Star.
London, England, 1819-03-10 00:00:00

INSOLVENT DEBTORS.

Mr. BROUGHAM presented a Petition signed by
many most respectable Meichants and, 'Cr:tilers of
Westminster, complaining of the Insolvent Debtors'
Act. He expressed his opinion, that the present Act
required some revision, but that the principle of it
should be preserved.
On the question thaf the Petition be received,
The SOLICITOIZATENEA AL, in the absence of
his Honourable and Learned Friend (the Attorney-
General) said, that he might venture to assure the
Mover and the House, thara never was the intention
of his Honourable and Learned Friend to move for
any renewal of the Act without submitting to the
House at the same time considerable amendments.
Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN, who was not friendly
to the renewal of the Act, hoped, that if a Committee
were appointed to consider the subject, it would be,
such a Committee as would consist of practical as
well as theoretical men. Many Gentlemen. in that
House were not only unacquainted with the nature
of the law, of debtor and creditor, as operated upon
practically, but perfectly indifferent as to its effects;
and in offering this observation, the worthy Alder-
man meant nothing individually censorious.
The Petition was then received, readiand%ardered
to lie on the table. • . •

Mr. BROUGHAM, holding in his hand a Petition
from the Prisoners of the Jad of Lancaster, observed,,
That previously to moving for leave to presm. it,. lie.
found it necessary to describe it, as containing a
prayer of a very opposite nature. It was for the re-,
new•al of the Act ; but humbly stating, that although
an Insolvent Bill would, in their opininn, at this time
be politic, they had no doubt but the law might re-..
ceive many improvements►, . . .
The Petition was receiied,•read, and. ordered to lie
on the table,
Mr. BROUGHAM, as a preliminary to the pre-
senting of a similar Petition, although not in the same
words, stated, that what he then held in his hand,
came from the prisoners confined in the King's Bench,
praying for the renewal of the Insolvent Bill. With-
out denying that there had been many abuses in the
exercise or administration of the present Act, they
wished the new Act to be made as perfect as possible.
The Petition was received, read, and ordered to lie
on the table.

Mr. BROUGHAM presented another petition on
the same subject, from certain inhabitants of Mury-
la-bonne, consisting of 1400 or 1500, who had suf-
fered severely from fraudulent debtors, and praying
against its renewal ; or, if renewed, that there. ought
to be considerable amendments. •

Sir JAMES GRAHAM said, that almost every
one who bad acted with the consequences of the Bill
in his eye,
Chad been defrauded. This was the gene-
ral complaint from Carlisle and other place;, whence
he had presented petitions. Tradesmen in town used
the same language. The complaints of the latter
were, that they presented themselves in a doubtful
shape when urging credit. They gave you a Bill
upon Lord Moira, or some other Nobleman, which
Pill was not perhaps sanctipned, even remotely, by
his Lordship's authority. He hoped for the appoint.
ment of a Committee, and condemned the practices
oof the present Court of InsblVeney. There was now
one universal.assignee only, the Clerk of the Court ;'
and, on inquiry,, it would be found, that in most in-,
stances the Insolvent had paid. nothing in the shapd
of dividends. •
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in contradiction
to the last Hon. Member, vindicated the proceedings
of the Court of Insolvency, so' far as regarded the
letter and spirit of the Act. The Right Ilun. and
Learned Gentleman then went into a minute detail ;
was persuaded that the Clerk of the Court had dis-
charged his duty faithfully ; and that he was merely
a legal officer till a regular assignee was appointed.
Th.o this Bill might be considerably improved, no
one would deny ; but he wished to impiess .on the
House, that in many deficiencies complained of, the
creditors themselves were to blame. They would
not take any trouble upon themselves, butthough:
that every thing was to be done for tbein ; and when
they found that some particular points, in particular
cases, had in the hurry of business been omitted, they.
then uttered their complaints.
Mr. BROUGHAM observed, that although the
Petitioners complained of the operations-pf the pre-
sent Bill, yet they bad no objection to itsprinciple

gmmisieper-..

