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IVAit-OFFlelti, 1210211111131 i. i The kidgment in the case ell a..
7th Iteginseht of Dragoon Guards-Cornet James Bennett to bo bowman, was postponed till toonorrow,
Lieutenant, without purchase; vice Miler, Appointed to the - The Militia Force Amendment Bill, t
sth Royal Veteran Battalion ; •••-•.!-Illocost, Gent. to' be Comet, and Sugar Bill, were committed and r
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vice Bennett. - . . '-' . . The Marine Mutiny Bill, West
4th Regiment of .Dragoonri-Tis be Comsat-Bit:Wit Coney. 'sod Pollee Bill, were brought up from .
Gent. by purchase, vice Witlitanley, who'retires; ad Robert a first time. . , . ...
Lawrence Townsend, Gent. withoutpurehesh viesrHodson, The Mutiny Bill was committed and reported,-A.djourned.' t
promoted. . . NOUSE OF COMMONS.
10th Regiment of Light Dragoons--Richard Bbry,l*alliser, Gent.
to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Somerset, promoted. The Irish Spirit Intercourse Bill, and the Irish County Police
16th Ditto-Arthur Ingleky. Gent., to be Cornet, without par- BM, went through the Conuoittee. To be reported to-morrow.
chase, vice Burke, promoted. The Irish Illicit Distillation Bill was read a second. time. To
2lst.Dit!to-Samuel Carter,. Gent. to be Cornet, without.pur- be committed to-morrow.
chase, vice Heystflisg, promoted. The Report of the Committee of Supply was reeeived,'and
tt 25th D'eiAlames d rdon Brunton, Gene. to be Cornet, by . the several Resolutions agreed to.
purchase, vice Coles, who retires. , .. • The-Lords' Amendments to the Scotch Police Bill were
lit Riginsent of Foot Guards Co be Ensigns, without purchase *greed to;
• -john Francis Miller Erikitie, - Gent. vice t riatchbull, do. The Report of the Insolvent Bill was brought up : the Bill
• (teased ; and Frederick Thornton Gould, Gent. ',vitt Sir Tho- was recommitted, several amendments by Mr. LOCKHART were
teas Style, deceased. Agreed to, and It was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow.
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Ist Regimens of Foot-Ctptaln EI. Wetherell, from the VOA Sir I. SHAW brought up the Replrt of the London Militia
Chasseurs, to be Captain -of a Company, without pitriliate, Bill, which was recommitted, amended, and ordered to be read
vice Macdonald, appointed to the 2d Royal Veteran Battalion. 1 a-thleld time to-morrow. ' ' • .. : •.•
The East India Shipping Bill was read clitilend dose . tom-
sd Ditto-Lieutenant John Cowcher, from the 39th Foot, to be
Lieutenant, vice Williams, who exchanges. :' ' mitten to-nwelliw• I . ' ' ' '.. . :: 1
Bth Dion-James 13eyd, Esq. late a lieutenant in the Regiment, Mr. TIERNEY presented a Petition *oft the Depisty Swe-
tt) he PaymiAer, trice Gravel, who 'resigns. I veyors-General of Customs in the Out-ports of Ireland, praying
to he put on the sae footing with similar person in other parts
Bth Ditto-Gentleman Cadet George Augustus 'l4447)ertitOlt, '
frcitn the Royal Military Collegia to be Ensign, vice Erskine, of the United Kingdom.- Ordered to lie on the table.
whose appointment has not taken place. - • r. Mr. HARVEY gave notice., for to morrow of a Bill fdr the
12th Di to-,Lieutenant Joh.: Borthwick, from the Edinburgh ' better preservation of Wild Fowl.
,Militia, to be Ensign , without purchaae, - - • siEWOATe PRISON.
14th Ditto--lieutenant Robert' Innea, from' the' Royal West. The Hon. Mr' EDEN rose; pursuant to his notice,,
Middlesex Militia; to• be Ensign, .vice Abbott, Who • •
reeigns. . _ ito state his object as-concisely as-possible. It was not
. - - • ... , a duty imposed by, law, hut it was a practice lath i lino-Ensign Samuel MlCaill to be Lieutenaht, without.
gene-
purchase, vice Carmichael, promoted in the 60th Foot ;,Ensign ' rally acted upon by Grarid Juries at Assizes, to visit
Henry Senior, from the 60th Foot, to be Ensign, vice M'Caul. ' the public jails, and to report the result or their era.'
49th Ditto-Brevet •Major George Tod to be Major, without
nations to the Jedge,, stating. what • appeared to'
. . purchase., vice Tucker, promoted on the Staff in Canada; Lieu-1 12 •li.
