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London, England, 1811-02-07 00:00:00

COVRI,01:: CD:ll3ply COUNCIL.

The report of te.t... Sj,eeial 'Committee appointed td
inquire lute ttitit:neces:ety for preparing a 13111 for
Repealing the Louden—Militia Act, was taken into
furl her cocAlifer,, t ion

The debate. having been adjouined,
Mr.'Alderman Vorin, after adverting to the Re-
port, and.notleitig.SOtilb observations in a painrhlet
-:published.by Captain Kirkman, mowed' that the Re-
port-be Lead:.:';

The Cietk accordingly proceeded to read the Re-
port.

conversationS Mme
arose, as to the right of address-
ing. the Court upon the questizm,' between ,Mr.
Wait-bin-an and Mr. Alderman Bitch, Mr. S. Dixon,
and. Sir W. Canis, when the Lord Mayur decided
in favour of

Mr. Alderman Bitten, who rose and said,. he felt
it necessary in entering- upon the subject to examine
the nature of the rep,:rt. He agreed with the re-
commendation contained in . the letter which had
been sent round to aitthe Members of that Cowl,
that every individtitt. kx,ho had paid attention to the
report, and to the allegations it contained and stated
as facts, was bo,md, atter hearing all that could be
said on both sides, to endeavoutto come to a calm
and dispassionate decision. This question involved
not only thehonour and dignity 01 al" Court; but
'he, feelings and character not 01 a great body of
men,. but of t.te particular individuals who were
more• directly implicated. He agree.: with the
Comniit ice, that c.ilhrony and.abuse. wete no answcr,
to argument; he Would go farther, and add,, that
they were no substitute for arguments—stiii, that
they could not overturn- tads. No settous Out!,
could be made out, by traducing the characters of in-
dividuals. He should not Impute ' any' intention of
this descrtptioh 'to the Commi c; but as the re-
'porthad been 'printed and bro' , under the con-
sideration of It Court, , they were called upon to
decide 'upon it, either. by rejettipg it altogether, or
confirm it. by then- sanction. irfe had paid all the
calm and dispassionate attention of which he was ca-,
p tble to the report:and could not discover any reason
assighed for the recommendation to do away with
the two regiments 'ot the Cny,Militia. He defied
any Member `to point out a single sentence in the
,reference or the report, that - could , shew any ad-
'.vantag.o likely to result from ' the proposed altera-
tion either to the Government or to the State : or
that, if toe sets ices of the two reginients were to
be extended to- the country at laic, the .expence
would. be lighter on the City. Would the rights,'
privileges, and charter's of the City of London be
better maintained, when _these regonents,were at
Oxford or Durham, than when,in.or neat the 'City
He was no enemy to the practice of Committees
overstepping the limits of, the referente to them,
but here their obje& had been wholly lost 'sight Of.
.He could not discover any,groundlt the'previbus
• part of` the report front w hien this coneLtisiOn,eou4 i
he drawn ; " your Committee are therefore decided-
ly of 'opinion, that tropractital good wnatever is to
be expected • trout these -two regiments, • and
that, on 't h.-:: contrary, „they .are • an •tenormou,
expence • to • the City.", The whole' of the nits.
`takes into which the Committee had falter' arose
from' their haring contound4 two Acts of Par.
!Lament. From confoundiog these two acts; and the
errors that were the consequence, the greitter hart Ott
, the 'report Jell •to the grotnid. ''He adiniticii Ili.it
there- wereno man so exalted whoM the law woind
riot-teielt ; but-at the same mu, he must say, I tiii
there were nu talents so splendid which could give
the lyiSstssor a right to touch the proper,y, line! ty,
Or famed another without proof. There was oo
lewd gilt wit hohi legal proof, The report appeared
to him to.con,ist altogether of misrepresemations,
and: equivocal statements and expressiOha , which
were not borne out by any • thing' produced act
support of them., It substituted -conjecture for
proof; and insinuation fro fact. The Committer,
had assumed a power to ;which they had ' no
right, and which ,dtd not belong' even to that
Cour% The comparison, • too, between the LAQ
-regiments was, erroneous. The :Memhers of that
Court, noy, that the report was brought home to
'them, were bound to take care not to' be dazzled by
any device that might-be presented , to them, and
to see the 'materials of which the 'report was toal-;.
posed before they should give it Alien.
.'sitottion,
The report held out to the public, that the whole
expense at .50,0001. which was defrayed by_ ilos
vernment, was.!paid by_the City. This wag,. esi
de ratty countenanced. by :the manner in which the
next sentence began : " In adnition to that sum,
;the several wards were exposed to, heavy leo'
,charges." The levy-money wits, raised, by a pound.
• rate, and saved the residents in the city tram the ef,
tests of the ballot, which were lett in other places
••where Vieindividuals b31,0.1ed were put to an ex-
pence of 40 or 5U pounds' to provide substitutes.
--,--,,The • Report then stated, that though -seven goi-
'neat were allowed for each .mate, they' [night be
_enlisted for four or five, to the obvious interest of
the Colonels. HOw obvious'? Was not this a
misrepresentation ?. The, worthy • Alciartian 'then
took a view.ot 'the charges respecting the clothing
and stock-purse; anst cot wtided that the cases were
conformable to the general praCtiee of the army.
The contents of the stock-put se 'were by the- Act
plaCed under the controukolthe Colonel, He the-1r
went into a detailed 'Consideration •• of the several
charteS in ' the Rt•port, and produced several stale.
rnents'contrOdiaory (Willow contained in ii, r,!...
spet;fing desertions, discharges, WA. balances. He
argued that in every': instance the Aet of Paha-
. mern,liark,been adhered to. He • contended It hai it
'was inconsiaterit in;the Members4l,b - had' framed
the 'report ; to state that the two tegiments were a
-grievance; and .yet rk."00111111erld.' to.' render them
Amore„- effective ',-by' eitvetidiog'' their cserviees ; and
concluded, by repeating,
that the teport was made
.Ihp•oLtnisrepresentatitar and ambiguous statements;
!:that, it substirutacoujeciAre tor proof, 'and insintA.
iilitsiii for • ,facir-; that. tile tom par isfin but weet tho
:tuffw regitrientslyeastafro' neoui ; and' that', 'on ail
these gratindsl-fie.7shottld-feel it lii:i.
dory not' only to
i
negative tAtteCily., bUtT
O 'disinisa it for eter twin
the journal of the. COurt;- .
Mr. WAITIIIII4I/41.1„.TpHiedto the `arguments of the
Svoyitty Aldeeilliii, and7einehclia; ,that the; nlii-
staietneuts which he had noticed, were . the con-
__ ,se_