They hoped that the Committee would ntri2er
perfect as to obviate all objections.
The Hon. GEORGE LAMB, in a maiden
vras against any rancorous IL.ntility tfi debtors in,
neral. But while he declared hi, wishes to act
principles of humanity and fair dealia 1,1
debtor and creditor, be was anxious, for it:4
lion of the honest men of both descripticsn, ti.4l
Bill should be rendered as perfect as poisille.
knew that the honest but too cre,Liu:c
w ais
liable to many frauds, but he as fully perms
that such amendments might be adopted as u,
render it-far less exceptionable. The Rol, ueti^
was listened to with muds attenzion and once ortt
(11mi-ed.—The. Petition was received, read au"
dered to lie on the table. ,

GAdolit • LAWS. .
Mr. BRAND rose to bring fortrard his
Mdtion on this subject, which, he said. was •..
connected! with the moral condition of the lov,ery.
of the people. In the last Parliament, a Ropr.
made by a Corrtmittee •on this question; 2,7 i
opinion of the Committee was, that all Gime
to be the'property of the Occupier of the Lar,4
which such game was found. Here the lion..
Member -ente:ed into a general history of the c:
Laui from the earliest period. and came to the
_which was passed in the reign of Charles
, all the household property of the mutiny was
chided from the ?ossesion cf game, and the
of Manors had the exclusive right over it. Fr
that time to the present, there was nothing but
peated Acts of Parliament, vesting such riOit
Lords of• Manors, contrary to the laws of a,tice •
of nature. •SCI long as so much personal pro
existed in this country- as there was in it p
it-would be impossible for the :aaded pro;)rietors
exclude the other part of the community from
enjoymPnt of that ‘vhich by nature and by just::e
was entitled tn. Thus, all little proprieto7s of l-
and the richest merchants, were precluded from
enjoyment of game ; and the consequence was, a
neral encouragtinnt to poachers, and a temptatil
to most immor ml acts. Against this unjust systerni
legislation, the whole people of the:country prcte4til
The Returns made to the House last ytmr, won
, prove what numbers of people had been sect to p

son in consequence of the severity of the Game La
and. he would venture to say, that if one were,
study upon the most effectual means of demoralii
the country, they could not do it more effeinu•
than by passing these Game Laws. It was certai.
or the highest advantage to the country that land
proprietors should reside upon their estates, and
measure which he contemplated would rather indu
them to do so, thin create in their minds any ob'e-
tion to it. Yet the sanction of the earliest times we.
to establish the actual right of the occupiers of 1:17
to whatever game might be found upon it. and
he should prove from certain extracts from the L
stitutes.—(Here the Honotirable Member read tl
extracts, which stated that persons possessing la:
were entitled to the game upon it; ratione ioli.
Rut against this it was urged, that the Lord of
.Maitor, and not the person deriving under him, h;
the exclusive right ; he, however, denied the fir
and was warranted by the ancient law of the lard •
considering the immediate occupier as the rigid
proprietor of the game. He contended the t!
Lord of the Manor himself, unless he heti ietr
duced a specific clause in the lease' for possessi.
the exclusive right to the game, shoirldinet he
thorised to kill game on' the land of the lessix
—A great advantage that would result from an
tcration in the present system, would be an alma
supply of game to the markets. • The occupies •
land, and not poachersewonld then be the von
and he, saw no reason why a farmer should not ha
the same right to game .as lie had to sheep and ow
The only difference was, that game could not befit
to the soil ; but why should accident give a right;
one case more than in another ? It was to be d-
plored that the lower orders were now mere readi:i
excited to offences of this nature than repressed i.
the commission of them ; yet tLis would aot be
case if the obnoxious monopoly were done away. L-
gathe have its fair value, and the incitement to pend
in& must necessarily cease. I;ut scme indisidus.
might urge, that increased facilities of poyecsie•
game might lead to more frequent instances et diet .
this, however, was an erroneous idea; for the increle
of moral feeling, and the lessening the value, woul
produce incalculably better effects upon society
the power of search which was now saactiouoi.
,France, where game was property, property in th.
respect was more infinitely divisible. lle was fl
from maintaining that game ought not to' be pri
served ; on the contrary, he should recommend a
measure as most expedient, but_ let it be effected b.
respecting the property of the poor as well as th
rich. It was his .opinion, that nets, snares, and ai:
guns ought to be rejected in preserving game; the
could serve no legitimate purpose, and were contrail
in every respect to the practice which ought m Is
adopfbd. He was aware that by the existing Is!
the Crown had certain ti&hts which it would he de:
ficult to infringe upon. The Royal Franchises an:
the Free Warrens he should except from the nice
sure he had in view, as they were seceitti by an el'
elusive exemption.. It was a 'question of much im
portance, as regarding property in game, to MCC'
tain in what light any spoliation of it should be co,
sideted ; it was too severe to adjndge it larceny, ina?
much as it was held in public opinion to be an off
compannively venial ; and he thought that it oriel
be rendered suhject to a penalty of five pound-,
twenty at nw-. to be recovered by a summons he
fore a Magistrate ; and that, in cases where dere:
dations miniit be more extensive, tne party aggriev,e,4
should int.trtite action at law against the offenoe
' lie had consuircd with seseral persons of lama
minds • upon the peesent subject;
and they all CO!
curved in the opinions Witch he had loejenteruinc•
with regard to it. Their kettiments he had fib''
died into a regular;statement, and he should no
conclude, be anoving for leave to tiring in a hill is
eineod the Laws foe the Preservation of Game.
Sir JOHN SHELLEY objected to 'the Bill, ato
the principle, that itrould necessarily tendlo
in the minds of coankry Gentlemen, a dislike to
s;de upon their e'Oteiqe anti thereby increase the 2.7
; gnat at ion of the Roos; LS** *. •
BAMallOvatosionvitteed that the rropesrf•
measure evould- cachet.' aerve to deinoiali•ee than";
prove the haisittiifehe Irriet4.:cirders ; offences \*t'''.
be.multipliedlay the luilities to temptation wiaica

