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London, England, 1828-02-28 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, FEBRUARY 27, 1828.

The Lord Chancellor took his seat at five minutes before
fire o'clock on the Woolsack.
Earl FITZWILLIAM presented petitions from Pro-
testant Dissenters of the Presbyterian Denomination in
York, and from a Unitarian Congregation in Hull, pray-
ing for the Repeat of the Test and Corporation Acts.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY moved the third reading
of the Bill to dissolve the marriage between John 3lichael
Henry Baron: Roheck and the Baroness, and to emible
him to marry again.

The Bill was read a third time and passed.
Lord CAWDOR presented a petition from Pro-
teMant Dissenters in a town in Rittlandshire, against the
Test and Corporation Acts. .
Lord GWYDYR presented a petitions from 11,l .m-
-hers of the Established Church of England, assembling
for religious worship in Boston, against the TeSt and
Corporation Acts. •
The Duke of RUTLAND presented a 'petition ag .inst
the Test and Corporation Acts from Protestant Dissenters
assembling in a town in Leicestershire. In presenting this
Petition, the Duke desired not to be considered as identi-
fied with the petitioners as pledging himself to vote upon
the subject either one way or the other.
The Earl of SIIAFTESBURY moved the second r4a.ling
of the Merton Poor's Rate Bill. The Bill was read a Second
time, and upon the Earl's motion, the whole House was
ordered to go into a Committee upon it to-morrow.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY brought in an address of
the IGth and 17th Reports of the Commissioners of Cha-
rities and Public Corporations.
Lord HARROWBY presented a petition from the Pro-
testant Dissenters assembling in Cheadle, Staffordshire.—
His Lordship presented another petition from the Jastices
of the Peace assembled at the Quarter Sessions; pying
that the House would adopt some such means as 'ould
check the increase of crime in juvenile offenders. ,
Mr. Johnson attended from the Office of the Chi+ Se-
cretary of Ireland, and delivered in some judicial Papers.
The House adjourned at a Qu"rter past Five.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, FEBRUARY 27. / I
Mr. Johnson, from the Exchequer of Ireland, brought t
Papers relative to the disbursement, of that office. I
Lord STANLEY presented a number of pet im t
from various places .in Lancashire, in favour o tl
Ayr and Calder Canal, and also in favour of the \%,:tk,
field and Ferrybridge Canal. •
Mr. FAZAKERLY pre'sented petitions from 4riE
and other places in Lincoln, in favour of the Wakefield at
. _ _

Ferryhridge, and alto of the Ayr and Calder Canal..
Mr. LITTLETON moved for a return of the na:

all maltster,3 who have become defaulters, and alsoi tl
amounts fur which they have respectively been delitiel
during the last fourteen years. _

LITTLETON also moved for an account 4 the
number of licenses taken out by Country Bankers diOng,
the last three years.
Mr. R. KING presented twenty-two petitions troni
various parishes in the county of Leitrim.
Mr. W. WHITMORE presented petitions from' the
maltsters of Bridgenorth, and two other places, prating
for a repeal of the Malt Act.
Mr. CORBETT presented petitions from the malitters
of Shrewsbury-, praying for a repeal of the Malt Act. I
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER saidlthat
some regulations had been recently made, and he shoulil he
soon able to see how far they would answer the purPose.
As soon as he was enabled to do this, lie would see Oiose
persons who complained, and give the utmost consiqvra-

ion to their grievances.
Sir MATTHEW WHITE RIDLEY said that t;

inaltsters were innocent of the charges brought ag4ins
them ; out of 100 informations, there had been Onl
60 convictions, and many of those convictions bad take
place, not against inaltsters, but against persons haVin,
no license, and who carried on an illicit traffic in tha
article.

Mr. SLANEY cnnsidered that the grievances of will&
the petitioners complained were of the greatest consequenc
to the agriculture of that part of the country which h
had the honour to represent.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT said, that by multiplyinglre
gulations, such as those made with regard to malting
countenance was given to the illicit trader to the injury o
the regular =lister.
After a desultory conversation between Mr. BARCLAY
Mr. F. PALMER, and Mr. PORTMAN, the petition Wa
brought up, read, and ordered to be printed.
A Messenger front the House of Lords announced ha
their Lordships had passed a Bill for dissolving the Irian
riage of the Baron and Baroness Robeck.

