The Sun.
London, England, 1815-03-03 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Mr. POLE C. obtained leave to bring in a
13111 to amend the Act respecting the assessing. of
county Rates. It was brought up, and after a
few words from Mr. Shaw Leferre, was read a
first. time.

Mr. H. ADDIF:GTON 0/IOW(' to say a word or
two on a matter that affected the credit of the
otlit-..e to which he was attached. Last night the
Hon. Member for Bedford had stated a case as
coming within his knowledge. (No.) However,
had stated it coui-iden/ly, which involved a charge
against the Secretary of State for the Home
part went, and he put a pointed question to hint
(Mr. H. A ) concerning a Portuguese, named
Carreja, Who, it was asserted{ bad been sent out

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of ells eotintry.because he had, no passport signed
by the Ambassildor, M. Souza. His impression
'at the time titas, that no such case had occurred.
He had never heard of it, and it was just- possi-
ble it might have happened during some tempo-
rary absence of his from his official duties. He
had enquired of his Noble Relnion (Lord Sid-
iin 1) if ht. had given au) such order, and the
I answer was, that no such case had occurred, and
I that the name was unknown to his Lordship.—
, rie had also looked through the office books, and
found nothing of it, from the time that Noble
Lord had held his present office. Another out's-
tion was put by the Hon. Member, as to soioe.
rule in the Home Departments, by which 10) Por-
tognese was permitted to relnain in this country,
unprovided with pas-ports signed hy,the Ambits-
sailor. His answer to this was, that no such rule
had existed, or does exist.,
Mr.WritrrnizEAD said, he reined the Right lion.
Gentleman had not enquired fsr enough. He (Mr. '
W.) lied the written paper to which be referred,
and he only desired to be set right. He hart.
merely made a Mistake in the date. He did not
state it as a .charge against that Noble Lord, but
tort:hist a rule in the office, if it existed.

CORN.
After Petitions front Middlesex, Btc. SirJaMEs
Straw presented a Petition from the Inhalaitants
of the. Ward. of Cripplegate Without, against the
Corn Bill. The Petition, he said, proceeded from
a Meeting held in the Parish. Church on i'vlomlay
last, and "Ton the subject of that Meeting. he,
begged to say, that it was .more nuanerously at-
tended than any meeting Of a similar nature in the
memory of man. At this meeting no party spirit
was shewn ; all parties, all professions had but
One object, namely, to oppose by temperance,
and yet With firmness, a measure which, in their
opinion, would be injurious to the interests of
the country at large. The Petition, which was
agreed to on this occasion, and which he now
had the honour of presenting, in the short space
Of three days, was signed by 4,000 persons.
Mr. PaoTnEROg presented another front Bris.
tol, signed by 40,000 ; more could have been
had hilt no time was to be lost. This petition
prayed that no alteration should be ma.'e until the
circlets of peace 011 our cottimercc and manufac-
tures shoul,l he ascertained.

Mr. H. lit7is said, that in voting against the
proposed measiirc, he did not speak his own sen-
timents so lunch as he did those of his consti-
tuents. Perhaps this was the only question in
which he would ever submit an opiition of his own
to that of his const intents,

• Lard Mit.ros presented a similar petition from
Sheffield, bigtied by 18.0(H) persons. •
WINDOW TAX:
Lord Mit.Tort said he was directed by his cons
stitnents to put a. question or t‘‘-.-o to tile Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer respecting the Window
Duty. First, ‘vbether it WaS to apply to facto*
ries, in which (cotton mamilactdries particularly)
there was so large a number of windows more
than were wanted merely for liOit fur ordinary
purposes ? Secondly, whether those large build-
ings called Cloth kialls, were to be liable to the
Tax ? "lhey had not hitherto been so, but it was
feared that it was intended now to subject thew
to it.

'Lite
ClTANcsitolt.of the ExCllECtllnli observed,
that the subject would come on regillarly in the
course of the evening ; but he had uo difficulty in
answcring thew. He intended to propwe a mo-
dification respecting the factories, which would
diminish the clpirge. The present Resolutions
included the Cloth Halls, but, Wider the eircum-