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'Rif the Can- 5-low ri,:-trneki. The cases of
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buhe t3f Att.,•-i., (dlvisi(in if uotitn6o), and IZl)i:ertxon V.
C 4.• .n, re-consideratitai. In the case of --
"v. of ',ln. Court, belmV ftwerst.'d. In the
Lase Pla eV. ,•:•y. thi! Conrt of Exchvilutr al-
trr,r,i. In 1-!•:•.T.nut j3ultr,rniit aairrue(l.
AtiatTit,eariPs' Pegul3tlon Bifl,Snigeone
!Newspaper Matrips 0111, Law Protevdings Stamps Bill, and
others, v..ere brought ttp from the Communs, and read a.
'Era time.

'no ;fish thftneety feturtied; .and the
Amendinhits, bp the motion of Lord Reilesdale, ordered to
be taken into consideration to-morrow,
The T.ociiT Militia Pay and Clothing 11, the English arid
16,1 i Miiitia Pay and Clothing 8111, the innkeepers' Allow-
ance Bill, the Agent General of- the Forces Bill, the Spirits
License Bill, the Nary Bill,. and Salt Duty Bill, were read a
second time, anti ordered to be committed.
Tile Wellington itlansion-house Bill, the Wool Bill, the
Scoti:h Assessed Taxes Bill, and others, were comniitt ed.

• The two Exchequer Bills !In, the Irish PostUr, WI, the
Irish Male Servants Drity Bill, and others, were read a third
tia►e, and passed.

VACCINATION.
Earl STAIVI-TOPE rose to more,the second reacting of the
Vaccination Pill, for the purpose of Moving that. the Bill be
rejected. 'lli(' real object of the Bill was to put .half a mil-
lion or more of the public money into the pockets of the Doe-
tors of this ('ow-pox Society. . After. some -.remarks, he con-
cluded by moving that thc Bill be read a second time. and
being negatircd, he moved that the. Bill • be rejected,
which was agreed to.
PILLORir ABOLITION

• Lord LAUDERDALE rose, pursuant to notice, to
move the second reading Of the Pillory Abolition
Bill, in support of which he argued, that-the pu-
nishment of the pillory was stignratized by all re.-
putable -writers upon crimes and punishments,.
while it was reprobated by the public at large ;
that it operated unequally, for while it subjected
one description of offenders-to a severity of pit,
nishment, which neither the Law nor the Court
could contemplate or eontroul, it was mi punish 7
ment whatever upon others. In support of the
first position, the Noble Lord quoted the case-of
Dr. Shebbeare, xnd tct sustain -the latter,;•tie re-
ferred to that of a man who was killea iti~tlre pit
tory, in 1780, baviag been•sentenced to that tt;nishment for attempting an unnatural crime.
Lord Er...P.Naottoeion declared, that he was no
advocate for the
.punishment of. the Pillory in cer-
tain cases, to which "hy law and ancient practice
it was applicable. Indeed the Pillory was a punish-
ment which, in his judgment, should never be'in-.
flicted without great delicacy, and the most-de-.
liberate".consideration of the case. yherefore,
when acting alone in his judicial capacity he never
pronounced that sentence but in one instance,
where a man was convicted of accepting a bribe
to facilitate the escape of •prisoners of war, and
that wa: a ci ime which the Legislature soon
after-
wards decreed to he a felony, punishable with
transportation. But still he was adverseo-.the
idc.i of abolishing the Pillory altogether, because
incertain cases it appeared necessary to retain-it,
especially with retvect toperjury,*and aggravated
cases a*f. conspiracy. The Pillory was, indeed, a lin-
nishinent of such antiquity, both- in this country
and on the Continent, -and operat'ed so power-
fully upon that which was, perhaps, the strongest
impulse of human nature,' namely, a sense of
shame ; he trusted their lordships would hesitate
to make snch a chasm in our penal code as the
.abolition of it would occasion, with pr-)riding
some adequate substitute. He however agreed
with his Noble Friend, that the pdlors• should not
be subStitied for any pecuniary and that the
shbject slionld be taken into con ideration with a
view to expunge its application to certain offences.
But he• deprecated the idea of making the imper-
fect execution of lacy, in a y case, an argn-.
against the law itself, especially in the in-.
btaace of Dr Shebheare, where the Sheriff was
punished by fine and_imprisoument for the undue
mantle' io which the senteni-e of the Court,
'mm a gross libeller, was carried into effect. No
danger coin!, apprehended, he supposed p;*
arise from `any &lay in the consideration of this
subject, as it wtis.no!oriotti that the punishment
of the pillory had been more rarely inflicted, and
more execi.ed of late years, than at any
..•)-ntor pet iod. in-heed without referring to.those

,
.•. when a greater severity prevailed than
ti, Ii ve obtained--when offenders were ex.-
hinagbd to the several Courts with paper labels,
descriptive of their offence, before they were
carried to the pillory, it was known dig 'even
since the commencement of the reign of George 1:
the pillory had been inflicted three times for once
that it had been heard of in more modern times.

The LORD CHANCELLOR suggested that the
Judge's Should draw. up a bill, descriptive of the
-Cases to which the punishment of the nllory
should he applicable,, for unquestionably there
were ,certain offences with respect. to which it'
ought to he retained, and that such bill should
be brought under the.Coosideration of their Lord-
ships early in the next Session.
Lord LIVERPOoL concurred in the suggestion.
of his Learned Friend on the Woolsack, . with a
view to bring the question fully before their Lord-
ships; and declared that he thought the PillOry a
twist objectionable mode of punishment, because
the measure of that phlishmeht cou!,(1 not depend,
in malty cases, upon either the law or the Judge.•
Still he felt that (especially with a view, to pre-
serve the sacredness of an oath) this punishment
ought not to be altogether abolished. -
Lord STANHorE objected to the pillory, because
it was a punishment so likely to be unequal in its
operation : for instance, if -the Noble Secretary
end himself were ntenced to the. pillory for li-
bels„ especially on .the discussion of the Corn
Bill, his apprehension. was that the Noble Secre-
tary would have been confoundedly pelted, while
he (Lord S. would have' escaped any ill treat-
ment front the public (a laugh) •

The Marquis of ,Douot.As spoke in favour of
the Bill.
Lord LAUDERDALE said a few, words, after
whitli the Bill was ordered to be read a second
time this tliy three months, agreeably to Lard
Ellenborough's mot ion,
The Bills on the table 'were forwarded, and
the House adjourned •nutil to-morrow.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The Flax Bill, the Cinders Ilill,-the Inland Coals Bill, and
the Militia Pay 13ill, were set-orally read a third time, and
passed. -
The reports of the Vote of Credit Bill, the American Trade
the Charitable Danations Bill, ;lie Irish Cotton Bounty
IS ill, the Seeds 13111, and the East India Pustage Bill, were. se-