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PASSED IN THE THIRD SESSION OF THE FIFTH PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.—55 GEO, III. (1815) [The figure which follows the date of each Act, denotes the number of sheets of which it consists: each sheet is sold for THREEPENCE.

CLXXIX. An Act to revive, amend, and continue until the 25th day of March, 1821, so much of an Act of the 41st year of his present Majesty as allows the use of Salt duty-free for curing Fish in Bulk or in Barrels ; and to repeal certain Laws relating to the Allowance of Sait duty-. free for the North Seas and Iceland Fisheries. July 11.-1.

CLXXX. An Act to revive and continue until the 5th day of July, 1816, an Act of the 46th year of his present Majesty for granting an Additional Bounty on the Exportation of the Silk Manufactures of Great Britain. July 11.-1.

CLXXXI. An Act for charging an additional Duty on certain Seeds imported. July 11.-1.

An additional duty of 25 per cent. of the present duties to be paid on all seeds except rape, cole, hemp and flax seed, and linseed, imported into Great Britain.

CLXXXII. An Act to authorize the Directors-general of Inland Navigation in Ireland to proceed in carrying on and completing the Canal from Dublin to Tarmonbury on the River Shannon. July 11.-1.

ments to be applied only to those charged
with 11. Instruments having wrong stamps
but of sufficient value to be valid, except
where the stamps shall have been specially
appropriated to some other instrument.
Penalty for making, accepting, or paying
bills of exchange, drafts, orders, or promis-
sory notes not duly stamped, sol. Penalty
for post-dating bills, &c. 100l. Penalty for
issuing unstamped drafts on bankers without
specifying the place where issued or if post.
dated, 100l. Persons receiving such drafts
liable to a penalty of 201., and bankers pay-
ing them to one of 100l. Promissory notes
payable to bearer on demand not exceeding
1ool. may be re-issued by the original
makers without further duty. Notes with
printed dates prior to Aug. 31, 1813, to be
re-issuable till Aug. 31, 1816: but persons
issuing notes with such printed dates for the
first time after Aug. 31, 1815, liable to a
Notes re-issuable for a
penalty of 501.
limited period to be cancelled on payment
afterwards; and notes not re-issuable to be
cancelled immediately on payment. Penalty
for re-issuing notes, &c. contrary to law,
and for not cancelling them, 501.; and for
taking such notes, &c., 201. Notes and bills
of the Bank of England are exempted from

a composition, 3,500l. for every million of the amount of the notes and bills issued

CLXXXIII. An Act to repeal the stamp duty, the Bank paying half-yearly, as Bounties payable in Ireland, on the Exportation of certain Calicoes and Cottons. July 11.-1.

CLXXXIV. An Act for repealing the Stamp Duties on Deeds, Law Proceedings, and other written or printed Instruments, and the Duties on Fire Insurances, and on Legacies and Successions to Personal Estate upon Intestacies, now payable in Great Britain; and for granting other Duties in lieu thereof. July 11. -24.

Provisions of former acts respecting agree

within the year. Bankers issuing notes without a licence liable to a penalty of 100l. Promissory notes made out of Great Britain not to be negotiable unless stamped; and the penalty on circulating them to be 201. each. Penalty for not proving wills or taking letters of administration within six, months after decease, 100l. and 10 per cent. on the duty.

The following is an abstract of such of the new duties as will most generally affect the various classes of the community:

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MORTGAGES, same duties as Bonds, with a progressive duty of 11. for every 1,080 words. LEASES at yearly rents, without any sum paid as fine or premium, if the rent dees not

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PROBATES OF WILLS, where the property is under 2,000l. value, remain as at present;

but those above that value are increased.

LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION.

For effects in value above 201. and under 501.-10s.

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Of 2,000l. and upwards, the duties are increased in a still greater degree than those on probates.

DIGEST OF POLITICAL EVENTS.

THE most important political event during the past month, has been the marriage of her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales, to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, which was solemnized on the 2d of May, at Carlton House, in the presence of the Queen and most of the branches of the royal family, the great officers of state, the foreign ambassadors and other persons of distinction. The lovely bride, was given away by her royal father. The ceremony

which was performed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, took place about 9 o'clock in the evening, and at the conclusion of it, the guns in St. James's Park announced the auspicious union to the population of the metropolis.

