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London, England, 1820-05-05 00:00:00

COAL DUTIES.

The Sheriffs of the City'of London presented a
Petition from the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Com-
mons of the City of London, in Common Council
assembled, Fraying for a continuation of the powers
granted by the 51st of the late king, for the purp.o.:e
of improving the western part of the City, by the
erection of a Post-Office, ecc.—On the motion for re-
ferring the Petition to a Committee,
Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW rose, not to oppose the
motion, but to enter lijs solemn protest against any
extension of the Tax on Coals—(Hear, hear). It was
contrary to every principle of taxation, that a general
impost should be laid for a kcal purpose; and that
such a duty as that in question should he levied on
a necessary of life, affecting the whole of the :',letro-
-1

polls, as well as the counties of Surre)., Kent, Llert-
ford, Buckinghamshire, &c.
Mr. N. CALVERT also took the earliest opporte,
nit% of plote,ting against any such proceeding.
Mr. R. GORDON rernirded the House, that le
had uniformly endeavoured to call the attention cr-
the House to this subject. The fact was, that tvo
hundred and thirty thousand pounds had been ew-

pended on the New Post-Oirice without a :intzlo
!nick having been laid ! When the Returns for
which he had yesterday moved should be laid on the
table, this would be 'made apparent. The uligina
estimate for the building was 1.:‘_!08,000.
Mr. 11. SUMNER wished that some explanation.
should be made of the object in view, as well as
the mode in which the money already raised had
been applied.
The SPEAKER observed, that as the Petit:oi
was a private Petition, no step could be taken
out a previous inquiry by a Committee.
Mr. Alderman WOOD said, it would be tiself.-,3

for him to take up the time of the House at ti:.a nee
ment by any observations on the subject. lie ultra
deny, however, that the erection of a new Post-0:-
fice was a local benefit to the City of London; it w:is
a public benefit. So far from the tax on Coals b&:itz
advantageous to the City of London, as long it
continued the City would have to !my Ei 000 .1 year.
The Petition was that referred to a Committee.
nattoN OF THE EXCHEQUER IN SCOTLAND.

I The LOltD ADVOCATE, adverting to the con-
versation which had lately taken place in the House,
on the subject of the appointment of a fourth Laron
of the Exchequer in Scotland, observed, that whet
the vacancy in question occurre,!, he had been r:2-
quired, in the discharge of his official duty, to nia%.,.
a Report, on the recommendation of the Commis-
sioners, on the Courts cat JusiLe in Scotland, to a!)-
stain from filling up, any such vacancy that rri;:•,l't
occur after that recommendation. In order the better to
enable himself to e7:ecotc this task, he had submitted
the subject to the consideration of the highest Law
Authorities in Scotland; namely, the Lord President
of the Court of Session, the i.ord Justice (lei k, the
Lord Chief Commissioner of the Jury Court, and the
Lord Chief Blt0:1 of the Exchequer. Th. se high
Authorities were unanimous in their opinion of the
expediency of filling up the vacancy. He was solici-
tous that the House should be pin in pos•es-ion of
this Report; not because it stared the opinion of the
humble individual who addressed them, but because
it comprehended the opinion of the highest Legal
Authorities in Scotland on.the subject. He would
therefore move,
" That an humble Address be presented to Lis Majesty, pray-
ing that he would he graciously pleased to order that then:: he
laid before the House a copy of the Report made by the Lord
Advocate of Scotland, on the recommendation contained in the
Sixth Report of the Commissioners of the Courts of Justice in
Scotland, regarding the disc4ntinuance of one of theLarons of
the Court of Exchequer in Scotland."
Mr. ABERCROMBIE rose, not to oppose the
motion, but to express his extreme regret that, when
a Report had been made by Commissioners ap-
pointed by that House, expressing the opinion of
those Commissioners, that the office in question
should, in the event ofta vacancy, not be filled up,
his Majesty should nevertheless have been advised to
fill it up. He was veryhappy that the Learned Lord
had moved for the production of this paper, as it was
an admission on the part of the Learned Lord (which
he trusted the Public would bear in mind), that what
related to that Court was a fit matter for parliamen-
tary investigation. lie was unequivocally cf opi-
nion, that into the nature of the Court of Exchequer
in Scotland, it .behoved that House to institute a di..

ligent inquiry—an inquiry founded on the large and
extended principle of separating from official duties
branches of business that were not properly compati-
ble with those duties.• It was most essential to pub-
lic justice that the duties of a Judge should never as-
sume a political character— Hear, hear!o.—Oir
these grounds, and mainly oo the admission which
the motion implied, of its being the duty of Parlia-
ment to invitstigate the subject, he gave his cordial
assent to it.