• tenant limes Brooke to be 'Captain of a Compinf,s.riee Tor; them as faults in the administration of the priscm.7-
-Ensi3n William Clark to be Liesiterfant, without porehaseterice rTite Grand Jury of -die City of London had, last
Scanners promoted ; and Ensign A. Rishard.oo,to be. Lieute. I week, visited the' prison of 'Newgate, and had made
Darn, without purchase, vice Brooke. a representation• of• its present state, for a cOpy of
Slit Dutra-Ensign Richard Wood, from the Sligo Militia, to be 1
bear:. . 1 which he should. Move. • It-stated, briefly, that in
Sid D. to-Lieutenapt E. J. Priestley' to be Adjutant, vice that part. of the prison which should contain 60
Moore, deceased. ,women, there were now confined 120: that in ano-
ssth pitto-Quar:er-Master-Serjeant.-- Foote, to be Quarter- •ther part, which was intended to contain 100 persons,
Master, vice Macfidd, promoted in the 7th Royal Veteran .
• Battalion. there were at present 310 debtors: that the prisoners
37th Ditto—Lieutenant Mark Ransford, from the Kildare Mut: were in a deplorable state, from wantof clothing and
- tia, to be Ensign. of bedding, and were exposed to the severity of the
Seth Ditto-Lieutenant Edward Williams.. from the Sd Feint, to I season, the rain beating in upon them through ne-
be Lieutenant, vice Coucher, who exchanges. - glect of the building. He need hardly add a com-
tad Dioo-To be Captains of Companies, without Purchase
Lieutenant Willtani Freer, vice Cap-I, killed in action • and merat upon such a statement, but he wished to bring
Lieutenant Bernard Murphy, vice Murchison, dead Of his the matter home to the feelings of the House. He
wounds. TO be Lieutenants, without purchase-Ensign W. then referred to Mr. Newman, the keeper's, state-
Carruthers, vice Edward Freer, killed in action ; and Ensign ments before the Committee of the House of Cont.
M. H. Warren, vice W. Freer. 'ro be Ensign-Robert Mul-
caster Atichmuty, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Carruthers. mons. ,He had said that the place of confinement for
47th-Ditto-Lieutensot John Craigie, to be Captain of a Corn- women was destined to receive only 57, but that by
.parry, Vice Hawkins, deceased; Ensign. Dasid Calder to lie appropriating the Infirmary and other apartments to
ISeutenant, vice Ctaigie. the same object,. room might be found for 100: yet
zsd Ditto-John Witfield, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Coffry. now their number was 120. The 'principal. room for
36tiS Ditto-Lieutenant J. G. Finn to be Adjutant. the women was only 36 feet by 14 feet. .It was. in-
both Ditto-Ensign Edward Jones, from the 6th Garrison Baca- tended that each woman should have a space of three
lion, to be Lieutenant, without purchase. To be Enrgns, feet six inches; whereas now one foot nine inches in
without purchase--1. Gourville, Geo. pcittie, and Atexartder breadth was the whole that could be allotted to each
l'itelean,•Gents.. vice Senior, appointed- to ate .1 etlt Fuott •ro
be Surgeon-Assistant-Surgeon George Vert:seinen, from' he unfortunate woman. Many of these women had with
Hospital Staff. ' them two or three children. Such was the calamity
634 Ditto -Lieutenant G. W. SaVage, to be Captain of a Corn- of their situation. Many of them were-cony lets, but
patty, without pis-chase, vice Ouseley, promoted on the Staff the . taw -
never contemplated such an aggravation of
.in Portugal; Lieutenant James Seer, from half-pay of the 55th.
foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Irwin, who eschlnges. - their'sufferings under punishment. Some prisoners
old Ditto-Lieutenant J. Boyd to be Captain of a Company,' were awaiting the first opportrinity for their transpor-
vice Maine, deceased; Ensign- David Fraser to be Lieute. cation ; others were not convicted criminals, but xrere
nant, vice Boyd. confined on stispi‘ion, and though yet to be tried,
oath Ditto-Ensign H. Stuart, from. the limerick City Militia,
to be Ensign, without purchase. . were mingled with the basest and most abandoned
93th Ditto--Ensign G. Wood to beLieutenant, vice Rogers, die- characters. Could it be supposed that any one con-
. missed the service; Robert Montgomery,. Gent. robe Ensign, (wed 'with such depraved companion's could leave
vice Wood; Hosital-Assistant T. Wadlter to be Aisistani. . ...
