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We rejoictote find that the Union with Ir.elrfike
likely to prove of very,heneficial.service to they. ea-1
trantry of that devoted country. Loa STattnlrre,
brought forward a Bill, an Thursday, in the Ilmase
of Lords, for tl.e express purpose of re4ving il;at
important class of the community of the sufferings
which they endure under the existing laws respectitigi
landed prorrty, which, as' his loprOship justly re- ,
_marked, were, in point of injnsticq,:to• .130,1qmilied
by nothing but the horrors of the Slave-trqt,!; in
point of humanity superior .to. it ;,awl, lti:point of,
impolicy as regarding Ireland, greater than;the Steven!
trade pith respect to Africa. • It is not kiwi:). in.l
England, and will, indeed, scarcely appear credible,
that In Ireland there exists a set of middle-men, or
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drivers, between the tenant wino really cultivates the
roil and the proprietor, who have it in their power to
distrain for all their respective rents upon the same
farm. As an illustration of this statement, Lord
STANIIOPE put the following:—" By k he would
rpresent the head-landlord ; by B, C, and 1), the
first, second, and third middle-man ; and by E,
twenty occupying tenants. Suppose then a. case,
in which A let the land to 11. for 901. per annum; 'p
to C for 7501.;,-C to D f0r,t1501.; mod D to E, being.
twenty .occupying tenants, for 9.101. per annuM. , Utt
der the existing law, all these occupying tenants
were liable to distress for all these rents, though the
land was originally let for 001."—The ruin and dis-.
tress which it is thus in the power of these:middle%
men to produce is incalculable.. An occupying te-
nant may be made to pay almost all the lanckis worth,
and yet another perton may Como upon him for an-1
other rent, due before that which he had contracted
totpay. In the course of the debate, the Noble
Earl, who brought forward the Bill, candidly stated
that the subject bad not originated with himself, but
had been suggested by a learned young gentleman in
the profession of the law, Counsellor O'DEDY, who
had produced if very excellent pamphlet upon the I
subject. We have ourselves perused this publication,'
mid to show that the author has no interested motives
In view, by coming before the
.Public, we give the
following statement of his motives from his own in-
troduction :—" It is the author's intention to have a
considerable number of this publication circulated at
his own expence, and the remainder sold. at the first
cost of paper and printing; disdaining to make pro-
fit of what he means as a grateful acknowledgment to
the Coustitation of England, -and the only tribute
now in liisaiower to give the land of his nativity."—
The pamphlet is, indeed, a most interesting and va-
luable work, IA clearly demonstrates that the state

Of t'm wretched pea:wary, and not that of the titled
and affluent Roman Catholic, is the real and fainda--
suntat Irish question., which involves the deepest in-
terest generally, as well as the main and etcient terce
and tranquillity of treland. After questioning the
impolicy of ,allowing every derivative lessee -whole-
derlets, the power of distraining and of levying .dis 7
*Swig, . Mr. irDrnx ,proceeds to state the conse-
quences which dew f..onv this in an eloquent-and im-
pressive manner:—Letlis meet him or his agent, says
this -gentlenian, on the demised premises when the
reserved rent becomes due, and then let us mark his

career under lawful authority. On such an occasion; it is.
impossible to convey any adequate or distinct idea, to
one who has never witnessed the scene of the succes-

sive emotions of anxiety, alarm, despondency, tur-
bulence, and revenge, which pervade the minds, and
rise in legible characters uu the changing counte-
•ttantes of husband, wife, relations, and friends, who
usually attend to await the issue. Whilst some of

the drire►s' are chasing the poor man's cows,
sheep, and swine, from field to field, with hurrying
vengeance, others are employed in loosing the horses
perhaps from the harness of the plough, or the usual
labours of the particular season, whilst the lettered
among the gang are taking an inventory—easy task!
of the little household goods with which the sooty
hut is furnished-. Having at' last, after many a run,

