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looftwiCir Also PIPE OFFICE. UNIATIONAL ON FINE AND
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Dridgeesreer, glackfriam.
friHR Poblic are requested to observe, the object
which Ibis SOciety has in view is Yery difereot front
Ow of Isonsuire Trartine Companies, they being oriented only
Ity the expectiotou of profits wiwrens the object of this So.
dety it to tosses the calamity of Firs and the espeuce of la-
wirsace.
Every.llradstr who can sugge-4 means for the stow. prompt
Eatiactsishiwg of Fire, or tor Pres.-reins Life and Property,
mho, Fires happen. is requested to make the same hams at the
Ikesiety'sollice as shove.
LIFE DEPARTMENT..
superior advantage to the Insured i.t this Inititstion has
hero so justly seppreristed 'ty the Public' that it now Onsets
snore Policies tlse4 all the Trading dniopanWe Is_ the Kingdom
put Nether.
TILOS. BIGNOLD. Fag: Secretary.
P. IL The Pslilk are requested to take notice: that no eine is
'kesneell os receive money 'a neeosot ‘,/ t iteept
- eisliondstse an accredited authority sigeed by the
-aviary.
INJADIIILLE DANCING.
'9, Sherrard-street, Coldest-square,
Lewes* awl Practice is genuine Qs‘lerillesi
• Oyster.. ► by the select Fashion-

IN"' that proprietors of small hooses might be made
W* to Poor.rates.—Referred to the Committee on
the Poor Laws.
fONTAUIOUS FEVERS IN IRELAND.
Si! J. NEWPORT was desirous of calling the
elleetion of the Rouse to a suhj.crof great import-
ance, to enquire into which a Committee should be
appointed, he meant the prevalence of contagions
fever, end the stare of the unemployed pour le he.
lead. Such an enquiry more naturally belonged to
the Executive Government, and should the Right
lion. Gentleman opposite be inclined to take it op,
he would willingly consign it into his hands. The
conduct Of the People of Ireland had been most
meritorious under great privations, end it usage im.
perative duty on the pert of the linos, to watch
over their welfare. Should the Executive Govern-
ment pot be disposed to come forward, it we. his
Ihteation to bring the subject Wore- the House on
the 9th of April.
Mr. PEELetatod, that he should at on earlier pe-
riod have called-the attention of the house to the
cositegions Fevers that prevailed in Ireland, hadhenot
been induced to postpone it on account of the abuse of
the Irish Members. Ile had had a communication with
the Right lion. Mat. from which it appeared that
their views upon the subject were the same, (nil it
was impossible the subject could be in better hands
that. those of "the Right lion. Bert. Ile also enter-
tained the same opinion with him as to the employ-
ment of the poor, though he had some doubts of the
propriety ef connecting the two subjects together.
Sir J. NEWPORT disclaimed any intention of
imputing blame to the Executive Government, the
reason assigned by the Right Hon. Gentleman being
satisfactory to his mind.
PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.
Sir F. BURDETT presented Petitions from Mac-
clesfield, from Preston, from Nets castle-upon-T) ne,
and from the parish of St. John the Evangelist, West.
(Mosier, in favour of a Parliamentary Reform. Ile
also presented a Petition from James Sellars, late a
prisoner in atteediog complaining of the hard-
ships he had suffered in his confinement, soil pray.
log for relief.—Ordered to lie ott the table and to be
printed.

