The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-04-30 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, Aran. 21.
In the Appeal Cause, Gilllard v. ilort. Mr. liar 4 Isms heard at
length for the Respontii it, end :dr, Richards in reply, when
juolginent was deferral lid to-morrow.
Tile LorxlonDoek Improvement, the Place and i"..asion Duty,
together with many Private Bilh, mere brought up and read the
first' time.
Upon the second reacting of the Irish Tobacco Securities Bill,
the Earl of LAI.; DERDALE moved, that the Bill should be
printed, far the more effectual information of their Lordships
on .h.subjeci.
Tm l'arlsiC ROSSF. thlught the printing quite unnecessary,
as their Lortotips were already sufficiently acqoainted with the
subject.
Opna the question being put from the Woolsack, a division
toot place. when the motion of 'Lord Lauderdale was negatived
by three to six.
Their Lordships then adjourned. to to-morrow (this day).

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The Call of the House was postponed to this day

Sir JOHN NEWPORT had seen several of the
recent Proclamations of the Government of Ireland,
published in the Dublin Journal, which he conceived
to be a Paper very improper for such a purpose. lie
wished to move fot an Account of the manner in which
the 10,0001. annually voted for the printing of Pro-
cl'&nation 4, bad been applied.
Mr. W. POLE had no objection to the production
of such an Account; but the Right Honourable Ba-
ronet was the last person in the world whom he
shouldhave expected to inure for it ; for under his,
Administration no legs a sum than 18,00Q1- was
. ex
pended on the priettug of Pr ,ciamatioos. tt was
singular enough too, to fix ou the only year for en..
quirt' when 'he expellee w is actually confined within
the sum voted by Parliamen-. With respect to the
Dublin Jour uzl, the Proclamations were not now
for the first time printed in it; they had been so up-
wards of fifty years ; and though the language of this
Joan's' was so, tetimes vehement, the language of
those w were opposed. to it ought also to be taken
into cons Aeration.

Mr. PARNEI '. observed, that Lord Welling-
ton, when he wi • •cretar-, had candid:: confess-
ed that the sum rotes: fnr printing Proclamations was
applied to the Newspapers in the ititeml of Govern-
ment.
The Account was then ordered.

Mr. PARNELL moved for r_ Copy of a Nemorial
of certain Cijzens of Dublin laid befort the .Irish
Government, complaining of the Wolin Police.—
Ordered.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said,

he should move for leave to bring in a Bil/ for the
purpose of adequately puni::'lng the counterfeiting
of Bank Tokens, and for punishing another offence,
which Was now carri, d on to a very great extent.—
This was the printing and engraving papers which,
at first view, br,re every resemblance to Bank-notes,
and were intended to catch the eye of the unwary as
Bank-notes. Gentlemen were, no doubt, aware of
the fraudulent Papers of which he was speaking. In
_ _

the course of the enquiry which he had made on this
subject, a parcel of papers were shewn to him which,
at first view, resembled 1001. and 501. notes and so
forth. They were formed extremely like, and the
words intended to mislead being printed white on a
bl'ck ground, except when the sight was very good
it as hardly possible to detect them. In the Bill
which h,2 proposed to bring in, the punishment for
•the first offence of uttering those suppositious notes
won', be twelve months, and afterwards finding se.
cutity ; and for the second offence transportation ;

and lio; counterfeiting Bank Tokens transportation
for 14 years. Ile should therefore move for leave to
bring in a Bill to punish the counterfeiting of Bank
Tokens, and the printing Papers resembling Bank-
notes with, white letters on a black ground.—Leave
given.
Mr. WILBERFORCE presented a Petition from
the Cutlers and Manufacturers of Sheffield against
the ino. poly of the East India Company"; and a
similar Petition from the Manufa -turers of Wakes
field.—Read ai.J ordered to lip on the table.
CIIARITABLE DONATION BH.L.

Mr. LOCKHA...T moved the third readiug of the
Charitable. Donation Bill.

Sir W. I JIITIS approved of the principle ; but,
if applied to Loudon, the evil would overbalance the
good.

Mr. W LBERFORPE said. if London was ex- I
ceptt ' every other tow it migntslaim the same excep-
tion.
Mr. LOCKHART wondered how the City of
London, so zeatous for the detection of abuses of all
sorts, should oppos' the present. Bill.
Mr. WROTTESLEY approved of the Bill.
Sir J. GRAHAM said, it was only calculated to
put money in the pockets of those who were to regis-
ter the donations.
Mr. THOMPSON said, that expenca could not be
great.
The lion. Mr. HERBERT wished to move as an
Amendment, that Royal Hospitals ought not to be
excluded from the Bill.
Sir W. cuans and Mr. WILBERFORCE said
a few words, when the Honse divided.—Ayes 32
Noes it.
When, we re-entered the Gallery, we found the
Speaker putting the question, upon the motichi of
Mr. STEPHEN, that all the Petitions favourable
to the Olden in Council should be referred to the
same Committee.
Lord STANLEY signified his assent. •hI
Mr. WHITBREAD said, that as soon as that
question was disposed of, he should move that all the
Petitions which had been presented respecting the
present distresses of the country and the general
stagnation of trade, should be referred to the same
Committee.
Mr. BROUGHAM thought the words of the mo-
tion only calculated to mislead ; for he believed only
one Petition iu favour of the Orders in Council had
been presented, and therefore to talk of ALL the Pe-.
titions was a mere illusion.
Mr. STEPII EN said, he was not aware, when he
made the motion, that there had been only one Pe-
tition in favour f the Orders in Council ; that one,
however, wis signed by at least four-fifths of the
merchants and manufacturers of Glasgow, and it had
the honour alio, of being the only one that was pre.
sented on the right side of the question. [A laugh.]
He should propose, however, to substitute 44 Tun
Petition of the Merchants and Manufacturers of
Glasgow," instead of " all the Petitions."