• succeeded in huddling together the whole Stock, the
mournful procession then iL'..ence: toward; the tons--
mon pound. The father, in Manly, sullen silence,
seppressing his own tears, to set an example -if. for:
Wilde to his lamenting and heart-broken wife,pressed
by their little ones, half naked and hungry, titer-
nately to give them food, and answer their innocent,
someliin?t,rnost agonizing enquiiies. }laving arrived 1
at last with thectisrnal cavalcade, and impounded the.
'lcor man's cattle, they.thon set_otf loaded with im-
precations and curses, lis'iving talkie wretched caltil•
-cater of the soil theleinfeLtask'cif feeding his own
cattle as a iii4tter-of .neeessity; and without the
smallest recceaptnee• I/9 as it sometimes haPPerisr,
the poor Moll oweeieifions are able to-procure kV
'much, oneelle,pur,of the- moment, as will not make
it necesia,
for the landler lif.arnllr(! d.t9 .-/Pl-41 P111)1
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of the eh ' then he fetunii tahis.fisFOlo
s.:,feetw
irgs of solcieatisraCtion.; at Ito' lb lini, from beink
pm l_pt 1 sill 4 • '
. trattquillised p he. kiiolep
.oa4he be only
for a few short" very sberri-Ani othf, .itreatly. nuns-
Imre& Distoctot 67 the recollection of his tate suf-
.t,
lea" gs, atm tbef,inticipation. ef fattire misery, he
takes the despirate resolve of renouncing all law
and etteaving the wreck of his
,property. In fur-,
' ftteri_cnitis Plan, he makes :his little arrange-
ments, and somelmes.succeeds in effecting his escape
at night with whatever he can take, unknown to the'
landlord, in
,England we have Poor's Rates, to
which a family, in these circumsaitces, might apply
for redress ; but in Ireland •they have none,
which compels the poor bort brokea sou