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THE EVF 14-i STAR,

LONDON.

THURSDAY, MARCH 11, ,1819.
TIM FUND& • . .
fRIC7. Of STOCKS THIb bAT AT 0113 OtLCCK
Str.ck .hut—Bank LOng Anns. shut.
•
tteJuced shut—Cons. 741. H.
Cent: shut.
.for 2e
Cent: shut-6 per Cent. Navy 105i12
Stock shut—lndia Bonds 35 34 prem.
Bills (2d.) I'3 dis.—Commercial 30 33 die.

k will be seen by the proceedings in the House of
last night, that a furl supply of Silver
4n for all the demands of commerce--:about £35,000
is to be sent regularly from the Mint to the

some cbservations were made on the proposed
of taking Six Millions of the Public Ba-
in the hands of the Bank, and applying theist
yjil of the public service. It is not intended to
the balances on all the branches, and some
expressed doubts, whether the balance of
only branch embraced out of 56 could be made
'• to the extent stated ? Mr. LUSH! NGTON, in
absence of the CHA NCELLCR of the Exenettuzni
no hesitation in saying the latter would be able
;rove the correctness of his statement.

The Paris Papers of Sunday and Monday arrived
morning.
The .Voniteur of Sunday fills up the two, blanks in
e List of Peers added to the Chamber by the names
Count MorrEssauzzu and Count VILLEGONTIER.
The Journal des Debats remarks that, of the old
who had seats during the hundred days, there
only nine who are not included in the Ordi-
of the sth. These are M. CLEMENT DE Ills,
to, D'AGIER, FAIMES (DC I'AO.DZ), Count
in, the Duke de PEASLIN, CASABIANEAI
Ssdua, and Count VALENCE.
The same Journal contains what has all the ap-
of a demi-official article in defence of the
, step taken by the Crown en this occasion. In
present state of society it observes. the Chamber
Peers could only become what it ought to be, by
,citing in its bosom all the great national and royal
In every country and at every epoch
is an aristocracy de, acto, that is to say, a cer-
number of individuals of importance, of can-
1, and known to the whole people.—
ills importance they owe to great properties, to
serviees rendered, to high functions usefully
. If you do not put such men in the political
ituation which answers to their real situation, you
ileprise yourselves of the regular force which you
possess iu them, if in the social community.
, were classed as they ought to be. In the course
the prodigious events of which France has bien
theatre during thirty years past, there has been
' a true aristocracy of this sort, efficient, well
, national, and possessing this immense advan-
tage, that its opinions, its interests, and its wants,
are in accordance With the opinions, the interests, and
the warts of the age and country.
The Chamber of Peers reckoned already among its
timbers, men who had all these titles to.regard.
The OrdlAnan,T of the sth of this month has called
ra it many others—they will carry to it the weight
cf:lieir fortunes, of their services, of their victories,
and will thus coasolitiate around the Throne thit
al-
liance of the present and the past, of which the char-
te- .:•.as formed the first nucleus.
The Chamber of Peers was composed before the
tt promotion, of 208 Members. It now contains
26°. All the Marshals, to the number of twelve, are
new Members of it.
.as Cisamber had on Saturday a public sleeting,
he firs: since the new promotion. The order of the
Cr,- called for the Report of the Committee appoint-
to examine the Project of Law relative to tlse
r.abricatioa and sale of Saltpetre. The Committee
%commended its adoption, and after a brief discus-
sion the project was passed by a majority of 130 to 6.
Count Ce CASTLLLANE then obtained liberty to
4nolope the motives of his proposition for the revo-
cation of f:-.e Law of eth November, 1815, respecting
mi'nions cries. His discourse was ordered to be
printe2, and *se Chamber proceeded to discuss the
o,uestion of taking it into considtx.,tioz.. The negative
liras maintained by Count Ds CATE, supported by
tric 1'...-.-cluis de MARBOIS and Count BOISST VAN-
; but the Chamber, apparently without any
bivisioa, resolved for the affirmative, and then sepa-
t.ted without any fixed adjournment. The result of
question may be considered as another defeat of
.I:ll,ters ; but we do not observe in the Bulletin of
11-e I."j'S proceedings, the names of any oi the new
tlembers, nor is it probable that they had as yet
taken their seats.
The ICING% Grand Levee on Sunday was very nu-
Ilit'relnly attended. Prince TALLEYEAND'S name is
*i'Acet! at the head of those who were present. '
The 7i ye per Cents. left off on Saturday at 681.20 c.
FROSI OUR PRIVAIR CO i NTDEVT SPO. . .
PARIS, MARCII a.
The Pudic consternation increases every moment.
Their •
4;nrnY of the Clamber of Peers has rejected
115 P 144 for &
her rile new financial year, and sixty-seven
114'ic all (as I an; Wormskrpp authority, oft

