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London, England, 1812-07-18 00:00:00

i3RIN,Ch REGENT'S

`Yesterday his Ito l iiigini6s the PRriccE It
GENT held a Levee at Carlton Annie, which v(45
numerously 'attended on account of One; forine.
announced to take place, having been put oft'
conseqiienee d the increased indisposition of t"
K.ifto.—There were present at the Levee—
Their Royal Highnesses the _Dukes of York, Ciarenc''
Kent,' and Cambridge, the Ai-cliiiishop of Canterburv; the
Lord Chancellor, and the Cabinet Ministers, the Lord (113.,'""
beilain, the Groo of the Stole, Gold StiCk (Viscount C4O;
cart), Prince Groom
Castelcicala, the Lore Chief Justice of the Carl
of Kitig's Bench, the Deao of 'Windsor, the Attorney 50'
Solicitor-General, Mr. Adam, as Chancellor of the D4°ll
of Cornwall,. the Judge AdrOcate,..and the Archdeacolt
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Previous to tic Levee; the Rev. Dr. Lt,,,lr vo;
introduced to the Paif..7cE in his clOset, and did
homage before his RdAt lii6nNiss on hfs
appointed to the See cif Chester, attended by
Dean of Windsor) as Clerk of. the Closet to 60
KiNG.

After the Levee- his ItcyAL HIGnNEss held a. '
Privy Council, which was attended by—
The Lord President of the Council, the Lord Privy Sall
the Fir:a Lord of
the
Truism", the First Lord of the MP '4l
it rally, the Master-General of the Ordnance, the Secretary
State for the Home' Department, the President of the Bo
l' ' •
of Control'', and the Chancellor Gf the Dhchy of Lancasta
Viscount Chetwynd attended as Clerk of the Council;
' • His ROYAL lIIGHNE“ gave audiences to Earl
HARROWBY., the Earl of LIVERPOOL, ViscOant
Siomou'rn, Viscount MELVILLE, &C.

The following received the honour of Knight'
hood, • '

Captain Felix Agar M. P. and Dr. Lachlan Maclean, 11.1)f
Senior 'Alderman in. Agar,
on presenting an Address Irk
that Borough; Mr. Garrow, on being appointed Solicitor
General, and a Gentleman of the mune of Sweetling.

The following had the honour of being plc"'
sented to his ROYAL HIGHNESS
The Rev. J. S. Clarke, Librarian andChaplain.of the Souse'.hold, on being. appointed Historiographer to the King.
ViScount Cathcart, on his being appointed Ambassador .Es.
•-traordinary to the Court of Russia.
Sir T. Miner, on being appointed Attorney-General.
'1 he Rev. Dr. Batc Dudley, on bis promotion. /
Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt, with an Address from Falmouth.
Lord A. Hamilton, with an Address from Lanark. •
..Nfr. Brown, Mayor of St. Albans, to present au Address--•
Mr. Giles, with the same.
The Bishop of Bristol, with an Address front the Bishop an 4

Clergy of Bristol, on the assassination of Mt. Perceval. •
Lord Clive, to present-an Address fr:)ar Mcatgowery. •
Sir J. Sebright, with an Address froM IhL County Hertfora.
Lord Robert Seymour, to present two AddresSes.
Mr. John Currie, Sheriff for Hertfordshire, with an Addreig6
Mr. Halsey, with an AddieSs from St. Albans.
Mr. Wilberforce, with an an Address from Leed.
Mr. Berkeley Paget, with aaAddress.
Mr. Watliugton, with an Address from St. Albans. ,
Mr. Foulkes, Member for Stamford, with an Address I'4'
specting the assassination of-Mr. Perceval, accompanied /4
Major Chaplin, presentol by the Judge Advocate-General"
Mr. Wraxall, by the Lord Warden of the Stanneries. •
Mr. Charles l?augoier, on his marriage, by Mr. Fauquiert
Sir George Staunton on his arrival from China.
The Hon. Mr. Vane, by Lord-Darlington.
Mr. Atkinson on'bis arrivakfroui Ireland.
Mr. George Henry Freeling, by Mx. Freeing. • -
Mr. Clive, on going to Cadiz, by the Earl of Powis:, •
The Hon. T. Stapleton, .by ie Earl of Westmorland.
Mr. Hinchliffe, Judge of the Admiralty Court of Jansaicit:
Mr. Hinckley, to present his Poems on National subjeets4
Mr. Douglas, on his return from abroad.
Mr. Allan Acting Deputy Commissary-General, on his el v"
parture to... New South Wales.
The Rev. John Hewlett, on presenting a Copy of his Editiota
of the Holy Bible.
The-Rev. David Wm. Gamow, with his Sermon, preached be'
fore the Directors of the Royal Humane Societ;.-. •
Mr. W. Weston, by Mr. Thornton, Member for Surrey.
Mr. Serj'eant Shepuerd, by Mr. Adam.
Hon. Gen. Stewart, 95th Regt. on his return from Partuptl.-"..
Major-General Wilder, on his apr;-ntment.
General Cookson, R. A. on promotion.
General Hislop, on being appointed Counnander4azChief at
Bombay.
General Burne, on his return from Portugal, and being plaeot
on-the Staff in Eugland.
General Murray, on his appointmentlii be Quarter-Master-
General in Ireland.
Colonel Erskine, 4th Regiment, on his return frusn Portugal'
.Colonel Hawker, 40th Dragoons, on his return from Sicity•
Colonel Gibbs, 52d ,Regiment, on his return from Spain. •
Colonel Barnes, Lieutenant-Governor -•of Doolinica, on his
return from that Island.'
Lieutenant-COlonel P. • Walker, third Mid-Luthian Loc4

