The Sun.
London, England, 1821-02-16 00:00:00

PARLIAMENT,

HOUSE OF LORDS, Fin. 15.

.Mr. ALcocK, from the Treasury, presented
the Accounts of all sums of money paid on ac-
count of the Russian Loan during the last year.
Also, the Amount of all Pefisions paid out of the
Scotch Civil List in the same period.
THE QUEEN'S ANNUITY BILL.
Mr. BROGDEN brought up the Queen's An-
mAity Bill from the House,of Commons.
torsi LivEttrooL. moved
.the first reading of
the Bill, and proposed that it should be read a
-~secomt time cm MOnday' next. - lie was' severe
. that other business stood for that day, and_ if it
would give rise to inconvenience to any Noble
. Lords,. he would willingly alter. the time fixed
,or the second reading to Tuesday.
The Report of the. Longitude Bill was broUght
. :Up, and the-third reading- ordered for to-mor-
row.---AdOurned.. • .

110 USE OF COMMONS.
BogToN ELECTION PETITION,;.

At four o'clock the House proceeded to bal-
lot for a Committee, to take into consideration
tke Petition' complaining of an undue return for
th-e Borolgh of Boston. Soon after, Mr. Dyson,
-0e Clerk, appeared at the Bar with the reduced
'si4t, whit h was as follows :

ilun. J. Son,rg (4,6,5, Sir .W. 11. Pringle, Sir Ilvsses
iltag, Honour-o,k.
.1-letteage Legge, Honourable Christo-
pher Hely Hutchincon, Jonathan Raine, Esq., Char:es Cal-
s,rt, Esq. Honourable J. NI. Clement; Sir J. Kynaston
Powell, P. Corbett, Esq., Lord John Fitzroy,. W. 1,. (
E-q, NV. E. B. Boughton, Esq., Isaac Clascoyne, Esq. and
Sir It: I.l4fron.

BIr.CCRIVEN brought in a Bill to enable the
Trustees under the Church Itailding Act to
issue 20,000/. to the Parish of Marv-le-bene, for
the purpose of building four Chapels in that,
parish.—Read a first, and ordered to be read a
second time.

On the motion of Mr. MATARLY, an Account
v-vas ordered to be laid before the House of the
quantity of
.flax Seed imported into Great Bri-
tain in the years 1819, 1820, and 1821, .distin-
grishing the countries whence exported, and the
ports into which imported. Also an Account of
the Amount of the Duties on Windows i❑ Great
I.lritain and Ireland.
The Malt Duties Bill, and the Transfer of
Grants' Bill, went thronzh Committees ; the
Reports of which were ordered to be received
to-morro w.

COURT nF SESSMNS'SCOTLAND.)
- On the motion of the LORD ADVOCATE Of
SCOTLAND. the House resolved itself into a Com-
mittee on the Court of Sessions Acts.
The Lon() ADVOCATE, after a few prefatory
• observations on the expediency of carrying into
Affect the recommendation of the Parliamentary.
Commission on this subject, and after stating
that the principal object in view was, that the
present mode of paying the salaries of the clerks
find officers of that Court should cease for the
purpose of substituting a fee fund, out of which
those salaries should be.paid,. and the deficiency
of which, if any, should be made good by Go-
vernment, moved a Resolution, that it was ex-
pellient thit further regulations should be ma e
with respect to the proceedings in the Court of
Sessions in Scotland.
' TO a few words from Mr. J. P. GRANT, and
Mr. BENNET, the latter of whom declared, that
if it were intended to make the salaries in ques-
tion higher than at present, he would take the
sense of .the Committee on the Resolution,
The Lunn AnvocATE replied, that so far from
being higher, they would be rather diminished
by the proposed arrangement ; and that they
would be barely adequate to the due reward of
the services performed.—The Resolution was
then agreed to.
The Loan ADVOCATE moved a second Reso-
lution respecting the Salaries of the Clerks. The
principal to have 0001. a-year, the others in a
specified proportion.
Mr. CREEVEY objected to the introduction of
this question at that time ;_ Thursday was a day
on which it was fixed that notices should pre-
cede orders, instead of which the House were
now in a Committee on an Order of the Day,
which was likely to cause some discussion, while
a Noble Friend of his was waiting, who had
gOee notice of a very interesting motion. He
knew that several Honourable Members who in-
tende.d to oppose these Resolutions were nest yet
in the House.
After a short conversation, in which the Lord
Advocate,-Sir R. Wilson, Mr. Brogden (the
Chairman of the,Cormnittee), Sir J-. Newport,
and Lord Castlereagh participated, it appeared,
that the present Committee was mistaken for one
(the Committee on the Court of Admiralty in
Scotland), to the Resolutions to be proposed, in
which much objection was expected. Mr. Cree-
vey, in consequence, withdrew his opposition to
the Resolution, which, as well as several others,
etaiptehendin g sdine minor regulationS, was agreed.
to-; and the House having resumed; the Report
was ordered to be received to-morrow.
Sir Jour Newporei gave notice, that he would'
to-marrow wove a Resolution, that the House
ca'itsidered it essential, that as guardians of the
public purse they should be put in possession of
the Estimates for the Navy, Army, and Ordnance
within a week after the' commencement of ever:,
Session of Parliament.
THE BOWDITCFIEq.
Mr. WAaRE said, that when he had given no-
tice of his intention to bring forward a motion on
the subject of the Family of the Bowditches, he
bad stated that he should be happy if any in for-
:nation were afforded him and the House by any
Gentleman on the other side, in order that his
motion might be framed in a proper and regular
manner. -Tile subject.of the motion he was about
to make was matter of notoriety all over the coun-
try. It alluded to an extraordinary trial which

had occurred in Dorsetshire two years ago ; the
subjects of his present motion, the family of the
Bowditches, being charged with the forcible ab-
duction of a Miss Glenn. Upon the evidence of
this Lady and her servant, the Defendants, four
yin number, were condemned to suffer imprison-
ment for different periods. But since that time,
by a subsequent trial, the most monstrous ini-
quitous system of perjury had been detected to