. - -s-,

which I place the fullest relknce) assembled at the
Hotel of the old Duchess of A., and there
mewed their dangerous projects of last year, And.
sworn on the swofd of her husband, who is as silly as
she is wicked, that they will collectively and iudi-
vidually reject every measure, be it what it may, that
shall be proposed by the Government, or the Cham-
ber of Deputies. If this be not high treason I know
not what crime merits the name. Happily this de-
cided part of these titled traitors is such, that the Go-
vernment can no longer temporise. Their political an-
nihilation is necessary for the very existence of the
State. If ever a criminal justly merited being btought
to the block these men do, but blood is not necessary.
-Let them be removed from asplace they were,
never worthy to occupy, and in private life be hooted
by all who pretend either to virtue or patriotism.
The KING, by his Ordonnance of the 44th of July,l

1816, struck off a great number of Peers: if it was
legal then it is so now; is illegal, it is not more so
now: ii it was necessary then, it is more so now ;the
moment is arrived that the hydra must be Instantly
destroyed, and as a head is politically cut off, the
trunk must be branded, as Hercules did ; this remedy
is the only one, and its success is certain: if It be
not adopted, another Revolution m.:•st and will spee-
dily be the consequence. •
" The funds are down at 65, and if a decisive
measure be nr,t adopted imtnediately, they will be
down at 53 before the tsr cf April.

.C.
116,568,352 4344,11
13,444 17,61

26,281,796 2,375,5
3,938,123 8214

432,11

29,055,723
31,0;4
80,831

-4. 1
80,831

513,01!

29,170,59 e

5,013,539

761,0891 34,184,137

Total
India Debts in I 504219,9211.,1974
At Bengal, Current Rupees a Ss.
At Madras. Pagodas a' ss.
At Bombay, RupersA a
W. WILIGHT, Auditor of ludi Accounts.
REPORT

