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London, England, 1816-03-12 00:00:00

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MILLARIYs IMPERIAL TWINE
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Four Guineas each, containing front three to four dresses.

riiHE REAL JAPAN BLACKING, made by
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Perfumers, in tire United Kingdom.

TO "I•HK AFFLICTED WITH CANCERS, KING'S
EVIL, SCROFULA, WHITE SWELLINGS, &c.,
R. JONES, Surgeon in his Majesty's Service, is
-5-4, consulted daily from ten till two, and six till eight, at his
resider e, No. 238, 01.ford-sireet, opposite Hyde Park; and by
letters (post paid) &c.
From the superior knowlkdge he justly claims In the•treatmeut
of the above disease*, he undertakes their cure, *Lett this most
;maggot of pit Faculty have 41144.

ALL MUST BE DRAWN NEXT SATURDAY,
• MARCH 16:
91HE LOTTERY will then finish. A Grand
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2004 other Prizes, are in the Wheel. Net two Blanks to a Prize,
and no small Lottery to tolliw !—A few undrawn Tickets and
Sharp may yet be obtained of HAZARD, BURNE, and Co.
Confractors, front Gate, Royal Exchange, who Shared and sold
No 842, a Prize of 16,2o,000! No. 18,605, a Prize of 45,000 !
&c. rice. rite. drawn last Wednesday ; and a Prize of 45,001, with
three Prizes of £l,OOO each, drawn on Saturday. Webruary 24.

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.
HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH ti.
In the cross Appeal Cause, " Sticpoole o. Stacpoole, and eon- ,
tra," the arguments of Counsel on these long and tin, ortant
Irish Appeals were closed this day. Mr. BLUM was heard for
several of the parties. Mr. Leace in explanation of his former I
arguments, and Sir S. Espatim.v at great length in reply. The
Lords postponed their judgment on them.
The Marquis of AN axes as took the oaths and his seat on the
accession to his new title. His Lordship's supporters were the
Marquis of Bath and the Marquis of Lansdowne.
The LORD CHANCELLOR presented a Bill which bad been
prepared bribe Judges according to an Order of the Hose last
Session, for the purpose of comprehending la one Act all the
Laws relative to the punishmect of the Pillory. *The Bill having
been laid on the Table, was, on the motiou of his Lordship, or-
dered to be printed.
Lord GREN VILLE presented Petition from Bath, and
Lard SOMERS (rum Gloucester, praying for a Repeal of the
Insolvent Debtors' Act. The Pethioas were ordered to lie on
the Table.

Lord MELVILLE presented a Petition from Edin-
burgh, praying that it the Property Tax was to be
renewed, it might receive such modifications as the
wisdom of the Legislature would suggest, for lighten-
iog the burdens and inconvenience which had hitherto
Attended the application of it.--ordered to lie on the
Table.

The Duke of MONTROSE presented a Petition
from the Merchants, Manufacturers, and others et
the City of Glasgow; which beinFrread, set forth the
cheerfulness with which the Petitioners had contri-
buted to support the burdens of the long and arduous
contest in which Great Britain had been engaged,
and expressed the earnestness of their desire that no-
thing should operate to defeat the beneficial effects of
a triymph so honourably and so gldriously achieved.
They particularly deprecated any endeavours to ••p
pose by clamour the continuance of a Tax which
might be found necessary to sustain an adequate re-
venue, and such they conceived to be the Property
Tax, reduced and modified by the wisdom and dis-
cretion of the Legislature.— The Petition was ordered,
to lie or the Table.

The Earl of ROSSLYN presented a Petition from
Glasio.w, praying fur a discootinuadce of the Pro-
perty T4l.—Ordered to lie on the Table. .
Lord HOLLAND, in allusion to the Petition
which had been presented, not by his Noble Friend
neat him. but by the N.ble Daimon the other side,

