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London, England, 1822-02-28 00:00:00

AIINORITY

ON MR. NOUN MOTION FOR • DITAIL OF TN! SUMS GRANTED Vol
THE NAVAL SERVICE OT THE CU%CV4T TRAP..-7ESSGA RV 27.
Althorp, Viscount Guise, Sir W. Pym, Francis
Bernard, Viscount Graham, Sandford Ricardo, David
Parrett, S. M. Hollywood, W. P. Ridley, *ir AL W.
Ber,ett, Hon. H. G.Haltliniand, W. Robarts, Ab.
Rearm, Benj. Hill, Lord A. Robarts, Col.
Bernal, Ralph Hobhouse, J. C. Robinson, Sir G.
Birch, J. James, William Itumbokl, Charles
Brougham, 11. Johnson, Colonel Rice, T. S.
Bright, H. Jervoise, G. P. Stanley, Lord .
Bury, Viscount Leycester, Ralph Sefton, Earl of
Boughey, Sir J. IP. Lambton, J. G. Scott, James
Calvert, C. Leonard, T. B. Sykes, Dan.
Calcraft, John Lloyd, Sir R. Stuart, Lord J
Cavendish, Lord G. Maberley, John Taylor, M. A.
Caulfieki,.Hon. H. Marjoribanks, S. Tierney, It,. lien. G.
Colburne, N. R. Maberley,W. 1.. Tennyson, C.
Concannon, Lucius Macdonald, James Towusbend, Lord C.
Creasy, T. Martin, John Webbe, gdward
DeCrespigny, Sir W. Normanby,Visconnt Whitbread, S.C.
Davies, T. IL Newman, W. Wilkins, W.
Denison, W. J. Nugent, Lord Williams, WiMant
Pnucannon,ViscoiuitO'Callagisan, CelonelWilson, Sir Robert
Dodos, Hen. T. Palmer, . Fyscbe Wrrill, M.
Ebrington, Lord Pares, Thomas Whitmore, W. W,
nice, Edward Parnell, Sir Henry MUIR&
Vergimoo, Sir R. T. Powlettf Hon. W. Mine, Joseph
Fitzgerald, Lord W. Price, it. Smith, William

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TIOIRODA74 FEURUJOrrigk„riteet.
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The airy exterisive Acceilvto he lanlilliiklif hi War
a me teak. in tin stock laisebilOi 04 ,liitiii#,
la the settling of accounts. A pintSOClCestk/
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The locsuations have beets annivesealestsithhillaarf
y V"t attest. Cowie opened at Wirt
lad Mgt 1 kir tbi neat Account. The • "'",
Almillageikpi at artlikh price they sea igialietii,,*
16 s yet 'locos declared. ilea ellika all.
Aim, issia.l.44w one maga.' It Is gem:o' angpia%
4*.tiet;6lllllleMpee the Bank 41acennt It :4 of Oil&
ablijilin *fa SW, to earn disk proiect int.; efliss.—Tbe 1
fluseninien debug the present Account hes been meta 711, the
lawastprice, to 79e, the highest. • ...
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1. • - ''..,.. . .1CURSENT PRICES .
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Bank Stock 249% 248% 249 ;- .., . • , -,,. i 1
3 per Cent. Reduced 79% 791/2 •• • ' .
3 per Cent. Consols 78% %% IA ' • : .
31,4 per Ct..901/4 14 3/4-4 per Ct. 9744 % n %,
5 per Cent. 1027$ % % .
Bank Long Annuities 20% 44 . •
India Stock 248 247—India Bonds 41s. 365. pre. ; '
Exchequer Bills of £l,OOO, pat, 3s. dis.
Ditto small 3s. Is. pre.
. Consols for-April 793/4 1,4 sAs 34 14.