Of the Co==et of the Gawsewr PENITENTIA RY at Msznaie,
• fqr the Reeartioat of ices;gOOV made in pursuance of the
56 Geo. 111, cup. 63, tee. 39, specifying—The Stateof the
Ilnikiltigs—tfie Behaviour and Conduct of the respective 0/-
Beers—the Treatment and Condition of the Convicts, the
amount of their Earnings, and the Expenses of such Penin
tentiary.'
Thd part of the Penitentiary now occupied by Prisoners,
contains one hundred and nine Males, and one hundred and
twenty-three Females.
The whale of the Buildings intended for Female Prisoners is
nowcovred in, and will be ready for the reception of the four
bin4red which It is Calculated to contain, In about three months
• the present time, when the Committee will proceed to re-
am Female Prisoners, now occupyirfg a part of the Prison
onelpled for the Males, into the apartments in wtieh they are
lasiefitinarc, and will admit the rebiainder as they may arrive
In the ensuing Spring.
This arrangement will afford the opportunit of receiving a
considerable addition to the number of Male Prionm io that
part of the Prison which has hitherto been occupied by Females.
The Officers treat the prisoners under their care with mildness
and humanity ; one instance of violence, used by a Turnkey to
one of the Prisoners, occurred a short time ago, but the Offi-
cer was imsnesliattly suspended by the Governor, and has since
been dismissed by the Committee.
'lhe conduct of the Prisoners has been in general satisfactory,
although for a short time, a spirit of insubordination prevailed,
which however was entirely confined to the women and boys.
Since which, the behaviour of tho ss hole has been progres-
sively improving.
The Committee have reported three Prisoners, viz. one Male
and two Females, to his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State
for the Home Department, under the 25th see. 56th Gen. 111.
cap. 83, as proper objects, froth their good conduct in the Pri-
son, to be recommended to the Royal Mercy, and they have
all received his Majesty's Pardon, in consequence of such re-
commendation ; fent others have also received I:is Majesty's
Pardon, during the last year, after reference to the Ccrnmittee
with respect to their behaviour in the Penitentiar-.
It appears by the Chaplain's Journal, that since the Report
made at the commencement of the last Session of Parliament,
two Prisoners have Len baptised, eighty-two have been con-
firmed by the Lm rd 131.1t0p of Loudon, and there are now one
hundred and thirteen Communicants. , . .

The Piiion has continued to be very healthy since the last
Report. Out of an aver .;c nuinber cf two hundred and twet.ty-
three Prisoners, -only cue Male and two Females have died
doing that period, and in each of these cases the disease by
the death was occasioned, had been contheted before the
Prisoners came into the Penitentiary. There are now in the
Infirmary only six Males and eight Females.
The Prisoners, Male and Female, are all regularly employed;
but the profits arising from their labour, have not yet been so
large as it is expected they will be in future. The first and
leading object of the Committee has been, to keep all classes of
prisoners constantly employed, as tending most essentially to the
improvement of their morals and the formation of industrious
habits to which they conceive the consideradqn of profit.
Moues net immaterial, to be neceesanTy subordinate.
The Expenses of the Establishment for the year 18114 and
the Earnings of the Prisoners during the same period, are stated
in the Accounts annexed to this Report.
EARNINGS—From the lat Jan. to the Slat Dee. 18111.
- MAUI ressougati. sg 6. d. B s. d.
To the amount of Earnings on the •
gross som of AIM the
Tab* of the work sent Guted' the
Prison within the aboye 8711 7 O •
To the amount of Eartilip on the

gron sum of £1,045 Ili-. dd. for
work done .for the use of the Es-

tablisbuient
To the amount c)( !tunings by Pr
sown meting as Wardsana.
Cooks, &c.

1112M&Lli PILLSONUS.
To the amount of Earnings for work
sent out of the Prison 564 9
TO the amount of Earnings for work • •
done for the use of the E•tablish-
mein 94 IS 9
To the amount of Earnings by Pri-
soners acting as Wards% omen' and
do the 'Nash-house, Laundry, &c. IS6 0 0 —615 7 6

EXITICSE. .
To the amount of Expenses incur-
red between the Ist of January
and 61st of Decembc r, IEI a
Deduct for Repairs, Alterations,
Additions, Damages, fitting up
Store Rpqms with }Wows,
Turtkeys Rooms, .
The value of Articles manufacto- •
red and utunanufartured, and . •
other Stores remaining an Mud
on the 51st of December, 1418. 1,014 14 7
For Monies received, and out-

X s. d.

X 1,583 15 U
£ s. d.

0 0 0 •12,249 14 2

standing for work done by the
Prisoners • Leek 2 2--4,121 6 4
Expense of the Establishment for Ins .614109 7 to
• In adation to the shove sum of "e-12,229 14s. 2d. the fur-
ther sum of £1,966 10S. 9d. was paid in the year 1 118., cfl
Which £1,548 Itis. ed. was returned to Parliament as a part of
Zia Expense of the year 11116, being the Articles supplied Irma
',the Storekeeper-General's Department, and the rem4leing
Nf4l6 16s. 7d. was for Stores and Articles-supplied in the year
1117. By order of the Committee, •
A. MACDONALD, in the Chair, •
Oene:a! Penitentiary, March 1. 1919,
lIERRiNG FISHERY.
The Report of the Commissioners for the Ilerting
Fishery, ei their .proceedings far the year ending
the sth of April, 1818, has been printed by order of
the House of Commons. • It concludes with stating,
the Commissioners think it is apparent that the cha-
racter cf the British Fishery is rising both at home
and abroad, fur while the quantity, of herrings cured
gatted,is annually increasing, Or quantity cured un-
gtiqed, is every year diminishing, and that the de-
mand los kept ~pace -•ith the quantity they gutH
ljbey have w4ile the.experta-
itaalled

