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London, England, 1815-06-15 00:00:00

PARLMALEYIIeffir PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, JUNE 14.
The Royal Assent was riven, by Commission, to the Esche-
w Bills Funding. 'Lord Nelson's Estate, the Irish Promissory
Notes Stamps, the Irish Goods Importation, the Irish Newspa-
pers, the Irish Prosecutors Charges, the American Timber, the
Foreign Vessels Exemption, the Irish Stamp Duties Regulations,
and several private BM..
Pic Irish Equity Courts, the Irish Spirits License, the Irish
Stamp Duties, the Stirling and Ciarkmannan Gaul, and the
Paper Duty Bilh, went through Committees, and were ordered
to ice reviled.
The Iri-h Excharge Bills Stamps Bill was read the second
time, and ordered to be cottiontted.—Adjourned.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The House went to tae House of Peers, to hear the Royal
s-nt given by Commission to several public and private Bills.
(tor tvh:ch see the Lords.)
Petitions were preNtao,l from various places against the Poor
Removal Amendment Bill.
'J'he Neutral ships Bin was read a second time.
Mr. Edwards, front the Navy Office, resented an Account
of captured Negroes taken under the Act.—Ordered to lie en
the table.
'1 he County Bri.lges Bill was read a third time and passed.
LORD ROSERERRV'S DIVORCE BILL.
The Roseberry Divorce Bill was committed :
Coensel was heard, and evidence examined at the
b.ir. The several clauses were then read, and on the
clause making a provision for Lady Roseberry being
reed—
Mr. M. A. TAYLOR objected strongly to the
chute., as not giving her a sufficient provision (MOO
a year) for her bare maintenance. He contended,
that this sum was scarcely sufficient to provide her a
bare subsistence, and certainly was not sufficient to
keep her above temptation of forming improper con-
nections. The Honourable Member concluded by
mr.ving an amendment, the object of which was to
charge Lord Roseberry's estate with a further sum
of 4C200 a year, to be paid to her Ladyship during
bet life.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL wished that his
Hon. Friend w( nld postpone the consideration of this
clause till after the last clause of the Bill, relative to
the marriage of the Countess of Roseberry in future,
bad been considered.
Mr. M. A.TAY LOR consented to this suggestion,
and the other clauses were read and agreed to, with
the exception of the last clause, which restrained
Lady Roseberry from contracting marriage in future.
On this clause being read—
Mr. M. A. TAYLOR rose to oppose it, and ar-
gued at considerable length on the cruelty of thus
restraining this unfortunate female from firming an:
otker connection in the worn. A clause of the de-
scription of that in the present Bill had'been attempt-
•ed to be introduced into former Bills, but had inva-
riably been rejected. It was argo_d, however, that
this case was tine of an extraordiaary nature, and of
a most aggray.ved description, since Sir H. Mildmay
had seduced his wife's sister, and therefore had been
guilty of a sort of nicest, and ought not to be allowed
to nraray. That the Canon L isv was agtinst • the
mu.: iag:, and therefore: this clause was only to have
the of of strengthening the Canon Law. He, for
one, could not see any extraordinary aggravation in
this cake. Certainly there was nothing of Incest in it;
and it the Canon Lew wits against this utifortunate
Laity marrying her seducer, to the Canon Law let it
be lift. He could not consent that the Common Law
should thus be called in to aid and assist the Canon
Law, and therefore he should oopose tais clause.
The ATTORNEY-GENERA 1, defended the
Clause ; and conterisfesl, that this was a case of a
roost atrocious and aggravated nature; and one, to
a certain degree, incestuous. Tbe Honourable Mem-
ber observed, that in the common cases of seduction
the seducing the wife of a friend was an atrocious
crime; but here, where every tie of friendship, every
connection of consanguinity, every privilege'of con-
fidential intercourse, which admitted the offender to
go unsuspected almost into the bed-chamber of the
wife (fir it is not by Our jealous fears and watching',
but by the general state of morals in this country,
that a husband can preserve his dearest treasure),
had been violated by the adulterer. He should
almost as soon have expected Sir H. Mildmay would
have seduced his own sister as the sister of his latelyl
deceased wife, as he had done in this instance. He
113,1 no hesitttion in saying, that this was the most
atrocious case he bad ever met with in the whole
course of his practice. And he was persuaded, it the
Clause preventiag Sir H. Mildmay and Lady Rose-
berry from intermarrying was rejected, it would do
more harm to morality than any Act which had ever
passed the Kase.