01PgRIAL PARLIAMRNT.
stotse OF LORDS, Masco 11.
Mr. Broyles, and otherc from the, Common. brought Willi
Marble Mutiny-4W Bank Tokeoa w ow
were retie sla
Am time.
LICENSE:II PUBLIC•HOUgEs.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE presented a Petition
from numprovs iolmbitants of London and West-
°hirer, couipleinitlg of the various hardships sod in-
conveulences arising out of the present mode of Li-
censing Public-houses, and praying for relief against
the operation of that system. The Petition, the
Noble Lord observed, was not remarkable for dm
moltitede of unmet which was annexed to it, but
that was au eccideet which would he no oliection to
the Petition itself, since there could not exist a
doubt that the supporters of it were no less burner.
oos sad tit/sloes than those sigaed to a petiticht.4o,
similar nature presented is another Ogee. It was hilt
wish at present only that the Petition should be reed
and laid on the table, and be should on mime day
previous or subsequent to the recess move, that it be
referred to a Commitlee.
The Petition was accordingly read, and was in

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Va litand oit *or's t... modanced _
8.71
stiles of P, Is and L'indoo. Weldon/ Sets foe • IrOliei only
litre*lng,Slas, Ladies anti. Condemns. Private Lessons at all
liners Leitmotiv** or /Decimator Pupils, of tiny nee. wishing
privacy and Inane eXpeditioes or reined acquirement than Pub-
lic Leisorn convey. Family Parties attended. Youth qualified
far the Professions, or Theatre. Ladies instructed to tench their
Fanatics. for aidiog which he has on sale ors-invented self-
playlet inetrouseuis, eoablieg them to cultivate their own
Dancing, foe lions whiting Mosicinias, or amuse themselves
Mind friends with Music by Clock-work.
trifle A.POLLONICON, a Grand Musical in-
-1 strument. invented and manufactured by Mears. Flirbt
and. Inborn% Organ llaildert, under the immediate pa-
tronage At his Royal 'ffighi,e,, the Preece Recent,' is' ex-
, bitinio,. by its sotorior 'mechanical power, of their It.oom-.
No. 101. "St. Martin's-burr, daily, froi twelve . o'clock
till 5, excepting no every Wednesday and Sisturdmv. on
which day. Mr. PORK IS, n Professor of Music, performs
on the Ins rumens (ruin the hour. of Iwo to fog. Selections
from the Work. of the diff. rent eminent Compolets ; find on
every Tlitsr•dny rVelifltg. rloriog the Seasons, the fell manuals
powers ot .it.e Instramieut are exhibited by, Rod under the di-
rectioa of. Mr. Tilt) AAS A1)1,11S, Professor of Mtaricor ho
(Msuted Mire other Petfortners, oreaslonally at the salve
time) 104 play Selection' from time fittest Works of the most
golgegg ancient and 0 'Merit Comp- WS'S. •
A List of the Perforroonces may be had, a day or two pee-
victor, nn application at the Roomc.—AIIIIIMINOCe daily Is.
On Themulny Evening; the itoonts are opened at half-past
',even o'clock. and the Performance cioncneucn at eiikist.--Ad.
imit inner es. 6d.
• Messrs. Flight writ Robrin nlso respectfully beg In arqinlot
the Notftlity awl Gee.trA . Oro rh*y have an elegant ismorinsetat
of Organs of ;all de,eriptioto, completed and ready (ur sale at
their Worerooms. •
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substance the same as that whit b had been previously
submitted to the House of Commons on the same

subject. _
The Noble-Lord- then moved, that the Petition
should,bq laid on the table, which was ordered ac-
cordingly; but shortly after, in consequence of some
otiserwatians that passed across the table, between
the Noble Mor-er and other Peers, the 'Noble (err!,
on the ground of an informality, ari.ing as we un-
derstand from the signatures being placed in a col-
lateral, rather than in a subsequent position, with-
drew the Petition.
CHIMNEY-SWEKPING.
Lord HOLLAND presented a Petition from Son.
derland, praying that tile Legislature would take
measures for discontinuing the cruel practi-e of em-
ployingckildreii in that business of Chimney-sweep-
ing.
Lord MELVILLE presented a Petition of a si-

miler kind from Wool‘;ich.
Both Petitions were laid on the table.
Lord AUCKLAND moved that an humble Ad.
dress be presented to the Prince Regent, requesting
that his Royal Highness would be pleased to give
orders to the Sur►evor.General of the Board of
Works to ascertain, as far es might be done, the
practicability of cleaning chimneys without the aid of
clim,bang childten.
The motion was ioimediately agreed to by all their
' Lordships. •
The Mutiny Bill, the y Correction Bill, the
West India Trade Ind Ind the Ktistiainhans
ihospital Bills, were read the second time, and or.
derett ro be committed.
Their Lordships then adjeorned.