expressA an earliest wish that the pe pie os.
or rather such of them as app Pared most forward to
commend the Property Tax. sh by Governm• at,
be made at least to pay their ow egirirthle share cf
it. Hie mentioned that, because he had been in.
t roped that it was the practice in many p its ~f Scot-
land, by indirect means, to evade the patone.l of
that Tax, of which some of them appeared to be so
enamoured. '
'lime Duke of MONTROiE could confidently
assure the House, that the N hie Baron had been
noisinforrned respecting the sentiments of the great
mij rity of the most respectable persons in Scotland,
as he himself would find, if he would inquire among
the subscribers to the Peiti‘ar, which contaiiied
names most materially connected with the Lauded
and Farming Interests.
Lord HOLLAND could not speak from actual
knowledge of the facts, but he had been Credibly in.
formed, that the gross amount of the taxes usually
paid in Scotland, did not exceed the average of the
Engli..h House Tax.
Lord MELVILLE was persuaded that the NAN
Baron had been misinformed, as he himself knew
that the Assessed Taxes were failly and fully collect.
ed in Glasgow. •
EarI.GREY had heard reports similar to those al-
luded to by his Noble Friend that the Property T.):
was evaded in many parts of Scotland, and he had
no doubt it was so there as well as it was in some
parts of England ; and it could not be denied, that
if the tax were to be continued, it should be fairly
and equally collected every where.
Earl GREY then presented a Petition against the
Property T.lx.
Lord CARNARVON presented a similar Petition
from the County of Hants.
Both Petitions were ordered to lie on the Table.
VCTING BY PROXIES.
Lord KENYON, adverting to a motion recently
made by'st Noble Baron opposite (Lord Killand),
relative to the admission of proxies to vo'e under cer-
tain circumstances, thought that it wori:d be better if
that Noble La.ird would make a motion r. pectiiig the
proper admission of proxies generally.
Lord HOLLAND observed, that hi. (dim La
the snOtion which he had submitted to the House re.
kted to a mere point 4f co.orrion convenicnce, ,and
Mas one in which he had no individual camera rte.
wish. What the Noble. I4ord t!;en suggested. was
qifite another quintion, and he was perfectly at liberty
toltsalce any motion he pleased about it:
The LORD CHANaLLOR agreed with tie
Noble Lord (Holland); that the questions were not
directly connected wi.h each other, and that if aay
stook relative to ' the Parliamentary practice and
validity of proxies was entertain d, any Noble L;rd
might make a motion on the subject.

1411.11*ANY PSALM ELSTABLIstIMKNT.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE give ontiCe. that
he should, on Friday next, the attention of •
House to 4 subject of vast and urgent i,,ip..rtaw $
sic meant the deter min itio:. of wire mi ilt ba %kettle,:
a fit and proper rate f the Militar) Est tb;sslyitent of
the Country at the present time of Pace, and t,i ad.
dress the Prince Regent on the occasion. He then
rnovvd, that the Lords be snmm•ued on Friday.
Ordered accordingly.—Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
A new Writ was ordered, on the motion of Mr. Baoonan,
for the election of a Member for Newport in Curnwol,. in • :be
Rotes,
room of 1. Esq. who had accepted the Chiltern Hun.
dred,
A Petition was presented from Great Inlvmooth, praying for a
repeal of the Insolvent Debtors' Aet.—Laid on the tahl!.
Sir F. FLOOD had not observed that a novice was hi-fore the
House on a subject on which he had also given :tinier of a rtio,
tion, he should therefore witt-draw nis notice, in erpectatioa that
the lion. Baronet, tit,. M..mber foe Waterford, who had g yen
the other notice, wt,uW do instice to the subject.
Slr C. EDMON i lONE presented a Petition from the county
of Stirling, in Scotland*, against the Distillery Laws. I.aid on
the table.
A Petition was presented from Bedeslow, against
the Property Tax.—Laid on the table.
Sir G. WEBSTER presepted a • Petition from
Rye, in Sussex, praying for the d;scontinuance of the
Property Tat, and hoping that Government would
sat keep up the enormous Peace Establishme'nt they
had 'hewn their intention to continue.—Laid on the
table.
A Petition was presented from Devizes ag tinst the
Property Tax.—Laid on the table.
Sir C. EDMONSTONE presented a Petiti to fmm
the Freeholders, Landed Proprietors,-and others, k
the County of Stirling, in Scotland, ..tgatitsl the PI
perry Tax.
Mr. NC A. TAYLOR expressed his determination
of voting against the Tax under any modification._
He had never voted in favour of it, not even in t:rres
of the greatest necessity, and shoulel never swerv,.•
from the principles he had always protesied.-1-iil
on the table.

