When chose pay money pursuant to orders from Courts of Equity;— for the relief of insolvent debtors in Ireland ;-to permit the trade between Great Britain and the United States of America to be carried on in American vessels ;—for granting new Custom duties; and to enable Justices of the Peace to determine prosecutions for offences against the revenue of Customs;-for allowing dealers to roast their own coffee, on certain conditions (!) ;—to empower the English Judges to try civil causes in their own counties;-to alter and amend the Bankrupt Laws ;—and, "for better securing the independence of Parliament, by preventing the procuring or obtaining of seats in the House of Commons by corrupt practices.” The taxes for 1809 amounted to 63,879,8817.; the property tax, alone, yielding 12,386,9137.:-loans, Exchequer bills, and surplus of Irish revenue, 24,868,2051. -Total income, 88,748,0861.-The funded national debt for Great Britain amounted to 701,229,514.; for Ireland, 50,094,000l.-Total debt, 751,323,514/. On Feb. 21, 1810, Mr. John Gale Jones, one of the managers of a debating club, called "The British Forum," was ordered to the Bar of the House of Commons, and charged with a breach of the privileges of that House, in the publication of a placard respecting a discussion held in the said club:—having made his defence, he was committed to Newgate. On March 12th, Sir Francis Burdett, Bart. moved for his discharge; contending that "the Commons, in this committal, had infringed the law of the land, and subverted the principles of the constitution:" when the House divided, there were for the motion 14; against it 153.—On the 21st, Lord Porchester, one of the Committee for inquiring into the policy and conduct of the great naval and military expedition to the Scheldt, submitted to the House two resolutions; the first relating to the impolicy and folly of the said expedition; and the second to the impolitic retention of the Island of Walcheren, where the British troops were daily thinned by war and 1 When chosen. disease: the debate was continued during four days, On March 26th, Mr. Lethbridge brought under the notice As soon as the Emperor Napoleon heard of this expedition, he foresaw the fatal result; and in addressing the Senate, he exclaimed, "the Genius of France has led the British troops into the pestiferous marshes of Walcheren, where disease alone will destroy them."-The event soon proved how truly prophetic were these words. On April 9th, the sergeant-at-arms (attended by 20 or 30 police officers, and a detachment of cavalry and infantry) being refused admittance into Sir Francis Burdett's house in Piccadilly, forced an entrance, made him prisoner, and conveyed him to the Tower. Sir Francis, previously to this, had been waited on by the sergeantat-arms, with the Speaker's warrant; but he disputed its legality, and refused to obey it. Several riots took place among the populace in consequence of the arrest, and the military, on their return from escorting Sir Francis to the Tower, being assailed by stones, fired among the crowd; by which several lives were lost. When chosen. Wellesley Pole brought in a bill for the repeal of the * Parliament being prorogued on the 21st of June, Sir F. Burdett was liberati from the Tower, and Mr. Gale Jones from Newgate;-the power of imprisonmet by the Commons continuing no longer than whilst the House was in sessi On this occasion the Baronet's friends had arranged a procession in honour of his liberation; but he thought it advisable to return to his house by water :-the pes cession, however, although greatly disappointed, ranged themselves in order, paradisi through the cities of London and Westminster, and arrived at the baronet's house without any accident or outrage. On March 8th, 1811, Sir Francis brought an action against Mr. Abbot, the Speaker, for a trespass and assault, in breaking open his house: the defendant pleaded a Justification. The cause was adjourned for a further hearing, until the 17th of May, when the judges pronounced the justification satisfactory; thereby admitting and enforcing the right of the House of Commons to commit members and other persons to prison, for breach of privilege. On June 19th, he brought an actios against the sergeant-at-arms (Mr. Coleman), for a trespass, assault, and false inprisonment; to which the defendant pleaded "not guilty and a justification." The jury found a verdict for the defendant. On April 24th, 1812, writs of error having been brought into the Exchequer Chamber, on the judgment pronounced in the Court of King's Bench, the same were argued with great solemnity; and that Court unsnimously affirmed the previous judgment. When chosen. and for amending the prison-laws in that country ;- Administratione Regni, Georgii Principis Walliæ. On March 1st, 1811, the Chancellor of the Exchequer moved for the appointment of a committee to examine into the causes of the great commercial distress at this time prevalent t. The committee reported that it had arisen from extensive speculations in the South American market; and recommended parliamentary aid to relieve it. A Bill was accordingly passed, to enable *It must have been truly consolatory, and indeed gratifying, to the people of these realms, whilst plunged chin-deep in debt, that the stewards who had the management of their affairs were so very exact in their accounts as to put down even the utmost brass farthing!-What! mention" threepence three farthings," in an account of upwards of eight hundred millions of pounds sterling!-Faugh! it is too disgusting even to think on :-such a statement partakes too much of humbug, and must have been made to divert public attention from the astounding number of hundreds of millions of pieces of gold which the present or a future generation is condemned to pay.-When private persons keep their accounts thus exactly, they seldom, or never, get into debt at all. But it is rather unfortunate for the reputation of the financiers and public accountants of the period in question, that an Act of Parliament was passed this very year (1810) "to prevent the embezzlement of public money or securities, by collectors or receivers; and for taking security from persons in offices of trust.”—Now it is very well known that no penal statute is ever passed by the British legislature in anticipation of crimes that may by possibility occur:such are never enacted until the kind of delinquency which they are intended to restrain has become notorious; nor until the crown lawyers have declared that the same is unrestrainable by the laws already in force.-Ergo,-the above enumeration of farthings is "too much of a good thing;"-though, indeed, as intended, it must have had the effect of diversion from the main point. + There had been notices of upwards of 2000 bankruptcies in the Royal Gazette in 1810. When chose government to issue six millions in Exchequer Bills ;-to months. On June 6th, Lord Milton moved a resolution in the Commons, "That it was highly improper and inde- On March 6th, 1812, Benjamin Walsh, Esq. was ex- There were in England 9,538,827 persons; in Wales, 611,788; in Scotland, 1,805,688; in the army, navy, and merchant-vessels, 640,500. Total, 12,596,803. The population of the metropolis amounted to 1,050,000. The cause of this expulsion was, that Walsh had been found guilty by a jury, of feloniously stealing from Sir Thomas Plomer twenty-two notes of the Bank of |