An act for granting to his Majesty a sum of money to be raised by lotteries.

An act to repeal the several acts for the collection and management of the stamp duties in Ireland, and to make more effectual regulations for collecting and managing the said duties.

An act to prohibit, until the 1st day of November, 1812, the making of starch, hair powder, and blue, from wheat and other articles of food; and for suspending part of the duties now payable on the importation into Great Britain of starch.

An act for better securing the duties on malt.

An act for amending two acts passed in the 48th and 49th years of his present Majesty, for enabling the commissioners for the reduction of the national debt to grant life annuities.

An act for the more effectual punishment of persons destroying the properties of his Majesty's subjects; and enabling the owners of such properties to recover damages for the injury sustained.

An act to exempt from the duties of 1s, and of 6d. in the pound, certain augmentations made to the stipends of parishes in Scotland.

An act for explaining, amending, and extending the several laws relative to the payment of forfeited and unclaimed shares of army prize money, to the royal hospital at Chelsea; and for directing the mode of making up the accounts of pensions paid to the widows of officers of the army.

An act for taking an account of the population of Ireland, and of the increase or diminution thereof.

An act for the better regulation of the butter trade in Ireland.

An act for advancing 2,500,000%. to the East India Company, to enable them to discharge part of the Indian debt.

An act to enable the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to regulate the price of coals to be bought for the benefit of the poor of the city of Dublin.

An act for extending the time for the payment of certain sums of money, advanced by way of loan under an act, passed in the last session of parliament, for enabling his Majesty to direct the issue of exchequer bills, to a limited amount, for the purposes and in the manner therein mentioned.

An act for the further prevention of the counterfeiting of silver tokens issued by the governor and company of the bank of England, called dollars, and of silver pieces issued and circulated by the said governor and company, called tokens; and for the further prevention of frauds practised by the imitation of the notes or bills of the said governor and company.

An act for granting to his Majesty certain duties on stone bottles made in or imported into Great Britain.

An act to permit the exportation of certain articles to the Isle of Man from Great Britain.

An act to regulate the manner of licensing boats by the commissioners of the customs, and the delivering up of licences in cases of loss or capture of vessels licensed; and for enabling the commissioners of the customs to purchase certain boats at a valuation.

An act to permit the removal of goods from one bonding ware

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house to another, in the same port.

An act for amending and reducing into one act, the provisions contained in any laws now in force imposing the penalty of death for any act done in breach of or in resistance to any part of the laws for collecting his Majesty's revenue in Great Britain.

An act to suspend and finally vacate the seats of members of the House of Commons, who shall become bankrupts, and who shall not pay their debts in full within a limited time.

An act to explain the exemption from toll in several acts of parliament, for carriages employed in husbandry; and for regulating the tolls to be paid on other carriages, and on horses, in certain other cases therein specified.

An act for the better regulating and preserving parish and other registers of births, baptisms, marriages, and burials in England.

An act for regulating the allowances granted out of the duties of assessed taxes, to persons in respect of the number of their children, by an act passed in the 46th year of his present Majesty; and for extending the limitation mentioned in the said act in proportion to the increase of the said duties.

An act to enable the keeper of his Majesty's privy purse for the time being, to dispose of and transfer all such public stocks or funds, as now do or shall hereafter stand in his name, in the books of the governor and company of the bank of England, in trust for his Majesty.

An act to regulate the separation of damaged from sound coffee, and to permit dealers to send out any quantity of coffee not exceeding

eight pounds weight without permit, until the end of two years from the passing of this act.

An act to amend an act passed in the 44th year of his Majesty's reign for granting stamp duties in Great Britain, so far as regards the duties granted on medicines and on licences for vending the same.

An act to extend the provisions of an act of the last session of parliament, relating to the half pay and allowance of officers retiring from service; and to authorize the allowing to foreign officers wounded the like pensions and allowances as are given to British officers under the like circumstances,

An act to repeal an act, passed in the 49th year of his present Majesty, intituled 'An act for better regulating the office of agent general for volunteers and local militia,' and for the more effectually regulating the said office.

An act to rectify a mistake and to carry into more effectual execution the purposes of an act made in the last session of parliament, relating to the British white herring fishery.

An act for granting to 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 1812, and for further appropriating the supplies granted in this session of parliament.

An act to repeal certain acts, and amend other acts relating to religious worship and assemblies, and persons teaching or preaching therein.

An act for the more effectual punishment of persons aiding prisoners of war to escape from his Majesty's dominions.

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An act to prevent the issuing and circulating of pieces of gold and silver, or other metal, usually called tokens, except such as are issued by the banks of England and Ireland respectively.

An act to extend the provisions of an act passed in the 36th year of the reign of his present Majesty, for the relief of persons equitably entitled to stocks and annuities transferable at the bank of England, and of an act passed in this present session for the relief of infant suitors entitled to the like stocks and annuities, to all other transferable stocks and funds.

An act for charging foreign liquors and tobacco derelict, jetsam, flotsam, lagan, or wreck, brought or coming into Great Britain, with the duties payable on importation of such liquors and tobacco.

An act to enable justices of the peace to order parochial relief to prisoners confined under mesne process for debt in such gaols as are not county gaols.

An act for enabling his Majesty to grant leases under certain circumstances, and for the better carrying into effect the provisions of an act passed in the 39th and 40th

year of the reign of his present Majesty, touching the formation of a map of the New Forest in the county of Southampton, and continuing and extending other provisions of the said act; for further appropriating the monies arisen or to arise from the sale of certain crown lands under the authority of divers acts of parliament; for annexing certain lands within the forest of Rockingham to his Majesty's manor of King's Cliffe; and for enabling the commissioners of the treasury to appropriate small portions of land for ecclesiastical purposes.

