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London, England, 1812-03-10 00:00:00

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PALERMO} JANUARY a, !SIL
(PaIyATZ LETTER.) •.
at order fcir the trial of the prisoners arrested on
2.1 of. December has been authorised by his Ski.
Majesty, and issued an the 27th by Lord Wm.
ITINcIC. it is composed as follows :.
rajur-General Heron, Presidcat.
fajor-General M'Kenzie.
fajor-General Bingham.
lajor-General WlnCe.
Nor General Ht:iiniker.
sprain and Brigadier-General HB3.
clone, Adam
ligadisr Prince of Scaletta.
good Rsinirts.
olontl Coes? or;.
:olonel Lucchesi. •
clan,-1 Cassia°.
!ajar Bores.
he Court assembled Ar the 6th of January to
)mence its proceedings. The eyes of all Sicily are
bn its 4ceisiims. It has already brought to light
h of the intrigue carried on here and at the (pp°.
past. The Neapolitan Moniteurr are anxious, but
'sin, to finkexcuses, or rather deny, the fact of
assaspins being pent from Calabria, to remove
°Rears of this army. It is not I?xely that men,
icending the scaffald, should, when every hope of
-vas lost, die with a falsehood •on their tongues.
it is well known who these officers were ; the one
igh ra4k was the particular object of this ruffian
omission : his activity had rendered him obnoxious
the enemy for some time past, accustomed to carry
their intrigues without interruption, across the
every night.
The /lank companies of Meuron's regiment, of the
and 44th, have arrived here from Malta, and
:ourt of Palermo, however reluctantly, are ac-
Ig to the demands of our Minister. No appre-
i• n need be entertained for this country—our
I y is,in a high state of discipline, and our flotilla in
,ry imposing attitude.
'iie French Itaye four regiments immediately op-
:e ; they manoeuvre on the hills frequently, and
sham battles, but their troops desert to us almost
night ; and every account from Calabria repre.
• that untortunate country in a miserable state.
wife uf the letter-carrier, who brought all the
:rs io our secret service, to and frorn'the French
ral and his friends at this side of the water, has
Cruelly toriured, and afterwards hung at Point
p, immediately opposite, by order of the French
ittai4 whose constant pr:rtice is to sacrifice a
le famity,.wben onu person of iris suspected-
'e ar appears, to occupy immediately all the
As posts of the Island, and to have the command
Sicili.in troops?
pAß.....baartri:elß PROcEEDINUS,

ed rights should be taken from them for the purposei
of accommodating the rich and great. He should,
therefore, moye an aineadosent tb the clans-0, for the
purpose of depriving the Committee of Management
of any power over the private boxes. He thought,
that, in a late case, the mereitie c,,f the prim in one
Of the theatres lad been,ln his opinion, very tinfairly
resin ed by the public, considering the increase of
price of every other artiele. Yet it was hardly any
wonder that the people did resist that increase, when
they saw a great number of private boxes unoccu-
pied, while the parts of the house allotted to the pub-
lic were so full, that those who had paid thEir money
could not be. accommodated, On the occasion of
that resistance the prices and the private boxes were
regulated at a meeting !!etween the public and the
' managers, but by this 13111 no such resistance could
be made, as it now would be enacted into a law.
The LORD CHANCELLOR believed it was of
little consequence tehther the law authorized private
boxes or not, for he believed that formerly the box.
keepers, for a douceur, used to turn public boxes,
for a night, into private ones.
The Earl of ROSLYN defended the clause, on
the ground that, by the present Bill, only fourteen
private boxes were prcposed to be erected, and in the
old Drury-lane Theatre there were thirty-four or
thirty-six.
The Amendment was then put and nngiCved with-
onta
_ _ _

The Dirac of NOR FOLK objected to the clause,
empOwcring the Committee of Management to lease
out for 21 years the private boxes. He should,
therefore, move, that the word " twenty" should
be left out, and that the word ,! one" should be sub-
stituted, in order that a fair competition should be
given every year.
The Earl of ROSLYN opposed the amendment,'
which was negatived without a division.
The Duke of NORFOLK next objected to the
clause respecting the patent, as ;ending to encourage
a monopoly. He instanced the case of a former Earl
of Surrey, who had the power of licensing all the
public-houses in London, by putting the chequers
(his own arms) on them. If that power had been
continued to.his successors, they must have been the
richest men in the kingdom, The Noble Duke then
moved an amendment to the clause, which the Earl
of Rost.vx opposed.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE belieited that
theatrical monopolies were as bad in principle, if not
in effect, as any other monopolies whatever ; and al-
though he did not consider this Bill as encouraging
monopoly, he should move that the further discus-
sion on it should be put off till to-morrow, in order
that their Lordships, who had not attended the Com-
mittee, might have an opportunity of considering the
Bill.

Lord REDESDAIS, Earl GREY, and the Marquis
of.Doommt shortly supported the motion for delay ;
and after a few words from Lord ERiKINE and the
LORD CHANCELLOR, the motions for the delay, and
the amendment of the Doke bf Norfolk were nega-
tived withi,ut any divisions.
The Biii was then read a third time and passed.
Adjoin nod.