Mr. M. A. TAYLOR replied, and again con-
• tended, thit for the House now to legislate on this
subject was unnecessary, since, it the marriage of
the parties in this case was contrary to the Ecclesi-
astical Law, the Ecclesiastical Law was sufficient to
prevent the marriage taking place, without any in-
terference on the part of the House.
Mr. LOCKHART argued strongly against the
doctrine advanced by Mr. M. A. Taylor.
Mr. C. WYNNE spoke on the same aide; and
said; thtre was a case In point in which the House
bad agreed to the adopti,n of a situ Tar clause in
precisely a similar case. He meant in Campbell's
Divorce Bill, in 1801. Even. if the House should
now adopt the cluuse, it would nut bind them on-any
future occasion.
Mr. W. SMITH was in favour of the clause ; not
because he considered a marriage would.be at all iu-
GefallaUEO but because of its aggravated nature.
The House then divided—For the clime, 111—
Against it, 90—blajotity, 91.
• Mr. M. A. TAYLOK said, the House having
decided that these unfortunate persons should not
marry, he cyed the Comm tree wou'd row think it
right to make such a provision for the unhappy
wum•in as should keep her above want, and enable
her to live virtuously in future.
Mr. Lgatimur wishe4 to know what fortune
the lady had.
As A. TAYLOR said, 1;e was not able tov
answer tbisquest,on with caltatinty ; but he believtml
not more than 116,000; but he thought •this (night
pet to bouusi her preseut settlement, even it it
WOO 110.
Mr. PRESTON said, the Countess of 'Row:heir y's
o.6T4l.4ollsettlentent-w. A h k 1,4500 a. year.
mr..11 ['HURST. •ii•ought, thl acittitipnal
praviseifi lot' Lady Rosebetat shoo d be left to the
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gesOlity (Oki Lord. sind not b. forced upon him.
iieijkant BrAirthlrgbi, thai in justice, Lady
Retain:Sri Vat .•1140.4111 lAA n thing; and evils ;1,04
*hi alp's& ass waial) fat her could pa giatend.

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that she vas etitithol to any thing more than her own '
fortune from the House. From what he knew of I
Lord Roselierry. howeVer, he was convinced that:
noble person would never elluw his unfortunate lady 1
to suffer 'want. . .
Lord A. tik:ttlL.Tc)N and Mr. Aszacaouste spoke
in favour of the Amendment.
The Committee again divided—For the Amend-
ment, Co--Against it, 39—For the Increase, 21.
The ,:it•tai other clauses were then agreed to, and
the Report ordered to be received to.morross.
Tli E BUDGET.
The House went into a Committee of Ways and
Means.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
said, he had now to perform what was at All times a
difficult task, namely, to prnnosu the Supplies neces.
sary to meet the exigencies et the coming year. It
was but a fen short weeks Jsince the House had been
cOngratiriared on the prespect ef a long peace ; hut
scarcely was the wax colt on the Treaties entered
into between the dfferent Powers, when he was again
called on to state what were the supplies necessary for
A new warfare. This country had made a very con-
siderable reduction of her establishment, though a
very large arrear of expenditure was yet to provide ,
fur. lu consequence of which, as well as the es-
pences of a new contest, it would necessarily he felt
that a great end extraordinary effort must now be
made; but he trusted, though the sum asked for was
large, it wouldbe seen that there was no wish to in.
.volve the country in a lavish expenditure, or one be-
yond the absolute necessity of the case. And the cl-
out which we were now about to make would, he
was persuaded, stand a proud monument of the wealth,
exertions, and resources of the country in future
times. The Right Honourable Gentleman then pro.
cceded to detail the sums which would be required
for the service of the present year, as follow :
For the Navy - . 414,1107,000
For the Transport Service
NaiieelLuseons - NI c ,00t)
• • 2,00:1000
Army - . - 13,855,000
Arrears of last Year's Extraordinarles - 11,983.000
Extraordinaries for the present Year - 12,000,000
Barracks - • 99,1:00
This last item, the HOnonrable Gentleman 0b...
