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Vote of Cre tit, 1818, ta,000,000, 33 Caatis tn. Clip., In. •
Sn~ply- Isl 6, 11,000,01.0. 'fa Da. t.
THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS of HIS MA.
J ESTre EASUB; , haring riven MiNictiviefir fayisez
oh Pi inei,pal cf the °have mentioned Exciter., .tills, with the UMW
due thereon, et the Encl.:fare Bill Off cc, he Reeripe of Ex:'.egmer,
NeTe Pe.tate Yard, of Toculae. the 18th dity of
March next, attendance I,iven daily (Banda, c and Hole.
days (scepter:9olmM aid incloilirg Weel4stla7 ,the t .:th Mart:l,l4o
Toe o'Gtoch in the stiorninc till On, in the ilfiernoel, fir the intra
rote of receivirig the eater ; cad, for the greeter ifirpet,e, 14. hearer* di
the elef'd Bile are drib Jt. plate each description separate
Lists, /whs,i age to be oknined at chic dming di... in bhe or/ r
141 their rein ttivedates,sech as arefir the taros eitanat king vrericaly
:staved, and sta.:lying she principal Sim, ead int:reit' Le Mere.",
eoiroukti ..'t the .airs nok t, ate reipriively
d.rte I, to the said :Bth day if March 17:1,,JP!, :v.. tta Ini.rett
toil :ease; and the mi.! !tearer*, should thee P. .1.4:0.; 4t !i,sirats
,Flold,re tacit INJKUJ are lam, !el in the Bat, to pr,ture
the E111711CM:htll V.:Ma Hidiere ; end the Bet erg are atiesii.hipeini,..iy
required it indorse ease their siviturrs, aid, to tr•ritt
.their Aremee aid Resi knee et the b4ttoin of reale:pare& t ;
they are moreover required!. attend the Esobequer Bill !VP for par
inent,end to receive the new Bile, and give the Recei.es for the same.
fleas of the hears of the aforesaid Bile ehoold be desisties cf re:deies
ireynesat if the Prieesibel and irevicoss to the said 18tli lay
of Mardis, they way ke adowasdated, of PlPAilailljr the fal.reet to
Meaty ea which they wish kis paid,ood leader: the said
eseaseiaatioa one day prior thirds.
Sock Persons oscine, it lairds if kook' awn Lighttft? Bilk in
whin in fart e Paystot of Priaelfrol, sots anodise woo .Dl:4,
add sniowias the anima/ et the Aitken of tk;r Lids, delkered so PP
kfire the 1 eIA I March, day k arsoadeelota with arw Mi.'s,
payaile to
pease lialfivoley by the day, we every One tiddred Pamir, solack
said Nor Bills wilt kilt dak the said tab dog e Marti, gad •
will k delreara, blether Init. the I:tcrest doe is rapcst of the
Bills 14, desired if k rrtireaed, ea Wednesdq, the 19th de:, of
March, end the follolviaz Days.
The Exchequer bolts to be tented in Exchange, and maJe pay-
able to ------.---.-, or Order, as :khans rneticiusiv.t, may bo
either tra.:ferred by eadorst mart, or will be pa:l to the Bearer
It the lhlank shall slur be filled
N.ll. All Exchequer prior to Fyhtrary, 1810, 1):!•.1
Leen advertised to be paid of', and the lutenist thereon ! see
cent d.

P4RLUMENTARI PROCEEDINGS.

HAUSA OF LORD-1, FEBRUAttY

The House proceeded. In flailcv'el)ien-ce P li. Mr. HASS I.
SON and Mr. GlTrAtib at.ethl-4 entrowt f,r the Petitioner
After hearing the evkls:::e the House detsratifted to take tuna
to consider it before proceeding further. .

