vocate general to send and receive letters and packets free from duty of postage. 67. For better preservation of heath 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 packels 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 disturbances of the public peace in Ireland. 79. For regulating the continuances of licenses for distilling spirits from sugar in the Lowlands of Scotland. SO. 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 securities in all offices, in respect of which security ought to be given; and for avoiding the grant of all such 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 take up ships. 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-mar tial. 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, and maintain, light-houses round the coast of Ireland, and to raise a fund for defraying the charge thereof. 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 seve~ ral 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 certifi cates, 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 examination 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 term 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 d ating and rendering more effectual the several acts for the purchase of buildings, and further improvement of the streets and places near to Westminser Hall and the two houses of parliament. II. Brief Reports of some important Law Cases, determined in the year 1810. Feb. 12. Court of King's Bench.-The King v. Frances Latham.-Mr. Bolland opened the case. This was an indictment for perjury, in an affidavit sworn by the defendant, charging Barrett, Esq. with the violation of her person. 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 ignomimous. 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 him 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 before 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 Latham, 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 appearance distinctly. On the 13th, between seven and eight in the morning, returning to her apartments after bathing, she was disturbed by some persous 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 ⚫ come come by terror, on seeing the stranger who had insulted her, that she swooned, and fell off the sofa on which she lay; on recovering, she found his silk handkerchief tied over her mouth, and that she had suffered the injury of which she afterwards gave a most particular detail. The ravisher then took off the handkerchief, and importuned her to fly with him, offering her the command of money and servants: and telling her he had taken off the handkerchief in hope of a complying auswer. She screamed, and threatened him with her brother's return. He seized her again, bound her own handkerchief on her mouth, and escaped. In attempting to stand up, she fell and fainted; but on her recovery, still lying on the floor, and bound, she tore off the bandage by rubbing her head against the window-seat, and called for assistance. It was by this feeble tissue of improbabilities that the guilt of the defendant was to be covered from the eyes of a jury.. A stranger walks through an inhabited house, a house full of servants and lodgers-walks, as by in tuition, directly to Miss Latham's apartment; and there commits a crime which exposes him to instant seizure and instant ruin. She swooned on seeing him, but no violence was used in her swoon. The jury had heard the accurate observations which she made in the course of the assault. Who could conceive a woman so circumstanced to be capable of such observation-to be collected, calm, particular-to remember incidents which might escape the mind most at ease? She could recollect the change of the stranger's handkerchief for her own, the proposition of going off with him, her reply, and his rejoinder. She could remember the hurry of the ravisher, on being threatened with her brother's return from the shore, the improbable spirit of decorum which worked upon his politeness, to come back and raise the two chairs that he had overturned in his retreat. She could then devise a lucky expedient for freeing herself from her bonds, calmly call for Martha Lawrence, the servant, to complete the operation, and set her free. He, in his office, as counsel for the prosecutor, had no wish to load her with an unquali fied charge; he concluded that she had been made the tool of other and more artful persons. The case was accompanied by circumstances, which, if they were correctly stated, must make its truth undeniable. Were they stated to the magistrate? If so, they were still forthcoming in his notes. The transaction occupied the 10th, 11th, and 12th of July. Witnesses were now waiting to prove, that his client was not in Worthing on any of those days. The house in which the outrage was committed, was, like those hastily built at wateringplaces, small, with but few apartments, and thin partitions, through which a scream, nay even a word, must be audible. Miss Latham screamed loudly! "Gentlemen (said the learned serjeant) it has pleased Providence to make the scream of distress the most heartrending, most piercing, most penetrating, of all other sounds that can be formed by the human voice." If Miss Latham was violated on the 12th, why did she not communicate her misfortune to some friend-not of course to a male acquaintance, for there might be |