A Petition was presented from Pool against the
Property Tax.—Laid on the talge.

The Hon. H. a. BENNET presented a Petition
from Streatham, against the Property Tax.—Litid
on the table.

Sir H. ST. PAUL, presented a Petition from
Bridporr..—Laid on the table.

Sir G. HEATHCOTE brought up a Petiiion
from the town of Folkington, in Middlesex. fle
thought it needless to desain the I lou,e in again
livering his sentiments upon this subject. lit sbonid
only observe, that instead of farmers attending in
the town ul-Sell their .corn, there were aucti”nrers
!disteibutieig their hand-bills for the sale of farms,—
' Laid on the sable.
Mr. ROSE preseriled .t Petition from Mitcham, in
favour of the Property Tax. It commenced with
expressing the delight aad joy of the Petitioners on
hearing of the intention of Ministers to continue this
necessary measure.—Laid on the table.
Sir T. ACLAND presented a Petition from a
part of the county of Devon, against ex Property
Ttix and the Standing Army.—Laid on the table.
A Petition was pretented from Barnard Castle, in

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the county of Durham, against the Property Tai.—
Laid on the table.
Lord RANCLIFFE thought it necessary shortly
to say a few words respecting whet 'he had said
about. the Mayor of Leicester, especially since an
Hon. Member had sufficiently cleared that worthy
Magistrate from any blame that might have attached
to him. He had been informed of an the circum-
stances relating to that Gentleman, and he was
peffectly satisfied with the explanation .which bad
been given.
Mr. KECK should not think himself doing his
duty if be did not exrress his sentiments upon this
subject. He had every reason to believe that the
worthy Magistrate had acted from the most disinte-
rested motives, and he should have 'Opposed him
guilty of a neglect of the duty imposed on him by
his office if he had complied with the requisition
which had been sent to him. He wished that two
or three Gentlemen- on the other side of the House
would consult their professional feelings upon this
subject, and he hoped that one Honourable Member
in particular would remeniber, first to investigate,
then to accuse, and last of all to condemn, and
would not so hastily pass sentence on a person who
could not immediately defend himself. Another
Honourable Member had attributed to the Mayor
motives whiclrno man could eve: impute to him, if
•be had finown his character. Instead of being un-
popular, as it might almost have been suspected
from what had been said by Members on a form*
evening, he had not long ago received a vote of.ap-
probation from the very party whom the Honourable
Member and his frivids, by speaking in his dispraise,
bad wished to defend.
Lord RANCLIFFE thought the Him. Member
for Leicestershire justified in speaking in praise of
the conduct of the Mayor of Leicester; but he could
,batdly approve of what had been said upon his
Honourable and Learned Friend, who, in the ob-
tervations he had made upon the conduct of that
!Magistrate, had merely followed his statement, and
therefore the whole blame should be upon him for
fraying made the statement, for which he was sorry,
since he bad heard it so satisfactorily contradicted.
Mr. M. A. TAYLOR was confident that his
Honourable and Learned Friend, whom he did uo
tee in his place,, would not have made the obserta-
tions which had called forth the animadversion of
the Honourable Member, if it had not appeared evi-
dent to him that they were necessary for she defence
knd preservation of the rights of the people.
Mr. KECK explained.
Mr. LAMBION considered his friend fay jasti-
fied in having made what observations had fallen
from him, in consequence of the statement at that
time •before the House unanswered.
The Hon. H. G. BENNETT defend,tl the con.
duct of his Honourable and Learned Friend, and
that of other Members, who had made observations
09 the statement of the Noble Lord (Rancliffe).
Sir C. MONCK considered the Honourable Mem.
her for Leicestershire perfectly right in defending the
worthy Magistrate, whe had so unfortunately, with.
out deserving it, called down the censure of several
Mentbefs ; but he thought that he was acting im-
properly when he animadverted neon the conduct of
his Honourable and Learned Friend.

Sir G. HEATHCOTE thought, that as the con.
duct of the Mayor of Leicester had been sufficiently
expl lined, as the Honourable Member had paid him
the tribute which he considered he deserved, and as
his Noble Friend had made all the repration in his
power for the injury he had done, it would be much
better if the conversation should conclude.

