manner, that
the Lord Chancellor ordered the case for further
examination on Thursday next. She declared UM
criminal intercourse to have taken place in April,
1804 ; and- when asked by the Duke of Norfolk,
'why she had not communicated what sh 6 knew to
Mr. Campbell before the month of September, 1806,
said, " that she thought she had not sufficient proofs
of the fa& and did not divulge what she had seen,
through her great attachment to her mistress." To
another question, whether she bad ever suspected
her mistress's virtue before April, 1804, and whe-
ther, since that time, as she had continued to live
with her, she had sem her fall into a similar mis-
condua, she replied, " that she never had the least
reason to doubt Mrs. Campbell's faithful observance
of the marriage vow, before the Month of Apia,
and had never since observed her swerving in the
least from her dtity."
• Adjourned till to-morrow.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

TUESDAY, FE8.28.

Mr. Pe•ret Weer presented a Petition from the
?dimmers for, debt in thc.Gaol of Coventry, praying
relief by an Insolvent Act.
. The Scotch. Law (respecting Child Mulder)
Amendment Bill wan rend the eecond lime, and
Committed, at the instanceol Sir Samoze RoatteeY,
for this day se'neight.
Mr.. BAtaxesiChairman of the Select Committee
on abuses in the 'disposal' of East India Patrtanage,
moved to rescind the Order for' taking into the
custody of the Serjeaet at Arms, John Annesley
Sheo. 440 Calvert, as that person 'had since sut ren-
dered himself. The motnin then passed.
Mr. BANKES then moved A ItesoltitiOn, that the
said John Antsesley Slie* alias Calvert, (reeiting
his offences) be committed to his Mai, sty's Cs,e4
New ate ; and that the Keeper bhull to-mor-
vow, and from time to time bring t 3 the Prisener,
as often as may he necessary, to give evidences before
thsessaid Cummittee. Ordered,. •
WIDOWS OF NAVAL, AND MARINE OFFIVERS.
• *jilt'. W. Weeeeseiv Poor moved for leave to
bag in a Bill, for the more convenient payment of
the annuities and other allowances, to the Widows
of Naval and Marine Officers, and those on the
Compassionate List. .About the year 1731 or 173 a,
a fond was established by the Government of that
day, for the Relief of the Widows of the Officers
of the Navy, towards which it was deemed rape-
client to levy a dedatien of threepence in the pound,
upon the Pay of all Commissioned and Warrant •
QAicers, and also to establish an allowance from all
ships iii the service, under cite denomination of
Witdows Men, i. c. the pay of one man out of every
hundred men in each ship's company, was to be
appropriated its aid of the said fund. After some
years had elapsed, this was found insufficient, and
the pay of an additional Widow's man was added.
In this way the fund had proceeded up to the re-
sent time, but occasionally it had been found inade-
quate of later years: however, it had considerably
increased so that the fund was now rich, having a
stock of 170,0001, in the a'per cents. end the num-
ber of widows relieved from it in the last year was no
less than 1800. The sates of allowance began with
Sol. a year to Captain's Widows, and descended in
propertionate gradation to those of Warrant Officers.
But it had been found, in the management of this
fund, that great inconvenience and distress had
arisen in consequence of the widows being obliged
to apply annually in London for their allowance.
One of the objects of his Bill, therefOre, was to en-
tible the Court of Assistants to pay them quarterly at
their own houses, wherever resident, in the same
manner as was 4et;led for the more convenient
payment of the Widows of Military :Offieets, by a
Bill pilled about two years since. lie had Much
conversation with the person who managed this busi-
. ness at the War, Office, and found there would be
tut difficulty its assimilatieg the disposal ofthe Naval
rand. It would -.be desirable also to exteud this
/node of relief to others who were objetbs of the
charity, though not exaetly its the same way. The
Board of Admiralty had addressed his Majesty,
praying that he would be graciously pleased to
older, that the donations to persons upon the Cunt.
paisionate, Fund should, in like manner, be paid,
quarterly, to those appointed to receive them, at
their own houses. Ills Majesty was pleased to sap-
prove of this ; and, it was another. purpose of his
Bill to enable the Board of Admiralty to sete6t such
objetts as were properly entitled to, aid from the
Compassionate Fund ; to alio* them such slims as
they should think ht, and :transmit their allowance
quartvriy. These sums to•be charged yearly in the
ordivary, estimates for the navy. It was also intend-
ed to transmit the half-pay of Marine Officers to
(Item i the same mintier as to those of the army,
and therefore the Bill would enable them to receive
It at their houses. FTc (hoe& it fair at the same
Berle that he proposed.te include the allowances of
the Cony:o,6omile List in the annual estimated of
the navy, that lie alsotild abolish the allowance
&l t` which were new regularly,
clialcoll in, acsounts of every vessel in the seri,
eenclutled by moving. for It?ave to bring '

Mr. WA stetnded the motiotl.

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Sir C. POLE regretted not to have heard feem the
Hun Gentleman in the detail. of his intended Bill,
any proWSion for a purpose 41110 he conceive d to the
full as Impurtant •as any other bject it had in view,
natzely,lb proviSion fur the orphan children. of Naval
.slid Marine (hiders, and their education.
Mr. POLE replied, that tA previsions intended '
by his Bill, were the same as those fur the families
of Military Officers, namely feethe WidOWs
and orphans, who were to remain on the fund.so
long as they continued objet s of charity.
, - Mr. cA.LCRAFT asked the Honourable gentle..
man whether the widows of Marine Officers were
not intithid to some 'allowance from the funds of
Chelsea Hospital, inasmuch as Marine Officers were
obliged to contribute to that fund, as well as to
Greenwich Hospital.
Mr. Pocs said he feared that he was not pre-
pared to answer satisfactorily the question so unex-
pectedly put to hint by the Hon. Gentleman. But
he thought the contributions of Marine Officer's to
Greenwich Hospital had nothing to do with the
'Widows' Fund, as all the money paid to Greenwich
was at the disposal of that, Corporation, and subject
to 110 interference from the Board of Admiralty.
Leave was given to bring in the Bill.
Mr. DuNnAs -moved to recommit to the same
ComMittee the Petition of J. Goodin, a Clerk of
the : House, respecting an error in the engrossed
transcript of the Distillery Bill last year.---Ordered.