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the nature of that demand and that therefore the'
East India Company did not, in the age' erhent they
then made with the Committee. .He thpo:tit howy
ever, that it would be as well Lo let the go to
the Committee, and to wait for their report.
Mr. WHITBREAD could not reconcile it to him-
self, that the Company should put in a elaim that
must have been supposed to have been included and
disposed of in a general striking of accounts. If two
years after such a settlement, they advance a claim
said to have existed prior to that aettlement, such a
claim ought to be denied them.
Mr. DUNDAS thought that' it would be rather
hard to deny the Company the right of coming to that
House to make their complaint respecting a point
in which they felt themselves to be aggrieved. The
Committee would determine on the justice of the
complaint. He had stated on a former occasion that
their accounts had been settled according to the Re-
port
of the Committee in 1805, and a balance struck,
but that statement might net be found to be altoge-
ther inconsistent with the claim since advanced on the
part of the Company.
The Motion was agreed to.
MAJOR CARTWRIGHT'S PETITIOV.
Mr. WHITBREAD said, he held in his hand a
Petition from an individual gentleman, on the state of
public affairs, which that individual had requested
him to present to the House. As so much had lately
been said in the House respecting the language in
which Petitions had been worded, he was determined

GENUINE AND CHOICE OLD POR C WINES, FINE EAST.
INDIA MADEIRA, SHERRY, CHAMPAIGNE, BUR.
GUNDY, AND SICILIAN WINES.

TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION--By Mr. ROBINS, -
At the St. Alban'4 Tavern, St. Alban's-street, Pall-Mall, on
FRIDAY NEXT, at Ten, in Lots,
ABOUT THREE HUNDRED and TWENTY
DOZEN of fine flavoured OLD PORT WINE, of choice
vintages, the principal part of which has been in bottle several
years; twenty dozen of very fine East-India Madeira • fifty dozen
of fine old Sherry , thirty-five dozen of choice Sicilian Wine, se-
lected by an Officer of DiStinction during his service in the Medi-
terranean. Likewise about ten dozen of Champaign and Bur-
gundy The whole the genuine property of the Gentleman on
whose account it is sold.

Catalogues may be had at the St. Alban's Tavern ; at Garra-
way's ; and of Mr. Robins, Warwick-street, Golden-square.

RdRLIAMENTARr PROCEEDINGS.

/MUSE Or LORDS, MAY 14.

A great number of local and private Bills were forwarded in
their respective stages, and two were brought up from the Corn-
mons by Mr. Greenhill, Mr. Chute, and other Members.

CRUELTY TO A?;INIALS.

Lord ERSKINE, in consequence of the objections made to biz
Bill for more effectually preventing malicious and wanton Cruelty
to Animals, and wishing to frame the Bill so as to meet with the
unanimous concurrence of the House, moved for the present to
discharge the order for its committal on Thursday. Ordered.—
Adjourned till to-morrow (this day.)

MUSE OF COMMONS.
The Irish Malt 13ill went through a Cnmrnittee.

Aker some observation,. from Mr. H. Comhe, Mr. Foster, ' -"4-- - __ _,, ...
Mr, I'erccval, Mr. Whitbread, &c. the House reS;ltned, and the ' to examine attentively that of the present Petition be-
report was ordered to be received this dny—the operation a the ' fore he undertook to bring it; and though it was very
ism to commence from the Ist itember. I long, he had carefully perused it, and did not observe
The scotch Extract Bill was read a third time and passed. 't_l .
Id t it contained any thing which could give offence
.Mr. WHITBREAD called the attention of the Right Hon.
Gentleman to the report of the Exchequer Funding Committee, .to the House. Jt was the Petition of Mr, Jahn Cart-
by which it would :.ppear roar some gross misconduct bad been 1 wright, whose political opinions on the state of the re-
observed by some of the Cle:ks ; when the report should be taken presentation of the people in that House, and of the
into consideration this day, lie wished the Right lion. Gentleman i
, necessity of a Parliamentary Reform, were well known
tot notice it. I
Mr. WHITBREAD stated to the House, that if the late Sc. 1 tothe whole country; and though these opinions might
cre:ary for Foreign Affairs was in his Flare, lie was pt,Tared to . not exactly coincide with those of some of his Maps-
ask him some questions relative to the late correspondence with ' ti's Ministers, yet it teemed those of them who vrcre
America. He did not intend to mike aly motion, ahe had in the Admiralty departmenis did not conceive so ill
looked into the papers and found it unnecessary.
Mr. WHrI'BREAD brought up the Report of the Exchequer of them ; for Mr, Cartwright, after having been forty-
Bills Bill, which was order, dto lie on the table, and to be printed eight years in the naval service, the greatest part of
Mr. WHARTON Wei upon the table certain Accounts con- which time he had been a Lieutenant, had very lately,
cabin; an Estimate of the Expence incurred in rebuilding the ! without any solicitation on his part, or any expectation
pub is edifices ems :mad by tire in Trinidad. He then moved ,of . n • such an honer conferred on him found
for th.t production of a Copy of a Letter from General Heslup, , ha vin
vtn ,
Governor of the said Island, to Viscount Castlereagh, respecting ; himself promoted by the Board of Admiralty, at the
the same.—Ordered. I age of upwards of 70, to be a M:tster and Cmman,
•_ . ..._

