The Sun.
London, England, 1819-03-17 00:00:00

FOR 'IIIE SUN.

MARSHALS, t'A. COURT,

74-
MR. EDrro ft,—Havii;g noticed in some of the
Daily' *Journals an account of TWO THOUSA,JD
POUNDS being paid for the purchase of a situation
as one of the Attornies of ibis.Coisrt, :I that! tc,el
grateful to yourself, or any of your enlightened
Correspondents, for information of the nature and
objects of this Court's institution; and of tne
benefits which 'are to compensate for so large7a
suns advancer, only for the life interest of the
party. It Night be desirable at the same time to
know what are the public 'duties resulting froM
the appointment to a situation so purchased, whe•
ther they are as honourable 4.s they are profitable,
and to what account the sail 20001. is paid.

W.. M., Temple.

LONDON JOURNALS..

MORNING PAPERS OF. THIS DAY.

[The TimesT.
By the private letters from Holland 'we learnt,
that cominerce; which has so— lOiiglanguished,
begins to dissfiver signs of improvement. The
Dutch Merchants, generally spepiti, hare suf-
fered less than in any other part of the Continent.
A system prevails among them of giving little or
no credit, to which they, in, a great measure,
have cured their security.

[British Press.
Colonel Cooke, who ?rood p Catididate for the
city of Yorli at the last Electio9> we are sorry to
hear, now lies dangeroosly ill of a typhus fever,
at liis lather's sear, at Wheatly, near Doncaster.:

[Morning Herald.]

1

MARRIAGII HIGH LIF.-71..nti Temple will
shortly;-fead! to- the Hymeneal- Altar the second
eldest dlitgliter of the Earl and Countess of Breai
dalb•anel: •grand preparations *are making for the-
happy e-rent:.: Ilis :Lordslitp,:hatt an elegant cha. •
riot just finished, and Wourttnti Budge, in Buck.
ingipamshire, is furnishing itr at. est -magnificent
style for their reception. '•
i i ";, 731
Ills Royal Highness the niece of Saxe Coburg
is_gxpectedi tpustate,4 iwtomn &arirnext Zdeolit h.
Every preparation necessary is notking for his re,
ch-pt ivok-oNdribtougi4

: The Morquesspf Donerx,l tseettv(-J .the intelli.
geti.ce °film death of his, broth.ur,.l.39rti Spencr.
Stanicy atfgroting_ the Antrina.
, Hilot.,-the members of which itnniediiitely adjourn...:
c'tl the hunt untilnext

; .

MISSIONS TO RUSSIAN TARNIIY, &c.

• . A very numerous - aikChighly respectable
ing was. yesterday hel4l at: the City of London:
Tavern, for the purpose of raising. a Fond, , its
London,-in aid of the Volinburgli Missionary 50.!.,
ciety, for sending Missionaries to. Heathen: Ems.,
sia ; and for establishing a :parespondence be:. -
tween the London and Edinburgh Societies, with
the same view. :• A number of elegant females
were present,. .• •

It was announced to the Meeting, that the In.
.titration• was under the immediate patrouloge of
he Empero-P Alexander of Russia.

•
CHARLES GRANT, seri: I:J4-RT.,. being called to the
Chair, briefly, htit energetically stated the oh-
Jects, and peoOliesS of. the Institution. This*
was more fu!;s7 elucidated by the Repolt of the
Secretary whose account of !Ne:Oecess already
atterichnt ni)on the
~ exertions of Missionaries in
'artery and
.other. parts of...the Russian Em-
pire, exCitiftl. t4e iVarmest. gratification.
fttaCipent '4lio embodied in the Retiort, of, the ,
protection 'and patronage afrorded by the Em-
peror Alexander. to Christian Missionaries of
every seer, hnt partticularly th'e Edinburgh .
MisSiOnat;y Society, elicited the deepest set sat
and drew down thintaers of applause. :the Reve.
rend Gentlemen who appeared delegates front
the Society In
.Edinbnrgh on' the occasion, de-
lighted the Meeting equally with their ekiquence•
and zeal.
Among those *ho took the most distinktiishedl;
part in the 1-krocee'clints of the day', beside the Re-
verend ;alinded to were W. Wilber-
-
fore, Esq., M. Thomas Baring, Bart.,
Joseph litifferwortit''.'Esq. and Rev. •
Gerard Ooef; Waugh,Re4,Lewis Way,
Rev. Mr. SteinktOtl,' &c.
' At the conc:uston of the Meeting a very liberal .
subscription was entered into, in aid of the In-
stitution.

