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TO THE APOTHECARIEi OF ENGLAND AND
WALES.
'TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That
1 I will be a GENERAL MEETING of APOTHECARIE4
held on Tituasnay. MAY the 12th, at the CIONIN AND Au-
HOl TAM' N, STRAND, at One o'Cloek,to take iuto cooddera..
non tile Bill about to be submitted to Parliament for 4, The Ens
largemesit of the Clurter of the Society of Apothecaries. and
for better Regulation or the Pracice of Apothecaries tbrutighout
aglausl and %Vales."
Chair to be taken at Two o'Clock precisely.
By Order of the Committee,
London, April 129, ttil4. W. J. WARP, Secretary.
N. B. The Draft of the Bill will be printed. and a Copy sent,
by order of the London Committee, to each of the District Com.
miner., previously to the General Meetiog. It will be to be bad
of all the Medical Booksellers.

.P4IaI4IMI.7NTART PROCEEDINGS.

WI April, 1814.
TO GRAZIERS AND OTI-11,..Eq.
ICKMANSWORTI-1 PARK, I ItTS,
xv be open on the 2d May next, for lior.es, at 75.; on the
Yob May next, for Cows, at 31. lid. Apply for ado:is:lon W
Mr. John Cardie, Bell lon, Ricktuansworth.
N. B. Colts and Calves to be paid f w as tl.srses and Cows.

HOI.ISP. OF LORDS, MAY 2.
Counsel was heard in the Chancery cause, Tregonorell a%
Sydenham.
Judgment was poeponed in the eases Smith v. Rob neon, and
Sibbald .. 1-ii4l and others.
The discus ion on the Air ley Peerage was put off front Tiers.
day nest till to-morrow senniiiht
. . AD.UIIIsTRATIoN OF JUSTICE.
Lord STANHOPE rose to present to their Lord.
ships two petition', connected with the subject of
which he had given notice for this d iy. . After refer.
rift; to several petitions he had fo,merly presented
on the s :note subject, he wished to preface the one
.he now held in his hand, by temind;ng their Lord-
s;aps, dirt there was an Act proviitng fur th- poor
prisoners in the Kiog's Beech, Mardialsea, and Fieet
prisons, who could swear they were not worth more
than aelo, by allowing any Magistrate, before whom
the. affidavit should be taken, to order them the sum
of sixpence per diem, but nothing exceeding that
sum. Notwithstanding this provision of the 14w, and
notwithstanding the supplies beinrro so very scampi,
their Lordships would be astonished to find, that
after the.oath had been taken, in one case out of three
which he mentioned, in the Vied, the sixpence e-day
had been refuse :I till (beim were paid—ft-es which
were illagal and centrary to, the express Act of PAT.
listieni. The poor debtors were not even entitled to
a room, to alms!: .01.. In any medical assistance; till
their fees were paid; end the*: too they had 9 pay
for this accommodation. This was a treatment more
oppressive and cruel that:tali:at-4 the greatest felons,
who met with comparative •indulgenee. The
cast of thepresent ;Petitioner was so notoriously r pi.
pressive, that he felt it his duty to bring if before
their Loidships; There never was a case of greater
oppreisioo, hor any that bore am similitude to it bat
one, and that was the slave trade, which their Lord
ships, with great honour to their feelings and lima.
nita, bad abolished. * 'llis treatment of down *ras
the English slaie trade, which tailed as kodir . foil
abolition as ever the 'Other had dose. par of Ile
prisoners, whose cases he had alluded to, refined to
pay the fees, because lawyer enough to know that
they were illeg.ll. This pris:ioer had sent him (Lord
Stanhope) a letter, complaining of the imposition;
which he (Lord Stanhope) transmitted to the Noble
Lord at the head of the Home Department, who sent
it vet y properly to the Jailor for redress. What
was the consequence ? A repayment of the fees;
which WAS a clear confession that they had been Me-
gally,extorted. In one of the cases the Oath was
taken in Augtist, and it was not till near the end of
September that lie received the relief allowed by law;
so that he was kept starving for six weeks with only
what the humanity of some of his fellow prisoners
could afford him. In one of these prisons, the F.eet,
A person had sent in his affidavit with the order, and
was nor only refused the relief, but was refused the
affidavit back again. He also complained, and after
this they began to pay him regularly, but stopped all
at once, he having applied for his release, though it
was refused him. The petition he now presented to
th.:ir Lordships, was t:om W. Wright, who had'
been imprisoned for £l4. 12s. and because he could
not pay the fete. amounting to £5, he was not per.
twitted tp take the oath before a Magistrate; in order
to have the alloivauce, though himself, his wile, and
family, were starving. There had been instances of
persons in similar situations perishing from absolute
want. . .
The petition, on the motion of his Lordship, was
ordered to lie on the table.
His. Lordship nest adverted to the cases of four
persons, three of whom had never owed any of the
sums alleged. One of them of the name of Bald-
fcctive. Wire not all such casts a gross violation of
liberty and security of the British' subject.
• The second pethion was also ordered to lie on the
win,Blan chabitlyterodnecoulancritedtiotnheofaffithdeAvCiotuorft
but not till after be- had been imprisoned eleven
months. fn another of these cases the person had
been kept two months in prison after Mr. Justice Le
Magna Charts, the great charter of the personal
table, signed by a person of the name of Dennis.
His Lordship then moved,
" Tbat there be laid Mare the House a list of all fees of the
dinebh: stofAbloudr:
three prisons, received since July, 1811, with an account of
1 what fees, if any, had beets returned to the pinedn ming the
11 same."—Orderel.
' His neat motion was mere matter of form. Br
the 52.1 of George 11. Chap. 23. Sect. 5. it was
humanely provided, that the Lord Chief Justice al
the King's Bench, and the Chief Justice of the Com-
mon Pleas, together with three other Judges, should
superintend and fit the rate of fees in the three great
prisons of Middlesex; and the Quarter Sessions those
in the other counties; and that the list was to. be
hung up in some public part of the prison, wht re all
might have access to it. It was further enacted, that
no gaoler or keeper of a prison should demand or re-
ceive, either directly or indirectly, more than steteat
in the table. His Lordship theretore moved,
•' Thai a copy be laid before theta Lordships of the table of
fees its the Bench, F:eet, and Marshalsea prisons, hung up, it
any, according to thu Act."—Ordered.
His Lordship had so far proceeded preparatory to
two Bills which he proposed submitting to their Lord-
ships, and which he wished to be read for a first time.
Should any discussion be necessary, there might be
an opportunity, in some of their futore stages, as he
proposed to move their being printed. He should
first state, however, the ground on which these bills
were founded, and this information was derived
chiefly from a letter addressed to himself by one of
the ablest lawyers in the country, and from a report
of their own Committee, of which a Noble Earl once
gone Eve r
yout
man to
wholndia,
v a
lu(eLcirdthefree Moira)
was President.—
const,tation of this
country,
must regret an infraction of the laws where-
ever he observed it. There were gross abuses of the
laws by which his Majesty's nnoffendipag subjects
were thrown into. prison without either judge or jury,
which was in +tut opposition to the split of the