ending the. sth of April, 1818, with those ending
the sth of April, 1817, (in which the quantity of
herrings brought tinder the eoritance of the Offi-
•cers or the Fishery, was greater than in any former
year) it appears that a very considerable increase hat
taken place in the quantity caught, the quantity
found entitled to.bounty, and in the quantity eiported.
In the reit. ended the 5:11 of. April, 1817, the total quantity
caught was 192,343 barrels, of which 155,778 were cured
gutted, and 36,r.041 ungutted. In the year now under cons"-
deiniei, the total quantity caught is 297,891 barrels, whereof
,
204,- Mg were cured gutted, and 25,420 i ungutted ; being an
' increase inthe total qua:nity of 35 5474 barrels, and of 48,454
in the quantity gutted ; whit! there is.a decrease be the quaatity
cured unsuited, of 15,1461 barrel% •
In the preceding year, the quxitity of h?eringti branded fry
bounty, was tsit,ole; barrels. To tie; present, the quantity
Found entitled to bounty is 123,01191, being an increase el
43,071 has res.
to the former period, the total quantity exported was 139,649
ibarrels ; whereof 115,4111.3 sver:: aired gutted, and 23,148 7411.`
I gutted. In the resent, the total quantity erp..rted is 182,13ni
barrels, whereof 148,1471 are gutted, and 14,193 urgutted ;
being an increase in the sntal quantity cf ;711 harrelF, and of
' 32,r,67 in the quantity gutted; while there is a decrease in the
quantity ungutted of 8,956 barrels.
GAME LAWS
By a iteturn of the number of persons in cactoay,
in England and %Vales, for offences against the Game
Laws, distinguishing those who have been committed
tinder the Act 57 Geo. 111. cap. 93; and specifying.
their respective sentences under the same, it appears,
that on the 26th of January last, in 186 of the Pti-
tons, there was no person in custody for any offence
against the Game Laws; anti that in 75 Prisons,
there were then in custody for such offences, 522;—.
Of whom 99 had been committed under the Act, 57
Geo. 111. cap. 90: of the latter number, the sentence
of transportation, for seven years, was passed 'upon
9 ; of imprisonment for two years, on 20; for cies.
teen months, oh 6; for one year, on 22; for six
months, On 12 ; for three months, on 5 ; for two
months, on 2; and there remain for trial, 23.

The House of Lords will now sit for three days in
each week, from ten till four, to hear Appeals and
Writs of Error, in which the arrear is still very
great, notwithstanding the appointment of a VICE-
CHANCELLOR.

