The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-06-26 00:00:00

NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
ALL Persons having any Claims or Demands on
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN, EARL
OF EGMONT, or upon his Son, LORD VISCOUNT PER-
CEVAL, are requested forthwith to send an Account there-
of (in writing) to us, with the amount of their claims, and"
the date and particulars of their respective Securities, in
order that an arrangement now in progress to seem and
discharge the same, may be carried into execution.
VINES AND ADEY. Solicitors,
6, Stone-buildings, Lincoln's Inn.

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS....-AVEDNIZSDAY.
Mr. BROG DEN brought up from the House of Com-
mons, the Irish Court of Chancery Bill. He also deli.
vered a message, stating, that the House of Commons
had agreed to the amendments made by their Lordships
in the Irish Grand Jury Presentments' Bill.
Mr. Bicknell, from the Court of Great Sessions in
Wales, presented certain returns from the Carmarthen
Circuit.
Mr.Tornlins,from the Treasury,presented a supplement
to the Fifth Report of the Commissioners of Inquiry, re-
specting the Irish Revenues.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented the Second
Report of the Committee on the Appellant Jurisdiction,
which was ordered to be printed.
The Irish Commercial Credit Bill was committed.—
Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY.
A Clerk of the Treasury laid papers on the table rela-
tive to the Customs of the'lsle of Man.
SLAVERY.
Lord LOWTHER presented a petition from Appleby
against Slavery.—Ordered to be printed.
The Report of the Scotch Juries Bill was agreed to,
and ordered to be read a third time to-morrow (this day). 1
The Lottery Bill was read a first time, and ordered to
be read a second time to-morrow (this day.)
The Exchequer Bills' Bill was read a first time, and
ordered to be read a second time to-morrow (this day.)
The Cattle Amendment Bill was read a second time,
and ordered to be committed on Monday next.
The Oyster Fishery Protection Bill went through a
Committee, and was reported. The Report tobe further
considered that day three months.
Sir 0. HILL presented a petition from the linen , mer-
chants of Coleraine and Londonderry, against the impor-
tation of Foreign Linen Yarns Bill.—Laid on the table,
and ordered to be printed.
Mr. HOBHOUSE presented a petition ,from John
Richards, praying for the repeal of the Combination
Laws.—Ordered to be laid on the table,and printed. 1
On the motion of Mr.Sergeaut ONSLOW, the Usury
Laws Repeal Bill was reported, and ordered to be read
a third time on Friday next.
PETITION OF IRISH ROMAN CATHOLICS.
Mr. BROUGHAM said lie hell in his hand a petition
signed by two thousand members of the Roman Catholic
community in Ireland, complaining to the House of the
general state of oppression in which they were held, not
only 'tiri'account of the inequality of the law as regarded
them, but on account of the inequality of its adminis-
tration. The petitioners stated their grievance at length
and with great acuracy, but couched in language perfect•
ly respectful to the House. As it was his intention to
ground proceedings on this petition to-morrow (this day),
It was unnecessary for him to state more now, than their
complaint of the inequality of the law and its administra-
tion. Refore.he sat down, he ought to state that this
petition was signed, in the course of a few days, by the
most respectable portion of the Roman Catholics of Dub-
lin, and would have been signed by as many thousands
as there were now hundreds, but that it was necessary
that the petition should have been here, before the mo-
tion of which he had given notice could come on; be-
sides, that it was desirable to present it before many of
the Irish Members had left town. The Honourable Gen-
tleman concluded '4 moving, that the petition be laid on
the table.
The petition having been laid on the table,
Mr. BROUGHAM, on moving that it be printed, said
that to-morrow he would move that it be referred to the
standing Committee on the Courts of Justice.—The peti-
tion was then ordered to he printed.

Mit. HiYDON.
Mr. BROUGIIAM said that he held in his hand a petition,
which he was sure the House would hear presented with un-
feigned concern, when they knew the person from whont it
came. The petitioner was Mr. Hayden' the historical
painter; ho must be known to many embers for the attenr
tion and enthusiastic zeal with which he devoted himself to
his profession. But, unhappily for himself, he confined
himself to that department of the profession of paint-
ing, which did not fUrnish employment for more than
two, and refused to enter upon the more lucrative branch of
portrait printing. without was now unhappily confined
in the King's Bench, the hope of relief, and it was
a source of deep and melancholy reflection to him, that after
nineteen yearsspent i n forming a collection of some skelthes.
casts, and valuable paintings, out of the smell gains of his
profession, sad which Wraiths objects of his daily study,
that this collection, which was so valuable, and which he had I
spent the beet past of his life in putting together, should bei
swept away under an execution, and at a moment when he
was separated from his Wife and children. Ile did not apply
for assistance in his dwn case. Ile stated the matter as •
public concern, and founded his observations upon the Re-
port of the Committee which sat in lsl7 upon the Elgin Mar-
bles, in whiCh they stated the advantages whin must result
to the arts from that stupendous collection, and particularly
inculcated the cultivation of the arts and sciences as coedit-
°lva to.the well being of every Government. Tne House
gave encouragement to sculpture and architecture; and Mr.
Haydon asked why some of that encouragement was not be•
stowed upon historical painting, which constituted so im-
portant a part of the arts. Private encouragement was of
little use, because these paintings were too large for the
rooms of private individuals, and it roust therefore be very
limited. Cabinet pictures were preferred, as best suited to
small rooms, the historical pictures being fit only for the
hills of large public buildings and for altar-pieces. One
million of money bed been voted for the encouragement of
architecture in the building of churches, and Why not a few
hundred pounds for an historical pain hug in each church!—
This would be sufficient to encourage men of genius to de-
vote themselves to that department of the profession, which
wis now so much neglected. He begged pardon of the'
House for having said so much ; but, feeling as he did for
the individual, and anxious for the encaaragement of the
era, that the House should comply with the Report of the
Committee, he could not say less. Ile could not but regret,
that while so much etwouragement was given to poetry and
eloquence, so little was given to the Sister arts. He only
knew the individual from the accident df the petition having
been confided to his hands. To other Members he was much
better known ; but what be did kno* of him was highly Ito
ueurable and creditable as a Matt.