Star.
London, England, 1814-07-15 00:00:00

MR. SHERIDAN'S LEITER.

Copy of a Letter from the Right Hon. RICHARD
BRINSLEY SHERIDAN, 10 ARTHUR MORRIS, Esq. High
Bailiff of Westminster:
Saville-row, Sunday Evening, July 10, 1814.

Ste—Observing that you have called a meeting to-morrow, to
be held in Palace-yard, to consider of a fit person to fill up the
present Vacancy in the Representation of the City of Westmin-
ster, and having myself received very earnest applications from
numerous and independent bodies of its Inhabitant Householders,
requiring that I should meet their wishes, by proposing myself
as a Cacoidate take the freedom of addressing these lines to
Poo, to say, that I absolutely &ethic to be put iu Nomination in
opposition to Lord Coc u KAN L.
send you this, my determination, without concert ur commu-
nication with the respectable persons, to whom I have above
referred, and toward, whom, I must ever continue to owe the
LIMOS t grati•tatle.
I trust I need not declare, that I should have felt greatly ho-
noured by having been again returned the Representative of
Westminster i—my tide to aspire to that distinction is simply,
that, atter more than 31 years service in Parliament, I can, with-
out fear of successiul contradiction. assert that I never gave a
Vote that was not in suvpoit of the 'I ruth of Liberty, and in
Assertion of the People'. Rights : duly respecting, at the same
time, the just Prerogatives of the Crown, an.: revering the Sacred
Principles open winch are founded anti maintained, the glory
and the eectsrity of our unrivalled Constitution.
Holding these opinions, as a public man, have I hitherto sat in
the House of Continuos; and never will I accept a seat there,
but on the sole condition of being the master of my own vote
and voice—the servaut only of my conscience.
ads to the present quesatiti, which occasions your Meeting
tosmorr.)w, 1 enter not into it. No man feels more the reverence
due to the seats t f j..stiee, or the canfidenee due to the verdicts
of jeaits. Due under •the cis eunistmce of an expulsion from the
douse of et...unions, I du not hesitate to say, that I have a de-
cided opts:ion, that the expelled Member bas a rioht to apps al to
his Constituents; with a view to the rettitutiou of his seat, and
the rescue of his character. _

On these grounds, Sir, I will not allow myself to Interfere
with the present appeal made cis the part of Lord Cochrane, and
tu which I concave him to be ao ju&tly
Le adopting this determination, I bvg leave distinegy to state,
than wave my claim to sulic.t the sutlia„;es of tha klectoia ut
Westminster in favour of Lord Cochrane atone.

J have the honour to be, Sir, withsincrra respect ani esteem,
Your vs ry aireaLetit mid Lun►Sle ierv:wt,
(SlowJ) aJCusRD sassstar

PARLIAMENTiIItr PROCEEDINGS. •
HOUSE OF LORDS, JULY 14.
In a Committee of Privileges (the F.arl of Lisseaten In the
Chair)
.Couowl were further heard, touching the claims to the
Borthwick (a Scott) Peerage.—Eurther COStalderatlon deterred
1111 Tuesday next.
The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the friahLoan
Bill, the Deeds Attestation, the Prize Mouey Reguladoss, the
Irish Spirit Duties, the Irish Glass Dude., the Loan Charge, the
Poor's Overseers, and.to several other Bills, mostly of a private
Of local description.
The Lords Coutmissionera were the Archbishop of Carve ea-
soar, use Loam Cuarceettoa, and the Earl of Wtsr:acia-
LAND.
The Earl of POWIS presented Petitions from Oswestry and
*few other places, against the revival of the African Slave
Trade.
he Earl of LAUDERDALE presented a few Petitions to
the same effect. His Lordship presented another Petition front
certain :lip (MOVES and others, of one of the Northern Ports,
against this Northern Lights Bill, praying to be beard by Coult-
as: against certain per:visions of the saute. These documents
were ordered to he on the table.
Earl Si ANHOPE presented a Petition front certain Insol-
vent Debtori in the gaol of Salisbury, prayiug relief. he Noble
Earl then said he bad au Inunesise number of Petitions to pre-
sent upon the subject of the African Slave 'lrade, which docu-
ments he accordingly presented. Among them we noticed appli-
cations from inuoti-upon-Trent, Glastonbury,•l unbridgeW ells,
Causter-le-rreet, and Ambleside.
Lora HOLLAND said he had the satisfaction to hold in his
band, a number of Pctitiuns on the same subject, which the
Noble Lord accordingly presented. They were, as well as the
foregoing Petitions, ordered to be on the table.
Oa the wosidrratiou of the Report of DonLies's Divorce Bill,
some conversation on the subject took place between the Earls
of LAI/DC*O4LX, TA:YUOPS, LiVERPOOL, and the LOAD
CMANctt.Loa, to coos:lot:nee of the first mentioned Peer hav-
ing proposed the introducuon of a clause, providing that the
annual sum of £l5O be secured to Mrs. rtas, in quarerly
payments, during the life of the Petitioner, Robert Duttetas, Esc.
The amount of this provision, the Eau of LAVDtIiDALE, in
the comae of the discussion, agreed to reduce to setou per an-
ginal. In the result, his Lord-hip agreed to withdraw the clause
on this stage, to the purpose ot submitting a proposition of the
kind on the third reading ot the Da
The Report of the Committee was then agreed to by the
,
The Earl of LIVERPOOL presented a Message
from the PRINCE REGENT to the House, to the fol-
lowing effect:
" GEORGE, Pittner RFGANT.
" His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, acting in the name
and on the !what of his Majesty, thinks proper to inform the
House of Lords, that having takes into his serious consideration
the account, received by his Royal Highness, of the severe dis-
tresses to which the inhabitants at Germany were exposed in
their persons and properties in consequence of the operations of
the war, and the horrid devastations committed by the enemy
under the orders of the late Ruler ot France; recommends it to
the House to concur in such measures as may be necesury to
enable his Royal Highness to afford such relief in addition to the
voluntary contributions already subscribed towards the relief of
the people of Germany, as may be sufficient to carry into effect
such a laudable and benevolent purpose."
His Royal Highness's most gracious Message, being read in
the usual way, as as, on the motion of the Earl of LIVER-
POOL, ordered to be token into consideration to-morrow, and
the Lords summoned.
Lord GRENVILLE presented a few Petitions on
the subject of the African Slave Trade. One of
these was from the City of Bristol, signed, he said,
by 12,455 perstos, and voted with perfect unanimity
at the Meeting held for the purpose. The Petitions
being re i.l pro jiwato (as the others), were ordered to
lie on the table.
The Glass Duties Regulation, and the Highways
Bills, weer read a third time and passed.
Ott the occasion of the third reading of the East
India Duties Bill,
The Earl of LAUDERDALE re-urged his for-
mer objections to the rueasure, and observed. their
Lr lops were tab. --- an Acts imposog do-
.he nature or the extent
wliiela he matt always

