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Tern was only paid for his public services, whereas
;:),tneentists were paid for no public service what-
erer. fie moved that the petition be brought up.
Mr. WiLtiettroecceould not but say a word as
to what had fallen. froln 'the Noble Lord ((Poch-
farm) for the purpose of correcting as to facts re-
lating to the income or the Illestriotts Person now
executing the highest ()Merin the kingdom, and
Sitircurists. His (Mr. W.'s) sentiments as to sL.
peonies were well It;nowta.—(Hear, hear !),--,He
•tivoold retnitol that Noble Lord, that in fairness
Hod honesty the reaSon andiinceasion of the sine-
question being given to the Marquis of
'Camden must be considered. 'l'here was some
difference of opinion es, to the best mode of re-
Wayding persous who retired ft om the public ser-
. vice, After having diseliorged their duty with ho-
nour ro themselves 'and toltiantage to the public.
it,had been geoerfilly aereed that if sinecures,
-whets created, could naly be occupied by persons
Who deserved them for their public .services, that
they Would he the best mode of rewarding these
to Services., :kilith respect to the office of Lord High
Chane,elloc, when it was considered bow great the
eacrificeli in point of mere money Were, which must
in made by those: persons in 'the highest prac-
tice at the Bar, whets they accepted this Office,
they haying held that which precluded thent retoril,
ing agaileto that som•ee of emolument which they
left tomccept this office ; when it was considered
that• it WWI neeeStary that this office should be
filltorby a man whose high reputation fill the Law
set the stamp of the Public on his cheracter, and
that therefore he must be a. man whose practice.
produees the ii guest emoluments ; it wool(' be
allowed, that of all men %rho held public offices,
those oho had bxotthily filled the 'office of Lord
thieuctillor were most 'deserving of reward. If
there ever was a man who bad tilled that office
ivorthily,he might `say it was the late'Lord Clem-
eenor Cauiden. Of that ilistinguislitd Nobleman-
never could speak but to ith gratitude, for he
Lei the honour to have heeo distinguished by him
it hen a young moo; The late Lord Camdeu held
the *office of Cloweellor -for only one
'When Le tetired from it, the option was given of
he sinecure tiow in. question for one life, and he
chose it far the life of hie seta. But it was need-
less for film to say any thing all to the necessity
of rewinding 'those who had held the office of
I High Chaneellor, because, tlie ()pillion of
the poldie was already taken, on ih;it p(rint.d Could
it be cousidered eta sinecitie enjoyed without are
service to the Politic, which was a tribute to the
services of that illustrious, Nobleman ? It was
not a sinecure gained. by any low Court intrigue,
hut the reward of great public services. lie had
never stood up in defettee of .ain6cures ; so tar
from it, that when arOtiqoirrwas prOposed in.()
this office, lie was one rut thOse who voted in Your of the. inquiry. With respect to the mode
in winch the Noble klariptis had now, given up
the etpolaments of the' office,. he eertainiir could
easily understaod the keliags f salistaction
uhich lie haffseized the opportouuitii of doiug sowith,
VICh n way as might not seem like runoing a
low lace for popularity --(Hear, bear, hear
to the disukipointinent expressed 1)y his lion,
and fawned J rieloi (Mr,,Broughani) at what hail
trom_his Noble Frit (f...ord,Castlereagh),
lie uouht tree no good remsoo lot it, coeld
tau
see Nvity iloirtnight Hot expect that the example
cif the Nolde Marquis in questioll would be hd-
innWed ; and ph Imugh only one star Mail hitherto
risen about~' the horizon, why, they should not
texpeet more would soon appear.—(Hear,
bear, heat I from all parts Of the House.)
Mr. Beouonot mold not resist saying, that his
non. end much respected Ft lend, by what he had
last said, had, with his-star, shot a ray throtigh
the gloom %Odell had been cast over his naiad by
The speeeft tar hie Nolde Lord ; and he was rime
Inclined to hope, that,' perhaps, it was only be-
cause they bed not titoe for the example to ope-
late, that they lord not yet heard of its being more
genehdly followed.• Nothing could he more just
that, the eloquent enetimium of his Hon. Friend
that great patriot and statesman Lord Camden.
..liot If Lord (lamden, on whom at sinecure was
bestoaed, as the just, nrttl, perhaps, scanty remit-
Iteration for his public. Service, sorely his giving
it up is an act who'd) must sink deep into the
minds of those who hold: their sinecures by no
eueli

The petition. was .tbetv brought up, read, and
.0111er to lie no tht table.

