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preservation; and if the law, alit now stands, was stlf-
feted to remain, he believed the Poor would he in a
Rill greater state of starvation. But if the present Bill
were to pass, no man could pro:ect himself against t ae
burdens of the Poor-rates but by de troving all the
cottages now on his farm or his esta.e. He knew that
the p esent state of the Poor Laws deg raded the Poor ;
and that was his grestest objection to them.
Mr. COURTENAY thought it would be better to
allow the Bill to go into the Committee, and to de-
bate the principle on a future stage. He contended
that t'le Poor had a legal and moral right to exten-
sive HARBORD supported the Bill.
Lord MILTON thought they might as well debate
the principle of the Bill now as at any other stage.—
To the Bill generally he was friendly, especially to
that part of it which related to the law of settlement.
Gem lemen complained of an increased population ;
but he much doubted that fact; and if Gentlemen
would look to the Census taken twenty years ago,
they nuld find the increase in the country generally
so trifling as scarcely to be perceptible. Increased
popuknion, and the consequent increase of the Poor
Rate, were said to be the cause of the present distress.
lie denied that assertion ; it was not the Poor Rate
of £8,000,000 even which weighed down the coun-
try, but the immense increase of Public Debt and
Taxation. He was ready, nevertheless, to acknow-
ledge that the Poor Laws were a great evil, but that
evil would be greatly lessened by the proposed regu-
lation of his Learned Friend on the subject of the
law of settlement. With respect to the marriages
of the Poor, he did not believe they bad taken place
to such an extent as materially to affect the popula-
tion ; whilst to adopt this clause might excite the
jealousy of the poorer classes, who might think the
rich were legislating for themselves, regardless of
the comforts of the lower classes.

THE EVENINti

The Marquis of LONDONDERRY did not rise
to oppose the Bill, or even to discuss its merits on the
present occasion. He had already expressed the
obligation he felt to the Learned Gentleman for
bringing forward this measure, as every discussion
operated io ripen the minds of the country towards
that change which must, at no very distant period,
take place fir tre purl ose of ameliorating the state
of the poor. The discussion of this subject must 11
alww s be accompanied with difficulty. hut still every
considmatian of it did t.,e country inhnite service.
Mete :tad already been a Report from two COM-
minces on this, sub;ecr, and he believed they had done
much gond; they had awakened the attention of the
country to the subject ; and, since the appearance of
that Report, the existing laws had been administered
with much greater effect. This circumstance should
encourage the Hon. and Lea. ned Gentleman to per-
severe. He would propose to the Hon. Gentleman to
read the Bill a second time now ; to have the Bill
committed, and afterwards pri ted, and to fix the
debate upon it at as early a period as possible.
Mr. CALCRAkT supported the course recom-
mended by the Noble Lord.
Mr. SCARLETT had no objection to adopt the
cow e suggested. He would no.. VP pose to read
the Bill a second time. and commit it for Monday.
He wished to take this opportunity of stating a cir-
cumstance which had this day come to firs know-
ledge; a young man, on a recent occasion, obtained
a marriage licence, which cost him three guineas and
a halt. was married to the object of his choice, and
on the following day they applied to the pas ish for
relief!—(Hear, hear.)
The Bill was then read a second time, and corn-'
mined tor Monday.

LONDON.

FRIDAY, MAY 25, 18421.
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MSTROPOLIS ROAD RILL.
Mr. D. GILBERT moved the Order of the Day for the fur-
ther consideration of the Report of the Metropolis Road Bill.
Mr. CA LCR AFT said, he should oppose this Bill, and take
the sense of the House upon it. If the: House should be against
him, which he did not expect, he would then retire, and give
no vexatious opposition to the Bill.
Mr. CUIPPS defended the Bill, and expressed a hope that
t would be allowed to be recommitted.

Mr. DENISON opposed the Bill, as unnecessary.
Nr. J. SMITH defended the Bill, as necessary.
Mr. H. SUNINER opposed the Bill. The ro.ids could not
k kept in better order than they were at present.
Sr F. KN ATCHBULL, Mr. WILLIAMS, and Mr..T.
WILSON, opposed the Bill, as unnecessary.
The question was then put for recommitting the Bill, when
CsizaArr proposed as an Amendment, That the Bill be
committed this day six months.—The House then divided—

For the recommitment
For the Amendment
Majority •
The Bill is consequently lost.
stiscstwoctr.s.

