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D rectors, be would at once give up a., pretensions ,
any further hearing. He (Colonel Sibthorp) must say,
that if the statement of the petitioners was correct, he
regarded the proceeding against them as little better
than a species of secret assassination.
Mt. WALLACE said, that as the patties felt theol-
ogises aggrieved.they had justly appealed to the House;
hat he had to complain of many of the remarks. The
Commissioners were bound to receive the evidence ad-
duced before them; and having received it, how could
they strike oitt parts of it? in the Report, they did not
say they admitted the evidence; on the contrary, they
evaded notice of it in the most marked manner. The
Commissioners Reports bad received great approba-
tion, but in n-i part of the inquiry had there been more
unaniroity amongst the Commissioners than in what
' they had said regarding the County Fire Office. Cer-
tain unlucky, or rather undesirable, discloireres were
made in course of the investigations; being made, the
Commissioners did not feel that they could suppress any
!Mcons of them. How the minutes had been made
he could not t 11; they were printed for the ex-
press use of Parliament, and they could not be made
public without the special approbation of the House. He
could not conceive that evidence taken for the Members
should be accessible to others ; such was not the object of
printing the minutes. As to the conduct of certain wit-
nestes,t here had been no particular desire to protect dies":
It was impossible in such inquiries to avoid touching di
character of particular individuals; and if such inquishi
toiled power of commissions were limited, there would.
be an end of their utility. As to the Commissional'
instituting this inquiry instead of the Stamp Board, they
were expressly anointed to investigate the mode of"
collecting the Revenue, kc. The Stamp department
which collected 7,000,0001. annually, obviously :Nuked
investigation; it was a prominent and important depart-
ment; and to have negietted inquiry would have been
to neglect their duty. fhe Stamp OfFrce had to superin-
tend the duty paid on Fire Insurances ; and hence inquiry.
IThe Act of Parliament pose. ibed the mode of changing
and paying for duty. but there was this one Office that
chose to construe the Act diffetently, and to depart
from the meal mode of accounting to the Scamp Office.
The accounts and affidavits did not refer to each other,
'as was required, and it was obvious how much fraud
might be inflicted under such pract ces; and it did not'
appear that there a me the accurate investigations made
that were contemplated. The practices had been fault
as to the manner--the country returns being noticed,
without the state of the receipts where the sums welt
aanally paid.Hs complained of practices of paying duties
that were afterwards not required ; and this gave to the
Office the appearance of doing more business than it really
did. This excited suspicion ; for though the revenue did
not lose by it, the noble generosity seemed most extraor-
dinary. The anonymous information had been attacked
—but no u• eful enquiries could be prosecired, without
attending to such evidence; it was not who sent the in-
formation, but what was the intelligence forwarded.
Such information, of course, could only be received as
hints— it could am, unsupported, be acted upon. Two,
of the cases, adduced by the anonymous authority had
been found to be incontestibly proved, then the Corn-
missieners were bound to prosecute further inquiry.'
Mr. Sykes had been stroogly attacked ; but might not
Mr. Sykes have had meth better reasons for his ac-
tivity and conduct than the Hon. Member was aware
of? Mr. Sykes had only zealously done his duty, and
the Commissioners could not evade; but the office
ad returned the accounts in the usual way, and
was considered as having been proscribed by the Act.
Doubts having been raised, they were justified in send-
ing for "persons, papers, and records;" and after such
suspicious citcemstances, Mr. Sykes bad only dis-
charged his duty. But here was the evidence of nine!
persons tespecting the office—not that of an anony-1
anus individual ; and the waste-book of the office,
together with letters from the Scotch agent, &c. proved
the statements regarding the returns for duties in
respect of !certain claims. He admitted that mi...
taken in so great an office, might occur, which corn-
mos charity ought to overtook ; but when there was
a division on such matters, common charity could not
overlook, however that fraud was contemplated, if not
on the part of the office, by the clerks or somebody.
The disclosures were riot made by Mr. Lye, but came
out accidentally in the course of other inquiries; and
there was no intimacy between Mr. Lye and Mr. Shep-
herd's witnesses examined. He would declare that the-
clerks could not have done what they did without in.
structions. If that were si, he came to the result,
than the claims made by the office wete unfounded.
It was distinctly in evidence, that nothing of any,
importance was done in the office without the geneill
inspection and special instructions of Mr. Barber Beau-,
mont ; but_ whether the unfounded claims wete known
to Mr. Beaumont, it was impossible not to make
the office answerable for them—(Hear). The items'
treated as a few shillings, or mere joke, or mistake,.
amounted to upwards of 7001. and to that extent there
was fraud upon the Government, by whom committed,
be did not say; but they were illegal claims. As to
Mr. Beaumont having touched the money, he did not
believe that such individual had touched one farthing.
Thoseitems were treated as all the charges—they were
not sued. The claims had been numerous, and par&
claim claims were made at two separate times, and in a
very suspicious manner.
Mr. HOBHOUSE.—Where do those facts appear?
In the Report, or Appendix, or where?
Mr. WALLACIL••••I derive these facts from subsequent
examinations--(Hear, heat).
Mr. HUME said, such course was not orderly ; if
[there were other examinations, they ought to have the
, opportunity of seeing them—(Heat).
The SPEAKER remarked that there was no viola-
' tion of order; the fairness-of the proceeding was ano-
ther question.
-Sir it. WILSON appealed to the Right Hon. Gentle-
Illon's liberality—whether it was right to quote docn-
leneets which were not accessible to other Members?
Mr. WALLACE observed that he had only appealed
to such facts, the charges having been denied; and he
added that the irregularities might have been carried
to a much greater extent. The inquiry was most just.
But if the office were aggrieved, he knew of no sanctity

