Star.
London, England, 1815-07-11 00:00:00

PARLI.IMIiNr4ar PROCE4I)INGS.

0e HOUSE OF LORDS, JULY M.
In taste of the Newcastle Company v. M‘blerrati.jitigment
of the Court below reversed]. In the case of A; bucisle v i oleo,
judgment of the Court below affirmed, w•tn t. speet teeaU t xeept
the prtucipal pro-ectitor and the sheriff su..stitute, atid as to tl., nt
the CAUge remitted.
The Vote of Credit Bill, the Seeds Bill, tie }bane, Coach
Bill, the Salt Bill, the Dittitlee Harbour Bill, the Nat end Cot•
ton Bill, the Irish Inland Navigation Bill, the Militia Regulation
MI, anti the Malt Duty Bill, were read a third tine and passed.
A Bill mentioned in under tone, which we understood to bu
the Surgeons' Charter Bill, was proposed for a third reading
without having passed through a Committee.
Earl S I'ANHOrB objected to thisßill, anitbs third reading
was negatived.

PILLORY.
.Earl STANHOPE adverted to the very proper
suggestion drat had been made the other day by the
)1.0)le and Learned Lord on the woolsack, and a
R•ble Earl (Liverpool) who had great weight in that
House. nam ly, that'the Judges should be required
to seduce into one act, all the acts imposing the pu.
I)Ni:flew of the pillory, or authorizing the same to
be inflicted. In this case, it was proposed to follow
the precedent set by a Noble Friend of his (Lord
Grenville) who had made a similar motion respecting
the revenue laws. He now, therefore, moved that
the Judges be required to reduce these acts into one
rut accordingry. The motion was agreed to.

THE PUOR.
Earl 'I'ANHOPE stated, that he had a similar
/notion to suggvst, with respect to the laws relating
to the pool not considering how much the time of
the Learned Judges was occupied in the discharge of
their ordinal y must important functions, he should
not press tl.is motion any farther than to have it in.
se, tt d in the journals that such a 'motion was. made.
Perhaps, in turning over the whole ot the statute
book tor the purpose of finding out and examining
all those acts that related to the pillory, *the Judges
night, without very great additional inconvenience,
wince into one act all those statutes which related to
the poor : but, however, he was so. sensitale of the
extent in which the time of Judges was occupied in
other matters, .that he would not press this for adop-
tion, and therefore, as to that effect, the property
must fail. But why must it tail? Not because the
motion was improper, but -because of the inconveni-
ence of pressing so much upon the time of the Judges:
and his object was to call their Lordships' attention
to the impoi tame of the subject itself, and to the'ne-'
of adopting in another Session, some outer of-,
beset mode of carrying the (Pim into exedution.
He then moved that the Judges be required to reduce
into one Bill, all the acts relating to the poor.
The LORD CHANCELLOR opposed the mo-
tion on the grounds stated by the Noble Earl himself,
and the motion was negatived.
APOTHWARIES.
The Earl *f SHAFTEbBURY reported .the
Apothecaries
Eat I STAN HOPE observed, that their Lordships
had here reported to them a Bill of a very curious
nature in its cl4uses and enactments. He begged
not to be understood as being adverse to the object of
the Bill. Tlis object of it was an honest one, and
had his approbation. He objected:to the clumsy and
improper mode in which it was attempted to carry
that object into execution. That mode was full 'of
oppression. As he was always a Wend to honesty,
he approved of the object ; but as he was always an
enen.y to oppression, he opposed the enactments of
this Bill. In the fist place the Bill was inefficient
for its own put pose, which was a valid objection to
any dill. Two assistants, appointed by the Warden
and Company of Apothecaries,. we're to be allowed
to enter any apothecary's :Mop in pngland and Wales
to se.srch for improper drugs. *ow; if tte apoth y
couta dad meaps to ger notice of the intended visit,
he might put the iliutaper drugs into a back shop or
cellar, and there vfas 110 power given by the present
814 to enable theni.t., enter into these. plaqes. There
was Aleo a erovision that .tirs Act showldflbot extend
to chi mists and chtwiszs, and consequently. any
apothecary might take himself. oat of its enactments
by waiting °vet his dour chemist and druggiat ! He
might s.iy, you dare tlikt.tuter I:ire ; duititquu see
that lam a Chtnnibt and druggist I shall In ing an
action of trespass abainst you." But a mord serious
oko‘tiun wah that these persons might cuter viationt
warrant or constable, and ransack every apothecary's
shop, and burst btfine his door, or otherwise destroy,
what they might choose to call improper drugs. clop.,
post, for instance, a large box full, •of -Peruvian bare
were to he coademnsd by these persons and buirnt.
The owner might say, and perhaps justly say,lsth4t,
the bask was excellent, the best in the world, ankys
he could hive no appeal against the judgm_gt ri
those persons so as to patient the destruction 1-1 his
bask, and the ruin perhaps of his character as an
apothecary. bark would be burnt More Lis
door, thrown into the Thames, or ot rwise de-
stroyed ; and, therefore, the evidence Vies inno-
cence would be 'tat. The visitors had terniltatim
ens ugh to condemn without moth examinatiMroffoi
they were to have nalt the penalty ; they were to be,
at the same time pro secutors, judges. and receivers
of halt the penalty ; besides, as they might enter
without warrant, two thieves ;night come in their
character and help themselves out of the aPothecary's.
shop. [trefoil:Jed ltimot what took placelately in Kula.
..- A. set of Laudon thieves, one of wham had been
POi cc (siiicct, aid had been dismissed for misconduct,
•
came down to the country, representing thensselves
as revenue officers, and exacted about £5O its the
way ot-tioes, Iron, poor people who trad.committed
no otlenee. 'They levied fines arso in several Odle:
places in ille.same roomier. and. thus these Loodpo,
scat yes went about laying the country under contra.
b1.1.11.M. Whit security would the Apothecaries have