Mr. Arm!NoTow presented a copy of 'toles
owl 'Rego, concehling the King's `liench
.1',.i.0rt.•-I),l.(iertill to lie on the table, and to be

Mr. BENNETT'Wished to know whether the
-rot`t he State of the'King's Bench 'Prison wss
vet realty, and when it Would he laid haute the
iliithe ?

Mr. 11. ADDINGTON said, the ItOport hind not
vet received at the Office to which he be-
jungt.d.

. ,
13ENtirTT begged' to observe that the very
44nm' Awswer. had last .ye'l,kr been. given, to this

qiiegtimt

- AnniNcTot; said, that the Office to
he belonged had nothing to do with the
tnaking out of the Report.
A :itiessaim front the Lords requested the ',louse
„ communicate to their I.,,rwrlslops a Copy of the
iteport ot'the Committee appninted by the nomle
'to inquire into the .lettnlatiotts of Foreign States
with rolipeet to Human Cutlittlies.
t.)11 the. motion Of the CHAN:C[I4OR of the Ex-
sumer WAIS returned by their Lord-
-Nit t' Ale”engeil, vating„ th.c. the House would
rontuntnicktte to their I,,,ortlillips a Copy of the
Report desired.

(hi the oiOdoo of I;t`,I3t.NNE•TT there wits or-
epretl fo be hill before the Mike' en account of
8111(111ns issued by the l'aytouster•Generd nf 'the
Alloy or 'l'resotorer of the Nivy during tilt!. two
rodingt)eccoOp.,t 3
fli 1) 1816, for the purpose
et.rs tor
the
paid th ort
n,411,rs itriig 1111o11)0d, With the tomesby of theeiti
fill
to whom Fo:.eh loVe been issued.
Can PriorElaii TAx.
.
the tnnom, :kir; 13i,,NNBTT there inns or.
(IVITII it) he fah home t flimsi t, nettlin 'Of the
Nt,,ohor Altr..ill, made itgoii)St the As,esstnents
-of.the Cotliwiloot•rs for the eroperiy Tux in the
Cif y Lund() t. ; kip Retnrn the Establish-
Office of tlie sa:d Cotitnissioners, and

of any Reduction in the same made Mice/the ex-
piling of the Property Tax. •-
.111 r. CUMEN took the opportunity of- askink
what reduction had been made in the establish-
ment of bispectori of Property Tax, a class of
officers whom he conceiveet to be quite unneces-
sary:

The CHANCELLott of the EXCHEQUER Enid, that
the Hon: Gent man seemed to be inisinfornied as
to the duties of these officers.
11.1r,,Cuitwert.----In Cumberland, the only county
at,ta which he had any, accorste knowledge, the
Inspector, whom he nminioned, was,ouly in the
comity a few days in every' year. '
The CHANCELEoR of the EXCHEQUER sniff, that
in consequence of what the lion, Ogntienmn said,
he ivotill certainly have
.moved for au Account
relative'to the Offirets in question,' which wonld
have shewo the nature of'thefr ditties and the ex-
,pence of their establishinenti were it not that in
a few days he should hove occasion to lay such an.
Account before the House.
011 the Motion Of Lord KROHIBAID 11“IILTON,
there was ordered to be laid before. the House an
Acconnt of all the Sums received by the, Printers
of the Universities in. Scotland within' the last
seven-years, for ti drawback On Per.
Mr. PoNsostr rasp for the purpose of giving
notice of a minion which .be intended Soon to;
gfil)tnit to the House. Most Gentlemen.
, that on a demise of the Cr4wit„till commissions -
of Officers in the Army and Navy, must be re-
newed at a great expense to thatwintlivithially.—
There had formedy.beeo an inconvenience as.to
Parliament in a similar event, but that %vas now
obviated by a provision that the Parliament which
should be then assembled, Should continue for
SIX months atter that event, unless the Successorto
the Crown chose to dissolve it sooner. His in-
tention, therefore, WAS to inove.for leave to bring
in a Bill, to prevent the necessity. of renewing
commissious in the Army and Navy, in case of a
demise of the Crown, unless the Successor slinuld
please it. He fixed next Monday fortpight for
his Motion.