Mr. TUUSIisS pro-tented the lleprirt of the Committee of the
Peilltewiary at Adilb.mk.—OrdLred to lie on the ,able.
Adjourned till to-n.orrow day).
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Sh FRANCIS FIURDE. IT presented a l'eiltian hoot between
two and three thoes:,.id Inhabitants of Pertb,pritylog for EC4OO•
my and PS: liamcntaq Reforw.—Ontered to lie en tf -I table.
Mr. I.AIIIITON presectA a Ptiltion iro:a M.yer,
Aldermen, ltfagigra,e4, Tralors, and others, of !,1000“.. ~ u2nti.
Tp i•, in the County .t Durban, praying geaerahy Patti«.
nient•Ary tform ; hut Ermine 01< nature of th it iselorm to t'le
of the riou.e. 'at I Genth:min took the
oppurtufity of vbs..rvi:l;, that if time were it:vivi rrr the due
~«olgt.lerat:on of th« Bill to sii-pctil the fialwas ta,:re
would be ai insry P,titio7lo prelts:to.l t.. tie 11.-« fie upon
subject as there had been on the subject of Reform.-1 he I'el.
tion was or.ler:d the

or 4 CCANIRANZ web:wed a t'rit'on fro:" the Parish of
Be•b, in the County e Ayr, 'praying fur itetrellhawat
iteurro.—Ordcied n, lie on rt.e tapir.
BIRMINGHAM HAMPOBB czeia.
Lord COCHRANE presented is Petition farms
George Edition-Is, en:air:am of the Beininghein
Hampden Club, denying that the insertions in the
Report of the Secret Cenernitter, relative to the
jianspdesi Club, were true ; and expressing his cone
Silence, that, if the House would be pleased to call:
him to their bar, and hear his evideuce, lie could Cone
iince than that thosi assertions rested on au ex-parte
examination, and were not founded in tact. The
Noble Lord observed, that it would have been highly
proper had the House, belore agreeing tai the Bill
now in progress for the suspension of the Hebeis
Corpus, enteted into a full and fair investigation of
the whole matter. It he might judge from the small
portion of the evidence which Ministers had commu-
nicated to the House, he had a right to inter diet the
great body of the evidence submitted to the Secret
Committee had not been of a very authentic nature.
He had last night particularly called on the Lord
Advocate of Scotland to state—not from what pre-
cise quarter lie had received the 0 ith wile!* he read
to the House—but whether it had been found on any
of the individuals seized in Scotland, or had been
obtained from arty one by whom it had been taken ?
—Probably owing to the lateness of the finrar, the
Learned laid (on whom lie was aiirieus Out Ln cast
any imputation) did not rawer his questiou. It *as
certainly very desirable to know the tine nature and
value of that single scrap of eviJen:e: If :t hest been
acquired by a seizure of the papers and tee. rds of
the persons who had been apprehended, it was a do.
current which unequivocally proved diet such a
wicked oath had actually 'xit Administered ; but If
it had been obtained by teen:- esemv, it bore, in tee
opinion, a very questionable character. lie heeled
!raw to say, that do matt wished more than himself
tor the preservation of general tranquillity. But he
maintained that the measures pr-posed by Nliaisters
were not calculated to preserve it. Wit .out irest+sure of names, the House might lissuredly have
had on its table the greeter pin of the infoini aloe
on which the Committee had founded its Report.—
With respect to the pikes, fir instence, why could
not the circumstances of that transecti,.n be detailed
without stating the name of the int.:aeon ? In the
total ignorance of the Hielse with regard to the
proofs of the allegations of the Secret Ceiiiimince, it
was, in bis opinion, must un Wei rentable to coodeMn the
whole people, a:ithout heath.e chens in their di
It was due to the character nt the house. anti
eridividuals who had been accused, to
theViatter, and ascertain, by an exantieation
bar, whether those individuels could or c ite
refute the charges adduced Against them? '
sent Petitioner was the Chairman of the Hui
Club at kikininghetn. (Lord Co:hrine)