- - From the proceedings in the House of Commons
last night it will be seen, that notwithstanding the
hardy assertions, fallacious arguments, sneering sar-
'casms, and studied insults, with which the state-
ments of Mr. Hums are met by the Ministers, yet
that Gentleman still continues a thorn in their sides,
by his determined perseverance in inquiring into the
public expenditure and detecting all abuses. Last
night he exposed a band of sinecurists wbo had
nestled in the office for licensing Hawkers and Ped-
lars. It appears that the whole amount of this duty
does not exceei sixty-five thousand pounds, and yet
the expense of collecting it is nine thousand pounds.
Of this sum, five Commissioners- receive salaries of
from £5OO to I.:500 each, for attending once a week:
this is the utmost duty required of them, yet they
frequently give no attendance for five or sit weeks
together. Most of these Gentlemen hold other situa-
tions ; one of them is a Secretary to Lord Ltsot.
poor., and two others.are well provided fur in Public'
Offices. In addition to the Commissioners, there are
tlfrty petty sinecurists, who, under the name of In-
spectors, receive salaries not exceeding £lOO each.
These are scatterei in the country, not in the populous
districts, where their services are most required, but
living where they please. ThUs, at Sheffield there is
no Inspector fi om.whom a license could be obtained;
while at an obscure village in Staffordshire there are
two. Another of the Inspectors is-insane, and was
-o at the time of his appointment. Thus, in one of
the most trifling branches of the Revenue, we find
twenty per cent. absorbed it, useless sinecures.

The II ish Papers received this am ning contain a
list of outrages committed in various parts of the
country. In the county of Wicklow the house of an
old woman, nearly 80 years of age, was plundered,
and her grandson murdered. In Limerick, the church
of Balligorood has been set on fire, and several of the
pews burnt ; several houses have been plundered of
arms, and others set on fire. In Galway two churches
have been robbed : and in the counties of Mayo,
Wesford, Clare, Westmeath, and Tipperary, threat-
ening :notices have been posted, illegal oaths admi-
Qiste,ed, houses attacked, with other outrages of a
:faring nature.

The Fi ench Papers of Monday have been received.
lhe LAW on tile Press, which had passed the Cham-
ber of Deputies, has been introduced to the Peers by
the KEEPER of the SEALS ; but of the proceedings on
it no details are given. The Moniteur contains an Or-
donnance for encouraging the French Fisheries; and
by another Ordonnance of Louts XVIII. M. LAIN!,
in quality of Ex-Minister of the Interior, is granted
a pension for his natural life of about £BOO per ann.
M. PAMAUIER, late Foreign Secretary, £4BO per ann.
and M. PORTAL, late Minister of Marine, the like
ye.rly sum. We do things in England with more
magnificence. The pension for our Under-Secreta-
ries, is in some cases, £l5OO ; in others, £lOOO 4 year.
These Papers contain no intelligence of importance,
except from Spain. On the 14th instant the KING
closed the Extraordinary Cortes with a Speech, in
which ii. recapitulated and eulogized the several acts
of the Session, particularly the territorial division
of Spain, and the amendment of the Penal Code.
The PRESIDENT, in his answer, begins by remind-
ing FERDINAND of the oaths which he has taken to
maintain the free Constitution. He then runs rapidly
over the varied important objects which the Ex-
Cortes were bouud to attend to—dwells, though in
general terms, on the difficulties which they had to
encounter—and congratulates the ICING and Nation
on their delivery, through the courage and prudence
of the Cortes, " from a dreadfUl crisis, into which
unfortunate circumstances bad conducted them.". He

concludes by some pointed and just remarks on the
advantages of .a representative as compared with an
arbitrary Government; and anticipates, front the
labours of the succeeding Cortes, the completion of
the great structure of a five and constitutional
monarchy.
General Ittzno arrived itliadrid on the 12th inst.
but his presence did not cansi the slightest sensation.
Frisch Funds, Feb. 25.x•-Five per Cents-914 40. e.

Pstl.
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114) O.OA riphden:llw4lidolsidias7 lisnuntli
4m— 'conunircip- : gutioiqp 'l4 • .
.R To appoint 00 Agfa* doe of otjhentilidi IM sogsgoll IN
Europe and the other In. Anserica„ te glitionne the sdkimarisdri.i
[went et the Indepeedaserof Is Platai • • .. .
7. The Provinces shall fledge dissestres' is farina Csoses*
thelropilatlbn of each, audio determine the ratio of 114-
' presentationto4 General Cengreei. * • • '
1.1 • S. To pledge each to the ether foe them *sword punnets, by
kostahlishinga tine Promisee i lecal•Reposelleisive.Gero.
dank and to prepare a systemot public anotibudan and reva.
Ames, ii suck a way that in such Province, in
Getters' Co'n'gress may 'be assembled, coediting of 'terrorists-
tires from each, within a year from that time; and the Deputies
now assembled at Cordova shall determine the place In which
the future °corral Congress shall be assembled. '
PARLIAMENT OF LOWER CANADA. •
• HOI%E OF ASSEMBLY, JAN. 14.
ateterding to the Order, the House went into k Committee oe 1
the modes that as aid be granted to his Majesty, and en his
Excellency's Speech at the opening of the' Session, the coml.
deratinn of which bad heed postponed.
' It being moved to take the same into Eisosidcration, it passed
ha the negative—Ayes, s—Noes, 26.
• A motion was then made to resolve, that a permanent provi-
des be made for the support of the Civil Government of ebb
pdaeince, and of the honour and dignity of the Crown, dee*
the life of his present most gracious Majesty.
The following Reolotioni were moved :
" Resolved, That it is the opinion of the Committee, that the
trade and resources df this Province are in their nature ex-
tremely variable.
" That the amount of the expenses of his Majesty's nen Gor
vernment in this Province isle its nature variable, and liable to
be augmented and dimlnishird.from time to.time.