such scca.ty without-being correpted ? A's far as the ;
Surgeon, vice Markham, promoted in the York Light Infan-
try Volunteers. Report 4.4,the Grand Jury related to the situation of.l
lit West-India Regiment- Lieutenant F. Collins to be Captain the debtors he should say little, trusting that the new
4 a Company, without purchase, vice Duke, promoted in the, Bill would operate in that respect as a permanent
York Cbasseurs • Ensign I. Mackenzie to he Lieutenant, vice . remedy. All the debtors id Newgate he should pie. I
. ParkinsonoleceLdd; William Alexander Callow Gent. to be ;
F-nsign, v ce. Mackenzie; Hospital-Mate RichatdV'alsh to be . some to be .insolvent, or they would not remain in
Assistant-Surgeon, vice Noble, deceased. such a prison as that, but go to the B-nch er the
3d Ditto-Ensign R. Turnbull to be Lieutenant, vice Bradshaw, i Orin.. To ensure the redress of a great evil, it was
deeeased ; Archibald MiTavish, Gent. to be Ens gn, vice t uiefil) to make
the 'facts public ; therefore he should
Turnbull. , . . i .
t move foe the' production 61 this paper. After the re'.
•Sth Ditto-Hospital-Assistant J. Johnstone to be Assistant-Sur.' _
goon, Wde Walker, whose appointment has not taken plice.• • cess be should propose a -Committee to enquire into
6th Di-to-Lieutenant W..E. Grant to be Captain or. a Company, the subject, and also to ascertain whether the intend-
_ vice Luder, deceased; • Ensigns. B Fenniger, vice Fraser, 'dim- ed new prison would be adequate to the desired relief:
missed the service; and J. Church, vice Grant, to be Lieute- L.,
rae then moved for a copy of the Report of the
' •nants; J. Johnson, vice Penniger ; and R. Wickearn, Gems.
vice Church, to be Ensigns; Serjeant-Major - Henderson, Grand Jury of the City of London, Ares rated by
vice Anderson, wbo resigns, to be Quarter-Master, them to the Judges at the Old Bailey Session, Con-
t3th Ditto-Lieutenant William Hadley, from the 1020 Foot, to taining an account of the state of " the Prison of,
-be Captain of a Company, vice Wii.gheld, deceased; Wiliam ,
,
ate.
isiew
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Stead, Gent, to be Ensign, vice Rely, di,missed the service. g- -
Royal West-India Rangers-Hospital Assis ant Williant Ken. Sir W. CURTIS seconded the motion ; but war
.needy to be Assiitant-Surgeon, vile I homson, deceased. • convinced, that.great pact of what had fallen from
4th Garrison Battalion-Ensign A. Moran to be. Lieutenant, the 'Honourable' Membei'•would,
without purchase; George Armstrong, Cent. to be Ensign, . • -
be.confuted. •- •
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vice Moran. - - .
6th Ditto-Lieutenant H. R. Dighy, from the 52d Foot, to be -Mr. AldsrMan COMBE said-a few words to the
Captain' pf a Company, vice O'Beirne, who retires; Benjamin' same effect•
Bayley, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Jones, promoted to 015 (i°o! Mr. JAMES SHAW said, that it would appear
Foot. I that the magistrates had done every thing, in their
Bth Roinl Veteran Battalion-Lieutenant R. Miller, from the r
, power for the required relief. There were 335 deb.
7th 191.asoon Guards, to be Lieutenant, vice Bennett, placed
en the ttetired List. tots in Newgate. One-object Was nearly realized for
lc th Ditto-Lieutenant I Harrison, from the . Royal.Waggon the relief $4l Newgatv, by the cnnstruction of a new
I rain, to be Lieutenar.t. Prison for the Debtois, and which would-be capacioui
Royal Conic= Rangers-Col. Hudson Lowe to be Colonel.
enough for five hundred persons. The Newgate cri-.
York Chasseurs-Lieutenant H. Floyd, from the 19th Light Dra-
goons, to be Captain of a Company, without eurchate,. vice We- 1 ininals were 417, of whom 202 were convicted and '
Coen'', appointed to tte is( Foot ; Serjeaut Major J. Lowry, sentenced to hanspottation. Three weeks azo the,
from the '4lst Foot, to be Quarter Master. 1 Sheriffs, with the attention they always paid to these:
HOSPITAL vrarr.
iuhjects, ma.le a representation -to the Secretary of
Purveyor's Clerk Thomas Vaughan to be Deputy Purveyor to
the Forces. • ' State for the Home Department, requesting shipping
llospital Assistant A. Finegan tope Apothecary to the Forces. Po be provided early to carry out the convicts, or
To be Hospital Assistants to the Forces-Francis M'Donagh, and some other means to be' adopted. Lord Sidmouth ',
Frederick IS. White, Gents. - -
The King's German Legion. had promised to do every thing that was possible.-",
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Ist. Regiment of Dragoons-William Jones, Gent, to be Cornet, When the debtors should be removed horn New.
vice Bosse, promoted. gate, and the 4.00 convicts sent off, there would be
2d Ditto-Tronp Se jealit Major A. Mess to be Cornet, vice F. only 300 left in Newgate, which had a capacity to,
Nanne, who resigns. ' hold a greater number.
