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PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY I.

It was arranged, that the Royal Assent should have been given
by Conunissloo this day; but as the House of Gammons had ad-
journed till to-morrow, the Commission stands for another day.
Earl STA N HOPE presented a Petition from Charles Andrew
Thomson, of Chiswick, in the County of Middlesex, complain-
ing of the mighty mischiefs resulting to individuals, and pro-
perty hi general, by returning to Cash Payments, accompanied
as they unhappily were with measures for rectifying contracts;
and stating, that amongst the thousands and thousands of suf-
ferers, the cases of very few could exceed in hardship the one
now brought before this House. Petitioner and his father were
for many years Oporto merchants, in which capacity they gained
a large fortune, and were enabled to purchase the estates of
Northaw, In Hertfordshire, and also at Pontriglar, in Hertford-
shire, which, owing to reverses hi commerce, he offered for sale,
but could not obtain a price at all equal to the sum for which,
meantime, they had been mortgaged. It was represented, in
like manner, that Petitioner and his father (now deceased) bad
purchased some estates in the Counties of Middlesex, Sussex,
and Hams, for upwards of ,1133,000, which actually sold for
.C 12,000. Petitioner and his late father,owing to the depression
in the price of land, and to a like depression in that of their stock
in trade, were, In 111611, reduced to a state of bankruptcy, In con-
sequence of which their families were left destitute, while Pe-
etioner's fa:her died broken hearted. "It is," concluded the
Petitioner, '• to prevent this act of crying injustice and cruelty
that your Petitioner humbly implores your Lordships to inter-
pre the exercise of that power which you possess, for the pur-
r 1.• of protecting his Majesty's people againt oppression. tour
Petitioner thinks it wholly unnecessary to take up the time of
your Lordships ha :hewing, that this threatened confiscation of
his property has arisen wholly from those legislative measures
Which have produced that change in the value of money, which
bas taken two-thirds from the price of agricultural produce, and
which has, of course, lessened, in the. same degree the price of
land. His cue is so plain that it cannot be misunderstood; and,
therefore, begging leave to remind your Lordships of the Bank
Suspension Act in 1797, of the suspension of actions against the
non-resident Clergy in 1 600 (which actions were afterwards
quashed by an Act of your Honourable house), and of the sus-
pension of the landlord's power of distress agaiust tenants, in
1u12.; your Petitioner, begging leave to remind your Lordships
of these precedents, most humbly prays your Lordships to sus-
pend the power by which the mortgagee may be enabled to take
:rum hint his estate; and he further prays your Lordships to
cause such equitable adjustment of contracts between man and
ran, as niay prevent the utter ruin of your Peiaoner, and of
the hums foes persons dependent for their bread on his peas-
Pi lry means."—The Noble Bail, the Petition being read, sup-
Totted its prayer at °onside:rail: length and, in conclusion, said,
that at some future time he should certainly call the attention of
their Lordships to the measures of a more equitable adjustment
of contracts, and a more equal assessment of rates.—The Pet&
ti:— was then laid upon the table of the House.
14,Yra the motion of the Earl of SIIArTZSIIERY, the Profane
S xearing Act Amendment nil was reed a third time, passed,
and messaged to the Commons.
The Report of the Warehousing Bill was received, and the
an: er.dre enta were agreed to; after collets the Weights and Mea-
se-es I:111 was read a second time.

Cp the motion of the Earl of SUATTNIIIITAT, their Lord-
row acijoc.racti to tun o'clock to-morrow.

THE EYENLNO STAR.

LONDON.

FRIDAY, MAY 2. 1825.

STOC ENCLIANGE. TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Corso% openel this morning at 77‘ and got up to 7s, I,
with a good Market. Au Express arrived this morning from
.Paris, bringing the French Funds of Wednesday at 8.51. 10c.—
Spanish Vt.