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assure the House, that had he thought the Hampden
Clubs in any way conducive to the attainment of
Parb • mentary Reform, lie would have sedulously
attended that in London. But so ins gnificant did
he cor,ader their efforts, that he bad only attended
at twn meetings—one in an open ro nm, to which
*vary rune had access, and another, at which only
three individuals lad been present. The reason that
int rtyt the Members had not attended on the latter
olatision was &elated to be the extravagant ideas
mithad been suggested by certain individuals with
respect to Universal Suffrage and Annual Parlia.,
mentss In fact, t. e Haa,pin Club was made up of
materials se discordant, that to suppose that any
thing like a consioracy could originate in it, was
most absurd. Not two of them agreed on the subject
nt Parliamentary Rios m, or indeed on any other
subject. tkime were fir one plan, some ror another.
But he solemnly declared before GOD, that he never
heard any thing in the Hampden Club which tended
to put the Constitution., or the smallcst part of the
Constitution, in the slightest danger. He was per
suaded that his Honourable Colleague, who was
Chairman of that Club, would vouch fur the truth of
this declaration. He b lieved that not a single paper
had issued from the Hampden Club, which was not
written by a venerable individual, whose character
stood deservedly high with all who were in any way
acquainted with him.—'rlte netiti,n was brought up,
read, and ordered to Fe on the table.
Lot d A RA:RIBALD HAMIL'T'ON presented a
Petition from Langlio:me, in Dumfries-shire, praying
for " A full and fair representation of the People is
Parliament,"'and for Retrenchment."—Ordered
to lie cn the table.
Mr. JOAN SMITH presented Petitions from va-
rious parishes in the vicinity of Nottingham, praying
fur Economy and Reform. Ord,red to lie 'AI the table.
SALT DUTIES AND SMUGGLING.

Mr. CA LCRAIir ptp,,t,oki I i. motion, which
stood for try-motrust, to the 6 Alt Dalt s. He
had not changed his opihion on the subject, Iv he
wished to delay the consideration of it—first, binu,e
bu.iness of so much more .pressing importance was
before the House, at.d secondly, because lie had
not quite made op his mind as to the principle of a
commutation in lieu of the duty. Unquestionably
his intention was to propose the repeal of the duty;
but as he was sensiLle of the immense sum accruing
from it to the Revenue, he felt that it. was his duty
not to snake such a proposition, unless he could
thew the Right Honourable the Chancellor of the
Exchequer a fair prospect of filling up the gap
which would be occasioned by its adoption. He
made this statement, because, from the very nume-
rous letters which he had received, since he had first
mentioned the subject, he found that it was one of
even more extensive importance than he had origi-
sally conceived. While he wai.on his legs he wished
to move for a paper respecting a struggling transac.
tion which had lately taken place, and to whicb his
attentiwn had been excited by the circumstance of two
Freemen of Rochester being engaged in it. If there
was no abjection to the production of the paper, he
would move for it at once. It WAS a statement rela-
tive to the seizure of the smack Elizabeth and Mary,
of Rochester, on the 4th of June last, by the Tide
Surveyor of Poole.
Mr. LUSHINGTON having intimated that he
bad no objection to the motion, it was agreed to.
PA 111$11 SETTLEsIE ng.

