The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-06-02 00:00:00

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IMPERIAL PARLIAME.VT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, TUERIDAT, Jtitz I.

The god of Abingdon took the aloha and his seat.
Mr. Edwards brought up the 17th Report of the
Commissioners of the Caledonian Canal.

The Duke of N 0111 II UM E R LAND presented a petition
from the merchants and traders of Neo castle-upon-
-Iyne, against any alto-ration in the exiting ditties on
wool—Laid on the table.

Lord KBNYON presented a petition from the nicr-
chants and manufacturers of tireat and Little Bolton,
in Lancashire, praying for a revision of the existing
laws relative to trade, but on a principle of common
protection to the eonnuercial and agrieuhural interests,
ought never to be separately considered.—Laid
on the table.

Lord Cswnon presented a petition from the Mayor
and Hurges.es of the ton o of Ilaverford West, praying
fora sospension of the coal duties.--Ordered to lie on
the sank.

Lord R/CDICSDALIC brought in a Bill for the more
convenient recovery of small debts in Englaud and
Rules. His Lordship observed, that, come years ago,
a number of petitions lied been presented to the blouse
upon the subject, the object of which Wad to obtain a
general Pill. applicable to the whole country. It then
occurred to 'aim to draw up a Bill f.r that purpose.
It wan printed, but he did not proceed any further with
it. Ile was then rostritwell that the most advisable
tray of endeatouring to attain the object required,
two ild be to erect Courts. different fr the County
Courts, fur the recovery of those debts, c ducted by
Judges nominated as in the County Court, and by Ju-
ries constituted on a more limited scale than the ordi-
nary ones. It was then thought, that perhaps lb,
reform of fhe County Courts, and the adaptation oi
their powers to the recovery of small debts, might an-
saver the same purpose? as, for instance. the Couyt of
Middlesex had been reformed in tootle of recovering
debts to the amount of forty s!liilings. According to
the Act of Regulation, the Clerk of that Court outlet
be a barrister of three years standing, and his appoiobt
meat approved of by one of the Chief Justices of WeAst
mintier-ball. But then, iu the Cmmty Courts, IMP
suitors were the Judges, the Clerk was hut an au
II n ; whereas he wished to keep the ditties of Judge
and Jury separate. And it occurred to him that an
attempt to regulate these Cours anew, according,
tO that principle, would be subject to great delay.
and be involved in difficulties that would have seine
effect in precluding a part of the expected ad-
it best, therefore, on this oc-
lilt Bill upon a principle of tee-
" Noble Lord then described
Bill. It was proposed that
be ,blished in each

itar, the Clerk of the

of the suitors being Judges,
at of them. The quali-
fications for Juryiu;•ii %tete to he adjusted according to
a certain scale of property. 'I hose eligible were free-
holders of W., yearly copyholders of 101., ald lease-
holders of 15/. (If the persons so qualified, auy to be
competent to discharge the functions of a Jury. The
time and place of holding the Court to lo• regulated by
the Justices at the Quarter Sessions, as the necessities
of different counties might cause the quantity of suits
to vary, some having e wealth and population than
others. TberlittSrence in the extent of counties, also,
*guild make it expedient that the number of Courts
should vary, of which local circumstances the Justices
of the Quarter Sessions nubd provide fur, better than
an Act of Parliament. It would be proper that the
jurisdiction should extend to sum% not exereiling
and that the proceedings should be as simple; and Ike
fees as small as possible. He had examined the pro-
visions of the several Acts, particularly the Act for the
Regulation of the County Court of Aliddlesex, soil had
adopted parts of them. In offering this Bill to the
Howe, he only meant at present to introduce the sub-
ject to their Lordships' considerations, before any mea-
sure of the kind received their sanction, chiefly with
the hope that it might call the attention of others to
the object it had in clew, and thereby become the cause
of the enactment of some final measure for the reco-
very asuman debts, with little delay and expense, and
upon a mode of dispensing justice as similar as possi-
ble to that pursued in Westminster-hall. lie meant
▪ f eas regarded the distinct and independent func-
tion • • Judge and Jury. 'I he former expounding the
law, the latter pronouncing the verdict. He would
now move, that the Bill be read and printed, that it
might lie open to variations preparatory to a final
elm tamest. His Lordship then re-stated the important
points of the Bill, and commented upon the advantages
which were likely to result from them, particularly in
regard to th • arrangement, respecting on whom the
attendance could not fall heavy, on arc iiiii it of the re-
striction of the number competent to form a Jury, and
the admission of nspyholders and leaseholders, as ape.
dried; as the Courts were to be held likewise in the
parts of the country that most required them, at the
discretion of the Justices of the Quarter Sessions, the
Jurymen could not be subjected to the inconvenience
of being summoned from very distant places.
The Bill was then read a first time, and ordered to
be printed.—Adjourned.

