The Sun.
London, England, 1818-06-03 00:00:00

THE LOTTERY.

UNTIL TWELVE O'CLOCK TO -NlGHT.—VirEtt's
'Offices, No. 9, Cornhill,' and 17, Ludgate-street,
Will remain open until Twelve o'Clock to Night,
as the Lottery' begins Drawing To:.MonaoW.--..
The first Twenty Prizes will each receive 10001.
in ltddition The Scheme contains three of
20;000/. and 104 other Capitals. WEsit sold Four,
Capitals last Lottery, and Three of 30,000/. very
lately all in Shares..

IlAtAar) and Co; the Contractors fin. the pre-
-sent tiottery,' respectfully- acquaint the Public,
their Office at the Royal Exchange will be open
till twelve o'clock to-night. 'TO-morrow the. Lot-
ter-3, begins Ara Wing. In the first 20 minutes, '2O
Prizes will receive 10001, each. The, Scheineton-
talns 107 Capital Prizes. I-lAzAttn and Co. sold
.5 Prizes of 20,000!. the last year's Lotteriei,
and in formcr Lotteries; Prizes to the amount of

Amongst the various subjects embraced by' our
numerous Poets, 'we do not recollect that any of
them. have touched upon the 'State Lottery. In:
our opinion, were they to take the present as a
Object, it would form a noble t)ieme. The Three,
Prizes of 20;0001. the 107 Capitals, the Twenty
Prizes of 10001. would reach the very acme of
Poetry, whilst the interest Would be gradually
excited by the developemeta of each circumstance;
till it attained its ultimatum, by' the announce-
ment, that To-Moittow; the Kines
20:Capitals must be draWn in the First half flour,
,and most - probably 34 Capital Prizes in the
course of the day. At CARROLL'S Offices,-No. 7,
Cornbill,'43nd '26," Oxford-street, 12 'Capitals, in.:
chiding Two of 20,000/: hive been .116;14 in tbe
Litt Four Months;

The Earl of ,CARNARVON moved the tonanit-
Mew of the Game. Purchase Bill. His- Lordship
made some observations .support of it, urging
particularly, that . if .it was intended to keep up
the system of the Game Laws, the penalties ought
to attach equally upon the rich than who bought
Game as upon the Poor man viliosold it.
The Bill was• opposed by. the Earls. of LAUDER-
DALE and Lt-siaarcic-, chiefly on the grounds that it
was utterly impossible, by any mode: of legisla-
tion, to prevent men of property from obtaining
Game; that the Bill, was. therefore nugatory, as
it might easily be evaded ; that it was also absurd,
as, by imposing penalties on the,seller and the
buyer, respecting a private transaction between
them, no evidence could be obtained to affect
either; and that it 'was an invasion of the liberty
of the.subject.
In. support of the t3ill the Earl ,dlloSyfiNCiit and
Lord, Hut LAND contended, that it was founded in
strict justice, it being essentially unjust that the
poor man, who was encouraged by the rich indi-
vidual purchasing to obtain Game by poaching.
should be punished, whilst the latter altogether
escaped and, without supporting the system of
rite, Game Laws, they contended, that, while that
system was allowed loexist, equal. justice ought
to be dealt out by them.
The LOart CoaNcett,ott alsb.contd not, recon,
cite it to any principle of justice, that a pour. man,
.who perhapsto support his family shot a phea-,
sant or a partridge, should be sent to
,gaol, while
the, rich individual, who by bOying, the game en-
couraged him, in such conduct, altogether escaped.
Ile would willingly vote for sending the latter t
prison instead of:the forrner. -
The Earl of CatlNAavoN, in reply, repeated his
former arguments, and added, with regard to the
.general system of the Game Laws, that what con-
tributvd to induce Noblemen and Gentlemen 'to
reside in the country, by whose exertions as Ma.=
gistrates so much benefit resulted to the commu-
nity, should not be rashly set aside,
The House divided on the question for gOini
into a Committee on .
,3,
- Contents •
Nut Contents •
9
Majority •
The House accordingly resolved itself into a
Committee, and having gone through the Bill, it
was reported without any amendment,
ALCENS AND THE BANK OF SCOTLAND.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE presented a Petition
front certain persons, naturalized subjects of
Great Britain, acrd proprietors- in the Bank of
Scotland, against the passing of. the clause of the
,Alien Bill which does away with the provision
of the Act of the Parliament of Scotland, regard-
ing persons having a property in the Bank of that
part of the United Kingdom.
The Petition having been read and ordered to
lie 9n the table,
The Earl of LAUDERDALE moved, that the pc-
titiOners should be' heard by their Counsel at
the BarL