" That the expenses of the Civil •Government of this Pro-
vince amount :Wady t the whole of the public espenscs of this
Province."

THE ARMY.

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The right wing of the Firin Battalion of the Third Regiment
of Guards, on their route yesterday from Dartford to town, were
met near the Elephant and Castle, Newington, by a number of
their frknds and relations, who testified much pieasure on their
return to the metropolis. The *link Battalion looked well and
healthy, and seemed in erceilent spirits.

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44 Woe drink lie
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manair r with rbit
veiny two families,
of the list twelve
4•ltisnoured the Fong
sl.kera, and that the tame
it-dp, emanated to Alm.
sienW dunks uo 46 rm.
fund"beittg drank, that fee
Theatres, with ist
atier twitclole
Ip romp. or tfis swain Mr. Maarnsws ant
Nazi atineettibli skip wbkh were full of the spirit of goon
befneser. Miss 11170.141402 Web swig an air from the gallery, aa
emstpenled by Me. Wise on the violin. Both the song and saL
wws ti p ehapbd, and unarilmoosiy ear.,,st
eVri t
er. lismaxml=edin the Chair until half past
tin eciock
which, by other friends
afehe ta.
adtstles, who kept rasa SO nit" of the night to a late hour.
LAW` INTELLIGENCE: •
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•• COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FEBRUARY 27.
SING V. THOMAS COLIANS, ESQ. AND oTitette.
. This was an Indio:anent against the defendants, Thomas Col.
Nos, B. Sir Nathaniel Conant, and Samuel Mills, gsq. Mage:.
Mom IN the Commission of the Peace for the County of Ilk.
dbbni, charging them with a conspiracy, uulawiully and cer.
repay, to refuse a victualler's license to /antes Meeke, who had
kept a piddle-house called the Green Man, in Sc. John's-far.,
aerkenwell, In the year 1816. The corrupt motive assigned
for the alleged denial of the license in question, was the prosy.
tutor having refused to deal with the house of Messrs. Meer,
Wigram, and Co. chili emlnentibrsiweri. There was a secant
count, charging the defendants with corruptly refusing a license
to the prosecutor from motives of partiality and favour, for the
UM reason.
Mr. &ARUM' stated the cast for the prosecution. The pro.
mentor was a publicans who kept a public-house called the Greta
Man, in St. John's-lane, Clerkeirwell. It was one of the oldest
in that parish : the prosecutor, James Meeke, bad taken it in
the year 1814, and expended a considerable sum of money on ie
The defendants were the licensing Magistrates for the district cf
Finsbury, in which the public-house b question was situ steel.
In 1816 and 1817 respectively the prosecutor's license for his
house, which had been previously licensed, was refused. He
had dealt with Messrs. Meux and Co. preriolis to 1816, and ie
that year left them (his customers not liking the beet) and west
to deal with Messrs. Barclay and Co. The circumstances epee
which the corrupt motive imputed to the defendants se..s
founded were, that in the year 1818, when the prosecutur ar-
plied for his license a clerk in the house of *Nleux and Co. w?‘
present in an outer room, adjacent to that where the Magistrates
were assembled, there being a great timber of persons prcient ;
and that in 1817, when he again apblied for his license, Mr.
Wigram, a partner io the house of ?Aux and Co. attended st
the house where the Magistrates were assembled, ant: ratted out
Sir Nathaniel Conant, with whom he wa.tseen in private car.-
rersation. There was no direct evidence of a corrupt muttva
on the part of the defee.lants.
. Meeke, the prosecutor, was then called, who proved the re-
fusal of the license, though frequent applications were made
that on one occasion he went to Sir Nathaniel Conant, to the
• Freemasons' Tavern, respecting his license ; that Sir Nathaniel
Conant then promised he would see him on the adjourned dny
for grantini licenses, and do everything in his power for him :
that on that day his license was refused ; that be saw 0:11 and
Meux and Co.'s clerk whispering ; that Mr. Wigram, one of firm
of Reid and Co. and Sir N. Conant had a conversation in a pri-
vate room ; that Sir Nathaniel afterwards returned to the St:.
sions-roens, and that his license was refused. He also swore,
that he was the sole occupier of his home; that he bad let his
sep-room to a man named. Ilawliose at any profit above d SLAM a
a butt, but that he himself had the general superintendence, and
could dismiss him at a day's notice, and that such a prz.v.lce was
usual with publicans.
Dell was called ; but he denied that his conversation with
the clerk of Meux and Co. had any reference to his getting a
license.
Thomas Hill, constable of the Finsbury Division, deposed
that he was sent in before Sept. 15, 1816, to examine and re-
port what house sold more spirits than beer, and that he did not
repent Meeke's house as one of those ; and that he did not think
there was a more respectable or orderly public-house in his di..
vision—was with the two Magistrates when they inspected
Meeke's house, and they seemed satisfied.
Several other witnesses were called to prove the general cha-
racter of the Green Man public-house, and that it was always
well conducted.