The business which has engaged the attention of the legislature, has been of a miscellaneous nature. We shall proceed to a brief notice of its most important points.

On the 30th of April, the articles of

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charge, preferred by Lord Cochrane against Lord Ellenborough in his judicial capacity, came under the consideration of the House of Commons. The sense of the House was never more decidedly expressed than on this occasion: not one single vote was given for the reception of the articles, or in favour of the motion, except by Sir Francis Burdett; and it was in consequence resolved, that the whole of the proceedings should be expunged from the journals of the House. May 3d, on the motion of Lord Castlereagh, the report of the committee on the Civil List was taken into consideration. His Lordship showed the inadequacy of the sum allowed, which is one million, to support this branch of our expenditure, which up to 1811, averaged 1,300,000l. per annum, and in 1816 amounted to 1,480,000l. Having explained the nature of the arrangements proposed in lieu of the present system, he concluded with moving for leave to bring in a bill for the better regulation of his Majesty's Civil List, which was given. On the 6th, this subject was again brought before the House by Mr. Tierney, who moved for the appointment of a Committee to enquire into the state of the Civil List,with power to examine persons, papers and records. This motion was negatived by a majority of 213, against 122.

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the British manufacturers from being able to enter into a fair competition with those of the Continent. On the amendment of the Chancellor of the Exchequer it was agreed that a committee should be appointed to inquire into the state of the laws affecting the trade and manufacture of leather.

On the 20th of May, on the proposal of Sir Mark Wood, the House agreed that a committee should be appointed to take into consideration the state of the laws relating to game, and to report upon the subject.

The same evening the Chancellor of the Exchequer for Ireland introduced a proposition for the consolidation of the debts and revenues of that portion of the united kingdom with those of Great Britain. By the 7th article of the Act of Union with Ireland it was provided, that whenever the debt of the latter country should bear the same proportion to that of Great Britain as 2 to 15, the parliament should interfere and reduce both to one general regulation. That contingency actually occurred in 1811, but the opportunity was then neglected, and the proportion having become more unfavourable to Ireland, it was a question how far the legislature was competent to carry the proposed measure into effect. The affirmative of the right had been declared in 1812 by a committee to whom the matter was referred. The measure received the sanction of the House without a division. In the course of his speech introducing this business, Mr. Fitzgerald stated that, owing to the financial disadvantages under which Ireland laboured, the difference between the currencies, and the diminished value of exports, had raised the rate of exchange against her to 20 per cent. This state of things produced a diminution of the value of British goods imported last year to the Numerous petitions have recently been amount of a million and a half, when presented to the legislature praying for compared with that of the imports of the the removal of the duties upon leather. preceding year. Mr. Fitzgerald also On the 9th Lord Althorpe moved for threw out a suggestion for obviating the leave to bring in a bill to repeal these evils to be apprehended from the reducduties. He stated in the course of his tion of the currencies of the two counprefatory speech, that the number of tries to the same standard. The differpersons engaged in the manufacture of ence between them is about 83 per cent., this article, one of the staple manufac- consequently, in case of a sudden assitures of the country, was not less than milation of the currency, all debts previ 500,000; that the amount of the tax in ously contracted would be increased in 1802 was 251,3917.; in 1811 it had in-value 82 per cent., and thus the debtor creased to 307,4167.; but the falling off in the present year was 30,000l., owing in a great measure to the decreased exportation, as the heavy duties prevented

On the 7th, Lord Althorpe, after strongly insisting on the necessity of introducing a system of economy into the expenditure of the state, moved for the appointment of a select committee to examine what have been the increase and diminution since 1798, in the salaries and emoluments of public officers, and to report from time to time, with convenient dispatch, what reductions might be made therein without injury to the public service. It was rejected, how ever, by 169 votes against 126.

would be subjected to a serious loss. He therefore proposed, that in the event of an assimilation, all debts should be by law reduced one-twelfth, which would

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merely place things on their present footing, and tend to relieve the debtor from what would otherwise be an injustice.

May 21, the catholic question was brought forward in the House of Commons by Mr. Grattan, who proposed a resolution tending to pledge the House to an early consideration of the penal laws affecting his Majesty's catholic subjects in Great Britain and Ireland, in the course of the next session. The resolution was copied verbatim from that of Mr. Canning, in 1810. After a discussion of some length, the question was negatived upon a division by 172 votes to

141.