Militia. • . f•
Lieutenant-Colonel Hamilton, Scats Greys, -on promotion.
Colonel Sankey, Dublin Regiment.
Colonel J. Doyle, 19th--Portuguese Infantry on his rettlr;
from Spain. -- . : ,• - .
Colonel Dillon; to present the second volume of lii work.
Major Elphiistone,, titli Dragoons,: On his exeliauge to tii,P

Regiment. •
Major Still, on his appointment to the Dorset Regiment. .
Hon. Capt. Dawson, on promotion.- •
lion.X;apt.,Gordon,R:N. on return filom South America,
Capt. Northey, R. N.
Capt. Mason, by Ea.aNclson.
Capt. Bligb,, Coldstream Guards, on promotion and rettrtt
from Portugal.
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Capt. Dilites, R.N. on his return from the West Indies.
Capt. Maenaitiara Pourchier; It. A. on return from Portugm
Capt, Sleigh, to_+th Regiment, on promotion.
Ensign Forbes,on his appointment to the f;oldstreara Guards-
Ensign Standen, 'Sd Guards, on his appointment.

Tlie following were. presented by the Lord in
Waiting,- viz.--
The Earl of Dumfries, Mr. C. Coate,i Mr. De Lisle, Ntr.
• Alexandet.
There were also present---1
Ambassadora--Sardinian, 'furbish, Sicilian, ma 4 SpaniA•
Dukes—Montr‘kse, r.nd St. Albans. •
Margaisses—Headfort, Winchester, Huntley, and IlerV
ford.
Earls-.-Banbury, • Nelson, Courtown; I'owis, HarrnwhlP
Ossory, Dumfries, Buckingluilushire, Liverpool, Panlet, Hat-
ringtun, Westruarlaml, Darlington, Meath, jortariinj on,
Leven and and.Maccldsdeld.
Viscounts—Castlereagh,. Wentworth, Cathcart, Hampden.
Griorstone, Mountjoy, Sidnunith, Melville, Chetwyud, Ala"
bdurne, and Itanelagh, ' •
Lords—Glenbervie, H. Seymour, W. Gordon, St. Helens,
Harewood, G. Murray, O. Somerset, Ellenberough, A. ILL".
milton, Mulware, Cochran; J. Murray, Le Despeneer,-Clive.
and R. Seymour.
Sirg-,E. Nagle; T:Tyrwhitt, T. Miller, I. Heard, R. C.
Glynn, G. Staunton, and J. Sehright. - •
Dishops—Oxford, Bristol, Exeter, arntChester.
nee. Doctors—Lovett, Bate Dudley, and Legge.
'Rev. Messrs—F. Lee, Clarkj, J. Hewlett, Hon. H. D. ri.7
skine. •T. Thurlow, D. W. Garrow, and G:Vanbrugh.
, .
Sereant Shepherd.
Generals—Keppell, Stevens, Stanwix, Dilkes, Porter"
A, Leslie, Fitzpatrick, Calvert, Champagne, Cookson,
His!op, Burne„;Wilder, W. Stewart, and Murray.
Colonels--Hawker, Turner, • Stanhope, Dillon, Mq-Aed,
Congrere, D'4rey, Hamilton, WalinT, Braddyll,
Barnes, Taylor, Doyle, Gibbs, Clitherovi, Mcintalembert,
Sankey, Erskine,. and Smith.
• '*jors:—Still, Farhill, Elphilistone, Lloyd, and Fitzgerald.
Citptains-LAgar, l3ligh, Stanhope, Mason, It. N. Dilkes,
R.N. Connolly Boachier, Northey,• W. Gordon, A. P. Has
mitten, (ismer, ItrAld, Dawson, and Sleigh.
Lieutenant s—DoWson, and Wevmouth.
Messrs.—M!Mahon,
,Greenwootl, Vans-Mart, Bruce, Gar-
Tow, Knignt, M'Quil, Leach, Eaulley, Coates, Thornton,
Wilberforce; Bligh, Stepney, Douglas, Standen, Forbes, Vane,
Gray, Hinckley, Stapleton, B. Paget, De Lisle, Hume, Halsey,
Currie, Mackintosh, T. Sheridan, Gilts, Compton, Cox,
Brown, Watlington, Alexander, Foulkes, Hirichlitfe, Clive,
W. Weston, Atkinson, G. H. Freeling, D. Grosvenor, M.
Sutton, Allan, -Fauquier, ))e Lisle, Douglas, Pemberton,
Staple, Bond,. Powell, Harper, Brown, Aberdeen, and
Chester.