NAVAL and MILITARY BIBLE SOCIETY.
Instituted in the Year 17140.
Patron—His Royal 1-lighneu the Duke of YORK.
Vice-Parrott—His R. H. the Duke of 01.01.10ESrEa.
Presilent—H4 Crate the Arebb‘shlp of CAN'rERBURY.
Vice-Pittarrszwrs.
Rt. Hon. and Right Rev. Lord I Rt. Hon. Adm.l.or.l Gambier
Bishop of London Right Hon..Nich. Vansluart
Hon. & Right Rev. Ld. Lishop lbw Philip Piracy
of Durham Sir V.tiliiam Pepperell, But.
Very Rev. Dean of Canterbury Sir '1 hookas Bernard, Dart.
Hon. and Very Rev. I),!an of Vice. Adm. Sir Jas. oaumares,
Windaur • Bart. K. B.
Right Hull. Earl Spencer Lieut.-General Robt. Manners,
WON HO& Earl ..1 Dartmouth Robe, t t horoton, 4.q. M
Risk Hen, Earl of Radnor Wm. Wilberforce, £•l. MX-
Rt.H.LA.Witioughby de.Broke
TecAsontas.
Mr. Ambrose Martin, Chu-- I Mr. John Stephetwin,Williana-
lette-Strezt, Btoomeoxy street, Chatbam-p:ace
SE Citg TARIES, (Grail?)
Captain FABIAN, Royal Navy, Navy Departnymt.
114; Jernsyn-street,
Major CLOSE, Royal Artillery, Military Department.
• 114, fennyn-otrer,
- The ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of th:s SO:NE f3i
wilt be held at the Neer Loudon Tavern, Cheapside; on l'oesday
the lOth May. The &von wilt be °petted at twelve o'rlncl: and
the Chair taken exactly at One. By Order of the .Commi.tee,
(Signe) J. M. CLOSE,Secretary.
ComMittee Room, 114. Jermr-street, stab April, le

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