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Several publicans proved that it was usual for those in tint '
business to let out the tap-room as Meek. had dnne.
The defence set up was, that the license had been refused on
both occasions to which the prosecution related, in consequence
of the manner in which the plaintiff's house was conducted, inas-
much as be had.at gin-sbqp connected with his tap-room, which
had been let,off to anothsk person ; and that in fact there was no
occasion to license the house, there being already more than a
sufficient timber of ale-basses in the same neighbourhood. As
to the facts upon which the alleged corrupt motive was founded,
Mr. Wigft, m was examined, and be swore that the conversatinn
which he bad with Sir N. Conant, in September, 1817, related
solely to the character of a man who had lived with him as a ser.
vain, and who bad applied for a license. He never mentioned
the name of Mr. Macke in that coneasatlon. It was proved that
the attendance of Messrs. Meun and Co.'s Clerk, in 1816, was
in the ordinary coarse of his duty, to see what publicans had
their &eases renewed, and not with any view to the license
of Mr. Meshes hewn

The I;er.6.nieJusucit summed up the case' and
The Jury retired at half put nine and returned at eleven
o'clock, wises they delivered s verdict of Guilty on the last
count only.—The trial occupied the Court upwards of 11 ham

A return to an Order of the House of Commons
states the total expense of the East India Company's College, at
Hayleybury, since its establishment in 1805 to 11120 inclusive.
at 247,5931. Ss. 10d. including 22,3231. Bs. 7d. the expense cf
'building. The total number of Writers sent out to India and
China, 498. Annual amount of salaries of Professors and other
Officers, 6.7021. 10s. Ditto, servants' wages, 1,7441, Bs. Total
k expense of the Rut India Company's Military Asylum at Addis-
combe, since its establishment in 1808 to 1821 inclusive,
136,9981. Ss. including 41,0321. 13s. 2d. for building. Total num-
ber of Cadets educated at Addiscornbe, sent out to Indbi, 335.
Total number of Cadets. seat oat to India by the Rase India
Company, dace 11114 inclusive, from the Military Seminary at
Addiscombe, and who hive been instructed iu the Hindostanee
language before their 1,6161. Total annual amount of
pay to Officers said 4,41221. as. 3d.
Sraaanto.—Yesterday was a double day's play, the exhibition
at both the Royal Tennis and the Ryes Court at the same time.
At the Tennis Court, the exhibition of the great fight between
pleats and Gas drew a numerous and vety select assemblage, who
approved by their plaudits. The other exhibitions developed
real fighting.—At the Fives Court it was Abbott's benefit, which
was well attended. The sets-to were between Shelton and
Spring, Cribb and Sutton, the Gypeey and Holt, Harmer and
Oliver, Abbot and Fisher, with others of minor note.—Betting
• and 7t04 on Kendrick against Acton; Sto'4 en Bob Burns
against the Sao& Champion 1 and even between the bakers.

DIED.
lienday. at Odd castle, Bedfordsbke, in the •M year of
Wise, the. Esti of Ifitnent. He Is suecteded in his titles and
estates bllis only *on, Viscount Funeral, now Earl of Egmont.
On the let Instant, at Florence, Lord Bowe Brown, second
son of theliturspds of Cgs.

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