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London, England, 1812-07-02 00:00:00

RICHMOND-HILL, SURREY.

Scarce and Costif antique Furniture, Noble French Pier and
Chimney Glasses, one plate 96 by 60; a superb service of rich
Silver and Silver-gilt Plate, upwards of Six Thousand Ounces;
fine old China, Prints and Draw ingo, choice specimens of old
Stained Glass, antique Bronzes highly chased and wrought,
one very fine, in alto rrllevo, SS inches by V. 3; an India Gong,
Telescope, B;rometers, eight-day Clocks, a Pleasure-boat with
awning, Orange '1 rees, Green-house Plants, Melon-frames and
lights, and various other Effect., late the property of the Mar-
(pis of IOWNSHL ND, deceased,
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION,
By Mr. ROBINS,
On the Premises on Richmund-Hill, on Monday, July 6, and
Three following Days, at Twelve.
THE SCARCE and COSTLY FURNITURE
consists of Chain and Sofas in black Ebony, curiously
inla:d with ivory; superb Buhl Cablr.ets and 'fables, beautifully
inlaid and mounted in Or Molou, in high preservation ; }.bony
and Rose-wood Cabinets and k'..erutoires, inlaid with ivory,
tortoise-shelf, and brass; Statuary and Vend Antique Marble
Pier Tables; large Slabs of variegated Marble; noble French
Plates of peculiar brilliancy, one ninety-six by sixty; Drawing-
room, French Elbow-chairs, Sofas, and Window Cuttains en.
suite, Library, Writing Tables, and Bookcases, large 'Turkey
Carpets, one 23 feet S inches by 16 feet S inches; Sets of Maho-
gany Dining Tables, and Chairs in red Morocco, Sideboards,
Cellerets, Morine Curtains, Wilton Carpets, large India Matting,
Floor Cloths, Grecian Lamps, &c. &c. The Bed-chamber Fur-
niture is correspondent, and comprises very fine Down and Fea-
ther ds with appropriate Mattresses and Blankets, &c. &c.—
The Hangings and Window Curtains of fine white Dimity, beau-
ful inlaid French Commodes, Mahogany Wardrobes, Dressing
Tables and Glasses, stuffed back Feutelles and caned seat Chairs,
with every Article of Mirniture necessary and useful fora Mansion.
The Domestic Offices and Kitchen comprise the ysual requisites
of Furniture and Culinary Articles in Coppers and Tins, Ice. ice.
May be viewed on Thursday, Friday and Saturday preceding
the Sale ;• Catalegues; at 94.6 d. each (without which none can he
admitted), may be bad on the Premises; and of Mr. Robins,
Warwick-street, Golden-square.

IMPORTANT SAVINGS, .
AT 183 FELTE ET--LANE,FSTREET,
OR REA WITHINDY MONEY. THREE DOORS OF
TTR
FGIBBONS, Woollen Draper, Man's Mercer,
• and TayloWannounces to les numerous Friends and the
Fashionable World, that he is enabled to supply them with Ar-
ticks
of Dress, made in the first Style of Elegance, and of supe-
rior quality, at the following very reduced prices t
Very best Spanish Wool Superfine - af. s. d.
Cloth Coats -. . . . 3S 0
Ditto British Wool - . 2 10 0
Good Second Cloth. Coats . . 1 /6 0
Very best Superfine Kersayniero Breeches - 19 0
Ditto Double-milled - . 1 8 0
Best Double-twilled Cord ditto . - 018 o
Fashionable Marseilles Waistcoats - o 19 o
And every other Article, whether Great Coats, Ladies' Riding
kiabita, Y 0 ElOlOOOll 144. OM charged with an equal regard to
lame*