(mum Of several errors in some of the Smalls or
the Treasurer... fle,moved au Amendment to' the
Report, which went to Riaire out the words, " im-
mediate application to Parliament:" •. • •
Mr. JAc Ks stated, that having been tinned 3 Mem-
ber7of the CoMmittee, he had attended m,st of its
meetings, at the first of which, seven months after
its appointment, tat the moment tbe-Chsir had been
taken by the worthy Alderman (Wood), be address-
ed hint with a qw:stion. to know to what points the
Committee intended to dire& their attention rhe
WAS immedively answered, " why, • tO'gboli.ililhe
Militia altogether, to be sure: the Volonteerk
Answer„etvery . purpose." The Worthy Member
stated, that as he stood-almost =alone in.the 'Cbm-
mit tee, he did not sugges't any of his ideas on the im-
ptoVement of that ,force: .1-le,then proceeded to com-
ment on various parts of the printed. report ; that
the. evidence examined by- tile:Committee on all the
charges relative to Sir J. Eatner, the stt,ck.purse, arid
the utility of the-regitnentg was obtained from three
persons only, the two late Lieutenant-Colonek- who
had been disappointed -in a promotion, and- alate
Major who had been dismissed by command of his
Majesty. He did suppose other less.questionable
evidence might have been obtained bad the Com-
mit tee been disposed to invesfigate the truth, instead
of bringing unfounded accusations ; many persons
of respectable charader4 doubtless might have -been
found, who had quitted. the Regiment under dtt-
ferent circumstances, and ;,many were now in it,
whose testimony might have been useful. It was
with great astonishment be found, that after those
three persons had been examined, no proposal was
made for others to be called in ; but on the contrary,
tt a late hour, after the examination of the. late
Major Wilson, and he (Mr. J.) had left the Court,
he tound at the, next meeting it hal Veen reigned to
Messrs. Waithman, Wood, and Goodbebete, and
three others to frame a Report, which reOart now
was under d'on-sidera:ion.... He then went over the
whole of the circumstances relative to the expenctl
and set vices of "the two regiments ; and concluded
by observing that the CoUrtcould nut possibly agree
iu sanaioning Report. which was untouaded...in
most of its'fficia and highly libeljods,.in his opinion,
towards individuals. .