GAME LAWS

Sir S. Rosma.v rose, pursuant to his notice,
oomtve for en Amendment of an Act which was
,tossed at the end of the last Session. The Act to
which be, untitled wits passed, (among 10 or 50
other Orders of the bay),throtigh that House and
through the other Ifonseof Padiament, without
any discussion ; and if such osn Act wits to be
really passed, he should wish the House to know
what its 'provisions were, for he believed that a
great moir;rity of Members did not know that such
a low existed. It was a law which put the de-
struction of game, by unquelified persons, nit the
same footing with felmiy—nay, which made
it a crime to be punished more severely than fe-
lony ; for there was no law by which the mere
attempt to commit' felony was 'Punishable with
trensportation, whereas this Act made the at.
tempt to kill game punishable- with' seven years
tratnsportation. It enacted, that if any person
was found. /hiring the night in any open or cloSe
held, with any gun or other instrument, such a 9 a
net or snare, he should he liable tatransporotiou.
But the most whimsical part of this 'Act was,
that it gave a definition of night; Which 'wonid
probably astonish the House, tor it defined, 'that
from the Ist. October till the Ist of March, it
slioeld be considersd night ti.i seven o'clock in the
mOroing, or abOut three-quarters of en hour after
strut-rise.---([leer, hear, hear !)-11Inell had bein
said of the omnipotence of Parliament, but this
was' cerrying it to a pitch that could hardly hove
been guessed. The strangest .thing was, that by
this Act, even qualified persons would be unques-
tionablT liable to the penalties which it imposed if
they should go out with their gun before sereo
o'clock in the morning.—No man was snore sett.
Bible than himself of the evils arising from the
illegal destruction of game., nor' lamented more
the acts of violence anti atrocity which hall been
committed by the transgressors of the Game Laws.
But the policy of this act was entirely to increase
those acts of violence ; beeanse it :made the pe-
nalty the sante whether the offender Wes errned,or
whether he wus found merely carrYing a net. If,
therpfore, a man found that he -only Incurred the
saute punishment by resistance which he would
incur by destroying game wit hout/meatti of resist-
ince, they would always of etnirst carry on their
depredations completely armed. Ile moved that
the Act of last Session he repealed. If it Was
wished to continue any of its provisions they
might be re-enacted by a new
Mr. F. Lewis, as one of the .Committee that
had brought in the Act in question,' thought it
necessary to say, that at the time when it tees in-
unarmed it was his opinion, that the severity of
the Game Laws should be relaxed on the one
hend while it was increased on the other, and
that game, should be put on the same footing with
other private propertY. Arid for the purpose of
'balder:tiig the invaders and destroyers of this
species of property
,to tire" Bonne ,ptinishment as
those of any Other kind, be thought it necessary,
ottoler. certain cit etimStancit, ter gists 'to magis-
trates the power, in certain cases, of sentencing
oM:riders to transport ion, The ptinishments im-
posed by former Acts had beeo found quite in-
effectual ; and he had therefore, upon the whole,
view of the case, thought the Act in quetir,
trout-the best, under all the diffienliies with which
the evil Which it Went to remedy Was surrounded.
But he was .not insensible to its defects, and there-
tore slid not oppose the noition..
Colonel Woon said be fetid 'been a Member of
tins Committee from Which this had ema-
nated ; but that he -had 'always opposed it, be-
Conde it seemed to begin at the wrong end of the
evil, It was well known that Game was bought
arid sold in London' the same tuffs 'every thing else,
and he regretted that' evidence ,to this effect was
not antlered to be produced `"before the Committee
on the lost Act. After many -observations on the
impoliey of the different Acts, lie be should
wish to bring in a Bill to Jegalize the sale of
game; as, at present, the game sold in Lotidon
CORM front almost every noun's manor who had
one. Ile descanted on the harikisip of the opera-
tion of Mr. .Toddrell's.Act, Lind st, tied the cure of
the soldier who slept. so many months in the Hos-
pital withotit sustenance or motion. lie bad
sett! this man after his recovery, arid had learned
that his affliction arose from having been sentenced
to transportation, for having hem /Mind asleep at