•.0 THE PUBLIC..-7. LUSH, Contractor
-AL for the tweets. Loiter% , `lakes lie earliest opportunity
So ()littlish the foaliswing • Letter received by him (run, she,
?rema rry. regretting tlibt hay necewity .houkl ore., fur niter,
lug the Darts of Drawisag, after hating aanouriced them fur the
lith in•L (St. Pais ick's Day). and the 91st March.
(COPY.)
•
I Has commanded by the Lords Commissioners of HIS Ma-
jesst's Treasury, to arsgunisit you, thavas the-17th day of M rch
(beim the day bard tit their warrant of oh- Ist ..f Jarsuary last.
for the Secret Day's Draw iog of the Third Latwry for the
Year 107) will fall ill Piwina Week. they have been pleased
Ws direct a warrasat fur sabseisaiing Thursday. 'kr 46th instate,
for the 17th of Morals rind 'Thursday, the 9th of April.
for the 91st a Mars Is. briog rim day fiatd by their said forauer
arroin fur the Thiid Day's Draw tog.
" 1 .die.
" S. It. LUSHINGTON.
" To T. Bisb. Bag. 4,

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

ST. PATRICK'S DAY.
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Jmud J. sivmwiticirr cnogratulate their
• Friends and the Public on the remit of the Firm Dav's
Drawing, only a few of the minor Capital Prizes having beets
drawn.
J. and J. SINEW RIGHT Sold 'Mee of them in Thirty-
three Shares, viz
13,740 .• • • s€soo
7.051
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as the nest Dny'e Draviing, which will *he n

Mr. Sit Field, from the We.t India Dock Company. present-
ed ao Account of the Receipts and Expenditure of the Com-
pany for the last year.
Mr. BARCLAY said he felt it necessary to cor-
rect a mis-statement of what fell from him yester-
day, which appeared in two or three Newspapers.—
Ile was represeuted as having said, that several small
brewers would be content with gaining 10 per cent.
on their capitals; be had not stated IO but 5 per cent.
Ile was also represented as having said, that one
brewer possessed houses to the amount of half a
mil-
; this was not the fact : lie said no such thing.—
What he stated was, that one brewer supplied beer
to publicans, who paneled properly to the amount
of half a million. Ile should add no more to what
he had already stated, respecting the Petition before
the House; and he was quite indifferent as to what
steps might be taken on the subject.
Petitions were presented from Lewes. from Linlithgow, and
other places, against the Additional Tax on Leather.
A Petition was presented front Barnesley against the Tax on
Coal and Cohn.
Sir EDWARD K NATCH BULL moved. that the Small
Debts Recovery Bill fur the Comity of Kent, be read a first
lime.
The Bill was accordingly read a first time, and ordered to he
read a second time.
Mr. THOM PSON presented a Petition from the Dock Com-
pany of Halt against the Poor Rates.—The Petition also pray-
ed, that the mode of levying the Poor Rates upon the bhipping
might be amended. nod might be limited to our-fourth of the
value of the property embarked in that way.—Referred to the
Committee on the emir Laws.
Mr. BA BINGTON• presented a Petition from the Iln,jers
and Frame-workers of Leicester, stating that a want of em-
ployment would probably ensue trot!' the ruinous competition
of their employers, aud praying for an amendiaeut in the Poor
Laws.
Laid vai the table, and ordered to he printed.
Mr. 11. SU SIN ER presented a Petition f the Justices of
Peace of the County of Surrey. assembled at the Quarter Ses-
; sion., praying that the application of the City of London for
I au additional grant out of the Orphans' Food sliest not be coin-
Kited with.— Laid on the ruble.
Mr. LUSH INUTON brought up an Account of the number
of Licences taken out by tanners for the last year.
Mr. DICKINSON moved for un Accouot of the quantity of
Grain, Meal, and Floor imported into nod exported from Great
Brituiin, front 1816 to 1818, distioguishiug each year.—Or-
dered.
The Report of the Committee on the Acts relative to Irish
. Corks TI as agreed to, and a Bill ordered to be prepared.
Mr. BROM/EN presented two Petitions, one from Newp
rt
and the tdher from Launceston. in Cernwal, praying for the re-
peal of the Duty on Coal and Calm.— Laid ..n the tattle.
The Scotch Aqua.Vitte Licence Bill was read a tbird time and