The further business, it is now thought, will
not be got through so es to enable the Parliaxagnt
to rise before the 30th inst.

• ,• -
IMPERIAL PARLTArvIENT.

TiOUSE OF, LORDS; FR I D 44,

The Lord C11A.N..-CLL' OR took his sea( on the
:Woolsack ab6Ut half past fouio'clack,and shortly.
--after prayers were read. /
The Stone Bottles Duty, the Bonded Goods
Transport, and the Manure Carriage Bills, were
read a second time., and committed for to-morrow.
The Irish Stamp Duties Consolidation, the ,
%lalt Duty Securities, • and the East India Loan
Bills- were read a third time, and passed.
• .11r. TIERIIEY, from the Tax Office, presented
an account of the expenses incurred under the
Acts for the sale and redemption of the Land ;
TaX.

The Earl of Li'rEaPdot. said, that understand-
•
thF.,t th h objections to the Local Token Bill
1-ere more trci.the details than to the principle of
toe measure, he should propbse to discharge the
order for going into a Connnittee on the Bill
- that evening, with a view to fix: that 'stage for
;I`,l
onday.
The Earl of LAunEnngt.p. took the occasion to
observe, that his decided opinion open the mea-
sure was, that if the Bill passed as at present
Famed, it would tend to create. more confusion
than any Bill that was ever presented to that
Rouse. With reference to the state of the paper,
CoMparatively to the metallic circulation of the
Country, he believed it would be almost impossi-
ble to dlvise means to remedy the evils complained
;It According to a variety 'of communications
he had received, it,would be impracticable for the
retail businesses to go an, if the Bill, as now
Proposed, should pass into a law. Added to this,
the Bill was- drawn in. such a way, as not to ex-
Press the real meaning of those who brought it
forward ; the period of the year, too, was such,
that a subject of this real consequence could
tot be sufficiently attended to in
,point of dis-
cussion.

The Earl of LIVERPOOL then suggested Tnes-
uaY, instead of the preceding day, for the Com-
mittee on the Bill—to which the Earl of Lauder-
dale immediately assented.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS BILL.
Lord REDESDALE called the attention of their
laordships to the general Bill for the 'Relief of
Insolvent Debtors, in England, now before the
4°use. This, with the amendments, were agreed
to by their Lordships, and ordered to be printed.
tt was not his intention to press the Bill further
is Session. his wish was, that it should circu-
late throughout the country ; but, early in the
text Session of Parliament,: he should certainly
ring forward he' measure.
LATE ATTEMPTS AT NEGOCIATION.
Lord HOLLAND said, before he moved the Or-
71' of the Day, he begged' leave to ask kt the
anoble Earl, whether fit was the intention of his
44ajesty's Government to lay before Parliament°r the public any further inforinntion respecting
negociation between the Government of this
:clunt and that of France, respecting which
?nie dry
ocuments were published in foreign papers ?
''e Would forbear to give any opinion on the
flibject. Adverse as he was to treating on any
awn which should continue King Joseph in
trio, yet he was far froM seeing the utter impos-
%! dity of entering into a negociatimi on a basis
gbieh would afford a tolerable opportunity of
lidni being left independent of France. His
_.4,ordship repeated his question, and seemed to
72(jiress his disapprobation at some apparent dis-.
og that the Ruler of France should be Emperor
rdrlCt.
hi':he Earl of LIVERPOOL said, he- had no
I:4-4Y in stating, that as far as his Majesty's Go-
. tleirnent were aware, the papers alluded to by
e ~In
oble Baron were authentic copies of what
'lll4Bsed betli',en the Government of Fiance and
hat of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent.—
Lordships and the Noble Baran would re-
that the affair alluded to began with a
°Position which gave opportunities for further