BOW-STREET.—Mr; Araghten, alio is well
known at all the 'public places, which he frequents
in the dress of a Highlander, MS yesterday or-
dered to find bail, for an outrageous disturbance
at George's Coffee-house, Strand,' on Sundly
evening. He is the same Gen►letnan who was
so loud in his disapprobation of the Christmas
pantomime' at Drury-lane.
APPLEBY GAOL—An attempt, it seems, has
been in contemplation amongst the prisoners in
this gaol to escape from their confinement, by
cutting the blankets of their beds so as to form a
sort of rope ladder, with which, it appeared, they
meant to scale the walls. The gaoler, however,
very fortunately discovered the conspiracy before
it was B,acientlY ripe for execution.

PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH 16.

Lord Chief Justice ABBOTT sat for the Lord
Chancellor as Speaker.
The House proceeded in Appeals.
'1 he Oaths were administered to the Marquess
of Hertford and Lord Northwick.
Petitions were presented by Lord Viscount
Granville and the Marquess of .Lansdowne, from
Cheltenham and the Town and County of Sonth-
amnton, against the renewal of the Insolvent Deb-
tors' Act ; and by the Marquess of Bath, from
Bedminster (Somerset), againsr aoy,alteration in
. the Doty on Coals.
The Earl of LlVeltrooL laid upon the table the
Convention with the United States of America.
COAL DUTY.
The Earl of ROSSLTN presented a Petition from
Dysart, against any alteration in the Duty .on
Coals. His Lordship, adverting to the great agi-
tarion that prevailed upon this subject, thought
.that a .word from one of his Majesty's Min,sters,
es ,o their intentions respecting it, would be of
great ativamaue.
• 'fete Earl of LIVERPoOL expressed his surprise
that the agitation: should still continue, after what
had passed in that.and thesother -house-of Par-
liament. It was well known' that an Association
bad been forthed iii LOndon for the purpose of en-
deavouring to obtain an equalization of the Duty
on Coals, and this purpose becoming known in
the country, a number of Petitions against any
alteration in the Duty were, sent up to be pre-
sented to Parliament. Himself and a Eight Ho-
nourable Friend haul sit inierview with the Gen-
tlemen entrusted with those Petitions, and hay-
in,4 learnt that they were to be waited upon by a
Deputation front the London Association, they
declined giving any answer to the Gentlemen. al-
luded to, until they had beard the other pmay,—
Haviug, however, had an interview with the
London Deputation, and being of opinion that
no reason had been assigned sufficient to induce
them to propose or support any alteration, they
intimated that determination to the Gentlemen
entrusted with Petitions. He had now only to
repeat, that it was t:ot at the present moment
the intention of tire Prince Regent's Ministers
either to propose or support any measure for an
alteration in the Ditty on Coals.
The Earl of ROSSLYN expressed himself per-
fectly satisfied, and the Petition was ordered to
lie upon the table.
Subsequently the Earl FITZWILLIAM came into
the House, with a Petition front Sheffield, agaiust
any alteration in the Duty on Coals, on present-
ing which, his Lordship also (not having been
present on the. former occasion) req,:est,ed some
explanation from Ministers es to their intentions.
The Earl of Lwisitroot, repeated in substance
what he had before stated, and added. that it
.was the determination of all those connected
with the Prince Regent's Government to re-
sist any measure for an alteration in the Duty on
Coals
The Earl FITZwILLIAX expressed himself •ais
tivfierf.
"I'he &oil of LAUDERDALe deprecated any al-
teration in the Doty on Coals, now that the state
of property tied in every respect been aceommo.
dated. to the existing state of the duties, and when
general principles of justice could not be applied
to the artificial system under which we lived,
without doing the greatest injury.
The Petition was ordered to lie upon the table.
ALIENS AND DENIZENS' BILL.
RANK OF SCOTLAND.
Lord Viscount SIDMoUTti moved the second
reading of the Alien and Denizens! Bill, the ob-
ject of which his 'Lordship stated to be, to con-
finite for a year an Act passed toovards the close
of-last Session, for the purpose of suspending the
alleged right of Foreigners purchasing. Stock in
the Batik of Scotland, to acquire thereby die pri-
vileges of natural born subjects. A question as
to the legality of this alleged right- was now be-
fore a legal tribunal in Scotland for decision, and
all that was intended by this Bill was to continue
the suspension of, the right for a year, in order to
give time for the question to be adjudicated.
Lord 1-loteatto expressed his surprise at the
second reading of a Bill of this • importance being
moved, without sny previous notice, or without
even its being printed. He could not but think
. also that when a titter ion was pending in a Court
of Justice, it was a very improper measure to le-
gislate upon that question, and thus in some nice-
sure to decide it. Doubts had existed at the time
the clause was agreed to last Session upon this
subject, and it was fully understood that it
should undergo consideration in the present Ses-
sion ; he therefore deprecated! hurrying through a
Bill of this nature, contrary to the usual courtesy
of the House, and without giving any time what-
ever for consideration.
'rite Earl of LIVERPOOL, adverting to what bad
passed last Session, observed that though objec-
tions were urged to giving the clause a retrospec-
tive effect, he had heard no one object to its pro-
spective operation. All the object of this Bill
was to continue prospectively the suspension of
the alleged right of acquiring the privileges of a
natural born subject by purchasing Stock in the
Bank of Scotland, whilst in the mean time the
question as to the existence of the right might he
decided beforethe competent tribunal in Scotland.
The operation of the clause passed last Session
ceased on the 25th inst., and it was therefore in-
cumbent on the House to. adopt some measure
previously, as there might be obviously a great
inconvenience in leaving the question open.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE contended that the
object of suspending the exercise of the alleged right
could be easily attained by a Bill of Suspender in the •
Court of Session, a proceeding well known in the
law of Scotland, and that therefore there was no
necessity for an Act of Parliament. His Lord-
ship strongly objected to the mode and wanner
in which this Bill was attempted to be hurried
through the House, without its being printed,
?r Without any time being given to understand its
t y,o)ject. He moved to postpone the second read•
ing till Friday.
The Earl of HARRoWBY saw no objection to
:.'he painting of the BM, whieh consisted of only
kwlines, and could soon be done; 'refit he de-
- z.
is-aa -