After so co discussion, in which Mr. S.:Dixon,
Mr. IVtaiwirian, Colonel yVigap, Sir W, corns, &c.
took part, the Amendnieut was put for acisrithgoo
he Report, 44 Ekcept so much ,is relkito JO, 114
application to Rirtiainetit fyr to Npg41.1114
Attg," and the harne was carried on a cityi-,
sion, there being
For the Airicriarment - -6;
Against it .
Majority.
Mr. Aldcrtnau L;ombe was eledted Governor of
the Irish Society.

, ,
An rAprsi.arrlvect tout) yesterday fronythe
life, 'bringing information to theinerchantstAti
the Giwerowect bar. consented to the liberriT
(too- of the Teneritie.v,tssels; opon the piptiellt of
it) per ceyi. on the a:99tlllt ck( ttte a-lip/Dews.
GLOUCESTER CritJ folldwing
st Ile at tb.l P. 411 t tto eigi)lb day, at hall past
t.)

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Nlr, I)nfton 180•,A.
Sn B. W. Cilisz -
Aiaj,,rity Pp the 110.), nuttdo
Tvisi Al4irliy. tot Sir W. Guiie 5,8
Letters from Oporto to, tho 13th ult. were rece:v-
-e(I by' the I..kbuit 'lhey ;afford no news, ex•
opt the confirmation of the. th:,:k sustained by
Silveir.'s corps.
A Mr. Ilayines run six miles yesterday at Ash«•
loud, at four start 4, in the short, ',pace of ball an
huur, for a bet of fifty guineai, .He did two milts
in devt,i) miiitlttSt al lilt: first start.

4. :battle took place yesterday, morning, about,
eight o'clock, in the Five Fields,' Chelsea,, between
two ihoe-,makers of fighting celebrity, named
Thomson and Whit worth, who reside in. Seven
Dials, for live guineas a hider, The ground Was
picked oust, a ring was made, •and they set ro,',*and
after 40 minutes hard fighting, there being twenty
rounds in the whole, Whitworthheat his niad, and
bore oft with the prize in trariph. Were
both shockingly bruised, aticT were conveyed home.
A` man, who 11:0 been taken into, eustodynn the
-Chaige of haying robbed divers holds, was te- ex-
aiiiiiied•yeswriby at. Marlborough-street, The pre-
loner's name is M) 4111 Pier. It, appeared in eVi7
&nee t hat he had or access. to:110110n, Archibald
Stepan's' I0011)S, TlWill;ss's-HoteJ,;,And stole:A I'll!.
.t her: waiting-ratio, with a..pciveattt ;drawer, containing
ten g4itreas. He ..cut,,the, cssofetpit .ptibliet•tonsc:,
and alilietigh he (.401 hear the chinking-0f giiiitas,
led .ciiuld tioi discover the
,drawer.l. The prisoner
twits ,taken into custody at
,Walie's-tiotel',..in Brook'.
s t reel, w here he \Nils sttyn 1940,1int0 a ,sittin,:rb:tnil
:out return with
,sothe gre„t ej.):410 awl boots, goal-
w,s
,I)y the wither :in thip
hill, an" taken nit() ctistody.,:,;-Another-cbar,olvao
the prisotier.l;om3VititriVs,Hotei, kixi.
lord-s roct , where hu. obtaineth access to ~a tidy `S
bed-rioin, and stole articles oCiewellely;
or which, was found in his, possession. The Otlice
was crow:.ied with proprtet.ors,of -most at the fit It is
tier, ptisoner \vat .w.ntintied
for 'trial -tlirc!e ch'il c, R,
SWAN STiALING.--Yile latter end of last 'week
two old swans, and four of tastapriug, were stolen
from the Berpentine liver. InforMartornof the.rob7
bery being given, that adive ottior lr,ituberick, ap-
prehended a man with a nag containing two shift; of
swans. , He aeLhowledged:hwl;ad four more skills
at his lodgings,. stating he had,;,bought the whole of
them- at Leadenhall-market.: :They were skinned
like a rabbit, but not in sugh a complete marrtier" as
if done by a, poulterer. ° The skins-are valued , froisa
tour g,uineas to live, for
,ro4king muffs.. He under-
went ati'ekainimn ion on Monday' night last, -and is
remanded Int; neat
_Monday. These swans Iteliong
to the head-gardrner of Kensington Gardens, vv ho,
it appears, has not the smallest doubt that the skins
vr"Lie his property. •
Whatever may he said against Lotteries, the ar-
rangement of the Prizes into Ten ier.Tweaty Thou-
' lames certainly orients us a chance to remove our
pecuniary einbatra,stnents in an instant, and that
without increasing our losses; for, by the risk of
only few Pounds, we may gain one of the 44 Capi-
tals in the present State Lottery, the 'whole of which
will he drawn :On Next Friday, the I:rth.,