I:Nanations, if the other paKty judged it proper
aaord them. His Majesty's Ministers would
4.ref°Te bare acted inconsistently with their
,11 , if they had laid papers before Parliament,
11`;`4er circumstances, in which frirther explana-
-I,l7!'nns were not unlikely to have been given.—
'to rth
respeCt to any other point, he was at a loss
conceive
how there could exist a difference of
iltnion respecting the substantial part of the an-
hileP given to tire Government of France ; and
en called upon, they acknowledge the Govern-
4tent of Spain in the way it was seemingly pos-
th's.ed; there was not a nation in the world .
ea` Could sa-y, we should not have ruined our own
-erecter if we acceded to such a basis. And
v-
..47:1 respect to-that point, he:begged leave further
ac'tBaY3 that his Majesty's present servants had
znetd upon the same principle that every Govern-
tlt had acted upon, since the event to which the
kPers referred took placle,in every negotiation with
i 4 41" e, and since the t.r doutifries were placed
Tsttch a situation with respect to Spain.
h, he Earl Of LAUDERDALE wished to be informed.
b }he Noble-Earl, whether there bad been any
tv }She
proceeding, or any explanations what-
oetween the two Governments, since the pub-
Tion of-the Papers ? , •
tk, he Earl of LIVERPOOL answered, that since
Vi„(loctiments in question had appeared in the
th.-vel's, there had been no proceeding whatevet,
any Communication on the subject.
EX OFFICIO INFORMATION BILLS.
sVhe Order of the Day (upon which their Lord-
-14 PS
ewad ere summoned) respecting these
_bills
.bc-
g
•
iltel'oo frou.Axn prefaced his Motion for their
both,
reading with a speech of Considerable
kiiibt,ll, (of which our limits restrict us to a brief
liea,:lastY sketch). After some general observe-,
NI as to, the great legal and'iconstitutional
ante' of the subject, he entered upon an Lis-
tieteal sketch from the earliest period of the prac-
tra °F Proceeding upon informations, until ,the
• I.tet°l the Revolution, when he particularly di-
l)ro:d the attention of their Lordships .to the
vn titieuings of the Committee of the COITMIOTA,
e subject of which the great Lord',.then Mr.
~eiiWas a leading Member, which re.cam-
Oy i,„..('ed to the House to suppress all proceedings
-mortaatiora, and Which the House then una-