The London Wharfs Bill was reported, and ordered to be
raid a third time on Monday.
Colonel DAVIES moved for the appointment of a Select
Committee to take into consideration the Petitions which had
been presented to this House, complaining of the adulteration of
Clover and Trefoil Seeds, and to report their opinion thereon to
the Hou.e.—Agreed to.
Mr. LITTi.BTON presented a Petition from certain Retail
Ttaders of WAlsal, in Staffordshire, praying that the Hawkers'
License Act should be extended to persons selling articles in that
town not manufactured by themselves.—Laid on the table.
A Petition was presented from Norwich, against the Poor
Relief Bill.—Laid on the table.
The other Orders were then disposed of, and the House ad-
journed at Two o'Clock.

GERMAN PAPERS.

FRANKFORT, MAY is.

Numerous detachments of Greeks continually ar-
rive in Moldavia and Wallachia. and augment the
force under the command of Prince Ypsilanti. This
Chief is abundantly provided with money, and pays
his soldiers largely. The privates receive monthly
twenty-four francs each, and the Officers 500. At
Bucharest he was joined by upwards of 1000 young
Greeks, relatives of wealthy families, principally from
Vienna, Buda, and Odessa. It is known that there
is among the Insurgents a certain number of Euro-
pean Officers of different States; and even recently,
many of the military belonging to the Austrian Re-
giments stationeJ on the borders of Transylvania,
deserted from their corps, and proceeded to Walk-
chia, some of whom have obtained the rank of Offi-
cers in the Greek service.
PROM THE BUCKOWINA, APRIL CS.
Notwithstanding the disapprobation of the Greek
Insurrection, openly expressed by the Russian Go-
vernment, detachments of twenty or thirty Greek
recruits daily arrive at Jassy, where they are armed,
and proceed to join Ypsilanti.
The cause of the Insurgents would perhaps not be
hopeless, if the leaders were in good understanding
with each other.

TNSYLVANIA, APR 19.
We have reßAceived news from 13uc IL
harea up to the

14th of April. A report had been circulated at Bu- pie, this palladium of the poor, as Sir ROBERT Wtt.-
chare,t, that Gabrova, and Tiranova, two towns in SOW justly terms it, in the least invaded. We are
Bulgaria, beyond the Danube, haie resisted, on their
ready to allow, that the manner in which this right
arms being demanded by the Turks, and had closed
their gates. This requires confirmation. But it seems has come to be exercised, is pregnant with abuses;
that :he Turks take away by force all their arms, . that, in fact, there is not a greater mass of bad prac-
both from the Greeks and Bulgarians. Robbery and. tice existing than the whole system of Poor-rates,
plunder has become so general in Wallachia, that as we at prevent find it in operation (bu• t we have
even caravans of 30 or 40 waggons together, are at-. a sirong suspicion that it would never have reached
tacked and pillaged. Most of the robberies and • .
tins climax of corruption had it not been for .4ife ex-
murders are said to be committed by Theodores
people on the other side of the River. Passports cessive intermeddling, age after age, of practising
from Theodore, Ypsilanti, and all the Captains, Lawyers with the rights of the Poor, and we are free
avail the traveller nothing ; he is plundered notwith- to confess that we have no hopes of seeing anything
standing. Bucharest is full of persons who have
like the desired remedy coming *from a member of
suffered, but their petitions to Theodore and Ypsi-
lanti have not been attended to, though they knew
that fraternity, of which we may say, without disre-
and produced the men who robbed them. Theodore, specs, that it is too much occupied with ascertaining
in his passports, expresses himself thus—" To the what is law, to be at all skilled in determining what
Brethren of the Assembly of N. N.". • • . ought to be law.
Before
and the MTetropheodolitan give hiham a certificate of the g yood
conduct of himself and his people. On the 13th, Duca the system of Poor Relief be removed ; but let
followed Ypsilanti with the tear•guard, in all about not the sacred principle which is at the foundation
two or three thousand men. The Greeks said, that of it be violated. If it be, we can anticipate
Ypsilanti was going to execute a manoeuvre; but his nothing but ruin to the popular interests in this
manceuvre was well understood, he wanted to reach
country, caused by the triumph of a joint monopoly
the mountains; for to fly so quickly with 3000 men
from 700, would be a bad manoeuvre. Up to the of wealth and power over all that constitutes the
14th, at n.:on, no Turks had bein seen at Bucharest. real strength and pride of,an Empire—a numerous,
The Provisional Government, consistiiig of the Me- industrious, and thriving population.
tropolitan, the Treasurer, &c. prepared for flight;
they were afraid of the Turks, because they had per..
sided all these revolutionary proceedings at Bu-
charest. They endeavour to throw part of the blame
on the Russian Consul at Bucharest.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

