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certain restrictions. The object of the Bill which he
meant to propose to their Lardih:ps was not to remedy
the defects In, slie general system of the Game Laws,
but to put a stop to the increase of po.iching, without
interfering veldt the existing laws for the preservation
of gee. Fllkiiflould propose to give to all persons who
tistijsail qualifications for killing Game; the power of
ngottt.C. til It cAtes from 's Majesty's Commissioneis,
to sell :he Orli tos licensed deal rt. His Bill wonal
also give the potter to thme who po;seased a sofficieet
quantity of tan,d2.to make it worth their while to sell,
game, to make it rofit of it, if they were so ioilitted,
by p: octal ing a .-qtraliffed per ..ten to kill it: lie prOposed
to make the Bill timporary, limiting ,its operation to a
period of thseo 'sir"; It was a d mit tett; thakilse supply
of 'game Itrattitintsfil.f tent in all loge •towrts ; and the
efiectpf.isis ittOestrie would, be appteb*psied,.be to in-
,ksease the isaßplyi.,aild kg
,alisnitersh the teropiation to
tsisuching. ltwattiOlirtiky. iti the rec,llleetion of their
I Pottiships,Vtat,. ime rears .ego, the.poulterens came to
If resoluta**, to ‘.4 • ittne-tble svaleaf4
. atom b The eon-
alicem'riss, ?hat i ' Wirers ibin ers !eft ot nattasy. fit
wetel:early flip ytheizpe!imirit, and Eire,loot
whole trade ire'e bfige3 iirtcur to the former practice.
It Wiis .im po s Wile, n fact„ Legislature to pi event'
the isle ef game, ateterineSiureilheyinight adopt,
ro h
the sale wouldtak place in Maseitrly Or other ; and, as
the poulterers' would, nn doubt. ptstfer the honest to the
dishonest sale of game, it was undoubtedly, in every
point of.view, the wiser-coos se to legalise the sale of it.
The abolition of spring guisi stroiddgive additional fa-
ci:itiei to poaching; as it wrinlil he impossible in many
cat:s to collect a sufficient force of men to preserve the
game. It was peculiarly desirable,lthetefore, that the
measure which he proposed should be adopted, in order
to diosi,sish the temptation to poaching. Heytoved tbat
the B 11 be reada first time.
The Earl of CAERNA Lt/ON cordially. supported
the motion of the Noble Earl. Experience had suffi-
cier.ily shewn that laws to prevent the sale and purchase
of Game were, and must be, wholly inoperative. He
only regretted that the Noble Eirl
.4uld propose to
make his measure merely temporary'; for if he succeed:
ed in getting rid of °neva' t of our barbarous. Code of
Game Laws, he believed there was no person in the
country who would ever again wish to recur to it. He
had always thought that there was considerable diffi-
culty attending any ploposition to establish by one Act
an entire new cdai of Game Laws; And he aßproved
of the principle of the first establishing an open, market,
and then proceiding to further enacjinents.
, i -The Marquis of SALISBURY said, he was very tan-
' goitie as to the success of his measure, and he should
have no objection, with the contra' rprice of their Lord-
, ships, to make it perpetual. •
The Estl of LIMERICK exPt essed his approbation
of the Bill.
The Bill was read a first time. •
Lord GA GE presented a Petition from the Hundred of Litfield,
ye the Camay of Eieffait. against the importatloa of Foreign Cora.
—The !}owe then Adjourned till Friday.

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taken'out, (tern 151. to 201. It was well known,Vikst'
preliended, to that House, that in former times arrests'
might t tkeplaCein this kingdom for any sums, hares*'
small, provided-only they were large enoush to *sable.
the Court to hold, Pleas on the case—that in as low ea
40s.—s6 that 'from a very ancient period of our his-
tory, dovanto the time which he was next about to OHM-
; I +o, the Courts of Westminster might entail upon parties •
toed tor any debt, nor exceeding lever) 40s. Oil the heavy
expenses incident upon proceeding op M lie Process,. •
In' the reign' of George :therit-st,aw 'lett that tfits
psfwas o grievance of extwaidiaarj- lon mace, and the
minimum of amount w.ri Erik! at TOPlPster;betboagthr
it wouldlei:quite 'Anions-to the Hodge, Matt -2' it am
prtireV in tie reign 'of Gehrge the-Firia-to incrust this
minimum' frcimlbs. to TO& the dif-sence in the wide*
of money inthe present day.. made it•expedierit to in-
crease it from 101.-to 201 But he would state to them
another reason for this opin:rn. By a reti-o which had
been made to Parliament of the total number of per-
sons who were imprisoned at a givers period Withio-the•
last year, on Mesne Process for debts amosasiag Ur,
and under, the am 'tint of 201. each, it appeared that,
the total number of persons was 1820... The number of
thos? who were returned as arrested for less sums than
201. each 'was 500=4hen).—so that a very large pro-.