ninifir.sly agreed tO 4, and in tvi.b years- after,
iti3Oceeded not, to suppress;, but to regulate the
practice: , • 'Though he -entertained such senti7
nients on the subject; he must deCifi,re
that the Noble Lail Who administered that part
of the law, in the Court of King's Bench gene-
rally, had executed the existing law upon the sub-
ject in a way that did great honour and credit,7-
But the extensive and uncontrdided power_whieh
these laws give to the Oflicei4,of the Clown, was,
from its very nature, he iimst contend, liable to
the greatest abuses; and those which had pre-
vailed, and were on record, were- amply sufficient
to shew to the House and to the World, thil,ne-
ceSsity for retrenching and regulating that power.
By it an individual was left at liberty, on the'sug-
eestions of his own mind, to place a fellow-sub-
ject in a situation in which, he could not constitu-
tionallyle placed, by the verdict of a majority of
a Grand Jury. - Not only that, but the Attorney
General possessed the power of,holding and s"s-
pending over the head of such person, the charge
or accusation for an indefinite length of time.—
To shew the liability to abuse of such a power,
would by a waste of their Lordships' time—it
was in itself a truism. In what he referred to, he
should name no individuals, wishing to argue the
subject solely on the principle of the, thing. He
would refer to a case, where three successive in-
formations had been filed against the individual.
On one of these he was acquitted—the other two
had never been tried ; but he was involved thereby
in expenses to the amount of 2731..1'85. lid.—
Thus he had been amerced and fined, on the ver-
dict of a, single man—perhaps upon the honest
verdict, for he meant to lay no personal blame on
Sir Vicary Gibbs, but it was against the excessive
power so likely to be converted into means of op-
nression, that he was contending against a power
being vested in one individual, which constitu-
tionally should attach only to twelve of his equals.
With respect to the immense abuses which he
contended had of late years arisen Out of this ex-
cessive power, it would be proper to compare the
number of Ex Officio informations issued latterly,
with those deemed necessary in former periods.—
In this view, they should consider, first, the ac-
tual number of informations filed within any late
interval; compared withthose filed within the same
time, at some former period ; secondly, the num—
bers filed, compared with the numbers eventually
convicted ; and third, v, which was perhaps the
most important view of the ease, the number- of
informations filed, compared with the number of
cases that had been tried at all: In illustration of
these points, his Lordship referred to'some nume-
rical details, in oiler to shew a considerable in-
crease of the number of Ex Officio informations
filed of late yeais.Pursuing his arguments against
the general practice, he tooted the sentiments
of Mr. Justice Blackstone on the subject, who
seemed to approve the principle, as tending to
the safety of the Executive Power, and in order
that not
_a moment should be lost in bringing the
individual tojustice. This principle, he asserted, was
greatly departed from in the practice of late years,
when not above one half of the accused persons were
ever brought to trial. He also referred to the senti-
ments' expressed by Chief Justice Hale, as bear-
ing out his o.rn views of the subject. He then,
proceeded to observe, that he believed for the last
ten years, in the instance of libel, only one case
had been proceeded upon in the old regular way,
whereas those presented under Ex-Officio infor-
mations were at least fifty ! The Noble Lord
then refereed to the subject as, applicable to Ire-
land, where, he believed, until about the last 25
years, the practice was unknoWn, and therefore
the sword of this Goliath of the law was till then
left Untouched in the Temple It would 'appear
that the Attorney-General-of that country had
resolved to make up for such a long loss of time;
when he proceeded to summon the party to pp,
pear before him at his own houSe, a proceeding
which he pointedly censured. He also referred to
another case, proceeding under information, and
which appeared in such a light) that the Court
thought.properto order a new trial. The Noble
Lord then adverted to the leading provisions of
his Bills, one of which was to limit the periOd
from the commission of the offence to the time
of the accusation ; and another to limit the pe-
riod. or interval between the time of accusation
and the period of trial. Some minor proposed
regulations were also described by his Lordship ;
and he wished to introduce a part of the principle
of the Treason Laws,- as applicable to the offences
in question, -under-which, if -the party Were not
brought to trial, within the given period after
accusation, he should he discharged as free from
the offence. The intended regulations he should
not propose, in the present
_state of the country
and the revenue, to extend to the Revenue Laws.
With respect to the second Bill, he .Seemed to
say, that if strong objections were entertained,
he should not press its adoption 'this Session.—
His Lordship concluded by moving the. second
reading of the Bills.

Lord ELLENEOROUGH assured the Noble Lord
that ifhe were convinced of the expediency of the
Bill, it would be his -utmost anxiety to assist in
carrying it into effect, otherwise he should be

most unworthy the high situation which he had
the honour to hold -in another place, as well:as
his seat in that House, • But he lamented that the
Noble Lord had not inforined himself sufficiently
on this subject If he had done so, he would not
have asserted that a proceeding by information.
was not as 'conforMable -to. the Constitution as
any, civjl or criminal, known to the law -of lag-
land.. With respect to what Blackstone bad said

respeCting•enormous offences being the only war-
rantable subjects of proceeding by information, he
must be allowed to observe, that Blackstone had
said this ignorantly. Far was it from .him to de-
tract from an elegant and classical writer, who
had so happily succeeded in..giving a general idea
of the• English law: But .as-he would not flatter
the living; so neither Would be bestow a fulsome

panegyric on' the dead. When 'Blackstone be-
gan his- Commentaries, he was a Fellow of All
Souls College. He grew learned as he proceeded
with the work. Having beevriginally possessed
of a strong mind, which he stored 'kith classical
knowledge,. he was enabled. to produce a book,
which he (LoM E.) must be the grateful eu-
logist, as lie was indebted to it for an easy and.
pleaSant introduction into the thorny science of the
law. But nevertheless there were many things in