DEAL May 24. —Wind N. rl.—Came down from the River
and sailed, the Manly, QUELCH, for Antigua; Henry Clay;
Pus-ra, for Virginia; St. Juan Baptista, BALSAIDUA, for lfiiboa ,
Mary, Parrrasou, for Quebec ; Ann.• Lewis, and Voyager;
Mormon, for 3liramichi ; Lady Hamilton, Amity, Riot-
:ca; and Radcliffe, RLIMELL, for the South Seas; and Vittcria,
HEATH, for
l'unvsnorrn, May 24.—Wind N.—Sailed the Thomas and
Mary, and Chapman transports, with detachments of the Slat
Regiment, for Malta.

HARWICH, Mar 24.—Arrived the Lady Nepean packet. with
a hiad from Holland. Sided the Leicester packet, for ditto ;
and the i,ord Duncan packet, for Cuxhaven ; each with a Mail.
FALMOUTH, MAY 22.—Wind P..—Arrived the Anne Johanne,
HxN►xsoa, from Porsground ; and Weddrington, 011 WEN, from
Cardiff for Amsterdam.

PLYMOUTH, MAY 2 3 —Wind E.—The Enchantress, Roasays,
from Sunderland, in beating up the harbour, got on shore near
Devil's Point, but is expected to be gof off without damage un
the flowing of the tide.
N4VACISSZY, May 21.—The Preventive boat on this station,
in entering the harbour, at two r. at. was struck by a heavy sea,
MIA, and went down. By the assistance of some seamen, four
of the crew were saved; but the Sitting Officer, Mr. Jonueron,
and two of the boat's crew were drowned. The boat has since
been taken up, and brought in here.
Ceszon-liouse, Mar I:4.—Entered Inwards : The British
Tar, front Gottet:hurdt ; Lavinia, from Memel; Celestine.,
front Bergen ; and riAlay, from Sierra Leone.—Entered 011 -
WaTtiS The Mary, for Dublin ; Happy Return, for Waterford ;
Deception, for imulogne ; Prince of Saxe Coburg, for Rotter-
dam ; and Sarah, for Madras.—Cleared Outwards : The Vrow
Haajr, for Rotterdam ; the Tom Cod, for Palermo ;. Hero, for
Guernsey; Pilot, for Amsterdam; Alexandrine, for Rouyn;
Anti: y, fur Bombay ; Prince of Wales, for Hudson's Bay ; Mar-
garet, for Venice ; Riga, for Dublin ; Navigator, for Halifax.
Aasivzo—At Demerara, the Josel,h, Christopherson, from
London ; and hero, Pitie, from Bristol. At Trieste, the Aim-
well, Alexander, front the Clyde ; Blucher, Stevenson, from
Baltimore; and Cornelius, Arthur, front Odessa. AA Genoa,
the Amy, Bloomfield, front London; Gleiner, Quitter, from
Liverpool ; Charles and Helen, --, from Boston. At Bar-
celona, the Doris, Peterson front Drontheim. At Gibraltar,
the Branstons. Sle:e ; Candidate, Bacon; Claremont, Rowe;
and Thistle, Gibson, from London; Thirza, ; and Ro-
bert and Edward, —, from Liverpool; the Wag, from
Jersey ; Novo Btilhante, —, from the ilavannah.