Considerable dissatisfaction has recently prevailed among the lower classes of the inhabitants of Suffolk and Norfolk. Various outrages have been com

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nitted, in the breaking of threshing machines, and the destruction of barns, stacks of corn and hay, by fire. These discontents' have broken out into acts of open riot at Brandon and Norwich, but owing to the prompt measures adopted by the magistrates of both counties,these disturbances are we trust, by this time, totally suppressed. The alleged cause is the disproportion between the prices of provisions and those of labour; and if, as it has been asserted, the wages of the labourer in husbandry in these agricul tural districts are under one shilling per day, their condition certainly requires consideration and redress.

We shall endeavour in our next to discharge the arrears due to our readers on the score of the foreign political transactions of the past mouths.

INCIDENTS, PROMOTIONS, BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, DEATHS, &c. IN LONDON AND MIDDLESEX.

With Biographical Accounts of Distinguished Characters.

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In the Gazette of April 27th public notice was given that the Bank of England will continue to receive Bank dollar tokens at the rate of 5s. 6d. each until the first of November next, in sums of not less than eight dollars.

On the 27th of April, a most respectable meeting, attended by the Dukes of Kent and Sussex, the former of whom took the chair, was held at the London Tavern, for the purpose of taking into consideration the best means of establishing, in a central part of the metropolis, a Universal Dispensary, for the exclusive relief of sick indigent children, with a view to their being promptly supplied with effectual medical aid and advice; the want of which is at present attended with the most fatal consequences among the poor. Dr. J. B. DAVIS, a gentleman well known by his various able professional and other publications, with whom this benevolent plan originated, took a comprehensive view of the great moral effects which such an institution is likely to produce. He stated it as a positive fact, deducible from the clearest data, that of the infant offspring of the lower classes, one-fourth die under the second, one-third under the fifth, and nearly one-half under the tenth-a proportion exceeding that of any other large capital in Europe. This mortality he ascribed, among

other causes, to the inadequacy of medical assistance. One of the numerous advantages which he anticipated from the proposed institution, was its certain tendency to reduce the frequency of consumptive complaints, by ultimately leading to a better treatment for scrophula. The plan was received with enthusiastic approbation, and a subscription opened for carrying it into execution. It is in contemplation, should the funds of the institution admit of it, hereafter to establish stations in different parts of the metropolis, that the benefit of this Dispensary may be the more rapidly and extensively diffused.

In the night of May 9th, a most daring robbery was committed, near Greenwich, on the Coromandel hoy, proceeding down the river with seven chests of dollars, each weighing 4000 ounces. The vessel was boarded by a party of upwards of 20 men, who forced those on board into the hold, while they carried off the treasure. Several persons have been apprehended on suspicion, and part of the dollars recovered.

May 23d, a fire broke out in Exetercourt, Strand, between the new English Opera House and Exeter Change, and was not subdued till it had consumed three houses, and damaged two others. The new theatre, upon which so much skill, labour, and expense have been bestowed, fortunately escaped uninjured, but the adjoining houses, in which the decorations were deposited, have suffered considerably.

The telegraphic frames at the top of the Admiralty are to be removed, and the im

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Promotions-Appointments-Births.

proved semaphore, consisting of a hollow mast, from which two arms project in different directions, will be erected in their stead. The utility of this invention is to be tried by way of experiment from London to Sheerness. The number of stations, it is said, will not exceed nine; several are erected.

An account laid before the House of Commons estimates the sum necessary for reinstating the buildings damaged or destroyed by the late fire at the Mint, at 13,000l.

Promotions and Appointments.] MAS BELL, esq. sheriff of London;

GEORGE COOPER, esq.;

ANTONY BULLER, esq.;

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Captain Sir WM. RICH. OWEN, R.N.; CHARLES ABBOTT, esq. one of the Judges of the court of King's Bench;

GEORGE SOWLEY HOLROYD, esq. one of the Judges of the court of King's Bench;

JAMES BURROUGH, esq. one of the Judges of the court of Common Pleas ;

JAMES ALLAN PARK, esq. one of the Judges of the court of Common Pleas ;

Lieut. Col. PHILIP KEATING ROCHE;

Lieut. Col. WILLIAM PARKER CARROL have received the honour of knighthood.