portion of the total number, nearly one-third, were
:hewn to have been arrested before their cares came on
for trial, for sums less than that minimum which this •
proposed Bill intended to fix; but it was notorious that
the proportion of expenses to Which the debtor
was liable was.. very greatly increased, after he bad
undergone arrest. If he chose to settle the action be-
fore it was brought into Court at all, the costs to which
he was arden4bie would amount to little more than IL
but if he was arrested, the costs to whiCh he would hive
become liable at the same stage of the transaction, if he
hid not thought proper to go into Court, er had beet+
' enable to prevent it, would not be less than from 81; to
PL—so that before he could settle the debt on Account of
which he had been served with the process, in the ease
of a 271. debt, the expenses would be accumulated to a
sum very little less ,than half the amount of the debt
itself—{Hear, hear). 'Upon this statement the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman was convinced OA the House
would concur w'th him in thinking, that as, by former
itatutes, the minimum had been already increased from
410 s. to 101. and from 101. to la. it was now most ex-
pedient to incriase it from 151 to 201. In the formes
Net, however, there was an exception in resp -et of pro.
mi,s3ry notes and bills of exchange; upon which every
party was liable to Mesne Process. The Consequence
was, th t persops too often took this sort of ailvantage;
they obtainel from their needy creditors notes or bills
.for the smallest sum., which made them li tble, in the
event of nonpayment, to the same process as
_would
have been assignable ors bills of larger amount, Now,
it was his most anxious desire to make the operatietrof
the present Bill sweeping and universal; and as hehad
fixed the minimum at'2ol. he meant to include in the
operation of this measure, bills of exc'.ange and poo-
-1 tnissory notes also—(Hear, hear). Then again, in re•
gars! to the other jurisdictions, his intention in raisng
the amount in the minimum was to prevent vindictive
plaintiffs, within their authority, from having resource
-to these superior Courts for vindictive purposes. He,
therefore, desired to raise the amount in respect to Wales
and the Counties Palatine to 501. He concluded sty
moving for leave to bring in a Bill aeraTcrigiy. •
Lord ALTI-101tP was to far from meaning to op-
pose t' e motion of the Hon and hearted Gentleti,o,
that he rose at once to support it; and tokiress his re-
gret that it dii not go quite far enough. The law Of
arrest was so vexatious and unjust, that he (Lortl_AlA
thorp) wculd be prepared to go to a risuali4reater'elt•
tent in reforming it. It was undenTabTe-that the ix-
penses incurred in 'careering mall del trWare enor-
mous; but it was at least as enormous that the debtor
should be liable, on the creditor's prosecuting his claim
upon him for a debt of 201. to expenses to the amount
of half of that sum. He himself had done all that
he could d, to diminish the expenses attending the re-
covery of small debts; but he had encountered so many
difficultieC in ate prosecution of his object, that he
should leave utterly abandoned all hopes of ever seeing
-it attained, but that a Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr.
Peel) bad undertaken to effect i,. The system, oq the
other hand, which was at present pursued, was so com-
plete a dtlusion,that hehad almost determined to follow!
suggestion which had been I orwarded to him fr, m many
quarters, and to pi oposeito the Legislature to deny its
interference altogether in.- debts under lUl.—(Hear,
hear.) It were much bettaar. he conceived, to make
there debts of honour than to pursue their recovery on
the pre ent v. X3'l sus system. . '
Mr. PEEL had ce.tainly, last &Arial, given his best
attentic.n to a sin-ject, for I is exeftlons in respect to
which, the Noble Lord well deserved the thaqics of the
public. In the course-at his own inquiries no.this mat-
ter, he was led to believe, that some mo.'e ought to be
devis:d to facilitate, by the adoption of ,some better
meant than those at present provided, the tcovery i f
small debt.. He had placed the Bills fisoned tor this
purpose, in the hands of two Learned Gentlemen, very
eminent in their profession, and desired then to devote
a certain portion of their time to its consideration ; re-
questing them, at the same time, to avail themselves of
their own experience on their circuits, ;A order to com-
plete the framing of the Bill, and the's:to report to Inaa
upon any difficulties attending its practical execution.
They had prepare! this Bill accnrdingly, and had be
(Mr. Peel) remained Secretary of State, he should cer-
tainly have introduced it to the Heats before. It was
probable, the Bill might be introduced during the pie-
sent Session; but • e nether it could be passed towel
law this Session, owing to the nature and amount of
the blWaess befotelior House, he was not prepared to
say. The N,iste• Livid had called ea him, on a fames
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HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Mr. Caokza took 'the oche and his seat u Member for t►e
Uhivertity of Dublin..

TEST AND CORNORATION ACM
Mr. Alderman WOOD presented a Petition from the Protest-
ant Dissenters of Woodbridge, in the county of Suffolk, for the re-
peal of the Test and Corporation Acts.
Similar Petitions were presented—from Hull, by Mr. Sway;
(tom Chipping Wickham, in Buckinghamshire, by the Muquis of
CIIANDO,; (rum Stockport, in Cheadre. by :11r. J. Woos); from
Pockhngton, Ripon, an Burlington, in Yorkshire, by Lord nits-
, Tow ; anti frum Warminster and Melksham, in Wiltshire, by Mr.
Duerr.