Elackqonc'a tt•ork Yhiihs fir, a LaWyeri„he Was
bound to:sayavere nnstatetnents Amonohen4 was
the nropositi:m to; yitieli the :.Srohle• told bad re
ferred. In, proof of this,bc. adduced the ease of
IlOilia, arid.the otherfil,e MentherS 6f. ParilAment;
AA variety of other cases; and entered-into:a
learned argument On the sul;ject., The Noble and
Learned Lord then proceeded to contend slit a
proeeediug by information was moreliumane
than a proceeding by indictment; becaiise in the
one case the individual on wboseaffidavit, the At-
torney-General filed his information; might :be
prosecuted _for perjury, which could not be the
'ease in that indictment before the Grand Jury.-7h-
Adverting to the recent case in Ireland; to which
the Noble Lord had referred; heallowed; that, had.
he been the Irish Attorney-General, he would not
have required the printer to attend at eham-'
bers, merely because su-'h a retittisitioti,,i4it be
liable to misconstruction. Every one knew, how:-
ever, that it was not compulsory. The charae.7
ter of
.an Attorney-General ought to be treated
with great respect. He was an officer whose du-
ties were such as to invest him with a sancity
which ought not to- be wantonly assailed. The
provision in the Noble Lord's Bill, liniiting the
arraignment to a period of -three months after the
offence, would in many cases allow the escape. of
criminals. He cited the cases of Davidson and
Mr. Valentine Jones, and Mr. Hulse, in prOof Of
this. He shOuld not move that the Bill be read
a second time on that day three months, but that
it should he utterly rejected. As to the other Bill
relative to holding to bail, he had already given
his opinion upon it. If the Noble Lord charged
any Crown Officer with oppression, he (Lord E.)
would see that the charge' should be well sifted,
and if that officer, be be Attorney-General, or
who he might, should be found to have disgraced
his high situation, in the name of God, let the
heavy hand of justice fall on him.
Lord ERSKINE bore testimony to the ,purity of
motive which influenced his Noble Friend in the
introduction of the present Bill ; but thought that
as it would ,be necessary -in the future stages of
the measure, to consult and examine very minutely
the Statute-books, his Noble Friend would do
well nyt to press it forward in the present session.
He contended, however, admitting that proceed-
ing by information was as ancient as the law it-
self, yet that it never had been considered -so fa-
vourable to the liberty of the subject as trial by
indictment. As a Peer, Jac was bound to- say,
that no Attorney-General ought to be put on a
footing with the Grand Jury. No man could sup-
pose that he imputed to any individual impro-
priety of conduct ; but 'speaking. generally, and
without the slightest personal reference, he must
say, that he knew nothing of the sanctity of the
Attorney-General„ He was an Officer of the
Crown—removable at pleasure by the -Crown--
not amenable for a malicious prosecution—and
no man should tell'him that' there was equal secu-
rity for-the liberty of a subject in the determina-
tion ofan Attorney-General as in that of a Jury
of his countrymen.
Lord STANHOPE supported the Bills. He could
not concur in giving the Attorney-General the
power or a Grand Jury,
.He said nothing of At-
torney-Generals of our own day ; but he could
not forget that Judge Jefferies had been an At-
torney-General—and, recollecting that, he could
not approve of such power being held by the
Attorney-General. The Noble and Learned Lord
bad said, that Mr: Justice Blackstone had written
ignorantly on this subject • had -he (Lord 5..)
made such an assertion, in what a
,rage would the
Noble and Learned Lord have risen to take hint
to task for such a libel on the Bench ! The Noble
and Learned Lord had said, that Blackstone had
commenced his book in ignOrance,-hut that he
had become leained before he had concluded it.
He would say something like it of the Noble and
Learned Lord, He was more ignorant of the
law when he was first made a Judge than be was
at present ; and ) perhaps ,he might knoW more
than he did at present,
,before.his death. Here
his Lordship cited certain ancient 'Statutes, with
which he preSumd the Noble and Learned Lord
was not very, well acquainted ; one of which en-
acted, that any persea giving a Scotchmm a horse
should lose his right hand.—lt might have been
well, if_ this law had not been suffered to become
obsolete, as, rigidly enforced, it was probable so
many Scotchnien Would torhave come posting-to
that House.
The Duke of MONTROSE observed, the House
had been amused with a fine speech from the
Noble Lord, but if they were again treated with
such a speech, he should certainly take the trouWe
of clearing- the House Of strangers.
Lord Hou.aNri made a long and animated reply;
aftet which the House divided.
For the Second Re4ing of the Bill • " - 7
agaimt it ~.

