The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-02-10 00:00:00

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Poeiel, he had same idea information had very recent.;
ly been received .),1 the subject.
avii MILTON proiented a Petition from the
Latol-holders of. the East Riding of York, pray-
i•lq the House to consider the state of the Corn
1.1114.
Mr. Alderman CONIBE presented the Petition of
the Mayor, Aldermen, and Livery of London,
against the renewal of the Property Tax.

FEES OF COURTS.
•
Sir J. NEWPORT wished to know whether it
was the intention of his Majesty's Government to
loing, in a Bill to enable the Commissioners to en.
quire into the Fees of the Courts of Justice, to exa-
mine peisntis upon ontli ? It had been customary
for the Crown to empower Commissioners to exa-
mine periwig on oath ; but he was advised that such
power could not legally be given without an Act of
Pat liament.
Mr. B. BillictisT said it was the custom for
the Crown to authorise such examinations without
an Act of Parliament.
Sir J. NEWPORT said, he wan informed oaths
to administered would be null and void. Was it
then the intention of Ministers, for they might an-
swer in the absence of the Noble Secretary of State,
to bri, gin a Bill on the subject ?
Mr. B kTir LUST answered it was not.
Sir J. N )1a gave notice that he should, on
Teer.d.iy, , move leave for such a Bill.
Mr. HORNER moved for the usual accounts of
the number of Batik-notes in circulation from Ist
blarrh, 1814, to Ist February, 1815 ; also of
Tokens and stamped Dollars ; also the prices of
Geld and Silver ; of the number of Licences granted
to issue Promissory Notes, distinguishing those
granted to new Banks; of the number of Promis-
sory Notes re-issued from March 1, 1814, to Fe-
truary 1, 1815 ; and of the number of Country
BP Ilk 9.....-ord•rd.

Mr. CROK hit presented an Account of the Ships
Of War on the Lakes of Canada and Lake Chats.

plain ; an Account of the vessels taken by the Ame-
ricans; also a Corre.pondence relative to the fri-
gates built, in order to be transported to the Lakes
in frames.

The titles of these papers being read,
Mr. WHITBREAD said that the lion. Secretary
(Mr. Croker) had on a former occasion denied that
there was any correspondence relatite to the frame-
built frigates.
Mr. (RORER said, that he had stated that there
was no correspondence of the nature which the Hon.
Gent. had mentioned.

Mr. 11 lIIIBREAD said, if that was the case he
had awn been Rhotln a forgery.

Ordered to lie on the table.

Sir J. NEW FORT moved for an account of all
VI its of tapir's ad respolultviduns and declaration is_
surd In the Courts of liines Bench, Common. Pleas,
and Exchequer, in Leland, distinguishing those above
isild below 201.—Ordered.

. Mr. PONSONBY moved the second reading of
the Bleaching Powder Repeal Bill.
Nit.. BROWNE objected to this measure, because
be thought it calculated to grant an undue preference
to the Isish manufactures.
:44 J. NEWPOR defended the BM, which pro-
posed aids to establish a just conformity with the at-
tit les of the Union, from which an accidental de.
viation had taken place upon this subject, as it was
confessed. in the course of the lost Session.

Mr. 1101INF.R expressed a wish for the better
consideration of ihis measure, before it made any far-
ti.er progress. For he remembered that upon some
examination of the merit' of the question to which
it referred, a case was made out to show that the
rival manufacturers of other parts of the Unite::

Riti.,dom «oultl hate reason to complain of the en-
iettnent of a law of thiN nature. Therefore he
thought the subject ought to be more deliberately ex-

amiHed.

Mr. I'ONSONBY declared his willingness to nf-
ford a full opportunity for deliberation and enquiry,
and with that view he pripese,l the pn,Aponemetit of
the second reading of the 13111 until IVecliiesdav next.
The preposition wns agreed to, and the Bill was
ordered to be printed.
INY• liE AND BrzoNTr._

Mr. wurnotEAD, Adverting to the converse.
tine which took place at an early period of the Ses-
sion, with rcspect to the frigates sent out from this
country with a view to be conveyed in fratt..s to Lake
Ontario, observed that the Secretary of the Admi-
ralty denied on that occasion that either of these fri-
'gates were ordered to be sold, in consequence, as he
(Mr. W.) utelerstood, that their conve) mice to, or
employment on the ultimate iihject of their destina•
tion, was found impracticable or inexpedient. Yet,
as he wns lammed, an nider for the sale of the
Psyche had actually been sent out with the know-
ledge, of course, because in consequence of the
•ignature of the Honourable Secretary, and in order
put the !louse in possession of the fact of this
inter, he moved for a copy of the letter (dated July
!7, 1814) addressed by the Navy-Office to Commis.
inner Hall, at Quebec, ordering the sale of the
'3vehe.
CRON Elt said, that he had en objection to
m production of this paper, which, in fact, was a
lore repetition of an Admiralty order included itt the
,pers before the House, and on that account alone
Amitted, as were other papers of a similar nature.—
With respect to what fell from him on a for:ll6'oc-
asion, if the llononrable Member wnuld do him the
-honour of more accurately remembering his words,
41e would find that he ( \lr. ('.) only contradicted the
statement of the Honourable Member, that both the
frigates sent out were mdered to be sold, as inappli-
cable to their object, that statement being, in fact,
unfounded, as one of these frigates, which was still
ens the Navy List, had actually been carried up to the
Lake for which it was originally inteuded.
Mr. WiIITI4ILEAD declared he was in the recol-
lection of the House, that he understood the lion.

Secretary to have denied that any order at all had
been sent out with re%pect to the sale of either of
the ships under consideration. A Gentleman sight
contrive an easy egress from any statement through
the distance of dates, but he certainly never under-
-afoot! the !iecretary to have made any distinc-
tiqo as to singu:ar or plural in the conversation al-
Autled to. but to have applied his contradiction quite
terms.
Mr. CliOtalt observed, that the order sent oft