Lord BINNING said, that ti:e Honourable and
Learned Gentleman spoke as if his Learned Friend
had himself originated the inquiry. It was not
so. His Learned Friend was only ministerial. The
Secretary of State having required a Report frotn his
Learned Friend on the recommendation of the Com-
missioners, he had done his duty by appealing on the
subject to the highest Law Authorities cf Scotland.
Mr. ABERCROMBIE, in explanation, ob erveds,
that it was substantially the san:e thing. From what-
ever source the inquiry proceeded, it was evident
that the act of Guvcina:ent was in hostility to the--
opinion of the Com mi ,sioners. Ile begged, however,
to be distinctly understood, that nothing could benacie
foreign to his intention than to intimate anything
that was not entirely respectful to the Learned Lord.
Sir J. NEWPORT supported the necessity of an
inquiry into the constitution of the Court of Exche-
quer in Scotland. It was evident that the informa-
tion which was to be afforded on the subject, was ab-
solutely forced from Government, by the observations
made by his Noble Friend.
Mr. HUSKISSON said, that the appointment had
taken place 'before the meeting of Parliament.
The motion was then agreed to.
MARRIAGE ♦CT.

Dr. PHILLIMOI:E, alter a re-statement of the
grounds on which he had in the last Session of Par-
liament introduced a similar measure, obtained leave
to bring a Bill to amend the Marriage Act.

'Tense in *.he years 1794, 1795, 1796, and 1797. In a
eree attached to the returns made of the items of the
Lurplus of the Gibraltar Revenue, it was stated that
..0 account of its appropriation would be laid before
Parliament. That account, however, had never made
its a apearance. It was not only material to obtain this,
hit it was most material seriously to consider the
principle on which the Revenue in question had been
raised. For his part he had always been led to be-
-I:eve that his Majesty had no right to levytaxes.upon
any part of his subjects without the sanction of Par-
liament. Let the Jlouse also consider the amount of
those to xes appropriated to the Civil List; that amouat
from 1760 to 1S"0, was 124,226/. being 2,0701. per
ennui:). The Nvhole amount of the taxes levied on
..iibrahar dining the last sixty years was, however,
e.i0,0001. The House ought surely to consider how
7.41' his Alnjesty had a right to levy, for his own pur-
pose , any tax on a colony. He was prepared to con-
:end that no such right existed, and that all taxation
on the subject, not sanctioned by that House, was a
~.each of its privileges. He begged the House to
attend to one circumstance. The Right Hon. Gen-
tleman opposite refused to assign any reasons for the
appropriation of the sums in question to the Civil'
List, but said that it was the immemorial usage. The,
fact did not hear out the Right Hon. Gentleman in
tat assertion. Let the. House refer to the original
charter granted in the reign of Queen Anne, soon
e.;:er the capture of Gibraltar in 1701.. In 1705 the
(4.11CC11 in Council declared, for the encouragement
of settlers and traffickers in the garrison, that no
duties should be laid on ships, goods, warehouses,
Scc. This declaration had the effect of attracting a
ton.aderable number of settlers to the garrison.—
Tile returns which he wished to obtain would skew
w:lat the amount of the duties levied was, notwith-
sandiag that declaration, in 1760. In 1791. the
amount assessed was 4,0001. The House would be bur-
p; iced to learn that it had since increased to 50,0001.
To tic Revenue derived from certain small psrtions
of lead, Ste. that Lad devolved to the Crown, the
Crown was fairly entitled ; but the imposition of
local taxes to so heavy an amount was disgraceful
and unwarrantable. He proceeded to another most
serious part of the subject. When Gibraltar came
ir:o our possession the inhabitants wet e chiefly, if
e. entirely, Catholics; and our Government. being
:tel.:ious to remove them by degrees, and to substitute
nen:status, gave to the latter superior advantages
in order to induce them to settle. The Catholics

