Star.
London, England, 1819-03-09 00:00:00

, and thought ' tha FloteiPla of
woull be prejudicial to society. The Hon.
0,,r, or :laded by spins, that he should vote
the Dill in every stage.
CUR WEN hoped the House would see the
• of revising these laws, and allow to the °e-
a mad that right which is bona jide vested in
such. This right being once established, all
be ;nu-res.:el in maintaining it, and &s-
-lid invariably pursue the person who should
The existing system he cqnsidered detes-
and abhorrent, and should therifore most rea.
his vote in support of the measure proposed
llonnufable Friend.
F; LEWIS mainlined that the object which
contemplated was only to give persons pc4-
land the absolute and uncontrolled poWer
It was a substantive offence• to disturb an
in -the possession of his-property but it
tifestly wrong to make that an offence in the
lation of the law, which was not reaLy.so.in
nature. He agreed most willingly to the
of some legislative measure calculated to do
lie evils which resulte& from tjie present ope-
ol the Game Laws.—Leave given. .

PROSECUTIONS IN THE EXCHTULIER.
W. HARVEY, in rising to bring forward his
'fur a Return of all Informations under the
r Custom Laws, which had been instituted
;oat of Exchequer in the last seven years,
not awate upon what grounds an opposition
raised to it. He was anxious, however, to
Jouse into possession of his motives for bring-
rirward, and the use he intended shobld be
of the papers AN hich were called for. It was
-lent to be useciagainst him, that this. pro-
cin!a-acei too great a latitude of inquiry,
was willing to acknowledge that there was
in it. la concurrence with that suggestion, he
~ therefore, limit his scope of inquiry to the
,else wombs, in place of seven years. The
investigation would embraceithree propo-
First, to shew what unwarrantable expenses
to the Revenue, by resorting to informations
6e Exchequer. Secondly, to ascertain the jilt-.
• expense which was imposed upon defendants,
is resort to prosecution, by information : and
the great expense brought upon defendants
, agamst whom verdicts might- be given.
were one or two cases which he would take
iberty to cite, and would set iii a clear point of
the hardship and injustice of such proceedings.
was that of a respectable merchant of London,
was; by humane considerations, induced to leave
of one thousand pounds to an indigent trades-
to enable him to carry on some business in the
coffee way. An information was laid against
having sold a vegetable powder of a delete-
s quality; and which, from its resemblahce to
was denounced by law, under I.:loo'penalty.
is not the owner of the hop, but Daly had his

ler the, door to secure himself in the property, 1
received only common interest for his money:,
• came upon him'. brsurprise, and he lost no
memorializing the Coin mtssioners of Excise ;
received only a ptinted circular, couched in such
terms, as convinced him that his application
i:h but little success. He was induced after-
to offer. £lO, then £2O, And at length he was
to understand, that ,if ho paid £3O and the
of the action, it would be compromised, which,
' that the costs was the only object with the
rof the Excise. When the posts came to be
into, however, they were ascertained to be
of £5O or £5O, which, with the sum to be
made the alternative as bad as abiding the trial.'
.i.eu it came into .Court, though it was a very
of an Act of Parliament, there were ar-

against him a phalanx of no less, than five
Lawyer*, which, with the Solicitors, etc. and:
of a Special Jury, run up the expense to
~,n:Ld and ten pounds. The reason of mak-
i; a Special Jury case was evident; because, in
i, is always necessary that there be five
, on the part of the Crown, whereas in ordi.
cases, there were only three--(Near; hear.),
ti given to understand, that the standing nom- ,
of Special Jurors. in that Court was seventeen, of
• the major part were no very imposing free-
., and all of whom were paid' on every case.
. an array of talent and number of Counsel,
side of the Crown, necessarily imposed upon
fmdant the necessity of meeting them by an
number, which was a great expense. jt Was
z,e, that if the Commissioners thought a,sunz of
quitesufficiera to atone for the offene6t that the
.dart should still be obliged to pay the costs.—
sis which was so arbitrarily used by the
itor for the Excise, threw into his hand's an et-
;l discretion, which was unknoWn to the Con-
Lion, and created him, in fact, into Judge and
The party, in that case, went into Court, and
a verdict given against him. The other wee the
a person of vet), bad character, who set him.
lip as a licensed brewer of ale, and cajoled se-
respectable .tradesmen to sell him molasses,,
were prohibited to be sold to a regular
:eget, under a penalty of 5001.- but:, 'upon filing
iutininat:on against him, in the Exchequer, he
qiworsted. and a verdict was given for the de-
ant, through the exertions of his CounseL--
trientioned this to shew the description of men
' In nd been put foruhard as instruments by tire
Ilecutors, to refute their boast that the purest tes.,
fraay was alone relied upon. The last case was'
°'` a yea son of the name of Underwood, who was
'fir of a small smack at Colchester, called the
'',oal haat, which he used occasionally for trading
ousters. . T his man had Been, prevailed upon, in
wdcratof some shares:, at sea, to take on board
t contraband goods of a notorious smuggler off
cos; and wao afterwards gave information to
lievenue Ofliceis against him, gnd had his ship
d
Upon this occasion, two distinct courses were
'°ved ; one was to condemn the vessel, Ind the
to enforce the penalty of hi's bond, which every
r°"lierg . a,.
c not to engage in srigglit:,,,—(hear,
h leas latter was a
unjust for it should have been
4.15 ci
!04slur:i.ce of conviction on the other olence.
case, however, war brought into,the Exchequer,
an E
.ig ish Jury gave a verdint for the defendant,
I"er. tilt- whole system was exposed, and the prose-
cr.tit %to,
curtfessed to have been a smuggler of four
II rue Fears standing—Ocar heart-When the first
hay failed, ' '
he Crown Law ?en withdrew the
cults% non the penalty of the bond, after a vain

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