Sir EGERTON BRIDGES rose to propose an
alteration of the Law of Settlements as for as re-
goided Cow Pasturage. The object of the Honour-
able Baronet was, to prevent those persons who pos-
sessed cow pasturage under the value of £2O a year,
from obtaining a settlement. After stating the great
hardships to which the labouring classes were sub-
jected at present, by the refusal of farmers or proprie-
tors of estates to let to them a small quantity of cow
pasturage, lest they should acquire a settlement to
which the rent of their tenements alone would not
entitle them, the Honourable Baronet moved for
leave to being_ in a Ball to alter the laws relative to
the removal of the poor in certain cases.
Sir C. BURRELL supported the Bill, as calcu•
laced materially to benefit the poorer classes.
Mr. LOCKHART and Sir C. MONCK recom-
mended to the Honourable Baronet not to press the
Bill alter its introduction, until the Committee on
the Poor Laws had male their R. port, as the subject
of Parochial Settlements would probably eatero Mate-
rially into their deliberations.
Sir E. KNATCH BULL was of ',similar opinion
but observed, that that could be no obstacle to the in-
troduction of a Bill which was fraught with so much
advantage to the community.
Leave was then granted to bring its the Bill.
Lord STANLEY presented a petition from certain
inhabitants of Middleton, in the county of Lancaster,
who bad sent a deputy to the meeting assembled in
London, for the purpose of obtaining Parliamentary
Reform, complaining that they had been calum-
niated in the Report of the Secret Committee, and
•praying.tbat they might be heard at the liar, previous
to the passing of the Bill for the Suspension of the
Habeas Corpus.—Ordered to lit on the table.
SUMMAND.
. The Order of the Day having been read for bring.
ing Thomas Jefferics to the Bar for the f tupobe of
discharging him, Lord W. Rosana. moved that be
be then brought to the Bar. On hie appearance the
SPEAK= addressed him to the following effect :
" Thomas lefferies—The Select Committee of this House, ap.
Foisted to try and determine the validity of the Litt Electra; for
the Borough of Wootton-Basset, having reported that you, being
called as a witness before them, had been minty of gross preys-
nation, fur that offence this Hoeft tothodtted you to the emu
won jail for hedging all such of ender& In the Committees of
this House established by law to prosecute these Warsaw utmost
favour and protection are always shewn to the witneWW sum-
stoned to appear before•thsm. Of that iadolgence you, is your
• examination, experienced abundant proof. ltepeared‘ admo-
nished of the sacred obligation of your oath, and of your duty to
Goo and sour country, you nevertheless persisted in your cri-
tuiral endeavours to defeat the ends of justice in the cause which
was under trial, Such prat ices always were, and always will be
unavailing. The temple of your punishment, which followed
without delay the coningssion of your crime, will, I hope, prove
a nursling to those who may henceforward be required to give,
their testimony before these tnbunals; and the notoriety of your
case, whcreitiever you may present yourself for the remainder of
your life, will teach all men to knew that imprisonment sod ig•
nunilny must be the consequence of as imitation of your conduct.
At length, however, you have been brought to a just acme of
your error; and, in consideration of your penitence, this House
has ordered that you be discharged ; and you are discharged ac-
curdirigly, first paying your tees.—Sedeaut, remove him from
the Bar.'
On ILC motion of the cHiIIiCILLOR of the Enure

QUER, the Speaker's reprimand was ordered to be en-
tered on the Journals'. "

SPENCEA N SOCIETY.

Mr. BENNET held in his hand a Petitiort couched
in respectful language, which lie wished to present
to the House. At tl►e same time, he thought it ne-
cessary to declare, that until within these few days he
did not know that such a person existed in the world.
It purported to be from Thomas Evans, of New-
castle-stre, t, in the parish of St. Clement Danes, but
now a prisoner in the House of Correction for the
County of Middlesex. This person was Librarian to
ta Sect who called themselves Spenceans. He stated
in his Petition, that in 179 S he was arrested under a
warrant of the Duke of Portland's, and confined for
three yens in different prisons, during the suspension
of the Habeas Corpus Act. His friends were de-
barred from all access to him—he saw no one—he
was denied all opportunities of reading and writing,
which, as he was a literary man, was to him a severe
grievance. He was shut up in a solitary cell.—
Under all these circumstances his health considerably
suffered ; the wonder indeed to him (Mr. Bennet)
was, that he retained his reason. Those who con-
ducted Lunatic Asylums were acquainted with many
cases in which long solitary confinement had produced
iv Inky. The Petitioner then proceeded to state,
that he, with his son, who is under twenty years of
Age, had lately bees arrested. He was Librarian to
the Spencean Society ; but he declared that that So-
ciety had tied no commit: ication with any other So-
ciety in any part of the country on the subject of Par-,
liamentary Reform. The prayer of the petitioner
was, that the House would not pass the Bill for sus•
pending the Habeas Corpus, without further inquiry;
because the urfortunate man knew t!►at he might
otherwise be placed precisely in the same situation as
that in which he totst►d himself in 1798.

