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London, England, 1820-05-17 00:00:00

it ntiOtt easy enon2:ll that pail 'a the busioest,
1)111 Gentlemen on the side of the Home knew
that nothing was so difficult as "Co obtain a Com-
mittee. lie did not wish to detract from the an-
imal labour of that Noble Lord, but he thought
lie was the best paid orator 'of tire day. He gave
them one speech a-year, which, to be sure, was
always a very good one, and not the less brilliant
on account of the due consideration he gave it.
The House, he hoped, would pause before they
refused inquiry on any subject connected with
economy in the expenditure of the public money,
whether it was for the reduction of a judge or of a
tiding school.
Sir H. PARNELL thought there was sufficient
ground for grantiug a Committee. This fact ap-
peared, and hitherto there had been no satisfac-
tory explanation of it—that the Civil Department
in this year of peace exceeded what it was tinting
the war. The office of the Commander-in-Chief
in the year 1796, being the fourth year of war,
cost for the total amount of salaries 8131. In the
year 18!9, the (barge for salaries was 74241.—
The office of Paymaster of the Forces iu the year
1796 was 19.0001 ; and in the present year it was
ito r aced to 24,0001. These facts slteuing that
such an augmentation had peen made, she wed that
if an inquiry were gone into, a considerable re•
du( tint) might have beet) made.
Colonel DAVIEs said a few words in reply.
Colonel GRANT vindicated the maintitiDing a
tegolar number of ditOutronted men in cavalry re-
giments ; which &1 re always ready to augment
the strength of the regiment when it might be
necessary on any 'ridden emergency. The Hon.
Gentleman (Colonel D‘viis) ackno,yledg. d great
obligation to the.Sratf hot ar the sante (rote
was anxious to reiptire those obligations by dis-
charging the corps. He alto greatly lamented
the distre:ses of halfrpay officers, yet was pre-
pared to increase these distreases. He also begged
to remark, vtith respect to•the proposition for
commuting the different allowances ro the soldier,
that it was the principal object of all Commanding
Officers to prevent tre soldiers, from having a
larger sum of tnoney than was absolutely neces-
sary ; aid he was sure the arrangement proposed
by the Hon. Gentleman would. have a most. detri-
mental Go;
Mr. ELLICE professed himself incompetent to
enter into the'details of the subject ; •but in look-
ing at the great principle of re employment of a
large unheard-of military force, lie thought the
subject well deserviog the attention of the House.
Tie lelt it his duty, as t-presentin a latge body
Of the people"pt_England, to vote for an inquiry
which might lead to the discovery of practical re.
trenchments in the burdens_ of I he.people.
Colonel DAVIEG explained, that he bad distinct-
ly stated that lie did not wish to reduce all the
dismotinto men in the cavalry. .
A division then took place, when the numbers
appeared—
For the motion 45
• Against it
Majprity -80

Lord CHARLES MANNERS presented an Agricultural
Petition from the Inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood
of Wisbeacl►.—Read and (Ode' ed to be printed.
Lord MILTON observed. that this Petition afforded a proof
that the distress was non confined to one class, hut to every
class in the king,dont. This Petition came from a conside-
rable market town.
The 13111 for Regulating the Hours of Industry in Ireland,
was real' a second time. .
The Irish Coasting Trade Bill was also read a second time.
On the motion of Lord ALTHORPE, an account; of the
amount of Auction Duty, paid on Agricultural produce dur-
ing the years I 819 and 1810, yasordered. Adjou► ned. •

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH. MAT 16.

THE KING V. WILLIAM BURN.

This was an indictment against the defendant,.
stated to be an army agent, founded on the 49:h
Gco. 3. c. 126. s. 4 , and the -15th Gen. 3. c. 108.
s. 133., passed for the further prevention of the
sale hod broliage of offices, places, and appoint-
ments, nriderGovernment, imputing, that he, wit h-
oot lawful atithorlty, had negotiated on behalf of
s G,ntleman named Lorraine, with a Gentleman
named Hobson, for the purchase of a commission
for the former, in the 16th Regiment of Light
Di argooll,.
Mr. Gnat:F.y and Mr, HUTCHINSON conducted
the prosecution, and the defendant neither ap-
pe:kred peisonally nor by Counsel.
The case proved in evidence was in substance this
defendant resided in Fludyer-strt et, Westminster, and the
prosecutor, Mr. Lorraine, a young Gentleuran of fortune,
applied to him to procure a commission in the army. The
deft ',dant stated INA lie had too Cornetcies un site, the
one in a regiment of heavy and the other of light Dragoons.
The prosecutor preferred the latter, and the price stipu-
lated by the defendant was 1,200 guineas. By the regu-
lations of the War-office, the price of such u commission was
limited to seven hundred guineas. 'l'hc commission alluded
to was in the 16th Light Dragoons, of which the defend-
ant was nut the Agent. The defeadant, in pursuance of the
contract, stipulated that the prosecutor should immediately
pay down 9001.. which the former did accordingly, the de-
fendant giving him two receipts, one for 700 guineas, which
he stated was to be transmitted to the Duke of York, and the
other for the balance, to he accounted for on demand, as ex-
pressed in the written aeknoAledgment. It oarised out, its
tha result, that the prosecutor was completely defrauded of
Lis money, and was never appointed to the commission which
he had expected to procure.
There being no defence, the Jury, under the Learned
Judge's directions, found the defendant guilty.—(.horning
Chronicle.)

TEA SIM LE VTTS?/.f C tEm nNTs.

This was an action against the Proprietor of The Mserrer
Newspaper, for haring inserted a libel in that Paper, reflect-
ing on the character of the Plaintiff. Fruit the evidence it
appeared that the Plaintiff is Constable of St. Pancras pa-
rish. It was alleged against hint in the Paper alluded to,
that instead of burying a dead body, which lie and another
had found upon two men in the New-road (as desired by the
.nagistrate), he had sold it at St. Thomas's Hospital, and had
been held to bail to answer his conduct at the Sessions. Nnt
a word of this latter part was true, and this was the libel
Complained of, and for which the present action was brought.
The case haring been proved,
The CntEr Jusncr. summed tip, and the Jury found a
verdict for the Plaintiff—Damages, 801.

TuomrsoN V. DEvEREvx, ES Q.
This was an action brought by a Ship-broker of Liverpool
against the defendant, General Devereux, a gentleman of
Borne celebrity, to recover commission and brokage for pro-
curing freight, in order to carry out to Venezuela troops
under the defendant's command, in aid of the Spanish Lihe
rates of South America, at the rate of :it. a head per roan.
Mr. Unrrry conducted the plaintiff's case, and Mr. Scan-
LErr the defendant's.
On the part of the plaintiff general evidence was given,
that he was employed by the defendant as his agent, for the
pinpoie of bir,o; ships to carry out troops to assist Bolivar.
Captain General stud Supreme Chief of the Venezuelan
Forces in South America, in the month of June it!ft. The
case principally rested on the evidence of a Charter party of
the ship Hannah, and it appeared that a Mr. Mactunuar a seas
also one of the defendant's azents at Liverpool.
On the part of the defendant, it. was submitted by Mr.
SClll(l.ttil that the plaintiff could not maintain his action at