The very serious loss and inconvenience felt by
the parties in the numerous Appeals to the Howe
of Lords, from the indisposition of the LORD CHAN
czu.cia, has Tendered a Commission necessary for
enabling.the House to perform its judicial functions.
Tuesday, the,Lord Chief Justice ABBOTT sat for the
first time, and heard an Appeal from the Court of
Session, in which L. MACINTOSH, Esq. was appellant,
ani ALEXANDER. MACKENZIE respondent, respecting
the appointment of the latter Gentleman to the office
of Sheriff Substitute of the County of Iniierness,
though acting in the County Court as an Agent or
Procurator. Counsel being heard on both sides, Lord
REDESDALE, after a few remarks, in which he con-
demned the appointment as highly improper, though
not criminal, moved to affirm the judgment of the
Court of Session without costs.
It is said that the statue of Fortune has been dis-
covered in the bed of the Tiber, in high preservation;
and that instead of being delineated• as blind, there is
no bandage over the eyes: This would seem to show
that the Ancients believed the Goddess to possess dis-
crimination to reward those who sought her favours
in a proper manner, and is the notion which every
one must entertain who has observed the manner in
which she has lately dispensed her benefits at the
Offices of G. CARROLL, 19, Cornhill, arid 26, Oxford-
street, where, in the last, Contru'A, she distributed
amongst her votaries No. 2,887, a Prize pf £30.000
—No. 7,003, a Prize of 125,000—a £l,OOO, and nu-
merous other Capitals; and where the ThreeWiizes
of £20,000 in the present Lottery are .now most pro-
bably to be obtained.
The corn-mills at Chester, commonly called the Dee Mills,
were totally consumed by fire cn Saturday esr:ril g f we lenient
to add, that several of the people belonging to tne mills are at
present missing. It is near thirty years sect rah: b..ildit g upon
the same site of ground, and employetitfor the like' pure ore, ex-
perienced a similar calarnitons fate.
Monday night, a malt-house on St. Faith' -Teen, Maidstone,
was discovered to be oil fire. Wood fortni g eprireleal part of
the building, and lying very dry, it bt reed arith suck rapidity,
that in about twenty minutes the wh ; wet destroyed.
Early on Wednesday -morning a fire broke out upon Mr. Ro-
bertson's f.ctory, in Newton-lane, /slant:heater, which raged
with a vehemen,:e so rapid, that tho most active assistance' was
unable to avert from the devoted premises ate fate of destruction. *
Early yesterday Morning' an alarming fin broke out in the
house of ate.ars. Prase and Co. iron-launders. Crawford-pessaee,
Clerkenwell, behind the Workhouse, whi•-h raged with trrat
fury, and at Ore tune threatened destruction to the neitthitour-
hood, being surrounded with poor people's dwellings.. 71,e rre-
sonft were entirely destroyed, together with the neck in trade;
several dwelling. houses were damaged, occupied by poor lehz-
Isitants. Pinperty to the amount of 03000 was destroyed.
SPAARIN3 serous ms Neer:Jae firouress ewe Apcjgbpkx
Maxamitnew.:--His Imperial lii,thnen having expressed e
to witness some of the 'animist and manly sports so peculirr to
the chars etteof Englishmen, a distinguished Nobleman hackle ri,s)
Fas-cy, jn the neieahnarirnk of Ororvenor-square, requerte4
souse of the first-rate pugilists to attend at his mansion, yester-
day, and fir. Jackson seperintend'd the orders of the combats,
Crib and Oliver first made their bone, and this set-to wrs mrch
admired for its spirit and xienci. On Criss belay introduced to
Ms I.Eghness as the Champion of England, be appeared much
pleased with the manly and fine athletic appearaece of this pugi-
listic hero; and the muscular arms of Oliver also claimed his
attention: Turner, who it recently returned from a sparring
tour, in fine condilon, had a turn with these-in:66c Pales. Net.
Lwithstandina the superior /actin cf the latter, Turner Was made
such rapid improvement from Ms late ptactiee,sthat he appeared
to stand uaen equal ground with his ore-Trent, and onto cc
twice, like the acknowledgment of Lactic, to Maned," palpable
bits' were admitted. It tips pronounced by an, asein admira-
ble displal of the art of Self-defence • and thunders of applause
crowned their exertions. The Finale Was equally attractive.
Richmond and the prime Irish Lod display*/ their various trait&
of nulling, much to the satiarection of :be amateurs. His High-
ness was • steak ss the the decided mode of hitting practised by
E.indall, eat: also exeresstd hiaeself conscioui ache advantages
that must result towards e!etere i t rctual centhat from its year-
city.. His Highness was much pleated with the Witness nal
attention sheivn to hint; and he retired with giving praise ;o
the manliness of the English character.
Pernso.—lteveita. A.:11) Meaete,—On T‘sesday night eta
whole of the stake-money, 130 guineas to 100,were made geed.
' Benin sir to four upon Randall. The battle will he fought en
the 4th of May, in a 21-feet ring. Peth men will go directly
into training. Rittelell over the Hempstead and Ilighpte hie,
and Martin to the xeighbouract.l of Derides; after taking a
little Brighton aia.
Crawley and Hickman fijht Teeteirar text, 26 miles from
London. Betting eleven to eaglets Hickman.
Boma AIM Beetesaurnstae--The'famous and teary Norwich

