The Sun.
London, England, 1817-07-08 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER CONSTABLES.

Mr. CALCRAFT rose to move an Address to the
Prince Regent, praying that he would be gra-
ciously pleased to give directions that the sum of
3301. be issued for remunerating the High Con-
stable of Westminster, and the Officers serving
under him, for their trouble in attending on the
Houses of Parliament in the year 1817. He ob-
served, that these constables were generally sub-
ordinate tradesmen, who were taken out of their
bnsiness, very much to their inconvenience, and
they had never hitherto received any remunera-
tion.

Mr. BENNETT seconded the motion, and ob.
served that it Liad come to his k:;owledge, that a.

I'oll'll6 14i-gli Constable had been in the habit, or
Lakin money from versons to let ,them of} from
the (Ivy of 'serving. If tlte money, thertiore,
should he granted, tie iilist.rd flo.-se wooki
take tare that it should be ploperly administered.
ilnd that it should not go into the p,,cket of the
Digh Constable.
Mr. BAN li.ES o!,jected to the motion, as eansine
an indovation,in Ittlying pet SMIS ti hose Linty it
was in setve without rcw,tril noje p 'Hen-
heeause it r -is bruntzht i, time of the
.tiessiou, and ;It'at no good ground hatl• been 1.11.1
Tor it. •

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Mr. 1311.013 G JI‘ANI Sa NV no reaion whv any !mini-
eion 'should attarn to the pr,,eot High Constable,.
because a carte corrildtion a2aiwt •
'one of his predecessors'. lie paid tie Itidtest com-
pliments to Mr. Mou is, the High I> ohti of West-
:Minster (who had been accidentally confounded
%vitt] the Iligh Constable), .and declared his Opi-
;lion that the former was as respectable and effi-
cient an officer as any in the country.
Tc CHANCELLOR of the EXCHPIatiVR Qotzuested
that it might be better to pospon.• the mo'ion
there had been time for i,quiry. llt thought the
'proposition for remitneration to be jis.,,t and lea-
sonable, but he would wish the motion to be
worded in such a manner us not •to imply th,o•
was meant to give an animal renoineration for
.services that ought to be performed gratis.
Mr. CALcRAvT; in reply, objected that any op-
positibn should now be made to his motion, as he
bad given repeated notice of it. Instead •en-
trhsting the money to the High Constable, be
'should Tri,‘olise to give it to the Serjeant at Atrits,
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'who would see it` properly distributed. The mis-
coodnet-of .foemcr High Constable had no :e-
-lation Wh,ltevvr to the subject. lie thought a
fair renoineration to the Constables would be
-three.shillit'_,•a•iday; which teas nothing equal to
• 7,oit lose hy being withdiawn trout
their business.

Mr.,- Ossoax soppirted the motion, on tbe
grown(' the,e, (10,,stallie had as much right
to he laid for their tiou)le.AS those who attended
at the Drawing. Rooms and Levees.
The Home divided on the rptitiOn—

Ayes .

I,Tet-. .

Majority against the Motion
STATE OF THE NATION.

Mr. IikOVGHAM aAve notice of motion for
Thursday, ou the pres,:nt S,Ate nt Pli hiic Atfiirs.

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Sir F. n(THDETT )!is motion respect-
ing toWeitnesday.

NEW S CHEF F.

Sir P. BtittnETT resented aßep.ort from the
Comtnittee
,on the partition ►►f the inhabitants of
Norris-stteet.. The case had been inquired into,
and it had" beeil !aural that the claims of those
who were entitled to compt-nsition had been in.
vestiv:aied and satisfied.—The Report scab laid on
the tohle. _ .

Mr. Hus'xtssoN said, in the early part of the
Sessiot,, a complaint had been made to the !louse
by 'petition,* that the new plan sanctioned icy the
Sne,,,ker. 0C the House for 'the New Strect was
pot the plan which had been cifri.cd into c freer.
This had provid to be true, but it had also been
prove! that no blame attached to Mr. Nefsh and
the whet. persons coneuvired ; but that by mis-
take a diervreilt ph,' had been presented to the
Sp'eaker for h,is signature, titan that which had
been a4reed to by the Cothmittee of the ilonse•
To prevent such itstiies' in future,• he should
inote two Stantlin;:,. Orders on the subject
Pliyate finis That every plan or schethde
order«l by .a Committee to be appended to an
Act of Parliament, should be signed by the Chair-
man. 2. That et cry such plan or schedule sub-
Initteil to the Speaber for his .s:gnitture, in con-
sequence of an Act of Parliament, should be as-
certained by oat to be. the which had been ap-
proved by the Conuuntee.—The Orders were
agreed to.
he Animal Accounts respecting. the Revenue,
up to the 511 i of July, 1817, were moved for by
Mr. Lusl.itigion, and presented.
Sir F. BURDETT prt seined a Petition from John
Colley, a seawall, of Blidport, complaining of im-
proper coneuct of a 'recruiting serjeant, in in-
veigling his, son —Ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. BROUGHAM presented a Petition from the
Town of Stockton upon Tees, against Extents in
Aid, and praying for a Repeal of the Acts respect-
ing lasolvent Debtors.

LUNATICS.
-Mr. BENNETT moved for an account of the
number of places lieetved to received Lunatics in
every county in' England and Wales, and the
number of 'Lunatics confined therein. He took
occasion, in making this motion, to observe, that
the II ,use of Commons bid not been very deco-
rously tr.ated in another place. 'Though the Bill
passed that llonse, no one step had been taken
on it in another place, though a person holding a
high sitoa:ion 'here (the Lod C.,llancellor) was
the le2al I,natics. By the return
to the motion, the Muse %tool(' see the import-
?nce of Some re2nl3tion on this &object, Lk was
t!iqi-osell to believe, t at the boost's tor the recep-
tio of insane p,•rso, s were often not reunited to
tie Clerk of the The house in-which
Captain Niiiler Wri'i destroyed by a patient, who
aftervards di iruyrd l itti eit,was not licensed;
and there terry reasim to believe that the ne-
.glict was w,l1.1; as'the person who had 'kept it,
bad been a keel er of Bedlam.—The notion was
agreed 40.