Prince LEOPOLD of SAXE-COBURG-SAAL-
FELD, to be a general in the army.
JoUN HALL, esq. to be consul for the
kingdom of Hanover in London.

Rear Admiral Sir GRAHAM MOORE, to be a lord of the admiralty, vice Lord Henry Paulet.

The Gazette of May 14, declares that Prince LEOPOLD shall take precedence before the archbishop of Canterbury, the lord chancellor, and other great officers, and before all dukes (excepting those of the blood royal) and peers of the realm.

Lord FITZROY SOMERSET to be secretary of embassy at the court of France.

Rear Admiral Sir PHILIP CHARLES DURHAM, to be a knight commander of the Bath.

Vice Admiral FRANCIS PICKMORE, to be governor and commander in chief of Newfoundland.

JAMES CRAUFURD MACLEOD, esq. to be conservator of the privileges of the royal boroughs in Scotland.

GEORGE COOKE, esq. to be judge of Prince of Wales's Island, vice Sir Edmund Stanley, on which occasion he received the honour of knighthood.

Members returned to Parliament.] RoBERT LATOUCHE, esq. for the county of Carlow, vice David Latouche, esq. deceased.

JOHN MABERLEY, esq. for Rye, vice Thomas Philips Lamb, esq. who has accepted the office of steward of East Hendred.

Lieut.Gen. JOHN MICHEL for Belfast, vice Sir Stephen May, bart. appointed collector of the customs at that port.

Ecclesiastical Preferments.] Rev. Dr. BARTON, to the deanery of Bocking, Essex.

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Rev. JAMES BEEBEE, to the living of Presteign, Radnor.

Rev. SAMUEL BENNETT, to the chaplaincy of the London and Middlesex Penitentiary, Milbank.

Rev. JAMES STANIER CLARKE, to the rectory of Tillington, Sussex.

Rev. E. FOSTER, to be one of the domes-
tic chaplains to the Duke of Cambridge.
Rev. W. W. GRETTON, to the vicarage of
Withington, Hereford.

Rev. CHARLES JERVIS, to the vicarage of
Cheltenham.

Rev. R. KEDINGTON, to the rectory of Bradfield Combust, Suffolk.

Rev. CHARLES KEKEWICH, to the perpetual cure of Linton and Countisbury, Devon. Rev. JOHN LOWNDES, to the rectory of Okeford Fitzpaine, Dorset.

Rev. F. MILLS, to be one of his Majesty's chaplains in ordinary.

Rev. Mr. NOTT, to the rectory of Week, Hants.

Rev. HERBERT OAKELEY, to a prebend in Litchfield cathedral.

Rev. JOHN ORMAN, to the head mastership of the grammar school, Beverley, York. Rev. JAMES PHILPOT, to the mastership of St. John's, Bath.

Rev. CHARLES PROWETT, to the rectory of Topcroft, Norfolk.

Rev. BENJAMIN RICHINGS, to the living of Manceter, with the chapelry of Atherstone, Warwick.

Rev. ERIC RUDD, to the perpetual curacy of Thorne, York.

Rev. SAMUEL SETTLE, to the vicarage of Winterborne Stoke, Wilts.

Rev. WILLIAM STABBACK, to the rectory of St. Stephen's, Exeter.

Rev. ROBERT STANSER, D.D. to be hi

shop of Nova Scotia, in America, in the room of the Right Rev. Charles Inglis, D.D. deceased.

Rev. SAMUEL TURNER, to the vicarage of Tealby, Lincoln.

Rev. WILLIAM TYSON, to the perpetual curacies of Rumburgh and South Elmham, Norfolk.

Rev. EDWARD VINCENT, to the vicarage of Rowde, Wilts.

Rev. WILLIAM WEATHERHEAD, to the rectory of Wolferton, Norfolk.

Rev. CARUS WILSON, to the living of
Tunstall, Westmoreland.

Births.] In Montague-square, the Right
Hon. Lady Fitzroy Somerset, of a son.
In Grosvenor place, the Lady of Patrick
Maitland, esq. of a son.

In Cadogan-place, the wife of R. B. Pollard, A.B. of St. John's college, Cambridge, of a daughter.

In Saville-row, the lady of George Watson Taylor, esq. of a son.

At Fulham, the lady of Major General Sir H. Torrens, of a son.

ter.

The Hon. Mrs. Lushington, of a daugh

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