Ist-Regiment al Light Dragoons-George Leopold Conze, Gent.
Mr. Alderrhan ATKINS commended the general
to be Cornet, vice Leopold, whose appointment has not taken'
place.
• care and good conduct of the jail. The women pri.
• .
Bed Dium-Ernest Soest, Gent. to be Cornet, vice D. Schulze, soners required much more trouble to preserve order
deceased. • among them than the others : and it was very diffi-
Sd Ditto-To be Cornets=Charles de Hellen, Gent. vice Ode ,
kers; promoted; Francis Baroh Heymert, vice Krause, pro-cult to enforce the necessary cleanliness.
rooted; Augustus Baron Hodenberg ; and Haas - Baron -110- : Mr: ABERCROMBY supported the motion, but
denberg. imputed no. inhumanity to any person. He was
Ist Battalion of Light intantry--lii be Ensigns: Gustavus Best, happy that the motion was so cheerfully met, and
Gear. vice Lattenz, superseded; Lewis Baron Arden, vice
that an examination was to follow. As a Member
Kessler, promoted; 'and Adolphus Augustus de Geeszkow,
vice Koester, promoted. . of Parliament, he had occasion fOr visiting Nee-gate'',
ed Dinor--Elidap A. Madman to be Lieutenant, vice Klein. and he thought Mr. Newman, the keeper, entitled to
buret, who resigns. To be Ensigns: Frederick de Robertson, every possible praise for an anxious desire to dis.
Gent. vice Earle, remota; end Augustus Friedricks, Gent.
vice Masbean. : - charge the duties of Iris station.. Yet he must say,
Ist Batt. of the tane...-TobeLlestrenanta-e•EnsignWilliamßess, that the sight of Newgate was a disgrace to the Me-
vice Boyd, kilted. la lied-es; ; mid .Ensign ..-... Wilding, vice tropolis, particularly as it regarded the places of con-
Weskit, who reigns.. .
pro., _ fieemu ent for 'the women.. Those depraved females
rei atria... 4.44.. r. Lvichtr to be lieutenant, vice Dk444,
mutest 4, char!es Angustus lien der Sodehr Gent. to-be hasten, . "
11113 t be more difficult to govern than other persons,
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Sth dittis-A.:isLitt ,se.jeant William Walther- to thin Atisian, *it: ;suit the average room was far ' too small. for them:
IPAPOs.r) r"Acvd' ' - .:
- ..•, - : . ~a Unlest -some protisied WO made for classing the dif:
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all efforts. it *et ',NW be
praised the condutt of the
of the blegistrafes, .
hoped, the;new bill would
remedy* for one, cause of tlie
froth thepreatirs of convicts,
seemed desirable, that a more
..carer Sp& than Botiny Bay should
be selected, that convicts might be removed more,
frequently. _ The motion was agreed tot:,
. • NSW 111604. VENT BLLJ.
On the question for the third reading;
Mr. Serjeant BEST contended that tie Bill never
could be acted upon, if passid in its present state. It
wits quite inadequate to-its proposed functions. By
'O se 'clause, the debtor's concealment of £2O was
lade a bapital °genie. '"But as the law required the
deliberations of two kirks, a grand and petty one,
for the conviction of inditiduals, would it be right in
this case to proceed against persons on information,
and without those provisions ? The amended bill
provided, that notices to creditors should be given
in the London Gazette, or some newspaper or news-
papers. A newspaper might be chosen which the
creditors might never read. There was also a con-
tradiction in the clauses respecting the bringing up
the prisoners before the justices. It would be impos
sible to execute the act. Prisoners under particular
judgments for malicious injuries, sec. or being frau-
dulent debtors, were entitled to no benefit. But how
was the Court to be regularly put in possession of
these facts ? Hbw could.it enforce the clauses.under
Flis act ? Prisoners might be in the King's Bench or
eet, for debts incurred in Cornwall or Northum-
berland. How were their creditors to oppose frau.
dulent debtors ? Most they come up to London with
I their witnesses ? Some debtors' frauds were of such
an extent and consequence, as even to take from the
injured creditors the ability of objecting to their libe-
ration. The defects in the bill ought to be remedied,
or it would be better not to pass the bill. As to the
debtors in Cornwall and the distant parts of the king-
dom, he did not think it proper that they and their
creditors should be brought up to • London—but he
thought the bill should have allowed those creditors,
who had legal and valid objections to the discharge
of their debts under this act, to substantiate tisuse ob-
jections in the country. He was not averse to the
general principle of discharging from imprisonment
on the curio bonorum ; but he thought that it would
be possible to discriminate between those who had
become insolvent from mere misfortune, and those
who were fraudulent debtors, of whose circumstances
were reduced by idleness, extravagance, and gaming.
