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49. To amend the laws for the relief of the poor, so far as relate to the examining and allowing the accounts of church-wardens and overseers by justices of the peace.

50. To explain and amend an act made last session, relating to relief and employment of the poor, so far as relates to the more effectual carrying the same into execution; and to extend the provisions thereof to parishes which shall not have adopted the provisions of an act, 22d of his present majesty.

51. To repeal so much of an act, 7 James I. as relates to the punishment of women delivered of bastard children; and to make other provisions in lieu thereof.

52. To amend so much of an act, 8th and 9th William III. as requires poor persons receiving alms to wear badges.

53. For preventing frauds relating to exportation of British and Irish made malt, from one part of the united kingdom to the other.

54. To revive and continue, until the 25th of March, 1811, an act, 39th of his present majesty, for more effectual encouragement of the British fisheries.

55. To prohibit importation of Italian silk crapes and tiffanies, and to increase shares of seizures payable to officers in respect of foreign wrought silks and manufactured leather gloves.

56. To explain and amend an act passed last session, for continuing and making perpetual several duties of 1s. 6d. in the pound, repealed by an act of last session, on offices and employments of profit, and on annuities, pensions, and stipends.

57. To revive and continue, until the 25th of March, 1815, an act,

23d of his present majesty, for more effectual encouragement of the manufacture of flax and cotton in Great Britain.

58. To amend several acts for redemption and sale of land-tax.

59. For more effectually preventing embezzlement of money or securities for money belonging to the public, by any collector, receiver, or other person entrusted with the receipt, care, or management thereof.

60. For permitting exportation to Newfoundland of foreign salt, duty free, from the import warehouses at Bristol; and for repealing so much of an act of last session, as allows salt, the produce of any part of Europe south of Cape Finisterre, to be shipped in any port of Europe direct to certain ports in

North America.

61. For making sugar and coffee, of Guadaloupe, St. Eustatia, St. Martin, and Saba, liable to the same duty on importation as sugar and coffee not of the British plautations.

62. For more effectual prevention of smuggling in the Isle of Man.

63. To enable his majesty to authorize the exportation of the machinery necessary for erecting a mint in the Brazils.

64. To permit the removal of goods, wares, and merchandize, from the port in Great Britain where first warehoused, to any other warehousing port for exportation.

65. For uniting the offices of surveyor-general of the land revenues of the crown, and surveyor-general of his majesty's woods, forests, parks, and chases.

66. To authorize the judge adY 4

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vocate general to send and receive letters and packets free from duty of postage.

67. For better preservation of beath fowl, commonly called black game, in Somerset and Devon.

68. For raising 1,400,000l. by way of annuities, for the service of Ireland.

69. For raising 6,000,000l. by exchequer bills, for the service of Great Britain, for the year 1810.

70. To enable the commissioners of his majesty's treasury to issue exchequer bills on the credit of such aids or supplies as have been or shall be granted by parliament for the service of Great Britain, for the year 1810.

71. For appropriating part of the surplus of the stamp duties, granted 48th of his present majesty, for defraying the charges of the loan made and stock created in the present session.

72. For improving and complet ing the harbour on the north side of the hill of Howth, near Dublin, and rendering it a fit situation for his majesty's packets.

73. To alter, explain, and amend, the laws now in force respecting bakers residing out of the city of London, or the liberties thereof, or beyond ten miles of the Royal Exchange.

74. To grant his majesty additional duties upon letters and packe's sent by the post within Ireland. 75. To grant his majesty an additional duty on dwelling houses in Ireland, in respect of the windows or lights therein,

75. To repeal certain duties under the care of the commissioners for managing the stamp duties in Ireland, and to grant new and additional duties, and to amend the

laws relating to stamp duties in Ireland.

77. For imposing additional duties of custom on certain species of wood imported into Great Britain.

78. To repeal an act, 47th of his present majesty, for suppressing insurrection, and preventing dis turbances of the public peace in Ireland.