citiedly ottieeted `to delaying the progrelk a the
Hill The Bill could not interfere with the rights
of those wbo bad previously to the first suspen-
sion purchased Stock, as those-rights, if the Court
r of Session decided it, their fatiour, retnained un-
!mobbed; but it there was no measure to suspend
prOspectively the
.right, what would be the con-
sequence of such a decision /—that before the Bill
could be naSsed.to prevent it,. half Europe might
obtain the privileges of natural born subjects of
England, and greater privileges too than were
_granted by Parliament in Acts of Naturalization.
It was impossible it conld- be the desire of the Le-
gislature that such privileges should be acquired
by merely keying out 101. in the purchase:of Scots
Stock, anti theretote, if such turned out to be the
la's , it would be for Parliament to consider of the
means of preventing its operation ; hut in the mean
time all that was asked was, to suspend the exer-
cise of the alleged right until it was known whe-
ther it was a legal right or nut.
- Lord HOLLAND said, the former discussion upon
this question having been alluded to, he thought it
right to state, that lie had never given any opi-
nion as to the question, whether persons ought to
he allowed to be admitted to the privileges of na-
tural horn subjects in the manner stated Doubts

mi difficulties had arisen as to how far the otigi-
nal AV relative to the Bank of Scotland had, as
to this point, been altered • by subsequent Arts,
and it was agreed that the clause, in question
should expire sootier thAn the Act, of which it
formed part, in order that the question might &it
the mean time receive due consideration. Instead
of this, however, they were now called upon a
sudden to 'Leg:slate whilst the question was
actually pending before a Court of Law, and
called upon too without any previous notire, and
without any opportnnity lwiog afforded of under-
standing the Bill. Ile should therefore support
the motion of his Noble Friend forpoit potting
the second reading till F' hay.

The Fart of LAUDERDALE wished the Ministers

to inquire whether the object could not he an•
swered by a Bill of Suspender in the Court of
S• scion.

The Horse divided on the question that the
word now stand part of the question.

Contents 14—Not Contents 6—Majority e.

Str*ngers were not re-a(lniitted for some time.

It was under.tood that the Bill was read a second
time, and ordered to be printed ; that then Lord
Nr!geo,mt SIDMOUTH moved the commitment of
the Bill toe to-morrow ; tl►at this was objected to
in point of Corm, and that some debate having
taken place upon the question, the House again
divided—

Contents for the Commitment to-morrow 14
Not Contents
Majority —8
The Bill was therefore committed for to-mor-
row, and the Lords ordered to be summoned.

The Doke of WELLINGTON, it was understood,
presenter! a Petition hum Kensington against the
Renewal of the Insolvent Debtors' Bill.—Ordered
to lie tqwn the table.
On strangers' re-admission, Lord FIOLLANn Was
presentiog a Petition from the Pri,oners confined
for Debt in thy Giol of Chelmsford, praying for a
continuance of the insolvent Act.—Ordered to lie
upon the table.

Thfs 'Mutiny Bill awl the indemnity Bill were
brought up from the House of Commons by Lord
Palmerston, Mt, Bro:zden and o►her Memhers,
and read a tiro time, the former upon the motion
of the Earl of Liverpool, who gave notice of hii

re rim, r►. move the second reading to.rnorrow;

The Poor Laws' Amendtnent Bill was read
second time, and committed for to-morrow.—Ad-
jouraed till to•utorrow (this day.)