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' ducted upon the principles of that persuasion. He.
would go farther—there was not on the Rock any
establishment from which any Protestant could re-
ceive that religious consolation which he required.
He would now again advert to the Revenues of that
place, as well as to the manner of their collection.
These Revenues were collected at a grievous expense.,
The recent appointments too, to public orlicei, were'
against a positive Act of Parliament. The Act to
which he alluded was one which provided against
the di charge of the duties of any office by deputy.
Mr. Wickham had been appointed a Receiver of cer-
tain branches of Revenue, and this office he dis-
charged by deputy. He only mentioned the name
of ehis Gentleman as an instance of the many which
he could produce, and whether his case came within,
or was previous to, the Act to which he alluded,
would be shawl' upon the inquiry which he proposed.
He did not mean to trespass further upoir the atten-
tion of the House—(flenr, peer! fi•oin tire Miai.ite-
rid wenches).—He would go a little further, in con-
sequence of the cheers of the Gentlemen on the other
side—(Heru-, hear! from the Opp. ition).—The Ho-
nourable Member went on to state, that not long ago
there was but one Commissary of Stores in GibralL
tar ; at present they had three. Not long since, they
had not a Commissioner of Accounts ; now they had
three. During the war r. Military Secretary was em-'
ployed ; since the peace he had been struck off, but
he was retained as Translator of Languages, with
the continuance of his previous salary and emolu-
ment,:. He would not fin ther detain the House at
present. Ile had three motions to make :—The first
was, " For a Return of all the Taxes and Duties le-
vied in Gibraltar in the years 1800 and ISIS." These
two periods would be sufficient to shew to the House
the nature and increase of the Revenue of that coon-
try.—His next motion was, " For the production of
:in Account of the number and nature of the vari-
ous Oilices and Establishments at Gibraltar, with
the Amount of the Salaries and Emoluments re-
ceived by the different Functionaries in 1800 and in
1818." This would shew to the House, how far the
system of economy, which was now considered the
order of the day, was attended to.—The third mo-
tion was, « For a Return of the Amount of the Re-
venues of Gibraltar front 1760 up to 1820, distin-
guishing ench year ; and also an Account of the Gar-
rison and other Expenses, together with the Revenues
transmitted to this country.'
On the first question being-put,