The, hope
TUESDAY. die 17th March, to add One-,'Two, or all Three
of the re3O,OOJ Prizes.
There ore vet in the Wheel
• ALL THREE OF Tiff ItTY THOUSAND POUNDS!
Siaty-live other Copitol.—a fail Prvor •
of the Small
Prizes—and Eight Pipe. of Erne Old Port Wine extra for Two
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'Tickets and Shares ore on Sale at their Old Fortunate (Met,
37, (',.shill t 38. Havmarket
It, H.41..,r11; I 141. Oit'orit•oreet.

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'EWPATENT HAT. AT.ONLY EIGHTEEN
SHILLINGS.
IMPORTANT SAVING.
'PRANKS and TA IC I.OR. have to offer to the
Public a SILK HA* Oa BEAVER BOl)Y, combining
every rigalsite a Hat Wight in pos-ess. It is superior in rip-
imamate to rite liierStand most expensive Beaver, is egoadv
.liilu, and will osn-wenr tno of then, and is of a better shape,
which it retohis to the but. It a ill never eh sage its colour in
any climate, which is the mist beautiful Black. if d urn for
!tries ; will never spot by raie, nor till ant we..thec injure
.then, they
.bring Water-prohf ; and will repair severai times,
lit a 'riding expense, nod evety lime appear equal in new ;
'saes, are decidedly supeli.a to aim Hats ever offered In Public
twice, ,the nitainmma of which bas bees attended with great
C 2 pew... liihnui, and prisons.' attention.
FRANKS mid TAYLOR, Manufacturer!, curlier of Red-
. cr..... *tree,. Barbican, London.
••• Mrralcintx. Dealers. and the Trade, who wish for
sulk.; inr Hats, Will Ibid it to their advantage by applyiugusahose.
Be particnkr a; to the Addiess. as F. and T. see net in
any way concerned with a Retail House Ia Beteb-btree!----
t 4 kruoks. he unpaid letters received.

passed.
Mr. If. MARTIN moved for an Account of the Stock Secu-
rities, Exchequer Bills, and other effects in the hands of the De-
WHY Rememfirancer of the Court of Exchequer, on the sth of
January. 1818. distiainishieg w hat part had hero purchased
without the order of the Cinirt.—Ordered.
SAVING BANKS._
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Mr- T. coma EN A Y moved for an account of
the number of Savings Banks registered-in England,
ender the Act of the 57th of the King, the date of
their establishment, and the sums invested in them
pursuant to the Act.—Ordered.
Mr. J. SMITH presented a Petition from Not-
tingham against the Poor-rates. No place had suf-
fered more than Nottingham from the present system
of the Poor-rates, where they were higher than in
any other part of the kingdom. The Petitiao pray•