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THuRSDAY, MARCH IL ,11119► •
Mg FUNDS. . .
"1r: Or STOCKS Ttilb bAT AT Ol' O'CLCCE
StnCk shut—Bank Lcing Anns. shut.
Ter Cent. Reduced shut—Cons- 741i1
„ for Asc. 7401-51 ner Ccnt: shut.
re cern: shut-5 per Cent. Navy 105 U
Stock shut—lndia Bonds 35 34 prem.
Bills (2d.) I 'S this.—Commercial 30 33 die.
It will be seen by the proceedings in the House o.f
gowns, last night, that a furl supply of Silver
go
in for all the demands of commerce—About £35,000
week, is to be sent regularly from the Mint to the
k.
Some observations were made on the proposed
„ire of taking Six Millions of the Public Ba-
in the hands of the Bank, and applying them
24 of the public service. It is not intended to
abate the balances on all the branches, and some
bcrs expressed doubts, whether the balance of
only branch embraced out of 56 could be made
lable to the extent stated ? Mr. LUSH! NGTON, in
absence of the CHANCELLCR of the EXCHEQUER'
no hesitation in saying the Later would be able
grove the correctness of his statement.
The Paris Papers of Sunday and Monday arrivec
morning.
The 11fonit cur of Sunday fills up the two, blanks it
. List of Peers added to the Chamber by the name
iCount Mourne:tom and Count VILLEGONTIZE.
The Journal des Debats remarks that, of the olc
eers who had seats during the hundred days, then
only nine who are not included in the Ordi
• e of the sth. These are M. CLEMENT DE RH
i•ELAO, D'AGIER, FASMIC (DC I'AU.DZ), Coun
3AMENDI, the Duke de PEASLIN, CASAIIANCA
aunt Stdoa, and Count VALENCE.
The same Journal contains what has all the ap
ante of a demi-official article in defence of thi
11.3 step taken by the Crown en this occasion. It
Se present state of society it observes. the Chambe
Peers could only become what it ought to be,
%siting in its bosom all the great national and soya
. ciilities. In every country and at every epocl
ere is an aristocracy de.titcto, that is to say, a cer
s'a number of individuals of importance, of can
ileiation, and known to the whole people.—
ais importance they owe to great properties,
Treat services rendered, to high functions usefull:
led. If you do not put such men in the politica
ituation which answers to their real situation, yoi
&rive yourselves of the regular feree which yoi
night possess in them, if in :the social communit:
they were classed as they ought to be. In the cows
d the prodigious events of which France has hie
the theatre during thirty years past, there has bee
termed a true aristocracy of this sort, efficient, wel
known, national, and possessing this immense advar
age, that its opinions, its interests, and its want:
are in accordance With the opinions, the interests, any
the wants of the age and ceuntry.
The Chamber of Peers reckoned already among ii
nembers, men who had all these titles to.regarc
The Or&P.nan,e of the sth of this month has calle
to it many others—they will carry to it the weigh
cf:heir fortunes, of their services, of their victorie
and will thus consolidate around the Throne thit a
liance of the present and the past, of which the (la
te' as formed the first nucleus.
Ilse Chamber of Peers was composed before th
trg premotion, of 209 Members. It now contait
`L2. All the Marshals, to the number of twelve, a:
sew Dlembers of it.
-as Cl:amber had on Saturday a public weetirn
to
first since the new promotion. The order of t 1
called for the Report of the Committee appoin
e•L to examine the Project of Law relative to tl
..oncatica and sale of Saltpetre. The Committ
%commended its adoption, and after a brief disco
ion the Project was passed by a majority Of 130 to
Count cle Casinan.a N E then obtained liberty
4toolope the motives of his proposition for the rev
cation of t:-.e Law of eth November, 1815, respectii
seciitioto cries. His discourse was ordered to
Pr:lntr!, and the Chamber proceeded to discuss t
euestion of taking it into considLrAtion. The negati
vas maintained by Count De CAZZ, supported
T!:.-.-cluis de MARBOIS and Count ECUS"! D'A
; but the Chamber, apparently without a
''inna, resolved for the affirmative, and then sej
toted without a/ y fixed adjournment. The result
""iis question may be considered as another defeat
; but we de not observe in the Bulletin
e l'Y's proceedings' the names of any of the
tlembers, nor is it probable that they had as
taken their seats.
The KING% Grand Levee on Sunday was very
Ilit'russly attended. Prince TALLEYRAND'S name
i'Aced at Inc head of those who were present. '
The -.rive per Cents. left off on Saturday at 681.2
Faosl OUR PRIVATX COnitESPONDENT.
PARIS, M4ItCII A
The public consternation increases every mome
ir 4'°ritYof the Chamber of Peers has reject
la,: rice • c
fliers - new financial year, and siaty.sei
P'Avt: all (46 I anl litfOnglArtal iuthdritY
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