The Marquis of WORCESTER presented a petitiot
from the rualtsters of Monmouth, for the repeal of Ithi
Malt Regulation Act.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT moved for certain returnsire•

lating to the Admiralty Courts in Ireland.—Ordered.
Mr. PENDARYES presented a petition from the malt
sters of Bodmin, praying for a repeal of the Malt Regula
tion Act.
Lord WM. POWLETT presented a petition from nth
traders of Sunderland, praying for a repeal of the Stan]
Duties upon Receipts.
Sir THOMAS ACLAND presented a petition from Pi
maltsters of Plymouth, praying for a repeal of the Act regu
lating the Duty on Malt .
Mr. DUNDAS presented a similar petition from
inaltsters of Richmond, in Yorkshire; and also a petitioi
from the traders of that place, praying for a repeal of th
Stamp Duty on Receipts.

Dr; PHILLIMORE moved for a Return of the Cour
exercising Ecclesiastical jurisdictions in England and Wale:
the names of the Judges, Registrard, and Deputy Regis
tears of such Courts, and the names_ of the persons
whom such persons were appointed.

Mr. HUMS obtained various returns rolative to th 4
Yeomanry of Great Britain and Ireland.

PUBLICATION of OFFICIAL CORRESPONDEN,

Mr. WILMOT NORTON said, there was a circum-
stance to which he felt it his duty to call the attention of the
Hon. Member for Aberdeen. A gentleman named Beaumont,
who had a seat in the Colonial Assembly at Jamaica, and
who was also the Editor of a newspaper, published in that
colony, had stated that he had received from the Hon.
Member for Aberdeen a private and confidential corre-
spondenve which had passed between the Duke of Man-
chester and Lord Bathurst ; and that he had also seen a
letter addressed to him (Mr. W. Horton.) Now that let
ter was in his possession, and it could only have happened
that be (Mr. Beaumont) should have seen a copy of it.
It would further appear that Mr. Beaumont in some mode
or other got possession of those documents, and in the most
unwarrantable manner possible published them in a news-
paper, thus violating the strictest private confidence and
every principle of honour. The copy of the letter to him-
self he had examined, and found it to be a perfect copy ;
that to Lord Bathurst he had not examined, and could
therefore not speak to its accuracy. The publication 'of
these documents had produced a very considerable effect in
the island and in the Colonies generally, and certainly it
was evident that they had been published with a view to
leading, step by step, to the realization of all the plans of
Mr. Buxton. The Colonial Office was unhappily placed
between two firm—the West India planters on the one side,
and the advocates of those measures on the other. It was
rather hard, too, that in addition to all the other difficul-
ties they had to encounter, they should also be exposed to
the inconvenience of having their private and confidential
communications made public. The Hon. Member for
Aberdeen was the authority mentioned by Mr. Beaumont ;
and he thought it right to call the attention of the Hon.
Member to the subject.
Mr. HUME had no hesitation in saying that he had
never seen the correspondence in question, that it was
never in his possession, and of course he could not have
given it to Mr. Beaumont. The only communication he
had had with Mr. Beaumont was when that gentleman
came over here for the purpose of having presented to Par-
liament a petition from the free people of colour in Jamaica.
As that petition was drawn up with much ability, and
related to a subject of the very highest importance, he (Mr.
flume) was desirous of making himself master of the sub-
ject, and for that purpose bad many conversations with Mr.
Beaumont, whom he found to be clever and well informed.
But as to the papers referred to by the Hon. Gentleman,
lie was not aware ; nay, he knew that no such documents
had ever passed from bins to Mr. Beaumont.
On the motion of Sir T. ACLAND, and after a shot t
conversation, in which Mr. Portman, Lord William Pau-
Fyshe Palmer, and Mr. Davies Gilbert, partici-
pated, leave *as given to bring in a Bill to regulate the di-
vision of the several Counties in England and Wales, with
a view to the better administration of justice.
ACTS OF THE COLONIAL LEGISLATURES.
Mr. HUMS moved, that an Address be presented to his
Majesty, praying for Copies of all the Acts of the several
Colonial Legislatures, and the Orders in Council made in
reference to the Government of the Colonies.
After a few observations from Mr. ALEXANDEU Daw-
SON and Mr. CURTEIS,
,Mr. Secretary HUSKISSON said, that only very few
of the Colonies printed their Legislative enactments; but
such as were printed should of course be sent to the House.
Of those that were in manuscript, the number was very