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I •,f f.),A.1 OV—, ,i,l ' eiDWILTor.COMMIDDit PII.P.AS, AZRII.I9 1 . 'lgi 4°' .
' TRE R P AND- DOZEN. .. .
banes mese with those of his fore father!. -To coos-.
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ono the. heart-reading scenes; which (his pietititt '
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ptettntis;an togligh Noblemad ha; been fining while' h Mitt case, Mr.'b'eleattt Vaughan hull obtained
•has I{l3 the tmiii,' the magnanimity, and the spirity * asie,to ,anew caus, why the'- Verdict for the Plaiu-
tan' should not be set aside, and it hotteuiteeteted, ..
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eppeß,asatittityfo;.olfelartireettistat.be
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of much ucthhe injured
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jeant 13. Est appeared, to show citase against
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Karlaitiopoiett tniiftsitri, leibtieffy this :-- To lea" Vita Loan CHIEF JCCTICR, 'when he opened. the
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*the head. litnillotiVistatteralle immediate lessor of notes which he had taken of the
the Ocenpetit, Vhellowet wittch• they•itow possess la.s' of had now to consider a wager, case, said; the Cmirt
of such a . kind he
1.-Jevyini, Micron the' end f'we en' amount of his head hoped would never appear in the presence of a Court
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wi Justice again. It happened, that, on the 29th. of
rent, and the Other for his rack rent, but excludingt
May, 1809, the. parties in the case, accompanied by
legit • ti e. nt- bi elle
.1.41: et ' derivative .lessors. between j
several of their friends, had • a merry meeting at it
Ithese Op andlaittem laidlords from this remedy, be- j tavern, and a conversation taking- place between
!Hussey and Crickett concerpitig their ages, it was
I cause iheyhtive fit, Codtract or connectionwhateverwith
E the occupants. • tlit4y areof course to be left to their I mutually agreed, that a day should be appointed for
I the examination of their ages, and whoever should
at:lions at law' bldee Course against one another.—
hap Fen to be oldest was to pay for a kind of dinner,
i Lora Seatinoet- 'rising above the petty considers- i
. , calltd the '' Rump and dozen ;" they parted, and a
Ition of private contracts, as between landlord and id
.ay being appointed by the
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tenant, took a comprehensive view of all the parties their comrades, the party met, to the number of
I.coneerned; and discussed the subject as a State' ques-1 eight persons, but Crickett did not appear, upon
tion of the Oates magnitude. He particularly and, I which the Plaintiff produced -the certificate of his
feelingly Insisted-on 'the necessity of protecting the' age; and, by the stipulation of the herein, the De-
. fendant was declared to have forfeited Iheptice of
4-. Peasantry agiitiat the intolts;the violence, and out-
their entertainment.
1 rage of the armed' }uffians, to whom the landlords ,
In the evidence of Hurd one of the party, it ap-
t
!delegated, for pea cat' purposes,' ill 'the arbitrary ' peaked, that the wkurss was very anxious for a dia-
lpower vested in theMselves, by virtue of the remedy I uer, and acertrdingly ardeted it, and paid the bill,
of distress, the only remains of feudalism now exist. for whichlid wits reimburaddiry Hussey. They were
ing in this codniry. ' The effect which this had upon rTatll school-fellows, . and wh.ee the,. agreement was
the generality of 'their Lordship': wailightyt" i •eredi de it was signgd by b.:)th p
totit mply a- gooitieti. He
.Cond ch.sidimer,
tred
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able to their feelings and himanity.• The Loma
thea a Rump and Dozen
with as much r.-ine to cool' it-ter coed be* eonveni- •
CiOtcett.ba :Wiese(' the House, That he was not in. entry drank. The bill' amounted to ' 181.includintt
attentive to 'fie subject. • lie believed the genes!' the attendancenf Waiters.
feeling was, that the Bill should be read a first time,' By the evidence of Keen, an-Other of the party, it
and Ordered to be priatetl; that those who wished tit appeared that he was deputed' by Crichett to,iitra
day and place where the. party might meet for din-
do justice in this case, must attend .to a rest mass cif nee.lt had been expressly stipulated that both par-
,consideraiinns which appertainedto.the landed p ties
etwere to appear at table with certificates of their
petty in both parts of the United Kingdom ; and ages, Mid whoever was oldest had' to account.to the '
concluded by expressing an opinion, that some LegiSi 1an51104
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lative enactments might be adopted adrantageous fot •
p, the whole of the evidence his Lordship ob.
.servegi, that Hurd hadpaidthe dinner, without the ap.
Ireland. We sincerely trust that the