Pethi.m w.ts then brought up, read, and or-
dered to lie on the table.

Mr. BENNET moved for an account of the Sala-
ry and all other emoluments received by the Inspec-
tor of the City of London, under the Property 'cal
Act for the last three years, eliding January 5, 1817.
Ordered.

Sir EGERTON BRYDGES brought in a Bill
to alter the LetWil relative to the removal of the Poor
in ccrtsiu cases, which was read a first time, and or-
dered to be read a second time this day fortnight,
and printed.
Mr. PROTHEROE seeing the Right Honourable
the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his place, wished
to put a question to him respecting the falling off in
the Duty on British Wines, which he understood to
have lately taken place. He said that the diminu-
tion in the consumption of
.British Wines had been
chiefly occasioned by the great importation of Cape
Wines. He understood that it was the intention of
his Majesty's Government to lay a duty on Cape
Wine equal to the present duty on British Wines; but
this, hr conceived, would not afford a sufficient pro-
tection to the British Wine.dealers. He suggested,
therefore, a diminution in the duty on British Wine,
and some regulations respecting licences.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
said, it was true that a great decrease in the manu-
facture of British Wines had lately taken place; and
this falling off au undoubtedly partly owing to the
favour which had been shewn to the Wine imported
from our colony of the Cape of Good Hope. The
cultivation of the vine had been materially extended
At the Cape of Good Hope, in consequence of the
protection it had enjoyed during the last two years.
It had been now thought advisable, however, to lay
some duty on the importation of. Care Wine, cone.
sponding to the duty on British Wines. As to the
other remedies proposed by the Honourable Gentle.
man, he was not at present prepared to give him a
distinct answer.

Lord RANCLIFFE presented a Petition from
Stapleton, praying for Retrenchment and Parliamen-
tary Reform.
Mr. LAMUTON moved for certain accounts,
with the view of shewina the increases which had
lately taken place in the Salaries and Emoluments
of the Post•Master-General, and,other Officers of the
Post Office Establishment ; but, on the suggestion of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that the object of
the Honourable Gentleman would be b: tier accom.
plished by an alteration in his Motion, he consented
to withdraw it for the present.

PLTITION !ROM ZATLi.
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT said, he held in his
hands a Petition against the Suspension of the Ha-
beas Corpus Act ; and he had no doubt, if longer
time was given to the country to express their senti-
ments on the subject, they would receive many more.
This Petition was pretty numerously signed. It came
from the City of Bath. It had been sent up in great
haste, in the apprehension lest it should come too late.
The Gentleman who transmitted the Petition to him,
"had informed him, that the Petition Isy only a few
hours at his house, and that if they,had had time,
they could have had more than 10,000,signatures.
Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW said, the House would do
him the justice to believe that he also had a supersti-
tious veneration (dr the Habeas Corpus Act. He
had in- some degree strewn his attachment to that
Chatter of our Liberties, by bringing in a Bill slime
time ago to render the Bill more efficient in its ope-
ration. But he considered the laws in being as inade-
quate to the object of protecting the Government, in
the present circumstances of the country.
Mr. BROUGHAM was not a little astonished at
the course taken by the Learned Serjeant to prove his
superstitious reverence for the Habeas Corpus Act.
Having brought is a Bill to reader its previsions
more effectual after making it more valuable.—he
spewed his superstitious vetieration for it by suspend-
ing it altogether for four months. He wished, that
instead of a superstitious veneration, he had substitu-
ted a reasonable veneration for it—(Lamester)—aad
then be was sure they would have had the suit-
•tanee of his talents in itt defence.—The Petition was
then read, and ordered to lie onthe table.