were subjected to a variety of restrictions, which con- The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said,
tieeed until his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent that he did not rise to oppose the motion ; indeed, be
became Governor. IVith that liberality which had al- had not, with the exception of a slight alteration,
ways distinguished his Royal Highness, who felt that any objection to produce the whole of- the Accounts
the Catholics ought not toremain wider any burthen moved for. He could not, however, help complain-
of that nature, he represented to Government its im- ing of the uncandid manner in which the llonoumble
propriety and its incompatibility with the peace and Member had charged both the Governor of Gibraltar
(ittiet of the garrison. In consequence, Mr. Wind- and his Majesty's Council, in the course of his speech,
ham, in 1807, wrote a letter to his Royal Highness, with extravagance and extortion. He did not wish,
authorising the abolition of these restrictions. But at present, to go at length into this question, as a
what would the House say, when he infornied them proper period would arrive for its discussion. But
that Ministers, by a late Order in Council, had laid he hoped Members would reserve their opinions until
a tax on every Catholic and Jewish inhabitant of that discussion came fairly before them. With re--
the garrison ? The will of such individual was de- spect to what the Honourable Member had said, .re-
dared to be invalid without the sanction of the Go- lative to the right of the Crown over conquered Co.,
vernor; and a capitation tax of ten dollars a year lonics, he conceived that there was no principle of
was imposed upon him—a tax existing nowhere the law of nations more generally admitted than that
but in Turkey, and worthy of Turkey! But what which transferred to the conquering Sovereign the
he thought would surprise the Muse, was, exclu- rights exercised over such Colony by that Power to
sively of-all that he had mentioned, duties to the which it previously belonged. He did not mean to
amount of many thousand pounds on almost every object to the first or second Resolutions ; but to the
article imported into Gibraltar. On ships touching third, he would, if it were :not altered, propose an
Cure, a duty was levied. On a ship of three masts, Amendment, which was, that the whale Account for
twelve dollars; on one of two masts, nine dollars; the time mentioned should be produced, without spe-
en smaller vessels, four dollars and a half, This was cifying the items from year to year. He wished at the
in direct contradiction to the original charter. Du- same time to observe, that there was not any foreign
ring the year that he (Mr. Hume) was at Gibraltar, port in which similar duties to those complained of
WOO vessels touched at that port. It they tumefy were not exacted. The Right Honourable Member
anchored they were subject to the duty. There were made some observations relative to certain sums re-
o-dier taxes levied ley the Governor, General Don, mitted from Gibraltar, and received by his late Ma-
ia the most arbitrary manner, and without even the jesty. He could state that the surplus remitted to
:authority of Ministers. In a list in his possession, it this country, for the List twenty years, was £70,000,
appeared that there was one (he would not say inn- or something more than £5,000 a-year. The total
proper in its object) imposed is 1816, of £9l a year amount of the Gibraltar provisions, for the last six
'a every retail wine and spirit shop. He knew he years, amounted to about 4225,000 a-year.
should be told by the Right Hon. Gentleman, that this Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH said, it was not his
was confirmed two years afterwards by an Order in intention to delay the House by entering unneces-'
Council. There were other taxes imposed by Gene- sarily into an inquiry as to the mode in which these
ral Don on eating-houses, billiard-tables, fishing- Taxes had been laid on. He felt, however, that the
boats, etc.—am 3 he was almost ashamed to say that mode of their imposition did not shew a due regard
the Geacral had sanctioned the sale of Lottery-tickets, to the rights of the inhabitants. Notwithstanding
without th_ authority of Government, by making the this opinion, he was ready to give credit to his Ma-
venders of Spanish Lottery-tickets pay a considerable jesty's Ministers for the laudable anxiety manifested
suet for a license. Whether or not those sums were by them, when a.representation was made of certain
brought to the public account he could not say, but severe Orders in Council, to relieve the inhabitants
he knew they were levied ; and he had in his posses- from the pressure of those orders. But he could not
siou live or six of General Don's Proclamations on agree with the Right Hon.. the Chancellor of the
the subject. This practice of levying taxes ad likings., Exchequer as to the doctrines laid down by him on
and reinitting the produce home for the Privy Purse the law of nations, and which, coming from such
cf his Majesty, without the authority of Parliament, high authority, were calculated to make a strong
v,as, in his opinion, must u; constitutional. The este- impression. He could not see how the law of na-
hlivliment of the place had also been most tioneces. ,lions vested in the Sovereign of this country, con-
tali!), increased. lie really believed it was increased quering a colony, the powers previously exercised-
;llA in proportion as Ministers found it convenient in such colony by an absolute Monarch.' The
to extend their patronage. lie would give the law of nations went only to relulate the transac-
Roma some idea of the amount of the increase, in dons between nations. But the powers to be exer-
erder to shew the kind of economy observed. During cised over a conquered Colony must depend upon
the war there was one Town-Major in Gibraltar ; the Laws and Constitution of the conquering nation.
s ;ice the peace there had been two. During the war He would take the lib erty; without digressing from
teem were two Barrack-Masters; since the peace the present subject, to refer to the case of Campbell
there had been three. During the war there was one and Hall. The House would recollect that that case
Pratitiuz-Master ; since the peace there had been two. by no means decided the power to be exercised over
Instead of paving and keeping the garrison in re- conquered colonies, but that it was still a matter of
pair, out of the duties levied jilt, largesums (which doubt, evea among the highest authorities, whether
ihe lionoureble Gentleman specified) bad been, at that power was vested in the King in Council, or
various times, voted in the different estimates, for the King in Parliament ? He felt it necessary to
purposes, while the money was all remitted say that the How and the country were highly in-
,-erae for the use of the Privy Purse-.4llear, hear). debted to his Hon. Friend (Mr. Hume) for his peree-
t-Now, really, this appeared to him to be a question vering exertions in inquiring into matters which lay
":handing serious consideration. If any part of the beyond the ordinary observation of Members gene-1
'!. reditary Revenue was given up by the Act of the rally. 'He would, however, recommend to that HO-
. r of his late Majesty, that at Gibraltar must have nourable Member to accept of the offer of the Chan-
' ens given up too. It was not, however, simply the cellor of the Exchequer on his third Resolution, re,
21.A10 that had been applied to the Palsy Pulse, serving to himself the right of movingior any more
t;:e extravagant Establishment—contrary to every detailed accounts when he should• deem it necessary
nriple of economy—which had been kept lip, to so to do. He admitted that the offer of the Chancel-
' Lic,i the attention of Parliament ought to be di- for of the Exchequer would bring the accounts in-
c.c.!. To him the system appeared to be most ille- completely before the Ifouse, but they'woUld be suf.
and unconstitutional, and one which ought to be • ficient for the question just about to be inquired into;
)01i,I:ed. Not any pert of the duties raised wre the amount of' the Crown Revenues. With this view
;,plied to purposes advantageous to the Establish- he thought the suggestion of the Right Honourable
r..znt. There were in Gibraltar two Synagogues,-two Member oultht to be acceded to, but without,preju-
on.in Catholic Chapels, and one Methodist Chapel; dice to any future. nquiry. .
-t there was, not one church of the Established Re- ! Mr. GOULBURN said, he did not then wish to
ion of this country, nor was there one School con- :enter at length in answer to the Honourable Member