Sir C. MONCK thought the Honourable Member
might have waited till his Honourable and Learned
Friend had come to the House, that he might have
made what answer he thought proper to the animad-
versions upon his conduct.
Mr. W. DUNDAS considered it quite impossible
that his Honourable Friend could hate waited the
arrival of the Honourable Gentleman. beCause he
was not the person who had brought the subject be-
fore the House. He was constrained either to come
fcrward at the moment in defence of the Mayor of
Leicester, or to be totally silent upon the subject. He
hoped that what had occurred would be a warning
to the Honourable and Learned Member and those
near him, and indeed to the House without distinc.
don, against attacking individuals who could not im-
mediately come forward in their own defence.
Mr. METHUEN was not acquainted with the
merits of the question, Lout thought it due to the
Honourable and Learned Gentleman to have waited
his arrival.

A Petition was presented from the county of Ayr,
in Scotland, against the Property Taz.—Laid on
the table.

A Petition was presented from the toms of Linlith-
gow, against the Property Tax.—Laid on the table.
Mr. LAMBTON brought up a Petition from
Ledgefield, in the county of Durham, against•the'
property Tax.—Laid on the table:
Mr. LAMBTON moved—s That the names of
Ahose who were absent on the. Call of the House on
Friday least be now called crier."
The Right Hon. C. BATHURST not answering
so his name,
Mr. LAMBTON moved—" That he should be
oaken into the custody of the Serjeant at Arms."
Mr. W. DUNDAS thought, that the calling ever
a the defaulters would put many Gentlemen to great
'inconvenience, and hopti the Honourable Member
would not persevere in the enforcement of his motion.
Mr. YORKE considered that every purpose of the
Call had been answered, and did not expect-that the
honourable Member intended to persevere.
, Mr. BRAND conceived his Honourable Friend
was acting entirely according to the practice of Par-
liament in calling over the defaulters, and did not at
all agree with the Right Hoo. Gentlemen opposite,
that because every purpose of the Call had been an-
errered, many Members should escape the penalty of
their negligence. The withdrawing of the motion
would be considered as a precedent, whith'snight be
dangerous.
Mr. V. FITZGERALD considered it almost
without example to enforce the motion for calling
over the defaulters,upon a Gentleman who had been
in the House as Mr. Bathurst had been on the even-
ing of the Cad. That Gentleman had been exceed.
ingly- indisposed for the last month or three weeks,
and but for the Call on Friday night, b• did tot
think he would lime atteadaithe

•
Mr. H. ADDINGTON considered the Right
Hon. Member's illness a• satisfactory reason why he
should not be taken into custody. He thought it
singular that his Friend's name should be almost the
first to be called over.
Mr. LAM BTON saw that the Gentlemen on the
other side were endeavouring to gain time, that Mr.
' Bathurst might come into his place. Either the en-
ffircement of his motion wasnecessary. or it was not;
if it was necessary,ithe Right Hon. Gentlemen who
had just spokes -avow of Mr. Bathurst, wanted to
make it it dead setter. That Mr. Bathurst's name
should be called over early was only to be accounted
fur by its having 'seen on the beginning of the list.
Sir G. HEATHCOTE considered that this sub.
ject was not calculated to occupy the House for any
long period. He should advise. that particular days
be appointed for each absent Member's appearance.
Mr. HUSK ISSON thought it improper as well as
needless to call over, toe names at all.
Mr. A BERCROMBY conceived, that if the
calling over of the defaulters should be Wade a sub-
ject of debate, the House might determine to enter
upon the consideration of no other subject that
evening. It would be much better, considering the
importance of the sebjects which stood for the even-
ing': discussion. that some mode of proceeding was
resolved on immediately.
Mr. COULBURN reminded the House, that
there had been other Calls since the commencement
of the Session, the n—nes of the defaulters from
which had not been called over, and that circum.
I stance might have prevented many from attending
who might otherwise have been in their places.
The Gallery was then cleared, and it was expected
that the House would have divided upon the question,
that Mr. Bathurst shouli be taken into custody. Mr.
Bathurst and Captain Maitland were, however, ex-
cused on account of ill health, and a division took
place upon the taking irau custody of Lord Nugent,
when there were—For the Motion, 51 ; Against it,
218 ; Majority against it, 167.
Lord I% tareNT, and the other Members already men.
tioned, were ordered to attend in their places on
Wednesday next ; as well as all those who were ab-
sent on being called after the division.
Lord STANLEY hoped it would he understood,
that the defaulters would be called over in future.
Mr. BYNG brought up Petitions trom the Parish
of St. Botolph, New Brentford, Hackney, the Pa-
rish of St. Pancras, and the County of Middlesex,
which were severally read and laid on the Table.
Sir J. ABERCKOMBY brought up a Petition
from the Freeholders and others in the County of Kin-
ross, in Scotland, against the Distilkry Laws, which
prayed, that shin Distillery Lawrof the United King.
dom might exist upon equal terms in all its parts.—
Laid on the Table.