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persons. Ministers steted, that they bsd"coinmitted
no man to prison, except by information given on
oath; then, eccording to their own statement, they
could sot want this indemnity. tech tepreseetstions,
thee, were of act eonseqotence to him;. for say oath
accoospanying the informition, was nothing, unlem
tonne satisfactory information wasgiireo to the House.
Ile would not positively say, that Ministers had
abused the powers entrusted to thigh; bet the House
had no eatherity tressy that they had not. An lion.
Member (Mr. Ftementie) had said, no a former
evening, that the -allegations contained in the several
Petitions from persons who had suffered by iniptison.
gent, wets disproved. That ems certainly a mit.
Zeit: ;th4osweapell insoottrstilweerraecetlere'ruhien IPnee:tbern,stheinetrilnegt.ea-
lhoilgue4Porensieno.fhontabtastinooooHedoekleemit;hrindioowif iotthiheoinrnegt: were
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individuals were not true. The assertion, in face,
nee( so far, as to tell the People that their Petition.*
were not to be believed, and that they steed not pre.
sett any mere. They were to relinquish every kind
of discussion on the subject, and to grant no redress
to those who complained of hardship. No reason
whatever was alleged why an enquiry should be
refused. One species of enquiry certainly did take
piece
o the
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f meantan
Ministersengu themselves;iryb*Secrhu et
it .rare Committees,
composed
better that there had been no enquiry at all. When
this question was last debated, none of the Ministers
uttered a word upon it; but, although they were
silent in that House, they debated in their Secret
Committee. lu common candour, it was their duty
to have reversed (Isis mode of proceeding ; they
should have done nothing in private, but ought to
have made their defence In public. Ile felt no disenn
INDEMNITY RILL. sition at present to enter• on the question,.as to the
The ATTORNEY-ti ENER A L moved the Order manner in which the Secret Committee had been no.
of the Dry for the House resolving itself into a Corn- minuted. The Ministers insisted on having it done by
minen uon the Indemnity
putting the question that Rill. ballot ; and they knew that the ballot must secure to
Uponpthe SPEAKERN
them ouch a Committee es they wanted, because list,
he should lease the Chair, were banded round, pointing out who were to be
Sir S. ItONIII.LY said, he should object to any chosen, and they sent them to those who, they
further proceedings being taken on this measure, were sore, would vote for them. But if the mode of
which was one of the greatest importance of any that election had been open, a different choice would have
had ever come before Parliament ; %hartier it was to been made. The late lists were all in the rams band.
be considered as a precedent to be skied upon in fu. writing; and he supposed, in the Course of time, the
lure, or contemplated with regard to its Immediate
save secret eabal would he carried so far,
thatth i n order to
consequences. Indeed, the measure was exceedingly the trouble of writing, a Fel pined lists
misunderstood, and was improperly called an Indent. would he sent round. As to the precedents on which
oily Bill. The true object of an Indemnity Bill, iu this rule was laid to be founded, he contended, there
a constitutional and legal point of view, was, to was not a single precedent in point, @seept that of
protect against prosecutions such persons as might the year 1801. Acts of Indemnity were got the Hes
have omitted to qualify themselves for offices, sorb cessary consequences .of Suspension Acts, although
as was passed annually in that !louse. But the pre. they might have followed them; and they were
sent Bill went to take away all legal remedies from sometimes passed when there had been no Sus.
those who had suffered, through the arbitrary and pension of the Habeas Corpus. Such Acts had
oppressive acts of persons its authority ; and to heels passed ott occasions where the public authorities
punish with double costs all persons who hinJUlll seek had driven away cattle in case of an invasion, or of
redress for the injuries they hurl suffered. It was a imminent danger thereof; and after the riots of
Bill of Punishment, end west to shut out all persons 1780; because the acts done nn such occasions,though
so punished, from the protection of the law. Jr was mortify to law, were indispensably necessary; and
only in cases where the vilely of the community was they called for indemnity as a matter of justice.
at stake, that recourse should ever be had to a men. %Vitt, regard to the indemnity intended to be given