Majority

• -19

HOUSE OF COMMON'S, FRIDAY.

The SPEAKER having'counted the Members at
four o'clock, and finding only tbiity-seven pre-
sent; the House adjourned till to-rnorrotv.

' CAMBRIUGE JULY 17 at Gandingdy .—On
Thursday se'nnight a dreadful.fire. took place et
Ganilingay in this county..., It broke out at about
ten o'clock-in the morning, in Mr. Thos. Wright's
wheelwright's yard, 'the fire from •the forge•cora-
inunicating to the thatched building adjoining,
from Whence it 'extended to Mr. W. Woodham's
farm,
,the barns and other out buildings of, which
•were entirely destroyed. The fire continued its
dreadful ravages along both sides -of Mill-street,
burning tion twenty-two dwelling-houses, six
barns, and,a great many out-buildings, when the
arrival of An engine from Potton - prevented the
,further extension of the flames, but which con--
tinned burning furiously amidst the -ruins -till nine
o'clock in the evening. The alacrity with which
the inhabitants of Potton forwarded their engine
prevented, the destruction of nearly the whole
parish, . which, would probably have otherwise
'been the case./ the flames burning with such amaz-
ing rapidity, that in about an hour and a half they
had proceeded to the extent. above-mentioned.—
Mr. Woodham's house and...malting were not
much injured ; and .his other property Was insur-
ed. The calamity, however, falls heavy upon the
occupiers of the houses destroyed, 18 of whom are
deprived of their homes.

ICtit 111 E t,,iiriN.

( SMALL-PDX -trACCINATION

T 0 - - -
I w'lts,.i.tititiced, on 14'rida;7 t;rtiric
youryaper, to call at-the hou'se. of Mr, Mor.nrs,
an. Apothec::r'- iii Chandfis-street,' I:is
datight, who was ,described to-be affected witii
.-_;mall-poit after Vaccination.
..Airs.-Moryis very civilly slim:edam! the
3val spotted wth an erupt,on,. width: was-begin-.
ning to. dry up. Stijl said that her -husband haft'
vaccinated* this daughter in :infan.-cy with sin 7.
gle. tinctu re,
~and -opened, the .at.;,;ch,
usual4ime, to obtain lymph for other
This proceeding. explains eery sat:sfaetoriry the
cause of the fairtire,; fi,r it is. now knoyin, that
a single vesicle, NNticli has, be.en.drained- of lymph,
affords. do;. certain security from, p
yet it appears,, that, even in this case of imperfect
Voceination, a great wit:otiOn of .:be virulence
of the Small-pox was produced,` for the child was
never _ in Alangerr7the-,pustules. which, broke-cut
were small, Surrounded.ffith little infiationation,
and.htid 4gpai ,to crust, so'early .as the sixth Jay.,
It is therefore highly. probable,. that if cheYac-.
cirre process hadfally taken effect, without being
disturbed,, that. this child would have been .con-,17
pletely seat-red against the: Snail-pox;, and_ is is •.
also probable, that if the,operatiou had been en-
tirely)omitted, the girl,.
,whois.now well, . might
by this, time have been ,colisigned to the grave.—
ThuSjt, rint'Y be- owing to th,ebeneficial effects of
Vaccination that ;Mi. Molyis is, not at this in—
stant lamenting; the untimely death of-his datigb- •
ter 3 yet_this ease is addttced as an obj-ection
_to
the practice: Porttinatcrly no stronger objections '
can be raised than the
,promulgation of a very.
few Cases, ''here after Vaecination-a,mild species
of Small-pox appti:ared; deprived of.all malignity.
Even these rare exceptions_hardly ever.oeeur to
those. who completely tmderstand the ,most
proved practice. And among the millions vacci-
nated, no Anti-vaccinist, -after the strictest. search;
has had the pleasure of authenticating one who
died of the Small-pox. But we are at no loss to
find numerous instances of persons who have not
been vaccinated, who are the victims of the Small-
pox. The Bills of Mortality ascertain that there
are still from ten to twenty human beings who
arc destroyed by tlii&horrid contagion every week;
whiCh 'mortality is imcpiestiooabiv continued by
certain inferior practitioners; whO persevere in
Small-pox inoculation'. No eminent Surgeon,
who values his character,. is ever guilty of inocu-
lating the Small-pox : this condemned practice 'it'
now almost confined to a Tew persons who deal in
drugS, and who, by selling plenty of medicines,
even to the poor,. whom they charitably inoculate
gratis, contrive to indemnify themselves. Interest,
sordid interest alone, can tempt men to such deeds;
SHAKESPEARE described a _Mantuan Apothecary,
the prototype of some, in the Well-kn Own pas-
sage; . .
" An' if a man did heed a poison noiv,
'Whose sale is—death,
Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him."
Who, is there that doubts that Soiall-m;x Is a
poison i 'for it is a malady which has destioyed
far More.person thEtTl any other poison, even,
More than th'e plague itself. And who is 'there
that is ignorant that inoculating with the Small-
pox is propagating a fatal disease I. The learned
Dr. WILLAN, in a Report published by kiln Of the
'Diseases of London, announced a fact, that one
Child, inoculated in
.a court, communicated the
Small-pox to seventeen persons, eight of whom
died. , And those who credit the assertions, that
persdns inoculated with the Small-pox always re-
cover, should read a very sensible pamphlet, writ-
ten lately by Mr. LEESE, which is entitled " An
Explanation of the Causes why Vaccination has
sometimes failed." They will there find a Icing
and melancholy list of fatatinoculations, of which
I shall make two extracts