(Mr. Hume), as another opportunity of doing so
would present itself. There was one, point, however,
to which he wished to speak. The Hon. Member
had stated that he had resided at Gibraltar. Ile also
had resided there, and he could assure the House,
whether it was from his greater desire to attend Divine
Service, offrom what other motive, he would not say,
but he had. every Sunday attended the Established
Church, and he bad seen the troops regularly attend
it also. And he could call to the recollection of the
Hon. Member the existence of such an establishment,
by reminding him of the monuments erected in and
abcut it, to several of our naval and military heroes.
There were other statements of the Hon. Member
which he was equally ready to shew were incorrect,
when the proper period arrived—at present he did
not feel it necessary to go further.
Colonel DALRYMPLE said he had resided two
years in Gibraltar, and had, during that time, rep,u-
lady attended a Church of the established religion:'
He also had witnessed /he regular attendance of
the troops.—The first and second Resolutions were
then put and carried.
Mr. HUME, in moving the third Reiolution, ob-
served, that he lend made the alteration recommended
to him, by striking out the words « from year to
year," although this defeated the great object which
he had in view in making the motion—namely, that
of shewing the progressive increase of Revenue and
Expenditure which had been made. He could assure
the House that he was ready to meet the llonourable
Members opposite on the subject of the statements
he had made ; and he pledged himself to prove that
these statements were correct. He denied at the same
time the charge of want of candour, imputed to him.
Ile had never used the words charged against him
by the other side of the House. If any expression in-
advertently used by him gave offence in any quarter,
he begged to assure the House that be had no such
intention : his only object was to lay before Parlia-
ment the trite state of the Revenue arising from
Gibraltar. The Resolution, as amended, was carried.

Mr. WHITBREAD presented a Petition Irons several Per-
sons residing North of the River Thames atiive London, com-
plaining of the dangerous state of the Navigatihn under London
Bridge, and praying that some measure should be adopted for
remedying that evil.
Sir WILLIAM CURTIS said, he was sure that some mea-
sure would rory shortly take piece for removing the inconveni-
erNes now felt by persons who passed under that bridge. But he
would assure the House that it was not in the dangerous state
which had been represented.
Mr. F. LEWIS was of opinion, that something ought to be
fmintdiately done for the removal of the evil in question; and
if not, the most serious damage would be done to the Navigation
of the River below the Bridge. He conceived that an inquiry
on "the subject was necessary.
Sir WILLIAM CURTIS said, he should feel it his duty
to lay before the House any information he might possess on
the subject.
Mr. Alderman WOOD said, that an inquiry had been going
on for some years relative to the Bridge. and if those who com-
plained of its present state chose to n:ove for any other inquiry,
the Trustees would be ready to give them every information.
Mr. C. CALVERT observed, that the City of London'
wished to keep London Bridge in its present state. on account
of the Water Works erected there, in which the whole (icy was
interested. Now, as an Honourable Friend of his intended
shortly to introduce a plan fur destroying the smoke of all Steam-
Legines, he hoped the City would have no objection to erect
new Engines, which should throw up the water, instead of the
wheels of those works to which he alluded.
- Mr.. Alderman WOOD asstired his Honourable Friend, that
'the City was riot interested in the keeping up the Water Works.
Ail the advantage derived from them was a small rent, and that
the City would be ready to give up, if it should appear that the
public convenience required it.
The Petition was ordered to lie on the table. _

It was ordered, on the motion of Mr. HENRY Curs, that an
humble Address be presented to his Majesty, praying that there
be laid before the House an Account of the present State of the
Estabdshed Church of Ireland.