JAY.. Imre.
Theeeyersnns who inked to return t►e Tickets and Shares
they bought of Otis between the 18th of May and lit June,
tray reeeive their mom bock soy thee before the 13th inst.,
st either of MsOlkes, 4, Outs iu, or 9, Coastoo-Caoss.

ANGEL INN.
Mr. Commutes, !Irwin.
GENERAL OFFICE. FOR TRAVELLING.
THE following MAILS and other COACHES
go from the abort Inn 1—
Pariskoyal Mail, via Dove? Tuesday and Friday Nights,
et twigs.

and Gosport Mail, through Godalining. Pe-
tal every Evening at a quarter past 7,
sad Ileaday at half past 6. Oa its arrival a packet sails to
In Ida if Wight, to convey passengers and parcels; and a
Illallesagh sets of to Chichester. through Drayton, Havant,
Ihmeselli, Sc.
ill arid Milford Mail, through Henley, Oxford,
thud
.every Evening • quarter past 7, and San-
and dagptsst
and Canterbury Mail. fluent' °mewed. Chat-
ham, sea Petersham, every eveolag at a quarter put 7, and
dkadq it half past 6. From Canterbury. Passengers and par-
rein are eouve)ed to Deal, Margate, Ramsgate, Sandwich,
&e.: and best Dover, prods are conveyed to Folkstovm,
livllittio, Myths, Diareli. Bonney. aid Lydd.
Aranvid and Bognor Post-coach. through RillimghS"
Meedgy, Wastimaday. and Friday. • linarter before 7.
PAW Bridal Posampanch. to carry only four iodine
tellissdise, & IWarlbervigts, Caine, and Chlppidam
y mart at
ft& in two_ data, carry bat NZ
oes. lishisgem& 1114.
111/IMalay, mid 7
1198104 Is dirty baseed *AM
61115111/40eilis, or.. Mho cannot Mingo the fatigue of
WI a bow bay.
1101.11108 Plail-ennak. through Reigate and Cock-
/ltd.,
_
founineide. through
a quarter before 6.
Port-coach, Monday,
before 7.
tondo y, Tees-
at 7.
through Ash-
, Thursday, aid
through Merrow.
and Ipso.,

Samday.
Sandwich. _ Broadatairs
•-• Thursday. Friday.

, Ike. every

eTery Moe-

Proprietors.
espeditiossly toe-
mu, Viliege. sod
:—Becks. Bucks.
Gloucester.
.0. Worcester.
Jersey. Users-
' the North

HOUSE OF COMMONS. TTICREDAT, Jvxm 1.

Committees were chosen by ballot to try the merits
of tie Dridport nod Itoroughbrillge Election Petition!.

On the nowise of Mr. limn. EY an order was made,
that the 3:arabal of the King's Bench Prison be di-
rected to bring Henry Swann, Esq. now confi:ieel is
that prison, to the bar of that Haase, on Totesday, the
13th instant, If the said Henry Swann should choose to

glass. china.
l*Weter awll the
damaged i aor an)
than Al. value,
Map and

hgirti.,ered
et
Paid for -fteen=i. tass
Neat &c. et the sbortest nodes

appear there.
Praia the low tette cf voce which Mr. Harvey spoke

LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1820.