L4rp REP6Rt

COURT. OF, CHANCE ItY,‘Fts).

. ,•
NRIVILEGE FRold ARREiT. • 4. .
This y:ai a questina of some naeresit /to the noiir•
snercyal: workl, and its—result- userl to• all personi
61410
,to the Baokrupt--Laws to be acquainted with..
It %tits the petition of a Mr. Wood, who is detained
at Mauchester Castle nodal- an arrest for debt, being
an'esl(Xi.iky orle.,Cl(editur while;he was on his way
house, aft er 1116, trrat;xlminatipta and surrender un-
,der Ihe Commisition of Bankruptcy sued out against
him by,.liis.creditorrhat -34, •
it f Parliainent, the Fifth of George the
Second,- was the criterion of this qiinsition, w!ether
therreedoin lions arrest of .a bareks opt begin-4 ar Ids
surrender and first examination, or at the time he is
gazetied. Cros3, a barristerittbeiogot opmion
ins:facgoariol the arrest, and Mr. Dampier; a barris-
ter.; et; e ,contrary therbankrupti was
still &tabled in custody. .The sworneybf the plain.
tiff,. a Mr. Bastard, 'a respeetable charakterslind the
Sheriff's offig9r, one LOMaX,•representettitli'vf day,
by Mr. Richards, ein. e.xtenuation, as -a poor wail
with children, and ignorant of the law, were at a
loss how to ad on the occasion at Manchester, and
now submitted to the judgment of t he C.)urt.
Mr. Lt AC4; who made the motion for the Sank-
, rupt on a former day, had left it with the Chan.
celior tq do justice in this oppressive vile; a.:(1 to
pu; the true construction in favour of the baokrupt,
ots.t he Acl of Parliament. fits Lordship observed;
that Mr. Dampier's ,opinion was right on' this (secs-
. slots, respecting privilege, •as it was like the cai it
law nights ago of, a lady, arrested, broutfit before
the House of Lords, • and discharged. The
.b,nii;..•
opt nsust be put, he Said. into the. same sta!t, he
w;:,; in when the arrest place, and the t tfi cr
tnnst suffer by payment of. costs, for the breach ot
privilege ..----foripuent for the .I.3ankrupt.