.hopes, whict
this discussion- is calculated to give birth to in tht its seim
prolption.of Crickett, and When the trint approached
minds of the Irish Peasantry, will, in due times intake' , he. had scruples in his .on'n mind
bi ' upon:the proprkyt of maintaining the cause. .
realized. We hail the favourable reception whit ' Mr. Serjeant Beer, in inciting 'Cease' against .the
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the Bill received on'its first reading, as indictive o . rule, obsecved, that the parties-Madd the wager of
a favourable termination to the philanthropic exertions such a aspire, that it could. pat be 'known who
of those with whom it originated, and as the dawning should pay the dinner, 'until' the entertainment was
over.
of a new day to the disconsolate end long suffering endeav- But open consideration of his case, -Crickett
so
.
m
ured to Shade hiMself from the respeneibilL.
children of Erin. May they, as we doubt not they ty, thoughit had been anifestlyproved thatbe had as•
will, be grateful for the boon that is abOut to be con- sented to the baigain; and alio that he pettnittad.the
ferred on them. dinner to •be ordered. Ilussey. by partaking of -the
dinner, had. rendered himself respotesible to paylt,
though he certainly possessed the right to sue the De-.
fendaot for the expellees. '-
The LORD Quer Jurnciasitd, he did not altoge-
ther compre' hend- What,e. " Hump and Dozen" was ;
by the evidence it *appeared an indefinite entertain-
ment. a
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Mr. Serjeant . Ravi said, to Why, My Lord, we
had a-most competent judge, the landlord, before us,
who described it as a comfortable dinner, where a
roasted goose displayed herself smoaking under the
nose at one end or the table, mid as much good wine
as a man could conveniently 'carry away with him."
.Concerning the law of the case, he would argue that
it was not an unlawful wager;' for it appeared in the
case of Pope awl Sankin, in Sar !fiche s Reports,
that Judge Holt called it. a porter, to determine
what constituted •an intlawftd move in the game of
Backgammon ; nor had any doubt arisen whether
such a bet, by being on a game for money, was legal
.or not. Nr.tv be would leave it to the' Court to de-
termine whether, that partaking of a good dinner
was an immoral, or illegal thing; and he called upon
I his Learned Opponent to cite hint a case which would
impeach the transaction. •
'rhe LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said, he ought not to
have tried such a ridiculous wager; but it was need-
;less to repine, here it stood before him.
i Mr. Serjeant VAUCRIAN, in support of the applica-
tion,. said, that the very name of " Rump and •
1 Dozen" smacked•of immorality. here an assembly
i of eight hungry persons determined to make tiriekett
maintain them for one day, in which they drank no
!less than
.15 bottles of wine. The bet, be would
maintain, was illegal, because it was indefinite, and
even the landlord himself could describe the " Rump
1 and Dozen" as only a feast, where so much meat end
1. wine was partaken of, as they could conveniently
carry assay. :Now, how was it possible to page
the belly, to discover what lead it could carry away ?.
By being a provOralion, to gluttooy and drunkenness,
the bet was immoral • and *sides there appeared
three shillings in the bill for anchovy toast, to pro-
voke . thirst, so that drunkenness might fellow.--
Every person who knew Crickett, would describe
him as a gentleman who had furnished too many uts.
necessary " Rumps and Dozens" to people, but who
felt himself in nowise disposed to pay for the "neat.
and merriment of other men, who had • run him into
high expences during hil absence from Lotidong—
The case of a game of Hazard was thrown out of the,
Court by Lord Loughborough, and the reason why
the ease of the move in the ganie of Backgammon
Iwas entertained in the Court, was, because it-was
Iti Wager made upon a lawful game. Upon the whole,
therefore, he would assert, that the case could .not
be moittiniued,and that the verdict should beennulled.
i •Tbetieeat CHIEF JUSTICE, its giving judgment.
upon the case, declared Veiled received no ittforma.
:
1 tiotalfean .either-of •his Learned Brothers; what a
1" Rump Mel Dozeit" Ives, thotith one °of them seem-
ed. perfectly ,lq, ainderstaud it, . lie blamed himself
much for allowing• such a tionsdesical wager, to -be
tried, though he was afraitbit would be infpinctitable
.to prevent the decisicm of the -Courts.oa shriller oc-
casiosisittletermm,itttihnegyr these
sported frivolousliih
from being applied to this. By the Court
crisisb:f
vital
di
imbpefororte.
,auce to the commonwealth, and caused intofereblv
grievaaces, both to parties and witnesses, who wp-
forced to attend on all the delays of the Court..
• Justice iftAitt perceived nothing .11Iegar kt pt
, taking of a good dinner, and confirmed theAretsk
of the Jury. The Hula was according* refused.