Mr. COKE postponed his motion respecting the
Malt Duty till after the agricultural state of the
country should be discussed.
Mr. COKE presented a Petition from East Dere.
ham, in the County nt Norfolk, against the Property
Tax. Laid en the T.ible.

Mr. PRESTON advised tl)e House to collect the
general sentiments of the people upon the Property
Tax. He had, day after day, advised Ministers to
do so, but they did not seem at all inclined to listen
to hii admonitions.

Mr. COKE presented a Petition from certain Far-
mers, Landholders, Sec. in the county of Norfolk,
against the Property Tax.—Laid on the Table.
Mr. S. THORNTON presented a Petition from
the Parish of Christ Church, in Surrey, against the
Property Tax.—Laid on the Table.
Lord ALTHORPE, atter strongly recommend.
ing economy and retrenchment, brought up a Peti-
tion from Wellingborough, in Northamptonshire,
against the Property Tax.—Laid on the Table.
Petitions were also resented from Kettering, in
Northamptonshire, and from Croydon, in Surrey,
against the Property Tax.—Laid on the Table.
Mr. FINLAY brought up two Petitions from
Glasgow, the one rather in favour of, and the other
against the Property Tax. The Honourable Mem.
ber stated, that those who had signed the Petition in
favour of. the Tat had, in many instances, been free
from its operati,n, whilst those who signed the Peti-
tion against it, had been its principal contributors.—
Laid on the Table.
Mr. BENNET stated, that the returns under the
Property Tax, had been sold as waste paper in the
town of Shrewsbury, and he had no doubt, that an
indiscriminate use was made of the returns in other
parts of the kingdom.
. Mr. BROUGHAM believed that many ether in.
stances of this practice would before long be brought
before the House. He wondered that the Honourable
Member for Leicestershire should accuse him, behind
his back, of having condemned the Mayor of Lei-
cester, when on a former evening he had only, in
consequence of the absence of his Noble Friend, ex-
pressed himself perfectly satisfied with the explanation
which the Worthy Member for that town had given.
Mr. CHARLES CALVERT presented a petition
from St. Mary, Newington, against the Property
Tax, praying for economy in all departments in this
time of general and unexampled distress, and depre-
cating the large military establishment at, present
proposed.
Mr. PRESTON said, that from the lowered value
of the produce of land at present, the Tax could
not possibly be paid ; and coincided in every statement
of the Petition.

The Petition was then read, and laid on the table.

Mr. CHARLES CALVERT also presented a
Petition from St. Mary, Rotherhithe, against the
Property Tax.— Read mid laid on the Table.
Sir GEORGE CLERK presented a Petition from
certain Inhabitants of the County of Edinburgh. He
said, that he was happy to coincide with the peti.
tioners, in thinking a properly modified Property Tax
the best measure that in the present juncture could
be adopted to raise the supply necessary for the ex.
pelmet of the year. The Petition had been agreed
to at a meeting called for the purpose of• adopting
resolutions against the I:rope: ty Tax ; but so tar bad
the:good sense of the meeting prevailed, that they
petitioned for what they were called together to pe-
tition against. The petition, he said, prayed to re.
lieve those landlords from the Tax who could not re-
cover any rent Irons their tenants:

Mr. ABEItCROMPAY said, that he rather awe•
handed this petition would not, on being read, prove
to be quite so consonant with the H )nourable Ba-
rt:sec's 'magma.. *lag bad himself remised.. In

the first place, the meeting at which the Petition was'
discussed, and which was stated to consist 4 the
freeholders and landholders in the cotmty of Mid-
Lothian, comprised but eighty-seven or eighty-eight
persons—a number which, if not far exceeded in the
Hon. Baronet's election, would not prove a very
effective body of Constitnents—(Hear, hear.) These
persons, however, designated as the whole county
of Mid-Lothian, met to consider the question of the
Property Tax : from the Hon. Baronet's statement
it would appear that the whole of these had concur-
red in opinion with him—the fact, hoiever, was
otherwise, for upon the question • being put on the
reso)utions against the Property Tax, they were ne-
gatived only by a majority of three. This majority
then proceeded to discuss resolutions of their own,
upon which the present Petition was founded ;. and
here spin, it would appear,• thit the Hon. Baronet
had been rather forced on his construction of the
terms of the Petition—for if he.was not mistaken on
its being read, the Petitioners would be found to say,
not as had been stated, that the Property Tax 4, was
one which, under the present circumstances of the
country, was best calculated to meet its exigencits,"
but to remark, that if it should so happrii that it
should be renewed, they hoped care would be taken
of themselves." that St as to say, that whatever might
become of every other class of the community, let
the agriculturists be treated with tenderness. It
would be for the House to say, on hearing the Peti-
tion read, whether the Hen. Baronet had any reason
to congratulate himself on the accordance of his con-
stituents with him in his opinion.
The Petition was then read.—lt pronounced tile
Property Tax unjust and unfair in its principle, as
regarded the agricultural interests, and prayed, if
any Bill were brought into Parliament upon the same
subject again, that modifications would be adopted,
which would impose a tax not upon nominal, but
upon real profits.
Sir G. CLERK, in explanation, said, that he
had described the petition as complaining of the un-
fair pressure of the tax upon the agricultural interests.
Mr. ABERCROMBY said, it was for the House
to say, whether the terms of die petition warranted
the Hon. Baronet in the conclusion that his Consti-
tuents agreed with him in thinking the Property Tax
the best, which, under the existing circumstances of
the country, could be adopted to meet the exigencies
of the country—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. FINLAY was of opinion, that a loan was pre-
ferable to the Property Tax, because the latter was
more likely to raise the funds than the former, and
thereby to prevent capitalists from assisting the agri-
culturalists.

Mr. THOMPSON was of opinion that the petition
last read was directly against the Property Tax, in-
stead of being, as had been stated by the Honuutable
Baronet (Sir G. Clerk) in its favour.
The Petition was then ordered to lie on the table.
Sir JAMES SHAW presented a Petition from the
Ward of Queenhithe, against the Property Tax.
Mr. GRENFELL wished to ask, whether, in the
event of the Property Tax being abandoned, and a
loan bad recourse to, the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer would not think it advisable, instead of going
into the money market, to act under the clause of the
26th of the King; known by the name of Mr. Fox's
clause, and to take the money from the Commissioners
of the Sinking Fund, by which means the effect appre-
hended is the money market from a loan would be
completely avoided
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
did not ci,nsider it necessary to answer this question,
as he did not apprehend the event to which the Hon.
Gentleman had alluded.

Sir JOHN NEWPORT wished to know whether
any thing had been done respecting the Commis-
sariats debt due to Portugal, of one million, for which
be understood we were paying interest of 6 per cent.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
had the satisfaction of stating, that a reserve had
been made out of the Supplies of last year. to defray
this debt, and it had been completely liquidated. He
also took occasion to state, for the information of the
Hon. Barnnet, that it was in contemplation to unite
the Exchequer of Great Britain and Ireland. The
subject would shortly be brought before the House.
Mr. BARING expressed himself in favour of bor.
rowing from the Sinking Fund._
The petition was then laid on the table.
• Lord GEORGE CAVENDISH presented a Pe-
tion from the inhabitants of Belper, in Derbyshire,
against the renewal of the Property Tax, and the
proposed keeping up of an immense standing army.
Laid on the table.

Mr. W. W. WYNN presented petitions from the
inhabitants of Llanroost, and several other parishes
of North Wales, praying that none of the War Taxes
should be renewed, in the present period of profound
peace.—Laid on the table.
Lord MILTON presented petitions from the pa-
rish of Ellerton, from the village of Bridlington, and
from the town of Sheffield, against the renewal of the
Property Tax.—Laid on the table.
Mr. BABINGTON presented a petition, against
the Property Tax from the Borough of Leicester.—
L-aid ou the table..