Lord
.SIDNIOUTH said, it , was impOssible that
Connie' could make any statement of such weight
as to induce the House to delay the progress Of.

Earl
GaEir proteited againSt refusing a hearing,'
at least, to persons who had at stake property
disposed of on the faith of an Act of Parliament.
The. Earl of LIYEAPOOL was as scrupulously at
tentive to the rights of property as any person-in
the. House or in the country ; but he considered
it a prinCiple of our Patliamentary system, that
%diet) a legislative- act, 'founded upon public anti
state affairs, affected individual interests, the
'course was-not to impede the Progress of legisla-
tion on that account, but to make the claims and
losses of the individuals a. subject of future in-
quiry. This principle was recognized in the dis-
cussions on the Slave Trade. It ,was, he said,
lake. monstrous, that the mere investment i)f a
small slim in a particular Bank should give the
rights of. uaturalizaiion to-Aliens who never took,
who even refused to take, the oath of Allegiance
to his"Majesiy.

Lord HOLLAND and the Earl of LAUDERDAL3
supported the motion for hearing Counsel..
Their Lordships then divided—
For h'earink COutisel 12
Against it 22
Majority —lO
LAW- OF LIBEL:
Lord ChSKINE., otl re-adinission pt strangers,"
was moving the second reading of his Bill for de.:
elaring•that 'serious should not ~be apprehended
for Libels.. The" first iliresficin Was, whether the

ai it now stood, authurises Justices of the
Peace to commit on charges of Libel ? and the
second .qttestion was; whether, if they had that
authOtity, the law which gave it them should he,
allowed to continue ? 16'considering this, he' did
_ -

[GIL mean to question the authorit?-of the Secrg-

ry lie th:tt the common

•kri•l the St more 1.11. v, muthorised sitch ar-
_!:.s., !so the pqrt of the Mac,istrates, and they
ro cautions how they allowed such prac•
12.r0w ioto ose, and to become precedents
:Jere!! on. Ile cited the opinions of Lord
hie, Ser.:lrma Iftw'Ains, and others, that Ma-
!.:Lt;.A,!•s eOull only anest 211 CISCS of It otson,

pityl offences tiglitist the pace ; but he
Elskime) e,ffitendeci that Libel vv3s 1)t)t an
,off.ccc{-• ;Igliu,r the peace. ()11 this ac:onitt, Cue

(.;rel,te Letter of Lord Sidamuth to the Magis-
t)atec, to commit for Libel, was most dangerous,
had been productive of most arbitrary atol
Do;Pres,iive conduct. It was very easy to say now
l!i-nt it hart no such effect ; but if the house had
u,,t ,hat. out all information on the subject, he
have proved that persons for religiotis
%vete torn froM their families and loaded
irons. fie wai sure that the Magistrates
wohld be well pleased that this Bill should pass,
in order to infotm, them in what eases they were
Zo commit, and whet, not.

The LORD CnANcELLorz said, this was a Bill to
prevent Arrests for Libel before indictments found;
but it was impossible to contend that there were
not hundreds ofOotisands of cases wherearrests had
taken place in matters that only tended to breaches
ofthepeace,but which were not of themselves actual
breaches of the pea Ce. The. circular letter of the
Secretary of State, which had been so much com-
plained of, was written in consequence of the
od vice of those whoSe.iiiity it was to ad% ise him so
to do. The [louse ought not to declare what was
the law on this subject, when there had been,
lately so much opportunity to have obtained • the
opinion of, the Courts below on it. Ever since
the Revolution, and especially in the reign of
Queen Anne, persons were held to bail for Libels.
The Libels which were lately the subject of pro-
rectttion, were some of the worst he had ever seen
in England ; and he contended, front the opinion
of Lord- Hardwicke,when Attorney-General, that
blasphemous Libels were Libels against the Go-
vernment, because the religion of the State was
That of the Government. He requested the House
to seriously consider whether they would, by this
Bill, pass a negative on the legality of a long
,:course of usage sanctioned by the Judges.