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

PRICE SIXPENCE-HA I. ITENIT

i stances which involved and embarrassed this strati
and anomalous question. The proposition then t
HOUSE OF LORDS, HILY I. he had that day to submit to their Lordships w
ROY AL ASSENT BY a:woo...sloe. Whether this was the season on which it would
Their Lordships met at about half-past three o'clock, when, proper to consider and determine this importa
question, according to the established and ordina
prayers being read, the LORl)Cuaiteeicoa, the Earl of 1-mea-
ty/or., and Lord Waistrion sas, in their robes, took their seats State maxims ?—Whether this was the season, i
on the Woolsack, as Commissioners; and in the name of his
Royal Highness the Prince Regent, for and in behalf of his Ma-
which, from the various circumstances attending
jesty, gave the Royal Assent to the following Bills: agitation of the subject, it could be taken up
'The New Loan, Glass Duties Draviback, Militia Officers' Al- grounds distinct from the passions and feelings
jealousy and prejudice, which in various eriods
lowance, Land-tax Sale Redemption Amendment, Superannuated
Excise Offices' Allowance, Irish Malt Duties it eguLation, ihe p
Whitby, and the Margate Harbour Bills. our history obstructed its progress—whether thi
Their Lordships then adjourned during pleasure. . was the season in which it might be considere
At about half-past four the House resumed, when the Earl of ! exempt, particularly from the influence of tho
LAUDERDALE moved for certain documents relative to the groundless alarens for flit existing establishments i
claims of Mr. Palmer.—Ordered accordingly. Church and State, that had so often defeatesi th
On the motion of Lord Haaitow sr, the further discussion of
the Curates' Bill, which stood for to-day, was, after some obser- 1 exertions of evea the most zealous friends of reli
'rations from I.ord GI ENVIL!.L and the Earl of Sur soot, pest-, gious and political freedom. He would ask thei
petted .o Friday se'nnight Lordships, whether this was not the season whet
The Earl of RADNOR complained that the names of the they were peculiarly called upon to set this grea
Lords appointed on the secret Committee had been made pubic,
and intimated his intention, with the concurrence of their Lord-
i question at rest, by a cool and dispassionate COnsi
sLips, to prevent such an indecorum in future. deration of it in all its bearings, and a just and wis
' tad MOIRA moved the second reading of Mr. Pahner's Re- and Bend decision—a season when they we
muneration Bill on Friday next. imperiously bound to divest it of every influent
llie Earl of LAUDERDALE objected strongly to the claims i of
vulgar passion sand popular prejudice—whe
set up by Mr. Palmer, which be considered as extravagant, ' I
£E75,u00, and an annuity of £9OOO, exceeded, beyond all reason. i they were placed in the very whirlwind of na
able bounds,, the limits which the economic wisdom of Pailia- I tional agitation, and the tremendous tempest o
tr i ent had prescribed in requital of the most meritorious services foreign war ?--(Hear, hear, hoar.)--He trusted
of the most useful and dignified Officers of the State, and he i therefore, that their Lordships would see and fee
thought that before such a Bill should be passed, the most full i
and satisfactory information should be laid before the House. the necessity, under such circumstances, of enterin
The Earl of MOIRA conceiving the claims of Mr. Palmer to ',,fquestion—he was confident that they would feeully into the consideration of this great nationa
be founded in justice, and to have been clearly and satisfactorily !
substantiated, should persist in his motion for the second reading
of the Bill on Friday. bound to adopt that course, with a view to sescu
1
The LORD CHANCELLOR professed himself adverse to the question out of the hands of those who nigh
the Bill. • take it up . for improper purposes, by every principl
Lord REDESDAI.E deferred, to Monday next, the consider. of justice, by every principle of religion, above all
Atkin of his Bill for the better Administration of Justice. Iby every principle of our reformed religion —tha
mist' eAriini.ic AGGREGATE MEETING: they would feel it to be their duty andtheir'interes
The Duke of NORFOLK rose to ask the Noble Lord oppo.
to do so, as they valued those great qualities of mora
site (Aidmouth), whether an account which he ',al read in the
public Newspapers, relative to a Meeting which bad recently feeling and political virtue, which have been th
taken place in Dublin, called an Aggregue Meeting of the Ca- surest foundation of the pre-eminence of the Briti
tholics of Ireland, and to. tbe proceedings in that meeting, were nation in arts, in arms, in liberty, in law, and govern
authentic or not?
meat.— (([tar, hear.)—When such was the que
Lord SIDMOIJTH replied, that no authentic information 013
the subject had been received by his Majesty's Government. tion, and the view he took of it, he could scarcel
CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION. bring himself to characterise the state of the law
Marquis WELLESLEY, in rising to submit to against the Catholics as a lystem. He knew too wet
their L,,rdships the motion of which he had given what was due to their Lordships' former decisions,
notice, stated, that be had-that day to call the atten- as well as to the many able and honest uatesm
lion of their Lordships to a subject, which though it who differed with him on this question, to approac
had been repeatedly urged in Parliament, had never it in any form but that of regular deliberation, an .1
yet been fully and fairly considered—which, though calm and temperate discussion. • He had, therefore
at various times it had given rise to lengthened dis- to call upon their Lordships to consider this ituestio
cussions, had never yet been decided according to in the same manner, and to enter into the examina
those ordinary maxims of sound reason and State tion of its merits, with the same spirit and feeling, a
policy which usually regulated their Lordship's con- they would if he were to submit any proposition t .
duct upon other questions important to the interests, them for revising any other great branch of the Con
the welfare, and the happiness of the empire. It stitutieni. And, when thus anxiously disposed to cal
was with regret he felt himself compelled to state, ' the attention of the House to this question, he cowl•
that the great and viral subject had never hitherto ! not refrain from asking their Lordships, whether
been considered and discussesL,;' ith the same calms I system.was so complete in the theory—ismprinoip
ness and dispassionate feeting,--sn.isis .....1 50 metes- so osunoly framed—so evidently marked with th