proprietor __ _
posing upon him the particular duty of executing laws,
which tt becamihis private interest to relax and evade;
nor could the Petition overturn the' charge against the
Fire °Mei ; for instance, his asking for two particular
numbers of Policies, and being supplied with them—and
the circumstance of a cloak having seen. in Mr. Beau-i
moat's hands, at the Fit e Office, a paper containing these'
identical numbers, in the handwriting of the petitioner;
now that fact alone wet sufficient against him. Thou fla
sent for the clerk the same day, and told him there was
an error in the numbers. Mr. B. himself, stated es
examination that there were but three ways by which
errors could be discovered—by examining the books—
which would occupy a week before the discovery nadir
be made; or by communicating with the agents in
Scotland, a thing impossible.in the space of a few hours;
or, lastly, by direct communication with she County,
Fire Office. This fact was 0 strong that lie could not
get over it—such as, if it were submitted to a Arial
would inevitably bring down a verdict against -him.
He concluded with remarking, that this was the first of
the Commissioners Reports ihat had been attacked—a
commission that had been most useful. •
Sir R.IVILSON again condemned the introduction
of new facts, respecting which the House had no means',
of knowing anything. He then spoke of the ChinActa.'
of some of the witnesses.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said the pasties had
every opportunity of establishing their innocence in
Courts of Justice which Mere open to them, and is
,saying this, he was fully aware that Commissioners. is
pursuing a public inquiry, ought to.be careful in affi
ing a stigma upon the characters of any witnesses. 1
County Fire Office would have an opportunity of se-
pelting the charges, and in a few days that opportunity
would be afforded them.
I Mr. CURWEN said the charges had been hanging
over the parties heads for more than two years, and it
would therefore only be fair if the Commissioners had
allowed them the means of vindicating themselves.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said.
the public were much indebted to the Right Hon. Gen.
deman and his colleagues, for the satisfactory 'stainer
in which they had discharged the arduous duties re-
I posed in them. They had done to in a straight forward.
' way, and in this particular case, they had avoided-
siding with thsone, or concealing from the other. -111 a
should be haplirlf the pertiel accused could exculpate
themselves. After the observations which had fallow
from the Right Hon. Gentleman, he thought that dal
objects of the Petitioners were fully answered ; and ill
so, he trusted that the Hon. Gentleman, Mr. Hobhoestro
would not think it requisite to'press the subject further.,
Mr. HUME contended that the report had not bees
sufficiently explicit. The charge was that the Comity.
Fire Office had been defrauding the country of 2.0001.
a year for the Lt. t eighteen years. It was too satiates
to be passed over, and the Commissioners ought to have
been guarded in their report. He really felt inclined 0
move for a Committee of Inquiry to investigate dm
charges; and if he did, he felt confident that the accused
would be relieved from the opprobrium and disgratr
imposed upon them by dik allegations. Theßt.Hon.Gent.
defended the conduct of Mr. Sedgwick, which be
thought had been very unfairly introduced in the tiepin
by the Commissioners. He thought that Gentleman
had been very much ill used, and that his interest had
been sacrificed to a great deal of party feelings. He
had known him fur some years, and believed him to be
a man of the strictest integrity.
Colonel DAVIES, in justice to the Commissioners,
to whom the Public were very much indebted, felt it
but it right to say. that the removal of Mr. Sedgwick
was borne out by facts - They (the Commissioners) had
taken much pains to perform their duties in the least
painful manner, and for which they wits entitled to the
praise Of the country.
Sir F. BUHL:ftI' r thought that The House ought
not to content itself with silently receiving the Petition ;
he hoped that an inquiry would be instituted, which
would exculpate the parties accused, and establish by
consistent testimony, the innocence of what had hitheito
been considered a most respectable Company. Surely
they
.were entitled to the ansende honorable, which,
under Magna Chaste. was an inhetitance that pro-
tected their reputation, and, if carried into effect,
:would defend them from the attacks of the Com- 1
missioners, which, morally speaking, went to asses-
s.ulate them in the dark. The Petition was signed
by )3pwards of 1,700 respectable Gentlemen, and
,the House ought to defend them from the calumnies
iprepagated by enemies in the dark. It an inquiry was
called for. he should feel it his duty to support it.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, in allowing that
it was unlikely that such a respectable Office as the
County Fire Office would connive at the frauds, still it
must be conceded to him, that it was a fact which called
loudly for investigation, and in pursuing that investiga-
tion, he thought that as a Public Board, the Commis-
sioners had taken up the investigation in the most delicate
war possible.
On the Motion that the Petition be printed, Mr. WAL•
Lac e objected.to it.
Mr. HOBHOUSE said the Right Hon. Gentleman
had printed his Report—why should sot the Petition be
printed ?—The mo.ion was agreed to.
races or WOISIIIIN