Her MAJESTY had a party to dinner yesterday, at
Cambridge House.
Yesterday being the anniversary of the birth-day
of her Royal Highness the Princess ALEXANDRINA
VICTORIA, only child of his late Royal Highness
EItWARD Duke of KENT, the same was observed
at the residence of her Royal Mother, the Duchess
of KENT. in the King's Palace, Kensington. In
the morning the Royal Duchess and the infant
Princess received visits of congratulation from their
Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of CLA•
He:ice, the Duke and Duchess of (homesTert, the
Princesses AvoUSTA, SOPHIA, and SOPIIIA MATILDA,
his Royal Highness Prince LiOPOLD, and several
other personages of the highest distinction. The
Royal and Illustrious Visitors severally presented the
Roy al Infant with various elegant little articles suited
to her years, with which she was highly delighted.
She is a very beautiful and interesting child, and has
enteted into her third year, with every promise of
health, strength, and spirits.
Notwithstanding the coldness of the weather for
some time past, green peas have fallen in the several
vegetable markets of the Metropolis, from twelve
shillings to/ye shillings. per quart.
The preventive system of proscription and arrest,
which has sprung out of the machinations of some
unhooded Priests and disappointed Placemen to over-
throw the constitutional order' f things in Spain, ap-
pears to be becoming universal throughout that un-
happy
kingdom ; but, fortunately, it has not been
attended by any new act of sanguinary atrocity.
Among the persons put under confinement at Alge•
siras are, Lieutenant-General D. J. O'DONNELL and
the Ex-Inquisitor D. FRANCISCO CID. Of twenty-five
arrested at St. Jago, twenty are Ecclesiastic,. At
Cadiz, the Bishop CIENFUGES is at the head of the
suspected whom it has been thought necessary to put
in durance; and with him are six Canons, a Com-
mandant of Engineers, the Commandant of Customs,
Treasurer MELOA REGO, and Auditor SANTA CRUZ.
—The Minister-General of the Capuchins, better off
than some of his brethren; has had a regular trial for
anti-constitutional practices, and been condemned to
banishment. ARIAS, the Judge of the First Instance,l
who prolicninced wharwas deemed the too mild sec.'
tence on VANUESA, has been dismissed from office,
and replaced by M. CASTEJOS.
The Government has published the details of the
action between the Empecinado and MERINO. The
latter had 300 men, and 100 horses. The result was,
that Meets° had 30 men killed, and 70 prisoners,
and that he escaped with 20 ; the rest being.dispersed.
On the side of the Empecinado, 'it is said, there was
only one man wounded, though he says the. enemy
made a strong resistance.
FATAL JeaLous-e.--,Last night, the wife of an ar-
mourer in Tooley-street, finding her husband at teal
with the maid-servant, took a pistol, in a fit of jea-1
lousy, and shot him through the head. He died in-
stantly. She wasimmediately taken into custody,
to wait a Coroner's Inquest. The unhappy woman is.
only nineteen. •

•
CATO:STREET COKSPIRACE
The statement which
.we copied a few days ago,
that Sways, executed at Glasgow for foryery, said he
was in the hay-loft among the Cato•street C'onspira-
tor's on the night of their apprehension, but had
escaped by a back-window, turns out to be erroneoci.
The circumstances from wifich the report had pro-
bably originated are thus explained in a letter which
appeared in the Glasgow Papers, from one of the in-
dividuals who attended this unfortunate criminal
in his dying moments:
" The real truth is simply as follows, which the whole of
those Worthy persons (eight in number beside myself) who were
with Mr. Swan all night can witness :—I was sitting next him,
close by the grating, and exhorting him, as he had now so little
!time to live, to look above all secondary causes—to forget mttn
altogether, and confine his attention to Gov—to the things that
belonged to his eternal peace, when I observed him become
agitated, and he interrupted me, and with a svedlirg heart, and
the big tears blinding his eyes, he cried—' Oh ! that man, that
very man, who would shew no mercy to me—that very man's
life I saved within these two years; but there is mercy *he-is
,neither the Ins nor the Outs have anything to say —I an-
' swered—' You confound me, Mr. Swan ; what man do you
mean?'—' I mean,' said he, Lord Sidmouth: I was, I assure
you, the means of saving his life within these two years?—
' Really you astonish me, Mr. Swan : what connection had you,
or could you have, with Lord Sidmouth?' He paused and said,
The King--Che King, perhaps, supposed, that wherever I
was sent I might stir up disaffection.' 1 wished him to answer
more directly, and fully explain the nature of his connectitu
with Lord Sidmouth, and tell us hew he saved his life, but se-
veral of those present requested the conversation mightbe dropt,
as having a tendency to excites vindictive feelings, to which I
ia-
stantly consented, and Mr. Swan also most meekly acquiesced."
The writer of this letter adds :

" To my certain knowlettge, be solemnly asserted his inno-
cence to his last breath ; and that after being by me and many
others, oh 'many different occasions, encouraged to confess the
truth, by the most powerful motives drawn from the Word of
GOD, and also after being assailed by those ' terrors of the Lows,
denounced in the sacred volume against all those who love and
make a lie.'"