_ .
Mrs, nooth, No. 5, Lis.sonllace, has been
particularly unfortunate with. respect to Stnall,
pox. Inoculation, having at different tipies taken
tiro of her children to the Small-pox Hospital,
where they were inoculated for Small-pox, of which
they both died. I have since vaccinated au infant
for Mrs. B.—

" Mrs. Last, No. 3, South-street, Manchester-
square, was thus plunged into affliction acid re-
morse ; her first three children were vaccinated
in 611 respects satisfactorily ; the father wished a
iburth to be the same, but some female acquaint,
ance persuaded the 'mother against it, and the
infant was taken, imknown to the father, to a:i
Apothecary's shop near, and inoculated for S:nall-
pox. On the ninth day after it wa a corpse."
Those who,feel an interest in this subject, and
who wißla to investigate more of these .horrid
facts, should consult the work of IVit• LErst; who
declares, that eight,of the fatal inoculations col-
lected by hint-were performed by one Apothecary!
Whoever occasions the death of innocents, by
puncturing their bodies Nvith-a poioned instru-
ment, or by raising up a fatal and wide-spreading
infection,. may escape the punishm'e.it.of the law,
but must endure the stings of

CONSCIE•SCE.

ST. JAMES'S PARK.—WOHMICEI have commenced
grubbing up the old ' decayed elm trees, in the
great mall, St. James's Park. Of these, there'arz
three nearly opposite the gate-from • St. 'Jame*',.,'
Palace, at the milk house, near the -Green Park.
One 'of them has been taken out of -the .greilind.
The trunk is about five feet diameter, and for Th,i't
"greater part quite rotten. The workmen are now
employed on its neighboutl, which 'is aiso dead,
..and is expected to be grubbed up this &ay. There
is a third -within a few yards, in ,-tearly the same
.state. The first of these trees is said to be 160
„years old, the oldest in the Park, except one about
/fifty yards more to the R'esty which is apparently
of the same age. The. latter; however, is alive
. and sound, except on one. side, which was struck
by lightning last spring. The Earl of CARLLK-J-:
has a picture of the Park, drawn about. the time
these ancient trees were planted. The great mall
was then' tha fashionable
.resort of -the Loudon
elegantes, who are. exhibited walkiug in masks, or
carried in sedan chairs, before, Hyde Park, Hot-
-ten-row; and barouches became the order of the
day. The western sith: was then the_market for
the sale of birds. Cages full of them are suspend-
ed -fron“-he branches of the trees. it SYCIS thence
called the Birdcave-wan:.