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London, England, 1817-03-28 00:00:00

PARLIAMEN GARY PAPER.

AstEtinstrAys made by the Lords to the Bill, ina.
tuled, g. An Act for the more effectually preventing
Sroirzous MEETINGS and ASSEMBLIES." After 3
number of verbal Amendments, the chief of wYch
is, that the Magistrate ordering the meeting to e
perse, shall "see caw," (and not "fit,")s,'
to do, the following Clauses are added :
CLAUSE (13.)—" Provided always, awl be it enacted and el.-
dared, that nothing herein contained shall be deemed or cur-
strued to render Lawful any notice, or the act of giving or i n-
lishing any notice, according to the provisions herein-before cut •
tabled, which notice or act would Lave been contrary to Law, If
this Act had not been made,

CLAUSE (C.)—•-." Anil whereas it is liizhl7 inexpedieur that
Public Meetings or Assemblies should he held near the Hou,es
of Parliament, at or near his Majesty's Courts of Jus:ice it
Westminster Hall, on such days as are hereinafter mentioned.
Be it thrrefixe enacted, and it is herby ciacted, Pia• it sh:11
not be lawful for any person or persons to convene or call to-
gether, or to glsie any in.rce for convening or ca;it? to-
gether any Meeting of persons cervisting of mots tbvi ff
persons, or fur any number of persons exce4lng fifty, to we...
in any street, square, or open dace in the City or Liherti,s
Westminster, or County of Middlesex, within the cl!s•Lt.c,
one mile (ruin the gate of Westminster Hall, save and cy.e:'
such parts of the parish of Saint Paul's, Covent Garden, as .7‘,
vrithiu the said distance, for the purpose or on the pretext vi
considering of or preparing any Petition, Complaint, Retror-
strance, Declaration, or other Address to the King, at to la.
Royal Highness the Prince Regent, or to both Houses or 'hitt;
House of Parliament, for alteration of matters in Chvrch or
on any day in which the Two Houses or either :irf..se
ment shall meet aid sit, or shall be summiseed or o:
prorogued to meet or sit; nor oil any day on which Lis •.:1;
Courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Ccnlrnon Picts :
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goer, or any of them, or any Judge of any of tist-m, shall alt •
Westminster Hall; any thing hereinbefure contained to thtret.:.•
trary notwithstanding : And that if any Meeting ut
for the purpmes or on the pretexts aforesaid of any ret‘onis 0,211
be assembled or holden on any such da—, contrary to tb intent
and meaning of this Enactment, such Meeting or Arteittb:v shall
be deemed and taken to be as unlawful Assembly, by whom-
soever or in consequence of what notice soevcr nth Altxtr,,,; or
Assembly shall have been holden: Provided that notbmg it. this
Enactment contained, shall by any construction whales,: ix;
deemed or taken to apply to or afleet any Meeting cony< r.'!,
called or hoiden for the Election of Members of Parliaruei....
any persons attemEng such Meeting, or to ail persons
upon the business of eillikf HOU= of PaLtaitisitl, cis •' "`
said Courts."

v.I4.:NING STAR.

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DAY, MARCH 28, 1817.
px-..t' S 2!CS TEM DAY AT Twitt.vg fraLocK
aced •hnt —Can% wary, 7041—far Mc.
4rret ct..liat- -5 per lour. Navy, pet
Le!, Nucl. 1 14a. pr.—lndia Beale 37 pr.

T!'.e Fast Report of the Select Committee appointed
I i••to the State of the Finances of the Collo-
r; was tart night presented to the Commons by Mo:
DAVIES GILUCR7. The Committee recommend the
Abo :::nn of certain efEces which we have termed
ktit this they seam to consider as s tnisno-
Inc ; anc.l, if the trovbh, of tilling for tke salaries
siviing receipts for the mortify can be considered
ifs effective serv;ce, the Committee are right, nor will
ire difri. Al-..ont the appellation by which such, ti:er
s:pottld be desiglated. Tl.e offices rec,nnmended to
b ab.,lielted on the expiration of the present interests,
innt rih.maited in the STAR of the 24th and 2Sth
of Fe1.111;•ry, and are as follows:

!iforcr the Exchequer, Warden efrf the Cinque Ports
„•,, a of ?be l'erar, Governor of the 14. of Wight,
Cononispary•Gen. of Musters'
T,„ clei bi.ticrs In Pre,

The C =mime concludes by errressing an opi-
r•'c: a:At the Crown should hare the power of re-
en.in, tr. public services. Will any person

h.; see.: di :pore this ? Or, is it intended to reeom-
r;:ref the alyropriation of a special fund for this
[pale? it to these sinecures (fur we must call
sera what- they an,) might as well have been conti-
n-,13, f a they have el Gan :oftferred in recompense for
st.'rett pallor tervire:. If this is to be made a princi-
-I,:e, the idea of a saving to the public, by the aboli-
tics useless offices, if a mere mockery. Has Par- !I
lionent cver refused when applied to, to provide his
144 foal with thi means of rewarding meritorious
oleic& Let the grants to a Maitt.usnoutni—st
NEVON PEECEVAL —A WELLINtar,x, furnish an
alsr.n. We perfectly agree with a Morning con-
temporary, who expresses hirrbell as fallows on this
sob?ct : "The nation is too grateful and generous to
reflex compensations for past services, or to oppose the
graritini; pensioua that have bete teethed c but it
would wi.h to see those metits, and to appreciate
those services, which it is called upon to reward. A
prov::ctive measure, that shall grant pensions 011
compensations in clernu9l to cut taiu public Office's,
by ciasses and departnieitts, is objectionable on every I
account. First, the sum assigned must depend upon
the existing ability of the party remunerating, no
less than upon the quantity of service rendered we
cannot foresee at one time what we can affnal to
pay at another. Next, such a system as this assigns
the same reward to all the different degrees of talent
and lU.t try ; and, which is worse, it even draws idle
roan ir other professions into the service of Go-
vernment, from the temptation of early retirement.,
ell know how many of those worthies that
have e.nitted, as the talk is, ' a profession in which
they were calculated to attain the highest eminence,'
butin which their talents bad never obtained them a
bra f, having been forced into public stations by Par-
liamentei) influence, are now cultivating those ta-
lents in ease and affluence, at the expense of the pea
ple—L4stly. why should the nation be called upon at
present to secure payment for services to be hereafter
rendered, except upon the principle, that hereafter
we shall become ungrateful and not disposed to re-
ward those talents by which we have been benefited ?
This reasoning, of course, applies only to the high
political departments of the State—for, undoubtedly,
those who have spent their youth and vigour in the
laborious and humble drudgery of the public offices,
at a salary out of which they have not been able to
save a competence, have a right to support in their
old age. • Parliament may legislate prospectively,
and at any time, in behalf of such men, because, at
any time the nation will be able to protect its indus-
trious servants from penury ; and this is all for which
the public will stand pledged."
The presentation of a Petition from the Silk Weavers
of Coventry elicited from the CHANCELLOR of the
Examine and Mr. Bitovettast some sound opinions
on Commercial Economy. Monopolous exclusions
are always injutious to the commercial intercourse
and real interests of nations. This principle is now
ct-ming to be so well understood by Statesmen every
where, as to induce a hope that the period is not very
distant at which, in spite of the prejudices of the ig-
notant, those fetters, which serve only to palsy and
paste the efforts of human industry, will be broken
to pieces by the common consent of all the States
cf Europe.
On Wednesday the Duchess of Geovsvert visited
the Countess of Livaapoot., who is recovering from
her indisposition. •
Lord CASTLEREAO7I exhibited much lameness in
r'rning into the House of Commons last night. He
took his seat bn the -second row, behind Mr. VAN.
uTTnnT, on the Treisury Bench. His Lordship
'at with his leg eittended along the bench, in a post-
:.on betokening no great pain, but great lassitude and
•lebilay. Fortunately nothing occurred in the even
-at to require his Lordship to cone upon his legs for
Irrigth of time.
The Earl of FIFE is erecting a great number of
'cttaites, atol forming villages on his estates in Scot-
11L, particularly at Keith, and is giving the most lip
'411,v tncour.igement to every description of settlers.
E STAN::()PE is finishing the various improve-
rf::ll4 41,`1 alterations couimenced at Chevetting by
I::stiate holier, preparatory to the arrival of his mi-
t.: Countess and family.

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