The Insolvent Debtors' Act Declaratory Bill was read a second
time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow.—Adjourned.

LAW INTE.LLIGENCZ.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY 4.
The SOLICaOR-GtNERAL moved the judgment of
the Court upon the following persons, who were
brought up to town from the places of their respec-
tive conviction, to receive their sentences. The judg-
ments were pronounced by Mr. Justice BAYLEY, after
the Petitions put in were read, and the arguments in
mitigation and aggravation of punishment on both
sides were successively heard, viz.
Rickard Wade!, convicted at Maidstone upon a criminal in-
formation tiled by the Attorney-Ger.eral, for a violent assault on
one of the stamen of his Majesty's ship Severn in the execution
of his duty, in the prevention of smugglers on the Kentish coast,
to be imprisoned three months in Maidstone Jail, and at the
expiration of that period, to find sureties of good behaviour for
two years, himself in £5O, and two sureties in £25 each.
EllioU, convicted at the Dorset Assizes, for lighting
fires by night upon the coast of that county, on the 15th of No-
vember last, as signals to smuggling vessels at sea, to approach
and land their illicit cargoes.—ro be imprisoned three months
in Dorchester
Henry Hickson, convicted at Maidstorn,,, of resisting and
assaulting a Custom-house Officer in the execution of his duty,
to be imprisoned two months in Maidstone Jail, and give secu-
rity on his own recognizance in £5O for his good behaviour for
five years.
Wm. Whitman, convicted at Norfolk A.sizes, for assaulting
a seaman of the Severe. in execution of his duty, for the pre-
vention of smugglers on the Norfolk coast, and Or unlawfully
assembling with a great number of others, amounting to nearly
200, for the purpose of smuggling, to be imprisoned ifs the
House of Correction for that County for one year, and find
sureties of good behaviour fur two years, himself in £5O and
two sureties in .225 each.
Wm. Martin and Thomas Fridge, for unlawfully assembling.
with above 50 others, on the dlst of October last, on the coast
of Sussex, for the purpose of landing smuggled goods, and for
assaulting several seamen and others belonging to the Severn in
the execution their duty in the service of the Revenue—the
former to be confined in the House of Correction at Lewes 15
months, and then to give surety of good behaviour for three
years, himself in 150 and two sureties in £25 each ; and the
latter to be confined lit months, and at the expiration, to fled
the like sureties for two years; and to remain in confinement
until ttfe sureties in both cases be given.
&marl speers, David Cook, and An Brooks, convicted of the
like offence, and assaulting several seamen and others, belonging
to the Severn, in execution of their dutiesi on the coast of Kent,
suffered judgment to tro by default on their trials.—Brooks found
sureties himself in £5O, and two sureties in £25 each, to come
up fur judgment when required by the Court.—David Cok
and Samuel Speers, to be confined three months in the douse of
Correction at Lewes, and enter into their own recogniaances for
£.30 each, to be of good behaviour for thiee years.
Morris, Wm. Forbes, and Jame:Reify, for lighting flash
fires near Bexhill, on the Sussex coast, on the night of the 6th of
April, 1819, as signals to smuggling vcssels at sea, to be confined
three months to hard labour in the House of Cot rection at Lewes.
James Alsaian, for attempting to bribe an Officer of the Cita,
toms, in the execution of his duty, to permit the landing of
smuggled goods, fined £5, and to be imprisotied in Canterbury
Jail two months, and find sureties foe his good behaviour for
two years, bimself in it:4o, and two other sectirides in £2O each.
E‘lia4rd Moore, for assaulting, at Liverpool, a Cunoni-house
Officer in the execution of his duty, in eudeaveuring to seize
frwn the defendant a jar containing two pain's of spirits, with-
out his having a permit for the same. Fined. £4O, and to be
imprisoned until the fine be paid. .
Geo-g: :"., for asiaultii:4 a Custum-house O.llccr, Isaai Sped?