Mr. H. GRATTAN s.iid, as the motion of which be bad given
notice was nut to be opposed, he should abstain from making any
observations which could tend to excite animosity or hostile feeling.
He would, therefore, simply move, that leave be given to bring in a
Bill for the more effectual protection of houses of worship in Ire-
land—(Hear).—Lett was given to bring in the Bal.
ARRESTS 101 DEBT.

Mr. HUME rose to bring forward the motion of
which he had given notice, for leave to bring in a Bill
for the better prevention of frivolous and vexatious ar.
rests for debt upon mesne process, and for facilitating
the recovery of debts accruing on deeds, bonds, bills of
exchange, and promissory notes. The Honourable
Member commenced by taking a brief view of the
former and present state of the law on the subject
of arrest for debt. By the llth and 12th of William,'
ne person could be arrested in Wales for less than
201. and ,this was still the law there. Looking
to the different value of money then and now, he should
be disposed to extend the protection against arrest to

1001. His object, however, was to prevent
-bt altogether. In the time of Geoff-
which a person might be arrested
. and it was subsequently extended by ,
The consequence of this state of the
it appeared by returns before the
_ less than 800 persons confined for
ursdes 201, the principal object of the Bill would be to,
stellate the haw of debtor and CTeffiiiii-to Wslaficz
Scotland. The whole (timber eonfine4 fop.,
did not exceed 217 of 218, and a Solicitor
salmi bad been 22 years in extensive
him that, during the whole of that
he hetet tent a peiton to prison for debt. He
propose, Ist, to put an end to mesne process altogerhg,
and give 'the creditor a ;Omer of attaching the &binr
goods as'in Scothinds 2d, with respect to bills midi.
misiory notes, by this plan they wonkl be comiderrd
debts confessed, and proceedings taken in the
manner as if the verdict of a Jury, as now, lad
obtained. ^He should provide, that before the goods
the debtor tnuld be sold, notice should be given -
Scotland. The consequence of this difference '
state of the law was, 'that-property stood upon a
better footing in Scotland than here, for not more
fifteen shillings upon every thousand pounds was
there in discounting bills. It appeared by arms
the total number confined under mesne process
1141. A very large proportion of this number
have gone to- prieon in consequence of frivolous
vexatious arrests. The Has. Gentleman concluded
moving for leave to bring in the Bill.
' The ATtORNEYZEN ER AL said if the Hon.:
Munn could devise a plan for preventing the nscessi
of 'arrest, he must have the concurrence of every
—The principle of substituting attachment for ,
might be applicable in' some -Cases, bet in others
property of the debtor might not be tangible.
feared •that • part of .the plan which related
mode of proceeding on bills and promissory
would not much reduce the -number of the unfortunate
inhabitants of gadls. It was rather a sort-
innovation, for hew were parties, if bills and notes
considered debts, to defend themselves against '-
demand of payment ? He feared it would be
to introduce into London the same kind of
which existed in the commercial department 7
burgh. He should, however, be perfectly
give the Bill a fair consideration.
Mr. HUME said that peovision was made ,
for the objection stated by the Hon. and Learned
tkman with respect to.Bills.—Leave was given
in the Bill.
Major MADISRLY cbtained leave to bring In a Bill
the application of Corporate funds to election purposes.
/*STAGS DOTI'S SILL.
The Home went Into a Committee on the Postage
Mr. HERRIES stated, that the charges
postage on letters Which contained an account of
on the same sheet was abolished by the Bill, which
Cause a loss to the revenue of between forty a
thousand pounds. The equalization of
tween England and Ireland would like,
a loss.of about 30,0001. The Post-office coot
take charge of levers and newspapers. Of the
many as ninety thousand had left the Post-__
night I the commoo number was thirty thousand.
packets, however, would take. pamphlets and i•
a small charge.
Mr. HUME suggested that 'pamphlets and
pals should be sent to the Colonies on the same
as Newspapeis.
Mr..HER RIES thought this would be
of much inconvenience. It would increa
portunities afforded for the commission
lAs many as ninety thousand Newspaper:
through the Post Office in one evening ; ant
that the Post Office was defrauded to a k
extent by individuals corresponding in symp
and thus paying the Newspaper instead of
duty for their communications. Every evens
tarn number of Papers were examined, and
certained that, on an average, eight fraud!
were conveyed with every 100 Newspapers.
Sir C. FORBES complained of abuses in
leer letters.
The other clauses, as amended, were then
I The Chairman reported progress, and Ebel
ordered to be received to-morrow.
_ On fbe motion of Mr. SSA OW ILL, the Writs of Right
~On
the third time and parsed.
The Alehouses Licensing HSU was read the second
'llilletstd.—Repart received, and ordered to be uken into
Oa on Friday, the 4th of May. The Bill was also or
girloted.
The House then Adjourned at HA LIP-IPAST TWUTI