•` The Pause for whirls HAMPDEN fell is Ai Fidel, end SYDNEY died on the Scaffold!"

previous to putting his motion, we were not able to
learn what the objeet of it was.
Mr. Illaxwett. presented a petition from a great
number of distressed inhabitants in the town of Pais-
ley. He said that those unhappy persons, from the
decay of trade. were minced to the greyest hardships;
they were not able to re-produce any thing by their
labour; and they had no other resource than that of
calling on Parliament to devise some means for their
relief; or tri'assist them in wine plan of emigration,
which appeared to be the only resource left for them. 1
The distress did not appear to affect any particular
trade more than another, but to arise from the pecu-
liar situation of the country. At one time, when tireat
Britain was the only place of security for those pos-
sewed Of property, a great quantity of money began
to flew into it, and we had a kind of monopoly in
trade and manufactures. The labourers then were in'
the habit of receiving large wages, and these were
nose wholly unprovided for. The wages of those who
could *Wain employment were so small, that they
were !merely able to maintain themselves. They now
hoped that the House would attend to their situation,
and consider, whether wine favourable change in their
condition might not he brought about. Indeed, it was
to h.• hoped, that Ministers would their attention to
some plany by which the distresses of the country at
large might be alleviated. Ile was not, in presenting
this petition, actuated by any political moth-es, but
merely by feelings of humanity, m nd by a desire to keep
the people in a temper of loyalty to the liorernment.
The petition was then brought up, and read, and or-
dered to he printed.
Mr. fit•sts presented a petition from certain linen
manufacturers in Scotland, praying that no impedi-
ments might be thrown in the wry of their trade.—Or-
den d to lie on the table.

Mr. Firma also gave antice of his intention to move
for an Account of the Uprose' of collecting the Re-
venue.

Mr. MARITATT moved for an Account of thereal
va-
lue of all goods extorted f great Britain during
the last 20 years, to nenniark, Norway, Sweden,
Russia, and other places,in the North of Europe, disH
tinguishing the quantity exported in each year. Alsol
as Account of the onficial value of all goods exported
lo the same countries daring the same period. Also
the number of Ships which cleared out from the Bri-
tish ports during the last 20 years to those countries,
distinguishing the number in each year, and British
from Foreign ships. Also an Account of the value
and quantity of hoods imported from those countries.
He mole similar motions respecting the Exports to,
and the Imports from, the British Colonies in North
America, during the last 20 years.--.--The motions were
all agreed ta.
Mr. T. COVITIIPUT moved for several Accounts of
101#161Mita askl from ladia—coosprisiag
soe of the kast India Company in the years 1811
and 1812; and also the Exports and Imports for two
years from the year 1513.--(Ordered.
A person from thet.oledonian Canal presented at the
Bar the 17th Report of tile Commissioners for carrying
on that work.

It was ordered, on motion, that an Account of the
Alien Establishment at Dover, and other ports, for the
last year, heliid before the House together with the
name. of Aliens who had come into the country during
that time.

Mr. Scants.' T moved, that there he laid before the
Mouse an Account of the number of Causeientered for
Trial in the Court of King's Bench, during the last
ten yeats ; the number remaining in arrear during the
same period ; the number of new Trials granted, and
of enlarged Rules entered in the Peremptory Paper :
also the number of Cases set down for argument is
the Civil and Crown side.--1 hese several Papers were
ordered.

Mr. TIFINET presented a petition from the Rev.
Isaac /tithe, Rector of a parish iq the county of London-
derry, representing the services he had rendered his
King and Country during very difficult periods (which
services were acknowledged by the Government), and
praying for remuneration. The petition was received,
and on the motion of Mr. Tierney, ordered to he printed.
AHMINISTHATION or TiII/ LAW IN WALES.—
Mr. F. MPHELL ruse to bring forward the motion
respecting this subject, of which he had given notice
on a fernier day. lie assured the House that he did
not bring this measure forward with any desire of
change ; but as a matter which he conceived highly
necessary fur the due administration of justice. IVhen
the institttions which he disapproved of were first in-
troduced, the two onntries of England and Wales
might be considered as being wholly distinct from each
other in language and manners : but since then they
had in a manner become one country, and those laws
which made so wide a distinction between them ought
no longer to exist. Here the lion. Gentleman pro-
ceeded to enumerate the kveral defects that at present
existed in the administration of the laws in Wales,
which exposed suitors to great delays and hardship.
An English cause tried in a Welch Court, subjected
the parties to an extraordinary degree of
,expense ;
witch greater than if the cause was triki in an English
county. There was an unnecessary aggravation of'
,expenses in the practice of pleading, and another in'
the levying of fines and suffering recoveries: Besides 1
the jurisdiction of the Judges in Wales was supreme,
and under no eontroul on the part of any other autho-
rity. Then there was a difference between the prac-
tice in North Wales and in South Wales. In the former
place a rertiorati was never granted; while in.the lat-
ter part of the principality, it was uniformly granted.
Then there was no remedy in ease of misdirection by
the Judge; and the Judges were not competent to de-
cide in MK, of equity—there went no Equity Coarts ;
and the consequence was, that plaintiffs, in capes of
ejectment, might prodeed to execution with a rapidity
highly dangerous** the rights of individuals. Neither
Solicitors, Counsel, nor !bulges there knew any thing
of Equity cases ; and wheaten an Eqpity cause tune