An act for the preservation of the public peace in certain disturbed counties in England; and to give, until the 25th day of March, 1813, additional powers to justices for that purpose.

An act for the relief of certain insolvent debtors in Ireland.

An act for enabling his Majesty to raise the sum of three millions for the service of Great Britain, and for applying the sum of 200,000l. British currency for the service of Ireland.

An act for the relief of certain insolvent debtors in England.

TRIALS FOR LIBEL AND STATE

CRIMES.

Trial of Mr. Kirwan, one of the Catholic Delegates, at Dublin.The Court of King's Bench having commenced their sittings for this term on Thursday, the 23rd of

January, proceeded on Monday the 27th, to the trial of Mr. Thomas Kirwan, one of the Roman Catholic delegates for the parish of St. Mary's, in Dublin.

After the panel for the jury had been called over, one of the counsel for the traversers rose, and challenged

challenged the array, on an allegation that the panel had been returned at the suggestion of the prosecutors. The counsel for the Crown joined issue on the challenge, observing, that such a proceeding was only calculated to encourage that hostile indisposition to the laws which was spreading fast through this country.

After a reply from the counsel on the other side, triers were appointed to decide upon the challenge.

The Crown solicitor, after an examination of unusual length, proved, that his application to the sheriff for a copy of the panel, to which he conceived himself entitled as of right, was resisted; but he admitted that he had obtained a copy from the under-secretary of state. This being produced, was found to contain private marks made by the Crown solicitor, and was numbered with figures, in some instances corresponding with, and in others differing from the order of the panel returned into court. On this circumstance the traverser's counsel appeared principally to rely in support of the challenge, and at length closed his evidence, insinuating that the difference had been caused by the interference of go

brought in a verdict against the challenge.

On Tuesday the Court proceeded with the trial, when an affidavit on behalf of Mr. Kirwan was brought forward, the object of which was to postpone the trial, that the traverser might have the same advantage of time for inquiry, which the Crown had had with respect to the persons on the panel. The affidavit contained also an allegation, that he believed many of the panel were Orangemen, and enemies to Catholics ; and he named Mr. Blackwood, the first on the panel, as one. Mr. Blackwood publicly and solemnly denied the fact. The solicitor for the traverser being then called on by the Court to deny his possession of the panel on behalf of the traverser, at as early a time as the Crown had become possessed of it, refused to be sworn, screening himself under his character of attorney in the cause. The jury were then sworn, and the trial proceeded,

The Attorney-General opened the case at great length. He stated the charges to be, that on the 9th of July last, an assembly, calling itself an Aggregate Meeting of Roman-Catholics, did assemble in Dublin; Lord Fingal presided in the chair; and that assembly did, of itself, order county elections to be held in the several counties of Ireland, for the purpose of electing or returning ten delegates for each county. These resolutions were published, and Lord Fingal's name to them, as chairman. The indictment then stated the assembling so proposed to be convened, as an unlawful assembly, and pregnant with danger; it was enough to

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state it as an unlawful assembly. The next count was, that on the 30th July last, an assembly of the parishioners of the parish of St. Mary was held. At that assembly they proceeded to an election of delegates. Those delegates were to be the delegates for that parish, according to the mandates of the meeting of the 9th of July; at that assembly the traverser was present, and did act in the election of the delegates. He recited the second section of the Convention Act, and then proceeded -" I have now stated the charges in the indictment; and they divide themselves into a question of law, and a question of fact. Of law, if the assembly so ordered to be convened is an unlawful assembly. It will save time to inform you, that question was agitated fully upon the trial of Dr. Sheridan; and after a full and most able defence, the court was of opinion, that it was an unlawful assembly, without any doubt; and to that opinion I bow, and that point is now settled, unless my learned friends mean to persuade you that you are the judges of the law, whereas the constitution have only made you judges of the fact." He then proceeded to comment upon the evidence produced on the former trial, and to show its sufficiency for conviction. He contended, that, notwithstanding the verdict of the former jury, the facts were as clear as the sun.

Huddleston and Sheppard (the peace-officer), who had been produced as witnesses for the Crown on the former trial, were examined, when the latter produced his notes, the loss of which seemed to have been so dwelt upon on Sheridan's

trial. The Court adjourned at six o'clock, till Wednesday, when it proceeded upon the trial, and J. M'Donagh (also a witness on behalf of the Crown on the former trial) was produced, and upon his examination and cross-examination having closed, it appeared by his testimony, as well as Sheppard's, that one of the persons assembled in Liffey-street, on the 31st of July, warned the meeting of the proclamation issued on that day. This was considered as laying a foundation for giving in evidence the proclamation, to show that it warned all persons from holding any election, pursuant to the resolutions of the Aggregate Meeting of the 9th of July, from which and the warning, it would appear that this was a meeting of that nature. The Gazette, being offered as evidence of the proclamation, was admitted by the defendant's counsel, and its contents read; here the evidence for the Crown closed. The proclamation furnished an additional link to connect the two meetings.

Counsel for the traverser then contended, that there was a variance between the indictment and the evidence, that the charge was "The having elected five represen tatives for a district in the city of Dublin, called St. Mary's parish, and used as a parish by the Roman Catholics; that the evidence was, that the Catholic parish of St Mary, for which they conceived the election to be held, comprised three Protestant parishes, one of which, St. George's parish, by an old act of parliament then produced, appeared to be altogether in the county, and not at all in the