ME. GRATTAN, in consequence of the illness of an Honour-
able Nierninr who was to suiTort the Catholic Claims, post-
poned his motion respecting them from to-mJrrow ~this day) till
Friday next.
Mr. BROUGT'IAM's intended motion upon tl e subjtct of
Austrian Correspondence, was postponed by the lion.i.;taideman
to this day fortnight.
• Lord A. SOMERSET gave notice, that he shou!d to-morrow
move for certain papers connected with the affairs o the East-
India Company.

ter, Mr. Cartwright's character was, however, ex-
tremely well known to be highly respectable ; he had
• published a great many of his political opinions, but
always in so temperate and rational a way, that those
who differed with him could not find fanit with his
language. Some of the doctrines in this Petition were
expressed in very strong terms; but such, as in 11's opi-
nion, could not be deemed offensive. There were many

Mr. 81,36-IFORD chtoined leave to briog in a BAB for amend-
ing so much of the Act of the I 4th of the K,ing, relating to Malts
as concerned retailing of Small Beer without Licences.
BEAKS AND WILTS CANAL BILL.
Lord PORCHESTER moved the third reading of the Wilts
Canal Bill.

partS of it in which he (Mr. Whitbread) agreed, some
of which he doubted, and others in which he differed ;
but, upon the whole, it was such a one as he thought
it his duty, being applied to, to present to the House.
He moved, therefore, that the Petition be brought

Sir M. W. RIDI.EY moved the the Bill be read a second
time this day fortnight.
Sir RALPH MILBANK and MRWHARTON supptirted the
Amendment, on the ground of the necessity of a Rider to pre-
trent the Bill from injuring in its operation the rewctuttlo coal
Trade. The House then divided-.?
For the Amendment.
Against it 10S
Majority in favour of the Bip S 6
The Bill was then read a third time, passed, and oixtered to
the Lords.

qp ; which being agreed to, it vas read by the Clerk.
The petition was very long, and from the rapidity
with which it was read, we could only seize on a few
of its prominent points. It stated the petitioner's sur.
prise at the decision of the House in the case of Lord
Castleregh, and that the sale of teats in the House
was as notorious as the Sun at noon-day, and that
he could not but be shocked at the profligacy of sel-
ling seats, and the audacity of vindicating it. That

sharpers, Nallobs, and Eaa.india Despots, had long.
been known to have their actual agents Members of
the House. That the agent of a French King's mis-
tress had once a seat in ht ; and those of the Nabob
of Arcott had been proved to amount to seven, It
then went on to censure, in strong terms, the ille-
gal and unjust proceedings of the House in the case
of Sir Francis Burdett, and the employment of a
standing army to quell a rabble of boys, when the
PoutConsitatus, properly employed, would have been
fully or more than sufficient to have maintained the
peace of the Metropolis ; that Government itself was
only to blame, if compelled to call on the standing at--
sotto quell the disturbances, having neglected to keep
up the Civil power. Civil Government alone was free
Government, military interference was rank despotism.
The number of the standing army which had, on a.
Jute occasion, been brought into London and its vi-
cinity was 34,000 soldiers, with a strong train of ar-
tillery—a force equal to that with which a King of
England had beaten the whole French army at the
battle of Cressy. Such treatment of the people was'
not to be endured. The Petitioner, therefore, hoped
the House would take in good part this humble ex-
postulation, and prayed that they would retrace their
steps and retract those proceedings, of the flagrant
illegality of which, he pzesumed, no one could enter-
tain a doubt, &c.
Mr. WHITBREAD moved that the Petition do.
lie on the table.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
said there were two expressions hn the latter part.Of
the Petition which he thought very indecorous, viz.—
" that such treatment of the people could not be en-.
dured," and " the flagrant illegality of the conduct
of the House." Those alone were, lie thought, suf-
ficient to justify the House in not suffering the Peti-
tion to lie on the table. This petition was so long,
that if the House entertained it, they might soon ex-
pect to receive folios.
Mr. WHITBREAD said, that from the character
of Mr. Cartwright, and from his conduct for a series
of years, but more particularly from the conversation
he had held with him on the subject of the Petition,
previous to bringing it into the House, he was sure
the Petitioner had not the smallest intention of insult. ,
iig the House. He believed he was only actuated by
the ambition of having- his sentiments on the late
proceedings recorded on the journals of the House.
He was surprised to bear the !tight Honourablo
Gentleman object to the length of Petitions. Petit.
tioners had a right to state their grievances and conk
plaints in the way they thought best, and most cos).
ducive to attain their object ; and, if they were to bF
confined to any paqieular length, the right of pets.
tioning would, in many cases, be dune away. The
Right Hon. Gentleman had, however, only touche4
on two expressions in the Petition as in his opinion in-
decorous, one of which was, that the House halt;
done some things past endurance. Perhaps Major
Cartwright did not mean to say that this House of:
Commons hid done acts past endurance, but that a
House of Commons, not constituted *Of the virtuous
persons now ariatuld him, might dos acts past enL