79. For regulating the continuances of licenses for distilling spirits from sugar in the Lowlands of Scotland.

80. For reviving and further continuing, until the 25th of March, 1811, several laws for allowing the importation of certain fish from Newfoundland, and the coast of Labrador, and of certain fish from parts of the coast of his majesty's North American colonies, and for granting bounties thereon.

81. To continue, until the 1st of August, 1811, certain acts for appointing commissioners to enquire into the fees, gratuities, perquisites, and emoluments, received in several public offices in Ireland, to examine into any abuses which may exist in the same, and in the mode of receiving, collecting, issuing, and accounting for, public money in Ireland.

82. To amend the laws relative to the sale of flax seed and hemp seed in Ireland.

83. To repeal several acts respecting the woollen manufacture, and for indemnifying persons liable to penalty for having acted contrary thereto.

84. For augmenting parochial stipends in certain cases in Scotland.

85. To regulate the taking of se curities in all offices, in respect of which security ought to be given; and for avoiding the grant of all

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such offices, in the event of such security not being given within a time to be limited after the grant of such office.

86. To amend two acts, 39 and 43 of his present majesty, for regulating the manner in which the East India Company shall hire and up ships.

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87. To amend two acts, relating to the raising men for the service of the East India Company; and quartering and billeting such men; and to trials by regimental courts-martial.

88. To make provisions, for a limited time, respecting certain grants of offices.

89. For defraying, until the 25th of March, 1811, the charge of the pay and clothing of the militia of Ireland, and for making allowances in certain cases to subaltern officers of the said militia during peace.

90. For defraying the charge of the pay and clothing of the militia and local militia in Great Britain, for the year 1810.

91. To revive and continue, until the 25th of March, 1811, and amend so much of an act, 39th and 40th of his present majesty, as grants allowances to adjutants and serjeant-majors of the militia of England, disembodied under an act of the same session.

92. For making allowances in certain cases to subaltern officers of the militia in Great Britain, while disembodied.

93. For the improving and completing the harbour of Holyhead. 94. For granting to his majesty a sum of money to be raised by lotteries.

95. To enable the corporation, for preserving and improving the port of Dublin, to erect, repair,

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96. To amend an act passed this session, intituled, "An act for increasing the rates of subsistence to be paid to innkeepers and others, on quartering soldiers."

97. To continue, until the 6th of July, 1811, and to amend several acts for granting certain rates and duties, and for allowing certain drawbacks and bounties, on goods, wares, and merchandize, imported into and exported from Ireland; and to grant his majesty, until the 5th of July, 1811, certain new and additional duties on the importation, and to allow drawbacks on the exportation, of certain goods, wares, and merchandize, into and from Ireland.

98. For raising 216,000l. by treasury bills, for the service of Ireland for the year 1810.

99. To amend several acts relating to the making of malt, and the granting of permits and certificates, and the regulations of braziers, and of persons employing more than one still in Ireland.

100. For respiting certain fines imposed on stills in Ireland.

101. For confirming an agreement for the purchase of the prisage and butlerage of wines in Ireland, entered into by the commissioners of his majesty's treasury in Ireland, and the Earl of Ormond and Ossory and his trustees, in pursuance of an act, 46th of his present majesty's reign.

102. For the more effectually preventing the administering and taking of unlawful oaths in Ireland; and for protection of magistrates and witnesses in criminal cases. 103. For

103. For repealing several laws relating to prisons in Ireland, and for re-enacting such of the provisions thereof as have been found useful, with amendments.

104. For altering the amount of certain duties of assessed taxes granted by an act, 48th of his present majesty, and for granting his majesty certain other duties of assessed taxes on the articles therein mentioned.

105. To regulate the manner of making surcharges of the duties of assessed taxes, and of the tax upon the profits arising from property, professions, trades, and offices, and for amending the acts relating to the said duties.

