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London, England, 1818-06-06 00:00:00

JOURNALS OF THE HOUSE.

Mr. BATEIURST IPres,nted the Report of the Committee
on the General Intlt tu the .I,ouni4is of the liouic, whicit

N 1,4, Agrecti to.
Mr. 11.‘TIIIIRST then moved an Addre., to the Prince Ite-
giu,t, praying- him to order the .WI, ot 43001. to be paid to
Jeremiah Dysitii, as a rentimuration fur oiakine• the Index,
and to a,sore his Royal I-li4liness that this house would
ttrake good the J attic.—Agreed to.
• PETITtONS.

Sir S. HONIILLY presented a Petition front Rogers Cole,
comitlaining of the conduct of the Judge of the Insolvent
Debtor,' Court, for remanding hin► to his confinement ; and
stating that be hot 110 other prospect than hopeless incarce-
ration for life before hint, and that he had paid all his debts,
save our, which he did not consider to be a ltSt one. He,
Sir S. ktonilly,conceived the 3ndge to have acted er►oucously
on this occasion.—The Petition sv•-ts then read, and laid on
the table.

Mr. BROUGHA NI presented a Pttition from Juhn Dudd, in
14, C:unnty of Devon, prayin.g for the repeal of the Insolvent
Debtors? Act.—Laid on the table.

Mr. 1)1,,01,:lif;AM presented a Petition from Charles
Mayor, Pinil;!rr, culi:phininf of grievances under the New
Street Act.—Laid on the tabae, and ordered to be printed.

POWERS I'NDER THE GREAT SEAL.

Mr. BROUGHAM said, that sonic. time since a Petition
had been presented from a Gentleman of the name of
O'Hanlon, in the County of Newry, complaining of the
po,‘ et- claimed by the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, utoler the
Great Seal, to appoint and remove Magistrates at pleasure,
%sit Itout cons•ietiun in the iuferior Courts. He wished to have
brought its cuosideratioll before the House at an early pe-
riod; but had been prevented by the nature of his occupa-
tion, as since the recess the inquiry into the abuses c in-
flected wilt the e.incation of the poor had employed hint
fro►t mortniog till night. lie should now move, that the
said Petition be printed, and should give notice of his in,
tention to call the attention of the House to it early next
Sesiion.

Mr. PEEL and Mr. CANNING remonstrated against the
unfairness of printing a Pt titian containing charies against
individuals, at a time of the SeSsion which would leave them
no opportunity of an:wering them for six months.
Sir S. ItOMI LLY said, that there was ❑o unfairness at all,
for it was he who hail presented the Petition fur his flonour-
able and Learned Friend, and on his motion the Petition had
hen ordered to be printed. At the suggestion, however, of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who afterwards objected to
its being printed, Ise had not pres,ed for the execution of
the order.

After a few words from the SPEAKER, the order book was
brought, and Mr. Brougham was understood to say, that
tbere was nothing to du bat to let the original order stand.

LORD ST EWA RT.

Mr. BROUGHAM, seeing a Noble Lord in his
plate, wished to ask hint a question respecting a
Noble Rda ire of his. In doing this he was not
actuated by any feeling of hostility either to the
Noble Lord himself or to the person in question,
to whose services and ac!,ievements he was most
disposed to do justice. Ic was unpleasant to put
soch a question, but it was the fault of circum-
stances which imposed that duty upon him. He
had delayed doing it till the legal proceedings in
which.that• Noble. Person had been engaged had
assumed a shape which would prevent any thing
be might say front clashing with them. This was
a .mat ter of public notoriety, that the brother of
the Noble Lord had stated in an affidavit now on
the files of the Court of Chancery, that he was
possessed of an income of 12,0001. a year from
the public as his Majesty's Ambassador at the
Court of Vienna, and of a revenue. of 10001. per
annum as one of his Majesty's Lords of the Bed-
chamber. Now, as he had been absent from his
station as Ambassador, he wished to know whe-
ther ,the public service was not interrupted, and
whether he received any part of his salary ? He
also wished to remark on the inconsistency of the
two appointments, the one requiring his Lord.
ship's presence at Vienna, and the other demand-
ing it here. Far the situation of a Lord of the
Bedchamber Was not a sinecure, buL necessary to
the splendour of the Crown. He- wished to be
informed whether.that.appointment was tempo-
ra.rY4 and whether the- Noble Lord received the
salaries of both.?

Lord CASTLEREAGH had no doubt that public
motives alone had impelled the Hon. and Learned
Member to make his present inquiries, Ile was
only surprised that his vigilance should have slum-
bered so long. With respect to -the absence of
his brother from Vienna, it was customary to
grant leave of absence kto public servants who had
been long employed in high 'situations abroad,
when their ptivate affairs required it. Lord
Ste•vart was returning to -the place of his embassy
when proceedings of a legal nature listi .detained
hi:o: His leave of absence had been less extended
*Oan usual in such cases, and the regulation by
which the I"enipotentiary who remains during the
absence of an Ambassador receives an increased
salary out of that of the Ambassador, had been
complied with. This absence had also occurred
at 'a time when the Court to which Lord 'Stewart
was accredited had quitted the capital for many
months ; and an intimation bad been given to the
Corps DiplOmatique that they might consider
themselves at liberty during that period. With
respect to his situation as a Lord "of the Bed-
chamber; all embassies had always been consi-
dered as duties perfotmed to the public, and as not
preventing' the acceptance of any appointment
which the Sovereign might please to make.
Mr. linouGnxm thought that if so many Lords
of the Iletrchamber were necessary, they should
riot he absent. If they were so little necessary
that they might stay abroad, might not some of
them be dispensed with ?

Lord CAsrt.enaaGn said that Lords of the Bed-
chamber had gone abroad before, but then the
xigilance of the Hun. and Learned Gentleman vas
adeep.

Mr. BROUGHAM understood that a question had
been raised.in the House respecting their absence
at the time, and the answer had been much more
satisfictory than that of the Noble Lord, for it
bad been stated that their emoluments were not
received as long as they were absent.
Here the conversation-dropped.
A Message from the Lords informed the House
that their Lordships had agreed to the Irish
Fisheries', the Appropriation, and the Poor Laws'
Amendment Bills, and had made some amend-
ments, to which they desired the concurrence of
the House. •