opposed. The House should have adequate infor-
mation on these heads before it was called upon to
concur in such a Bill.
The Earl of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE contended,
that the Bill by no means went to impose any new
duty whatever. It proceeded from some doubts
arising as to the precise powers conveyed by a for.
mer Act. By the Act of the 33d of the King, a
power was given to the Governments in India, to
impose or levy certain duties in that country: the
Act of the 21st restrained the supreme Courts in In.
dia from jurisdiction in matters of revenue ; and the
British subjects there were liable to no other jurisdic-
tion. The diflizulties arising from such a state of
things, were removed by the Act of the 53d, the
Bill of last year ; but no new duties were in con-
templation, nor did the Bill now before the House
impose any.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE then adverted to
some information relative to the subject, for which it
was his intention to move.

The Earl of BUCKINGHAMSH IRE seemed to
have no objection to the production of certain ac-
counts, and observed there was a great difference
between duties heretofore levied, and duties to be im-
posed hereafter.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE then notified his
intention to move for the documents, to which he had
referred, to-morrow.
The Duke of NORFOLK presented several Peti-
tions against the Slave Trade, one of which was from
the City of Hereford.
The Marquis of LA NSDOWN presented one from
a number of the I)ersons called Quakers ; as did
Earl FORTESCUE from the City of Exeter, both
to the some effect.

The Irish Aims Bill, the French Wines Duty,
the Irish Postage, the Woollen Burying, the Land
Tax Commissioners Bill, and a few other Bills,
were brought up from the Commons by Sir JA six.s
GRAHAM, and other Members, and severally read a
first time.

Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW returned the Apprentice 8.11,
with the acquiescence of the Commons to the Amend-
ments made by their Lordships therein.
The Land Tax Commissioners Name Bill was so
ponderous a concern, that one of the Assistant Mot--
keepers was obliged to carry it up from the Bar to
the table of the House.

The Archbishop of CANTERBURY said, he
should move the second reading of the Woollen Bury-
ing Bull (which was ordered to be printed) to-mor-
row, if the prints were on the table.
The High Treason Punishment Bill being re-
committed,
The LORD CHANCELLOR referred to certain
alterations which be thou lit were still necessary in
the Bill ; but which. in his view of the case, would
be preferably offered on the repo: t.
Tho last clause was, on the motion 14 the Noble
:And very Learned Lord, omitted by the :t.nunittee;
and the House resuming, ordered Report to be
received to-morrow.

Their Lowthhipi then resolved into a Committee
(the second), ou the Corruption of Blood Bill.
In the cows* of sonic discussion on the subjtct,
principally on the part of the Loup Cuascauou,
some further amendments were made in the Bill,
which were ordered to be reported to-morrow.

MILLESTONC ELLCTInN BILL.

The LORD CHANCELLOR called the atten-
tion of the Hoi se to the subject of this Bill, of which,
in the very advanced period of the Session, lie deemed
it impossible their Lordships could properly finish the
discussion. The subject was one of peculiar impor-
tance, one deserving of the most serious and deliberate
consideration, and lie was most anxious, from a due
examination, that they should get at the bottom of
the actual grounds of the Bill. He thought an exa-
mination of evidence could not be advantageously
gone into that Session : besides, such an examination
In a future Session may be necessary, as another Bill,
tar from being precisely the same as the present,
may, in the next Session, be sent up to them by the
Commons, and the present Bill, it seemed to be
generally allowed, must be materially altered, be-
fore they could consistently pass it. Under these
circumstances, he would move, that the Bill be read
a second time that day two months, with a view of
entering fully into the subject in another Session.
Lord GRENVILLE declared his concurrence
with what fell from the Noble and Learned Lord,
and observed he was fi iendly to the principle of such
proiided sufficient grounds were laid for such
a parliamentary interposition. Of the present mea-
sure he was utterly ignorant, save from general re-
port, and he hoped they would enter into the consi.
aeration of its merits in the next Session fully and de.
liberately ; and for which postponement, he believed,
the argument of the Noble and Learned Lord,
against the examination of evidence in the rresent
very advanced period of the Session, was unanswer-
able, as they could not anticipate precisely in what
fOrm a Bill upon the subject would come before them
in another Session.

The question was then put, and the motion of the
LORD CHANCELLOR agreed to, which disposes of the
Bill for the present Session.
The White Herring Fishery Bill passed through a
Committee, and was reported.
The remaining Bills being respectively forwarded,
the House adjourned till to-morrow.

Lor4hhips were about to pass ;
ties, with. ut either know•int; ti
prii.upte to