Earl GREY considered this ease as one of the
most importaut that ever came before the House,
connected as it Was with the liberty of the press,
on which all our rights and property depended.
He lied, on a former night, endeavoured to shew,
from the authority of Lord Coke, Lord Hale, Ser-
jean( Hawkins, Lord. Chief Justice Holt, Chief
Justice Farquhar, and Lord Mansfield, that there
was no power- to commit for misdemeanour before
indictment found. It was contrary to the Con-
3tititti6n to commit before indictment of offences,
tending to produce breaches of the peace. If the
practice were as. the Noble- and Learned Lord
had stated it to be, he (Earl Grey) was bound to
declare, that it was contrary to the Constitution,
and that Parliament could nut too soon pass this
Bill, declaring that practice illegal. This was a
most dangerous and monstrous power to give to
the Magistrates, especially in times when party
ran so high, and when their minds might, by
-party excitements, be heated and inflamed. The
nible and Learned Lord had-called certain Libels.
the worst he had ever seen ; but three successive
Juries differed, much to their honour, from the
opinion of the Noble and Learned Lord. Much
to their honour, he would say, because it was at-
tempted to make that blasphemous which was
only intended as a means of political attack. If
that man sinned, he did it with great authorities,
even some, of his Majesty's Ministers, and of pub-
lication;
,disseminated by them with great in-
dustry. .
The' Earl of LivERPOOL said, there was no
ground for bringing this question before the
IlOnse at so late a period of the Session. If there
was any.doubt on the law why not try the ques-
tion in Westminster-hall ? By a decision of those
CoUrti
.general warrants were declared to be
illegal; and the same course might be adopted as
to.commitments for Libel. It the Libels that had
been alluded to had been pronounced not so by
three Juries'in• London, those very Publications
were declared Libels by Juries in Lancashire.
Such blasphemous Publications were most mis-
chievous and wicked, with whatever intentio❑
they might be made public.

Lord HOLLAND said, that where those Publica-
tions had been declared libels, it was in cases
where there was no -defence, and judgment suf-
fered to.go by default. Those were Parodies on
the Government ; and without them we should
not have had the feeling defences of morality and
religion which had fallen from the Noble Lord
on the ‘Voolsack ; and on a former occasion from
a Right Rev. Prelate. He should never have hari
such exhortations to t-norality and religion from
their pious minds, had it not been that those Pa-
rodies were levelled against his Majesty's Mini-
sters. If what his Noble Friend had stated was
not the law, which he contended it was, he had
no heSitation in saying it ought to be made the

After a reply from Lord ERSKINE, the House
divided-"

For the second reading of the Bill l3
Against it 3l
Majority —lB
ALIEN BILL.

The Report of the Committee on this Bill was received and
agreed to by the House.
Viscount SIDMOUTII moved the suspension of the rele-
vant Stauding-Orders, with a view •tcf authorize the third
reading of the Bill forthwith.
Tbe.Marquis of LANSDOWNE opposed the proposition of
the Noble Secretary of State, and
The Earl of ROSSLYN moved the question of adjournment
upon it,
A division took place--7
For the Adjournment (including Proxies)....
Against it (ditto)
Majority

-35

Shortly after their Lordships again divided, on the point
as we understood (the previous question being intermediately
moved`, that the question be put—
For that proceeding (including Proxies) S6
—Against it (ditto) ... 25
Majority

The House then divided on the question for suspending the
Standing Orders—
Contents (including Proxies) ..
Not Contents (Ditto)
Majority...

-31

The Bill was then read the third time, and passed ; and
at half-past Eleven o'clock their Lordships adiourned till
this day.