sure of this kind. The object of all government, to Magistrates, he would ask, if the state of the
was the security of the subjects, arid the maintenance country last year, was such as to make it necessary
of law and justice. In the Great Charter, it was for Magistrates to exercise a rigour beyond the law,
specifically stated, that justice should be denied to and commit arbitrary acts of tinlenreand oppression,
no man; and the Sovereign himself, on corning to OF ithuut being able to depend on the strong [merle
the throne, was obliged to take an oath, declaring, they had already derived from the lass? On this
that lie would administer justice with mercy. When point the House was completely in the dark--the
men, therefore, suffered in consequence of illegal House was ignorant altogether, of • the grounds ort
proceedings, they should tint be shut out from the which it was required to indemnify these Magistrates.
tight of seeking redress, etteept in cases where the There was something mysterious lurking under this
safety of the country was at stake. The House Bill, which the /louse ought to enquire into. Ile
was now about to decide, not upon one individeal asked, for what reason this Bill went back so far as
case, but on those of a number of persons ; and, the 'Seth of January, 1816 ? There must be some
in doing so, they were deciding in the dark.— secret dark and mysterious cause for this; and the
They did not, at present, know to whom they were House ought to demand an trephination on that point.
refusing justice; they knew twilling of the cases that Another part of the Bill related to the seizure of
might be brought forward ; anti set, in the midst of papers. The houses of people bad been broken into
this ignorance, they were called on to declare, •tlisit in the dead of night, and their papers taken away.
the doors of the Courts of Justice were to be shut This•was a violation of law and justice, which should
against all those who might prefer complaints, of the- tint betolerated ; and such a power should never he
nature of which the House now knew nothing. giventto Magistrates, some of whom would always be
would not, at present, go so far as to say; that the ready to abuse their powers. Anothe
that of loadiste
would contend that it was one, on which the Iloosb: with irons the unhappy men woo had. been. taken up
should proceed with great cautious. and not adopt ms suspicion. One case of shocking hardship wits,
without a full enquiry. The present Bill embraced that of taking up a man of the name of Swendells, as
three objects : one was, to indemnify Ministers for Chester. He had been dragged from his home in the
the acts they had done; the second was, to indemnify dead of night; Me wife, then its an advent:od state
Magistrates ; and the third was, to protect and Indere. isf pregitancy, wit sb affected at this irestmeat of her
nify all those persons who gave information to hlagis. husband, that she watt suddenly taken ill, and shoal,
trates. With respect to the acts of Ministers, most after died. Ile himself was loaded iritk bone, and
Gentle Men laboured under a great mistake, as to the thrown into prison; ail his little effects wets lost,ansi
necessity of an Indemnity Bill. It was said, that it became necessary to seed'kis children to a work-
when certain powers were given to Ministers, the house. This was one instance of tyranny anhe
laws of
them against the consequences of their conduct.— the lend were thus to be violated with impunity--if
There never was a greater mistake than this; for, i shocking acts of cruelty were to be thos committed,
when the Suspension Act took place, the Ministers the parties committing and authorising' them could
were authorised to do certain things ender that Bill ; tint estioguidethe laws of God end
•Natore, which
and there was no occasion ...indemnify them after. i must torment tbeir•conscionices. Suck Isorrill scenes
wards, for what the Legislature had so authorised t as these, were more k for the climate of Aherne than
them to do. If Parliament passed a law to steles. that of England, which had always
..boasted of its
rise Ministers to lay an embargo on all the shipping, freedom and its administration of justice. The Re.
there would be no occasion afterwards to pass son- port of the Secret Committees stilt held out cocoa -
titer law to indemnify them for what they had done. ragemeot to Magistrates to proceed in their acts sf
Hence, there was no occasion to indemnify Ministers 'Violence and petty tyranny ; and after having bee.,
for throwing men into prison, because the law had thus excited to violate the law, nett year, lu all
"—rind them to apprehend and imptison suspected probability, another Act of Indemnity might be oallest