' served, would appear small ; but in fact the whole
expenditure of this branch of service was about
0250,000 ; by the produce of the sale of old store,,
&c. hoWever, it was so far reduced that no greater
sum than that which he had mentioned, s (And how
be wanted. • The Right Honourable Gentleman then
proceeded to state the other items of service, namely,
The Commissariat . Xi , i 00,flin
The itorukteper . - 01,00.)
The ordnance '. . . 4,43)&10
Subsidies to the Allies . - 5,0t:0,000
Atter this last vote there would still remain ot the'
Subsidiary Treaties the following sums to be pro-
vided tor:
On the Treaty of Chaumont . sCS.iO OW,
To complete the Treaty with Austria • 400,000
Bins of Credit . • 2,500,1e1
To Russia - . 200,000
. - 100,48,0
To Spain
To Portugal - - 100,48;0These latter sums, to Spain and Portugal were the ba-
lances of subsidies granted during forriter wars; and
something.more, perhaps, would st.ll be found due
lon adjusting the accounts between Great Bli.
fain and , these countries. There was also a fur.
the/ sum of one million to be given to Sweden,
in lieu of Guadaloupe ; making altogether a fur-,
ther grant of four millions to foreign Poweri, in ad.,'
dition to the five millions already granted. ISe•
sides the items he had already mentioned, be should
have another Vote to ask irons the Committee; that
was—of o, sum for compensation to the army of the
Duke .of Wellington, for stows taken by them at the
capture of different places, during the campaigns in
the Peninsula, in the course of seven years service.
This could not amount to less than RSOO,OOO. And
he should also have to propose a further Vote of
£140,000 for the Army employed at the taking of
Java. These were not uurecedented Votes, but
rather matters of course. 'l. he Board of Ordnance,
however, although all the accounts were made out,
bad not thought fit to pay any thing upon them till
sanctioned by a Vote of the House. The last item
he had to mention was the Miscellaneous, which
would be about three millions, a great part of which,
however, had been already voted. The accounts
would then stand as follows :
The Navy and Transport liervlce 415,640,000
The Army • ti . ettooo,ono
The (Ordnance - . '' 4,429,000
Foreign nutty, • , • 9,000,000
Miscellaneous . . . 3,000,000
Vote ui Credit . - - 8,t;00,000
Ditto for Ireland - - . *OO,OOO
Prize Money to the Army - 1,000,000

Total, £41,369,000
The Right Honourable Gentleman then stated, that,
Unless any unforeseen circumstances should arise, he
would, on a future day, propose a Vote of Credit for
six millions. It was necessary to propose that Exche-
quer Bills to that amount should be redeemed. This,
including the three millions outstanding of last bear
would, altogether, make a total amount, of that spe-
cies of supply, of 18 millions. Toe amount of the
sum to be provided 14, for the year, would be
089,729,000; from which sum was to be deducted ,
',C9,76(.0,000, being the proportion to be Erne by Ire-
land, which would leave a sum of £79,969,000. The
sum to be raised in the year, from the spirit and mag.
nanimity which was evident in the nation, he con-
ceived might be obtained, by resorting to the means
employed on former occasions ; and , accordingly
those means were put in motion. He had now to
state the Ways and Means to meet the demands.—
There was a surplus sum of something. more than
two millions of the annual duties, which was avail.
able for the esigenciei of the current year.-.a vote of
ance tuillittns trom the surdas of tile Consolidated
Fund, which he should not call for this evening ;
and a further .um, arising from the issue of EXClie-
quer 11:111, which he had already stated. •
'1 he onituated amount of the War 1 axes would
be taken at - £YS 000,000
The produce of the Lottery shoot 1/50,003
Sam ailing bolo the Sale of Nava .Stores ac mot
win amount of Eschiloer bins • . 18,1 55,000
the Loan contracted dui zooming. . • 57,000,000

Grand Total, .C79,893,00Q
With respect to the Loan, it Was proposed, thin, in
order to prevent confusion to the rublic Creditor, it
ritionict be guaranteed by the different Stocks. The
five per Cents. in consequence of the previous Loan
oh AC18,1:45,000 by MAchequer fills, was ovorbur-
dent.d ; it Vas judire4 expadienf to (lir* the other