I was the Third Day of Diswing of the State Lottery, 10 that principle, would be subject to great delay. (runt
aad undred Tickets were drawn. tansies Twelve
Tbeeth The it
illikkets to be drawn on the next day, Sid of June,
Mss the Lottery inishes. The only Prizes drawn yester-
day !bete M., Were Nos. 2.952 and 12.932. Prizes of M.
wet; manly those two ire the only 'rickets worth casion, to new model
heepieg, by who bought with an Intention of returning
after the
Wanshame of the 3d Iley only.
l'atlem INVII iMileeemeets have been held out at dif- and be involved in difficulties that would have some and q
effect in precluding a part of the expected ad- plc iii
vantages. He thought it hest, therefore, on this oc- and tl
his Bill upon a principle of ge- Amer
nitro! applicat'on. 'I be "Noble Lord then describedall .
thew,
Ag
the chief features of the Bill. It was proposed that mr
threat perlisis of Ibis teemey. bet T. DISH begs the per- one or more Courts should be established in each typo
*Users at his Mese tabs t have had, sad will. sew- .Tba Judge se be eppeieee4l--by -OW 'Sheriff, those• Imo% 111-
thoegh he s not the tractor, nor the had any concern In
the managnoeue who might be, at the same time, the Clerk of the and 1
County Court. Instead of the suitors being Judges, years
The *heel cattalos el CAPITALS, all of which the latter were to he independent of them. The gush- A i
MUST BE DRAWN NEXT DAY. 4:n lxvr. Arations for Jurvium u err to 1w adjusted according to u., .

Serie--I.—eolsir at &
Poshentos& to err/ enly Antoine
es74titorsl, wary Ingtnltat a gamer(
Waaossilty;eadilerrlti aed .nh
y Morniags , at a quarter
Uot er dad t:auserbury Light Post-e.mcd,
del. Tauroday. Friday, and Sunda) htornings.
Uedd mind aod•Ouildltord Telegraph Coach. ti
shed, Emote, Leathertesd, Re. Tuesday. Tin
Saturday )4ersioge. at 9.
grows! aad Guildford DOW Coy*. throe
flaou, Itorseley. Rilinghem, Leatiserhead, I
e'er) Aftessooo at S, meg* Suaday.
/tarn* "septet Deal, Sandwich. and
i tigid Poet-mash, Moaday, Tuesday, Tharsdi
sad Senday Mornings, at 7.
Oxford Light Poet-coach, through Henley,
Morning at half past 7.
CARRIERS.
To Twickenham', Brantford, and Islrworth,
el" Wednesday, Friday. Red Saturday.
EAMES sad Co.. Prc
Parcels sod Mishaps are lardy and eapodii
tined frow tdia bib so every City, Town, V
Pc.: mry Seat at this itsliatelogCounties. :-Ile
1.4.n:5i11, Devon. Dorset. Hants, Hereford.
Kent. Oxford. Sesserrott Surrey. Sasses. Wits.
. doe* Weer, eU putts of the lade of Wygght. hen
*el. and ail parts of Frame : sad to all Parts of
Tate aotise,that so package, contalaing g
alaing gplate, mai. or Rank rotes. Winner
*re, VIII he accosted for, if lost or damage
0.1:f pared or ressagror's laggape. of wore the
wafts speeillad as seek when &nerved at the