f,..:OIJRT OF KING'S 13ENCII, Fmn 6.
• - IN AL' INTOIO,IAYIo'f.,;.
ThtiATTottux:6ENN3At, llto ed iut lea'..o to gild
triniiiiaT li,ll,ttgation,mairo,t a i\;i, 1:10.1brook, a
suigerin,.tit.ll: ti)r,. Writ-
-1,h?:1!ous letters r.,flecting ehartiacr of
Crpenter, 'gig. a Niehistrge of the
County, pAidcrit at 'llivistock. I4ppened that,t he
circuit] sta;-t ce riSe, to the,,,,,1j4v1, was as 1.01-
to,ks is,
A. girl of IL.. age of 'the agc; of lb, who 110(.1, for-
as a ser,kant with Mr, kii4lbr9phi
brought holuird the.iNtlii3l.ratti by Lk; par,slt office!,
to fihate a child : tit:the first titne she deniei.l ,he %VI:S
trit but sonic time (is she woi
bronght again, in a twserahie without
shoes or siOCkings, It then apk.mreti that She Wag
with child 'and sttcr bettl,'lnstru.3ed 1,1te:1,1#14.14i5!,
trate in (lie nature math, she ~iwore-,that Mr.
1-1011trook was thetather of, the chiid ; kuorrant
companied'hy a WUS issued to co:up,3l the
i•ty,:it.3ner•War~js a printed
I.)tok. to the .\ll,,,rstr.it.,-.• on the o.tlt4ei 4tid obliott..n
of an oath, znidaeb3.o;,,o.tied it by a leti(ir, in. which
he that (.3:6111.1:.!ii,in with tainpering with the
fal-it.ll to ;.wear lip.' Child i 0 Ilion. It Was ail,,
elated t).lJt he had published thetoiwc.letiers to sevr•
rat uthel•p:floos. ginned.
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Tile JUNO 20. JOHN JUNO.
Mr. COMMON SKRJUANT statvd, that the deft;..
dint in this ease; being- now personally prea,n( in
Court, he :should now move for a Rule to shiny
cause why anew trial should not he granted in this
caiie. It was a Ilia' en an indit`truent for perjury,
which took place before his Lord,hip at the Sittings
after last Term, for Middlesex. The issignment
of perjury was, that in certain proceedings in
ChanceTy, by which the present defendant bought
to -set aside: a judgment obtained against him in that
Court, and to have the plaint ft, Harrison, the pro.
secutor of the present ~indictment, restrained from
fartherproceeding at law, the defendant •havine ob-
.tained 'an injunaion of the tith of April, of whicir
he gave:hotice to the plaintition the 9th; the phin-
tiff, on the 10th of April, gave notice of a motion
for dissolving: that injunction, to be argued on thee
13th, and,: notwithstatnding sti6h notice, did levy
on the ;goods of ,the ,defendant on the 1111)'; the
4efendant did ~file; en .affidavir, for thee-purpose of
having the plaintiff committed for contempt, in
which he swore,: that the, writ of fi. fir, was sued
out on the. 10th er t, t h of April, rater the notice
injuniition , was. 'served on the plaintiff,
Whereas, in fact sthe writ was.sued out on the 4th
of April, .being before .service of the notic!ts of the
tender of injunelion. In this respect, the defetidarn-
was charged in the lodiament to flare .cortunitted
wilful anti: corrp,p,t ,perjury. On•the trial 14;4rrisuil
,I4mtelf was the first. witness ,examined; and ho,
surely, ditVswear that he sued out the on • the
,4th of April, and indorsed that dam, on it it) his on 4
hand„ Ho also swore, _that he delivered,. it on e.
,001 a day, for the purpose of getting it executed,i---
George Smithson was, the next witness, nod tiz
only.persen who corroborated the testimon,, of Her-
rison as tolthe date of
.issuing the. writ. ~1-1 e i.otted,
that the writ was delivered- by Harrison to him to
get executed, on the 4th. of April—and that, find-
ing a difficulty, in getting it executed, he, rot urr.ed it
to Harrison's a dealt. He then named two oath—'s„
to bola :he had applied -to execute .the writ hot
who had ref uacd, admitting that he had not app tett
to Harrison's own lacer. the same. wit ness, how-
, ever, went on to state a fad, which, it true, tithit
have cut. otfall:chance of Mr. King's being able
defend_hiniself against the charge of which he Nv:ii
accused, but which, if false,' must be cquilly
strudiVe of his own testimony, He went
. state, in his examinasion in chief, thattthe thre of
the writ was indorsed in, the corner of the wat!rtitit,
and that, he had seen it, indorsed in this manner,' in
the hands the officer, and that the date So otdorsed
in the corner of the warrant was rite 4th of,April.—
On the cross-extunituion of the witness he rep;-ni
eel the sante
,titory and when the. Artoftv.,y
;feral, re-eXilitHrhaioll, put to 'him thi`n t,•*
elusive question—“ So, anypersoh curious to know
the date of suing out the writ-, might hive itatistitA
himself on this head by referring err her to the writ
or to- the warrant- ?" He answered in the affirma-
tive; therehy
.swearing three times over, that the
da`e of the 4th of April would be seen to be the date

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