To those who were merely unfortunate, he should
wish that there was no imprisonment necessary. in
order to t eke the benefit of the Act, as he was• con-
vinced, that even passing the threshold of a prison
was sufficient to degrade and destroy the future com-
forts of an innocent but unfortunate man. To those,
however, whose debts and embarrassments were ow.
ing to their own faults—to those who had dissipated
their means by extravagance and gaming—and to
those who inflicted on their creditors the additional
wrong of driving them to the expense of an action at
law, when they had no just defence, to such persons,
he thought that thy three months' imprisonment re.
quired by this Act was not sufficient punishment.--
He should pr pose a clause, that they should be im.
pi isoned for twelve months within the walls of a jail,
before they could cl Om the benefit of the Act. To'
the unfortunate, however, he wished that the benefit!'
of this Act mittla be extended without any imprison-
ment at all. He wished to 11,1 d nut a temptation to
them, when they knew thainselves in a state of insol-
vency; to come forward to their creditors, and on the
cessi tonlrum to obtain the benefit of this Act ; in.
st.tad of holding their creditors at arms' I•Algth, and
driving them to the expense and delay of a law-suit,
by sham pleadings, and other nsodes, which were
often taken to delay the rec ,very of a just debt. He
thought that the principle of the bankrupt law might
well be applied to them, when they shou,ld prove
satisfactorily that their insolvency proceeded from
misfortune, and that they had fairly surrer.dered their
property. In fact, the imprisonment of those persons
was an injury to the creditors, as part of their means
was then necessarily divided among jailors and other
officers. He was then proceeding to offer his clauses,
when—

. The SPEAKER informed him, that this was not
the proper stage to offer clauses ; but that it would
be competent to him, if the Bill should be read a
third time, to offer any clauses or amendments he
might think proper.
. The Nil was then read a third time.

Mr. Serjeant BEST then proposed his first clause,
which went to extend the benefits of the Bill to debt,
ors not actually imprisoned.
.111 r. HORNER was glad to hear the Honourable
and Learned .Gentleman avow himself a friend to
the principle of the reirio bon9rum, and be therefore
hoped that he would not do any thing to delay or
obstruct ihe passing of the present Bill, although he
might have some objection to its details. There was
no doubt that many improvements might be sugges-
ted. in this Bill, and that there would be various op-
portunities, not only in the course of this session but
in subsequent sessons, to suggest those improve-
ments. He therefore wished that the Honourable
and Learned Gentleman would defer to some future
opportunity the consideration of those ideas which he
had now, for the first time, thrown out. The sug-
gestions of the Honourable and Learned Gentle-
man were novel, and would, if adopted, form the
greatest innovation in the existing law that had
ever been atteniped or proposei. What could
be a greater innovation than to extend the provisions
of the Bankrupt Laws to persons who were not
traders ? Another of his clauses went to create -a
new species of crime, and to punish with 12 months'
imprisonment in a jail, persons who were now not
subject to such severity of puaiihment. He was not
prepared to say that those propositions were not wise
or expedient; but he was perfectly prepared to say,
that it was impossible that the House could adopt
such a great innovation on our laws without the most
mature deliberation, and the fullest time being al-
lowed fOr the consideration of those propositions. It
appeared to him impossible that any Court of Justice
or any tribunal whatever could enter so completely
into the motives of, the debtor, or the history of his
whole life, as to pronounce whether his debts had
been contracted from extravagance or idleness ; or
whether his insolvency Was not the result of misfor-

PA&CZZDJNG& fgeiii 1i ods of erinimils) all
At' ' *bud ineffectual.
DEclum, 7711••• li' ". ~.4- ,Alderman SMITH
and defended that i
it against the .
sr. •,. .. s : r. LOCKHART hot
m. tbew.,,,,a 0- #' . • a permanent rented
A reign' -•- •••• ~. yii. The other cause, Iron
It if ' - aililliali. Illa* was temporary. It seem(
ras ea • - cc, vement, and dealer sp.&