GALWAY Ectcricitr.—Yesterday, Dr. ROM.
part of Mr. MARTIN, addressed the Committee
siderable length.
WIISTMEATH ELACTION.—The Committee,
day morning. struck off a consideaable number
the majority in consequence of their having
dered twice.
BANK Or ENOLA ND.—JWIN BAKER Ric n%
has been elected Governor, and SAMUEL ,
Deputy-Governor, for the ensuing year.
The Low, MAYOR held a Court of Aldermen
eerday, at Guilidlaall, fa. the general digit& or
Tim ftwiEr reported the state of the various
.0 doses of the Court of Iteinests, for the
next, were appornted.—The priodpal land coal metert
and preferred complaints against several of tis hboornk
for malpractices, the consideration of which was adim
the next Court, when the parties are to attend, and be
A poor girl, of St. Margaret's, Westininsterons admitte.l
school at !trammel Hospital; ani ta pow aged cespk net
into Rogers' Alnuhoows. The Inquest of Crippler"
tended, with a presentment manse a perms for refugia'
the cake of a constable, to which be had been elected.
Mr. Baoucryroti, of the Home Circuit,
to the vacancy amongst the Police Magistrate
by the death of Mr. OSBORN!.
Very extensive gambling policies have
on the fate of his Majesty's ship Tweed--ten
given to receive 1001. if the ship never reaches'
On the 20th ult. a ewe, the property of
of Wellow, yeaned a lamb with six legs !
At the Old Bailey Sessions, this day, Nat'
stood indicted, for disposing fBO pieces Of'
shillings, being base and counterfeit, at
a score. The Solicitor of the Mint deposed
whole were cast from one dye.—The Ji.-
prisoner Guilty, and the Court sentenced
to 12 months imprisonment and bard
BOLLAND said, that the money in question
the same stamp that the comets had been,
at the Kingston Assizes.—Mery Brown
witted for uttering several bad sixpences,
to six months similar confinemelit.—Tni.
Sessions, when 39 prisoners were discharged
mation, no bills being found.

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IQ THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK.
lours Aso Gesertaitins
Ts dieting myself as a CANDIDATE For a Seat in
the DIRECTION of your AFFAIRS, on a future VA-
aNcY, I take the liberty of stating the grounds on which I
'Otto the honour of your suffrages.
,Edigated in the strongest attachment to India, to which I am
bOlOl,l mu,dly by feelings of duty and gratitude, I profess myself
ssinutcd by an ardent anxiety for the good Government of that
• impotust branch of the British Empire, and for the happiness and
kaprovessent of its native community.
°coped solely in the duties of a Member of the House of
Dousss,a situation not only compatible with, but auxiliary to an
forst discharge of the office of an East India Director, way time
ofatteetion would be zealously and independently devoted to
remote the interests of India, the most valuable dependency of
the Bolds Crown:
I have the honour to be, very respectfully,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your faithful and obedient servant.
Htvopopire, April 9, 11121. JOHN FORBES.
. .