1 sary to the agitation of a question involving the inte- traces of ancient wisdom—so clearly perfect in all i
rests and rights of so large a portion of the popula- t parts, that it could be maintained without a mon
Lion of the Empire ; that Parliament had never yet strous anomaly ?—Whether it was on the whole .
approaChed the question in that liberal and unbiassed beautiful in theory—so accurate in proportion an.
spirit which alone could insure a sound and delibe. symmetry—so wise, politic, and admirable, that i
rate decision. From the earliest period at which the ought not to be made the subject of consideration
attention of their Lordships and of the other branch The next poiut to which he desired to direct thei
of the Legislature had been called to the situation Lordships' attention was, supposing the system pe
of their Roman Catholic fellow subjects, by the re-. feet in theory, whether there were not many part
spectful petitions of that great class of the body of t objectionable as not consistent with the perfection o
the people, their claims had been, in some instances, the theory, and which, on that account, ought not .
met with jealousy ; in others with terror ; in others be continued as branches of a system intended to .
with vengeance ; in many with contempt ; and in pure and blameless ? With this impression, he wish .
several with a combination of all those prejudices to ask their Lordships what had been the effect, of th
and passions, operating to exclude from the posses- system—what had been its operation even upon i
sion of their legitimate rights a great mass of the own principles—what had been every part of t
population of the Empire. This was the state in effect it had produced upon the best interests of t
which the .question was then placed ; and in bring- empire—what had been its tendency to promote th
ing forward the Resolution with which he meant ps happiness of the people—what its tendency to uphol.
conclude, he had to call upon their Lordships to dis. the general liberty of the Nation—what its tendenc
tinguish between the temporary causes out of which to secure and maintain even the Established Church
the disabilities of the Roman Catholics had grown, (Hear, hear,)--in fine, what had been its tendency t
and those great maxims of State, which should be accomplish the objects for which it, had been inst
the foundation of all enlightened legislation. It was tuted ?—(Hear, btar.)—When their Lordships looke.
impossible not to attend to the distinction between at the subjects under all these various aspects,
the policy of a temporary expediency, and these would be anxious to know, whether they could be o
great principles upon which the Constitution of the 1 opinion that the question should be passed over, .
British Monarchy was founded. It was true, he whether, on the contrary, they would not desire t'
would admit, that some partial alleviations of the . give it a liberal and enlightened consideration ?.B
political incapacities of the Roman Catholics had I then again, supposing the theory itself not perfec .
taken places; but the question he had to submit, and and that this was an esil which must be endured, h
the consideration which should influence their Lord- called upon their Lordships to consider the case, i
ships on this occasion, was, how they could most order to ascertain whether it was an evil that woul
effectually incorporate their Roman Catholic fellow admit of no palliation, that held out no hope of co ;
subjects into the great body of the State. They section, that afforded no prospect of its being r..'
ought to reflect with regret, tha all that had yet I moved—whether it had been restarted to in a choic'
been done for them had been effected by chance, or i of difficulties, and had been adopted as the least .
by snatches,, and that their cause had never hereto-I two evils ? This was a point of view in which th
fore been taken up on the principles of natural justice 1 question presented itself to their Lordships, and call .
and enlightened policy. ;It had been too much the I for the fullest deliberation. Again he would as
fashion to call the state of the laws as they at present their Lordships, whether, considering the circu
existed the constitutional system j but he must deny stances of the times, there was any thing in the mm..'
portanuu.
that' they could be properly denomivated a system— of pressing the subject upon their notice, twin then ,
be must contend, that the Code, as it existedl did cure of the resolutions with which he should conclud
not deserve to be designated by the name of System what he had so say, so objectionable, as to mak
—it was impossible to describe with either truth or their Lordships think it necessary, •nathat gtron
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justice, enactments so contrary to reason and sound alone, to reject his proposition, and declisie enteric.
policy in such a way. The effect of looking at the into the consideratioh of the question Me was a '
law, as it stood in the light of a sound and esta- that in stating the subject in this way, he was de
blished system, was one unvaried impulse against ing from the usual mode of bringing im
affording any opportunity for the correction of a Lions before their Lordships, and he was the more
Code which so materially affected the interests of so averse from persisting in it, because he mutt inspi '
large a body of the people. By these false views of their Lordships with an apprehens on, that he mean
the subject, the question would be reduced to a-state Ito detain them Linger, than he trusted would be ne
in which it never could be considered ; and the tact 1 cessary for him to trespass upon their indulgence.—
was, that it had never yet been fairly and dispassion. I His intention, he could assure their Lordships; was tc
ately considered—that their Lordships had turned I proceed in such a way, in pressing this case upon
aside from the thorough, and radical, and rational . their notice, as would leave every individual at li
investigation of it, as men in embarrassed circum- betty to come to the discussion and decision of it wit:
stances &cline the examination of their affairs,afraiii a deliberate judgment, or its the progress of the d
to discover the nature and extent of the difficulties bate to take an opportunity to state his objections
out of which their embarrassments arise. They had the question he had to submit. Now, with
- re c,
not been admitted in any of the former discussions to the first point to which he had stated his inters[
to go into au inquiry into the deta,ili of the circum• to call their Lordships' attention—the perfection 4
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