The Sun.
London, England, 1819-06-08 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

- Alr. T. Cou47re.NAY brought in a Bill to regu•
late the number of Passrugers to he carried by
Matthews's new-invented Stage Coach.
Coltinel GORE LANGTON presented a petition from cer-
tain Inhabitants of Bath, complaining of the mode of collect-
ing Assessed Taxes.-wßead, and ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. PROTHEROE presented a petition from a person
named James Mills, a civil engineer la Bristol, complaining
that at a late trial in Which he was plaintiil, he was prrvented
from addressing the Jury as the advocate of his own cause.
The petition prayed that the House might adopt some mea-
sur:: to prevent other persons front being debarred of this
right.
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nn the motion that the petition do lie on the table,
Mr.COUItTENAY observed, that it w,s the duty of the
House not only to open its doors as widely as posiiile for the
reception of petitions, hot that it was also their duty to pre-
vent this right from being abused. This petition did not pray
for any thing which the House could properly accede to, and
he thought upon the whole that it ought not to he allowed to
lie on the table.

Mr. PKOTHEROE said he had very little knowledge of the
circumstance to which the petition retitled; but that be him-
self felt considerable delicacy in taking any objection to it,
as the petitioner was one of his most active opponents during
the canvas at the last election for Bristol.

The question was then put, and the petition rejected with-
out a division.

TAXATION.

Sir ROBERT WILSON said, he rose to present a petition
to the House which related. to a subject which was this slay to
engage the attention of the House—the Financial State of the
Country. It was signed by Wirt. Blessington, late of War-
wick-street, Golden-square, now of Peter-street, Westmin-
ster, and contained a most affecting narrative of the distresses
to which he had been subjected, by the brutal' conduct of
the Collectors of Taxes. The petition described seve-
ral scenes a bleb had been exhibited in his house at the
time whien executions were i•ent into it by the 4ktlicers
or taxes, to recover the amount of the taxes which were
slue fsotti bins. It stated, that one of these bad taken
place when his wife was six months advanced in preg-
nancy. The alarm brought on her a shivering fit, which
Lei urinated in an illness, which continued till the end of her
pregnancy, wityn she was delivered of a dead child ; that he
was himself now a ruined man, and his family beggars. 'rite
petition prayed for a reform of such abuses, and a reform of
Parliament. The Gallant General referred to a declaration
which he''hail lately made of his resolution not to vote foranv
taxes tilt Parliament was refortued.—He now felt it his duty
to state, that he would sooner lay his head on the botch than.
vote for any motion to wring an additional shilliog from the
hands of the people, already so oppressed by the weight. of
taxation.-111e,petitinn was brought np,-read, and ordered to
.lie on the table, and to he printed.
A petition was presented from the Land Owners and others
of the county of Kinross.—Read and ordered to lieon the table.
The Bill to authorise the tale of Gatne was brought in by
Lord-Cratilty.—Read a brst time, .and ordered to be read a
second time on Thursday se'nuiert.
Mr. EDWARDS presented a petitinyt from the Agricul-
turists of Curphilly,- in Glamorganshiie, praying for a Pro-
tecting Duty tin the Importation of Foreign Curn.ia—Read, and
ordered to lie on the table.

fir .1( sF,BitiGirr presented a petition from certain
Drua;sti ill Loudon, tegainsi tite Nil fur, relitthiting the Sale