From the LONDON GAZETTE, APRIL 9. 8 .

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DIV WENDS.
June R. Q. Levitt, Kingston-upon-110i, merchant—May 23,
J. Keens, Basingstoke, dealer—Nlay 19,. J. Underhill, Bir-
mingham, merchant—May 2:1, J. Ellii, Queen-street, lead-ther-
ehant—May 26, J. Simmons, Lamberhurst, Kent, shopkeeper
—May 19, J. Sisals'', Lombard-street, hanker—May 26,', J.
Robertson and .1. Stein, Lawrence Ponntney-hill, merchants—
May 26, J. Stevenson, Oxford-street, dealer—May 26, J.
Clark, ldroa&street, upholsterer—May 26, Paint, Bir-
mingham, pork-butelier—ila 22, J. AI eston, Liverpool, mer-
chant—May 16, J. G. Werninck. Plymouth, merchant—May
23, T. Andrews, 13asinr,hall-street, factor—May 23, E. Creas-
see, Great Outfield, Yorkshire, chemist—May 20, J. 11111, Ax-
minster, innholder—May 19, J. M. Guest, Iliermiaghani, mer-
chant.
CERTIFICATES--Nlty 19.
J. and M. Davy, Bread-street. merchants—T. Merrywea'her,
Lincoln, tailor—S. Rogers, Malta, merchant—J. Simonds, Jer-
myn-street, haberdasher—E. Grafton and W. G. Aston, Liver-
pool, glass-dealers—T. Worhoys, Edmonton, wheelftight—.l.
Pailethorpe, Newstead, Nottinghamshire, merchant—X. Aus-
tin, Lamb's-Conduit-street, linen-draper—T. Pringle, New-
castle-upon-Tyne, dealer—T. Inkersley, K. 'Lester, and W.
Crabtree, Leeds, merchants—l.. JAym md,South Audley-street,
milliner—R. Noble, Chipping Ongar, briekiayer—W. 11.
Cooper, Walworth, surveyor—J. Browne, St, Catharine's-
street, glassman.
PAIITNI'.QSNIPS DISSOLVED.
W. Baldwin and G. Swinden, Liverpool, attornies—J. Ma-
son and W. Shaw, Birmingham, coal-dealers—J. Harman and
If. 11. Mortimer, Bush-lane, ironmongers—J. Clarke and .1.
C. Ilaneock, llayttutrket—R. S. Illingworth and J. Nichol,
Pall-mall, wine-merchants—J. and Q. Titobrell, Fair-street,
liorsleydown, worsted-manufacturets—W. Scott and W. Barry,
Pall-mall, tailors—J. Robson and hi. Coston Castle-alley,
stock-brokers—M. (ox and B. Walker, Old Compton-street,
tailors—ll. Spencer, J. Lucas, and S. llocigson, Phrettix-street,
Soho, lamp-contractors—G. and F. Crozier, Pauton-square,
tailors—it. and S. Leaver, Goswell-street, coae:t-wheelwrights
—3. Smallwood, li. Lewis, and J. Thomas, Liverpool, tobac-
co-manufacturers—J. Grant and T. Rogers, chair-makers—lL
Lawson and W. Ilitekoffner, John-street, piano-forte-makers—
Chalmer anti .1. Blezard, \Vavertree—G. Stnbley and J.'
Elwood, Pepper-street, hat-asaken,--W. Prliatt, A. Crooks,
and It. WI/tumid, Rol-cross-street—J. Hardey and 11. Fell,
Duostahle, dealers -T. Morris, C. Cooper, and Griffin' iron-
masters—M. Barklay and M, Needham, Manchester, dress-
makers.

To-morrow being the first of May, according to
annual custom, under the will of 14r...AMNKr...fPft.
merly a brewer, in Wapping, six maiden' wotneni
educated at his Asylam in Fawden Fields, Wisp-1
ping, will meet at the School-house, to draw lots :furl
1001. as a marriage portion, agreeable to the will oil
tho,founder. The man of the choice of the fortu- I
nate candidate must be a Protestant, and a mechanic
of either the parishes of St. John,
'Wapping, St:
'George in the East, or St. Paul, Shadwell, must not
be a sailor, soldier, nor waterman, and must have
„testimonials of his good character.
Fit:T.—Lord Montague's house, at Ditchet, was
burnt to the ground on Tuesday night, and most of
rthe property it coutainCd was destroyed. This event
ris said to have arisen from some experiment to give'
warmth to the mansion.
, Two Frieech ()Ricers, who hail bijoken their pa-1
. and were apprehended in'
,Itentl,' were brought
to town lit a poet-chaise and four, on -Toesday'ofter-
'noon, guarded by two light horsemen— They were
conveyetLto the Thames Police Oificeonadafterwards
committed to Barklewell.
A smart affray, in whiCh several' pkiviens were se.
riously injured, occurred On Mondey rase in abrick-
' field,. between Brentford and Codling; 'in
quence of a party df military tend some *constables*
,repairing thither to apprehend a• deserter. pn the
, approach •of the party, eine permits. who %I-y.O at'
work, armodabetnseh'es,with aticks, bricks, SF. and
swore they would protect the deserter, whiltt .the
others, six in number, refesed to give up' the objeft
of their visit,ind repaired Into the field. Thasverk-
men were severely handled, but after a sharp contest
en both sides, the deserter eslaptsd.