'l'H~ EVENING

LONDON.'

• WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1827.
STOCK E%t:HANGR., TWItLVE O'CLOCK.
Comb, which left of yesterday at AS, opened this morning at
$3 to I; and have since improved to S3l buyers for Money, and
ssa for May. The brokers are employed in paying and receiving
their Accounts, and up to the present time all is going off well.
It is said that the French Three pee Cents. comes 71f.
In the Foreign market, all South American Seettri.les remain

steady. •
corset prices: Old Spanish ISI 13. Mexican 70171, Colom-
bia 40e 41, Portuguese 78, Brazilian 641 it Russian 88k.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

Up to the present time, we are withost any positive information
•ho is to be Prime Minister, which causes a great agitation in the
ary ; various are the re, orts ; Lord BATHUUT and GIMIVILLZ
are now spokes of as successors to the Earl of Lniggroot.. The
Coma market remains steady at 83i both for money and for

Nay.
PRICE OF STOCKS AT TWO O'CLOCK.
Bank- Stock sto3 4 203 ex dir. India Stock Shut.
.spetTent. Red. 01 let die. India Bonds 69 70
3 per Cent. Cons. 101 1 Old Annuities
54 per Cent. 511 ex dlr. £lOOO Exchequer Bills 46 47
34 per Cent. Red. 881 ex dir. £5OO Ditto 46 47 •
$ per Ceut. New 981 99 ‘lOlO and £2OO Ditto 46 47
4 per Cent. 18,26, 971 11e d. India for Account
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A Lisbon M,il has arrived, bringing Papers to
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'27th oh.lnt their contents, like those of the last, have
'merely a negative value. To judge from their silence,
tte most perfect tranquillity prevailed at the time,
throughout the country, which is the best possible proof
of the vigilance, energy, and_prodence of the Govern-
ment. The deliberations of the two Chambers seem
in like manner to have taken their tone from that
the'of executive branch of the Government; and though
the spirit of moderation, which characterises them in
general, is ascribed by some to apathy, it is so like
wisdom in its effects, that we think we may safely con
grAtnlate the nation upon its display. The rock, upon
lihich the late Constitution split, was the intemperate
seal exhibited by its adherents; and the aame diiap-
pointmene would probably await the supporters of the
resent scheme of Government, were they, like the
former, to prefer the shadow, to the substance, of
liberty. At present, every thing tends to reconcile
Foreign Powers to the important changes that have been
•effected in that country ; and, ,if any of them were to
manifest a different feeling, it would be looked upon as
the effect of gratuitous alarm, or even of wanton hos-
laity. In the meantime, the new institutions, being
planted in a soil wholly unprepared for their reception,'
require a calm as well as time to enable them to take
root ; and, if the friends of the present system continue
to display as much temper in their proceedings as they
have hitherto shewn, they will to a moral certainty
succeed in the glcrious and diffizult task they have
undertaken. In the meantime, some of the private
letters from Li.bon, which are of the 28th, speak
of a new irruption of the rebels into Tras-os-Montes
and Alentejo simultaneously ; but the report is evi-
detaly false ; besides other communications of the
same date, and from persons of the highest re-
spectability, are wholly silent on the subject. We find
by our City Correspondent that rumours to the same
effect prevailed this morning in the City, and that they
dud not meet with the slightest credit.
• The positions of our Army are as follow :—lst Divi-
sion, at'Coimbra; 2d, at Themar ; 3d, near Santarem;
I-lead-quarters at Leiria.

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By the S,anmer packet, arrived at Falmouth, on the
9t4 inst. from Lisbon, Government have received dis-
"arches from Lieutenant• General Sir W. H. CLINTON,
0.C.8. commanding the British troops in Portugal.

The Paris Papers, which arrived last night, are as
barren of news as their immediate predecessors. All
+:e4 of a war between Spain and Portugal seems to be
given up ; and e►en the Quoadienne begins at last to
teat it as a forlorn hope. The mission of Count
OrAtiA to this country has principally contributed to
reduce this effect, for its conciliatory and pacific
ctracter is universally admitted. The recall, too, of
the Spanish Ambassa.lor from Paris has fallen, like a
eisoderbolt upon the Apostolicals ; and they try in
vault° console themselves with the hope, that insincerity
'wit; at the bottom of these pacific proceedings.

We received, this morning, the Algenteine Zeitung to
the ith instant. It con.ains no political news. An