106. For regulating the manner of assessing lands in certain cases to the duties arising from the profits of property, professions, trades, and offices, and for giving relief from the said duties on occasion of losses in other cases therein mentioned.

107. To regulate the examina tion and payment of assignments for clothing of his majesty's forces.

108. To amend and enlarge the powers of an act, 2d of his present majesty, for encouragement of the fisheries of this kingdom, and protection of the persons employed therein,

109. To continue for two years, and from thence until the end of the then next session of parliament, and amend an act, 47th of his present majesty, for preventing improper persons from having arms in Ireland.

110. To allow, until the 1st of August, 1811, the bringing of coals, culm, and cinders, to London and Westminster by inland navigation.

111. To limit the amount of

pensions to be granted out of the civil list of Scotland.

112. For abridging the form of extracting decrees of the court of session in Scotland, and for regulation of certain parts of the proceedings of that court.

113. For enabling his majesty to raise 3,000,000l. for the service of Great Britain.

114. For granting his majesty a sum of money, to be raised by exchequer bills, and to be advanced and applied in the manner and upon the terms therein-mentioned, for relief of the united company of merchants of England trading to the East Indies.

115. For granting his majesty certain sums of money out of the consolidated fund of Great Britain, and for applying certain monies therein-mentioned, for the service of the year 1810; and for further appropriating the supplies granted in this session of parliament.

116. To extend and amend the terin and provisions of an act, 39th and 40th of his present majesty, for the better preservation of timber in the New Forest, county of Southampton, and for ascertaining the boundaries of the said forest, and of the lands of the crown within the same.

117. To direct that accounts of increase and diminution of public salaries, pensions, and allowances, shall be annually laid before parliament, and to regulate and controul the granting and paying of such salaries, pensions, and allowances.

118. For regulating the offices of registrar of admiralty and prize courts.

119. For further amending and enlarging the powers of an act, 46th of his present majesty, for consoli

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Mr. Serjeant Best, who, from apparent ill-health, addressed the court sitting, stated the case on the part of the prosecution. He said that the crime imputed to the defendant was corrupt and determined perjury, in a prosecution commenced against Mr. Barrett, to ensure a verdict, whose result must have been ruin to him-a death most certain and most ignonimous. Before he concluded he should show, not only that Mr. Barrett was innocent, but that the defendant was not deceived-that there was no mistake in the charge-that nothing could be imputed to possible misapprehension-but that the crime which he then was to prosecute was wilful and inexcusable. The prosecutor in this trial is a respectable trader in London; the defendant is the daughter of a most valuable and meritorious man. The jury were probably acquainted with the general features of the case :→ Miss Latham having gone down to Worthing, for the benefit of her

own, or her brother's health, was, according to report, insulted and brutally violated by a stranger, who then resided near the town. A circumstance occurred in connection with those facts, for which no explanation had been given. In a few weeks after the alledged crime, a letter was sent to Mr. Barrett, detailing the transaction, and charging bim as the perpetrator. He was then on the Kentish coast with his family. On returning to London, he was sent for by Dr. Latham; the defendant was in the room. On being asked if he knew her, he answered, "No;" but that he had heard of the affair by letter. On this Dr. Latham retorted on him, "that it was evident he knew all,” and immediately gave him into the custody of an officer, who was then in the house.

He was then taken be. fore a magistrate in Marlboroughstreet.

The counsel here read from his brief the narrative of the imputed injury:-In the evening of the 10th of July, Miss Lathan, walking in Worthing, as she passed along a lane leading to the road, was accosted by a stranger, who said he had long wished to see her; after some similar language, he suffered her to leave him, and she returned home very much terrified. On the day after, as she was standing at her toilette, she saw him pass before the house, without being observed by him, and remarked his appearauce distinctly. On the 13th, between seven and eight in the morning, returning to her apartments after bathing, she was disturbed by some persons pressing against the door. She conceived it to be the son of a Mrs. King, who lodged in the house. She was so much over

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